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Super Android 13 is the 7th movie of Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged. It is the sixth Dragon Ball Z movie to be released by Team Four Star following Cooler 2: The Return of Cooler's Revenge – The Reckoning.

Plot[]

Android 17 kills Dr. Gero by crushing his head, but unknown to the androids and the Z-Fighters, Dr. Gero had backed himself up to a supercomputer in a sub-lab. Since Plan A failed, and Plan B won't be ready for another 17 years, he goes for Plan C and activates two more pods.

In the city, Goku, Gohan and Chi-Chi are looking for wedding presents for Korin and Yajirobe. Meanwhile, two weirdly colored people walk downtown and blow up the area, finding the restaurant where Goku's family, Krillin, Trunks, Master Roshi, and Oolong are having lunch. The two blow up the place, but Goku manages to get everyone in the building to safety. He sees the two and thinks they're terrorists until he realizes he can't sense their energy, meaning they're androids. The two introduce themselves as Android 14 and Android 15 and attack Goku. Trunks arrives to help him, and the two lead the androids away from the city to not cause any more damage. Gohan and Krillin follow since Gohan doesn't want to be around Chi-Chi.

Meanwhile in the sub-lab, Dr. Gero finishes the updates and activates Android 13. Unfortunately, Android 13 still has a thick southern accent that Gero tried and failed to remove. 13 puts on his trucker hat and leaves.

Goku and Trunks arrive in the arctic of all places, and the androids soon arrive and get to work beating Goku and Trunks up. Trunks asks Goku not to mention that there're two more androids to Vegeta, but Android 13 appears to prove him wrong. An angrily annoyed Trunks asks if there're anymore androids around, but 13 denies this. Trunks rushes them but gets double-teamed by 14 and 15. Android 13 tries to taunt Goku, but his idiocy makes the comment fly off on his head, making 13 wonder how Gero couldn’t kill him before. The two fight, with 13 losing his hat, and Goku is knocked over to a glacier. Before he's finished off, Vegeta arrives. Goku fills him in on the new androids, much to Trunks’ dismay, causing Vegeta to add the total tally of left out androids to 8. 13 explains that Dr. Gero had the three sealed off for defects he couldn't fix: 13's southern accent, 14's damaged sound card, and 15's drinking problem.

The three androids fight against the Saiyans, easily overpowering them. After getting thrashed around, Vegeta goes Super Saiyan, followed by Trunks and Goku. Goku manages to match a decent fight against 13, and Krillin cheers him on. 13, however, blasts him, causing Gohan to fire a Masenko against him. A miffed 13 fires against Gohan, but thanks to convenient calling, Piccolo saves him again and bursts out of the ice. Piccolo decides to take the android for a "spin" and hurls him to the ground. As Goku depowers, Piccolo sees 13 rise up again. Meanwhile, Vegeta and Trunks manage to defeat and destroy Androids 14 and 15.

Android 13, seeing this, just grins sinisterly. Parts from the now destroyed androids fly towards him and merge into his body. With these parts, 13 powers up even more, "'roiding out" into a more dangerous form. Everyone tries to take a shot against 13, but his new armor makes it more difficult, and he knocks them all away. Goku has it worst when 13 punches him in the groin so hard it wipes out Goten from existence in the future. After getting knocked into the water, Goku decides that "If you can't beat them, bomb them." He rises and charges a Spirit Bomb. Under orders from Dr. Gero, Android 13 tries to kill Goku mid-charge, but the rest of the Z-Fighters distract him long enough to get enough energy. Goku turns Super Saiyan and absorbs the Spirit Bomb to gain more power. With enough strength, he punches through Android 13, finally destroying him.

While the Z-Fighter rest in the hospital, Trunks voices his concern about another android that could be out there. Krillin, however, has an idea. Back in the sub-lab, Dr. Gero decides to wait for Cell to mature but is horrified when Trunks and Krillin arrive and destroy the sub-lab, along with present Cell.

In a post-credit’s scene, Vegeta and Piccolo sit on an iceberg, passing the time by asking each other why they were in the arctic in the first place. Piccolo says he has nowhere else to live, while Vegeta needed some "me time". Before the conversation continues any farther, a fish jumps, saying, "Fin!", signifying the end of the movie.

Call Backs/Running Gags[]

Trivia[]

