LADS x Dragon Ball
Ultimate Shenron Sylus
"It's nice to see you again. Every time we meet, I collect another gem. I have seven now. We can use these to summon anything you want."
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, and I’ve got some time to kill this afternoon, so let’s spend it by going over all the wishes in Dragon Ball.
I think I’m just gonna avoid the Super Dragon Balls for now, because that would require me to delve into the Zamasu arc, and fuck that shit.
Main DB/DBZ Continuity
9/9/749: Emperor Pilaf summons Shenron. Oolong wishes for panties to prevent Pilaf from becoming ruler of the world. [GT: This wish gives rise to the Six-Star Shadow Dragon, Oceanus Shenron.]
5/12/750: Goku summons Shenron and Upa wishes for the resurrection of his father, Bora. [GT: This wish gives rise to the Two-Star Shadow Dragon, Haze Shenron.]
5/8/753: King Piccolo summons Shenron and wishes for his youth to be restored. He then kills Shenron to prevent anyone else from using the Dragon Balls against him. [GT: This wish gives rise to the Four-Star Shadow Dragon, Nuova Shenron.]
5/9/753: Kami reactivates Shenron and allows the Dragon Balls to be used immediately. Bulma and Yamcha wish for the resurrection of all of the people killed by King Piccolo and his underlings. [GT: This wish gives rise to the Three-Star Shadow Dragon, Eis Shenron.]
11/2/762: Master Roshi and Bulma summon Shenron and wish for the resurrection of Son Goku. [GT: This wish gives rise to the Five Star Shadow Dragon, Rage Shenron.]
12/24/762: Dende summons Porunga on Namek, and wishes for the resurrection of Piccolo, the teleportation of Piccolo to Namek, and the teleportation of everyone but Frieza and Son Goku to Earth.
Upon his resurrection, Kami reactivates the Earth’s Dragon Balls and sends Mr. Popo to collect them and summon Shenron. Popo is instructed by King Kai to wish for the resurrection of everyone killed by Frieza and his soldiers. [GT: Popo’s wish gives rise to the One-Star Shadow Dragon, Eis Shenron]
5/3/763: Dende summons Porunga on Earth, and wishes for Krillin’s spirit to be relocated from the Namek system. He then wishes for Krillin’s resurrection, and Yamcha’s resurrection.
9/10/763: Dende summons Porunga on Earth, and wishes for Tien’s resurrection, then Chiaotzu’s resurrection, then for all of the Namekian people to be relocated to a new homeworld.
?/?/766?: The Pilaf Gang summons Shenron and wishes to be made younger. [This wish was established in Battle of Gods, but it is unclear when exactly it occurred. Since they appeared to be the same age as Goten and Trunks in BoG, they must have made the wish no earlier than the year of Trunks’ birth.]
5/26/767: Dende summons Shenron and Yamcha wishes for the resurrection of everyone killed by Cell. Krillin wishes for the explosive bombs to be removed from the bodies of Androids 17 and 18.
5/7/774: Bulma summons Shenron and Yamcha wishes for everyone killed that day to be brought back to life, except for the very bad ones. [GT: This wish gives rise to the Seven Star Shadow Dragon, Naturon Shenron.]
5/8/774: Dende summons Porunga on Namek, and makes three wishes at the request of Vegeta: The restoration of the destroyed Earth; the resurrection of everyone killed since the day of the 25th World Tournament, except for the very bad ones; and the restoration of Son Goku’s strength.
11/7/774: Six months after the previous wish, Goku summons Shenron and wishes for everyone’s memory of Majin Buu to be erased, with the exception of Dragon Team. [GT: The Dragon Ball GT: Perfect File book states that this wish created Eis Shenron, but this directly conflicts with the information stated in the anime itself.]
DB/DBZ movies
Age 749: Bulma summons Shenron to defeat King Gurumes. Pansy wishes for the Blood Rubies to be removed from the kingdom. [DB Movie 1: Curse of the Blood Rubies]
Age 749: Bulma (?) summons Shenron and Goku wishes for the resurrection of Android 8. [DB Movie 4: Path to Power]
Age 753: Goku summons Shenron and wishes for the resurrection of Bora. [DB Movie 3: Mystical Adventure.]
Age 761: Garlic Junior summons Shenron and wishes for immortality. [DBZ Movie 1: Dead Zone]
Age 762: Dr. Cochin summons Shenron and wishes for the ice to be melted around Dr. Wheelo’s fortress. [DBZ Movie 2: World’s Strongest.]
Krillin and Gohan summon Shenron and wish for a forest to be restored from a fire caused by Turles’ probe. [DBZ Movie 3: Tree of Might.]
Lord Slug summons Shenron and wishes for his youth to be restored. [DBZ Movie 4: Lord Slug.]
Age 774: Goten summons Shenron (maybe?) and wishes for Goku to join them in battle against Broly [DBZ Movie 10: Broly - Second Coming.]
Gohan summons Shenron and wishes for the dead to be removed from the living world. However, Shenron is unable to grant the wish. It is unknown if any other wish was granted instead. [DBZ Movie 12: Fusion Reborn.]
Age 775(?): Goku summons Shenron and wishes for Tapion to be freed from his music box. It is stated in the movie that Shenron will be used again to repair the damage in West City, but this is never shown. [DBZ Movie 13: Wrath of the Dragon.]
Dragon Ball Super, Battle of Gods, Resurrection F
8/18/778: Goku summons Shenron and wishes to hear the story of the Super Saiyan God. [DBZ Movie 14: Battle of Gods.]
