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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods is the 18th official movie in the Dragon Ball franchise. Directed past Masahiro Hosoda, it was released in Nippon on March thirty, 2013, and features heavy involvement from Akira Toriyama himself, making it 1 of the few canonical movies. An extended edition debuted on Fuji TV on March 22, 2014, adding an extra 20 minutes of footage.

The plot involves the awakening of Beerus, the God of Destruction, who due to a dream and a prophecy becomes obsessed with finding and fighting a legendary warrior called a Super Saiyan God. As such, he heads to King Kai's planet and later Earth in search of whatsoever information on this warrior. Meanwhile, the Z Warriors are jubilant Bulma'due south birthday, while the Pilaf Gang attempt to steal the Dragon Balls.

An English dub by Funimation was shown in theaters for a express run on August 5th-9th, 2014 and proved to be popular enough for a 2nd, smaller run the following Tuesday on August 12th.

In 2015 a direct sequel to the events of this moving picture was released, titled Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'.

Battle of Gods was also the final Dragon Brawl entry to feature Kenji Utsumi every bit Shenron before his death in 2014.

The events of this movie are revisited in the anime Dragon Ball Super.

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• 2nd Visuals, 3D Effects: While the majority of the battle nicely hides this, there is a part of the fight between Goku and Beerus where they are rendered in CG, which can stand out for some.
• Achievements in Ignorance: After losing the Super Saiyan God course, Goku doesn't find it... but still manages to proceed landing hits on Beerus.
• Affably Evil: Beerus and Whis, in spite of being the God of Destruction and his assistant, are actually incredibly polite and respectful. Well, Beerus is when he doesn't throw tantrums over every fiddling thing that goes wrong for him. Although, despite the fact that he'south hard-headed, Beerus is capable of being a genuinely dainty guy. He even sincerely apologizes for causing problem when all'southward said and washed.
• Almighty Janitor: Almost literally ("Almighty" is right) with Whis, who is even stronger than Beerus despite being his servant.
• Ever Someone Better: Deconstructed and exaggerated. Beerus, who is the God of Devastation and a god which all of the other gods fear. This would normally be non as dangerous because how the gods of the Dragon Ball Universe normally rank in the ability calibration, until he adjourn stomps Super Saiyan 3 Goku with a finger. Since this is the canonical universe, where Super Saiyan 3 is the strongest state aside from Mystic and Fusions, this is a big deal. Then the Super Saiyan God state, which is the strongest country in the series' canon is activated by Goku to defeat this guy, normally you'd look a Curb-Stomp Boxing to ensue and deal with the Large Bad. Nope, Goku still loses, only managing to strength Beerus to go 70% of his ability and suffers no punishment. The real scary part comes later this turns out despite being the strongest character in the series according to 5-jump, his counselor Whis is much stronger than he is, and given that we never encounter the full extent of Beerus' power, Whis' power must be across comprehension. We besides become this bit of data; turns that he's the designated God of Devastation for the universe that Dragon Ball is based in which is No.7 out of 12. To sum up Beerus, the near powerful grapheme in the series, has several entities above him. In that location's his mentor who's strong plenty to smack him around like a child as a joke, so there's the other eleven universes' Gods of Destruction that are all possibly stronger than he is. Needless to say, Goku tin can't go the strongest in the universe, considering as long as gods like Beerus exist, he never volition be. Now Goku knows exactly how his friends experience…or at least, one would think then if they didn't know Goku. Those who do would say that he clearly finds this fun.
• Blitheness Bump: The sequence where Goku and Beerus fly into space during their last battle clearly has much more effort put into it than the rest of the movie.
• Anti-Villain: Beerus is actually kind of a squeamish guy when he'due south happy, but he has a hair trigger, a childish personality, and once he's decided to destroy a planet he won't reconsider, though he can be convinced to put it off indefinitely. It's shown all-time in his fights with the Z fighters after Buu pisses him off he takes them all out quickly and cleanly using pressure level points to knock them out instead of destruction heavy attacks. Then when he and Goku are fighting in a city he doesn't utilize any large attacks and even dodges effectually a bridge.
• Armor-Piercing Slap:
  • Subverted when Bulma slaps Beerus for ruining her birthday party. It doesn't work, and he slaps her back.
  • She does it again to Goku, several times in fact, to much greater effect.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Super Saiyan God. Information technology gives even an average Saiyan the power of a god. However, it requires five righteous Saiyans, including i more to exist the receiver, to activate it and the grade only lasts a few minutes at nearly.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • Vegeta and Bulma even get a picayune tease from Goku considering of this. In fact, later on the aformentioned Armor-Piercing Slap incident, Vegeta goes apeshit on Beerus when moments before he was willing to humiliate himself to keep Beerus happy.
  • The first person Goku thinks of when everything starts going to hell is Chi-Chi. She in plough is shown crying out his proper name while in tears. Even afterwards everything that's happened throughout the franchise, they're still terrified of losing each other.
• Ax-Crazy: Beerus, especially when he is in a bad mood in his Disproportionate Retribution moments. Calculation to that he has extremely sharp personality changes, he can vary from a calmed guy to incredibly crazy, irrational and extremist if he gets angry.
• The Bad Guy Wins: If you count Beerus equally a bad guy. He gets everything he wanted and remains completely undefeated.
• Batman Tin can Breathe in Infinite: Beerus isn't bothered at all existence in a complete vacuum. Justified given that he is a god. Strangely enough, though, Goku is also unaffected during his time in World orbit, which might be explained by the Super Saiyan God powers, except that he had apparently lost the upgrade by that indicate.
