* ActingForTwo: When General Blue attempts to fight Piccolo in Hell, as they are both voiced by Toshio Furukawa in the Japanese version. He also voices Taro from ''Manga/DoctorSlump'', and during the crossover episodes there's a scene with Taro attempting to arrest Blue.
* ApprovalOfGod: Creator/AkiraToriyama has stated in the Japanese DVD Box's interview he likes the series and considers it a "grand side-story of the original Dragon Ball". Whatever he meant by that regarding ''GT''[='=]s place in the franchise is up to interpretation.
* BTeamSequel: Although he did all the initial designs, came up with the name and logo, consulted on the episode storylines, and was present during all the meetings determining the scenario and setup of the series, once it got going, Toriyama largely left the series in the hands of the Creator/{{Toei|Animation}} staff.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Some websites, [[https://twitter.com/comicbookanime/status/1135250765407293442 like ComicBook.com]], have stated that "Dragon Ball GT is bringing its manga back for another round!". ''GT'' never had a manga as it's an exclusive anime sequel of ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.
* CreatorBacklash:
** Creator/SteveBlum said that he thinks his voice for Goku in ''Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout'' wasn't that good compared to Creator/SeanSchemmel's.
** Likewise, in response to a tweet from a fan suggesting he be cast as Copy-Vegeta in a hypothetical Ocean dub of Anime/DragonBallSuper, Roger Rhodes, who voiced Vegeta in the Blue Water dub of GT, [[https://twitter.com/rogerrhodes/status/950557131991756800 had this to say]]:
--->"I think we all know I was a horrible Vegeta. LOL. However in my defense I’ve grown a lot since then."
** Tiffany Vollmer, who voiced Bulma in the Funimation English dub, doesn’t think highly of this series. She admits to forgetting even working on it.
** Kozo Morishita admitted in an interview that the staff didn't enjoy the show's early direction, which was much of what prompted its retool later on. He described the mood around the office as "these travel episodes aren’t going to be interesting no matter how long we keep doing them, are they?"
* CrossdressingVoices:
** Masako Nozawa, once again, reprises her role of both kid and adult Goku.
** Stephanie Nadolny also returns to voice kid Goku for the first time since the Funimation ''Dragon Ball'' dub.
** Laura Torres returns to voice kid Goku in the Latin American dub.
* DuelingDubs:
** The first English dub was recorded by Creator/TheOceanGroup's then-new Blue Water Studios in Calgary, Alberta in early 2003, and broadcast in Canada, the UK, and other parts of Europe, under distribution from AB Groupe. It was the very first project recorded at the non-union Blue Water, after Ken Morrison (producer at Ocean) decided to save money and record outside ACTRA. This dub was somewhat faithful to the original Japanese version and used the original score, but also used the established localized character names.
** Creator/{{Funimation}} produced their own dub with their established in-house cast beginning later that year, airing from 2003-2005. It began with episode 16, following an American-only ClipShow episode summarizing the events of the previous episodes. It also featured an original score from Mark Menza and an original rap theme song called "Step Into the Grand Tour." Episodes 1-15 were finally dubbed and aired after the rest of the series had finished, and the original musical score was restored on the 2009-2010 DVD boxsets, with new English covers of the vocal songs.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Blue Water dub has never been released on home video. Rips of tapings of the series have circulated, though often in very poor quality.
* MissingEpisode: When "The Lost Episodes" started airing on Creator/{{Toonami}}, "Giru's Checkered Past" still did not air on the block because the episode "A Grand Problem" replaced that episode in rotation. "Giru's Checkered Past" eventually premiered over half a decade later on Creator/{{Nicktoons}}.
* NonSingingVoice: Zigzagged with Bon Para in the Funimation dub. In "Dance and Attack", his singing (technically rapping) voice was provided by another actor, who was credited as playing "DJ Para" (Funimation staff member Chas Naylor) but his speaking actor, Brad Jackson, did his own singing in subsequent episodes.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** Japanese version:
*** Hiroshi Masuoka continued on as Kamesen'nin for his brief appearances in the place of Kouhei Miyauchi, who passed away in 1995 while ''DBZ'' was still airing.[[note]]Kamesen'nin had coincidentally been killed off in ''DBZ'' only three months prior to Miyauchi's death.[[/note]]
*** Creator/AtsushiKisaichi took over as Oob from Megumi Urawa. Now since this was after a TimeSkip where Oob had become a teenager, this would normally not be too jarring, but aside from Dende and Oopa, having a character's actor switch after such had almost been unheard of.
