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Super Dragon Ball Heroes 33-36

I don’t think I’ve ever related to Goku more than I do right now.

We’re now in the “New Space-Time War” arc of Super Dragon Ball Heroes. The previous arc saw Fu become the King of the Demon Realm and create his own universe, and nobody really stopped him, so I assume this arc will just keep following that plotline. My main question is this: What was the Old Space-Time War? Or does “New Space-Time” refer to the new universe Fu created?

This arc is only eight episodes, and I’m only four episode in and it’s a complete trainwreck. Every few seconds someone else shows up and it’s either a mystery man in disguise, or a surprise cameo, or some other damn thing that doesn’t make any sense. We open with this dude looking out over the uninhabited Earth in the New Universe, but he doesn’t actually do anything.

Not far away, Goku is being chased through the empty West City by two spaceships. As he runs, he gets a message from Tokitoki City, where Trunks explains to him that Goku is currently inside the new universe Fu created, but it’s just a bad copy of Universe 7, which is why it has the same Earth and the same West City, but no people.

And somehow, the new universe and U7 are connected somehow. When Goku’s pursuers shoot at a nearby building, the same building in the real West City experiences the same damage.

As Trunks mulls this over, Xeno Pan tends to Xeno Goten and Xeno Gohan. So these four characters must have escaped the Universe Tree somehow. Since Goku was fused with Vegeta before he arrived in the new universe, it stands to reason that Vegeta is also in the new universe. That just leaves Xeno Goku and Xeno Vegeta unaccounted for.

This is dumb as hell. These two haven’t done jack shit in this whole series, so I don’t know why we’re wasting screen-time on them.

It turns out Cooler and Frieza were in those ships that were chasing Goku. When Goku flees the city to find a place to regroup, they ditch the ships and chase after him with their own power. But then some mysterious force stops them in their tracks and it’s...

... Hearts, who died in Episode 19. He explains that he was freed from Hell by Demigra, although he doesn’t seem to know who Demigra is. Hearts wants to team up with Goku to oppose Fu, since Hearts disapproves of the way Fu has been using the Universe Seed. Goku isn’t convinced, but he doesn’t have much choice, since Frieza and Cooler are still after him.

Goku manages to overwhelm Golden Frieza with Ultra Instinct, while Hearts seems to fight evenly with Golden Metal Cooler. I was going to point out that Hearts used to be a lot stronger than this, but he was using the Universe Seed to amplify his powers, so I guess it makes sense for him to be weaker now.

Then someone throws red Dragon Balls at Frieza and Cooler, and they get turned into rampaging maniacs. When Demigra released Hearts, he told him about this. They’re called “Dark Dragon Balls” and they can be used to turn warriors into berserkers. But before Goku and Hearts can deal with that...

... Broly shows up and attacks everyone, because of course he does.

This doesn’t bother the guy who threw the Dark Dragon Balls, though, since he only seems to want the fight to continue. If Broly wants to jump in uninvited, that’s fine with him.

Then the other mystery man that we saw before shows up and removes the Dark Dragon Balls from Frieza and Cooler, then he challenges Broly, and leads him away from Goku and Hearts. Goku asks Hearts who that guy is, and Hearts says that he tried to read his mind, but he couldn’t.

The Crimson Masked Saiyan withdraws as well, and Hearts gives Goku a senzu bean. He found it on this Earth, but since it restores Goku’s strength and stamina, he concludes that the copies of objects work the same way they do in the real world. So Hearts believes that the Dragon Balls of this Earth will work as well. He already has one of them, and Goku knows how to find the rest.

He finds the Dragon Radar in the Capsule Corp. building, but when he turns it on, he gets a reading from a second Dragon Ball directly overhead. I guess this is a different planet, but up here we find the Crimson Masked Saiyan forcing Vegeta, Cumber, and Turles to fight each other.

Vegeta’s been getting his ass kicked, because Cumber was always a handful, and Turles has eaten so much Tree of Might fruit that he’s got Radditz hair now.

Goku and Hearts show up to save Vegeta, and the Crimson Masked Saiyan turns Super Saiyan Pink, which immediately gives away that he’s just Goku Black. Why the mask, then?

While the Gokus fight, Turles infuses Vegeta with evil power and tries to convince him to be evil. I guess he and Cumber are in cahoots now? I don’t understand this.

Vegeta struggles against this energy, and he has a flashback montage of various key moments like when he killed Nappa and massacred that Namekian villiage, and when he died to Frieza and watched Goku fight Kid Buu. At last he goes into action, and Turles realises that Vegeta has somehow taken control of this “evil” power.

