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Thanks man..His Tree of Might Backstory is referenced a good few times. In Lord Slug’s Pamphlet’s, the Anime Character List in Return of Cooler’s, Son Goku Denetsu, and the Daizenshuu. The first three only alluded to it being ToM, generally just talking about the fire he’s saved from, but Daizenshuu 7 makes it quite clear.
“Hire Dragon:
History: Gohan saves him from a mountain fire in “Super Decisive Battle for Earth”. Though he’s not too fond of people, he likes Gohan.
Special Characteristics: He’s distinguished by his two horns, round eyes, and large wings.
Techniques: He can fly freely through the air, and give people rides. In “Super Saiyan Son Goku”, he performed by dancing along to Gohan’s whistling. It appeared not only in the movies, but in the TV show as well. In the middle of the Garlic Jr. arc, he noticed the Aqua Mist, and saved Gohan by pushing him into a cave. (Daizenshuu 5, p.38/Daizenshuu 6, p.60)”
So generally speaking, it’s safe to assume he’s the ToM Dragon. Of course, that leads to some narrative holes, but we already handled that in the Cooler thread. Plus, ToM is necessarily canon because it’s canon other things that we know are canon to the Toei Anime, like the Future Trunks Special, or Fusion Reborn, etc.
Now I wonder. Why it took us a lot to find all of these scans??....
Like, we've been years trying to debate this skeptics denying over and over the movies's canonicity.
And we did it well, becouse back in 2023-2022, we had very little evidences but we managed to fight back this people that only knew how to to bring negativity to the table.....
This only shows me how Westerners are so obsessed with canonicity over everything else...
Like, how entitled people from western emisphire decide what's worth depending on it's canonicity, how the create their own delusions of "canonicity"....their own headcanons, believing they know more than the authors....
If you knew how incredibly insufferable is the Spanish and Brazilian fandom in regards this issue.....
Talking from experience.....