SPARKING! ZERO - Visual Costumes Checker

[Cold Skin]

Similar to the Visual Roster Checker, but for the costumes available.
Feel free to correct me on any info that would be mistaken or missing.

Comments about costumes indicate further details, particularities and oddities in the develeopers' choices.
Available accessories are indicated too (oddly enough, there are two icons for the scouter that seem to be randomly applied by the devs: they are neither related to the color nor related to the scouter model).

Colors indicate the current state of customization available for each character:
Green: the character has several appearances available.
Orange: the character doesn't have costumes, but minor customization through an optional accessory.
Red: the character has one single appearance thar can't be customized at all.

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APPARENT DEVELOPERS' PROCESS (with a few mysterious exceptions)

From what we can see so far, those factors seem to determine what costumes can possibly be given to a character's version. Those apparent rules, which are just hypothetical and based on observations so far, might evolve over time if updates prove that some limitations are not actually true in the end. But from what we can see so far, it seems that generally speaking:

⯁ Character versions are limited to costumes from the time frame implied by their individual gameplay version.
This means that regardless of the fact that they basically use a same core 3D model, "Z-Early Goku" won't get to wear the Yardrat costume or the battle armor since it's his later self that wears those, just like "Z-End Goku" can't access the orange Kame Sen gi without the blue parts that "Z-Early Goku" used against Raditz for example. Android 17 from Z won't get to wear the ranger costume he has in Super and vice-versa either, as another example. But on the contrary, a character like Android 18 - who encompasses all of her Z and Super personas into one single character version - can access clothes from all time frames.

⯁ No free fantasies for things that never appeared in the original anime for an individual version.
You don't get to put Pan in a costume mimicking her mother or a grand-father just because "it would be a fun concept showing her legacy" for example, since she was never seen wearing those in the original material. Ultimate Gohan doesn't get a costume in which he was never seen going Ultimate. You don't get to add or remove a "M" sign on a character's forehead or a halo for a character who was not seen with it at some point. There's no putting Z Broly's costume on Super Broly or vice versa just because "they're two different versions of a same characters".
Anyway, you get the gist: if you never saw the design actually appearing in an official capacity in the core anime series, it won't be available for you to create. You'll just have access to pre-existing appearances (again, with a few mysterious exceptions...).

⯁ Transformations can bypass the "faithful to the original material" limitations.
Only the base character version matters to allow or forbid a costume based on the original material, so you get to see Goku as a Super Saiyan 3 with his battle armor or Vegeta going Super Saiyan God with his grey battle suit for example.

⯁ Only costumes used in battles are included in the base game.
Probably because of time constraints, priority was apparently given to what could be used during battles, and especially the story mode. Any costume that was used in relaxed moments seems to be ditched: no high school Gohan, no costume from the break before the Cell Game for Gohan and Goku, no Vegeta wearing shirts (Badman pink shirt or Super blue shirt), no Krilin being a policeman, no Trunks and Goten wearing their relaxed costumes from Super, etc... This could change with DLC since Piccolo being disguised in Super Hero isn't a battle costume, so...

⯁ Alternate costumes only include episodes from core series DB, DBZ and DBS (including movie continuations of DBS). Pre-DBS movies exclusive costumes are out, and so is the Z epilogue which is ignored in the game's events.
All movies seemed out until DLC pack 1, which introduced the first costume from a movie, but it is a movie that continues the main story, so we still have to wait for a proof that a costume from alternate continuities can be selected by the devs.
But until then, no Teen Gohan wearing the Kame Sen dogi from his father, no Trunks from the Bojack movie either, no Goku wearing a presentable costume to integrate Gohan to a school in the Z Broly movie, etc.

GOKU

Z - Early

Spoiler:

This version of the character covers Goku from the earliest Z episode to the end of his training on the ship going to Namek (from which point he becomes the "Mid" version).

