History WhatAnIdiot / DragonBall

* Vegeta and Frieza both desire immortality. While Vegeta is allied with them and is the only being for most of the arc capable of plausibly threatening Vegeta, Goku eventually arrives, but is badly damaged. The gang is desperate and Freeza is minutes away. Vegeta is also onto them and is immediately threatening them, and the last wish needs to be made. They have ruled out Gohan because of his lack of fighting experience, and Krillin cannot threaten Freeza even in his first form.\\

!!''Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler''
* After barely defeating the first Meta-Cooler, Goku & Vegeta realize that there's a whole army of Meta-Coolers at a distance, which would eventually overwhelm the two Saiyans.\\
'''You'd expect:''' For Cooler to just kill Goku and Vegeta using the Meta-Cooler army, now that he has the chance.\\
'''Or: ''' If Cooler wants so badly to torture Goku and Vegeta, he could, again, use the Meta-Cooler army to do that, instead of taking them to his way more vulnerable body, giving them a chance to destroy him.\\
'''Instead:''' Cooler brings them both to his real and way more vulnerable body.\\
'''The result:''' Goku destroys Cooler and the whole Big Gete Star.

'''Or:''' Goku Instant Transmissions Gohan, Dende, Mr. Satan and Tien somewhere safe like the Kai's World and obtain a second Potara Earring to allow the fusion to work. The fusion will guarantee that neither Goku or Gohan gets absorbed into Super Buu who previously managed to do so to a Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks and Piccolo.

'''You'd Expect:''' For someone to realize that while they can't kill him, there is no rule about keeping him under surveillance. It might be a good idea to learn where his secret hideout is, and maybe the Z-Fighters can intercept the androids there to prevent the loss of innocent life. If nothing else, they at least know where his hideout is and can intercept him there. Maybe a chance to look at his technical files while he is away.\\
'''Instead:''' The characters do nothing to learn about the enemy and do their own training. This leads to a secret ability on the bad guys (they don't emit ki and can't be tracked) which allows the Androids to take a quick upper hand. Imagine how the Cell Saga would have gone if the Z-Fighters knew where Gero's lab was, rather than wasting 2 episodes to find it.

'''You'd Expect:''' Someone present to shut him down, preferably Goku, who is much stronger than him. The only reason Vegeta is allowed to stick around is that he hasn't done anything ''too'' evil recently, and now he's just made a death threat. At this point, he's unstable at the bare minimum, and him sticking around is not going to be helpful. Either find some way to deal with him or at least make it very clear that his actions won't be tolerated.\\
'''Instead:''' Nobody minds the fact that Vegeta has openly declared that he considers their own lives less important than him getting in a good punching session. He goes on to cause significantly more problems in the arc that entirely owe to him acting on the intent which he openly declared three years ago.

* Whilst the Z-Fighters train in the anime, Yamcha decides to try Vegeta's gravity room. He sets it to 300 Gs and barely manages to turn it off before getting crushed to death under his own weight.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Yamcha would learn his lesson and work his way up to 300 Gs. Given that he managed to pull himself up off the floor enough to turn off the machine while three hundred times his normal weight, he could probably handle one-third that, and try for higher levels when he gets used to it. If it's really hard, well...that's good. That's how you get stronger.\\

'''Instead:''' He refuses to miss out on the "fun" and exacerbates the effects of the virus by remaining in Super Saiyan form, giving Android 19 the opportunity to absorb his ki to use against his friends and son.

'''What's worse:''' Vegeta destroyed Android 19 with his Super Saiyan form and Piccolo had 20 ready for the kill when Trunks comes back from the future and tries to explain that 19 and 20 ''aren't'' the androids he warned them about. If Bulma didn't show up, 20 would likely have been killed before he could reach his lab, and the other androids might've been tracked down and destroyed, preventing Cell from transforming at all.

'''Instead:''' He uses the far weaker Android 19 for his own cyberization and gets killed by 17. Amathia at its finest, folks!

