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TheDragon Ballseries is know for its natural process , adventure , and comedy , but one genre it is not particularly recognize for is revulsion – that is , untilDragon Ball GTintroduces a baddie who turns the intact earth into a surrealist nightmare rife with paranoia , soundbox repulsion , and experiential dread .
While it has never been shown in a particularly terrifying ignitor , Dragon Ballhas always had elements of horror sprinkled into it . For instance , when King Piccolo was bring in , he was to begin with describe as being a actual demon who was born of the evil expelled from the body of god ( or , Kami ) . pass over ahead toDragon Ball Zand these warriorlike creative person hoagie have find themselves on an entirely unlike existence fighting an alien overlord who on a regular basis destruct entire planets and wants to take over the world – which is mete Lovecraftian in its cosmic horror . After Frieza , the Z - Fighters then have to take on genuine killer robots after someone from the future tells them the androids are creditworthy for destroying the world . There ’s literally a Sci - Fi / repulsion dealership with that precise same premise . Plus , the malevolent pinkish space blob that turn people into chocolate and deplete them by the millions like it ’s nothing , all the while laughing about it like a demonic youngster . essentially , living in theDragon Ballworld is scary as hell , but nothing will top what fans witnessed in oneDragon Ball GTepisode .
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Dragon Ball GT’s Nightmarish Episode Gets Even Worse the More it Progresses
InDragon Ball GTseason 1 , episode 28 ( written by Daisuke Yajima , directed by Osamu Kasai , grow by Toei Animation ) , Goku , Pan , and tree trunk have returned to Earth from their year - long charge across the universesearching for the Black Star Dragon Balls . After they move into the atmosphere , their first stoppage was the Lookout to give the Dragon Balls to Dende for safe keeping – at which point everything seemed okay . Then , when Goku and Pan went to their house and Trunks went back to his , the three Z - Fighters started to notice something was off about their human beings . For starters , Videl and Chi - Chi would n’t say a word to Goku and Pan when they enroll their house – the two moms were just cooking and clean in quiet without addressing Goku or Pan in any way . Then , when Trunks walked into his parent ’s house , Vegeta talk to him in enigmatically minacious way while Bulma stated flatly that Trunks had been bad , and that he would be punished for it , before walk into another room without another word or explanation for that bizarre scuttlebutt and downright creepy delivery .
At this point , everyone watching thisDragon Ball GTepisode should feel deeply unsettled as everything and everyone in the lives of Goku , Pan , and Trunks that should find intimate and safe are somehow off and uncongenial , like a paranoia - fueled feverishness dream – and the horror face of this installment just keep getting worse . As the Z - Fighters would soon larn , their loved one are acting this way because , while they were move , the villainous Machine Mutant , Baby , came to Earth and ‘ put down testis ’ inside the head of nearly everyone on the planet , adding them to his ever - grow hive - mind and effectively making them his puppet . trunk was the first to see the truth as Vegeta had been possessed by Baby himself – meaning Trunks was greet with the very entity responsible for successfully conquering the major planet . After that dire realization , Trunks was taint by the parasitic alien - android , leaving no one to warn Goku and Pan of the brat they would presently confront all alone .
ThisDragon Ball GTepisode started out as a diabolical nightmare that slowly morph into an exotic body - snatching plot of ground , both of which are absolutely terrific on their own , let alone together in one sequence – and because of that , it is good to say that this episode turnedDragon Ballinto a logical revulsion serial ( at least , momentarily ) .
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