Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is the 488th episode of the Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Danielle Radford, and Lon Harris. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy, with a special appearance by Kyle Hebert, the voice of Gohan in the film's English dub, for the viewer comments. It parodies the 2022 computer-animated martial arts fantasy adventure film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. It was published on March 28, 2023. It is 6 minutes and 21 seconds long. It has been viewed over 100,000 times.
Script[]
From the studio that brought you Japanese Spider-Man (Toei Company, Ltd.)...
Announcer: Spider-Man!
...and the franchise that launched a billion weebs (Dragon Ball), comes a film with as many plot holes, pacing issues, and predictable fights as the anime, but you'll forgive it all because these characters raised you more than your parents.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Strap in for a new kind of Dragon Ball movie, that takes inspiration from Toriyama's colorful originals, Shintani's excellent work on the previous film (Dragon Ball Super: Broly), and some of the worst-looking games on PlayStation 2 (Dragon Ball Z: Sagas), to update the visuals for a new generation, because the only thing millennials actually killed is 2D animation. (shows Gohan chuckling)
Last time on Dragon Ball... the Red Ribbon Army sought the wish-granting Dragon Balls to rule the world. Last time on Dragon Ball Z... the Z-Fighters assembled to save Earth by squeezing their butt cheeks so hard, their hair changed color. (shows Goku transforming into a Super Saiyan for the first time) Last time on Dragon Ball GT... we don't talk about that one. But last time on Dragon Ball Super... a new group of heroes got added to the mix, to the point where you can barely keep track of who's who. Wait a second... Huge main cast of extended family? Old villains keep joining the crew?
Krillin: What's going on? I thought you were fighting with those guys?
Gohan: Sorta.
None of the physics make sense? Dragon Ball is Japanese Fast and Furious! They're even obsessed with butts!
Bulma: In that case... How about I make my butt a little tighter? Just like a young babe.
Next time on Dragon BBL Z... Dat ass.
Meet Magenta; he runs Red Ribbon Pharmaceuticals, but it's a front for a world-conquering army, like if the Sackler family were less evil. He'll recruit Dr. Hedo, a child scientist and the exact midpoint between Gru and Syndrome. With the universe's mightiest heroes, Goku and Vegeta, sidelined by... a missed phone call...
Korin: She can't get in touch with them?
Piccolo: Guess not. It will be tough doing this without Goku or Vegeta.
...it's up to Piccolo to save Earth from Hedo's creations with his ultimate technique: hyper child abuse (shows Piccolo knocking Pan back into a stone wall), as he trains a freaking three-year-old in deadly combat, and once again derails Gohan's normal life to go get beat down by androids. But hey, when the only competition for "Best Dad" is these two (Goku and Vegeta), sometimes, showing up is all it takes. Piccolo's not the stepfather; he's the father who stepped up.
After some entertaining warm-ups against Tweedle-Dumb and Tweedle-Dork, get ready for the main event against Cell Max, a kaiju who looks like the Creature from the Black Lagoon ate the creatine from the Gold's Gym. He has only one weakness: getting hit on the top of the head really hard.
Android 18/Goten/Trunks: The top of his head?!
Isn't that everyone's weakness? To stop him, Piccolo will have to raise the Dragon Balls' power level, in order to raise his power level, and provoke Gohan into raising his power level, before provoking Gohan into raising his power level, again, and raising his power level, again. But when Dr. Hedo raises his power level, and Magenta raises his power level, and Cell Max raises his power level, their new ally must raise his power level, and Piccolo must once again raise his power level, so that Gohan can raise his power level so hard, you guys, until everyone changes color and gets new hair, and explodes in a white-hot ball of pent-up testosterone. This whole franchise is a metaphor for puberty; that's why the theater I saw it in smelled crazy, huh?
So push up your glasses with your middle finger like all the very serious anime guys do (montage of Carmine pushing up his glasses using his middle finger), and just make up all the rules as you go along...
Krillin: Piccolo, grow big! / Back in the old days, you grew into a giant, right? At the Tenkaichi Budokai!
Piccolo: That's right! I'd forgotten!
...because Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero isn't here to make new friends; it's just a love letter to the fans who stuck with it since the Toonami days, and an epic-scale animated cosmic beatdown never goes out of style. (plays a montage of epic fight scenes from the film while Epic Voice Guy chants "Fight!" 40 times) (pants) Man, I should get up and go to the gym, huh? (grunts) Eh, Goku's got it...
Starring: My Hero Academia (Masako Nozawa/Kyle Hebert as Gohan); Finally Relevant (Toshio Furukawa/Christopher Sabat as Piccolo); Mussoweenie (Volcano Ōta/Charles Martinet as Magenta); Pugsley San (Miyu Irino/Zach Aguilar as Dr. Hedo); Android Twiiiiins (Hiroshi Kamiya/Aleks Le as Gamma 1 and Mamoru Miyano/Zeno Robinson as Gamma 2)...
Carmine: While he now poses as a biologist...
...(shows videos from the "Carmine Channel", including ones on Carmine's gun, shoe, and watch collections) One of Us! One of Us! (Ryōta Takeuchi/Jason Marnocha as Carmine); Cell Out (Norio Wakamoto/Dameon Clarke as Cell Max); Beater Pan (Yūko Minaguchi/Jeannie Tirado as Pan); You See This Bad Boy on a Silk Shirt, You Know They Mean Business (Ryō Horikawa/Christopher Sabat as Vegeta); That's My Superman (Masako Nozawa/Sean Schemmel as Goku); Dr. Robuttlift (Aya Hisakawa/Monica Rial as Bulma); (shows Beerus reacting in response to Cheelai's display of cuteness) Did I Just Watch a Cat God Get an Erection? (Kōichi Yamadera/Jason Douglas as Beerus); Whis the Juice (Masakazu Morita/Ian Sinclair as Whis); The Leftovers (Masako Nozawa/Robert McCollum as Goten, Takeshi Kusao/Eric Vale as Trunks, and Miki Itō/Meredith McCoy as Android 18); Krillin Me Softly (Mayumi Tanaka/Sonny Strait as Krillin); Do U Even Lift Brol? (Bin Shimada/Johnny Yong Bosch as Broly); and Nu Balls Drag Race (Ryūzaburō Ōtomo/Christopher Sabat as Shenron).
The honest title for Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero was ‘The Fast and the Burliest’. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.
Piccolo: You never know when another crisis will come.
Gohan: Gee, you really think something like that might happen again?
Yes, because it literally happens once a year for the past 30 years!
Viewer's Comments[]
Please say: "Next time on Dragon Ball Z". - Eleven
please say: "The ocean is so salty because everyone pees in it." - Kevin W
please say: I've been subscribed and posting for years but epic voice guy never reads my comment - babaduk
Kyle Hebert: And he never will. Muahahahahahahahahahahaha...
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Production Credits[]
Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Title Design: Robert Holtby
Written by: Spencer Gilbert, Danielle Radford, Lon Harris
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert
Edited by: Kevin Williamsen
Post-Production Supervisor: Emin Bassavand
Post-Production Coordinator: Mikołaj Kossakowski
Assistant Editor: Rebecca Castaneda
Director of Video Production: Max Dionne