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Character subpage for Mr. Satan (also known as Hercule.)

!!Mr. Satan (ミスター・サタン, ''Misutaa Satan'') / Hercule ([[DubNameChange English dub only]]) / Mark (マーク, ''Maaku'')
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->'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/DaisukeGori, Creator/UnshoIshizuka (''Kai'', ''Xenoverse'', and ''Super''), Creator/MasashiEbara (''Kakarot'' onward)
->'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/ChrisRager (Creator/FUNimation dub); Don Brown (''Z''), Dave Pettit (''GT'') (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Paul Bandey (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub); Creator/JamiesonPrice (Bang Zoom!/Toonami Asia dub of ''Super'')
->'''Voiced by (Latin American Spanish):''' Roberto Sen (''Z'', eps. 173-219 except ep. 200), Mario Sauret (''Z'', episode 200), Rodolfo Vargas (''Z'', eps. 224-234), Ricardo Brust (''Z'', eps. 243-291, ''GT'' and Movies), Bardo Miranda (''Kai'' and ''Super'')
-> '''Voiced by (French):''' Frédéric Bouraly and Antoine Nouel (''GT'')
-> '''Voiced by (Italian):''' Riccardo Lombardo

-->''"Don't you worry about me! I'm a master of martial arts and I'm also packin' some serious heat!"''

A human who became the World Martial Arts Tournament champion while Goku and the others were busy with their own things. At first, introduced as a pompous loudmouth who thought of all the energy ball throwing and flying as "tricks". He slowly but surely, however, manages to prove his worth near the end of the series.
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* HundredPercentHeroismRating: As the [[FakeUltimateHero hero who defeated Cell]], he's beloved the world over from the Cell Saga onwards. Orange Star City was renamed after him, the entire World Martial Arts Tournament centers around him to the point he can skip the elimination round, something no other champion before him could do, and gets military support by just asking. It really shines during the fight with Kid Buu; the people of Earth ignore Goku and Vegeta's pleas for their energy to fuel the Spirit Bomb and refuse to help them, but they almost immediately change their tune when Mr. Satan steps in and yells at them to cooperate.
* AdaptationalBadass: In some of the fighting game entries, he is able to to head toe to toe with many of the series' casts, including Frieza and Cell. This is actually the basis of his story mode in ''Budokai'' where he defeats the Z-Fighters and Cell at the Cell games.
* AerithAndBob: His real name is Mark. Despite it doubling as a 'devil' pun in Japanese (see AllThereInTheManual) it's among the real given names in the series.
* AccidentalHero: A long term example. He took credit for beating Cell purely for his own ego, and it led to him getting worshiped as a hero. This ends up what helps Goku defeat Buu, as the people of Earth were hesitant about giving him their energy for the Spirit Bomb until Mr. Satan spoke up.
* ActionSurvivor: Before being killed in Frieza's destruction of the Earth in ''Resurrection 'F''' (the movie and the ''Dragon Ball Super'' saga), he was one of the few characters to not have died in the series ''at all'', even if it was rendered null by the time rewind. In the ''Shin Budokai'' games, it's shown that his Future counterpart even survived the Android genocide.
* AintTooProudToBeg: In the anime version of the Buu saga, he makes a martial art out of this. It's so effective, he manages to pull a YouShallNotPass on Kid Buu until Kid Buu, in disgust, spits out Fat Buu and the two Buus then go and fight each other. Goku is impressed with the former, and Vegeta is pleasantly surprised with the latter, coming as close to praising Mr. Satan as he's come to praising ''anyone'' at that point in time.
* AscendedExtra: Goes from a one-note joke at the end of the Cell saga to become one of the main characters (and eventually one of the Z-Fighters) in the Buu saga.
* AttentionWhore: Oh, big time. Note however that [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this actually works in the heroes' favor,]] helping to maintain TheMasquerade by claiming responsibility for acts of world-saving or alternately garnering public support for the otherwise unknown heroes. The world has never heard of Goku or Vegeta or even Krillin, but they ''have'' heard of Mr. Satan, and will follow his orders without question.
* BadassNormal: He won the World Martial Arts tournament fairly several times. He just lives in a world where humans with knowledge of supernatural martial arts have the power to survive the impact of bullets, and they're the weakest of the bunch. He's even brave enough that he jumps at the chance to be on the Universe 7 team for the Tournament of Power before changing his mind after realizing how out of his league he would be.
* BadassOnPaper: Top non-super martial artist, check. Yet even without powers like Goku and his friends he's helped save the universe ''thrice''. Granted, never by winning a fight against real threats, but that's not the only way to be a hero. Goku is even aware of this, and considers him and not [[ButtMonkey Yamcha]] for the last member of the U7 team, though warning that the tournament will involve lots of strong opponents. Mr. Satan declines knowing the kind of people in the tournament would run out even his incredible luck quickly.
* BatmanGrabsAGun: {{Parodied}} in the Buu arc. Despite knowing how futile it is to attack Buu with conventional weaponry (he saw for himself that a large bomb detonation had [[NoSell no effect on Buu at all]]), he still treats his regular .45 handgun as his regrettable trump card. He foolishly tries to shoot down Super Buu and his huge energy blast. Both times, [[BigDamnHeroes someone else coincidentally steps in (first Tenshinhan, then Goku)]] [[IdiotHero and Mr. Satan is left thinking that his gun was what did the damage.]]
* BecomingTheMask: At first he only pretended to be Fat Buu's friend so he could get close enough to kill him. It wasn't until Fat Buu's HeelFaceTurn (and seeming inability to be killed) that he became friends with him for real.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: PlayedForLaughs. With all the people cheering for him, he has a tendency to get swept up in the moment and actually believe he can take on the likes of Cell and Majin Buu before he remembers that no, he really can't.
* BestFriendsInLaw: He and Goku become FireForgedFriends near the end of the Buu saga, and their daughter and son respectively end up becoming husband and wife.
