History Characters / DragonBallZAbridgedMainCharacters

** Immediately tells everyone about getting kissed by Android 18. Tien doesn't believe him, Trunks is sickened and says he ''can't'' believe him, Piccolo doesn't care, and Vegeta completely ignored him, though Krillin took his scream to mean that he believed him and was jealous.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He seemed to be under the impression that Krillin and Marron were a good couple, despite it being an obvious one-sided relationship based purely around the former's sudden acquisition of wealth, [[spoiler: though in truth, Marron was actually an undercover government agent investigating Krillin's insurance fraud and was more than happy to keep all the money he spent on her.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: Season 3 has him pick up the JerkassBall much less, now that Vegeta's joined the main group to fill that role. Tellingly, his affection towards Android 18 is far less superficial than it was for Marron and far more genuine.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Funny as it is, Tien's "HELP ME, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, HELP ME!" scene in episode 8 really doesn't gel with the proud, stoic warrior he'd be in the future. [[note]]Of course, season one did run a lot more on RuleOfFunny.[[/note]]

* ManChild: Chiaotzu is only a little younger than Tien, but begs Tien to go to [=McDonald's=] and cheers over ice cream. Lampshaded in Episode 41 when he is later serving Chashu Ramen, implying that he knows how to professionally make it.

* TheChewToy:
** Yes, even more than Krillin. In the second F.A.Q. special, the characters specifically say they pick on Krillin so much because Yamcha doesn't show up as often.

** In general, Trunks gets over this mindset around Episode 51 when he actively defies his father, and after that point he stops being submissive and becomes more actively snarky towards Vegeta and more willing to criticise him. At the same time, he's still so conscious of Vegeta's ego he compromises his pragmatism for the sake of not risking hurting it- even despite knowing the world's in danger if they fail.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: While trying to come up with some more badass names for his attacks, reluctantly admits to liking Nail's suggestion of "[[IncrediblyLamePun Nail Gun]]".

--->'''Trunks:''' Well Freeza, looks like you [[IncrediblyLamePun dropped the ball!]] ''[beat]'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Drropped. The. Ball.]] ''[beat]'' Drrrrrrrrropped the--"\\

* CatchPhrase:

-->'''Krillin:''' Jesus, Future Bulma! [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments What the shit?]]

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: He's tried to use "It's Kriller time!" when going into combat, but keeps getting casually swatted out of the way before doing anything badass.

* {{Catchphrase}}:

* CatchPhrase: Most of the time when Tien and Chiaotzu are [[HeterosexualLifePartners affectionate towards each other]].

* ForWantOfANail: [=Takahata101=] suggests during Episode 45's Creator Commentary that by preventing Yamch's suicide in the current timeline, his presence in the conflict against the Androids turns their attention away from the rest of the heroes briefly enough to make a difference in the outcome and avert the BadFuture that Trunks hails from.

* CatchPhrase:

* LikeFatherLikeSon: As much as he denies it, his focus on pride makes him a lot more like Vegeta than he thinks. [[spoiler:His PreAssKickingOneLiner before his CurbStompBattle against Future Cell is cribbed straight from his dad and even has similar enunciation.]]

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Gives one in ''Super Android 13 Abridged'' to the film's titular character.

* AdaotationalBadass: For a given value of "badass", abridged Gohan has no real issue with fighting in the abridged series

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Played straight as one of the weakest Z fighters who keeps getting put up against increasingly powerful enemies and being hopelessly outclassed alongside the rest of the 'baseline' humans.
** Also played straight in that a weak Z fighter is ''still'' so far above an average human in speed, strength and reaction times that when Yamcha becomes a baseball player, all the other players were hopelessly outclassed. To the point of making the games boring to watch!

