Zamasu/Goku Black: Why yes Gohan. Can't you tell...? It's your beloved late Father- Goku. (Zamasu/Goku Black charges up an attack that destroys the surroundings)
Future Gohan: ...You bastard! You've incinerated the entire continent!
Much like the original franchise, many villains in the fan works of Akira Toriyama's famous series can be incredibly vile, be they original characters or ones from canon.
- Crossovers can be found here.
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- Dragon Ball C (link
): Cell, after defeating Gohan, decides to spare Earth and the heroes solely because he considers them to be a useful training tool. Then, Cell proceeds to ravage the universe searching for strong enemies to challenge or absorb to reach "perfection". When the events of the Buu Saga happen, Cell teleports back to Earth to challenge Super Buu and Gotenks, eventually finding an interesting challenge with the arrival of Gohan. When Gohan proves to be unable to win, Cell kills Goten and Piccolo just to enrage Gohan, hoping to force him to have a powerup like in the Cell Games, only to kill Gohan when he proves being unable to repeat the miracle. When Goku and Vegeta arrive to fight him, Cell kills them, causing Vegeta to stop existing. Seeing the Dragon Balls as the only way to have a real challenge, Cell keeps Dende hostage for years and returns to his murderous travel across the universe, destroying the remnants of Freeza's army and exterminating the peaceful Freeza species alongside many others before returning to Earth to force Dende to resurrect his friends so he can kill them again to satiate his boredom. - Dragon Ball Ruins: Majin Buu is the ultimate creation of the sorcerer Bibidi, who used Buu's power to travel between Universes to gather the Super Dragon Balls and wish for "the power to create something able to destroy all the gods", taking Buu's assimilation powers to unseen heights. Killing Bibidi and countless planets before absorbing the Supreme Kais and the galactic prisoner Moro, Buu developed consciousness and malice, fusing with the Kai's planet to lure the God of Destruction Beerus and his Angel Whis and absorb them. When the Grand Minister sacrificed himself alongside a entire universe, Buu absorbs him and survives the destruction before invading Zeno's palace and slaughtering the angels, taking sadistic pleasure in being the first mortal to cause fear for them, and morphing his face into the Grand Minister's to enhance said fear. When Zeno destroys all the Cosmos in a last attempt to erase Buu, Buu survives as a cosmic anomaly that absorbs Zeno and proceeds to recreate the 12 Universes as his playground, where Buu would slaughter and devour all lifeforms before using his godly powers to torture the last survivor and repeat the cycle for the eternity.
- Dragon Ball Super: Last Judgement (link): Goku Black is a version of Zamasu who switched bodies with Son Goku before teaming up with his future incarnation to cleanse the multiverse of mortals. Destroying all life in Universe 7, Goku Black and Future Zamasu travel to Universe 6 and kill the Supreme Kai. Goku Black travels to planet Sadala and destroys the capital before massacring the army sent to stop him. When challenged by Cabba, Kale and Caulifla, Goku Black sadistically toys with them and kills Supreme Kai's attendant when he assists them. Successfully killing the trio, Black looks forward to killing all mortals in Universe 6.
- Dragon Ball Z Script Fic by Luis Filipe (link): Frieza, like in canon, is the tyrant in charge of the Galactic Frieza Army. Out of fear that the Saiyan race would one day produce a warrior strong enough to overthrow him, Frieza leads an assault on their homeworld, before obliterating it himself. Wanting to use the Dragon Balls to become immortal, Frieza holds a Namekian village hostage to get information out of them and is told that they were sent to Earth; upon arriving there, he has his army destroy an entire city. Seemingly defeated by Goku and friends, Frieza catches them by surprise by killing Krillin and, after being bested yet again by Goku, attempts to destroy the planet out of spite.
