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Leadership

Freeza

"It's like I told you, Vegeta - like a bitch."

Voiced by: Martin "LittleKuriboh" Billany

A tyrant who has conquered most of the known galaxy. Also a prissy manchild who wants the universe for himself. Freeza's actions have directly or indirectly impacted the plot of the series in many ways.

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• Adaptational Badass: Goku beats him like in the manga, but Freeza was actually able to hold his own against the Saiyan without gradually losing power this time around. Plus Freeza didn't put any effort into deflecting Gohan's strongest attack when he was in third form, or Vegeta's strongest attack when he was in fourth form, whereas he was visibly shocked both times in the manga and anime.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Canon Freeza did have a tendency to execute minions but he usually only did so for failing. Abridged Freeza kills them on a whim simply because they annoyed him, to make an example out of them, or because he felt like it.
  • In addition, in the canon version he was attacked by King Vegeta and a group of warriors before he destroyed Planet Vegeta. Here, the king came alone to peacefully negotiate, making his subsequent murder and the destruction of the planet seem even colder by comparison.
  • Thirdly, while Canon Freeza was obviously a tyrant, he was capable of inspiring some loyalty in his soldiers, and to all appearances, they had a stake in the profits of his empire. Abridged Freeza doesn't pay his minions at all because he considers allowing them to live payment enough; effectively, everyone in his army is a Slave Mook.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Literally only in one aspect, as he otherwise comes off as a bigger prick otherwise and that comes from his relationship with his father. In canon, Freeza and King Cold have a frosty reception to one another personally, with some of Freeza's lines implying an abusive relationship in the past, and thusly when he's revived in Resurrection 'F', Freeza forgoes the idea of ever reviving his father and letting him rot in Hell; here, however, despite the Amazingly Embarrassing Parents reaction Freeza has towards how much King Cold pampers him here, he genuinely does love his father as shown in the HFIL series and is concerned for his wellbeing when he seemingly has a stroke in front of everyone while telling a story.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: His insistence of calling Christmas "Freeza Day" really annoys Cooler in Plan to Eradicate Christmas and HFIL.
• Appeal to Obscurity: He often drops the names of races that don't exist anymore, to demonstrate the fate of any that he wipes out:
  Freeza: Tell me, have you ever heard of the planet Vegeta?
  Nail: N-no?
  Freeza: Funny. Because I expect to hear the same from the next person when I ask them about Namek.
• Arc Villain: Of the Namek/Freeza Saga.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
  • A minor example, but while Bardock gives him a heroic speech, he stops paying attention and thinks about how often he hears such speeches, wine and how much a prick Cooler is. So much so that he almost forgets that he was going to destroy Planet Vegeta.
  • He also gets distracted by Goku's abdominal muscles during the middle of the beatdown.
    Freeza: Oh, my God! You could grind meat on those!
• Authority in Name Only: Episode 9 of HFIL confirms that Freeza doesn't actually run anything in his empire as Cell points out, as Freeza has seemingly supreme authority only because his father gave him the privilege and thus acts entirely at King Cold's behest to perpetuate the empire that he himself made rather than a product of Freeza's own will, further implicating his Spoiled Brat nature in how he actually has no idea how to properly run an empire himself and relies entirely on his Bad Boss tendencies to keep people in line rather than an earnest balance of loyalty and fear like his father does.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He's the supreme ruler of the galaxy (at least until his father is introduced), and is considerably stronger than all of his men. Put it this way. When he first arrived on Earth Raditz annihilated the Z-Warriors. When Vegeta showed up, he claimed to be as strong as "Fifteen Raditzes". Gohan describes Freeza's weakest form as comparable to "A hundred Vegetas". That's one thousand five hundred Raditzes times Vegeta's power growth up to that point, for those who don't want to do the math.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Freeza is typically annoyed at King Cold's doting nature, acting like a spoiled child most of the time and almost never breaks their haughty streak. At the end of the HFIL Holiday Special, King Cold suddenly passes out from a stroke which immediately distresses and concerns Freeza. Even if he never shows it he clearly cares as much about his father as his father does about him.
• Ax-Crazy: He's every bit as violent and sadistic as in the original series.
• Back from the Dead:
  • Santa brings him and Cooler back as ghosts in "Plan to Eradicate Christmas" to fight those on the naughty list. It's the first time we see them interact with each other.
  • Buu Bits implied this happened off-screen, since Bulma mentions the "Black Freeza" nonsense. Though Goku thinks they probably took care off him.
• Bad Boss:
  • Kills his soldiers at the drop of a hat; reasons vary from "needing an example" to avoiding an awkward conversation.
  • The mooks actually form a union due the rising number of their personnel exploding. Freeza's response is predictable.
  • According to Zarbon, he doesn't pay his minions since he thinks allowing them to live is payment enough.
  • He kills his last remaining henchman for no reason other than he was the only survivor of Trunks (and then only because Trunks decided to pull a humiliation move on him instead of a kill move).
    Freeza: You missed one. [rams his hand through his henchman's back until it comes through his chest]
    Henchman: Lord Freeza... the f**k? *dies*
    • Note that he does seem to care for his stronger mooks, though. While fighting Vegeta, his Internal Monologue shows that he's trying to decide what gifts he should give to help break the news of the Ginyu Force's deaths to their families, and when Goku lets out a Double Entendre during their fight, Freeza says out loud that he misses Zarbon.
  • Deconstructed in HFIL however, as it is revealed because Nepotism lead him to inheriting the Empire after being pampered by his father all of his life, he really has no effective reference for how to manage a business or keep loyalty proper beyond simply pushing his own weight around because of his absurd power level, which meant that none of his minions are particularly dedicated to him when they are put on an equal footing. Sure, he can bully them with his natural physical strength to keep them marginally in line while they are in Hell, but when someone like Cell comes along to upset the power balance, most of his former minions would rather ignore him and defer instead to his more pragmatic father because being a terrible boss just makes him unbearable to put up with.
• Benevolent Boss: Appears to be one towards his more high ranking lieutenants. Even going so far as to contemplate sending flowers to the Ginyu's families.^note Though given that it's explicitly stated in this continuity that the Ginyus are employed by King Cold rather than Freeza himself (who has been known to make rather... odd commands), and Freeza treating the matter the way one would treat a routine maintenance, it's quite possible that this was ordered by King Cold, or simply done out of professional obligation rather than empathy. However, this is shown to be merely an extension of his Faux Affably Evil persona, and he will gleefully murder even his most loyal lieutenants with the same indifference as his underlings
  Freeza: (After incinerating a random underling) See that, Zarbon? That's you if Vegeta is not in front of me in the next ten minutes.
• Berserk Button:
  • Don't mess with his tail.
  • Goku's idiocy does the job nicely.
    Freeza: That's stupid! You're stupid!! STOP BEING STUPID!!!
  • Later, when facing Goku:
    Freeza: There you go again! Throwing your hands in the air, like you just don't care! CARE, DAMN IT!
  • In particular, mocking his lips will immediately shatter his composure, and set him off into a murderous rage.
    Freeza: I WILL F*CKING MURDER YOU!!!
  • Calling him names can annoy him. And hearing Vegeta's Super Saiyan speech also gets under his skin.
  • Ignoring him also upsets him. It makes him annoyed at Nail and he goes ballistic on a freshly transformed Super Saiyan Goku (who just had his head in the clouds).
  • Seeing Trunks turn Super Saiyan is enough to send him into a blind rage in which he's reduced to simply uttering synonyms of "KILL".
    Freeza: KILL! MURDER! DESTROY! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
• Big Bad: In Season 2 and of the Bardock: The Father of Goku abridged special.
• Big Bad Wannabe: In Season 3. He makes a grand arrival to Earth... only to be defeated and killed by Future Trunks in a matter of minutes.
• Big "NO!": In a deleted scene showing his reconstruction as Mecha-Freeza, parodying the creation of Darth Vader, this is his reaction to King Cold telling him he destroyed both Namek and the (Namekian) Dragon Balls.
• Blasphemous Boast: It's subtle, but it's there when he tells God to strike him down if he's really as evil as Goku says he is.
  [Gets struck by lightning]
  Freeza: Ha! Nice try, jackass! Next time, give it your A-game!
• Break the Haughty: Finding out that Cell had managed to kill both Goku and Trunks, when he himself had been humiliated and killed by the both of them during the dinner in HFIL causes him to have a Villainous BSoD. To add insult to injury, Cell sticks his guns of being the bigger man and doesn't bother correcting Cold when he mistakenly believes Goku killed the two of them, merely content with seeing the look on Freeza's face.
• Breakout Character: He's very popular due to his refined dickness and is a prominent character in HFIL.
• Brought Down to Badass: He, like all major villains now in Hell, has all of his energy-based strength stripped from him. Going by ki alone, Cell would naturally be considered more powerful than Freeza, but with everybody now on an equal-playing field, Freeza’s raw strength is more than enough for Cell, to the point of choking him out like it’s nothing.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
  • Big time. He has wiped out so many planets and races that he has invented a hobby of counting the number of times he has heard various cliched heroic Stock Phrases delivered against him by his eventual victims.
  • In the midst of destroying Planet Vegeta, he is more preoccupied with deciding what type of wine he should have for dinner than with Bardock's valiant rebellion.
• The Caligula: He's every bit the insane tyrant he was in the original series, if not more so, including murdering his subjects on a whim for a variety of flimsy reasons, and even destroying his minions' home planets. In HFIL, it said that he made a yearly holiday named after himself, and the one who gave him the least satisfying gift got their planet blown up. Even in Hell, he manages to uphold this holiday to a degree, only blowing up houses instead of planets (however, given this is from a story King Cold is telling, it's unknown how much of it is true).
• Came Back Wrong: Cyborg Freeza is more powerful, sure, but his brain has a habit of gli-gli-gli-messing up his speech patterns.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Spells it out very clearly for Cell in HFIL Episode 1:
  Freeza: I know who I f**king am. I'm a child-killing, people-enslaving galactic tyrant. And I'd rather die a million more times before I ever pretend otherwise!
  • Interestingly this is increasingly portrayed as a Fatal Flaw - as seemingly principled as it is to stick to his guns, it's also not getting Freeza any closer to getting out of Hell, which Cell practically spells out to him, and as long as he doesn't make the effort to change or demonstrate the facade of change, Freeza will eventually be stuck alone in what would basically be his own self-inflicted hell with just the ogres. It's a fate that Cell is specifically intending to avoid and King Cold is trying to get Freeza to avoid.
• Comedic Sociopathy: His Ax Crazyness is generally played for laughs.
• Cyborg: A mortally wounded Freeza is reborn as one as of episode 30.
• Deadpan Snarker: Turns against him with a vengeance in the fight against Goku, who horribly misinterprets every single one of his clever one-liners.
• Dissonant Serenity:
  • He is very calm and collected in his final form, making casual threats of violence and genocide to the heroes... at least until Goku shows up.
  • He seems to default to this whenever he's undergoing an overwhelming amount of hatred, shock and amazement.
    Freeza: [horrified, but still calm] Oh. Somehow I completely forgot about [the spirit bomb]. [Freeza's Earth-Shattering Kaboom gets "eaten" by the spirit bomb, complete with "OM NOM NOM" sounds] [Still calm] Oh my God.
• The Dreaded: Much like in the original series, anybody that knows him is terrified of him, and with good reason.
  Trunks: Consider that a warning. Either leave here or die.
  Freeza: Oh, is that an ultimatum? I love ultimatums! Here's mine: Either die to him or die to me!
  [soldiers scream and charge to their deaths]
• Electronic Speech Impediment: After becoming Mecha Freeza, a lack of RAM causes him to malfunction every so often and repeat words over and over again.
  Freeza: Yes, Daddy-Daddy-Daddy-Daddy *fizz*
  [...]
  Freeza: My God, this is droll. We're so far out in the Space sti-ti-ticks that there's not even a Space Radio Shack, much less a Space Best BuyBuyBuyBuyBuy *fizz* Circuit City.
• Enraged by Idiocy: Much of his Villainous Breakdown is triggered by Goku's stupidity.
