History WebVideo / DragonBallDissection

* EasilyForgiven: ''The Cell Arc Part 12'' goes deep into how Vegeta is let off the hook by just about everyone despite being a murderous bastard all his life, even after he proves himself an active liability by letting Cell become complete. He even compares Vegeta's evil acts to those of the other reformed antagonists (albeit excluding Piccolo's actions as Piccolo Daimaō), and he still comes out worse than all of them.

* ICantBelieveImSayingThis: Despite his complaints about Freeza's "tennis", he still finds himself putting it above the "tennis" with Super Buu, if only because Freeza actually getting overwhelmed by Super Saiyan Goku feels much more special than Super Buu repeatedly getting overpowered, only to turn the tables via assimilation.

-->'''Lance:''' Frieza is, to this day, treated as Dragon Ball's ultimate villain, to the point that they ''keep brining him back, long past the point he had any relevancy''.

* BetterThanCanon[[invoked]]: In ''The Cell Arc Part 12'', Lance comments that ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' handles Vegeta's [[EasilyForgiven sudden acceptance among the group despite his past deeds]] better than the manga, due to Goku [[AdaptationalDumbass being more naïve than his canon counterpart]] and thinking they're best friends, despite Vegeta openly hating him.

The series began on January 12, 2012, concluding his analysis of the manga 10 years later. New episodes are released on Monday on a roughly biweekly basis.

* DubNameChange: Averted; Lance refers to characters and spellings via approximations of their Japanese names, as opposed to the more well-known Creator/{{Funimation}} names (Blooma instead of Bulma, Kuririn instead of Krillin, Freeza instead of Frieza etc).

** He isn't a fan of the OneWingedAngel transformations that become prominent around the Freeza arc. How they're applied to Freeza is his least favoured use of them, as his ability to transform at will renders his second and third forms a waste of time [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim when he could skip to his final form and curbstomp the heroes]]. Cell and Buu's transformations, which are instead triggered by absorbing certain people, are received much better by Lance.

** Him taking every opportunity to point out that post-fusion, "Piccolo" is "God [Kami] wearing a Piccolo suit" (and variants of that phrase). As Piccolo's post-fusion characterization is much more along the lines of Kami's than Piccolo's (e.g. choosing to live at the lookout, being horrified at the damage to it by Super Buu and Gotenks, showing knowledge of the godly hierarchy, acting neurotically deferential towards Kaioshin), this one gets a lot of play.

* StuffedInTheFridge: Discussed in regard to Videl's brutal loss to Spopovich, which seemed to be motivation for Gohan to avenge her while Videl herself gets DemotedToExtra. It gets subverted when Spopovich and Yamu instead take off with Gohan's energy and get then killed by their master Babidi. Lance ultimately gives the story leeway on this, if only because Videl is the first female character to suffer from this.

* WordOfDante: While discussing the retcons to Babidi and Buu's origins, Lance suggests that the Kirby vs. Buu WebAnimation/DeathBattle video was what gave people the impression that Babidi being Bibidi's creation rather than his son was always part of the story and merely mistranslated. [[invoked]]

* PetPeeveTrope[[invoked]]:
** RealIsBrown. He considers the ''Coola's Revenge'' movie an EvenBetterSequel to the previous movies thanks to the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt wonderful backgrounds and use of color]] in that movie compared with the previous ones starting with ''[[Anime/DragonBallZTheTreeOfMight The Tree of Might]]'', where there was a dark color palette for the scenarios. This is also one of the reasons he dislikes the [[Recap/DragonBallSuperUniverseSurvivalArc Universal Survival Arc]], as the constant dark battleground alongside the ArcFatigue was ''exhausting'' for him.

* 8. The 22nd Tenkaichi Budoukai Arc

* 6. The 21st Tenkaichi Budoukai Arc

* 4. The 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai Arc

* ForegoneConclusion: Because of how he reveals each arc's ranking, whatever he gave the Cell Arc would inevitably reveal what he'd give the Majin Boo Arc; hence, it has the lowest ranking despite not being "officially" covered yet.