1. Kame Sen duality: sports the "Kame" (turtle) logo on the front and the "Kaio" logo on the back. Offers a certain resistance, but are not heavy anymore.
2. Kame Sen legacy (light): taking out all the heavy blue parts (T-shirt, wristbands and boots) to increase efficiency against Raditz.
3. Kame Sen legacy: sports the "Kame" (turtle) logo both on the front and on the back. The blue parts are still heavy for training at this point.
4. Kame Sen legacy (damaged): a damaged version of both full "Kame Sen" costumes (n°1 and n°3), bare-chested but still wearing boots and writsbands.
5. Light Kame Sen legacy (damaged): a damaged version of the light Kame Sen legacy costume (n°2).

Z - Mid

Spoiler:

This version of the character covers what Goku becomes at the end of his training while going to Namek, up to the beginning of his training in the Room of Spirit and Time based on his battle armor appearance, which is a bit surprising since his Kame Sen costume had already changed to his "Z - End" appearance by the time the androids showed up (without any logo left and with the thick belt).

1. Kame Sen ego: sports Goku's own name as logos. Dozens of them were given by Kaio from a distance while Goku was traveling through space.
2. Kame Sen ego (midly damaged): damaged version with the upper orange part being completely gone. Because the logos are gone, it can also pass for "Z - Early" Goku costumes.
3. Kame Sen ego (heavily damaged): further damaged version with the blue T-shirt being half-torned. Because the logos are gone, it can also pass for "Z - Early" Goku costumes.
4. Battle armor: similar to Vegeta's costume, brought by Bulma right before Goku enters the Room of Spirit and Time.
5. Yardrat tradition: a costume typical from Yardrat that Goku still wears when coming back to Earth after the battle against Freeza.

Z - End

Spoiler:

The presence of the battle armor version again seems to imply that Goku became his "Z - End" version at the end of his training in the Room of Spirit and Time and until the end of the Z series.

1. Kame Sen streamlined: a version that doesn't sport any logo anymore and replaces the thin, knot belt with a larger, knotless belt. The boots have also changed colors at this point.
2. Kame Sen streamlined (damaged): the damaged version of the costume, with the upper orange part gone.
3. Battle armor

Super

Spoiler:

The character that has the most costumes, with a total of eight. This is because costumes are repeated between the thin, knot belt and the large, knotless belt.

1. Kame Sen remembrance: Goku goes back to the style he wore on Namek, but keeps the newest colors for the boots.
2. Kame Sen remembrance (heavily damaged): A damaged version of the same costume, leaving no clothes on the upper half.
3. Kame Sen remembrance (mildly damaged): A damaged version of the same costume, with the upper orange part being gone.
4. Whis' teachings: A special gi offered by Whis during training, Goku keeping it for two arcs.
5. Kame Sen pride: Goku goes back to having logos on his gi and keeps it for a big part of the Super events, while still keeping the large, knotless belt.
6. Kame Sen pride (mildy damaged): A damaged version of the same costume, with the upper orange part being gone.
7. Kame Sen pride (heavily damaged): A damaged version of the same costume, leaving no clothes on the upper half.
8. Kame Sen classic feel: An exclusive version of Goku that is never seen during actual events. It is the same as "Kame Sen (pride)", meaning N°5, but with the Nyoi Bo attached. Goku's Blast 2 changes to the Nyoi-Bo Dance if this costume is chosen.

Super (Ultra Instinct - Sign)

Spoiler:

Ultra Instinct is an oddity as it is an exception to the rule of faithfulness to what has already been shown in the core anime series before: most clothes were never seen with Ultra Instinct before.

1. Kame Sen remembrance: Ultra Instinct -Sign- as if Goku triggered it during the arrival of Broly or the events of Super Hero. Even in the manga, it does not appear, since Goku changes back to the large knotless belt for the Moro and Granolah arcs.
2. Kame Sen remembrance (heavily damaged)
3. Kame Sen remembrance (mildly damaged)
4. Kame Sen pride: Once again, this Ultra Instinct is never seen in the anime, since Goku already lost the orange upper part when he triggers it the first time. It is seen in the manga though, during the Moro and Granolah arcs.
5. Kame Sen pride (mildy damaged): Goku as he was when he first triggered Ultra Instinct -Sign-
6. Kame Sen pride (heavily damaged): Goku as he was when using Ultra Instinct in the final battle against Jiren.