• Been In that location, Shaped History: As a Running Gag, Beerus off-handedly mentions having played major roles in multiple areas of the manga's backstory backside the scenes. He was the monster that sealed Elder Kai in the Z-Sword, he caused King Kai's planet to be the tiny ball we know it as, he approved Frieza's devastation of Planet Vegeta, and he caused the virtually-extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth.
• Large Bad: Beerus.
• Big Eater: Saiyans bated, Beerus and Whis fit as they pass most of their time on World eating. Also Majin Buu, who even refuses to share a single pudding, causing Beerus'southward Asymmetric Retribution.
• Bigger on the Inside: Bulma's firm has a room large enough to contain a castle, every bit well as many other prizes.
• Bishounen Line: Goku crosses it upon assuming his Super Saiyan God form; his build becomes slightly slimmer, along with his hair and optics turning ruddy.
• Bloodshot Catastrophe: Despite Goku'southward latest ability-up, he withal loses to Beerus, failing to break his promise of destroying Earth merely he impressed Beerus enough that he ended upwards sparing information technology anyway.
• Blatant Lies: After beingness pestered virtually her age, Bulma insists she is 38. She's actually 45. Though considering Akira Toriyama's well known forgetfulness, this could accept just been a mistake. At the same time, this is in-character for Bulma to lie almost her age.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Beerus is the God of Devastation: it's his job to destroy worlds then information technology makes sense he doesn't see annihilation morally wrong with his deportment. Information technology's really established that former planets have to be destroyed so new planets can be born; the problem with Beerus is that he acts independently of the Supreme Kais (even worse now that there's merely ii of them left), chooses what planets that he will destroy at his leisure, and he tin can and will destroy even important planets without a second thought if he's irritated enough.
• Bookends: Counting but the ones that originated in Dragon Ball Z, Goku'south virtually powerful transformation, Super Saiyan God, actually looks more than similar Kaio Ken, his commencement, in that they both give him a red aura and have a particular time limit.
• Brilliant, just Lazy: Beerus comes across every bit this. He spends about of his time either eating or sleeping. Him sleeping for several years is considered a light nap. But there is no doubting his ability and the fact that he is very well trained.
• The Bus Came Back: The Pilaf Gang. Their last appearance chronologically was in the Hymeneals Dress filler in Dragon Ball and their concluding canonical to the manga appearance was in the early King Piccolo arc.
• Call-Back:
  • When Goku goes to greet Beerus, he initially says "Hi, it's me, Goku!" ("Ossu! Ora Gokuu!") before getting clocked by King Kai for his improper manners. In the original series, Goku would always use this greeting at the outset of the adjacent-episode preview. Made even funnier in the English Dub, when King Kai cracks that he "knew he'd say that".
  • During the climatic battle with Beerus, Goku starts spamming Instant Manual, ending with a point-blank Kamehameha, similar he used against Prison cell.
  • After his initial skirmish with Beerus, Goku fires a Kamehameha and has information technology come dorsum to hit him in hopes of using it to become stronger. Goku used this same method to train while on route to Namek back in the Freiza Saga.
• Catechism Immigrant: Tarble, Vegeta's brother who kickoff appeared in the special Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!. He'south mentioned in the motion picture, and seeing as the motion-picture show was actually co-authored past Toriyama himself, this makes his beingness canonical.
• Can't Agree His Liquor: Downplayed with Gohan, who gets tipsy rather than completely drunkard. He nevertheless acts over-the-top cheery and behaves irresponsibly, like letting his wife get wounded by a bullet.
• Casting Gag:
  • It'south not the first time Kōichi Yamadera has voiced an amoral god, except the last fourth dimension it was from an online game.
  • In regards of Beerus'southward Latin American Spanish vocalisation histrion José Luis Orozco:
    • He has previously voiced a true cat, except he was dumber.
    • He has previously voiced an immensely powerful beingness who spread destruction: Lord Voldemort.
  • In addition to José Luis Orozco, who voiced Suppaman in the Dragon Ball crossover with Dr. Slump, the Latin American Castilian dub brings back ten phonation actors from the Dragon Ball franchise, admitting in different roles: Arturo Castañeda (who voices a child during the Globe Martial Arts Tournament in Dragon Ball Z) is the voice of Whis, Javier Olguín (the voice of Bubbles in Kai) is the voice of Dende, José Gilberto Vilchis (the voice of Burter in Kai) voices the Supreme Kai and Luis Daniel Ramírez (the voice of Krillin in the Buu saga) reprises his role as immature Vegeta, while Circe Luna (the voice of Pan), Carlos Olizar (the voice of the Saibamen and Cell Juniors in Z), Rebeca Gómez (Pares's VA in GT), José Antonio Macías (the voice of Yamcha in Dragon Ball Development), Enzo Fortuny (the vox of Goku in the trailer for Evolution), Dafnis Fernández (the vocalism of Frieza in the first 98 episodes of Kai) and Eduardo Fonseca (the voice of King Kai in Kai) are boosted voices.
• Cats Are Superior: God of Destruction Beerus, of course.
• Character Evolution: The flick actually delivers ane of the few morally-ethical lessons that Goku was sorely lacking in his life: he'due south never going to exist amend/stronger so everyone. It was a continuous notwithstanding cleverly disguised fault in his grapheme, when he saw someone beyond him he merely had to surpass them. While earnestly and diligently working to ameliorate himself, it was too role of that Saiyan nature to demand to overcome others. Beerus teaches Goku the same lesson Vegeta came to learn during the battle with Kid Buu: there's always going to be somebody ameliorate out there. Goku even seems more respectful of Beerus as a superior once the battle is ended every bit a result. That said, he still wants to surpass Beerus and others similar him, he just has a much more than humble perspective on where he stands in the universe and beyond.
• Clipped-Wing Affections: Played With. Equally a Super Saiyan God, Goku can finally fight Beerus without going down in 2 hits. All the same, the transformation is extremely brusk lived, burning out after only a few minutes. But, Goku absorbs the powers of godhood into his body and can nonetheless fight Beerus as a basic Super Saiyan. He notwithstanding loses and Beerus was using only 70% of his power.
• Confronting Your Imposter: The Pilaf gang has this little exchange with Trunks when they get caught trying to steal the Dragon Balls from the prize room:

  Trunks: What're you lot doing in the prize room?

  Mai: We're friends of the boy who lives here.

  Trunks: Yous're not my friends!

• Cringe Comedy: The infamous "Fun Time Bingo" scene, where Vegeta, of all people, has to do a ridiculous, embarrassing trip the light fantastic toe in front of anybody to gratify Beerus. Although generally intended to exist this, it does show Graphic symbol Development for Vegeta, where he's willing to cede his pride and embarrass himself in order help save his friends and family.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Beerus does this to Super Saiyan iii Goku with one finger .
• Deity of Homo Origin: Once Goku becomes a Super Saiyan God. Although, it's deity of Saiyan origin for him.
• Demoted to Extra: All the characters that are non Goku, Vegeta, Beerus and Whis. All the others have very piddling parts or are simply Plucky Comic Relief or Cameo characters so the fans won't complain they were missing somehow.
• Did You Merely Punch Out Cthulhu?:
  • Non that it made any divergence, but props to Bulma regardless.
  • She slapped Goku, later on he became a Super Saiyan God, after he fabricated a smart annotate and did information technology again when she found out that he was watching the entire boxing where they were getting beating upwardly without coming to aid. Unlike Beerus, she got away with it.
  • The whole plot of the movie mostly amounts to this, with them attempting to cease a God that's a God fifty-fifty by DBZ standards. Though Goku does give him a good run for his coin, he ultimately fails to pull this trope off.
• Aperture Nod: Pilaf and his group were reduced to children because of the Dragon Balls, and when they meet Goten they think the same happened to Goku. Clearly this is a disregard to the first episode of Dragon Brawl GT. Which makes sense, because Pan had not been born nevertheless, and she's 5 at the finish of Dragon Ball Z. She's ten in GT while Pliaf and his gang are very one-time.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Majin Buu eats all the custard puddings at Bulma's party after Beerus asks for one. Beerus tries to destroy the Earth in return.
  • This is i of the reasons why then many of the characters dread Beerus. Whis even mentions that in the by Beerus blew upwards Male monarch Kai's world only because he lost in a round of Hibernate-and-Seek.
• The Dreaded: Beerus. Fifty-fifty Shenron himself is scared to death of him.
• Even Amoral Destroyer Gods Have Standards:
  • Beerus is disturbed and starts considering disciplining the Pilaf gang when Trunks is being held hostage and has a gun to his head, since none of the adults seem to care (it probably didn't help that he himself had been hit right in the brow with a stray bullet).
  • Beerus dislikes Frieza and planned on killing him before he found out he had been beaten to it.
• Evil Takes a Nap: The main affair keeping God of Destruction Beerus from completely wrecking the cosmos is that he loves to nap for thousands of years at a time. Unfortunately, he had a prophetic dream about fighting a Super Saiyan God, which leads him on a trail to World.
• Extremely Curt Timespan: The entire movie takes place over the afternoon of Bulma's birthday.
• Exact Words: Beerus says he has to keep his promise of destroying the Earth after Goku gives up. Nonetheless, he never said he'd have to destroy Earth right abroad. Nor did he say how much of the Earth he would destroy right and then.
• Face Death with Dignity: Faced with impending decease by Beerus, Vegeta just smirks - at least he'll dice knowing it took the God of Destruction to finish him. Beerus outright compliments him on taking information technology so well.
• Confront Fault: Beerus does this when Whis reveals that Freiza was defeated past someone other than him.
• Fat Idiot: Buu nearly gets everyone and The World destroyed because he blimp all the Custard Pudding which Beerus wanted to try into his mouth. Nice going, Tubby.
• Fatal Flaw: Beerus firmly believes that pride is the fatal flaw of all the Saiyans.
• Food Porn: Special focus is paid to a sushi-box, octopus balls and everything Beerus and Whis are eating.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Beerus delaying his destruction of Earth until Whis finished his food is Played for Laughs but one would wonder why someone with such a curt atmosphere would permit something like that to happen. It makes sense when, later, Beerus explains that Whis is actually stronger than him, so Beerus pretty much had to let Whis do what he wanted.
  • As noted on the Fridge folio, when Whis checks the condition of the Saiyan on earth he counts 5. Withal shortly subsequently we come across Goku is on King Kai's planet training, which at first might seem like a mess upwards, only in actuality this foreshadows Videl being pregnant with Pan, who is a quarter Saiyan.
• Fountain of Youth: The Pilaf Gang accept been reduced to children thanks to a mis-worded wish to Shenron. Doubles as a Mythology Gag when you lot consider that a misunderstood wish by Pilaf was the very reason Goku was turned dorsum into a kid himself in Dragon Ball GT.
