Serial and crack sites. The franchise is notorious for making its cast less relevant over time. Anyone who wasn't a Saiyan ended up becoming useless within the space of a few arcs. Android 17 is later revived with the Dragon Balls. Android 17 appears in multiple Dragon Ball Z games. In the 2005 game Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi, Android #17 becomes Super 17 and is confronted by Cell, Super 17 showing an interest in killing Goku before being defeated. Tien went from being one of the first people to ever defeat Goku in a fair fight, to getting his pants pulled down during their next serious tournament match. Frieza was the unstoppable scourge of the universe in one arc and then jobbed out to Trunks within the first few minutes of the next one. The only things left to challenge Goku and Vegeta are the literal gods of the universe, which is pretty much the premise of Dragon Ball Super. We are here today to try and find the characters who were totally forgotten about by the other characters (and the author) of Dragon Ball Z. From the Android who saved the world, to the girl who fell out of Toriyama's brain, here are 15 Dragon Ball Z Characters Who Were Completely Abandoned. When Goku traveled to the afterlife after the Cell Games, he was introduced to the other Kais from different parts of the galaxy. The anime had a filler arc that was set in the afterlife, where fighters from across the universe battled in a tournament in order for a chance to be trained by the Grand Kai. The Grand Kai was the ruler of the other Kais and was said to be one of the strongest warriors in the universe. ![]() He also looks like a guy who follows the Grateful Dead around on tour. You might think that Grand Kai doesn't belong on this list, due to him being a character created for the filler arcs. His inclusion to the story was actually suggested by Akira Toriyama. The presence of the Grand Kai was mostly made redundant by the arrival of the Supreme Kai in the Majin Buu arc, as he fulfilled much of the same role. The pantheon of the universe grew much larger in Dragon Ball Super and the gods have taken on a much larger role in the story, yet we still haven't heard anything from the Grand Kai in a long time. One of the story arcs in the original Dragon Ball series was called the Fortuneteller Baba Saga. Goku was unable to discover the location of one of the Dragon Balls, so he seeks the aid of Fortuneteller Baba. She agrees to help him if he can form a team that can defeat her five champions. Goku and his friends have to battle Fangs the Vampire, See-Through the Invisible Man, Bandages the Mummy, Spike the Devil Man, and a mysterious masked stranger. Fortuneteller Baba's warriors never appear again after their debut, despite them possessing some of the best abilities in the series. Spike could have killed most of the villains in the series with his Devilmite beam, yet he never shows up again, even when the safety of the world is at stake. The anime only brought some of the monsters back for 'blink and you'll miss it' cameos during the Majin Buu Saga. Android 16 was the nicest of Dr. Gero's creations. He was programmed with the purpose of destroying Goku, yet he seemed to be able to grow beyond this and wanted to live a peaceful life. Android 16 was killed by Perfect Cell during the Cell Games. It was his death that finally made Gohan snap and activate his full potential. Yamcha would later use the Dragon Balls to revive everyone who was killed by Cell and the Androids. However, we do not see Android 16 revived and he is never mentioned again. The Dragon Balls do have the power to revive the Androids, as Android 18 was brought back after being destroyed during the Majin Buu arc. So what happened t0 Android 16? Did he use the confusion after the Cell Games to hide from his siblings, in an effort to seek an ordinary life? Was he actually brought back to life by the Dragon Balls? We have yet to discover his true fate. The Dragon Ball movies are even further away from established canon than the filler arcs of the anime. It is very difficult to fit the movies in with any sort of established timeline, so they are considered to be in a separate reality of their own. The problem with separating the two timelines is that some characters who debuted in the movies would appear in the anime. This was the case with characters like Garlic Jr. And Icarus the Dragon. Icarus was a purple dragon who befriended Gohan. He debuted in The Tree of Might and would later appear in the Garlic Jr. Saga of the anime. Icarus and Gohan were inseparable, and it seemed as if the two of them were best friends. Until the end of the Trunks Saga. Icarus just disappeared and never showed up again. Gohan mentioned Icarus briefly during the Great Saiyaman Saga, yet never clarified what actually happened to him. Grandpa Gohan was a former disciple of Master Roshi. He found the infant Goku abandoned in the forest and raised him as if he were his own son. Gohan was killed during one of Goku's earliest transformations into his Great Ape form.
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