GT





Teen

Spoiler:

Based on his exclusive appearance from Dragon Ball Super: Broly.

Mini






VEGETA

Z - Scouter

Spoiler:

Covers Vegeta from his first appearance to his return from Namek.

1. Full modern Battle Armor: has protective parts for the lower body. Also the only model to have a tail.
2. Modern battle armor (damaged): damaged version without the protective parts for the lower body.
3. Modern battle armor: without the protective parts for the lower body.
4. Obsolete battle armor: an old battle armor, meaning it doesn't have shoulder parts. It also has noticeably darker colors. There was nothing else left fitting Vegeta's size in Freeza's spaceship.

Z - Early

Spoiler:

Covers the battle against the androids and Cell. The classic costume is simply divided into intact and damaged, as well as boots with or without colored stripes. The difference is subtle enough that it is directly indicated by in-game text.

Z - End

Spoiler:

Covers Vegeta for the whole battle against Majin Boo, except for his brief "Majin Vegeta" state. Includes his slightly darker, armorless suit from this era as intact and damaged versions, but also somehow his classic armor look from the previous arc and most of Super.

Majin Vegeta

Spoiler:

Simply features his clothes as intact or damaged (with a similar look to when he sacrificed himself).

Super

Spoiler:

1. New battle armor: an armor unique to his face-off against Broly.
2. New battle armor (mildly damaged): mimics the look he had when damaged in that movie and ready to fuse with Goku.
3. New battle armor (heavily damaged): while obviously a continuation of the previous damaged version, it is actually meant to mimic Vegeta's state at the end of the Tournament of Power (though he had his classic battle armor at the time and therefore a brighter blue).
4. Whis' teachings: a costume made by Bulma for the occasion once Vegeta managed to convince Whis to train him. He kept it for two arcs.

GT (Super Saiyan 4)




GOHAN

Kid

Spoiler:

1. Space explorer: Gohan wears the same purple costume Piccolo once gave him (though he made it himself this time), but he has a new haircut.
2. Modern battle armor: given by Vegeta before the battle with Freeza, still with the haircut he had for Namek.
3. Earth defender: given by Piccolo before the Saiyans arrived (though he has already lost his hairband here).

Teen

Spoiler:

1. Piccolo tribute: Gohan asked for this costume when getting out of the Room of Spirit and Time.
2. Piccolo tribute (damaged): mimics how Gohan looked at the end of the Cell Game.
3. Piccolo tribute (passive): The full costume complete with a cape. Gohan removes it when it's time to fight, much like Piccolo usually does.
4. Custom battle armor: A battle armor created by Bulma and inspired by Vegeta's own model.

Adult

Spoiler:

Not labelled as "Z" nor "Super", this version covers both series, from the Boo arc to the end of Super except for the Super Hero movie.

1. Training days: Gohan wears this during the training days leading him to the Tenkaichi Budokai.
2. Great Saiyaman exposed: during the 25th tournament, Gohan stops trying to conceal his identity when recognized by friends.
3. Great Saiyaman exposed (no vest): when fighting Dabra, Gohan ditches part of his costume. Though subtle, his remaining black suit shows a bit of damage.
4. Sportswear: when Freeza is revived, Gohan has a new haircut closer to his Cell Game self. Unable to find his Kame Sen dogi in time, he improvises by wearing sportswear.
5. Goku's legacy: An exact copy of Goku's clothes, to honor him. He wears it to fight Boo and during the Tournament of Power. His haircut is noticeably different than Ultimate Gohan's.

Great Saiyaman

Spoiler:

1. City's hero: The classic costume as originally designed by Bulma. Still worn by Gohan on occasions.
2. Tenkaichi Budokai: The variation imagined by Bulma for the tournament, which doesn't allow protective gear. Gohan sometimes uses it even outside of the tournament.

Ultimate Gohan

Spoiler:

Ultimate Gohan being an individual character in the game, he is not forced to have costumes from "Gohan (Adult)", so the developers have only given him costumes that he had in this ultimate form, reducing them to two.

