History YMMV / DragonBallGT

** Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. Long before [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] , this guy was the undisputed strongest character in the series. Imagine [[ShowyInvincibleHero Super]] [[GameBreaker Vegito's]] strength multiplied times 10,000. And even years later after other powerful characters like [[DestroyerDeity Beerus,]] [[AllPowerfulBystander Whis,]] [[TookALevelInBadass Super Saiyan Blue Vegito]] and even [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Jiren]] were introduced, various producers of other Dragon Ball media all still treat him as one of the strongest beings in the whole franchise. Special mention goes to his inclusion in VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz, where out of the numerous characters added to the game, he's the only one given a distinct attack that will end [[OneHitkill ANY opponent regardless of how much health they still have.]]

* 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.

** Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. For the longest time before [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] was even a thing, this guy was the undisputed strongest character in the series. Imagine [[ShowyInvincibleHero Super]] [[GameBreaker Vegito's]] strength multiplied times 10,000. And even years later after other powerful characters like [[DestroyerDeity Beerus,]] [[AllPowerfulBystander Whis,]] [[TookALevelInBadass Super Saiyan Blue Vegito]] and even [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Jiren]] were introduced, various producers of other Dragon Ball media all still treat him as one of the strongest beings in the whole franchise. Special mention goes to his inclusion in VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz, where out of the numerous characters added to the game, he's the only one given a distinct attack that will end [[OneHitkill ANY opponent regardless of how much health they still have.]]

** Old lady Pan from episode 64 and the TV special, due to having out-grown her whiny attitude.

* RetroactiveRecognition: ''GT'' features Creator/HiroshiKamiya voicing 2 bit characters, specifically Pan's date Poperu in episode 1 and Ronge in episode 25, this was pretty early in his career and his career eventually took off in the late 2000's cementing him as one of the current biggest names in the industry. Kamiya would return to the ''DB'' franchise 26 years later to voice Gamma #1 in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero''.

** Back in the day, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who would so much as admit that they even liked ''GT''. Nowadays, there are a lot more fans who can look fondly back on ''GT'' and admit that it got more hate than it deserved. Even a lot of its detractors will admit that there were aspects to ''GT'' that weren't awful, just [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot executed poorly]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Pan's bratty behavior and completely disrespect for her grandpa a consequence of Goku leaving his family to train Uub and driving her to tears at the end of ''Z''?

** The scene where Dolltaki takes Pan to his room after turning her into a doll and excitedly prepares to undress her, while Pan is fully aware of everything going on and we hear her mentally expressing distress over the situation, is known to make many fans skin crawl.

** Bra also goes from annoying young girl to awesome just by getting Vegeta to shave off that stupid mustache.

** When it comes to {{Arc Villain}}s in the franchise as a whole, Super 17 is among the few villains to be widely disliked. He doesn't make much sense when it comes to the circumstances of his creation and his motives are very unclear, seemingly being just destroying everything after he kills both of his creators. His fight is also not very impressive compared to the fights before and after his arc, as he somehow goes from being pushed back by Goku in his weaker forms, then suddenly being able to match Super Saiyan 4 Goku before his energy absorption ability. As such, many fans tend to skip his arc altogether, and despite being put into many games that feature ''GT'' characters, he remains very unpopular. It doesn't help that the Universe Survival Saga of ''Super'' turned Android 17 into an EnsembleDarkHorse and even had him [[spoiler:win the Tournament of Power the saga is centered around]], leading even fans more open to ''GT'' to prefer the 17 from ''Super'' over Super 17.

* SoBadItsGood: The Blue Water dub has become this over time. Despite having a much more accurate script (the Funimation dub didn't exist at the time so Blue Water had to translate the original dialogue from scratch), many of the actors seem to have a very hard time pulling out any kind of emotion, resulting in very wooden and awkward dialogue. The actors for Adult Goku, Gogeta and Omega Shenron are some of
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* SoOkayItsAverage: Most fans seem to view ''GT'' as having some good ideas that were poorly executed and overshadowed by some of the less savory decisions and designs, and that the series as a whole is fine enough even if it never really lives up to its full potential.

** Bulla looks and acts like a teenager, and has multiple fanservice moments thanks to her attire showing off her legs and stomach, as well as being a tease to the multiple men in the series who vary from early teens to full grown adults. Sounds normal for a 90's anime right? Well, keep in mind that she's ''10'', this makes all the scenes where she's being hit on extremely hard to watch, but it does make Vegeta's PapaWolf tendencies seem a lot more reasonable considering her age.

** Toriyama's initial design for Vegeta, which gives him a flattop haircut, a mustache, and the dorkiest '90s dad clothes ever. Thankfully, the mustache was shaved off, his hair became spiky again (though still shorter than it was in ''Z''), and the clothes were changed to '90s punk clothing.
** Trunks' outfit, consisting of a black turtleneck, gray sports coat, blue bandana, and khaki shorts. The idea seemed to try and be a call-back to his Future incarnation while incorporating Bulma's design as well, but the overall design looks far more silly than it should have. IGN in particular criticized his new design as overly goofy.

