Talk:Just for Sidekicks/@comment-4914639-20130727025251/@comment-26973802-20131006041452

So the writers would've had that baby phoenix that Spike worked hard to protect from those vicious teenage dragons erased via that deadly vanish-for-no-good-reason virus, Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, much like Goten and Trunks don't have tails because Akira Toriyama forgot that Saiyans had tails (although there was brief speculation from Krillin in the manga as to whether Bulma cut Trunks's tail off)