Android 18
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| Japanese | 人造人間18号 |
| Romaji | Jinzō'ningen Jūhachigō |
| Anime Name | Android #18 |
| Manga Name | Android #18 |
| Alternate Name(s) | Jinzō'ningen #18 #18 Cyborg #18 Artificial Human #18 |
| First Appearance | Volume 29
(DBZ Volume 13) |
| Appears in |   |
| Race | Human / Jinzō'ningen |
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| DB Character Listing - Category | |
Android #18 (Jinzō'ningen #18, also known as Cyborg #18, Artificial Human #18, or simply 18 and C-18 in the Spanish dub to everyone after the Cell Games Saga.) is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball (US only: Dragon Ball Z) and the anime Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. Her seiyū is Miki Itou. In the FUNimation dub she is voiced by Meredith McCoy.
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[edit] History
Beautiful as she is deadly, Android 18 is a cybernetic human, modified by the scientist named Dr. Gero.She is a sexy callculating android who even though she never stops being evil ,softens up a bit.She is often referred to in the original Japanese as a Jinzō'ningen, which translates as android, artificial human, cyborg, or robot. However, she is not exactly an artificial human considering that she was originally human. It is implied in the manga she and her brother (Android 17) were originally runaways heavily fitted with cybernetics. Whether or not this "fitting" was consensual is unknown, but it is implied that it wasn't considering that she and 17 both show a disdainful disrespect toward Dr. Gero. In the Anime its implied that she and Andriod 17 may actually be Dr. Gero's children when at the 24th Tenka'ichi Budōkai when asked about her name she refers to her father liking unusual names. However, she is able to biologically function as a human does, given the fact that she produces a child right before the Buu Saga. 18's original human name is never revealed.
It is never explained why Androids 17 and 18 were created, but it has been suggested that 17 and 18 were tools to be used by Gero's ultimate creation named Cell. Cell was supposed to absorb them into his fully biological body and become the "perfect" warrior. He achieved this, absorbing #18 shortly after doing the same to #17.
[edit] Beauty and the Monk
Krillin when he first meets 18 is very attracted to her, even though at the time she is heartless and wants to kill the Z fighters. 18 is too artificial to age, so she looks the same at the end of Dragonball Z as she did during her first appearance (although she has cut her hair).
On the highway, after she and her brother nearly kill the Z fighters, she kisses the terrified Krillin on the cheek after he tries to persuade them not to go after Goku. This is when Krillin starts to fall in love with her. After Cell arrives, Krillin refuses to use a back up destruction remote on her, which would have destroyed her, cutting short Cell's relentless quest for ultimate power. However, Cell absorbs her and reaches his ultimate power, but Cell becomes overpowered by Gohan, and regurgitates 18. When Cell is defeated, Krillin wishes for 18 to be turned into a full human. The Dragon is unable to do this because of the unfathomable differences in power between him and the duo. Krillin pursues 18 and he and 18 eventually have a child together, a daughter named Marron. To clear up the heavily espoused misconception that 18 is a pure android and therefore could not have a child, Krillin went on to explain to Goku (and, in essence, to all confused fans) during the Tenkaichi Budokai in the Buu Saga that 18 was originally human but that Dr. Gero just "remodeled her a little bit". 18's destructive personality fades quite a bit after the Cell Saga and is accepted as a member of the core group of characters--particularly after she and Krillin marry and have a daughter. But even though by observing her, you can tell that she is a loving mother, she sometimes displays that frightening unpredictable nature towards others, particularly towards Muten Roshi.
[edit] Alternate Timeline
No. 18 and No. 17's counterparts in Mirai Trunks' alternate timeline are evil sociopathic maniacs who are responsible for the deaths of billions of innocents. Trunks destroys them with his new power when he returns home, after years of their devastating the planet. Even when the main-timeline versions of 17 and 18 were first introduced as antagonists, they were never as bad as their alternate reality selves. For unknown reasons, the main versions are also stronger than the ones Mirai Trunks knows.
