Characters / Dragon Ball Friends

Dragon Ball Main Character Index
Major Characters
Son Goku (A-H, I-Z) | Bulma | Krillin/Kuririn | Piccolo | Son Gohan | Vegeta (A-L, M-Z) | Future Trunks | Allies (Dragon Team/Z Fighters) | Families (Androids 17 and 18 | Trunks and Son Goten) | Friends | Fusions

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Close acquaintances of the main characters that are neither fighters nor relatives.

Friends

Turtle

Turtle (海亀, Umigame, "Sea Turtle")

"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."

Voiced by (Japanese): Daisuke Gōri (Most media), Takahiro Fujimoto (Kai, Super)
Voiced by (English): Christopher Sabat (Most media), Chris Cason (Kai) (Funimation dub); Doug Parker (DB 1995), Scott McNeil (Z Season 1, The World's Strongest), Terry Klassen (Z Season 4-6), Dave Pettit (DB 2004) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Dan Woren (Harmony Gold dub); Doug Rand (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Herman López (current voice), Ernesto Lezama (1st episodes Z), Arturo Mercado (rest Z)

A 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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• Action Survivor: Still alive in Trunks's Bad Future in Dragon Ball Super.Unfortunately, that version of Turtle seen during that arc is now Deader than Dead.
• Beleaguered Assistant: To Master Roshi.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: 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.
• A Day in the Limelight: 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, 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.
• Demoted to Extra: 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 A Day in the Limelight, 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.
• A Dog Named "Dog": He's a Turtle named Turtle.
• Killed Offscreen: 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, so...
• Long-Lived: 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.
• Nice Guy: He's very mild-mannered and kind, which contrasts greatly with the lecherous and selfish (pre-Character Development) Master Roshi.
• Odd Friendship: Forms one with Maron during her stay at Kame House in the anime filler.
• Old Retainer: He attempts to curb Roshi's lecherous behavior and advises him from making rash decisions to varying degrees of success.
• Running Gag: In the Japanese version, Goku is constantly getting his name wrong ("Urigome" instead of "Umigame"), even into adulthood.
• Satellite Character: He only exists to be Roshi's pet and to snark at him for his ridiculous ideas and lines.
• Servile Snarker: To Roshi.
• Simpleton Voice: 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.
• Small Role, Big Impact: 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.
• Species Surname: His species is his only name.
• Suddenly Speaking: In a manner of speaking. Due to Kai's editing process, he didn't get to say anything until episode 58.
• Talking Animal: Though he talks less and less as the series goes on.

Kinto'un / Flying Nimbus

Kinto'un (筋斗雲, "Somersault Cloud")

Voiced by: N/A

A 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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• Big Damn Heroes: Just as Gohan is about to be curbstomped by Nappa, Kinto'un appears to carry him out of the way.
• The Bus Came Back: It makes a return in Super when Goku figures out a way to traverse Fortuneteller Baba's forest without attracting monsters with his ki.
• Character Death: 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.
• Companion Cube: To a degree, though unlike most examples, Kinto'un is actually alive. Goku and Gohan are very attached to it, nevertheless.
• Legacy Character: 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.
• Mundane Utility: 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.
• Secret Test of Character: 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, Arale, Upa, Gohan, Goten and Uub.
• Shout-Out: Kinto'un, alongside the Nyoibo (Power Pole), is one of the most visible holdovers from Dragon Ball's literary inspiration, Journey to the West.
• Super-Speed: 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.
• The Voiceless: It cannot speak, but it does express itself in other ways.

Oolong

Oolong (ウーロン, Uuron)

"Why did you have to go and tell me that, Bulma? You know that I'm highly allergic to danger."

