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• Approval of God: Many of the voice actors of the original English language dub of Dragon Ball Z take expressed approving of the series, even quoting the show's lines in-character. Takahata101 was even hired to use his Nappa vocalization for 1 of the player voices in Dragon Ball Xenoverse. Christopher Sabat, in particular, is close friends with the team; he's let them crash his panels, he's provided cameos for various videos (nether pseudonyms), and he attended the opening of the TFS studio after their successful Patreon campaign.
  • Hell, the TFS cast members that live in Texas have even worked at FUNimation as voice actors. Chris Sabat even tried to sneak them into the dub of Kai: The Concluding Chapters every bit the filler characters dring the Prison cell Games Re-enactment until a commercial on Toonami showing function of said scene aired, leaving many people to talk almost it on social media and Toei finding out about it in the process, who and so forced FUNi to change it to other actors for its official airing and English dwelling release, barring an initial digital stream release that nevertheless had the unaltered dialogue that got recorded and uploaded to the net. This acquired Lani, Taka, Kaiser, and Masako to get barred for some fourth dimension from working for FUNi for some unknown amount of fourth dimension at Toei's request. A lot of the secondary cast members in Texas still work for them, though.
• All-Star Cast: Imagine the serial in its heyday and premiering for the first fourth dimension: the series boasted a cast list consisting of various Abridgers from all beyond YouTube, some of whom were working on their own Abridged Series while they provided their voices to this one. Information technology can be taken for granted nowadays due to everyone generally being associated with TFS now, merely if you lot were a fan of those individual serial the voice actor lineup was practically star-studded.
• Ascended Fanon:
  • In TFS Play: Dragon Ball Xenoverse episode 32, Lanipator confirms the fan theory that their created character Dumplin is a young (well, younger) Mr. Popo.
  • In the second TFS Podcast, KaiserNeko confirms a fan theory well-nigh the muffin button: the starship Dr. Briefs built was the same space pod in which Goku showtime landed on Earth, only massively restored and upgraded. He kept a lot of the original technology without necessarily knowing what it did, and that included the muffin button.
• Creator Backfire:
  • KaiserNeko regrets the Black Comedy Rape joke in episode 19, which a number of fans took issue with. During the anniversary marathon, the scene in question is talked over and ignored entirely.
  • KaiserNeko too regrets how Dodoria'south Unsettling Gender Reveal was handled, feeling that it comes off as transphobic in hindsight. He says that Vegeta's disgusted reaction should be taken equally him beingness a Politically Wrong Villain, not expressing the views of Team 4 Star themselves. He besides would've liked to contrast Vegeta's reaction with Krillin's and Gohan's, which, keeping in-character, would've been more than accepting and tolerant.
  • The guys take commented on their dissatisfaction with some of their earlier episodes, and fifty-fifty defended a good portion of the "TIBA Dishonorable Mention" video thrashing the hell out of episode i. During the 57th episode of their official podcast, they even stated that if they had the chance, they would gladly redo the early on episodes to fit with the evidence's later way.
  • They seem to not have held the "Squad Three Star" Running Gag in high regard, given this line in the second Kai episode:

    Vegeta: That's not funny! It'southward never been funny! Information technology'S NEVER GOING TO BE FUNNY!

  • When announcing the abridged version of Dragon Brawl Z: Bojack Unbound, Lani mentions putting that film at #8 on their "Best Movies & Specials" listing, only for the team to rethink that placement equally besides generous subsequently trying to abridge it. They called the moving-picture show nearly unworkable for parody, peculiarly with its Generic Doomsday Villains. They hated the process of abridging the film so much that they felt they could not prevent that hatred from showing in the final product, and thus decreasing its quality.
  • The unabridged squad, most specifically KaiserNeko, have expressed immense frustration with the series being treated every bit Better Than Catechism by their fans, claiming they put "Delight support the official release" before each episode for a reason. Later an commodity on The Mary Sue by Princess Weekes chosen the series the definitive dub for Dragon Brawl Z, the team publicly spoke out against it, and when asked by someone if they should spotter the original on Reddit, Kaiser admittedly lost it.

