History Trivia / DragonBallFighterz

* ApprovalOfGod: [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2019-12-08/voice-actor-johnny-yong-bosch-confirms-role-as-broly-from-dragon-ball-franchise/.153993 In light of being chosen as the new English voice actor of Broly,]] Creator/JohnnyYongBosch had a brief talk with Creator/VicMignogna and the latter understood that it's impossible for him to continue voicing Broly in the wake of the scandal he got saddled to, but he's glad that Bosch was the one who replaced him.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JeannieTirado tends to play [[NiceGuy Nice Girls]]. Here, she's the English voice of Android 21 (who's classified as a villain, is one of the final remnants of the very evil Red Ribbon Army, and is the overall BigBad of the game's story). [[spoiler:Goes further in that 21 is actually a tortured soul who ''wants'' to be a [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]] but is possessed of psychological and biological impulses that make it impossible for her to lead a normal life.]]

* DummiedOut: Dataminers found quite a bit of hidden, extra things in the files of the PC version:
** Fully rendered models of Goku and Vegeta during the Saiyan Saga. They became playable characters for the third DLC content pack.
** Two unused plaza locations. One is a Saiyan space pod, and the other is a gold Mr. Satan statue. Both of these ended up being used for online events: The space pod for raid bosses, and the statue for faction battles.
** Audio files have the announcer calling out for [[Characters/DragonBallZMovieVillains Cooler]]. Cooler was later announced for the fourth DLC content pack at EVO 2018.
** Trunks' files included a 3D model for the "Sword of Hope" from the battle against Fused Zamasu in ''Super'', which strongly suggested Fused Zamasu would be added to the game as DLC. [[IKnewIt Sure enough, it was later announced that Fused Zamasu would appear in the game as a DLC character roughly three months later in April 2018]], with the Sword of Hope being used in a Dramatic Finish that reenacts the moment Trunks defeats Fused Zamasu.
** Audio files were found in the game for what appeared to be a playable Super Saiyan 4 Goku, including voice lines that matched up with Super Saiyan Goku's Super Kamehameha, potentially suggesting a dummied out costume.
** The ''DBS'' incarnation of Broly has cut dialogue where he speaks in proper sentences as opposed to his incoherent screaming which makes up almost all of his lines in-game.

* TheOtherMarty: Creator/VicMignogna had already reprised his role as the original incarnation of Broly, as well as playing the Super incarnation [[Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly in his debut film.]] It's likely that he was originally meant to return as the latter before the above accusations led him to being replaced.

* ApprovalOfGod: [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2019-12-08/voice-actor-johnny-yong-bosch-confirms-role-as-broly-from-dragon-ball-franchise/.153993 In light of being chosen as the new English voice actor of Broly]], Creator/JohnnyYongBosch had a brief talk with Creator/VicMignogna and the latter understood that it's impossible for him to continue voicing Broly in the wake of the scandal he got saddled to, but he's glad that Bosch was the one who replaced him.

* BreakthroughHit: Creator/ArcSystemWorks games tend to have CultClassic status at best. As it stands, ''[=FighterZ=]'' is their most successful fighting game ''ever'' (as well as the fastest-selling ''Dragon Ball'' title of all time), [[https://www.destructoid.com/dragon-ball-fighterz-is-the-fastest-selling-dragon-ball-title-ever-485647.phtml having sold 2 million copies within five days of release.]] One reason why this game became massively successful is due to the large name recognition the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise is known for. The closest [=ArcSys=] got in terms of success prior to this game was the ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' [[VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax games]] ([=IP=] owned by Creator/{{Atlus}}), although that was before said franchise's recognition skyrocketed with ''[[UpdatedRerelease Persona 4 Golden]]'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5''.
* ContentLeak: Fighterz has had a constant history of having details leaked ahead of time.
** During the pre release, one of the Famitsu images that showed off arcade mode also revealed that Beerus, Hit, and Goku Black would be playable well before their official announcement.

** One of the predictions for [=FighterZ=]'s second season of DLC would be that Jiren would be a new fighter. He was one of the very first characters confirmed for Season 2. The ''Super'' incarnation of Broly was also predicted, and ended up confirmed before the third and fourth DLC characters of the season.

