History Webcomic / DragonBallMultiverse

** During Ch.88 U4 Buu admits out of all the fighters (including Vegetto) Gast Carcolh is only one that actually made him "nervious".[[spoiler:Which is why Buu promptly disposes of him when he decides to take over.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''"King Cold"''']]: [[spoiler:CHANGE!]]

** During [[spoiler: The Majin rebellion]] we cut to XXI in his room..... [[spoiler: Clutching one of the Earth's Dragon Balls.]]

** Universe 3 diverged when Bardock acquired the power of prophetic visions, put them to good use and managed to take Freeza down, with Saiyans taking over the galaxy, Kakarot never being sent to Earth, and then Raichi taking revenge on the Saiyans. [[spoiler:Piccolo Daimao also fused with Kami, with an evil Piccolo being the dominant personality, to weather the Saiyan attack upon Earth in year 752, as stated by a timeline comparison minicomic and confirmed by chapter 87.]]
** Universe 4 diverged when Majin Buu opted to quickly absorb Vegeta when he threatened to remove Fat Buu from his cocoon rather than plead with him. Goku is then forced to fight on his own, where he is horribly outclassed; even his Hail-Mary of expending his full power to blow Buu up failed miserably and Buu simply absorbed him as well. Because of this, Buu comes to love the Earth and decides to devote his life to doing good and evil, depending on his mood.
** Universe 5 diverged millions of years ago, as mentioned by a timeline comparison minicomic. We know nothing else about it.

** Universe 7 diverged when all the Nameks, [[spoiler:starting with Nail and Guru]], decided to fuse into one being to take down Freeza, [[spoiler:losing forever the ability to create Dragon Balls in the process]].

** Universe 9, diverged when [[spoiler:Cooler and his men did act on the impulse of killing baby Goku after the destruction of planet Vegeta, which was hinted to since Cooler's special chapter stating that events around planet Vegeta's destruction went down differently in Universe 9. Krilin refers to the Frost demons as "Cooler's empire", because Freeza got shifted out of the picture after that, dying at Cooler's hands when acting uppity over an intrusion in his territory. This lead to an universe where non-human heroes never came into being, leading the Earthlings to step up their game and face threats from outer space on their own.]]

** Universe 11, where Babidi kept his control over Buu and defeated the heroes. [[spoiler:It is now confirmed that U11 is the unseen timeline, the universe in which Trunks came back in the past to save Goku from his heart disease, but not deal with Cell. Without Cell, Kami decided there was no compelling reason to fuse back into one being. This eventually snowballed into a situation with our heroes not being strong enough to face Babidi and his goons. It is known that Babidi tried possessing Vegeta but ended up with the same results as in canon.]]

** Universe 13, where Kakarot never hit his head and thus never lost his Saiyan mentality. So, instead of him becoming the cheerful and kindhearted man in canon, he becomes a ruthless killer who is more than a little mentally unbalanced. It goes without saying that humanity isn't around in U13 anymore. [[spoiler:Culminating in Kakarot becoming immortal thanks to the Dragonballs of Earth!]]
** Universe 14 diverged when Trunks never came back to the future after his U17 counterpart got killed by Cell, thus ensuring the cyborgs could have free reign. [[spoiler:The novelization shows Bulma finding Dr. Gero's underground lab, and the cyborgs kill Cell's embryo there.]]
** Universe 15 is stated to be a "Future" universe (like U12 and U14) since Gohan fought Babidi and Dabura. [[spoiler:It is likely the timeline where Trunks got intel from the past but never found Cell's embryo, came back to the Future to deactivate the cyborgs, but got killed by Cell who stole his time-machine, thus creating an universe with no strong warriors left.]]

** U3 Bardock, who keeps the future sight, has gone Super Saiyan, and has become older and wiser, and even took the Saiyan throne from Vegeta.
** U4 Zen Buu, basically a Super Buu who managed to absorb ''everyone'' with a power in his universe.

