Hell (Dragon Ball)

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Hell is a fictional place in the Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT animes. It's not seen in the original manga, but it is mentioned. It's located in the Other World where the dead find themselves if their souls are not pure such as the main villains.

The English dub by FUNimation Productions calls it HFIL which is an acronym for Home For Infinite Losers. It was changed due to censoring issues as FUNimation was not allowed to refer to Hell. They came up with HFIL as a result of digitally erasing parts of the letters of HELL. HFIL Originally, Cartoon Network could only air censored episodes with the HFIL marking taking place of HELL, but at a later date, they aired an episode with the original marking of HELL.

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[edit] History

Hell is a Dragon World feature seen only in anime filler of Dragon Ball Z and again in Dragon Ball GT. It is, however, mentioned in the manga on several occasions. When Son Goku runs along Snake Way to receive training from the legendary King Kai in the anime, he actually falls off the long road and lands in Hell. He meets two of the guardians there, Mezu and Gozu, who inform him that there is no way to leave Hell, though Goku is eventually shown a secret passage that leads him out.

[edit] Other Non-Manga Appearances

Hell appears again in the Great Saiyaman Saga, when Goku and Pikkon go there to take care of some trouble-makers (deceased DBZ villains). They are easily defeated by Pikkon, who locks them in Jail. This never happened in the manga.
In Dragon Ball Z Movie #12, The Rebirth Of Fusion, a teenage demon in Hell guarding an evil-purification machine accidentally breaks it, releasing the souls the machine was holding into Earth. An evil monster called Janemba comes out, and completely changes Hell, but it is restored after Super Saiyan Gogeta defeats him.
Hell appears for the last time in Dragon Ball Z in the Kid Buu Saga. The dead villains from the series have obtained a television and are watching Goku fight Kid Buu. They all cheer for Buu except Babidi, who wants his father's traitorous creation destroyed.
In Dragon Ball GT, one of the main plot lines is centered around Hell, the Super Android 17 Saga, where Android 17 opens a portal between Hell and Earth causing all the villains from the two previous Dragon Ball series to escape and wreak havoc on the world.