1. Goku's legacy This is how we always see Ultimate Gohan in the anime until Super Hero.
2. Sportswear: This costume's presence is quite mysterious as Gohan is only implied to go ultimate with those clothes in the opening credits. But it is apparently enough for the devs to decide it exists in the core series. In the episodes themselves, Gohan already has gone back to wearing Goku's costume when he reconnects to his Ultimate Gohan form. It's possible the presence of this form in what-ifs played a part in its inclusion, although it alone wouldn't have been enough to include it as shown by Black Gohan not being available.

Future

Spoiler:

Without his arm, which is not always the case in other video games.

Super Hero

Spoiler:

Gohan will lose his cape for good if he goes beyond his base form, basically having an alternate costume if he goes back to his base form afterwards. His glasses will come and go based on the story logic: Gohan will always have his glasses in his base form (magically reappearing when needed) since he would not see much of anything without them, and he will always cast them aside if he transforms because his eyes being corrected wouldn't see anything with the glasses on.

PICCOLO

Piccolo + Piccolo (Fused with Kami)

Spoiler:

Piccolo and "Piccolo (Fused with Kami)" share the exact same models and costumes.

1. Battle-ready: when Piccolo wants to fight seriously, he ditches the turban and cape.
2. Battle-ready (damaged)
3. Staid: with the usual turban and cape when he doesn't have to fight seriously.

Super Hero

Spoiler:

Piccolo has an appearance you've never seen before when you combine a costume and a transformation together, but also a costume you can actually lose during fights, basically switching costumes whether you like it or not.

1. Battle-ready: His usual costume, but with colors closer to his manga colors, fitting the art direction chosen for Super Hero.
2. Soldier 94: Piccolo disguised as a Red Ribbon soldier to infiltrate the HQ. Though it was never seen before, he can reveal his new potential by going yellow while in this costume. However, going Orange Piccolo will disintegrate his disguise, and then he'll have his original appearance (costume n°1) if you go back to the two previous forms.

NAIL




KRILLIN

Spoiler:

This version of Krilin covers all of Z and Super.

1. Kame Sen classic: no T-shirt under the gi and gym shoes.
2. Kame Sen inspired: much like Goku, a blue T-shirt under the gi and modern boots.
3. Modern battle armor: lower protective parts on the sides, but not in the front. Offered by Vegeta on Namek.
4. Super hairstyle: like the Kame Sen classic costume (n°1), but with the hairstyle he has in various parts of Super.

YAMCHA

Spoiler:

Covers the period from his first appearance to the Cell arc, but skipping most of his appearance from the original Dragon Ball anime.

1. Kame Sen (long hair): used during the Saiyan invasion and the Namek arc.
2. Kame Sen (short hair): used during the battle against the androids until the end of the Cell Game.
3. Desert Thief: his very first appearance in the original Dragon Ball anime.

TIEN

Spoiler:

Covers his Z and Super versions.

1. Dojo master: His Super appearance, when he has his own dojo and students.
2. Half bare-chested: His appearance specific to the Androids/Cell arc.
3. Bare-chested: His appearance during the Saiyan invasion and the Namek arc.
4. White T-shirt: His rare appearance of wearing a white T-shirt (he is more often seen wearing a white tank top).

TRUNKS

Sword

Spoiler:

Covers Future Trunks from Z until the time when he has just entered the Room of Spirit and Time and then, after the day of Cell's defeat (he becomes his "Melee" version in-between).

1. Newcomer: he permanently wears his vest until Cell has been defeated and Trunks goes back to the future.
2. Back to the future: the much tougher warrior that comes back from the Cell Game into his future, ready to destroy the androids.

Melee

Spoiler:

With part of his hair tied in the back with an elastic.

Future Trunks

Spoiler:

The version from Super, though the name "Future Trunks" is ambiguous because he was always "Future Trunks" even in Z.

1. Desperate survivor: clothes he has worn while surviving Goku Black for months, so they are a bit damaged by default.
2. Relief of the past: city clothes provided by Bulma when he travels back to the past, though he keeps the same boots.