- Dynasty: Cell takes his canonical crimes and adds to them here. After Piccolo fights him and he escapes, Cell decides to manipulate a little girl into leading him to a town's inhabitants, and he absorbs them before her eyes, traumatizing her. Later, Cell holds the infant Trunks hostage in an attempt to get what he wants. This works, and Cell reaches his Perfect form. At the Cell Games, Cell declares his intentions to destroy the planet and beyond, brutally killing many around him and ruining multiple lives for his sick amusement, making sure Gohan is Forced to Watch him kill Bardock.
- An Earth Without Goku: Cooler is the older brother of Frieza, whose polite attitude hides jealously and resentment caused by his infertility. Introduced ordering to shoot down the spaceship carrying baby Goku to annoy Frieza, Cooler and Frieza's discussion turns into a deadly battle where Cooler kills Frieza before he could use his final form. When King Cold tries to find his missing son, Cooler lures him towards a confused and scared Frieza's clone with a unstable body and short life expectancy, attacking him and starting a fight that ends with Cooler killing King Cold. Proceeding to take over his family's empire, Cooler continues their genocidal policies to sends soldiers to destroy entire civilizations across the universe, with Earth as one of the many invaded planets.
- The Fall of Lord Frieza:
- King Cold proves to be far worse than he is in canon. The tyrannical head of the Planet Trade Organization, King Cold becomes furious when he finds his wife attempting to convince Frieza not to follow in his footsteps. As a result, he brutally beat her before vaporizing her body, lying to Frieza and Cooler that she died of illness. He then intentionally molded Frieza and Cooler into becoming the cruel tyrants they grew up to be, repeatedly beating them in the process. Upon finding out about Frieza's defeat at the hands of Goku, King Cold is angered at the blow to his family's pride, and attempts to destroy Earth out of spite alongside Cooler. When he escapes from hell, King Cold decides to wipe out all other races in the galaxy before being stopped by a redeemed Frieza. When Frieza challenges King Cold, Cold attempts to kill Frieza without remorse.
- General Kanchapp is a traitorous general within the Planet Trade Organization. Wishing to take over the empire, Kanchapp convinces most of the army to aid him in a rebellion against the Cold family, falsely promising them the liberation of their races while intending to be just as cruel a tyrant as Cold and his sons were. When he finds out about the life-sapping Tree of Might, Kanchapp murders a group of space pirates for the tree, intending to have it spread across the galaxy, knowing that this will wipe out life on countless planets. Kanchapp eventually leads an assault on Frieza's home planet, Arcos, with the intent of killing Frieza and all those who remain loyal to him. During Kanchapp's fight with Frieza, he kills several of his own men before destroying Arcos right in front of Frieza just to hurt hum. Even when defeated, Kanchapp mocks Frieza before dying by saying that Frieza lost everything important to him.
- Hyourinjutsu's The Goku Black Saga: Zamasu, aka Goku Black, proves himself to be just as monstrous as he is in canon. First killing Gowasu and stealing Goku's body as in canon, Zamasu uses the Time Ring he stole from his dead mentor to create a new timeline by going back in time and murdering Trunks before Future Gohan's death and Trunks's time traveling. Sometime later, Zamasu fought Future Gohan, destroying a continent in the process of killing him to get stronger before returning to the main timeline, to resume his Zero Mortals Plan. After Future Zamasu is sealed by the Mabufa, Zamasu, as Goku Black, flees to another timeline where Vegeta became a Super Saiyan God first, fighting him in order to master Goku's body, and destroying a city in doing so. Afterwards, Zamasu travels to a version of the Dragon Ball GT timeline and teams up with Baby Vegeta to start a new plan. After fusing with him to kill Broly, the newly formed Baby Vegito Black is confronted by Lord Beerus. After the tide turns against Baby Vegito Black, including Baby himself exiting the fusion to try and possess Beerus only to be destroyed, Zamasu attempts to use the Dragon Balls to flee, only to unfuse with the GT Vegeta, and is finally Hakai'd by Beerus.