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Tien is reminded that the human characters CantCatchUp to all, and despite that risks his life thanks to his wounded pride. It ends nearly getting him killed.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: As the Z-Fighters split up to sweep the city in search of the Androids, Yamcha is unlucky enough to be the first to find evidence of them when he hears a woman screaming. Despite heavy reluctance and knowing the fact that he could easily turn a blind eye, he still goes to help.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Officially, he's known as ''Krillin'' (the English prounciation/spelling, provided by Funimation), though in the scripts, he's written as ''Kuririn'' (an approximation of the Japanese pronunciation, provided by the English manga and Funimation's subtitles). Kaiser initially did this as a gag and intended on stopping, but Lanipator told him to keep spelling Krillin as Kuririn whenever he's speaking, since it made it easier to Ctrl+F and search for Krillin's lines without also highlighting every time he was mentioned in dialogue.

* AdaptationalJerkass: His reasoning for holding back against Cell isn't due to him being afraid of letting go, but instead he's simply holding onto his pacifist nature far too tightly than his canon counterpart would. 16 calls him out on this, saying there's no moral high ground to be had when Cell is killing everyone and thinking he's had it worse than them.
* AdaptationalWimp:
** Gohan's feats in this show are ultimately given less attention and value than in canon. He's also shown to be much less durable, being easily taken down for the count during a simple spar with Goku and Piccolo while he ended up impressing the two with his tenacity in canon. Much less focus is on his hidden power here too, as on the Namek Saga both Vegeta and Krillin put some faith in his performance, here, it's treated as nothing particularly notable.
** While canon Gohan was always ready to fight any enemies that threatened his friends, his family, or the Earth and was eager to train on many occasions with his reservations being a problem of controlling his anger and drawing out his hidden power. This Gohan has much more reluctance towards the idea of violence and killing in general, preferring to avoid it all together if it can be helped, this changes the context from 16 having to help Gohan get over his own fears and insecurities to having to tell Gohan to get over the counterproductive view he has towards their situation.

* CompressedVice: Gohan has had multiple instances in DBZA where he was either fully ok with fighting someone else, or encouraged it before this moment, but here he is a Straw Pacifist. He does get called a coward, but that he usually wasn't a pacifist is not addressed in the TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and he is merely considered a HolierThanThou type of pacifist.

** In ''DragonShortZ'' episode 5, Vegeta considers fighting Yamcha and Krillin to be beneath him, but not Tien. Given ''Bojack Unbound'' shows Tenshinhan actually can hold his own against Trunks in his base form, this might not be unreasonable.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: While Gohan's canon counterpart was always smart for his age and desired to be a scholar, abridged Gohan's intelligence is through the roof, with his knowledge outlasting pretty much everyone whose surname isn't Briefs, Gero, or Wheelo.

* DrivenToSuicide: In Future Trunks' timeline, where he hangs himself after learning that Vegeta got Bulma pregnant.

* SympathyForTheDevil: Downplayed, but upon seeing what the present 17 and 18 are like, Trunks says that things don't actually have to go down the way they do, but the future twins aren't interested in what he has to say, and Trunks shows no hesitance to destroy them in turn.

** In general, Trunks gets over this mindset around Episode 51 when he actively defies his father, and after that point he stops being submissive and becomes more actively snarky towards Vegeta and more willing to criticise him.

* AdaptationalDumbass: Arguably suffers this the worst out of any of the main characters from the original source material. While Abridged Goku is far dumber, it's not such a leap from the manga. Krillin, on the other hand, is usually characterised as one of the smarter and most strategically minded Z-Fighters, in contrast to his Abridged counterpart who is more often than not portrayed as an absent-minded moron.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: The original Piccolo was a GeniusBruiser, ''but'' he tended to hold the IdiotBall a lot, or have his emotions blind his judgment. Abridged Piccolo is subtly portrayed as far smarter, partly because [=KaiserNeko=] and Lanipator are self-admitted Piccolo fans.

** Yamcha was also a furry in the first season, openly sleeping with Puar and dressing as a wolf for the Halloween special. These traits haven't been referenced in a long while.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: That said (while still being ''really'' sarcastic), he genuinely cares for Chiaotzu like a little brother. In Season 3, he befriends Piccolo to the point of making bets with him on whether Krillin or Vegeta would screw up in killing Cell and the Androids (both of them did). And he bets on Vegeta failing while openly putting his faith in [[ButtMonkey Krillin]].