Kid






GOTEN






VEGITO




GOGETA

Super Gogeta (Z)




Super



GT (Super Saiyan 4)




GOTENKS




VIDEL

Spoiler:

1. Tenkaichi Budokai contestant: on Gohan's advice, Videl cuts her hair short. She also has a different outfit.
2. High school heroine: the appearance she has when Gohan meets her and starts training her.

MASTER ROSHI

Spoiler:

Covers the character from the original Dragon Ball anime days to his Super battles.

1. Back on the field: his Super incarnation, fighting during Freeza's resurrection and the Tournament of Power.
2. Turtle hermit: his most well-known appearance.
3. Jackie Chun: disguised to participate to two Tenkaichi Budokai. The glasses won't appear with this costume even when selected.
4. Beach life: his casual clothes for everyday life, seen many times in Super and in the 10th anniversary remake.

FRIEZA

Z




Mecha Frieza



Super





CELL




CELL JR.




MAJIN BUU



Evil



Super Buu



Kid




MR. SATAN






CHIAOTZU






YAJIROBE






PAN






UUB






BARDOCK

Spoiler:

Bardock covers his current Super / Toriyama version as well as the Z version from back then.

1. Unusual benefactor: The current version, with Bardock being unusually caring of others for a Saiyan.
2. Unwilling prophet: The Z version that could see the future.

RADITZ





SAIBAMAN




NAPPA

Spoiler:

1. Full modern battle armor: the modern battle armor, complete with protections for the lower body.
2. Bare-chested: taking out all of the armor.

ZARBON





DODORIA





CUI





CAPTAIN GINYU







RECOOME

Spoiler:

1. Intact
2. Damaged clothes: just like when he had taken Vegeta's huge blast, though he didn't suffer damage himself.

BURTER





JEICE





GULDO




ANDROID 16






ANDROID 17

Z





Super

Spoiler:

1. Park ranger
2. Park ranger (damaged): just like at the end of the Tournament of Power.

ANDROID 18

Spoiler:

1. Rebellious youth: the costume she wears on her first appearance, when still an antagonist.
2. Stalked victim: when chased by Cell.
3. Tournament of Power: sportswear to be comfortable for the decisive event.
4. Rebellious youth (damaged): mimics the way she looks after the battle with Vegeta (her clothes are damaged but she's not).
5. Tenkaichi Budokai contestant: similar to her initial costume (n°1) but with jeans, shoes and socks instead of a skirt, tights and boots.

ANDROID 19




DR. GERO






BABIDI




DABURA




FRIEZA FORCE SOLDIER

Spoiler:

Two different soldiers with the scouter as an option. They are from the first Bardock special, specifically the two last persons to grab hold the Saiyan back when Freeza shows up.

BROLY

Z



Super




GARLIC JR.




DR. WHEELO




TURLES





LORD SLUG

Spoiler:

Slug's helmet is removed when he turns giant.

COOLER



Metal Cooler




ANDROID 13




BOJACK




JANEMBA




TAPION




HIRUDEGARN




BABY




SYN SHENRON




SPOPOVICH






BEERUS






WHIS




GOKU BLACK






ZAMASU








HIT




FROST




CABBA




CAULIFLA




KALE




KEFLA




JIREN




TOPPO

Spoiler:

1. Pride Trooper
2. Damaged: With the upper half torn just like when he's about to become a God of Destruction, though temporarily apparently.

DYSPO






BERGAMO




RIBRIANNE




KAKUNSA




ROASIE




ANILASA




GAMMA 1




GAMMA 2




CELL MAX

[Cold Skin]

Update: visuals are now also included for characters that don't have multiple costumes (orange and red).

[Jord]

It's a shame that some of the characters have no alternate costumes when even a color swap would suffice, like Kid Goku.

[Yuji]

Very disappointing customization for the game. Gohan probably got the best treatment out of the bunch purely because they fused his Boo arc and Super moves into the same slot, so he has more to work with. Also pretty sure one of Gohan's episodes include tapping into Ultimate vs Golden Freeza, which is why he has the tracksuit.

