Possible Future Scenarios
- What If Bulma Stayed With Yamcha?
- While not a main thing, various scenarios do have the two remain a couple, mainly in things which have Vegeta out of the picture by the Freeza saga aftermath.
- What If Buu Didn't Kill Babidi?
- Confirmed: this is the Point of Divergence for the "What if Babidi Turned Good?" scenario
- What if Katas went to earth alongside the nameless namekian?
- What if Kami and Piccolo decided to have kids of their own?
- "What If Piccolo Had a Son" is basically this, although it's Future Piccolo who spawns a child before dying to the Androids.
- What if Towa, Mira and Fu appeared in the Buu saga?
- What If King Piccolo Survived?
- What If Mr. Satan Didn't Take Credit For Beating Cell?
- While it didn’t happen like that, “What if Gohan was Earth’s Hero?” showed what could have happened to him, Videl and Gohan because of this. Specifically, Mr. Satan is disgraced and Videl grows extremely resentful of Gohan for taking her father's future from him.
- What If Future Trunks Went To Namek?
- What If Cell Didn't Become Perfect?
- What If Emperor Pilaf Succeeded?
- "What if Goku was Evil" basically has him succeeding in his world conquest... before Raditz arrives.
- What If Dr. Gero Was In The Original Dragon Ball?
- While not a central point, he did appear during the original Dragonball era in "What if Goku landed by the Briefs?" where his research is mentioned.
- What If Raditz Didn't Go To Earth?
- He did that one.
- What If King Cold Transformed When He Fought Trunks?
- What if Yamcha Survived The Saibaman Explosion?
- A few things have things play out with this as a minor thing, but without major change too often. Albeit “What if Nappa turned Good?” showed that with no Vegeta around, Yamcha and Bulma would eventually end up together.
- What if Cell Was In The Tournament of Power?
- In the "What if Cell turned Good?” thing had Android 21 (what the reprogrammed present Cell is named) be in it
- What if both GT and Super were canon?
- While not the major point, "What If Raditz Turned Good" has GT play out after Super with some adjustments to account for the stronger protagonists.
- What If Vegeta Turned Good After Goku Spared Him In the Saiyan Saga?
- What If Goku Let Dende Wish Him Off Namek?
- What If Arale Became A Z-Fighter?
- What If Evil Buu Never Got Released?
- What If Tien Married Launch?
- What If Puar Was A More Important Character?
- What If Gohan Really Became The Protagonist Post-Cell Saga?
- While not the main point, “What if Gohan was Earth’s Hero?” showed how it’d go down to some extent with Gohan as the main hero.
- And while under different circumstances, several What ifs? do feature Gohan pretty much taking over the role. "What if Future Gohan Survived?" has Future Gohan and Trunks pretty much take over the role as Earth's main protector, even after Goku gets brought back for the Super Saiyan God Ritual (this time performed on Gohan). "What if Videl Became a Z-Fighter?" also sees him take over several of Goku's roles as well.
- What If Goku Landed On Vampa?
- What If Videl Was Born/Become Half Saiyan?
- What If The Saiyans Of Universe 7 Were Good?
- The “What if The Supreme Kai wasn’t Useless?” made that happen due to Yamoshi defeating the Evil Saiyans thus turning the whole race into defenders of justice like in Universe 6.
- What If Cell Did What King Piccolo Did So That Cell Jr Becomes Gohan’s Rival?
- What If Oolong and/or Puar Trained like Goku?
- What If Goku Trained Under The Crane Hermit?
- What If Master Roshi continued to train?
- What if Goku and Kakarot were split personalities?
- What if Chi-Chi became a Z-Fighter?
- "What if Goku was female?" had that happen.
- And now its officially its own series, as of December 2021.
- What If Dr. Gero Lived Long Enough To Meet Cell?
- “What if The Ginyu Force turned Good?” actually has that happen, as well as the appearance of Androids #13, 14 and 15.
- Also happens in "What If Kid Goku Turned Super Saiyan?" and "What if Nappa Turned Good?"
- What If Vegeta Killed Gohan On Namek?
- What If Frieza Decided Not To Kill The Saiyans?
- What If Goten Was Born In Future Trunks' Timeline?
- What If Android #8 Was In The Android Saga?
- What If Goku Died Of The Heart Virus? (Presumably as another April Fools joke.)
- What If The Z-Fighters Helped Raiti and Zaacro Escape Fake Namek?
- There is no fake namek, moving on.
- What If Frieza Or Cooler Were In The Universe 6 Tournament?
- What If Turles Didn't Leave the Frieza Force?