    KaiserNeko: YES Y'all SHOULD Lookout man THE Actual FUCKING Show, OURS IS NOWHERE Shut TO AS Skilful AS THE Bodily Evidence, GODDAMNIT!

  • Scott admitted on the Patreon mail announcing the cease of the serial that one of the reasons the squad decided to end the serial afterwards episode 60 was that they didn't want to reach a point where they came to resent working on it.
  • In the first "Behind The Scenes" video, Lanipator and KaiserNeko state that in retrospect, Ghost Nappa didn't really add anything to the bear witness, and was washed considering they knew that Nappa would be the series' Breakout Character. They do, however, credit the Running Gag for helping prepare upwardly Piccolo, Boom, and Kami'south Sharing a Body dynamic going forward.
  • Both KaiserNeko and Lanipator have stated that the depiction of "Goku as a bad dad" was done because it was a running gag in the fandom and they leaned into it, and that had they had a bit more forethought they probably would take come up up with a unlike label for Goku.
• Creator Breakdown: Burnout was cited as one of the major reasons for pulling the plug on the abridging of Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, as well as Season 4 of the show itself.
• Creator's Favorite: Several team members vocalization characters they specially like:
  • Lanipator has admitted in various gaming streams that Piccolo is one of his favourite characters from Dragon Ball, if non his accented favourite, and that Piccolo was ane of the first roles he auditioned for when DBZA was in its early stages.
  • KaiserNeko has said many times that Future Trunks is one of his favourite characters. His casting isn't an intentional case of Promoted Fanboy; he insists that he auditioned other people for the office, but the team liked his performance the best. It certainly helps that he has a passion for the character.
  • MasakoX has stated that Goku is his favourite character.
• Creator'southward Favorite Episode: Taka, Lani, and Kaiser have confirmed that Episode 42 is one of their favorites in terms of writing, because it has a little bit of everything: Gohan interim every bit detective, Krillin fawning over 18, the dramatic fusing of Kami and Piccolo, and Prison cell'due south introduction.
• Creator's Pest:
  • Team Four Star loathes Icarus, to the signal where he dies (and is ordinarily eaten by another character) in all of his appearances.
  • Squad Iv Star has been pretty clear from the outset that they absolutely despise Broly and consider him the embodiment of everything wrong with Dragon Brawl. Going by their Peak 24 Dragon Ball Villains, they call up his fighting scenes and Legendary Super Saiyan transformation are awesome only wasted on a lackluster character. In Broly Abridged, they use Vegeta equally an Author Avatar to directly accost their feelings on him. They did speak positively of his Continuity Reboot incarnation in Dragon Ball Super: Broly, believing him to be a much more compelling character than the original.

    Vegeta: I don't know what's going on anymore. He'south so cool... simply he's so goddamn dumb! [...] The Legendary Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying baby! He is a literal behemothic f**king baby!

  • KaiserNeko hates Mr. Satan's students Caroni and Piroshkii, and his manager Piiza; they don't appear in the manga, their jokes accept over screen fourth dimension, and they're generally just really abrasive. He made it a signal to have Jail cell kill them most as soon as they show upwardly and to edit them out of any subsequent scenes.

    KaiserNeko: I would rather put in the endeavor to edit them out of every unmarried shot they appear in than really take the time to write jokes for them.

  • Due to just how much frustration they went through attempting to piece of work with Bojack Unbound, their views have significantly decreased of the movie, eventually turning into outright hate due to the immense struggle they had in improver to their fire out. It got and then bad that their hate for the movie would have been plain as day in their writing, much similar Broly and his movie, but to a more vitriolic caste.
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • Chiaotzu and Puar are both voiced past Megami33.
  • Dodoria also counts, although you'd be forgiven for not picking up on it.
• The Danza: A pocket-sized example — ane of the Prison cell Jr'south is named Curtis, and thus shares a name with his vox actor Takahata101.
