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* ArmorPiercingAttack: His Special Beam Cannon can pierce through foes whose raw strength would ordinarily block ki attacks, provided he's given enough time to charge it. It initially suffers AwesomeButImpartical due to its long charge time, its rather straight forward execution, and the fact it leaves Piccolo practically defenseless while he charges it up. ''Super'' makes better use of the ability, as Piccolo can now teleport, make after images, and use either his antenna or his other arm to drastically cover up the flaws the move had before while still retaining its powerful piercing capabilities.
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* ArmorPiercingAttack: His Special Beam Cannon can pierce through foes whose raw strength would ordinarily block ki attacks, provided he's given enough time to charge it. It initially suffers AwesomeButImpartical AwesomeButImpractical due to its long charge time, its rather straight forward execution, and the fact it leaves Piccolo practically defenseless while he charges it up. ''Super'' makes better use of the ability, as Piccolo can now teleport, make after images, and use either his antenna or his other arm to drastically cover up the flaws the move had before while still retaining its powerful piercing capabilities.
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[[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku Son Goku]] ([[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesAToH A-H]], [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesIToZ I-Z]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallBulma Bulma]] | [[Characters/DragonBallKrillin Krillin/Kuririn]] | '''Piccolo''' | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGohan Son Gohan]] | [[Characters/DragonBallVegeta Vegeta]] ([[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesAToL A-L]], [[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesMToZ M-Z]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFutureTrunks Future Trunks]] | [[Characters/DragonBallAllies Allies]] ([[Characters/DragonBallDragonTeam Dragon Team/Z Fighters]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFamilies Families]] ([[Characters/DragonBallAndroids17And18 Androids 17 and 18]] | [[Characters/DragonBallTrunksAndSonGoten Trunks and Son Goten]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFriends Friends]] | [[Characters/DragonBallFusionCast Fusions]]-]]]]]
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[[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku Son Goku]] ([[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesAToH A-H]], [[Characters/DragonBallSonGokuTropesIToZ I-Z]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallBulma Bulma]] | [[Characters/DragonBallKrillin Krillin/Kuririn]] | '''Piccolo''' | [[Characters/DragonBallSonGohan Son Gohan]] | [[Characters/DragonBallVegeta Vegeta]] ([[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesAToL A-L]], [[Characters/DragonBallVegetaTropesMToZ M-Z]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFutureTrunks Future Trunks]] | [[Characters/DragonBallAllies Allies]] ([[Characters/DragonBallDragonTeam Dragon Team/Z Fighters]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFamilies Families]] ([[Characters/DragonBallAndroids17And18 Androids 17 and 18]] | [[Characters/DragonBallTrunksAndSonGoten Trunks and Son Goten]]) | [[Characters/DragonBallFriends Friends]] | [[Characters/DragonBallFusionCast Fusions]]-]]]]]
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* ArmorPiercingAttack: His Special Beam Cannon can pierce through foes whose raw strength would ordinarily block ki attacks, provided he's given enough time to charge it.
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* ArmorPiercingAttack: His Special Beam Cannon can pierce through foes whose raw strength would ordinarily block ki attacks, provided he's given enough time to charge it. It initially suffers AwesomeButImpartical due to its long charge time, its rather straight forward execution, and the fact it leaves Piccolo practically defenseless while he charges it up. ''Super'' makes better use of the ability, as Piccolo can now teleport, make after images, and use either his antenna or his other arm to drastically cover up the flaws the move had before while still retaining its powerful piercing capabilities.
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A Namekian (a race of green-skinned aliens), though at the start this wasn't really known; he was the son/reincarnation of [[Characters/Characters/DragonBallOriginalSeriesVillains Piccolo Daimao (Demon King Piccolo in most dubs)]], whom Goku defeated in the original series. His ''exact'' relationship to Demon King Piccolo is [[DependingOnTheWriter unclear across many works]]; he has at multiple points been called a reincarnation of the old king, and at others his son. In any case, after being spat out as an egg and hatched, Piccolo tried to carry on his father's work under the brief title of Ma-Junior, but was defeated by Goku and allowed to live. As the series rolls into the ''Z'' material, his evil exterior softens due to training Son Gohan, and he eventually becomes a second father to the kind-hearted little boy during Goku's absence. The once-feared Demon King eventually becomes one of Goku's most trusted allies, and [[BreakoutCharacter incredibly popular among the fanbase]].
