History Characters / DragonBallBulma

* BerserkButton:
** She has several but the most notable is Master Roshi's perverseness towards her.
** Do NOT call her old; too bad Jaco never learns from that. In fact, whenever she's called old, she will chew out, slap, or punch anyone who mentions it. She doesn’t even care who says it, not even [[TheDreaded Beerus]]!

* MsFanservice: For an entire generation of manga and anime fans, she was ''the'' Ms. Fanservice. She is the curviest female character of the franchise and has [[BuxomBeautyStandard the biggest bust]] (aside from {{Filler}} character Maron). Among her famous moments were several {{Panty Shot}}s, {{Shower|Scene}} and {{Bathtub Scene}}s, a period of time where she had no proper clothing and was stuck wearing either a ModestyTowel or a PlayboyBunny suit and having to [[SleepsInTheNude sleep naked]] and the infamous scene where she flashes Master Roshi, not realizing [[GoingCommando she isn't wearing any underwear]]. To take it further, she's the only female character to appear (fully) naked in the entire series. Also, almost all of her outfits involve dresses or shorts accentuating her long and slender legs.

** Taken to extremes in ''Super'': in the first arc, she apparently rented a yacht for her birthday party that was large enough to house an entire literal castle with room to spare. In ''Dragon Ball Super'''s final arc, we find she actually owned said ship... [[spoiler:after she gives it away as a gift to 17.]]

-> '''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/WendeeLee (Harmony Gold dub (under the name Wendee Swan) and Bang Zoom!/Toonami Asia dub in ''Super''); Maggie Blue O'Hara (''DB'' Movie 1, ''Z'' Season 4-5, ''Z'' Season 6; ep. 238-260), Creator/LalainiaLindbjerg (''DB'' 1995, ''Z'' Season 1-2, ''Z'' Movie 1-3), France Perras (''Z'' Season 6; ep. 269-291) (BLT/Ocean dub); Leslie Alexander (''DB'' Movie 2), Tiffany Vollmer (''DB'', ''Z'', ''GT'', ''DB'' Movies 3-4), Creator/MonicaRial (''Kai'', ''DB'' Movie 1 onwards) (Creator/FUNimation dub); Leda Davies (''DB''), Kristin Nowosad (''GT'') (Blue Water dub); Sharon Mann (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub); Mitch Frankenberger Pellicer (Creative Products Corp., Philippines); Claudia Thompson (Animax)

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Her relationship with Goku is this. They have been friends since childhood and neither has ever expressed romantic interest in the other in-universe. The closest they ever came was when Bulma saw Goku as an adult for the first time and remarked on how handsome he'd turned out, and even that could be interpreted as sisterly affection rather than genuine romantic interest.

[[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku Son Goku]] ([[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesAToC A-C]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesDToH D-H]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesIToO I-O]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesPToZ P-Z]]) | '''Bulma''' | [[Characters/DragonBallKrillin Krillin/Kuririn]] | [[Characters/DragonBallPiccolo Piccolo]] | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGohan Son Gohan]] | [[Characters/DragonBallVegeta Vegeta]] ([[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesAToD A-D]] | [[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesEToN E-N]] | [[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesOToZ O-Z]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFutureTrunks Future Trunks]] | [[Characters/DragonBallAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/DragonBallFamiliesAndFriends Families & Friends]] ([[Characters/DragonBallChichi Chichi]] | [[Characters/DragonBallAndroids17And18 Androids 17 and 18]] | [[Characters/DragonBallTrunksAndSonGoten Trunks and Son Goten]] | [[Characters/DragonBallMrSatan Mr. Satan/Hercule]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFusionCast Fusions]]-]]]]]

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'''Multiversal Characters'''\\
[[Characters/DragonBallMultiversalCharacters Multiversal Characters]] ([[Characters/DragonBallZeno Zeno]] | [[Characters/DragonBallGokuBlack Goku Black]] | [[Characters/DragonBallZamasu Zamasu/Zamas]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse7 Universe 7]] ([[Characters/DragonBallBeerus Beerus]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse2 Universe 2]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse3 Universe 3]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse4 Universe 4]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse6 Universe 6]] ([[Characters/DragonBallFrost Frost]] | [[Characters/DragonBallHit Hit]] | [[Characters/DragonBallKale Kale]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse9 Universe 9]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse10 Universe 10]] | [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse11 Universe 11]] ([[Characters/DragonBallJiren Jiren]])\\
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* PalsWithJesus: She is one of the only few people who are close friends with Whis and [[DestroyerDeity Beerus]]. She can even get away with hitting and insulting him, which not even the prideful Vegeta can do! Likewise, she's married to Vegeta, and is PlatonicLifePartners with Goku, who became {{Physical God}}s in ''Super''.'