* BigEgoHiddenDepths:
** He truly believes that he is ''the'' strongest person in the world, which is why he challenges Cell. Even after proving outmatched time and time again, he still remains a boastful idiot who buys into his own hype. At the same time, he truly cares for the safety of the Earth and its people to the point of refusing to obey Vegeta when he demands all their energy to make the Spirit Bomb stronger, even when knowing that would risk their lives. His ego also becomes more manageable after he becomes friends with Goku, and he uses his fame to help them in various ways. In ''Super'', he receives an enormous cash prize for protecting the world, and he immediately (though privately) gives it to Goku, since he knows that Goku is the one who actually deserves it (well, that and he's filthy rich anyway, he doesn't need any more money).
** One moment in ''Super'' shows that where the family is concerned, he's the only person other than Bulma and Videl that will stand up to Chi-Chi. Gohan tried to break them up before a fist fight broke out when they started arguing about his roughhousing with Pan and if Pan should learn martial arts. While Mr. Satan may have lost the battle by being locked out of the house with Gohan, he won the war because in End of Z, [[ForegoneConclusion Pan chose to become like her grandfathers.]]
* BoisterousBruiser: His taunts sound less like those of the martial artist he is and more like those of the 80s pro wrestler he looks like.
* BoisterousWeakling: He is very strong for a normal human and has survived things that would've killed most people. However, he's laughably weak compared to any villain in ''Z'' and he isn't smart enough to realize this, challenging both Cell ''and'' Buu. Thankfully, he gets better after making friends with Goku and learns his place on the power scale.
* BornLucky: He's one of the few characters to survive ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' without being revived once, and manages to keep up his FakeUltimateHero persona despite the fact that doing so stretches any credibility. In fact, the ''only'' time he's died was during ''Resurrection of F'' and its retelling in ''Super'', when Frieza blew up the Earth - and even in that case, it was only because he was asleep at the time.
* BrilliantButLazy: By normal human standards at least. It's implied that's he grown weaker since the Cell games, owing to his reputation as the Earth's savior going to his head, and it's shown that he didn't even bother training at all for the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament, yet he still scores considerably above that of the average contestant during the qualifier testing.
* BumblingDad: To Videl's chagrin, he serves as the comic relief and can be very goofy at times.
* ButtMonkey: He's usually a victim of ''a lot'' of AmusingInjuries.
* CannotKeepASecret: In episode 73 of ''Super'', he nearly reveals to a popular idol who is one of his costars in the "''Great Saiyaman vs. Mr. Satan''" movie that Gohan is the real Great Saiyaman, but Videl stops him and tells him that Gohan neither wants the fame nor would he find it helpful. The same costar [[spoiler:ended up finding out about it anyway, though not from Mr. Satan]].
* TheCasanova: Ever since his wife's death and his subsequent rise to martial arts stardom, Mr. Satan became a hedonistic womanizer, much to the annoyance of his daughter Videl. This is the main reason she doesn't have a problem with Gohan and the others bringing him down a peg or two.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** When Mr. Satan was first introduced, he was a ManipulativeBastard, FakeUltimateHero, DirtyCoward, and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Jerk with Good Publicity]]. However, when he honored 16's last request by throwing his head close enough to speak to Gohan, even when doing so put him at great personal risk (16 prodded his ego a bit, but still), this directly led to the world being saved via 16 giving Gohan an ObiWanMoment. In a way, he really ''did'' save the world in the Cell Games (though he took all credit for beating Cell). This revealed his tendencies as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, TheSoCalledCoward, and ClassicalAntiHero, which became his defining features throughout the Buu saga.
** As time has gone on and he's become further integrated into the Dragon Team, he's shown himself to be more humble and appreciative of their powers and heroics underneath all of his grandstanding, going out of his way to [[KarmicJackpot grant them their due]] for all they've done. In the OVA ''Anime/DragonBallYoSonGokuAndHisFriendsReturn'', he treats the entire gang to a feast at the hotel being built in his honor for supposedly beating Buu. Later, in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', he's being handed a World Peace Prize and one-hundred million zeni, but immediately starts offering the money to Vegeta, who turns it down, then to Goku, who Goten convinces to accept. Also, he built Gohan and Videl a house.[[note]]Though that may be more because they're his future son-in-law and his daughter respectively, but even then he was shown to have a criteria for guys dating Videl, which the kid who actually beat Cell clearly qualifies for.[[/note]] Not bad for a guy who once shamelessly took all the credit for killing Cell while calling the real heroes fakes thinking he'd never see them again.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: While he's nowhere near Z-Fighter tier in this regard, it is still worth noting that in his first appearance, he pulled ''four'' buses behind him, tore a phone book in half while towing them and then punched a hole through one of the buses.
* ClassicalAntiHero: As odd as it may sounds for a character like him. He tries to be an IdealHero to the citizens of Earth and everyone, save for the Z-Fighters, sees him as the savior of the universe. Truth is, Mr. Satan is an unapologetic GloryHound who stole credit for killing Cell from Gohan. He is more often than not scared of fighting anyone stronger than him and will bribe others to throw fights so he can keep his reputation. At the same time, he does have a noble heart and will fight to protect others, even if it means risking his own life. He helps Goku and Vegeta kill Kid Buu by using his heroic status to get the people of Earth to loan energy for the Spirit Bomb.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: For Fat Buu in ''Dragon Ball Super''. Satan will call Buu out when he's starting to go overboard and has ways to distract him if the situation needs it.
* CoolOldGuy: Has a good relationship with Pan in ''GT''.
* CowardlyLion:
** May not have the courage of a hero, but he certainly has the ''heart'' of one. His willingness to do good in spite of his cowardice and incompetence is enough to earn ''Piccolo's'' respect and approval as the "True Champion of the World." The few times the bad guys he's fighting are normal (but dangerously armed) criminals instead of superhuman monsters, he [[CurbStompBattle effortlessly beats them down.]] And during the final showdown of the Buu Saga, he actually musters the balls to attack Kid Buu head-on; it doesn't work and almost kills him, but hey, points for trying. He also saves Vegeta's life by carrying him away from a distracted Kid Buu, giving Goku the perfect opening to throw the Spirit Bomb.