Voiced by (Japanese): Naoki Tatsuta, Tesshō Genda (DB ep. 3, ogre form)
Voiced by (English): Brad Jackson (Most media), Mark Britten (Z Season 3; originally), Bryan Massey (Curse of the Blood Rubies, Kai Season 1-4, Super Universal Survival arc) (Funimation dub); Alec Willows (DB 1995, Z Seasons 1-2, The World's Strongest, Tree of Might Edited), Doug Parker (DB 1995, Most transformations), Ian James Corlett (DB 1995, handsome gentleman), Scott McNeil (Tree of Might Uncut), Richard Newman (Z Seasons 4-6), Corby Proctor (DB 2004) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Dave Mallow (mainly), Barry Stigler (Most transformations), Dan Woren (handsome 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)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Ernesto Lezama (current voice), Arturo Mercado (begins in ep. 60 Z, GT and Battle of the Gods)

Originally 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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• Accidental Truth: After dealing with Goku's Oozaru form, Oolong quips, "So what is he? Some kind of space alien?" Yup.
• Achilles' Heel: 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.)
• Adaptation Species Change: Oolong is a piggish human in the unofficial movie Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins.
• Age Lift: In the Japanese materials Oolong is treated more as Goku and Bulma's peer than a senior (one guidebook saying he's younger than Goku) and it reflects in his actor's voice. In English dubs, he usually sounds like a middle-aged man and speaks as if he's an adult from the start (calling Goku "kid" throughout the first arc, etc). This holds even with the more accurate translations in Kai and Super.
• Ascended Extra: 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.
• Big Damn Heroes: Oolong interrupted Pilaf's wish preventing Pilaf from becoming ruler of the world.
• "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: How Bulma gets him to join the adventure. She slips him a drug that acts as a laxative every time he hears whistling.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Often pissed himself in fear in the manga.
• Chekhov's Gag: 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.
• Chivalrous Pervert: At least he thinks of himself as chivalrous. The pervert part is completely accurate however.
• Composite Character: If you're familiar with Journey to the West, 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, 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".
• Deadpan Snarker: Mostly before he turns nicer.
• Demoted to Extra: 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 Combat Commentator lines here and there. Once the Saiyans show up, he's more or less out of the picture entirely.
• Didn't Think This Through: He gives Bulma and Goku drinks that knock them both out, even though he knew Yamcha was on the prowl after them all.
• Dirty Coward: Mostly in the earlier chapters of the series, especially before he considered Goku and the others as his true friends.
• Dirty Kid: He's a huge pervert either way, but in the Japanese version Oolong seems to have been equivalent to a teenager or younger when he first met Goku and Bulma. One of the guidebooks says he's three years younger than Goku, though it's not clear if pig men grow up as fast as humans. The English versions portays Oolong as a Dirty Old Man.
  Bulma: What kind of kid acts like a middle-aged pervert?
• Dub Name Change: Became "Mao Mao" in the Harmony Gold dub, presumably because of the Chinese uniform he originally wears. The BLT test pilot renamed him "Chester".
• Edible Theme Naming: With Puar, after tea.
• Exact Words: 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.
• Expy: One of the more obvious ones among the early characters, as he's the clear equivalent to Zhu Bajie (aka "Piggy") from Journey to the West in the group. Him being Demoted to Extra so badly marks when the plot stopped bearing any resemblances to Journey to the West.
• Hour of Power: In the unofficial Chinese Movie Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, Oolong (known as Piggy) can actually get stronger by transforming, and turns into Rambo.
• Hypocritical Humor: 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.
• Incompletely Trained: He took classes at the Shapeshifter Academy, but was expelled after 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.
• Informed Ability: His shapeshifting becomes this after Dragon Ball.
• Killed Offscreen: 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 shadowy terror of everyone's conversion into candy bars.
• Man, I Feel Like a Woman: 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.
• Messy Pig: He may be more mentally than physically messy, but he qualifies nonetheless.
• Non-Human Sidekick: The first of the series, before Yamcha pulled a Heel–Face Turn with Puar.
• Paper Tiger: 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.
• Perverted Pig: Oolong is dirty in mind if not in body.
• Pig Man: A walking, talking pig, and one of the first talking animals to play a big role.
• Spanner in the Works: He screwed Pilaf's wish for immortality by intervening.
• Smarter Than You Look: He's the only one who recognizes Chichi when She's All Grown Up. 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.
• Vague Age: Though he doesn't look any specific age, the Japanese version had Bulma calling him a "kid" early on, one of the guide books saying he's three years younger than Goku. This was essentially forgotten, as he continued to look identical for in-series decades and Daima ends up Retconning his young form to look completely different. That the English version made him much older was likely an accident from dubbing Z first.
• Voiced Differently in the Dub: Oolong's voice in Japanese is very high-pitched. Almost every English dub gives him a deep, craggling voice.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Oolong and Puar were classmates at the Shapeshifter Academy, due to dropping out earlier, Oolong can only hold his form for five minutes.

