Have any of your Dragon Ball fanfictions (or part thereof) became a reality?

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

I'll start.

When I was a kid I created a fanfiction and had a "Heroes Saga" where all the villains returned from Hell and we see all the good characters transformations and fusions. Now we have Super Dragon Ball Heroes where both happen plus new antagonists like Cumber, Fu and Oren.

I also created a "Yellow Dragon" that revived all the villains, much like Super Shenron, although it didn't come from Dragon Balls.

[Zephyr]

Unfortunately, no, I'm still waiting to see Super Saiyan Raditz show up and be a big enough threat that only Super Saiyan 4 Gogetto can defeat him.

[Skar]

Vegeta going to Yardrat and a good guy Broly (although that's a popular one). I know of a lot of other ideas that have become a reality but I guess the question is only what we've done before.

[JulieYBM]

Sadly, the Pan x Trunks fan fic I wrote when I was a nine (ten? Even?) year old girl has yet to come to fruition. dissapointed.jpg

Nor has the fan fic I wrote as a 30 year old woman where Gokuu beats up Superman as The Man of Steel faces a gender crisis.

For a series that keeps getting called 'fan fiction-y', none of my fanfic ideas have shown up in Dragon Ball Super.

[Hellspawn28]

In Middle School, I made a Baby Janemba on MS Paint. Over a decade later, it became a reality.

[Saiya6Cit]

Sadly, the Pan x Trunks fan fic I wrote when I was a nine (ten? Even?) year old girl has yet to come to fruition. dissapointed.jpg

Trunks and Pan will never be accepted in the fandom it seems so, the world is not prepared for it. The mayority of DB fans don't want more powerful warriors and instead would want to dilute their saiyan blood by mixing with humans. They say they are close to uncle and niece but Trunks was close to Goten not Pan or Gohan's family. Saiyans don't get old at the same speed of humans or hybrid saiyans so Pan would becone older whilst Trunks remains young for a longer time, so age difference is not that bad either, but to each their own.


About the original quesiton on this post: There are rumors that the SSJ Rose is based on a fanart from early 2000s, similar to the case of "El Gohan Blanco" (the white gohan in spanish) as someone had made fanarts of Gohan having a white hair mystic transformation. All of these, Deviantart chronicles.

[Hellspawn28]

I have seen GT Trunk x GT Pan shipping before and I'm never a fan of it. The age gap is way too big. With Future Mai, she is an adult with another adult.

[JulieYBM]

I have seen GT Trunk x GT Pan shipping before and I'm never a fan of it. The age gap is way too big. With Future Mai, she is an adult with another adult.

Yeah, I think nine year old me was under the weird impression that those two were both in high school for some reason. I don't remember the details of my life clearly, I just think it's funny to look back and laugh at something dumb I wrote as a nine year old girl in the early years of my fandom.

[Alruneia]

Should I resurrect my old General Fan Fiction Thread?
I used to have a list of sorts for things I put into Dragon Ball Ultimate that also popped up in Super later. It ranged from simple things like the time chamber getting fixed post-Buu to bigger things like an arc being based around a fighting tournament between all universes. I even had a white-haired transformation, Super Saiyan Crystal, that I came up with before either Ultra Instinct or Gohan Blanco were invented. I don't have that list anymore, though, so I don't remember all the fine details. I wish I still had it, but somewhere in between switching out computers several times over the years I lost it. Oh well.

[Ronin]

They actually have kinda sorta. I never completed a fanfic, but I started to write one where the new and young assistant of Dai Kaioshin (a character I made up) goes rogue and helps out with the first rise of Buu. He ends up getting killed by Buu and gets reincarnated as a half-Saiyan who helps to reverse what his past self did in a re-telling of the Buu arc with him and the main characters. He also meets the creator of the universe who is sometimes a threat, but not necessarily evil. I also planned on writing a sequel to it where they travel to another universe.

He also had a transformation that was similar to Super Saiyan, but was orange-amber colored and used god ki instead (something he learned after meeting the creator of the universe). But it didn't just make him stronger, he mostly used it with a bunch of special techniques that couldn't be done with normal ki and very little fighting was involved with it. He uses this form to bring back Dai Kaioshin.