Would love Goku's 59 jacket, or his farming attire, or even fun weird stuff like the turtle shells for Kuririn and Goku. The villains are also lacking, Buuccolo should be an outfit, as well as Gohan Boo after ripping out the Gi once he absorbed Vegetto.

[Cold Skin]

Let's just hope they end up realizing the potential of offering a lot of costumes and appearances like other games!
This could be the ultimate DB game in that regard if they had a dedicated team to just create all those alternate 3D models for the various characters.
This would help tremendously in bringing variety to the game, along with maps: not only would online/offline matches feel visually more varied and visually more unpredictable, but it would also help create a lot of various contexts for endless stories in the "custom battle" mode!

Other popular games have already understood that offering the possibility to acquire countless "skins" and always bringing up new ones can help keep players invested and makes them want to spend time on the game so that they can acquire the appearances they want!
Appearances are also one of the easiest and most accessible things to develop, hence why it's the n°1 playing field of modders.

So I can't imagine it would be that hard to put a small dedicated graphic team to work on constant extra costumes as months go by and use it as a way to keep players on the game with ways to get them (not locked behind difficulty gates, but accessible to all if they take the time to do the challenges, like raising a character's mastery level to a certain point, or facing the superboss 5 times in any difficulty, or triggering any what-if you want, or playing 5 online matches, win 10 times against the CPU regarless of the difficulty setting, and so on...). Keep making players come back to the game to get the costumes they want and play with those costumes for hours!

Also pretty sure one of Gohan's episodes include tapping into Ultimate vs Golden Freeza, which is why he has the tracksuit.

If it's when he desperately calls Goku during Freeza's resurrection, he only goes Super Saiyan when unleashing his maximum out of anger.
At least, his hair at this period makes it easier to see that he never goes Ultimate! The white aura before that seems to be base form aura since his hair suits the base form and when he pushes further and to the max, he goes Super Saiyan.

This is shown later - before the Tournament of Power - as being the opposite we would see with Ultimate form: if he pushes beyond Super Saiyan, he gradually goes Ultimate with the appropriate hair.

[Yuji]

It'd already be good enough if they just let every Goku share every outfit. It's the same model.

If it's when he desperately calls Goku during Freeza's resurrection, he only goes Super Saiyan when unleashing his maximum out of anger.
At least, his hair at this period makes it easier to see that he never goes Ultimate! The white aura before that seems to be base form aura since his hair suits the base form and when he pushes further and to the max, he goes Super Saiyan.

This is shown later - before the Tournament of Power - as being the opposite we would see with Ultimate form: if he pushes beyond Super Saiyan, he gradually goes Ultimate with the appropriate hair.

It's a Sparking Episode.

https://youtu.be/7bdVmGQXCVg?si=ArMKOGbp8mGgPP_h

[Cold Skin]

^ They seem to take very seriously the faithfulness to the original material to the point that early Goku wearing end Goku stuff or the opposite would feel like some sort of betrayal to the material. Although not faithful enough to vary the graphical style of the model based on the period, since as you said yourself, it's all the same model.

I understand their point of view of being profesionnal like "everything you see in the game outside of what-ifs is rigourously existing and logical in the original material and is in no way a fantasy from us", but I do understand why players and fans would be like "just let us do what we want, nobody is gonna feel outraged if Super Goku wears a battle suit".

There's this weird dichotomy between "create all the fantasies you want" with the custom battles in which you could show Chiaotsu kicking Beerus' ass and Beerus begging for mercy if you want, and at the same time "don't play with things that are not exactly how it was in the original, right down to the timing represented by a character's version"!

It's a Sparking Episode.

https://youtu.be/7bdVmGQXCVg?si=ArMKOGbp8mGgPP_h

Oh, right, I see what you mean now.
Well, they don't actually take their own what-ifs into account for costume avaibility apparently, otherwise we would have Black Gohan too!

But you might be partially right in the sense that it might have pushed them, out of convenience, to say "we can actually make it available, it's in the DBS opening for a second after all". It's possible that those two occurences alone wouldn't have been enough for them to make it available, but they were like "oh, we created it for the Sparking episode AND it's sort of legitimate if we consider DBS opening, so come on, we can actually put it."