  Freeza: That's stupid! You're stupid! STOP BEING STUPID!
  Goku: Or...maybe I'm just being rhetorical.
  Freeza: NO!!! NO YOU'RE NOT! God, it's like you just use words you hear randomly to try and sound smarter!
  Goku: Heh, well now you're just acting transcendent!
  Freeza: *growls and knees Goku in the face*
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: He's definitely evil, but hey, not many villains would have some of their highest enforcers include women and homosexuals. And he finds them all equally expendable. What a guy!
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Not much, but he seems to avoid trying to sound homophobic around Zarbon when he finds out the latter had a girlfriend. (Consider how Zarbon would be unable to retaliate against Freeza, yet Freeza went out of his way to be civil).
  • In HFIL he seems genuinely shocked and offended to see Cell in "White Face". Doubles as Hypocritical Humor, as Freeza has made off color jokes about other species before.
  • Played for laughs. In HFIL he thinks the Ginyus' dance routines and practicing is "terrifying" and shakes his head in disapproval when seeing Guldo and Recoomme posing in the middle of the dodgeball match.
• Evil Brit: LittleKuriboh (who is already British) gives him a distinctly aristocratic British voice.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Granted it's in HFIL where everyone is evil so the trope only applies relative to Freeza, but he's left dumbfounded when Cell, having Freeza at his mercy armed with a secret that would absolutely ruin him, tells him to his face that he's not going to use it.
  Freeza: Bitch, what?!
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor:
  • In addition to finding his personal beating of Nail funny and his killing of Goku's best friend Krillin hilarious, he tells jokes about Namekian genocide.
    Freeza: How many Namekians does it take to change a light bulb? The entire race. One to change the bulb, and the rest to die! And then that one dies as well.
  • He loves taking cracks at his would be victims with Black Comedy. He even finds other people's grief and distress to be hilarious.
    Freeza: Oh what's wrong monkey? Come on now, give me something funny.
    Goku: You... killed my best friend!
    Freeza: Ha! That is pretty funny! Hilarious, actually.
• Evil Is Hammy: During his Villainous Breakdown, believe it or not.
  Freeza: [to Goku] You think that you're this so-called Super Saiyan, that you're better than me?! Lord Freeza?! ...WELL, YOU'RE NOT!! I OWN YOU! I OWN YOUR PLANET! I OWN THIS PLANET! In fact [powers up Death Ball] F*CK THIS PLANET!!!
• Evil Laugh: As he finally loses it and is about to blow Namek to smithereens he lets out a maniac giggle... which he soon loses when he suddenly remembers there's a fully charged Spirit Bomb about to hit him.
• Evil Overlord: Freeza conquers planets, names them after himself, subjugates or exterminates their native peoples and he does so enjoy it.
• Evil Sounds Deep: LittleKuriboh gets a really deep voice for Freeza's second form that is reminiscent of his other sadistic and evil roles, most notably Yami Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. It becomes more higher pitched in the third form and smooths out by time Freeza reaches his final form.
• Eviler than Thou: Makes it painfully clear that he is this to Cell in HFIL Episode 1. This moment is shown to actually end up helping Cell, as it shows him what exactly not to be if he ever stands a chance to get out of HFIL.
  Freeza: [After snapping Cell's neck] Welcome to the Home for Infinite Losers, loser.
• Exact Words: In HFIL, he claims to have been killed by "the Super Saiyan" on "the planet he deemed to conquer". The fact that he was killed on Earth by someone who wasn't Goku seems to embarrass him and Cell (who knows how he really died) subtly mocks him for it.
• Fantastic Racism: Even moreso than in the original series.
  Freeza: I can't believe we came all the way out here and spent a week in the space boonies for nothing! Seriously, I'm surprised we didn't hear banjos on the way in, because everybody's inbred and looks the f**king same!
  ...
  Nail: This is my people's sacred battle ground.
  Freeza: We flew over an hour for this? It looks exactly the same as everywhere else on this godforsaken rock!
  Nail: [annoyed grunt] Racist.
  Freeza: Well, maybe so, but I can't quite be a racist against a race that doesn't exist. Like the Clorfours. Dirty money-grubbing Clorfours. Tried to Clorf me right out of my money. Blew those little bastards up is what I did.
• Fatal Flaw: His pettiness and unwillingness to change alongside his vengeful nature— it makes for a nasty combination that gets him humiliated (and very nearly killed) by Goku and his desire for revenge finally gets him killed for good on Earth by Trunks. These same flaws are also extremely detrimental to him in HFIL since he absolutely refuses to change, or even feign change, since he's too petty and full of himself with the delusion he'll breakout from HFIL through force or fear, or hopes he'll be revived eventually.
• Faux Affably Evil: Big time. He is perfectly capable of being quite polite as he horribly beats you up, murders your neighbors and possibly destroys your entire race and planet.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to Cooler's responsible, given that he's the Psychopathic Man Child to Cooler's No-Nonsense Nemesis.
• Greater-Scope Villain: In Season 1 to Vegeta, during which he was mentioned quite frequently. Freeza's presence is especially felt throughout most of the abridged movies as well; Turles' Freudian Excuse was getting "Freeza Day" instead of Christmas; a "special holiday" when Freeza blew up a victim's planet, and that "holiday" was even brought up by one of Lord Slug's minions. Cooler's actions throughout the two movies are the result of his hatred for Freeza, and even the devolving psychopath Broly acknowledges Freeza as a powerful figure, mentioning he's disappointed in Goku because he killed Freeza, and was even aroused by Trunks when he brought up that he technically killed Freeza. Makes some sense considering Broly survived "Freeza Day" as a baby.
• Hidden Depths: Apparently, according to TheLoadingCrew crossover "What D&D Alignment is Frieza" he at least has a familiarity with Dungeons & Dragons, stating "All intelligent people use alignment". He's aware of the flame war this would start in TheLoadingCrew's comment section.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: At the end of Episode 30 part 2, he gets sliced in half by his own disk, just like in the original anime.
• Hulk Speak: Upon going to 100% power in his fight against Goku in episode 30.
  Freeza: Smash monkey! Smash monkey!
• Humiliation Conga: Let's see... Starts by losing a large portion of his men, including his top enforcers and loses his shot at immortality after being outsmarted by people far weaker than him. Then he fights and fails to kill Goku, gets blindly infuriated by his sheer idiocity, gets nuked with a Spirit Bomb, gets his ass kicked ten ways to Sunday by the legend he refused to believe, cut in half by his own attack and blasted to near death after refusing to listen to his own advice. And this is only on Namek. On Earth he gets humiliated in front of his dear father by Trunks and eventually turned into mincemeat and vaporized. And then in HFIL he has to endure with the fact that Cell has constantly him on the ropes with the knowledge that Trunks, the one who actually did him in, is Vegeta's son, followed by the later realization that Cell killed both Goku and Trunks.
• Hypocrite:
  • Played for Laughs. In HFIL Episode 2, he expresses exasperation when Cell, questioned about how he died, says that he "defeated himself". This is despite the fact that moments ago Freeza had tried the same thing.
  • He gets genuinely put off by Cell in "White Face", but he himself regularly throws out racist slurs and terminology.
• Ignored Epiphany: After Goku spares his life, Freeza considers changing his ways. This lasts about as long as you'd expect.
  Freeza: He's... really just leaving me here! He gave me his energy and... left me! Maybe this is a sign... Maybe I should change... Maybe this is my second... and last... chance... Maybe... I was wrong. [beat] NAAAAH!!
• Inconsistent Spelling: Discussed regarding his Dub Name Change between how the Funimation dub romanized it and how it's spelled in DBZA (even though the closest equivalent to Japanese would be "Furiza").
  Future Trunks: So, you must be Frie-za.^note Trunks pronounced it as "Fry-za"
  Freeza: Actually, It's Lord Freeza.
  Future Trunks: Really? Then why is there an "I" in it?
  Freeza: There isn't.
  Future Trunks: Huh, gonna have to fix that when I get back then.
  • According to KaiserNeko and Lanipator, Goku calling him "Freezer" is a tongue-in-cheek reference to how the British MasakoX (Goku's voice actor in Abridged) sometimes pronounces Vegeta's name as "Vegeter," which they threw into this also being how he pronounces Freeza's name. It also coincidentally lines up with how older fansubs called him that, along with it being his name in the Latin American dub.invoked
  • This happens again in the HFIL Freeza Day/Christmas special, where Recoome has misspelled it as "Frieza." When he corrects him by saying that there's no "i" in "Freeza," Recoome apologizes by calling him Lord "Freza" instead.
• Insistent Terminology: Freeza would like to remind anyone of his station.
  Freeza: I am Lord Freeza, yes.
• Intercontinuity Crossover: In "Seto Kaiba's Real Father - CONCLUSION". He's the "father" of Kaiba, AKA, the Seto-bot 5000. Or not.
• Interface Screw: Apparently his version of the Destructo Disk work on inverted controls, which he struggles to use at first.
• Ironic Nursery Tune: After he transforms into his second state, he delivers a lyrically dark and eerily serene reprisal of "My Favorite Things", keeping his sights set on Krillin during the second half. Krillin questions this sudden decision to begin singing to himself right before...
• It's All About Me:
  • In Episode 29, he sums it up quite well when fighting off the Spirit Bomb:
    Freeza: If I had any single regret for the countless horrific events that transpired in my wake, it's that I'm dying.
  • Cooler calls him out on this in Plan to Eradicate Christmas, where Freeza calls Christmas "Freeza Day" and proclaims that it's all about him getting revenge on the monkeys.
• Kick the Dog: If dog-kicking was a sport Freeza would be the Olympic gold medalist.
  Freeza: Come now, I'm sure (Vegeta's) in a better place... [gleeful] Oh who am I kidding? He's probably in hell!
• Knight of Cerebus: While not nearly as much as Cell, he was far more competent and deadly than Nappa and Vegeta and had his fair share of dark moments.
  Vegeta: That doesn't matter! Don't you understand?! If I didn't get my wish, then I'm not immortal! And Freeza's going to-! Going to...
  Freeza: Oh, hohoho, no! Don't mind me. By all means... give me some ideas.
  • However, a lot of his threatening moments are immediately downplayed by the main cast not entirely understanding or not caring about his threats.
  Gohan: Dende... no...
  Freeza: Oh, don't cry for the poor thing. I've saved him the fate of seeing what I'm about to do to you.
  Vegeta: Jokes on you, he hated the bald one.
  Krillin: Hey, that's not fair! He just met Piccolo!
• Laughably Evil: Basically the main difference between him and his canon counterpart is that this version of Freeza has a much more dark sense of humor.
• Laughing Mad: When he summons his death ball to destroy Namek before getting hit by the Spirit Bomb.
• Mistaken for Gay: Bonus points for it coming from Goku of all people.
  Freeza: I'm going to drown you. I'm going to drown you like a sack of dumb puppies.
  Goku: What?! Why would you drown puppies?!
  Freeza: Because they're cute and cuddly!
  Goku: Are... you coming on to me?
• Moral Myopia: Despite his extensive history of Fantastic Racism towards the "Saiyan monkeys" and many other species he views as beneath him, he's genuinely shocked and offended to see Cell in "whiteface", without even a hint of self-awareness.
• Moving the Goalposts: Freeza has a habit of making deals and quickly expanding his demands or just outright breaking them once he has what he wants. As a result, the heroic stock phrase that's heard the most is "That wasn't part of our deal." at five hundred times.
• Nested Mouths: He has one in his third form, highlighting its similar appearance to a Xenomorph.
• Never Heard That One Before: He has a mental list of every heroic phrase he's heard in his time wiping out planets after Bardock delivers a heroic speech full of clichés. The only ones that he's genuinely never heard before were "Imma deck you in the schnoz" and "I'm going to break you, like a Kit Kat bar".
• Nigh-Invulnerability:
  Freeza: By the way? Not dead. KthxDIE!^note This is after being hit by a Spirit Bomb that had to be at least a kilometer wide
• Non Sequitur, *Thud*: Right after he gets bisected by his own attack, he has this to say.
  Freeza: Daddy I don't want to be on Namek anymore.
• Noodle Incident:
  • While explaining how he tallies up certain lines in heroic speeches, he implies that he's heard the line "We're going to f*ck your face!" on eleven occasions prior to Namek.
  • He also has knowledge of the "Jock Strap Incident". According to Freeza, he had Ginyu dig some holes, and there was a big red ball involved.
• No Social Skills: Episode 9 of HFIL reveals that, on top of his Spoiled Brat behavior, Freeza also has no concept of a "social life" due to being bogged down by maintaining his father's empire; thus, when he is unable to rely on his intimidation factor to move pieces around, Freeza actually has no recourse or frame of reference to understand people to a normal capacity.
• Not So Stoic: Freeza is usually very confident due to his overwhelming power, but when something gets out of control and he can do nothing about it his normal arrogant and condescending demeanour breaks and he loses his cool.
