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Son Family

Grandpa Son Gohan

Grandpa Son Gohan (孫悟飯, Son Gohan AKA Sun Wufan)

Voiced by (Japanese): Osamu Saka (DB, Z ep. 32, Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Dragon Ball: Origins), Kinpei Azusa (Bardock - The Father of Goku), Joji Yanami (Z ep. 288), Shigeru Chiba (Kai)
Voiced by (English): Christopher Sabat (Funimation dub); Michael Donovan (DB ep. 1), Terry Klassen (Z ep. 32), Richard Newman (Z ep. 288) (Ocean dub); Jonathan Love (Blue Water dub); Ed Marcus (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Jorge Roig (DB), Armando Réndiz (Kai)

Goku's adoptive grandfather, the one who found him in the woods and initially trained him in martial arts. He died prior to the series, crushed to death by Goku's Great Ape form. Though mostly appearing in flashbacks, he makes an appearance in person during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga, and Goku's first son is named in his honor.

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• Back for the Finale: He returns in the final two episodes of the Fire Mountain/Wedding Dress filler arc after the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament which served as the conclusion to the original Dragon Ball anime. He meets Goku as a young man alongside Chi-Chi who he'd recently been engaged to in their quest to save the Ox-King from an inferno caused by the Furnace of Eight Divisions, where Gohan serves as a bodyguard for the furnace's keeper.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: The final arc of the original anime reveals that he's taken up a part-time job as Annin's bodyguard, who herself is a deity more than capable of handling Goku who had just recently defeated Piccolo Jr.
• Bodyguard Crush: He guards the goddess Annin as shown in a filler arc and Goku thinks that there's a little more to it than that.
• Chivalrous Pervert: During the Baba Saga, he mentions having a lot of friends back in Other World, "and most of them are brunettes". Nonetheless, Goku states that Gohan always taught him to be respectful towards women.
• Climax Boss: Serves as this to Goku in the Baba arc, and to his entire second search for the Dragon Balls as a whole. Goku has to pull every trick he's learned against him.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Implied. He admits to being "a little odd" in the Bardock special, and Goku himself describes him as a "very odd fellow."
• Cool Old Guy: He doesn't appear much, but he served as Goku's first instructor in the martial arts and is widely regarded as a legend in that world in the early parts of the story.
• Dirty Old Man: Part of the reason why he doesn't want to be brought back to life? Too many hot chicks in heaven. However, he isn't nearly as bad as Master Roshi, and Goku himself states that Gohan was in fact respectful of women and always told him to be the same.
• Famed In-Story: Yamcha had heard about him back in his bandit days and immediately recognized his Power Pole when Goku used it against him during their initial fight.
• Family Theme Naming: He started the 'Go' tend in Goku's family; Son Goku and his sons—Gohan and Goten.
• Good Is Not Soft: His appearance in the Wedding Dress filler has him trying to violently stop Goku from extinguishing the Furnace of Eight Division for doing so would cause the physical and spiritual planes of existence to be closed off from one another and allow evil souls to take root in the living world, which would cause utter chaos. This despite the fact that leaving the furnace on would inevitably cause the Ox-King, his best friend and fellow disciple under Master Roshi, to burn to death in his own castle on Fire Mountain.^note Fire Mountain happens to be in the path of the furnace's exhaust which reaches all across the Earth A flashback to Goku's childhood late into Z also shows that he could be strict while training his grandson, though only to teach him discipline.
• Living Legend: Well, he was before his death.
• Manly Facial Hair: A big white one, similar to Master Roshi's, and he was Goku's original teacher and was considered one of the greatest martial artists in the world. When he returns for a day, he manages to give Goku a hard match, the same Goku who defeated Mercenary Tao and destroyed the entire Red Ribbon Army by himself just hours ago.
• Master-Apprentice Chain: Although his time was short, he trained Goku before he was killed and was a student of Master Roshi:
  • Mutaito > Master Roshi > Son Gohan, Sr > Son Goku > Son Gohan, Pan, and Uub
  • Mutaito > Master Roshi > Son Gohan, Sr. > Son Goku > Son Gohan > Son Goten
• Muggle Foster Parents: While he was extremely powerful for a human, given that he was considered one of the greatest martial arts experts in the world, he's still a muggle compared to Goku who is a Human Alien from a powerful warrior race.
• Nice Guy: A decent and kind-hearted warrior and it was because of being this that Kakarotto was raised into becoming Goku, The Hero we know and love.
• Old Master: In his appearance during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga, he holds his own against Goku quite well. Later still in the Fire Mountain filler, he can pin down his now 18-year-old grandson with only a little difficulty. Keep in mind that Goku has managed to defeat two different variations of a demon king by this point and had finally won the World Martial Arts Tournament only two days prior.
• Parental Substitute: He finds Goku in the mountains as a toddler not long after he lands on Earth. He takes him in and raises him as his own grandson. It's rough at first since Goku was an unruly and violent child, but Gohan manages to get him under control after Goku falls and hits his head.
• Posthumous Character: By the time the series begins, he's long dead.
• Ship Tease: He has some romantic subtext with Annin, a goddess, in a filler arc, much to Goku's amusement.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's dead by the series' beginning and only appears in person during the Fortuneteller Baba Saga, but it was him finding Goku and raising him that turned Goku from the future destroyer of humanity to the altruistic All-Loving Hero we know and love.
• Unseen No More: Grandpa Gohan was The Ghost by virtue of being dead. While he was mentioned a lot, he never made an appearance in the first arc and most of the second arc, before making a surprise appearance at the end as a literal ghost.
• Upbringing Makes the Hero: It was his kindness towards Goku, along with him hitting his head, that made Goku the kind young child we meet at the beginning of Dragon Ball.

