In most universes, the rise of the Fantastic Four would have been the same. A group of explorers that ventured into space only to be exposed to cosmic rays that granted them superhuman abilities.
However in this particular universe, the day the Fantastic Four was born was also the day they encountered an alien child. Years later, the child had grown and became the son of Reed and Susan, Goku Richards.
Dragon Ball - Fantastic Tales is a crossover fanfic between Fantastic Four and Dragon Ball. It is created by PowerCore Productions
and is part of the Anime X Marvel Phase 3 - The Fallout Saga. The link can be found here.
This fic contain the following tropes:
- Adaptational Badass: Thanks to training under Gohan, the Fantastic Four would learned Ki Manipulation which further enhanced their natural abilities and powers.
- Adaptational Location Change: Dragon Ball - Fantastic Tales has the Fantastic Four living at West City rather than at New York City.
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Krillin would have a more friendly rivalry with Goku due to the latter being related to the Fantastic Four who Krillin is a fan of.
- Adaptational Upbringing Change: Goku was adopted by the Fantastic Four with Reed and Susan becoming the boy's parents. As a result, this Goku is far wiser than his original counterpart.
- Batman Gambit: Doctor Doom had Goku fight Piccolo Jr. to ensure Goku will be too weak to stop his plans.
- Beam-O-War:
- Johnny's fireball matches Jackie Chun's Kamehameha which surprises the latter. In the end though, the Kamehameha overcomes the flames.
- The Thing uses the "Clobberin' Cannon" to match Goku's Kamehameha.
- Like his predecessor, the Human Torch, Yamcha would clash his attack with Roshi's. This time, Roshi loses.
- Both Goku and Dr. Doom fire their beams at one another. Ultimately, Goku won.
- Big Damn Heroes: The rest of the Fantastic Four arrive to help the others stop Piccolo, with Goku rescuing Franklin from Piccolo right before headbutting the evil being.
- Behemoth Battle:
- Goku and Piccolo Jr. would end up going into their Great Ape and Great Namekian form to battle one another.
- Goku transforms into his Great Ape form to battle a giant Dr. Doom.
- Childhood Friends: In this iteration, Goku and Bulma known each other due to their closeness of their families.
- Composite Character: Yamcha is this version of the android Human Torch.
- Cool Old Guy: Despite the oddities that were happening around him, Son Gohan kept calm and even helped Johnny Storm to keep his newly acquired fire powers under control. He then helped the rest of the Fantastic Four with their powers.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Despite Yamcha delivering some good hits on the Thing, it just took one clobbering hit from the latter to send Yamcha flying.
- Enemy Mine; Piccolo join forces with Goku and the other heroes to stop Dr. Doom.
- Energy Weapon: Bulma creates a ray gun that can either fires a stun blast or a laser that can hurt the toughest of enemies like Piccolo's spawn.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Piccolo deems Dr. Doom insane for endangering the entire world by opening the doors to Hell.
- From Bad to Worse: Not only Piccolo is able to spawn Jr but the latter is found and raised by Doctor Doom.
- Generation Xerox: The new members fill in for the former ones' roles, with Bulma being the brains like Reed and Yamcha for the Human Torch.
- Godzilla Threshold: Upon seeing the dangers King Piccolo posed to the world after he killed both the Human Torch and the Thing, Mr. Fantastic planned to have the evil being sent to the Negative Zone much to Invisible Woman's horror.
- Happily Adopted: Goku adore his adopted parents, Reed and Susan and sees both Johnny and Ben as uncles.
- Happily Married: Reed and Susan had been wed for several years by the time of the Emperor Pilaf Saga.
- Hell on Earth: What would be the consequence if Dr. Doom fulfill his wish in bringing his mother back from Hell.
- Hero Killer: In his first confrontation with the Fantastic Four, Piccolo killed the Human Torch and the Thing.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Piccolo thrusts his arm at Yamcha, intending to impale him. Though, the Human Torch pushed Yamcha away and was killed by the attack instead.
- In Spite of a Nail: Even though Gohan's death at Goku's hands was prevented, he eventually succumbed to old age and passed away.
- Killer Gorilla:
- Goku's Great Ape is a monstrous monkey/ape-like being with incredible destructive power. Even the Fantastic Four had a hard time dealing with it.
- There's the mutated gorilla from the Red Ghost.
- Like Father, Like Son: Goku is definitely Reed's son shown when he spares Dr. Doom despite nearly brought Hell on Earth.
- Mama Bear: Susan desperately holds off Piccolo to protect Reed and her son, Franklin.
- One-Winged Angel: Harnessing the Dragon Balls morphs Dr. Doom into a human/Shenron hybrid.
- Point of Divergence:
- Goku and Bulma went on the journey to collect the Dragon Balls without encountering Yamcha and Puar.
- Following Emperor Pilaf's defeat, Goku uses the Dragon Balls to wish to know his true origins, resulting in him learning that he is a Saiyan.
- Secret-Keeper: Only the Fantastic Four and Gohan knew about Goku's alien heritage. This was for Goku's sake as they feared that he might be exploited by anyone who harbored ill intentions should they learned of his origins.
- Ship Tease: In this series, there seems to be a growing romance between Goku and Bulma which is made even clear where out of everyone, Bulma is the only one that can calm Goku to revert back from his Great Ape form. The two married at the end of Season 1.
- Shout-Out: Johnny pegs Goku's origin to be similar to a comic book he read which is about a superhero who came to Earth after his home planet got destroyed.
- Spared By Adaptation:
- The Fantastic Four arrived on time to stop Goku's ape form from killing Gohan.
- Piccolo is imprisoned inside the Negative Zone rather than dying at Goku's hands in canon.
- Team Member in the Adaptation:
- After Reed and Susan retired, both Goku and Bulma would joined the Fantastic Four to replace them. Yamcha would later joined as well.
- Mercenary Tao and the Human Torch (Android) are members to the Frightful Four.
- Took a Level in Badass: Both Goku and Yamcha drink the Ultra Divine Water to bring out their full potential.
- What If?: The series occurs when immediately after the Fantastic Four were exposed to cosmic rays, Goku's ship hit theirs and they both crashed landed Mount Paozu. Following that, Reed Richards and Susan Storm took Goku in and raised him as their son.
- The Psycho Rangers: The Red Ribbon Army put together a new Frightful Four to counter the Fantastic Four.
- Mercenary Tao: Goku Richards
- The Wizard: Bulma Briefs
- Red Ghost: The Thing
- Android 10/Yamcha: Human Torch.
- Unwilling Roboticisation: The Red Ribbon kidnapped poor Yamcha so that they can turned him into an android to fight the Fantastic Four.
- We Can Rule Together: Piccolo offers Susan to join his side with the promise of sparing her and Franklin. Susan fiercely refuses.
- Would Hurt a Child:
- Piccolo takes Franklin, intending to kill him right in front of Reed and Susan. Thankfully, Goku in his Flying Nimbus saves the boy from certain death.
- Sans Goku and Susan, the rest of the Fantastic Four are more than willing to kill Piccolo Jr to prevent another threat to the world.
