Character page for Dragon Ball Reboot. This page will only cover tropes specific to GineReboot's fan comic series. As such, details and characters related to their canon counterparts that have not appeared in Reboot should not be added to the page unless they're explicitly referenced or alluded to.
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Main Characters
Protagonists
Gine
Gine
Gine's primary outfit on Earth.
The main protagonist of the entire series and the woman destined to be the Legendary Super Saiyan Warrior. She was a member of Bardock's squad but was discharged, due to helping a city full of alien civilians evacuate their world when her squadron invaded it.
- Action Mom: Due to her past as a soldier before being forcibly discharged for secretly helped evacuate a world when her squadron invaded it, Gine is this.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Girl: Gine herself is one when she first arrives on Earth. She initially dismisses Gohan's offer to train her because he's weaker than her and claims that she doesn't need training since she's already the strongest person on Earth. Gohan sets her straight by knocking her to the ground.
- Ascended Extra: Gine goes from being a minor posthumous character in canon to the main protagonist of an entire series.
- Big "NO!": At the start of Season 2, Gine wakes up from a nightmare of Bardock's death screaming "NOOO!!"
- Blatant Lies: When asked if she always could control her Great Ape transformation, Gine claims she always could. A memory reveals her first attempt after training with Bardock resulted in her going berserk and destroyed a few houses back on Planet Vegeta.
- Break the Haughty: When Grandpa Gohan notices how Gine tends to waste excessive amounts of energy in her ki attacks and offers to teach her how to better control it, she brashly asserts that there's nothing she could possibly learn from a weakling like him and claims that she doesn't need to train anyway since she's already the most powerful being on Earth. Gohan quickly puts her in her place by knocking her to the ground with a sweep kick before calling her out on her arrogance, pointing out how he was still able to knock her off her feet and warns her that her son will end up having to suffer for her hubris. His speech gets through to Gine, who apologizes to Gohan for her behavior and confides to him her insecurities about being weak.
- Cassandra Truth: While escaping Planet Vegeta at the start of the series, Gine is caught by some Saiyans. Much like Bardock, she briefly tries to warn them about Frieza's plan to destroy their planet, only to be laughed off.
- Catapult Nightmare: Season Two opens with Gine having a nightmare where Bardock is killed by a laughing Frieza. Gine then wakes up screaming "NOOO!!" and finds herself sitting up on a bed in Gohan's home.
- Furry Reminder: Gine tends to wag her Saiyan monkey tail like a dog when she is ecstatically happy.
- Happily Adopted: As established by the prequel spin-off, Gine lost both her parents as a little girl and was adopted by a retired Saiyan general named Oniott. They shared a positive and healthy relationship with Oniott raising Gine as if she was his own flesh-and-blood, and training her how to be a Saiyan warrior.
- The Hero: Gine is an Saiyan woman destined to be the most powerful Saiyan warrior as she defends her son, loved ones and continues on her journey to protect her new home.
- Mama Bear: Gine is a noble and kind woman at heart who stopped being a soldier because she couldn't find it in herself to kill anyone on the battlefield. However, she is also very protective of her child and anyone who threatens Kakarot will face her wrath as Kakarot's would-be kidnapper discovered when he attempted to throw the infant.Gine: NOT ONLY DID YOU KIDNAP MY SON, BUT YOU ALSO ATTEMPTED TO KILL HIM BY THROWING HIM OFF A CLIFF! I SHOULD DO THE SAME TO YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Gine begins the main series as a civilian kitchen worker on Planet Vegeta — and even during her younger days as a prospective warrior, she was a Fragile Speedster who never rose above the lower ranks before getting kicked out of the army. Once she reaches Earth, however, she finds herself the World's Strongest Woman, and her Flight ability (considered normal on her homeworld, but almost unheard of on Earth) makes her an overpowered Flying Brick compared to every other Earthling.
