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Bardock's relationship with his wife. Multiverse (top) and Minus (below).
Many of the ideas of Salagir's webcomic have been outdated by Dragon Ball material in the 2010's. The stories offer a lot of explanations as to why events in the anime took place the way they did. Many of these explanations are wrong based on the explanations we got from Dragon Ball Super.

The following ideas have become outdated:

  • Who was the mother of Son Goku?
  • Raditz's treatment:
    • In Multiverse, Raditz is shown to have been considered a weakling and bullied by other Saiyan kids when he was young, and when he heard of his brother being born he went to greet him and was very happy.
    • Dragon Ball Super: Broly subtly shows that Raditz was treated very decently ever since he was a kid by his comrades, even being allowed to help Prince Vegeta (who was less than 5 years old), and was indifferent to Kakarot's existence until it was convenient for him as shown in Dragon Ball Z.
    • Also according to Toriyama, Raditz was a Mid-Class Saiyan. And even though the soldiers that Frieza had on Namek were much stronger than him, they were all mutants by the standards of their respective species.
  • Dragon Ball Multiverse entire premise lies in a tournament between all universes where the events of the story were different from the main continuity (for example, Cell killing the heroes). Not only Dragon Ball Xenoverse made a premise where you have to travel to different changes in the continuity, but it also uses the term "timelines" instead of "universes". Further outdating the fancomic, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and Dragon Ball Super would introduce The Multiverse and the concept of the twelve universes, and outside of Universe 6, none of them is remotely similar to the main continuity.
  • Vegito:
    • In Multiverse, Vegito follows the idea that the Potara fusion is permanent, as stated in Z. Potara fusion ending while inside Buu is chalked up to the Supreme Kai trapped in Buu subconsciously recognizing mortal fusion as "blasphemy" and undoing it, seemingly clarifying the claim in the series itself where Goku guessed it was Buu's magical nature interfering with the fusion.
    • This was corrected in Dragon Ball Super in order to fix the vague reasons why he defused inside Majin Buu, with the Potara fusion only being permanent for Kais and only lasting an hour for mortals, meaning Vegito is no longer a permanent fusion.
  • Fat Buu is stated as being stupid because the Grand Supreme Kai allowed himself to be absorbed and lobotomized himself to ensure Buu would become dumb. This is never stated in the canon and Buu was never really as dumb as he appeared. In fact, during the Galactic Prisoner Arc of Super, the Grand Supreme Kai returns to life since he was asleep deep inside Buu, and he is just as smart as he was when living, meaning Salagir' reasons don't hold weight anymore.
  • Universe 1 is shown to be the "good" universe that demonstrated how alert a Supreme Kai should act. Dragon Ball Super would actually reveal that the Supreme Kai can't really intervene in mortal matters, with that being the domain of the God of Destruction. The blame for the poor state of the universe would then fall to Beerus, who tends to sleep for very long periods of time and thus is unaware of the goings-on in Universe 7 (which is arguably a good thing, since when he's awake his destruction tends to be for arbitrary and petty reasons rather than following any kind of real logic). Super later showed how direct interference from a Supreme Kai could be anything but good by introducing Zamasu, whose idea of "divine intervention" was to wipe out all mortals in existence since he felt that they would never be anything but violent savages.
  • Multiverse has Universe 10, in which the Saiyans are basically cavemen because there was no Frieza to supply them with technology and elevate them into a space-faring race. Not only does Dragon Ball Super contradict this by showing that pre-Frieza Saiyans did have their own civilization (Vegeta says that it was very similar to Universe 6's Saiyans and their pseudo-Roman culture, with one of those Saiyans being shown), it ignores a basic plot point from DBZ, namely that the Saiyans invaded and conquered Planet Plant before working with King Cold (which they subsequently renamed Planet Vegeta), something that would have been impossible if they didn't have their own spaceships. A lot of this seems to come from the fact that Multiverse draws upon Filler from DBZ and DBGT, which actually did depict pre-Frieza Saiyans as primitive, fur-clad barbarians, and suggests that they shared Planet Plant with the Tsufuru/Tuffles rather than invading it from their own homeworld (named Planet Saiya in Dragon Ball GT datafiles, later properly named Planet Sadala in Super).
  • The comic goes with the broad appraisal at the time of Gohan's Old Kai-granted potential unlock as a permanent upgrade, and treats it as if Gohan is perpetually now locked at the maximum potential he'd be able to achieve by training (which is shown to be roughly "stronger than Goku in Super Saiyan 3, but still in a similar ballpark"). This makes him the strongest person in U18 overall, and though his skill is mentioned to be somewhat behind his U16 counterpart due to the latter keeping up with training, it's a relatively small gap. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and its corresponding arc in Super would contradict this by showing Gohan's power having vastly declined over the course of a few years, to the point that he has to fall back on his original Super Saiyan forms and struggles to even maintain those, and has to go through training to be able to access his Ultimate form again.
  • Multiverse portrays Frieza and his family as relative weaklings to the actually relevant cast, while also showing Cooler's unique transformation and an even more monstrous variation thereof as their designated powerups. A lot of this has it's roots in the fact that Frieza was a Butt-Monkey in Z filler, movies, and GT who seemingly suffered a case of Can't Catch Up, while Cooler was the only example of what a Super Mode could look like for their race. In Resurrection F and Super, Frieza's appearances after dying at Trunks' hands are ignored and he is instead portrayed as an uncannily powerful prodigy who simply never trained before. His Super Modes were also a case of a Palette Swap, rather than bulking up or growing more armored like Cooler.

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