• Friendly Enemy: Beerus. Even though he's a God of Devastation, Beerus doesn't have the same sadistic pleasure for hurting others that Goku's other enemies do. His and Goku'due south terminal fight even seems more like a training exercise than Blackness-and-White Morality.
• Generation Xerox: Goku'southward concluding showdown with Beerus is above the planet'south atmosphere and he'southward overwhelmed by his opponent's massive ki brawl. This is exactly how his male parent died.
• Svelte Loser: Goku. Despite clearly being disappointed that he notwithstanding lost after becoming a Super Saiyan God, he freely admits that Beerus is simply manner stronger and better than him. Beerus fifty-fifty spares his life since he admits defeat instead of fighting to the bitter stop.
• A God, I Am Non: Goku is offered the chore God of Destruction by Whis once Beerus dies but declines the offer. He besides wasn't exactly happy beingness a Super Saiyan God, although most of that was how he achieved it.
• God of Evil: Played with Beerus. He is the God of Devastation and the film's antagonist, and is profoundly feared as a result, but it'south never demonstrated that this is a bad thing, and he's quite friendly when not angered in some way.
• God Job: The aforementioned God of Destruction. Goku is even offered the job one time Beerus dies.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • Vegeta throws away his pride and entertains Beerus with a funny bingo dance to delay the destruction of Earth.
  • For Goku it was swallowing his pride to accomplish Super Saiyan God, which required energy from 5 other righteous Saiyans. He hated that information technology was a level that he couldn't attain on his own, but did information technology so that he could fight Beerus and protect his friends.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Beerus. While he's actually quite pleasant when he'due south at-home, it doesn't take much to fix him off and threaten to blow up the planet in response. The main reason he decides to accident upwards Earth is because Buu wouldn't share his pudding with him.
• Heavy Sleeper: Beerus — not only does he demand BOMBS to wake up, just he besides requires the menace of Whis singing.
• Hope Bringer: When anybody gave upwardly on opposing Beerus and prepared themselves for the end of the globe, their hope is immediately restored in one case Goku arrives, despite standing no more a adventure against Beerus than anyone else.
• Humanity Is Infectious:
  • In the extended version of the pic (also known as the uncut edition from Funimation), the Elder Kai theorizes that i of the reasons why Beerus didn't destroy Earth is because of this trope. He gives the examples of Goku and Vegeta, both who were savage warriors who were changed by the Earth and became good people.
  • The extended version shows Beerus eating some sushi sans wasabi, so deciding once and for all that World cuisine is good enough to allow the planet to live.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Beerus reveals Whis is actually his mentor and stronger than him.
• Hypocritical Humor: When Beerus tells Super Saiyan God Goku he yet hasn't used his full ability, Goku cheerfully admits that neither has he. Beerus is genuinely shocked that Goku's still property back, and flies into a rage at not beingness taken seriously.
• Karma Houdini: Beerus. While he'due south friendlier and less evil than Frieza, Cell, or Buu, still gets away with some unpleasant deportment. He cruelly used King Vegeta's head as a footstool in forepart of his own son Prince Vegeta while making him treat him to an 8-Course Feast, knowing that he is much weaker than him and with no possibility of defense force, has been responsible for numerous genocides throughout the universe, near destroyed Earth because he didn't become a dessert, and slapped Bulma.
• I Can't Sense Their Presence: When Goku asks why he can't sense someone every bit powerful as Beerus, King Kai explains that he can't sense the presence of deities. When Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan God, Krillin notes that he can't get a read on his ability whatsoever more than.
• I Gave My Word: A dark example: once Beerus has decided to destroy a planet, he tin can't back down, as the God of Destruction must retain his credibility. Though he can be convinced to delay the destruction indefinitely, and destroy a tiny role of the Earth to maintain cred.
• Is It Something You Eat?: Referencing his ain by confusion about spousal relationship, Goku asks King Kai if Beerus is some kind of candy... before quickly clarifying that's not that stupid anymore.
• Laughably Evil: Beerus, of grade.
• Lighter and Softer: Compared to the Broly and Libation films, this is much Lighter and Softer, with the return of the Dragon Brawl comedic and cartoonish elements.
• Literal Genie: Emperor Pilaf and his gang had wished for Shenron to make them immature again. Shenron regressed their ages to that of children.