  • When Vegeta makes off with the Dragon Balls.
    Freeza: [to Zarbon] Vegeta! Dragon Balls! NOW!!!
  • Also when Nail was taunting him.
    Freeza: I WILL F*CKING MURDER YOU!
  • After trying to contact the Ginyu Force, he finds out they're dead.
    Freeza: Oh, they're dead... WHY ARE THEY DEAD!?
  • Appears to be evolving into a Villainous Breakdown as of Episode 25.
    Freeza: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm usually far more composed. I'm just a little bit ABSOLUTELY LIVID.
• Oh, Crap!: Freeza, after he completely forgot about it and letting it slowly descend onto him, is actually shocked that a filthy monkey could get so much energy that it absorbs his Death Ball, his strongest attack.
  Freeza: Oh. Somehow I completely forgot about that.
  Spirit Bomb: [As it absorbs Freeza's Death Ball] OM NOM NOM
  Freeza: [softly in shock] Oh my god...
• Parental Title Characterization: His nature as a whiny, spoiled brat is only reinforced by him constantly calling King Cold, "daddy".
• Pet the Dog: Intended to send gifts to the families of the deceased Ginyu Force and quietly mourns Zarbon's death for a moment. Also, despite threatening Zarbon and Dodoria multiple times he still spares their lives, and allows Zarbon to interrupt him during a very important call without murdering him on the spot. For a Bad Boss like Freeza, that's shocking.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He retains his racist jokes towards Saiyans from his source counterpart, and takes pleasure with insulting them in the most creative way possible. Averted in the case of gays, which he seems to avoid trying to sound offensive in front of Zarbon... at least, while in front of Zarbon, as when he's alone with Ginyu after Zarbon is long dead, he's not ashamed to start making assumptions and sneer remarks towards his "perceived" sexuality.
• Power Makes Your Voice Deep: His second form has a much deeper voice than his first. This is subverted in his later forms.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • At one point decided to try showing mercy to children just to get everyone to stop complaining. He soon decided that this wasn't worth the trouble, and went back to killing them. Given the sadistic glee he shows when torturing and murdering children (Or ordering others to do so), he almost certainly didn't spare them out of the kindness of his heart.
  • He is furious when his most loyal minions are killed. ...Because good minions are hard to come by and NOW he has to send their families something and it's such a hassle, you know? He has no problem killing the useless or rebellious ones.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: A passion of his. Gets annoyed when Goku doesn't understand and/or pay attention to them.
• Psychopathic Man Child: Unlike the sophisticated tyrant he was portrayed as in the original (Linda Young notwithstanding), Abridged Freeza's personality is more like that of a bored rich kid who gets off on shooting civilians.
• Retconning the Wiki: Freeza is pretty petty about his treatment of the Saiyans.
  • "Stupid monkeys hit by falling rocks. Ha Ha Ha Ha.^note Not Death Ball thrown by Freeza"
  • "P.S. Freeza rules you."
• Royal "We": During his suddenly reappearance in the 2017 Christmas Special.
  Freeza: That's right, monkeys. We have returned for our revenge!
  Gohan: Is that, like, the royal we, or...?
  Freeza: Yes! Also, no.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Cooler's Manly Man. When it comes to their father, however, he's the Manly Man.
• Shoot the Medic First: First thing he does when he hears Dende calling himself the White Mage? Shoots the White Mage.
• Sibling Rivalry: He has this with Cooler. Whenever Cooler comes up Freeza is very quick to claim that he is a prick.
• Sissy Villain: Downplayed. Compared to the canon version, he is less flamboyant, has a slightly deeper voice, and becomes enraged whenever someone mistakes him for wearing lipstick.
  • On the other hand, he did enjoying playing "Pretty Pink Princess" during his childhood.
• Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: Freeza invokes this, but it doesn't take.
  Freeza: If I'm really as evil as you say I am, then let God strike me down where I stand.
  [Gets struck by lightning]
  Freeza: Ha! Nice try, jackass! Next time give it your A-game!
• Smug Super: He's stronger than the heroes during the Namek Saga, and clearly enjoys showing off his transformations.
• Snake Talk: He devolves into this upon transforming into his third form. With even more of a Marik-like inflection and a German accent to boot.
• The Sociopath:
  Freeza: [while torturing Gohan] So, Vegeta, does this get you angry?
  Vegeta: Not really, kind of a smartass.
  Freeza: Well then, why am I even bothering?!
  Vegeta: Because... you get off on it?
  Freeza: Oh, unbelievably.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: At least until he gets angry.
• Son of an Ape: As in the source material, "dirty monkey" is his go-to insult for Saiyans.
• Spoiled Brat: His father spoiled him rotten and he was one of the most powerful beings in the universe before his death. This left him with the belief that everything existed to conform to his wants. Even in HFIL (where he's been stripped of all his powers and authority), he continues to act like he's the only one who actually matters, despite the fact this very clearly isn't the case.
• Stock Phrases:
  • Keeps a mental list of how many times he's heard certain lines. Examples of such lines and how many times he's heard them:
    • "We're here to stop this senseless slaughter of our people." 92 times
    • "This has gone on for too long and now, you're going to pay" 355 times
    • "And we are the ones who will stop you." 419 times
    • "You insane bastard." 190 times
    • "We're going to F**K YOUR FACE!" 12 times
    • "That wasn't part of our deal." 500 times
  • He finally hears a new one in episode 27. From Goku, no less.
    Goku: So, are you that Freezer guy?
    Freeza: I am Lord Freeza, yes.
    Goku: Awesome! Imma deck you in the schnoz.
    [beat]
    Freeza: I-I'm sorry, that's a new one.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He quotes this trope verbatim. Being around Goku, who can blame him?
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: After failing to blow up Namek, Freeza guesstimates that the planet will blow up in five minutes, hesitating for a moment before telling Goku.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: He expects his subjects and minions to address him as "Lord Freeza". When he is in a funk in episode 8 of HFIL and Dodoria is trying to cheer him up, he permits Dodoria to address him as "Lord".
• Toxic Friend Influence: In HFIL, though "friend" is a real stretch. Freeza is clearly hampering the progress of other HFIL residents by cowing them into doing nasty things just like he did when he was alive.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Gleefully lampshades the fact that the heroes have allowed him to power up and transform multiple times in Episode 30.
• Undignified Death: Not as a result of how he was killed, but by whom he was killed. In episode 3 of HFIL, Cell reveals to Freeza that he knows who killed Freeza and it's the one thing more embarassing than Goku's pre-teen son - Vegeta's teenage son, Trunks. The idea that it was Vegeta's child who killed him is very troubling to Freeza, who had previously mocked Cell for being killed by Goku's son and both of whom had given most of the other residents of HFIL flak for being killed by Vegeta, and he's left rather confused when Cell decides not to spread this information to the other Infinite Losers. It's clear that of the two, both consider being killed by Gohan less humiliating than being killed by Trunks, because they both have some degree of respect for Goku as a fighter and neither has any for Vegeta.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Much like in the original, Goku gives him energy to escape Namek, yet Freeza still attempts to kill him.
• Viewer Gender Confusion:
  • Seems to cause this in-universe, especially with Krillin;
    Krillin: Looks like a total F.A.G.
    Gohan: Krillin!
    Krillin: What? A Freaky Alien Genotype. What did you think I meant?
    Gohan: Ohhh... I thought you were calling him a derogatory term to refer to a homosexual.
    Krillin: THAT THING'S A GUY??!!
  • Turns into a Brick Joke in Episode of Bardock where Chilled, Freeza's ancestor, has this to say when he hears Freeza's name.
    Chilled: I don't know who this Freeza is, but he sounds like a classy lady!
• Villain Ball:
  • As per Rule of Funny, Freeza really needs to lay off the SpaceTwitter:
    lol blewed up filthy monkey planet
  • He forgot about Goku's humongous Spirit Bomb because Piccolo provoked him into a fight whilst Goku charged it. He only gets reminded of it when it's far too late to actually do anything about it.
    Freeza: Oh. Somehow I completely forgot about that.
• Villainous BSoD: When Future Trunks kills him, he has a literal blue screen of death as he dies. Said BSOD also reveals he's running on Windows '95, which explains his lack of RAM and his Electronic Speech Impediment.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • Freeza had a few brief moments of this, but it really started when he met Goku and it snowballed from there. After he finishes beating down Piccolo, Freeza is clearly off the deep end.
    Freeza: You know, I think I have an instafix for this situation; I'm going to blow you and this whole miserable planet to NOTHING! ISN'T THAT FUN?! (Manic Giggling)
  • The really amazing thing is that it's not because Goku is beating him or managing to No-Sell his attacks, though that's not helping. It's simply trying to make sense of Goku's mind.
    Freeza: That's stupid. You're stupid! Stop being stupid!
    Goku: Or... maybe I'm just being rhetorical.
    Freeza: NO!! No, you're not! God, it's like you just use words you've heard randomly to try and sound smarter!
    Goku: Ha! Well, now you're just being transcendent.
  • And he's finally snapped as of 30 in facing a Super Saiyan.
    Freeza: I OWN you! I own your planet! I own this planet! In fact, F*CK THIS PLANET!
  • And in the second part:
    Freeza: Daddy, I don't want to be on Namek anymore...
  • Once Future Trunks goes Super Saiyan.
    Freeza: No. No. No! NO!! NO!!! Kill!!! Murder!!! Destroy!!! EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!!
  • Lampshaded in Episode 25.
    Freeza: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm usually far more composed. I'm just a little bit ABSOLUTELY LIVID.
  • Cell tells him after losing a game of dodgeball that the Saiyan who killed him was Vegeta's son. As Cell points out, he never lies, but Cell decides to keep it to himself so that Freeza will forever know that he was killed by the son of Vegeta.
• Villainous BSoD: Freeza has this in HFIL Episode 10 the moment he learns that not only did Cell, whom he deeply hates, managed to kill not only Goku, but Trunks as well, the Saiyan who killed him. It was so much that it was the last straw for his declination to go with his father to the other HFIL, downright robbing him of any motivation that day.
• Villainous Crossdresser: According to his Father he likes playing "Pretty Pink Princess".
  Freeza: I haven't done that since I was eight-eight-eight-eight- *Bzzzt* -my quinceañera.^note Part of this joke may go sailing over the heads of those who live in places where Latino culture isn't well-known: a quinceañera is a coming-of-age party, a bit like a bat mitzvah (or a sweet 16 party) except that it's a) not explicitly religious in nature (though sometimes religious elements are incorporated), b) it's held on or near the fifteenth birthday rather than the thirteenth (or 16th), and c) is for teenaged Latino girls.
• Villain Has a Point: Of all villains, you'd never expect Freeza of all people to explain why Wouldn't Hurt a Child isn't really a good trope to use when you're an evil ruler.
  Freeza: I've already tried leaving them alive, but all they do is grow up under my rule or dedicate their pathetic lives to revenge. Usually both. Really, killing them is a kindness. I can retract that kindness if you'd like, but then who's the villain?
• Villain's Dying Grace: In Kai Abridged Episode 2, he tells Goku where his ship is after being cut in half. Subverted, since he actually survives the events of Namek.
• Villain Song: "Just Give Up", a parody of "You'll Be Back" about what a brutal tyrant he is.
• Vocal Evolution: At the end of Episode 26 when he reaches his final form, his voice becomes somewhere in-between his first and second forms. He has the tone of the first form, but the smooth sound of the second, which has been the character's voice for the rest of the series.
• Volleying Insults: Any conversation he has with Cooler will inevitably turn into this.
• Wicked Cultured: Briefly gives a Dark Reprise of My Favorite Things after he transforms. In Bardock: Father of Goku, he tunes out Bardock's speech, wondering what kind of wine to have with dinner.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Freeza claims to have spared children in the past, but they in turn either want to kill him out of Revenge (which obviously will get them killed) or grow up under his rule. Usually both, apparently.
    Freeza: Oh please, everyone's always on about the children. I already tried leaving them alive, but all they do is grow up under my rule or dedicate their pathetic lives to revenge. Usually both. Really, killing them is a kindness. I can retract that kindness if you wish, but then who's the villain?
  • When Vegeta told him Gohan didn't mean anything to him, Freeza asked why then was he bothering torturing him. Vegeta suggests it's because he gets off on it.
    Freeza: Oh, unbelievably.
• Xenomorph Xerox: Just like canon, Freeza's third form is a blatant reference to the Aliens, and TFS waste no time in poking fun at it. This version even comes with a Nested Mouth.