• Evolution Hell: The finale of the Cell Saga. Episode 59 was released in June 2017, only the outset part of Episode 60 didn't come out until August 31, 2018, with the other two parts coming out on a weekly basis. They were heavily focused on other work at the fourth dimension, including the dub for Hells, new episodes of Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, a new season of Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged, and a brand new YouTube channel. Some suggested that this was a example of Screwed by the Lawyers, given their YouTube channel's frequent struggles with copyright claims from Toei Blitheness. Either explanation is plausible for the eventual cancellation of the show post-obit Episode lx.
• Executive Meddling: Despite their being friends with Funimation and many of the official DBZ vocalization actors, TFS tin't cast any of them in Function Reprises because of their contracts. No thing how much fans might want to hear Vic Mignogna play Abridged!Broly (and no thing how much Vic himself might relish the take chances to skewer the graphic symbol), he's legally barred from doing so.
• Fake American: MasakoX is British, simply affects an American accent when playing Goku and Gohan, fifty-fifty though neither of them are American (or fifty-fifty come from a universe where the U.Southward. exists).
• Flip-Bomb of God:
  • In the tenth ceremony stream, when they become to Yamcha'south commencement scene in the first episode, TFS gives conflicting answers about whether or not it was Puar that Yamcha was caught sleeping with when Bulma walked in on him. Lani insists that his and Taka'southward ii votes for it outweigh Kaiser's no.
  • The team'south opinion on whether Episode 60 would serve as the Series Finale has gone back and forth. They didn't tip their hand either way until the episode was released. The Stinger makes it explicit that DBZA would return for season four and comprehend the Buu Saga, and Lani also implied that the team was mulling over doing something with the Otherworld Tournament likewise. They went back on that for a number of reasons: copyright problems, wanting to piece of work on other projects, concern over avoiding Seasonal Rot (the Buu Saga was not a high point in the original, and they close down Bojack Abridged out of frustration with the source material), adjusting to new production schedules and techniques, and just general burnout. Information technology helped that Episode sixty had a sense of certitude to information technology and was a expert identify to end it. Simply they held out promise for a scrap, until Scott finally made information technology official on Patreon.
• God Never Said That: As mentioned under Evolution Hell, the serial catastrophe after the Jail cell Saga. There was a lot of speculation in the gap between episodes 59 and threescore every bit to whether the series would continue after that, and although TFS didn't tip their paw either fashion (hither's Kaiser on Reddit saying that the series ending was a "possibility"), fans were convinced that episode 60 would exist the end. The Stinger for episode lx explicitly said that the evidence would continue partly to clinch the fans of their thinking — at least until TFS changed their minds and decided to end it later all.
• Rent the Critic:
  • Grant Smith (a.yard.a. Main Wuggles) hates Dragon Ball Z Abridged and its fashion of comedy. All the same, Team 4 Star invited him as guest for their gaming content, and he somewhen became a full fellow member of TFS. He would later contribute to DBZA himself, first by playing Brock and James for 1 of the Cell Vs. videos, then as a Bit Character in the last episodes of Season 3 of the series proper. He seems to take softened up to the series a little bit, but he clearly nevertheless isn't a fan of it.
  • Kirran Somerlade (a.k.a. LordMoonstone) is some other critic of the series who however joined Team Four Star. He even joined the master trio (KaiserNeko, Lanipator, and Takahata101) as one of DBZA'due south main writers.
• I Knew Information technology!:
  • Later on Freeza's comment on how Guru tin can be and then fat when Namekians merely live on water, many started to believe that Guru caused the cracking drought by just drinking it all and framed the Albino Namekians for it. They were right.
  • That the Garlic Jr. Saga would exist covered in just one episode.
  • That Kami, like Smash, would retain his personality as a part of Piccolo. And that he would try the "lower" joke (but Piccolo wouldn't fall for it).
  • Jeice was predicted to be specifically from Space Australia.
  • Guldo is "The Raditz" of the Ginyu Force.
  • Believe it or not, Ghost Nappa was planned from the very showtime. The fans guessed that it would happen, and they were right!
  • The Tom in episode 49 is the aforementioned Tom that is (or was) MySpace friends with Piccolo.
