Dragon Ball GT is controversial among the famed franchise's fandom, with many having no qualms about the sequel series being non-canon. In the years since, a truly canonical sequel to Dragon Ball Z has been released in the form of Dragon Ball Super, and it's taken the franchise's popularity to new heights. Super has even brought in new versions of formerly non-canon elements of the DBZ movies.
GT currently remains non-canon, but a few concepts from the series deserve a second chance. One of these would be the villainous Baby and the Saiyan/Tuffle feud he represented, with this element of the Dragon Ball mythology being easily the best part of GT. Having already made a canon version of Broly, it's time for Dragon Ball Super to do the same with the series' most infantile villain.
Baby and the Tuffles Were the Best Part of Dragon Ball GT
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Baby was introduced in the second major arc of Dragon Ball GT, with the series at that point transitioning back to the action of Dragon Ball Z after failing to replicate Dragon Ball's adventure comedy formula. The villain was supposedly the creation of Machine Mutant Dr. Myuu, but Baby himself revealed that the opposite was true. Baby was a parasitic lifeform (fittingly beginning life in a fetal type of state) created by the alien Tuffles. This species originally inhabited the world that would become known as Planet Vegeta before the savage Saiyans invaded and killed them off. Utilizing the parasite Baby, the Tuffles aimed to get revenge on the Saiyans one day and live on through the Tuffle King DNA that Baby contained.
The Tuffles themselves previously appeared in the non-canon movie Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, though they once existed within the main universe of Dragon Ball as well. In fact, other universes were shown to still have Tuffles, allowing them to still have a presence of sorts in the franchise. This presence could be greatly expanded by bringing their greatest creation, the parasitic Baby, into the story of Dragon Ball Super. In fact, one popular movie has already shown how it could work.
A New, Canon Version of Baby Could Appear in Dragon Ball Super
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The character Broly is one of the most popular Saiyans in Dragon Ball, but for the longest time, he wasn't even canon. His sole major appearances were in a trilogy of Dragon Ball Z movies, none of which were canon to the anime or the manga. Seeing how much fans loved the character, Akira Toriyama finally introduced a new version of Broly that was canon to the main story.
Showing up in the film Dragon Ball Super: Broly, this incarnation of the Legendary Super Saiyan was both similar and different to the classic films. Such a template could easily be applied to Baby, bringing him out of the continuity dead end that is Dragon Ball GT. Much of Baby's story from GT could be kept in Dragon Ball Super, with the creature once again being a parasitic being meant to infect and kill the Saiyans in revenge for the Tuffles.
Elements like Dr. Myuu and the Machine Mutants could be skipped, with Baby simply landing on Earth through some sort of delayed spacecraft. From there, he would unleash his plan to eradicate the Saiyans, perhaps even possessing Vegeta to pit Goku against a canon Super Baby Vegeta 2. Baby's being made canon stems from his being one of the better elements of GT, and that was largely due to his personal connection to Goku and the Saiyans.
Though his powers were somewhat similar to Cell and even Majin Buu, Baby's backstory made him a sort of reverse Frieza. As his people were wiped out by the Saiyans, it made sense why Baby wanted megalomaniacal revenge. He may not be canon to the true story of the franchise at the moment, but a slightly retooled Baby could easily fit into Dragon Ball's current multiversal landscape of Saiyans and gods.