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IS DRAGON BALL GT CANON?

By Sam Stone
Published Apr 8, 2019


With Dragon Ball Super taking place after the events of Dragon Ball Z, is the
anime series Dragon Ball GT still canonical with the main franchise?




With Dragon Ball Super done for the foreseeable future, the Dragon Ball
franchise still has lingering questions about the canonicity of the anime series
Dragon Ball GT. Since it aired in Japan for 64 episodes and a television special
from 1996 to 1997, the series' status as being canon has been an ongoing debate
among fans even before Super was announced as it is the only series lacking
direct involvement from Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, who only gave the
project his blessing and named it GT (short for Grand Tour).

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With Super taking place within the ten-year time jump after the end of Dragon
Ball Z, the possibility remains that GT could still be considered canon so
here's an overview of the divisive series as we figure out if the events of
Super contradict GT and seal the events of the series as non-canon once and for
all.


WHEN DOES DRAGON BALL GT TAKE PLACE?



GT begins five years after the finale to Dragon Ball Z, where Goku departed with
the pure-hearted, human reincarnation of Majin Buu, Uub, train him and unlock
his full potential. The anime starts with an epic sparring match between the two
at the Lookout high in the Earth's atmosphere with Goku declaring that Uub has
finally completed his training. In the interim, Goku's granddaughter Pan is now
a teenager, as is Vegeta and Bulma's daughter Bulla. Trunks has become the
President of Capsule Corp. while both Gohan and Goten have dropped out of
training; Gohan to pursue his career in academia while Goten is more interested
in chasing women.



As Goku and Uub spar, an elderly Emperor Pilaf with his minions Shu and Mai
sneak into the Lookout and discover the Black Star Dragon Balls created by the
Namekian that watched over Earth before separating into Kami and Piccolo. Caught
by Goku, Pilaf accidentally wishes Goku to transform into a child before the
Dragon Balls scatter across the cosmos, which kickstarts the events of the
series.


DRAGON BALL GT'S NEW CHARACTERS AND TRANSFORMATIONS



Even with his body reverted to that of a child, Goku is still able to transform
into a Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan 3 though he has trouble sustaining this
form in his tiny body. While Goku hunts for the Black Star Dragon Balls across
the universe, the Truffle weapon Baby takes advantage of Goku's limitations by
possessing the other warriors of Earth before settling on Vegeta's body as his
host. Nearly overwhelmed, Goku regrows his Saiyan tail and transforms into the
powerful Super Saiyan 4 to ultimately defeat Baby and cleanse the people of
Earth.



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After destroying Super Android 17 and gathering the Dragon Balls to resurrect
those he killed, including Krillin, the Dragon Balls crack open from overuse
unleashing the evil Shadow Dragons on Earth. Goku tracks down and beats all of
them, using a Universal Spirit Bomb to destroy the final Dragon, Omega Shenron.
Upon Shenron's defeat, Goku agrees to travel with the Eternal Dragon,
reappearing a century later to observe his identical grandson fight Vegeta's
grandson during the World Martial Arts Tournament.


HOW DOES DRAGON BALL GT FIT INTO DRAGON BALL SUPER?



The biggest discrepancy between Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball GT is the
power levels. Super has Goku and Vegeta reach entirely new levels of strength
and transformations that are never seen in GT despite taking place years before.
Admittedly, this is because the Super forms hadn't been created yet, but their
absence in GT does raise questions about canonicity. This extends to Frieza, who
returns in GT from beyond the grave but is unable to transform in his more
powerful golden form that debuted in Super.



The other major contradictions include Android 17, who is seen as a loner in GT
while Super depicts the former villain as reformed and with a young family of
his own. Additionally, Pilaf and his associates who have grown quite elderly by
the start of GT are actually restored to their youth by the Dragon Balls some
time before the events of Super, in an inversion of how GT begins. That the trio
would suddenly be at old age a little over a decade later seals Dragon Ball GT's
fate as no longer canon.

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The Dragon Ball franchise has no shortage of out-of-continuity stories with the
majority of its spinoff animated films in direction contradiction to the series
and seen as non-canon side stories by Toriyama. GT certainly falls into this
camp as an alternate future if the events of Super never happened with its
difference in transformations and depictions of several key character; it just
happens to run for 64 episodes and a TV special.



Dragon Ball Super Volume 7 is available on Blu-ray now.




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Sam Stone is a 10th level pop culture guru living just outside of Washington, DC
who knows an unreasonable amount about The Beatles. You can follow him on
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