Trivia / Dragon Ball Legends

• Author's Saving Throw: Though still viable, people did openly complain about the lack of resourcefulness Legends Limited Goku & Frieza (Final Form) (Angel) had on release, so nearly a week after their launch, Dimps gave them much needed buffs that makes them more dangerous in matches, drastically improving their standing in the meta.
• Content Leak:
  • Ultra Instinct Goku, the 4th Anniversary Legends Limited unit, ended up having his existence spoiled months in advance thanks to Apple using key art of Ultra Instinct -Sign- Goku vs Jiren when advertising the Legends Battle Pass on their iOS store. And then a few days shy of his reveal in "Reveals And Stuff: 4th Anniversary Edition", Apple used his official card art to advertise the game on their store near the actual celebration.
  • Another Ultra Instinct Goku example stems from the in-game news itself, where the Guild Battle announcement for Legends Festival 2023 accidentally used the artwork for ULTRA Ultra Instinct -Sign- Goku in its banner, spoiling his existence two days ahead of his announcement.
• Demand Overload: The launch of Shallot's highly-anticipated Super Saiyan Blue form resulted in a brief period where the game experienced a high server load and no one could log in to the game proper.
• God-Created Canon Foreigner: Akira Toriyama personally designed Shallot, Zanha, and the Hooded Figure. This took many in the community by surprise, as the artist was known for his more slender designs since the start of The New '10s, as many of his designs in Dragon Ball Super have shown, yet Shallot was a return to roots, with defined muscles and a monkey tail.
• Promoted Fanboy: Shallot's voice actor, Alejandro Saab, was a fairly known member of the community and a huge fan of the franchise before being selected for voicing the protagonistic role.
• Prop Recycling: Some of the assets appear to be lifted from Xenoverse, mainly animations, certain models and one of the maps, as the game was announced to be made in collaboration with Dimps.
• Similarly Named Works: There exists a PlayStation game called Dragon Ball Z: Idainaru Dragon Ball Densetsu (Translated: Great Dragon Ball Legends), more commonly known to fans as Dragon Ball Z: Legends or Dragon Ball Z: The Legend. Coincidentally, that game also featured a 3 on 3 battle system with cinematic Super Attacks.
• The Other Darrin:
  • English:
    • Broly, from Dragon Ball Z, was redubbed in 2020 by Johnny Yong Bosch after the original voice actor, Vic Mignogna, was fired due to allegations of sexual harassment.
    • Christopher Sabat replaces Dameon Clarke as Bardock's strongman Borgos despite the latter still reprising Cell.^note Likely due to the misconception that Sabat had also voiced Borgos in the original Bardock special
  • Japanese:
    • This would be Aya Hisakawa's first video game outing as Bulma after Hiromi Tsuru tragically passed away in November 2017 from aortic dissection.
    • Longtime voice of Demon King Piccolo Takeshi Aono had passed as the result of a stroke in April 2012. Bin Shimada, having also replaced Aono in the role of Kami-sama in his last few appearances during Dragon Ball Kai, replaces him as the evil Piccolo too.
    • On Bardock's team, both Toma and Panbukin’s original performers, Kazuyuki Sogabe and Takeshi Watabe respectfully, had died in the intervening years. Tetsu Inada and Yasunori Masutani became their new respective actors.
    • As the first game that Tao Pai Pai has appeared in since Dragon Ball Origins, his original performer Chikao Ohtsuka died in January of 2015 from ischemic heart failure. Yukimasa Kishino, having previously substituted for Ohtsuka in DBZ, became the permanent replacement here.
    • Katsuhisa Houki replaces Shōzō Iizuka as Android No. 8 due to Iizuka passing away in February 2023.

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