• In Memoriam:
  • History of Trunks was dedicated to Monty Oum, TFS's original choice to play Future Gohan, non long after he passed.
  • Plan to Eradicate Christmas was dedicated to Bulma's Japanese voice actress Hiromi Tsuru, who had passed away a month earlier.
• Insistent Terminology: Freeza'southward name is spelled "Frieza" in the official English dub, merely "Freeza" in the Abridged Series. This is deliberate, and it's lampshaded in the evidence. Goku constantly calls him "Freezer" and once guesses that Broly's Berserk Button is "Freezer with an I". And Trunks start pronounces it "Fry-za" because information technology's spelled with an "I", and when Freeza tells him it'southward not, he says, "Huh... gonna take to prepare that when I go back, then." In fact, KaiserNeko has been known to exercise that on this very page, editing "Frieza" to read "Freeza". ^{Note to editors:} Goggle box Tropes has rules about lilliputian with pages for your own works, merely this is okay because it doesn't actually change annihilation virtually how we trope the character — it's just a spelling alter. And it'south understandable for people familiar with the source material non to be aware of the spelling alter. (Kaiser, please don't let usa down.)
• Inspiration for the Work: Lanipator'southward voice for Mr. Popo was originally 1 he developed for a schoolhouse production of Niggling Shop of Horrors where he was bandage as Audrey Ii.
• Go along Circulating the Tapes:
• Sometime Shame:
  • Lanipator and MasakoX consider the Neighborhood Cluck Productions versions of the kickoff two Abridged movies to exist this.
  • In his 10th comments replies video, MasakoX states that he does not feel that he actually turned out a expert functioning every bit Goku for episodes 14 to 26, apparently due to some undisclosed Reality Subtext that made his life difficult and afflicted his functioning. In item, his "Ginyu as Goku" role in Episode 23 was hit by real-life frustrations.
  • Kaiser regrets the occasional apply of the word "retarded" every bit synonymous for stupid in some of the earlier episodes.
  • Kaiser seems to regard Season i adequately poorly; on the TFS podcast, in response to a Twitter user asking if the team would redo the show's early on episodes if they could, Kaiser gave a wholehearted Big "Aye!". Additionally, the "TIBA Dishonorable Mention" is the get-go episode of the serial, implying that they view it every bit an Old Shame.
  • If the TeamFourStar tenth anniversary stream is any indication, Kaiser is embarrassed by the "Where'd that scouter come from?" scrolling text in Episode 3, saying that if he was ameliorate at editing back so, he would've simply removed the scouter entirely.
  • This trope was invoked on the "Casual Friday" stream a few days before the marathon, with Lani telling fans to make sure to tune in early to witness their reactions to the first season.
  • According to KaiserNeko, the whole of TFS considers their exaggerations of the "Goku is a bad father" meme to be an old shame to an extent, particularly given how it affected fans' perception of the graphic symbol in the original. They did every bit much as they could to undo this by the end of the Cell Arc. Whether or non they succeeded is upwardly for debate.
  • The DBZ Picture Marathon revealed Taka isn't addicted of the voice he used for South Kai in the Broly movie, saying information technology sounded kind of racist. He even implied if they ever tackle the Otherworld Tournament, he'd alter the voice entirely. His two scenes in the moving picture as South Kai feature him burial his face up in his hands.
• One-Scene Wonder: The Farmer who get-go encounters Raditz has only three or four lines, but they're all comic gilded.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Vegeta3986 replaces Lanipator equally Raditz in the middle of the offset episode. As of Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged, Lanipator has gone back to playing Raditz since Vegeta3986 left the prove.
  • Starting in the Bardock special, LittleKuriboh replaces Lani as Freeza, which is subtly indicated when Freeza starts off with Lanipator, coughs mid-line, and switches voices when he starts again.
  • This happened with Chi-Chi's casting behind the scenes. The original program was for Whiteash to handle the character, simply she backed out due to life issues before Chi-Chi's first appearance. Then Krisrix voiced her for the showtime season. Then she was replaced past Hnilmik, a veteran of many popular flash animations, machinima, and adaptation projects, likewise every bit voicing Ms. Fortune in Skullgirls. Option your favorite.