This may be because that in the alternate timeline the androids were not in their processing chamber as long as the ones in main timeline therefore they may not have been able to reach their full power as shown in the cell games saga. The real reason, outside of the storyline, is that Akira Toriyama did not originally intend the Androids 17 and 18 to even exist, but did so when editorial reaction to 19 and 20 was negative.
In the alternate timeline, 19 and 16 are not activated, which makes some fans believe that if these two were, like in the alternate timeline, activated before 19, they would have been the same as they were in the main timeline as they were in the alternate one.
[edit] 18 in the Buu Saga
Later in the series, #18 is paired with Mr. Satan (FUNimation's edited dub: Hercule) in the Tenka-ichi Budōkai (FUNimation's dub: World Martial Arts Tournament). She does not want the fame and attention of winning, so allows Mr. Satan to beat her and retain his somewhat misappropriated title of a great fighter, provided he pays her the prize money. The same day however, #18 gets killed, along with her family, by Majin Buu, who turns her into chocolate and eats her (this is the second time that she has been ingested). She is brought back to life with the Dragon Balls, and gives energy to Son Gokū to fuel his Genki Dama to defeat Majin-Buu. Though peace has returned, #18 still maintains a cool and distant attitude toward Goku, as she was originally created to kill him, but she still can't resist smiling when Goku returns and has a tearful reunion with his family, showing a softer side to her personality.
[edit] Dragon Ball GT
18 gets possessed by Bebi, but she doesn't play an important role as any type of servant, so life simply carries on. She is cured with the Sacred Water, and later on she and Goku teamed up to defeat Super Hell Fighter #17, because #17 killed Kuririn, someone who both Goku and #18 loved and cared for.
[edit] Dragon Ball Movies
(#18 appears in the following Dragon Ball Movies and TV Specials:)
- TV Special 2: Resistance to Despair!! The Remaining Super-Warriors, Gohan and Trunks (FUNimation's dub: The History of Trunks)
- Movie 11: Super-Warrior Defeat!! I'm the One who'll Win (FUNimation's dub: Bio-Broly)
[edit] Power
As a cyborg, Android 18 is extremely powerful, she is able to easily overpower a Super Saiyan. This is first demonstrated to when she fights Super Saiyan Vegeta, she is able to severely injure him and walk away almost completely unscathed. She was also able to hold her own when Goten and Trunks double-teamed her both as Super Saiyans.
18 is fitted with a device that gives her a continuous energy supply. This prevents her from becoming exhausted while fighting, and augments her power enough to make her a formidable opponent even for a Saiyan.
[edit] Techniques and special abilities
Hikou: This is the ability to fly in the case of the Androids, without Ki. As the android have no Ki of their own, they are unable to use Bukujujitsu.
Kienzan: The Kienzan (A.K.A. the Destructo-Disc) is a razor sharp disk of energy that can slice through nearly any opponent. This is her husband's (Kuririn's) signature technique.
(in the Budōkai games)
- Power Blitz: An energy blast fired from the palm of the hand. This is her and 17's signature Death-Move in those games.
- Energy Field: Energy is thrust out from the body in the form of a barriar with great force.
(In Supersonic Warriors 2)
- Energy Mines: Throws 5 Orbs of Energy around an opponent in a star pattern, then punches the opponent into one of the Orbs causing the opponent to be thrown around in pinball like fashion from one orb to the next while 18 hovers in the air as if she were sitting in a chair, when the opponent eventually stops, then she moves the orbs closer to the opponent and detonates them. She also uses a single Energy Mine as a heavy energy Attack.
- Photon Blitz: same as the Power Blitz in Budōkai, except it has a limited attack range.
- Photon Strike: A volley Ki Blast downward.
- Double Buster: Fires a volley of Ki Blast left and Right along with a single blast in middle upwards.
[edit] Videogames
Some of her appearances as a playable character includes:
- Dragon Ball Z: Budōkai
- Dragon Ball Z: Budōkai 2
- Dragon Ball Z: Budōkai 3
- Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi
- Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors
- Super Dragon Ball Z
- Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
- Dragon Ball Z: Super Sonic Warriors
- Dragon Ball Z: Super Sonic Warriors 2
- Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