* DudeLooksLikeALady: After their first meeting, Goku comments to himself "What a nice young lady", while he and Vegeta both mention that his name was girly. In the Broly movie, Paragus confuses Trunks for a girl because of his hair and calls him "Princess Trunks", prompting everyone to address him as such, and Vegeta "allows Broly to bed ''Princess Trunks'' to repopulate the planet", with Broly complimenting his hair, to Trunks' dismay. This is also the complete inverse for anyone who was a teenager back then. Trunks had a very masculine haircut.

* ObliviousToLove: He fails to notice Krillin's love for 18, until it was far too late. Perhaps justified by the fact that he only knows her as an utter monster from his own time, and couldn’t conceive of people liking her.

** In general he builds a rapport with the more sane and nicer Z-Fighters, though this zig-zags a bit with Krillin [[LoveMakesYouDumb for understandable reasons.]]

** While Trunks becomes somewhat better trained during his time with Vegeta in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, he still retains this status due to not realizing how useless the bulky Super Saiyan Grade 3 form is until Perfect Cell spells it out to him after he gives Trunks some pity hits. Perfect Cell notes quite correctly that Trunks lacks a lot of practical experience and proper training from an actual martial arts master, having only trained with Gohan and Vegeta (the former of whom didn't get the same amount of actual instruction time as his father, and Vegeta wasn't interested in teaching Trunks practical battle advice) and having only really only fought 17, 18 and Freeza up to this point, whereas the rest of the Z-Fighters had fought many, many more opponents over the years.

* OnlySaneMan: While he still has some comical quirks, he's still competent, smart, and relatively serious. He outright (and pretty much accurately) calls himself "the only voice of reason here" during Episode 51, calling out both [[LoveMakesYouDumb Krillin]] and [[PrideBeforeAFall Vegeta]] for their part in helping Cell become perfect; and remarks on how profoundly dysfunctional the Z-Fighters are in the Episode 60 Epilogue.
* PatchworkKids: He has his mother's family lilac hair, and Vegeta's look and Saiyan strenght. Trunks gets very uncomfortable when his mother admits that her AffectionateNickname "Peanut Buttercup" was because she thought her genetics and Vegeta's combined like peanut butter and chocolate.

* WillfullyWeak: In Episode 52, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's actually ''stronger'' than Vegeta following their training, but deliberately hid this from his father because he knew the prince's fragile ego couldn't take it.]] Subverted by Episode 53, as [[spoiler:all his "power-up" really did was trade speed, energy, and efficiency for muscle mass and raw power, so a competent opponent could just dodge everything he does. Goku and Cell can both do it, they both know its weakness, and Cell, who believes the same is true of Vegeta, uses this little fact to utterly crush Trunks.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: In the original series, Gohan was a deconstruction of the child warrior taking after his father: not only does he not like to fight and detest having to, but he also begins looking towards Piccolo as a father figure over Goku, even emulating his style of dress. TFS are noticeably more heavy-handed with this, exaggerating his idolization of Piccolo to him developing a complex over Goku's frequent absences and his reluctance to fight being outright verbally torn apart by Cell and 16 as self-pitying cowardice that helps no one. However, where they go above and beyond is with the resolution of it. In the original series, Gohan finally embracing his anger was a heroic, triumphant moment--in the Abridged series, it's made clear that Gohan, a sweet kid, being forced to sacrifice his principles and embrace ThePowerOfHate is ''not'' a good thing and is actually sad and terrifying in one.

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* MultiEthnicName: Episode 31 reveals his full name to be "Krillin Sanchez".

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: He's one of the few characters who genuinely likes and gets along with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Vegeta]], despite acknowledging his anger issues and past conflicts with him. In canon, Krillin hated Vegeta possibly even moreso than the other Z-Fighters, to the point of admitting to Vegeta point blank that he wouldn't care at all if Cell killed him, whereas in the same scene in Abridged, he's sincerely trying to get him to safety after his lopsided bout with Cell.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: His baby self at least. In ''Plan to Eradicate Christmas'', Bulma engineers an antidote to the concentrated naughtiness from [[spoiler:Santa]]'s coal gas machines using baby Trunks' blood.