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13[[folder:Character Index]]
14[[WMG:[[center:[-''Franchise/DragonBall'' '''[[Characters/{{DragonBall}} Main Character Index]]'''\
15'''[[Characters/DragonBallMainCharacters Main Characters]]'''\
16[[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku Son Goku]] ([[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesAToC A-C]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesDToH D-H]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesIToO I-O]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesPToZ P-Z]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallBulma Bulma]] | [[Characters/DragonBallKrillin Krillin/Kuririn]] | [[Characters/DragonBallPiccolo Piccolo]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGohan Son Gohan]] | [[Characters/DragonBallVegeta Vegeta]] ([[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesAToD A-D]] | [[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesEToN E-N]] | [[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesOToZ O-Z]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFutureTrunks Future Trunks]]\
17'''[[Characters/DragonBallMajorSupportingCast Major Supporting Cast]]'''\
18[[Characters/DragonBallAndroids17And18 Androids 17 and 18]] | [[Characters/DragonBallTrunksAndSonGoten Trunks and Son Goten]] | [[Characters/DragonBallMrSatan Mr. Satan/Hercule]] | [[Characters/DragonBallFusionCast Fusions]]\
19'''Ancillary Characters'''\
20'''Supporting Cast''' | [[Characters/DragonBallZGTSupportingCast DBZ/GT Supporting Cast]] | [[Characters/DragonBallTournamentCharacters Tournament Characters]] | [[Characters/DragonBallFutureTrunksTimeline Future Trunks' Timeline]] | [[Characters/DragonBallGalacticPatrolAndPrisoners Galactic Patrol and Prisoners]] | [[Characters/DragonBallOthers Other Characters]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSaiyans Saiyans]] ([[Characters/DragonBallBardock Bardock/Burdock]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallNamekiansAndDragons Namekians and Dragons]]\
21'''Antagonists'''\
22[[Characters/DragonBallOriginalSeriesVillains Original Series Villains]] | [[Characters/DragonBallRedRibbonArmy Red Ribbon Army]] ([[Characters/DragonBallDrGero Dr. Gero/Android 20]] | [[Characters/DragonBallCell Cell]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallDemonKingPiccolo Demon King Piccolo]] | [[Characters/DragonBallZVillains DBZ Villains]] | [[Characters/DragonBallFriezasEmpire Frieza's Empire]] ([[Characters/DragonBallFrieza Freeza/Frieza]] | [[Characters/DragonBallCooler Cooler/Coola]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallMajinBuu Majin Buu]] | [[Characters/DragonBallZMovieVillains DBZ Movie Villains]] | [[Characters/DragonBallBroly Broly]] | [[Characters/DragonBallGTVillains GT Villains]] | [[Characters/DragonBallMoro Moro]]\
23'''Multiversal Characters'''\
24[[Characters/DragonBallMultiversalCharacters Multiversal Characters]] ([[Characters/DragonBallZeno Zeno]] | [[Characters/DragonBallGokuBlack Goku Black]] | [[Characters/DragonBallZamasu Zamasu/Zamas]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse7 Universe 7]] ([[Characters/DragonBallBeerus Beerus]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse2 Universe 2]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse3 Universe 3]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse4 Universe 4]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse6 Universe 6]] ([[Characters/DragonBallFrost Frost]] | [[Characters/DragonBallHit Hit]] | [[Characters/DragonBallKale Kale]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse9 Universe 9]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse10 Universe 10]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse11 Universe 11]] ([[Characters/DragonBallJiren Jiren]])\
25'''New Media Characters'''\
26Characters/DragonBallHeroes | [[Characters/DragonballHeroesVillains DBH Villains]] | Characters/DragonBallOnline | Characters/DragonBallXenoverse | [[Characters/DragonBallFusions Fusions (Video Game)]] | Characters/{{Dragon Ball FighterZ}} | [[Characters/DragonBallAndroid21 Android 21]] | Characters/DragonBallFighterzBaseRoster | Characters/DragonBallLegends-]]]]]
27[[/folder]]
28
29In order of appearance.
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31[[foldercontrol]]
32
33[[folder:Grandpa Son Gohan]]
34!!'''Grandpa Son Gohan (孫悟飯, ''Son Gohan'' AKA ''Sun Wufan'')'''
35[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grandpa_gohan_unmasked_by_orco05_d5ed4n8.png]]
36->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Osamu Saka (''DB'', ''Z'' ep. 32, ''Budokai Tenkaichi 3'', ''Dragon Ball: Origins''), Kinpei Azusa (''Bardock - The Father of Goku''), Creator/JojiYanami (''Z'' ep. 288), Creator/ShigeruChiba (''Kai'')\
37'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/ChristopherSabat (Creator/FUNimation dub); Creator/MichaelDonovan (''DB'' ep. 1), Terry Klassen (''Z'' ep. 32), Richard Newman (''Z'' ep. 288) (Ocean dub); Jonathan Love (Blue Water dub); Ed Marcus (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)\
38'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Jorge Roig (''DB''), Armando Réndiz (''Kai'')
39
40Goku's adoptive grandfather, the one who found him in the woods and initially trained him in martial arts. He died prior to the series, crushed to death by Goku's Great Ape form. Though mostly appearing in flashbacks, he makes an appearance in person during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga, and Goku's first son is named in his honor.
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42* BackForTheFinale: He returns in the final two episodes of the Fire Mountain/Wedding Dress filler arc after the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament which served as the conclusion to the original ''Dragon Ball'' anime. He meets Goku as a young man alongside Chi-Chi who he'd recently been engaged to in their quest to save the Ox-King from an inferno caused by the Furnace of Eight Divisions, where Gohan serves as a bodyguard for the furnace's keeper.
43* BodyguardingABadass: The final arc of the original anime reveals that he's taken up a part-time job as Annin's bodyguard, who herself is a deity more than capable of handling Goku who had just recently defeated Piccolo Jr.
44* BodyguardCrush: He guards the goddess Annin as shown in a filler arc and Goku thinks [[ShipTease that there's a little more to it than that.]]
45* ChivalrousPervert: During the Baba Saga, he mentions having a lot of friends back in Other World, "and most of them are brunettes". Nonetheless, Goku states that Gohan always taught him to be respectful towards women.
46* ClimaxBoss: Serves as this to Goku in the Baba arc, and to his entire second search for the Dragon Balls as a whole. Goku [[FinalExamBoss has to pull every trick he's learned]] against him.
47* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Implied. He admits to being "a little odd" in the Bardock special, and Goku himself describes him as a "very odd fellow."
48* CoolOldGuy: He doesn't appear much, but he served as [[WorldsStrongestMan Goku's]] first instructor in the martial arts and is widely regarded as a legend in that world in the early parts of the story.
49* DirtyOldMan: Part of the reason why he doesn't want to be brought back to life? Too many hot chicks in heaven. However, he isn't nearly as bad as Master Roshi, and Goku himself states that Gohan was in fact respectful of women and always told him to be the same.
50* FamedInStory: Yamcha had heard about him back in his bandit days and immediately recognized his Power Pole when Goku used it against him during their initial fight.
51* FamilyThemeNaming: He started the 'Go' tend in Goku's family; Son Goku and his sons--'''Go'''han and '''Go'''ten.
52* GoodIsNotSoft: His appearance in the Wedding Dress filler has him trying to violently stop Goku from extinguishing the Furnace of Eight Division for doing so would cause the physical and spiritual planes of existence to be closed off from one another and allow evil souls to take root in the living world, which would cause utter chaos. This despite the fact that leaving the furnace on would inevitably cause the Ox-King, his best friend and fellow disciple under Master Roshi, to burn to death in his own castle on Fire Mountain.[[note]]Fire Mountain happens to be in the path of the furnace's exhaust which reaches all across the Earth[[/note]] A flashback to Goku's childhood late into ''Z'' also shows that he could be strict while training his grandson, though only to teach him discipline.
53* LivingLegend: Well, he was before his death.
54* ManlyFacialHair: A big white one, similar to Master Roshi's, and he was Goku's original teacher and was considered one of the greatest martial artists in the world. When he returns for a day, he manages to give Goku a hard match, the same Goku who defeated Mercenary Tao and destroyed the entire Red Ribbon Army by himself just hours ago.
55* MasterApprenticeChain: Although his time was short, he trained Goku before he was killed and was a student of Master Roshi:
56** Mutaito > Master Roshi > Son Gohan, Sr > Son Goku > Son Gohan, Pan, and Uub
57** Mutaito > Master Roshi > Son Gohan, Sr. > Son Goku > Son Gohan > Son Goten
58* MuggleFosterParents: While he was extremely powerful for a human, given that he was considered one of the greatest martial arts experts in the world, he's still a muggle compared to Goku who is a HumanAlien from a powerful warrior race.
59* NiceGuy: A decent and kind-hearted warrior and it was because of being this that Kakarotto was raised into becoming Goku, TheHero we know and love.
60* OldMaster: In his appearance during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga, he holds his own against Goku quite well. Later still in the Fire Mountain filler, he can pin down his now 18-year-old grandson with only a little difficulty. Keep in mind that Goku has managed to defeat two different variations of a demon king by this point and had finally won the World Martial Arts Tournament only two days prior.
61* ParentalSubstitute: He finds Goku in the mountains as a child not long after he lands on Earth. He takes him in and raises him as his own grandson. It's rough at first since Goku was an unruly and violent child, but Gohan manages to get him under control after Goku falls and hits his head.
62* PosthumousCharacter: By the time the series begins, he's long dead.
63* ShipTease: He has some romantic subtext with Annin, a goddess, in a filler arc, much to Goku's amusement.
64* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's dead by the series' beginning and only appears in person during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga, but it was him finding Goku and raising him that turned Goku from the future destroyer of humanity to the altruistic AllLovingHero we know and love.
65* UnseenNoMore: Grandpa Gohan was TheGhost by virtue of being dead. While he was mentioned a lot, he never made an appearance in the first arc and most of the second arc, before making a surprise appearance at the end as a literal ghost.
66* UpbringingMakesTheHero: It was his kindness towards Goku, along with him hitting his head, that made Goku the kind young child we meet at the beginning of ''Dragon Ball''.
67[[/folder]]
68
69[[folder:Turtle]]
70!!'''Turtle (海亀, ''Umigame'', "Sea Turtle")'''
71[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/turtle_859.png]]
72[[caption-width-right:250:''"Master! What are you doing? Have you forgotten your code master? Please, That's wrong, dead wrong... now I understand why you couldn't ride your cloud."'']]
73->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/DaisukeGori (Most media), Takahiro Fujimoto (''Kai'', ''Super'')\
74'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/ChristopherSabat (Most media), Chris Cason (''Kai'') (Creator/FUNimation dub); Doug Parker (''DB'' 1995), Creator/ScottMcNeil (''Z'' Season 1, ''The World's Strongest''), Terry Klassen (''Z'' Season 4-6), Dave Pettit (''DB'' 2004) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Creator/DanWoren (Harmony Gold dub); Doug Rand (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)\
75'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Creator/HermanLopez (''current voice''), Ernesto Lezama (1st episodes Z), Creator/ArturoMercado (''rest Z'')
76
77A turtle named Turtle, Master Roshi's loyal pet/housemate. Goku and Bulma met Turtle early in their search for the Dragon Balls when he was lost in the wilderness and returned him to Roshi, who gave Goku the Flying Nimbus as a reward. Turtle is good-natured and friendly but often frustrated at Roshi's skirt-chasing antics.
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79* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Still alive in Trunks's BadFuture in ''Dragon Ball Super''.]][[spoiler:Unfortunately, that version of Turtle seen during that arc is now DeaderThanDead.]]
80* ADayInTheLimelight: The Android Arc filler focuses a lot on him, as most of the action centers on Kame House due to the heroes taking shelter there from the Androids and Goku spending his convalescence from the heart virus there. He's also used as Goku's practice dummy for the Evil Containment Wave in ''Super'', [[spoiler:probably to remind the audience (since many getting into the series didn't see Piccolo vs. Kami) for the Tournament of Power later on that despite the name, the wave works just fine on people who aren't demons or evil]].
81* BeleagueredAssistant: To Master Roshi.
82* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In anime filler only, Turtle defends Maron from some lecherous fratboys who randomly came to Kame House. He even adopts a kung fu stance as he sends them both packing. This is the only time Turtle has engaged in combat in the entire franchise.
83* DemotedToExtra: Like with most of the ''DB''-era cast, he began falling into obscurity starting in ''Z''. The anime filler of the early Cell arc gave him ADayInTheLimelight, at least. By contrast, the Majin Buu arc only featured him canonically in a non-speaking cameo when Gohan informs Krillin about Goku's return for the 25th World Tournament. His only other appearance was in a filler episode during a celebration before the jump ahead to the 28th World Tournament.
84* ADogNamedDog: He's a Turtle named Turtle.
85* KilledOffscreen: Either it was when Super Buu unleashed his Human Extinction Attack or when Kid Buu blew the Earth to kingdom come. Either way, he didn't accompany the rest to the tournament, let alone the lookout, [[ForegoneConclusion so...]]
86* LongLived: Apparently, during the Garlic Jr. filler arc (or about a few months before the androids arc) in ''Dragon Ball Z'', he has turned '''1000 years old'''.
87* NiceGuy: He's very mild-mannered and kind, which contrasts greatly with the lecherous and selfish (pre-CharacterDevelopment) Master Roshi.
88* OddFriendship: Forms one with Maron during her stay at Kame House in the anime filler.
89* OldRetainer: He attempts to curb Roshi's lecherous behavior and advises him from making rash decisions to varying degrees of success.
90* RunningGag: In the Japanese version, Goku is constantly getting his name wrong ("Urigome" instead of "Umigame"), even into adulthood.
91* SatelliteCharacter: He only exists to be Roshi's pet and to snark at him for his ridiculous ideas and lines.
92* ServileSnarker: To Roshi.
93* SimpletonVoice: Most of his English voices tend to have a dopey quality to them. It's ironic given that he's meant to be more grounded than his master.
94* SmallRoleBigImpact: If Goku's hadn't happened to accidentally pick a stranded Turtle out of the ground and return him to the sea (against Bulma's wishes), he would have never met Master Roshi or begun his martial arts journey that drives him for the rest of the franchise.
95* SpeciesSurname: His species is his ''only'' name.
96* SuddenlyVoiced: In a manner of speaking. Due to ''Kai's'' editing process, he didn't get to say anything until episode 58.
97* TalkingAnimal: Though he talks less and less as the series goes on.
98[[/folder]]
99
100[[folder:Kinto'un / Flying Nimbus]]
101!!'''Kinto'un (筋斗雲, "Somersault Cloud")'''
102->'''Voiced by: [[TheVoiceless N/A]]'''
103
104A magical yellow cloud gifted to Goku by Master Roshi. It can only by ridden by those with pure hearts. Primarily used as a transport in the days before ki-based {{Flight}} became the norm, Kinto'un is alive and sapient to a degree, enough for Goku to consider it one of his dearest friends. After Goku's second death, Gohan inherits Kinto'un and uses it to transport him to and from school.
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106* BigDamnHeroes: Just as Gohan is about to be curbstomped by Nappa, Kinto'un appears to carry him out of the way.
107* TheBusCameBack: It makes a return in ''Super'' when Goku figures out a way to traverse Fortuneteller Baba's forest without attracting monsters with his ki.
108* CharacterDeath: Shortly after Krillin's first death at the hands of Tambourine, Kinto'un also gets destroyed by the winged demon, sending Goku into even more of a rage.
109* CompanionCube: To a degree, though unlike most examples, Kinto'un is actually alive. Goku and Gohan are very attached to it, nevertheless.
110* LegacyCharacter: After the first Kinto'un "dies", Karin gifts Goku a second one spawned from the Huge Kinto'un cloud that floats outside of Karin's Tower. This is where all Kinto'uns spawn from, including Goku's original, meaning that they are all functionally identical as smaller fragments of the same whole.
111* MundaneUtility: By the Buu arc, its adventuring days are behind it, and now it only sees usage as a glorified private jet for Gohan to get to Satan City from his rural home in the Styx.
112* SecretTestOfCharacter: Being able to sit atop Kinto'un is one of the most practical ways of testing if somebody is pure of heart. Early in the series, the likes of Roshi, Bulma, Krillin and Yajirobe would fall straight through the cloud if they tried. Goku was the only one untainted by impure thoughts like lust, greed and cowardice. However, as the series goes on, more characters become able to ride it, including Chichi, [[Manga/DrSlump Arale]], Upa, Gohan, Goten and Uub.
113* ShoutOut: Kinto'un, alongside the Nyoibo (Power Pole), is one of the most visible holdovers from Dragon Ball's literary inspiration, ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.
114* SuperSpeed: Kinto'un has an extraordinary top speed of Mach 1.5, though most of the main characters characters can outpace it with their own {{Flight}}. Gohan's friends note that his journey from home to school would take over five hours in the fastest jet plane on Earth, but Kinto'un can accomplish that distance in about half an hour.
115* TheVoiceless: It cannot speak, but it does express itself in other ways.
116[[/folder]]
117
118[[folder:Oolong]]
119!!'''Oolong (ウーロン, ''Uuron'')'''
120[[quoteright:257:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oolong_dragonball.png]]
121[[caption-width-right:257:''"Why did you have to go and tell me that, Bulma? You know that I'm highly allergic to danger."'']]
122->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/NaokiTatsuta, Creator/TesshoGenda (''DB'' ep. 3, ogre form)\
123'''Voiced by (English):''' Brad Jackson (Most media), Mark Britten (''Z'' Season 3; originally), Creator/BryanMassey (''Curse of the Blood Rubies'', ''Kai'' Season 1-4, ''Super'' Universal Survival arc) (Creator/FUNimation dub); Alec Willows (''DB'' 1995, ''Z'' Seasons 1-2, ''The World's Strongest'', ''Tree of Might'' Edited), Doug Parker (''DB'' 1995, Most transformations), Creator/IanJamesCorlett (''DB'' 1995, gentleman), Creator/ScottMcNeil (''Tree of Might'' Uncut), Creator/RichardNewman (''Z'' Seasons 4-6), Corby Proctor (''DB'' 2004) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Dave Mallow (mainly), Barry Stigler (most transformations), Creator/DanWoren (gentleman) (Harmony Gold dub); David Gasman (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub); Apollo Abraham (Creative Products Corp., Philippines); Ray Chase (Bang Zoom!/Toonami Asia dub in ''Super'')\
124'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Ernesto Lezama ('''current voice'''), Creator/ArturoMercado (begins in ep. 60 ''Z'', ''GT'' and ''Battle of the Gods'')
125
126Originally a con artist who terrorized a small village using his shapeshifting powers, Oolong is a greedy, lecherous pig (literally); when Goku defeated him, Oolong joined him and Bulma in their search for the Dragon Balls. At first a useless whiner, Oolong later proved his worth by "stealing" Pilaf's wish from the Dragon Balls (by wishing for a pair of girl's panties). He and Puar were rivals in shapeshifting school, but because Oolong dropped out in kindergarten, his powers only allow him to stay transformed for five minutes.
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128* AccidentalTruth: After dealing with Goku's Oozaru form, Oolong quips, "So what is he? Some kind of space alien?" Yup.
129* AchillesHeel: He can only stay shapeshifted for five minutes. If he's shapeshifted for five minutes together (no matter how many forms he went through in that time span), he has to rest a minute before he can do it again. (Check his debut chapter in the manga: He can go straight from one form to another, so long as he hasn't used up all five minutes.)
130* AdaptationalBadass: In the unofficial Chinese Movie ''Film/DragonBallTheMagicBegins'', Oolong (known as Piggy) has the ability to turn into Rambo (yes [[Franchise/{{Rambo}} that Rambo]]).
131* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Oolong is a piggish human in the unofficial movie ''Film/DragonBallTheMagicBegins''.
132* AgeLift: In the Japanese materials, he starts out being only nine years old (three years younger than Goku) and it reflects in his actor's voice. However, [[DubText most of the English versions]] have him talking like a fairly older man (calling Goku "kid" throughout the first arc, etc). This is prevalent even with the more accurate translations in ''Kai'' and ''Super''.
133* AscendedExtra: Oolong was reduced to a background character in the ''Z'' portion of the manga. Toei, however, took a liking to the guy and gave him more screentime in the filler, movies, and commercials.
134* BigDamnHero: Oolong interrupted Pilaf's wish preventing Pilaf from becoming ruler of the world.
135* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: How Bulma gets him to join the adventure. She slips him a drug that acts as a laxative every time he hears whistling.
136* BringMyBrownPants: Often pissed himself in fear in the manga.
137* ChekhovsGag: His wish for panties ends up coming up again in [=GT=] when it turned out the Six-Star Dragon's existence came from it. How embarrassing.
138* ChivalrousPervert: At least he ''thinks'' of himself as chivalrous. The pervert part is ''completely accurate'' however.
139* CompositeCharacter: If you're familiar with ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', Oolong actually has elements of both Zhu Bajie ("Piggy/Pigsy") ''and'' Sun Wukong ("Monkey"). He most directly references Zhu Bajie, being a lecherous, gluttonous pig monster - his initial encounter is even an adaptation of how Zhu Bajiei is recruited in ''[=JttW=]''. However, his adeptness at shapeshifting is a trait taken from Sun Wukong[[note]]Zhu Bajie could also shapeshift in ''[=JttW=]'', but Sun Wukong was much better at it and it was much more the monkey spirit's go-to trick[[/note]], and likewise he has a magical restraining bolt (the "swee-trots" candy he ate, which causes him to suffer explosive diarrhea attacks if he hears whistling), which calls to mind Sun Wukong's famous "headache headband".
140* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly before he turns nicer.
141* DemotedToExtra: Even though most characters in the series get demoted to extra sooner or later, Oolong is especially noteworthy because he is essentially the {{Tritagonist}} of the original arc of the series, but after that, he completely loses his importance to the plot. Even Puar at least gets a small role later during the fight against Uranai Baba's warriors, but Oolong? Restricted to the background and a few CombatCommentator lines here and there. Once the Saiyans show up, he's more or less out of the picture entirely.
142* DidntThinkThisThrough: How else do you explain why he drugged Goku when he knew that Yamcha was out to rob them?
143* DirtyCoward: Mostly in the earlier chapters of the series, especially before he considered Goku and the others as his true friends.
144* DirtyKid: Puar explains that in the past Oolong was kicked out of "transformation kindergarten" for stealing the teacher's panties. Not only that, but he's actually ''three years younger'' than Goku, making him only 9 during the first arc of the original series. Bulma even lampshades it in the original Japanese:
145-->'''Bulma''': What kind of kid acts like a middle-aged pervert?
146* DubNameChange: Became "Mao Mao" in the Harmony Gold dub, presumably because of the Chinese uniform he originally wears. The BLT test pilot renamed him "Chester".
147* ExactWords: The reason Oolong got women's panties when he made his wish in the English dub. He wished for "the world's most comfortable pair of underwear". Said underwear just happened to be ''lady's'' underwear.
148* {{Expy}}: One of the more obvious ones among the early characters, as he's the clear equivalent to Zhu Bajie (aka "Piggy") from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' in the group. A significant part of the reason he gets DemotedToExtra so badly is that he made less sense to keep on the further ''DB'' strayed from having ''anything'' to do with ''[=JttW=]''.
149* {{Flight}}: For all his PaperTiger transformations are worth, Oolong transforming into a bat or a rocket grants him the ability to fly at high speed.
150* HypocriticalHumor: Frequently gets on others for being pessimistic about Goku and the other fighters' fates when they're missing in action but is relatively quick himself to assume the worst during the series' darker turns, especially in the King Piccolo Saga.
151* IncompletelyTrained: He took classes at the Shapeshifter Academy, but was expelled after [[DirtyKid stealing their teacher's panties]]. As a result, Oolong can only hold a shape for five minutes at a time, whereas Puar can morph indefinitely.
152* InformedAbility: His shapeshifting becomes this after ''Dragon Ball''.
153* KilledOffscreen: Played straight in the manga where it cuts away to Goku watching in horror as Super Buu changes everyone on the Lookout into chocolate and eats them. Averted somewhat in the anime where they do show the carnage and the [[ShadowDiscretionShot shadowy terror]] of everyone's conversion into candy bars.