'''Instead:''' Cell falls for the ploy hook, line, and sinker, and lays out his entire origin story to Piccolo on a silver platter, including his plans to absorb Androids 17 and 18 in order to become [[UltimateLifeForm a perfect being.]] This buys Piccolo enough time to regenerate his arm and regain his strength, and then Krillin and Trunks arrive on the scene on top of that. Cell may have used a Solar Flare to escape, but he gave Piccolo and the others enough knowledge and foresight for them to impede his plans in the future.
* Cell has the ability to absorb people with his tail.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Him to use it in battle more often, be it as a syringe (people) or a mouth (Androids). As shown with Piccolo, it is practically an "I win." button and he gets the biomass of his opponent. If he loses his tail, he can just (painfully) grow it back.\\
'''Instead:''' He only uses his tail for normal people along with Androids 17 and 18. Aside from Piccolo at Gingertown, he only uses this ability a second time on Android 16, who turns out to be [[NoSell completely synthetic]] and can't be absorbed. Once he reaches his Perfect form, he only uses his tail to spit out Cell Juniors. As demonstrated with Super Buu later on, turns out that having the ability to instantly eat your opponent can make your life ten times easier.

** While the Z-Fighters continue to search for Cell, the Androids suddenly arrived at Kame House with them demanding Goku's location. It should be noted that this is after they were informed that Cell plans to absorb both Android 17 and 18 in order to become perfect.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Piccolo to reveal that there is a monster named Cell that is currently hunting them down, attempting to absorb them in order to gain absolute perfection. If they don't believe it, show them a live broadcast, revealing reports of people being drained by the monster. Afterward, he would offer an EnemyMine where they either try to hide somewhere that Cell won't detect or they help him in their search for the Bio-Android, and in return for their compliance, he will reveal where Goku is currently located (yes, it would suck for Goku to die again, but still).\\

** Imperfect Cell interrupts Android 17 and Piccolo's much-lauded even battle, which Androids 16 and 18 are watching in the background, and makes it perfectly clear that he wants to absorb 17 and 18 to achieve his perfect form. In the ensuing battle, Cell [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown nearly kills Piccolo]] and [[CurbStompBattle utterly curb stomps 17]], heading towards the Android to absorb him... with Tien entering the battlefield just in time to watch.\\

** Krillin arrives on the battlefield near 16 and 18's hiding place with an emergency suspension controller created by Bulma to shut off the cyborg twins so that they can be destroyed easily. By this point, he's most likely sensed Cell's increasing power and figured out that Cell got 17. Despite his growing crush on Android 18 and his having discerned that the twins aren't evil incarnate, he knows that he probably has to do this in order to make sure Cell can't absorb 18 and become a full-on intergalactic menace. Also worth noting is that at this point Vegeta has arrived on the battlefield as a beefed-up Super Saiyan and is laying a physical and verbal smackdown on Semi-Perfect Cell.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Well, first off, for 18 to have '''FINALLY MADE A BREAK FOR IT BY NOW''' so that she wouldn't even BE THERE for Krillin to find. Barring that, for Krillin to be able to get a grip, immediately go to 18, convince her to leave and then '''lead her the hell away from the place''', tell her about the suspension controller and make sure to keep it just in case his best efforts to save her fail and he has to use it anyway.\\
'''Instead:''' 18 is '''STILL''' hiding practically right underneath Cell, gawking at everything as it goes on, even amidst 16's own warnings to run away and forget about him. As for Krillin, he spends a good 10-plus minutes lollygagging about his crush on her, makes the decision to ''destroy the controller'', '''THEN''' comes over and tells her to run. It is at this point that '''Cell finally spots 18.'''

'''Instead''': Vegeta, despite seeing immediately that Cell's appeal to his [[{{Pride}} massive overconfidence]] and [[BloodKnight lust for battle]] is a pathetically blatant ploy, inevitably gives in and agrees to allow Cell to attain his perfect form, which allows Cell the time to even spot 18 in the first place, then ''attacks his own son Trunks to get him out of the way'', thinking only about getting a decent fight from the whole deal.