  • This marks the only appearance of Teenage Gohan in a Dragon Ball Z Abridged production. KaiserNeko confirmed on Reddit that the voice of Teen Gohan was Justin Briner (who later became the English voice of Deku) and that his voice would be used in the Abridged Buu Saga, however Briner dropped out before production could begin. With the cancellation of DBZA in 2020, there has been no other confirmation of whether or not Teen Gohan will appear again. Briner's performance is uncredited.
    • In the Movie Breakdown, KaiserNeko stated that they didn't choose Zach Holzman, the voice actor of Future Gohan for Teen Gohan (aka the Present Gohan in the Buu Saga), because he didn't fit the calmer, alternate timeline Gohan. However, no explanation for him not being voiced by MasakoX is stated.
    • Nearly eight years after this movie was released (and three years after DBZA was officially cancelled), the Buu Bits were released in place of the cancelled Abridged Buu Saga, where Ryan Palmer replaces Justin Briner in the role of Teen Gohan. Ironically, since Briner was the voice of Deku in the English dub of My Hero Academia, Palmer had previously been the voice of Deku in the X Minutes series of videos focusing on My Hero Academia.
  • This is the first time since Freeza Burn that Goku used the Spirit Bomb. He discusses on using it again against Kid Buu in the Buu Bits shorts.
  • Goten makes a cameo appearance in this episode, but does not have any lines.
    • Due to Android 13 punching Goku in the balls, Goten in the future is shown being slowly erased from existence, causing Teen Gohan to forget about him entirely. However, this contradicts the explanation of time travel and multiverse theory introduced in The Trouble With Time Travel, where young Gohan explained that events in one timeline only impact the events of that same timeline, and would not alter the events of another timeline as Trunks had hoped to achieve during his first visit. However, it could be argued that Android 13 hit Goku in the dick so hard he broke the space-time continuum and actually erased Goten out from the future where he exists directly.
    • However, despite being erased from existence in this movie, Goten along with his fusion with his timeline's Trunks, Gotenks (called "Trunkten" by Piccolo), continues to exist in the Buu Bits shorts without any hint or mention of them being erased from time.
  • Android 14 can't talk in this version, instead he makes corrupted sounds. The given explanation for this is Dr. Gero was unable to locate the proper sound drivers for Android 14, causing him to be declared defective.
    • The sounds Android 14 makes are actually pictures turned into sound using PhotoSounder.
  • Trunks refers to the "artificial humans" as "androids" rather than "cyborgs", surprisingly Cell does the same in episode 51 when he spoke to Vegeta.
  • In the Movie Breakdown, KaiserNeko explains that Team Four Star's personal canon for this movie is an alternate timeline where the Z-fighters have defeated the initial androids, and Cell never appeared from the future.
  • This film was almost called "Android the 13th" a parody of the "Friday the 13th" films as this movie was released on Halloween.
  • Trunks says a censored version of the memic "I have HAD IT with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane!" from the movie "Snakes on a Plane".

Images[]

These are the images seen when translating the audio files

Time Quote Image
02:45 "They do not understand our struggle." 1
03:27 "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams." 2
04:31 "Perhaps introductions are in order." 3
09:35 "The drivers for my sound card are corrupted
and Dr. Gero could not find them online."
4
13:05 "By metal, my life was given. By metal, it has been stripped away.
No dreams before, nor after. Only the end."
5

Credits[]

Written By:

Scott Frerichs
Nicholas Landis
Kirran Somerlade
Curtis Arnott

Voice Cast
General Ivan Dr. Gero
Ganzingba Android 17
Shudo Ranmaru Android 18
Takahata 101 Cell (Fetus)
Hnilmik Chi-Chi
MasakoX Gohan
Goku
Antfish Android 15
Lanipator Krillin
Master Roshi
Vegeta
Piccolo
KaiserNeko Oolong
Future Trunks
RicePirate Android 13
Remix Kami
Hbi2k Nail
Marc Swint Narrator 1
DJ Sexcidllionaire Narrator 2
Crew
Voice Director KaiserNeko
Main Editor KaiserNeko
Assistant Editor MasakoX
Credits Sequence Animator MasakoX
Additional Art Marc Swint
2D Animators Kirbopher15
Zach Manley
Stephan Krosecz
Project Composer Cliff Weinstein
Music

"Drug Addiction" - Composed by John Fox and His Orchestra
"High Plaines" - Composed by Vince Frates
"Dueling Banjos (Orchestra Cue)" - Composed by Arthur Smith & Covered by Cliff Weinstein
"Busy Summer's Day" - Composed by Renato Rascel
"Soul Punch" - Composed by Piet Van Meren
"Down With The Sickness" - Composed by Richard Cheese
"Drama Eight" - Composed by H. Flowers & B.Morgan
"Silver Thrust" - Composed by Peter Reno
"Interlude Combat" - Composed by Cris Velasco & Sascha Dikiciyan
"Fyrestone" - Composed by Cris Velasco & Sascha Dikiciyan
"Snakes on a Plane Theme" - Composed by Trevor Rabin
"Lynchwood Sheriff Combat" - Composed by Cris Velasco & Sascha Dikiciyan
"Damnation" - Composed by Anthony DiLorenzo
"Three Horns Divide Combat" - Composed by Cris Velasco & Sascha Dikiciyan
"Junkie Chase (Instrumental)" - Composed by Curtis Mayfield
"M1416 The Three Go Super Saiyan" - Composed by Shunsuke Kikuchu
"A Pressing Need To Save The World" - Composed by Murray Gold
"Samurai 7" - Composed by Kaoru Wada
"The Bunker Is Not What It Appears" - Composed by Cris Velasco & Sascha Dikiciyan
"Gohan's School Days" - Composed by Norihito Sumitomo
"Consuming Fire" - Composed by Holly Anderson
"Ro-Sham-Bo" - Composed by Blues Saraceno
"The Phantheon (Ain't Gonna Catch You)" - Composed by Darren Korb
"I Am The Doctor" - Composed by Murray Gold
"From Wharf to Wilds" - Composed by Darren Korb
"Sexy Girl Bulma" - Composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi
"Cha-La Head Cha-La" - Originally Composed by Kiyooka Chio & Arranged by Ain Tunez (feat Ryan Drickey)

Footage

DragonBall Z:
Doragon Bōru Zetto Kyokugen Batoru!! San Dai Sūpā Saiyajin
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Special Thanks To

Zach Manley
Lawrence Simpson
Christopher Niosi
Marc Swint
Cliff Weinstein
Stephan Krosecz
Heath Cutler
Kazenshuu
Funimation
Toei Animation
Akira Toriyama

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