Son Goku

See Dragon Ball: Son Goku

Gyū Maō/Ox-King

Ox-King (牛魔王, Gyuu-Maou)

Voiced by (Japanese): Daisuke Gōri (All media until 2009), Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (All media from 2010 onwards)
Voiced by (English): Mark Britten (Z Season 3-4 and The History of Trunks; originally), Christopher Sabat (Z Season 5-6; originally), Kyle Hebert (Most media) (Funimation dub); Dave "Squatch" Ward (DB 1995, Z), Dave Pettit (DB 2004) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); David Gasman (Dead Zone), Paul Bandey (The History of Trunks) (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Mario Sauret, Enrique Cervantes (Kai: The Final Chapters)
Voiced by (Swedish): Gunnar Ernblad

The legendary Ox-King of Fire Mountain.^note also known as "Gyuumaou", literally Japanese for "Ox-Demon-King" The Ox-King terrorized the countryside to keep would-be thieves away from his castle. When Goku and his friends came looking for the Dragon Ball in his treasury, he relents (he couldn't get into his own castle anyway because of the wall of flames around it) and offers Goku his daughter Chi-Chi's hand in marriage. Ox-King turned out to be one of Master Roshi's pupils and a friend of Goku's Grandpa Gohan. After his daughter settled down with Goku, he became a doting grandfather to Gohan and Goten.