** He also tries to replace Majin Buu for the Tournament of Power before realizing that he wouldn't be helpful. Goku would have taken him along if he had wanted to come because he still has massive respect for him after he saved the world from Kid Buu.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Yes, ''really''. As shown in a flashback, he delivered one to Spopovich during one of the World Martial Arts Tournaments, effortlessly dodging all his moves before kicking him ''once'' so hard he's sent flying out of the ring. To note, Spopovich physically dwarfed him. And ''that's'' how he became the champion of the world while Goku and the rest of the Z Warriors were out.
** When the two guys shoot Bee, he loses it and kicks the crap out of them. It takes one hit each.
** ''Fusion Reborn'' sees him curbstomp an army of zombies singlehandedly. In general, if he's pitted against anyone that's ''not'' superhuman, he'll make short work of them.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Not related to his personality or power level, but the way other characters react to him may depending on whether it's a Toriyama written scene or a Toei written one. Toriyama has the other characters think of him with disdain, while Toei may have characters the same characters randomly think better of him. It's at its most noticeable with Dende and Old Kaioshin, where Dende is shown to be honored to meet him in one Toei written scene, and clearly is just annoyed with him whenever a scene from the manga is adapted. Old Kaioshin is more extreme, in episode 278, when Dende says that Kaioshins are huge deal as gods, Satan is dismissive of them and wonders why they didn't just defeat Buu, and Old Kaioshin comments Satan is not easy to like, and later ''in the same episode'' he shows amusement when seeing Satan thinking Earth being destroyed is just a dream and he tries to fly, only to fail. In the next episode when Shin mentions he forgot to teleport Satan with them, Old Kaioshin is quickly dismissive of him. In episode 282 when Old Kaioshin says Satan being killed wouldn't be much of a loss, in the manga Shin agrees with him, but in the anime Shin defends him since he's the last living human.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: When a large number of participants drop out of the tournament, Mister Satan suggests that they make a Battle Royale. Shortly after the assistant mentions that since he is the champion, it is most likely that the other four fighters will join forces to defeat him, with Satan realizing too late the mistake he made. (Luckily for him, two of the fighters were 18 and the children, who had no interest in him)
* DiscoDan: In a way, Mr. Satan actually would have been right at home with all the other [[LargeHam hammy martial artists]] if he had been introduced earlier in the series. Unfortunately, he arrives several arcs too late and now has to contend with Super Saiyans, Androids and genetically-engineered freaks.
* DontTryThisAtHome: Gives this warning before trying stunts on live television. Having a daughter who ''does'' try and imitate him, he warns the parents to make sure the children won't try it.
* DotingParent: He absolutely ''adores'' his little girl Videl.
* DotingGrandparent: He similarly dotes on his granddaughter Pan and hopes that she would follow in his footsteps as a martial artist. He's even willing to stand up to Chi-Chi when she opposes this, something that not even [[HenpeckedHusband Goku would do]].
* DubNameChange:
** One of the most notorious examples of this in ''Dragon Ball'', "Mr. Satan" became "Hercule" in the English dub to [[{{Bowdlerise}} avoid the obvious controversy]] having a character named "Satan" in a kids' show would have caused. The uncut English [=DVDs=] switch back to "Mr. Satan", but also try to retcon "Hercule" into being his first name.
** The Filipino dub goes completely out-of-whack and renames him "Master Pogi" (literally, "Master Handsome", which hardly fits his appearance).
** Strangely averted in the Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese dubs (considering most Latin American countries are very Catholic) which kept the name and the crowds cheerfully chanting "Satan! Satan!" This is probably due to the usual term to refer to the Devil in the region being "Satan''ás''", "Satán" being a little less common. The Brazilian Portuguese dub also changed the stress of pronunciation from "satÁn" (usual pronuntiation in Spanish and Portuguese) to "sÁtan".[[note]]As an additional cultural note, in Latin America, especially in Mexico, the country from which the series was dubbed in Spanish, there's no shortage of MMA fighters and wrestlers (normally heels/rudos) with more outrageous nicknames or arena names than "Mr. Satan", so the Latin American audiences wouldn't find such a name offensive or religiously insensitive.[[/note]]
** Some toys released in the US before Funimation dubbed his episodes used the name Mr. Savage.
** Many think the name "Hercule" originates from the French localization, which was one of the first dubs produced for the series. However, his name wasn't changed because of religious reasons, but because there was already another character called Satan in the dub -- Piccolo.
** The Viz manga calls him Hercule, but does mention that he was formerly known as Mr. Satan.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He may be an unapologetic GloryHound who takes every opportunity to relish in the spotlight, but even he finds the Cell Games Reenactment embarrassingly cheesy (even if the general public likes it).
* {{Expy}}:
** Seems to be based on John Keehan, aka [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dante "Count Dante"]], a real-life martial artist huckster from the 1960s and '70s. Aside from the Satan/Dante name pun, he was known for claiming to be "the most dangerous man on earth", having distinctive facial hair and hairstyle (same as Mr. Satan's), and even wearing a cape.
** His voice in the English dub is a spot-on pastiche of '80s era wrestlers like Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/RandySavage.
* TheFace: He effectively becomes this to the heroes on Earth following his CharacterDevelopment. He's the one Z-Fighter who, despite being without any actual superpowers, the citizens almost universally trust, so he uses that trust to rally them behind the likes of Goku and the others, who do the rest of the actual work. This arrangement saves the world on more than one occasion.
* FakeUltimateHero: The public believes that he saved the world twice, first from Cell and then Majin Buu. Granted, he is still a decent and kind-hearted man (...after some CharacterDevelopment) who ''genuinely'' wants to make the world a better place; he has the ''heart'' of a true warrior, if nothing else. Subverted at the very last minute, when he does legitimately save the world! However, he's really only a FakeUltimateHero because he's in a world where he's OvershadowedByAwesome. When we do see him take on ''normal'', but still legitimately dangerous people, he beats the tar out of them. The heroes actually ''exploit'' this. They don't want the attention and he gets to keep his popularity, which has actually ''helped'' them in the past, so it's kind of a win/win.