  • Because Vegeta3986 left the series, everyone he played in the serial thus far has been replaced as of episode 24. Kami is now voiced by Remix, Lanipator has gone back to voicing Raditz (whenever he appears, anyway), Yamcha is now voiced past Faulerro from Nullmetal Alchemist, and Garlic Jr. and Oolong both went to KaiserNeko.
  • Primary Roshi is voiced by MasakoX in Seasons 1-two and Lanipator for Season 3.
  • KaiserNeko played Cooler in the Abridged version of the original Bardock special, merely decided not to reprise the role for Revenge of Cooler Abridged and its sequel because he felt he couldn't give the character the proper "majesty". Then TFS got GeneralIvan to play the role instead.
  • When he appeared in Christmas Tree of Might, Santa Claus was voiced by Kyle Hebert. Assuming that it's the aforementioned character, Santa'due south advent in Plan to Eradicate Christmas is this, since there he's played by Kamran Nikhad.
  • Kaiser has said that, outside of one scene in Season 3, he'd never vox Kid Trunks longterm.

• Queer Character, Queer Role player: Yajirobe, Korin, and Burter, who were all made gay in the series, are voiced by the gay KaiserNeko.
• Reality Subtext: In episode 60 Part 3, Goku gives a speech about not wanting to be brought back to life, which is framed in such a way to bring upwards the real life rumors that DBZA would be catastrophe. TFS wasn't sure what they were going to practise, so they wrote the episode as a possible Series Finale in case they decided to terminate it in that location. It was designed to needle the fans. Although episode 60 was the end of the serial, that wasn't the plan when it was released; just much subsequently did they pull the plug on the bear witness.
• Recycled Script:
  • Parodied in-universe in Lord Slug Abridged. Several of Slug's henchmen get fried after they accidentally refer to him every bit "King Piccolo", and even the Dragon finds his wish very familiar. It's like plenty that even Goku figures it out.
  • Much to his disdain, characters find this most Cooler when it comes to Freeza.
  • In The World'due south Strongest Abridged, everyone (even their creator) confuses the Bio-Men with the Saibamen who came downwards with Vegeta and Nappa. I of them blows up Yamcha in the same mode, except he survives this time. Piccolo besides adds to his Running Gag of how the Quirky Miniboss Squad in the movies is e'er the same: Dumb Muscle, Pretty Boy, and freaky conflicting with the weird powers.
• Office Reprise:
  • Afterward more than or less putting Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged on permanent hiatus in 2011, Lanipator reprised the roles of Yusuke and Kuwabara in 2017 for a video short where they challenge Cell to a fight in the days leading up to the Prison cell Games.
  • Yami Yugi is voiced past none other than LittleKuriboh.
  • Taka pulls double duty voicing Wolverine and Cell at the same time.
• Schedule Sideslip: The release of History of Trunks was given a teaser trailer that promised a February 2015 upload. Information technology didn't come up out until March 19th.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: As with many Abridged Series, DBZA has been hit with copyright strikes and various other troubles, particularly in its latter years. This ended up being ane of the reasons (along with the usual creative burn-out and desire to do original piece of work rather than parody an existing i) that Season four was ultimately cancelled, as by and then TFS had grown exponentially every bit a business with its non-DBZA projects, and all of information technology could take been lost if they pushed their luck as well far.
• Talking to Himself: Even though the cast is significantly larger than that of most Abridged Serial, multiple performance is nonetheless unavoidable.
  • Lanipator has it the worst, voicing Krillin, Popo, Piccolo, Primary Roshi, and Vegeta.
  • Like the original Japanese version, Goku and Gohan share the same phonation actor, MasakoX. He manages to make them then distinct that he can fifty-fifty pull off young Goku in flashback, who sounds kind of like Gohan but not plenty to be mistaken for him.
  • Recoome and Jeice are both voiced past Ganxingba. And as two members of the Ginyu Force, they are often talking to each other.
  • Takahata101 runs into information technology whenever Dende speaks with either Guru or Porunga.