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• Ascended Extra: He gets more appearances in the original anime with Chi-Chi before becoming a mainstay in the Z era. The first is in the Red Ribbon Army arc when Colonel Silver and Emperor Pilaf end up targeting him for a dragon ball he accidentally obtained when slaughtering a pteranodon for a wedding feast (he thought that Goku and Chi-Chi were going to be wed immediately). His second is in the King Piccolo arc where the titular villain sics King Furry's guard on him in order to continue his slaughter of the world's renowned martial artists so they can't potentially seal him away again. The final part of Dragon Ball also makes him a Distressed Dude in the Wedding Dress filler arc where he has to protect his late wife's gown in order to see Chi-Chi wear it at her own ceremony.
• Big Fun: He's a large jovial man especially from Z onward.
• Cool Old Guy: Being a grandfather and a retired fighter fits this trope.
• Demoted to Extra: In Dragon Ball, he had a role as a supporting character. He doesn't appear as much in Z, but when he does, he usually appears with his daughter.
• Dirty Old Man: Only one moment in the Garlic Jr. Saga shows him perving on someone, namely Maron while she's sunbathing. Then again, he's a student of Master Roshi and even his fellow disciple Son Gohan admitted to having a lot of pretty dead ladies back in the afterlife. Chi-Chi really didn't care for that.
• Distressed Dude: For the Fire Mountain/Wedding Dress filler arc at the end of the first DB anime, most of his screen time is spent trapped running through the burning remains of his castle as he tries to survive and preserve his late wife's titular dress so that Chi-Chi can wear it at her ceremony.
• Doting Parent: He's very fond of his daughter.
• Doting Grandparent: The Ox-King is very fond of his grandsons, often buying them toys and spoiling them.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: He was a redhead throughout most of the original DB anime before the Wedding Dress filler arc recolored him black which has mostly stuck with him throughout the franchise's duration. The full-color manga in that earlier period also colors his hair black.
• Expy: To, well, the Ox-King/Bull Demon King of Journey to the West, straight down to having the literal same name in kanji/hanzi characters (牛魔王). This Ox-King is a bit more chill and a family man than the one in the novel, though, and naturally like many of the other JttW characters his importance fades as time goes on, especially once the Saiyans start showing up.
• Family Theme Naming: He has a daughter named Chi-Chi (milk/breast), carrying the cow theme.
• Gentle Giant: He used to be quite violent, but mellowed out after Chi-Chi fell in love with Goku.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Ox-King intentionally hid a nicer side to his first appearance to prevent thieves from coming into his castle and robbing his gold. That, and taking his daughter. So, he terrorized the nearby village, and legends of him spread as a bloodthirsty demonic tyrant. Suffice to say, this wasn't the best course of action he could have taken (though, it was pretty effective). Father and daughter being inhumanly strong, notwithstanding (the latter killed a T. Rex with ease at twelve years of age). He later got reprimanded for this by Master Roshi, who told him to apologize to the villagers for how he treated them, and mellowed out... after his home on Fire Mountain was blown to bits by Roshi.
• Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: In the entire franchise there has only ever been one image of Chi-Chi's mother, a family portrait of her as a baby, sitting on her mother's lap, who is sitting on her husband's palm.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: One of the more extreme examples with his late, unnamed wife (see above).
• Humble Hero: In the anime, when he and Chi-Chi witness new global Evil Overlord King Piccolo's broadcast announcement that he'll annihilate a section of Earth a year and openly welcome any challengers to stop him, Chi-Chi questions her father whether he can beat up King Piccolo, and he replies honestly that he can't and that he doesn't think anyone in the world can, not even Goku.
• Immune to Bullets: This is only shown in Filler episodes of the anime.
• Killed Offscreen: Happened during the Buu arc in the manga where the titular villain escaped the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and turned all the people outside (except Dende) into chocolate, eating them soon after. Averted in the anime, however, where they at least gave a Shadow Discretion Shot that showed almost all the cast being killed.
• Legacy Character: Subverted when he suggests that Chi-Chi's son also be named after himself before she named him Gohan.
• Manly Facial Hair: He sported an impressive red beard back during his days of conquest. By the time of the Wedding Dress filler arc (or the Saiyan arc if you go by the manga), it has become black and stays that way for the remainder of the series. It grows out a little in the Buu arc and begins to gray going into the 28th World Martial Arts Tournament.
• Master-Apprentice Chain: He was a student of Master Roshi and he trained Chi-Chi: Mutaito > Master Roshi > Ox-King > Chi-Chi > Goten.
• Nice Guy: He may seem like a tough giant at first, but he's actually a kind person.
• Not So Above It All: While he's normally cavalier, he shows once in the Garlic Jr. Saga that he is very much a student of Roshi when he ogles a sunbathing Maron alongside his old teacher. Chi-Chi was not amused.
• One-Man Army: He's capable of taking down an army of tanks on his own.
• Only One Name: He doesn't have a last name.
• Public Domain Character: Ox-King is the only character other than Son Goku to retain the same name as his Journey to the West counterpart.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Wore a pink shirt during the Buu arc.
• Retired Badass: In Dragon Ball Z, you don't see him fighting anymore. At his peak of power, he was regarded as a demon who could take out tanks and Goku couldn't even make him flinch when they first met.
• Riches to Rags: From the God of Destruction Beerus Saga Story Arc onwards, he's forced to take on a Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job due to his treasures (the source of his wealth) being burnt in the Fire Mountain.
• Stout Strength: Later in the series he gets fatter but even in Battle of Gods it is clear he has a lot of muscle underneath.
• Tears of Joy: He sheds them during Chi-Chi and Goku's wedding ceremony at the end of the first anime, congratulating the two on their union and welcoming Goku into his family. In a humorous variation, he sheds a few back in the Red Ribbon Army filler when he's preparing a wedding for the two and remarks that his daughter is growing up so fast.
• What the Hell, Hero?: While it's technically filler, he calls Chi-Chi out on getting upset with Goku for letting Gohan fight against Cell. Considering how Gohan surpassed Goku and Cell in strength, this was understandable. It still didn't stop her from getting mad herself at her dad since she was only upset that Gohan had become a delinquent.