* FamedInStory: He's a FakeUltimateHero who's lucky to survive the stuff he puts himself through, but to the people of Earth he's their greatest champion and savior. They named a city after him, the entire World Martial Tournament centers around him to the point he can skip the elimination round, something no other champion before him could do, and gets military support with just asking. His fame does comes in handy during the final story arc.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Mr. Satan's daughter is named Videl, which is an anagram of "Devil". However, according to Toriyama in the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Super Exciting Guide: Character Volume]]'', Mr. Satan is just a stage name; his real name is Mark. In Japanese, the name (Maaku) becomes an anagram for Akuma (Devil/demon), thus continuing the family's supernatural naming convention. Likewise, his late wife, Miguel, has a name that means an Archangel (and Lucifer was an Archangel before his fall).
* FirstFriend: Mr. Satan of all people would become this to Fat Buu. Before meeting him, Buu killed and destroyed because Bibidi and Babidi told him to, and that's all he knew what to do even after their deaths. Mr. Satan, despite originally intending to kill him, gets a first glimpse to Buu's innocence when he sees how gently Buu played with the dog who would be named Bee (who never ran away from Buu out of gratitude for healing him), causing him to suspect that Buu can change. His suspicions are confirmed when he learns of Buu's reasons for destroying everything around him and convinces him to stop, and their friendship would bring out the best in both of them as they contribute to destroying Kid Buu and becoming great allies to the Z-Fighters.
* FiveStagesOfGrief: Namely denial. After Buu destroys the Earth and he meets the Supreme Kais, he decides that the entire arc must be a dream and that he made Buu up from the beginning since [[CassandraTruth pink men and purple guys with pointy ears don't exist despite what Dende says]]. This being Satan, it's PlayedForLaughs.
* FlashStep: Despite being a normal human, he does this when Van Zant has him at gunpoint. Van Zant ''does'' manage to shoot him afterwards, but it was mainly on reflex and threw off Zant's aim enough to avoid an instantly fatal shot, saving his life.
* FlatEarthAtheist: For the longest time he absolutely refuses to acknowledge chi techniques are real, dismissing them as trickery no matter how often he gets demonstrations of them right in front of his face. He only gives in once his own daughter starts flying around.
* FriendToAllChildren: Although [[KidHero Trunks]] was soundly out of his league anyway, he'd planned to throw the match against the Junior Division of the World Martial Arts Tournament from the beginning. He also comforts some of the losing children of the kids tournament when they start to get upset. It should be noted that unlike when he wanted to flaunt his strength with the punch machine for the press cameras and internally monologued about how he hated that the cameras were destroyed, Mr. Satan did not even think about that when helping the kids. The closest he gets to panicking about his image in relation to this is when he panics over how strong Trunks is.
%%* FunnyAfro: Befitting his character and attitude. It contrasts with the standard ShonenHair looks rocked by the protagonists.
* GlorySeeker: Seems to be his initial reason for challenging Cell in the Cell Games, although he does legitimately want to save the planet as well, so there's a bit of win-win there.
* GoodParents: Despite being overprotective towards Videl, he ''adores'' her and his eventual grandchild, Pan, as well. He also is a good father-in-law to Gohan after his initial misgivings, helping to finance him and Videl and generally helping them out wherever possible.
* GoThroughMe: In perhaps his most selfless act, Mr. Satan shields the unconscious Fat Buu with his own body and begs Vegeta not to kill him. While Vegeta explains the logical risks of keeping Buu alive and threatens to kill him too if he doesn't step aside, Mr. Satan stubbornly clings onto Buu nonetheless. Thankfully, [[AllLovingHero Goku]] steps in to call Vegeta off, reasoning that they all owe their gratitude to Mr. Satan and Buu for their help.
* GuileHero: Mr Satan is a buffoon, but he isn't stupid. He tries to kill Fat Buu with a whole assortment of sneaky tricks and explosives (they fail but props for trying), before genuinely befriending him. He's also vital in the final battle against Kid Buu, where he uses his PopularityPower to give a MotivationalLie to ''all of planet Earth,'' requesting that the give "him" their power to help finish Goku's Spirit Bomb.
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
** He just isn't able to keep up with his superpowered allies and family (even Videl, his similarly human daughter, is stronger than he is). That said, what he ''does'' have is his massive popularity around the world, which he willingly uses to aid Goku and the others when he realizes that he's no match for whatever threat is happening at the time.
** Goku has an extremely high opinion of him after seeing how hard he fought against Kid Buu. It's enough to make him consider taking him along to the Tournament of Power before Mr. Satan realized he would only be a burden to them.
** A literal version is his "defeat" of Fat Buu - he convinced Buu to pull a HeelFaceTurn by befriending him. Keep in mind that up to that point, Buu was an invincible juggernaut who could take out a Super Saiyan 2 with one blow and who even Super Saiyan 3 Goku couldn't really hurt (though neither of them were fighting seriously). This even saves the heroes indirectly later, as Super Buu agrees to wait an hour because of Fat Buu's [[RestrainingBolt influence]] when Videl asked ([[SuperSenses he smelled Videl]] and recognized her as Satan's daughter). Piccolo thinks his heart is a much more valuable ability than Vegeta's power.
--->'''Piccolo:''' Mr. Satan was the one man Boo ever trusted. While we were trying in vain to crush him with sheer power, Mr. Satan chose to befriend him. Although his motives were... strategic, of course. As proof, Boo just wiped out humanity... but left Mr. Satan alive. Even after becoming this [[SuperpoweredEvilSide beast of destruction]]. Your father may not have the strength he claims... but he does deserve his title of "Champion of Earth."
** His popularity and skill at working a crowd are ''very'' useful in a world where the [[CombinedEnergyAttack Spirit]] [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Bomb]] exists.
* HeroesLoveDogs: He and Buu adopt Bee, a random puppy that served as Buu's MoralityPet. After Buu's evil side takes over, Mr. Satan protects the dog from the carnage that ensues. Bee lives a long, healthy life in Mr. Satan's care, as we see him fully aged at the end of the manga, after the TimeSkip.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Fat Buu. The two become close friends throughout the Buu saga, and end up being roommates and life-long friends thereafter.