** The name of the mountain where Goku used to live (Mount Paozu) was the creation of Creator/ToeiAnimation, and so was the idea that Goku lived there with Chi-Chi when they got married. Since this contradicts the manga (where Goku's home is never seen until ''Cell'' and being completely different in design) this annoys Lance well enough [[https://www.facebook.com/MistareFusion/posts/good-grief-dragon-ball-super-is-just-hot-garbage-no-matter-if-youre-talking-movi/1920223054713475/ he jumped into a rant on Facebook]] the moment the anime-only name was referenced in the manga of ''[[Manga/DragonBallSuper Super]]''.

** He isn't a fan of the OneWingedAngel transformations that become prominent around the Freeza arc. How they're applied to Freeza is his least favoured use of them, as his ability to transform at will renders his second and third forms a waste of time [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim when he could skip to his final form and curbstomp the heroes]]. Cell's transformations, which are instead triggered with each Artificial Human absorbed, are received much better by Lance.
** "Power-up tennis", when the heroes and villains are constantly [[LensmanArmsRace one-upping each other]] with hyped-up power-ups and transformations. It causes fights to drag out while making the characters' time and effort feel wasted when they get power crept out of relevance.

The series began on January 12, 2012, and is currently covering the Majin Boo Arc. New episodes are released on Monday on a roughly biweekly basis.

* 1. The Majin Boo Arc (by process of elimination; not yet "officially" ranked)

** Likewise, [[https://curiouscat.me/MistareFusion/post/817220811 he]] "likes Ribrianne and her stick well enough", despite the character being widely disliked by the Western community.

** Him taking every opportunity to point out that post-fusion, "Piccolo" is "God [Kami] in a Piccolo costume." As Piccolo's post-fusion characterization is much more along the lines of Kami's than Piccolo's (e.g. choosing to live at the lookout, being horrified at the damage to it by Super Buu and Gotenks, showing knowledge of the godly hierarchy, acting neurotically deferential towards Kaioshin), this one gets a lot of play.

* RunningGag: There's a few, but the longest running one is Lance saying, "poor dolt", after something bad happens to [[ButtMonkey Yamcha]].

** Though he has yet to cover their appearances in the series itself, [[https://curiouscat.me/MistareFusion/post/797729936?t=1551052585 Lance has gone on record]] as finding [[FusionDance Vegetto and Gogeta]] uninteresting for ignoring the potential characterization that would come from fusing together two people with conflicting personalities (of whom one holds a deep dislike for the other), instead existing just to beat people up.

* IdiotPlot[[invoked]]: Lance considers the Cell Arc to be founded entirely on this: in Part 3 of his look at it, he addresses the heroes' [[ViolationOfCommonSense refusal to stop Dr. Gero before he creates the Artificial Humans (despite being told that they will kill them and devastate the world)]], and concludes it only occurs because there would otherwise be no story. He even goes on to point out that the heroes suddenly take the proactive option at almost ''every other point'' afterward.

** Villains who [[GoodThingYouCanHeal have regeneration abilities]]. He's OK with Piccolo and Metal Coola, noting that the former's regeneration went as far as limbs and still required a lot of energy, whilst the latter's could be overcome via strategy and overtaxing it. The likes of Cell, however, don't even feel pain from wounds, making them "[[InvincibleVillain wanked-out invincible]]" in his opinion.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay:
** He tries to maintain the Japanese pronunciation with names like "Kuririn" and "Buruma".
** In keeping with the etymology of the Saiyan name (it being an anagram of the Japanese ''yasai''), Lance pronounces the race like "cyan", in contrast to the more well-known Funimation pronunciation ("SAY-yun").

** Lance can't stand the various Freeza {{exp|y}}ies that show up later in the franchise. The only ones he doesn't count are King Cold (with whom he has his own set of problems) and Coola ([[FranchiseOriginalSin though he says the seeds took root with him]]).