** U8's King Cold. In U18, he begged for his life like a coward when Trunks turned up. This time, despite knowing that he's outmatched by many fighters, he goes up to his true form anyway, which, had U18's version used in his fight with Trunks, would've allowed him to defeat him ''and Goku.'' [[spoiler:Part of this may be because he's ''not'' King Cold anymore, but Ginyu possessing Cold's body.]]
** ''Nearly everyone in U9''. Yamcha is an android, Tien easily defeats Sun Wukong, and Videl not only has the Z-Sword, she can use the Kaio-Ken and actually give King Cold a good fight in his intermediate form.
** U10 shows off what Nail would be capable of had he actually helped fight the Ginyu Force on Namek - let's put this into perspective, this Nail could've defeated Recoome, who Vegeta couldn't defeat back then. Yes, Nail has been listed twice, but he is pretty awesome.

** U17 Cell, who defeated Gohan in their final clash, and slaughtered the Z-Fighters easily, and went on to kill the Bojack Gang.

** Universe 8, where Freeza and his family won, [[spoiler:came about because Krilin killed Vegeta on Earth before Goku could stop him. Since Vegeta doesn't show up on Namek, he's not around to provide an extra distraction to Freeza or his henchmen, which eventually culminates in Freeza killing everyone on Namek (except Goku, who remained alive long enough to destroy Freeza's capital).]]
** Universe 9, where non-human heroes never came into being, leading the Earthlings to step up their game and face threats from outer space on their own. [[spoiler:Also, of note, Krilin refers to the Frost demons as "Cooler's empire", because Freeza got shifted out of the picture after he destroyed planet Vegeta, dying at Cooler's hands when acting uppity over an intrusion in his territory: because Cooler and his men did act on the impulse of killing baby Goku then, which was hinted to since Cooler's special chapter stating that events around planet Vegeta's destruction went down differently in Universe 9.]]
** Universe 10, where it should be noted only the East Kaioshin has appeared in the novelization (the only one alive in canon DBZ). Otherwise it is similar to Universe 1.

** Universe 15 is stated to be a "Future" universe (like U12, U14) since Gohan fought Babidi and Dabura. [[spoiler:It is likely the timeline where Trunks got intel from the past but never found Cell's embryo, came back to the Future to deactivate the cyborgs, but got killed by Cell who stole his time-machine, thus creating an universe with no strong warriors left.]]

** It's stated [[https://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-197.html on]] [[https://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-202.html several]] [[https://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-217.html pages]] that Vegetto had never transformed into Super Saiyan 2 before his fight with Broly, because not even U16 Bra was strong enough to push him to that edge. Yet, [[https://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-1258.html later]] [[https://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-1793.html pages]] show that [=SSJ2=] Bra requires [=SSJ2=] Vegetto to overpower her, and Vegetto had used [=SSJ2=] at least once before the tournament.
** The novelization vastly expands the events and characterizations. While it's supervised by Salagir so that nothing contradicts the manga, when ''[=DBM=]'' is such a LongRunner, it's inevitable that later events end up contradicting what was expanded much earlier in the novelization:
*** In Chapter 11 of the novelization, Bojack is willing to forgive Bujin's defeat because he "did not want to repeat the same mistake he did by killing Bido for his incompetence", which implies Bido was killed by Bojack's own hands in some sort of YouHaveFailedMe moment. [[spoiler:Chapter 18 of the manga reveals that Bido was killed by Vegeta's Final Flash, and Bojack only "killed" Bido by inaction due to not warning him of the danger.]]
*** In Chapter 16 of the novelization, U8 Recoome says to U10 Nail "No Resistance! You're no different from the Namekians we slaughtered back home!", which implies Recoome took part in the invasion of Namek, and he never met a Namekian able to give him a fight. [[spoiler:Chapter 56 of the manga reveals that Recoome never went to Namek, and the only Namekian he ever met was U8 Nail, who ''did'' offer a good resistance.]]
*** In Chapter 32 of the novelization, Kat is stressed after her previous defeat and wants to go back to U6 immediately, with the other girls agreeing to do it when the first round ends if they're all disqualified by then. [[spoiler:Chapter 85 of the manga reveals that the only reason why they're there is because Mai needs to stay more than 30 hours near Bojack to weaken him, which would have been impossible if they all left early. Mai's spell isn't brought up when Kat asks for leaving.]]
*** In Chapter 42 of the novelization, Broly's internal monologue mentions him having personally killed Goku in U20. [[spoiler:Chapter 81 of the manga reveals that Broly never killed Goku directly, since Goku was absorbed by Buu before Broly had a chance to kill him.]]