* HiddenDepths:
** It's been implied that he has a significantly weaker WeirdnessCensor than the rest of the world. For example, he does recognize Piccolo's resemblance to the Demon King Piccolo (Piccolo's father[=/=]past life) in ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai''[='=]s Legend of Hercule mode (which is, while non-canon, set after a point where the entire world just forgot about Ki as a concept). In the main series, his internal monologues show that he can accurately gauge when someone is clearly stronger than him, but he can never let the mask of bravado slip in public.
** Despite being rich enough to afford his own chef and numerous other servants to take care of his home, during his time living with Majin Buu, it's revealed that he's actually pretty accomplished at both housekeeping and cooking his own meals.
* {{Homage}}: He is a homage to professional wrestlers, especially back in the days when they were still pretending their fighting is real. He acts overly cocky, theatrical, down-right silly, pretends his fights are real, and while he's strong, he is not the strongest. Toriyama himself admits that he finds professional wrestling to be silly in these same ways.
* HopeBringer: Not for the main cast, but to the entire rest of the world. He was the only thing that kept the people of Earth somewhat sane during Majin Buu's rampage and to a lesser extent Cell. In ''Super'', they call him when things go wrong.
* IronButtMonkey: Mr. Satan got smacked by [[RoboticPsychopath Perfect Cell]] and goes flying into a mountain, survives getting smacked around by Kid Buu, is hilariously drowned in a bathtub by Fat Buu, obliterated in a public fight against Trunks, dropped by Dende from 100-something feet and [[GroinAttack crushes his crotch against a rock]], and more. Although he is hopelessly outpowered by the main cast, it is agreed that he is [[WeakButSkilled very skilled for a human that cannot use energy-based techniques]].
* IronicName: Toriyama, who is critical of celebrity worship culture in some of his work, squeezes plenty of comedic irony out of a universally adored hero literally named Satan. The oblivious human populace regularly chanting his name would seem like devil-worshipping in any other context. For added irony, while Mr. Satan is a lying, cowardly glory-hound, he is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold deep down. It all comes full circle when Mr. Satan finally earns his reputation as Earth's ultimate hero by using his fame to convince humanity to donate their energy to the Spirit Bomb used to finish off Majin Buu.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In ''Dragon Ball Z.'' Sure, he's a greedy, lying, skirt-chasing coward... '''but,''' he is still a fundamentally decent, sensitive and kind-hearted human being who wants to make the world a better place.
* JokeCharacter: [[Franchise/StreetFighter Dan Hibiki]], meet your long-lost ancestor! This gets carried over into pretty much all of the fighting games, where he can't even use energy blasts. His long-range attack is throwing rocks. And he has a JetPack for when the battle is taken to the skies.
* KidWithTheRemoteControl: Well, not a kid and underpowered mostly as a side effect of being OvershadowedByAwesome, but ''has'' earned the trust of Fat Buu, who ''is'' superpowered and ''will'' go to bat for him.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Mr. Satan may be a boisterous idiot, but he fully understands how out of his league he is amongst the Z-Warriors and the kinds of monsters they regularly face. However, as much as he would like to surrender, his status as Earth's champion means that he can't afford to be show weakness in front of any opponent, forcing him to get creative in finding ways to wriggle out of conflict.
** According to his offscreen backstory, Mark has had this mentality drilled into him since his early career as a martial artist. His master picked a fight with a weak-looking opponent and made fun of his haircut. That opponent's name? [[ProfessionalKiller Taopaipai]]. It ended about as well as you'd expect, [[MentorOccupationalHazard with Taopaipai killing his master instantly]]. Since then, Mr. Satan vowed to never fight opponents who were ridiculously out of his league or those whose power levels he couldn't judge. Evidently, losing to Cell reminded him of this important lesson as he uses every excuse in the book to get out of fights against the Z-Warriors and Buu.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Only one of the main cast who's not borderline {{Bishonen}}.
* LargeHam: Even more so than most of the series' {{Big Bad}}s, though it becomes more and more of a performance as the series goes on.
* LastOfHisKind: For a very brief period, after Super Buu kills nearly every other human and Kid Buu destroys the Earth.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: He's one of the biggest Linear Warriors in the franchise. While he's the WorldsBestWarrior as far as garden-variety, {{Muggle}}-class martial artists go, he's still an ant compared to the ki-using characters of the series.
* MeaningfulName: In Christianity, Satan is sometimes referred to as "the Father of Lies". If there's one thing Mr. Satan has in common with his Biblical namesake, it's his remarkable talent for spinning elaborate deceptions and manipulating people into doing his bidding. The cult-like worship that the Earthling population show for him can help to further the comparisons.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: An obscure piece of offscreen lore revealed by Toriyama is that Mr. Satan's master was killed by Taopaipai many years ago after stupidly mocking the assassin's haircut, which inspired Mr. Satan's self-preserving behaviour. Now there's a connection you wouldn't expect to see!
* MilesGloriosus: Hits FakeUltimateHero as he gains more character development. At least, he proves to be braver than he looks.
* MoralityChain: For Buu. When he and poor Bee were shot, Buu horribly [[VillainousBreakdown LOST IT]]. When he accidentally got knocked out during Buu's fight with Basil, Buu didn't care that Basil didn't do it on purpose or even know about it; Buu immediately stops playing with him and kicks Basil's ass as hard as he could without killing him.
* MoralityPet: Mr. Satan acts as this for Broly in ''Supersonic Warriors 2''.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: An anime-exclusive scene shortly after his "win" against Android 18, had in the shower room in a ModestyTowel when some {{Paparazzi}}s burst in and started questioning him about his win against Android 18, and he claims to "not hide anything from the fans", and while laughing, [[WardrobeMalfunction accidentally drops his towel]] in front of the cameras.
