The DBZ Phenomenon: How Dragon Ball Z Made Non-Canon Villains And Heroes Immortal

(This time Without images because somebody doens't like images whether they are fanarts or official anime screenshots)

as how you can deduce by the title we will be discussing how The non canon villains and heroes from the dragon ball franchise made something that is almost impossible for these type of characters that do not appear in original manga story ,stay relevant , not being forgotten and having loyal fanbase

**In the anime world the norm is simple the canon characters get all the spotlight and the non canon ones that appear in filler or in movies get forgotten about , here are some examples**

**\*\*Naruto:\***\*There is not even a Single movie character that fans remember much less they dont appear in videogames most of them have pretty mediocre boring designs and their motivations dont help either

**One Piece:** the same problem with naruto , pretty boring designs lack of motivation or even some kind of hype moment and 0 presence in the videogames **(Tapion alone is more relevant and more memorable than all the non canon characters from naruto and one piece he has his own soundtrack , good motivations and good story and peak design)**

this is like the staple for a lot of shonen animes but i have found a few exceptions Like Saint Seiya and YU-GI-OH

**\*\*Saint seiya:\*\***has the whole asgard arc from the anime with memorable characters superb soundtrack and appearance in videogames , and top tier classic movies like **Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth**

**Yu-Gi-Oh:** the most memorable and relevant non canon characters it had in the original anime was in the Waking the Dragons arcs with doma and dartz as main villain

returning to DBZ , these characters like cooler ,broly, janemba have appeared during multiple games of dragon ball sometimes as base roster other times as DLC and one of them made the impossible....Possible.. thanks to master toriyama broly the legendary super saiyan became canon to the main story of dragon ball and is recieving new stories and more character development

if you ask my opinion on why this certain phenomenon happened it was combination of factors

**Peak Designs (most of these designs were made by akira toriyama himself) , hype moments in their movies with superb quality animation , and of course consistent presence in the videogames be it old or new**

**Feel free to leave your own thoughs in the comment i Thank you for your time reading this post i greatly appreciate it , and this post was made without the use of fanarts only official anime screenshots**