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* [[spoiler:ButNotTooForeign[=/=]{{Fauxreigner}}: Krillin looks Tibetan[[note]]in the original series he was trained in a (supposedly) Buddhist temple, wore Buddhist garments, and even has forehead dot burns like Buddhist monks[[/note]] but his surname is Sanchez, meaning he's Latino.]]
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* [[spoiler:ButNotTooForeign[=/=]{{Fauxreigner}}: [[spoiler:ButNotTooForeign[=/=]{{Fauxreigner}}]]: Krillin looks Tibetan[[note]]in the original series he was trained in a (supposedly) Buddhist temple, wore Buddhist garments, and even has forehead dot burns like Buddhist monks[[/note]] but [[spoiler:but his surname is Sanchez, meaning he's Latino.]]
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* VocalEvolution: His voice got a bit goofier as the series went one.
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* VocalEvolution: His voice got a bit goofier as the series went one.
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* VocalEvolution: His voice got a bit goofier as the series went one.
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* NominalHero: Come season 3, he's no longer evil ([[TokenEvilTeammate much]]), but he's a hero in the loosest sense possible.
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* TheComicallySerious
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* {{Jerkass}}: "By the way, I only hit you because I have pent-up aggression against your father. Take that." After kneeing Gohan in the stomach in Episode 18. Then there's his treatment of Future Trunks.
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* InSeriesNickname: Is called a "Troll doll" by Android 18 and "MC Widow's Peak" by Android 17.
* {{Jerkass}}: "By the way, I only hit you because I have pent-up aggression against your father. Take that." After kneeing Gohan in the stomach in Episode 18. Then there's his treatment of Future Trunks. And his insult to Android 18.
* {{Jerkass}}: "By the way, I only hit you because I have pent-up aggression against your father. Take that." After kneeing Gohan in the stomach in Episode 18. Then there's his treatment of Future Trunks. And his insult to Android 18.
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-->'''Krillin: Who here just thought of Freeza with boobs? (Awkward silence) Really? I'm the only one?
-->'''Vegeta: Yes! (thinking) He must never know.
-->'''Vegeta: Yes! (thinking) He must never know.
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-->'''Vegeta:
'''Vegeta''': Yes!
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'''Yajirobe:''' "Oh, well then, I'm sure your father was a total prick.\\
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'''Yajirobe:''' "Oh, Oh, well then, I'm sure your father was a total prick.\\
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-->'''Krillin: Did anyone else imagine Freeza with boobs? (Awkward silence) Really? I'm the only one?
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-->'''Krillin: Did anyone else imagine Who here just thought of Freeza with boobs? (Awkward silence) Really? I'm the only one?
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* NotSoAboveItAll: His OnlySaneOne status notwithstanding. There are times when he shows he is not as different than the people he finds himself stuck with.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: His OnlySaneOne status notwithstanding. There are times when he shows he is not as different than the people he finds himself stuck with.
-->'''Krillin: Did anyone else imagine Freeza with boobs? (Awkward silence) Really? I'm the only one?
-->'''Vegeta: Yes! (thinking) He must never know.
-->'''Krillin: Did anyone else imagine Freeza with boobs? (Awkward silence) Really? I'm the only one?
-->'''Vegeta: Yes! (thinking) He must never know.
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* NiceGuy: Though a particularly daft one.
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* NiceGuy: Though a particularly [[KindheartedSimpleton daft one.one]].
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* AbusiveParents: Verbally is one with Future Trunks. In Episode 38 alone, he's called him a "bastard" (as in, born out of wedlock), a failure, and a disappointment (twice). In the next episode, he punched Trunks for trying to save his life.
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* AbusiveParents: Verbally is one with To Future Trunks. In Episode 38 alone, he's called him a "bastard" (as in, born out of wedlock), a failure, and a disappointment (twice). In the next episode, he punched Trunks for trying to save his life.
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** Physically as of Episode 39, although Trunks did press one of his biggest [[BerserkButton berserk buttons]].
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* AbusiveParents: Verbally is one with Future Trunks. In Episode 38 alone, he's called him a "bastard" (as in, born out of wedlock), a failure, and a disappointment (twice).
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* AbusiveParents: Verbally is one with Future Trunks. In Episode 38 alone, he's called him a "bastard" (as in, born out of wedlock), a failure, and a disappointment (twice). In the next episode, he punched Trunks for trying to save his life.
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* ImAHumanitarian: His explanation for how he learned instant transmission - the Yardies fed him their sick.
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* ImAHumanitarian: His explanation for how he learned instant transmission - the Yardies fed him their sick.
** It depends on what is meant by sick. It could mean sick as in sick Yardies, or sick as in their vomit. It would make just as much sense either way so it's a toss up which is the correct interpretation.
** It depends on what is meant by sick. It could mean sick as in sick Yardies, or sick as in their vomit. It would make just as much sense either way so it's a toss up which is the correct interpretation.
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--> '''Vegeta''': That reminds me. Did you do anything to me while I was unconscious?
--> '''Zarbon''': Did I... Did I what?
--> '''Vegeta''': Did you do anything to me while I was unconscious?
--> '''Zarbon''': What?! Oh, God no!
--> '''Vegeta''': Oh, thank God, I... wait. What do you mean by that? [[ArentYouGoingToRavageMe Am I not good enough for you]]?!
--> '''Zarbon''': I'm going to be honest here, Vegeta. This is sounding really gay.
--> '''Vegeta''': [[FlatWhat What]]?
--> '''Zarbon''': NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat.
--> '''Vegeta''': Just... Just... [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Just transform, damn you]].
* TheNapoleon:
--> '''Zarbon''': Did I... Did I what?
--> '''Vegeta''': Did you do anything to me while I was unconscious?
--> '''Zarbon''': What?! Oh, God no!
--> '''Vegeta''': Oh, thank God, I... wait. What do you mean by that? [[ArentYouGoingToRavageMe Am I not good enough for you]]?!
--> '''Zarbon''': I'm going to be honest here, Vegeta. This is sounding really gay.
--> '''Vegeta''': [[FlatWhat What]]?
--> '''Zarbon''': NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat.
--> '''Vegeta''': Just... Just... [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Just transform, damn you]].
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--> '''Vegeta''': That reminds me. Did you do anything to me while I was unconscious?
-->unconscious?\\
'''Zarbon''': Did I... Did Iwhat?
-->what?\\
'''Vegeta''': Did you do anything to me while I wasunconscious?
-->unconscious?\\
'''Zarbon''': What?! Oh, Godno!
-->no!\\
'''Vegeta''': Oh, thank God, I... wait. What do you mean by that?[[ArentYouGoingToRavageMe [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe Am I not good enough for you]]?!
-->you]]?!\\
'''Zarbon''': I'm going to be honest here, Vegeta. This is sounding reallygay.
-->gay.\\
'''Vegeta''': [[FlatWhatWhat]]?
-->What]]?\\
'''Zarbon''':NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat.
-->NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat.\\
'''Vegeta''': Just... Just... [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Just transform, damn you]].
*TheNapoleon:TheNapoleon: His being one of the shortest of the main characters is noted.
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'''Zarbon''': Did I... Did I
-->
'''Vegeta''': Did you do anything to me while I was
-->
'''Zarbon''': What?! Oh, God
-->
'''Vegeta''': Oh, thank God, I... wait. What do you mean by that?
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'''Zarbon''': I'm going to be honest here, Vegeta. This is sounding really
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'''Vegeta''': Just... Just... [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Just transform, damn you]].
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** Although it seems his time with Nappa and Krillin being Krillin is beginning to take its toll on his sanity.
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--> '''Piccolo''': Gohan, you're a good kid.
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--> '''Piccolo''': Gohan, you're Gohan?\\
'''Gohan:''' Yeah?\\
'''Piccolo:''' You're a good kid.
'''Gohan:''' Yeah?\\
'''Piccolo:''' You're a good kid.
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--> '''Vegeta''': Oh, thank God, I... wait. What do you mean by that? [[ArentYouGoinToRavageMe Am I not good enough for you]]?!
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--> '''Vegeta''': Oh, thank God, I... wait. What do you mean by that? [[ArentYouGoinToRavageMe [[ArentYouGoingToRavageMe Am I not good enough for you]]?!
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* MistakenForGay: By [[CampStraight Zarbon]], ironically enough.
--> '''Vegeta''': That reminds me. Did you do anything to me while I was unconscious?
--> '''Zarbon''': Did I... Did I what?
--> '''Vegeta''': Did you do anything to me while I was unconscious?
--> '''Zarbon''': What?! Oh, God no!
--> '''Vegeta''': Oh, thank God, I... wait. What do you mean by that? [[ArentYouGoinToRavageMe Am I not good enough for you]]?!
--> '''Zarbon''': I'm going to be honest here, Vegeta. This is sounding really gay.
--> '''Vegeta''': [[FlatWhat What]]?
--> '''Zarbon''': NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat.
--> '''Vegeta''': Just... Just... [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Just transform, damn you]].
--> '''Vegeta''': That reminds me. Did you do anything to me while I was unconscious?
--> '''Zarbon''': Did I... Did I what?
--> '''Vegeta''': Did you do anything to me while I was unconscious?
--> '''Zarbon''': What?! Oh, God no!
--> '''Vegeta''': Oh, thank God, I... wait. What do you mean by that? [[ArentYouGoinToRavageMe Am I not good enough for you]]?!
--> '''Zarbon''': I'm going to be honest here, Vegeta. This is sounding really gay.
--> '''Vegeta''': [[FlatWhat What]]?
--> '''Zarbon''': NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat.
--> '''Vegeta''': Just... Just... [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Just transform, damn you]].
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* AbusiveParents: Verbally (for now) is one with Future Trunks. In Episode 38 alone, he's called him a "bastard" (as in, born out of wedlock), a failure, and a disappointment (twice).
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* AbusiveParents: Verbally (for now) is one with Future Trunks. In Episode 38 alone, he's called him a "bastard" (as in, born out of wedlock), a failure, and a disappointment (twice).
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** Then again, he ''did'' die, so FromACertainPointOfView, there's no fraud at all.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Freeza makes him cry, "[[PreAsskickingOneLiner like a little bitch]]," in episode 27
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* BreakTheHaughty: Freeza makes him cry, "[[PreAsskickingOneLiner like a little bitch]]," in episode 2727. Unfortunately, it [[IgnoredEpiphany doesn't stick]].
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* AssholeVictim: He frequently gets beaten within an inch of his life by superior opponents, but it's usually rather hard to feel bad for him.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: By season 3.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: By season 3.3, though he often [[EnemyMine allied himself]] with the others as early as mid-season 2.
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** In ''Lord Slug Abridged'', he almost fed Oolong pork.
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** In ''Lord Slug Abridged'', ''Revenge of Cooler'', he almost fed Oolong pork.
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'''Ginyu:''' Oh don't go all 'Vegeta' on me.
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'''Ginyu:''' Oh don't go all 'Vegeta' Vegeta on me.
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* TheScream: He screams a ''lot''.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: He has his moments.
** In ''The Christmas Tree of Might'', instead of wishing for Shenron to restore the forest that Oolong burned down, he wishes for a Christmas tree. Shenron is so disgusted by the selfishness of this wish that he [[JackassGenie summons Turles]].
** In ''Lord Slug Abridged'', he almost fed Oolong pork.
** In ''The Christmas Tree of Might'', instead of wishing for Shenron to restore the forest that Oolong burned down, he wishes for a Christmas tree. Shenron is so disgusted by the selfishness of this wish that he [[JackassGenie summons Turles]].
** In ''Lord Slug Abridged'', he almost fed Oolong pork.
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* WouldHitAGirl: He declares that he would not hesitate to fight a woman before fighting Android 18.
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* BigEater: No, scratch that--HUGE Eater. It even [[spoiler:saved his life when he used the Muffin Button to escape the exploding Namek]] and it could also [[spoiler:kill him from a heart attack in Future Trunks' timeline.]]
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* BigEater: No, scratch that--HUGE Eater. It even [[spoiler:saved his life when he used the Muffin Button to escape the exploding Namek]] and it could also [[spoiler:kill [[spoiler:killed him from a heart attack in Future Trunks' timeline.timeline (heart attack from eating too much bacon).]]
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** To a lesser extent, Blueberry Muffins. Unlike Bacon, these end up ''saving'' his life.
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** However, when he's asked what his favorite food is (to make sure he's back in his own body after the FreakyFridayFlip) his answer is just "favorite?"
** To a lesser extent,Blueberry Muffins. blueberry muffins. Unlike Bacon, bacon, these end up ''saving'' his life.
** To a lesser extent,
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-->'''Goku''': "Gohan, take Piccolo, find Bulma, and get back to the ship.\\
'''Gohan''': "But what about you?"\\
'''Goku''': "If Piccolo dies, then all of this was pointless! Take him, get to the ship, and get out of here!"\\
'''Gohan''': "[[LampshadeHanging This is surprisingly well thought-out for you."]]\\
'''Goku''': *getting increasingly angry* "Gohan!? Where should you be right now!?"\\
'''Gohan''': "The ship?"\\
'''Goku''': "THE SHIP!!"
'''Gohan''': "But what about you?"\\
'''Goku''': "If Piccolo dies, then all of this was pointless! Take him, get to the ship, and get out of here!"\\
'''Gohan''': "[[LampshadeHanging This is surprisingly well thought-out for you."]]\\
'''Goku''': *getting increasingly angry* "Gohan!? Where should you be right now!?"\\
'''Gohan''': "The ship?"\\
'''Goku''': "THE SHIP!!"
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-->'''Goku''': "Gohan, Gohan, take Piccolo, find Bulma, and get back to the ship.\\
'''Gohan''':"But But what about you?"\\
you?\\
'''Goku''':"If If Piccolo dies, then all of this was pointless! Take him, get to the ship, and get out of here!"\\
here!\\
'''Gohan''':"[[LampshadeHanging [[LampshadeHanging This is surprisingly well thought-out for you."]]\\
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'''Goku''': *getting increasingly angry*"Gohan!? Gohan!? Where should you be right now!?"\\
now!?\\
'''Gohan''':"The ship?"\\
The ship?\\
'''Goku''':"THE SHIP!!"THE SHIP!!