He whoops Turles’ ass and explains that evil is not the true nature of the Saiyans. Rather, the true nature of their people is to keep fighting, and to strive for greater strength. Cumber sees Vegeta riding high and he wants to take him on...

So Vegeta whoops Cumber’s ass too. Hell yeah! It’s about time they gave Vegeta a hero moment in this series.

Vegeta Galick Guns Cumber and his mask falls off. Cumber salutes Vegeta for turning the evil aura into his own power without succumbing to its corruption, and then he passes out. Fuck yeah!

Vegeta tells Turles to get stronger and challenge him again sometime if he’s got the stones. I think that challenge is open to Cumber too, but he’s too busy sleeping off the last beating he took.

But Black has defeated Goku, and when Vegeta turns his attention to him, he learns Black’s backstory. Of course, the Goku Black we know fused with the other Zamasu and their merged form was erased by Grand Zeno, then they somehow came back to life and got killed by Hearts. This Goku Black is different. He’s from some other timeline or dimension or whatever, and Fu found him before he could go on to be defeated and warned him of his fate.

To avoid that impending defeat, this Goku Black traveled through different timelines, defeating one Goku after another. The Goku he’s beaten just now is his 100th victory, and he declares that he now has achieved complete mastery of his body.

Vegeta tries to stop him, but his new power-up quits on him, and Black observes that he hasn’t fully mastered it yet. But before Black can take advantage of this...

“Bitch, you thought--”

Yeah, Goku’s back in Ultra Instinct, and he just demolishes Black. This web anime has a lot of flaws, but I’ll give it credit for doing what Dragon Ball Super was too cowardly to do. SDBH actually lets good guys clobber the shit out of Zamasu and Black. And it’s incredibly satisfying to watch, because one of the things that made the Zamasu Saga so shitty was that Goku and the others would attack and attack and Black and Zamasu would just no-sell all of it and keep smirking like assholes. Not in Super Dragon Ball Heroes, though. Jiren beats up Zamasu, Hearts kills Zamasu, and not Goku eats Black’s lunch with Ultra Instinct.

So Black withdraws, realizing that if this Goku can improve, then he must still have some work to do before he’s ready to carry on with his agenda. But to dispense with the others, he fires a blast at the planet to destroy it... wait, is that the Vengeance Cannon? Fuck you, Goku Black, that’s a Luffa move! I’ll sue! I’ll sue every Kai in Universe 10, you plagiarizing piece of shit!

Hearts picks up Cumber because he still wants to work with the guy, so all four them can escaper together, except Goku can’t teleport because there’s no ki signatures for him to lock on to. Remember, this universe is uninhabited, so there’s almost no one around. But then--!

Awwww yeah!

Awwwwwwwwwww yeeeeeeeeeeeeah! It’s Cell, everybody! This is automatically the best arc in the series!

Black tries to kill them before Cell can do anything, but Turles blindsides him first, and it looks like Black kills Turles, but while he’s busy doing that, Cell gets everyone out of there.

So back on... Earth, I guess? The uninhabited Earth in this New Universe, I mean. Cell explains that the same guy who freed Hearts from Hell also freed Cell. I guess Demigra arranged all of this to get Goku some reinforcements for the battle against Fu. All I know for certain about Demigra’s role in this is that he’s opposed to Mechikabura’s Dark Empire, and so he would be equally opposed to Towa’s plot to revive the Dark Empire with Fu as Mechikabura’s successor. As to why he would turn to Cell for help, well... Demigra’s got excellent taste, what else can I say?

Look at how pissed these two idiots are. “Tell us why you saved us, Cell!” When Hearts offered to team up with Goku, he was confused, but accepted his help. When he recruited Frieza for the Tournament of Power, Goku was at least cordial with the guy. But Cell? Fuck all that. They hate Cell, and they should. Cell kicked both their asses, and he killed Goku and then he killed Vegeta’s son. He’s not some guy you can work with like Frieza. Cell’s a weapon, and all he does is pick targets to attack. All he cares about is how much fun he’ll have in the process. Goku and Vegeta see this guy and they know he can’t be trusted.

Goku’s like “You want to throw down, is that it?” and Cell doesn’t reject that possibility. Oh, he’ll get to that, but first he needs to explain some stuff, I guess, but before he can do that...

... Well, I guess some other asshole shows up, but we don’t even get to see this one, so I guess we’ll have to wait until next time to find out what’s going on. That’s okay, because Cell’s back, everyone.

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