Timelines as of Super?

[Ss5Troten]

I understand your reasoning now. I suppose I may just have to let go of the idea for now, I'll organize it all out over the next week and come back to it. Thank you for your input!

[Luke Groundwalker]

Awesome! I definitely see a lot of organzation here, I'm having to read over it for better clarity though.
I can't really tell how many timelines you've recognized in this outline.

Forgive me for that though, I'm just tired. Is there any way to separate this by timeline or is it already and I'm just missing it? (I see you use the word, just not for organizing)

I don't think there's really a need to separate this into many different timelines. There's potentially near 100+ of them in Dragonball with the way the franchise functions with the amount of contradictory elemetns and things that don't fit together. In short, it's rather pointless to count EVERY possible timeline in the series...

While I agree with you to an extent, it seems like we can coherently use 4, I don't intend to expand more than that. I'd say if it can't fit in to those 4 by any means whatsoever, it's just 100% non-explainable. I'm not trying to canonize it, just organize it, you know?

Again not really considering each alternate continuity features a Trunks and Cell timeline of some capacity. You can't just align everything to those four timelines from the Android arc. In fact, if I were to break down each "continuity" it'd probably look like this...

Manga Continuity: Dr. Slump (series), Jaco the Galactic Patrolman (manga), Dragonball Minus (manga), Dragonball (manga), Yo! Son Goku and Friends, Battle of Gods (movie), Resurrection F (movie), and MAYBE Dragonball Online.
Anime Continuity: Dr. Slump (series), Bardock: Father of Goku, Dragonball (anime), Dead Zone, Dragonball Z (anime), Cooler's Revenge, Bojack Unbound, Wrath of the Dragon, Dragonball GT, A Hero's Legacy.
New Anime Continuity: Dr. Slump (series), Jaco the Galactic Patrolman (manga), Dragonball (anime), Dragonball Kai (anime), Dragonball Super (anime)
Toyotaro Continuity: Dragonball Super (manga) + the basics.
Movie Continuity: Dragonball (anime), Dragonball Z (anime), Movies 1-12, Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
Heroes Continuity 1-???: Dragonball Heroes. Basically think of this as multiple parallel timelines and other crazy shit. Partially takes place in the real world.
Xenoverse Continuity 1-???: Dragonball Xenoverse. Based on Dragonball Online with some major differences and inclusions. Like the above, also involves multiple timelines and realities.

Those are just the MAIN ones mind you

[Kuririn Fan]

Dr Slump can't coexist with Dragon Ball. They are 2 different series, with 2 different worlds.
Also, its silly to include games and promo manga.

[Ss5Troten]

I'd really like to point out that I'm only using official titles here, as in the Manga, the animated movies and the Animes. The only non-canon I wish to include is movies/specials etc and GT. Everything else doesn't have any real relation to Toriyama and camp. Also, outside of a cameo, Slump shouldn't be included here and neither should SD or Neko. Those are silly or entirely separate.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

You're assuming that the Cooler cameo in GT is the same Cooler that was in M5.

He is unless you can prove otherwise.

In all honesty the same argument can be turned back on you, how can you prove that it's the M5 Cooler? Specially since after M5 he became Metal Cooler. Yet he shows up in his final form rather then as Metal Cooler or the giant Cyber Cooler. So actually I would say that prove that's not M5 Cooler.

Or!

We can just all agree that Cooler was there to be a neat easter egg for those paying attention, cause I actually believe he was the only movie villain in the super 17 hell breakout scene.

The Daizenshuu & Chozenshuu timelines include Movie 5 (the only other of the original 13 movies in the timelines is Movie 1, because of the Garlic Jr. Arc), so this is the same Coola from Movie 5. Movie 6 isn't mentioned in these timelines, so apparently Coola just dies during Movie 5 in this continuity.

But even if Movie 6 did happen, Coola in GT isn't Metal Coola for the same reason Freeza isn't Mecha Freeza in filler/M12/GT.

[Desassina]

Dragon Ball -> Dragon Ball Z -> Dragon Ball GT - the original franchise run adapted from the manga, with the added anime. It considers the first Garlic Jr movie as in-universe, as well as the other character cameos. I refer to this as the 90s Dragon Ball.

Dragon Ball Kai -> Dragon Ball Super - a revision of the Dragon Ball Z anime, including the BoG and RoF movies with all new content. Most changes are kept in line with each other, but the story hasn't been finished yet. I consider it Dragon Ball Revisited.

[SilverPlaqueVII]

Dragon Ball -> Dragon Ball Z -> Dragon Ball GT - the original franchise run adapted from the manga, with the added anime. It considers the first Garlic Jr movie as in-universe, as well as the other character cameos. I refer to this as the 90s Dragon Ball.