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: It's been [[https://dbmenglish.freeforums.net/thread/1223/bras-character-point-went-wrong pointed out]] how U16 Bra was, for the first 300 pages, much different than the version that would later be so negatively received.

* PokeThePoodle: Beelzebub, when up against U3!Piccolo, tells him that he is a mere Namekian, while he himself is a true demon. One of Beel's dastardly demonic deeds was ''not'' sharing chocolates with his friends, and eating them ''before'' dinner!

** Universe 3 diverged when Bardock acquired the power of prophetic visions, put them to good use and managed to take Freeza down, with Saiyans taking over the galaxy, Kakarot never being sent to Earth, and then Raichi taking revenge on the Saiyans. [[spoiler:Piccolo Daimao also fused with Kami, with an evil Piccolo being the dominant personality, most likely to weather the Saiyan attack upon Earth, as stated by a timeline comparison minicomic.]]

*** In Chapter 32 of the novelization, Kat is stressed after her previous defeat and wants to go back to U6 immediately, with the other girls agreeing to do it when the first round ends if they're all disqualified by then. [[spoiler:Chapter 85 of the manga reveals that the only reason why they're there is because Mai needs to stay more than 30 hours near Bojack to weaken him, which would have been impossible if they all leave early. Mai's spell isn't brought up when Kat asks for leaving.]]

** Right [[http://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-984.html after the mass resurrection]], several characters from several zombie-related franchises make an appearance, such as [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Claire Redfield]], [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDead Lee Everett, Clementine]], [[VideoGame/TheLastOfUs Ellie]] and [[VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime Fayt Leingod]].
*** Also, Nicholas Angel. Though that doesn't make sense, since he's from ''Film/HotFuzz'' where as it should have been [[Film/ShaunOfTheDead Shaun]] to keep with the zombie theme. He's even eating an ice cream, in reference to ''[[Film/BloodAndIceCreamTrilogy The Cornetto Trilogy]]'' so the authors knew what they were referencing, at least to a degree.

** The Multiverse aspect, especially for changed or alternate versions of the established DBZ cast, allows for callbacks or pokes to aspects of the series.
** The movies have been rewritten to fit within DBZ history. Most notably, aspects like Bardock's visions and the Tuffles were rewritten or removed from some universes.

* FanonDiscontinuity: {{Invoked|Trope}} DBM ignores the events of ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' and several of the ''Dragon Ball Z'' movies (specifically, the first four, the sixth and seventh, and the eleventh, while the fifth, eighth, and tenth happened somewhat differently [[NonSerialMovie to slot them into canon]]). Since it was created long before ''Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman'' and ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' it also ignores the events of those series.

* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Syd is the Captain Ginyu of sex changes, [[http://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-477.html as King Vegeta learned the hard way.]]]]

* PoweredArmor: The Heliorians from U19 use them to compensate their lack of ki abilities, and they are INCREDIBLY effective.
** Their weapons could arguably make short work of anyone below [=SS2=] tier, and without a HealingFactor, so they just had bad luck in the tournament proper with opponents that could shake off the damage, but the armors get a proper showing during the Majin Rebellion, namely against Dabra or U3 Piccolo.

