This page covers Mythology Gags in Dragon Ball Z Abridged.
- When recalling his lost underlings, Freeza mentions Cui. Only he can't remember his actual name and winds up calling him "Kiwi", which is the character's original (and less inventive) Japanese name.
- Piccolo asks if Namekians are demons. This is a reference to his first appearance in Dragon Ball, when he was known as Demon King Piccolo.
- Super Kami Guru, while unleashing Gohan's hidden potential, says he's going to go gentle on Gohan because it's his "first time". While it's a continuation of the molestation gag, it also works as an explanation for why Gohan is ultimately going to have his hidden potential unleashed twice more during the series.
- Also, during one of Krillin's "IcannotshutupwhenImscared" moments, he mentioned that he once had a crush on a boy that he thought was a girl. This actually happened with Krillin and Upa in one of the early chapters of Dragon Ball.
- Then there's Goku's comment that the wound he received from Ginyu is the second worst hole in his chest. Piccolo blasted a rather sizable (and fatal) hole through Goku to kill Raditz. Piccolo also shot through him during their battle in the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, but that wasn't nearly as bad.
- Bulma is actually humming her leitmotif Romantic Ageru Yo
from Dragon Ball just before Krillin lands and knocks her out of her chair in Episode 17. - When Tien breaks Yamcha's leg, Yamcha yells that it's his good leg. Tien broke the other one in Dragon Ball at the World Martial Arts Tournament.
- In Revenge of Cooler, a weakened Goku names a dying bird "Toriyama", after the original creator of Dragon Ball. After he gives his energy to "Toriyama", he tells the bird to "teach a dinosaur to ride a ball", which is a lyric from "Cha-La-Head-Cha-La".
- Also counts as Meaningful Name and Bilingual Bonus, since Toriyama literally means "bird mountain", and that's why Toriyama's production company is named "Bird Studio".
- The gag is used again later on when Android 16 communicates with a bird, learning that it's name is Toriyama.Android 16: I would love to see your dinosaur.[...] Toriyama?[...]It does what?!
- In the same special, Krillin says he can't visit Korin as last time he did he kept calling him "Whiskers the Wonder Cat", a reference to Korin's name in the Harmony Gold dub.
- The song Goku sings about eating Icarus ("Dragon meat is yummy/and I really want it in my tummy") is set to the tune of the original Dragon Ball Heroes theme song.
- When Trunks first meets Goku, he accidentally addresses him as "Sun Wukong", the Journey to the West character that Goku was originally based on.
- After Trunks tells Goku about the "half-man, half-machine" "monstrosities" that will appear in three years, Goku insists they are androids, while Trunks says they are technically cyborgs. This references the original Funimation dub's habit of calling all of Dr. Gero's creations androids, despite the fact that he, Android 17 and Android 18 are clearly semi-organic, thus cyborgs.
- The catchy tune Yamcha sings to make money in the three year time skip is based on a song he sang to Puar in the original Funimation dub to annoy him.
- In the remastered version of Dead Zone, Ginger's last line is "What a douchebag", which was his name in the Pre-Team Four Star version.
- When Bulma says all scientists know where each others' labs are, she mentions Dr. Frappe and Dr. Wheelo. Trunks is confused who she's talking about, and she responds "LongStory": the first references the Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole Dr. Frappe's addition to the anime caused regarding who built Android 8. The second references the World's Strongest Abridged that was made by the proto-Team Four Star, like the original Dead Zone Abridged, while also playing on the general canonical impossibility most of the movies already possess.
- In the same episode, Vegeta is the one who references Goku's confusion that marriage is food.
- In Episode 41, Roshi declares his intent to buy a submarine to hide from the androids after hearing of their Curb-Stomp Battle against the heroes, referencing a throwaway shot from the anime that shows the minor characters doing just that in Trunks' future.
- The original version of Return of Cooler was set after Dende became Earth's Guardian (which hadn't even happened in the manga when the movie was released), and everyone went to New Namek because he senses there was something wrong. Cooler 2: The Return of Cooler's Revenge - The Reckoning is set before then, so they were instead coming for a party he invited them to and Dende is on Earth because that's where the party was actually supposed to be held.