** Some of the animations for the dramatic finish of Jiren vs Frieza and Goku was datamined after Broly (DBS) came out. Which was the first hint that there was going to be a season 3 [[spoiler: There was also an audio leak of Gogeta refencing his fight against Omega Shenron.]]

** Janemba was leaked by an Xbox advertisement months before his official reveal at Evo 2018.

* TheOriginalDarrin: Creator/ChrisAyres returned to voice Frieza starting with the new Season 3 dialogue, as his health had been restored enough to resume playing the role again by that point.

** Chris Ayres had been dealing with COPD throughout 2017 so Frieza's English voice is provided by Daman Mills, Ayres's understudy, who has also been providing voicework for Frieza in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' in Ayres' absence. Ayres returned to the role in Season 3.

** Chris Ayres has been dealing with COPD throughout 2017 so Frieza's English voice is provided by Daman Mills, Ayres's understudy, who has also been providing voicework for Frieza in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' in Ayres' absence.

* CreatorsFavorite: Tomoko Hiroki, the producer of ''Fighter Z'', [[https://www.siliconera.com/2017/06/23/dragon-ball-fighterz-producer-creating-core-fighting-game-character-variety/ has stated]] in an interview that her favorite character is Gohan.

* ApprovalOfGod: [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2019-12-08/voice-actor-johnny-yong-bosch-confirms-role-as-broly-from-dragon-ball-franchise/.153993 In light of being chosen as the new Broly]], Creator/JohnnyYongBosch had a brief talk with Creator/VicMignogna and the latter understood that it's impossible for him to continue voicing Broly in the wake of the scandal he got saddled to, but he's glad that Johnny was the one who replaced him.

%%** Fans have often wondered why Krillin never [[StoryBreakerPower used the Destructo Disc after a Solar Flare]]. In one of this game's auto-combos, likely inspired by ''Extreme Butōden'' for the 3DS, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gm_f85J3T0#t=2m6s he does just that.]]

** Fans have often wondered why Krillin never [[StoryBreakerPower used the Destructo Disc after a Solar Flare]]. In one of this game's auto-combos, likely inspired by ''Extreme Butōden'' for the 3DS, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gm_f85J3T0#t=2m6s he does just that.]]

** Chris Ayres has been dealing with COPD throughout 2017 so Frieza's English voice is provided by Daman Mills, Ayres's understudy, who has also been providing voicework for Frieza in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' in Ayres' absence. He does, however, manage to sound like a mix between Ayres, Creator/LittleKuriboh and a little bit of Creator/LindaYoung. The fanbase has had a fairly positive reception overall to the performance.

* TheOtherDarrin: Chris Ayres has been dealing with COPD throughout 2017 so Frieza's English voice is provided by Daman Mills, Ayres's understudy, who has also been providing voicework for Frieza in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' in Ayres' absence. He does, however, manage to sound like a mix between Ayres, Creator/LittleKuriboh and a little bit of Creator/LindaYoung. The fanbase has had a fairly positive reception overall to the performance.
** It's likely that that Creator/VicMignogna will not play the DBS version of Broly after he was blacklisted from Creator/{{Funimation}} when years of claims of sexual harassment -some involving minors- came to light. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment That's all we are going to say over here.]]

* RoleReprisal: All of the characters retain their original Japanese voice actors (and counting those who have already [[TheOtherDarrin darrin'd]] someone).

* ModelDissonance: Like ''Guilty Gear Xrd'', ''[=FighterZ=]'' uses 3D models that try to emulate 2D sprites with added snazzy camera angles. As such, things may look weird if one pays close attention to the fact that the characters literally quarter-face towards each other during their idle stances and/or attacks instead of aiming them directly straight forward. Piccolo and Goku Black in their idle stances are some of the few who actually avert this.

* CreatorsFavorite: Tomoko Hiroki, producer of ''Fighter Z'', [[https://www.siliconera.com/2017/06/23/dragon-ball-fighterz-producer-creating-core-fighting-game-character-variety/ has stated]] in an interview that his favorite character is Gohan.