'''You'd expect''': Him to immediately strike and kill 18 when he has the chance, not only because of his own deep-seated issues with the twins but as a pragmatic measure to ensure that Cell can't absorb her and is thus destined to become Super Saiyan chow. Hell, 18 herself could be the one to suggest it if we're worried about making Trunks look too heelish. By this point, she's already threatened to blow herself up, so it wouldn't be unreasonable. Barring that, you'd expect him to just kill Cell while he's punching the shit out of him.\\
'''Instead''': He's caught up in defending her like she's an ordinary innocent victim and not the LivingBattery Cell needs to go OneWingedAngel, as well as protecting Vegeta's pride by not letting him think he's stronger than him. So not only does he hold back too much power when fighting Cell, he finds himself within striking distance of 18 at least once yet only thinks to shout at her to "blow [her]self up or leave." And again, she still does absolutely nothing conducive to helping her own escape.\\

[[labelnote:First off,]]it turns out that holding back too much power for Vegeta's pride's sake was entirely pointless. Much of the extra power he thinks he's concealing is really just energy that he's already using as speed, endurance, etc., but can convert into pure strength by bulking up. Furthermore, Cell, Vegeta, and Goku ''already all know how to do this but choose not to for its obvious strategic disadvantage against a competitive opponent''. In a desperate burst against someone, he holds clear superiority over, throwing all his power into a Super Buster Cannon would've both done away with Cell as well as actually ''impressed and angered'' Vegeta rather than breaking him, which could've paved the way for a father-son fight in which Trunks earned Vegeta's respect.[[/labelnote]]\\
[[labelnote:Also,]]as far as killing 18? Sure, [[BloodKnight Vegeta]] and [[LoveMakesYouDumb Krillin]] would both be upset with Trunks if he did this for their own aforementioned reasons, but Goku and Gohan's return from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber can easily solve both problems. As partly covered above, Vegeta's thirst for a challenge can easily be sated by any of the other three Super Saiyans, and Krillin's heartbreak can be solved via Goku's idea to get a new Namekian to act as Kami and recreate the Earth's Dragon Balls to bring back Cell's victims, which would include 17, with the second wish from Dende's balls being used to bring back 18. In fact, both solutions go together, as 18 would know full well that any of the four Super Saiyans (three once Trunks goes back to his time) can destroy her with ease if she tries to attack innocent people with or without 17, so the twins wouldn't try to replicate the apocalyptic threat of their BadFuture counterparts even if they wanted to.[[/labelnote]]
** '''The result of all this''' (plus a Solar Flare)''':''' Cell absorbs Android 18, transforms into his Perfect Form, and proceeds to kick the crap out of Vegeta, Trunks, Krillin, and Android 16 while treating them all as a warmup, now capable of threatening the entire ''solar system'' with his power. {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}es!

'''You'd expect:''' For Vegeta to charge up another strong attack to try and finish Cell off. If he can't do it himself due to wasting too much energy, then Trunks, who's just as strong as him and hasn't really wasted much energy, can do it for him.\\

* Having seen Gohan's latent power, Goku decides that his own son will succeed him in defeating Cell.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That he tells the other Z-Fighters about his own plans and try to give convincing arguments as to why he has to do so.\\
'''Instead:''' He did not bother telling anyone of this plan, causing most of his friends, especially Piccolo, to think that Goku did not really care about his son. Without Cell's own idiotic moment, Goku's idiotic actions would have directly caused the end of the world.