  • Even though KaiserNeko mostly played supporting or peripheral characters before Trunks' arrival, he all the same ran into this with King Kai and Gregory along with Korin and Yajirobe, who live with each other in the former's tower (and who were upgraded to a romantic pairing in the Abridged Serial). Additionally, it happens when George Takei interrupts King Kai's telepathic calls.
  • Lampshaded at Youmacon 2009, where Lani introduces himself as playing Chris Sabat.
  • In "Black to the Future", a Dragon Ball Super short, MasakoX plays both Goku and Black Goku in the same scene.
• Throw It In: KaiserNeko mentions in a few Episode Breakdowns a number of unscripted things that were added in:
  • In Kai Abridged Episode 2, Goku getting interrupted in mid-sentence past Vegeta dying is a result of MasakoX flubbing his line. Freeza Flipping the Bird was also ad-libbed.
  • GanXingba mentioned on Twitter that he advertizement-libbed a lot of Android 17's dialogue.
  • When Cell meets the E City Westmen in Episode 44, his head turns in a quick, unnatural style. This was originally a fluke, they but kept it because information technology looked, fittingly for Cell, disturbing.
• Trolling Creator: As explained nether Reality Subtext, the entire final act of Episode 60 part iii is played upward as the Series Fauxnale for all information technology's worth; they didn't intend for it to exist at the fourth dimension, but fans were speculating that it would exist. It did turn out to exist the real Serial Finale, but over a twelvemonth later the episode was released.
• Vaporware:
  • The abridged version of Dragon Brawl Z: Bojack Unbound was teased in Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan Abridged in Jan 2017, and was officially promised in several update videos and social media posts. It was officially cancelled in September 2019.
  • The Flavour three finale of DBZA, released in 2018, concluded with a teaser card promising a Flavor 4. Multiple update videos and social media updates throughout 2018 and 2019 made promises almost the release window, with the timeline being pushed back every time. In October 2019 an off-manus reference was snuck into an update video that the team was considering making Season 4 with original 3D animation rather than the repurposed anime footage the series was known for. In January 2020, KaiserNeko made a Twitter postal service that noticeably said that if Season four was made, information technology would be done with 3D models. After being bombarded with questions by upset fans, the squad finally admitted that Flavour iv was cancelled in February 2020.
• What Could Have Been:
  • LittleKuriboh posted his audience video revealing that he originally auditioned to play Captain Ginyu. TFS ended up loving the Freeza vocalization more and requested a 2d audition tape. Lanipator was originally supposed to play Freeza with a Linda Young impression, merely TFS dropped it once they decided to cast LittleKuriboh (it's referenced in Bardock: The Father of Goku, with Lanipator briefly playing Freeza before coughing and switching to LittleKuriboh'southward portrayal). Interestingly, LK was auditioning for Freeza all along, but knowing that Lanipator was already penciled in for the office, he snuck in his impression by auditioning for Ginyu instead.
  • The breakdown for History of Trunks reveals that in that location was quite a argue about whether Gohan should actually have Bulma up on her offer, though everyone'southward happy they wimped out. Just simply in instance you lot're not happy they wimped out, thanks to a fan attempt, you lot can see an alternating take on the scene, where Gohan accepts Bulma'southward offering.
  • RWBY creator Monty Oum apparently wanted to voice Time to come Gohan in History of Trunks, merely he sadly passed away before getting the chance. The special was dedicated to his memory.
  • History of Trunks was going to have a plot point where Trunks actually died and the one who came back was a clone, but it was dropped.
  • The breakdown for Episode 51 reveals that KaiserNeko was originally going to play all three versions of Cell. Merely he wanted to play Trunks instead and felt Takahata101'southward estimation was "too much fun to pass up".
  • The original plan for Android 17 was that he would speak in Totally Radical fashion, but this was quickly accounted annoying and dropped. The gag was later used when Cell impersonates 17 to endeavour and convince 18 to let herself be absorbed, with the goofy speech patterns proving that Cell knows nothing about either of them.
