List of Earthlings in Dragon Ball
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This is a list of the Earthlings who appear in the fictional Dragon Ball manga and anime (
), including the Dragon Ball Z movies (
). Characters belonging to the Saiyan or Namekian races that live on Earth in the series will be found on their respective lists. Following some characters' bios are external links that focus on that character.
[edit] Z Fighters
[edit] Android #18
[edit] Chaozu 
(FUNimation dub: Chiaotzu)
Chaozu (餃子?) is seemingly a small, doll-like human with plain white skin and red cheeks; his name is based off of the food jiaozi. When first introduced Chaozu is a student of the Crane Hermit (a rival of Muten-Rôshi) and the constant companion of fellow student Tenshinhan; he quickly amends his ways though and joins Goku and his friends. While not outstanding in physical prowess compared to other superhuman warriors in Dragon Ball, Chaozu has considerable potency in psionics, especially in psychokinesis. Chaozu is not very well educated, as shown in the Tenshinhan Saga.
Chaozu's importance in the series rapidly diminishes after his introduction in the Tenshinhan Saga, where he is a major character. He is a minor character in the subsequent Piccolo Daimaō, Piccolo Junior and Vegeta sagas, and is more-or-less a background character for the others. Chaozu also has a prominent role in the Dragon Ball movie "Mystical Adventure".
[edit] Kuririn
(FUNimation dub: Krillin)
[edit] Muten-Rôshi
(FUNimation dub: Master Roshi)
[edit] Tenshinhan
(FUNimation dub: Tien Shinhan)
[edit] Uub
[edit] Yajirobe
Yajirobe (ヤジロベー Yajirobē?) is a human who first appeared near the end of Dragon Ball. He is a samurai who used to live in the wilderness. He met Son Goku when the young hero ate his fish that he was cooking. Yajirobe and Goku had a fight. The two become friends just as Piccolo Daimao's "child" Cymbal shows up wanting the Dragon Ball Yajirobe has. Yajirobe defeats Cymbal. With the Piccolo Daimao threat going around, Yajirobe joins Goku and his friends to stop him. He supports the Z-fighters mostly from the sidelines after by living with Karin, growing and delivering Senzu beans to the group.
[edit] Yamucha
(FUNimation dub: Yamcha)
[edit] Yamhan
(English Version of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2: Tiencha)
Yamhan is a fusion between Tenshinhan and Yamcha in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2. In a brief scene in the bonus stage of Z World featured exclusively in the Japanese version of Budokai 2, Goku meets Tenshinhan and Yamcha (who then fuse together) on the gameplay board.
[edit] Supporters
[edit] Android #8
Android 8 (人造人間8号 Jinzō'ningen Hachigo?) is the first android seen in the series, and the eighth in the series of androids built by Dr. Gero. He resembles the monster in Frankenstein. He was nicknamed "Eighter" (Hat-chan in Japanese and Octavio in the Mexican dub) by Goku. He then took it on as his real name. He was first seen when Murasaki tried to use him to fight Goku as a last resort inside Muscle Tower. He helped take down General White and drive the Red Ribbon Army away from Jingle Village.
In the anime only, he appears in the King Piccolo Saga when Chow Castle is sieged by Piccolo and Snow is there. He makes small cameos during the two sequels, Dragon Ball Z and GT.
[edit] Android #16
Android #16 (人造人間16号 Jinzō'ningen Jurokugō?) is a large android with red hair and a green armor. Unlike other androids, #16 is gentle by nature, which deemed him a failure in Dr. Gero's eyes. His only objective was to kill Goku. He was awakened by Androids 17 and 18, much to Gero's dismay. While he was much stronger than the two, he took orders. He helped 18 escape from Imperfect Cell, and watched the Cell Games after she was absorbed, vowing to stop Cell. His body is destroyed by Perfect Cell, however, his head survives, and requests that Mr. Satan throw him over to the fight, to help Gohan control himself. Cell completely destroys #16 after he gets his word, crushing his head and pushing Gohan over the edge to Super Saiyan 2. In Trunks' timeline, Android #16 was never activated.
[edit] Bee
Bee is the little dog who Majin Buu finds and befriends along with Mr. Satan. Buu bonds with the puppy and is playing catch with him when two gangsters shoot the dog. Buu heals the puppy, but he's enraged by the event and even more so after they shoot at Mr. Satan, which causes him to flip and create Evil Buu. During the end of the Buu Saga, Mr. Satan and Bee travel around the area until they encounter Gohan, Piccolo, Goten, Trunks and Super Buu. Fans get to see a lighter, more caring side of Mr. Satan during this time, as he makes sure that Bee is safe while the Super Saiyan Vegetto clashes with Buu. Bee lives with Mr. Satan and Buu after the Buu Saga and is once being looked after by Bulma and Trunks in Wrath of the Dragon (presumably being lent to Trunks by Buu for a few days). He appears again, although very naturally aged, in the last 3 episodes of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. In the English manga, the dog is known as "Bay."
[edit] Bora
A powerful native who lives at the base of Karin Tower with his son Upa. He is muscular, tall, and a man of few words. Shortly after befriending Son Goku, he fends off Captain Yellow's men by himself, but he is later speared by Tao Pai Pai, who is looking for Goku, and killed. Goku avenges him by taking training from Karin and defeating Tao Pai Pai himself. When Shenlong is summoned again, Goku's wish is that Bora be brought back to life. In his next appearance, he assists Goku once more by throwing Yajirobe (with an injured Goku on his back) up Karin Tower. Bora is seen with his son (and several other natives) in the first and last couple episodes of Dragon Ball Z when the Earth's Special Forces go to Kami's Lookout for training against the Saiyans and when he gives energy to Goku for his Genki Dama. He also briefly appears in the GT episode "Piccolo's Decision" when Goku is with Upa. Bora's appearance and customs are based upon the stereotypical Native American.
[edit] Bulma
[edit] Chi-Chi
Chi-Chi (チチ Chichi?) is the wife of Son Goku, and the mother of Son Gohan and Son Goten. She is often depicted as a sometimes nagging, overprotective but fundamentally well-meaning woman, who sincerely looks for her children and husband's well-being even when their views clash. She and Goku meet as children, and Goku promises to marry her thinking marriage is food. Several years later, she finds him at the 23rd Tenka'ichi Budôkai, and despite confessing that he misunderstood what she had meant, he fulfills his promise and asks her to marry him. As she gets older, she disapproves of Goku's lifestyle, enough to ban Gohan from following in his foot steps, but due to the threats like Vegeta and Freeza, she is forced to let him train under Piccolo and Goku. She relaxes this with Goten by training him herself while Gohan is away for school. She has a wild temper and can react in violent anger over the slightest annoyance which means all of the Z Warriors fear her and try to avoid making her mad.
