For many years, Dragon Ball GT was viewed as the final installment of the Dragon Ball franchise. While its place in continuity has gone from questionable to strictly non-canon thanks to Dragon Ball Super, many still view GT as an earnest attempt to bring the saga of Goku and his allies to a close.
While GT does function as a definitive finale (even as just a “what-if”), the series actually left quite a few things unresolved. Some were left deliberately unanswered or open to interpretation, while others are questions whose answers could clarify certain events that took place in the series.
10 Where Did Doctors Gero & Myuu Find The Parts To Build A Second Android 17? And How Did They Build Him Unnoticed?
The Android 17 that Doctor Gero and Baby’s creation, Doctor Myuu, invented together had incredible capabilities, such as being able to communicate and control the original Android 17 from great distances, as well as fuse with his predecessor into the ultra-powerful Super 17.
Yet a question remains: how did Gero and Myuu pull it off? They certainly have the ability, but would have needed to acquire a considerable amount of technological equipment undetected. Perhaps they managed to secretly steal components from the various machines King Yemma’s ogres use? It’s also unclear how they built “Hell Fighter 17” without the ogres noticing.
9 Do All Robots With A.I. Keep Their Bodies In The Afterlife?
In the Dragon Ball manga, keeping one’s body in the afterlife was a rare honor given primarily to noble fighters, although the Dragon Ball Z anime expanded that privilege to villains. Only organic beings seemed to end up in Other World, including Cell, being a Bio-Android.
The Super 17 Saga, however, depicted completely robotic beings like Dr. Myuu as afterlife residents. While some might speculate that Myuu and Dr. Gero rebuilt Android 19, Major Metallitron, and General Rilldo, this was later disproven when they reappeared in Other World immediately upon destruction. Similarly, Gero retained his robot body in the afterlife, despite originally being human.
8 Why Does Hell Look So Different In GT?
Dragon Ball Z’s concept of Hell varied somewhat throughout the series but had areas that were surprisingly pleasant-looking, with pink skies, yellow clouds, and ample plant life. The Resurrection ‘F’ movie later established that planets had their specific Hells, with Earth’s being fairly expansive and consisting of many different landscapes (including one populated by fairies and dancing teddy bears).
Dragon Ball GT, however, portrayed a Hell that looked largely unlike other versions, with ominous purple skies, jagged rocks everywhere, and tundra underneath. Whether it was meant to be a changed Hell, or merely a different part of the realm, was never revealed.
7 Does Overusing Porunga & Ultimate Shenron Also Unleash Evil Dragons? And What Are They Like?
By GT’s final saga, Earth’s Dragon Balls had been used so often in just a few decades that the negative energy from each wish had built up without having time to dissipate. Consequently, Shenron was replaced by Black Smoke Shenron, who then unleashed seven smaller, but extremely powerful Shenrons around Earth.
The phenomenon was never said to be exclusive to Earth’s Dragon Balls, suggesting that asking too many wishes too soon from Porunga and even Ultimate Shenron (the dragon of the Black Star Dragon Balls) could also summon evil dragons. Both dragons are stronger than Shenron, meaning their evil counterparts might also be more powerful.
6 Did Gero Also Intend For Android 18 To Be Stronger, Like Android 17?
While toasting with Dr. Myuu, Dr. Gero revealed that the original Android 17 was supposed to be even stronger than Cell, but his residual human feelings and resentment over being turned into a cyborg prevented him from accessing his full power.
Given how Gero turned 17’s sister, Android 18, into a cyborg through the exact same process, could 18 also have dormant power held back by the traces of humanity left in her psyche? As 18 is an Infinite Energy Android like her brother, it already makes sense that she’d have access to great power. She also harbored the same dislike for Gero that 17 possessed.
5 Did Pan Learn The Super Saiyan Transformations During GT’s Massive Time Jump?
Though fans have a bone to pick with Dragon Ball GT in general when it comes to how other characters were repeatedly upstaged by Goku, many take particular issue with how that affected Pan. Though a powerful and skilled martial artist with Saiyan blood, Pan never advanced much fighting-wise in GT, not even reaching the first level of Super Saiyan.
Had Pan continued training for even part of GT’s century-long time skip, however, it’s highly likely she would have started unlocking the Super Saiyan forms. Yet GT never confirmed if Pan succeeded, or even if she’d stayed a fighter.
4 Did Goku Ever Manage To Get Piccolo Out Of Hell?
Heroic sacrifices were Piccolo’s specialty in Dragon Ball GT. When Earth exploded at the end of the Baby Saga, Piccolo chose to let the explosion take his life so the Black Star Dragon Balls could never endanger a planet again. Later, he deliberately got himself cast out of Heaven so he could help Goku escape Hell.
While Piccolo succeeded, he was unable to leave Hell himself. In GT’s last episode, however, Goku visited Piccolo and promised to find a way to free him. Yet shortly afterward, the story jumped to the far future, never revealing whether Goku managed to make good on his word.
3 How Did Earth’s Dragon Balls Resurrect Krillin A Second Time?
The final wish Shenron granted was resurrecting everyone killed thanks to the corruption of the Dragon Balls. The wish not only restored the Shadow Dragons’ victims but also everyone Super 17 and the villains from Hell killed, as the Dragon Balls’ corruption had facilitated their presence on Earth.
How did Krillin return, however? Earth’s Dragon Balls can only revive a person once, and Krillin had been killed in the past, namely by Tambourine. Perhaps Shenron resurrected him again by combining the three wishes he usually grants into one; as Dragon Ball Z demonstrated, certain requests, such as resurrecting many people, use up multiple wishes.
2 Where Did Shenron & Goku Go?
When the Shadow Dragons were defeated, the classic version of Shenron returned, appearing for the first time without being called forward. Shenron explained the Dragon Balls had been overused, and he could no longer allow anyone to make more wishes in the near future. After granting Goku one last wish, the dragon then left with the de-aged Saiyan to go on their next journey.
While GT showed Shenron and a revived Goku visiting many of the latter’s friends, their ultimate destination was never disclosed. Given how Goku might have been dead, perhaps they went to an unseen part of Other World.
1 Was Goku Alive Or Dead When GT Ended?
By far one of the biggest questions the series rose was whether Goku had survived his battle against Omega Shenron. Though he seemed alive and no halo had appeared over his head, a number of his allies observed that something was different about him.
The ambiguity was a deliberate choice by Dragon Ball GT’s creators, with series writer Atsushi Maekawa suggesting that Goku’s possible “death” occurred when he prevented Omega Shenron’s energy ball from destroying Earth. Goku’s body ends up hundreds of feet underground, as if in a grave, and his friends think him dead until he reemerges, charging the Universal Spirit Bomb.