*** Kibitoshin had a change going from Creator/YujiMitsuya to Shinichiro Ohta here, likely due to Mitsuya dividing his time between voice work and voice direction. Mitsuya eventually returned for the refreshed ''Final Chapters'' of ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' and in ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'', but later in ''Super'', Ohta has seemingly become a permanent replacement.
*** Creator/YukimasaKishino voiced the World Tournament Announcer in his one appearance here instead of either Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki or Creator/KenjiUtsumi.
*** In the Super 17 Saga, where almost every villain from the past returns from Hell, there were changes. Pui Pui went from Tomohisa Aso to Shinobu Satouchi, the latter also voiced him in ''DBZ: Sparking! METEOR'', and Nappa was voiced by General Rilld's actor Creator/KiyoyukiYanada instead of Creator/ShozoIizuka. In addition, Android #19's scream was provided by Creator/TetsuInada in place of Creator/YukitoshiHori.
*** Shen Long's appearance in the GrandFinale was handled by Creator/DaisukeGori in place of his most consistent performer, Creator/KenjiUtsumi. Utsumi had long since departed from the series in ''DBZ'' with the conclusion of the Freeza Saga. What is bizarre is that Gōri had provided the dialogue of the corrupted Black Smoke Shen Long which began the final arc, giving his voicing the good Shen Long in the finale as a peculiar [[BookEnds book end]].
*** Some of the characters in ''GT'', particularly the villains, ended up being recast years later for their appearances in video games, due to their original performer passing away:
*** Both San Xing Long and Si Xing Long's original voices, Creator/KanetoShiozawa and Ken Yamaguchi, died in the intervening years following ''GT''[='=]s conclusion. Shiozawa tragically passed falling down a flight of stairs in 2000, which later resulted in a cerebral contusion. Creator/RyotaroOkiayu would take Shiozawa's place from the ''Xenoverse'' series and onward. Yamaguchi was able to reprise Si Xing Long for the game ''Sparking! METEOR'' in 2007, but sadly, he died in 2011 from acute heart failure, leaving the fire-wielding dragon's future game appearances to be handled by Creator/YasunoriMasutani.
*** Masutani would also replace Creator/KazuyukiSogabe as Dr. Myuu in ''Dragon Ball Heroes''. Sogabe retired at the turn of the millennium after his voice had become strained, and later died from esophageal cancer in 2006.
*** Wu Xing Long had to be recast in ''Dragon Ball Heroes'' after Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki passed in 2006 from lung cancer. Creator/MitsuakiMadono picked up the slack. Funnily enough, Madono had before succeeded Suzuoki in his main role of Tenshinhan in some earlier games, though the former was ultimately not given the chance to voice Ten in any proper ''DB'' animation.
*** Creator/DaisukeGori tragically committed suicide in 2010, leaving Ultimate Shen Long and Black Smoke Shen Long's appearance in ''Heroes'' to be covered by Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo and Creator/TetsuInada respectively.
*** Creator/TakeshiWatabe, Mutchy Mutchy ''and'' Mutchy's actor, died in December 2010 from pneumonia. Their appearance in ''Heroes'' would be voiced by Mitsuaki Hoshino.
** English dubs:
*** The video game ''Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout'' was dubbed in November 1997, back when Funimation was still outsourcing the voice work of ''DBZ'' to the Ocean Group. However, this game was dubbed in Los Angeles by Animaze using actors from that area. Goku himself was voiced by Creator/SteveBlum as an adult and by Creator/BrianneSiddall as a child. Pan and Trunks were voiced by Dyanne [=DiRosario=] and Creator/SkipStellrecht, respectively. Baby only appeared in the game in his Great Ape state and was voiced by Joe Romersa. Gohan was voiced by Creator/LexLang, Piccolo by Creator/DanWoren, and Vegeta by Milton James while Cell's voice was done by Jonathan David Cook. ADR director Kevin Seymour provided the voices for Frieza and Majin Buu, the first time that the former would be voiced by a male actor in English and wouldn't be again until ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' in 2010.[[note]]Not counting the AB Groupe's dub of the Bardock special and ''Cooler's Revenge''.[[/note]] Vegito would be shared by both Blum and James for his appearance in the game.
*** In the Funimation dub, Creator/AndrewChandler voiced the narrator instead of Creator/KyleHebert or Brice Armstrong. This was intentional on Funimation's part in order to give each show its own distinct feel.