- In Episode 46, Dr. Briefs mentions that he has children, plural. This is a reference to Tights from Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, who turned out to be Bulma's older sister.
- Trunk's line about his mother having been "37" for 10 years in the History of Trunks abridged special, referencing Bulma's lying about her age in the Battle of Gods movie.
- The information Trunks reads off the Androids' blueprints (Android 17 and Android 18's real names being Lapis and Lazuli and Android 16 being modeled off of Gero's dead son) was revealed by Toriyama in the full-color reprints of the manga; Krillin's amazement references the fact that this information is a retcon and didn't exist when the anime first came out.
- Likewise, in the Season 2 finale, Nappa (who's become a Hollywood agent) mentions that he's signed a new actor named Mark Satan. The full-color reprints also revealed that Mark is Mr. Satan/Hercule's real first name.
- When Bulma mockingly refers to Vegeta as "The Prince of all two Saiyans", Vegeta responds "Three and a half"; TFS confirmed that this is a reference to Tarble, Vegeta's younger brother, who was introduced in the 2008 special Yo! Son Goku and Friends Return and won't show up in-universe until after Majin Buu's defeat.
- Tarble is referenced by name in The Plan to Eradicate Christmas, with Vegeta saying that he accidentally shot down the former's space pod while trying to blast Santa's sleigh; while Vegeta assumes that his brother is dead, he also says they Never Found the Body and TFS themselves suggested that he survived but was flung off-course and ended up landing on the planet where he met Gure, his wife from Goku and Friends Return.
- When Bulma brings the infant Trunks to Kame House, Turtle starts giving her a warning about Roshi being a registered sex offender, before Roshi cuts him off with "I've watched her poop, she knows what I'm about." This refers to an actual scene in the original Dragon Ball anime.
- When telling a reporter his origin story, Cell says it all started with "A young girl shooting a little boy in the face", referencing the first chapter/episode of Dragon Ball.
- The preface of that line, "It all started as many things often do", was lifted from TFS's first DBCember, in the same context and even using the same music. The difference being that the original ended on "with one boy and one girl", making Cell's version a Bait-and-Switch.
- In Super Android 13 Abridged, Master Roshi incredulously asks Krillin if he really thinks "Master Roshi" is his real name; this refers to both the fact that the character's real name has never been revealednote and the fact that the name "Master Roshi" is just vaguely nonsensicalnote .
- In Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan Abridged, the scene that spoofs Broly's "Monster? No, I'm the Devil!" line has Goku and Gohan suggest alternatives, which comes from the Bowdlerised Funimation dub of said movie.
- This interpretation of the film wasn't the first time Trunks was forced into being a bride for an alien antagonist, with Dragon Ball GT having an episode titled "Trunks, the Bride" where his GT counterpart did the same thing, albeit more to trick the antagonist rather than being fully forced into it.
- In The Plan to Eradicate Christmas, when the villain accuses Trunks of warping space and time, the video briefly changes from Raging Blast 2's remade "The Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans" into VHS footage from the original Playdia game "The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans".
- In the Episode 60 Epilogue, the future version of Cell hadn't picked a name yet, saying he was thinking of "Jiren," but Trunks' lack of a response makes Cell think it's "too boring." Jiren being "boring" was a rather common fan complaint about Dragon Ball Super.
- At the start of Lord Slug Abridged, Piccolo and Nail discuss the idea of performing the Makkansōsappō/Special Beam Cannon with both hands to make it more powerful. He actually did this in the manga◊ while fighting Nappa, but the anime replaced it with another of his attacks, the Makōsen.
- Buu Bits has a segment where Gotenks struggles whether or not to call himself Trunkten or Gotenks. The former name comes from Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3's Chi-Chi Commentaries where she confuses the name of the fusion.
- Old Kai mentions being sealed in the Z-Sword by "some bingus named B—", referencing Beerus.