[edit] Dr. Briefs
The father of Bulma, Dr. Briefs (also translated as Dr. Brief, from the original Japanese Burīfu-hakase) is an elderly, brilliant and eccentric scientist. He is one of the smartest men in the world. Dr. Briefs is the founder of Capsule Corporation and the man responsible for the invention of the Hoi-Poi Capsules, which can shrink inanimate objects down to pocket sized capsule of namesake. He is easy-going and friendly. Dr. Briefs rarely leaves his home, even if he knows he'll die (in the Buu Saga, he and his wife refuse to leave their pets even after Capsule Corp. has been specifically targeted for destruction; they know they can always be wished back) and he can often be found tinkering on a number of complicated gadgets while surrounded by his beloved pets. His favorite pet is a small black cat, named "Tama" in the original anime and "Scratch" in the FUNimation dub.
He and Bulma restore Android 16 who was badly damaged by Semi-Perfect Cell during the Cell Saga, showing off their technical know-how; he also heavily modifies and improves Goku's spaceship, and creates a gravity room for Vegeta to train in. Usually Dr. Briefs is seen with cigarette in his mouth (which has been edited out in the early dub). As Bulma's father, it is his knack for hi-tech wizardry that has been passed on to her. In Dragon Ball GT, Trunks reluctantly takes his place as the President of Capsule Corp, assuming he passed away or finally retired.
[edit] Grandpa Son Gohan
Grandpa Son Gohan (孫悟飯じいさん Son Gohan jiisan?) became the adoptive father and grandfather of Son Goku when he found him near the landing site of his space ship when he was an infant. Gohan was taught martial arts by Muten-Rôshi and passed on his knowledge to Goku. Gohan warned Goku to never look at a full moon and to stay indoors on nights of one - implying that he had already transformed before and Gohan managed to survive the first time. He followed his advice for sometime until one night when Goku stepped outside to relieve himself; he then glanced at it, transformed into an Oozaru and killed Gohan by stomping on him. From that time on, Goku believed that Gohan's soul was in the Four-Star Dragon Ball. He is brought back by Uranai Baba during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga to make a point to Goku that he needs to train harder and make his tail work for him instead of against him. He also appears in the filler mini-saga "The Wedding arc" where he is an assistant to Annin and Goku must use the Magical Furnace to put out the fire on Ox King's castle. He then only appears in flashbacks for the rest of the series. Grandpa Gohan is a playable character in Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2.
[edit] Launch
(FUNimation dub: Launch)
Launch (ランチ Ranchi?) is Muten-Rôshi's house maid, retrieved by the young Goku and Kuririn in order to receive martial-arts training from him (his requirement was to "bring him a pretty girl"). She has dissociative identity disorder; whenever she sneezes, she switches between a sweet, innocent girl with blue hair, and a cleavage-bearing blonde bombshell who commits crimes for fun and is quick to respond with gunfire when angered (pulling a machine-gun out from nowhere when needed). Neither of Launch’s personalities remembers what the other says or does, and it is never said if the evil side knows of the innocent self; however, the innocent Lunch is aware of her evil side, although she doesn't really seem very concerned over her presence.
She tries to have a relationship with Tenshinhan, but his constant training makes it fail. After the death of Tenshinhan, she became very depressed. She wasn't shown again until much later. She reappears as her innocent self in the last episodes of DBZ to give her energy to Goku for his Genki Dama. Although this did not occur in the manga by Akira Toriyama, it was one of the many filler stories written in the Son Gokû Densetsu by Toriyama and his staff [1].
[edit] Marron
Marron (マーロン Maaron?) is the daughter of Kuririn and Android 18. She was born before the Majin Buu Saga in Dragon Ball Z. As a little girl, she resembles her father. She has his eyes and nose, or rather lack of nose. However, she does indeed have a nose, though small, and as she grows older, Marron begins to look more like her mother. Unlike the rest of the other Z Fighters' children, Marron is the only one who was never trained by her mother or father which means that she either has never shown any special abilities or martial arts skills of her own, or simply doesn't have any wish to give up on her normal life.
[edit] Mr. Satan
(Edited FUNimation dub: Hercule)
[edit] Mrs. Briefs
Mrs. Briefs is Bulma's mother and the wife of Dr. Briefs. She is always interested in flirting with Goku and Vegeta. In the anime, she comments that she would like to go on a date with Vegeta. When Vegeta was offered a place to stay by Bulma - not long after Vegeta had tried to kill the Z Fighters - he was immediately welcomed in and taken aback by Mrs. Briefs; the shock of someone being so pleasant to him almost overwhelmed him.
Not much is known about her, but in the anime she's characterized as the archetypal blonde airhead who loves shopping and eating expensive cakes. Probably the most special feature of this woman is the fact that, as far as physical appearances go, she looks at least as young as her daughter, and unlike Bulma, she doesn’t appear to age at all throughout Dragon Ball Z.
[edit] Oolong
Oolong (ウーロン Ūron?) is a shapeshifting humanoid pig, standing about three feet tall with pale pink skin, who tends to dress in trousers, button-down shirts, and suspenders. He was expelled from shapeshifting training for stealing the teacher's underwear and lacks the ability to change his form for more than five minutes at a time without a break. With his shapeshifting, Oolong can look like anything at all. Oolong's initial appearance was as a villain who terrorized a village and kidnapped their young women. Son Goku defeated Oolong and the girls were returned to their village. Bulma decided that he might be useful on her Dragonball quest and persuaded him to join their expedition. Eventually he becomes good friends with Goku and the others, and helps them to find more Dragonballs. He plays a large role in the beginning of Dragon Ball, but by the end of Dragon Ball Z, he just shows up from time to time. His poor shapeshifting skills (and innate cowardice) made him a very weak character that didn't have much to do once the tone was shifted to more serious action. In the anime and several movies, he appears quite often as comic relief. He is loosely based on the character Zhu Bajie from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Oolong is a playable character in Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure.
[edit] Ox King
Ox King (牛魔王 Gyū-Maō?) is based on the demon Niúmówáng ("Ox-Demon-King" or "Ox Tyrant") from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. Despite his threatening sounding name, Gyū Maō (Niúmówáng in Chinese?) is really quite harmless and fun-loving; given that gyū is the crest on his helmet, it can be assumed that Gyū is his surname and Maō is his first. He was somewhat demonic and murderous when his castle became engulfed in flames on Mount Frypan and wreaked havoc through the village at the foot of the mountain. He is Chi-Chi's father and thus Son Goku's father-in-law. He is very strong and trained along-side Grandpa Son Gohan under Muten-Rôshi's tutelage. As the series goes he becomes less and less of an important character and eventually fades into being a background character, used only for slight comic relief. He is the grandfather of Son Gohan and Son Goten. In the anime, he has a few large roles though from time to time, mainly involving keeping his daughter out of trouble.
[edit] Pu'ar
Pu'ar (プーアル Pūaru?) is a soft-spoken shapeshifting blue cat and the constant companion of Yamcha. They worked as a team to rob anyone traveling through the Desert in which they lived. He also has an innate ability to fly and is nearly always seen simply 'standing' in thin air at about human head height.
Pu'ar has the ability to change his shape into any form, even inanimate objects, and can hold that form for as long as he likes, although his strength is not increased by the change, and he can’t turn into something that can be used up, like fuel or food. Pu'ar graduated from the same shapeshifting school as Oolong, although unlike Oolong, he had completed all of the academy training and does not have Oolong's difficulties with maintaining his transformed state. He shows up quite a bit in the beginning, but becomes less of a presence as the series progresses. As the driving theme of the series is mostly about fighting, Pu'ar can do little more than react to the horrors of the latest and greatest villain.