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- In Pursuit Of Vengeance (link): Frieza proves to be just as vile as his canon counterpart. Having previously wiped out almost all of the Saiyan race out of fear of rebellion, Frieza later finds out that Raditz purged everybody on Earth and forcibly brought Goku to the organization. Viewing Goku as an opportunity to tear down Vegeta's intended rebellion before it starts, Frieza tricks Goku into purging an innocent alien race before agreeing to train Goku for the sake of having him kill Raditz, repeatedly bringing Goku to near death in the process. To keep Goku in line after realizing that torture won't break him, Frieza kills innocents right in front of Goku to punish him, such as killing a loyal scientist of his just because Goku was forming a bond with him, and destroying a planet that Goku refused to purge, mocking Goku for being the cause of it. Upon finding out that Goku, Vegeta, and Nappa have went to Namek underneath his nose to betray Frieza, he orders the Ginyu Force to kill Nappa, bring Goku and Vegeta to him, and to wipe out every Namekian for "harboring traitors". When Frieza finally confronts Goku and Vegeta, Frieza gleefully tortures both of them to the brink in death, telling Goku that after he kills the Saiyans, he'll purge all of the revived Earthlings just to spite him.
- Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If:
- What If Gine Went With Goku to Earth? (written fanfic): Frieza, as vile as in canon, is a galactic tyrant who has conquered and slaughtered all life on multiple planets in order to sell them to other races on the galactic market. If Frieza has no interest in ruling a particular conquered planet and believes it won't net him a good price, he destroys it entirely. Among these many annihilated planets is the Planet of the Saiyans. During the story, Frieza goes to Namek to come after Vegeta, ordering his troops to kill everyone in the village and planning to take Gine, Goku's mother. When his troops fail, Frieza kills one of them to force the others to continue fighting. He gets into a fight with Gine and overpowers her, delivering a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- What If Bardock Convinced The Saiyans? (link): Frieza is the ruler of the Frieza Force who despises the Saiyan race. Attempting to eradicate the Saiyan race, Frieza blows up their home planet, shooting down any escape pods that fly in his direction. Upon finding out that there are survivors of his attack, Frieza tasks Nappa with finding them so that he can finish what he started. When Nappa and Zarbon fail to defend one of Frieza's planets from a Saiyan attack, Frieza kills Zarbon for his failure. Frieza then begins to repeatedly mortally wound Nappa in order to trigger his Zenkai Boosts so that he will get stronger, as well as using him to vent his anger over his falling empire. After Nappa eventually breaks from this, he tasks the Saiyan to guard another planet where he slaughters half of the attacking force. When Nappa breaks free from Frieza's control thanks to Vegeta, Frieza coldly executes Nappa due to having no more use for him.
- What If Zamasu Did Nothing Wrong? (link): Goku Black and Future Zamasu from an Alternate Timeline invade the timeline of the Present Zamasu, where they are disgusted that a version of themselves had abandoned the "Zero Mortals Plan" and tried to help the mortals become civilized. Goku Black and Future Zamasu kill Gowasu, in the hopes that Present Zamasu and Decraf would blame each other and then turn on one another. They then travel to Barbari where they decide to punish Present Zamasu by "culling [his] pets", proceeding to wipe out all life on the planet that Zamasu had helped, choosing this place to begin their genocide of all mortals in the entire multiverse. When opposed by Present Zamasu and Decraf, Goku Black and Future Zamasu offers this Zamasu a We Can Rule Together scenario, and when that is rejected attempt to murder Present Zamasu and Decraf for daring to resist.
- What If Frieza Turned Good? (link): Trogen is the third son of King Cold, created after the latter deemed his first two sons to be failures. Proving himself to be an impulsive psychopath, Trogen murders his father in front of Cooler for taking too long to find Frieza. When it's believed that Frieza is on the planet Yardrat, Trogen goes against the plan to land and search for his brother and instead gleefully blows the entire planet up. Taking over his father's mantle, Trogen becomes a cruel and despotic ruler who lets his empire fall to ruins. Learning that Frieza is now on Earth, Trogen attempts to kill Vegeta for outliving his usefulness and chains Cooler up without sustenance. On Earth, he orders his men to kill all of the Z Fighters, but after years of abuse, they refuse. In response, Trogen uses his eye beams to bisect his entire present army, numbering in the thousands. After threatening to blow up Earth if anyone interrupts his fight with Frieza, Trogen taunts his brother over the destruction of Yardrat. A lunatic to the end, Trogen feels elated even at his own death.