  Piccolo: I think Ridley Scott's going to sue somebody.

• You Are Number 6:
  • Reinforces his Bad Boss treatment of his men by addressing one Mook as "Minion 43". Then using said mook for the Blofeld Ploy.
  • He applies it on a planetary scale, every planet he acquires gets renamed Freeza Planet (number). He doesn't even number them sequentially; he just comes up with a random number for each planet.
• Youngest Child Wins: He is spoiled rotten by his father King Cold, pretty much being allowed whatever he wants and sees ruling the universe as a game to play instead of a responsibility. Meanwhile, the older son Cooler doesn’t get any of the special treatment that Freeza does, despite being the true heir to the empire and being stronger and more responsible than his little brother.
• You're Insane!: When a Namekian calls him this in his debut, he calmly notes he has heard that 190 times.

King Cold

"See, nothing nefarious, I just want to inspect the craftsmanship, admire the temper, test its edge out on you, you insubordinate hick!"

Voiced by: Ben "hbi2k" Creighton (DBZA), DevilArtemis (HFIL)

Freeza and Cooler's father, and the king of the Cold Empire. Somewhat more affable than Freeza, but still responsible for the Planet Trade Organization.

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• Abusive Parents: An (offscreen) conversation between Cooler and Goku hints at this. It seems that most of Cold's abusive parenting is directed towards Cooler.
  • It can be interpreted that he's harder on Cooler, his oldest son, in order to make him strong enough to be a worthy heir to the empire.
  • Or that he's engaging in abuse of the emotional variety by constantly making Cooler The Unfavorite while pampering Freeza.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the original manga and anime, Cold showed no reaction to his own son being killed in front of him, instead promptly offering to make Trunks his new heir. In Abridged, he's genuinely distraught. Additionally, he was implied to be abusive to both Freeza and Cooler in canon, but this version seems to only be harsh to Cooler and dotes on Freeza.
  • HFIL establishes that King Cold graduated from the cul-de-sac, and his rehabilitation was considered so successful that he was put in a supervisory role over Goz and Mez. However, clues soon pile up pointing to this only being a ruse.
• Adaptation Name Change: According to Cooler, his full name is Ice Cold. Given Japanese naming conventions and Goku's own name, Ice might be the family name.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Cold reveals that Freeza used to play "Pretty Pink Princess" and he was so cute doing it. Freeza angrily clarifies he hasn't done that since he was "eight-eight-eight-eight-my quinceañera."^note A quinceañera is a (specifically female) coming-of-age ceremony celebrated in Latin America, something like a sweet sixteen. Traditionally it's held on the girl's fifteenth birthday (hence the name), though the important part is that it's the symbolic transition into womanhood, so Freeza's implied eighteenth birthday quinceañera makes at least a modicum of sense.
• Bad Boss: More subtle than Freeza, but Cold doesn't really care to see his men being massacred by Future Trunks and is only bothered when Freeza kills one himself because it was the last minion and they, nobility, don't fly ships (that's for the help!).
  • Even in HFIL he shows signs of not being too pleasant to be around since he imposes himself on Mez and Goz and forces them to tag along a very awkward and tense dinner with his sons, Cell and Bojack. He also seems largely unconcerned about the entire house burning down as result of Recoome's catastrophic failure in their kitchen.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: When he meets Freeza in the nude in the Cold Open of HFIL Episode 8, he states that there's nothing there. Literally.
  Freeza: I still have so many questions.
• Character Development: Compared to his canon counterpart. Despite being the Greater-Scope Villain, King Cold appeared in only four episodes of DBZ, and only two in DBZA, before being rather abruptly killed off. However, HFIL significantly fleshes out his character more, to the point where he's hinted to be the show's Big Bad.
• Combat Pragmatist: In his only onscreen fight he convinces Trunks to lend his sword under the pretense he wants to admire it, while barely concealing his rage, since he knows a Super Saiyan Trunks is not to be triffled with, and then tries to suddenly cut him down. Unfortunately for King Cold this ends up being his undoing.
• Doting Parent: To Freeza, so freaking much. To Cooler, not so much.
• Do You Want to Haggle?: With Trunks over Cold's own life.
• The Dreaded: Goz and Mez regard him as this, not so much because of his past deeds or personality but because he is effectively their boss.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Unlike the original series, King Cold actually is angry after Trunks kills his son, sort of:
  King Cold: You MURDERED my PRINCESS! Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
  Trunks: Children?
  King Cold: Yeah.
  Trunks: Ok-kay, sort of thought you'd be a little more pissed.
  King Cold: [genially] Oh, blindingly so. Mind if I see your sword?
• Evil Overlord: Seems to be the supreme authority in charge of the Empire that his family, including Freeza, runs.
• Expy: His first appearance is one to the end of Revenge of the Sith, with Freeza as Vader and Cold as Palpatine.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Freeza's rule was actually in his name.
• Innocently Insensitive: In HFIL, King Cold seems to have a warped view on the subject of race, but is trying to be more respectful alongside trying to get Freeza to follow suit, albeit in clumsy ways like calling green the "normal" skin color due to galactic population statistics and conflating space-ethnicities when talking to Guldo.
• It's All My Fault: In HFIL he outright states to Cell that he believes that he is, in a variety of ways, responsible for the deaths of everyone in the cul-de-sac and how they went to Hell in the first place. In a way, he's not wrong - nearly everyone in HFIL was an employee of his planet trade organization, one of his progeny, or Cell, who has Freeza and Cold's DNA and some of their personality traits in him, and thus became such a huge threat partly because of that. The only exceptions are Guru (who was sent to HFIL for his genocide of the albino Namekians, which predates Freeza's invasion ^note  and his final death came at the hands of the other Namekians once they found out, so Freeza can't even be blamed for his death) and Bojack, who has no involvement with Freeza's empire at all.
• Large and in Charge: Probably one of the largest characters in the series, not counting the Eternal Dragons. Fittingly, he's a Galactic Conqueror.
• Only Sane Man: Points out after Freeza kills the last man of their squadron, that they needed one alive to fly the ship. He then goes to call Space AAA.
  • Lessened somewhat when Freeza says that he can fly the ship, only for him to reply that they don't fly themselves, that being a job for their minions.
• Man Behind the Man: HFIL episode 9 has Freeza confirm that he barely does anything himself for the empire, his father running most of the operation. Cell also restates to him that Freeza is the ruler of the Galactic Trade Organization because King Cold said so. Ultimately, Freeza's role appears to be more of a figurehead in the grand scheme of things, where Cold is still the actual emperor.
• Mole in Charge: After his death. Despite being promoted to a middle-management position in the Celestrial Bureaucracy after graduating from HFIL, clues begin to pile up that his rehabilitation is a ruse and that he is conspiring with Dr. Gero for evil ends.
• Must Have Caffeine: HFIL shows him to be quite fond of coffee, to the point of drinking multiple cups in a row in episode 8.
• Non Sequitur, *Thud*: After he finishes reading a story during the HFIL Holiday Special, he spouts one of these, which Freeza believes he's having a stroke.
  Freeza: ...Daddy, are you having a stroke?
  King Cold: (rises from his seat) Happy barfel-blah!
  (King Cold keels over)
  Freeza: Oh my god!
• Papa Wolf: Double Subverted. At first he tries to play the death of his son off as a minor inconvenience, but he readily admits he is blisteringly angry beneath the veneer. So much so that he tries looking for a way to strike back without retaliation.
• Parental Favoritism: It is clearly indicated that he much prefers Freeza over Cooler. While he dotes on Freeza, he treats Cooler with a palable ammount of passive-aggressiveness.
  Freeza: [to Cooler] What about you? I doubt you're suddenly a model citizen.
  Cold: He could be doing better...
  Cooler: [not bothering to hide his sarcasm] Oh, sorry, father. Not all of us can drop in and immediately sweep management off their feet.
  Cold: It's fine. I know what to expect.
  Cooler: Oh, how I've missed this...
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He's an elitist, as shown when he claims flying the ship isn't what he and his son should do, but rather what minions are for.
• Phrase Catcher: In HFIL, nearly everyone responds to King Cold with "Yes, Daddy!"
• Pragmatic Villainy: Contrasting his son, he manages to reach a managerial rank in Otherworld by putting on a convincing enough Heel–Face Turn (implied to be a fake one) to get everybody out of the many HFILs across Hell.
• Rage Breaking Point: Wants nothing nefarious with Trunks' sword, just to inspect the craftsmanship and admire the temper. And test the edge out on him.
• Sissy Villain: Much like Freeza, his campy and sissy qualities get played up.
• Sugary Malice: In HFIL, Cold tries to act a Benevolent Boss around Goz and Mez, frequently praising them for the effort they put into their work and their willingness to indulge his whims. It is at the same time made quite clear that Goz and Mez don't have much choice in the matter since Cold outranks them, and despite the facade he puts up, he is quite aware of it too.
• Too Dumb to Live: Tries to haggle over his own life. Poorly. He offers one then three and then two and a half planets, excusing it as him being "a haggler".
• Too Proud for Lowly Work: He insists that Freeza shouldn't fly the ship on the grounds that "flying is for the help."
• Tranquil Fury: Has an increasingly obvious one after Future Trunks kills Freeza.
• Upper-Class Twit: "Son, we do not fly ourselves, flying is for the help!".
• Verbal Backspace: When he asks Freeza to tell Zarbon to get some wood, he backtracks that and asks him to use the word "lumber" instead.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In Dragon Ball Z Kai Episode 3, he arrives on Earth with Freeza, and Trunks cuts Freeza in half but we never see what happened to King Cold.