* NiceGuy: In ''Dragon Ball Super,'' he's become much more humble and generous, and a genuine friend to the Z-Fighters.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's based on real-life martial arts blowhard [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dante Count Dante]], and his English vocal performance recalls Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/RandySavage. He also bears an uncanny resemblance to '80s era Music/FrankZappa.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Delivers one to Van Zant for shooting Bee, spending a good 20 seconds straight pummeling the crap out of him.
* NotWorthKilling: During the Cell Games, the Z-Fighters theorize that the ''only'' reason Mr. Satan survived getting backhanded into a mountain by Cell is because Cell didn't want to waste any energy before he fought Goku.
* OddFriendship: With Majin Buu. Hercule and Buu are nothing alike and their dynamic is a bit strange, but their friendship is truly genuine and unbreakable.
* OhCrap: Mr. Satan has a major freak out at the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai upon the realisation that the weird blonde-haired guys who actually fought and defeated Cell are attending. Worse, their young children have inherited their power and he'll have to go up against one of them at the end of the kids' bracket. Throughout the tournament and the subsequent Majin Buu crisis, he seems to be in a constant, barely-supressed state of pants-wetting fear.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Doesn't look like he aged at all in the 7 year TimeSkip between the Cell games and the Majin Buu saga. Age catches up to him by the DistantFinale and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', where he starts balding. If you take into account Goku's age according to the Daizenshuu and newer information released about Mr. Satan's origin, Mr. Satan is only one year older than Goku. The aging is especially evident if you compare their appearances during the Cell Saga when they were still only one or two years apart and Goku hadn't spent seven years dead. Taken even further when you take into account Dragon Ball Minus' age listing for Goku, where Goku is a couple years OLDER than Mr. Satan.
* OldShame: InUniverse. He considers the Cell games reenactment movie (made without his approval) an embarrassing, dumb schlock... and seeing how low-budget and cheap it is, he has a point.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Perhaps the only time that Mr. Satan fully drops the comedic LargeHam act is when he attacks the two crazed gunmen who shot Buu's pet puppy. Not only does he seriously kick the crap out of them like a true martial artist, he furiously shames them for their idiotic cruelty and spits on their defeated bodies afterwards.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Under normal circumstances, he would be an incredible fighter, and legitimately won the World Martial Arts Tournament (a tournament of such high level that itself overshadows any other tournament on Earth ''without superhumans around''). Unfortunately for him, these are not normal circumstances.
* PalsWithJesus: As well as being best friends with Majin Buu, Goku, who became a PhysicalGod as of ''Battle of Gods'', becomes Mr. Satan's in-law after Gohan's marriage to Videl. Luckily, Goku holds no ill will towards Satan for his past glory-hogging and becomes good friends with him.
** He starts hanging out with Dende on the sidelines after Gohan's return to Earth. Along with Goku and Vegeta, Mr. Satan and Dende are the only survivors of Earth's destruction at the hands of Kid Buu. There's definitely some irony in a guy named Satan becoming friends with a kid whose official title is God of Earth.
** Mr. Satan is also the first full-blooded human to travel to the Kaioshin Realm, home of the highest Gods of Creation in Universe 7. He also gets along fairly well with Beerus and Whis.
* PapaWolf: He's absolutely ''pissed'' when Spopovich beats Videl to a bloody pulp and nearly kills her.
-->'''Mr. Satan''': You tell that freak I just declared open season on psychopaths! Spopovich, for every second Videl's in recovery, I'M GONNA BREAK SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD!
* PaperTiger: Zigzags. For an [[{{Muggle}} ordinary human]]. However, he is horribly weak compared to the monsters in ''Z''. That doesn't stop him from boasting about his strength and challenging the likes of Cell and Buu, both beings so powerful that they can kill him without even looking at him. He is also dismissive of the previous champion, Goku, assuming Goku to be a weakling who won by trickery.
* PlotArmor: In a series where ''death itself'' is treated as an inconvenience, Mr. Satan stands out as having Plot Armor so thick he could probably survive getting hit by a nuke through some improbable circumstance. ''You would think'' that getting fly-swatted by Cell and attempting to murder Buu via video games would get him killed. And you would be wrong. Mr. Satan, Fortuneteller Baba, and East Supreme Kai are the only main characters in the entire series to never die prior to the ''Dragon Ball Super'' era, which is quite an achievement in this series! Even then because of the nature of his revival, he technically never died because Whis reset the timeline. Even funnier, it is confirmed by Toriyama that Mr. Satan is one of the few survivors in the BadFuture, at least the first time around.
* PopularityPower:
** Earlier in the series, most people acknowledged the existence of ki energy and there was little doubt that Master Roshi's Kamehameha -- by then considered a legend among martial artists -- was a very real and deadly technique, and while Goku and his friends never became celebrities, the public always looked forward to watching them fight whenever there was a World Martial Arts Tournament. Everything changed once Mr. Satan declared that ki attacks were nothing but tricks, which made the entire population of the world grow skeptical.
** He does use his Popularity Power in a good way as well, though: when Goku desperately needs the people of Earth to give him energy for his Spirit Bomb, but nobody is listening, Mr. Satan claims that ''he'' is the one fighting Buu and is the one who needs their energy, at which point the entire population happily gives it up. The resulting Spirit Bomb is powerful enough to annihilate Majin Buu once and for all.
--->"Yes, I am the one who is really fighting Majin Buu! ''[glances sheepishly at Goku]'' Um, sorry about that, I just don't think they'd listen if they didn't think it was me doing it."
* PornStache: The only main character with one, until Vegeta in ''GT''.
* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: He is hailed by the people of Earth as the savior who defeated Cell. It is often brought up even a decade after Cell's death. He is also credited with killing Majin Buu and is given the World Peace Prize.
* RidiculouslyHighRelationshipStandards: Mr. Satan insists that only someone who can beat him in a fight can date Videl, which she finds ridiculous. While [[OvershadowedByAwesome Mr. Satan is a weakling by the standards of this series, compared to the average person he's pretty strong]], being a multi-time martial arts champion, so this standard is quite unreasonable. Fortunately, for Videl, her boyfriend Gohan, is [[PersonOfMassDestruction more than up to the task]].
