If Goku can refuse to be transported he should be able to refuse to be changed into a kid.

I unironically love the retcon that Shenron needs your permission to transport you because it makes the end of Broly vs Gogeta downright hilarious.

Toriyama did write dragon ball on the fly after all

17:30 Mark's wrong on this one. Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic waves. You can argue Bulma didn't know what kind of electromagnetic radiation the dragon balls emitted and the retcon was her learning that they were radio waves specifically, but not that she said it was one type of radiation then later changed it

I’m gonna just theorize that cell could regenerate from an atomic level because of piccolo’s regeneration AND frieza’s ability to survive in space in like 30 pieces.  Piccolo gets head blown off…instantly dies, frieza gets head chopped off…floating head being racist still….put em together and with enough perfection….you can have the time to heal.  Just throwing out thoughts

The nimbus is like jordans you’re wearing Jordan’s but you’re not wearing micheal Jordan

Every time you call Daima “Delilah” I think of Coach Carter and I just imagine him motivating Goten and Trunks to train with 20 million pushups and good grades

It kinda makes sense that 19 and 20 were the original androids because then it would go along with why Trunks uses a sword

14:29  he was simply to peak

The Buu magic de fusing potara fusions was canonically okay. Idk why they double retcon it

Sage dying on he hill that Jiren was a good and interesting character, after he meditated through 80% of the tournament of power silently and had 1 dialogue with Goku about seeking something beyond strength and 1 about dunking on Toppo for no reason and other than that just flexing on others, is hilarious. Cool fights, sure. Good character, absolutely not. Edit because i’m not about to reply to everyone screeching about how “Jiren didn’t need to be interesting” (which is funny, because ya’ll don’t even go against what i said, but against what sage said, but saying it to me for whatever reason) Well, good for you guys that you cope yourself into thinking that he was boring on purpose, but they obviously tried pretty hard by the end to make people at least feel bad for him with his Uchiha backstory, which failed miserably. Just like every other antagonist, they wanted him to be cool, just didn’t realize that they made him so stoic that he barely even talks and when he talks we don’t care about what he says, and its boring as hell. Thank god that somehow Toriyama didn’t write “boring on purpose” characters ever before or since.

So did he forget about the 1 minute in the chamber = hours?

Some retcons that Mark says here that I think are just reveals (will edit to add more since I'm on mobile and not spending the time to remember them all at the end of the vid)

1. The tail being a weakness: Although we learnt a lot about the tail, we never see anyone before Chi-Chi hold onto it so that being a possibility was never there so we can't say that we knew that he tail would or wouldn't be fine regardless prior to chichi grabbing it.

2. The Nyoibo's true purpose. This is one of those "meta-retcons" where you know it is a retcon cuz you know the writers did not think about a Kami or how to get there until the arc happened, so now we need to make a way for it to happen. However, if you didn't know this, it could go either way, since all Goku, and thus we the readers, knew that it came from Gohan who got it from Roshi. It's true origin could be seen as never being confirmed.

3. The Piccolo egg situation, while not a retcon, creates another retcon in terms of the link between Piccolo and Kami. If following the manga where Piccolo Jr calls himself the reincarnation of Piccolo Daimao then both he and Kami would still be linked, but if they are different people then Kami should be dead. So, that is weird to say the least.

4. The Goku knowing about Kami's lie with the dragon balls might be a retcon but I always felt as if it was just Goku growing smarter and still appeasing Kami for the sake of the fight. Still could be a retcon though.

Ultra divine water was there. To show how goku will throw away his values for revenge, he ignored his master, and he wanted easy power to destroy the one eho killed his friend

23:04 Piccolo Jr. is Piccolo’s son but also his direct reincarnation which actually can be used to explain why Kami didn’t die when Piccolo died but DID die later in the story Piccolo Jr. was killed by Nappa. So while they’re technically not the same person, he’s essentially his father’s Uub 💀

For retcon 30 I’m on the side that Goku knew all along that killing Piccolo would kill Kami. I feel like that’s more of a smart Goku moment than a retcon.

20:41 Pilaf Knowing how to block radio waves  of DB is not a retcon. They literally had a dragon radar to find them. So him knowing how to Block it off makes sense. Also scientific they just need aluminium or copper box to do that.

i feel like he doesn't know the difference between a retcon and reveal. a retcon is when something was previously stated to be cuz of something and then is later changed or narratively corrected to be something else versus a reveal which is something thats been there for a while has new info unlocked. a retcon is potara only being permanent for kais when it was originally permanent in general and a reveal is the power pole having gone to goku because korin had given it to to roshi who later gave it to gohan who gave it to goku.


the nimbus retcon he stated wasn't the correct retcon. it was a reveal. the retcon would be for the first time nimbus was destroyed by colonel silver when the elder's in suno's village said that nimbuses are literally everywhere just call for it and it'll reappear. this info is then retconed by there being a giant nimbus that all nimbuses come from one nimbus instead of there just being multiple nimbuses.

the dragon balls turning the sky dark once again is a reveal not a retcon because the first time shenron was summoned it was night and nobody had summoned shenron before so it turning the sky dark is a reveal because it doesn't contradict any previously stated info.

the dragon balls having a creator isn't a retcon its a reveal it was never stated that there was a creator because the only one who could create such a thing would be god and up to that point they had no reason to believe god was a real person so its not a retcon its a reveal that god exists and that he created the dragon balls.

piccolo being able to clone himself is technically a retcon because piccolo jr isn't supposed to be a clone he's supposed to be his son but was later retconned to be the reincarnation because otherwise the fact that goku killed demon king piccolo and kami was still alive is a plot hole.

etc i've gotten tired of listing whats not a retcon

Watching u while writing manga jus hits on another level, real spill

26:50 goku already knew Kami was lying he was acting like he was going along with the plan