Dragon Ball DAIMA Just Made Super Hero's Biggest Plot Hole Even Worse

Although met with universal acclaim,Dragon Ball DAIMA’s opening episode not only worsens one ofDragon Ball Super: Super Hero’s most embarrassing plot holes but makes a key moment from the controversialGTserieslook better in the process. The fact thatDAIMAliterally goes out of its way to point out this plot hole when it didn’t even need to happen in the first place just further adds insult to injury.

InDAIMA, one of the series' main antagonists, Gomah, wishes for Goku and his friends to become kids after gathering the Dragon Balls, and when Shenron asks him what to do with the ones who are already kids, Gomah quickly says on the spot to make them babies.

Emperor Pilaf runs into Goku in Dragon Ball GT

This is a major plot hole becauseturning Goku and other powerful characters like Vegeta into babies rather than kidswould have made more sense from Gomah’s standpoint, as it would have completely neutralized them. Since Shenron’s question helps him think of what naturally comes before being a kid (being a baby), Gomah should have naturally realized next that he should apply that to everyone.

Dragon Ball Wishes Are Often Plot Hole Fails

Piccolo’s Biggest Embarrassment in Super Hero Now Looks Much Better by Comparison

This unfortunate plot hole harkens back toSuper Hero’s equally embarrassing wish. One ofSuper Hero’s major purposes was to put Piccolo and Gohan in a situation where they would be the protagonists, and the only way for that to happen was to make itso Goku and Vegeta couldn’t get involved. Unfortunately, this also required Piccolo to get exponentially stronger, and this could only happen with the help of the Dragon Balls.

Since the Dragon Balls could easily bring both Saiyans back to Earth,Super Heroneeded to come up with a way for this not to occur, and the end result wasPiccolo and Bulma just forgetting to wish for them to come back after summoning Shenron. Interestingly, just likeDAIMA,Super Herohad a character call this out. The difference was that Piccolo had already made his final wish once Bulma puts two and two together, while Gomah makes his realization when he still has wishes left but doesn’t follow through.

Dragon Ball DAIMA Justifies Pilaf’s GT Wish

This correlation aside,DAIMA’s explanation as to how Goku and his friends become kids is much less convincing than its main point of inspiration,Dragon BallGT. InGT,Pilaf had just summoned Shenron when he sees Goku, causing him to mutter to himself that he wished Goku was a kid again. Of course,Shenron misinterprets this as Pilaf’s actual wish, transforming Goku in the process. This situation is very believable because Pilaf actually knew Goku when he was still a kid, and since Goku was much more powerful as an adult, it would make sense that Pilaf would wish Goku was young again, especially since Pilaf almost defeated Goku once.

By comparison,DAIMAdoesn’t give such a convincing explanation.Gomah just randomly comes up with the ideain an effort to avoidmaking a “Black Wish,“something that Earth’s Dragon Balls do not allow. Ironically,DAIMAdid present its own opportunity at the beginning of the episode, when Gomah is watching the “highlights” of the Majin Buu saga, he could have been watching more events from Goku’s life, including when he was a kid. Instead,Dragon Ball DAIMAjust repeated the same plot hole mistake fromDragon Ball Super:Super Hero.