• Loophole Abuse: After Beerus ultimately wins, this is how the Earth survives. He said he'd destroy it, he never said how much of it. Thus, he technically destroyed the Earth by only destroying a tiny clamper of it.
• MacGuffin/New Powers as the Plot Demands: The God Super Saiyan Mode.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Beerus accidentally destroys some planets later on eating wasabi sauce.
• Mirthless Laughter: Goku does this at the finish of the fight with Lord Beerus when, later losing decisively, Beerus says that not but is his retainer stronger, but some of the other eleven universes have warriors even stronger than him. He then faints.
• Mr. Exposition: Shenron's only role in the movie is to give information about the "Super Saiyan God" and how it can exist accomplished.
• Mundane Utility: Pilaf lampshades that Trunks used the incredible power of flying to go a mere 20 feet (in the English dub).
• Murder Is the Best Solution: As befitting a God of Destruction, Beerus' answer to every conundrum is to destroy something.
• My Secret Pregnancy: Turns out the film is placed subsequently Gohan and Videl excogitate Pan, and the only i who knows this is Dende - until the last act of the film.
• Side by side Tier Power-Up: Played With. Despite its proper noun, Super Saiyan God is from a dissimilar co-operative of a regular Super Saiyan.
• Well-nigh-Invulnerability: Despite fighting the entire cast and a Super Saiyan God, Beerus takes no noticeable damage.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Vegeta's reaction to seeing Beerus demanding pudding from Majin Buu.
  • Pilaf's reaction upon seeing Goten, see Strong Family unit Resemblance. It likewise serves a mythology gag- there was another Dragonball-era villain who thought Gohan was Goku during the Jail cell Saga, although it was filler.
  • Piccolo's reaction when he realizes that Goku lost his Super Saiyan God course.
  • Beerus' reaction to Vegeta tanking his attack.
  • Shenron of all things has this reaction when he learns Beerus is on earth and standing a few anxiety away.
• Older Than They Wait:
  • Trunks and Goten look exactly the same every bit they did at the cease of Dragon Ball Z, fifty-fifty though it's been four years since the Buu Saga. Justified in the established fact that Saiyans appear youthful throughout their childhood until their adjacent growth spurt of their late teens (like it happened with Gohan and Goku).
  • There'southward likewise Marron, Android xviii and Krillin's daughter who doesn't seem to have aged at all since the Buu Saga; justified every bit well as she is related to Krillin, who was rather small throughout his appearance in the original serial and remains comparatively shorter than the balance of the cast from there on.
  • Played with in the case of Mai, Shu and Pilaf thanks to the latter, who wished upon Shenron for them to exist young once again, causing him and his companions to exist reduced to their childhood appearances. Mai fifty-fifty mentions absentmindedly that she'll turn 41 shortly before Pilaf dismisses the annotate as a joke.
• OOC Is Serious Business: Vegeta is so absolutely terrified of Beerus that, when he gets irritated and comes close to wanting to destroy the planet, Vegeta sings karaoke extremely desperately in front of anybody who knows him to entertain Beerus and prevent him from killing them all.
  • Shenron always acts mystical and powerful when interacting with people, yet, upon learning and seeing that Beerus is standing a few feet away, he starts acting humble, and even departs less grandiosely by humbly excusing himself to Beerus instead of his usual shtick.
• Pet the Dog: After Beerus kicks his donkey and is virtually to kill him, Vegeta consoles himself by proverb at least it took the God of Destruction to do him in. Beerus acknowledges that's fair and tells Vegeta he can die with his honor intact. Later, Beerus mentions to Goku how Vegeta completely swallowed his pride to keep earth from existence destroyed, sounding a little impressed.
• The Ability of Friendship: Discussed and deconstructed: Goku becomes the Super Saiyan God thanks to this, and he'southward happy to have friends that helped him get a god, but every bit someone who has trained constantly his unabridged life, he hates how in that location'south a level of power he can't ever reach on his ain.
• The Power of Love: Vegeta attacks Beerus after the latter smacks Bulma. Vegeta then proceeds to administer a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Pride: Both Vegeta and Goku had to consume their pride in the presence of Beerus. For Vegeta, it was doing his song and dance to proceed Beerus from losing his temper. For Goku, it was becoming a Super Saiyan God since he hated it was a level he couldn't reach on his ain.
• Prophecy Twist: Discussed in the extended version. Goku at one point theorises that "Super Saiyan God" isn't a level, but rather some other surviving Saiyan named "God". And because the fact that Earth's guardian is named Kami (ie God), that isn't too far-fetched.