Puar

Puar (プーアル, Puuaru)

"Only a heartless soul would run and leave his friends behind. We're in this together."

Voiced by (Japanese): Naoko Watanabe
Voiced by (English): Monika Antonelli (All media before 2007), Brina Palencia (Budokai Tenkaichi 3 onwards) (Funimation dub); Kathy Morse (DB 1995), Cathy Weseluck (Z), Chris Simms (DB 2004) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Cheryl Chase (Harmony Gold dub); Jodi Forrest (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Cristina Camargo (DB, Z) , Jesús Barrero (DB epi. 5-60), Karen Vallejo (Kai), Desireé González (Kai: The Final Chapters), Isabel Martiñón (Super)

A 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.

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• Adaptation Species Change: He's a parrot in Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins.
• Ambiguous Gender: 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.
• Becoming the Mask: 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.
• Black Bead Eyes: In the same vein as Upa, who he tag-teams with during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga.
• Cute Kitten: Just look at his picture!
• Demoted to Extra: Puar went from shapeshifting into items and animals in the original series to only being Yamcha's friend in Z, and Yamcha's own eventual demotion to a background character only made this worse.
• Dub Name Change: 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.
• Evil Counterpart: Seemingly to Oolong in the beginning, except Puar was ironically more moral!
• Faint in Shock: 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.
• Flight: Puar can inexplicably fly.
• Informed Ability: Like Oolong, Puar doesn't use his shapeshifting abilities after the original series until Dragon Ball Super where he uses it to turn into Beerus.
• Killed Offscreen: 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 Shadow Discretion Shot of him and Yamcha being changed (they're the last to be eaten).
• Non-Human Sidekick: To Yamcha during their bandit days.
• Satellite Character: Puar is mostly important in relation to Yamcha.
• Right-Hand Cat: To Yamcha during his bandit days, though more sympathetic than most.
• Talking Animal: Puar is less anthropomorphic than Oolong.
• Theme Naming: With Oolong, after tea.
• Undying Loyalty: To Yamcha, even refers to him as "Master" in some dubs.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: 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.

Lunch/Launch

Lunch/Launch (ランチ, Ranchi)

Voiced by (Japanese): Mami Koyama (Most media), Tomiko Suzuki (Z Episode 285), Mayumi Tanaka (Kai: The Final Chapters)
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), Kara Edwards (Z Episode 285, good), Colleen Clinkenbeard (Kai: TFC, good) (Funimation dub); Onalea Gilbertson (DB, both) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Edie Mirman (Harmony Gold dub); Jodi Forrest (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Cristina Camargo

Minor 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 Akira Toriyama decided to write her out).