'''You'd Expect:''' For everyone to listen to Trunks! Remember, if Cell decides nobody can defeat him he's going to blow up the planet and kill everyone!\\
'''Instead:''' Vegeta calls Trunks an idiot and berates him for ''daring'' to choose a "cowardly" option, and the other Z-Fighters all silently agree with him that they shouldn't do a joint attack. It kind of makes you wonder how it somehow took all the way until the Buu saga before a villain was successfully able to destroy the Earth considering the standards the Z-Fighters operate by.\\
'''Even Worse:''' Ultimately, once Cell comes back from exploding, kills Trunks, and injures Vegeta and Gohan, the remaining Z-Fighters just team up to try and kill Cell just as Trunks had suggested anyway. However, because the Z-Fighters hadn't done so earlier when they had the chance, the only ones left are far too weak and Cell had gotten a massive power boost at that point, too massive for any of their attacks to have an effect. It isn't until Vegeta manages to get up and attack that anything they do does anything more than irritate Cell, and even Vegeta's attack only manages to distract Cell long enough for Gohan to win the BeamOWar.

'''What's worse:''' This is the entire plan that Goku's string of earlier idiotic actions was leading to all along. Meaning not only was Cell OutGambitted by [[IdiotHero Goku]], but said gambit was predicated on daring Cell to be an even bigger idiot than him ''and Cell took the bait''.
* Not even Gohan is immune after his Super Saiyan 2 transformation. Near the end of the Cell Games, Gohan had the chance to finish him off. Cell was badly wounded and couldn't regenerate, which would mean another attack would be enough to actually finish him off for good. Goku urgently yells at his son to do so now, as if the battle gets too drawn out Cell could grow desperate and try something really nasty.\\
'''You'd expect''': For Gohan to listen to his father and finish things immediately. Plus, it's not like he and his father haven't dealt with something like that before, as was the case with Frieza when he started growing desperate during his fight with Goku, which of course led to Namek's destruction. Gohan's father is actually speaking from firsthand experience.\\
'''Instead''': Gohan smugly feels Cell's suffering needs to go on and flat-out ignores Goku's warnings, allowing him to restore his body. Eventually during the battle Cell is reduced to his Semi-Perfect Form, and Gohan ''still'' doesn't pounce on the chance to finish him off—which is what causes and allows Cell to decide to self-destruct, taking the whole planet with him as one last act of spite.\\
'''Also:''' Seeing that Cell was knocked back into his Semi-Perfect form, Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks could've just jumped into the fight and killed Cell themselves. Goku could even have grabbed Cell once he powered down, teleported him to King Kai's planet, killed the monster in Other World, and teleport back to Earth. Oh, and speaking of King Kai's planet...

'''You'd Expect:''' Goku immediately grabs Cell and brings him to King Kai's Planet, where there are only two/three people without wasting any time, grabbing King Kai and Bubbles (and Gregory) right after that, and takes everyone but Cell to Earth, having a very angry King Kai but saving the day.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' For Cell to fight a battle of attrition with Gohan and avoid big energy clashes, as the only way to kill him is to destroy his entire body (see Goku's Instant Kamehameha). Close quarters combat will favor Cell as a broken arm is a weak point, and Gohan only has one arm to fight with.\\

* [[EvilSorcerer Babidi]] has finally released [[TheDreaded Majin Buu]]. Despite Buu's quirky nature, he's vastly more powerful than anyone else in the situation (with the exception of Goku with Super Saiyan 3, though Babidi is unaware of this). Aside from Majin Buu, he still has Dabura, who is roughly even with Super Saiyan 2 Gohan and probably not far from Goku and Vegeta in the same form. Although he's the weakest of Babidi's minions (perhaps even including Vegeta himself from Babidi's viewpoint), Dabura has shown to be much more controllable and loyal than Majin Buu (and to a lesser extent, Vegeta), who is infantile and quite volatile, attacking Dabura for insulting him and doing serious damage immediately (though Dabura survives initially). In addition, Dabura, unlike the other two, has shown UndyingLoyalty to Babidi. He is also warning Babidi that Buu is uncontrollable and will turn on him.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Them to realize that this means Gohan was either brought back by this wish, or NotQuiteDead to begin with, and go looking for him or try contacting him. (The only other possibility is that Gohan was clinging to life and only expired after the wish, which feels like an unlikely conclusion.) Keep in mind that nobody who saw Gohan's "death" ever actually saw his body; they just couldn't sense his energy, which could easily mean he was simply knocked out. For that matter, the Supreme Kai seems to be absent, meaning that figuring out what happened to him is also a good idea.\\