- What if the Future Androids were/turned good? (Possibly as an April Fools Joke)
- What If Future Trunks Only Arrived Once?
- What If Dr.Gero Turned (insert Z-Fighters that haven't been relevant for a while) into Android 17 and 18?
- What If Vegeta Spared Nappa? (Not the same as What if Nappa Turned Good? where Vegeta tries to kill Nappa but Nappa survives)
- What If Future Gohan went back in time instead of Trunks?
- What if Gohan destroyed Cell before he could self destruct?
- What if Gohan went to school after the Cell Games?
- What if Gohan caught the Potara Earring?
- What if Chi-Chi trained like Goku?
- What if Super lead into GT?
- What If El Hermano was Canon? (An April Fools idea that'd serve as an Elsewhere fic akin to the Hit or Broly becoming Hakaishin what ifs)
- What If Chi-Chi Became a Saiyan?
- What If Bulma Became a Saiyan?
- What if Baby Possessed Pan?
- What if Frieza invaded Fake Namek? (another April Fools story where Frieza isn't so easily fooled by Raiti and Zakuro and destroys the planet before going back to finding the real Namek. There is no longer a Fake Namek, moving on.)
- What if Cell won but spared Earth?
The "What if Frieza Had a Son" story will eventually explore an alternate version of the GT era.
It wouldn’t be the first time that one of these what ifs explored this era. Plus, Masako did say in the first episode of this series that unlike the other what ifs this one would be exploring the future, and unless Toei makes a new addition to the Dragon Ball canon in the near future or Masako decides to go Off the Rails and write an entire story reimagining characters from the Non-Serial Movies it seems that a altered version of GT would be the logical protection. Unless noted otherwise the Future Trunks that appear in these what ifs are all the exact same Future Trunks, bouncing around the multiverse looking for the right timeline from canon.
Because it’s both cruel and hilarious.- There's the faint implication that Nomad from the "What if Goku landed at Capsule Corp" is the Future Trunks from "What if Trunks wound up in the Dragon Ball Era/Met Young Bulma"
"What If Zamasu Did Nothing Wrong?" resembles the events of Cell's Timeline.
Assuming Beerus' icing of Present Zamasu doesn't erase all versions not protected by the time ring like he claims (and it's more or less implied he doesn't know shit), there would be a Zamasu in Cell's timeline who would never meet Goku due to being dead there, and since Goku Black is already working with Future Zamasu there shouldn't be an already evil Zamasu to show up and convince that timeline's Zamasu to join him. Basically allowing most of "What If Zamasu Did Nothing Wrong" to be what happened, excluding of course the last few parts involving Universe 7 and the other Zamasu. "What if Goku Married Bulma?"'s Downer Ending was not planned from the start
Sure, Masako has done Downer Endings before, but usually those kind of stories only run for a few videos at most, and end before the story gets farther than the saga it started in. Here, the story got all the way to the Buu Saga before he pulled the plug. Its likely that he originally was going to go farther with it, but either changed his mind about how the story would realistically go or decided to end it like that for shock factor, only changing his mind after all the negative feedback. "What if the Supreme Kai wasn't useless?" is unlikely to have the Tournament of Power occur
With Shin not being useless and actually raising the mortal level of Universe 7, Champa would see this and realize that he and Fuwa have to do better just so that Champa does not fall behind his brother. This would have a dynamo effect where all the other universes also see that Universe 7 has improved a lot and would strive to surpass it too. Zeno would see that all universes are doing an amazing job in raising and maintaining their mortal level and hence, would be happy enough to not have to host said Tournament. After all, he only hosted the tournament in order to scare the gods into improving said universes but if said gods are already doing that themselves, then he would have no reason to. Masako will eventually make "What if Dr Gero Turned Good?".
Though not to the extreme of Raditz Masako has shown he's fond of the good doctor, and tends to interpret him as a more fleshed out and nuanced character than what limited time we got to see him in canon. Dr Gero has already had a supporting role in "What If Android 21 Raised Son Goku" and "What if The Ginyu Force Turned Good" let him hijack Cell's role. On a meta-level it would allow Masako to explore the science-y side of Dragonball like the "Iron Man-Bulma" scenario, and he's explored an even more evil initial Arc Villain having a change of heart in "What If Babidi Turned Good?". In terms of the catalyst for a redemption, it could be either Bulma deciding to just make a wish to find Gero behind Goku and Vegeta's back and making him a Boxed Crook, or Gero surviving long enough to get a Heel Realization that Trunk's Bad Future is worse than even he intended.