• Purple Is Powerful: Lord Beerus has a purple trunk and a purple aureola. He's the God of Destruction, the strongest god and the second strongest being in the universe. Well, in the seventh universe. He spends the moving-picture show curb-stomping almost anybody else (including Super Sayan 3 Goku and Majin Buu), and in the few serious fights he doesn't even accept to use 3/iv of his power.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Toriyama was originally not intended to be involved with the movie. Nonetheless because Dragonball Evolution showed him what Dragon Brawl might be like without his involvement, he jumped on lath for not but this picture, only also the sequel and Dragon Ball Super, and even aid guide Super's manga adaptation. This is one of the principal reasons why a fair amount of fans consider these works catechism over previous continuations like Dragon Brawl GT.
• Recut: An extended edition of the film aired on Fuji Telly on March 22, 2014 (near a year after the theatrical release) with an extra 20 minutes of footage.
• Recycled Premise: The picture takes place during one of the character's big party, the main adversary arrives and wants to fight the strongest of the group, Goku arrives and they fight, the adversary joins the big buffet and leaves in skillful terms with Globe. It'southward the verbal aforementioned structure of the 2008 special, where Vegeta's blood brother appears and a pair of aliens fight all the super-fighter characters. Vegeta's brother is fifty-fifty referenced offhandedly at ane point, though not by name. The detail that makes the movies dissimilar is the nature of their antagonists.
• Blood-red Herring: Correct afterwards the moving-picture show shows us that it is definitely not a good idea to annoy Beerus, the viewers are introduced to Lord Pilaf and his gang. Fans of Dragonball would probably expect him to trigger Beerus' rampage. Instead, they play an insignificant part, their antics only beingness used to stage some homages to Dragonball and DBZ.
• Stone–Paper–Pair of scissors: Done between Beerus and Oolong to decide the fate of the Earth. Oolong loses.
• Scenery Porn: Upwardly to 9000. The movie, visually, is apartment out astonishing from beginning to finish. The blend of CGI and meridian quality animation and fine art used throughout the motion picture makes everything look spectacular. Ironically, there'south more detail placed in the background art and animation when fights occur. However, the standout scenes for where things get visually breathtaking is when Beerus takes on Goku on Earth and so in space.
• Sequel Claw: Beerus mentions other, more powerful, gods. Also, in the ending, Whis knocks out Beerus and says that he'll reawaken in 3 years. Since it seems Beerus usually has reasons for waking upwardly at specific fourth dimension periods, he may have more plans for Goku in the time to come. And he wants to try out more of Earth's cuisine.
• Serial Escalation: Non only does Goku have to square off with a god, but in order to stand a chance, he must become a god himself !
• Servile Snarker: Whis, who openly reprimands and mocks his boss. Can be considered foreshadowing that he's more a mere servant to Beerus.
• Send Tease: Mai and Trunks stop up sitting in a tree together by the finish.
  • According to the Discussion of God in an interview, he himself had added the romantic plot in the first place (which is surprising to say the least, because how he hardly always drew information technology himself) because he wanted the Pilaf gang to appear more than then just easy to beat villains and for other developments.
• Smug Super:
  • Beerus is aware of how powerful he is. As shown throughout the film, he has good reasons to exist self-bodacious.
  • Goku started as this, thinking he could put upwardly a good fight against the God of Devastation, despite everyone warning him otherwise. He even offers to scale his power dorsum to Super Saiyan 2 since he idea Super Saiyan 3 may be as well much for Beerus. He got a rude wake-upward call.
• And so Bad, It'south Adept: In-Universe, this is Beerus and Whis' opinion about Vegeta's hilarious trip the light fantastic, enough to brand Beerus to delay the destruction of Globe.
• Sparing the Aces: 1 of the reasons why Beerus spares the Earth. Goku puts up such a good fight against him that he saw information technology every bit a waste product to kill him.
• Spell My Name with an "Southward": Beerus/Beers/Bills/Bils and his assistant, Whis/Uis.
• Story-Breaker Power: Super Saiyan God. Past infusion one Saiyan with the light of 5 righteous Saiyans, you get a being that makes the strongest known form of Super Saiyan look like a weakling and utterly surpasses Vegito, the strongest grapheme in the manga. Originally, information technology was balanced-off past having a strict time limit similar the Fusion Dance. However, Goku manages to absorb the ability of godhood into his body, making his base course almost as powerful as a Super Saiyan God even after he lost the transformation.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Causes Pilaf to freak out. He mistakes Goten for Goku and flees in a panic. Goten, of course, has no idea what'southward going on.