- What If Gine Went With Goku to Earth? (written fanfic
- New Hope (link): Cell, after killing Gohan and other heroes, let Krillin live in fear of his return before wiping out West City along with the newborn Trunks. Then, Cell wreaks havoc the universe looking for worthy opponents, slaughtering billions. When he returns 13 years later, Cell tries to destroy any planet with Dragon Balls to secure his reign of terror.
- Perfect Future (link): The Future incarnation of Cell becomes far more of a threat than his canon counterpart. Having absorbed thousands of civilians who survived the rampages of Future 17 and 18 prior to the story, Cell finds out about Majin Buu from the Supreme Kai. After achieving his Perfect Form, Cell goes to Babidi, offering to help revive Majin Buu in exchange for having the opportunity to fight it, seeking a challenge. Cell creates several Cell Juniors to launch an attack on New Namek, intending to use the Namekian Dragon Balls to speed up Buu's revival. When Future Trunks arrives to stop him, Cell kills one of his own spawn due to them struggling against Future Trunks, and when he himself is defeated by Trunks, Cell destroys all of New Namek after regenerating. To spite Trunks, Cell tracks down and murders Bulma, mocking Trunks upon returning to Earth. Narrowly escaping death after Buu absorbs Trunks to power up, Cell invades a planet owned by Cooler, and has his Cell Juniors torture resident and soldier alike to draw Cooler out. Cell forces all members of the organization to come to Earth to help him kill Buu under threat of death, and after Buu is finally killed, Cell wipes out all of Earth's survivors and Cooler's men by destroying the planet. After appreciating the planet's destruction, Cell goes on to terrorize the rest of the universe.
- Rage: Cell, after being resurrected by Beerus in order to awaken Gohan's hidden potential, kidnaps the latter's wife and daughter in order to lure Gohan into a fight. Cell strangles Videl in front of Gohan before vaporising the infant Pan just to spite Gohan. During the battle with the Z-Fighters, Cell constantly mocks them about killing Videl and Pan, taking his time to remind Gohan of the people he couldn't save during the Cell Games, before trying twice to blow up Earth.
- Rise (link): Cell, much like in canon, creates several Cell Jrs to torture the Z-Fighters to goad Gohan, into unleashing his true power and kills Android 16 right in front of Gohan. When Gohan still refuses to fight, the enraged Cell orders the Cell Jrs to torture Gohan to death. When Goku attempts to intervene, Cell makes Goku watch his son get killed, and later mocks Goku for causing Gohan's death. Upon regenerating after Vegeta seemingly kills him, Cell attempts to wipe out the solar system in one attack, intending to terrorize the rest of the universe afterwards.
- What If COOLER Was CANON? (link): Cooler, Frieza's older brother, is imagined here as a recurring threat to the Z-Fighters throughout their adventures. When Cooler was passed over by King Cold for Emperor in favor of Frieza, Cooler struck out on his own and created his own empire by enslaving and destroying planets. When he hears of the Dragon Balls on Namek, Cooler invades the planet, murders Frieza, and tries to steal the Dragon Balls; upon learning they are useless, Cooler destroys Namek and its population on a whim. Next targeting Earth, Cooler wipes out cities and enslaves millions of humans to force them to help him search for Earth's Dragon Balls, and he kills Gohan when the boy comes against him. Cooler would return alongside a resurrected Frieza multiple times in the future, when they would destroy multiple planets in sparring matches; try to destroy Earth out of spite; and doom multiple universes to destruction to obtain the Super Dragon Balls for themselves.
