Knowing that Dragon Ball Super exists, how would you rewrite Dragon Ball GT?

[Geraldo]

How would you write Dragon Ball GT from scratch if you were hired?

[TheGreatness25]

Would you expand on what you mean? Do you mean how we'd execute the ideas, characters, and story presented in GT? Do you just mean how we'd write a sequel to Z ignoring Super? Do you mean how we'd write a sequel to Super? Do you mean how we'd execute the ideas and characters presented in GT to fit in Super?

Because if it's just a matter of outlining a sequel, it doesn't need to be "GT," so I guess that's where my disconnect is. How much of GT do we need to keep?

[Geraldo]

I meant: How would you write it from scratch.

[GokuHater]

At first I wanted to say nothing would really have to change that much but after keeping thinking about it, I started seeing otherwise.

First of all Saiyan powers. We cannot have a SSJ3 as the strongest form from the beginning for obvious reasons. The strongest form/technique at that point would probably be UI.
Now there are couple of ways to write around this.
Eg. let's say the wish turing Goku into a kid somehow locked his god ki and the most usefull form had become SSJ3 again. In order to make a difference another form must be achieved - one that stands in a contrast to god powers.

Another idea I have is to retcon Golden Oozaru as a form which only can be unlocked after the user tasted god ki - maybe make the Oozaru white, tho that would look bad
SSJ4 would then be a mix of god forms and Saiyan power from within or something like that. Maybe Goku's own way to use UI as to stay true to things established in the Granolah arc?

Another idea is to have a SSJ4 as an alternate line of forms - one with SSJG, SSJB, UI representing gods and angels and SSJ4 representing Saiyan raw power. We could have Broly pioneering it this time as it already goes a little this way in the Broly movie.

Next... Beerus and Whis. Truthfully I cannot think of a single one usage of them throughout the GT plot, so I am gonna cheat and use a very simple explanation that before the stroy he had an epic showdown with Goku and Vegeta and after that he went... To sleep.
It has been established Beerus sleeps for decades while Whis watches over him so I don't see why he shouldn't do so after the universe seem in eqalibrum after EoZ.

Black star DB arc

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This one is a bit of a tough cookie due to the fact that Super stupidly established there are no real strong life forms in our universe now and instead presented a crowd of other universes, from which nothing that interesting came up.
At least in GT we felt kind of an enormous scale and I like Toyo going back on that and establishing our univverse's lore some more in Moro and Granolah (really, Toei, Toryiama, do you have any idea how large a universe is ).
I have no idea how to introduce black star DB or why they even would be there. Maybe use the Super Dragon Balls instead?
It would be hillarious if Pilaf and the gang somehow used Bulma's ship to gather them and unintentionally turned Goku into a kid - mirroring a bit what Zamasu did but in a comic relief manner.

If we want to ditch Pilaf entirely, let's make it so some mysterious force having not been seen by Beerus (as it was established he is sleeping) wants Goku out of the picture and he intentionally turns him into a kid as this is known to block his god ki - I know there are a lot of holes in this idea but with a bit of good storytelling, that may work.

The hunt itself would be then not to stop an arbitrary doomsday but to turn Goku back again and discover who the hell even did that.
We would dispose of Trunks - even tho I enjoy his character in GT - as he literally has no intentions of being there.
Pan can stay as her character is being esablished through Super and Super Hero and her story should be a lot more coming of age plot.
As for the rest, Vegeta should go with them - he is the second most important character in Super and having him suddenly out of the picture, would be unnatural for the story.
If Vegeta is not coming for some reason, we should have Uub. Uub is foreshadowed during Super as the most powerfull fighter in existence and at EoZ is the reason Goku ditches his family so he just MUST play a role.

The whole journey should be less of gags and hijinx, more of a detective type story.
I mean sure, we could have some cute comic relief here and there and have callbacks to OG Pilaf Arc but we should also be presented with some type of a dark mystery. Something is not right in the Universe and our characters can feel it. Eqalibrum is destroyed, someone played with Super Dragon Balls and targeted Goku, all of the god training throughout the years is gone for him now. The atmosphere is tense and uncomfortable.
With Pan, as I said, this should be more of a coming of age and a trial for her. In the beginning she would be type of damsel in distress - just like in the show - steadily growing stronger and more self - reliant.
Goku would struggle with trying to find a way to push forward without his god ki.

All of these would culminate with finding Baby. As much as the excecution is flawed I loved the premise of the original show building up layers upon layers on the villains at least discovering Dr. Myu. If done right, this would make the reveal more schocking, more satisfying and fit in the "detective" theme I talked about.