There is some debate as to the gender of Pu'ar. Pu'ar has been referred to with both male and female pronouns during the anime. Although the issue is never addressed directly in the canon, Toriyama once stated in an interview that he considered Pu'ar a male. Some fans believe that since shape-shifters can assume many different forms, gender is a moot point.
[edit] Sno
(FUNimation dub: Suno)
A 9-year-old girl who lives in Jingle Village. She rescues Son Goku from the freezing weather that he isn't accustomed to when his plane crashes in the cold northern region. After the Red Ribbon Army saga, she appears later mostly in the anime when Piccolo Daimaō destroys a town's celebrations and she was to give the King some flowers. She reappears later on in DBZ when Goku asks for energy. In Dragon Ball GT, she makes her final appearance alongside Android #8 in the episode that Piccolo sacrifices himself to rid of the Black Star Dragon Balls' existence. It is important to note that, not only are her subsequent appearances not canon to the manga (except in the Buu Saga), but that she is only named in the anime as well.
[edit] Tournament Announcer
The man who hosts every Tenka-ichi Budôkai from the beginning of Dragon Ball to the end of Dragon Ball Z. He mainly just commentates on the matches, but over the years he has become an acquaintance with the Z Warriors, and knows that they are responsible for saving the Earth. He even says so in one episode that they killed Cell, although it was Son Gohan in actuality that destroyed the villain. He doubts Mr. Satan's abilities, such as in the episode Vegeta goes out of control. In every tournament, aside from the 21st, something bad happens that enhances his role such as in the King Piccolo Saga, he witnessed Kuririn murdered by the Demon King Piccolo's warrior Tambourine and later he becomes very important as he witnesses Son Goku's fight with Piccolo from the sidelines with the others, making him one of the few "civilians" to know the truth. At the end of Dragon Ball Z, his age starts to show as he is losing hair and has very noticeable wrinkles, but in Dragon Ball GT his descendant's hair remains white. Although he doubts Mr. Satan for being the one who defeated Cell, he praises him in order to make fans cheer.
[edit] Upa
The son of Bora, he accompanies Son Goku for a short time during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga in order to recover all of the Dragon Balls so they can wish his father back to life. Upa is a member of the native tribe who serve as the guardians of Karin Tower. His father is the chief, however, the rest of the tribe is not seen until the end of the manga. He participates in the fight against Uranai Baba's thugs and helps Pu'ar defeat Dracula Man (a kickboxing vampire) with garlic breath. At the end of Dragon Ball Z, now an adult, he is shown giving energy to Goku's Genki Dama. Upa and his father also make a final cameo appearance in Dragon Ball GT on the episode "Piccolo's Decision". It is interesting to note that when Kuririn first meets Upa, he thinks that Upa is a cute girl. He is disgusted when he finds out otherwise and apologizes to Upa.
[edit] Uranai Baba
(FUNimation dub: Fortuneteller Baba)
Uranai Baba (占いババ?) is an old witch that has been fortune-telling for more than 500 years. She is Muten Rôshi's older sister, whom he bickers with. With her unique clairvoyant capabilities, she is able to see into the future using her crystal ball. She is more than happy to tell anyone what their future holds for them, although, the price is very costly at a payment up front of Ƶ10,000,000,000 zeni. However, the alternative way of gaining one's fortune is to defeat her five "other-worldly" martial arts experts. She has a knack for divination skills with her crystal ball, allowing her to see any place on Earth, or even look deep into the future. She can also travel to the "Other World" and back.
[edit] Videl
Videl (ビーデル Bīderu?) is the daughter of Hercule. Mr. Satan is very protective of her, especially in respect to boys. She grew up learning martial arts hoping to be as great as her dad, when in fact, unknown to herself she was already better than him. She is a tough, tomboyish character, raised with fame all around her. In her spare time, Videl fights crime in Satan City. She becomes suspicious of Gohan after meeting him at Orange Star High School, and she even follows him for a brief time to learn more about him. Videl eventually discovers Gohan’s secret identity as the Great Saiyaman. She forces Gohan to teach her how to fly, and makes him enter the 25th Tenka'ichi Budokai under the threat that she'll reveal his identity to the world. After the Buu saga, the two get together, and have a child named Pan.
[edit] Umigame
(海亀 sea turtle) Muten-Rôshi's friend and long-time companion, the good-natured lovable turtle lives in the Kame House with the elderly hermit. During Dragon Ball Z in the anime filler, he celebrates his 1,000th birthday in episode 117. He plays a relatively small part in the manga, but he has quite a few large roles in the anime. When he first appeared, he was in the wilderness, alone and lost. He was picking mushrooms when he got separated from his friends and had since been wandering around on land for over a year. Goku kindly takes on the task of returning him to the ocean, which he is very grateful for. It is Umigame who introduces Muten-Rôshi to Bulma and Son Goku. Umigame does not care much for Muten-Rôshi's perverse interests, enjoying honest interests himself. He was one of the first animal characters Goku meets and befriends, giving a small sense of irony that in the final Dragon Ball GT episode, he's one of the few characters that Goku bids farewell to after departing with Shenlong. In the anime, his power level is 0.001, as evident when Bulma tests Raditz's scouter in the Vegeta Saga.
[edit] Z
Z is the title character of Neko Majin Z. He is a parody of Son Goku, wearing an orange-and-blue dōgi and carrying what is apparently the Ru Yi Bang on his back. He is also able to perform the "Nekohameha," a takeoff on the "Kamehameha." It is revealed in the final two chapters of Neko Majin Z that it was, in fact, Goku who trained the cat in the first place.
[edit] Villains
[edit] Android #13
Android #13 (人造人間13号 Jinzoningen Jusango?) is the thirteenth android in the series of androids built by Dr. Gero. He resembles and sounds like a redneck. He was built along with androids #14 and #15 with the mission of killing Goku. He "evolved" into the much more powerful Super Android #13 after absorbing key components from the defeated #Android 14\Android #15. He was killed by Super Saiyan Goku fueled by a Spirit bomb. Only the fact that an Android #13 was created, but deemed a failure and subsequently destroyed was mentioned in the manga. However, since Dr. Gero's computer was still building 13 while 17 and 18 were active, it can be assumed that he was not entirely destroyed but stored away as a back-up plan.
His seiyū, Kazuyuki Sogabe, passed away of cancer in the esophagus. Another seiyū who's voice is familiar to Sogabe replaced him for Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 in Japan. In North America, his voice actor is Chuck Huber.
[edit] Android #14
Android #14 is a large grayish/bluish android with a braided ponytail. He is almost completely silent; the only word he utters is "Goku", presumably to emphasize the fact that his sole purpose is to kill Goku. However in, the English dub of the movie, he does have a few more lines than in the original Japanese dub. One instance is his fight with Trunks where he says "Little boys shouldn't play with knives..."(meaning Trunks' sword). He was sliced in half by Future Trunks, which caused him to explode. After his defeat, two of his parts were absorbed by #13. Only the fact that an Android #14 was created and subsequently destroyed was mentioned in the manga.