- Token Good Teammate: Of Team Bardock during her brief time as a member in the spin-off. Gine was the only Saiyan warrior on Bardock's squad who doesn't have innocent blood on her hands. During her first mission with the team, they were sent to an alien world to depopulate it so Frieza could mine its resources; Gine was the only member who decided not to kill the world's natives and instead secretly help them escape, while her comrades had no problem slaughtering innocent aliens left and right.
- Token Heroic Orc: Gine appears to be the only known Saiyan who not only abides by a personal Thou Shall Not Kill rule, but also realized that her species' ways as genocidal conquerors was morally wrong through her own volition after coming face-to-face with a terrified alien civilian family during her first offworld mission to depopulate a planet.
Goku
Goku (Saiyan birthname: Kakarot)
- Adaptational Intelligence: He's not as naive or clueless about the outside world as his canon counterpart was at the start of Dragon Ball since this version had both Grandpa Gohan and his mother Gine to raise him together.
Friends and Allies
Grandpa Gohan
Grandpa Gohan
- Telescoping Staff: He is introduced wielding the iconic Power Pole as his weapon of choice before eventually passing it onto Goku.
- Token Human: In Season 2, he is the only one out of the three main characters to be a human, while Gine and Goku are both Saiyans.
- Weak, but Skilled: Compared to Gine or even an eleven-year-old Goku, Grandpa Gohan is physically weaker and lacks the raw power that the mother-son duo possess. However, he has far better fine control over his power and is much more efficient with how he spends his Ki in his attacks.
Bulma
Bulma
- Adaptational Nice Girl: Compared to her canon counterpart at the start of the original Dragon Ball series, this Bulma is less of a vain, manipulative Spoiled Brat. The webcomic also noticeably tones down a lot of Bulma's personality traits as a Bratty Teenage Daughter through its Adaptation Distillation.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Canon Bulma during the original Dragon Ball series was not above using her sex appeal for personal gain with Show Some Leg being her go-to bartering tactic. Here, she is much more of a Reluctant Fanservice Girl. For comparison, canon Bulma happily flashed Roshi in exchange for his Three-Star Dragon Ball. This Bulma was visibly very uncomfortable when Roshi asked to see her panties in exchange for giving her his Dragon Ball, and instead her panties get accidentally exposed by Goku when he flies by on his Nimbus Cloud and the resulting wind blows her skirt upwards.
Roshi
Roshi
An old man who Gine, Goku, and Bulma encounter early in their quest to find the Dragon Balls. He refers to himself as the Turtle Hermit and gifts Goku his Flying Nimbus cloud as a reward for helping his lost turtle find his way to the sea.Planet Vegeta
Bardock
Bardock
The deuteragonist of the prequel spin-off and Gine's late husband. He tried to stop the destruction of their home planet but ended up perishing alongside the planet. Bardock was the one who sent Gine and Goku to Earth under the nose of Frieza.
- Noble Demon: He's an unapologetic mass murderer who has no problem serving a genocidal tyrant or leading an extermination mission against a planet full of defenseless civilians. He also privately admits to Gine that he personally doesn't really understand her Chronic Hero Syndrome nor her refusal to take a life. However, he still chooses to stand by Gine's side because he respects how she's willing to stay true to her personal beliefs and do what she thinks is right no matter what.
Fasha
Fasha
- Ascended Extra: In canon, she's only really known as that one female Saiyan from Bardock's team. Here, she gets a lot more focus and is a major supporting character of the prequel spin-off.
- Sore Loser: Downplayed since Fasha didn't lose her tournament match with Gine, which ended in a Double Knockout. Nevertheless, while recovering from her injuries in the medical ward, she insists that she was "supposed" to have won and baselessly accuses Gine of somehow cheating because she can't accept that Gine trained hard enough to become her equal in combat.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Fasha was like an older sister to Gine during their childhood, defending her from bullies and playfully sparring with her all the time. As an adult, Fasha is a Sore Loser who acts like a jerkass towards Gine and becomes her rival for Bardock's affections.
Oniott
Oniott
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: In his prime, Oniott was King Vegeta's most favored general and led the elite-class warriors of the Saiyan Army. By the start of the spin-off, Oniott is reduced to a sickly old man living in the suburbs who can't even do a push-up without injuring himself and is reliant on Gine (a low-class Saiyan) to look after himself.