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'''Goku''':
'''Gohan''':
'''Goku''': *getting increasingly angry*
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->'''Voiced by:''' [=MasakoX=]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Yaaaaaaaaaay!!"]]
* {{Adorkable}}: Like in the original series, he's a goofball.
* {{Angrish}}: His Super Saiyan form... at least temporarily.
* BaconAddiction: It ends up killing him in Trunks' timeline. See TrademarkFavoriteFood below for more details.
** In his opinion, the best idea he's ever had is a sandwich with bacon instead of bread. Krillin also believes that Goku's favorite food is the Double Baconator. He also keeps bacon in his pockets.
* {{Badass}}: Let's see, he manages to...
** Beat the crap out of Nappa in less than a minute.
** Beat up Turles's goons in less time he took with Nappa.
** Hands Vegeta his ass constantly with the Kaio-Ken.
** Completely dominate half the Ginyu Force without even really trying. As in, he wanted to know where the ''real'' fighters were.
** Annihilates Lord Slug's goons in under two minutes.
** Effortlessly deflects ''every single shot'' from Freeza's BeamSpam.
*** All while, unknowingly, outright ''taunting'' the guy.
** Beats up Freeza in considerably less time than in the source material.[[note]]This version cut out Goku's supposed death and subsequent Gohan segment, to just having him knee Freeza in the face out of nowhere.[[/note]]
** BadassBoast: "I'm going to break you... like a Kit-Kat bar."
* BadLiar:
** He spilled the beans to Chi Chi about him and Gohan going to find the androids instead of going on camping.
-->'''Gohan:''' Three years, dad. Three years. You almost got it.
** And, if it wasn't for Piccolo to stop him in time, he would have spilled the beans about there being more innocent people on the island to the androids.
* BerserkButton:
** "YOU NEVER WASTE FIGGY PUDDING!" (Christmas Tree of Might)
** Also, "Nobody... rapes Christmas!" (Lord Slug)
** And in Episode 30, part 2: "That wasn't a pizza... THAT WASN'T A PIZZA AT ALL!"
** Don't threaten his friends, especially Krillin, whom he cares for deeply. He will bring the pain if you do.
** If Revenge of Cooler is any indication, needlessly harming animals is one as well, although he did refer to Oolong and Icarus as emergency food.
** DON'T imply that you can have "too much bacon." He'll go Super Saiyan if you do.
* BigEater: No, scratch that--HUGE Eater. It even [[spoiler:saved his life when he used the Muffin Button to escape the exploding Namek]] and it could also [[spoiler:kill him from a heart attack in Future Trunks' timeline.]]
* BloodKnight: He didn't care what Freeza was capable of, he just wanted to beat him up.
** [[spoiler: He stops the fight with Freeza in episode 30 part 2 because he was getting bored.]]
** He's looking forward to fighting the Androids, as he feels he hasn't gotten a good fight since Freeza.
* BreakTheCutie: Spends episodes 38 and 39 screaming in pain from [[spoiler: his heart problems.]]
* BrickJoke: Muffin button. Suprisingly enough, it ''saved'' his life as explained in episode 34.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: His idiocy is exaggerated beyond belief. He's still TheAce for the Z Warriors, and a constant [[BigDamnHeroes big damn hero.]]
* CannotKeepASecret: Tells Future Trunks this. Though he swears on Krillin's (but changed to Bulma's) life to keep Trunks' secret.
** Almost averted with telling Chichi about Gohan helping to fight the androids. He keeps her out of the loop for three years, but lets it slip at the last possible second.
* CatchPhrase: "[[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Bored now.]]"
* CharacterExaggeration: Made out to be much dumber than his original character.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Seems to be in the making with regards to his relationship to Gohan. Before Episode 27, he has been a somewhat attentive father to Gohan. As of Episode 27, he makes conversation with Krillin, Piccolo, and Vegeta while he responds to Gohan's "Hey Dad!" with a disinterested "Hey".
** In ''The Revenge of Cooler'', he completely forgets about Gohan's existence, talking about how, if he had a son, [[{{Irony}} he would be sure to treat him better than Freeza and Cooler were]]. Though, he still [[TakingTheBullet jumps in front of the death ray]] to save him in the same special. It's probably just a matter of [[RuleOfFunny whatever's funniest at the time]].
** In Season 2, Goku was confused when Krillin asked what his favorite food was, implying that Goku loves all food equally. By Season 3, his favorite food is revealed to be bacon, he doesn't like grapes or anything grape-flavored.
* ChildhoodBrainDamage: Goku fell on a rock head-first when he was still a child. And he's noticeably more ditzy and absent-minded than his canon self.
* DeathByIrony: In Trunks' timeline, Goku's death is caused by heart failure from high cholesterol from eating too much bacon.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Certainly thinks this way about Vegeta, who outright defies it.
* [[DoesNotLikeSpam Does Not Like Grapes]]: See above. So much in fact that [[spoiler: he refused to take the medicine Trunks gave him which nearly caused his death as a result.]]
** In an alternate scene of episode 30, instead of a muffin, Freeza's ship instead spawns him a cookie, shouting a BigNo in the process.
* TheDreaded: In the Dead Zone Abridged, when Garlic Jr meets Gohan and realizes he's Goku's son, Garlic Jr freaks out and yells at his minions to get the Dragon Balls quicker. Also dreaded by Freeza after being beaten on Namek.
* DumbBlonde: {{Inversion}}. Goku is usually quite the idiot, but when he goes Super Saiyan and as such blonde, he becomes much smarter compared to his actual intelligence. Emphasis on compared to his normal intelligence.
** The twist is that while he's indeed smarter and uses the correct words, he mispronounces them very often.
-->'''Freeza''': That's not the problem, you idiot! [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace I can breathe in space]]!\\
'''Goku''': But space is a ''vacumm''!
** Slips back into played straight when he sees Trunks become into a Super Saiyan.
-->'''Goku''': What happened to your hair? It's yellow!! \\
'''Trunks''': ...So is yours.\\
'''Goku''': It ''is''!?
*** Though this may be justified because Goku hasn't been near any mirrors as a Super Saiyan.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the two abridged DBZ movies that Lanipator, [=Vegeta3986=], and [=MasakoX=] made before Team Four Star came together, Goku was a lot smarter and a ''major'' {{Jerkass}}.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Not-so subtly implied between him and his wife Chi-Chi in ''Christmas Tree of Might''
-->'''Goku:''' Well, what am I getting for Christmas?\\
'''Chi-Chi:''' The same thing as last year, Goku.\\
'''Goku:''' Oh, so that thing you do with your mouth...?\\
'''Chi-Chi:''' NOT IN FRONT OF GOHAN!
** And later in the same special:
---> '''Goku''' ([[InternalMonologue thinking]]): Oh, man! If Chi-Chi finds out about this, I might not get mouth present.
* ImAHumanitarian: His explanation for how he learned instant transmission - the Yardies fed him their sick.
* {{Malaproper}}: While he's smarter as a Super Saiyan he trips over words a lot more than usual.
* {{Manchild}}: Like you wouldn't ''believe''.
-->'''Ginyu:''' How's that wound treating you?\\
'''Goku:''' This is easily the ''second''-worst hole I've ever had in my chest. It's gonna take, like, a million Mommy-kisses to make it better.
* MotivationalLie: Uses one on a transformed Gohan in season 1 to get Gohan to concentrate on Vegeta. He's also had them used on him a few times, notably when King Kai tells Goku he has to save Christmas during the Lord Slug movie.
* NiceGuy: Though a particularly daft one.
* ObliviousToLove: Sorta. He thinks Chi-Chi is just a lady who lives in his house - he might not understand what a wife ''is''. This might be a ShoutOut to the fact that when Goku originally proposed to Chi-Chi he thought marriage was a food. And was confused over what a "bride" was in the original series when she came back to cash in on the ChildhoodMarriagePromise.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Generally acts smarter than usual during his desperate Spirit Bomb plan and is also smarter than usual when he becomes a Super Saiyan.
** Also slightly noticeable in a few of the movies[=/=]specials, since they're non-canon and all.
* PapaWolf: Despite frequently neglecting his son, whenever Gohan's in danger, about to be killed or on the verge of death, Goku [[LetsGetDangerous gets serious]].
* ParentalNeglect: The series plays up the fact that Goku is a terrible father, to the point that Gohan's attempt to envision [[WhatWouldXDo what Goku would do]] is merely a short flashback of Goku saying "Bye, son!". He also left Gohan, who was crashed in the snow, to go driving with Piccolo.
** There's this little gem from episode 28:
--->'''Goku:''' ''Wow. [Gohan] sounds like he's had a hard time. Piccolo should really have a talk with him.''
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: You wouldn't believe how often. Very noticeable when he becomes a Super Saiyan.
-->'''Goku''': "Gohan, take Piccolo, find Bulma, and get back to the ship.\\
'''Gohan''': "But what about you?"\\
'''Goku''': "If Piccolo dies, then all of this was pointless! Take him, get to the ship, and get out of here!"\\
'''Gohan''': "[[LampshadeHanging This is surprisingly well thought-out for you."]]\\
'''Goku''': *getting increasingly angry* "Gohan!? Where should you be right now!?"\\
'''Gohan''': "The ship?"\\
'''Goku''': "THE SHIP!!"
** Slams right back to silliness after he tells Freeza he's going to break him... like a Kit-Kat bar.
* SmartBall: That's right. He has his moments.
** The first is in Episode 2, where Raditz called Piccolo a Namekian, and Goku told him that [[MythologyGag Piccolo's race has not been explained yet]].
** In the same episode, Goku explains eating a Senzu bean will not work because he has a hole in his esophagus (after getting a hole blasted in his chest in his HeroicSacrifice to kill Raditz).
** Fooling Goz and Mez into telling him where the exit is without having to take them up on their challenges.
** Another is when he managed to fool King Kai into thinking he hung up on his psychic link by [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud saying "click beeeeeeeeeeee *GASP* eeee-"]]
** He gets a few moments of brilliance in Episode 28, which he thanks [[OrsonWelles his brain]] for.
** Remembers the whole "five minutes" thing with the Special Beam Cannon when [[spoiler:Piccolo stalls Freeza while he charges the Spirit Bomb.]]
** He gets a noticeable increase in intelligence when he goes [[SuperMode Super Saiyan]]. He tells Gohan to take Piccolo and Bulma back to Earth to bring back everyone else, and allows Freeza to reach his maximum power so when he beats him in under five minutes, he'll be too "demormalized" to threaten anyone else (that and Freeza offered him pizza, which was the real reason).
*** Of course, Goku is so dumb that even his intelligence-boosted Super Saiyan form is ''still'' a moron.
** In the TFS Dead Zone remake, even he can spot the flaw in trying to kill Piccolo when you're after the Dragon Balls.
* StupidityTropes: Oh, good lord, yes. He makes [[Franchise/DragonBall the real Goku]] look like a genius.
** AchievementsInIgnorance:
-->'''Dr. Briefs''': "You're incredibly lucky I already set the coordinates for Namek, but you... you... where did you get that muffin?" \\
'''Goku''': "Muffin button."\\
'''Dr. Briefs''': "But, I... never installed a muffin button."\\
'''Goku''': "Then where did I get this muffin...?"
** CloudCuckooLander: Lets get started...
*** Wonders if Piccolo's a Yoshi, thinks that sarcasm is food, and asks if the moon is made of cheese.
*** Half the time when he's fighting, he doesn't even understand that he's in a fight. He just... ''does things.'' Which badly hurt his opponents.
*** In episode 27, he unknowingly delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to ''Freeza''.
*** In episode 34, when Goku finds out that Bulma is Trunks' mother, his first reaction is to be amazed at how old he's gotten in the year and a half since Goku assumes he must have been born. The impossibility of Trunks' existence never crosses his mind.
** DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: "[[IsItSomethingYouEat What does that taste like?]]"
*** It actually drives both Vegeta and Freeza into the throes of a VillainousBreakdown.
** IdiotHero: '''''Yes.'''''
** LiteralMinded: Good Lord, YES. So much that it drove Vegeta and Freeza [[VillainousBreakdown insane]]. Look how Goku got Freeza tripped up when they first met:
--->'''Freeza:''' Unfortunately Vegeta and I were having a disagreement: He wanted himself to live and, well, I didn't.\\
'''Goku:''' Why do you want to die?
*** And again while Super Saiyan.
---->'''Freeza:''' Will you just piss off already!?\\
'''Goku:''' I don't have to use the bathroom!
** StupidGood: An innocently nice guy, and just as stupid to boot.
** TooDumbToLive: He actually kept letting Freeza go during their fight.
*** Also he stopped taking his medicine and had a heart attack just because he didn't like the flavor.
** TookALevelInDumbass: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] due to his brain damage with his fight with Vegeta. Perhaps he ''did'' hit his head harder than he thought.
* TalkingToHimself: Like the original Japanese version, he and Gohan share the same voice actor, [=MasakoX=].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: '''''[[BaconAddiction Bacon.]]''''' Instead of being killed by a heart virus in Trunks' timeline, he is instead killed by a heart attack caused by high cholesterol from eating too much bacon. When Trunks tells him the the medicine he gave him is [[BlatantLies bacon flavored]], Goku is overjoyed.
** To a lesser extent, Blueberry Muffins. Unlike Bacon, these end up ''saving'' his life.
* VocalDissonance: The series continues the tradition of ''Dragon Ball Z'' adaptations portraying Goku as a muscular warrior with a curiously high-pitched voice, in this case [=MasakoX=]'s Goku sounds like a more child-like version of Peter Kelamis's Goku from the Ocean Group dubs.