* ContinuityLockout: His major problem with ''[[Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler Clash! 10,000,000,000 Powerful Warriors]]'' is that the movie doesn't establish its main characters to non-fans, and the whole movie is an ExcusePlot for the sake of fights. Though this also applies to many of the ''Dragon Ball Z'' movies, most of them at least [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establish them and their relationship with one another]] in the first act. He saw the movie through the eyes of a non-fan, ended up hating it, and compared the script to someone playing with action figures.

* DoubleStandardFemaleAbuseOnMale: ''The Majin Boo Arc Part 7'' examines how many people are put off by Spopovich's beatdown on Videl, even though it's far from the most brutal display in the story; even within that same fight, Videl ''broke his neck'' before he started doing anything extreme.

--> '''Lance:''' ''[[SarcasmMode Oh no!]]'' Vegeta has betrayed his allies and set into motion a chain of events culminating in the extinction of almost every living thing on the planet as well as the planet itself! ...Or, as Vegeta likes to call it: ''Tuesday.''

* MoralEventHorizon: He believes that Vegeta had gone way past it by the end of the Freeza arc, and finds it ridiculous [[EasilyForgiven how quickly the other characters accept him]] when he should at best be tolerated for an EnemyMine until he becomes a liability.

** [[ExcusePlot Action for the sake of action]] is not interesting for him, as he finds himself quite bored if he isn't emotionally invested in the characters. This is a reason why he rates both ''Resurrection ‘F’'' and the ''Universal Survival Saga'' quite poorly, as the first one was a poorly constructed ExcusePlot and the second was [[ArcFatigue a long]] action-driven tournament [[FlatCharacter with hardly developed antagonists]].

--> '''Lance:''' I miss the Saiyan Arc, where damage seemed to actually matter. Where's the fun in watching people punch an invincible brick wall?!

* "No one cares about Chiaotzu."

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel[[invoked]]: He considers ''[[Anime/DragonBallZCoolersRevenge The Incredible Mightiest vs. Mightiest]]'' (a.k.a. ''Cooler's Revenge'') to be an "oasis in a sea of crap" compared to the rest of movies 4-7, thanks to the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt beautiful scenery and colors]] and the use of pathos for Cooler's motivation (even if he is a [[FlatCharacter less interesting Freeza]]). He does say it's not his favorite movie, though.

* WordOfDante: While discussing the retcons to Babidi and Buu's origins, Lance suggests that the Kirby vs Buu WebAnimation/DeathBattle video was what gave people the impression that Babidi being Bibidi's creation rather than his son was always part of the story and merely mistranslated.

* MagnumOpusDissonance[[invoked]]: The Red Ribbon Army Arc isn't often well-regarded among fans, but is nonetheless ranked the highest in Lance's scores at 10/10. Conversely, the Piccolo Daimaō Arc (typically seen as the best pre-''Z'' arc) received a 2/10, the even more popular Freeza Arc got a 5/10, and the equally popular Cell Arc received a 3/10.

* WordOfDante: While discussing the retcons to Babidi and Buu's origins, Lance suggests that the Kirby vs Buu Death Battle video was what gave people the impression that Babidi being Bibidi's creation rather than his son was always part of the story and merely mistranslated.

* YouSayTomato: In keeping with the etymology of the Saiyan name (it being an anagram of the Japanese ''yasai''), Lance pronounces the race like "cyan", in contrast to the more well-known Funimation pronunciation ("SAY-yun").

** One of the reasons that he feels Vegeta's FaceHeelTurn in the Buu arc falls flat is because Vegeta already betrayed everyone in the previous arc by letting Cell reach his Perfect form. While Majin Vegeta shows some more depth and later remorse, Vegeta helping the antagonist for the sake of a good fight has already lost the intended shock factor for Lance, and he further condemns the other characters [[EasilyForgiven who had already let Vegeta off the hook]] for treating it like a surprise.