History YMMV / DragonBallGT

* SeasonalRot: To some viewers, the Super 17 and Shadow Dragons arcs are less compelling to them than the Baby arc, citing the former's rather rushed pacing and the latter a big case of TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot.

** Hell Fighter 17's entire existence, as Doctors Myuu and Gero somehow got away with building a new Android 17 that was stronger than the original while in Hell with not a single ogre guard or King Enma noticing even once, not to mention the impossibility of building anything in a landscape like Hell where there is no visible technology to even canibalize at least.
** The power of the Shadow Dragons, considering how the Dragon Balls' dragon can't be stronger than its creator and both Kami and Dende were/are nowhere near the level of even the Ginyu Force, the fact that the Shadow Dragons are of comparable or superior powers to foes like Cell or Majin Buu can be utterly egregious as there's not even an attempt to explain or show that Shenron got stronger in the years between ''Z'' and ''GT'' given the Dragon Balls were not used in the 15 years between Buu's defeat and ''GT''. Additionally the time gap between their usage also makes the argument of their "overuse" all the more illogical. Not to mention that these are ''two different'' sets of Dragon Balls and any negative energy built up in Kami's dragon balls should've been extinguished upon Kami's fusing with Piccolo and Dende's Shenron had barely granted any wishes at that point.

** The power of the Shadow Dragons, considering how the Dragon Balls' dragon can't be stronger than its creator and both Kami and Dende were/are nowhere near the level of even the Ginyu Force, the fact that the Shadow Dragons are of comparable or superior powers to foes like Cell or Majin Buu can be utterly egregious as there's not even an attempt to explain or show that Shenron got stronger in the years between ''Z'' and ''GT'' given the Dragon Balls were not used in the 15 years between Buu's defeat and ''GT''. Additionally the time gap between their usage also makes the argument of their "overuse" all the more illogical.

* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: Many detractors of the series point to Toriyama's lack of involvement in the show's creative process. In reality, he ''was'' involved to a degree (he named the series, drew the logo, acted as a consultant for plot ideas, designed some of the settings, equipment, and vehicles, and designed the aged characters. So, yes, ''Toriyama'' was [[http://www.kanzenshuu.com/guides/production/toriyama/gt_characters-1.png?x51443 the]] [[http://www.kanzenshuu.com/guides/production/toriyama/gt_characters-3.png?x51443 one]] who gave Vegeta a flat-top and mustache), and going further than that, he's stated several times he's actually a ''big fan'' of the series. He even doodled a sketch of Super Saiyan 4 Goku on the side of his blurb for the ''GT'' Dragon Box.

* ArchivePanic: Combined with the other two shows, there's 508 episodes. Each episode being about 20 minutes long, that's ''170 hours'' of content. It's even worse if you add ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' to the list, bumping up the total number of episodes by 131 episodes, which was more than ''GT'' had for its running time.

* BadassDecay: Because of the increased focus on Goku, Pan and Trunks several characters are much weaker or incompetent than they were before and never recover at any point:

** The Black Star Dragon Balls have absolutely no foreshadowing in either the original ''Dragon Ball'' or ''Z'', make barely any sense as to how they still exist and their planet-destroying capacities are also completely out of the blue for any previous Dragon Ball set's power. That Pilaf also ''somehow'' learned of the Nameless Namek and his creations, when the Nameless Namek arrived and split himself on Earth long before any humans met him or even got around to writing even the vaguest records of his existence is just as illogical and givn that Pilaf is irrelevant to the series beyond the first episode his whole storyline and random new knowledge comes across as a forced narrative device.

* AssPull: Goku's defeat of Omega Shenron, which suddenly makes Goku unable to be harmed in the slightest against a foe that had thoroughly thrashed everyone who wasn't at the level of Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, just happens with no explanation and is generally seen as a way to wrap up the conflict quickly after all other options were exhausted.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWYLoDvrZSE Step Into The Grand Tour]] which [[BrokenBase some fans don't mind, others calling it a disgrace.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Baby attacking his own ''mind controlled citizens'' for fun and trying to destroy the Earth simply because he knows it'd hurt Goku. And even mind-controlled they weren't willing to die for Baby's cause; they were crying and quivering with fear.
* NeverLiveItDown: You'd think the only thing that happens with Vegeta in this series is growing a moustache. In actuality, he had it onscreen for all of about three episodes before Bulla yelled at him to shave it off.

* MoralEventHorizon: Baby attacking his own ''mind controlled citizens'' for fun and trying to destroy the Earth simply because he knows it'd hurt Goku. And even mind-controlled they weren't willing to die for Baby's cause; they were crying and shivering with fear.

** The Super Saiyan 4 transformation was originally seen as a bit weird, and perhaps too much of a departure from the traditional Saiyan "look." After ''Battle of Gods'' and ''Resurrection [='F'=]'' revealed the divisive Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue, Super Saiyan 4 has gained back several fans who used to dislike the form due to it being both visually distinctive and harkening back to the old associations between Saiyans and apes.