!!Gohan
->'''Voiced by:''' [=MasakoX=]
* {{Adorkable}}: Acknowledged as such in Dragon Ball Kai Abridged:
-->'''Goku:''' I have a kid.\\
'''Gohan:''' I'm socially awkward.\\
'''Krillin:''' He's adorable!
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable
** BadassBoast: Prone to giving them, and usually has the power and skill to back it up. The problem is, he's usually facing someone a lot stronger than he is, leading to an OhCrap moment.
** BadassBookworm: Taken UpToEleven from the original franchise. Also see SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.
* BerserkButton: Never hurt Goku, Piccolo, or innocent elders/children. He will wreck you.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: TAKE THAT, YOU INSUFFERABLE F*CKING SIMPLETON!!
* BreakTheCutie
** TraumaCongaLine
* BrickJoke: Him and dodging, and it's mainly from Piccolo telling him in the slightest to dodge. Goku even notices and Piccolo says he's still working on it. Then again when Android 20 complains about 19 not dodging Goku's attacks, Piccolo looks at Gohan.
* CallingTheOldManOut: In Episode 23, even if it wasn't really his dad he was saying it to.
** But Goku was there and did overhear it. (Even if he didn't understand..)
** And half of it wasn't even Goku's fault.
* CatchPhrase:
** "Crapbaskets!" whenever things get bad.
** "...I need an adult..."
** PhraseCatcher: "I ''AM'' an adult", in response. Alternatively, "''NEEEEEEEERRRRDD''" and "'''DODGE!!'''", mainly from Piccolo.
* CovertPervert: A short moment when he first meets Maron.
--> '''Krillin:''' And her boobs are as big as my head.\\
'''Gohan:''' I have made the comparison.
* CrossdressingVoices: Averted with his younger self, who's been cast as a girl in nearly every official dub for the series.
* DynamicCharacter: He starts out much more naive than in the original franchise. Flash forward to the Season 2 Finale, when casually threatens to ''drop [[ItsAllAboutMe Bulma]] to her death'' if she doesn't quit [[{{Wangst}} wangsting]].
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He's one of the most intelligent characters these days, but back in the Dead Zone Abridged movie, he needed schooling to know ''how many fingers a fish had.''
** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation That may well]] be his lack of [[NoSocialSkills social skills]], and him making a StealthPun: Fish fingers, anyone?
* HulkSpeak: Engages in a little of this after Freeza supremely pisses him off by [[spoiler:nearly killing Krillin.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: As in the original series, he can sense things. But in the season 2 finale, he looks upon a ship and mentions he senses a "dark force" inside. [[spoiler:Cue his mother rushing out demanding to know where Gohan is.]]
* OnlySaneMan: For the heroes.
* ParentalIssues: Episode 23 reveals that Gohan holds a lot of pent up resentment towards Goku for being a neglectful parent. He lets it out on Ginyu while he's in Goku's body, and it slowly starts slipping out afterward.
** In a twist of irony, while [[Anime/DragonBallZ in the canon series]] the thought of Ginyu looking like Goku made him not able to fight at full strength, in Abridged it just motivated him even further.
** He also has issues with his mother's controlling and domineering behavior and snaps on her shortly before leaving for Namek.
* ParentalNeglect: Goku has been out fighting/training/dying for so much of Gohan's life that when he tries to picture something Goku would say, all he can get is Goku saying goodbye to him.
* PintSizedPowerhouse
* PrecisionFStrike: Usually drops an F-bomb when enraged usually combined with...
** SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: He's called "Nerd" by Piccolo for this.
* SanitySlippage: Being dragged into violent, nightmarish battles and having [[ParentalNeglect Goku]], [[EducationMama Chi-Chi]]'s and [[DrillSergeantNasty Piccolo]] [[AbusiveParents as parents]] has begun taking a serious toll on his mind.
* SophisticatedAsHell: The result of combining the previous two tropes.
* TalkingToHimself: With Goku.
* UnstoppableRage: Even more emphasized than it was in the original. Gohan's got issues.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears
!!Krillin [[spoiler:Sanchez]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Lanipator
* ADayInTheLimelight: Stars in Episode 31, where things finally start going his way. [[spoiler:Then the feds show up...]]
* AsTheGoodBookSays: [[RuleOfFunny Despite being a Buddhist.]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Goku considers Krillin to be his best friend and Krillin's death is what causes Goku to go Super Saiyan.
** When Krillin thinks Sauza has destroyed the only means of saving Goku's life in ''Revenge of Cooler'', he goes nuts and launches a hopeless attack on Sauza.
** When Trunks revealed he was a Super Saiyan to Goku, Goku remembered what had happened to trigger his initial transformation and immediately started asking if Krillin was OK and refused to talk about anything else until he was given an answer. This is very telling of their friendship because Krillin's welfare got [[CloudCuckoolander GOKU]] to stay focused on something.
* BringMyBrownPants
* ButtMonkey: Lampshaded with "The Krillin Owned Count".
* [[spoiler:ButNotTooForeign[=/=]{{Fauxreigner}}: Krillin looks Tibetan[[note]]in the original series he was trained in a (supposedly) Buddhist temple, wore Buddhist garments, and even has forehead dot burns like Buddhist monks[[/note]] but his surname is Sanchez, meaning he's Latino.]]
* CallingMeALogarithm: When Nappa points out the Namekian in the group (referring to Piccolo), Krillin takes offense. Piccolo immediately corrects him and tells him how stupid his reaction was.
* TheChewToy: In seasons 1 and 2, he is very much likely to be the victim of some cosmic unluckiness or other person's jerkass behavior (though sometimes he pushed them to that point). Seems to be decreasing in Season 3. Likely because of [[ButtMonkey Yamcha's involvement]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: He doesn't pick up on the fact that Dende doesn't like being called "Little Green" despite Dende repeatedly saying "My name is Dende" in response, nor does he realize that no one likes the name Team Three Star (including himself) even though Vegeta repeatedly threatens him over it. Gohan has to say it outright for both of these.
* DirtyCoward: Shows some shades of this.
* DoubleEntendre: In Episode 31, he makes these about "pounding Chi Chi's tuna".
* InsuranceFraud: Because he took a large policy out on himself and named [[spoiler:his "brother", who is just himself under a different name, as the beneficiary, it is this trope.]]
** Then again, he ''did'' die, so FromACertainPointOfView, there's no fraud at all.
* ItsAllAboutMe: So terrified of dying or being hurt that his empathy for other people is a little delayed.
* TheMedic: Seems to be fulfilling this role in season 3.
-->[[RunningGag SENZU BEAN!!!]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In spades, whether out of [[DirtyCoward fear]] or [[IdiotBall stupidity]].
** Bulma calls Krillin out on this when he hands a dragon ball over to Vegeta. Of course, this is [[HairTriggerTemper Vegeta]] we're talking about, [[JustifiedTrope so it's quite justified on his part]].
** He also cannot shut up when he is scared, informing Vegeta about the potential-unlocking Super Kami Guru, telling Captain Ginyu where the majority of dragon balls are located (right behind him, to be fair), screaming out loud about Goku's "secret" attempt to defeat Freeza (the latter thankfully had no idea what he was talking about), and '''[[SubvertedTrope almost]]''' dropped Earth's name as their home planet to [[TheSociopath Freeza]] (only for [[JerkAss Dende]] to spill it himself)).
** In fact, it's because of Krillin's mistreatment of Dende (always calling him "Little Green" and berating him for mourning his deceased family) that he dropped our planet's identity to the intergalactic evil space emperor.
** Also unwittingly causes one for himself when he reveals to Marin he committed insurance fraud. [[spoiler: Turned out Marin was a government agent assigned to get a confession out of him.]]
* TheNicknamer: "Little Green!" Dende's attempts to correct him fall on deaf ears.
** And to Nail: "Big Green!" Nail didn't appreciate it, and made that fact clear.
** In fact, this goes all the way back to the start of the series, and seems to be combined with Krillin having a bad memory for names. In the first episode he responded to seeing Bulma by calling her "Boobs!" at first before he remembered her name, called Goku "Tail" and seemed confused when Bulma called him Goku, and in ''Revenge of Cooler Abridged'', he relates how the last time he saw Korin, Krillen couldn't remember his name so he just kept calling him "Whiskers the Wonder Cat."
* NoIndoorVoice: When scared.
* NoSell: For all that he's an OvershadowedByAwesome ButtMonkey and treated as a weakling by other characters, Krillin has managed the NoSell a few times. He was immune to the lasers or whatever fired at him by the people running from Freeza, and Guldo was clearly surprised when Krillin barely reacted to having a steamroller dropped on him.
-->'''Krillin:''' What the hell was that?!\\
'''Guldo:''' ...that... was supposed to crush you.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Frequently lampshaded, and the former TropeNamer. Well, at least he's stronger than [[TheArtifact Yamcha]]. And [[StarterVillain Raditz]].
* PhraseCatcher: "Krillin! TooSoon!"
* TalkingToHimself: With Vegeta, Piccolo, and Mr. Popo. And more.
* TookALevelInBadass: On more of an emotional level. After coming back from his explosive space death, he seems a lot less scared when dealing with the androids, compared to the wreck he was on Namek. His ButtMonkey status currently shifted to Yamcha means he has time to snark and just enjoy the adventure.
** As soon as Yamcha left though, he begins to return to his old status. The Krillin Owned Count is back, but he retains his newfound confidence, and got up pretty quickly after Gero owned him.
!!Piccolo
->'''Voiced by:''' Lanipator
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/piccoshi_7773.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm not a god-damn Yoshi!"]]
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: While trying to come up with some more badass names for his attacks, reluctantly admits to liking Nail's suggestion of "[[IncrediblyLamePun Nail Gun]]".
* {{Badass}}: Always has the attitude, can't always back it up. But when he does, it's memorable, especially in the Lord Slug movie.
* BerserkButton: [[DetonationMoon STOP MOCKING ME!!]]
* BigDamnHeroes: When he shows up during the fight with form 2 Freeza after having fused with Nail, complete with [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Magus' battle theme playing]][[note]]Magus being a similar character designed by Creator/AkiraToriyama[[/note]]. He then proceeds to send Freeza flying with a single punch.
** In the Lord Slug movie he shows up to save Gohan while the theme song of StoneColdSteveAustin plays, and one mook asks if he's Franchise/{{Batman}}. It's hard to find a bigger damn hero than that.
** In the Lord Slug movie, he also lampshades his tendency to do this.
-->'''Piccolo''': ''(while TakingTheBullet for Gohan)'' WHY CAN'T YOU SAVE YOUR OWN DAMN SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELF!?
* ButtMonkey: Obviously not as much as Krillin or Yamcha, but shows signs of this from time to time, especially around other Namekians.
* {{Catchphrase}}: '''"DODGE!!!"'''
* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently, though he does it in rapid succession in the Lord Slug movie.
-->'''Piccolo:''' And that, no doubt, would make you the big, tough, stupid one.\\
'''Dordabo:''' You take that back or I'll kill you.\\
'''Piccolo:''' All right, all right, you're not tough.\\
'''Dordabo:''' That's better.\\
{{Beat}}\\
'''Gohan:''' Wait, didn't you--\\
'''Piccolo:''' Give him a minute.\\
{{Beat}} {{Beat}} {{Beat}}\\
'''Dordabo:''' ...[[LateToThePunchline Hey!]] You son of a bitch! ''(Attempts to punch Piccolo but [[DeadlyDodging punches a hole in a truck instead]])''\\
'''Piccolo:''' Now now, that truck is not your eating disorder.\\
'''Dordabo:''' You're a penis!\\
'''Piccolo:''' So long since you've seen yours you don't even recognize one, do you?
** There's also this exchange with borderline {{Bishonen}} Angira.
--->'''Angira:''' We're just here for your planet. But if I had to pick [a gimmick] I'd say I'm the pretty one.\\
'''Piccolo:''' Meh. 6 out of 10.\\
'''Angira:''' You sassy bitch.
* DetonationMoon: STOP MOCKING ME!!
** MOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
* ForgotICouldFly: When it comes to his ability to stretch his arms.
-->'''[[SharingABody Nail]]''': Huh, I didn't know we could do that.\\
'''Piccolo''': Yeah, I forget about 'em sometimes too.
* GenreSavvy: In the Lord Slug movie:
-->That would make you [[TheDarkChick the weird one with the freaky powers]], and that would make ''you'' no doubt [[TheBrute the big, tough, stupid one]].
** Happens again in the Cooler movie, but the ones he was categorizing were too stupid to realize which one each of them were.
* GoodIsNotNice: UpToEleven from the original
* HeroicSacrifice: Like in the original, he shielded Gohan from Nappa's attack and died. Lampshaded due to the fact that he realized he could just grab him, and save them both.
-->''Alright, it's time to redeem myself. Through one final act of redemption, I'll save Gohan an- wait a second, [[StupidSacrifice why didn't I just grab him? I can probably still do that now, actually. Yeah, that's it, I'll grab him, and '''throw''' him out of the wa--]]'''[[KilledMidSentence AAAARRRRRGH!]]'''''
* HomelessHero: Nail suggests he buys one, but he can't and won't get a job.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He agrees to aid Goku in the first episode when Goku offers to friend him on MySpace ("Tom, you've been replaced!") and his first words upon spotting Nail are "SOCIAL ACTIVITY!" He even admits to being quite desperate for friends; he does cut himself off, but far too late. When Tien states rather bluntly that he has no friends in ''Bald This Way'', he actually runs off the set in tears.
* IneffectualLoner: Zigzags this with IJustWantToHaveFriends. He becomes even more ineffectual a loner after Nail starts sharing his head.
--> '''Nail''' So, you wanna go hang out with our race?\\
'''Piccolo''' No.
** As of episode 34 he seems to be growing out of this, having developed something of a friendship with Goku. He covers for Goku's idiocy not once, but twice, and also goes with Goku to race cars.
