Super 17
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| Japanese | 人造人間十七号 |
| Romaji | Jinzō'ningen Junanagō |
| Anime Name | Super Android 17 |
| Manga Name | N/A |
| Alternate Name(s) | Super Hell Fighter #17 Super Jinzō'ningen #17 Super Cyborg #17 Super #17 Super Artificial Human #17 Super HFIL Fighter #17 |
| First Appearance | Super 17 Saga |
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| Race | Jinzō'ningen |
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In the Japanese anime Dragonball GT, the fictional character Super Hell Fighter #17 (FUNimation's dub: Super Android #17) is the result of a fusion between Jinzō'ningen #17 (FUNimation's dub: Android #17) and Dr. Myū's artificial duplication of #17. This results in the powerful and seemingly unstoppable being known as Super #17. This machine mutant/cyborg hybrid is the most powerful technology-based fighter ever seen in the Dragon Ball series and possesses the ability to absorb energy, allowing #17 to add to his already vast supply of power. Super #17's actual name in the Japanese version is Super Hell Fighter #17, but it is often shortened by fans to Super #17 or mistaken as Super Jinzō'ningen #17.
He is voiced by Shigeru Nakahara in the original Japanese version, and by Chuck Huber in the FUNimation dub.
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[edit] Dragon Ball GT
[edit] Super 17 Saga
After Doctor Gero and Doctor Myū open a portal between Hell and Earth in order to transport their new Android 17 (Hell Fighter 17), the original Android 17 is brainwashed and controlled by his Hell Fighter counterpart. The brainwashed Android then goes on a rampage, in which he kills Krillin and nearly his own sister, Android 18.
Eventually, the two 17s encounter one another, and perform a mutual fusion technique, resulting in an incredibly powerful Super Android 17. Several Z fighters, Goten, Trunks, Vegeta and Uub attempt to fight Super 17, who merely brushes them away with minimum effort. In a last ditch effort to save her family and friends, Pan takes hold of Dr. Gero and threatens to have Giru kill him if Super 17 doesn't rescind his attack on Vegeta. Gero orders Super 17 not to attack, but Myu changes Super 17's programming so that he only takes orders from Myu, following which Super 17 redirects the attack and fires it at Gero, killing him and sending him back to Hell.
Super 17 continues to manhandle the Z Fighters and is about to completely do away with them until he finds himself encountered by Son Goku, who has just escaped from Hell after being trapped there by the scientists. Goku powers up to Super Saiyan mode and engages Super 17 in combat, but using a new secret technique to absorb all of Goku's energy blasts, Super 17 proves to be far more powerful than a Super Saiyan.
To his shock, Goku emerges from the water as a Super Saiyan 4. They battle once again, and Goku prepares to use a self-destruct technique to destroy Super 17 once and for all. The technique backfires, since Super 17 creates an energy shield to protect himself and Goku from destruction.
As Super 17 prepares to finish off the exhausted Goku with his Dengeki Jigoku Dama, Android 18 steps in to stop him in order to avenge Krillin. After some emotional talk in which Super 17 shows that there are still some signs of good inside him, Super 17 remembers his free will and mercilessly kills Doctor Myu by redirecting the attack towards him, sending him back to Hell in much the same way as Gero before him.
But Super 17 does not reform there. He challenges 18 to a battle in which 18 continuously fires energy blasts which are absorbed by Super 17, despite Goku's warnings. Goku then sees Super 17's weak point: he is defenceless while performing an absorption. Taking his chance, Goku flies nearer to Super 17 and manages to fire a Super Dragon Fist straight through Super 17's torso, seriously wounding him.
All this is made possible by the real Android 17; he allowed Goku to see Super 17's weakness in order to be defeated (Goku tells 18 that he sensed his mind through Super 17 during the fight and 18 said she did too). But just before Super 17 can realize what is happening, his life is brought to a drastic end when Goku finishes him off by firing a Super Kamehameha through Super 17's wound, obliterating the Super Android.
It is widely believed Android 17 was wished back to life by the wish Goku gave his life for at the end of GT. This is because this wish brought back the "good people" that died in the last round of fighting, and we know 17 is considered a good person since we saw him, along with the people of earth, give energy to Goku's Spirit Bomb; at that time only good people were on earth thanks to Vegeta's wish. Finally, we see Kuririn at the end of GT alive and well which tells us this wish worked for those that died during the Super 17 saga so we can expect to believe 17 was brought back too. Note: Since the wish said "good people" those who came out of hell are NOT brought back as well. Therefore, the machine mutant Hell Fighter 17, would either now be stuck in hell or cease to exist.
[edit] Special abilities
- Energy Absorption
Super 17 has the ability to absorb incoming energy (ki waves) similar to #19 and #20; but rather than being constrained to absorbing shots with his hand, he absorbs the energy throughout his entire body. Unfortunately his arms and legs have to remain outstretched for this to work, leaving him unable to attack at all and completely defenseless to physical attacks.
- Flash Bomber
Super 17 lifts up both of arms and fires a strong torrent of laser beams from his fingers. Oddly called "Flash Bomb" and "Super Flash Bomb" English dub.
- Hell's Storm
Unnamed in the FUNimation dub when he uses this attack on Majuub, this attack sees Super 17 remove his left hand and fire superbullets out of a revolver in his arm. The name "Hell's Storm" was coined by the Budokai Tenkaichi series of videogames due to the attack's marginal similarity to Android 16's "Hell's Flash" attack.- This may be an oversight by Toei Animation, which while making this saga seemed to near-fully espouse the misconception that #17 and #18 are actual pure androids. The low sum of cybernetic implants we know are actually inside #17 leaves no explanation as to how Super 17 is mechanical enough that he should be able to remove his hand casually or have guns hidden in his arm to perform this attack in the first place.
- Dengeki Jigoku Dama
Literally translate to Electric Hell Ball. Super 17 cups both of his hands together and creates a giant black ball of energy. He used this attack to kill Dr. Myuu. Called Electro Eclipse Bomb in the English dub, and listed as Shocking Death Ball in the Budokai Tenkaichi series (though in BT2, he actually shouts out the attack's name as Electric Hell Sphere, which is the name closest to its literal translation).
It should be noted that Super 17 is a deadly foe. His strengths arise from his secret absorption field and mixture of cyborg and machine mutant capabilities which culminates in an almost perfect killing machine. Able to increase his energy supply indefinitely through absorption, in addition to the virtually infinite energy reserves the original #17 (one of the fusees that formed him) came fitted with, he quite possibly qualifies as the single most difficult opponent of the series since Toei never disclosed any information to indicate the comparative energy-levels of characters such as Yi Xing Long.
[edit] Video games
Super 17 has only appeared in two video games. Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! (Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi outside Japan) and Dragon Ball Z: Sparking NEO (Budokai Tenkaichi 2).
[edit] Trivia
- Despite being a villain, the only characters Super 17 actually killed are evil as well (Dr. Gero and Dr. Myu, the ones that created him), although one of the fusees that formed into Super 17, the brainwashed Android 17, killed Kuririn before the fusion took place.
