Dragon Ball Heroes Verse Explanation (2024)

Summary[]

Dragon Ball Heroes (ドラゴンボールヒーローズ/Doragon Bōru Hīrōzu), now known as Super Dragon Ball Heroes (スーパー ドラゴンボール ヒーローズ/Sūpā Doragon Bōru Hīrōzu)[1], is a Japanese arcade game developed by Dimps, as the sixth Dragon Ball Z: Data Carddass game. Announced on October 21, 2010, and released on November 11, 2010, the game allows the usage of many characters from the Dragon Ball series, as well as characters new to the series. It recently got an anime adaptation (promotional anime).

The Verse[]

The verse contains characters from all of DB, DBZ, GT, Super and the movies[2](Essentially the "DB TOEIverse"), while also containing some of the characters from the Dragon Ball Franchise's games such as Xenoverse [3], Butoden [4] , Fusion [5] , DBZ V.R.V.S. etc. and some special mangas such as Reincarnation of Yamcha [6]

The verse has multiple console games even excluding the Arcade ones, which include the DBH 3DS port ones (Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2 and Ultimate Mission X) and the Switch port (SDBH World Mission) .

The verse has released various mangas over the years on both Saikyō Jump and V Jump including some more well-known ones like:

・DBH Victory Mission,

・SDBH Dark Demon Realm, SDBH Universe Mission, SDBH Big Bang Mission, SDBH Ultra God Mission and SDBH Meteor Mission.

Or less known ones like:

・DBH Charisma Sora Direct (DBH Let's Get Started) (One-shot manga showing how Battle Navigator Sora got two youngsters, who are Young Tsubasa and Young Momo-chan, into Heroes),

・DBH Rookie Charisma Mission (One-shot manga to show the Charisma Mission's settings and characters, showing Tsubasa and Momo as rookie Charisma),

・DBH Super Charisma Mission, SDBH Ultimate Charisma Mission, SDBH God Charisma Mission (Mangas spanning different Charisma generations),

・Battle Navigator Kanata's SDBH (Mangas about Battle Navigator Kanata mentoring characters on SDBH, i.e. teaching Kokorozashi Takashi how to become the strongest in SDBH),

・Victory Uchida's SDBH (Mangas about Victory Uchida interacting with the SDBH game, its events, its creators, and the Charismas),

・SDBH Gaiden Avatar Story (the one-shot manga for the DBH's 10th Anniversary with Vita, an extreme Goku fan and a SDBH player), which ended up becoming a new manga title: "SDBH Avatar".

Power of the Verse[]

The dragon ball heroes verse is a fairly powerful verse, stronger than the canon timeline as of now; in terms of power in the entirety of the franchise, it is ranging between the Low-High and Mid-High tiers, with its lower/average tier characters ranging from Multiversal+ to possibly Low Complex Multiversal (for scaling to characters such as the Shadow Dragons who affected all missions, stories and timelines in the JM era of the DBH arcade; to Dark Demon Realm Mechikaboola who absorbed the infinite multiverse which would include the Crack Of Time which is a possibly higher dimensional construct or by scaling to characters from the arcade's real world) while mid-high tier characters ranging from Low Complex Multiversal to Complex Multiversal and possibly higher (for scaling to characters such as Ultimate Mission X Chamel/Demigra) and higher tier characters ranging between Complex Multiversal to possibly 1-A (for scaling to constructs such as the Ultimate Mission 2's Ultimate World and characters relative to the UM2 Player's avatar; to Charisma Mission's Charismas who are all individually stronger than Charisma Mission Tori-Bot and view as fiction the entirety of DBH including the Arcades, 3DS continuity and the manga continuity; to Sora Direct and Victory Uchida's highest stories' characters who'd view as fiction the Charisma Mission story; scaling to the stronger Charismas who view as fiction Victory Uchida's SDBH and exist in Kanata's SDBH world and possibly for scaling to the Fun World) .

The main story has various haxs like Time Manipulation,Mind Control, Reality Warping, Durability Negation, Dimensional Travel, Healing, Acausality(Type 1 and 4); it includes even haxs like Corruption, Probability Manipulation and Sealing (type 1 and 2). Charismas have also many abilities, like: Reality Warping, Size Manipulation, Power Mimicry, Soul Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Multiple Personalities, Soullessness, Invulnerability, etc. and even more via being able to use DBH/SDBH cards' abilities and effects. Charismas would also logically have Higher-Dimensional Physiology via viewing as flat and a set of fictional stories, which is for them still existent and accessible, the SDBH verse, which would even include Mechikaboola, who should have gotten a Higher-Dimensional Physiology himself after absorbing all of time (in this context time refers to all timelines).

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Misconceptions

It is generally believed that it is an impressive feat to appear in Charisma Mission, and that only Fu has been able to reach this dimension in Ultimate Charisma Mission, however that's not the case. In Ultimate Charisma Mission many DBH characters appear, especially when it is a challenge mission, and in those instances characters like: Goku, Vegeta, Broly, the Wolf from the Impostor challenge mission and more characters, have appeared. Moreover, it's important to consider that the chapter in which it happened was a Jump Victory Carnival guidebook and in a previous Jump Victory Carnival guidebook (2017) the Time Patrol, such as Trunks and Chronoa, saw the Charismas on a time scroll, though while Trunks was aware of them and even referred to them as Charismas it wasn't the same for Chronoa, who was actually unaware of who they were and thought they were anomalies which does suggest they were not meant to be there and are likely from outside the SDBH timelines. To add more to this, at the end of that chapter the same Chronoa mentions that Trunks can learn more about Chamel from the next Saikyo Jump issue. So this may suggest Charisma characters when they are in JVC guidebook may be entering a fundamentally different story from the conventional SDBH main story to interact with SDBH characters for the purpose of promoting Heroes, this would mean that Fu's "feat" would not be impressive and would not be attributed to main story Fu.

