History YMMV / DragonBall

* CompleteMonster: [[ProfessionalKiller Tao Pai Pai]] from the "[[Recap/DragonBallRedRibbonArmyArc Red Ribbon Army Arc]]" is a PsychoForHire who cares only about profit and ruthlessly and remorselessly wipes out anyone who gets in his way with his bare hands. After he murders Upa's father and defeats Goku in battle, he laughs at Upa and tells him that he's lucky that he's still alive, meaning that he has absolutely no problem killing children. One of his worst offenses has got to be when he forced a tailor to overwork on making an outfit for him in about three days...which he rewarded by killing him. When he returns to Karin's Tower to look for the one Dragon Ball he neglected to find, he grabs Upa and throws him against the tower (fortunately, he was saved by Goku). After his defeat, he was rebuilt into an AxCrazy cyborg who wanted nothing more than the deaths of both Goku and Tenshinhan. He's arguably the KnightOfCerebus for the series. While the Z Fighters heavily outmatch him in ''Dragon Ball Z'', he still has no redeeming qualities.

* CompleteMonster: [[ProfessionalKiller Tao Pai Pai]] from the "[[Recap/DragonBallRedRibbonArmyArc Red Ribbon Army Arc]]" is a PsychoForHire who cares only about profit and ruthlessly and remorselessly wipes out anyone who gets in his way with his bare hands. After he murders Upa's father and defeats Goku in battle, he laughs at Upa and tells him that he's lucky that he's still alive, meaning that he has absolutely no problem killing children. One of his worst offenses has got to be when he forced a tailor to overwork on making an outfit for him in about three days...which he rewarded by killing him. When he returns to Karin's Tower to look for the one Dragon Ball he neglected to find, he grabs Upa and throws him against the tower (fortunately, he was saved by Goku). After his defeat, he was rebuilt into an AxCrazy cyborg who wanted nothing more than the deaths of both Goku and Tenshinhan. He's arguably the KnightOfCerebus for the series. While the Z Fighters heavily outmatch him in ''Dragon Ball Z'', he still has no redeeming qualities.

* CompleteMonster: [[Recap/DragonBallRedRibbonArmyArc Tao Pai Pai]] is a PsychoForHire who cares only about profit and ruthlessly and remorselessly wipes out anyone who gets in his way with his bare hands. After he murders Upa's father and defeats Goku in battle, he laughs at Upa and tells him that he's lucky that he's still alive, meaning that he has absolutely no problem killing children. One of his worst offenses has got to be when he forced a tailor to overwork on making an outfit for him in about three days...which he rewarded by killing him. When he returns to Karin's Tower to look for the one Dragon Ball he neglected to find, he grabs Upa and throws him against the tower (fortunately, he was saved by Goku). After his defeat, he was rebuilt into an AxCrazy cyborg who wanted nothing more than the deaths of both Goku and Tenshinhan. He's arguably the KnightOfCerebus for the series. While the Z Fighters heavily outmatch him in ''Dragon Ball Z'', he still has no redeeming qualities.

* CompleteMonster: [[Monster/{{Dragonball}} Has its own page.]]

** Commander Red is voiced by KenjiUtsumi in the Japanese version, and desires to become taller. Utsumi later voices a Stalinist rogue GRU Colonel, yet later ends up defeated by someone who looks a heck of a lot like a tall version of Commander Red in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Metal Gear Solid 3]]''.

** The general perception of Pan in ''Dragon Ball GT'' by several fans. In addition to blaming her for the failure of ''GT'', she is reviled by several fans for acting spoiled and immature, and not being as powerful as the other main characters. Yet arguably Pan's behavior is a toned-down version of Trunks and Goten's behavior when they were children and yet neither one has faced condemnation from the fanbase because of their attitude and actions. And WordOfGod has stated that Pan never went Super-Saiyan because at the time he didn't know how to draw a female Super-Saiyan. Pan isn't that much different from the other characters, and yet she is reviled by the fanbase for personality traits that other characters have but they don't face the same level of derision that she does.

%%* SoCoolItsAwesome: The manga.

* SoCoolItsAwesome: The manga.

** Tao Pai Pai killed a a man ''with his tongue'' and he did this '''during his debut in the show'''. His crazy awesome the goes to a new level when he taps a pillar and breaks it out, while leaving the building completely intact then throws the pillar and jumps onto it while it's moving. Tao Pai Pai's only comment on that matter is, "Who needs a jet when when we've got a perfectly good pillar."
** Goku, when he wasn't defeating armies on his own armed with only a magic pole and a flying cloud, he was transforming into a giant Ape and destroying anything in his path, using air to one shot his opponents, kicking peoples asses with rock-paper-scissors, using his tail at the time to fly like a helicopter, flying into the air and punching hole through demon aliens with only one arm and '''using his power pole to sodomize a ninja.''' And this stuff happened when he was a ''child'' as an adult he reeked of CrazyAwesome, so much so that him just powering up ''nearly destroyed the planet.''

* CrazyAwesome: DragonBall essentially ''runs'' on {{Crazy Awesome}} but a few examples stand out in absolute ridiculousness:

* HarsherInHindsight: Given what Dr. Gero did to avenged the fall of the Red Ribbon Army it makes Commander Red's real goal even more disturbing.

