I’m rewatching Dragon Ball Z like I tend to do every two days and it’s baffling how many instances of PTSD there are.
Like, people say that Dragon Ball is “simple” and that something that deep wouldn’t happen, and it makes me wonder if people have watched the show.
Just off the top of my head, I can name a few:
Gohan’s dream of Goku getting tortured by Raditz
Gohan’s dream of Piccolo sacrificing himself
Gohan’s dream of Frieza coming back
Goku’s dream of the Androids killing everyone
Trunks’ flashback of his mother and the Androids
Basically everything having to do with the Androids for Trunks
Gohan’s dream of Cell killing Chi Chi and Piccolo
Vegeta’s just overall PTSD of Frieza, mainly presented in the Frieza and Buu saga
Vegeta’s flashback of Beerus
Krillin’s whole scene in the forest in Super, where he faced all the villains who hurt/killed him
I’d say the one I find most disturbing is Gohan’s dream about Piccolo, which was in the movie The World’s Strongest. Seriously, If you haven’t watched the scene in subbed, it’s super fucked up. Basically Gohan’s just dreaming and singing about how much he loves Piccolo, with happy music and all, and as the music continues, the scene gets interrupted with a flashback to Piccolo dying. I think what fucks me up most about it is how out of nowhere it comes and the fact the upbeat music continues to play as we see Piccolo get murdered in front of Gohan’s eyes. Also they change the color inflection of the scene and idk why but it makes it ten times more disturbing. If there are any color theory experts I’d love to know whY.