Cooler

See "Revenge of Cooler Abridged" in Dragon Ball Z Abridged - Movies.

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Zarbon

Voiced by: Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs

"Okay, Vegeta, I'm going to be straight with you. This is sounding really gay."

One of Freeza's personal henchmen, Zarbon is even more effeminate than his boss. That's the joke.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: In canon, he was Freeza's advisor, and had a bit of Properly Paranoid. Here, Freeza has to spell things out for him to get his point across.
• Adaptational Wimp: He fares worse than his canon counterpart during his second fight with Vegeta. In canon, Vegeta actually uses dirt to blind him and have an advantage, and even then Zarbon manages to put up a fight. Abridged Zarbon is one-shot by Vegeta after transforming.
• Agent Peacock: Flamboyant and constantly speaks in Double Entendre, but he's one of Freeza's top enforcers and, after transforming, he utterly thrashes Vegeta, who still eclipses Gohan and Krillin in power, in their first confrontation.
• Anti-Villain: Implied to be Trapped in Villainy. He only seems to be interested in fulfilling his job as Freeza's right-hand man and staying alive for obeying him.
• Brainless Beauty: Although he's quite competent in a fight, Freeza has to sometimes slowly spell things out for him and explain the implications of his actions.
• Camp Straight: He claims to have a girlfriend, though Freeza is convinced "she" is named Chuck. Vegeta isn't convinced either. Word of God in the form of a comment in the 10th Anniversary marathon livestream reveals that, yes, he does have a girlfriend; she's Princess Snake, from Snake Way.
  Zarbon: Maybe I'm gay, or maybe stereotypes are BULLSHIT!
• Character Tics: He's constantly blurting out Double Entendre that makes everyone, including Freeza, wonder about his sexual orientation and get him Mistaken for Gay. By HFIL he's fully aware he does it and has to make a conscious effort to avoid them.
• Depraved Homosexual: Subverted. Vegeta and the other henchmen get this impression from him, even though Zarbon is actually straight. On the other hand, Zarbon points out that his transformed self is completely different from his normal self in every way. With that taken into consideration, transformed Zarbon is this trope.
  Zarbon: IMMA RAPE YA BITCH!
• Double Entendre: Lives off these, especially in his first form. Amusingly, he ends up realizing that he’s doing this constantly while in HFIL, and is actively trying his best to stop that. Emphasis on trying. Turns out as of the third episode that they may trigger his monster form transformation.
• The Dragon: To Freeza.
• Effeminate Misogynistic Guy: He has little to say about Dodoria's death except for the adage that you never send a woman to do a man's job. As flamboyant as he is, however, his misogyny has nothing to do with homosexuality or envy of women since he's straight.
• Elite Mook: He's clearly a cut above the standard Freeza goon and is capable of turning into a monstrous form, the same form which he uses to demolish a Vegeta that had his power boosted after his near death battle on Earth.
• Expy: Of Abridged Pegasus. Both are very campy, yet dangerous villains who are revealed not to actually be gay since they have a female love interest.
• Heh Heh, You Said "X": Episode 10 of HFIL has him gleefully milking this trope for all it's worth at any given chance which really annoys Mez.
• Hypocritical Humor: When Vegeta asks him whether Zarbon "did anything" to him while he was unconscious, and gets offended when the answer is a disgusted "no", Zarbon says the whole conversation sounds "really gay". Coming from the guy whose dialogue is two-thirds homoerotic innuendo...
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Him being straight was a semi-big reveal that genuinely surprised Freeza. Since HFIL takes place long after the Namek Saga, this is just common knowledge.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Has no clue that people think he's gay.
• Mistaken for Gay: Thanks to his completely obliviously constant use of Double Entendre and effeminate appearance. Ironically, he ends up mistaking Vegeta for gay at some point. Earlier by Freeza, who was surprised that Zarbon has a girlfriend, who decides to kill one of his soldiers to drop the subject.
  • Then in Kai abridged he says: "Maybe I'm gay, or maybe stereotypes are bullshit!" ^note "HMMMM!!"^note [monsters up] "PUSSY!"
• Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Says this verbatim when he's convinced Vegeta is gay.
• Platonic Life-Partners: As of HFIL, he and Dodoria have settled into this role with Goz and Mez describing them as their "favorite platonic power couple".
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Implied by his response to Vegeta's retort to having killed Dodoria.
  Zarbon: Never send a woman to do a man's job.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Possibly. Doesn't seem to enjoy killing the way Dodoria does, and one conversation with Freeza implies that he's practically Freeza's slave and would be slaughtered if he didn't do what Freeza says.
  Freeza: I'm starting to think that my people don't understand what I pay them for.
  Zarbon: You don't pay us—
  Freeza: Allow them to live for.
• Retirony: Sort of. His anniversary with his girlfriend was coming up shortly before he was killed. Though if the comment from the 10th Anniversary Marathon isn't a joke, then his girlfriend lives in a part of the afterlife anyway.
• Sarcasm-Blind: As seen in Bardock: Father of Goku. It's probably part of the reason why he was surprised to find out that everyone thought he was gay.
  Bardock: [from outside of the ship] FREEZAAAAAAAA!!!!!
  Zarbon: Sir, I think he wishes to have words.
  Freeza: What ever gave you that impression?
  Zarbon: Well, he does keep on shouting your name.
• Sissy Villain: Definitely. Even though it's revealed that Zarbon isn't gay and has a girlfriend^note though Freeza suspects her name is Chuck.
• That Came Out Wrong: Everyone seems to notice this and make a misassumption about his sexuality or are at very least weirded out by Zarbon's innuendos. This includes Freeza which leads to a very awkward (and hilarious) conversation.
• Trapped in Villainy: He's implied to be this, as Freeza doesn't pay his minions, he considers not killing them payment enough.
• Villain Respect: He claims it's too bad a dashing rogue like Bardock is going to die when Freeza goes off to prepare to kill him, the Saiyan race, and Planet Vegeta. Dodoria can only focus on the "dashing rogue" part.
• Wham Line: With regards to his character, at least. From Episode 17: "Well, I need to call my girlfriend."

Dodoria

Voiced by: Anthony "Antfish" Sardinha

"I really do like kids. They don't leave much of a mess."

Freeza's other personal henchman. Pink and brutal, it's easy to see why Dodoria is favored by him.

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Gets distracted by the sound of the majestic Space Duck.
• Brawn Hilda: Though she was regarded as the World's Most Beautiful Woman on her home planet (before Freeza blew it up).
• The Brute: Definitely plays the role of a big and brutal but somewhat dim underling, especially compared to the more attractive and stylish Zarbon.
• Butt-Monkey: There's one in every group. Dodoria is it for Freeza's personal posse. When Bardock finds his crew wasted he asks them if Freeza sent the Ginyu Force or Zarbon, Toma says no. With noticeable hesitation Bardock asks if it was Dodoria, and Toma simply apologizes.
• Dark Action Girl: A very powerful and malevolent fighter, and actually female.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In Bardock: The Father of Goku, Dodoria claims to be an "in-the-now kind of guy", despite not actually being a guy. Given that her gender is recognized by most of the cast sans Vegeta, it's unlikely any secrets were being actively kept, either.
• Elite Mook: Part of the upper echelon of Freeza's army and powerful enough to effortlessly kill Bardock's team and force Gohan and Krillin to run instead of fight.
• Faster Than They Look: Gohan assumes that Dodoria would be slow due to all that bulk. Gohan was very, very, wrong.
• Female Monster Surprise: Notice how she's not referred to in the third person except in spoiler tags.
• Gender Flip: In the original series Dodoria was male, but here she's female.
• Humiliation Conga: Dodoria gets Solar Flare'd and headbutted by Krillin, knocked around and brutalized by Vegeta, and finally vaporized while pathetically begging for her dear life. Of course given how much of a Sadist Dodoria is, this is all very deserved.
• Just a Stupid Accent: Speaks in a heavy Southern drawl much like Hol Horse, only a little deeper.
• The Lad-ette: Unlike the camp Zarbon and the slightly feminine Freeza, Dodoria is very much masculine (at least by human standards) and has no problems with getting her hands dirty among her male peers.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Like Zarbon being Camp Straight, Dodoria being a woman was a reveal meant to take someone (in this case, Vegeta) by complete surprise; in HFIL, her gender is casually brought up like it's no big deal. Justified in that Zarbon and Freeza (and possibly the Ginyu Force) all knew she was female from the start.
• Larynx Dissonance: Sounds like a man, though this may be a racial trait.
• Lightning Bruiser: Much to Gohan's surprise, Dodoria actually manages to catch up to him and Krillin.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Dodoria is more professional and to the point than the flamboyant Zarbon and the Faux Affably Evil Freeza, not playing around and being ruthlessly efficient when given a task as some namekians and Bardock's squad can attest.
• Pink Means Feminine: Averted. Despite being female, Dodoria has a very masculine personality.
• Platonic Life-Partners: As of HFIL, Dodoria and Zarbon have settled into this role with Goz and Mez describing them as their "favorite platonic power couple".
• Psycho for Hire: Massacres a whole team of Namekians without even batting an eye. And that's before killing a youngling, the village elder and almost killing Dende.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: In the second Kai Abridged episode.
  Dodoria: I have a thick. Meaty. Vagina.
• The Smurfette Principle: Is the only female member of Freeza's posse and later is also the only female in HFIL.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Vegeta is so disturbed by it that he kills Dodoria just to repress his knowledge of it.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about Dodoria without mentioning her gender.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: While unattractive by human standards, she was considered the most beautiful (and fertile) woman on her home planet... until Freeza blew it up.
• Would Hurt a Child: Dodoria takes note of some of the finer points of being an evil henchman.
  Dodoria: I really do like kids. They don't leave much of a mess.

Cui

Voiced by: Brandon "Vegeta3986" Rainsford (DBZA), Faulerro (Kai Abridged Episode 2)

"Well, I could have gotten here sooner, but I stopped on my way to plow YOUR mother!"

Purple guy. Hates Vegeta. Reproduces asexually.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: In canon, Cui was able to figure out that Vegeta was out for blood a lot sooner than Abridged Cui was. It makes his death even more humiliating as he had no chance at all to throw even a punch or ki blast.
• Adaptational Wimp: In canon, Cui was actually able to attempt to fight before getting curb-stomped by Vegeta. Here, he's killed as soon as he confronts Vegeta.
• Bizarre Alien Reproduction: His species reproduces asexually. We're not given any details, but according to Zarbon's reaction, it's rather gross.
• Butt-Monkey: Despite being well above the average Freeza soldier in terms of power he gets no respect and a rather undignified death at Vegeta's fingers. To top that not even his superior can be bothered to remember his name correctly.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Played for Laughs villainous example. After his death, his own allies always have troubles remembering his name when they want to talk about him (which they rarely do anyway).
• Hazy-Feel Turn: While it's certainly hard to tell if he's actually reformed, but the sheer fact he actually graduated from HFIL is an accomplishment (granted it might not be that impressive considering how bad the rest of the residents there are).
• Inconsistent Spelling: As a nod towards his different names depending on the dub, a Running Gag is that people can't remember his name, hesitating between Cui and Kiwi. The video descriptions also get on this gag, where in Episode 13 it's spelled as "Cui" but in Kai Abridged Episode 2 it is spelled "Kui" instead.
• Kick the Dog: His Your Mom insult to Vegeta, as he does it while knowing that Vegeta's mother is dead.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: "But-but I hate you! Why would I— AAAAAGGH!!!" [boom]
• Mauve Shirt: On par with Appule in terms of characterization.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Retroactively implied by HFIL. While he works for Freeza, apparently his biggest sin was that he hated Vegeta, and he's one of the few villains of HFIL who actually graduated, so he can't have done many truly evil things.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Attempts to lord himself over Vegeta but is easily outclassed and afterwards, people can only remember him as the guy who reproduces asexually (because he kept talking about it to everyone). The fact he didn't commit enough sins, with his biggest one was simply hating Vegeta, to stay in HFIL indicates that Freeza never even bothered to give him any important missions.
• Too Dumb to Live: Somehow doesn't see the fact that Vegeta is about to kill him coming, despite Vegeta's blatantly obvious hints.
• Your Mom: First a victim of this (but it backfired on Vegeta, since his species reproduces asexually), then the one who says the insult. It ends poorly for him.
• The Worf Effect: Just like his canon counterpart. His main purpose in the plot is to show that Vegeta got stronger.
• Written-In Absence: He is not present in HFIL, with Freeza mentioning that apparently his biggest sin was that he hated Vegeta. A camping trip photograph implies he used to be a resident of HFIL and may have graduated.