* {{Retcon}}: The novelization vastly expands the events and characterizations. While it's supervised by Salagir so that nothing contradicts the manga, when ''[=DBM=]'' is such a LongRunner, it's inevitable that later events end up contradicting what was expanded much earlier in the novelization:
** In Chapter 11 of the novelization, Bojack is willing to forgive Bujin's defeat because he "did not want to repeat the same mistake he did by killing Bido for his incompetence", which implies Bido was killed by Bojack's own hands in some sort of YouHaveFailedMe moment. [[spoiler:Chapter 18 of the manga reveals that Bido was killed by Vegeta's Final Flash, and Bojack only "killed" Bido by inaction due to not warning him of the danger.]]
** In Chapter 16 of the novelization, U8 Recoome says to U10 Nail "No Resistance! You're no different from the Namekians we slaughtered back home!", which implies Recoome took part in the invasion of Namek, and he never met a Namekian able to give him a fight. [[spoiler:Chapter 56 of the manga reveals that Recoome never went to Namek, and the only Namekian he ever met was U8 Nail, who ''did'' offer a good resistance.]]
** In Chapter 32 of the novelization, Kat is stressed after her previous defeat and wants to go back to U6 immediately, with the other girls agreeing to do it when the first round ends if they're all disqualified by then. [[spoiler:Chapter 85 of the manga reveals that the only reason why they're there is because Mai needs to stay more than 30 hours near Bojack to weaken him, which would have been impossible if they all leave early. Mai's spell isn't brought up when Kat asks for leaving.]]
** In Chapter 42 of the novelization, Broly's internal monologue mentions him having personally killed Goku in U20. [[spoiler:Chapter 81 of the manga reveals that Broly never killed Goku directly, since Goku was absorbed by Buu before Broly had a chance to kill him.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: U8 King Cold, who is inexplicably far more powerful than Cold as depicted in the original manga, is the strongest fighter in his universe.

* BreakTheHaughty: Son Bra of Universe 16 is a SmugSuper and a condescending, sometimes outright [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] KnightTemplar with major temperament issues. After she defeats U8 King Cold in a fashion that, in official canon, is regarded as a very cheap way to win a fight [[spoiler:(she snuck some senzu beans into her gloves and ate them to restore herself to full strength after being pummeled to near-death by King Cold)]] and gloating about how clever she was in using such an underhanded move, it comes to bite her in the ass when [[spoiler: Captain Ginyu, who has been inhabiting Cold's body for who knows how long, body swaps with her and leaves her trapped in Cold's mutilated form while he gets to enjoy owning her young, naturally powerful Saiyan body.]]

* ButtMonkey:
** Frieza. Put simply, ''no one'' in the tournament is at [[SoLastSeason his level]], since the story is post-series and everyone else has either [[AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome beaten him]] or [[VillainWorld beaten the guys who beat him and trained up.]] The only exceptions are the people who are ''too'' weak to fight him, Jeice and Nappa, who forfeit instantly. To make things worse, he gets humiliated and killed in Universes 3, 7, and [[spoiler:9]] and even in the Universe where he won, he still had some trouble unlike the other {{Villain World}}s. [[spoiler:Despite him putting up more of a fight against U18 Goku (thanks to some help from Buu), he ultimately goes down in one punch.]]
** To a ''much'' lesser extent, Dabura. [[spoiler:He spends many chapters weakly asking to be healed before actually being healed.]]
** U10 is downright stated to be the weakest universe, which shows. [[CurbStompBattle Mahissu gets knocked out from Goku simply punching the air, Vegeta loses to his "disgraceful" U18 counterpart and lands in his space completely naked and Bardock suffers from Pan ''fangirling him'', using Kid Goku's arsenal from the original series to knock Bardock out.]] To make matters worse, the official novelization following U10's forfeit shows Vegeta attempting to hijack the Varga's ship, only to be stopped by Nail and Cargo. The kicker? He and Bardock watch Porunga revive everybody BUT the Saiyans and they are forced to work labor on planet Namek until Vegeta is thrown back to planet Vegeta and beaten for a second time by Nail, in front of his entire planet. Yikes.

** Universe 13, where Kakarot never hit his head and thus never lost his Saiyan mentality. So, instead of him becoming the cheerful and kindhearted man in canon, he becomes a ruthless killer who is more than a little mentally unbalanced. It goes without saying that humanity isn't around in U13 anymore.
*** [[spoiler:Culminating in Kakarot becoming immortal thanks to the Dragonballs of Earth!]]