• Sweet and Sour Grapes: At the end of Dragon Ball Z, Vegeta caps off his Grapheme Development by admitting that Goku is more powerful than him. During Battle of Gods, which takes place afterwards that admittance, he briefly surpasses Goku by chirapsia the crap out of Beerus afterwards Beerus smacks Bulma.
• Teleport Spam: Goku in his terminal battle with Beerus.
• Theme Music Ability-Upwardly: Played with during the battle with Beerus. "Hero" by FLOW plays, merely information technology is after Goku LOSES his Super Saiyan God powers. Fifty-fifty then, Beerus claims Goku had captivated the power of the form, keeping him from being completely outclassed similar earlier.
• Theme Naming: As usual, Toriyama names characters later on nutrient or objects. In this instance Beerus and Whis key. Funnily enough, though, Beerus and Whis are actually a dual case of this — the original scriptwriter based for Beerus' original Japanese proper name on the Japanese pronunciation for "virus", and Whis's name sounds similar the Latin version of that aforementioned give-and-take. So one was initially named with the intention of a virus pun all the same was taken for an alcohol pun, and the other was named according to the alcohol pun merely to as well fit the virus pun as well.
• Fourth dimension Skip: Takes identify iv years after the Buu Saga.
• Too Dumb to Alive:
  • Buu, did you lot really have to eat all the pudding when a guy who'south a God Of Destruction wants one? And then tease him about information technology? Granted, Buu didn't know Beerus was a god, but it was still a dick affair to practice to anyone who made Vegeta nervous.
  • Goku borders on this, wanting to fight Beerus despite everyone alert him that he could be killed - this nevertheless is a natural aspect of his Blood Knight heritage, and certainly non annihilation new.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Past becoming a Super Saiyan God, Goku went from beingness taking downwardly in a few hits to fighting almost evenly. Fifty-fifty after losing his god form, he maintained its power as a normal Super Saiyan. He still lost and Beerus wasn't even at full power.
  • Even if it was just for a moment, Vegeta surpassed Goku with only being a Super Saiyan two. He was the get-go one to tank a blow from Beerus and dial him in the face, cartoon blood.
• Acme God: Beerus is a god even by DBZ standards. Non only are all the other Kais terrified of him, simply none of the cast (quite a few who could qualify for the Physical God trope by normal standards) can hold a candle to him. Even after becoming a god himself, Goku merely managed to make Beerus use lxx percent of his power. On acme of that, Whis is shown to be even more powerful than Beerus!
• Tsundere: Vegeta towards Bulma. He goes nuts when Beerus hits her, but when it is pointed out to him, he is embarrassed and denies it.
• The Unfought: Beerus reveals that his banana, Whis, is even more than powerful than him and in fact trained him. Whis does not fight anyone in the motion-picture show, all the same still showed a glimpse of how incredibly powerful he is in the two'south concluding scene in this movie — when Beerus, after spending the length of the flick most stomping the entire cast, goes out of control after eating some wasabi yet Whis simply dope slaps him to sleep and it's Played for Laughs.
• Uniqueness Decay: The mystical Dragon Balls, once the prize objects of the original serial that people sold their souls to get, reduced to a bingo prize. At least information technology's the first place prize, right?
• Unstoppable Rage: When Beerus hits Bulma, Vegeta is rather unamused and tries to make Beerus a stain in the clay. He as well manages to go quite far, considering that he is the get-go one to draw blood from Beerus and actually make him accept to put some effort into information technology.
• Values Noise: In-Universe; Mai is absolutely horrified when she finds out pretending to exist Trunks's girlfriend involves property easily, outright mentally claiming that people in this historic period take become depraved perverts.
• Villain Respect: If you lot tin call Beerus a villain. He comes to greatly respect Goku and the others to the point he spares the Earth from destruction for the time being.
• Villains Out Shopping: Beerus and Whis did seem to enjoy themselves when at Bulma's political party, sampling Globe cuisine.
• Warrior Therapist: Beerus spends most of his rematch against Goku talking to him about his newfound godhood. Piccolo lampshades it.
• Wham Episode: Despite obtaining Super Saiyan God, Goku still loses to Beerus, who spares the Earth out of being impressed by Goku's efforts. Beerus reveals that Whis is not but his attendant but his instructor while besides revealing that there are 12 universes and the universe Dragon Ball had been fix in is Universe seven. The Multiverse would later be explored in Dragon Ball Super.
• Wham Line:
  • The finish of the fight.