[jjgp1112]

Silver haired super form for Goku but let's be honest: I'm part of a wide ass net for that shit lmao

[Kunzait_83]

For a series that keeps getting called 'fan fiction-y', none of my fanfic ideas have shown up in Dragon Ball Super.

To me, DB Super isn't the series that's particularly "fan fiction-y". That would instead be Dragon Ball Heroes.

Though even there, I don't think either of your fanfic ideas have seen fruition.

[LoganForkHands73]

Reading the Moro arc in the Dragon Ball Super manga was rather surreal since the entire first half is eerily similar to an old scrapbook fanfic I had which involved the gang travelling to New Namek, encountering a much stronger Piccolo Daimao (come on, Moro is an almost exact replica of the green old fossil), and Majin Buu being key to his defeat. The main difference is that my idea was much more focused on Piccolo Jr, naturally, though he does make a significant appearance later in the Moro arc. Chaozu of all people also had an unusually large role in my story, and surprisingly he also made a comeback in the Moro arc.

[JulieYBM]

For a series that keeps getting called 'fan fiction-y', none of my fanfic ideas have shown up in Dragon Ball Super.

To me, DB Super isn't the series that's particularly "fan fiction-y". That would instead be Dragon Ball Heroes.

Though even there, I don't think either of your fanfic ideas have seen fruition.

lulz I'm quite certainly that they haven't. Then again, I haven't kept up with Super Dragon Ball Heroes because it looks like shit and it's wasting my favorite anime writer, Tomioka Atsuhiro, with zero wiggle room to flesh out the story it's trying to tell. It's baaaaaad.


(In case nobody was able to tell, the emojis in my first post are jokes and not me taking myself seriously)

[Kunzait_83]

lulz I'm quite certainly that they haven't. Then again, I haven't kept up with Super Dragon Ball Heroes because it looks like shit and it's wasting my favorite anime writer, Tomioka Atsuhiro, with zero wiggle room to flesh out the story it's trying to tell. It's baaaaaad.

If we're discounting all dub-related nonsense and going purely by the Japanese material, I would say that DB Heroes is easily the single worst thing to have ever come out of the DB franchise. Head and shoulders. Only Minus rivals it.

Not joking, I'd honestly rather watch the old DB Traffic and Fire Safety specials on an infinite loop than sit through 5 minutes of DB Heroes. The GT Goku Jr. special (which once upon a time, used to be my single least favorite piece of Japanese DB anime/media: oh what a sweet, naïve, innocent summer child I used to be in those years) looks like Grave of the Fireflies next to DB Heroes.

DB Heroes is what happens when Toei gives rando Deviant Art fanfic writers and Power Scaling obsessives carte blanch to do whatever the fuck they want with the license. If anyone is going to answer in the affirmative to this thread's main question, you can bet your bottom dollar that Heroes is going to be responsible for an awful lot of "Yes actually" responses here.

[Skar]

About the original quesiton on this post: There are rumors that the SSJ Rose is based on a fanart from early 2000s, similar to the case of "El Gohan Blanco" (the white gohan in spanish) as someone had made fanarts of Gohan having a white hair mystic transformation. All of these, Deviantart chronicles.

It's definitely a shorter list to name the ideas used in DBS that haven't been seen in fanfiction before. I think the nature of revivals makes them similar to how fanfiction is written because they have fans who grew up with the original series working on them now like what happened with a few other franchises. Even if the staff never read any fanwork they're going to end up with similar ideas because that's probably what they came up as young fans like favorite characters they want to see return especially if they haven't been relevant in the story for a long time or a what if they thought was cool.

[Zephyr]

About the original quesiton on this post: There are rumors that the SSJ Rose is based on a fanart from early 2000s, similar to the case of "El Gohan Blanco" (the white gohan in spanish) as someone had made fanarts of Gohan having a white hair mystic transformation. All of these, Deviantart chronicles.

It's definitely a shorter list to name the ideas used in DBS that haven't been seen in fanfiction before. I think the nature of revivals makes them similar to how fanfiction is written because they have fans who grew up with the original series working on them now like what happened with a few other franchises. Even if the staff never read any fanwork they're going to end up with similar ideas because that's probably what they came up as young fans like favorite characters they want to see return especially if they haven't been relevant in the story for a long time or a what if they thought was cool.