154* LarynxDissonance: in the Funimation dub, he has a deep voice. This fits in ''Z'' where Oolong is an adult but is odd in the first series where Oolong is a child.
155* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: In the first non-canon movie. When he transforms into Bulma to fool Roshi (like in the original story), his first reaction is to "check" his new body, embarrassing Bulma.
156* MessyPig: He may be more mentally than physically messy, but he qualifies nonetheless.
157* NonHumanSidekick: The first of the series, before Yamcha pulled a HeelFaceTurn with Puar.
158* PaperTiger: In his first appearance. He uses his transformation magic to intimidate people, but as he himself notes, using transformation magic to become a powerful monster doesn't give you the ''abilities'' of that monster.
159* PervertedPig: Oolong is dirty in mind if not in body.
160* PigMan: A walking, talking pig, and one of the first talking animals to play a big role.
161* SpannerInTheWorks: He screwed Pilaf's wish for immortality by intervening.
162* SmarterThanYouLook: He's the ''only'' one who recognizes Chichi when ShesAllGrownUp. And he had met her only ''once''. It is true to real life, as pigs are proven to be surprisingly intelligent even when they're piglets.
163* ThemeNaming: With Puar, after tea.
164* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Oolong and Puar were classmates at the Shapeshifter Academy, due to dropping out earlier, Oolong can only hold his form for five minutes.
165[[/folder]]
166
167[[folder:Puar]]
168!!'''Puar (プーアル, ''Puuaru'')'''
169[[quoteright:171:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/puar_by_ezequiel_d.png]]
170[[caption-width-right:171:''"Only a heartless soul would run and leave his friends behind. We're in this together."'']]
171->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/NaokoWatanabe\
172'''Voiced by (English):''' Monika Antonelli (All media before 2007), Creator/BrinaPalencia (''Budokai Tenkaichi 3'' onwards) (Creator/FUNimation dub); Kathy Morse (''DB'' 1995), Creator/CathyWeseluck (''Z''), Chris Simms (''DB'' 2004) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Cheryl Chase (Harmony Gold dub); Jodi Forrest (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)\
173'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Cristina Camargo (''DB'', ''Z'') , Creator/JesusBarrero (''DB'' epi. 5-60), Karen Vallejo (''Kai''), Desireé González (''Kai: The Final Chapters''), Creator/IsabelMartinon (''Super'')
174
175A shape-shifting cat-like creature and Yamcha's closest friend. Puar is fiercely loyal to Yamcha. Puar mostly just provides moral support to Goku and his friends but saved everyone the first time Goku transformed into a Great Ape by cutting off Goku's tail.
176----
177* AdaptationSpeciesChange: He's a parrot in ''Film/DragonBallTheMagicBegins''.
178* AmbiguousGender: In the Japanese version, Puar's gender is not directly referred to though it sometimes does use masculine pronouns. In the English version, Puar is referred to as a female on a few occasions when its gender is mentioned. This isn't the case in other translations such as the Portuguese translation which has Puar state himself as male in his introduction. Eventually, Toriyama was asked about Puar's gender and he said he considered Puar male when writing the manga. For some odd reason, however, the official ''Dragon Ball'' site lists Puar as female.
179* BecomingTheMask: Just like Yamcha, he initially assisted Goku and the others in gathering the Dragon Balls with the intention of stealing them once they got all seven. It wasn't until the events at Pilaf's castle that Yamcha and Puar became friends with them for real.
180* BlackBeadEyes: In the same vein as Upa, who he tag-teams with during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga.
181* CuteKitten: Just look at his picture!
182* DemotedToExtra: Puar went from shapeshifting into items and animals in the original series to only being Yamcha's friend in ''Z.''
183* DubNameChange: Became "Squeaker" in the Harmony Gold dub, "Prudence" in the "Zero"/BLT test dub of ''Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies'', and "Plume" in the AB Groupe French dub of ''Dragon Ball: The Path to Power''.
184* EvilCounterpart: Seemingly to Oolong in the beginning, except Puar was ironically more moral!
185* FaintInShock: Plus grief after Yamcha is killed by the Saibamen with Puar and the other non-combatants watching from Kame House. Unlike Chi-Chi, Puar does not regain consciousness to see any more of the battle.
186* {{Flight}}: Puar can inexplicably fly.
187* InformedAbility: Like Oolong, Puar doesn't use his shapeshifting abilities after the original series until ''Dragon Ball Super'' where he uses it to turn into [[spoiler: Beerus]].
188* KilledOffscreen: This happened in the manga's Buu arc when Super Buu turned all of the non-fighting crowd on Kami's Lookout into chocolate bars and ate them. Averted in the anime where we see a horrible ShadowDiscretionShot of him and Yamcha being changed (they're the last to be eaten).
189* NonHumanSidekick: To Yamcha during their bandit days.
190* SatelliteCharacter: Puar is mostly important in relation to Yamcha.
191* RightHandCat: To Yamcha during his bandit days, though more sympathetic than most.
192* TalkingAnimal: Puar is less anthropomorphic than Oolong.
193* ThemeNaming: With Oolong, after tea.
194* UndyingLoyalty: To Yamcha.
195* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Oolong and Puar were classmates at the Shapeshifter Academy. Unlike Oolong, however, Puar finished his education there and thus can hold any form as long as he wants.
196[[/folder]]
197
198[[folder:Gyū Maō/Ox-King]]
199!!'''Ox-King (牛魔王, ''Gyuu-Maou'')'''
200[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oxkingcp_6.png]]
201->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/DaisukeGori (All media until 2009), Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo (All media from 2010 onwards)\
202'''Voiced by (English):''' Mark Britten (''Z'' Season 3-4 and ''The History of Trunks''; originally), Creator/ChristopherSabat (''Z'' Season 5-6; originally), Creator/KyleHebert (Most media) (Creator/FUNimation dub); Dave "Squatch" Ward (''DB'' 1995, ''Z''), Dave Pettit (''DB'' 2004) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); David Gasman (''Dead Zone''), Paul Bandey (''The History of Trunks'') (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)\
203'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Mario Sauret, Enrique Cervantes (''Kai: The Final Chapters'')\
204'''Voiced by (Swedish):''' Creator/GunnarErnblad
205
206The legendary Ox-King of Fire Mountain.[[note]]also known as "Gyuumaou", literally Japanese for "Ox-Demon-King"[[/note]] The Ox-King terrorized the countryside to keep would-be thieves away from his castle. When Goku and his friends came looking for the Dragon Ball in his treasury, he relents (he couldn't get into his own castle anyway because of the wall of flames around it) and offers Goku his daughter Chi-Chi's hand in marriage. Ox-King turned out to be one of Master Roshi's pupils and a friend of Goku's Grandpa Gohan. After his daughter settled down with Goku, he became a doting grandfather to Gohan and Goten.
207----
208* AscendedExtra: He gets more appearances in the original anime with Chi-Chi before becoming a mainstay in the ''Z'' era. The first is in the Red Ribbon Army arc when Colonel Silver and Emperor Pilaf end up targeting him for a dragon ball he accidentally obtained when slaughtering a pteranodon for a wedding feast (he thought that Goku and Chi-Chi were going to be wed immediately). His second is in the King Piccolo arc where the titular villain sics King Furry's guard on him in order to continue his slaughter of the world's renowned martial artists so they can't potentially seal him away again. The final part of ''Dragon Ball'' also makes him a DistressedDude in the Wedding Dress filler arc where he has to protect his late wife's gown in order to see Chi-Chi wear it at her own ceremony.
209* BigFun: He's a large jovial man especially from ''Z'' onward.
210* CoolOldGuy: Being a grandfather and a retired fighter fits this trope.
211* DemotedToExtra: In ''Dragon Ball'', he had a role as a supporting character. He doesn't appear as much in ''Z'', but when he does, he usually appears with his daughter.
212* DirtyOldMan: Only one moment in the Garlic Jr. Saga shows him perving on someone, namely Maron while she's sunbathing. Then again, he's a student of Master Roshi and even his fellow disciple Son Gohan admitted to having a lot of pretty dead ladies back in the afterlife. Chi-Chi ''really'' didn't care for that.
213* DistressedDude: For the Fire Mountain/Wedding Dress filler arc at the end of the first ''DB'' anime, most of his screen time is spent trapped running through the burning remains of his castle as he tries to survive and preserve his late wife's titular dress so that Chi-Chi can wear it at her ceremony.
214* DotingParent: He's very fond of his daughter.
215* DotingGrandparent: The Ox-King is very fond of his grandsons, often buying them toys and spoiling them.
216* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: He was a redhead throughout most of the original ''DB'' anime before the Wedding Dress filler arc recolored him black which has mostly stuck with him throughout the franchise's duration. The full-color manga in that earlier period also colors his hair black.
217* {{Expy}}: To, well, the Ox-King/Bull Demon King of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', straight down to having ''the literal same name'' in kanji/hanzi characters (牛魔王). This Ox-King is a bit more chill and a family man than the one in the novel, though, and naturally like many of the other ''[=JttW=]'' characters his importance fades as time goes on, especially once the Saiyans start showing up.
218* FamilyThemeNaming: He has a daughter named Chi-Chi (milk/breast), carrying the cow theme.
219* GentleGiant: He used to be quite violent, but mellowed out after Chi-Chi fell in love with Goku.
220* HiddenHeartOfGold: Ox-King intentionally hid a nicer side to his first appearance to prevent thieves from coming into his castle and robbing his gold. That, and taking his daughter. So, [[DisproportionateRetribution he terrorized the nearby village]], [[ShroudedInMyth and legends of him spread as a bloodthirsty demonic tyrant]]. Suffice to say, this wasn't the best course of action he could have taken (though, it was pretty effective). Father and daughter being inhumanly strong, notwithstanding (the latter killed a ''T. Rex'' with ease at ''twelve years of age''). He later got reprimanded for this by Master Roshi, who told him to apologize to the villagers for how he treated them, and mellowed out... after his home on Fire Mountain was blown to bits by Roshi.
221* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: In the entire franchise there has only ever been one image of Chi-Chi's mother, a family portrait of her as a baby, sitting on her mother's lap, who is sitting ''[[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/3/31/Chichismom.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110719020028 on her husband's palm.]]''
222* HugeGuyTinyGirl: One of the more extreme examples with his late, unnamed wife (see above).
223* HumbleHero: In the anime, when he and Chi-Chi witness new global EvilOverlord King Piccolo's [[DoNotAdjustYourSet broadcast announcement]] that he'll annihilate a section of Earth a year and openly welcome any challengers to stop him, Chi-Chi questions her father whether he can beat up King Piccolo, and he replies honestly that he can't and that he doesn't think anyone in the world can, not even Goku.
224* ImmuneToBullets: This is only shown in {{Filler}} episodes of the anime.
225* KilledOffscreen: Happened during the Buu arc in the manga where the titular villain escaped the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and turned all the people outside (except Dende) into chocolate, eating them soon after. Averted in the anime, however, where they at least gave a ShadowDiscretionShot that showed almost all the cast being killed.
226* LegacyCharacter: Subverted when he suggests that Chi-Chi's son also be named after himself before she named him Gohan.
227* ManlyFacialHair: He sported an impressive red beard back during his days of conquest. By the time of the Wedding Dress filler arc (or the Saiyan arc if you go by the manga), it has become black and stays that way for the remainder of the series. It grows out a little in the Buu arc and begins to gray going into the 28th World Martial Arts Tournament.
228* MasterApprenticeChain: He was a student of Master Roshi and he trained Chi-Chi: Mutaito > Master Roshi > Ox-King > Chi-Chi > Goten.
229* NiceGuy: He may seem like a tough giant at first, but he's actually a kind person.
230* NotSoAboveItAll: While he's normally cavalier, he shows once in the Garlic Jr. Saga that he is very much a student of Roshi when he ogles a sunbathing Maron alongside his old teacher. Chi-Chi was ''not'' amused.
231* OneManArmy: He's capable of taking down an army of tanks on his own.
232* OnlyOneName: He doesn't have a last name.