    Beerus: I just want to hear you say that you give upwardly.
    Goku: ...Huh? ...Well, I do. I do give up.

  • And when Dende heals Videl, he surprisingly finds more than than one heartbeat.

    Dende: Um, your tummy is carrying...

    Videl: Shh! Information technology'due south notwithstanding a secret.

• What Happened to the Mouse?: Vegeta and Bulma's daughter Bra/Bulla for many audience members who watched Dragon Ball GT, particularly for the fact that in GT canon (and assumed beforehand during her advent at the finish of Z), she was older than Pan and thus born beforehand. Still, this film renders GT not-catechism ^annotation Essentially a side-story, i.e. could take happened in an alternate universe, simply not part of the master material, and information technology isn't until Super's Universe Survival Saga that Bra/Bulla shows upwards (all the same-to-be-born at kickoff), well after the retold events of this film and confirmed to be roughly a year younger than Pan.
• White-and-Grey Morality: Goku vs. Beerus.
• Why Are You Looking at Me Like That?: Oolong, when Beerus challenges the heroes to a game of Rock–Paper–Scissors to see if the Earth will exist spared and realizes they're looking at him.
• The Worf Effect: Part of the indicate of the movie was showing a new enemy, Beerus, who was and so far in a higher place the heroes that at that place was no Preparation Montage or 11th-Hour Superpower that was going to save them. Beerus was not just barely out of their range, he was several leaps above and they only survive because Beerus is bored and lazy. ^notation Indeed, much of Dragonball Super features them facing new and stronger opponents, while Beerus sits around refusing to go involved.
  • The end of Buu Arc established that Gohan was the naturally strongest of the Saiyans, although he may have been outpaced by Goku during the iv-year Fourth dimension Skip given Gohan'southward training record. Here, he gets easily beaten by Beerus, with fifty-fifty Vegeta having a better showing. And this is despite the fact that Gohan and Buu were fighting Beerus two on one.
  • Gotenks as well, having been shown as only a little weaker (if at all) than Gohan during the Z series. But similar Gohan, he suffered quite a humiliating defeat and for any reason didn't fifty-fifty try Super Saiyan 3. Even if he did though, it would most likely do little good given what happened to Goku.
  • Goku as a Super Saiyan 3 gets his butt handed to him within the start xx minutes of the movie, showing early on that if anyone on Earth fought Beerus they were going to be tasting the footing.
  • In the extended version of the motion-picture show, Goku says not even a fusion of himself and Vegeta could stand a chance against Beerus. Seeing how Vegito was a Showy Invincible Hero who easily toyed with Majin Buu'south strongest form, and Gogeta wouldn't besides far off from the marker either, that'southward quite a statement.
• Worf Had the Flu: Gohan's poor functioning could be explained by his drinking a truly epic amount of political party punch beforehand, leaving him mildly tipsy but extremely foolish.
• Worthy Opponent: By the end of the flick, Beerus sees Goku and Vegeta equally this. He even tells Whis that they need to continue an eye out.
• Would Hit a Girl: Beerus has no problem knocking out eighteen and afterward Bulma. Vegeta is not pleased at the latter.
• Would Hurt a Child: Beerus likewise has no problem attacking children. This is axiomatic when he ruthlessly punishes Gotenks. That said, he does so by spanking.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: A variation. The film explicitly states that the ki of gods cannot be sensed, even by the Z Fighters. Their ki is beyond ability to fathom. Information technology's just ane of several cues that, beyond physical form, mortals just tin can't fully encompass a god even when they're continuing right in front of them.

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