I think that's a great point; there's a whole new generation of people working on DB now who grew up as fans.

There's also the fact of how much ground the original story already covered anyway, together with the fact of how much time there was between its conclusion and the beginning of the revival. As I've asked elsewhere before, what can the story do that's not going to in some way resemble something that either it, or fans of it, have cooked up over the last 40 years? We have threads talking about how the series is stuck in the past, and we have threads talking about how the series uses stuff from fanfiction.

At this point in time, if we got transformations that were a lot more elaborate with a bunch of small details added to them, and a super self-serious storyline, that would also feel like fanfiction. Nobody complaining that "these recolors feel like fanart/fanfiction" should be happy if new forms started sporting tattoos or spikes, either, because that's also fanart. So is simply having longer hair. So is simply "no more transformations". Because this stuff's been around long enough that there are few, if any, ideas left untouched.

[TheGreatness25]

Yes! Lol As a matter of fact, more than one thing!

The earliest I can trace this idea back to is 2000, while the "Android Saga" was airing on Toonami. That's the earliest that I know I actually put this idea down on paper (well, typed it). The idea for my "fan series" was that it took place after GT. At that time, all I knew was that Goku rode off woth Shenlong. So, the "first episode" of the "series" was Trunks convincing Vegeta to find the Dragon Balls to wish Goku back (yeah, I didn't know that they disappear).

So, in that story, Shenlong asked Goku to kill him in Other World so that the Earth wouldn't feel the aftershock, English is why he asked Goku to fly away with him. Goku destroyed Shenlong and then just kind of hung around to train with Kaiō. How did the Dragon Balls come backto Earth for Trunks to find them? Unclear. ANYWAY, here are some things from that "series" that ended up coming true:

"GOD MODE"
So... yeah. "God Mode." After Goku destroyed Shenlong, Shenlong's power went into Goku. And now, Goku could transform into a state that surpassed Super Saiyan 4. It was called "God Mode" because of the association with Shenlong. What did "God Mode" look like? Goku would look like he does in base form, but his hair would stand up just a little (not all the way like Super Saiyan), his eyes would lighten, and he would have an aura that was gold and silver with silver specks all around. But, as I kept building on the "series," I though that "God Mode" sounded super fan-ficy, so I changed the name to "Dragon Rage."

So, not only did it look and sound a lot like Super Saiyan God, but then the look is pretty much exactly like the first version of Ultra Instinct.

Cell #2
One of the "sagas" was centered around "Cell #2." And here's the story: the arc would start with a Tenka'ichi Budōkai that would be interrupted by a scientist asking for the Z Warriors' help. As it turned out, he was working on some of Dr. Gero's old work and stumbled upon the Cell project. But, this scientist didn't know that Cell was supposed to be evil. So, new Cell. Except this Cell didn't need the cyborgs, he had updated cells from the characters through the story until that point, and the best thing about him, was that he was able to learn the characters' fighting styles basically as soon as he started fighting with them.

So for his "redesign," I took away the spots and the headpiece and he looked like a greener Hit. And his fight learning ability made fighting him kind of like fighting Hit (being unpredictable, etc). And, of course, they did the scientist resurrecting Cell story in Super Hero.

Wish to Stay Young
Maybe stretching it, but I did think about the fact that the core Z Warriors were pretty old. In an effort to have Kuririn, Yamucha, and Tenshinhan stay relevant, I decided to just deage everyone. After the first villain, they learn that another is on his way in a few years (pulled straight from the Saiyan arc), so in preparation, they all plan to wish to be deaged to their prime so they could train harder. But, Bulma and Chi-Chi refused to not be part of this wish, so Shenlong granted the wish for the entire group. In some comedic writing (I will admit that I give very young me props for a few legitimately funny "scenes"), I excluded Roshi from the wish.