** These days, Yamcha's mostly known for dying a lot despite only dying twice(the same amount as Goku) in a series where DeathIsCheap. Most people forget that when he was first introduced in the series, he actually almost defeated Goku in battle. The only thing preventing him from the finishing blow so was that Bulma happened to wake up at that time, and Yamcha left because of his [[WeaksauceWeakness crippling fear of pretty girls]]. He was also the first person to use a KI technique and ended up saving everyone from Goku's Great Ape form at the end of the story arc.

* CompleteMonster: Tao Pai Pai is a PsychoForHire who cares only about profit and ruthlessly and remorselessly wipes out anyone who gets in his way with his bare hands. After he murders Upa's father and defeats Goku in battle, he laughs at Upa and tells him that he's lucky that he's still alive, meaning that he has absolutely no problem killing children. One of his worst offenses has got to be when he forced a tailor to overwork on making an outfit for him in about three days...which he rewarded by killing him. When he returns to Karin's Tower to look for the one Dragon Ball he neglected to find, he grabs Upa and throws him against the tower (fortunately, he was saved by Goku). After his defeat, he was rebuilt into an AxCrazy cyborg who wanted nothing more than the deaths of both Goku and Tenshinhan. He's arguably ''the'' KnightOfCerebus for the entire series. While the Z Fighters heavily outmatch him in ''Dragon Ball Z'', he still has no redeeming qualities.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: There was once a time where fans of ''Dragon Ball'' could express their interest in the franchise in the open. However, it achieved popularity inside [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff and outside]] Japan.

** Officer Black was "corrected" in ''The Path to Power'', giving him a lighter complexion without differentiated lips. In fact, he looks more Hispanic than Black. Also in the Red Ribbon Army is General Blue, a CampGay villain with pedophilic implications and a deep fear of even seeing a woman.

** Akkuman/Devilman for having what could be considered the most powerful attack in all of Dragon Ball/Z. He'll he was even a playable character in Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (where he even gets his own what-if story), Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure and Dragon Ball: The Revenge of King Piccolo.

** The scene where Pilaf blows a kiss to Bulma in the Pilaf Saga becomes hilarious when his Japanese voice actor, ShigeruChiba, ends up voicing [[DissidiaFinalFantasy another silly villain]] who has a huge amount of FoeYay[=/=]somewhat {{Yandere}}-esque traits towards his nemesis. Bonus points for the fact that the villain's nemesis, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra Branford]], has an alternate costume that gives her a slightly similar appearance to Bulma.[[note]]In case anyone's curious, the alternate costume was based on her field sprite in her original game.[[/note]]

*** In the 13th episode Oolong says this line:

* TearJerker: [[TearJerker/DragonBall Has its own page.]]

* CultClassic: The original ''Dragon Ball'', which is sadly ignored for its sequel, ''Dragon Ball Z'', despite having a deep story that got fans hooked onto the series in the first place.

** From the original ''Dragon Ball'', the announcer for the World Martial Arts Tournament, so much so that when he ''didn't'' appear in the Cell Games saga some fans got quite irate. Fortunately, he makes his return in the Buu Saga.
** Also from the original series, General Blue, for being pretty much the only competent member of the Red Ribbon Army - starting at the point where he strangles an electric eel to death ''while it's still electrocuting him.''

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: There was once a time where fans of ''Dragon Ball'' could express their interest in the franchise in the open. However, it achieved popularity inside [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff and outside]] Japan. [[ValuesDissonance It may be different in South and Latin America as well as Latino-based boards]], but if you say you like any series (except for maybe the original ''Dragon Ball'') on English boards or in anime clubs? You'll be asked why or told how bad it is, if not flat-out [[FanHater insulted]].
** It should be noted that most of hate for the series was from the early to mid 2000s.

* MagnificentBastard: Also, Demon King Piccolo in the original ''Dragon Ball'' qualifies, and Vegeta shows some flashes of this in the Namek Saga where he does several meticulously villainous and underhanded things, but we enjoy seeing him do them anyway.
* MoralEventHorizon: In the original Dragon Ball, the Pilaf gang freeing Demon King Piccolo from the rice cooker he was imprisoned in. Before that they had never done anything especially bad (except try to kill Goku and friends and they were laughably incompetent at doing so anyway).
* RecycledScript: The ''Dragon Ball'' movies are all very loose adaptations of story arcs from the original manga and TV series. While the ''DBZ'' movies are more unique, they can be matched up to certain fights from the TV series as well.

** And the tenth anniversary movie ''Path to Power'' retells the first arc of the original ''Dragon Ball'', but with the Red Ribbon Army as the main antagonists.
* SequelDisplacement: ''Dragon Ball Z'' is much more popular than ''Dragon Ball'', in the West. Critically, the original is better received plot-wise.

** It doesn't help, though, that when Bulma first meets Mr. Popo she blurts out "Doesn't he look a little dangerous?" Of course, it might just have been culture shock from the fact that he arrived on a magic carpet, but still. Of course, in the manga Bulma then claimed (as Bulma usually does) that Mr Popo was going to take her to a remote setting so that people can't see what he does to her. Officer Black, despite the design, fares better, as he's portrayed as actually far more competant than his boss, Commander Red.
*** It helps even less that, in the manga and in the Japanese version, Mr Popo's speech is rather primitive, with Mr Popo referring to himself constantly in the third person.
*** Officer Black was "corrected" in ''The Path to Power'', giving him a lighter complexion without differentiated lips. In fact, he looks more Hispanic than Black.
*** Also in the Red Ribbon Army is General Blue, a CampGay villain with pedophilic implications and a deep fear of even seeing a woman.