[edit] Android #15
Android #15 is a small purple android with a large hat, shades and found to consistently be drinking an (assumed) alcoholic beverage. He is the exact opposite of his counterpart 14, as he has many lines and his body structure is short and scrawny compared to #14's large size and muscles. This doesn't seem to affect his power level, though, as DBZ Movie 7 makes it seem as if the two are equal in power. He was decapitated by Super Saiyan Vegeta during their fight. After his defeat, two of his parts were absorbed by #13. Only the fact that an Android #15 was created and subsequently destroyed was mentioned in the manga.
[edit] Android #17
Android #17 is the brother of Android #18 and the stronger of the two twins once evolved in his Super Form. He was once a human, but was turned into a cyborg by Dr. Gero. His main mission was to kill Goku, but Dr. Gero also made him into a component that would allow Cell to evolve and transform. #17 was absorbed and was killed when Cell was destroyed by Gohan. After being resurrected with the Dragon Balls by Kuririn's request, he chose a life of exile and lived in the wilderness for the rest of the series. In Dragon Ball GT, Dr. Myu and Dr. Gero created another #17. It escaped Hell, and fused with the real #17 to become Super 17.
[edit] Android #19
Android #19 (人造人間19号 Jinzō'ningen Jūkugō?) is one of the first Androids seen in Dragon Ball Z. He is an energy absorbing-Android, rotund in appearance with alabaster-colored skin. Though not particularly strong, he managed to beat Goku in battle due to the heart virus that he had contracted. #19 almost killed Goku by draining him of his energy, but he was interrupted by Vegeta who proceeded to kill him. He returns in GT and is easily killed by a ki blast from Goten and Trunks.
[edit] Android #20/Dr. Gero
Dr. Gero (ドクター・ゲロ Dokutā Gero?) made himself into a cyborg by implanting his brain into a robot body. He first appeared with Android #19 to kill Goku. After #19 was destroyed by Vegeta, he fled out of fear and with the intention of activating Android #17 and #18. Once he activated them, they quickly rebelled on their creator. #17 kicked his head off and crushed it. In Dragon Ball GT, he helped Dr. Myu create Super 17, who later went on to kill both of them.
[edit] Cell
Cell is Dr. Gero's ultimate creation. He was created from DNA cells of all of the strongest fighters in the universe; the cells were collected by a small device that was disguised as a flying bug.
The project Cell was taking a very long time to complete as Dr. Gero faced his untimely death. However, the computer that Cell was connected to was programmed to keep working on him even after Dr. Gero's death.
[edit] Cell Jr.
A Cell Jr. is a blue, child-like version of Cell. Cell spawned seven of these creatures during his battle with Son Gohan to battle the spectating Z Fighters in an effort to make Gohan angry. When Gohan finally did snap, he dispatched them very quickly. They have a vocabulary limited to "Ki!" and "Yah!" in the Japanese version of the anime, but both the FUNimation and Ocean Group dubs of the series taunt the Z Fighters with child-like phrases.
They appear as playable characters in the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series and the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series.
In the manga and anime Cell creates seven Cell Jrs. However in the anime episode number 186 (English dubbed The Unstoppable Gohan) Gohan destroys eight Cell Jrs.
[edit] Dr. Uiro
(FUNimation dub: Dr. Wheelo)
Dr. Uiro (Ｄｒ．ウイロー, Dr. Uirō) was a brilliant scientist who performed experiments in biotechnology. Uiro's ultimate goal was to modify the human race using his science. Before he could realize his goal he died but Dr. Kochin turned him into a android. His name is a pun on uiro, a type of Japanese cake.
Dr. Kochin came through for his creator a second time fifty years later when he gathered the Dragon Balls and wished for Shenlong to thaw the ice-enshrouded fortress. Freed from his frozen sleep, Uiro became obsessed with finding the world's strongest man so that his own brain might be transplanted into it. He sent Kochin and four Bio-Men to find this man, and at first they thought it was Muten-Rôshi. But when Kishime, Misokatsun and Ibifurya beat Roshi, Uiro started to doubt they had the right person.
He then went after Goku's body. When Uiro's further attempts to subdue Goku met with failure, the enraged scientist decided to kill him and all friends. When that also failed, Uiro decided to just concentrate the energy contained within his laboratory's power core to destroy the entire world. Goku was able to form a Genki Dama and used it to destroy Dr. Uiro for good.
[edit] Dr. Kochin
Dr. Kochin was Dr. Uiro's assistant who was, in actuality, a gigantic robot. Even though it appeared old and harmless, Dr. Kochin was actually well-equipped for fighting: his hand could transform into a machine gun, while his cane could hurl energy blasts. Kochin is the one who created the three biomechanical warriors Kishime, Misokatsun and Ibifurya. He gathered the Dragon Balls and used his wish to free Dr. Uiro from his icy prison in the Tsurumaitsuburi Mountains after fifty years. Kochin was killed when Dr. Uiro accidentally knocked him over a ledge in the laboratory; his body got too close to the conductor used to power Dr. Uiro's robot body which caused his body to be electrocuted and he exploded in midair when falling to his demise.
[edit] Jaga Bada
(FUNimation dub: Lord Zaguar)
A "villain" in DBZ the Movie #11, Super-Warrior Defeat!! I'm the One who'll Win, who wants revenge on his old classmate Mr. Satan for beating him in martial arts when he was a kid. He funds experiments that create Bio-Warriors, including Bio-Broly. On the left Dr. Kori ("Kori Hakase"), a scientist who assists in the creation of Bio-Broly.
[edit] Mai
Mai is a brilliant scientist and one of the top assistants to Emperor Pilaf, the other being Shu. She is much brighter than Shu and Pilaf who are mainly comic relief characters while Mai is not, but she is always incompetent at her mission. She mainly appears in the Emperor Pilaf, Red Ribbon Army, Fortuneteller Baba, King Piccolo and Piccolo Junior Sagas of Dragon Balls, but returns for 2 episodes in Dragon Ball GT. She is also a lot older in the GT series.
[edit] Pilaf
Emperor Pilaf (ピラフ Pirafu?) is a major antagonist during Dragon Ball. He is a small, impish demi-human who craves nothing more than power and dreams of ruling the world. He is an emperor in that he has a crown and a castle. He rules over an empire known as the Reich Pilaf, however the only members of this evil empire are his two followers Shu and Mai. He collects all of the Dragon Balls once, but is foiled by Goku, and his friends. A second time, he is stopped by the Red Ribbon Army, and a third time, he releases Piccolo Daimaō, who betrays him soon after. At the beginning of the Dragonball GT, Pilaf accidentally wishes for Goku to be turned into a young kid with the Black Star Dragon Balls, setting into motion the events of the entire series.
[edit] Red Ribbon Army
[edit] Commander Red
Commander Red is the leader of the Red Ribbon Army. While he puts up the front that he plans to take over the world, his true plan was to use the Dragon Balls to wish to become tall. Assistant Black overhears this and pleads that the Red Ribbon Army did so much, and risked a lot for his ambition, instead of world conquest, therefore it wasn't worth the risk and could lead to their ultimate defeat. When Red doesn't listen, he is then shot on the head and killed by Black who then renames it the Black Ribbon Army.
