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Re: What Dragon Ball media do you consider canon

Post by AgitoZ » Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:04 pm

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:*cough*trunksuniverse*cough*celluniverse*cough*timeline4*cough*rosatdimention*cough*
Do the timelines really count as separate universes? I'm sure as hell RoSaT doesn't.
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Re: What Dragon Ball media do you consider canon

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:11 pm

AgitoZ wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:*cough*trunksuniverse*cough*celluniverse*cough*timeline4*cough*rosatdimention*cough*
Do the timelines really count as separate universes? I'm sure as hell RoSaT doesn't.
I'm sure different timelines and dimentions aren't in the same universe. The universe doesn't have 4 different Earth planets and a blank white world.
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.
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Re: What Dragon Ball media do you consider canon

Post by Hellspawn28 » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:08 pm

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:
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, yet when he gets mad enough he powers up enough to scream the multiverse apart and overpower Super Vegetto.
Dragon Ball has a multiverse? Nothing really states that Dragon Ball has more then one universe.
*cough*trunksuniverse*cough*celluniverse*cough*timeline4*cough*rosatdimention*cough*
Those are alternate timelines set in one universe. And both ROSAT and Other World are their own dimensions, not a universe. I doubt Buu's scream would be strong enough to reach arcoss Trunks and Cell's timeline.
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Re: What Dragon Ball media do you consider canon

Post by Super Ghost Kamikaze » Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:12 am

GT and the movies, plus some Z filler. While the DB and DBZ manga are interesting and nice for backstory purposes, they're hardly canon. Episode of Bardock, segments of the fighting games, and the safety specials round out the "real" DBZ universe, I think.
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Post by Shineman » Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:37 am

I consider GT to be canon to the Manga than to the Anime, along with Coola, Bojack, Wrath of Dragon, Tarble's Appearance.

The Rest is non canon to be.
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Re: What Dragon Ball media do you consider canon

Post by Kiddo626 » Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:49 am

Along with the DB and DBZ manga, some of the fillers I can accept as canon. Other stuff would be the TV specials (Bardock and Future Trunks), the 2008 OVA special (with Tarble), and... well... that's about it, I guess. :?
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Re: What Dragon Ball media do you consider canon

Post by Senzu_Bean » Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:29 am

Canon is basically a meaningless word. Canon to or for what? In the eventuality that Mr. Toriyama would continue his original story? If that is the question then I would assume everything that relates to the original work is considered canon. Everything else isn't.
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Re: What Dragon Ball media do you consider canon

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:33 pm

I don't divide everything to canon and non-canon. I just watch Dragon Ball episodes, movies, OVAs, specials, read Dragon Ball manga, play Dragon Ball video games' what-ifs & original stories, and just enjoy them for what they are. I count them almost all as canon, but in seperate universes. (I know I have post one before, but I've changed some things since back then.)

Manga Universe:
Dr. Slump (manga)
Dragon Ball (Kanzenban)
Bardock Special
Episode of Bardock (manga version)
Heya! Son Goku and Friends Return!! (manga version)
Neko Majin
Dragon Ball Online
Exclusive stuff from the databooks & interviews concerning the manga, and everything Toriyama has said.

Anime Universe:
Dr. Slump & Arale-chan
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball GT
DBZ Movies 1, 5, 9 & 13
Z TV Specials 1 & 2
GT TV Special
Heya! Son Goku and Friends Return!!(anime version)
Episode of Bardock(anime version)
The 3 Side stories
Every new stuff from guidbooks, interviews and video games.

Other Seperate Universes:
Dr. Slump (remake)
All DB & DBZ Movies & the 2-part OVA(without the anniversary)
The 10th Anniversary movie
The OVA remake
The What-Ifs and different retellings of the series(like the Fanicom series) from the video games are each one in their own universe
Dragon Ball Kai (Boo arc & GT never happened)
Dragon Ball SD
Dragon Ball Heroes
Every new stuff from guidbooks, interviews and video games related to any of the above.

Non-canon:
The Sumer Vacation Special
The Year-End TV Special
The interactive video game "Goku's World"
The Public-Safety Specials
Dragon Ball commercials & openings (lol)
Dragon Ball Evolution
Cross Epoch
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.
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Re: What Dragon Ball media do you consider canon

Post by CobraCookiez » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:24 pm

The manga.
The Trunks and Bardock specials.
The driving episode.

I am very torn on GT. I don't care for most of it, but I do like the SSJ4 design. Although I don't really like how they achieve it. Golden Oozaru ---> Red furred glam rocker? I'm not feelin' it.

I do love (most of) the movies but they just don't fit. I like the alternate universes idea.
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Re: What Dragon Ball media do you consider canon

Post by Monkey D Goku » Sun Jan 08, 2012 2:19 pm

Firstly the manga for obvious reasons and then second the Dragonball online game as the story was overseen and maybe written by Akira Toriyama himself.
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