Ultra Instinct Remixes — Goku in Ultra Instinct form with silver hair and blue aura glowing around him

Ultra Instinct Remixes

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Published October 4, 2026

Ultra Instinct Remixes are fan-made video edits built around Goku's power-up scene from the October 2017 episode of Dragon Ball Super, pairing the fight footage with dubstep drops or splicing the audio into unrelated action movies. The format kicked off within hours of the episode airing and became a go-to template for anime AMV remixers through late 2017.

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Overview

Ultra Instinct Remixes are YouTube video edits based on Goku's transformation into the Ultra Instinct form during his fight with Jiren in Dragon Ball Super3. Remixers typically take the raw episode footage and overlay a dubstep track that drops exactly when Goku's hair goes silver and his aura flares out, syncing the bass hits to each punch and dodge1.

A second branch of the format swaps the direction, keeping Goku's original fight audio, the screams, impact sounds and the show's score, while cutting the picture to unrelated action scenes from live-action films6. The joke lands because the Dragon Ball Super sound design is so chaotic and overblown that mapping it onto a normal action beat makes the live-action character look impossibly fast6. Both branches lean on how recognizable the Ultra Instinct silhouette and sound effects are to anime viewers.

Origin & Background

Platform
Dragon Ball Super anime (source) / YouTube (viral spread)
Creator
DUBSTEP NATION
Date
2017

The Ultra Instinct state was introduced earlier in the Dragon Ball canon through the Resurrection 'F' manga and film in 2015, where the attendant Whis demonstrates the technique and explains it to Goku12. Toei Animation did not put the move on Goku himself until October 8th, 2017, when the Dragon Ball Super episode 'Son Goku Wakes! New Level of the Awakened!!' aired and gave the character his first full Ultra Instinct transformation during the Tournament of Power arc3.

The remix format emerged the same day the episode aired. On October 8th, 2017, YouTuber DUBSTEP NATION uploaded 'Goku's Ultra Instinct Transformation Dubstep Remix,' the earliest documented edit of the transformation clip, which pulled over 5,500 views in its first month4.

How It Spread

The format moved fast on YouTube in the two weeks after the episode aired. On October 22nd, 2017, YouTuber lezbeepic posted 'Ultra Instinct (GOKU VS. JIREN) [Dubstep Remix],' a longer edit of the fight scene set to dubstep that pulled more than 700,000 views in its first month, dwarfing the earlier DUBSTEP NATION upload5.

The crossover branch of the meme appeared a few days later. On October 28th, 2017, YouTuber TartSoTart uploaded 'Ultra Instinct Peter Parker,' which cut the fight sequence from Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man where Peter dodges Flash Thompson's punches in the school hallway over the Dragon Ball Super audio track, matching Peter's reflex shots to Goku's dodges6. The video cleared 200,000 views in two weeks and set the template for later live-action Ultra Instinct edits6. Coverage of the format on Know Your Meme later catalogued these three uploads as the foundation of the series7.

Timeline

2015-03-20

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' manga introduces the Ultra Instinct concept through the character Whis.

2015-04-18

The Resurrection 'F' film gives the technique its first on-screen explanation in the anime.

2017-10-08

Dragon Ball Super airs 'Son Goku Wakes! New Level of the Awakened!!,' showing Goku's first full Ultra Instinct transformation; DUBSTEP NATION uploads the earliest known dubstep remix the same day.

2017-10-22

YouTuber lezbeepic posts 'Ultra Instinct (GOKU VS. JIREN) [Dubstep Remix],' which pulls over 700,000 views in a month.

2017-10-28

TartSoTart uploads 'Ultra Instinct Peter Parker,' pairing the fight audio with Spider-Man (2002) footage and starting the live-action crossover branch.

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