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I like it myself! The only thing is that I can't imagine a confrontation with Freeza after Movie 4 and I don't know why The Trunks Special is after the Boo stuff... However, that being said, a lot of thought went into it!
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Movie 1 would be the catalyst that allows for Goku to arrive on time to fight the Saiyans. It would result in him being a bit stronger when Raditz kills him, which means he'd reach and return from Kaio's a bit ahead of the manga's timeline. To make it in time for the fight against the Saiyans, he only needs to be somewhere between 3 and 4 hours quicker.
So Timeline 1 is the manga, Timeline 2 is movie 1.
From there, movies 2 and 3 are somehow both exactly a year after the Saiyan saga (the Dragonballs are used). So movie 2 is Timeline 2 and movie 3 is Timeline 3. Neither feature Freeza because defeating the Saiyans on time means Piccolo wouldn't die and, with Piccolo not being dead, there'd be no reason to go to Namek.
This movie 3 timeline branches off into two, because each continues the story of Haiyaa Dragon who gets introduced in this film. Continuing Timeline 3 the most logically gets us movie 4 a year later, whereas Garlic Jr somehow takes place after a series of Freeza battles instead but before Goku's return.
Movie 5 takes place in the three year gap, continuing the Garlic Jr timeline. There are then two timelines branching out of it. One leads to the android saga, the other is movie 6.
It's not possible for Goku to have died in the Cell Games if Vegeta killed semi-perfect Cell, so from there, I see the android saga (continuing movie 5's timeline) branching off into two directions. One leads to the gang defeating the androids by virtue of being stronger on account of movies 3, 5 and the Garlic Jr saga. This would be movie 7's timeline. One leads to them relying on ROSAT to defeat Cell in the Cell Games, but not on FP-SSJ and USSJ because of how much stronger they are. During the days leading up to the Cell Games, movie 8 occurs. Because of how much stronger they are after movie 8, Cell is defeated without the need of SSJ2. This leads to movie 9.
Movie 10 then occurs exactly as you say it does, with the timeline branching off into two during the Budokai. The one in which Babidi is defeated leads to movie 11, whereas the other one leads to a Boo saga. The Boo saga splits in two, one leading to movie 12 as you mentioned and the other continuing as seen in the manga. The non-12 timeline becomes movie 13.
Waaaay over in the manga timeline, Yo! Son Goku and Friends Return! takes place (it's not a DBZ movie, it's Toriyama's contribution to the Shonen Jump anniversary, so it's manga timeline). BoG and RoF are sequels to this timeline.
Captain Christopher Pike wrote:The away team will consist of myself, Cadet Kirk, Mr. Sulu, and Ensign Olsen.
Freeza Heika wrote:
for the land of the cool, and the home of the Appule
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.