233* PublicDomainCharacter: Ox-King is the only character other than Son Goku to retain the same name as his ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' counterpart.
234* RealMenWearPink: Wore a pink shirt during the Buu arc.
235* RetiredBadass: In ''Dragon Ball Z'', you don't see him fighting anymore. At his peak of power, he was regarded as a demon who could take out tanks and Goku couldn't even make him flinch when they first met.
236* RichesToRags: From the God of Destruction Beerus Saga StoryArc onwards, he's forced to take on a FallenOnHardTimesJob due to his treasures (the source of his wealth) being burnt in the Fire Mountain.
237* StoutStrength: Later in the series he gets fatter but even in ''Battle of Gods'' it is clear he has a lot of muscle underneath.
238* TearsOfJoy: He sheds them during Chi-Chi and Goku's wedding ceremony at the end of the first anime, congratulating the two on their union and welcoming Goku into his family. In a humorous variation, he sheds a few back in the Red Ribbon Army filler when he's preparing a wedding for the two and remarks that his daughter is growing up so fast.
239* WhatTheHellHero: While it's technically filler, he calls Chi-Chi out on getting upset with Goku for letting Gohan fight against Cell. Considering how Gohan surpassed Goku and Cell in strength, this was understandable. It still didn't stop her from getting mad herself at her dad since [[ComicallyMissingThePoint she was only upset that Gohan had become a delinquent]].
240[[/folder]]
241
242[[folder:Lunch/Launch]]
243!!'''Lunch/Launch (ランチ, ''Ranchi'')'''
244[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/launch_8.png]]
245->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/MamiKoyama (most media), Tomiko Suzuki (''Z'' ep. 285), Creator/MayumiTanaka (''Kai'') \
246'''Voiced by (English):''' Meredith [=McCoy=] (''DB'', both), Christine Marten (''Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle'', bad), Monika Antonelli (''Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle'', good), Creator/KaraEdwards (''Z'' Episode 285, good), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (''Kai: TFC'', good) (Creator/FUNimation dub); Onalea Gilbertson (''DB'', both) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Creator/EdieMirman (Harmony Gold dub); Sharon Mann (''Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle''), Jodi Forrest (''Mystical Adventure'') (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)\
247'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Cristina Camargo
248
249Minor joke character during the original series was picked up and brought to Roshi by Goku and Krillin to bribe him into training the two. Her "mood swings"--really a split personality--when she sneezes provided a fair amount of comedy, shifting between a sweet blue-haired ingenue and a violent blond criminal. She's not heard from much in the ''Z'' series (because Creator/AkiraToriyama [[https://www.kanzenshuu.com/rumor/characters/ decided to write her out]]).
250----
251[[AC:Both]]
252* TheBusCameBack: She reappears in ''Anime/DragonBallYoSonGokuAndHisFriendsReturn''
253* TheCameo: At the end of ''Z'' when you can see her lifting her hands up in the air to give energy to Goku's Spirit Bomb.
254* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She vanishes after the Piccolo Jr. Saga in the manga. She did get a bit more screen time in the anime, but only in the Saiyan Saga and a cameo towards the end of the Buu Saga. Reportedly, [[https://www.kanzenshuu.com/rumor/characters/ this is because Toriyama decided to write her out, and later he wrongly thought he forgot about her]].
255* DemotedToExtra: The grand finale of the manga reunited everyone ''but'' Lunch. Lunch appeared in the draft, but she was replaced with No. 17 in the published issue. The anime, at least, briefly showed her contributing to Goku's Super Spirit Bomb. She also later appears in the OVA, although she has no lines.
256* DubNameChange: From Lunch to Launch in the English dub.
257* EdibleThemeNaming: Named after a meal in a story where many characters are named after food and teas.
258* ForeheadOfDoom: You can see how huge her forehead is because her hair doesn't cover it.
259* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Good Lunch has TaremeEyes, Bad Lunch has TsurimeEyes.
260* JekyllAndHyde: Her Jekyll is Good Lunch while her Hyde is Bad Lunch.
261* KilledOffscreen: It's a given that she died during Buu's rampage on Earth, likely when Fat Buu was going around destroying things or when Super Buu used his Human Extinction Attack and wiped out everyone except for Mr. Satan, Tien, and Chiaotzu. We never see it, though.
262* MsFanservice: She wears revealing clothes and a lot of other characters find her attractive, particularly [[DirtyOldMan Master Roshi]].
263* OnlyOneName: Like many others in the series, she doesn't have a surname.
264* OutOfFocus: She was hit particularly hard with this — she didn't even get PutOnABus, she was just gone. Her only appearances in ''Z'' were anime-only scenes in Saiyan Saga filler and a small cameo in the Buu Saga where she added her power to Goku's final Spirit Bomb.
265* PutOnABus: In the first saga of DBZ. She's last seen getting drunk in a bar but makes a very brief cameo appearance in the Kid Buu saga giving Goku energy with the other earthlings.[[note]]Plus a nightmarish vision during Goku's fight with Frieza, though her image was edited out in ''Kai''[[/note]] In the manga, she was put on a bus after the DB portion and remains absent for the rest of the series.
266* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name is more accurately rendered as "Lunch", but the English versions call her "Launch".
267* SingleTargetSexuality: Lunch has only ever had eyes for Tien, it was impossible that she'd move on.
268* SplitPersonality: One half's a sweet blunette and the other's a hot-tempered blonde.
269* SplitPersonalityMakeover: Good Lunch is blue-haired, while Bad Lunch is blonde.
270* SplitPersonalitySwitchTrigger: The blue-haired and gentle Lunch turns into her blonde and violent other personality and back whenever she sneezes.
271* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: PlayedForLaughs: Blue Launch is as delicate as she appears, unable to move or throw objects very far while Blonde Launch is a powerhouse, able to carry entire armories and heavy weaponry like nothing. This is despite the only difference being in personality and appearance.
272* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
273** Good Lunch is Girly Girl, Bad Lunch is Tomboy.
274** Bulma and Lunch vary on which is the tomboy and which is the girly girl depending on which of Lunch's personalities is dominant. If Lunch is in her blond form, she's a gun-crazy kleptomaniac and Bulma is a fashion-conscious non-combatant. If Lunch is in her blue-haired form, she's a naive ingenue and Bulma is the adventurous Wrench Wench.
275* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Famously, despite both being a capable gunslinger and a long-time friend of the Z-Fighters, she's all but missing from the group without any explanation. Her anime appearance mitigates this slightly, occasionally showing her cameos, but her absence is still uncommented.
276
277[[AC:Good Lunch]]
278* TheDitz: She's very kind to everyone she meets, but she can be woefully ignorant of her surroundings.
279* FanserviceWithASmile: Good Launch does this, even though she's not smiling all the time. You can even unlock her outfit for Android 18 in ''Ultimate Butouden'' on the DS.
280* TheIngenue: Her innocent persona is pure of heart as she is quite capable of riding the Flying Nimbus with Goku in the anime.
281* LethalChef: Not in general, but Good Lunch's ditziness has caused her to try cooking a toxic pufferfish for Master Roshi and Krillin, poisoning both of them for the next day.
282* NiceGirl: She is sweet and pure-hearted, and one of the people who can ride the nimbus.
283* NonActionGuy: Compared to her blonde self, Blue Launch is simply too soft to raise a hand to anyone, which means she's a DamselInDistress if any enemies come around.
284* OutOfFocus: Due to her passive attitude and lack of action capability, she ends up getting much less of development compared to her blonde counterpart.
285* ParentalSubstitute: She was the closest thing to a mother figure that Goku had as a child.
286* ShyBlueHairedGirl: She's sweet and kind to others and is very shy.
287* TeamMom: The closest the original DB cast had to one, as she was very kind and patient to all her friends, willing to do all sorts of things to keep them happy, no matter how weird it may be.
288* TheTeamNormal: Plays this as straight as she can. Without a genius brain, fighting capability, or knowledge of any teaching or techniques, Good Launch is as close to a normal human in the main cast- if not for being a bit ditzy.
289
290[[AC:Bad Lunch]]
291* AccentAdaptation: The old Harmony Gold dub and the Blue Water dub give her [[DeepSouth a rough southern drawl.]] Funimation by contrast gives her [[{{Joisey}} a thick New Jersey accent]] which most know her for today, though her actress in ''Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle'' did not give her any noticeable accent (neither did AB Groupe's dubs).
292* ActionGirl: Dragon Ball's very first one, while not in on the action as much as the guys, she is the only girl in the series capable of performing any kind of straightforward fight.
293* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Bad Lunch has the hots for Tenshinhan after being smitten with his power in battle.
294* AntiHero: Bad Lunch could be an UnscrupulousHero or even a NominalHero at times.
295* AxCrazy: Bad Lunch is a gun-crazy kleptomaniac. However, she does get several levels of kindness added to her character as time goes on.
296* BadassNormal: She's just a normal human with no training of any kind, but is dangerous in her blond form. She always has a gun ready and shows no fear of attacking or threatening anyone including the Red Ribbon Army, the Crane Hermit, or even King Piccolo.
297* BerserkButton: She has several, including but not limited to: Roshi's perversion and anyone getting between her and Tien.
298* BloodKnight: While not as pronounced as the Z-Fighters, she doesn't shy away from violence when it comes her way, in fact, she seems to rather enjoy it. She agrees to raid the Red Ribbon Army for little reason than that she'd enjoy the action.
299* CharacterDevelopment: A more subtle example, given how there's never a particular amount of focus on it but Blonde Launch starts out as ''very'' violent, to the point she shot at Goku and Krillin for the crimes of just being in her view. As time goes on she does mellow out; she becomes attached to her group of friends (especially Goku and Tien) and goes from actively antagonizing them for her own self-interest, to wanting to spend time with them, regardless of her status as TheDreaded.
300* DeepSouth: Her accent is lightly southern in the Blue Water dub. She also has a heavier variation in the Harmony Gold dub.
301* TheDreaded: Mostly PlayedForLaughs, though her debut in the anime implies that she's done a lot to earn a bounty of two million bucks.[[note]]The wanted poster uses dollars and not zeni for whatever reason[[/note]] Most poor bystanders end up having the crap scared out of them whenever she starts yelling or shooting up her surroundings. Even after she softens, the others tend to treat her with a sliver of fear whenever she starts.
302* DrowningMySorrows: Her reaction to Tien's death, she's found drinking in a bar as the news reports the death toll.
303* EveryoneHasStandards: Bad Lunch may be a [[AxCrazy trigger happy lunatic]], but she's still disgusted by the atrocities [[SatanicArchetype King Piccolo]] commits (aside from [[PlayedForLaughs briefly mentioning]] that she'd sort of like a lawless world without reproach).
304* {{Expy}}: Launch's bad form was based on Polly Buckets, a character from ''Manga/DoctorSlump'' (Toriyama's precedent work).
305* GoodIsNotNice: She eventually becomes this instead of evil, still being a gun-toting gal with disregard for the law.
306* TheGunslinger: When she loses her temper, people will get shot. Good thing most of the cast is bulletproof.
307* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Inverted. Her blue-haired form has a pure heart of gold while her blond form is an AntiHero.
308* HairTriggerTemper: She is an angry, trigger-happy woman.
309* HeelFaceTurn: To put it in perspective, in the beginning, whenever Lunch changed she would instantly attack Roshi, Goku, and Krillin on sight with a machine gun, by the end of ''Dragon Ball'' she stops attacking people in general, only attacking those who are out to harm her friends. This also leads to the bad Lunch having much more screen time in the later part of the series, spending hours and even days at a time in her blonde form.
310* HopelessSuitor: Bad Lunch has a massive crush on Tien, who does not comment on the matter. Unfortunately for Launch, the two are not shown to be together in ''any'' Dragon Ball media.
311* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Bad Lunch's crush stemmed from Tien's ruthless fighting style.
312* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Bad Lunch eventually becomes this once she considers Goku and the others as her friends. She grows to be more tolerant and protective of them, and therefore less likely to shoot them.
313* {{Joisey}}: Her accent in the Funimation dubs.
314* MoreDakka: She has her own stacks of guns. Apparently, she left most of them behind when she left after Tien according to a filler scene where Chi-Chi found them and intended to rescue Gohan from the Saiyans.
315* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Her first thought for most things is just to shoot or whack anyone that is going against her goals, even when she actually becomes friends with the main cast, she'll try to shoot anyone who tries to hurt her friends.
316* OneManArmy: Impressively, Bad Launch is more than enough to wipe the floor with the grunts of the Red Ribbon Army without breaking a sweat.
317* PetTheDog: While not actually evil, her bad persona has a few moments. In ''Dragon Ball'' during one of the tournaments, she buys Goku ice cream. One of the few times she does something nice in her bad form. Later on, she rescues Goku from two people intent on stopping him from winning the match to settle a SideBet. In ''Z'', she kidnapped the finest chefs in the world just so she could create a world-class meal for Tien and Chaotzu.
318* ReformedCriminal: She sometimes says she wants to rob banks and such, but aside from her introduction she's never seen actually doing so.
319* SneezeCut: Bad Lunch was about to attack King Piccolo, but Bulma whispers something about her, and she sneezes and turns back.
320* SociopathicHero: Bad Lunch, though she begins to soften in the back half of the Red Ribbon Army arc.
321* TankTopTomboy: She wears outfits like this.
322* TokenEvilTeammate: Even after Bad Lunch accepts Goku and company as friends, she's still a violent gun-toting criminal. She outright says she likes King Piccolo's style, but sides against him out of loyalty to her TrueCompanions.
323* TookALevelInKindness: She is still quite violent and trigger-happy near the end, but she will fight to defend her friends, especially Tien. She also shows disgust over King Piccolo's actions despite liking some of his policies.
324[[/folder]]
325
326[[folder:Dr. Brief and Bulma's Mom]]
327!!Dr. Brief (ブリーフ博士, ''Burīfu Hakase'') and Bulma's Mom (ブルマのママ, ''Buruma no mama'')
328[[quoteright:328:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/padres_de_bulma.png]]
329->'''Dr. Brief voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/JojiYanami (Most media), Ryoichi Tanaka (''Resurrection [='F'=]'', ''Super'')\
330'''Dr. Brief voiced by (English):''' Chris Forbis (''DB'' and ''Z''), Mark Stoddard (''Kai'' and ''Super'') (Funimation dub); Creator/PaulDobson (''Z'' Season 2), Creator/ScottMcNeil (''Z'' Season 4-6), Corby Proctor (''DB'') (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Paul Bandey (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)\
331'''Dr. Brief voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Ricardo Hill ('''Current Voice'''), José Luis Castañeda (''DB''), Creator/HumbertoVelez (''Kai'')
332
333->'''Bulma's Mom voiced by (Japanese):''' Mariko Mukai (''DB'' and ''Z'' Seasons 1 and 2), Youko Kawanami (''Z'' Seasons 3+, ''Kai''), Hiroko Emori (''Z'' Season 5 and ''DBS'')\
334'''Bulma's Mom voiced by (English):''' Creator/CynthiaCranz (Creator/FUNimation dub); Creator/TabithaStGermain (''Z'' Season 2 and end of Season 4), Creator/SaffronHenderson (Most of ''Z'' Season 4), Creator/KellySheridan (''Z'' ep. 240), Creator/WillowJohnson (''Z'' ep. 245-246), Jennifer Bain (''DB'') (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Jodi Forrest (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)\
335'''Bulma's Mom voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Ángela Villanueva ('''Current Voice''') , Magda Giner (''DB''), Maru Guzmán (''DB'' epi. 44)
336
337Dr. Brief is the founder of Capsule Corp and the father of Bulma. Bulma's Mom, Panchy, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is the mother of Bulma]] and the wife of Dr. Brief.
338----
339* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Bulma's Mom, she looks the same through her daughter's teenage years and her grandson's childhood. If we assume that she was at least 18 when she had Tights, then that means that she could be no younger than 71 as of the Buu Saga.
340* AccentAdaptation: Dr. Brief is given a thick British accent in the Ocean and Funimation dubs of the series, though it was done away with from ''Kai'' onwards. His wife by contrast was given a Brooklyn accent for Funimation's dub.
341* AllMenArePerverts[=/=]AllWomenAreLustful: They are both depicted as swingers and both are equally lustful, with her mother telling her to bring any handsome boys she meets home with her when she comes to visit and appearing to [[{{Squick}} hit on a very young Goku]] and chiding her daughter not to be a "prude" when she objects.
342* AmbiguouslyHuman: While most non-Saiyan characters visibly age, Bulma's mom doesn't. This, among other things, has led to theories that she's actually a RidiculouslyHumanRobot.
343* AscendedExtra: In an interesting contrast to most who are introduced pre-''Z'', they actually get more prominence in the ''Z'' era, or at least Dr. Brief does. He is the one to rebuild Goku's old saiyan pod so the latter can get to Namek quickly and later repair Android #16 to help fight in the Cell Games. Back in the original anime, Brief and his wife only appeared canonically in the Red Ribbon Army arc as stop-gap comedic relief (they make a return in the King Piccolo filler when the titular villain vows to destroy West City as part of celebrating Piccolo Day).
344* BigApplesauce: Bulma's mom has a Brooklyn accent in the English dub.
345* BrainlessBeauty: Bulma's mom, which is hilarious when you consider how intelligent her equally beautiful daughter is.
346* BunnyEarsLawyer: Dr. Brief. Bulma clearly gets her brains from him and his intellect has made him the smartest and richest man on the planet through his being the founder and chairman of Capsule Corp. He is also an unquestionable DitzyGenius.
347* ButtMonkey: Dr. Brief becomes one particularly in the anime version of Freeza Saga, usually on the wrong side of Chi-Chi's yelling for him not getting the ship done fast enough.
348* CaptainOblivious: Bulma's mom tends to state the obvious.
349* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: They're nowhere to be found in ''Dragon Ball GT'' and it is mentioned that in the second episode Trunks has succeeded his grandfather as the president of Capsule Corporation. Whether this means that they retired or passed away is unknown. Even in the ''Z'' episode "He's Always Late", which features almost the entire cast at a party within the Capsule Corp., neither Dr. Brief nor his wife is seen attending. Their last appearance in the anime and manga before Majin Buu wiped out all humanity was when Trunks went to West City to obtain the Dragon Radar.
350* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Bulma's mother never seems to age and frequently seems completely divorced from reality. Dr. Brief himself tends to blurt out awkward remarks, particularly in his debut, though he is quite a bit saner.
351* DirtyOldMan: Dr. Brief, revealed that he hides a collection of dirty magazines.
352* DitzyGenius: Dr. Brief was able to reverse engineer the engines to advanced spaceships to create an actual spaceship in a month and considered it unready because he hadn't figured out where to put a coffee maker. In ''Battle of Gods'' he had no idea he was the richest man on the planet until Chi-Chi pointed it out and was perfectly willing to get Mr. Satan a drink when he was mistaken for a waiter, even after Satan apologized.
353* DotingParent: They are very fond of their daughter Bulma and their grandson Trunks and Future Trunks.
354* DumbBlonde: Bulma's mom has blonde hair and has been shown to be ditzy. Along with her husband, she is almost entirely oblivious to a serious situation.
355* EyesAlwaysShut: Bulma's mom. She only opens them once in ''Z'', and her eyes turn out to be blue... however, this has been increasingly downplayed in ''Super'', as she's been shown with her eyes open a bunch.
356* FamilyThemeNaming: The Briefs family (Bulma/Bloomer, Dr. Briefs, Panchy/Panty/Bikini, Trunks, Bulla/Bra, Tights) are named after undergarments.
357* FriendToAllLivingThings: They take in a large number of strays including dinosaurs and freaking kaiju!
358* GadgeteerGenius: Dr. Brief built the technological empire known as Capsule Corp. He also helps Bulma repair Android 16 and [[spoiler:Cell's Time Machine in ''Super'']].
359* HappilyMarried: They are in a good marriage.
360* HonorBeforeReason: Whenever the Earth is threatened, they refuse to retreat to Kami's Lookout, saying it wouldn't feel right to leave their home and pets behind.
361* {{Housewife}}: Bulma's mom, who is often seen baking cookies and cakes.
362* InnocentBlueEyes: In the rare moments that Bulma's mom opens her eyes, they're revealed to be blue. Her eyes are always opened in ''Super''.
363* KilledOffscreen: They refused to accompany the rest of the Z-Fighters to Kami's Lookout when Majin Buu was unsealed, [[SkewedPriorities wanting to keep their pets company.]] Later when Buu transforms, he utilizes an attack that wipes out virtually the entire population of Earth, including the Brief Family by that logic.
364* KindheartedCatLover: Dr. Brief is often seen with a small black cat either on his shoulder or in his hands. The cat is nameless in the manga, but the anime gives it the name '''Tama''' (or '''Scratch''' in the English dubs).
365* KindheartedSimpleton: Despite Bulma's Mom being ditsy, she is very polite.
366* LikeParentLikeChild: Dr. Brief. His daughter, Bulma, inherited his love for inventing things and being a genius.
367* MrFixit: Dr. Brief, who helps Bulma repair Android 16 and [[spoiler:Cell's Time Machine]].
368* MrsRobinson: Bulma's mother has flirted with Yamcha, Goku, and Vegeta, who brush her off. This even provoked Bulma's jealousy at one point!
369* NiceGuy: Both of them are quite friendly.
370* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bulma's Mom, from Creator/MarilynMonroe. Also overlaps with CastingGag, as her Japanese voice actress (Mariko Mukai) was her defacto voice actress for Monroe in almost all the Japanese dubs of her films. Dr. Brief resembles UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein.
371* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite the passage of several decades in-universe, Bulma's mom is never shown aging. [[spoiler:Even in ''Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman'', a prequel set roughly a decade before ''Dragon Ball'' begins, she still looks the same.]]
372* OnlyOneName: He's just "Dr. Brief". He does not pass this name on to his descendants, and his wife's name is likewise not "Mrs. Brief".
373* OppositesAttract: He is old and intelligent while she is a young DumbBlonde.
374* ParentalFavoritism: [[spoiler:Dr. Brief loves Bulma dearly, and his idea of spending quality time together involves working together in his lab, which suits Bulma just fine. His older daughter, Tights, on the other hand...well, he can't be bothered to remember the fact that she had already graduated from college two years after the fact.]]
375* PerpetualSmiler: Bulma's mom. Even when she was angry one time, she ''still had a smile on her face!''
376* {{Polyamory}}: Implied in several comedic moments with them, while they seem HappilyMarried, the manga has them both ask Bulma and Goku to bring them back mates while they're out searching for Dragon Balls, much to their daughter's annoyance. Dr. Brief also keeps a large number of nudie magazines but besides Bulma's anger and her dad's OhCrap realization that she took the collection and not her own capsules, it's seemingly not made a huge deal of (Bulma was even half expecting it to be something crude). Bulma's mom in the Frieza arc paws at Goku when he comes to see Dr. Brief's work on his ship...this despite seemingly knowing that he's already in a committed relationship with Chi-Chi and with a five-year-old son to boot. She even passively flirts with Vegeta during his initial stay at the Capsule Corp. despite him still being mostly an evil wannabe conquerer at the time. That last one gets a bit icky considering he'd formally become her son-in-law after the Cell arc.
377* PornStash: Dr. Brief has them stored in his own personal capsule, as Bulma discovers by accident, much to her disgust and [[ChildrenAreInnocent Goku]]'s bewilderment.
378* RichGenius: Dr. Brief and his daughter are both genius inventors who created the capsules, those tiny things that are able to store anything of ANY size. They also own a yacht, are able to host big parties, and have their own professional chefs.
379* SkewedPriorities: At the start of the Namek saga, Dr. Brief tells Goku that he hasn't finished rebuilding his old ship... because he hasn't installed a good speaker system yet. When Goku rushedly tells him he doesn't care, the good doctor still insists if Goku really doesn't care about the sound system... ''twice''.
380* SilverVixen: Bulma's mom ''still'' looks great even after her grandson Trunks is born.
381* TheTease: Bulma's mom is rather flirty, even with men half her age.
382* TinyGuyHugeGirl: In photos of Dr. Brief and Bulma's mom, Bulma's mom is shown to be taller, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/4/46/DrBriefsMrsBriefsMajinBuuSagaNV.png/revision/latest?cb=20100510140933 as shown here.]]