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Both

• The Bus Came Back: She reappears in Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! after she unceremoniously left to find Tien in the original manga and only made brief cameos in Z-filler. Strangely, she's reverted to her original series design rather than the aged design featured at the end of Z.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: 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, this is because Toriyama decided to write her out, and later he wrongly thought he forgot about her.
• Continuity Cameo:
  • Near the end of Z when you can see her lifting her hands up in the air to give energy to Goku's Spirit Bomb.
  • In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Launch appears alongside the rest of the Z-Fighters eating dinner at Satan's dinner party in Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!.
• Demoted to Extra: 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.
• Dub Name Change: From Lunch to Launch in the English dub.
• Edible Theme Naming: Named after a meal in a story where many characters are named after food and teas.
• Forehead of Doom: You can see how huge her forehead is because her hair doesn't cover it.
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Good Lunch has Tareme Eyes, Bad Lunch has Tsurime Eyes.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Her name has been both spelled as "Lunch" in the manga, but the English versions of the anime call her "Launch".
• Jekyll & Hyde: Her Jekyll is Good Lunch while her Hyde is Bad Lunch.
• Killed Offscreen: 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.
• Ms. Fanservice: She wears revealing clothes and a lot of other characters find her attractive, particularly Master Roshi.
• Only One Name: Like many others in the series, she doesn't have a surname.
• Out of Focus: She was hit particularly hard with this — she didn't even get Put on a Bus, 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.
• Put on a Bus: 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 In the manga, she was put on a bus after the DB portion and remains absent for the rest of the series.
• Riddle for the Ages: What exactly causes Lunch to change personalities and even hair color upon sneezing is never explained. Is it the result of some natural part of her? Is the result of some sort of curse? Is it a split personality or more like 2 beings sharing one body? Regardless, it's not said. Good Lunch is shown to be aware of Bad Lunch and even has a vague recollection of her bad side's actions, but whether the opposite is true is also never shown.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Lunch has only ever had eyes for Tien, it was impossible that she'd move on.
• Split Personality: One half's a sweet blunette and the other's a hot-tempered blonde.
• Split-Personality Makeover: Good Lunch is blue-haired, while Bad Lunch is blonde.
• Split-Personality Switch Trigger: The blue-haired and gentle Lunch turns into her blonde and violent other personality and back whenever she sneezes.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Played for Laughs: 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.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl:
  • Good Lunch is Girly Girl, Bad Lunch is Tomboy.
  • 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.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: 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.

Good Lunch

• The Ditz: She's very kind to everyone she meets, but she can be woefully ignorant of her surroundings.
• Fanservice with a Smile: 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.
• The Ingenue: Her innocent persona is pure of heart as she is quite capable of riding the Flying Nimbus with Goku in the anime.
• Lethal Chef: 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.
• Nice Girl: She is sweet and pure-hearted, and one of the people who can ride the nimbus.
• Non-Action Guy: Compared to her blonde self, Blue Launch is simply too soft to raise a hand to anyone, which means she's a Damsel in Distress if any enemies come around.
• Out of Focus: Due to her passive attitude and lack of action capability, she ends up getting much less of development compared to her blonde counterpart.
• Parental Substitute: She was the closest thing to a mother figure that Goku had as a child.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: She's sweet and kind to others and is very shy.
• Team Mom: 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.
• The Team Normal: 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.