** Lampshaded in Episode 35, when Tien turns to Piccolo to ask for directions to the nearest wasteland they can safely fight in, counting on him knowing where that would be. He does.
** Surprisingly, in episode 38, he suggests he, Tien, and Krillin stick together for safety, rather than split up, as Tien suggests right afterwards.
* {{Jerkass}}: During the first time he talked to Gohan, before his HeelFaceTurn was cemented. "Hate to tell ya, kid. But your dad's '''DEAD!'''... Actually, I kinda like saying that. HA HA! YOUR DAD'S DEAD!"
** Piccolo's become more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in the later episodes, when he was healed by Dende on Earth, the first thing he did when he woke up was call out for Gohan.
* LargeHam
* PetTheDog: In episode 38 after Vegeta calls Trunks a bastard
--> '''Piccolo''': Gohan, you're a good kid.
* SharingABody: With Nail.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: To Gohan. The first thing he did as the kid's mentor was to throw him at a giant rock formation so he (Gohan) could break it. [[HilarityEnsues He crashes into the formation and starts bawling.]]
--> '''Piccolo:''' ''(walking over to a crying Gohan, annoyed)'' [[TrainingFromHell This is going to be a loooooooooooooong training session.]]
* SuperSenses: His hearing is good enough for him to have heard Goku and Trunks' whole conversation despite being a few hundred yards away.
* TalkingToHimself: With Vegeta and Krillin.
* TheSmartGuy
* VitriolicBestBuds: Seems to be developing this with Nail. The relationship seems to form a weird symbiosis. Piccolo finally has someone to fill his social void and Nail finally has someone he can bicker with.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Just as in canon, it turns out in ''Lord Slug Abridged'' that WHISTLING causes intense pain and discomfort to Namekians. But only if they can hear it.
--> "WHAT?!"
* TheWorfEffect: Just as in the original series, and particularly in the specials. Piccolo shows up, makes an incredibly badass showing of taking out the minions, and then gets utterly trounced by the BigBad.
!!Vegeta
->'''Voiced by:''' Lanipator
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vegetarage_8659.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[RageBreakingPoint Rage breaking in 3...2...1...]]]]
* AbusiveParents: Verbally (for now) is one with Future Trunks. In Episode 38 alone, he's called him a "bastard" (as in, born out of wedlock), a failure, and a disappointment (twice).
--> '''Vegeta''': Wow, you're just the Grand Central Station of disappointment, aren't you?
** Physically as of Episode 39, although Trunks did press one of his biggest [[BerserkButton berserk buttons]].
* AlwaysSecondBest: To Goku, just like in the regular series. Episode 39 really drives this point home.
* {{Angrish}}: Frequently lapses into this.
** After killing Dodoria and Zarbon, Vegeta goes to the spot where he hid the Dragon Ball... it's not there. Vegeta couldn't even speak Angrish properly after that.
* AtomicFBomb: Episode 10.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: As Bulma notes, being the Prince of all Saiyans doesn't mean much if there are [[LastOfHisKind only two]] Saiyans left![[note]]Though Gohan is half Saiyan and unbeknownst to Bulma, Nappa got resurrected.[[/note]]
--> '''Vegeta''': ''[[LameComeback Three and a half!]]''[[note]]Word of God says the "Three" Saiyans in question were Nappa, Goku, and Tarble.[[/note]]
* {{Badass}}: Put it this way; when Vegeta landed on Namek, he was weaker than Freeza's top henchmen. By the end, he's killed all of Freeza's minions, and tries taking on the boss man himself. Vegeta gets extra points for [[DefiantToTheEnd continuing to mouth off to Freeza]] after [[CurbStompBattle a particularly savage beating]], so much that Freeza decided to shoot a beam through his lung to finally kill him.
* BadassBoast: Both played straight and [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] on a regular basis.
* BelligerentSexualTension: A HUGE case of this with Bulma, until they did the deed in Episode 34. Quickly made hilarious when Bulma (and the audience) discover that he has absolutely ''no idea'' what a condom is.
* BerserkButton: [[BrickJoke Don't thwart his plans]].
** And Anime/DragonBallGT. He kills Vegeta Jr (one of the Saibamen), and snaps upon hearing the theme song.
** He also hates weaklings and [[PinkIsForSissies the color pink]].
---> '''Tien:''' Hey Vegeta.\\
'''Vegeta:''' What?\\
'''Tien:''' [[RealMenWearPink Nice shirt]].\\
'''Vegeta:''' AND THERE IT IS!
** Almost anything Nappa does has to count too.
** Don't say he's not as strong as Goku.
-->'''Krillin''': You pushed the Goku button. You shouldn'tna did that.
* BigBad: Season 1 (The Saiyan Saga)
* BigNo: Has several of these.
** Most notable one was the introduction of GHOST NAPPA!
* BloodKnight: A requirement on the Saiyan résumé. He shoots down Bulma's suggestion of murdering the creator of the Androids (although he does love how she phrased it) because he's as excited at the chance of fighting them as Goku is.
* BondOneLiner: Against Cui.
--> "God, I love therapy".
* BreakTheHaughty: Freeza makes him cry, "[[PreAsskickingOneLiner like a little bitch]]," in episode 27
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In Episode 9. Nappa is being extremely stupid and gave Vegeta a brain aneurysm out of "sheer stupidity", so Vegeta breaks the fourth wall by muttering "9 minutes 18 seconds," over and over, (The episode was 9:42 seconds long, they were 24 seconds in). When Nappa asks what happens when they reach that time, Vegeta replies: "The happiest moment of my life". (which was Nappa's death)
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: He doesn't even remember Yamcha. Until he recognizes him as "that scrub that got killed by a Saibaman".
* CallingYourOrgasms: "Gallick... gun... ''FIIIIRRREEEEEE''!!!"
** TheGruntingOrgasm: Also, literally ''fires a Galick Gun'' when he climaxes.
* CardCarryingVillain: Goku just wouldn't get it otherwise.
--> "I'M F**KING EVIL."
--> "Don't care. Evil."
--> "[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Renegade for life]].''
** It's also used to poke fun at the [=FUNimation=] dub's changes to Vegeta's characterization (and specifically, his death speech).
--> '''Goku:''' If it weren't for Freezer you wouldn't be-\\
'''Vegeta:''' Dying? No.\\
'''Goku:''' I was gonna say "evil".\\
'''Vegeta:''' Oh, no, I'd definitely still be evil. If this situation were reversed, this conversation would never have happened. You'd be dead, and I'd be laughing.
* CatchPhrase: "Goddamn it, Nappa!"
** "F*ck you!" seems to be one as well.
** And a third one seems to be developing: "Mineminemineminemineminemineminemineminemine!"
* CharacterExaggeration: While he doesn't get as much as some characters, he's a lot less restrained than his original characterization.
* TheChewToy: But most of the trauma he gets is mental trauma, unlike Krillin or Yamcha.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: During the battle with Freeza, Vegeta seems to think that if he says that he's a Super Saiyan often enough, it will be true. In fairness, he's going off a thousand-year-old legend, so it's probably not clear to him that there's more to it than just having a high power level (or exactly how high that power level is). To be fair, apparently he achieved it through what appeared to be a ''temper tantrum''.
* TheComicallySerious
* CosmicPlaything
* CultureClash: When Bulma asked if he had "protection" and to wear it when they had sex, he made sure to wear his battle armor.
* CurbStompBattle: Much like {{Canon}}, his ''fight'' against Android 19 is this. [[BadassBoast "Do you feel fear?"]]
* CryCute: Episode 27, much like the original, when he realizes that his strongest attack is barely worth Freeza's notice. Almost a TearJerker, given Lanipator's ''amazing'' voice acting.
* DestructiveSavior: After Trunks describes the androids as humanity's greatest threat, [[DescriptionCut we cut to]] Vegeta wantonly destroying numerous cars and their drivers in his fruitless attempts to fight 18. Contrast with 18, who (unlike in the original series) isn't directly harming anyone ''but'' Vegeta.
-->'''Vegeta''': I will kill as many people as I have to as long as you are one of them!
* DidntSeeThatComing: When he finally realizes Future Trunks is his son.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's more an issue of horrible spectacle than morality, but even Vegeta is given pause when [[spoiler: the Namekians slaughter Guru.]]
** In a more comedic sense, [[spoiler:he's only willing to live with Bulma if there's a pool.]]
** Also shows enough class not to [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries swear in front of an infant Jesus.]]
** When he realized that the "Wheel of Death" was being filmed, he furiously asked "What kind of sadistic retard watches this crap?!" Cue JumpCut to Freeza.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor / PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
--> '''Goku:''' That was in terrible taste!\\
'''Vegeta:''' Don't care! Evil!
** When he's fighting 18, he calls her a washing machine (specifically [[DontExplainTheJoke explaining]] that he meant to be a sexist crack, not just a joke about her being a robot) and then "a smug [[CountryMatters c]][[SoundEffectBleep ^#@]]".
* TheFightingNarcissist: After finally becoming a Super Saiyan.
--> "Oh God, this feels amazing. First thing I'm gonna do when I get home is step in front of a full-length mirror, strip down, turn Super Saiyan and -"
* FishOutOfWater: Among other things, he has no idea what condoms or soap are. When Bulma explains the latter as a block made of animal fat, his first instinct is to eat it. "BWA! This tastes nothing like what you just said."
* FreudianExcuse: Well, his planet and his entire race was blown up and he's enslaved to the one who did it, but [[SubvertedTrope according to him, he'd be evil anyway.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To an extreme. The only reason they even tolerate him is because he's the second-strongest fighter on their side.
* GutturalGrowler: Lampshaded in Blooper Special:
-->'''Lanipator''': Why did I have to be cast as the loudest, screamiest, most raspy-voiced character?
* HairTriggerTemper: Throughout season 2, Vegeta has been steadily losing his cool more and more.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He's always going on about the Saiyans being the greatest fighters in the universe, and he's completely and utterly obsessed with becoming a Super Saiyan.
** [[spoiler: To the point there Freeza kills him mid-sentence just because he's sick of hearing the Super Saiyan speech.]]
** Taken into overdrive after the arrival of Future Trunks, leading Vegeta to repeatedly ''[[InsistentTerminology insist]]'' that he's [[BlatantLies a Super Saiyan]], but no-one buys it.
*** [[spoiler: He finally gets his wish in episode 36.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Is quite prone to unintentionally delivering these.
* {{Jerkass}}: "By the way, I only hit you because I have pent-up aggression against your father. Take that." After kneeing Gohan in the stomach in Episode 18. Then there's his treatment of Future Trunks.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: The end of Season 1, after stopping Gohan's Oozaru form backfires.
-->"Crushed and broken beneath an unconscious, naked child. Yep, I think I'm done here."
* LightningBruiser: His Oozaru form, unfortunately for Goku.
* LoveableRogue: Self-entitled; he describes himself as a "handsome, dashing rogue".
* TheNapoleon:
-->'''Jeice:''' Not that short, Captain.\\
'''Ginyu:''' Oh don't go all 'Vegeta' on me.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Implied in episode 36. When Android 19 is about to finish off Goku, you can hear Vegeta approaching in the distance...
-->'''Vegeta:''' [[CallBack Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine MINE MINE MINE MINE]]\\
[[DynamicEntry *Vegeta kicks 19 in the head*]]\\
'''Vegeta:''' [[CatchPhrase Mine.]]
* OnlySaneMan: When compared to the likes of [[TooDumbToLive Goku, Nappa]], or the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Ginyu Force]].
** Although it seems his time with Nappa and Krillin is beginning to take its toll on his sanity.
* OutOfClothesExperience: What he thought death entailed, only that was just King Yemma tricking him.
* ParentalIssues: In Episode 10.
-->'''Vegeta:''' You... you cut through my armor! This was a gift from my father!\\
'''Yajirobe:''' I'm sorry, I'm sure your father was a great man!\\
'''Vegeta:''' [[BerserkButton I HATED my father!]]\\
'''Yajirobe:''' "Oh, well then, I'm sure your father was a total prick.\\
'''Vegeta':''' [[HairTriggerTemper HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT MY FATHER LIKE THAT!]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's a good deal shorter than several characters. Lampshaded by Nail in Episode 18:
-->'''Nail:''' Bring it on, all 4 feet of you! ''Or should I count your stupid hair''?
* PottyEmergency: Used as an excuse to get out of fighting Ginyu, while Goku explains. Later, while taking a nap, he wakes up suddenly shouting "I HAVE TO PEE!" And then later, Freeza taunts him by asking when he graduated from Pull-ups.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Against Jeice;
-->"G'day, mate."
** And against Ginyu
--->'''Ginyu:''' At least I'm not trapped in a useless body.\\
'''Vegeta:''' Gimme a minute.
** Pretty much all of his dialogue during his CurbStompBattle with Android 19, given that he was giving the Android a "countdown." And it is glorious, starting with this line:
--->'''Vegeta:''' (Having just [[NoSell No Sold]] a punch from 19. "Looks like you just initiated your self-destruct sequence."
* PreMortemOneLiner: Has several in Season 2.
--> "Let me put it to you in a way you'll understand: I'm about to blow my load all over your insides [...] No homo".
** And this against 19 (of course):
--->'''Vegeta:''' So, before we put down the clown, let's put it to bed, shall we? Do you feel fear, Android?\\
'''Android 19:''' No. Please. Get away. (Proceeds to understandably flee.)\\
'''Vegeta:''' All I needed to hear. '''One.''' BIG BANG ATTACK!
* PsychopathicManchild: Started becoming one during the events on Namek. Of course, [[FridgeBrilliance it makes sense]] considering what Nappa said about why ''he'' is a PsychopathicManchild.
** It's shown he became a Super Saiyan by throwing a temper tantrum (canonically, this actually isn't that far off) and in Gero's own words he's still just a arrogant little brat throwing a fit when he won't come out.