* RichGenius: She and her father are both genius inventors who created the capsules, those tiny things that are able to store anything of ANY size. They also own a yacht, are able to host big parties, and they have their own professional chefs. On her birthday, she hosted a bingo contest. The second prize was ''a castle.''

-> '''Voiced by (French):''' Céline Monsarrat

* GagBoobs: Though not particularly big, they were used more than once for comedy early in the series.

* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Although her scientist father is only slightly eccentric (not mad), she inherited her good looks from her mother and the brain from her father, so she serves as both TheChick and TheSmartGirl for Goku and the others.

* OneOfTheBoys: Aside from being TheChick, she has tomboyish traits and often shares common interests with her friends in the Dragon Ball Gang (and later, the Z-Fighters). Her love for mechanics and gadgetry is a plus factor.

* BuxomIsBetter: She has the biggest bust of all the ''Dragon Ball'' female characters (with the exception of the {{filler}} character [[BrainlessBeauty Maron]]) and Roshi naturally like this.

* MsFanservice: For an entire generation of manga and anime fans, she was ''the'' Ms. Fanservice. She is the curviest female character of the franchise and has [[BuxomIsBetter the biggest bust]] (aside from {{Filler}} character Maron). Among her famous moments were several {{Panty Shot}}s, {{Shower|Scene}} and {{Bathtub Scene}}s, a period of time where she had no proper clothing and was stuck wearing either a ModestyTowel or a PlayboyBunny suit and having to [[SleepsInTheNude sleep naked]] and the infamous scene where she flashes Master Roshi, not realizing [[GoingCommando she isn't wearing any underwear]]. To take it further, she's the only female character to appear (fully) naked in the entire series. Also, almost all of her outfits involve dresses or shorts accentuating her long and slender legs.

* SupernaturallyYoungParent: In ''DBS: Broly'' where she intends to use the Dragon Balls to make herself five years younger and Goku guesses she's probably done this a few times before.

** Like a number of the early characters, she actually did begin as a loose expy of a ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' character - in this case, no less a person than Xuanzang[=/=]Tang Sanzang[=/=]Tripitaka himself (she's on a quest which Goku/Wukong is just tagging along for, she gets into peril and needs saving by Goku, she's far less of an Action Person than Goku, etc). Of course, as time went on, these elements drifted away and by the time the Saiyans show up, it can be hard to remember it was there at all.

* MsFanservice: For an entire generation of manga and anime fans, she was ''the'' Ms. Fanservice. She is the curviest female character of the franchise and has [[BuxomIsBetter the biggest bust]] (aside from {{Filler}} character Maron). Among her famous moments were several {{Panty Shot}}s, {{Shower|Scene}} and {{Bathtub Scene}}s, a period of time where she had no proper clothing and was stuck wearing either a ModestyTowel or a PlayboyBunny suit and having to [[SleepsInTheNude sleep naked]] and the infamous scene where she flashes Master Roshi, not realizing [[GoingCommando she isn't wearing any underwear]]. To take it further, she's the only female character to appear (fully) naked in the entire series.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Bulma's a victim of a lot of slapstick towards her, being a ButtMonkey and all.

* HotScientist: Very much so, she is a great scientist and also a beautiful girl-woman. Just look at her picture for proof.

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Her father Dr. Briefs is old and wrinkly while Bulma is a very pretty HotScientist.

* ShesGotLegs: Almost all of her outfits involve dresses or shorts accentuating her long, slender legs.

** WordOfGod says that Capsule Corporation [[MegaCorp owns half of the worldwide vehicle market]]. That would already be impressive, but it gets even more when you remember that their symbol is proudly displayed on many more products, from refrigerators to portable houses...

* BalefulPolymorph: The Ginyu Frog incident in ''Z''. It's not exactly polymorphing (it's actually body changing), but it serves the same effect. There was also the time the Rabbit Boss turned her into a carrot in the original series.

** Several times in the original ''Dragon Ball'', this was her go-to bartering tactic. It proved most effective against Master Roshi... not so much against anybody else. She eventually gave up on this maneuver altogether.

* OlderThanTheyLook: To some extent in ''Super'' especially. By that point, Bulma is in her mid-forties, and yet aside from a shorter haircut than she sported as a teen and twenty-something, she doesn't look all ''that'' much older than she did during, say, the main parts of Z and definitely lacks a lot of the traits that anime design often gives "middle-aged people". This has actually been ''praised'' in some circles, as a number of fans find it refreshing that the show acknowledges that people don't magically stop looking good the moment they go past 25. It's not until the end of the original series and ''GT'' where she finally starts visibly aging. In ''DBS: Broly'', it is implied that she uses the Dragon Balls to make herself younger.

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