'''Instead:''' Goku decides to have them train the old-fashioned way at the Lookout with only a few days to spare, despite the fact that Goku claims that it took him a week to learn the Fusion Dance technique (and for that matter, he admits he's never successfully fused before, and if he's teaching it to Piccolo and having him teach Goten and Trunks, they're essentially learning the technique fourth-hand). Even when Piccolo suggests the above, Goku refuses, claiming that the room has a limit of two days per person on it, and Goten and Trunks might need to use it again sometime (which makes one wonder what could possibly be a more urgent time than right now). Piccolo agrees with this bizarre assertion, and teaches the kids the old-fashioned way, over the course of an entire day, despite having only two days remaining.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Yamcha to fly out of the plane and use his strength to stabilize it enough to allow a safe landing.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Piccolo and Gotenks to spend some time in the Time Chamber until the current fusion wears off and fuse again later so that Gotenks can utilize the full fusion time. They already spent a lot of fusion time showboating and not taking the fight seriously in Super Saiyan form, meaning that there will be very little time left in the current fusion. In the one hour cooldown period in the Time Chamber (which is approximately 10 seconds in real-world time), Piccolo, Trunks and Goten can come up with a plan on how to defeat Buu with what they already know from the fight. .\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Learning from what happened with Cell, Gohan just blast Buu into nothingness immediately.\\
'''Instead:''' Apparently having learned absolutely nothing from the fight with Cell, Gohan just toys with Buu for an excessive period of time including allowing Buu to blow himself up and even waiting an hour for him to regenerate and come back to fight, arrogantly believing there's nothing Buu can possibly do to defeat him.\\

* Related to the above, millions of years ago, a demonic entity known as Majin Buu has been created by Bibidi and is wreaking havoc across the universe. Said Majin proved to be too much for the Supreme Kais to defeat.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For them to use their Potara earrings to fuse together or at least have the Grand and South Supreme Kais fuse together to defeat and vaporize the Majin[[note]]Given that the South is as strong as Majin Buu and Grand is even stronger, such a Fusion is more than enough to beat him[[/note]]. Granted they'll probably never be able to defuse again but that is of little consequence compared to the potential destruction of an entire universe.\\
'''Or:''' They will head towards Beerus's palace, wake him up and urge him to disintegrate Majin Buu, reminding him that if all the Supreme Kais died, then Beerus will disappear along with them.\\
'''Instead:''' They apparently decided to split up and fight him across different planets, never thinking to gang up on him even though they all possess the Instantaneous Movement. This resulted in the death of North and West Kai along with the absorption of the South and Grand Supreme Kai. Even though they barely managed to foil Buu's rampage, the deaths of all the other Kais only leave the Eastern Supreme Kai, the weakest and least experienced as the only Kai left in the universe which led to their universe's mortal level being the 2nd worst in the whole multiverse.
* In the episode "Deadly Vision," Goku and Vegeta travel in Buu's body and argue. Buu pops up in his own head.\\

'''Then:''' Vegeta calls out Goku on it and tells him "Nice work, is there anything else you'd like to tell him?"