Another thing to make clear is that Charisma Mission events do not all take place in the same place. Charismas enter stories (and missions) and because of this you will see them be in all different kinds of scenarios which normally wouldn't make sense at all. The idea is that there are many distinct stories in Charisma Mission but whether an individual story is impressive or not is reliant on its context and using other stories to scale it may not always be applicable.

It is believed by many people aware of the statement which says that ToriBot is the Ultimate God, without which SDBH would have never existed, that Tori Bot is the creator of the SDBH cosmology and/or that he's the strongest. However, that isn't the case as there exist mangas such as Victory Uchida's SDBH, which is a story/world created by Victory Uchida's. Similarly Super Charisma Mission was created by the Heroes charismas such as Tsubasa, Momo and Yosh*to; to add more to this, in Super Charisma Mission the 4 original Super Charisma Mission's Charismas are referred to as the 4 strongest of all, which would include Tori Bot. Furthermore, even assuming he did create it: it's stated in Super Charisma Mission that DBH keeps getting stronger as more people read it, which may suggest the cosmology would actually be way more impressive than when Tori-Bot made it, meaning that it would not be reasonable to scale him to the cosmology and his feat would not be quantifiable.

Many people refer to the dimension in which all Charisma act as "Charisma Mission world or Charisma World", but Charisma Mission is just one of the many stories that have Charisma characters and it is considered the lowest one (at least to my knowledge), whereas Victory Uchida's SDBH and Charisma Sora Direct's story would be higher than it, with the highest story being Kanata's SDBH which takes place in the actual Real World where it should consistently view Victory Uchida's SDBH stories as lower stories.

Canon[]

Game continuity[]

The Arcade Continuity is the "main canon". DBH Arcade and SDBH Arcade are essentially the same continuity.

• The order of the DBH Arcade Series would be: DBH > DBH Evil Dragons Mission > DBH Galaxy Mission > DBH God Mission.

• The order of the SDBH Arcade Series is: SDBH > SDBH Universe Mission > SDBH Big Bang Mission > SDBH Ultra God Mission > SDBH Meteor Mission.

The 3DS port and Switch port Continuity are both only canon to themselves in terms of lore. However, some may argue that they're connected as in a Victory Uchida's SDBH chapter it is stated WM is an evolution of the 3DS port. It is also arguable that World Mission is canon to the SDBH arcade as the same Sealas from WM has appeared already in the arcade and there's statements supporting it being canon.

Manga Continuity[]

DBH Victory Mission may use recurring characters from the "Charismas' stories", but the DBH battling mechanics are different as players in Victory Mission do not physically appear on the board or the battlefield but their hero avatar does, moreover the characters are not referred to as Charismas. To add to this the DBH Rookie Charisma 0 Mission chapter was published when Victory Mission was still at its Dark Shenron summoning chapter and the characters' traits, such as Yosh*to's chubbiness or Tsubasa's sleepiness, which are some of their main character traits in Rookie and Super Charisma Mission, are contradicted or just not present. This implies that as of now it seems only canon to itself, though it could still be considered part of the larger continuity if the Victory Uchida's SDBH and higher stories were to include this as part of its canon.

SDBH Gaiden Avatar Story is seemingly not canon to SDBH Avatar or it could be just a parallel world. The events of SDBH Gaiden Avatar Story take place in a different world from SDBH Avatar, based on what we can see in chapter 2. In which, Roy, one of the SDBH four heavenly kings, first met Vita and co. differently from how he first met them in Gaiden Avatar Story. However, this could also be interpreted as a retcon as it was a new series based around the concept of the One-shot.

The manga order for the "main story" in SDBH (with Time Patrol, Fu, Xeno Goku etc.):

• Dark Demon Realm > Universe Mission > Big Bang Mission > Ultra God Mission > Meteor Mission.

The manga order for the "Charismas' Stories" events (with Sora, Tsubasa, Yuki, Suzu, Kanata etc.):

• Heroes Charisma Sora Direct > Rookie Charisma Mission > Super Charisma Mission > Ultimate Charisma Mission > God Charisma Mission.

With Victory's Uchida SDBH events running between Super Charisma Mission, Ultimate Charisma Mission and God Charisma Mission whereas Battle Navigator Kanata's SDBH events take place after God Charisma Mission's from the characters' perspective.

Other possible continuities

Dragon Ball Discross Jinryoku God MAX manga has some similar concepts to Heroes, such as it having its own Charismas, battle navigators and their Capsule Corp logo, it deals with space-time crossing and time traveling, and the main characters can summon DB characters through special items and use their powers. However more direct connections to Heroes have not been evident and while there is a possibility of them being related there is not sufficient evidence to suggest they are, so it is most likely only canon to itself. But because of its promotion being present in V Jump some may argue that would make it canon to Victory Uchida's SDBH and higher stories; personally I prefer using Victory Uchida's SDBH only in the context of Heroes content found in V Jump to avoid crossverse scaling and other possible issues, therefore I wouldn't take that stance but it certainly is a possible way to view it.