History Fanfic / SaiyanInBrockton

[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/saiyan-in-brockton-worm-dbz-self-insert.378239 Saiyan In Brockton]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}''/''Franchise/DragonBall'' CrossOver, written by DesertChocolate (who also wrote ''Fanfic/HuntersOfDeath'', ''Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts'', and ''Fanfic/ThroughATemple'').

* AcceptableTargets: InUniverse, the Merchants, who the SelfInsert beats up for cash.

[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/saiyan-in-brockton-worm-dbz-self-insert.378239 Saiyans In Brockton]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}''/''Franchise/DragonBall'' CrossOver, written by DesertChocolate (who also wrote ''Fanfic/HuntersOfDeath'', ''Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts'', and ''Fanfic/ThroughATemple'').

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Due to the tail, Gohan is briefly known as "The Monkey God Of Fitness," due to the Internet and videos of him shirtless. Gohan also claims that he has the Oozaru form, which turns him into a forty-foot-tall monkey. This isn't seen before his tail is cut off.

[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/saiyan-in-brockton-worm-dbz-self-insert.378239 Saiyans In Brockton]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}''/''Franchise/Dragonball'' CrossOver, written by DesertChocolate (who also wrote ''Fanfic/HuntersOfDeath'', ''Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts'', and ''Fanfic/ThroughATemple'').

* [[spoiler:AssShove]]: [[spoiler:Militia threatens to do this to Gohan with one of her knives when he keeps pestering her for said knife to cut off his tail.]]

* BigEater: Once he gets money, the SI manages to shock an entire buffet restaurant with his eating, polishing off entire plates of food in seconds.
** It's also why he joined the PRT- he literally eats as much as an elephant in a single day, and he can't pay for that sort of caloric intake on his own.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Taylor Hebert and Gohan catch each other's eye while Gohan is in the middle of a fight in chapter 19. Her name is never mentioned and "Catches each other's eye" is literally all that they do before Gohan is forced back into battle.
** At the end of the battle, several gangsters are found unconscious in an alleyway, badly stung and bitten by insects, with an epipen left on them.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Armsmaster claims that his comparison of Dauntless to someone who would bully people in high school is dated, as "Bullying isn't a problem in schools anymore." For the record, this is in Worm, where the canon protagonist got her superpowers because one of the capes under Armsmaster's command bullied her until she had a psychological break.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Due to the tail, Gohan is briefly known as "The Monkey God Of Fitness," due to the Internet and videos of him shirtless.
** Gohan also claims that he has the Oozaru form, which turns him into a forty-foot-tall monkey. This isn't seen before his tail is cut off.

* FingerPokeOfDoom: Gohan's main method of taking down non-brute enemies.
** Note that he works very hard to keep the poke of doom restrained- he demonstrates to Regent what he could do with a poke of doom without holding back, and burrows his finger straight through a brick wall.

* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Gohan just barely manages to keep this reaction nonverbal after he manages to pull off the [[WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged "Very Enthusiastic Walks"]] conversation with Piggot.

[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/saiyan-in-brockton-worm-dbz-self-insert.378239 Saiyans In Brockton]] is a Literature/{{Worm}} and Anime/DragonballZ CrossOver, written by DesertChocolate (Who also wrote Fanfic/HuntersOfDeath, Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts, and Fanfic/ThroughATemple). A SelfInsert where the main character, who takes on the moniker "Gohan Moha", wakes up in Canberra, Australia in the midst of the Simurgh attack. He is immediately hit by a boulder.

* DoYouTrustMe: In chapter 23, Panacea asks Gohan if she can heal him, only for Gohan to invert this trope when he realizes that she doesn't know that he absolutely trusts her to do the right thing. He tells her that she doesn't need to ask him for permission, she can heal him whenever she wants because he has absolute faith in her. For someone who fears her own powers and what they're driving her to do, this is something that Panacea absolutely needed to hear, and led to her triggering Gohan's second Zenkai boost.