** Universe 20 diverged when Broly survived his second coming, after being thrown into space by the heroes, and did not burn in the Sun. [[spoiler:It is further revealed that it otherwise started near identical to U18 with a victorious Goku and a reincarnated Buu as Uub, but the divergence took 12 years to manifest itself.]]
*** [[spoiler:Further, it is revealed in the U20 special chapter that they stumbled upon the variation where Broly had become so powerful he blew the whole galaxy before a good version of Zen Buu could teleport themselves to a black hole.]]

** U4!Buu giving hints to the events in his universe when he mentions South Kaioshin has been using a shield, and that he knows about that tactic.

* HappyEndingOverride: Universe 20 is the only universe who's divergent point is after the end of Z, involving an even more powerful Broly returning to Earth and destroying the planet in the fight. In the end, even after the heroes do everything they can to try to stop him, including [[spoiler:letting Buu absorb all of them]], they are ultimately unable to beat him [[spoiler:and are forced to sacrifice themselves to put Broly in a blackhole... and while that works for most universes where Broly attacked a third time, U20 has Broly miraculously survive again and destroys the whole universe.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: According to the South Kaioshin, the Grand Kaioshin did this in most universes to tame Majin Buu.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: One of the early fights features a version of Dende's little brother, Cargo, who by this point in time is an adult.

** As shown in Chapter 48, in half of the universes Cooler happened to be the last living Frost Demon... at least, until he went to Earth. Interestingly, the novelization mentions he's sterile, so he would have been the last Frost Demon even if he hadn't gone there.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [[http://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-355.html At one time]], Vegeta complains that his waiting after his first fight seems to him like two years. Guess how much real time had passed since the fight.
** [[http://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-1556.html In another instance]], one of the Trunks complains about feeling like the group has been stuck somewhere for months (it has been months IRL) when in universe it been less than 10 minutes as stated by #16.

* [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight Monster Under The Bed]]: [[OverlyLongGag Milked for all it's worth.]]

** During U18 Pan's fight with U13 Kakorot, a gag occurs that goes back to the original series. [[spoiler: When Kakorot grabs Pan so she can't use the Kamehameha, she simply directs it out of her feet - something only done before with Goku during the 23rd Budokai Tenkaichi.]]

* PoweredArmor: The Heliorians from U19 use them to compensate their lack of ki abilities, and they are INCREDIBLY effective.
** Their weapons could arguably make short work of anyone below [=SS2=] tier, and without a HealingFactor, so they just had bad luck in the tournament proper with opponents that could shake off the damage, but the armors get a proper showing during the Majin Rebellion, namely against Dabra or U3!Piccolo

** Super Saiyan Grade 3 (the bulky form Future Trunks uses against Perfect Cell) is equal in Power to Super Saiyan 2, but still makes the user much slower than a "true" Super Saiyan 2.

** The people of Helior from universe 19, being technologically advanced all have names that are anagrams of household appliances brand or household appliances specialized chain stores, (sometimes modified): Tidar (Darty), Xeniloum (Moulinex), Eleim (Miele), Phipsil (Philips), Naurb (Braun), Magsuns (Samsung), Loopwhirl (Whirlpool), Nedwook (Kenwood)

* TakeThatMe: Raditz makes a comment about Dabura "being affected by such a simple technique." The technique in question: the Makankousappo.
** Kakarot however takes the cake, quipping one would have to WANT to take the blow to be wounded so badly. To Raditz.

** Chapter 74: [[spoiler:In a U13 flashback, Vegeta decapitates Kakarot in front of Frieza for his lack of respect. The implications are staggering and could explain a few instances of NoOneShouldSurviveThat... Is this Kakarot immortal?]]
*** [[spoiler:Turns out, yes, yes he is.]]

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of Chapter 55 shows Gast surrounded by several of Raichi's ghosts. In the chapter itself, Gast and Raichi's fight only covers five pages -- a fifth of the chapter. Instead, most of it is dedicated to [[spoiler:Ginyu stealing U16 Bra's body and Vegito getting Ginyu to undo it. Not only that, but Gast never gets to fight any of the ghosts featured on that cover.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: Downplayed with the Saiyans as a species. According to supplemental material from Akira toriyama, the average Saiyan was weaker than Raditz. In this continuity, Raditz is considered a below average loser, so the Average Saiyan in the multiverse is stronger than Radirz.