383* UglyGuyHotWife: Dr. Brief is old and wrinkly while Bulma's mom is ridiculously cute.
384* UnnamedParent: Bulma's mom is only called Bulma's mom. (Creator/AkiraToriyama said it would have been "Panchy" (from "panty") if he had bothered to give her a name, while ''VideoGame/DragonBallZKakarot'' calls her "Bikini".)
385[[/folder]]
386
387[[folder:Suno]]
388!!'''Suno (''Snow'')'''
389->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/NaokoWatanabe (''DB''); Creator/MayumiTanaka (''Z'', ''GT''); Creator/HirokoEmori (''Revenge of King Piccolo'')\
390'''Voiced by (English):''' Susan Huber (''DB'', ''Z''), Creator/LauraBailey (''Budokai Tenkaichi 3'', ''Revenge of King Piccolo''), Creator/FeleciaAngelle (''[=DBZ Kai=]'') (Funimation dub); France Perras (''Z''; Kid Buu Saga) (Ocean dub)
391
392A young girl and resident of Jingle Village. She's the one who finds Goku when he crash-landed near the village and nearly freeze to death. She and her mother nurse him back to health and prepare Goku for his assault on Muscle Tower and stop the Red Ribbon Army from seizing Jingle Village.
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394* AdorablyPrecociousChild: For someone so young and innocent, Suno is quite mature and responsible for her age, personally taking up responsibility for saving someone's life and being open to accepting an android into her village's community.
395* AdaptationalDyeJob: In the manga, Suno was supposed to have blonde hair, though the anime and all following adaptations nowadays tend to depict her as a redhead.
396* AllLovingHero: She does the best she can to help and care for others. In fact, her introductory scene is her bringing Goku back to her home and helping him recover. She even comes to see Android 8 as a brotherly figure, despite him being built for terroristic purposes, and she even tries to care for the injured during the King Piccolo saga. Even as an adult, Suno never loses her tendency to help others, as she tries to save Eighter again in Muscle Tower in ''VideoGame/DragonBallZAttackOfTheSaiyans''.
397* TheBusCameBack: Years after her first notable role and appearing in cameos, Suno makes her first proper reappearance in ''VideoGame/DragonBallZKakarot'', albeit in a side-story that involves her asking Goku for ingredients to collect for her village. Tellingly, the quest's title is "''Reunion with Suno''".
398* HeroicBystander: She was first seen simply taking a stroll on the outskirts of Jingle Village by the time she noticed the wreckage of the plane that Goku was traveling in. She was quick to carry Goku all the way to her home and nurse him back to health.
399* KidHero: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; she's a supporting character in all of her appearances, but come the King Piccolo Saga, she's seen in a hospital tending to those injured by the demon. While not a fighter by any means, her presence in the hospital, plus her helping Goku and being accepting of Eighter despite being a creation of the Red Ribbon Army shows that she has a heroic heart.
400* MeaningfulName: Her name is an anagram of "Snow", which is evocative of the fact that she lives in a village that's situated in a snowy climate. That's the case in English localizations; her name in Japanese is literally ''Snow''.
401* NiceGirl: Suno is a kind, accommodating, and compassionate girl who always reserves a friendly tone to whoever she talks to. Heck, she opts to bring Goku to her village and help him recover, basically saving his life from freezing to death.
402* PlatonicLifePartners: She develops one with Android 8 when he is free from General White's grasp and is allowed to live in Suno's house with the two of them forming a close friendship. They are still with each other by the time Suno is shown as an adult.
403* PutOnABus: Much like nearly every supporting cast in ''Dragon Ball'', Suno is unheard of afterward. She does make a cameo during the Kid Buu Saga in ''Z'' and the Baby Saga in ''GT''. It's not until ''VideoGame/DragonBallZKakarot'' when Suno finally makes a proper reappearance, albeit under a side-quest.
404* ShesAllGrownUp: By the time she reappears in works that take place after ''Dragon Ball'', Suno has since grown into a pretty-looking woman. She still looks quite youthful by ''GT'', which is impressive given how most characters who appeared in previous entries tend to have aged considerably since.
405* SmallRoleBigImpact: ''Dragon Ball'' ends up being her only notable appearance and even then, she's only a supporting character in the Red Ribbon Army Saga. That said, Goku would have died from the cold if Suno hadn't found him after his plane ride had crashed and was given immediate medical care. She's arguably the only character to have saved Goku's life without the use of ki or any external magical sources.
406[[/folder]]
407
408[[folder:Mechanical Man No. 8/Android 8]]
409!!'''Android 8 (人造人間8号, ''Jinzou Ningen Hachi-Gou'')'''
410[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hatchan.png]]
411->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/ShozoIizuka (Most media up to 2023), Creator/KatsuhisaHouki (''Dragon Ball Legends'')\
412'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/MikeMcFarland (Creator/FUNimation dub); Dale Wilson (''Z'', Kid Buu arc); Jeremiah Yurk (''DB'') (Ocean/Blue Water dub)\
413'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Ricardo Hill
414
415A Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}-like monster and one of Doctor Gero's earliest Androids, 8 was rejected by the Red Ribbon Army due to his gentle nature. Helps out a young Goku during his raid on the Red Ribbon's Muscle Tower.
416----
417* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Still alive in Trunks's BadFuture in ''Dragon Ball Super''.]]
418* ActualPacifist: He tries to be this, refusing to kill even if it cost him his life, but lost it when he thought Goku was killed by General White.
419* AdaptationalBadass: He is quite powerful in the series proper (stronger than Goku at the point they met), but his strength is amplified in the movie ''Path to Power''. He is able to fly, dash, and nearly kills Goku, who is also made stronger. He also fights a mecha that knocked Goku unconscious for several minutes and pushes it back.
420* AIIsACrapshoot: Inverted. He was built to be a weapon of death but immediately refused to kill people without reason, and ended up being a pacifist who betrays the Red Ribbon Army.
421* BadassPacifist: Refuses to kill Goku even when threatened with self-destruction.
422* BerserkButton: Harming anyone he cares about, just ask General White as he flies into the sunrise.
423* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't harm anyone he knows or loves. ''Ever''. Harming Goku was how General White got [[MegatonPunch knocked out of Muscle Tower]].
424* TheCameo: He and Suno make an appearance during the Kid Buu arc recognizing Goku's voice and suppling his Spirit Bomb with their energy.
425* {{Cyborg}}: Both the [[AllThereInTheManual Daizenshuu and the Chozenshuu]] state that he is a human-based Android, like #17 and #18, rather than a fully mechanical one like #16.
426* ADayInTheLimelight: In the anime, a filler episode details his creation by Dr. Flappe who he goes to visit in order to remove the bomb from his body which is oddly never addressed again in the manga. This creates a big ContinuitySnarl when the Cell arc comes around and reveals that Eighter was created by Dr. Gero and thus was the Androids' sole creator.[[note]]Though the Daizenshuu address this somewhat rationalizing that Flappe and Gero might have been colleagues in the Android Development Program[[/note]] He gets some additional screen time in the King Piccolo arc where he goes to help Suno when she gets caught up in Piccolo's attack on Central City. There he aids his friend in giving relief to injured civilians and even strongarms a gang of smarmy pro-Piccolo bikers into helping out.
427* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the NonSerialMovie ''Path to Power'', a retelling of the Red Ribbon Army Saga, 8 dies holding off Staff Officer Black's mecha. Goku uses the Dragon Balls to revive him right at the end.]]
428* {{Expy}}: Of Frankenstein's Monster.
429* GentleGiant: Big, burly, scary-looking, and very nice and sensitive.
430* GrewASpine: He stands up to some punks who claim to support King Piccolo when they refuse to help him and Suno move injured people to the hospital. He even swats a knife out of the gang leader's hands to prove his strength.
431* HappilyAdopted: By the mayor's family. They took him in as their son.
432* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:As seen in the DeathByAdaptation entry above, he dies holding off Staff Officer Black's giant mecha in order to protect Goku.]]
433* InSeriesNickname: In Japanese, Goku has trouble remembering his full name, so Goku calls him Hacchan (Eight-Man in the US manga, Eighter in the English dub, and Octavio in the Latin American Spanish dub). He likes the nickname so much that he takes it as his official name.
434* TheLoad: Sort-of. He spent more time being in distress and had to be saved by Goku a number a time. Then he got [[BerserkButton mad]].
435* MegatonPunch: What he did to General White. He punched him so hard that he flew through a brick wall and over the horizon.
436* PlatonicLifePartners: With Suno, the young girl in Jingle Village in Red Ribbon Army Saga, since he is allowed to live in her family's house after rescuing the village elder. They're shown still together after Suno [[ShesAllGrownUp is all grown up]] [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100205092217/dragonball/images/f/fe/SunoKidBuuSaga.png at the end of Z]] and ''[[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131214202556/dragonball/images/3/32/Suno%268%28GT%29.png GT]]''.
437* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: With Goku... of sorts. Android 8 is the Sensitive Guy who hates fighting or hurting people, while Goku, even when he's just a kid when they met, is a BloodKnight who doesn't mind killing people if it means protecting others.
438* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: When asked to stay in the village after finding out he hid the Dragon Ball from the Red Ribbon Army to keep the people in the village from being executed, he hesitated by saying that he wasn't human.
439-->'''The Mayor:''' I met people I wouldn't call human. It's your heart that makes you who you are and you have a big one.
440[[/folder]]
441
442[[folder:Bora]]
443!!'''Bora (ボラ)'''
444[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bora_db.png]]
445->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/BanjoGinga (Most media), Creator/KozoShioya (''Z'' ep. 285), Creator/HisaoEgawa (''Kai: The Final Chapters'', ''Kakarot'')\
446'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/DameonClarke (Most media), Creator/JMichaelTatum (''Kai: The Final Chapters'', ''Kakarot'') (Creator/FUNimation dub); Creator/BobPapenbrook (Harmony Gold dub); Terry Klassen (''Z''), Lucas Gilbertson (''DB'') (Ocean/Blue Water dub)\
447'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Creator/JoseLuisOrozco (''DB'', epi. 58-59), Mario Sauret (epi. 61-163)
448
449The chief of a native tribe that served as the guardians of Korin Tower. He and his son, Upa meet Goku after he finds a dragon ball and runs afoul of the Red Ribbon Army. Bora proved to be a very powerful warrior earlier in the series with gunfire deflecting off his body.
450----
451* AccidentalTruth: Upon being revived, his calling Goku "a child of the Gods" would become a pivotal plot point in ''Super'' when Goku does gain divine power as a Super Saiyan God. The English dub changes this to him saying “a gift from the stars”, which perfectly describes how Goku was sent to Earth for his own protection.
452* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Bora and Upa appear slightly earlier in the anime, which showcases the boy's admiration for his father when the man saves his son from a giant carnivorous fish and shields him from falling molten rocks that emit from a volcano near Korin Tower.
453* AscendedExtra: Of a sort in ''Mystical Adventure''. His death occurs a little while later than in the series and he manages to aid the heroes in Chiaotzu's Tournament before Tao drops all pretenses and enacts Shen's coup.
454* BackFromTheDead: Has the distinct "honor" of being the first character to be wished back to life by the Dragon Balls.
455* BadassNative: He's one of the series' earliest examples due to him fighting off several soldiers while getting shot at.
456* TheBigGuy: Bora is a huge muscle-bound warrior who towers over just about everyone he's next to.
457* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Feather in his long hair and buckskin pants with a [[LoinCloth loin cloth]].
458* ChivalrousPervert: He isn't above staring at Blonde Launch's rear end for a while when he sees her rummaging through his tent.
459* CoveredInScars: More apparent in his old age, which raises the question of what exactly scarred a bullet-proof man.
460* CurbStompBattle: Easily beat a unit of the Red Ribbon Army. He is then killed with ease by Mercenary Tao.
461* DemotedToExtra: Hit with this after the Red Ribbon Army Saga, hard.
462* DistractedByTheSexy: The aforementioned look at Launch's butt.
463* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mercenary Tao impales him with his own spear.