* RealityEnsues: So a mysterious person with incredible power and potential shows up out of nowhere and refuses to disclose his past? Shockingly, the PRT are not quick to trust Gohan after that and assign a guard to him full time. They do admit (as does Carol) that Capes wanting to keep their past private isn't ''unusual'', particularly given the Unwritten Rules, but his sheer evasiveness makes them suspicious.
** Gohan is tracked down by the PRT after his first night out fighting crime? How could this be? Turns out that when a shirtless man with a tail is running around the town beating up drug dealiers, robbing them, leaping across rooftops, and then spends several hours gorging himself at an all-you-can-eat buffet, it ''might'' attract some attention.
** How amusing! Saiyan BigEater eating habits are a real thing! Turns out you kind of need money in order to ''provide'' said food. Despite Mahmoud[=/=]Gohan's reservations, he has to join the PRT as they're the only ones who can foot the bill (and aren't utterly terrible people, as the Nazis, Merchants, and ABB are).
** Trainable superpowers that anyone can (theoretically) learn? The workout to achieve said powers is so intense that the Youth Guard prevents the Wards from learning it. Amy can, because she's not a Ward, and therefore not under the Youth Guard umbrella. And when one person ''does'' get powers from it, he has to immediately turn himself into the PRT for testing.
** Gohan's offer to teach Amy to fly is met with extreme suspicion by her, not only because of her own headspace at the time, but because Gohan freely admitted that he didn't know how to do it yet either. Admitting that you aren't sure how to do the thing you're trying to teach others to do is ''not'' a great sales tactic.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Gohan does what he can to avert this- specifically, him transforming into the terrifyingly powerful, fifty-foot-tall Great Ape form of Oozaru. Once he gets his tail cut off, this ceases to be a problem. Unfortunately, there's still the Worm versions of this trope in the form of the Endbringers...
** During the Gang War arc, Gohan fights Fenja and Menja, two women whose powers are "Growing to about fifty feet tall."

* CluelessMystery: For Tattletale and the Armsmaster, Gohan is this. They're trying to figure out how he fits into the world or knows the things he does, but all they have is in-character knowledge of their own setting... not knowledge gained by fanfictions of their universe or knowledge of a completely separate fictional universe that has never existed in Earth Bet or Aleph. In other words, they're trying to figure out the motivations of Gohan the Parahuman, when in reality, he's Gohan the human from another universe stuffed into an alien body.

** Given that Gohan's alleged backstory sounds similar- unwillingness to discuss his past, high aptitude with Martial Arts, hatred of her name- the PRT's running theory of Gohan is that he was one of Crane the Harmonious' past students. Crane had a habit of kidnapping children, training them to be master martial artists in the woods, and... erm... "having her way" with them.

* Foreshadowing: Interlude 4 (part 2) as well as Chapter 23 imply that not only has Glastig Undine and Crane the Harmonious taken an interest in Gohan, but Bonesaw is on her way to Brockton and Crane ''may'' be developing Ki.

** Dantless is shown being envious of Gohan because Gohan has the same sort of ability that he does- gradual, permanent improvement over time with barely any work.

** As of chapter 21, the author confirmed that The Triumvirate, the Endbringers, Panacea, Assasult, and Scion could all destroy Gohan.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Armsmaster ''hates'' this. In canon it was one of the main reasons for his dislike of Dauntless- the man was able to improve all of his equipment with little to no effort, while Armsmaster had to fight and struggle to get mere percentages of efficiency out of his gear. Gohan irritates him for the same reason- anything Gohan does will improve him slowly but surely, far easier and faster than would normally be possible. This is mitigated by the fact that Gohan is both personable, and works extremely hard at improving himself, but the irritation remains.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Assault may be one of the most spectacularly immature heroes in the Protectorate, but he's capable of fighting Gohan to a standstill.

* XMeetsY: Gohan's powers are best described by the PRT (initially) as "Dauntless' improvement ability combined with Lung's powers."

* RealityEnsues: So a mysterious person with incredible power and potential shows up out of nowhere and refuses to disclose his past? Shockingly, the PRT are not quick to trust Gohan after that and assign a guard to him full time.