'''You'd Expect''': Either one to grab Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo, assembling their sons and their strongest backup, knowing that Dende and Mr. Satan (and Bee) would be brought back by the Namekian Dragon Balls. Regardless if he were to grab Dende or not, it wouldn't have done him much good since the Earth will be destroyed anyways, with the Balls.\\
'''Or:''' Goku and Vegeta to simply power up to Super Saiyan 2 and Goku 3 if need be and simply overpower the attack so the Earth isn't destroyed at all, much like Goku himself did against Vegeta's Galick Gun way back in the Saiyan Saga, then just fight Kid Buu like they end up doing later anyway. An attack that can blow up the planet ten times over is less than nothing to them at this point in the series.\\
'''Instead:''' Everybody simply flees off-world and allows the Earth to be destroyed. Goku grabs ''Dende, Mr. Satan, and Bee''. Goku, it's alright to save Dende and a dog, but why save the guy who stole the credit that your son deserved for beating Cell? Sure, it actually turned out really well for saving the universe, but only because whenever Goku acts like an idiot it somehow translates into the luckiest draw of all time.
* Both Goku and Vegeta, despite powering up to their Super Saiyan 3 and Super Saiyan 2 respectively, were no match for Kid Buu's infinite endurance and Good Buu is currently fighting against the Majin but even he's failing. Vegeta decides to have Dende go to New Namek, restore Earth and wish back everyone that died from the moment Babidi invaded. While Goku believes that it's to bring Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo to the Supreme Kai Planet against Kid Buu, Vegeta in fact wanted Goku to use the people's energy in order to prepare for the Spirit Bomb.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For Goku to use his Instant Transmission to bring Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo from Earth to the Supreme Kai Planet in order to bring additional fighters to stall Kid Buu while Goku charges the Spirit Bomb. He can even teleport to Korin's Tower in order to bring Senzu Beans to restore both him and Vegeta to full health so the latter can rejoin the fight against the Majin once Good Buu falls.\\
'''Instead:''' Goku doesn't think about any of this and decides to charge the Spirit Bomb with everyone including the four fighters above donating their energy. This nearly led to their doom as Majin Buu and Vegeta, with their weakened state are unable to stall Buu for long and even Goku would have the Spirit Bomb reflected back at him had Vegeta not used the last wish to restore Goku to full energy.

* The Black Star Dragon Balls have been used, thus spreading them across the galaxy. If they aren't returned to the Earth within a year, the earth will explode.\\

'''Or''': Have Goku teach Gohan, Goten, Trunks, or one of the other Z-Fighters how to use Instant Transmission[[note]]Gohan and Piccolo are shown being able to use the ability in the game ''Supersonic Warriors'', so it is possible for them to learn; since Gohan can learn it, one can assume that other half-Saiyans would be able to as well, and if Piccolo could learn it, surely Tien or Yamcha could learn it as well[[/note]], and then use one of the other 2 sets of Dragon Balls to warp the Z-Fighters to the location of the Black Star Dragon Balls and return with them, thus recovering them in a month's time tops[[note]]while Goku can't use said technique due to not being an adult anymore, he still knows ''how'' to use it[[/note]]. The best part about this solution? If someone used the Black Star Dragon Balls again, the gang wouldn't even have to waste time learning Instant Transmission to recover them in the future!\\

'''You'd Expect:''' That all of their best fighters would be the ones to go on this voyage. Goku of course, but also Vegeta, who is the next strongest after Goku, and who should be fairly knowledgeable about space from his old SpacePirate days. Uub has gotten quite strong from his years of training with Goku, so it makes sense for him to go too. Piccolo is a logical choice for the crew as well, given that the godly knowledge and wisdom inherited from Kami may come in handy with encounters from space and knowing the properties of the Black Star Dragon Balls. Gohan has given up training in favour of academic pursuits, but he should still be quite powerful, and it's not unreasonable for him to try to get a few months of vacation time so that he can go on the journey (this ''is'' the fate of the world we're talking about), and if the spaceship they use has a gravity room, then Gohan can easily train and get back in shape during the voyage. While she's not a fighter, bringing Bulma along to maintain the ship and keep it in top condition isn't a bad idea. Who knows what they'll encounter in deep space, and with the Earth in peril, there's no reason not to pull out the big guns.\\

'''Instead:''' They apparently decided to have Trunks built up as the bride just so that they can cut the whiskers off with the scissors. Except that nothing stops them from just cutting it off with their ki blasts.

'''Instead:''' The trio ''constantly'' [[ForgotAboutHisPowers Forget About Their Powers]], frequently engaging in more complicated solutions to problems that flight or an energy blast or even raw physical strength could solve, and frequently fleeing from weak foes who pose absolutely no threat to them. [[FauxActionGirl Pan]] in particular is ''[[TheLoad especially]]'' prone to becoming a DamselInDistress as well.