Baby arc

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Upon finding Baby and learning about the Tsuffle plan, everything could go the way it went in the show. Taking over the earth and the fighters is a nice theme in the original and fits the dark premise built in the above version.
If Vegeta was joining the hunt, we would make Baby take him without knowing about it, just like Trunks in the original.
Then when Baby would reveal himself in Vegeta - the plot twist would be that much more schocking - and due to the fact Vegie was travelling with Goku and Pan, discovering space - he would be of use to Baby.
In the original Baby took Vegeta more for us fans to feel nostalgic, the prince of all Sayians being a Tsuffle, Goku and Vegeta fight etc. but by GT's own established plot to that point, there was no narrative reason to make him a main host. Here would be different.

The final clash should not be only Goku vs Baby - I would make that more of a Saiyan side PoV, consiting of Goku, Pan, Broly, possibly Uub vs Tsuffle side PoV (Baby Vegeta and the other corrupted Z warriors).
The fight would also involve some moral and philosophical dillemas from various angles as to make the narrative of the fights somethjing deeper than "guy punches another guy and wins". Possibly have Baby compared to Zamasu and Granolah?

At the end of the day I feel Baby still would have to be destroyed as his corruption would turn him into a beast simillarly to Zamasu and the original Baby.
Vegeta and fighters would have been saved but I see no way to use the dragon balls to make Goku normal again or unlock his ki - after all their hunt was broken by discovering Myu and everything just went downhill from there. They discovered and rid the universe of a new threat from the past but ultimately failed in gathering the Super DBs.
Which could establish the next arc for us.

Android 17 arc

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I don't know about this one. It really doesn't make a lot of sense in context what came before. Android 17 would not be a likely candidate for a villain even if he was a strong fighter in ToP and if anything, Gero would rather make a stronger Cell - which was used just moments before with Cell Max.
If we really do want to keep this arc and not just drop it entirely, the best way to go, would be to turn it into a movie and maybe use a newly established cannon version of an old movie villain? With Broly it worked all right.
I guess.

Shadow Dragon arc

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Not much changed here. For many people the premise of dragon balls firing back is a nice touch and I agree, especially after the shit Bulma does to them in Super.

The only thing changing would be the dragons themselves. Make them more akin to the wishes they where are meant to represent. That could go a long way to make the whole journey and arc deeper and be a nice touch for fans being with the series from the beggining.
There are plenty ways to do that eg. model the dragons after the villains in the subsequent arcs or give them some traits mirroring the said whish - this could even be some silly stuff like one dragon having panties, the other one based on an indian kind of guy etc

Various fighers would have been involved here as well, with every pair or a hero taking care of one dragon.
Examples:
Gohan and Piccolo
Trunks and Goten
Uub
Pan - in her more mature post Baby arc character which would be satysfying to watch (maybe GASP give her SSJ???)
Yamcha, Tien, Krilin - just like in good ol' times

And here's an idea - let the women do something for once! How would you feel if Bulma, Chi Chi and Videl were a group? Wow, this one could make Videl interesting again.

Goku and Vegeta off course would go for the final boss, which still could be Omega Shenron, representing all the hardships and trails they went through life.
Maybe Broly could join?

At the end of the arc - if Goku still didn't get back his adult form or god ki prior - let's make Shenron not snatch him to a dragon realm but unlock it as a gratitude. Goku could stay on earth but become a master like figure, a mentor, or a guardian of new generation.

And that's that
Took a bit more time than I thought, I know the ideas for it are not fully fleshed out and not all are ideal but I at least had fun.

[TheGreatness25]

I meant: How would you write it from scratch.

Oh, so just a sequel to Super.

Honestly, this could literally be anything. Doesn't have to have anything to do with GT. In that case, why have anything to do with GT? Scrap everything--including the title--and start from scratch.

[JulieYBM]

Pan is the central figure of Dragon Ball GT and in a lot of ways she 'challenged' the established characters of Dragon Ball, like Gokuu and Trunks. When you're introducing a new POV character like Pan it is important to have her challenge established elements of the franchise like that, so I would actually like to continue that in a remake of Dragon Ball GT that is built off of Dragon Ball Super. Pan should be the focal character and we should see her grow and advance in a way that lets her challenge the established notions of the franchise up to that point and surpass them. Not only does that create a sense of conflict but it helps create a sense of something new occuring. In everyway one can imagine, Pan needs to challenge the notions of Dragon Ball as a series, its established characters and ideas.