[edit] Adjutant Black
Adjutant Black (ブラック参謀) isn't given much of a role in the Dragon Ball series. Soft-spoken and quick-witted, Black carries out Commander Red's orders and informs Red of the current situations with the remaining Red Ribbon officers. It is also worth noting that Black is one of the few black people to appear in Dragon Ball. Overhearing Red's joyful speech about becoming a taller person, Black was appalled, saying that his mad ambition has cost the Army dearly as shown in Goku's invasion, and may eventually lead to its defeat. Red replies it doesn't matter how many soldiers he risks as long as he reaches his goal, and makes it clear that he is just a lackey, and is as the rest of the Red Ribbon Army, expendable. Angered, Black then shot Red in the head with his pistol, killing him instantly. GIn the anime, Goku was offered a position in Black's new army — the Black Ribbon Army — which Goku refused. Goku killed Black after he tried to kill him in a robotic suit.
[edit] General Blue
One of the high-ranking officers of the Red Ribbon Army, He had a special psychic technique where he could temporarily paralyze people so they couldn't move (called Choryonku), which Blue used to his advantage to win the fight. He tracked, and encountered Goku various times, eventually stealing a Dragon Radar from him. When he returned to the army's headquarters, Commander Red congratulated him on the finding of the Dragon Radar but noted that his main mission was to collect the Dragon Balls, and that people were executed for failure. Blue became terrified until Red said that since Blue had served the army well in the past, and that if he fought Tao and won he would be able to redeem himself. Tao Pai Pai killed Blue by sticking his tongue on a pressure point on Blue's temple.
[edit] General White
General White is the questionably sane, often over-reactive Russian commander of Muscle Tower, the Red Ribbon Army's northern fortress. The oldest of the known officers, White, while not a gifted strategist, is observant and draws conclusions with surprising speed, and is the only officer to have ever found out Goku's primary weakness; his tail. Trapped at the top of the six-level tower through status, White spends his time either smoking a pipe, taking sips from his flask, yelling, or bursting out in laughter for no apparent reason. While he is easily irritated and slightly impatient, White is surprisingly complementary, congratulating Goku when he reached the sixth floor and praising Ninja Murasaki for a job well done when he supposedly killed Goku. As Goku and Android 8 reach the sixth and final level of the tower, which is his level, Goku and General White fight, but it is clear that Goku is much stronger. He then threatens to kill the village chief if Android 8 doesn't comply to kill Goku, and shoots the boy with a handgun. In retaliation, Android 8 finally punches General White out of Muscle Tower, flying into the mountains, never to be seen or heard of again.
[edit] General Copper
Although unseen in both the manga and anime, he is mentioned in the series. Copper commanded Captain Yellow, Colonel Violet, and Colonel Silver, and it has been suggested that he survived the decimation of the Red Ribbon Army's Headquarters as, almost immediately before that happened, Red told Black to give the Dragon Radar to Copper and for him to find the Dragonball known to exist somewhere in his base's vicinity.
[edit] Colonel Silver
Colonel Silver is the first of the high-ranking Red Ribbon Army officers Goku fights, and thus is overwhelmed and unprepared. He is shown to be a talented, powerful fighter with a love of weapons, and excellent in marksmanship as well. Silver is also rather fast, shocking even Goku when he runs past and swipes the bundle of cloth containing the Dragonballs and Dragon Radar from Goku's hands.
[edit] Monster Buyon
Buyon is the hidden, blubbery monster of Muscle Tower. In the manga he was called The Jiggler. Buyon resides on the fifth floor of the tower, which is only accessible by falling through the trap door on sixth level, where General White resides with the imprisoned major of the nearby Jingle Village. At first, Buyon posed a seemingly undefeatable threat to Goku and Android #8, as everything Goku threw at him, such as a Kamehameha in the stomach or a kick in the face, simply bounced back. Judging by all of the cow skeletons on the floor, Buyon is a creature of insatiable appetite, and will do just about anything to get some food. Through a long, tiring process - in which both Goku and #8 were almost devoured - Goku eventually discovers Buyon's weakness; the cold. Knocking a small hole in the wall, Buyon froze. Goku simply walked up to the frozen monster and punched him once, which made him crumble apart as if he were made of dried clay. After that, it was the simple matter of using the Power Pole to bash through the ceiling to confront the leader of Muscle Tower.
[edit] Sergeant-Major Purple
Even though he is smart, Sergeant Purple (a.k.a. Ninja Murasaki) loses to Goku after a long, drawn out, somewhat farcical fight. He uses several ninja tricks to which Goku counters in his own kooky way. Even when he "split" into 5 Murasakis (the Murasakis were just 5 identical brothers with Sergeant Purple as the oldest), Goku was still able to defeat him. After the fight he tries to unleash Android 8 upon Goku, or he would destroy Android 8. Android 8 refuses, and Goku knocks out Purple before he could do anything. Murasaki eventually goes after Dr. Flappe and Android #8, but was presumably killed when Goku unintentionally tossed #8's bomb onto Murasaki's cheek in the anime only.
[edit] Sergeant Metallic
Of all of Muscle Tower, Goku's second challenge - to get past Sergeant Metallic (a.k.a. Full Metal Jacket) - was by far the most difficult task. Since Metallic was a robot, he was very hard, and in all truth the only reason Goku won was because the major's batteries ran out of power. At one point in the anime, Goku accidentally blows off his head using a Kamehameha, but even that doesn't stop Metallic from continuing its' rampage. Even without a head and eventually losing both wrists, he tried to repeatedly stomp Goku flat. It was the first time in the series someone was actually able to take a couple hits from the Saiyan warrior and survive. Metallic appeared for a couple seconds in Dragonball GT, firing his fist off and causing major damage to a building. Stylistically, he is an obvious tribute/parody of The Terminator played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
[edit] Shu
Emperor Pilaf's ninja crony who apparently is a humanoid dog. He and Mai usually work together to carry out the work of their vertically-challenged and short tempered Emperor. He's one of the first villains in the Dragon Ball series, but perhaps villain is too strong a word for such a weakling. He's almost comic relief. Originally known as Soba in the manga, but was renamed due to match the anime name given after Akira Toriyama forgot he had named him previously. He appears along with Mai and Pilaf in two episodes of Dragonball GT.
[edit] Spopovich
Once a massively tall, tough, bulky, and strong (for a human) man, he fought against Mr. Satan and lost in the previous World Tournament according to the anime. Babidi took control of his mind along with Yamu in the Buu Saga. Spopovich was then turned into an insane, powerful humanoid being. He was then sent by Babidi to collect energy at the 25th Tenka-ichi Budôkai. He fights Videl in the first round and vicariously takes his revenge on Mr. Satan by nearly beating her to death. He would have succeeded if Yamu didn't intervene with what was left of his humanity, reminding the brute that such cruelty is not necessary to their mission. Yamu and Spopovich team up on Gohan and, using a special device, they rob him of his energy, though it was Supreme Kai paralyzing Gohan before the attack that attributed to the ease of their task's completion. After completely draining him, they return to their master, Babidi, to deliver the energy to him. Babidi soon decides they have outlived their usefulness and causes him to explode in a slow and painful process.