Namole

Voiced by: Blake "ShadowVox" Swift

"Private Namole, reporting!"

A private on Freeza's ship.

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• Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. In canon, Namole is shown to be cowering in fear in the presence of Freeza and is what gets him killed. Here, he seems to be at least enthusiastic about serving Freeza. Unfortunately...
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Freeza casually vaporizes him while he was still figuring out why he was called out for.
  "Private Namole reporting. An example of what Lord Freez—AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"
• Make an Example of Them: Despite by all means having done nothing wrong. Freeza uses him as an example of what would happen to Zarbon if he fails to bring back Vegeta to Freeza.
• You Are Number 6: Also known as Minion 43.

Appule

Voiced by: VegettoEX

"This one's for Eachpe..."

A technician on Freeza's ship. Plays video games while working.

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• Butt-Monkey: Appule is an even bigger Raditz than Raditz himself. Raditz wanted to keep him as a pet, but Bardock thought he'd accidentally kill him. Freeza shares this sentiment, stating that Appule can't even handle a shot of raspberry schnapps.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: If Freeza's opinion of him can be believed.
  Freeza: Appule!? You left Appule here [to guard Vegeta]?!
  Zarbon: Well I thought he could handle it...
  Freeza: Appule couldn't handle a shot of Raspberry Schnapps, much less Vegeta!
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His brother Eachpe, who was killed by Bardock over two decades ago. His last thoughts before being blasted off by Vegeta are for him.
  Appule: Here I come, Eachpe...
• Even Evil Has Standards: Zarbon's accidental(?) Double Entendres make him very uncomfortable.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Speaks in a low, raspy voice.
• Forehead of Doom: Said forehead is twice the length of his face.
• Mauve Shirt: He gets a few more lines and characterization than Freeza's ordinary Mooks before being axed by Vegeta.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He works for Freeza, but takes every opportunity to play video games instead of doing, you know, evil stuff.
• Sadist: He seems a bit too eager when thinking about how Zarbon is going to torture the information from Vegeta.
• Surveillance Station Slacker: He's supposed to monitor Vegeta's recovery, but plays video games instead.

Dr. Birdenheim

Voiced by: Lawrence "MasakoX" Simpson

"Now inject this man with some science.
Delicious, magical science!"

A doctor in charge of the medical facility of Freeza Planet 218.

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• Agent Scully: He doesn't believe in ghosts. Only in delicious, magical science.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Vegeta rips his liver out.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: He continues making comments about Vegeta's bisected tail, despite Vegeta being way stronger than him. It doesn't end well.
• Innocently Insensitive: He doesn't realize that Vegeta doesn't appreciate him insisting on the loss of his tail. He ends up paying dearly for it.
  Dr. Birdenheim: We have to apologize, though. We... couldn't save your tail.
  Vegeta: It's alright, I can live without it.
  Dr. Birdenheim: If you call that living! You'd walk around, the shell of your former self. People calling you a tailless freak!
  Vegeta: You know, I could probably kill all of you and Freeza wouldn't care...
  Dr. Birdenheim: Yeah, but that still wouldn't get your tail back...
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: When he says "His heart rocket is skyrating," one of the mooks present try to correct him, where he responds with "I'm a doctor, not an English teacher!"
• Mauve Shirt: He gets just enough characterization to set him apart from nameless Mooks, but that's it.
• The Medic: He's in charge of the medical facility of Freeza Planet 218.
• Named by the Adaptation: Only called "Medical Doctor" in canon.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's a doctor, who's also working for Freeza.
• Too Dumb to Live: Apparently, he doesn't see the threat coming when Vegeta asks him what his favorite internal organ is, then starts walking menacingly towards him. Even though Vegeta just mentioned a few seconds ago that he could kill him and Freeza wouldn't care.
• Uncertain Doom: Vegeta rips his liver out, but we don't know if he killed him. Given the "delicious, magical science" wielded in the healing tanks, he might have a chance to be healed.

The Ginyu Force / "Elite Senshi Ginyu Tokusentai"

The Ginyu Force in General

"If trouble meets us as we pass, WE'LL SHOVE OUR FISTS RIGHT UP THEIR ASS!"

Freeza's elite squadron, and a quirky gang of mercenaries with a great camaraderie.

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• Affably Evil: They're a rather fun and likable group, as well as being shown in something of a tragic light when they die.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Two of them, Burter and Guldo, are shown in a tragic light when they die. Guldo dies contemplating his life and what will become of him once he dies, only to have Vegeta throw a dog-treat at him and none of his team cares, not even Ginyu. Burter's death is built up with him talking about his insecurities about not feeling special, then Jeice reassures him that Burter is his best friend and that once they're done fighting Goku they'll go to Space Denny's. Their touching moment is cut short when Goku attacks Burter when he's off guard, leaving Jeice to believe that Burter was just murdered in front of him. Jeice then tearfully says "You just killed me best mate!" and proclaims that he and Ginyu will avenge Burter. When Goku reveals that he never killed Burter (and Recoome), Vegeta mercilessly snaps his neck and shoots Recoome dead.
• Ass-Kicking Pose: Their famous "Super Sentai" Stance and various solo poses have carried over into the abridged series.
• Badass Boast: They get a pretty good one in during their introductory episode, even if their only audience is Freeza:
  Burter: Speed of light and strength of all!
  Recoome: The Ginyu Force will make them fall!
  Jeice: Lord King Cold's army's strongest force!
  Guldo: We'll beat them all, secure the course!
  Ginyu: If trouble meets us as we pass...
  All: WE'LL SHOVE OUR FISTS RIGHT UP THEIR ASS!
  Ginyu: Ginyu Force!
  All: MOVE OUT! [All fly off]
  [beat]
  [Freeza stares bewildered, before smirking and turning on his new scouter's Theme Music]
• Badass Crew: Despite being more quirky than the original versions they still manage to pull this off.
• Beware the Silly Ones: They're even bigger goofballs than they were in the original series, but they're still a big enough threat to make even Vegeta call for assistance.
• Cloudcuckoolanders
• The Dreaded: Vegeta's reaction when he finds out they're on Namek says it all. Even Bardock was terrified of them: the Ginyu Force were the first assailants that came to mind when he saw most of his crew slaughtered, before Zarbon and Dodoria.
• Demoted to Extra: In Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged, they only had 5 seconds of screentime before being killed by Goku crashing his ship on them.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: In Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged Episode 2 while Killed Mid-Sentence.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Their other name, which translate to something like "Elite Warrior Ginyu Action Squad"
• The Ham Squad: Even moreso than in canon. They not only have poses here, but also motivational cheers they do before beginning their missions.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Burter and Jeice come off as these. Though Burter is apparently gay according to Guldo, albeit without any apparent romantic interest in Jeice.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Guldo has major Inferiority Superiority Complex issues, as well as Burter of all people, who uses his claim at being the fastest to hide the fact he has absolutely nothing special about him.
  • They're apparently skilled architects, as they personally constructed all the buildings in HFIL.
• Hostile Show Takeover: Downplayed version. The show's normal intro sequence is replaced with the Ginyu force's theme song and posing sequence.
• Incoming Ham: Their arrival on Namek, with their theme song in crescendo as their ships land, followed by all five of them simultaneously announcing "We're heeeeeeeere!"^note Jeice: "Mates!"
• Laser-Guided Karma: Collectively they're on the giving and receiving end of this trope. On the one hand, they beat the crap out of Vegeta, who's even more of a Jerkass than canon. On the other, we still get scenes of them beating the crap out of a Woobie like Gohan, so Goku and Vegeta killing them all feels more like karma than anything else.
• Laughably Evil: Sure they're a band of killers who wouldn't hesitate to, say, kill a hopelessly outclassed child on behalf of a bloodthirsty galactic tyrant, but their antics and quirks are damn funny. That almost all of them have sympathetic moments also helps.
• Mistaken for Gay: By the main crew when they get to King Kai's planet.
  Chiaotzu: They look like a bunch of queers.
  Tien: Chiaotzu! We don't even know them! You shouldn't make such rash judgements about—
  [The Ginyu Force theme plays, and they all pose]
  Tien: [staring bewildered] Well... we shouldn't think less of them for it.
• Product Placement: Lots and lots of this, mostly for Spaceys. It's good food In Space.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: Even quirkier than their source counterparts. And considering what they were like... That's saying a lot.
• Shaking the Rump: As revealed in HFIL Episode 1, the Ginyu Force have taken quite a shine to twerking during their stay in hell.
• Show Within a Show:
  • They set up a TV segment called Wheel of Death... while deciding who gets to kill who.
  • Also, Namekimania.
  • Their episodes also get their own Sentai Show title sequence and theme tune with Gratuitous Japanese voiceover. They even get a message from the sponsor afterward!
• Sympathetic Murderers: While they are a squad of hired killers, they are the most sympathetic villains after the androids. Frankly, they can even be considered more sympathetic than several of the "heroic" characters, especially if we're stretching the label of heroic to fit Vegeta.
• True Companions: Mainly Burter and Jeice. All four are shown to have it when they show up on King Kai's planet with more visible vibes of this.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Averted when Freeza tries to think of a way to break the news about their deaths to their respective families, including giving their families gifts.