Bad Lunch

• Accent Adaptation: The old Harmony Gold dub and the Blue Water dub give her a rough southern drawl. Funimation by contrast gives her a thick New Jersey accent which tends to fade in and out depending on the production, though her actress in Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle did not give her any noticeable accent (neither did AB Groupe's dubs).
• Action Girl: 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.
• All Amazons Want Hercules: Bad Lunch has the hots for Tenshinhan after being smitten with his power in battle.
• Anti-Hero: Bad Lunch could be an Unscrupulous Hero or even a Nominal Hero at times.
• Ax-Crazy: Bad Lunch is a gun-crazy kleptomaniac. However, she does get several levels of kindness added to her character as time goes on.
• Badass Normal: 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.
• Berserk Button: She has several, including but not limited to: Roshi's perversion and anyone getting between her and Tien.
• Blood Knight: 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.
• Character Development: 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 The Dreaded.
• Deep South: Her accent is lightly southern in the Blue Water dub. She also has a heavier variation in the Harmony Gold dub.
• The Dreaded: Mostly Played for Laughs, 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 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.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Her reaction to Tien's death, she's found drinking in a bar as the news reports the death toll.
• Everyone Has Standards: Bad Lunch may be a trigger happy lunatic, but she's still disgusted by the atrocities King Piccolo commits (aside from briefly mentioning that she'd sort of like a lawless world without reproach).
• Expy: Launch's bad form was based on Polly Buckets, a character from Doctor Slump (Toriyama's precedent work).
• Good Is Not Nice: She eventually becomes this instead of evil, still being a gun-toting gal with disregard for the law.
• The Gunslinger: When she loses her temper, people will get shot. Good thing most of the cast is bulletproof.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Inverted. Her blue-haired form has a pure heart of gold while her blond form is an Anti-Hero.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: She is an angry, trigger-happy woman.
• Heel–Face Turn: 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.
• Hopeless Suitor: Bad Lunch has a massive crush on Tien, who is typically shown as not being at least romantically receptive. Unfortunately for Lunch, the two are not shown to be together in any Dragon Ball media.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Bad Lunch's crush stemmed from Tien's ruthless fighting style.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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.
• Joisey: Her accent in the Funimation dubs.
• More Dakka: 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.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: 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.
• One-Man Army: Impressively, Bad Launch is more than enough to wipe the floor with the grunts of the Red Ribbon Army without breaking a sweat.
• Pet the Dog: 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 Side Bet. In Z, she kidnapped the finest chefs in the world just so she could create a world-class meal for Tien and Chaotzu.
• Reformed Criminal: She sometimes says she wants to rob banks and such, but aside from her introduction she's never seen actually doing so.
• Sneeze Cut: Bad Lunch was about to attack King Piccolo, but Bulma whispers something about her, and she sneezes and turns back.
• Sociopathic Hero: Bad Lunch, though she begins to soften in the back half of the Red Ribbon Army arc.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: She wears outfits like this.
• Token Evil Teammate: 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 True Companions.
• Took a Level in Kindness: 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.

Icarus

Icarus (ハイヤードラゴン, Haiyaa Doragon, "Higher Dragon")

Voiced by (Japanese): Naoki Tatsuta
Voiced by (English): Christopher Sabat (Funimation dub); Doug Parker (Z Movie 3), Don Brown (Z Season 4) (Ocean dub); Jodi Forrest (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): José Arenas

A baby dragon that befriended Gohan after Gohan rescued him from a forest fire.

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• Canon Foreigner: He was created for The Tree of Might and made subsequent appearances in Lord Slug and Cooler's Revenge, all of which are Non Serial Movies, and later appeared in anime-only filler episodes.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He completely disappears after the "driving episode" of Dragon Ball Z (the last episode before the debut of the Androids). Goten mentions him at one point whilst playing with an animal out in the forest (English dub only) during the beginning of the Majin Buu saga, which seems to suggest Icarus, like many pets, died a few years before (or ran away, but which seems unlikely given its bond to Gohan).
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In The Tree of Might he actually attacks Shen Long. Fortunately, Gohan saves Haiya Dragon from the counter-attack.
• Dragon Rider: Gohan rides him sometimes, despite having a higher flight speed on his own. This is actually justified in one special: as Gohan would have been detected immediately if he used enough energy to fly, riding on Icarus allowed him to travel a great distance without being found out. Giving the dragon a Senzu Bean later boosted his energy levels high enough for a scouter to pick up. Whoops.
• Dub Name Change: His Japanese name is Haiya (or Higher) Dragon. The only English dub to keep the original name was Ocean's uncut version of The Tree of Might.
• Expy: The producers of the The Tree of Might took inspiration from Taxi Dragon from Doctor Slump.
• Meaningful Name: He was named after the Greek mythology character named Icarus, who had wax wings and flew too close to the sun.
• Morality Pet: In The Tree of Might, he calms Oozaru Gohan after he goes berserk and attacks his own father.
• No Name Given: The original French dub of Z, as usual.
• Non-Human Sidekick: To Gohan in the movie and in the Garlic Jr. filler arc.
• Undying Loyalty: To Gohan, even in his Great Ape form.