- Mook Lieutenant: He used to be the general leading all of King Vegeta's Elite Mooks prior to his retirement.
- Original Character: An OC supporting character created for the spin-off who shares no canonical counterpart.
- Parental Substitute: To Gine, having taken her in and raised her as his protégé after she lost both of her biological parents at a very young age.
- Retired Badass: Oniott is an elderly Saiyan veteran and the former general of King Vegeta's Elites. At his peak, he claims to have held on the title of "Best Saiyan" for over a decade. Nowadays, he's been forced into retirement due to his old age with his adopted daughter Gine acting as his caretaker.
King Vegeta
King Vegeta
Aikon
Aikon
- Original Character: He is an original character created by the author for the spin-off and has no canonical counterpart.
- Starter Villain: He's shown bullying Gine in the spin-off's A Minor Kidroduction and is the first opponent she faces in the tournament to decide which Saiyan gets to join Team Bardock. However, he stops appearing in the story after Gine defeats him.
Other Characters
Callion
Callion
A former Saiyan warrior who deserted after being betrayed and left for dead by his teammates during a mission off-world. He transformed himself into a cyborg and intends to overthrow King Vegeta using an army of Steel Rippers.
- Amazon Chaser: He expresses an interest in making Gine his queen and ruling together as part of an Unholy Matrimony after she kicks his ass while in her False Super Saiyan form for the first time. Gine, obviously, is disgusted by the idea.
- The Beastmaster: He is able to mentally control Steel Rippers (an alien species of vicious giant metallic monsters) thanks to the cybernetic implants and intends to create an army of Steel Rippers to overthrow King Vegeta.
- Big Bad: Of the prequel spin-off.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He has ambitions of usurping King Vegeta and views himself as a future Galactic Conqueror, but is ultimately just an experimental clone of Callion who is unknowingly being used by the enigmatic scientist to gather data as part of an experiment. Even disregarding that, a low-level Saiyan like Bardock was able to pose a significant challenge for Callion, so it's highly unlikely he would've stood a chance against King Vegeta, who was at the time the strongest living Saiyan in existence. And even if he had, he still would've been forced to bow his head to Frieza, essentially exchanging one master for another.
- Dangerous Deserter: A Saiyan warrior who deserted the Saiyan Army after being betrayed by his comrades. He's now been transformed into a superpowered cyborg who seeks to overthrow King Vegeta and doesn't care how many of his fellow Saiyans he has to kill in order to get the throne.
- Dead All Along: The real Callion died when he was betrayed by his Saiyan teammates during that fateful mission offworld. The one Bardock's team fights in the spin-off is actually an oblivious clone created by the strange scientist as part of an experiment.
- Original Character: He's an OC antagonist created by the author for the spin-off.
- The Starscream: A deserter from the Saiyan Army aiming to usurp King Vegeta and take his place.
Strange Scientist
Strange Scientist
- Artificial Limbs: His left arm and hand seems to be entirely mechanical. His prosthetic hand is also shown to have a hologram projector built into its palm.
- Expy: He's essentially an extraterrestrial version of Dr. Gero, being a cybernetic Mad Scientist who creates superpowered "Androids" to battle Saiyans.
- The Faceless: We never see his face as it's hidden beneath his dome helmet, breather mask, and goggles.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Of the prequel spin-off. He's the one responsible for transforming Callion into a deadly cyborg, though clearly acts with his own agenda separate from Callion.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He's referred to as "Doctor" by his android assistant. What we know of him is that he secretly transformed Callion or rather a clone of him into a killer cyborg, then set him loose seemingly to terrorize the universe for some experiment.
- No Name Given: So far he has yet to be properly named.
- Original Character: He's an OC exclusive to this fan manga.
- Villain Takes an Interest: After Callion's defeat, he recovers the data collected by Callion's cybernetics and takes an interest in Gine due to her False Super Saiyan form she briefly unlocked during her battle against Callion, declaring her the perfect test subject for his Super Clones project.