* PureIsNotGood: As in the original series, Vegeta was able to achieve the Super Saiyan form with a different kind of pure heart. However, Vegeta claims his heart is "pure, unadulterated badass."
-->'''Tien:''' Yeah, more like pure, unadulterated ego.
* RealMenWearPink: Although [[PinkIsForSissies he hates every minute of it]]:
-->'''Vegeta:''' ''[Upon sensing Freeza]'' Son of a bitch!\\
'''Yamcha:''' What, still ticked off about the shirt?\\
'''Vegeta:''' NO, I--well, yes, actually, I'm absolutely livid.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In Episode 18, he apparently bursts a blood vessel in one of his eyes when Gohan pulls one over on him and Ghost Nappa shows up to torment him, causing it to go red. The other follows suit shortly after.
** His eyes also glow red in Bulma's rape-fantasy.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** After being beaten in Episode 10:
-->'''Vegeta:''' Crushed and broken beneath [[ItMakesSenseInContext an unconscious, naked child]]. Yep, I think I'm done here.
** In Episode 35, when Bulma tells him to get a job and help raise Trunks, he flees into space in a Capsule Corp ship a year and a half before the fight with Dr. Gero and Android 19.
* StayInTheKitchen: He acts even more sexist than usual around 18.
-->"You talk a lot of shit for a washing machine. And no, I'm not just saying that because you're an android. I'm saying it because you're a wom-" ''(18 head-butts him)''
* StraightMan: To Nappa, and the others sometimes as well.
* SurroundedByIdiots
* TalkingInYourSleep: A dream he has while unconscious leads to [[ShoutOut "My power is]] [[MemeticMutation maximum..."]]
--> "First immortality, then the bitches."
* TalkingToHimself: With Krillin and Piccolo.
* TemptingFate: Any time Vegeta says "There's nothing you can do about it!"... something's going to get done about it.
* TokenEvilTeammate: By season 3.
* TranquilFury: In Episode 10 part 2, after his tail got cut off:
-->[Calmly] You know... I thought I'd be angrier, what with the utter humiliation and loss of my tail... Or maybe I'm just so unbelievably enraged that I've come full circle. Oh well! Either way, it's time to put an end to this.
* UnstoppableRage: His [[TheScream moment]] in Episode 18.
* VerbalTic: Has a frequency to say "god damn it" even without Nappa around.
* VillainProtagonist: Of Season 2 (The Namek Saga) ''without question''.
* VillainousBreakdown: In episode 10 during his fight with Goku. Part of it is because Vegeta is losing to Goku, the other part is [[IdiotHero making sense of Goku]].
!!Future Trunks
->'''Voiced by:''' [=KaiserNeko=]
* {{Adorkable}}: Badass, but adorkable nevertheless. He gets hilariously awkward when meeting Goku.
* {{Badass}}: Kills Freeza and King Cold in less than a few minutes like in the original manga.[[note]]Like in the manga, he only had 3 pages worth in killing Freeza than in the anime and ''Kai, where his fight with Freeza was considerably longer[[/note]]
** And before that, DiagonalCut combined with YouAreAlreadyDead on all of Freeza's mooks (Minus one, but Freeza finishes him off anyway just because). Apparently he's been practicing getting it ''just'' right for 3 months.
** Should being able to ''traumatize'' Freeza count?[[note]]When Trunks transforms into a Super Saiyan in front of Freeza, the tyrant reacts by comparing him to Goku (complete with him saying "Pizza"), Freeza immediately tries to kill him and the planet[[/note]]
* BadassBoast: "If it's a Super Saiyan you're looking for, I can fill the part." Cue doing so while King Cold and Freeza are arguing during his transformation.
* CoolShip: If episode 34 is anything to go by, Trunks' time machine? It's a TARDIS.
* CoolSword
* CurbStompBattle: If you knew the source material, then it's inevitable.
* DeadpanSnarker: All throughout his fight with Freeza, every other line that came out of Trunks' mouth was pure snark.
* DiagonalCut: Justified and Explained; apparently, he's been practicing that for a few months. Also, it's not as easy as they make it look.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Since he didn't know about there being more androids than the two he knew of, he then never goes into detail about what the Androids look like, leaving everyone including him surprised when Dr. Gero and Android 19 are ones he has never seen before.
** FutureImperfect: As both Tien and Vegeta lampshade, Trunks has a tendency to make a ''lot'' of assumptions on what he ''thinks'' happened in the past, rather than what ''actually'' happened, as well as what people were like.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Made an appearance in episode 18, where he heard his father's scream all the way from Namek, two decades into the future.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: See Badass above? He does all that in his introductory episode.
* FutureBadass: His EstablishingCharacterMoment cements it. He, much like his source counterpart, annihilates all but one of Freeza's squad just by cutting them with his sword.
* HeroicBastard: He was born from Vegeta and Bulma's BelligerentSexualTension and the fact that Vegeta doesn't know what a condom is. When Bulma told Vegeta she was pregnant and asked him to get a job to support her, his reaction was to immediately take off into space. Trunks himself had no idea his parents never married until Vegeta breaks it to him in the most dickish way possible, later literally calling him a bastard while blowing off his warnings.
* InadequateInheritor: Vegeta doesn't think much of him, even less so when he finds out that the "killer androids" Trunks is so afraid of are a couple of teenagers.
* LightningBruiser: Catches and lifts Freeza's Death Ball [[NoSell with one hand]], fast enough to escape its explosion when Freeza blows it up, and strong enough to slice Freeza to pieces with his sword, not to mention [[BarehandedBladeBlock catching said sword]] when King Cold tried to use it against him.
* NaiveNewcomer: The kid's not dumb, but he doesn't actually know that much about the main characters, their past, or their relationships to each other, and he starts off with a number of assumptions about them that are a bit... innocent.
-->'''Trunks''': Wait... you mean you two never got married?\\
'''Vegeta''': What is that, some kind of food?\\
'''Trunks''': No, just... listen. When two people love each other--\\
'''Vegeta''': Oh, wow, I'm just f*cking with you. My god, who doesn't know what marriage is. Also, "love each other"? Making a lot of assumptions here.
* [[OhCrap Oh Crapbaskets]]: When he realizes there more Androids than the two he encountered. And when Bulma brought his present infant self along.
-->'''Future Trunks''': Did she bring me!?
* OnlySaneMan: While he still has some comical quirks, he's still competent, smart, and relatively serious.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "HEY FREEZA, YOU SHOULD SPLIT!!!"
** After King Cold's attempt to kill him fails and Cold asks if Trunks is still not sure whether or not he hates him: "Actually, that pretty much sealed it."
* PostMortemOneLiner: "So. How many points are those?"
* RunningGag: In regards to his name being a girl's name.
* ScreamingAtSquick: After Bulma makes a pass at him, even saying he can call her "mommy". On the surface, he still manages to keep a straight face, but internally he is screaming bloody murder.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: We see in a flashback he once had this conversation with Bulma, but her comments about Vegeta being "an abrasive loner with a lot of trouble making friends" didn't really prepare him for the reality.
-->'''Kid Trunks:''' Am I a lot like him?\\
'''Future Bulma''': You have his... gender.
* YouFightLikeACow: And he'll keep repeating the joke until you get it.
----
->'''Voiced by:''' [=MasakoX=]
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Yaaaaaaaaaay!!"]]
* {{Adorkable}}: Like in the original series, he's a goofball.
* {{Angrish}}: His Super Saiyan form... at least temporarily.
* BaconAddiction: It ends up killing him in Trunks' timeline. See TrademarkFavoriteFood below for more details.
** In his opinion, the best idea he's ever had is a sandwich with bacon instead of bread. Krillin also believes that Goku's favorite food is the Double Baconator. He also keeps bacon in his pockets.
* {{Badass}}: Let's see, he manages to...
** Beat the crap out of Nappa in less than a minute.
** Beat up Turles's goons in less time he took with Nappa.
** Hands Vegeta his ass constantly with the Kaio-Ken.
** Completely dominate half the Ginyu Force without even really trying. As in, he wanted to know where the ''real'' fighters were.
** Annihilates Lord Slug's goons in under two minutes.
** Effortlessly deflects ''every single shot'' from Freeza's BeamSpam.
*** All while, unknowingly, outright ''taunting'' the guy.
** Beats up Freeza in considerably less time than in the source material.[[note]]This version cut out Goku's supposed death and subsequent Gohan segment, to just having him knee Freeza in the face out of nowhere.[[/note]]
** BadassBoast: "I'm going to break you... like a Kit-Kat bar."
* BadLiar:
** He spilled the beans to Chi Chi about him and Gohan going to find the androids instead of going on camping.
-->'''Gohan:''' Three years, dad. Three years. You almost got it.
** And, if it wasn't for Piccolo to stop him in time, he would have spilled the beans about there being more innocent people on the island to the androids.
* BerserkButton:
** "YOU NEVER WASTE FIGGY PUDDING!" (Christmas Tree of Might)
** Also, "Nobody... rapes Christmas!" (Lord Slug)
** And in Episode 30, part 2: "That wasn't a pizza... THAT WASN'T A PIZZA AT ALL!"
** Don't threaten his friends, especially Krillin, whom he cares for deeply. He will bring the pain if you do.
** If Revenge of Cooler is any indication, needlessly harming animals is one as well, although he did refer to Oolong and Icarus as emergency food.
** DON'T imply that you can have "too much bacon." He'll go Super Saiyan if you do.
* BigEater: No, scratch that--HUGE Eater. It even [[spoiler:saved his life when he used the Muffin Button to escape the exploding Namek]] and it could also [[spoiler:kill him from a heart attack in Future Trunks' timeline.]]
* BloodKnight: He didn't care what Freeza was capable of, he just wanted to beat him up.
** [[spoiler: He stops the fight with Freeza in episode 30 part 2 because he was getting bored.]]
** He's looking forward to fighting the Androids, as he feels he hasn't gotten a good fight since Freeza.
* BreakTheCutie: Spends episodes 38 and 39 screaming in pain from [[spoiler: his heart problems.]]
* BrickJoke: Muffin button. Suprisingly enough, it ''saved'' his life as explained in episode 34.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: His idiocy is exaggerated beyond belief. He's still TheAce for the Z Warriors, and a constant [[BigDamnHeroes big damn hero.]]
* CannotKeepASecret: Tells Future Trunks this. Though he swears on Krillin's (but changed to Bulma's) life to keep Trunks' secret.
** Almost averted with telling Chichi about Gohan helping to fight the androids. He keeps her out of the loop for three years, but lets it slip at the last possible second.
* CatchPhrase: "[[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Bored now.]]"
* CharacterExaggeration: Made out to be much dumber than his original character.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Seems to be in the making with regards to his relationship to Gohan. Before Episode 27, he has been a somewhat attentive father to Gohan. As of Episode 27, he makes conversation with Krillin, Piccolo, and Vegeta while he responds to Gohan's "Hey Dad!" with a disinterested "Hey".
** In ''The Revenge of Cooler'', he completely forgets about Gohan's existence, talking about how, if he had a son, [[{{Irony}} he would be sure to treat him better than Freeza and Cooler were]]. Though, he still [[TakingTheBullet jumps in front of the death ray]] to save him in the same special. It's probably just a matter of [[RuleOfFunny whatever's funniest at the time]].
** In Season 2, Goku was confused when Krillin asked what his favorite food was, implying that Goku loves all food equally. By Season 3, his favorite food is revealed to be bacon, he doesn't like grapes or anything grape-flavored.
* ChildhoodBrainDamage: Goku fell on a rock head-first when he was still a child. And he's noticeably more ditzy and absent-minded than his canon self.
* DeathByIrony: In Trunks' timeline, Goku's death is caused by heart failure from high cholesterol from eating too much bacon.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Certainly thinks this way about Vegeta, who outright defies it.
* [[DoesNotLikeSpam Does Not Like Grapes]]: See above. So much in fact that [[spoiler: he refused to take the medicine Trunks gave him which nearly caused his death as a result.]]
** In an alternate scene of episode 30, instead of a muffin, Freeza's ship instead spawns him a cookie, shouting a BigNo in the process.
* TheDreaded: In the Dead Zone Abridged, when Garlic Jr meets Gohan and realizes he's Goku's son, Garlic Jr freaks out and yells at his minions to get the Dragon Balls quicker. Also dreaded by Freeza after being beaten on Namek.
* DumbBlonde: {{Inversion}}. Goku is usually quite the idiot, but when he goes Super Saiyan and as such blonde, he becomes much smarter compared to his actual intelligence. Emphasis on compared to his normal intelligence.
** The twist is that while he's indeed smarter and uses the correct words, he mispronounces them very often.
-->'''Freeza''': That's not the problem, you idiot! [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace I can breathe in space]]!\\
'''Goku''': But space is a ''vacumm''!
** Slips back into played straight when he sees Trunks become into a Super Saiyan.
-->'''Goku''': What happened to your hair? It's yellow!! \\
'''Trunks''': ...So is yours.\\
'''Goku''': It ''is''!?
*** Though this may be justified because Goku hasn't been near any mirrors as a Super Saiyan.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the two abridged DBZ movies that Lanipator, [=Vegeta3986=], and [=MasakoX=] made before Team Four Star came together, Goku was a lot smarter and a ''major'' {{Jerkass}}.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Not-so subtly implied between him and his wife Chi-Chi in ''Christmas Tree of Might''
-->'''Goku:''' Well, what am I getting for Christmas?\\
'''Chi-Chi:''' The same thing as last year, Goku.\\
'''Goku:''' Oh, so that thing you do with your mouth...?\\
'''Chi-Chi:''' NOT IN FRONT OF GOHAN!
** And later in the same special:
---> '''Goku''' ([[InternalMonologue thinking]]): Oh, man! If Chi-Chi finds out about this, I might not get mouth present.
* ImAHumanitarian: His explanation for how he learned instant transmission - the Yardies fed him their sick.
