Characters you wish would have been included in DBM?

As many people has pointed out, Dr. Gero is the most glaring omission in DBM, but I'd like to present my idea to intergrate him and a couple characters in a new universe (replacing U10 since the Saiyans and Nameks can easily be from U1 wihtout changing the plot).


This What If? takes into consideration the starting events of Movie 2:The World's Strongest, where Dr. Kochin is looking for the Dragon Balls to unfreeze the ice that covers Dr. Wheelo's lab. The main difference to connect it with the DBM continuity is that the Dragon Balls are being safely kept on the Lookout to resurrect Goku when the Saiyans arrive on Earth, so Dr. Kochin tries to raid the Lookout with his Bio Men, but it defeated with the combined efforts of all the warriors training after Kami, so Wheelo remains inactive for the rest of his life, until Earth is destroyed in the Buu saga and he isn't brought back to life.

In this universe, however, Dr. Kochin optes for a different means to get his objective by tracking one of Dr. Wheelo's trusted colleagues: Dr. Gero,undercover after the RR Army's destruction at the hands of Goku. In this moment of the timeline Gero has just finished the creation (and dismissal) of Android 15 and hasn't kidnapped either Lapis or Lazuli, and it still an old man that hasn't transferred his mind to C20. Dr. Kochin finds his lab and proposes that Gero aids on the retrieval of Wheelo's mind so that they can join forces in his mission to defeat Goku.

Gero ultimately agrees, quietly getting Wheelo out of his laboratory With their combined forces, Dr. Gero successfully repurposes Android 13 as his new and optimized body (I like the theory that he was modelled after Gero's younger self), while Wheelo is transferred to C15 while they create his new body,while they keep an eye on the attack of the Saiyans. They finish preparations earlier compared to the main timeline, but decide to wait for Goku's arrival to execute their attack.

After this,the timeline events would play out mostly like in the Future timeline, where the Dragon Team has to defeat Mecha Frieza and King Cold after their arrival on Earth without Trunks. Exactly the Day after Goku's arrival on Earth, the Doctors unleash their attack on the Dragon Team, using all the Androids and Bio-Warriors they have at their disposal after seeing the gigantic power SSJ Goku possesses. After a fierce battle , the Z warriors manage to destroy most of their enemies, including Dr. Kochin, but are ultimately defeated by Gero and Wheelo and the Dragon Balls are deactivated.Only Goku is kept alive after getting severely weakened,as Wheelo still wants to transfer his conscience to a World Martial Arts' winner,while Bulma and her father are imprisoned for their scientific knowledge.


News of Goku defeating his family still run amok, so Cooler decides to travel to Earth, but this time it's a villain vs villain encounter. Due to one of Goku's attemps to liberate himself, Cooler's forces manage to track the location of the lab, and realizing the inmense power of the Frost Demon, Wheelo quickly needs to kill Goku so they're not discovered when the invaders get close enough.This is proved worthless,as the aliens deploy a similar stragedy to the movie and simply destroy the landscape. The doctors manage to escape, but Dr. Gero's lab is completely destroyed, including the Cell project that he had previously abandoned. With a lot of stragedy from Gero and Wheelo they manage to absorb Cooler's attacks and obliterate him.

After they recover, Gero and Wheelo recover Cooler's spaceship and reverse engineer it for its advanced technology, achieving space travel. Over the next few years, not only Earth is taken under control, but the Red Ribbon Army is rebuilt as an intergalactic force under a new name: the Red Ribbon Empire, taking quick control over the power vacuum left by the Frost Demons. Broly never loses control , Hoi never managed to liberate Tapion and Babidi still tries to liberate Buu but the strongest forces in Earth don't spread ki. There is even the chance that the RR Empire finds and exploits the Big Gete Star


With this universe not only Gero gets to appear in the fanfic, but two unused DBZ movies get their spotlight (Movies 2 and 10) and Movie 5 gets another purpose outside the introduction of Cooler.


Universe 10: The Red Ribbon Empire


Participants: Dr.Gero(still using Android 13's looks with a more sophisticated fashion), Android 8(Eigther,reprogrammed to follow Gero and his strongest soldier).
Gero would replace I'K'L in the Tournament Bracket, and I'K'L himself is paired against Goku (Mahissu who?), so he's still disqualified by technicality like in the original(even if Goku was willing to wait for his fight).


Round 1 : Gero vs C17. This is a really ironic matchup,since this Gero never actually created C17 in his timeline and C17 killed his Gero in his, only this time he is absolutely demolished by U10 Gero. The doctor even comments on how this Cyborg is clearly from his creation but it has been losing power for a while now, a similar moment to Yamcha vs C18, and proves to himself that absorbing the enemies' energy was the right choice, before blasting C17 away.

Round 2: Goku vs Gero. Goku already knows about his ki-absorbing ability, and this time there is no heart virus to weaken him, so the battle goes on his favour just by using his SSJ1 form. Before he's defeated ,though, Gero showcases that he can still transform like the original A13, but this time it's even more refined , achieving the same power as Perfect Cell after absorbing C18. Goku is still impressed by this, but still destroys Gero with a Dragon Fist (a melee attack to bypass his problems).

Round 1: A16 vs A8. This match is a bit inspired by Mystare Fusion's comment on how A16 could have had a more impactful story in the Cell Saga if his role was taken by the pacifist Eighter,now under control of Gero to do his bidding, and that's exactly what is happening here. This fight would take place instead of A16 vs Eleim , with Eleim fighting Son Bra in Round 1 already and Zangya fighting Nekomajin instead of the disqualified Romanesco. During this battle A16 doesn't try to actually harm Eigther, but to break his programming away from Gero's control. Eighter is brought to the brink of his power resource but he's successfully freed ,but before he can give up , Gero activates his self-destrust option to severely injure A16. The U12 participant is still declared the winner but is unable to fight in Round 2, so the tournament happens the same from this point onwards.