464* IOweYouMyLife: Or freshly restored life, technically, but thanks Goku regardless. He even gives one to Shenron just before the dragon departs.
465* LightningBruiser: Dispatches the Red Ribbon Army soldiers with amazing speed despite his size.
466* MrFanservice: He's a total Native hunk who's never seen with a shirt.
467* NighInvulnerability: Bullets bounce off him like it's nothing. He even tanks a ''freshly erupted'' molten rock and is no worse for wear.
468* OldSoldier: He continues to guard the tower even as he's hinted to become a grandfather, and his though his hair has greyed his build hasn't diminished.
469* SacrificialLamb: The first good character to die in the series.
470* SilverFox: Remains moderately hunky even after he's aged as shown in the Majin Buu arc.
471* WalkingShirtlessScene: Bora is never seen wearing a shirt.
472* TheWorfEffect: Despite mopping up the Red Ribbon Army's goons, he is severely beaten and killed by Mercenary Tao.
473[[/folder]]
474
475[[folder:Upa]]
476!!'''Upa (ウパ)'''
477[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/upa_trans_5.png]]
478[[caption-width-right:200:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in ''Z'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/upa___saga_majin_buu_2.png[[/labelnote]]]]
479->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/MitsukoHorie (''DB''), Masaaki Ōkura (''Z'' ep. 13), Creator/TakeshiKusao (''Z'' ep. 285 and ''Kai: The Final Chapters'')\
480'''Kid Upa voiced by (English):''' Susan Huber (''DB''), Creator/KaraEdwards (''Mystical Adventure'', ''Origins 2''), Creator/LauraBailey (''Revenge of King Piccolo'') (Creator/FUNimation dub); Jamie Johnston (Harmony Gold dub); Brett Bauer (Blue Water dub)\
481'''Adult Upa voiced by (English):''' Creator/DameonClarke (''Z'' ep. 12), Creator/EricVale (''Z'' ep. 285), Creator/JMichaelTatum (''Kai: TFC'', ''Kakarot'') (Creator/FUNimation dub); Alistair Abell (Ocean dub); Mitch Frankenberger Pellicer (Creative Products Corp., Philippines)\
482'''Kid Upa voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Creator/CristinaHernandez\
483'''Adult Upa voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' José Arenas (''Z''), Ferso Velázquez (''Kai: The Final Chapters'')
484
485Bora's son and ally to Goku after he is saved from Captain Yellow of the Red Ribbon Army. Not nearly as brave or as powerful as Goku or his father, Upa helps Goku collect the dragon balls using them to wish his father back to life after being killed by Mercenary Tao.
486----
487* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Upa and Bora appear slightly earlier in the anime which showcases the boy's admiration for his father when the man saves his son from a giant carnivorous fish and shields him from falling molten rocks that emit from a volcano near Korin Tower.
488* ArtShift: His eyes went from dots when he was a kid to having a more normal shape in his adulthood. Curiously, his teenage cameo in the Saiyan Saga, which was filler, has him still with the beady eyes.
489* BlackBeadEyes: As a child and teenager, he had cute little dots for eyes. Funny enough, he shares this trait with Puar who he teamed up with for their fight against Fangs the Vampire.
490* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Feather in his long hair and buckskin pants with a {{loincloth}} and vest.
491* BreakTheCutie: Watching his father get killed by Mercenary Tao.
492* TheCameo: He's the first to recognize Goku's voice and offers his energy to the Spirit Bomb.
493* CryIntoChest: When his father was revived.
494* DemotedToExtra: He wasn't seen a lot after the Red Ribbon Saga, much less in ''DBZ'' and ''DBGT''.
495* DudeLooksLikeALady: As a child. Krillin tried to hit on him and got embarrassed when he found out Upa was a boy.
496* FanservicePack: Adult Upa sports a HeroicBuild, becoming considerably jacked like his father.
497* GrewASpine: Notable in the anime during the King Piccolo Saga. He's been training to become a great warrior like Goku and his father and chastises Yajirobe for casually insulting Goku.
498* HarmfulToMinors: Poor kid had to witness his own father being murdered by Tao.
499* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He is All Grown Up]]: He's developed into quite the looker by the end of the Buu Saga, though the seeds were already sewn from his cameo in the Saiyan Saga.
500* OlderThanTheyLook: He could still pass for thirty-something by the time of his final cameo in ''GT'' where he's in his early forties.
501* TearsOfJoy: When his father was revived.
502* WalkingShirtlessScene: Upa only wears a vest throughout the series.
503[[/folder]]
504
505[[folder:Karin/Korin]]
506!!'''Korin (カリン, ''Karin'')'''
507[[quoteright:328:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karin_db.png]]
508->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/IchiroNagai (''DB'', ''Z'' ep 34-193, ''Kai''), Creator/NaokiTatsuta (''Z'' ep. 217-241, ''True Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans'', ''Budokai''), Ken Uo (''Super'')\
509'''Voiced by (English):''' Mark Britten (''Z'' ep. 110-193, ''Mystical Adventure'', ''Budokai''), Creator/ChristopherSabat (Most media), Creator/EricVale (''Cooler's Revenge'', remastered for one line only) (Creator/FUNimation dub); Creator/PaulDobson (''Z'' Season 1-2), Creator/TedCole (''Z'', Season 4-6), Roger Rhodes (''DB'') (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Ted Lehmann (Harmony Gold dub); Paul Bandey (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub); Raymond Buyco (Creative Products Corp., Philippines)\
510'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Creator/ArturoMercado ('''current voice''')
511
512Goku's second mentor, Korin[[note]]Karin in the original Japanese[[/note]] is an 800-year-old talking cat who lives in a tower directly under Kami's lookout. Korin's Senzu Beans, which cause full healing from physical injury after being eaten, play a big part in the series. Korin was also Master Roshi's mentor 300 years earlier.
513----
514* AdaptationDyeJob: He is portrayed with blue fur in the color pages of the manga and the video games ''Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiyan Legend'' and ''Dragon Ball Online''. The anime and most other media give him white fur.
515* BadassAdorable: A mere cat, yet as a martial arts master and deity he could easily defeat any human martial artist when he's introduced, including the likes of Roshi and Tao. Goku doesn't surpass him until the three-year time skip after they met.
516* BrutalHonesty:
517** He tells Goku point-blank that if he faced King Piccolo again he will die for sure this time.
518** He straight up tells Goku that even after his stint in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber that Cell is still stronger than him.
519* CatsAreSnarkers: He's got a playful sense of humor and gets a kick out of pranking others regardless of whether the recipient finds it funny themselves.
520* CuteKitten: He's smaller than Kid Goku.
521* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly to Yajirobe who he loves teasing for his laziness and eating habits. He also teases Goku when they first met about how easy his mind was to read since 'there weren't too many chapters'.
522* DubNameChange: Funimation renamed him "Korin", probably because "Karin" sounds like a girl's name ("Karen") in English.
523* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Goku at first is dumbfounded that the Wiseman spoken of in Bora's story is a diminutive cat even shorter than him. Bulma has the same reaction to him in the Saiyan Saga, much to Master Roshi's dismay.
524* EyesAlwaysShut: Never seen with his eyes open. Goku lifts his lids once to reveal an entire sea complete with swimming fish!
525* FunnyAnimal: He’s a talking cat holding a stick, how could he ''not'' be one?
526* GodJob: An Earth deity just like Popo and Kami, though his actual position isn't very well defined.
527* ItAmusedMe: According to Kami, this is basically why Korin didn't bother to tell Goku that Kami is Piccolo's [[LiteralSplitPersonality other half]]; because he thought it'd be funny.
528* KaleidoscopeHair: In the color chapters of the manga, his fur is never the same color twice. This is never commented upon. (For what it's worth, he was based on a ''black'' cat).
529* KilledOffscreen: He and Yajirobe were killed by Super Buu's Human Extinction Attack, but like with so many other characters, it's not depicted even in the anime.
530* MasterApprenticeChain: He trained Goku who went on to train his own students. He also trained Master Roshi who has a very long chain:
531** Master Korin > Master Roshi > Gohan, Sr and Ox-King > Son Goku, Yamcha, Krillin, and Chi-Chi > Son Gohan, Son Goten, Pan, and Uub
532** Master Korin > Son Goku > Son Gohan, Pan, and Uub
533** Master Korin > Son Goku > Son Gohan > Son Goten
534* ObsoleteMentor: His martial arts teachings become outclassed once Kami enters the picture. However, Korin is still an invaluable source of wisdom and experience, not to mention the ''only'' source of the priceless healing resource of senzu beans.
535* OddFriendship: With Yajirobe. He lives with Korin after the events of the King Piccolo Saga.
536* OldMaster: Trained Master Roshi and most of the original cast. He's 800 years old, making him even older than Kami.
537* PoorCommunicationKills: When sending Goku up to Kami's Lookout for the first time, he doesn't bother informing Goku that Kami is King Piccolo's LiteralSplitPersonality. Thus, when Goku first sees Kami, he immediately assumes he's Piccolo BackFromTheDead and attacks him. Kami lampshades it:
538-->'''Kami''': I should have known Korin wouldn't explain it to you. He thinks he's ''very'' funny.
539* PowerUpFood: His senzu beans. They fill a person up for ten days and heal any wound.
540* PsychicPowers: He can read minds. Goku's was especially easy because there hadn't been many chapters of the manga yet.
541* PunnyName:
542** On ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karinto Karintou]]'', a Japanese snack food. It's more obvious with the tower itself, which is just ''Karin-tou'' ("Karin Tower") in Japanese.
543** The English dub changed his name to Korin, which is a pun on corn.
544* RenownedSelectiveMentor: He only teaches those who can climb Korin Tower, which is a very, ''very'' long climb. Even then, he is more of a TricksterMentor since people climb to drink the Sacred Water to become stronger, not to specifically train.
545* ShesAManInJapan: He's a female cat in the British dub of the 3rd movie and throughout the Hungarian dub of ''Z''.
546* {{Telepathy}}: He has the ability to read minds, as shown when he reads Goku's thoughts when he wanted the Sacred Water.
547* TricksterMentor:
548** The Sacred Water that would supposedly multiply Goku's power [[MagicFeather was actually just ordinary water]]. The training Goku underwent to steal the water from Korin was what ''really'' improved his skills.
549** Subverted with the Ultra Divine Water, where the water itself brings out the person's power... ''if'' they survive drinking it.
550* {{Troll}}: Comes with being a TricksterMentor. When he first meets Goku he gives him the run around for several minutes about whether he knew about the Sacred Water before allowing him to have it… before hitting him with his staff and taking the Sacred Water. He also throws Goku's Dragon Ball off the tower, forcing him to climb down and climb back up again. There's also that not mentioning that Kami would have the same appearance as the evil King Piccolo that Goku almost attacked him for.
551* VitriolicBestBuds: Korin often chastises Yajirobe for being lazy and rude, but he has yet to kick the latter out of his tower. The future version of him even gives Yajirobe the very last Senzu before dying.
552[[/folder]]
553
554[[folder:Uranai Baba/Fortuneteller Baba]]
555!!'''Fortuneteller Baba (占いババ, ''Uranai Baba'')'''
556[[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/uranai_baba.png]]
557->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/JunpeiTakiguchi (''DB'', ''Z'' ep. 7-34), Creator/MayumiTanaka (''Z'', ep. 190-272, ''Kai'', ''Super'')\
558'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/LindaYoung (''DB'', ''Z'' Season 1, ''Kai'', ''Super''), Laurie Steele (''Z'' Season 4), Creator/DuncanBrannan (most of ''Z'' Season 5-6), Creator/WendyPowell (''Z'' Season 6; ep. 271), Creator/ChristopherSabat (''Revenge of King Piccolo'') (Creator/FUNimation dub); Elan Ross Gibson (''Z'' Season 1), Creator/BrianDrummond (''Z'' Season 4-6), Corby Proctor (''DB'') (Ocean/Blue Water dub)\
559'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Ángela Villanueva ('''current voice'''), Magda Giner (''Kai'')
560
561A small, old witch that can divine things with the crystal ball she floats around on. The older sister of Master Roshi, she lives in a pyramid, providing divinations to those who can match one of two requirements--pay an outrageous fee, or defeat her chosen champions in combat. She also cut a deal with King Yemma that lets her provide a dead warrior a 24-hour return to the living, making for some joyous reunions. After the Red Ribbon Army Saga, Goku's friends go to her for help finding the last Dragon Ball, and she periodically pops up to help for free, as the Z-warriors are now more powerful than any warrior she can employ. Also one of the notable few characters to never die in the series.