* SecretKeeper: He becomes this to the Z-Fighters after he's accepted into the group and he acknowledges their power. He still takes the fame for their work, like claiming he defeated Beerus in ''Super'', but he now does it to hide their identities.
* ShadowArchetype: Can be seen as this to Goku and the rest of Roshi's pupils. Mr. Satan represents what Roshi fears his students would become if they let their victories get to their heads and lost their passion for martial arts, which was what led to Roshi becoming Jackie Chun to teach them humility. Mr. Satan, in contrast, never had the humbling experience needed to turn him into a better person until he befriended Buu.
* SlainInTheirSleep: ''Dragon Ball Super'' marks the first time Mr. Satan dies in the series, being killed off by Frieza's destruction of the Earth. He was sleeping alongside Majin Buu at the moment. This was undone by Whis' time powers. Presumably, this is how he dies in ''Resurrection 'F''' too, as he was KilledOffscreen.
* SmallNameBigEgo: [[CharacterDevelopment For a while, anyway.]] While very powerful for an Earthling, he's an ant even compared to the weakest Z-Fighter since he can't even do energy attacks. That didn't stop him from claiming that all the fighters before him used tricks and weren't true martial artists. He finally gets over this after befriending Buu and the rest of the Z-Fighters, though he still invokes the trope as a showy persona to maintain his fame, which he occasionally uses to help them out.
* SmugSnake: During the Cell Games, the Z-Fighters all get so irritated by Mr. Satan's loudmouth, overbearing, braggart attitude and his constant underestimation of Cell's ability that they end up taking Cell's side during the SingleStrokeBattle between them; Piccolo in particular is vocally disappointed that Cell didn't kill him.
* TheSoCalledCoward: He's ''not'' fearless; but his willingness to stand up and do something when it matters ''in spite of being a weakling'' makes his bravery outstanding enough to earn ''Piccolo's'' respect and approval.
* StrawLoser: To a point, Mr. Satan filled this role. He was the loud, brash and obnoxious World Champ, who couldn't lay a finger on any of the main cast unless they let him, and whose bravado made them seem all the better for their humility (or at least willingness to forgo fame to be an ''actually'' better fighter). This includes ''taking credit for beating Cell''.
* StrongAndSkilled: By human standards he's this: he's strong enough to pull four buses, rip through three phone books, and punch through a bus (all things he did in quick succession in his ''first'' appearance to show off his strength to the world), and has the skills to move like a ballet dancer and then strike an opponent in the back of the head and send them flying without doing lasting damage.
* SupportPartyMember: He has this dynamic within the cast. He's no match for the regular rogues gallery of enemies they face (which, in his defense, isn't entirely his fault, as he ''is'' [[BadassNormal a legitimately fantastic fighter against regular humans]]), but he instead supports them from the sidelines using his prestige, wealth, and popularity.
* TheTeamBenefactor: In ''Super'', he fronts the bill for Gohan and Videl's marital home, and him making Goku and Chi-Chi rich subsidizes Goku's ability to train (and, by extension, allow him to continue protecting Earth).
* TheTeamNormal: Of Goku's friends, he's the only one who doesn't have any sort of superpower - even his daughter Videl can at least fly and, in some media, use basic ''ki'' attacks. It doesn't stop him from being a good man and legitimate hero in his own way and someone Goku is proud to have as a friend.
* TenderTears: Mr. Satan is an incredibly sensitive soul who is able to shed tears for a demon who ''wiped out the human race,'' and on top of that has faith that Buu can become a better person. That faith ends up being justified, granting him a new lifelong friend.
* TooDumbToLive: He usually subverts this trope by taking on powerful villains, but not dying or getting seriously hurt from it.
* TookALevelInBadass: When Goku and Vegeta fail to telepathically convince the people of Earth to lend their energy for Goku's Spirit Bomb, Mr. Satan angrily yells out for them to do so. Thanks to his popularity back on Earth, ''it works.'' Then after [[spoiler:the energy isn't enough]], he stands up to ''Vegeta'', who is demanding that he do it again. He refuses because the initial energy push to build up the Spirit Bomb had drained most of the population's energy already, and asking them to give another dose would kill those who didn't have enough to give.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** He is still a GlorySeeker ham, but he is much more humble after being introduced to Goku and his friends. He continues to take credits for Goku and others' world saving because they don't want the fame and [[TheFace he's useful when it comes to dealing with common people]].
** In ''Super'', he takes the 100 million zeni reward given to him for "defeating" Buu and gives it to Goku as thanks. Compare this to his portrayal in the earliest parts of ''Z'', especially the movies, where he was shown to be quite greedy.
** Also from ''Super'', he begs Whis to stop Goku and Beerus' fight (their battle is slowly destroying the universe) not for his own sake, but to spare his daughter and unborn grandchild.
** He did ''not'' like Gohan when they first met in ''Z'', but as of ''Super'' he's incredibly fond of his son-in-law, not only paying for his and Videl's house but also getting Gohan a role in the ''Mr. Satan vs. Great Saiyaman'' movie because he wanted Gohan to receive some kind of recognition for his heroic exploits. And that's not getting into the two of them play-fighting to entertain baby Pan, which is several dozen kinds of adorable.
* TradeYourPassionForGlory: After getting caught up in the fame, fortune, and women he got for supposedly defeating Cell, he stopped training. As a result, Videl surpassed him long before Gohan taught her how to fly.
%%* TruthInTelevision: Him suddenly doing a Flash Step against Van Zant does have basis in reality. They say humans have built in limiters that keep them from unleashing their true strength, because doing so would be a real life HeroicRedRingOfDeath. Hysterical Strength is a real life concept where, through adrenaline, fight or flight, ThePowerOfLove, and so on, a person disables those limiters subconsciously, and taps into previously dormant physical ability. Considering the series' SupernaturalMartialArts is based in just that, Martial Arts, and Videl was able to take to flight easily because of being a trained Martial Artist, Mr. Satan does have the potential to match the human Z-Fighters if he properly trained for it, and that a combination between Fight or Flight and ThePowerOfHate (since he was understandably pissed when Van Zant killed Bee) brought out that potential.