Dragon Ball Kai -> Dragon Ball Super - a revision of the Dragon Ball Z anime, including the BoG and RoF movies with all new content. Most changes are kept in line with each other, but the story hasn't been finished yet. I consider it Dragon Ball Revisited.

Add Jaco the Galactic Patrolman/Dragon Ball Minus while you are at it.

Spoiler:

Here's how I think it fits all together.

Dawn of Time era:
- Creation of Universe 7.
- Majin Boo was born.
- Creation of the Super Dragonballs patented by the dragon god Zarama.
- Bibidi takes control of Majin Boo.
...
- Nameks create their own Dragonballs based on the Super Dragonballs.
...
- A nameless Namek travels to Earth, eventually becoming it's guardian and creating the Dragonballs for Earth.

Saiyan History era:
- Internal discord causes the destruction of Planet Salad.
Anime Only: Episode of Bardock possibly occurs here.
- Planet Plant is found by the Saiyans.
(Legends of the Super Saiyan and the Super Saiyan God are possibly born in the above two eras.)
Anime Only: Backstory of Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans occurs here, the Tuffle and Saiyan war.
- Planet Plant is conquered and renamed to Planet Vegeta.
Anime Only: Saiyans cut a deal with the Arcosians(?) to conquer planets for them in exchange for technology.
("Arcosians" are a dub only name, and they are possibly Freeza's race.)
- Freeza enslaves the Saiyan race to do his bidding.
- Jaco: The Galactic Patrolman occurs here
- Dragonball Minus occurs here
Anime Only/Alternate Timeline: Bardock: Father of Goku occurs here.

Child Goku era:
- Dr. Slump series occurs here.
- Search for the Dragonballs arc occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Path to Power occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Curse of the Blood Rubies occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle occurs here.
- Red Ribbon Army arc occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Mystical Adventure occurs here.
- Piccolo arc occurs here.

Adult Goku era:
Anime Only: Dead Zone occurs here.
- Saiyan arc begins here.
Alternate Timeline: The World's Strongest occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Tree of Might occurs here.
- Saiyan arc ends here.
Alternate Timeline: Lord Slug occurs here.
- Freeza arc occurs here.
Anime Only: Garlic Jr.arc occurs here.
(Timeline splits off into New Timeline era here...)
Anime Only: Cooler's Revenge possibly occurs here.
- Goku dies of a heart disease, and Androids 17 and 18 ravage the Earth.
- History of Trunks occurs here.

New Timeline era:
- Android arc begins here.
Anime Only: Cooler's Revenge occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Return of Cooler occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Super Android 13! occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan occurs here.
- Android arc ends here.
Anime Only: Otherworld Tournament arc occurs here.
Anime Only: Bojack Unbound occurs here.
- Boo arc begins here,
Alternate Timeline: Broly - Second Coming and Bio-Broly occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Fusion Reborn occurs here.
- Boo arc ends here.
Anime Only: Wrath of the Dragon occurs here.
- Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! occurs here.
- Battle of Gods and Resurrection F movies occurs here.
Anime Only/Alternate Timeline: Battle of Gods and Resurrection F arcs occurs here.
- Universe 6 arc occurs here.
...
- End of Z occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Neko Majin series occurs here.

Grand Tour era (Anime Only):
- Baby arc occurs here.
- Super 17 arc occurs here
- Shadow Dragon arc occurs here.
- A Hero's Legacy occurs here.
- End of GT occurs here.

Future era (Video Game Only):
(The above takes place parallel or alongside the Grand Tour era. Nothing is clarified here.)
- Dragonball Online occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Xenoverse occurs here.
Alternate Timeline: Heroes occurs here.

Awesome! I definitely see a lot of organzation here, I'm having to read over it for better clarity though.
I can't really tell how many timelines you've recognized in this outline.

Forgive me for that though, I'm just tired. Is there any way to separate this by timeline or is it already and I'm just missing it? (I see you use the word, just not for organizing)

Could that be altered when Super reaches Age 789 and 790?

[Cetra]

I am waiting for the moment Super ends with a connection to GT and people start ranting because they still cannot accept Dragon Ball does not care about consistency as much as they think.

But it will probably not happen.

[Desassina]

Dragon Ball is already inconsistent without fans admitting to it. The best way to frame things is by release order and production sequence, so that we know why certain things were made available to us like that. With that being said, I still haven't read Minus or Jaco, but I guess they could be lumped together with the manga, because of their medium. They're singular works that fit the universe made whole across the media.

[Desassina]

While this is not a timeline, it's pretty much how I see the products preceding each other. We can argue about continuities, but some of them wouldn't exist without the studio stepping in, not to mention Akira Toriyama starting it all.

[Ss5Troten]

Could that be altered when Super reaches Age 789 and 790?

That will likely be the next logical step. Though, like stated above, it's true there are inconsistencies. Though I don't believe I should give up when faced with them.