* {{Malaproper}}: While he's smarter as a Super Saiyan he trips over words a lot more than usual.
* {{Manchild}}: Like you wouldn't ''believe''.
-->'''Ginyu:''' How's that wound treating you?\\
'''Goku:''' This is easily the ''second''-worst hole I've ever had in my chest. It's gonna take, like, a million Mommy-kisses to make it better.
* MotivationalLie: Uses one on a transformed Gohan in season 1 to get Gohan to concentrate on Vegeta. He's also had them used on him a few times, notably when King Kai tells Goku he has to save Christmas during the Lord Slug movie.
* NiceGuy: Though a particularly daft one.
* ObliviousToLove: Sorta. He thinks Chi-Chi is just a lady who lives in his house - he might not understand what a wife ''is''. This might be a ShoutOut to the fact that when Goku originally proposed to Chi-Chi he thought marriage was a food. And was confused over what a "bride" was in the original series when she came back to cash in on the ChildhoodMarriagePromise.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Generally acts smarter than usual during his desperate Spirit Bomb plan and is also smarter than usual when he becomes a Super Saiyan.
** Also slightly noticeable in a few of the movies[=/=]specials, since they're non-canon and all.
* PapaWolf: Despite frequently neglecting his son, whenever Gohan's in danger, about to be killed or on the verge of death, Goku [[LetsGetDangerous gets serious]].
* ParentalNeglect: The series plays up the fact that Goku is a terrible father, to the point that Gohan's attempt to envision [[WhatWouldXDo what Goku would do]] is merely a short flashback of Goku saying "Bye, son!". He also left Gohan, who was crashed in the snow, to go driving with Piccolo.
** There's this little gem from episode 28:
--->'''Goku:''' ''Wow. [Gohan] sounds like he's had a hard time. Piccolo should really have a talk with him.''
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: You wouldn't believe how often. Very noticeable when he becomes a Super Saiyan.
-->'''Goku''': "Gohan, take Piccolo, find Bulma, and get back to the ship.\\
'''Gohan''': "But what about you?"\\
'''Goku''': "If Piccolo dies, then all of this was pointless! Take him, get to the ship, and get out of here!"\\
'''Gohan''': "[[LampshadeHanging This is surprisingly well thought-out for you."]]\\
'''Goku''': *getting increasingly angry* "Gohan!? Where should you be right now!?"\\
'''Gohan''': "The ship?"\\
'''Goku''': "THE SHIP!!"
** Slams right back to silliness after he tells Freeza he's going to break him... like a Kit-Kat bar.
* SmartBall: That's right. He has his moments.
** The first is in Episode 2, where Raditz called Piccolo a Namekian, and Goku told him that [[MythologyGag Piccolo's race has not been explained yet]].
** In the same episode, Goku explains eating a Senzu bean will not work because he has a hole in his esophagus (after getting a hole blasted in his chest in his HeroicSacrifice to kill Raditz).
** Fooling Goz and Mez into telling him where the exit is without having to take them up on their challenges.
** Another is when he managed to fool King Kai into thinking he hung up on his psychic link by [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud saying "click beeeeeeeeeeee *GASP* eeee-"]]
** He gets a few moments of brilliance in Episode 28, which he thanks [[OrsonWelles his brain]] for.
** Remembers the whole "five minutes" thing with the Special Beam Cannon when [[spoiler:Piccolo stalls Freeza while he charges the Spirit Bomb.]]
** He gets a noticeable increase in intelligence when he goes [[SuperMode Super Saiyan]]. He tells Gohan to take Piccolo and Bulma back to Earth to bring back everyone else, and allows Freeza to reach his maximum power so when he beats him in under five minutes, he'll be too "demormalized" to threaten anyone else (that and Freeza offered him pizza, which was the real reason).
*** Of course, Goku is so dumb that even his intelligence-boosted Super Saiyan form is ''still'' a moron.
** In the TFS Dead Zone remake, even he can spot the flaw in trying to kill Piccolo when you're after the Dragon Balls.
* StupidityTropes: Oh, good lord, yes. He makes [[Franchise/DragonBall the real Goku]] look like a genius.
** AchievementsInIgnorance:
-->'''Dr. Briefs''': "You're incredibly lucky I already set the coordinates for Namek, but you... you... where did you get that muffin?" \\
'''Goku''': "Muffin button."\\
'''Dr. Briefs''': "But, I... never installed a muffin button."\\
'''Goku''': "Then where did I get this muffin...?"
** CloudCuckooLander: Lets get started...
*** Wonders if Piccolo's a Yoshi, thinks that sarcasm is food, and asks if the moon is made of cheese.
*** Half the time when he's fighting, he doesn't even understand that he's in a fight. He just... ''does things.'' Which badly hurt his opponents.
*** In episode 27, he unknowingly delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to ''Freeza''.
*** In episode 34, when Goku finds out that Bulma is Trunks' mother, his first reaction is to be amazed at how old he's gotten in the year and a half since Goku assumes he must have been born. The impossibility of Trunks' existence never crosses his mind.
** DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: "[[IsItSomethingYouEat What does that taste like?]]"
*** It actually drives both Vegeta and Freeza into the throes of a VillainousBreakdown.
** IdiotHero: '''''Yes.'''''
** LiteralMinded: Good Lord, YES. So much that it drove Vegeta and Freeza [[VillainousBreakdown insane]]. Look how Goku got Freeza tripped up when they first met:
--->'''Freeza:''' Unfortunately Vegeta and I were having a disagreement: He wanted himself to live and, well, I didn't.\\
'''Goku:''' Why do you want to die?
*** And again while Super Saiyan.
---->'''Freeza:''' Will you just piss off already!?\\
'''Goku:''' I don't have to use the bathroom!
** StupidGood: An innocently nice guy, and just as stupid to boot.
** TooDumbToLive: He actually kept letting Freeza go during their fight.
*** Also he stopped taking his medicine and had a heart attack just because he didn't like the flavor.
** TookALevelInDumbass: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] due to his brain damage with his fight with Vegeta. Perhaps he ''did'' hit his head harder than he thought.
* TalkingToHimself: Like the original Japanese version, he and Gohan share the same voice actor, [=MasakoX=].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: '''''[[BaconAddiction Bacon.]]''''' Instead of being killed by a heart virus in Trunks' timeline, he is instead killed by a heart attack caused by high cholesterol from eating too much bacon. When Trunks tells him the the medicine he gave him is [[BlatantLies bacon flavored]], Goku is overjoyed.
** To a lesser extent, Blueberry Muffins. Unlike Bacon, these end up ''saving'' his life.
* VocalDissonance: The series continues the tradition of ''Dragon Ball Z'' adaptations portraying Goku as a muscular warrior with a curiously high-pitched voice, in this case [=MasakoX=]'s Goku sounds like a more child-like version of Peter Kelamis's Goku from the Ocean Group dubs.
!!Gohan
->'''Voiced by:''' [=MasakoX=]
* {{Adorkable}}: Acknowledged as such in Dragon Ball Kai Abridged:
-->'''Goku:''' I have a kid.\\
'''Gohan:''' I'm socially awkward.\\
'''Krillin:''' He's adorable!
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable
** BadassBoast: Prone to giving them, and usually has the power and skill to back it up. The problem is, he's usually facing someone a lot stronger than he is, leading to an OhCrap moment.
** BadassBookworm: Taken UpToEleven from the original franchise. Also see SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.
* BerserkButton: Never hurt Goku, Piccolo, or innocent elders/children. He will wreck you.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: TAKE THAT, YOU INSUFFERABLE F*CKING SIMPLETON!!
* BreakTheCutie
** TraumaCongaLine
* BrickJoke: Him and dodging, and it's mainly from Piccolo telling him in the slightest to dodge. Goku even notices and Piccolo says he's still working on it. Then again when Android 20 complains about 19 not dodging Goku's attacks, Piccolo looks at Gohan.
* CallingTheOldManOut: In Episode 23, even if it wasn't really his dad he was saying it to.
** But Goku was there and did overhear it. (Even if he didn't understand..)
** And half of it wasn't even Goku's fault.
* CatchPhrase:
** "Crapbaskets!" whenever things get bad.
** "...I need an adult..."
** PhraseCatcher: "I ''AM'' an adult", in response. Alternatively, "''NEEEEEEEERRRRDD''" and "'''DODGE!!'''", mainly from Piccolo.
* CovertPervert: A short moment when he first meets Maron.
--> '''Krillin:''' And her boobs are as big as my head.\\
'''Gohan:''' I have made the comparison.
* CrossdressingVoices: Averted with his younger self, who's been cast as a girl in nearly every official dub for the series.
* DynamicCharacter: He starts out much more naive than in the original franchise. Flash forward to the Season 2 Finale, when casually threatens to ''drop [[ItsAllAboutMe Bulma]] to her death'' if she doesn't quit [[{{Wangst}} wangsting]].
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He's one of the most intelligent characters these days, but back in the Dead Zone Abridged movie, he needed schooling to know ''how many fingers a fish had.''
** [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation That may well]] be his lack of [[NoSocialSkills social skills]], and him making a StealthPun: Fish fingers, anyone?
* HulkSpeak: Engages in a little of this after Freeza supremely pisses him off by [[spoiler:nearly killing Krillin.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: As in the original series, he can sense things. But in the season 2 finale, he looks upon a ship and mentions he senses a "dark force" inside. [[spoiler:Cue his mother rushing out demanding to know where Gohan is.]]
* OnlySaneMan: For the heroes.
* ParentalIssues: Episode 23 reveals that Gohan holds a lot of pent up resentment towards Goku for being a neglectful parent. He lets it out on Ginyu while he's in Goku's body, and it slowly starts slipping out afterward.
** In a twist of irony, while [[Anime/DragonBallZ in the canon series]] the thought of Ginyu looking like Goku made him not able to fight at full strength, in Abridged it just motivated him even further.
** He also has issues with his mother's controlling and domineering behavior and snaps on her shortly before leaving for Namek.
* ParentalNeglect: Goku has been out fighting/training/dying for so much of Gohan's life that when he tries to picture something Goku would say, all he can get is Goku saying goodbye to him.
* PintSizedPowerhouse
* PrecisionFStrike: Usually drops an F-bomb when enraged usually combined with...
** SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: He's called "Nerd" by Piccolo for this.
* SanitySlippage: Being dragged into violent, nightmarish battles and having [[ParentalNeglect Goku]], [[EducationMama Chi-Chi]]'s and [[DrillSergeantNasty Piccolo]] [[AbusiveParents as parents]] has begun taking a serious toll on his mind.
* SophisticatedAsHell: The result of combining the previous two tropes.
* TalkingToHimself: With Goku.
* UnstoppableRage: Even more emphasized than it was in the original. Gohan's got issues.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears
!!Krillin [[spoiler:Sanchez]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Lanipator
* ADayInTheLimelight: Stars in Episode 31, where things finally start going his way. [[spoiler:Then the feds show up...]]
* AsTheGoodBookSays: [[RuleOfFunny Despite being a Buddhist.]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Goku considers Krillin to be his best friend and Krillin's death is what causes Goku to go Super Saiyan.
** When Krillin thinks Sauza has destroyed the only means of saving Goku's life in ''Revenge of Cooler'', he goes nuts and launches a hopeless attack on Sauza.
** When Trunks revealed he was a Super Saiyan to Goku, Goku remembered what had happened to trigger his initial transformation and immediately started asking if Krillin was OK and refused to talk about anything else until he was given an answer. This is very telling of their friendship because Krillin's welfare got [[CloudCuckoolander GOKU]] to stay focused on something.
* BringMyBrownPants
* ButtMonkey: Lampshaded with "The Krillin Owned Count".
* [[spoiler:ButNotTooForeign[=/=]{{Fauxreigner}}: Krillin looks Tibetan[[note]]in the original series he was trained in a (supposedly) Buddhist temple, wore Buddhist garments, and even has forehead dot burns like Buddhist monks[[/note]] but his surname is Sanchez, meaning he's Latino.]]
* CallingMeALogarithm: When Nappa points out the Namekian in the group (referring to Piccolo), Krillin takes offense. Piccolo immediately corrects him and tells him how stupid his reaction was.
* TheChewToy: In seasons 1 and 2, he is very much likely to be the victim of some cosmic unluckiness or other person's jerkass behavior (though sometimes he pushed them to that point). Seems to be decreasing in Season 3. Likely because of [[ButtMonkey Yamcha's involvement]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: He doesn't pick up on the fact that Dende doesn't like being called "Little Green" despite Dende repeatedly saying "My name is Dende" in response, nor does he realize that no one likes the name Team Three Star (including himself) even though Vegeta repeatedly threatens him over it. Gohan has to say it outright for both of these.
* DirtyCoward: Shows some shades of this.
* DoubleEntendre: In Episode 31, he makes these about "pounding Chi Chi's tuna".
* InsuranceFraud: Because he took a large policy out on himself and named [[spoiler:his "brother", who is just himself under a different name, as the beneficiary, it is this trope.]]
** Then again, he ''did'' die, so FromACertainPointOfView, there's no fraud at all.
* ItsAllAboutMe: So terrified of dying or being hurt that his empathy for other people is a little delayed.
* TheMedic: Seems to be fulfilling this role in season 3.
-->[[RunningGag SENZU BEAN!!!]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In spades, whether out of [[DirtyCoward fear]] or [[IdiotBall stupidity]].
** Bulma calls Krillin out on this when he hands a dragon ball over to Vegeta. Of course, this is [[HairTriggerTemper Vegeta]] we're talking about, [[JustifiedTrope so it's quite justified on his part]].
** He also cannot shut up when he is scared, informing Vegeta about the potential-unlocking Super Kami Guru, telling Captain Ginyu where the majority of dragon balls are located (right behind him, to be fair), screaming out loud about Goku's "secret" attempt to defeat Freeza (the latter thankfully had no idea what he was talking about), and '''[[SubvertedTrope almost]]''' dropped Earth's name as their home planet to [[TheSociopath Freeza]] (only for [[JerkAss Dende]] to spill it himself)).