This can still be accomplished while following a general outline of the series, although hopefully done in a much shorter length. The series would fit far better as a 39 episode series instead of 64 episodes.

[Koitsukai]

Beerus is defeated by Goku(or not), and steps down from office, goes to U6 to retire and drive Champa crazy, Vegeta gets hired as U7 Hakaishin.

Non-Pilaf gang shrinks Goku but with a cerelian-like set of the Super DBs. Smaller but deadlier, so they have to gather them before one year passes or the Earth disappears.
Baby turns out to be likeable, and just wants justice, only wants to exterminate the saiyans, 0 desires of slaving human kind. If UI will end up being usable in every form, then Goku can use Broly's unique power up and mix it up with SS and unlock SS4. Baby could hijack Hakaishin Vegeta's body and trash Gohan, Piccolo, Gotenks, etc.

S-17 arc, please let's just forget all about this one. It's the Armin Tanzarian of DB. Some adventure in another universe, Goku, Pan, Uub, Gotenks saving U11 or something like that, fighting with Toppo, Jiren and some new recruits. I dunno, something to leave Earth breath a little.

Shadow Dragons of the SDB. Gather SS4 Goku, Hakaishin Vegeta, LSS Broly, Beast Gohan, Orange Piccolo, Beast Pan, Majuub, Gotenks. More like Digimon's Dark Masters instead of the baddie of the week GT ended up having.

[theherodjl]

It would kinda be pointless for SSJ4 to exist as a mere power up from SSJ3 when there is already a multitude of forms significantly higher than SSJ3 and so, being an improvement over an archaic SSJ level doesn't have much meaning in the context of a DBS GT-sequel. I would rather it be an ancestral state of the Saiyans that gradually broke off many thousands of years even before Yamoshi's time and possibly have been what Saiyans originally were; a race of feral yet very powerful monkey men. It could be explained that the proto-Saiyans eventually faced increasingly arduous conditions to their survival and had to evolve into more intelligent, less powerful beings in order to ensure their race's lineage. Whenever a Saiyan turns into an Oozaru or a SSJ, they are connecting to a piece of a forgotten heritage but in order to fully unlock it, they must be exposed to what they originally were. I wouldn't mind if that was a reason to use time travel again or maybe visit a universe in which the proto-Saiyans still lived.

[Zephyr]

I'm sure I have other ideas, but most importantly I would keep Vegeta's mustache and cropped hair intact.

[MasenkoHA]

I'd at least properly nerf Goku as a child. It's weird to me that that was the reason given for turning him into a kid again and he was no less powerful than he was by the end of Z.

[Cursed Lemon]

What I want to do is delete GT entirely (and also the first two DBS movies) and incorporate the Dragon-Ball-overuse concept by turning Earth's Dragon Balls into "time bombs" that will wipe the entire galaxy or even the entire universe within x-amount of time if they are not addressed. This necessitates the use of the Super Dragon Balls, but these Dragon Balls are actually spread out across other universes and thus have never been used before. This gives us a chance for the heroes to actually explore the other universes, get to know new casts of characters, and have interesting adventures - for example, one of the universes can have them encounter Baby. Then, when the Tournament of Power arc comes along, we will have a legitimate investment into what happens over the course of the tournament.

Have Supreme Kai clue the heroes into the existence of Beerus and the gods. Beerus and Whis can tell Goku that they'll allow passage across universes if Goku can entertain Beerus with a good fight, this will cover our "Battle of the Gods" arc. Meanwhile, have Freeza follow the same path of training and becoming Golden Freeza, presenting an antagonistic force that is looking to gather the Super Dragon Balls before the heroes. This will also give us a chance to properly develop an arc for Zamasu over the course of these adventures, observing Freeza's acts of destruction and cruelty throughout multiple universes (including, perhaps, reckless acts committed by our hero team) instead of just "herp derp saw a non-sapient race having an argument, time to wipe out all life in the multiverse". All of this will allow us to have one coherent arc across the entire DBS series which will be capped off by the Tournament of Power serving as the ultimate series battle royale.

Let Goku continue down the path of the Super Saiyan God. Find some plot device to restore Vegeta's tail and let him claim ownership over Super Saiyan 4 and whatever advanced forms we feel like tacking onto it. Have Goten and Trunks actually train (and, you know, maybe age) and give their fusion something to do. Have Gohan and Piccolo explore one of the universes together, do some character introspection between them, and let this serve as Gohan's wakeup call that he needs to get his act together. Let 18 be the one to convince 17 to join the cause. We can get a cool brother-sister battle, we can also have some banter between 17 and Krillin.

So many things could be done here.