Side note: I wrote some funny Roshi moments. The first was when Goku comes back and visits Kame House, where Kuririn and 18 live. Goku asks about Roshi and wonders why Kuririn and 18 are living under. Kuririn begins to answer with, "Well..." and Goku assumes that Roshi passed away. Goku mourns a bit, saying that it's can a long time (this was 10 years after GT) and it makes sense that Roshi passed on. Goku starts reminiscing about the training and learning the Kamehame-Ha. But then, 18 says that they're not so lucky and that the old man is just inside taking a nap. And they're living there because Roshi claimed that Kuririn owed him to stay around and take care of him, but she suspects is really because of her.

So, here's more about it just in case anything else gets added in lol

Spoiler:

I will admit that the "series" did start with Trunks and Pan as an item and had a son together (originally "Oliver" because I read it in another fanfic). But, a little while later, I changed it up. Now "Oliver" was a focal point in this--kind of like the role young Gohan played in Z, where he had enormous power and he unleashed it, blah blah blah. "Oliver's" name was changed to "Collard" (felt more Dragon Bally). And instead of him being Trunks's son, he was Trunks's and Pan's grandson. But, Trunks and Pan were not together--they both married humans that aren't related to the Z Warriors. They both had kids, who were around the same age. Those kids became Earth's protectors. The kids eventually got married and they were Collard's parents. So, Collard had Goku's and Vegeta's bloodline in him. I stretched time to try to make it fl the end goal, which was that he was Goku Jr.'s father.

Anyway, arc 1 is a rip-off of the Saiyan arc with Broli movie, where a Saiyan came to Earth. The Saiyan was Vegeta's caretaker when he was young when King Vegeta didn't have time for Vegeta. King Vegeta tried taking Vegeta back with protest from this Saiyan, so King Vegeta assigned him to a war. During that, the other Saiyans betrayed him and destroyed the planet with him on it. But, the blast mutated his power, making him inconceivably strong. When he returned to planet Vegeta, he saw that it was being destroyed by Freeza. But, he sensed that Vegeta was safe, so he ended up conquering planet after planet. Eventually, he came upon Earth, where the old Z Warriors confront him. Vegeta had an emotional connection to him. Collard ends up defeating the Saiyan, who warned them of his friend coming in a few years (stretching time here).

Real talk: the concept of this Saiyan came from the Sobic games. At least, that's where the idea of him conquering planets came from.

The next guy is the Saiyan's friend, Razor. Razor was a half-breed from planet Vegeta, who was away at the time Freeza destroyed it. Razor was royal-blooded, but would never be king because of hos half-breed nature. He and the Saiyan reunited at some point and... here he was. The Z Warriors trained for years, big fight, the Saiyan returns as a good guy (for inexplicable reasons) and Razor also becomes a good guy. Yay.

Cell #2 happens next. I already discussed it.

Next up, Galax. The look I had for him was pretty awesome, actually. He was another galaxy conquerer, who was now conquering the planets that the Saiyan previously conquered. Never had a huge story idea for this arc--it kinda fell apart here creatively. But, what did come from this "arc" was Super Saiyan 5 (gold version of Super Saiyan 4). Collard met a girl here (Goku Jr.'s future mom). Bra's daughter was now with Razor (age difference, yah). And there was a crazy time jump... like a 50-year time jump. During the fight between Collard and Galax, their energy was disastrous for Earth, so it somehow started aging the planet into this dark abyss type of place. And this was reversed, but they were now 50 years in the future from when the fight started. So, the Z Warriors knew that they kind of skipped time, but ordinary people didn't. And it's a strange concept and makes no sense, but I wanted to tie into the end of Z.

And then, the grand finale was the return of Raditz. After Raditz's encounter with Enma Daiō, Raditz's spirit returned to Earth, where he was plotting a way to return to life. At some point in time (during one of the "arcs" in this "series"), he found someone weak-minded that he could possess. He had that person gather the Dragon Balls and return him to life (plot hole, I know). With the second wish, Raditz wished to be immortal. And he just kind of... hung out. Training. Getting stronger. Raditz could turn Super Saiyan. Raditz showed up and defeated the Z Warriors, starting to legitimately take over the world (Piccolo Daimao style). Goku had a massive showdown with Raditz, but Raditz killed Goku. This put Vegeta into a crazy fit of rage, but he was also killed. Collard fought Raditz, but was defeated (not killed though). As Raditz is immortal, the only idea Collard had was to fight him in the Room of Spirit and time, offering to destroy the door to it. But before Collard goes off, he finds out he's going to have a kid. Collard lures Raditz in, destroying the door. Raditz reveals that he is so powerful, he can escape like Boo, so Collard has to find a way to kill him. The two fight with Goku and Vegeta looking on from Other World. Baba also transmits the fight to all of Earth, so they know who the heroes are. Collard puts all of his ki into an attack that destroyed Raditz's body, which also killed Collard. So, Raditz is "alive" as a pile of useless body parts, trapped in the Room of Spirit and Time forever.