** In fact, it's because of Krillin's mistreatment of Dende (always calling him "Little Green" and berating him for mourning his deceased family) that he dropped our planet's identity to the intergalactic evil space emperor.
** Also unwittingly causes one for himself when he reveals to Marin he committed insurance fraud. [[spoiler: Turned out Marin was a government agent assigned to get a confession out of him.]]
* TheNicknamer: "Little Green!" Dende's attempts to correct him fall on deaf ears.
** And to Nail: "Big Green!" Nail didn't appreciate it, and made that fact clear.
** In fact, this goes all the way back to the start of the series, and seems to be combined with Krillin having a bad memory for names. In the first episode he responded to seeing Bulma by calling her "Boobs!" at first before he remembered her name, called Goku "Tail" and seemed confused when Bulma called him Goku, and in ''Revenge of Cooler Abridged'', he relates how the last time he saw Korin, Krillen couldn't remember his name so he just kept calling him "Whiskers the Wonder Cat."
* NoIndoorVoice: When scared.
* NoSell: For all that he's an OvershadowedByAwesome ButtMonkey and treated as a weakling by other characters, Krillin has managed the NoSell a few times. He was immune to the lasers or whatever fired at him by the people running from Freeza, and Guldo was clearly surprised when Krillin barely reacted to having a steamroller dropped on him.
-->'''Krillin:''' What the hell was that?!\\
'''Guldo:''' ...that... was supposed to crush you.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Frequently lampshaded, and the former TropeNamer. Well, at least he's stronger than [[TheArtifact Yamcha]]. And [[StarterVillain Raditz]].
* PhraseCatcher: "Krillin! TooSoon!"
* TalkingToHimself: With Vegeta, Piccolo, and Mr. Popo. And more.
* TookALevelInBadass: On more of an emotional level. After coming back from his explosive space death, he seems a lot less scared when dealing with the androids, compared to the wreck he was on Namek. His ButtMonkey status currently shifted to Yamcha means he has time to snark and just enjoy the adventure.
** As soon as Yamcha left though, he begins to return to his old status. The Krillin Owned Count is back, but he retains his newfound confidence, and got up pretty quickly after Gero owned him.
!!Piccolo
->'''Voiced by:''' Lanipator
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm not a god-damn Yoshi!"]]
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: While trying to come up with some more badass names for his attacks, reluctantly admits to liking Nail's suggestion of "[[IncrediblyLamePun Nail Gun]]".
* {{Badass}}: Always has the attitude, can't always back it up. But when he does, it's memorable, especially in the Lord Slug movie.
* BerserkButton: [[DetonationMoon STOP MOCKING ME!!]]
* BigDamnHeroes: When he shows up during the fight with form 2 Freeza after having fused with Nail, complete with [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Magus' battle theme playing]][[note]]Magus being a similar character designed by Creator/AkiraToriyama[[/note]]. He then proceeds to send Freeza flying with a single punch.
** In the Lord Slug movie he shows up to save Gohan while the theme song of StoneColdSteveAustin plays, and one mook asks if he's Franchise/{{Batman}}. It's hard to find a bigger damn hero than that.
** In the Lord Slug movie, he also lampshades his tendency to do this.
-->'''Piccolo''': ''(while TakingTheBullet for Gohan)'' WHY CAN'T YOU SAVE YOUR OWN DAMN SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELF!?
* ButtMonkey: Obviously not as much as Krillin or Yamcha, but shows signs of this from time to time, especially around other Namekians.
* {{Catchphrase}}: '''"DODGE!!!"'''
* DeadpanSnarker: Frequently, though he does it in rapid succession in the Lord Slug movie.
-->'''Piccolo:''' And that, no doubt, would make you the big, tough, stupid one.\\
'''Dordabo:''' You take that back or I'll kill you.\\
'''Piccolo:''' All right, all right, you're not tough.\\
'''Dordabo:''' That's better.\\
{{Beat}}\\
'''Gohan:''' Wait, didn't you--\\
'''Piccolo:''' Give him a minute.\\
{{Beat}} {{Beat}} {{Beat}}\\
'''Dordabo:''' ...[[LateToThePunchline Hey!]] You son of a bitch! ''(Attempts to punch Piccolo but [[DeadlyDodging punches a hole in a truck instead]])''\\
'''Piccolo:''' Now now, that truck is not your eating disorder.\\
'''Dordabo:''' You're a penis!\\
'''Piccolo:''' So long since you've seen yours you don't even recognize one, do you?
** There's also this exchange with borderline {{Bishonen}} Angira.
--->'''Angira:''' We're just here for your planet. But if I had to pick [a gimmick] I'd say I'm the pretty one.\\
'''Piccolo:''' Meh. 6 out of 10.\\
'''Angira:''' You sassy bitch.
* DetonationMoon: STOP MOCKING ME!!
** MOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
* ForgotICouldFly: When it comes to his ability to stretch his arms.
-->'''[[SharingABody Nail]]''': Huh, I didn't know we could do that.\\
'''Piccolo''': Yeah, I forget about 'em sometimes too.
* GenreSavvy: In the Lord Slug movie:
-->That would make you [[TheDarkChick the weird one with the freaky powers]], and that would make ''you'' no doubt [[TheBrute the big, tough, stupid one]].
** Happens again in the Cooler movie, but the ones he was categorizing were too stupid to realize which one each of them were.
* GoodIsNotNice: UpToEleven from the original
* HeroicSacrifice: Like in the original, he shielded Gohan from Nappa's attack and died. Lampshaded due to the fact that he realized he could just grab him, and save them both.
-->''Alright, it's time to redeem myself. Through one final act of redemption, I'll save Gohan an- wait a second, [[StupidSacrifice why didn't I just grab him? I can probably still do that now, actually. Yeah, that's it, I'll grab him, and '''throw''' him out of the wa--]]'''[[KilledMidSentence AAAARRRRRGH!]]'''''
* HomelessHero: Nail suggests he buys one, but he can't and won't get a job.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He agrees to aid Goku in the first episode when Goku offers to friend him on MySpace ("Tom, you've been replaced!") and his first words upon spotting Nail are "SOCIAL ACTIVITY!" He even admits to being quite desperate for friends; he does cut himself off, but far too late. When Tien states rather bluntly that he has no friends in ''Bald This Way'', he actually runs off the set in tears.
* IneffectualLoner: Zigzags this with IJustWantToHaveFriends. He becomes even more ineffectual a loner after Nail starts sharing his head.
--> '''Nail''' So, you wanna go hang out with our race?\\
'''Piccolo''' No.
** As of episode 34 he seems to be growing out of this, having developed something of a friendship with Goku. He covers for Goku's idiocy not once, but twice, and also goes with Goku to race cars.
** Lampshaded in Episode 35, when Tien turns to Piccolo to ask for directions to the nearest wasteland they can safely fight in, counting on him knowing where that would be. He does.
** Surprisingly, in episode 38, he suggests he, Tien, and Krillin stick together for safety, rather than split up, as Tien suggests right afterwards.
* {{Jerkass}}: During the first time he talked to Gohan, before his HeelFaceTurn was cemented. "Hate to tell ya, kid. But your dad's '''DEAD!'''... Actually, I kinda like saying that. HA HA! YOUR DAD'S DEAD!"
** Piccolo's become more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in the later episodes, when he was healed by Dende on Earth, the first thing he did when he woke up was call out for Gohan.
* LargeHam
* PetTheDog: In episode 38 after Vegeta calls Trunks a bastard
--> '''Piccolo''': Gohan, you're a good kid.
* SharingABody: With Nail.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: To Gohan. The first thing he did as the kid's mentor was to throw him at a giant rock formation so he (Gohan) could break it. [[HilarityEnsues He crashes into the formation and starts bawling.]]
--> '''Piccolo:''' ''(walking over to a crying Gohan, annoyed)'' [[TrainingFromHell This is going to be a loooooooooooooong training session.]]
* SuperSenses: His hearing is good enough for him to have heard Goku and Trunks' whole conversation despite being a few hundred yards away.
* TalkingToHimself: With Vegeta and Krillin.
* TheSmartGuy
* VitriolicBestBuds: Seems to be developing this with Nail. The relationship seems to form a weird symbiosis. Piccolo finally has someone to fill his social void and Nail finally has someone he can bicker with.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Just as in canon, it turns out in ''Lord Slug Abridged'' that WHISTLING causes intense pain and discomfort to Namekians. But only if they can hear it.
--> "WHAT?!"
* TheWorfEffect: Just as in the original series, and particularly in the specials. Piccolo shows up, makes an incredibly badass showing of taking out the minions, and then gets utterly trounced by the BigBad.
!!Vegeta
->'''Voiced by:''' Lanipator
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[RageBreakingPoint Rage breaking in 3...2...1...]]]]
* AbusiveParents: Verbally (for now) is one with Future Trunks. In Episode 38 alone, he's called him a "bastard" (as in, born out of wedlock), a failure, and a disappointment (twice).
--> '''Vegeta''': Wow, you're just the Grand Central Station of disappointment, aren't you?
** Physically as of Episode 39, although Trunks did press one of his biggest [[BerserkButton berserk buttons]].
* AlwaysSecondBest: To Goku, just like in the regular series. Episode 39 really drives this point home.
* {{Angrish}}: Frequently lapses into this.
** After killing Dodoria and Zarbon, Vegeta goes to the spot where he hid the Dragon Ball... it's not there. Vegeta couldn't even speak Angrish properly after that.
* AtomicFBomb: Episode 10.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: As Bulma notes, being the Prince of all Saiyans doesn't mean much if there are [[LastOfHisKind only two]] Saiyans left![[note]]Though Gohan is half Saiyan and unbeknownst to Bulma, Nappa got resurrected.[[/note]]
--> '''Vegeta''': ''[[LameComeback Three and a half!]]''[[note]]Word of God says the "Three" Saiyans in question were Nappa, Goku, and Tarble.[[/note]]
* {{Badass}}: Put it this way; when Vegeta landed on Namek, he was weaker than Freeza's top henchmen. By the end, he's killed all of Freeza's minions, and tries taking on the boss man himself. Vegeta gets extra points for [[DefiantToTheEnd continuing to mouth off to Freeza]] after [[CurbStompBattle a particularly savage beating]], so much that Freeza decided to shoot a beam through his lung to finally kill him.
* BadassBoast: Both played straight and [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] on a regular basis.
* BelligerentSexualTension: A HUGE case of this with Bulma, until they did the deed in Episode 34. Quickly made hilarious when Bulma (and the audience) discover that he has absolutely ''no idea'' what a condom is.
* BerserkButton: [[BrickJoke Don't thwart his plans]].
** And Anime/DragonBallGT. He kills Vegeta Jr (one of the Saibamen), and snaps upon hearing the theme song.
** He also hates weaklings and [[PinkIsForSissies the color pink]].
---> '''Tien:''' Hey Vegeta.\\
'''Vegeta:''' What?\\
'''Tien:''' [[RealMenWearPink Nice shirt]].\\
'''Vegeta:''' AND THERE IT IS!
** Almost anything Nappa does has to count too.
** Don't say he's not as strong as Goku.
-->'''Krillin''': You pushed the Goku button. You shouldn'tna did that.
* BigBad: Season 1 (The Saiyan Saga)
* BigNo: Has several of these.
** Most notable one was the introduction of GHOST NAPPA!
* BloodKnight: A requirement on the Saiyan résumé. He shoots down Bulma's suggestion of murdering the creator of the Androids (although he does love how she phrased it) because he's as excited at the chance of fighting them as Goku is.
* BondOneLiner: Against Cui.
--> "God, I love therapy".
* BreakTheHaughty: Freeza makes him cry, "[[PreAsskickingOneLiner like a little bitch]]," in episode 27
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In Episode 9. Nappa is being extremely stupid and gave Vegeta a brain aneurysm out of "sheer stupidity", so Vegeta breaks the fourth wall by muttering "9 minutes 18 seconds," over and over, (The episode was 9:42 seconds long, they were 24 seconds in). When Nappa asks what happens when they reach that time, Vegeta replies: "The happiest moment of my life". (which was Nappa's death)
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: He doesn't even remember Yamcha. Until he recognizes him as "that scrub that got killed by a Saibaman".
* CallingYourOrgasms: "Gallick... gun... ''FIIIIRRREEEEEE''!!!"
** TheGruntingOrgasm: Also, literally ''fires a Galick Gun'' when he climaxes.
* CardCarryingVillain: Goku just wouldn't get it otherwise.
--> "I'M F**KING EVIL."
--> "Don't care. Evil."
--> "[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Renegade for life]].''
** It's also used to poke fun at the [=FUNimation=] dub's changes to Vegeta's characterization (and specifically, his death speech).
--> '''Goku:''' If it weren't for Freezer you wouldn't be-\\
'''Vegeta:''' Dying? No.\\
'''Goku:''' I was gonna say "evil".\\
'''Vegeta:''' Oh, no, I'd definitely still be evil. If this situation were reversed, this conversation would never have happened. You'd be dead, and I'd be laughing.
* CatchPhrase: "Goddamn it, Nappa!"
** "F*ck you!" seems to be one as well.
** And a third one seems to be developing: "Mineminemineminemineminemineminemineminemine!"
* CharacterExaggeration: While he doesn't get as much as some characters, he's a lot less restrained than his original characterization.
* TheChewToy: But most of the trauma he gets is mental trauma, unlike Krillin or Yamcha.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: During the battle with Freeza, Vegeta seems to think that if he says that he's a Super Saiyan often enough, it will be true. In fairness, he's going off a thousand-year-old legend, so it's probably not clear to him that there's more to it than just having a high power level (or exactly how high that power level is). To be fair, apparently he achieved it through what appeared to be a ''temper tantrum''.