** [[spoiler: The Majin rebellion]] was doomed to failure considering that one of Bardock's visions showed characters that were [[Majinized no longer under Babidi's control.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Kakarotto's immortality]] had already been hinted [[https://i.postimg.cc/HnVvSttR/Kakimmortality.png several times]] before the reveal in Chapter 74.

There is an anime adaptation in French up to 25 episodes, which can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/gillesbud/videos here]].

** [[spoiler: The Majin rebellion]] was doomed to failure considering that one of Bardocks vision showed off characters that were [[Majinized no longer under Babidi's control.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: Universe 20 is the only universe who's divergent point is after the end of Z. Involving an even more powerful Broly returning to Earth and destroying the planet in the fight. In the end even after the heroes do everything they can to try to stop him, including [[spoiler: letting Buu absorb all of them]] They are ultimately unable to beat him [[spoiler: and are forced to sacrifice themselves to put Broly in a blackhole... and while that works for most universes where Broly attacked a third time, U20 has Broly miraculously survive again and destroys the whole universe.]]

* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler:Babidi is actively trying to pull something like this by turning everyone he can in Majins. To date, he has turned quite a few people among the spectators, everyone in U13 barring Vegeta, Bardock from U3, and pretty much everyone in U8. He even got Cell, Android 17, and someone in U19!]]

* JustAMachine: The warriors of U19 seemingly subscribe to this school of thought.

** A few characters have taken advantage of the rule made to prevent excessive hiding or leaving, that if the judges cannot see you for more than thirty seconds you forfeit. XXI uses it against [[spoiler: U16 Vegetto, trapping him in another dimension where time ran differently just to be sure]] and U18 Uub uses it on U11 Buu, vaporizing him down to one small final bit and then putting that bit in a container before he could reform. Technically the judges could not see Buu, and thus he lost.

** [[spoiler: U13 Kakarot has this done to him courtesy of Vegeta in a special. It didn't stick, much to the latter's surprise.]]
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Tidar, from Universe 19, uses it against Uub. It's about as effective as you think.

* TheMultiverse: The opening few comics imply that the Multiverse is infinite and that the numbers assigned to the various realities are for the sake of the tournament alone. DBM actually goes against tradition by having the "canon" universe receive a moniker other than "One" or "Prime".

** Jeice gets a BIG one when it's announced that he has to fight Frieza. Yes, ''that'' Frieza. Needless to say, he immediately gives up.

** Zen Buu fits the bill too. He's basically immortal, insanely powerful, incredibly intelligent and, unlike the above two, he doesn't have to worry about things like the vacuum of space.
* PokeThePoodle: Beelzebub, when up against Piccolo, tells him that he is a mere Namekian, while he himself is a true demon. One of Beel's dastardly demonic deeds was ''not'' sharing chocolates with his friends, and eating them ''before'' dinner!

** U13 Vegeta also utters one right before [[spoiler: he gets vaporized by the ghost of his U3 version.]]

* NonSerialMovie: The comic does its best to fit as many of the movies as possible into canon, to allow for more fighters to participate. Some are even rewritten to some degree to make them more canon-compliant - for instance, ''[[Anime/DragonBallZCoolersRevenge Cooler's Revenge]]'' is changed so that Goku went Super Saiyan right off the bat instead of [[ForgotAboutHisPowers inexplicably not doing so for most of the runtime]], and to compensate, Cooler is shown to be [[CurbStompCushion a more even opponent than he was in the original.]]

Now has a [[Characters/DragonBallMultiverse character sheet]].

* InformedAttribute: Universe 20 is the only universe who's divergent point is after the end of Z. Involving an even more powerful Broly returning to Earth and destroying the planet in the fight. In the end even after the heroes do everything they can to try to stop him, including [[spoiler: letting Buu absorb all of them]] They are ultimately unable to beat him [[spoiler: and are forced to sacrifice themselves to put Broly in a blackhole... and while that works for most universes where Broly attacked a third time, U20 has Broly miraculously survive again and destroys the whole universe.]]