'''Or''': Someone would realize that Baby's defenseless and cut off his tail[[note]]Tails are noted to be especially weak, as even Yajirobe who was thousands of times weaker than Vegeta was able to do so with ease in the Saiyan Saga with a simple blade[[/note]] to end the fight before any more destruction is caused or time is wasted.\\

* Just as the heroes are celebrating their victory over Baby as well as curing his victims, thanks to the Sacred Water, the Earth suddenly shook which made the Z-Fighters realize that it will soon be destroyed within two weeks as a result of Baby using the Black Star Dragon Balls, necessitating the need to evacuate the populace to the planet that Baby reconstructed.\\

'''Instead:''' Piccolo chooses to stay on the soon to be gone planet Earth to take himself along with it, never mind that even ignoring the above, the Balls are scattered throughout the galaxy which meant that they're almost virtually impossible to find. As a result, Piccolo allows himself to die pointlessly, only to later cut his own peaceful afterlife short and be stuck in Hell forever.

'''You'd Expect:''' For Nappa to put his anger aside and leave as Vegeta told him to, as he knows that Vegeta is much stronger than him, and he doesn't even stand a snowball's chance in hell of avenging his own death.\\

'''Instead:''' Piccolo is forced to act dickish in Heaven in order to be pointlessly sent to Hell for his "crimes" all because the characters above do not give any thought about doing this. On the plus side, at least Hell has a decent means of keeping its inhabitants inside, now.
* In the Super Android 17 saga, Android 18 steps into Goku's fight against Super 17. Angry over 17 murdering Krillin when his EvilKnockoff had him BrainwashedAndCrazy prior to the fusion, she confronts him about becoming a coward, losing his identity, and letting {{mad scientist}}s tell him what to do. Super 17 is visibly shaken at this.\\

'''You'd expect:''' Dr. Myuu to relay orders to Super 17 through the "blueprint telepathy" of sorts seen between them in the fight with the other Z-Fighters just before Super 17 went GatlingGood on Majuub, in order to get him to attack 18.\\
'''Instead:''' [[TooDumbToLive He runs his mouth literally saying much of the same stuff 18 is saying except trying to apply it against her. 17 gets pissed off. End of Myuu]]. Now, from that point...\\

'''You'd Expect''': That the Z Fighters would all band together and either hunt down the dragons one by one as a group or split up to take them all on simultaneously. The Earth is in dire peril once again, and now they no longer have the Dragon Balls to act as a ResetButton. They must act quickly and hold nothing back to keep casualties to a minimum. Additionally, not all of the dragons were created equally, and some of them are actually rather weak, so even some of the weaker members of the Z Fighters who have [[CantCatchUp long been outclassed]] could potentially do something to contribute.\\

* Later when fighting Omega Shenron, Goku and Vegeta managed to successfully fuse in their Super Saiyan 4 form and is more than a match for Omega, making him look like a fool.\\

* After barely defeating the first Meta-Cooler, Goku and Vegeta realize that there's a whole army of Meta-Coolers at a distance, which would eventually overwhelm the two Saiyans.\\

* Later when fighting Omega Shenron, Goku and Vegeta managed to successfully fuse together in their Super Saiyan 4 form and is more than enough of making Omega a fool.\\

'''Instead:''' Apparently he thinks that the negative energy sky is [[SkewedPriorities more important]] than the universal-threat dragon and toys with him until he reflects the karma ball. By the time he gets serious, ''the fusion has almost worn off''. Thanks to that the only contribution they did is preventing Syn from obtaining the Four-Star Dragon Ball, which Syn later ends up getting back anyway.
* After firing a Big Bang Kamehameha on Omega Shenron, the latter ended up reverting back to Syn Shenron but unfortunately, Gogeta has defused just as he is about to deal the finishing blow. At this state, both Goku and Vegeta are more than a match for Syn Shenron only for the latter to attempt to absorb back the Dragon Balls and re-transform into Omega.\\

'''Instead:''' They just stood there and let Syn absorb all the Dragon Balls with Goku only getting the Four-Star ball but the boost is more than enough to put the two Super Saiyan Fours on the defensive and by the time they got the fusion dance, they already ran out of Ki to the point that Goku ended up reverting to normal form.