Goku is gone, Vegeta is gone, Collard is gone, and now the Z Warriors decide that the current crop no longer needs the likes of Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Yamucha, etc. They all agree to make things right and reverse the rush to keep them in their prime. Time skip to a recreation of the Goku Jr. vs. Vegeta Jr. (Bra's daughter's and Razor's son). Pan sees Goku in the crowd and follows him until he disappears. It cuts to Goku returning to Other World where they are having their own Tenka'ichi Budōkai. The Z Warriors are in the crowd, including Collard. Next match set to begin... Goku and Vegeta fly at each other and the end.

A lot of it is dumb and unoriginal, but I'll be honest: that ending was freaking sweet. What else from that could possibly end up in the official work? Honestly, probably nothing else. I think that the series won't get far enough to do Trunks's kid.

[Skar]

At this point in time, if we got transformations that were a lot more elaborate with a bunch of small details added to them, and a super self-serious storyline, that would also feel like fanfiction. Nobody complaining that "these recolors feel like fanart/fanfiction" should be happy if new forms started sporting tattoos or spikes, either, because that's also fanart. So is simply having longer hair. So is simply "no more transformations". Because this stuff's been around long enough that there are few, if any, ideas left untouched.

I don't think it was a problem to have so many ideas that have been used in fanfiction before. It died down now but it was a little frustrating the reaction you get when you happen not to like one of those ideas. That was usually the only difference. There's countless fanfics out there so it was okay to like some and not like others. For most of these ideas that ended up appearing in DBS, now was the first time someone called them "brilliant", "subversive", or feels the need to trash something in the original manga.

I think it made easier when we find out a certain idea was by Toei or Toyotaro. When it was from Toei then you can have the same opinion if it had originated in GT or DBZ filler. When it's from Toyotaro then it's okay to have the same opinion if it was by a different fanfic writer. Now we found out a lot of the more fan service ideas were suggested by the head of the Dragon Room and Toriyama just agreed to use them which I think would make it more acceptable to criticize them.

[Zephyr]

I don't think it was a problem to have so many ideas that have been used in fanfiction before. It died down now but it was a little frustrating the reaction you get when you happen not to like one of those ideas. That was usually the only difference. There's countless fanfics out there so it was okay to like some and not like others. For most of these ideas that ended up appearing in DBS, now was the first time someone called them "brilliant", "subversive", or feels the need to trash something in the original manga.

Definitely. Just because practically everything under the sun has been done by fanart/fanfiction doesn't mean that it's automatically good when done officially. My issue is whenever "this is like fanart/fanfiction" is used as a reason itself for some new official design or plot being "bad". Given the sheer breadth of what fanart/fanfiction has done, "this is like fanart/fanfiction" is rendered a practically meaningless observation. That is different, of course, from observing that some particular design or plot point being like some specific piece of fanart/fanfiction (such as the many examples given in this thread).

In my aforementioned "Gogetto vs. Super Saiyan Raditz" scenario that lived in my head and through drawings, I came up with a new series of Super Saiyan forms above Super Saiyan 4: "Omega Super Saiyan" which had orange hair drawn with very thick and angular lines, "Shining Super Saiyan" which had blue hair sticking straight up, and "Neon Super Saiyan" which was basically just a green Super Saiyan 4. I also used to do random DB doodles at school, and I have many doodles on binders of Vegeta with normal length Super Saiyan hair but without eyebrows (which I only did because I was bad at normal eyebrows). So to my credit I made "Super Saiyan Blue" and "Ultra Ego".