*** Creator/EliseBaughman voiced Pan instead of Susan Huber from the last episodes of ''DBZ''. For brief flashbacks to a toddler Pan, Creator/KateBristol provided her voice. Parisa Fakhri voiced Bulla in place of Megan Woodall, and Meredith [=McCoy=] replaced Melodee Lenz as Marron. Creator/BrinaPalencia filled in as Bulla for ''Budokai Tenkaichi 2'' since Parisa moved on with her stage and live-action work.
*** Susan Huber voiced Videl instead of Creator/KaraEdwards, due to the latter living in North Carolina at the time.
*** Crossing over with TheNthDoctor, Goku's golden great ape form's vocals were provided by Shane Ray, who voiced Gohan's ape form, instead of Creator/JustinCook, who provided the roars in the original ''Dragon Ball''.
*** The Blue Water dub infamously replaced everyone from Ocean's ''DBZ'' dub. Uub's voice changed from Scott Roberts at the beginning of the show to Brendan Hunter when he reappears to confront Baby.
** French dub:
*** A more extreme example is the French dub, which recast ''all'' returning characters, except those voiced by Brigitte Lecordier and Céline Monsarrat. All other voice actors were replaced, mostly because a good portion of them had gone on strike a few years before, leading the dubbing studio to dismiss them entirely.
*** Thierry Mercier voiced adult Son Goku instead of Patrick Borg. The latter confirmed that he was never approached for a possible role reprise.
*** Luc Boulad voiced Vegeta and Dende instead of Eric Legrand, who only voiced Vegeta on episode 2 before being replaced.
*** Sébastien Desjours voiced Son Gohan instead of Mark Lesser.
*** Vincent Barazzoni voiced Son Goten and C-17 instead of David Lesser and Thierry Bourdon, respectively.
*** Antoine Nouel voiced Trunks instead of Mark Lesser, who left after voicing him on the first two episodes. That same Antoine Nouel also picked up the role of Mister Satan from Frédéric Bouraly.
*** Kame Sennin and Freezer were voiced by Gérard Surugue instead of respectively Pierre Trabaud and Philippe Arrioti.
*** Marc Bretonnière picked up the roles of Piccolo and Boo from, respectively, Philippe Arrioti and Patrick Borg.
* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Oceanus Shenron is ''not'' "secretly male" in the original version, despite her true form having a masculine voice in most dubs. This was all over fansites back in the day, leading to many debates about her character.
* RecycledScript:
** The story of Zoonama, a minor villain from episodes 7 and 8, is very similar to Oolong's origin story from the original ''Manga/DragonBall''.
** The lead-up to Baby is somewhat similar to the 1993 OVA, ''Anime/DragonBallPlanToEradicateTheSaiyans'', about an evil alien scientist with a vendetta against the Saiyans for killing the Tuffles who created a fearsome monster to destroy the remaining Saiyans. In addition, Baby taking over the Earth by possessing all of Goku's friends and turning them against him is somewhat similar to the setup of the Garlic Jr. Saga.
** The Super 17 arc takes a ''lot'' of its ideas from the ''Anime/DragonBallZFusionReborn'' movie, with an enemy in Hell opening rifts between realities that releases past villains and other bad people from Hell unto the living, Goku fights some of the bad guys in Hell, and the rest of the main and secondary cast have to fight the remaining ones on Earth.
* SequelFirst: Sort of; When ''GT'' first aired in America, Funimation had yet to dub some of the [[NonSerialMovie non-serial movies]] (namely ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBojackUnbound Bojack Unbound]]'' and every film released after it). This had the side effect of Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta debuting before the regular [[Anime/DragonBallZFusionReborn Super Saiyan Gogeta]] in the U.S. (not counting his game appearances in ''Buu's Fury'' and ''Budokai 3'').
* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: The ending certainly has this feeling: [[spoiler:the Dragon Balls and Shenron vanish from existence after lecturing the cast on how they shouldn't have used their powers so frivolously, Goku chooses to go with him, there's a massive sendoff, and it's confirmed that neither come back until nearly every other character is long dead]]. Given ''GT''[='=]s PostScriptSeason status, it's not hard to imagine why the creators would want to end the franchise as conclusively as possible.
* UncreditedRole: The English singer of the second ending theme, “Don’t You See?” is unknown.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/DragonBall Has its own page]].
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