Captain Ginyu

Voiced by: Anthony "Antfish" Sardinha

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: In this version, he was legitimately fond of his men (minus Guldo) to the point of needing a moment to grieve their deaths. In canon he was upset at their deaths, but not remotely close to being as moved.
• Adaptational Villainy: An ambiguous instance for the frog he body swapped with. The fact that his body appears in HFIL and Guldo is telling the Cassandra Truth about the fact that a frog is inhabiting said body implies that there might be some credence to the idea Jeice dismisses as ridiculous, namely, that the frog he switched bodies with is also evil. Obviously, the original version of the series had nothing to suggest that the frog was anything more than an animal and had any sort of morality. Subverted with episode 6 revealing it to be nothing more than a clerical error that was never corrected as nobody wanted to take responsibility.
• Ambiguous Situation: In HFIL, he acts like a frog. There is discussion in-universe on whether he suffered a mental breakdown due to the traumatic events on Namek, or if he's actually the frog he swapped bodies with (one apparently evil enough to be sent to HFIL). The Ogres drop the Internal Reveal that it's the frog's soul in Episode 6 while the real Ginyu is put through the soul scrubber.
• Battle Butler: He presents himself as this in speech and personality. He would gladly polish Freeza's boots, if he wore any.
• Berserk Button: Do not insult Captain Ginyu's poses.
  Captain Ginyu: I realize these poses in an effort to invigorate my men and raise morale! HOW DARE YOU MOCK THEM?!
• Cloudcuckoolander: Poses aside, his reaction to the news of Burter's death is both shock and disappointment... for the latter it's because the force no longer had a yin-yang duo.
  Jeice: He was a valued teammate. Strong, fast, and-
  Ginyu: And blue!
  Jeice: ...Pardon, Cap'n?
  Ginyu: Blue. And tall! and you're so red, and short! It was the perfect little yin-yang thing we had going.
• The Bus Came Back: Zig-zagged. After his last appearance in Episode 23 of the abridged series, Ginyu makes a return in HFIL, albeit only his body made it, with the frog's soul inhabiting it. Guldo is the only one to come to this conclusion, while Jeice and Recoome assume he was psychologically traumatised to the point of mental regression. Episode 6 formally reveals that Guldo was correct in that Ginyu accidentally body swapped with a Frog. The real Ginyu appears in the stinger of the same episode where he is put through the soul scrubber since he was stuck in the Frog's body.
• Deadpan Snarker: It doesn't happen very often, though he tends to get snide when things start to go badly.
  Captain Ginyu: Jeice! If you're not too busy standing there like a slack-jawed idiot, I could use your help!
• Death by Adaptation: Got squished to death by Vegeta rather than be allowed to be trapped in his frog form. Following the release of Dragon Ball Super, this becomes a case of Dies Differently in Adaptation as Ginyu manages to get a new body before being obliterated by Vegeta there.
• Death of Personality: Since the body he was trapped in was nothing more powerful than the average frog, Captain Ginyu is put in the Soul Scrubber for reincarnation, both fundamentally changing who he is and wiping out any chance of him appearing in the series ever again.
• The Dragon: After Zarbon bites it, Ginyu succeeds him as Freeza's right-hand man.
• Didn't Think This Through: Swapping bodies with Goku. He thought he could get hold of a power level stronger than his own, only for him to be trapped in a body unaccustomed to his personal fighting techniques, as Ginyu/Goku pointed out he was that strong because of his own techniques. And then Ginyu tried to demand to know Goku's techniques in the middle of a fight.
• Eccentric Mentor: To the rest of the team. Best shown in his fight with Goku.
  Goku: Is he okay?
  Jeice: Oh, the captain? Yeah, he just does that sometimes.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Tries to hold a Moment of Silence for his fallen comrades. Vegeta doesn't let him.
• Evil Brit: Unlike other versions, he has a slight accent to him.
• A Father to His Men: Unlike his canon counterpart, he genuinely cares for his teammates (except Guldo), and is quite shocked when they're killed.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Subverted. For the first three episodes of HFIL as none of the Ginyus even mention him despite him being part of their villainous True Companions, but then in episode 4 we find out he's been there all along, offscreen and acting like a frog. The Ginyu Force can't decide if he is the original Captain Ginyu so traumatized by his death that he reverted to a feral state, or the frog he swapped bodies with (the latter would imply the frog was so evil as to be banished to hell), at least until the Ogres confirm the body switch in Episode 6.
• The Captain: Leader of the squad, it being named after him and all.
• Happy Dance: Ginyu is contractually obligated by King Cold to give the "Dance of Joy" after the completion of every successful mission. And Cooler required him to give the "Daddy's Little Princess Dance" after he does a successful mission for Freeza. And when he's alone, he does "The Dance of Solitude." And finally, he has the "Dance of Cheering You Up" for when Freeza gets upset.
  • It's implied that there were several more dances that he was obligated to do off screen.
• The Heart: With his dances and poses, he brings much encouragement to his team.
• Large Ham: He is contractually obligated to perform "The Dance of Joy", as ordered by King Cold, and the "Daddy's Little Princess Dance", as ordered by Cooler, after each successful mission. He also does the "Dance of Solitude" when he's left alone and has nothing else to do.
• Morality Pet: Ginyu (or rather, the frog in his body) becomes one to the Ginyu Force in HFIL, to the point where the Ogres don't tell the Force the truth because of how much the frog is helping with their rehabilitation.
• Noodle Incident: "And if it's anything like that jockstrap incident, Ginyu probably buried them somewhere around here."
• Professional Butt-Kisser: To Freeza.
  Captain Ginyu: First of all, Lord Freeza doesn't wear boots. Second, even if he did I would already have polished them.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: The captain of his Ginyu Force squadron, and appropriately the only member of the team to hold his own against Goku.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Pulls this on Vegeta twice.
• Team Dad: Ginyu's behaviour comes surprisingly close to this.
  Captain Ginyu: Alright, gang, it's time for me to head off. Try not to mess up your uniforms and be back by 0500!
• Team Pet: After he accidentally swaps bodies with a Namekian frog, Ginyu has become this. Or at least, the frog in Ginyu's body has. Once the ogres confirm that the captain is a frog, the force starts to treat him more like a frog, Recoome stating that he'll dig a pond in the backyard for him.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Waldorf Salad.
• Undying Loyalty: Unlike Zarbon and Dodoria, Ginyu never considers going against Freeza's wishes. This loyalty seems to extend to the entire royal family given he performs specific dances under the orders of both Cold and Cooler which he feels obligated to do even over Freeza's protests.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • Has a brief one when Goku shows him his true power level. He screams and dives into the water at high speed, only to pop back out a moment later with his composure restored.
  • He was undergoing a secondary one ever since Goku defeated rest of his men. While brushing aside Guldo's death as an expected casualty, he was initially distraught by Burter's death. He regained his composure and went with Jeice to deal with himself "as professional." He lost his cool again while fighting Krillin and Gohan because of his difficulty in using Goku's body, and when Vegeta killed Jeice, leaving Ginyu as the sole survivor of the team.
  • In HFIL, he spends his time acting like a frog. Most of the Ginyus think he was so traumatized on Namek that he reverted to a feral state. Guldo thinks he swapped bodies with a frog (it would have to be a very evil frog, Jeice counters). This one gets subverted come episode 6 where it is revealed that it is the frog and that nobody realizes it wasn't Ginyu until after they sent him to HFIL and nobody wanted to correct the error.
• Voices Are Mental: Averted. After body-swapping with Goku, Ginyu-in-Goku's-body still has Goku's voice but with Ginyu's accent and inflections, and vice-versa with Goku-in-Ginyu's-body.
• Voodoo Shark: Potentially. Guldo suggests that Ginyu's frog-like behavior in HFIL is due to swapping bodies with a frog which is true, but Jeice brings up the counterpoint that if that is true, it would imply that a frog is somehow just as bad as the rest of the mass murdering villains there. Which would bring up a lot more questions than answers. The Ogres eventually clear up that it was a mistake on King Yenma's part and they never mentioned it because it helped the Force with their rehabilitation. And also because they were too embarrassed to admit to it.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Since Ginyu dies in this version, he should logically be with the rest of the Ginyu force who kept up their comradarie even after death. Instead, he's nowhere to be seen and his absence isn't addressed. However, since Vegeta killed him when he switched with a Namekian frog due to Goku's intervention, he wouldn't be able to go to King Kai's planet or HFIL. Episode 6 reveals he was put through the soul scrubber.
• Wicked Cultured: He manages to be both a brilliant dancer and Freeza's top henchman.

Burter

"I AM NOT SLOWER THAN F*CKING GULDO"

Voiced by: Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs

• Adaptational Sexuality: In canon, Burter's sexuality is never brought up. Here, it is stated by Guldo (and later himself) that he's gay. Likely an Actor Allusion as KaiserNeko himself is gay.
• Berserk Button: Claiming that even Guldo is faster than him.
• Butt-Monkey: Aside for everything's else, he was verbally owned by Krillin.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Jeice asks for support, Burter starts complimenting him instead of aiding him in the fight. Still managed to cheer him up, though.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He finds Jeice the only one he can rely on.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Has a distinct raspy whisper, making him sound more snake-like. As his voice actor has noted however, it is incredibly difficult to maintain.
  Burter: (in Episode 3 of HFIL): Thank god! This voice is killing me!
• Fastest Thing Alive: Or at the very least he claims to be. When Jeice points out that it's inaccurate, he admits that he's just trying to be special.
  • Word of God states that this title does apply to Burter… while playing video games.
• The Heart: Jeice and to a lesser extent Ginyu seem to see him as this, noting him as a good natured, reliable friend and teammate.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Says this verbatim to explain his somewhat flimsy claim of being "the fastest in the universe", because without it, he's just "that big blue snake guy."
  • And it's later revealed that this is why Ginyu had him on the team: a tall blue guy to balance out Jeice's short red guy.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Turns out to have an even bigger one than Guldo, believing that he has absolutely nothing that makes him unique.
• Informed Ability: His whole character is based on the fact that, in the original series, Burter didn't seem especially fast for his power level, and was definitely slower than Ginyu and Freeza (and arguably Guldo). Ironically, his travel speed is still portrayed as impressive for his establishing moment.
• Platonic Life-Partners: He's best friends with Jeice, and is also gay.
• Motor Mouth: He certainly talks a lot.
• Smug Snake: Comes of as this at first about his supposed unrivaled speed, but it turns out he's actually a lot more insecure and self-critical than he first appears.
• Speed Demon: Deconstructed. The reason Burter puts so much pride in his speed is because he thinks he has nothing else going for him. He reacts very poorly when Jeice points out that Guldo is technically faster than him due to his Time Master abilities.
• Sssssnake Talk: Justified seeing that he has a Straight Gay lisp.
• Straight Gay: According to Guldo. Makes sense in retrospect. Though Vegeta was certainly surprised by the fact. By HFIL ep.2, he pretty much flat-out said that he's "gay as sunshine."
• Super-Speed: Is able to catch and return a thrown Dragon Ball before Vegeta has a chance to finish taunting Ginyu.
• Villainous Friendship: With Jeice, even more than his canon counterpart.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Jeice tries to tell him this... before Goku casually knocks him out.

Guldo

Voiced by: Curtis "Takahata101" Arnott

• Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. He lacks the incompetence and cowardice of his source counterpart, though in the end he goes down just as quickly. He does come into his own in HFIL, where he abuses his time stop for various purposes.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Just like in canon, Guldo easily dominates Krillin and Gohan in their fight despite being the butt of many jokes. In HFIL he can still use his time stopping powers which makes him nearly impossible to catch or hit.
• Butt-Monkey: There's at least one in every team. Not even in death can he catch a break.
• Character Development: In HFIL he goes from being the same No-Respect Guy Butt-Monkey when alive to being at least acknowledged by his teammates. Episode 10 has Jeice even praising him for a job well done.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Credit where credit's due, Krillin and Gohan didn't get the chance to lay a finger on him and they were both at his mercy before Vegeta stepped in.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: Gives one to Vegeta.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has an unseen wife who he briefly mentions missing in episode 4 of HFIL.
• Evil Counterpart: He shows what Krillin could become if he's ever pushed too far.
• Expy: Of Dio Brando's Stand The World. He can stop time for a few seconds, though it is taxing on him and can "summon steamrollers" as Krillin incorrectly believes. The ability to summon steamrollers may not be too far off the mark as Guldo was able to summon Guru to help flatten the land, with Burter even asking Guldo that they need a steamroller specifically.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: After his death, the other members of the Ginyu Force don't seem to mind much that he was killed. This continues into HFIL, when asked about how he died.
  Guldo: [Vegeta] cut off my head! In front of all my friends!
  Jeice: And us!
  • After Episode 6 of HFIL, the Ginyu Force grows out of this and begins respecting him more, especially after he calls them out for abandoning Frog!Ginyu. In Episode 10, when Jeice is about to yell at him like his other teammates in the kitchen, he gives him a sincere praise, telling him he did a good job in serving the appetizers.
• Ironic Nickname: Burter calls him "Ace", despite having a low opinion of Guldo's skillset.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The only people who know about Guldo's time stopping powers are Freeza and the Ginyu force, which means anyone else is left with a slight disadvantage.
• Mind over Matter: Uses psychic powers to defeat his enemies.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Freeza bringing up "the jockstrap incident" and being abusive to Guldo (who used his timestop powers to benefit Freeza, mind you) left Guldo walking away with his back turned to Cell, subsequently getting eliminated in the process. He apologizes after the match, but Freeza's too pissed to care.
• Mundane Utility: Being able to stop time is useful for grabbing the dodgeball before the opposing team can in HFIL. It also helps with pulling pranks on Cell and efficiently serve dinner.
• No-Respect Guy: Despite being part of one of the galaxy's most feared elite task force and having a very dangerous ability nobody seems to stop giving him crap. It takes until HFIL for him to grow a spine, chastising his teammates for wanting to abandon Frog!Ginyu after Mez and Goz reveals the truth to them.
• Off with His Head!: How he dies, thanks to Vegeta. He also had his head blasted afterwards for good measure.
• Only Sane Man: In HFIL, Guldo shows to be more down to earth than the rest of the Ginyus, being the only one to acknowledge that Ginyu is behaving like a frog because he body-swapped with one.
• The Resenter: He hates Vegeta with a passion.
• Sanity Slippage: He randomly throws a tree at King Kai's house thinking that Tien speaking was an attack.
  Guldo: WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! [...] Sorry, I kinda lost my head there after I... lost my head.
• Squishy Wizard: Relies on psychic powers and the ability to stop time to defeat opponents, but aside from that he's a tiny, fat being and a single blow from Vegeta winds up taking off his head.
• Time Stands Still: He has the psychic ability to stop time, which he can use despite the power limiters in HFIL, likely due to his powers not being reliant on ki.
• Vocal Evolution: Takahata's performance as Guldo between the Namek Saga and HFIL are very different from each other, there being a 7-year gap between the times he portrayed him.
• Who's Laughing Now?: Seems obsessed with the mockery he had to absorb from Vegeta and others, and is quick to reference the trope when his psychic powers allow him to get the better of Krillin and Gohan and have them at his mercy.
• Wrong Context Magic: His time stop powers continue to function in HFIL despite wearing the same ki dampening ankle monitors that that others are, leading Raditz and Super Kami Guru to wonder if they're psychic or magical in nature instead of ki-based.