[edit] Tao Pai Pai
(FUNimation dub: Mercenary Tao -Dragon Ball-, General Tao -Dragon Ball Z-)
Tao Pai Pai (桃 白 白?) is Tsuru-Sen'nin's younger brother and a highly skilled assassin-for-hire. He is hired by the Red Ribbon Army in order to retrieve the Dragon Balls that Goku holds, and to kill him. He succeeds beating Goku and taking all, but one of his Dragon Balls, which saves Goku life from Tao's final strike. Tao Pai Pai returns three days later to retrieve the Dragon Ball. Goku, however, received special training from Karin during the three days, and proves to be far too strong for Tao. Tao tries to kill Goku with a grenade, but Goku deflects it straight back at him, greatly wounding him. Tao Pai Pai is rebuilt as a cyborg by his older brother, and competes in the 23rd Tenkaichi Budōkai, brutally defeating Chaozu. He fights Tenshinhan next, and cuts his chest with a knife, leaving the warrior with a scar. Tenshinhan disarms and defeats him shortly after. Tao Pai Pai re-appears later in the anime during the Cell Games Saga.
[edit] Toninjinka
Also known as "Carrot Master" or "Boss Rabbit", he was the boss of a small group of gangsters that terrorized a small town. The irony is that he is a giant rabbit and his gang members wear fake rabbit ears. The reason Toninjinka is feared so much is because he has the ability to turn people into carrots just by coming into physical contact with them. He's sent to the moon by Son Goku where he's forced to make rabbit shaped treats for kids, (it's a play on an old Japanese folk-tale which says that rabbits live on the moon and make treats for children).
[edit] Tsuru-Sen'nin
(FUNimation dub: Master Shen)
Tsuru-Sen'nin (Crane Sage) is the older brother of Tao Pai Pai, and master to Tenshinhan and Chaozu. In an early Harmony Gold English dub from the 1980s, he is known as Lord Wu Zu.
He was once comrades with Muten-Rôshi and studied under the same Martial Arts school. However, they were defeated by the evil forces of the Piccolo Daimaō and their mentor and sensei Mutaito-sama died after sealing the demon away. Over time, bitterness and resentment began to grow in his heart and he eventually turned away from his master's old teachings and began a school where his hatred of the world began to spread among his pupils.
In the 22nd Tenka-ichi Budôkai, he entered his two star pupils, Tenshinhan and Chaozu to counter Muten-Rôshi's pupils, Goku, Kuririn, and Yamcha.
After Tenshinhan and Chaozu left him, he had his brother Tao Pai Pai rebuilt back to life as a cyborg (Tao was blown up by his own grenade that Goku kicked back at him), and had him enter in the 23rd Tenka-ichi Budōkai to exact revenge on both Tenshinhan and Goku. Tenshinhan, however, easily knocks out Tao with a punch and warns Tsuru-Sen'nin that he never wants to see both of them again.
[edit] Yamu
Yamu is paired up with Spopovich and sent to the World Tournament to gather energy for Babidi, the evil wizard. The energy they are sent to gather is needed to awaken Majin Buu. When Yamu and Spopovich complete their task, Babidi kills Spopovich and when Yamu sees this he tries to escape but is killed by Pui Pui, one of Babidi's head cronies.
Yamu's importance as a plot device is shown twice, the first time being when he stops Spopovitch from murdering Videl, indicating that Bibidi and Babidi's Soul-Enslaving curse does not destroy the humanity of its victims, hence foregrounding and validating Vegeta's eventual redemption beyond Saiyan pride. The second time is when Vegeta willingly leads and lets Babidi turn him Majin, becoming ruthless and more powerful, generally untied to his human emotion, in order to fight Goku. Vegeta had seen the power and cold callousness that resulted from the transformation of Yamu and Spopovitch and, in all his one-track-mindedness about fighting Goku, wanted it for himself.
[edit] Minor characters
[edit] Akkuman
(FUNimation's dub: Spike the Devil Man/The Blue Demon)
He was originally Uranai Baba's strongest fighter, but was bumped down one rank by Grandpa Son Gohan. His Akkumaito Kousen has the unusual ability to make people explode into pieces by expanding the evil inside of their heart; apart from that, his skill as a fighter is unbelievable, having won the Tenka-ichi Budôkai twice in the past. He gave Son Goku a run for his money and tried to blow him to shreds, but unfortunately for him, he didn't know that Goku had a pure heart. He returns in Dragon Ball Z to give his energy to Goku's Super Genki Dama. His name is a pun on Akuma (悪魔 "devil").
[edit] Bear Thief
A huge sword-wielding bear that has a taste for sea turtle. Goku's first true battle is with this bear, who refuses to back down after Goku threatens to fight him if he won't let them pass. He was defeated easily by Goku with a punch to the forehead. The bear thief is a playable character in the game Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure.
[edit] Bacterian
A huge filthy competitor in the 21st Tenka-ichi Budōkai who has never washed or brushed his teeth since the day he was born. He uses his stench as a weapon since his opponents need to hold their noses closed, so he can attack them better. All of his special attacks are disgusting and range from spitting on his victim, to touching them with sweat from his groin. Kuririn almost loses to him, until Son Goku reminds Kuririn that he's just imagining the smell because he doesn't have a nose (A joke on Kuririn's drawn appearance), which Kuririn quickly remembers and beats Bacterian almost instantly. Later, in the anime, it was revealed that he was homeless and living in a city dump. The anime also shows him being attacked and murdered by Tambourine, but came back to life due to the Dragon Balls.
[edit] Dracula Man
(FUNimation's dub: Fangs the Vampire Man)
Dracula Man is one of Baba's ghostly fighters. He is a vampire Muay Thai kickboxer and performs an annoyingly long Wai khru ram muay dance before his match. He first fights Kuririn and manages to suck his blood. Kuririn breaks free but loses by ring out. Dracula Man then fights Pu'ar and Upa. They don't seem to stand a chance until Upa eats a bunch of garlic & starts breathing on Dracula Man. He fights back by trying to bite Pu'ar. Pu'ar turns into a porcupine seconds before and Dracula Man gets a mouth full of needles. Upa then gets into a stance that resembles a cross. This freaks Dracula Man out so he turns into a bat and tries to escape. Pu'ar quickly turns into a giant hand a slaps Dracula Man out of the ring.
Dracula Man appears to make a brief appearance in the anime of DBZ during the Android Saga as a member of the biker gang that chases the Androids while they're riding around in their van.
[edit] Erasa
Erasa is a blonde girl in Son Gohan's class at Orange Star High School who has a bit of a crush on him, but never directly approaches him about it. She sits right next to him. Erasa becomes pretty good friends with both Videl and Gohan. After the Buu saga her whereabouts are unknown. She and Sharpner were named after school supplies, with her named being derived from eraser.
