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She was the one who kickstarted the plot

Just because you did one thing at the start of the series doesn't make you important for all of it. Mizuki isn't the most important character of Naruto just because he told him about the Shadow Clone scroll, which led to him graduating from the academy and the rest of the plot occuring.

Even then, this is incorrect as the plot would began without her as someone else would have come for Goku's ball and given him a reason to leave the mountains.

The red ribbon would have found goku, beat him, and took the dragon ball.

Nah, I could just as easily say that Pilaf would have come for Goku's ball and taken him on his quest for the balls. Then they become friends and Goku meets Roshi anyway.

"But if this didn't happen, then that wouldn't happen" is a meaningless argument when everything is arbitrary and decided on the author's whim.

Without the dragon radar he'd have no way to track it down or bring it back.

Good thing Pilaf has his own radar, which is superior to Bulma's as it has video feed.

Without Bulma, Goku would have also died to the virus

Convoluted plot devices like this aren't important. Goku died at the end of the arc, anyway, so it didn't matter.

Bulma also fucked over the spacetime continuum with her meddling, which led to Zamasu killing everyone on Earth and Zeno erasing the multiverse. So if we're giving Bulma credit for "kick-starting" the series, then she deserves blame for Future Trunks's timeline being wiped out.

Without Bulma, krillin and them don't arrive on namek in time to stop frieza from getting the dragon balls. Frieza has no delays.

Freeza doesn't have a radar and he can't speak Namekian, so he wouldn't find the Dragon Balls or get his wish.

Bulma's dad can fix the spaceship by himself, too.

Bulma is definitely integral to the plot as a driving force. The end.

She isn't. The end.