Bee

Voiced by (Japanese): Tomiko Suzuki (Z), Masami Suzuki (Kai and Super)
Voiced by (English): Tabitha St. Germain (Ocean dub); Christopher Bevins (Funimation dub)

Mr. Satan and Fat Buu's pet dog.

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• Canine Companion: Mr. Satan's loyal but friendly dog. He is also Fat Buu's pet dog and second best friend.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: As Super Buu is about to absorb Piccolo and Gotenks, Bee is quick to detect the disturbance and starts yelping. If only Piccolo had been paying attention with those ears of his.
• Morality Pet: To Fat Buu. Like Mr. Satan, Bee helps Fat Buu see what is right and wrong and brings out his inner goodness. Satan himself is shown patting the pup's head in a few filler segments after Super Buu wipes out most of humanity, subtly showcasing how the otherwise vain and pompous world champ has his softer side.
• Theme Naming: Following the pattern of Mr. Satan's family, Bee likely gets his name from the Hell prince of gluttony himself Beelzebub. Makes sense when you consider Buu's appetite.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He only makes a cameo in a photograph during GT and is otherwise nowhere to be found, though it could be he simply passed from old age.

Giru

Giru (ギル)

Voiced by (Japanese): Shinobu Satouchi
Voiced by (English): Sonny Strait (Funimation dub); Nathan Simpson (Blue Water dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Luis Daniel Ramírez
Voiced by (Brazilian Portuguese): Sílvio Giraldi

"I'm T2006, but you can call me Giru!"

A walking Robot Buddy who, after eating the Dragon Radar, became a walking radar itself. Giru is an exclusive character from GT.

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• Badass Adorable: Despite being a little robot sidekick who never gets involved in the fights, he managed to single-handedly take down a giant antlion monster when this one was attacking an exhausted Pan. In Dragon Ball Heroes, he's even a fighter character.
• Butt-Monkey: He frequently receives verbal and physical abuse from Pan.
• Character Catchphrase: Giru has to yell "Danger! Danger! Pan! Danger!" when he's... well, in danger.
• Death Is Cheap: Giru has been killed three times during GT, but comes back without a problem thanks to being a robot.
• Dub Name Change: The German localization changed his serial number from DB4649T2006RS to DD4649T22006RS, changing the B to another D and adding another 2 in-between.
• Fake Defector: After arriving on Planet M2, it's revealed that Giru was working for General Rilldo and the rest of the bad guys all along. Except it turns out he wasn't and that he was working for the good guys, by deceiving Rilldo and the Machine Mutants.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: Giru is the first Machine Mutant who manages to defy his programming and rebels against his creator.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Giru, Gill, Gil. Several dubs use either of those spellings.
• The Little Detecto: He ate the Dragon Radar, so only he can track the Black Star Dragon Balls.
• Mechanical Lifeform: Giru is classed as a Machine Mutant, a species of artificially created mechanical beings, but are all considered alive and with a lifeforce.
• Metal Muncher: He can eat anything made of metal, and he ends up having to tag along with the heroes after consuming the Dragon Radar.
• Overly Long Name: His serial number is DB4649T2006RS. The inhabitants of Planet M2 all call him by that serial number.
• Power Copying: In a sense, he can integrate devices into himself and copy their functions, as shown with the Dragon Radar.
• Punny Name: His name seems to be a pun on the Japanese pronunciation of "gear." As in, those things machines have, get it?
• Red Alert: He often gives off warnings whenever he detects danger.
• Robot Buddy: A small robot who became best friends with Pan.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: Giru has a tendency to become incapacitated whenever the Big Bad of the saga rears its ugly head.
• Undying Loyalty: To Pan. The fact he could counter-attack her (as evidenced by his fight with the giant desert monster), but chooses to tolerate her abuse of him says a lot.
• Verbal Tic Name: Giru, who has a tendency to say "Giru Giru Giru!". He initially introduces himself as T2006, which prompts Goku and co. to rename him after his verbal tic simply because it's easier.

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