  • According to their Budokai ii playthrough, TFS's initial script for the Buu Saga had Mr. Satan as a Conspiracy Theorist who, rather than stealing the credit for defeating Cell, was desperately trying to convince the globe that the Conflicting Superbeings who did and so are real.
  • In a livestream later on the release of Broly Abridged, Lani said that they wanted to cast Markiplier and JonTron as Broly and Paragus respectively, just information technology didn't work out because of Marker and Jon's incredibly decorated schedules. He too said that they've been speaking with Marking about playing a number of roles, just it probably won't happen for the same reason.
  • There was some consideration to skip abridging Broly'due south movie entirely, likely due to most of the squad hating him, but they went through with it.
  • A tweet released during the Cell Games shorts seemed to hint at a possible appearance by Yang Xiao Long, simply sadly never materialized.
  • A couple of days later Programme to Eradicate Christmas premiered, KaiserNeko clarified on Twitter that the special was significantly different from what was originally planned. According to him, rather than existence a Christmas-themed parody, it would've been a more than straight comical pastiche of Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, with the principal gimmick being that it'd repeatedly shift betwixt the 1993 and 2008 versions of the OVA due to Dr. Raichi'due south car causing a tear in the space-time continuum. The special was somewhen retooled into a Christmas episode both due to time constraints ^note KaiserNeko described the 1993 footage every bit being too difficult to edit to the intended extent, which makes sense considering how information technology'southward only bachelor in sub-par quality at best and considering of the surprisingly apt timing of its production. The original plan for the special did end up getting an innuendo in the form of a cursory sight gag when Goku and visitor encounter Santa Claus and he accuses Trunks of messing with the infinite-time continuum, and Trunks insists that the continuum is fine — while shifting between the modernistic and 1993 versions mid-judgement.
  • During the 10th anniversary livestream, Kaiser said that he initially wanted to requite the role of Hereafter Trunks to GanXingba while he played Android 17. Even so, the residuum of the squad insisted that Kaiser was amend as Trunks (and that Gan was perfect as 17), so they concluded up with the roles every bit they are today.
  • TFS wanted to brand an Abridged voicepack modern for Dragon Ball FighterZ, simply dropped the idea after Arc System Works patched the game then that mods are disabled during online play, which effectively rendered the entire thought meaningless.
  • When the 10th anniversary livestream got to Nappa'southward scene in the Season 2 finale, Lani and Taka revealed that they considered including lines implying that Ghost Nappa was simply a hallucination on Vegeta's part and that he was crazy and doomed to be haunted by hallucinations of ghosts, with Ghost Guru being Ghost Nappa's successor.
  • In the original DBZ, Freeza says it'll take 5 minutes for Namek to explode, which becomes laughable considering how many episodes information technology takes. Team Four Star briefly considered making the concluding Goku and Freeza fight really five minutes long, but quickly realized that would be impossible, even for an abridged series. They compromised by Goku questioning if Freeza fifty-fifty knows how long a minute is.
  • The crew mulled the idea of the Cell Jr. fighting Yamcha beingness noticeably weaker than the others, every bit a ways to explicate how Yamcha could concord his own when the others are leagues ahead of him and doing but the same. They eventually just cutting that scrap when they couldn't figure out how to arrive fit.
  • The song Cell sings as he dies went through a few permutations. They were all set to make it "We'll Run across Again" by Vera Lynn, but KaiserNeko rejected it and pointed out that Prison cell and Gohan never really do meet again. Takahata101 was the one to advise the song eventually used: "My Style" by Frank Sinatra.
  • The entirety of Bojack Unbound Abridged is a case of this. Lani blamed it on scripting difficulties, while Kaiser went more in-depth and explained that the moving-picture show had then little story and such a slow villain that it was impossible for them to abridge it to their usual quality; all the jokes they could retrieve of were shallow, bromidic, or mean-spirited. Their feel with this was one of several reasons why they decided to abolish the serial as a whole after episode lx.
  • With the ending of the series, TFS's planned adaptation of the Buu Saga leaves many ideas on the cutting room floor:
    • Gohan was planned to model his superhero persona on Superpower Lottery winners like Superman, and Videl would provide a contrast by beingness a Badass Normal like Batman or the Question.