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A Namekian (a race of green-skinned aliens), though at the start this wasn't really known; he was the son/reincarnation of [[Characters/Characters/DragonBallOriginalSeriesVillains [[Characters/DragonBallOriginalSeriesVillains Piccolo Daimao (Demon King Piccolo in most dubs)]], whom Goku defeated in the original series. His ''exact'' relationship to Demon King Piccolo is [[DependingOnTheWriter unclear across many works]]; he has at multiple points been called a reincarnation of the old king, and at others his son. In any case, after being spat out as an egg and hatched, Piccolo tried to carry on his father's work under the brief title of Ma-Junior, but was defeated by Goku and allowed to live. As the series rolls into the ''Z'' material, his evil exterior softens due to training Son Gohan, and he eventually becomes a second father to the kind-hearted little boy during Goku's absence. The once-feared Demon King eventually becomes one of Goku's most trusted allies, and [[BreakoutCharacter incredibly popular among the fanbase]].
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A Namekian (a race of green-skinned aliens), though at the start this wasn't really known; he was the son/reincarnation of [[Characters/DragonBallDemonKingPiccolo Piccolo Daimao (Demon King Piccolo in most dubs)]], whom Goku defeated in the original series. His ''exact'' relationship to Demon King Piccolo is [[DependingOnTheWriter unclear across many works]]; he has at multiple points been called a reincarnation of the old king, and at others his son. In any case, after being spat out as an egg and hatched, Piccolo tried to carry on his father's work under the brief title of Ma-Junior, but was defeated by Goku and allowed to live. As the series rolls into the ''Z'' material, his evil exterior softens due to training Son Gohan, and he eventually becomes a second father to the kind-hearted little boy during Goku's absence. The once-feared Demon King eventually becomes one of Goku's most trusted allies, and [[BreakoutCharacter incredibly popular among the fanbase]].
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A Namekian (a race of green-skinned aliens), though at the start this wasn't really known; he was the son/reincarnation of [[Characters/DragonBallDemonKingPiccolo [[Characters/Characters/DragonBallOriginalSeriesVillains Piccolo Daimao (Demon King Piccolo in most dubs)]], whom Goku defeated in the original series. His ''exact'' relationship to Demon King Piccolo is [[DependingOnTheWriter unclear across many works]]; he has at multiple points been called a reincarnation of the old king, and at others his son. In any case, after being spat out as an egg and hatched, Piccolo tried to carry on his father's work under the brief title of Ma-Junior, but was defeated by Goku and allowed to live. As the series rolls into the ''Z'' material, his evil exterior softens due to training Son Gohan, and he eventually becomes a second father to the kind-hearted little boy during Goku's absence. The once-feared Demon King eventually becomes one of Goku's most trusted allies, and [[BreakoutCharacter incredibly popular among the fanbase]].
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** In "Super Hero" when he finds out that Gohan has gotten so into his work that he hasn't left his room in days even to pick up Pan from school he flies into a rage almost immediately upon arriving to his house and tears into him for not caring enough for his daughter (as well as giving him a hard punch to the gut for not training either). When he leaves to go pick up Pan hes vocally disappointed that he has to yet again fill in for Gohan not being there for her. Later in the movie, he makes it clear to Pan that if Gohan didn't immedeately follow them to save her while the two of them were pretending to be captured he would to beat the absolute tar out of Gohan the next time he sees him.
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** In "Super Hero" when he finds out that Gohan has gotten so into his work that he hasn't left his room in days even to pick up Pan from school he flies into a rage almost immediately upon arriving to his house and tears into him for not caring enough for his daughter (as well as giving him a hard punch to the gut for not training either). When he leaves to go pick up Pan hes he's vocally disappointed that he has to yet again fill in for Gohan not being there for her. Later in the movie, he makes it clear to Pan that if Gohan didn't immedeately immediately follow them to save her while the two of them were pretending to be captured he would to beat the absolute tar out of Gohan the next time he sees him.
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* RedemptionDemotion: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]].
** As a villain, he was Goku's near-equal and the second most powerful being on Earth for a time. But after he redeems himself saving Gohan, he goes back and forth on this like a tennis ball. He still remains really strong for a while during ''Z'', being able to gain more power via fusions and become the strongest Z-Warrior for a window of time but eventually gets surpassed by Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan. But during that time, he was still good enough to defeat or contend with minions in the NonSerialMovie films and supporting villains like Dr. Gero and Android 17 in the series proper, while putting up decent fights against the main BigBad before they get to their final form.