Chi-Chi

Chi-Chi (チチ)

^{Click here to see her in childhood}

^{Click here to see her as a teenager}

Chi-Chi voiced by (Japanese): Mayumi Sho (DB, Z Seasons 1-2, Z Movie 1-3, Budokai), Naoko Watanabe (Z Seasons 3-9, GT, Kai, Super, other video games and all other media)
Kid Chi-Chi voiced by (English): Laura Bailey (Most media), Monika Antonelli (Z ep. 202 only and as a voice double in DB ep. 7), Brittany Lauda (Kakarot) (Funimation dub); Andrea Libman (1995), Katie Rowan (2004) (Ocean/Blue Water dub)
Adult Chi-Chi voiced by (English): Cynthia Cranz^note Lydia Mackay doubles a line in Z ep. 123 (Funimation dub); Laara Sadiq (Z, Movie 3), Lisa Ann Beley (Z ep. 131-138, 166, 181-182, Movies 1-2), Nicole Oliver (Z ep. 269-291), Carol-Anne Day (DB), Debbie Munro (GT) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Sharon Mann (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub); Mitch Frankenberger Pellicer (Creative Products Corp., Philippines); Michelle Ruff (Bang Zoom!/Toonami Asia dub in Super)
Chi-Chi voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Patricia Acevedo (current voice), Pilar Escandón (Movie 4)
Voiced by (French): Céline Monsarrat (DB, Z, GT), Anouck Hautbois (Kai, Super)
Voiced by (Italian): Elisabetta Spinelli

The daughter of the Ox-King. Chi-Chi is Goku's first and only love (though he didn't realize it when they first met). At the start Chi-Chi was rather panicky, attacking anything threatening with extreme force (she beheaded a T-Rex with only the blade on her helmet), though eventually grew out of this to become a rather firm fighter. At first, when Chi-Chi asked Goku to wed, he agreed, under the impression marriage was food. When he realized his mistake years later, he still gladly agreed to marry her anyway. By the Z series, she was a rather overprotective parent, worrying about Gohan's education (which clashed with his saving the world) and her family's welfare in general.