Jeice

"You're me best mate!"

Voiced by: Marc "Ganxingba" Soskin

• Adaptational Dumbass: He has to carefully ponder about Captain Ginyu's battle advice of how not get punched in the face... in the middle of a fight... while getting punched by Goku. Repeatedly.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Not by much, but it should be noted that (unlike his canon counterpart, who willingly abandoned his team to save himself) he only fled because he thought Burter was killed by Goku and went looking for Ginyu so he could kill Goku for Revenge. When he makes his report, he's clearly devastated by the death of his friend.
• Aliens of London: Has an Australian accent because he's from Space Australia.
• Angry Chef: In HFIL Episode 10, he becomes a Gordon Ramsay parody, being furious at the other Ginyus for not doing a good enough job of cooking, even using variations of Ramsay's various catchphrases. This doesn't apply to Guldo, who he actually gives a compliment to, as his time powers make him a great waiter.
• Artistic License – Sports: Juice calls out Recoome's diving grapple on Vegeta as a piledriver, when it isn't one and given that he and Burter have presumably been commentating Recoome's fights for quite some time, he should probably know that. In the creator commentary, Taka and Lani note that it's somewhere between a powerbomb and a piledriver. It's a modified version of the move due to the fact that A) both participants can fly, and B) they are actually trying to kill each other and thus using throws that would never appear in an actual sporting event.
• Break the Cutie: Starts out as one of the happier and friendlier guys on the force. Then things go bad.
• Country Matters: He has become prone to dropping a few C-bombs throughout HFIL.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His infant sister was eaten by Space Dingoes;
  Jeice: Gotta be careful though, Burter — Space Dingo'll eat your Space Baby! Like me sister. (solemnly) ... poor Sheila.
• Deadly Dingos: He mentions that his sister was eaten by a "space dingo". Since he's from Space Australia, it's likely he was referencing the Azaria Chamberlain case.
• The Ditz: Apparently Ginyu had to take him aside and remind him that you're supposed to dodge punches. Jeice didn't remember that advice fast enough.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Jeice is genuinely dismayed at Burter getting curb stomped by Goku, and spends much of the episode Burter gets thrashed in cheering him up over his not being the fastest in the universe.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While he's not very evil, he does give a subversion of this. When Recoome snaps Gohan's neck, Jeice exclaims "My god" and seems taken aback... then reveals that he said that because he was impressed by the move Recoome used.
• Height Angst: He gets sensitive when Ginyu haphazardly mentions how short he is.
• Irony: Burter explicitly says that Jeice is the only reliable one, but Jeice ends up ditching and dooming both him and Recoome for jumping the gun and assuming they were dead.
• The Lancer: Reports directly to Ginyu.
• Land Downunder: The Funimation dub gave Jeice an exaggerated Australian accent for no real reason (especially since Scott McNeil's original Ocean dub voice for him Christopher Sabat was imitating had been Liverpudlian), but in this series it's justified because his home planet is Space Australia.
  • More specifically, he's from Space Brisbane. Go, Space Broncos!
    Krillin: WE GET IT, YOU'RE FROM SPACE AUSTRALIA!
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: And the hair and general attractiveness are commented on by Burter.
• No Body Left Behind: He dies after being completely vaporized by Vegeta.
  Jeice: Clever girl...!
• Not in the Face!: He gets repeatedly punched in the face by Goku. In HFIL he gets punched again by Burter, albeit accidentally.
• Oh, Crap!: After realizing Saiyans get stronger when they recover from near death, and that Vegeta nearly died when fighting Recoome.
  Jeice: ... oh. Well, I'm right f(*bleep*)ked, aren't I?
  Vegeta: Right in the down under.
• The Reliable One: Burter considers him the only one on the team that can be relied on.
• Stepford Smiler: He gets very upset after Burter dies, but puts a lid on it when Ginyu demands him to be professional.
• Verbal Tic: The word "mate" tends to appear a lot when he talks. Of course, he is Space Australian.
• Villainous Friendship: With Burter, even more than his canon counterpart.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He says this to Burter when Burter becomes distressed and sad about feeling like he's useless and nothing special. It's a genuinely touching moment... until Goku gets bored waiting and attacks Burter, rendering the blue guy comatose in the space of a few seconds.

Recoome

Voiced by: Marc "Ganxingba" Soskin

• Badass Boast: Combined with "The Reason You Suck" Speech below.
• The Big Guy: Obviously, where he towers over the other members of the force.
• Blood Knight: It's quite clear that he loves a good fight, and while he prefers taking on a foe who can put up a fight like Vegeta, he has no problems with overmatched opponents or even children like Gohan.
• Boisterous Bruiser: All the way. Goes with the pro wrestler thing.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: A list of the Recoome Memorabilia: Baseball hat, t-shirt, keychain, action figure, purse, jock strap, and vibrator.
• Calling Your Attacks: Recoome's tendency to both do this and name all his moves after himself is canon (even "Recoome Eraser Gun", as of Kai), but, of course, it gets lampshaded.
  Recoome: RECOOOOOOME —
  Krillin: Does every move you have start with —?
  Recoome: KICK! [kicks Krillin square in the face, bringing up his owned count a point higher].
• Character Catchphrase: Borrowed from the original English dub and used to the point of Running Gag with the amount of Chewing the Scenery involved:
  Recoome: The name's... RECOOME! And it rhymes... with DOOM! And you're going to be hurting... ALL... TOO... SOON!
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Has one with Vegeta, and then is at the receiving end of one from Goku who takes him out in one hit without even intending to (Goku merely wanted to shut him up so he could talk to Gohan and fight Recoome after).
• Dumb Muscle: Averted, despite being a Third-Person Person. Recoome is portrayed as a character with average intelligence.
• Face: A rebel type: He Trash Talks the other wrestlers and the crowd cheers him for it.
• Gag Penis:
  • King Yemma sure thought so in Episode 28, after being briefly alluded to via a Brick Joke in Episode 20. When the Ginyus were talking about the last time they ...you know, Recoome comments he didn't even have enough room in his pod.
  • In Episode 29, Guldo helps him up by pulling on his "middle leg".
  • In HFIL, when doing macaroni art, Recoome ends up using all the rigatoni noodles on a "masterpiece" representing his greatest regret... that apparently involves Guldo's wife.
• Ham-to-Ham Combat: Has a minor one against Vegeta.
• Incoming Ham: RECOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!
• Jerkass: Probably the closest thing to a true Jerkass out of the various Ginyu Force members. He rubs it in Guldo's face when he gets to face Vegeta, taunts Vegeta about his entire race being dead, and doesn't hesitate to lay what would have been a fatal beating on a young child.
• Large Ham: In keeping with the original series. Recoome takes it way past the source material, however, with his Professional Wrestling personality.
• Leitmotif: During Episodes 20-21, his is E1M1 from Doom, whenever he is boasting about his power or cutting a promo on Vegeta.
  Recoome: HIT... RECOOME'S MUSIC!
• Lethal Chef: In HFIL Episode 10, when Jeice asks how the steaks are coming along, he proudly states that they've all been burned. Later, Goz and Mez's house catches fire in the same episode, which Recoome explains was his doing, and Burter confirming they were making a vodka sauce but the heat got turned up too high.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He has Hulk Hogan's mannerisms, speaks in third-person like The Rock, mentions that he is a five time world champion, and the promo he cuts on Vegeta follows the same beats as Austin: 3:16.
• No-Sell: Recoome tanks a lot of hits and lampshades that fact.
  Recoome: Silly Vegeta, the only thing that Recoome sells is merchandise!
• Simpleton Voice: Averted. Unlike the original series, he is instead professional wrestling personified, with a hammy voice to match.
• Sole Survivor: Apparently as revealed in HFIL, he was one of the few people to survive the genocide of his species before he joined the Ginyu Force.
• Stealth Pun: "The name's...RECOOME! And it rhymes...with DOOM!" Fitting then, that his theme song is from Doom.
• Testosterone Poisoning: His build, voice, and general behavior are all evidence of this trope taken to the max. He can't even read the episode disclaimer without his voice sounding like he's a few steps away from working a crowd.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers an absolutely scathing one to Vegeta right before he proceeds to totally dismantle him, complete with promo music. And for bonus points, it happens to be a fair and accurate summation of the flaws in Vegeta's endless boasting—
  Recoome: HIT! RECOOME'S! MUSIC! ("At Doom's Gate" starts playing) Vegeta! You think that just because you're the Prince of All Saiyans, you're the best there is at what you do. But let Recoome tell ya something, brother — you ain't no Wolverine! And you ain't got what it takes to step up to a FIVE! TIME! CHAMPION!
  Vegeta: ...Champion of what?
  Jeice: This fight right here's gonna be a bloomin' slobberknocker, it is!
  Burter: You can just feel the intensity!
  Vegeta: WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?!
  Burter: The audience.
  Jeice: We're doin' commentary, mate!
  Recoome: You see, Vegeta — you sit there and brag about how the Saiyans are the mightiest warriors in aaaaaaall the Universe. How they're the most ruthless! Well, look at where they are, now! DEAD! You talk about your legends, and your warrior race, and your pride — but that doesn't mean a damn thing to this man! BECAUSE THE NAME'S...RECOOME! AND IT RHYMES! WITH DOOM! AND YOU'RE GONNA BE BE HURTING ALL! TOO! SOOOOOOON!
• Third-Person Person: Recoome typically refers to himself by his own name.
  "Sounds good to Recoome!"
• Would Hurt a Child: He beats Gohan senseless before breaking his neck. Gohan only survives because of Goku's timely arrival with Senzu Beans.
• Wrestler in All of Us: He's a professional wrestler, pulling off piledrivers, flying kicks, and has the personality to match.