History Recap / DragonBallZAbridgedM9

* FreezeFrameBonus: During the infamous GroinAttack, there's an x-ray of Goku's "Gotens" shattering.
** Also, the androids analyzing Goku with their 3D-Scan Mode has a brief moment when it targets his crotch, labeling it as a "Potential Weak Point", making this a BrickJoke as well.

* GodzillaThreshold: The only reason Gero activates Androids #13-15 is because Cell is still in development and he himself was dead. As 13 puts it, the doctor has "plum run out of options".

--> '''Dr. Gero:''' Weakness... identified!

** 13 has his trademark [[NiceHat trucker hat]] lowered onto his head to a banjo rendition of the [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Imperial March]].

* ArcWelding: The ending of this version of the movie links with Episode 44, both with Krillin investigating Gero's sub-lab. It ultimately ends with he and Trunks finishing off not only Gero and destroy the fetus!Cell. Although according to the Episode Breakdown this movie takes place in it's own timeline so it's not a completely clean link however.

* ArcWelding: The ending of this version of the movie links with Episode 44, both with Krillin investigating Gero's sub-lab. It ultimately ends with he and Trunk finishing off not only Gero and destroy the fetus!Cell. Although according to the Episode Breakdown this movie takes place in it's own timeline so it's not a completely clean link however.

* ArcWelding: The ending of this version of the movie links with Episode 44, both with Krillin investigating Gero's sub-lab. It ultimately ends with he and Trunk finishing off not only Gero and destroy the fetus!Cell.

* NeverLiveItDown: Trunks ''knows'' that this trope would be in play if Vegeta found out that there were ''another'' set of Androids that existed in this timeline, given how they would be another three that Trunks had no knowledge about. Sure enough, Vegeta invokes it immediately upon entering the fray and learning about them.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Uemlz785Y chant]] that Kami and Nail do to amp Piccolo up during the fight with Super Android 13 is taken from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwj91-uHDa8 "Piccolo Takes A Beating"]] from Weekly Tube Show. To make it more notable, WTS does the voice of Kami in DBZ Abridged, so it essentially serves as a reprisal.
** The music that plays as Future Trunks confronts Super 13 is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7VmOZ4Ppj8 I am the Doctor]]", the {{Leitmotif}} of the [[Series/DoctorWho Eleventh Doctor]], referencing Trunks' status as a time traveler.

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: As 13 transforms, Piccolo suggest to attack him. Goku Invokes this because he wants a good fight.

* CryingIndian: Android 14 is voiced by images turned into audio with [=PhotoSounder=]. His line "They do not understand our struggle." is actually a picture of the "Crying Indian" from the famous 1971 environmental commercial.

* SelfDeprecation: In frustration over his lines, the narrator complains that Team Four Star stopped trying after Season 2.

!!Tropes:

* AdaptationExpansion: Despite the shorter run time, the movie manages to do this for the Androids. In the original, they were just more androids that Dr. Gero posthumously sent out against Goku. They tried only to meet this goal, and barely talked. Here, they're androids Gero completed earlier but shelved due to petty problems, with each having their own personality quirks and programming defect. 13 is a SouthernFriedGenius obsessed with his trucker hat, and was shelved because Gero hated his accent. 14 is somewhat of a WarriorPoet who can't be understood because the drivers for his sound card are corrupted, and Gero couldn't find them online. 15 is a 'gangsta' to the point where he somehow managed to develop a drinking problem despite being an android.

Goku, Chi Chi, and Gohan are out shopping along with Master Roshi, Oolong, Krillin, and Future Trunks when a pair of Red Ribbon Androids, 14 and 15, show up and blow things up. Goku decides to lead them to the Arctic so the city won't take any more damage, but things get tough for our heroes when Gero activates his trump card: the sinister Android 13... and his ''trucker hat''.

* TheOtherDarrin: Justin Briner appears as Teen Gohan during his brief appearance; which many considered an odd choice due to Future Gohan being played by Zach Holzman. Justified due to the two Gohans growing up in entirely different timelines and being shaped by entirely different events as a result.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Both Goku and Trunks forget to turn Super Saiyan for a good while into their fight with 13, 14, and 15. It's only when Vegeta does so that they get inspired to follow suit.

* NeverLiveItDown: Trunks ''knows'' that this trope would be in play if Vegeta found out that there were ''another'' set of Androids that existed in this timeline, given how they would be another three that Trunks had failed to warn the Z-Warriors about. Sure enough, Vegeta invokes it immediately upon entering the fray.
--> '''Vegeta:''' Never letting the boy live this down...
* OnceMoreWithClarity: The movie opens up showing us Gero's death at the hands of 17 and 18 again, only now we get to see what happens to Gero's mind in the aftermath. Turns out that he took control of his lab's underground supercomputer.

* TakeTheThirdOption: After uploading himself in the sub-lab's supercomputer, he planned to go with Plan B, which involves sending Cell out to kill the Z-Fighters and the rogue Androids 17 and 18. As Cell is still a fetus, Gero resorts to using Androids 13-15 as Plan C, despite their defects, and thus kick off the movie's plot.

* Brick Joke: As 15 scans Goku when they first met, he views his crotch as a "potential weak point". When 13 becomes Super 13 near the end, he quickly delivers [[GroinAttack a punch to said weak point]].

* ArcWeilding: The ending of this version of the movie links with Episode 44, both with Krillin investigating Gero's sub-lab. It ultimately ends with he and Trunk finishing off Gero and destroy the fetus!Cell.

** When Future Trunks sees 13, he paraphrases a certain speech from [[Film/SnakesOnAPlane a certain movie starring Samuel L. Jackson.]] Even better, he paraphrases the TV edit version of said speech.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Trunks knows that this trope would be in play if Vegeta found out that there were ''another'' set of Androids that existed in this timeline, given how they would be another three that Trunks had failed to warn the Z-Warriors about. Sure enough, Vegeta invokes it immediately upon entering the fray.

* GroinAttack: Super Android 13 punches Goku in the dick so hard, his future son Goten fades out of existence. Vegeta is quick to remind him that he suffered this trope. [[spoiler: Luckily, he's healed by the Dragon Balls.]]

* GroinAttack: Super Android 13 punches Goku in the dick so hard, his future son, Gotenks fades out of existence. Vegeta is quick to remind him that he suffered this trope. [[spoiler: Luckily, he's healed by the Dragon Balls.]]

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Trunks knows that this trope would be in play if Vegeta found out that there were ''another'' set of Androids that existed in this timeline, given how they would be another three that Trunks had failed to warn the Z-Warriors about. Sure enough, Vegeta invokes it immediately upon entering the fray.

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe, Trunks knows that this trope would be in play if Vegeta found out that there were ''another'' set of Androids that existed in this timeline, given how they would be another three that Trunks had failed to warn the Z-Warriors about. Sure enough, Vegeta invokes it immediately upon entering the fray.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: The movie opens up showing us Gero's death at the hands of 17 and 18 again, only now we get to see what happens to Gero's mind in the aftermath. Turns out that he took control of his lab's underground supercomputer.