'''Even Worse''': In the anime filler Garlic Jr. Saga, having apparently learned absolutely ''nothing'' from his earlier blunder Garlic Jr. does the '''exact same thing again!'''

* While Goku is trapped by a distracted giant Slug, Piccolo wants to give his powers to Goku in order for him to fight back.\\

'''Instead:''' He apparently forces himself into Goku as he struggles to do it.

'''You'd Expect:''' Goku to get the hint and just STOP using Kaioken and simply go Super Saiyan. After all, this movie apparently takes place during the 3-year wait for the Androids, and Goku also stated he learned how to control the Super Saiyan form during the 1-year intermission between the Frieza and Android sagas.\\
'''Instead:''' He continues using Kaioken. Only after a ''massive'' beating and Cooler [[NoSell literally flying through his Kaioken Kamehameha completely unharmed]] does he finally use Super Saiyan to put Cooler down.[[note]]This is likely down to the writers of the film assuming that entering Super Saiyan wasn't something Goku could do at will, which was only implied in the manga two months before the film's release; the film came out just a matter of days after Goku returned from Yardrat.[[/note]] This one is so odd that it's common to FanWank the entire film as an AlternateUniverse where Goku hasn't unlocked the form yet.\\
'''Worse:''' In the next movie, ''Return of Cooler'', Goku does the exact same mistake ''again'' during the first part of his fight with Meta-Cooler. Thankfully, he wises up after Cooler hurls him into a mountain and immediately goes Super Saiyan before too long... not that it does him any good.

* After barely defeating the first Meta-Cooler, Goku and Vegeta realize that there's a whole army of Meta-Coolers at the distance, which would eventually overwhelm the two saiyans.\\
'''You'd expect:''' That Cooler just kill Goku and Vegeta using the Meta-Coolers army, now that he has the chance.\\
'''Or: ''' If Cooler wants so bad to torture Goku and Vegeta, he could, again, use the Meta-Cooler army to do that, instead of taking them to his way more vulnerable body, giving them a chance of destroy him.\\

'''You'd expect:''' That since they already had a hard time fighting the Androids in the city in their base forms, for the three Saiyans to just go Super Saiyan and destroy the Androids immediately.\\

* The heroes go against Broly and get absolutely demolished.\\

* Goten, Trunks, Gohan, Videl and Bulma summon Shenron to wish for all the zombies and ghosts released from the afterlife to be sent back to the Other World. Shenron attempts the wish but is unable to as the barrier between the living and Other World is broken and they would simply come back to where they were before.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Someone to wish for all the aggressive ghosts and zombies to a secluded area or uninhabited planet so that they do not cause more destruction in the cities. Not all the ghosts need to go there as some were quite friendly but just the ones that were clearly causing mayhem like Frieza, the zombies and [[ThoseWackyNazis The Dictator and his army]].\\

'''Thankfully:''' All the past villains got scared of Ultimate Gohan after he took out their leader Frieza in one blow and ran off while The Dictator's army and zombies get taken out by Gotenks.

'''Or:''' Even if one wish was used with the original wishes as per canon being done, Goku asks King Kai exactly when the Saiyans will arrive. This is so that he can arrange a time for his friends to gather the Dragon Balls and make the wish, Kami to meet him at the check-in station so that there is plenty of time to meet the Z-Fighters, bring some senzu beans from Korin on the way down the Lookout (which he does in canon) and create a strategy on how to beat the Saiyans. With how long Snake Way is, Goku would definitely need an ample amount of time to travel from King Kai's planet to Earth. \\

'''You'd Expect:''' That the wish be changed to destory the Saiyan's ships or have them teleported to the other end of the galaxy.\\

'''Worse:'''It's stated that Piccolo was the FIRST one of the Z-Fighters to get killed. Speaking of...