History WhatAnIdiot / DragonBall

* During his fight with Vegeta, Vegeta transforms into his giant ape form in order to destroy Goku. Goku manages to use the Taiyo Ken ability to successfully blind him.\\

'''Instead:''' She walks up to Buu and '''slaps him in the face for supposedly killing Gohan,''' then Buu kills her by turning her into an egg. But then, this is ''[[MamaBear Chi]]-[[{{Tsundere}} Chi]]'' we're talking about, but even ''she'' should know better.

'''You'd expect''' that Gohan would 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 Freiza when he started growing desperate during his fight with Super Saiyan Goku, which of course led to Namek's destruction. Goku is actually speaking from firsthand experience.\\

* In the Buu Saga, Chi-Chi is at Kami's lookout and she's struck with grief because of Gohan dying (her anger is justified though, because Gohan is her child and she's only feel like how any mother would). She wants to give Super Buu a piece of her mind.\\

'''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, which is what causes him to trigger said bomb.

'''Instead''' he stands there, looking dumb and saying something to the effect of 'I'm sorry King Kai, this was the only place I could think of'.\\

'''Instead:''' She walks up to Buu and '''slaps him in the face for supposedly killing Gohan,''' then Buu kills her by turning her into an egg. But then, this is ''[[MamaBear Chi]]-[[{{Tsundere}} Chi]]'' were talking about, but even ''she'' should know better.

'''Instead:''' He just moves a couple feet away and immediately starts forming the Genki Dama all while Vegeta stays in his giant ape body. Vegeta eventually recovers his vision and fires off a massive blast at Goku right as he finishes gathering energy, taking him out and making all the energy gathering he did worth nothing (or at least if Krillin hadn't arrived at the last minute).

'''Alternately you'd expect''' that Goku, being able to teleport absolutely anywhere, would teleport to an empty space like where Planet Namek used to be. That way he had a chance of at least limiting the casualties to him and Cell alone, or to just Cell if Vegeta's ability to survive in the vacuum of space for five minutes is anything to go by.

* The Earth is seconds away from being destroyed and Goku has time enough for only one choice: use Instant Transmission to save Hercule and Dende or use it to save Goten and Trunks.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Goku to save Trunks and Goten, not only giving them access to the amazing powers and abilities of the only other Super Saiyan 3 in existence but also given them a formidable 3 to 1 defence against the most powerful creature in the history of the universe.\\
'''Instead:''' Goku saves Hercule and Dende: an act which literally had no foreseeable benefit. Goku had full knowledge that Porunga was still alive which nullified any benefit they would have gained from Dende '''and''' Goku had absolutely no way of knowing Hercule was going to rally the people of the Earth for his Spirit Bomb or summon Fat Buu to save their collective asses (a situation that would have in no way been relevant if they had access to the exponentially stronger Gotenks.)

'''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, which is what causes him to trigger said bomb.\\

'''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 Imperfect Form, which is what causes him to trigger said bomb.\\

'''Instead:''' She walks up to Buu and '''slaps him in the face for supposedly killing Gohan,''' then Buu kills her by turning her into an egg. but then, this is ''[[MamaBear Chi]]-[[{{Tsundere}} Chi]]'' were talking about, but even ''she'' should know better.

'''Instead:''' She walks up to Buu and '''slaps him in the face for supposedly killing Gohan,''' then Buu kills her by turning her into an egg.

'''Instead:''' Videl continues to fight Spopovitch and he almost kills her by stepping on her skull, attempting to crush it. Thankfully, Gohan intervenes and Spopovitch was only forced to kick her out of the ring.

'''Instead:''' Videl continues to fight Spopovitch and he almost kills her by stepping on her skull, attempting to crush it. Thankfully, Gohan intervenes he was only forced to kick her out of the ring.

* During the Majin Buu Saga, Goku faces off against a NotBrainwashed Majin Vegeta. He manages to punch him down and when he gets up, it seems that he's back to normal as he asks for a Senzu Bean in order to stop Majin Buu.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Goku should be suspicious that Vegeta might be pulling a trick to attack him with his guard off.\\
'''Instead''': He does his request and looks into his bag for it. At that point, Vegeta hits him from behind, knocking him out in the process.
* In the episode, "Gotenks Is Awesome" when Gotenks turns Majin Buu into a volleyball. Hooray!! Majin Buu is defeated...right? WRONG!\\
'''You'd Expect''': For Gotenks to blast Buu with his full power, ending his threat then and there.\\
'''Instead''': He throws the ball, destroying it, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it releases Majin Buu.]]

* Related, there have been many, many occasions when Krillin has been watching his friends be knocked around by an opponent. Nappa, Vegeta, Recoome, Frieza, the Androids and Cell all instantly come to mind. During all of those fights he had access to both the blinding Taiyoken technique and the cut-anything Kienzan technique.
'''You'd expect''' Krillin would take the opportunity his friends are providing by being knocked around to sneak up, use the Taiyoken technique and then cut them in half with the Kienzan.

'''You'd then expect:''' Some powerful dead {{face}} to stand guard in Hell making sure the chaos doesn't last. Either making one warrior who's generally antisocial or doesn't mind making the sacrifice, or a cycle of guys that get shifted in and out for one another (with Goku and Paikuhan being obvious players).\\

'''The result:''' She ends up losing her brother in addition to her husband, the Z Fighters don't get the chance at a potential ally who could've aided greatly in the Evil Dragon saga, and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen we miss out]] on an amazing CallBack to Goku's [[DefeatMeansfriendship long-established usual method of making friends]].

* ''Manga/DragonBall Z'':
** Vegeta, while effortlessly defeating Semi-Perfect Cell, acknowledges Cell's last transformation.\\

** In the Frieza saga Goku splits a magic bean in two parts, so that Gohan and Kuririn can both have their part. They are fully recovered, even despite eating just half a bean.\\

** The Full-Power Super Saiyan means that by remaining transformed as a SSJ for extended periods of time the users can conserve their energy consumption much better than any other form of SSJ, thus they become stronger in training than any other form of SSJ would make them. While the FPSSJ users Goku and Gohan exit the training room in this state Vegeta and Trunks notice how genius this kind of training is, Vegeta even comments about this.\\

** According to WordOfGod, Krillin's Kienzan technique is capable of cutting through ''anything'' (the only times it failed to cut through its targets were in anime filler scenes). Now, let's look at a certain point in the battle with Frieza: Krillin has just blinded Frieza using the Taiyoken.\\

** Earlier, when Recoome was about to use his Recoome Eraser Gun on Vegeta, Krillin moves up for a sneak attack on Recoome.\\

** The Earth is seconds away from being destroyed and Goku has time enough for only one choice: use Instant Transmission to save Hercule and Dende or use it to save Goten and Trunks.\\

** In ''Anime/DragonBallGT''[='=]s 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.\\

** We note that this one is exclusive to anime filler, movies, and ''GT'', as it is notably averted in the manga canon. Powerful warriors both good and evil come through the pike in the Other World once they're destroyed.\\

** During the Majin Buu Saga, Goku faces off against a NotBrainwashed Majin Vegeta. He manages to punch him down and when he gets up, it seems that he's back to normal as he asks for a Senzu Bean in order to stop Majin Buu.\\

** In the episode, "Gotenks Is Awesome" when Gotenks turns Majin Buu into a volleyball. Hooray!! Majin Buu is defeated...right? WRONG!\\

'''Instead''': He throws the ball, destroying it, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero it releases Majin Buu.]]