The movies themselves don't fit into Dragon Ball's continuity, but it seems like DBZA's actually trying to make them fit in a weird way. Only movies I can think of that have trouble in that regard are Lord Slug Abridged, which delibrately muddled things up for the sake of a joke, and the second Bardock movie, which was just Goku making shit up. Hell, even the new Dead Zone Abridged is meant to fit before the first episode (at least before the reveal).
edited 23rd Nov '13 5:02:34 AM by Watchtower
No, even then it suffers from the same problem the real movie had. Before the Reveal, why was Krillin not surprised that Goku had a kid? TFS just treats them as non-canon as the real stuff. Movies Goku seems much more on the ball than normal Abridged Goku anyway.
But you know what Dead Zone Abridged V2 means right? Maybe a World's Strongest Abridged V2 in 2014?
Movie 3 was also deliberately out of continuity - somehow, it's meant to take place while Vegeta is on Namek, making even less sense than the original movie. This is probably because the Freeza battle actually happened on Christmas in-universe and they turned Movie 3 into a Christmas special, or alternatively they were just trying to make it as little sense as they can.
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Of course, some stuff, like Lord Slug, and Christmas Tree of Might, isn't even attempted to be in continuity in the Abridged Series, instead cutting to shots of Vegeta musing about how out of place it is.
I'd like to see a World's Strongest Abridged.
Even if all I remember is that the main villain's a famous scientist who put his brain in a machine and still thinks Roshi is the strongest (apparently having never seen videos of the recent Budokais)
I have a message from another time...Tree of Might Abridged explicitly points out its status, with Vegeta on Namek griping, "This is so non-canon it hurts."
Dead Zone Abridged is also explicitly non-canon as it was all a story Krillin made up and is trying to sell as a Hollywood film.
edited 24th Nov '13 6:43:06 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.BTW TFS actually said that the setup they used for Dead Zone Abridged pretty much means any of the filler movies coming after can be used with that..
Long live Cinematech. FC:0259-0435-4987So to recap, Krillin is such a Butt-Monkey, he can regularly be outwitted by Nappa.
he did major in child psychology in college.
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.So when it comes time for Krillin to fall in love with 18, which route do you think they'll take it, the canon route or the Maron route?
I'd like for something to actually go his way. He has suffered enough, and it's not like he's Yamcha.
Also, the wiki states
that Guru had a higher power level than Raditz.
edited 29th Nov '13 1:46:24 PM by wanderlustwarrior

Yes, it's a 50x multiplier. Bardock was near 10,000 in his movie special, so if he didn't get a near death power up from surviving the planet's destruction, his Super Saiyan form would be somewhere under 500,000.
Fitting that his power level would be around Freeza's first form when he fights an opponent who resembles Freeza's first form.