* TheComicallySerious
* CosmicPlaything
* CultureClash: When Bulma asked if he had "protection" and to wear it when they had sex, he made sure to wear his battle armor.
* CurbStompBattle: Much like {{Canon}}, his ''fight'' against Android 19 is this. [[BadassBoast "Do you feel fear?"]]
* CryCute: Episode 27, much like the original, when he realizes that his strongest attack is barely worth Freeza's notice. Almost a TearJerker, given Lanipator's ''amazing'' voice acting.
* DestructiveSavior: After Trunks describes the androids as humanity's greatest threat, [[DescriptionCut we cut to]] Vegeta wantonly destroying numerous cars and their drivers in his fruitless attempts to fight 18. Contrast with 18, who (unlike in the original series) isn't directly harming anyone ''but'' Vegeta.
-->'''Vegeta''': I will kill as many people as I have to as long as you are one of them!
* DidntSeeThatComing: When he finally realizes Future Trunks is his son.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's more an issue of horrible spectacle than morality, but even Vegeta is given pause when [[spoiler: the Namekians slaughter Guru.]]
** In a more comedic sense, [[spoiler:he's only willing to live with Bulma if there's a pool.]]
** Also shows enough class not to [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries swear in front of an infant Jesus.]]
** When he realized that the "Wheel of Death" was being filmed, he furiously asked "What kind of sadistic retard watches this crap?!" Cue JumpCut to Freeza.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor / PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
--> '''Goku:''' That was in terrible taste!\\
'''Vegeta:''' Don't care! Evil!
** When he's fighting 18, he calls her a washing machine (specifically [[DontExplainTheJoke explaining]] that he meant to be a sexist crack, not just a joke about her being a robot) and then "a smug [[CountryMatters c]][[SoundEffectBleep ^#@]]".
* TheFightingNarcissist: After finally becoming a Super Saiyan.
--> "Oh God, this feels amazing. First thing I'm gonna do when I get home is step in front of a full-length mirror, strip down, turn Super Saiyan and -"
* FishOutOfWater: Among other things, he has no idea what condoms or soap are. When Bulma explains the latter as a block made of animal fat, his first instinct is to eat it. "BWA! This tastes nothing like what you just said."
* FreudianExcuse: Well, his planet and his entire race was blown up and he's enslaved to the one who did it, but [[SubvertedTrope according to him, he'd be evil anyway.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To an extreme. The only reason they even tolerate him is because he's the second-strongest fighter on their side.
* GutturalGrowler: Lampshaded in Blooper Special:
-->'''Lanipator''': Why did I have to be cast as the loudest, screamiest, most raspy-voiced character?
* HairTriggerTemper: Throughout season 2, Vegeta has been steadily losing his cool more and more.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He's always going on about the Saiyans being the greatest fighters in the universe, and he's completely and utterly obsessed with becoming a Super Saiyan.
** [[spoiler: To the point there Freeza kills him mid-sentence just because he's sick of hearing the Super Saiyan speech.]]
** Taken into overdrive after the arrival of Future Trunks, leading Vegeta to repeatedly ''[[InsistentTerminology insist]]'' that he's [[BlatantLies a Super Saiyan]], but no-one buys it.
*** [[spoiler: He finally gets his wish in episode 36.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Is quite prone to unintentionally delivering these.
* {{Jerkass}}: "By the way, I only hit you because I have pent-up aggression against your father. Take that." After kneeing Gohan in the stomach in Episode 18. Then there's his treatment of Future Trunks.
* KnowWhenToFoldThem: The end of Season 1, after stopping Gohan's Oozaru form backfires.
-->"Crushed and broken beneath an unconscious, naked child. Yep, I think I'm done here."
* LightningBruiser: His Oozaru form, unfortunately for Goku.
* LoveableRogue: Self-entitled; he describes himself as a "handsome, dashing rogue".
* TheNapoleon:
-->'''Jeice:''' Not that short, Captain.\\
'''Ginyu:''' Oh don't go all 'Vegeta' on me.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Implied in episode 36. When Android 19 is about to finish off Goku, you can hear Vegeta approaching in the distance...
-->'''Vegeta:''' [[CallBack Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine MINE MINE MINE MINE]]\\
[[DynamicEntry *Vegeta kicks 19 in the head*]]\\
'''Vegeta:''' [[CatchPhrase Mine.]]
* OnlySaneMan: When compared to the likes of [[TooDumbToLive Goku, Nappa]], or the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Ginyu Force]].
** Although it seems his time with Nappa and Krillin is beginning to take its toll on his sanity.
* OutOfClothesExperience: What he thought death entailed, only that was just King Yemma tricking him.
* ParentalIssues: In Episode 10.
-->'''Vegeta:''' You... you cut through my armor! This was a gift from my father!\\
'''Yajirobe:''' I'm sorry, I'm sure your father was a great man!\\
'''Vegeta:''' [[BerserkButton I HATED my father!]]\\
'''Yajirobe:''' "Oh, well then, I'm sure your father was a total prick.\\
'''Vegeta':''' [[HairTriggerTemper HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT MY FATHER LIKE THAT!]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's a good deal shorter than several characters. Lampshaded by Nail in Episode 18:
-->'''Nail:''' Bring it on, all 4 feet of you! ''Or should I count your stupid hair''?
* PottyEmergency: Used as an excuse to get out of fighting Ginyu, while Goku explains. Later, while taking a nap, he wakes up suddenly shouting "I HAVE TO PEE!" And then later, Freeza taunts him by asking when he graduated from Pull-ups.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Against Jeice;
-->"G'day, mate."
** And against Ginyu
--->'''Ginyu:''' At least I'm not trapped in a useless body.\\
'''Vegeta:''' Gimme a minute.
** Pretty much all of his dialogue during his CurbStompBattle with Android 19, given that he was giving the Android a "countdown." And it is glorious, starting with this line:
--->'''Vegeta:''' (Having just [[NoSell No Sold]] a punch from 19. "Looks like you just initiated your self-destruct sequence."
* PreMortemOneLiner: Has several in Season 2.
--> "Let me put it to you in a way you'll understand: I'm about to blow my load all over your insides [...] No homo".
** And this against 19 (of course):
--->'''Vegeta:''' So, before we put down the clown, let's put it to bed, shall we? Do you feel fear, Android?\\
'''Android 19:''' No. Please. Get away. (Proceeds to understandably flee.)\\
'''Vegeta:''' All I needed to hear. '''One.''' BIG BANG ATTACK!
* PsychopathicManchild: Started becoming one during the events on Namek. Of course, [[FridgeBrilliance it makes sense]] considering what Nappa said about why ''he'' is a PsychopathicManchild.
** It's shown he became a Super Saiyan by throwing a temper tantrum (canonically, this actually isn't that far off) and in Gero's own words he's still just a arrogant little brat throwing a fit when he won't come out.
* PureIsNotGood: As in the original series, Vegeta was able to achieve the Super Saiyan form with a different kind of pure heart. However, Vegeta claims his heart is "pure, unadulterated badass."
-->'''Tien:''' Yeah, more like pure, unadulterated ego.
* RealMenWearPink: Although [[PinkIsForSissies he hates every minute of it]]:
-->'''Vegeta:''' ''[Upon sensing Freeza]'' Son of a bitch!\\
'''Yamcha:''' What, still ticked off about the shirt?\\
'''Vegeta:''' NO, I--well, yes, actually, I'm absolutely livid.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In Episode 18, he apparently bursts a blood vessel in one of his eyes when Gohan pulls one over on him and Ghost Nappa shows up to torment him, causing it to go red. The other follows suit shortly after.
** His eyes also glow red in Bulma's rape-fantasy.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** After being beaten in Episode 10:
-->'''Vegeta:''' Crushed and broken beneath [[ItMakesSenseInContext an unconscious, naked child]]. Yep, I think I'm done here.
** In Episode 35, when Bulma tells him to get a job and help raise Trunks, he flees into space in a Capsule Corp ship a year and a half before the fight with Dr. Gero and Android 19.
* StayInTheKitchen: He acts even more sexist than usual around 18.
-->"You talk a lot of shit for a washing machine. And no, I'm not just saying that because you're an android. I'm saying it because you're a wom-" ''(18 head-butts him)''
* StraightMan: To Nappa, and the others sometimes as well.
* SurroundedByIdiots
* TalkingInYourSleep: A dream he has while unconscious leads to [[ShoutOut "My power is]] [[MemeticMutation maximum..."]]
--> "First immortality, then the bitches."
* TalkingToHimself: With Krillin and Piccolo.
* TemptingFate: Any time Vegeta says "There's nothing you can do about it!"... something's going to get done about it.
* TokenEvilTeammate: By season 3.
* TranquilFury: In Episode 10 part 2, after his tail got cut off:
-->[Calmly] You know... I thought I'd be angrier, what with the utter humiliation and loss of my tail... Or maybe I'm just so unbelievably enraged that I've come full circle. Oh well! Either way, it's time to put an end to this.
* UnstoppableRage: His [[TheScream moment]] in Episode 18.
* VerbalTic: Has a frequency to say "god damn it" even without Nappa around.
* VillainProtagonist: Of Season 2 (The Namek Saga) ''without question''.
* VillainousBreakdown: In episode 10 during his fight with Goku. Part of it is because Vegeta is losing to Goku, the other part is [[IdiotHero making sense of Goku]].
!!Future Trunks
->'''Voiced by:''' [=KaiserNeko=]
* {{Adorkable}}: Badass, but adorkable nevertheless. He gets hilariously awkward when meeting Goku.
* {{Badass}}: Kills Freeza and King Cold in less than a few minutes like in the original manga.[[note]]Like in the manga, he only had 3 pages worth in killing Freeza than in the anime and ''Kai, where his fight with Freeza was considerably longer[[/note]]
** And before that, DiagonalCut combined with YouAreAlreadyDead on all of Freeza's mooks (Minus one, but Freeza finishes him off anyway just because). Apparently he's been practicing getting it ''just'' right for 3 months.
** Should being able to ''traumatize'' Freeza count?[[note]]When Trunks transforms into a Super Saiyan in front of Freeza, the tyrant reacts by comparing him to Goku (complete with him saying "Pizza"), Freeza immediately tries to kill him and the planet[[/note]]
* BadassBoast: "If it's a Super Saiyan you're looking for, I can fill the part." Cue doing so while King Cold and Freeza are arguing during his transformation.
* CoolShip: If episode 34 is anything to go by, Trunks' time machine? It's a TARDIS.
* CoolSword
* CurbStompBattle: If you knew the source material, then it's inevitable.
* DeadpanSnarker: All throughout his fight with Freeza, every other line that came out of Trunks' mouth was pure snark.
* DiagonalCut: Justified and Explained; apparently, he's been practicing that for a few months. Also, it's not as easy as they make it look.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Since he didn't know about there being more androids than the two he knew of, he then never goes into detail about what the Androids look like, leaving everyone including him surprised when Dr. Gero and Android 19 are ones he has never seen before.
** FutureImperfect: As both Tien and Vegeta lampshade, Trunks has a tendency to make a ''lot'' of assumptions on what he ''thinks'' happened in the past, rather than what ''actually'' happened, as well as what people were like.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Made an appearance in episode 18, where he heard his father's scream all the way from Namek, two decades into the future.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: See Badass above? He does all that in his introductory episode.
* FutureBadass: His EstablishingCharacterMoment cements it. He, much like his source counterpart, annihilates all but one of Freeza's squad just by cutting them with his sword.
* HeroicBastard: He was born from Vegeta and Bulma's BelligerentSexualTension and the fact that Vegeta doesn't know what a condom is. When Bulma told Vegeta she was pregnant and asked him to get a job to support her, his reaction was to immediately take off into space. Trunks himself had no idea his parents never married until Vegeta breaks it to him in the most dickish way possible, later literally calling him a bastard while blowing off his warnings.
* InadequateInheritor: Vegeta doesn't think much of him, even less so when he finds out that the "killer androids" Trunks is so afraid of are a couple of teenagers.
* LightningBruiser: Catches and lifts Freeza's Death Ball [[NoSell with one hand]], fast enough to escape its explosion when Freeza blows it up, and strong enough to slice Freeza to pieces with his sword, not to mention [[BarehandedBladeBlock catching said sword]] when King Cold tried to use it against him.
* NaiveNewcomer: The kid's not dumb, but he doesn't actually know that much about the main characters, their past, or their relationships to each other, and he starts off with a number of assumptions about them that are a bit... innocent.
-->'''Trunks''': Wait... you mean you two never got married?\\
'''Vegeta''': What is that, some kind of food?\\
'''Trunks''': No, just... listen. When two people love each other--\\
'''Vegeta''': Oh, wow, I'm just f*cking with you. My god, who doesn't know what marriage is. Also, "love each other"? Making a lot of assumptions here.
* [[OhCrap Oh Crapbaskets]]: When he realizes there more Androids than the two he encountered. And when Bulma brought his present infant self along.
-->'''Future Trunks''': Did she bring me!?
* OnlySaneMan: While he still has some comical quirks, he's still competent, smart, and relatively serious.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "HEY FREEZA, YOU SHOULD SPLIT!!!"
** After King Cold's attempt to kill him fails and Cold asks if Trunks is still not sure whether or not he hates him: "Actually, that pretty much sealed it."
* PostMortemOneLiner: "So. How many points are those?"
* RunningGag: In regards to his name being a girl's name.
* ScreamingAtSquick: After Bulma makes a pass at him, even saying he can call her "mommy". On the surface, he still manages to keep a straight face, but internally he is screaming bloody murder.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: We see in a flashback he once had this conversation with Bulma, but her comments about Vegeta being "an abrasive loner with a lot of trouble making friends" didn't really prepare him for the reality.
-->'''Kid Trunks:''' Am I a lot like him?\\
'''Future Bulma''': You have his... gender.
* YouFightLikeACow: And he'll keep repeating the joke until you get it.
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