?/?/779: Sorbet summons Shenron and wishes for the resurrection of Frieza. Shu wishes for one million zeni. [DBZ Movie 15: Resurrection F. Note: In Dragon Ball Super, Mai also wishes for ice cream, taking advantage of a third wish not mentioned in the film.] Bulma later speaks of using Shenron to restore North City, which Freiza destroyed, but this is never depicted.
?/?/779: Goku summons Porunga on New Namek to resurrect Piccolo after the battle with Golden Frieza. [DBS Episode 27]
?/?/779: Beerus summons Shenron and wishes for information on the Super Dragon Balls. When Shenron proves unable to grant this wish, Beerus wishes for him to go away. [DBS Episode 29]
Unknown: Kibitoshin summons Porunga and wishes to be separated into Kibito and the Supreme Kai. [DBS Episode 32]
?/?/779: Goku summons Shenron, and Gohan wishes to have Pan cured from a fever. Though Shenron still has one more wish to grant, he deactivates due to the extraordinary time spent waiting for the wish to be made. [DBS Episode 68]
?/?/780: Cheelai summons Shenron and wishes for Broly to be teleported back to Vampa. [DBS Movie 1: Broly.]
Dragon Ball GT
Age 789: Emperor Pilaf summons “Ultimate Shenron” using the Black Star Dragon Balls, and wishes for Goku to become a child again.
Baby summons “Ultimate Shenron” using the Black Star Dragon Balls and wishes for Planet Vegeta to be recreated in the Earth’s solar system.
Age 790: Goku attempts to summon Shenron to undo the damage done in the Super 17 crisis, but releases the seven Shadow Dragons instead. After defeating the Shadow Dragons, Shenron is restored. Goku’s wishes to revive those killed by the Super 17 and Shadow Dragon conflicts.
Observations
Part of the reason I wanted to do this was to get a better handle on Dragon Ball Super’s continuity. It seems like a lot of wishes get made in a very short span of time. Although, now that I count them out, Shenron only grants six wishes in a two year span:
Telling Goku about the Super Saiyan God in Movie 14.
Resurrecting Frieza for Sorbet in Movie 15.
Giving Shu 1,000,000 zeni in Movie 15.
Giving Mai ice cream in DBS Episode 19.
Going away for Beerus in DBS Episode 29.
Healing Pan’s fever in DBS Episode 68.
However, there are still some inconsistencies in this. In Res F, Shenron said he could only grant two wishes that day, while in DBS #19, he said he could do three. Either way, his wishing capacity was all used up, and yet Dragon Team was already planning to summon him again to revive Golden Frieza’s victims. (Maybe they used Porunga for that, since they had to revive Piccolo anyway?)
Beerus wished for nothing in DBS 29, but apparently that still counts as a wish, so by the time Episode 68 rollled around, Shenron still had two wishes left to grant. So this cycle of wishes would have to be one year after the events of Res F. And maybe they are. It’s hard to tell with Super.
It would be handy if they would just establish that Dende increased Shenron’s wishing powers after the Buu Saga. In the latter half of DBZ, Dende fixed it so Shenron could grant at least two wishes, and these could be used up to six months apart. At times, it’s implied that Shenron can grant up to three wishes, so long as none of them involve resurrecting more than one person. But Toei & Shueisha have never been clear on this, and the discrepancy between Movie 15 and DBS #19 make that pretty clear.
At other times, Shenron only grants one wish and leaves without mentioning a second or third. I guess you could chalk this up to Shenron having already granted another wish earlier in the year, and he’d have no reason to explain why he only has one left.
The “cooldown” period on the Earth’s Dragon Balls is supposed to be one year, but that’s never been well-observed. Toriyama whizzed it on the first go-round, because the first and second Dragon Ball hunts were eight months apart. Then the third and fourth summonings of Shenron were less than 24 hours apart, because Kami agreed to suspend the rules “just this once.” He did it again a few years later, so that Popo could wish back everyone killed by Frieza.
I guess this lends credence to what the Elder Kai said in Dragon Ball GT, about the Dragon Balls needing to “rest” for centuries between wishes. Throughout the main story, the Dragon Balls weren’t even getting the full year a lot of the time. And DBS played so fast and loose with it that I’m forced to consider that Dende augmented them without telling anyone.
I kind of like the approach Dende used in DBZ Abridged, where he told Porunga that they had six wishes, and suggested that he just grant them all up front instead of everyone having to come back and do this again 130 days later. Maybe DBS!Dende had the same idea.
Regarding the GT continuity, I think the Shadow Dragons were an interesting concept. “Use the Dragon Balls too much, and you have to fight a cool monster!” The trouble was that most of the monsters were decidedly uncool, and they really didn’t explain why some wishes created Shadow Dragons while others did not. Like... okay, Oolong’s wish for panties created a Shadow Dragon, but why that one in particular? Presumably, that wish was the first one anyone had made in hundreds of years. It was the later wishes that compounded the problem, right? Also, why didn’t the wishes made after the Cell Games create an eighth or ninth Shadow Dragon? I mean, there wasn’t enough Dragon Balls for them to each have one lodged in their head, but it seems like a missed opportunity.
One last note: It seems like there would be a decent window for Movie 13 to fit into the main canon. I once questioned how you could work the extra wishes in between the “Forget Majin Buu” wish and “Battle of Gods”, but it’s like a four-year gap. The only plot hole is that Gohan and Videl would still be in school, and that their school is inexplicably in West City. Maybe I could do something with that, though...
