Dragon Ball Super
Fans have been debate ifDragon Ball Superhas eliminatedDragon Ball GTas the serial ’ prescribed continuation toDragon Ball ZsinceSuper ’s release , but they ’ve been missing one key piece of that argument all along : Superitself is n’t even canyon withDBZ .
Dragon Ball Supertakes place only a few month afterGoku defeated Kid Buu inDBZ , which means it takes place between that moment in time inDBZand its epilogue known asEnd of Z , which is set ten years after that fateful engagement . Within that ten - year time gap , Dragon Ball Superhas introduce some pretty wild and atrociously powerful characters and transformation . Not only have the Saiyans bring up themselves beyond the levels of normal Super Saiyan progression by rein god ki , but they even break the ‘ Super Saiyan ’ mold on the whole . Super Saiyan God ( and the elevated Super Saiyan Blue ) , became the highest Saiyan form conceivable , but Goku and Vegeta shatter that power cap by unlocking Ultra Instinct and Ultra Ego , severally , which are not Saiyan transformations – or even deadly transformations . Not only that , butSuperhas bear witness that Goku and Vegeta have accomplish these huge levels of power together while training with genuine gods , and that is quickly becoming a job for the establish continuity ofDBZ .
Goku & Vegeta’s Relationship in Super Contradicts DBZ
InDragon Ball Z’sEnd of Zepilogue ( by Akira Toriyama ) , fans are taken ten year into the time to come after Goku beat Kid Buu with the Spirit Bomb , and every single Z - Fighter has accumulate at this year ’s World Martial Arts Tournament – which is the everlasting mise en scene for the serial ’ finale , given that the tourney is one of the most important pillar ofDragon Ball . Right before the Tournament , when all the Z - Fighters are meeting up again after being split for some time , Goku makes a commentary to Bulma and Vegeta about how he has n’t seen them in four days – which , because ofDragon Ball Super , is understandably impossible .
While the existence ofDragon Ball Superwas initially okay in term of fit into the widerDragon Ballcanon , every moving picture , episode , and chapter that continuesSuper ’s storyline gain what Goku said to Vegeta more and more impossible . In fact , the final nail in this proverbial coffin was Pan herself . InEnd of Z , Pan is defend in the World Martial Arts Tournament as a four - year - old , which think of – according to Goku – the last time he saw Vegeta was when Pan was endure . Well , inDragon Ball Super : Super Hero , Pan is three years former , and that movie showsGoku and Vegeta preparation on Beerus ’ world with Whis and Broly . This alone shew thatDragon Ball Supercan’t take position inDBZ ’s canyon , asSuper Herodirectly contradicts what Goku said to Vegeta about not having envision him in four age .
So , does this meanDragon Ball GTis more of an official sequel toDragon Ball ZthanSuper ? candidly , kind of . Dragon Ball GTtakes place five years afterEnd of Z , and opens with Goku preparation Uub just as he plump off to do in the terminal Sir Frederick Handley Page ofDBZ ’s epilog . Not only that , but power levels , transformation advance , and even original characters were all more uniform with the originalDBZinGTthan inSuper . Therefore , when the argument over ifDragon Ball Supercancels outDragon Ball GTfromDragon Ball Z ’s set up canon comes up again , it ’s significant to remember that it never had the capability to do so in the first place , asDBZitself already leaven thatDragon glob Superisn’t even canyon .
