Dragon Ball isn’t exactly known for its consistent storyline. The series has plenty of plot holes and discrepancies, but its main draw has always been its intense action and likable characters anyway. That being the case, a dropped plot thread here or there has never been something that was make-or-break for the franchise. Still, that doesn’t mean it does everything wrong. In fact, Dragon Ball Z happened to pull off one of the most complicated concepts in science fiction: time travel.Partially due to the nature of the series itself, and partly due to the way time travel was approached in the story, DBZ not only made time travel work but it made it into one of its best and most popular arcs in the entire franchise. Future Trunks is a fan-favorite DBZ character and a staple of the series, and he is ultimately central to the time travel aspect of the Cell and Android Sagas. It isn’t perfect, and there are plenty of complicated issues that arise from it, but none of the normal problems of time travel that sci-fi often succumbs to in popular media seem to have the same effect on Goku and his friends.Some sci-fi concepts are more difficult than others for an author to pull off due to the level of suspension of judgment required to make them work. Time travel is just one of those things that becomes more far-fetched the more people think about it, and the well-known paradoxes inherent in time travel narratives often make them too convoluted for audiences to take seriously. That’s why, making fans have to think about it less is usually the best way for a story to pull time travel off. While time travel can potentially be done in a more complex manner, it has to be extremely well-thought-out to do so. In other words, there’s really no happy medium when it comes to making time travel work for a story: it’s either one extreme or the other.RELATED: Dragon Ball is Actually Well-Written — As Long As You Read the Manga
Dragon Ball isn’t exactly known for its consistent storyline. The series has plenty of plot holes and discrepancies, but its main draw has always been its intense action and likable characters anyway. That being the case, a dropped plot thread here or there has never been something that was make-or-break for the franchise. Still, that doesn’t mean it does everything wrong. In fact, Dragon Ball Z happened to pull off one of the most complicated concepts in science fiction: time travel.
Partially due to the nature of the series itself, and partly due to the way time travel was approached in the story, DBZ not only made time travel work but it made it into one of its best and most popular arcs in the entire franchise. Future Trunks is a fan-favorite DBZ character and a staple of the series, and he is ultimately central to the time travel aspect of the Cell and Android Sagas. It isn’t perfect, and there are plenty of complicated issues that arise from it, but none of the normal problems of time travel that sci-fi often succumbs to in popular media seem to have the same effect on Goku and his friends.
Some sci-fi concepts are more difficult than others for an author to pull off due to the level of suspension of judgment required to make them work. Time travel is just one of those things that becomes more far-fetched the more people think about it, and the well-known paradoxes inherent in time travel narratives often make them too convoluted for audiences to take seriously. That’s why, making fans have to think about it less is usually the best way for a story to pull time travel off. While time travel can potentially be done in a more complex manner, it has to be extremely well-thought-out to do so. In other words, there’s really no happy medium when it comes to making time travel work for a story: it’s either one extreme or the other.
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