  • They weren't exactly sure of how the characters would react to Saiyaman, only i thought was that Vegeta would be completely taken in by the identity and not be able to effigy out that Gohan and Saiyaman are the same person.
    • As revealed in their playthrough of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Mr. Satan would have attempted to rebrand himself every bit "Hercule" to be more "family-friendly", reflecting the original'southward Dub Name Change for the same reason.
    • The team considered standing the series in the style of Dragon ShortZ to get around YouTube'due south notoriously strict copyright rules, but that would have required even more time and expense than the previous seasons, and they were already dealing with some serious burnout. They were also concerned that such an Art Shift would negatively bear upon the series' quality.
  • The DBZ Movie Marathon on Twitch revealed the script for the Broly moving picture was originally much longer and included things like Goku and Broly's kickoff fight, but they realized that would serve essentially every bit filler and wouldn't mesh with the characterization of Broly they were going for.
• Give-and-take of Dante:
  • Some fans utilize TFS'south Fanon most the catechism series, particularly with regard to The Multiverse. The Abridged Series itself refers to Alternate Timelines equally "universes", in keeping with the use of the term in Dragon Ball Multiverse, simply Dragon Ball Super established a whole different definition of a "universe" that direct contradicts TFS'due south explanation.
  • The original Dragon Brawl Z never depicts how Gero's son was killed, and Akira Toriyama said in supplemental material but that he was killed in battle past an enemy soldier. The Abridged Series includes a scene which shows that Gero'due south son was killed (along with many others) by Goku himself in the grade of the original Dragon Ball. Many fans now adopt the Abridged Series version as Fanon.
• Word of Gay: Several characters voiced by KaiserNeko are gay, but not all of them are. He's had to clarify on Tumblr that they're not gay considering he's gay, but because it would accept been funnier; Korin and Yajirobe were a perfect Odd Couple, and Burter having no obvious indicator of his sexual orientation made it funny for him to be outed. But Oolong, Turtle, Rex Kai, Gregory, Zarbon, and Future Trunks are non gay.
• Word of God:
  • Kaiser mentioned in a podcast that he considers all the Abridged Movies Alternate Universes where sure events from catechism branched off. Cooler and Broly's debut movies, withal, are seemingly prepare by and edited to fit in with the main series. As for Cooler 2, however, KaiserNeko went full self-admitted Soapbox Sadie, ranting that it had too many continuity errors to fifty-fifty attempt and make it fit in the timeline. Amusingly, the concept of the movies taking place in alternating timelines is canon thank you to Xenoverse two.
  • Later Episode 55 came out, some fans interpreted the scene at the end as Chi-Chi raping Goku in order to excogitate Goten; some were upset, while more disturbingly, some found that interpretation hilarious, and it got to the point where TFS had to add "rape" (and all variations thereof) to the discussion filter in their YouTube comments. Kaiser stepped in both online and in person at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2016 (the weekend afterwards 55 was released) to clarify that information technology was not rape, that Goku knows about sexual practice, and that everything that happened was consensual. Episode 56, released soon after, clarified information technology farther, with Goku explaining to Krillin that he knew perfectly well that he could say no; he just can't back down from a claiming (and it feels good, and maybe Krillin should try it one-time). His real problem is that he didn't know that sex makes babies.
  • Subsequently Episode 59 came out, fans complained on Reddit that TFS had gone besides far in perpetuating the "Goku is a bad father" meme by having him force a reluctant Gohan to fight a recovered Perfect Cell. Kaiser went on Reddit to clarify that they don't recall that Goku is a terrible father; he'due south only not mentally equipped to practice the job properly (which is pretty much exactly what Akira Toriyama had to say on the subject field).
  • According to Kaiser, Mr. Satan received the lifetime supply of Hetap for "winning" the Cell Games.
• Write What You Know: During the tenth ceremony marathon on Twitch, Taka explained that Guru'southward "Party Pooper" song was something his begetter used to sing when he was being melodramatic. He added that when his dad saw the episode, he jokingly asked, "When do I get paid for this?"

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