10 Strongest Non-Canon Dragon Ball Forms, Ranked
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Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball continually raises its stakes through rewarding character development, stronger challenges, and an ever-expanding universe. Progress in Dragon Ball is demonstrated in many different ways, but an intimidating transformation is usually the simplest way to visualize a character’s growth. Transformations are one of Dragon Ball’s most popular traditions, and some of these metamorphoses, like Super Saiyan ascensions, have practically become synonymous with the series.
New Super Saiyan transformations complement each of Dragon Ball Z’s major story arcs, and this trend has continued in Dragon Ball Super with Super Saiyan God, Super Saiyan Blue, and beyond. Dragon Ball has no shortage of canonical transformations, but part of what makes this franchise so much fun is that there’s endless expanded universe material to explore in Dragon Ball video games, movies, and promotional anime and manga. This extra content also introduces a wide range of transformations and new forms that may not necessarily be official Dragon Ball canon, but are still lots of fun to explore.
Dragon Ball Z’s feature films are a great source of non-canonical transformations that strive to take characters like Goku to new heights without bucking the manga and anime series’ status quo. The first three Dragon Ball Z movies feature grandiose finales that celebrate Goku’s Kaio-Ken Attack and Spirit Bomb. However, Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug opts for a Super Saiyan finish, yet faces some difficulty due to the film’s release predating the anime’s introduction of this momentous transformation by several months. It’s very likely that Goku’s Pseudo Super Saiyan transformation in Lord Slug was meant to be the official Super Saiyan state, yet the movie’s production team was just unsure of what this transformation would look like when it made its anime debut during Goku’s fight against Frieza.
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