* UnclePennybags: In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', he gives Goku the prize money that should have been his if anyone knew the truth (after Vegeta had already refused), to support Goku's preferred lifestyle, both to thank him for saving the planet many times in the past and to ensure the Saiyan can keep training to keep the world safe in the future. On top of that, he personally funded the construction of Gohan and Videl's post-marriage home and pays their bills.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He initially has a really bad habit of underestimating his opponents to comical levels. He dismisses Cell and the other Earth's warriors as tricksters even after Cell knocked him out of the ring and the landscape was exploding around him. He also dismisses Goku, the former World Champion, as not being a true martial artist since he use 'tricks' to win. By the time he faces Buu, he gets a little better since he knows that there is no way he can win a straight fight against Buu, however, he truly believes that he can kill Buu with poison and explosives. After the events of the Buu Saga, he knows and accepts where he stands on the power scale in the ''Dragon Ball'' universe.
* UnluckilyLucky:
** He goes through a lot of embarrassment, physical abuse, and dangerous situations that would kill anyone else, but he comes out on top and maybe better than ever. Be it managing to trick everyone else into thinking he defeated Cell since there's no footage of Gohan doing so, convincing Trunks to "lightly" punch him in the face, which was much stronger than he expected, but he still managed to pretend he lost intentionally, 18 letting him win so he gets to still be known as the world champ... Even his murder attempts on Buu didn't work and Buu didn't notice them. Super Buu killed most people on the planet but specifically decided to not kill him because of Fat Buu's influence, and when Kid Buu does destroy the planet, Goku saves him, and once Goku kills Kid Buu, Satan was so helpful during it that he befriends the Z-Fighters afterwards, and he made Fat Buu realize that killing was wrong so he became another ally.
** Him winning the 25th tournament is also this. While it happened offscreen, he was lucky he participated in a tournament long after the Z-Fighters didn't care about it anymore, as no other ki user or even someone on Giran's level (Who gave Goku some trouble ''after'' training with Roshi, though mostly because of trickery) participated as well, so he got to fight people on his level, who he can beat pretty handily.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: The Wacky Parent to Videl's Serious Child.
* WeakButSkilled: Completely outmatched by the Ki-using Z Fighters and the monsters they fight in terms of power, but his hand-to-hand skills are good enough to have him perform a ''FlashStep'', and his attack on Cell shows that he knows perfectly how to destroy a normal human. The flashback of his fight with Spopovich, where he deals with a human-level opponent in hand-to-hand, showcases just how ''good'' he is among normal humans.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: He's initially a GloryHound and FakeUltimateHero, but he certainly has the heart of a hero if nothing else. This is exhibited mid-way through the Buu arc when he's left to his own devices with the titular villain; after promising to the public to kill him and failing via various means, he sees Buu's friendly nature and befriends him instead. The full extent of his moral character is shown at the end, where he tries to fight Kid Buu despite knowing he doesn't stand a chance, and helps contribute to the Spirit Bomb that ultimately finishes him off.
-->'''Mr. Satan:''' I've been a shameless fake my whole life. But they believed me. They loved me. So if I turn my back on them now, what will it make me?
* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out everyone on Earth for refusing to give Goku any energy for the Spirt Bomb after witnessing Fat Buu nearly being beaten to death by his EvilCounterpart. It works!
* WouldHitAGirl: During his fight with Android 18, as her gender wasn't even an issue considering that he knew he was much weaker than she was. In the end, even his MegatonPunch did nothing but annoy her.
* WouldntHitAGirl: In cases where the woman ''isn't'' a super-warrior, though, he plays this one straight -- as seen in an episode of ''GT'' when Bulma and Chi-Chi hit him, and he doesn't hit back.
* WouldntHurtAChild: When Trunks wins the junior tournament and gets an exhibition match against Mr. Satan, Mr. Satan gives him a free shot. He obviously didn't expect to get punched clear out of the ring, but he intended to throw the fight from the start and even tells his assistant that he wouldn't fight a child.
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[FlatEarthAtheist Believed for a long time that ki techniques were tricks and not real martial art techniques]] due his own impressive martial art experience.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: At first, anyway. Would you believe he's only three years younger than ''Yamcha''? He's the same age as Goku!
* YourSizeMayVary: Officially, he's 6'2". Often times, he's drawn as if he's the same size as Vegeta. And then during the Cell Games, he's even sometimes randomly drawn as if he's 10 feet tall.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Vegeta is ''not'' happy that Goku ended up saving him (and, to a lesser extent, Dende) at the cost of Gohan, Goten, Piccolo, and Trunks. Given how Mr. Satan's first action upon arriving to the Kai planet is to comically jump off a cliff under the illusion that everything was just a dream, it's hard not to feel empathetic to that point. However, the decision pays off with Mr. Satan's interference in the battle with Kid Buu, as it allows the good portions of Majin Buu to escape from his evil side's body. And it ''really'' pays off when Mr. Satan's influence helps to convince the people of Earth to lend Goku their energy for the Spirit Bomb.
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* UnluckilyLucky: He goes through a lot of embarrassment, physical abuse, and dangerous situations that would kill anyone else, but he comes out on top and maybe better than ever. Be it managing to trick everyone else into thinking he defeated Cell since there's no footage of Gohan doing so, convincing Trunks to "lightly" punch him in the face, which was much stronger than he expected, but he still managed to pretend he lost intentionally, 18 letting him win so he gets to still be known as the world champ... Even his murder attempts on Buu didn't work and Buu didn't notice them. Super Buu killed most people on the planet but specifically decided to not kill him because of Fat Buu's influence, and when Kid Buu does destroy the planet, Goku saves him, and once Goku kills Kid Buu, Satan was so helpful during it that he befriends the Z-Fighters afterwards, and he made Fat Buu realize that killing was wrong so he became another ally.

* GoodParents: Despite being overprotective towards Videl, he ''adores'' her and his eventual grandchild, Pan, as well.