History Characters / DragonBallBulma

[[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku Son Goku]] ([[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesAToC A-C]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesDToH D-H]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesIToO I-O]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesPToZ P-Z]]) | '''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]] | [[Characters/DragonBallAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/DragonBallFamiliesAndFriends Families & Friends]] ([[Characters/DragonBallChichi Chi-Chi]] | [[Characters/DragonBallAndroids17And18 Androids 17 and 18]] | [[Characters/DragonBallTrunksAndSonGoten Trunks and Son Goten]] | [[Characters/DragonBallMrSatan Mr. Satan/Hercule]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFusionCast Fusions]]-]]]]]

* MagicPlasticSurgery: Literally. By ''DBS: Boly'', she apparently has gotten so used to Shenron that she wants to make herself look younger without having to go through more mundane surgical procedures. And in ''Super Hero'' she asks Shenron to make her butt bigger. Talk about MundaneUtility.

** It's never wise to much as insult Trunks in her mere presence. Along with Chi-Chi, they both cower Piccolo into submission for acting like a DrillSergeantNasty towards their sons, pointing out that their naps and wellbeing come first before their training.
** She was very protective of little Gohan once Raditz crashed Goku's reunion. She can instantly tell how frightened he was as he [[CowerPower hid behind his dad's leg for protection]] as [[PapaWolf Goku]] tried to get him to let go for his own safety, but she managed to pull him away. She would spent the rest of the episode holding onto Gohan while StaringDaggers at Raditz. At least until Raditz kidnaps Gohan once he let go of her hug to rush to his Dad's side after Raditz knees him in the stomach. She's as much as relieved as all of her friends once Goku remembers Gohan still had his hat with a dragon ball attached on, since they can easily find him with the dragon ball radar.

** It's never wise to much as insult Trunks in her mere presence. Along with Chi-Chi, they both cower Picollo into submission for acting like a DrillSergeantNasty towards their sons, pointing out that their naps and wellbeing come first before their training.

* RetroactiveIdiotBall: Manga/JacoTheGalaticPatrol reveals she knows Jaco, and ''Super's'' Universe 6 arc shows she can contact Tights to call Jaco at any time, so it looks odd that after saiyan saga, Bulma would bother with repairing Kami's old ship to go to Namek instead of just contacting Jaco to borrow a newer, possibly faster ship, or at least ask Tights to contact Jaco while fixing Kami's ship.

* {{Nominal Hero}}: In Early Dragon Ball, she was on Team Goku but only so she could use him to found the Dragon Balls to get a perfect boyfriend. In many ways, she wasn't much different from the Pilaf Gang despite not being an antagonist. She does escape this territory overtime and by DBZ, her intelligence has helped save the world.

* WouldHurtAChild: In her first appearance, she ''shoots Goku in the head''; granted, Goku ''did'' mistake her for a monster and throw her car, but still.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Self-centered, vain, and spoiled, but still a good girl at heart and very loyal to her friends.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Mainly in ''Dragon Ball''. She falls back into it during the Namek Saga, where she spends most of her time on Namek whining and moaning about how miserable she is and acting like everyone should drop what they're doing and take her back to Earth, to the extent that when she sees the Dragon Balls are assembled, she plans to wish herself back to Earth despite full knowledge that the entire reason they're there is to resurrect everyone who died fighting Nappa and Vegeta.
* JerkassBall: She hold it sometimes even after she TookALevelInKindness. With her {{Flanderisation}}, it started to happen more frequent.

* SpoiledBrat: She has spades of this, especially early in the series. She's somewhat grown out of this as she got older, although it still pops up from time to time, even after having Trunks and Bulla.

** In ''Super'', she attempts to flirt with Future Zamasu to buy Future Trunks time, who is an immortal deity that has a genocidal hatred towards mortals, an act that could have very well ended in a gruesome end had Trunks and Mai not arrived in time.

* TookALevelInJerkass: While Bulma always had a HairTriggerTemper and was prone to violence, ''Super'' takes this up to eleven. It's hard to find a scene where Bulma isn't yelling, scolding, or hitting someone for something that may or may not be DisproportionateRetribution. It's probably most prominent where she tries to hit Goku for something that wasn't remotely intentional,[[note]]He was trying to find Hit by sensing his energy, leading him to be distracted as Bulma hits him with her car as he was crossing the street.[[/note]] and she's surprised when he doesn't ''stand there and take the hit.'' In ''DBS: Broly'', Goku assumes that she's used the Dragon Balls to wish herself younger a few times, which means she's using it more selfishly than her ''Z'' counterpart, who complains about the way she ages but otherwise takes it in stride.

* HypocriteHasAPoint: As stated above, during the Buu Saga, Bulma chews out the rest of the heroes for being so casual about Goten and Trunks fighting Super Buu. However, she never had any qualms about Goku going off on dangerous adventures when he was a kid, nor did she have issues with Gohan, who was also a kid at the time, traveling to Namek or fighting the Androids. That being said, she does have a point about them being so relaxed about the possibility of children dying, especially because she knows the Dragon Balls can only bring people back to life for so long.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She made a wish on the Dragon to presumably revive all the lives lost since the morning of the tournament, presumably thinking only those that Vegeta killed. She had no way of knowing that Majin Buu existing and that they would need the dragon balls sooner. This cost them 4 months without them. However, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as this wish, by technicality, also revived Kibito, who was killed by Dabura, which set of a chain of events that would lead to heroes victory in the long run.

** In the Episode 68 of ''Super'', ''she'' gets one from [[spoiler: Beerus and Whis, who find out that she's built a new time machine. Beerus then proceeds to destroy it and the stuff required to make it work.]]

* IdiotBall: She sometimes lost common sense ([[DitzyGenius more than usual at least]]). For example, see FearlessFool.

** During the Red Ribbon Army Saga, Goku tells her point-blank that he doesn't want her coming along with him to find his grandpa's Dragon Ball because she's useless and will only get in his way.

* SmokingIsCool: Late into her adult life... being the wife of ''Vegeta'' would be stressful, after all. However, Future Bulma is also smoking, despite only briefly hooking up with Future Vegeta. Though, it's likely that she's also extremely stressed out after the loss of her lover and friends.

* TheUnfairSex: In the first series, Bulma openly flirted with other men (all of whom are also hot bastards). [[{{Hypocrite}} Yet it's her ex-boyfriend Yamcha who had to beg for her forgiveness if he looked at another woman]]. She even pulled a gun on him in ''VideoGame/DragonBallOrigins'' despite her earlier flirting with the evil Colonel Silver. She would get jealous of girls hitting on Yamcha, but even when she's dating Yamcha, she's prepared to dump him at the drop of a hat for Jackie Chun and General Blue, before they turn out to be old and evil, respectively (that Blue is also gay hinders things as well). However, she appears to be completely loyal to Vegeta after Trunks' birth, ''finally'' falling into the HappilyMarried trope. She also at one point fell for, you guessed it, Goku, when she saw [[ShesAllGrownUp He's All Grown Up]]. It's just too bad he got engaged on the same day...

* {{Flanderization}}: ''Super'' really likes to exaggerate Bulma's temper and her penchant for hitting others, while in the series, she occasionally hit her friends, the main victim was Roshi (who rightfully deserved it). Instead, it's hard to list who she ''wouldn't'' hit, which is at least a smaller list than who she wouldn't yell at.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: In the Anime Filler, this is how she fell for Vegeta.