* SoBadItsGood: The Blue Water dub has become this over time. Despite having a much more accurate script (The Funimation dub didn't exist at the time so Blue Water had to translate the original dialogue from scratch) many of the actors seem to have a very hard time pulling out any kind of emotion resulting in very wooden and awkward dialogue, with Gogeta and Omega Shenron being two of the worst offenders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Qw0wQqr5g). The fact that most episodes on the internet have distorted audio thanks to the NTSC to PAL conversion (most recordings floating around are from Toonami UK) doesn't help matters.

* UnfortunateImplications: [[https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/dragon-ball-gt-dragon-book-gt-back-then-kozo-morishita-interview/ An interview with producer Kozo Morishita]] [[https://comicbook.com/anime/news/dragon-ball-gt-pan-super-saiyan-reason-anime-manga/ revealed the reason]] that Pan had never gone Super Saiyan in the series despite it being completely within her capability to do so as revealed with her descendant Goku Jr. doing so without a single problem. The reason was that she was designed to be a damsel in distress and cause situations for Goku to get serious and save her and if she attained Super Saiyan, she'd be too strong to warrant that motivation for Goku. This would not help the franchise's reputation with [[StayInTheKitchen the poor treatment of their female characters]], as the main female lead bordered on FauxActionGirl and was an enforced DamselInDistress in a series all about fighting, her role of being purposely put as a woman in constant need of rescue while her male companions constantly defeat the villain of the week won her no fans.

* SoBadItsGood: The Blue Water dub has become this over time. Despite having a much more accurate script (The Funimation dub didn't exist at the time so Blue Water had to translate the original dialogue from scratch) many of the actors seem to have a very hard time pulling out any kind of emotion resulting in very wooden and awkward dialogue, with Gogeta and Omega being two of the worst offenders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Qw0wQqr5g). The fact that most episodes episodes on the internet have distorted audio thanks to the NTSC to PAL conversion (most recordings floating around are from Toonami UK) doesn't help matters.

** Super 17. After a good amount of emphasis is put on brainwashing the original 17 and having him fuse with Hell Fighter 17, he largely remains TheDragon to Gero and Myuu, as they do all the talking while Super 17 casually beats up anyone they want him to. He shows a bit more of a deranged personality as time goes on, and a bit of free will when spurred by 18, but overall does not flesh himself out before his destruction not long after he starts to develop. It really says something when most of his known attributes are a result of his appearances in games rather thn the show itself.

* SoBadItsGood: The Blue Water dub has become this over time. Despite having a much more acurrate script (The Funimation dub didn't exist at the time so Blue Water had to translate the original dialogue from scratch) many of the actors seem to have a very hard time pulling out any kind of emotion resulting in very wooden and arwkward dialogue, with Gogeta and Omega being two of the worst offenders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Qw0wQqr5g). The fact that most episodes episodes on the internet have distorted audio thanks to the NTSC to PAL conversion (most recordings floating around are from Toonami UK) doesn't help matters.

** Trunks' outfit, consisting of a black turtleneck, gray sports coat, blue bandana, and khaki shorts. The idea seemed to try and be a call-back to his Future incarnation while incorporating Bulma's design as well, but the overall design looks far more silly than it should of. IGN in particular criticized his new design as overly goofy.

** Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. For the longest time before [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] was even a thing, this guy was the undisputed strongest character in the series. Imagine [[ShowyInvincibleHero Super]] [[GameBreaker Vegito's]] strength multiplied times [[UpToEleven 10,000.]] And even years later after other powerful characters like [[DestroyerDeity Beerus,]] [[AllPowerfulBystander Whis,]] [[TookALevelInBadass Super Saiyan Blue Vegito]] and even [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Jiren]] were introduced, various producers of other Dragon Ball media all still treat him as one of the strongest beings in the whole franchise. Special mention goes to his inclusion in VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz, where out of the numerous characters added to the game, he's the only one given a distinct attack that will end [[OneHitkill ANY opponent regardless of how much health they still have.]]

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: ''Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout'' is an awful fighting game with shoddy controls, awful visuals and animation, CameraScrew, little to no character variety, and an dub so bad that even Creator/SteveBlum's portrayal of Goku isn't redeemable. The only thing really notable about it is that it's the first ''Dragon Ball'' game to come to the West with the license intact, albeit as a very limited release, and there's some mileage to get out of Cell's AccidentalInnuendo-filled dub lines.

** Old lady Pan from episode 64 and the TV special, due to having out-grown her whininess.
** Bra also goes from annoying young girl to awesome just on the strength of her getting Vegeta to shave off that stupid mustache.

* FanNickname: "''Dragon Ball: Goku Time''". Named for the common perception that Goku has a rather large SpotlightStealingSquad in this anime.

* AngstWhatAngst: Baby invades Earth and makes slaves of the entire population. Both Bulma and Vegeta confirm that they ''do'' at least somewhat retain their memories of the whole experience. It turned brother against brother, any ally could have just been another one of Baby's victims and Pan is nearly killed by her own ''parents''. But no one actually reflects on this or even talks about it for more than a passing comment, despite the ParanoiaFuel it would have undoubtedly had.