** At the end of the battle, several gangsters are found unconscious in an alleyway, badly stung and bitten by insects.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Gohan's noticed that his personality and way of thinking have been changing since he was turned from a Human into a Saiyan. For example, he's more aggressive and finds it harder to understand other people's intentions.

** One strength of Ki is that it can be taught to anyone in theory- no need to trigger or have a Corona Pollentia (the portion of the brain responsible for superpowers in Worm).

* TooDumbToLive: In chapter 21, Gohan is providing the most righteous of beatdowns to Lung... and then an ordinary, bog-standard human walks into the fight and tries to record it on his phone. Not only does this moron nearly get himself killed, but in saving him Gohan loses the advantage he had on Lung and starts getting slammed.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Armsmaster ''hates'' this. In canon it was one of the main reasons for his dislike of Dauntless- the man was able to improve all of his equipment with little to no effort, while Armsmaster had to fight and struggle to get mere percentages of efficiency out of his gear. Gohan irritates him for the same reason- anything Gohan does will improve him slowly but surely, far easier and faster than would normally be possible.

* MisaimedFandom: InUniverse. Gohan never read the original Worm, and went off of what fanon said about the Undersiders. Unfortunately for him, he realized after their meeting that the stories he read painted them in a much more sympathetic light, and that they're less heroic than he thought.

* OutsideContextProblem: Surprisingly, ''not'' a Saiyan in the Worm universe- they've seen people with Brute ratings, Trumps, Blasters, and more. What is an OCP is Gohan ''to himself'', as there has never been a canon instance of a human being given the body of a Saiyan. Since all Saiyans grew up with their instincts and hunger for battle, they have control over them, but how would a human with no exposure to those drives handle those being slammed into him?

** Trainable superpowers that anyone can (theoretically) learn? The workout to achieve said powers is so intense that the Youth Guard prevents the Wards from learning it. Amy can, because she's not a Ward, and therefore not under the Youth Guard umbrella.

* SuperpowerLottery: Gohan claims that he's won this, even before he learns how to do Ki attacks or fly. Given that his strength will constantly increase over time, he's immune to bullets, has reaction times so fast that he can spend hours contemplating his next move before the opponents realize what's going on, can run faster than any car, and concrete crumbles in his hands, he's not entirely wrong.

** Trainable superpowers that anyone can (theoretically) learn? The workout to achieve said powers is so intense that the Youth Guard prevents the Wards from learning it.
** Gohan's offer to teach Amy to fly is met with extreme suspicion by her, not only because of her own headspace at the time, but because Gohan freely admitted that he didn't know how to do it yet either.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Somewhat. When Mahmoud tries to find a free clinic that would help him heal his arm, he manages to find the ''one'' that Panacea is currently visiting. [[Spoiler: It's implied, however, that the Simurgh was manipulating his path, so it's less of one than it first appears.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: Somewhat. When Mahmoud tries to find a free clinic that would help him heal his arm, he manages to find the ''one'' that Panacea is currently visiting. [[Spoilers: It's implied, however, that the Simurgh was manipulating his path, so it's less of one than it first appears.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: Somewhat. When Mahmoud tries to find a free clinic that would help him heal his arm, he manages to find the ''one'' that Panacea is currently visiting. [[spoilers: It's implied, however, that the Simurgh was manipulating his path, so it's less of one than it first appears.]]

* AcceptableTargets: The Merchants, who the SelfInsert beats up for cash.

** As of chapter 21, the author confirmed that The Triumvirate, the Endbringers, and Scion could all destroy Gohan.

* FlyingBrick: Now that Gohan can fly, he's one of these. Saiyans in canon Dragonball were this as well, and this type of power is known in Worm as an "Alexandria Package," after the famous heroine.

* HealingHands: Gohan asks Panacea to ''not'' use these on him and Glory Girl- or at least, not to the extent that she normally does. He asks that she takes care of anything serious and remove bruises from visible places (so as not to raise questions) but says that wounds serve as valuable reminders of the need to train and improve. He's also asking this so that they don't take Panacea's powers for granted and abusing that gift- which contributed to her breakdown in canon.