[edit] Giran
A huge Pteranodon monster who competes against Son Goku in the 21st Tenka'ichi Budokai and forfeits the match. He's very powerful for his strength, but Goku counters him eventually. In the anime, his character is built up a lot more with a bar-fight scene. (Some drunks make fun of him for ordering milk so he beats all of them). He likes introducing himself as "Kujirada." During the Piccolo Daimaō arc, Giran is confronted by Tambourine due to Piccolo's order to have all past Tenkaichi Budokai competitiors killed. Giran proves to be no match for Piccolo's offspring, and is quickly taken out; however he's revived thanks to the Dragon Balls at the end of the saga.
[edit] Haiyaa Dragon
(FUNimation dubs: Icarus)
This little dragon friend of Gohan's appeared in DBZ Movies 3 - 5, various episodes of the Garlic Junior arc, and two episodes of the Trunks Saga. He's a young dragon who befriends Son Gohan after he rescues him from a burning forest (how they meet in the anime canon is unknown, as DBZ movie 3 can't possibly fit, hence it was presumably during the 10 months on Earth before Garlic Junior's return). Haiyaa Dragon does get one small mention by Goten in a later Great Saiyaman Saga episode, presuming that he may still be around as a friend even by this later point. His function in Dragon Ball Z seems to leave Chi-Chi in an even more stressed state than she usually is due to Gohan sometimes ending his studies early to have fun with the dragon. He appears only in the anime and a few of the movies. A similar purple dragon appears in the Majin Buu Saga in Otherworld after Earth was destroyed. It is unknown whether it is the same dragon or not.
[edit] Idasa and Ikose
Idasa and Ikose are fourteen and fifteen-year-old brothers. They are defeated by Son Goten and Trunks respectively in the Children's Division of the tournament. Idasa's name is an anagram of the Japanese word dasai (hick) and Ikose's is a pun on sekoi (petty).
[edit] Idasa and Ikose's Mother
A fat rude woman. She boasts about how her sons will defeat both of Bulma and Chi-Chi's children, and when both of her children lose pathetically, she absolutely flips out, but Chi-Chi knocks her lights out. She later reveals the location of Trunks' hometown to Babidi, but Babidi was annoyed by her and killed her.
[edit] Jingle Village Chief
The kind leader of Sno's village, the Village Chief has become the hostage of General White. Unless his villagers uncover a Dragon Ball soon, he will meet terrible fate, compliments of the General. Despite his dire situation, the Village Chief thinks only of his people, and would do anything, even sacrifice himself, to relieve them of their suffering at the hands of the Red Ribbon Army.
[edit] King
Kokuō (国王). This short blue dog-like animal is the King of the World and has ruled the world through the entire manga Dragonball series. Even though he is important to the Dragon World, he plays a surprisingly small role. He shows up mainly in DB when King Piccolo assaults his castle. Because of this and the events following, he is one of the few people that knows Goku is a hero, as he proves when he says himself that he doesn't believe for a second that Mr. Satan killed Cell. He shows up again in DBZ when Nappa and Vegeta attack, during the Cell Games, giving ki to Goku's final Genki Dama against Buu, and in DBGT he helps with the evacuation of the citizens of Earth to the Planet Plant. He is known as "King Furry" in the American dub.
[edit] King Chapa
A famed competitor known for his strength, he loses to Son Goku in the preliminary rounds of both the 22nd and 23rd Tenka-ichi Budôkai's.
He is named after the Indian food Chapati. In the anime, he was the second victim to be attacked and murdered by Tambourine, but was revived due to the Dragon Balls.
[edit] Konkichi
An anime-only character. He is a green fox who is poor, and thus steals to survive. When he meets Goku and sees his strength, he makes Goku his "brother" so he won't have any trouble with the police. Uranai Baba helps show Goku the truth about his brother, and Konkichi confesses and decides to be good. He shows Goku the directions to Papaya Island.
[edit] Maron
Maron is an anime-only character who first appears in the Garlic Jr. saga as Kuririn's girlfriend. She is very ditsy (always calling Kuririn "Kurin"), uncommitted, and out-spoken, referring to Chi-Chi and Bulma as old ladies which frustrated and angered them. She looks similar to Bulma and many people confuse the two, but both have very different traits, most notably Maron's figure being slightly curvier, and bigger breasts and Bulma being a staple character to the series, as opposed to Maron only being around for one arc and making a single appearance in the Cell Saga. As Kuririn is about to propose to her on a beach, she leaves with a guy in a red sports car. During the Cell Saga, she shows up at the Kame House looking for Kuririn saying that he was the only guy she ever loved. After a while she gets bored and takes off with a bunch of boyfriends never to be seen again. The manga writer Akira Toriyama stated, however, he did not name Kuririn's daughter after his old flame. Since Marron, like Kuririn, means "chestnut," it is likely that this is a case of the same pun being used by both Toriyama and the anime filler writers. Also note: Her hair was slightly greener than Bulma's.
[edit] Mighty Mask
Mighty Mask is one of the finalists in the 25th Tenka-ichi Budōkai. Apparently, Mighty Mask did not fare well in the previous tenkaichi tournament. He never gets to fight in the competition as he is knocked out by Trunks before the Budōkai begins. Trunks and Son Goten then steal his costume and fight in the tournament as Mighty Mask.
[edit] Mirra
(FUNimation's dub: Bandages the Mummy Man/The Invincible Mummy)
Mirra was Baba's mummy fighter. He fought third, and his first competitor was Yamcha. Mirra defeated him, but was later defeated by Goku. He and Akkuman later return to give Goku their energy so he can defeat Majin Buu (thinking they were helping Mr. Satan). The word mirra is Portuguese for the embalming ointment myrrh and has come to mean "mummy" in Japanese.
[edit] Mutaito
(FUNimation dubb: Master Mutaito)
Mutaito is Muten Rôshi and the Tsuru-Sen'nins' teacher. He successfully seals Piccolo Daimaō in the Denshi Jar with his Mafūba technique, but in invoking the attack, he dies from the severe exhaustion of using the move. In the anime, Son Goku actually meets Mutaito and he's the first person in the series to teach Goku about controlling his "ki". In fact, he's the first person to even mention the word, which soon becomes the explanation for the incredible energy techniques used throughout all of the Dragon Ball series.
[edit] Namu
(FUNimation dub: Nam)
Namu first appears in the 21st Tenka-ichi Budōkai, fighting Ran Fuan. He has problems fighting her, because he is a Buddhist monk and she strips to her underwear, socks & shoes, but he overcomes and defeats her. His next fight is against Son Goku, and while it is an intense fight, he loses in the end. He competed because he needed the money to buy lots of water; where he was from, there was a terrible drought, and he had been sent to find a solution. Being defeated, however, he is unable to get the money to buy water and decides to leave. Muten Roshi reads his mind and gets acquainted with his intentions. He then gives him a capsule so that he can store water from a well, and in return, asks Namu to impersonate Muten Roshi in the crowd, as to protect Roshi's secret identity from his students, who were suspicious of Chun being Muten Roshi. In the 22nd Tenka'chi Budôkai, he also makes an appearance in one of its anime filler, claiming to Goku and Roshi that this time he came to enjoy it, but he ends up losing to Tenshinhan on the preliminary rounds, as he was left unconscious and nearly killed as Tenshinhan wanted to leave a message to Goku and his friends. Later, he is killed by Piccolo Daimaō's minion, Tambourine. He is then revived by Shenlong. He is seen later in the DBZ series contributing to Goku's spirited bomb, and has a brief appearance in GT in the episode titled Piccolo's Decision. There are some rumors indicating that he might be related to Uub, but there is no confirmation. His name comes from the Nenbutsu: "Namu Amida Butsu".