** During ''Super'', however, he gets hit with this hard, where his ability to fight even the minions and supporting villains takes a huge nosedive. In the anime, he gets demolished by Tagoma one-on-one, loses to Frost, and gets eliminated by Damon in the Tournament of Power. He gets hit with this arguably ''much'' harder in the manga; Frost beats him much quicker with Piccolo standing practically no chance and later on, Piccolo takes even more humiliating beatings from Moro's followers like Seven-Three, Shimorekka, and Saganbo despite being able to easily defeat the first wave of Moro's scouts in the Macareni Gang. However, his demotion era does comes to an end during [[Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero Super Hero]] where he achieves a level of power comparable to Goku again and is able to [[spoiler: defeat Gamma 2 as Orange Piccolo and contribute to Gohan saving the day by holding Cell Max in place for Gohan to launch his finishing move]].
** As a villain, he was Goku's near-equal and the second most powerful being on Earth for a time. But after he redeems himself saving Gohan, he goes back and forth on this like a tennis ball. He still remains really strong for a while during ''Z'', being able to gain more power via fusions and become the strongest Z-Warrior for a window of time but eventually gets surpassed by Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan. But during that time, he was still good enough to defeat or contend with minions in the NonSerialMovie films and supporting villains like Dr. Gero and Android 17 in the series proper, while putting up decent fights against the main BigBad before they get to their final form.
** During ''Super'', however, he gets hit with this hard, where his ability to fight even the minions and supporting villains takes a huge nosedive. In the anime, he gets demolished by Tagoma one-on-one, loses to Frost, and gets eliminated by Damon in the Tournament of Power. He gets hit with this arguably ''much'' harder in the manga; Frost beats him much quicker with Piccolo standing practically no chance and later on, Piccolo takes even more humiliating beatings from Moro's followers like Seven-Three, Shimorekka, and Saganbo despite being able to easily defeat the first wave of Moro's scouts in the Macareni Gang. However, his demotion era does comes to an end during [[Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero Super Hero]] where he achieves a level of power comparable to Goku again and is able to [[spoiler: defeat Gamma 2 as Orange Piccolo and contribute to Gohan saving the day by holding Cell Max in place for Gohan to launch his finishing move]].
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* ButtMonkey: Although not to a gratuitous extent, Piccolo is subject to, or at least involved in, a lot more jokes in the ''Super'' era, likely owing to his status as TheComicallySerious being an excellent vehicle for humour. Since becoming Gohan and Videl's on-call babysitter, many other characters don't take him seriously anymore -- when he tries to explain the Mafuba technique to Goku, he gets cut off and ignored. Most notably, Piccolo's rather humiliating elimination in the Tournament of Power happens the same way in both the anime and manga versions of the story, likely meaning that it was specifically written in Akira Toriyama's outline for ''Super''.
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* ButtMonkey: Although not to a gratuitous extent, Piccolo is subject to, or at least involved in, a lot more jokes in the ''Super'' era, likely owing to his status as TheComicallySerious being an excellent vehicle for humour. Since becoming Gohan and Videl's on-call babysitter, many other characters don't take him seriously anymore -- when he tries to explain the Mafuba technique to Goku, he gets cut off and ignored. Most notably, Piccolo's rather humiliating elimination in the Tournament of Power happens the same way in both the anime and manga versions of the story, likely meaning that it was specifically written in Akira Toriyama's outline for ''Super''. In Super-Hero this gets deconstructed, as Gohan's flippant attitude to him and refusal to take Piccolo's sage wisdom about his recent failures as a parent and a warrior seriously and write him off as having a stick up his ass all the time for no reason not only pisses Piccolo off, but forces him to go to Bulma and Dende for help instead when the Red Ribbon army starts making moves.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Before their OddFriendship forms, Vegeta and Piccolo may not like or even trust one another, but Piccolo is both frustrated and disturbed by what happens to Vegeta when it turns out the Saiyan has no chance.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Before their OddFriendship forms, Vegeta and Piccolo may not like or even trust one another, but Piccolo is both frustrated and disturbed by what happens to Vegeta when it turns out the Saiyan has no chance. He, along with Krillin, even mourned Vegeta sacrificing himself ([[SenselessSacrifice in vain]]) against Majin Buu.
