History Anime / DragonBallZSuperAndroid13

* AlternateContinuity: The [[AllThereInTheManual Daizenshuu]] states that the movie takes place in a world parallel to the main timeline, set after Gero's death but before Cell becomes Perfect, explaining why Goku is up and about rather than bedridden from the heart virus. The premise for this timeline seems to be "What if Gero was creating more Androids instead of Cell?" However it doesn't explain what happens to 17 and 18 in this timeline, since they are shown to exist in the very beginning.

* DubInducedPlotHole: The original Japanese dub makes it a point that Goku cannot properly wield a Spirit Bomb as a Super Saiyan due to that form's inherent rage messing with the purity of his heart. The Funimation dub gets it wrong and tries to handwave away Goku still holding on to the Spirit Bomb as his heart remaining pure even as a Super Saiyan.

* FillingTheSilence: Dialogue is added into the Funimation dub for the Androids where there clearly wasn't any in the original, which was definitely not a bad thing given how little they talked in the original.
* FlatCharacter: Androids 14 and 15; they're programmed to kill Goku and that's pretty much all they do throughout the film. The English dub gives them additional dialogue at times in an attempt to give them more personality.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Goku gets around not being able to wield the Spirit Bomb as a Super Saiyan by instead absorbing its power and getting strong enough to defeat Super Android 13. It was never hinted that Goku could do anything like this in the manga or anime.

* ExcusePlot: Even by Dragon Ball movie standards, this film has the least ''plot'' of them all except for maybe Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing. Androids attack, Goku and friends fight them until they win. The end.

* NonSerialMovie: Like most ''Dragon Ball'' films, but this one is particularly clear: it's so wildly divergent from the status quo at any point in the series that future guides (which did their best to fit nearly everything into the anime timeline) simply declared it an AlternateContinuity. The issue is mainly that the cast appears to be at the point they were in the late Android Saga, somewhere between Piccolo fusing with Kami and Vegeta and Trunks's training (Gohan and Trunks haven't aged and Gohan isn't a Super Saiyan, Piccolo is about as strong as everyone else), but that period doesn't contain any kind of downtime for the film's events to occur, as it was basically a mad dash to contain Imperfect Cell, and Goku spent most of it recovering from heart disease. This is particularly odd, as it's far more tied in with the current arc than any prior film--directly acknowledging the events of the Android Saga, and featuring a cameo of 17 and 18.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While most of the departures from the main continuity can be excused because of it taking place in an alternate continuity[[note]]although in comparison to [[Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler its predecessor]], it's surprisingly snarl-free; the only major problems with fitting it in the timeline are Goku not suffering from his heart virus and the fact that when 17 and 18 were going around, there wasn't a break, since the series jumped straight into dealing with Cell afterwards[[/note]], one thing the film doesn't address is what happened to Androids 17 and 18 in said timeline, even though the film's opening clearly showing the former killing Gero like he does in the series proper.

* GroinAttack: In one of the movie's more infamous moments, Super 13 picks Goku up by one ankle and punches him in the family jewels so hard that it actually makes Goku drop out of Super Saiyan. When he flips back to dodge the follow up attack, he still hasn't recovered and falls to one knee. FreezeFrameBonus shows that they actually ''burst'' after he gets punched there.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Averted. Android 13 uses the term "ass-whooping" at one point.

* HotterAndSexier: There's a bit more sexuality in this film than the others. At one point Master Roshi imagines a bunch of bikini models in rather risqué poses, and at the very end the [[MaleGaze camera stays zeroed]] in on a passing Nurses butt

* GroinAttack: In one of the movie's more infamous moments, Super 13 picks Goku up by one ankle and punches him in the family jewels so hard that it actually makes Goku drop out of Super Saiyan. FreezeFrameBonus shows that they actually ''burst'' after he gets punched there.

* DeepSouth: In the English dub only, he's given a Southern accent (possibly the only character in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise to do so), as he's played there by native Texan Phillip Wilburn. This leads Trunks to actually call him a "Red Ribbon redneck" in the dub.

The death of Dr. Gero at the hands of Androids 17 and 18 prompts the activation of Androids 13, 14, and 15. They try to kill Goku, who fights them with the help of Trunks, Piccolo, Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan.

For the ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' version, [[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedM9 see here.]]

* NonSerialMovie: Like most ''Dragon Ball'' films, but this one is particularly clear: it's so wildly divergent from the status quo at any point in the series that future guides (which did their best to fit nearly everything into the anime timeline) simply declared it an AlternateContinuity. The issue is mainly that the cast appears to be at the point they were in the late Android Saga, somewhere between Piccolo fusing with Kami and Vegeta and Trunks's training (Gohan and Trunks haven't aged and Gohan isn't a Super Saiyan, Piccolo is about as strong as everyone else), but that period doesn't contain any kind of downtime for the film's events to occur, as it was basically a mad dash to contain Imperfect Cell. This is particularly odd, as it's far more tied in with the current arc than any prior film--directly acknowledging the events of the Android Saga, and featuring a cameo of 17 and 18.

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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Goku gets around not being able to wield the Spirit Bomb as a Super Saiyan by instead absorbing its power and getting strong enough to defeat Super Android 13. It is never hinted that Goku could do anything like this before in the manga or anime.