Awesome / Dragon ShortZ

Midwife Crisis

• There's something bizarrely awesome about Goten's... unusual manner of birth, just as much as it is hilarious as HFIL. Chi-Chi's final push somehow charges up a Kamehameha, prompting everyone to get out the way at Vegeta's quick warning. The amazing part is that not only is Goten shot several hundred feet away from the house, landing in the snow, but there's no umbilical cord meaning the Kamehameha outright disintegrated it. And then the naked newborn infant starts giggling and cooing despite being in the snow, like nothing's wrong.

Android Date-teen

• Krillin and Android 18 are on their first date at a fancy restaurant, and their waiter, Samuel, is pretty much ignoring Krillin and coming on to 18. She has none of it, though, and is quick to shut that down. Then when Samuel makes an insulting comment towards 18, Krillin is naturally pretty pissed at this, and intimidates Samuel into apologizing to her by showing just how easily he could wreck his shit if he wanted to.
  Krillin: Um, something happening…?
  Android 18: Just a sec. (to Samuel) So, you serious?
  Samuel: Dead serious. I get off at 10, and then I can get you off at 10:30.
  Krillin: What is he...?
  Android 18: Alright, Sammy… 3 things; first, you wouldn't make it past 10:05. Second, you wouldn't live past 10:06. Third, we're still waiting on our waters. So, if you value your job and/or life (pulls out a knife), you're gonna take this knife, cut the bullshit, and get us our goddamn Pellegrino.
  Krillin: HOLY-!
  Samuel: Shit! Okay, fine! Coulda just said "no"! (mutters) God, don't need to be a monster bitch about it.
  Krillin: Excuse you? I’m going to give you five seconds to apologize for what you just said.
  Samuel: Or what, midget? You gonna headbutt me in my jun—
  (Krillin smashes the table in half with a single punch)
  Krillin: Apologize.
  • A reminder that though Krillin gets trashed on for not being up to the same snuff as the people he's surrounded by, including 18 herself, let's just say that waiter was beyond lucky he didn't get a beating, and didn't find out in the worst way possible just why this "midget" is the world's strongest human for a reason. Specifically, that "Second-weakest member of Goku's friends only above Yamcha" still puts you comfortably in the same power tier as most video game final bosses.
  • And if you notice, Krillin gives Samuel exactly five seconds before demonstrating why this bald midget with the squeaky voice is not someone you should fuck with.

Yamcha Strikes Out

• Yamcha opens the short by scoring his 500th consecutive home-run.
• By the end of the short, he's filthy rich, owns Hetap, and has started a successful sports bar chain. TFS did what canon never did and gave Yamcha a happy ending.
  • Just how filthy rich is he? The zeni has been worth either 1 or 1.5 yen. At lowest, and with the exchange rates at the time of the short's release, Yamcha would have $186,025,760.00. That's right, the all-time biggest Butt-Monkey of the Dragon Ball series is a multi-millionaire! (Probably not as rich as Bulma or Mr. Satan, but definitely fabulously well-off.)

DTF

• Gohan's first defusal of Vegeta's attempts to provoke a fight falls under this, culminating with threatening to get Chi-Chi involved.
  Vegeta: You have enough power under that hood to destroy the planet three times over, and you're just letting it go to waste!
  Gohan: (calmly) Vegeta, my little brother is sleeping in the next room over, and mom just put him down. If you're really looking for a fight, keep it up and she'll give you one.
  (Beat as Vegeta cautiously eyes the other wall)
  Vegeta: This isn't over...
• Piccolo getting Vegeta to leave him alone by breaking Mr Popo's vase and blaming it on him.
  Mr Popo: (yelling in the background) WHO JUST BROKE RULE SIX?!
  • Also, Piccolo's hilarious blunt "No" to Vegeta's challenge.
    Piccolo: No.
    Vegeta: Oh come on, why not?!
    Piccolo: Because I don't want to.
    Vegeta: What, you've got something better to do?
    Piccolo: (cheerfully) Nope! (Goes back to meditating) ^note Dozing. ^note Meditating.
• After Vegeta shows up at Kame House and claims that Android 18 "owes" him a rematch for their fight in the Android Saga, she shuts him down with a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech that actually leaves him utterly speechless and unable to respond, with bonus points for taking his Country Matters rant from Abridged proper and turning it back on him with a Precision F-Strike.
  18: I owe a lot of people a lot of things. Most of them money, one an organ, one a live tiger...
  Krillin: Yeah, your brother keeps calling about that.
  18: (without raising her voice) But I don't owe you shit. You beat your kid and ignore your wife, and when you're not doing that, you're trying to start fights with people because of your screaming ego. You remind me of my dad, but at least he had the common courtesy to stay dead. So take your massive inferiority complex the hell off our beach; and maybe I'll fight you again someday, when you stop acting like such a massive c*nt.
• Gohan refusing to fight Vegeta and then tearing him apart with a devastating Armor-Piercing Question, leaving the Prince of all Saiyans utterly... broken.
  Gohan: I don't like fighting, Vegeta! I only did it because it was literally do-or-die. And frankly, at this point, I'd be fighting you... out of pity. Is that what you want? A pity-fight? (Vegeta doesn't answer) Yeah. Goodbye, Vegeta.
  • Even better, TFS manages to show the foundation being laid for Majin Vegeta.

A SHORT Halloween

• The short takes advantage of its non-canon status to give us a very special trick-or-treater: Kid Buu!
  • Really, all the characters in this short shouldn't be there given the time period that the Shortz... shorts... take place in, and given TFS has said they're not doing the Buu Saga, it's nice to see them represented. Perfect Cell is dead, obviously, as is Android 16. But then there's Super Saiyan Blue Goku, Super Saiyan God Vegeta, and Beerus (with Whis getting a mention), in addition to Kid Buu.