** Many feel most of the Shadow Dragons were wasted as characters to be varying degrees of [[GenericDoomsDayVillain Generic Doomsday Villains]] that are compelled by doing things ForTheEvulz. In particular, Oceanus and Nuova Shenron are considered more interesting for their HiddenEvil and TokenGoodTeammate aspects that makes them a departure from the rest of their fellow dragons. There's also a minority of fans that felt this applies to Syn/Omega, as he's arguably the least fleshed out, and yet is the FinalBoss that fails to differentiate himself from many other villains in DB's history.

* GrowingTheBeard: For both its fans and detractors, most agree that the series really picked up once the gang went to planet M-2; the more episodic adventure storytelling from before was dropped, in favor of a more arc-based, villain-centric style, with the villain of that moment being [[KnightOfCerebus General Rilldo]], which fairly quickly lead into the Baby storyline. Though some would point out that this progression began quite a bit earlier, in Episode 9, with the Luud cult. Though it's generally agreed the M-2 material is the actual moment when the series found its feet.

* FandomRivalry: A very odd example since they are fans of the same franchise, but fans of ''GT'' have rivalries against ''Videogame/DragonBallOnline'' and ''Super'' since they're all sequels to ''DBZ''. The first rivalry happened because manga purists jumped on the fact ''Online'' had no anime inventions aside from Bardock ([[CanonImmigrant who made a cameo into the manga]]), which naturally included the entirety of ''GT''. The second happened because the events of ''Super'' cannot correlate with the events of ''GT'', leading to the general assumption that ''GT'' and ''Super'' are [[AlternateContinuity alternate continuities]]. Fans of ''GT'' call ''Super'' the inferior sequel to ''DBZ'' since ''GT'' has a better pacing and animation. ''Super'' fans, naturally, brings up the old laundry list of ''GT''[='=]s well-known flaws, and many argue that since it didn't have Creator/AkiraToriyama's involvement outside of some concept and character artwork, it deserves to be exiled from canon according to them, though this perception isn't entirely true, since he was heavily involved in the series' conception, and was on the story team for at least the first 10 or 15 episodes. There is also another group of fans who maintain that ''Super'' and ''GT'' can work in the same timeline, like at some point Goku and Vegeta lose their god powers, and memories of everything that happened during ''Super''. Although, that wouldn't explain why Hell in ''GT'' is very different from the Hell in ''Super'', why Frieza is much weaker, why the Pilaf Gang are elderly in ''GT'', rather than being much younger as in ''Super'', and why Kibito and Supreme Kai are still fused together. ''Online'' and ''Super'' fans on the other hand largely didn't care they ''also'' didn't go together...likely because the ''Online'' fans had by this point seen both ''VideoGame/DragonBallHeroes'' and ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'' radically reinterpret various elements of ''Online''.

** Vegeta in this series doesn't fights much and what fights he does participate in have him getting bodied at all turns. It's telling that he needs a machine to reach Super Saiyan 4 in the ''last'' arc of the series, and even ''that'' power boost doesn't helps him fair any better against Syn Shenron than he would've if he hadn't boosted himself at all. The only time Vegeta somewhat steps back up as a powerhouse is when Baby possesses him to become stronger.

** Frieza and Cell, two of the original series' greatest threats who were ''already'' victims to this in the Toei anime adaptation and movies, are also reduced to comic relief that Kid Goku in base form takes on with ease and rely entirely on a freezing machine to pose any threat. Even then they are beaten in a single episode by said machine with no fanfare.

** Vegeta in this series doesn't fights much and what fights he does participate in have him getting bodied at all turns. It's telling that he needs a machine to reach SSJ4 in the ''last'' arc of the series, and even ''that'' power boost doesn't helps him fair any better against Syn Shenron than he would've if he hadn't boosted himself at all. The only time Vegeta somewhat steps back up as a powerhouse is when Baby possesses him to become stronger.
** Gohan is said to [[InformatedAttribute have kept up his training]], yet his fights don't reflect that at all, as he loses all his relevant battles onscreen and even by the Super 17 arc he can't keep up with General Rildo, despite Gohan being stronger than Goku in ''Z'' and Goku himself being far above Rildo; the most he does afterwards is assist Goku from afar but nothing else.

* DamselScrappy: Pan, in addition to her inability to accomplish much in the series, spends a majority of her screen time either berating other characters, complaining about her situation, constantly having TooDumbToLive ideas being a constant DamselInDistress and begging Goku to save her, and never really taking a level in badass like many viewers hoped she would. Admittedly, she does get a few wins, but none of them have any real impact and are undermined by her role as a damsel time and time again.

** Ledgic has a fairly memorable design and powers similar to Dabura, back when powers similar to Dabura hadn't been played out yet. He works for a greedy tyrant, but not eagerly, seeming to be a NobleTopEnforcer looking for the an excuse to quit his job. He has some sort of connection to saiyans, which can go any number of ways, and takes up Goku on his challenge to train for a rematch. Of course he's never seen again.