562
563Baba disappears in the ''Z'' portion of the manga (though she still appears occasionally in anime {{filler}}), until the Buu Saga, where she first brings Goku back to life for one day to compete in the World Martial Arts Tournament and later does the same for Vegeta after his HeroicSacrifice.
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565* ActionSurvivor: One of only a few characters to survive the entire series without having to be revived.
566* AloofBigSister: To Master Roshi.
567* BoringButPractical: Baba has no offensive magic, nor is it very flashy like the type Piccolo and Supreme Kai use. Her magic allows her to see into the future, observe events from all over the world (even from Otherworld), and return people from the dead for one whole day.
568* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the finale of ''Dragon Ball'' (the first anime), she looks into her ball to see what the future of Goku holds, only to block the view and [[SecretMessageWink wink]] at the camera as the narrator assures the audience that the next story will begin in five years.
569* TheCameo: Her only appearance prior to the Buu arc in ''Z'' is a single panel in the Saiyan arc where she is unable to predict a definite outcome of the upcoming battle against Nappa and Vegeta. [[AdaptationExpansion The anime]] has her return a good way into the fight so that the non-combatants at Kame House can view the action via her crystal ball...until the energy feedback from the Spirit Bomb causes it to shatter.
570* CoolOldLady: Once she gets much nicer and overcomes her desire for money or joy of watching fights.
571* CrystalBall: Though she doesn't use it to read the future as much as to actually be on eye level with the other characters.
572* ADogNamedDog: For Japanese and most Slav viewers, the old woman[[note]]pronounced "baba" in all of these languages; it's possible that "baba" in Japanese is a Russian loanword[[/note]] is literally named "Baba". So, a ''baba'' named "Baba".
573* DubNameChange: She has no name in Japanese, just a title that translates as something similar to "Fortunetelling Crone". The Funimation dub translates part of her title but not all of it, making her "Fortuneteller Baba", and has other characters constantly just call her "Baba", giving the impression that "Baba" is her actual name.
574* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling to Roshi's foolish, Baba is a capable and serious fortune teller that is well known for her magical abilities and essentially has her own business. Roshi is a very perverted martial arts hermit that is more invested in ogling ladies than he is actually teaching.
575* GodzillaThreshold:
576** She agrees to take the extremely evil Vegeta to Earth from the Afterlife during the Buu arc, who just got his body back from King Yemma after he blew himself up because they were out of options for anyone else in existence who could even have the slightest chance at stopping Super Buu. Vegeta himself said they were wasting their time.
577** In ''Super's'' Universe Survival Saga, [[spoiler:she goes along with Goku's suggestion to revive Frieza for one day in order to participate in the Tournament of Power. While she's not happy to do so, given what a monster Frieza is, Baba goes along with it since she knows the fate of Universe 7 is at stake.]]
578* {{Immortality}}: Like her brother, she has drunk the Water of Life and is over 300 years old. She's still around in ''VideoGame/DragonBallOnline'', over two centuries after the end of the manga.
579* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Unlike her brother. The only reason people don't have to look way down when she's nearby is that she's sitting on her floating CrystalBall.
580* MundaneUtility: Most of her magic falls under this or BoringButPractical. Aside from one instance in the Saiyan Saga, where she can't tell the outcome of Vegeta and Nappa's invasion, there isn't ever a concrete set of rules established as to what prohibits her future gaze or what enables it.
581* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In the Japanese version. Like her brother, Muten Roshi, Uranai Baba is a title ("Fortunetelling Crone"), not a name. The US manga always refers to her as "All-Seeing Crone" to make this more blatant.
582* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Baba can come off as rude at times.
583* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Her unbroken survival record across the series is due to her ability to warp to the afterlife at will whenever things get dicey on Earth.
584* SmallRoleBigImpact: She has a minuscule role in ''Z'' and ''Super'', but her ability to bring people back from the dead for a day without the use of Dragon Balls has proved instrumental and irreplaceable in times of need.
585* TokenWizard: The first legitimate magic-user in the series, while firmly a NonActionGuy, she has some abilities that are very practical, most commonly bringing someone back from the dead for one whole day.
586[[/folder]]
587
588[[folder:Baba's Champions]]
589-> See Characters/DragonBallOriginalSeriesVillains
590[[/folder]]
591
592[[folder:Master Mutaito]]
593!!'''Master Mutaito (武泰斗)'''
594[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mutaito_artwork.png]]
595->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/KenjiUtsumi\
596'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/PhilParsons (Creator/FUNimation dub); Roger Rhodes (Blue Water dub)\
597'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Mario Sauret\
598'''Voiced by (Brazilian Portuguese):''' Gilberto Barolli
599
600Master Mutaito was one of the greatest martial arts teachers of all time and the first known person to act as Earth's savior, despite dying hundreds of years before the series started. He was Master Roshi and Master Shen's teacher, both who went on to create their own respective schools and pass on his teachings to several generations of characters.
601----
602* ColdBloodedTorture: Was subjected to this by King Piccolo, who slowly crippled him with energy blasts to non-vital areas and then left to die. It was seeing his master defeated in such a cruel, humiliating way that turned the Crane Hermit down the path of darkness.
603* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Evil Containment Wave. It's a sealing technique so powerful that it can entrap foes several times more powerful than the user. It can even work on [[spoiler:gods as Future Zamasu learned]]. However, if the sealing process is stressful enough, it can kill or severely weaken the user. This is how he dies sealing King Piccolo.
604* DeathByOriginStory: He dies in the manga chapter/anime episode that he's introduced in.
605* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Despite being absolutely no match for King Piccolo, he manages to trap the Demon King in a rice cooker for over three hundred years. [[HeroicSacrifice It cost him his life]], but he did save the world.
606* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Despite saving the world from King Piccolo at the cost of his life, no one remembers his name, and the terror of King Piccolo faded into legend. Only his students know what happened.
607* HeroicSacrifice: He dies trapping King Piccolo with the Evil Containment Wave, stopping the Demon King's original rampage.
608* ManlyFacialHair: He has an impressive mustache and is definitely a badass since he took down King Piccolo by himself, despite being much weaker than the demon.
609* MasterApprenticeChain: He has the longest chain with many branches since he taught Master Roshi and Master Shen, both of who became respective teachers of their own styles:
610** Mutaito > Master Roshi > Son Gohan, Sr > Son Goku > Son Gohan, Pan, and Uub
611** Mutaito > Master Roshi > Son Gohan, Sr > Son Goku > Son Gohan > Son Goten
612** Mutaito > Master Roshi > Son Goku > Son Gohan, Pan, and Uub
613** Mutaito > Master Roshi > Son Goku > Son Gohan > Son Goten
614** Mutaito > Master Roshi > Krillin and Yamcha
615** Mutaito > Master Roshi > Ox-King > Chi-Chi > Son Goten
616** Mutaito > Master Shen > Mercenary Tao, Tien, and Chiaotzu
617* OldMaster: He is the original old master of the series, being the one who trained Master Roshi and Master Shen, making him the root of the Turtle and Crane Schools.
618* PosthumousCharacter: He's long dead by the start of the series and isn't even mentioned until the King Piccolo Saga.
619* RetiredBadass: He's long past his prime when he fights King Piccolo. Although he lost the first fight, he creates a technique that can seal opponents much stronger than him.
620* SmallRoleBigImpact:
621** Although he died long before the series started and is only mentioned when Roshi is explaining the terror of the revived King Piccolo, his legacy is spread throughout the series through his students, the Turtle and Crane Hermit, who went on to become masters to several of the main characters, which includes Goku and all his descendants. He is also the one who stopped King Piccolo's first rampage and his first defeat to Piccolo is what sent the Crane Hermit down the path of evil.
622** The Evil Containment Wave, the technique that he invented to stop King Piccolo, is also this. In ''Super'', Future Trunks uses the Evil Containment Wave to trap [[spoiler:Future Zamasu]]. He only escaped because Goku and Roshi forgot the seal. However, [[spoiler:Zamasu]] was so shaken by the experience that he decides to [[spoiler:fuse with Goku Black]] since they couldn't afford to mess around with the mortals anymore.
623* WeakButSkilled: He is a powerful master, but he's little more than an ant compared to King Piccolo. In the anime, Piccolo easily defeats and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures him by shooting him with energy blasts]]. However, he invents the Evil Containment Wave, a technique that can entrap foes, [[spoiler: which includes gods]], many times stronger than the user for the exchange of their lives if the sealing process is stressful enough. This is how he defeated King Piccolo. In an anime filler, he beats ''Goku'', the same person who killed King Piccolo, because Goku's technique was [[UnskilledButStrong sloppy and predictable]]. Not only that, but he does it without moving!
624[[/folder]]
625
626[[folder:King Furry]]
627!!'''King Furry (国王 ''Koku-Ō'' The King)'''
628[[quoteright:301:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kingfurry.png]]
629->'''Voiced by (Japanese)''': Creator/JojiYanami\
630'''Voiced by (English)''': Creator/RichardNewman (''Z'' Season 4), Dale Wilson (''Z'' ep. 285), Steve Olsen (''DB''), Dan Gascon (''GT'') (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Creator/KyleHebert (Creator/FUNimation dub)\
631'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish)''': Creator/CesarArias; Creator/ArturoMercado
632
633The King of the entire Earth. He's a blue dog.
634----
635* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: He appears slightly earlier in the anime sending aid to some poor farmers, which doubles as an EstablishingCharacterMoment.
636* DependingOnTheWriter: The Cell arc filler last shows him disbelieving that Mr. Satan beat Cell and knowing that it was likely the Z-Warriors. However, his brief cameo in the Buu arc (also filler) shows him happily offering his energy to the Spirit Bomb only after Satan requested it, not Goku.
637* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He was first conceived during the original Dragon Ball run, which happened to take place in a Disneyland-esque world inhabited mostly by anthropoid animals. The latter feature was effectively dropped later in DBZ, making his reappearance in Cell saga look kinda weird in a more down-to-Earth world populated by humans.
638* TheEmperor: This guy is the official ruler of the entire Earth.
639* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The anime gives him an AdaptationalEarlyAppearance that shows him unhesitatingly giving some poor farmers a water reservoir, immediately confirming him as TheGoodKing.
640* TheGoodKing: By all indications, he's a decent ruler and is well-liked by his subjects.
641* HeroicDog: Not a fighter by any means, but he is shown to be a benevolent ruler and will do anything within his power to aid his people.
642* {{Masquerade}}: He knows of Goku and his friends' world-saving exploits, but for whatever reason decides that TheWorldIsNotReady in favor of allowing them to continue believing Mr. Satan's lies. He does express frustration that Mr. Satan steals the Z-Fighters' credit, however. Yet, his cameo in the Buu arc has him gleefully giving energy to the Spirit Bomb only when Mr. Satan demands it, not Goku.
643* NamedByTheAdaptation: The English dubs of the anime have given him the name "King Furry", but he was [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep only known by his title]] in the original manga and Japanese version.
644* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
645** He is one of few characters outside Z Fighters who remains level-headed and aware of powers at work throughout most of the entire Dragon Ball series.
646** During the King Piccolo Saga, when he gets temporarily overthrown by the titular villain, he remains defiant and completely unintimidated by him despite all abuse he receives. In his worldwide speech, he bravely urges the people of Earth to fight back against the evil regime -- knowing well that it will earn him Piccolo's wrath and not caring about the consequences.
647** Later in ''DBZ'', he is one of few people aware that Mr. Satan could not possibly defeat Cell, and people who really did it are Z Fighters. He seems to have forgotten about it by the Buu arc, however.
648* RoyalBlood: Judging by his collection of family portraits, his lineage of dogs has been ruling Earth for a long time. Considering that someone in the distant past used the Dragon Balls to wish to become a king, it's likely that this King is descended from that person. It also explains why the entire Earth is ruled by a single person.
649[[/folder]]

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