* RetroactiveRecognition: ''GT'' features Creator/HiroshiKamiya voicing 2 bit characters, specifically Pan's date Poperu in episode 1 of and Ronge in episode 25, this was pretty early in his career and his career eventually took off in the late 2000's cementing him as one of the current biggest names in the industry. Kamiya would return to the ''DB'' franchise 26 years later to voice Gamma #1 in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero''.

** Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. For the longest time before [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] was even a thing, this guy was the undisputed strongest character in the series. Imagine [[ShowyInvincibleHero Super]] [[GameBreaker Vegito's]] strength multiplied times [[UpToEleven 10,000.]] And even years later after other powerful characters like [[DestroyerDeity Beerus,]] [[AllPowerfulBystander Whis,]] [[TookALevelInBadass Super Saiyan Blue Vegito]] and even [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Jiren]] were introduced, various producers of other Dragon Ball media all still treat him as one of the strongest beings in the whole franchise. Special mention goes to his inclusion in VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz, where out of the numerous characters added to the game, he's the only one given a distinct attack that end [[OneHitkill ANY opponent regardless of how much health they still have.]]

** Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. For the longest time before [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] was even a thing, this guy was the undisputed strongest character in the series. Imagine [[ShowyInvincibleHero Super]][[GameBreaker Vegito's]] strength multiplied times [[UpToEleven 10,000.]] And even years later after other powerful characters like [[DestroyerDeity Beerus,]] [[AllPowerfulBystander Whis,]] [[TookALevelInBadass Super Saiyan Blue Vegito]] and even [[World'sStrongestMan Jiren]] various producers of other Dragon Ball media all still treat him as one of the strongest beings in the whole franchise. Special mention goes to his inclusion in VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz, where out of the numerous characters added to the game, he's the only one given a distinct attack that end [[OneHitkill ANY opponent regardless of how much health they still have.]]

** Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. For the longest time before [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] was even a thing, this guy was the undisputed strongest character in the series. Imagine [[ShowyInvincibleHero Super]][[GameBreaker Vegito's]] strength multiplied times [[UpToEleven 10,000.]] And even years later after other powerful characters like [[DestroyerDeity Beerus]] [[AllPowerfulBystander Whis,]] [[TookALevelInBadass Super Saiyan Blue Vegito]] and even [[WorldStrongestMan Jiren]] various producers of other Dragon Ball media all still treat him as one of the strongest beings in the whole franchise. Special mention goes to his inclusion in [[VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz,]] where out of the numerous characters added to the game, he's the only one given a distinct attack that end [[OneHitkill ANY opponent regardless of how much health they still have.]]

** Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. For the longest time before [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] was even a thing, this guy was the undisputed strongest character in the series. Imagine [[ShowyInvincibleHero Super]][[GameBreaker Vegito's]] strength multiplied times [[UpToEleven 10,000.]] And even years later after other powerful characters like [DestroyerDeity Beerus]] [[AllPowerfulBystander Whis]] [[TookALevelInBadass Super Saiyan Blue Vegito]] and even [[World'sStrongestMan Jiren]] various producers of other Dragon Ball media all still treat him as one of the strongest beings in the whole franchise. Special mention goes to his inclusion in [[VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz,]] where out of the numerous characters added to the game, he's the only one given a distinct attack that end [[OneHitkill ANY opponent regardless of how much health they still have.]]

** Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. For the longest time before [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] was even a thing, this guy was the undisputed strongest character in the series. Imagine [[ShowyInvincibleHero Super]][[GameBreaker Vegito's]] strength multiplied times [[UpToEleven 10,000.]] And even years later after other powerful characters like [DestroyerDeity Beerus]], [[AllPowerfulBystander Whis]], [[TookALevelInBadass Super Saiyan Blue Vegito,]] and even [[World'sStrongestMan Jiren,]] various producers of other Dragon Ball media all still treat him as one of the strongest beings in the whole franchise. Special mention goes to his inclusion in [[VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz,]] where out of the numerous characters added to the game, he's the only one given a distinct attack that end [[OneHitkill ANY opponent regardless of how much health they still have.]]

** Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. For the longest time before [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] was even a thing, this guy was the undisputed strongest character in the series. Imagine [[ShowyInvincibleHero Super]][[GameBreaker Vegito's]] strength multiplied times [[UpToEleven 10,000.]] And even years later after other powerful characters like [DestroyerDeity Beerus]], [[AllPowerfulBystander Whis]], [[TookALevelInBadass Super Saiyan Blue Vegito]], and even [[World'sStrongestMan Jiren]], various producers of other Dragon Ball media all still treat him as one of the strongest beings in the whole franchise. Special mention goes to his inclusion in [[VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz,]] where out of the numerous characters added to the game, he's the only one given a distinct attack that end [[OneHitkill ANY opponent regardless of how much health they still have.]]