[edit] Natade Shaman
He's a character of DBZ the Movie #10. Inhabitants of Natade Village believe him a sorcerer who can help them to calm the giant monster that terrorizes the Village. He is usually seen performing ridiculous rituals involving gibberish incantations such as "Oombachama Jatchama Yayakoni Totsama!" which the villagers blindly place their faith in. He appears again in the next DBZ the Movie #11, Super-Warrior Defeat!! I'm the One who'll Win, where we see him inside the Palace of the rich Jagar Badda. He meets his end when the bio-fluid catches up to him whilst he is stealing a vast amount of money.
[edit] Olive
(FUNimation's dub: Olibu)
One of North Kaio's fighters in the Northern Quadrant of the anime filler. In fact, he came from Earth and is said that most of Earth's heroic legends, as well as a few cartoons, are based on him. He lost in the semifinals of the Ano-Yo-ichi Budôkai to Paikuhan, but is comparable with him in terms of power and skills. In another filler episode, Yamcha defeats him and one other fighter while training in the other world. Olibu is likely named after Goliath from the Bible.
[edit] Pack
(FUNimation dub: Puck)
Pack was the bully of Son Goku Jr.'s that joins him on his journey for the Si Xing Qiu (Sūshinchū / Four-Star Ball). They become good friends on the way and help each other out. They also play tricks on each other, every once in a while. When they escape from Manba, he falls off of a bridge, but is found out to be alive at the end.
[edit] Paris
(FUNimation's dub: Valese)
Paris is a young redhead girl that Son Goten asks out on a date when he is left behind on the search for the Black Star Dragon Balls. She is very naive, but seems sincerely interested in Goten as a boyfriend. Last seen when Goten lost the fight against teenaged Baby. Does appear briefly later on, beside Goten again. When she sees his Super Saiyan abilities at work, she believes that he may be an angel.
[edit] Piegero
(FUNimation dub:Pigero)
Piegero is an orphan who's town has been destroyed by a tsunami. Him, along with the other children, live together and steal food, and the kids look up to him. When Son Gohan gets ship wrecked, Pigero allows children services to take his friends away, in other to rescue him.
[edit] Ranfan
A competitor in the 21st Tenka-ichi Budōkai who uses the fact that she's a "defenseless" woman as a weapon. For example, she shrieks when someone is about to hit her, causing them to pause, and in that time, she'll deliver a crushing punch or kick. If that technique fails, then she strips and tries to shock or embarrass her opponent. Namu is only able to defeat her by closing his eyes and attacking her without, "looking upon her womanly flesh." In the manga, her picture is briefly seen on one of the image rosters as one of the many targets of Tambourine's mission to kill the martial artists in the Piccolo-Daimao Saga, though it is unknown if Ranfan was slain; given that she had not appeared in the manga or the anime after the Budōkai, it is safe to say that Tambourine was stopped before he could kill her. In the U.S. dub, the stripping was excluded. Instead, the scene of one of Namu's failed attacks is shown followed by her twitching foot to show she was knocked out. This is strangely not edited in recaps, which clearly show her in her underwear. The word Ranfan is Japanese for "Lingerie & Foundation garments".
[edit] Rom & Chiko
Rom and Chiko are a brother and a sister who survived the tsunami. While on the beach, they find an exasted Son Gohan. They are two of many children who live together, who are also protected by Pigero. When children services comes one day, Pigero abandands them, along with the other children, to help Gohan return to his mother.
[edit] Sharpner
Sharpner attends Orange Star High School with Gohan. He torments Son Gohan for a bit in school, but later befriends him after witnessing his athletic prowess. Sharpner likes Videl who also attends Orange High School. He is very athletic and likes to work out, yet it seems he does not do any martial arts practice. Early on Sharpner devotes most of his time to finding out who the Great Saiyaman is during the 25th Tenka-ichi Budōkai. He later discovers that Gohan is the Great Saiyaman and is disappointed that the answer was right under his nose. Like Erasa, his fate is unknown after the Buu saga. Also like Erasa, he was named after school supplies, with Sharpner's name coming from the word "sharpener".
[edit] Shen
(FUNimation's dub: Hero)
The alias that Kami enters the 23rd Tenka-ichi Budōkai under. He possesses the body of a typical nerdy-looking guy to disguise himself so that he can defeat Piccolo (Ma Jr.) under the public eye. His name is a pun on the first part of the Earth dragon's name, Shenlong, and it means "God" (the second part means "dragon"). Kami enters the budōkai with his soul in the body of a nerd in order to defeat Piccolo. Kami does this because Mr. Popo told Son Goku that if Piccolo dies so does Kami so Kami is afraid Goku will not kill Piccolo. Kami tries to defeat Piccolo using the "Mafūba" but it back fires and Shen is nearly caught in a bottle, but Kami refuses to sacrifice the human and leaves the body before it is caught. The human awakens with no memory of the events and finds himself receiving cheers of "good fight" and "nice try" from the crowd. Believing that he had gone on a severe alcoholic (sake) binge, he flees in embarrassment, only to run into his son, who is so proud of his dad, the great warrior.
[edit] Suke
An Invisible Man. He is one of Baba's fighters. Yamcha volunteers to fight next and is surprised to learn that his opponent is an invisible man. Because he can't see him, Yamcha spends most of this fight getting slapped around. Goku nabs Bulma and Master Roshi, then he has Kuririn swipe off Bulma's top, thus exposing what she was graciously endowed with. Seeing this, Master Roshi suffers from his biggest nose bleed ever and covers the invisible man in blood making him possible to see and thus tangible. His name comes from the Japanese word sukeru (透ける), meaning "to be transparent".
[edit] Tama
(FUNimation dub: Scratch)
A small black cat, a pet of Dr. Briefs that is always seen sitting on his shoulder. "Tama", which is "Ball" in Japanese, is suggested to be a female, although nothing official has been stated on the cat's gender (In the English dub, however, Tama is female, referring to a quote by Dr. Briefs; "This is no ordinary cat! She's had 5 years experience!"). It is also suggested that Tama knows about how machines work and can be fixed, but the lack of speech would pose quite an issue.
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| Saiyans: | Son Goku • Son Gohan • Vegeta • Future Trunks • Son Goten • Trunks • Pan • Broly | |||
| Humans: | Bulma • Muten-Rôshi • Yamcha • Kuririn • Tenshinhan • Mr. Satan | |||
| Androids: | Android 17 • Android 18 • Cell | |||
| Aliens: | Piccolo • Freeza • Majin Buu • Baby • Coola | |||
| Character lists: | Saiyans • Earthlings • Aliens • Supernatural beings | |||
