Kami

After the events of the King Piccolo Saga, we saw Goku training with Kami and Mr. Popo due to King Piccolo spawning a son - Piccolo Junior - in exchange for Kami re-activating the Dragon Balls; the Dragon Balls been used to revive everyone killed by King Piccolo and his children, including Krillin and Master Roshi.

While Goku's training was happening, the rest of the heroes - Krillin, Yamcha, Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu - trained with Korin before carrying on their training in their own ways; not needing to train with Kami and Mr. Popo until the threat of Vegeta and Nappa some years later (Yajirobe temporarily joining them in the training but mostly spending his time eating).

However, what if Kami requested for the rest of Goku's friends to train earlier than this, just in case Piccolo Jr. proved too difficult for Goku to handle alone?

As such, we'd see Goku's friends join him on the Lookout to receive training from Kami and Mr. Popo before the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament; this helping to increase their powers and abilities beforehand. While they'd still be behind Goku, it would increase their strength in any case.

Question is, how do you think this change would alter the remainder of Dragon Ball and later Dragon Ball Z?

Curious to see what you guys think.

I don't know if someone made this announcement, Dale Wilson unfortunately passed away. He was known for the voice of Cell, Kami, and Android 8 in the Ocean Productions dub. He joined Toriyama sensei on January 6, 2025.

- For this idea, we cut to the end of the Frieza Saga when Mr. Popo - on Kami's instructions - has used the wish to Shenron to revive everyone on Namek killed by Frieza and his men; this reviving Vegeta but also all of the Namekians, most notably Grand Elder Guru and Dende.

Sure enough, Dende - under the instructions of King Kai and Guru (as well as Goku's extra request) - wishes for everyone on Namek to be sent to Earth apart from Goku and Frieza.

- This time when all the Namekians are on Earth, Guru telepathically requests for Kami to come to him while he still has his strength. Sure enough, Kami uses the Teleporter on the Lookout to reach the rest of the Namekians; Guru calling both him and Piccolo over to him.

Guru proceeds to explain that while he is saddened that the "son of Katas" split like this, he does proceed to thank them both for their actions; Piccolo for fighting Frieza directly despite the danger that the Tyrant represented, and Kami for reviving his people with Earth's Dragon Balls - thus their individual actions gave their people a chance to continue on.

- With his time in the world of the living coming to a end, Guru offers a final gift for them both; Placing his hands on their heads as he telepathically shares his own memories of Katas to his sons. This helps reawaken some of the dormant memories both Kami and Piccolo had of their father back when they were the Nameless Namekian and before they got amnesia (similar to how Goku would later recover his own memories).

With that, he also proceeds to draw out their dormant power - increasing the power of both of them. While it's not as potent as Old Kai's Unlock Ability or Shenron's Potential Unlock (plus the "little extra"), it's still a power boost.

- Before his death (with Kami assuring Guru that he would keep his body after death), Guru bids goodbye to his children - with his final hope for Piccolo and Kami been that the two would one day "find their unity" again.

So, with Kami and Piccolo having had a power boost from Guru thanks to him drawing out their dormant power, how do you think the timeline would change?

Curious to see what you guys think.

One of two "What-if?" ideas I had regarding Cell. I'll do the other one later after giving this one some time.

- It's stated that Kami did sense in Age 763 when Cell arrived from his timeline in the Time Machine belonging to his timeline's version of Future Trunks (Cell acquiring said Time Machine by giving Future Trunks a rather tight neck massage).

Despite this, he - for some reason - never told the Z-Fighters about this machine and its insectoid occupant arriving on Earth, with the following from Cell's page:

"Unbeknownst to Cell, Kami had witnessed his arrival into the present and grew to fear that he would become an even greater threat to the Earth than the Androids."

- In this case, however, Kami senses his arrival but doesn't say anything immediately; wanting to wait until Goku returns. Sure enough, after Future Trunks arrives in the past and deals with Mecha-Frieza and King Cold before telling Goku (who returns soon after) about the Androids, Kami this time interjects as he sees that Future Trunks' Time Machine is identical to the one that Cell arrived in.

- Talking to everyone telepathically, Kami mentions the existence of another Time Machine that arrived the year before; it's occupant most assuredly not been human or human-like in the slightest. With that, Kami directs the group telepathically to the location of the second Time Machine and to where Cell burrowed underground to gain the nutrients he needs to re-gain his "Imperfect" Form.

- With Trunks confirming that this Time Machine is indeed identical to his own (not been as covered in moss as they've found it earlier) and the Z-Fighters able to dig up and attack Cell while he's still in his 'larval' stage and potentially not strong enough to protect himself (with maybe enough of him left for Bulma to analyze the remains and discover the combination of the various fighter's DNA), how do you think this would alter the timeline for when the Androids show up and beyond?

Curious to see what you guys think.

Something I wanted to ask as it may tie into a story I'm writing, so I'd like your opinions if possible.

Hypothetically speaking, imagine a scenario where another Dragon-Clan Namekian comes to Earth during the time Kami and King Piccolo are still separate beings (for convenience, we'll set this during the "King Piccolo Saga").

In this situation, Kami and the Dragon-Clan Namekian undergo Namekian Fusion. However, like with Kami's fusion with Piccolo in the Android Saga, the other Namekian is the dominant fusee - with Kami been "assimilated" and his consciousness living on inside the other Namekian.

If this had happened, what would happen to King Piccolo due to the life link with Kami?

Would the life link be cut - with Kami's consciousness living on while King Piccolo dies, or would King Piccolo live; the life link instead getting transferred to the Dragon-Clan Namekian who Kami fused with?

Curious to see what you guys think.