I've added its presence in the Sparking episode as a possible influence to the hypothesis about its availability!

[Cold Skin]

Update: a few examples of costumes that are currently not included have been added to the thread.
They are not meant to be a complete list of existing costumes, just a few examples showing that there are quite a few possibilities, even when following the apparent rules of the devs.

Though Z movies are currently not proven to be taken in account by the devs, I've still put some here and there as possible examples. A lot of people would be glad to have Teen Gohan wearing the Kame Sen gi for example.

The rest of the currently known devs rules are respected in those examples: a spacesuit for Goku shall only go to Z-Early Goku, and the epilogue costume when he fights Oob shall only go to the Z-End version. Or C-17's ranger costume from the end of Z belongs to the Z version and cannot go to the Super version despite both being rangers.

[Jord]

^ They seem to take very seriously the faithfulness to the original material to the point that early Goku wearing end Goku stuff or the opposite would feel like some sort of betrayal to the material. Although not faithful enough to vary the graphical style of the model based on the period, since as you said yourself, it's all the same model.

I understand their point of view of being profesionnal like "everything you see in the game outside of what-ifs is rigourously existing and logical in the original material and is in no way a fantasy from us", but I do understand why players and fans would be like "just let us do what we want, nobody is gonna feel outraged if Super Goku wears a battle suit".

There's this weird dichotomy between "create all the fantasies you want" with the custom battles in which you could show Chiaotsu kicking Beerus' ass and Beerus begging for mercy if you want, and at the same time "don't play with things that are not exactly how it was in the original, right down to the timing represented by a character's version"!

I feel this has almost always been the case in DB games. They seem to be very rigid on keeping things separate. I believe that's why just giving us "x version of character as an alternate costume" is something very rare. The only times I can remember this are within the Budokai series where we got Kuriza, Piccolo Daimao and Nail as alternate costumes for Freeza, Piccolo and uhmm Piccolo again.
And there's the alternate DB costume for GT Goku in FighterZ, which is a recolor, not a new model.

[Makaioshin]

I feel this has almost always been the case in DB games. They seem to be very rigid on keeping things separate. I believe that's why just giving us "x version of character as an alternate costume" is something very rare. The only times I can remember this are within the Budokai series where we got Kuriza, Piccolo Daimao and Nail as alternate costumes for Freeza, Piccolo and uhmm Piccolo again.
And there's the alternate DB costume for GT Goku in FighterZ, which is a recolor, not a new model.

Yeah, DB games aren't really know for costumes or accessories. The exceptions being like Ultimate Butoden or Zenkai Battle Royale. Hopefully they pick it up on this game since it is pretty dull otherwise. Accessories should be available to all characters but that wish aside even main characters who had halos like Yamcha can't equip it.

To add to the list, you can play against pre-Kaioshin apprentice Zamasu with the orange potara in the story but we can't use it in-game.

[Jord]

I feel this has almost always been the case in DB games. They seem to be very rigid on keeping things separate. I believe that's why just giving us "x version of character as an alternate costume" is something very rare. The only times I can remember this are within the Budokai series where we got Kuriza, Piccolo Daimao and Nail as alternate costumes for Freeza, Piccolo and uhmm Piccolo again.
And there's the alternate DB costume for GT Goku in FighterZ, which is a recolor, not a new model.

Yeah, DB games aren't really know for costumes or accessories. The exceptions being like Ultimate Butoden or Zenkai Battle Royale. Hopefully they pick it up on this game since it is pretty dull otherwise. Accessories should be available to all characters but that wish aside even main characters who had halos like Yamcha can't equip it.

To add to the list, you can play against pre-Kaioshin apprentice Zamasu with the orange potara in the story but we can't use it in-game.

I actually have Ultimate Butoden and it's interesting how weird that game is with accessories. You can give Frieza (or any other character) a beard and sunglasses for example. Wacky alternate storylines as well, such as Kuririn turning "Super Human"on Namek. We even got Kaio as a playable character. That game is almost like a parody in ways.
In modern games, even a way to recolor outfits would be more than welcome.