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• Action Girl: She was this in the original series. Even as a child, Chi Chi demonstrated superhuman characteristics, being she was able to outrun a dinosaur and throw her blade with enough force to decapitate it. During her sparring date with Goku, she proved to be an even match for him, showing she was extremely strong for a human child. By her late teens she was arguably the strongest human woman on the planet, as she was able to endure a fight with Goku during the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament. It becomes severely downplayed throughout Z and Super where she’s retired from fighting to become a housewife for Goku, while Android #18 has well and truly eclipsed her as the world's strongest woman. She does however still possess some skill in fighting as she trains Goten in martial arts and her fiery temper can terrify fighters even more powerful than herself.
• Action Mom: Even though she's retired from fighting, she still has some scenes when she kicks ass.
• Adaptational Badass: Her incarnation in Super Dragon Ball Z (with the assistance of Nimbus, and while using the Power Pole and Bansho Fan) can go toe to toe with, and even beat, every other fighter in the game. That being said, the game's roster includes the likes of Frieza, Cell, and Majin Buu.
• Adaptational Jerkass: While she had two bad moments in the manga, in the anime, she is obnoxious, impatient, pushy, and short-tempered. Also overlaps with Anger Born of Worry. Even Dragon Ball Z Kai which usually cuts out the filler material has moments where she comes across as a very terrible mother and person in general. Fans who have just read the manga would be surprised. For instance, when they are all on a run because androids 16, 17, and 18 are looking for Goku, while he is suffering from the viral heart disease, she forces Gohan to study in the plane and every time he tries to talk to Future Trunks, she forcibly turns his face back to his book. In the manga, however, Gohan is allowed to chat with Trunks without any issue. Chi-Chi is not even sitting with Gohan. Similarly, she is more upset in the anime, when Goku makes Gohan fight Cell because she fears Gohan might end up becoming a Blood Knight like his father instead of studying, than the fact that Gohan's life was on the line. In the manga, however, she was angry because Goku had endangered his life. A fact that angered and horrified the other characters too.
• Aesop Amnesia: In Dragon Ball Super some of her Character Development from the Buu Arc is reversed. She's once again demanding of Goku, forcing him to get a job instead of train. Most of this is because the family needs money and she's about to have her first grandchild, making her high-strung again. She's still, however, quite lenient on Goten, allowing him to run off and play with Trunks with no issue. She is also quite chilled when Goku leaves to train again, even saying she wants to throw a party for his return.
• Age-Inappropriate Dress: Her outfit at age twelve is a blue bikini, with pink gloves and boots, and a green cape. In the edited dub, Goku even commented she should wear more clothes.
• Almighty Mom: Chi Chi along with providing the current page image with Bulma, personifies this trope and will viciously tell off of anyone who mistreats or endangers her children had been a long Running Gag in the series. It's jokingly stated she is the only one that Goku, the most powerful hero of Earth, is utterly terrified of. That is until she tried to do it to Majin Buu, at which point it stopped being funny.
• The Aloner: Before meeting Goku, she had been raised and had lived in complete seclusion from others.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Chi-Chi can be this at times. In the Bojack Unbound movie, she does a clumsy cheerleader routine, while cheering for Gohan to fight at the tournament, obviously embarrassing him. Also, in a filler episode called "He's Always Late", when she's dancing, Trunks remarks "Your mom's obviously as cool as your outfit, Goten." Goten then asks Gohan if he thinks her (Chi-Chi's) outfit is cool. Gohan couldn't give a straight answer, as he was embarrassed. Then again, in Chi-Chi's defense, she was raised in seclusion, so she probably lacks good social skills and probably doesn't know she's being embarrassing.
• Anger Born of Worry: The only reason she gets upset with Goku and Gohan fighting dangerous villains, or Goku dragging Gohan into dangerous battles, is because she cares for their well-being.
• Angst Coma: Went into a brief one when she heard that Gohan was (supposedly) killed during the Buu Saga.
• Anti-Hero: Chi-Chi, deeply cares about her family, but in spite of that she can be very controlling over them and can also be a jerk at times. On some occasions, she has even prioritized her family’s education and financial well being over the fate of the entire world and it’s only after she is called out on this that she loosens up.
• Anywhere but Their Lips: After their fight at the end of the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament in Dragon Ball, which ends with Goku proposing, Chi-Chi gives Goku a peck on the cheek. Though they're Happily Married by the time Z rolls around and have two kids by the series' end, this is the only kiss they share on-screen.
• Ascended Extra:
  • Chi-Chi first appeared in the original series as the Ox King's sweet little daughter, and was little more than a running gag; she wanted to marry Goku, while Goku failed to understand that marriage wasn't a type of food. Years later, an angry and considerably skilled Chi-Chi fought Goku in the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament. They end up together as husband and wife, where from Dragon Ball Z onwards, Chi-Chi goes from an Action Girl to a Mama Bear, while still getting to kick someone's ass occasionally.
  • The anime gives her a couple more appearances as a kid. The first is in the Red Ribbon Army Saga during Colonel Silver's hunt for a Dragon Ball and again in the Demon King Piccolo Saga when the titular villain sics the king's guard on her father as part of his plan to eliminate all renowned martial artists from the world. This made Goku's not recognizing her in her adult age a lot less believable, however, compared to their single prior meeting in the manga.
  • The Fire Mountain/Wedding Dress filler arc, which occurred after the 23rd World Tournament, has Chi-Chi and Goku working together on a quest to save her father by extinguishing the flames around their castle via the Bashō Fan. One of their stops involving collecting bee wax also displays Chi-Chi developing her affinity for domestic work.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Chi-Chi can be very overbearing towards Goku, especially when it comes to Gohan's studies and after she finds out she's going to be a grandmother. Still, it's clear that she loves him dearly. When he was sick with his heart virus, Chi-Chi was literally in tears as she took care of him and cried for joy when he got well. She is also accepting, eventually, of Goku leaving to train with Whis. She even planned to have a big feast for him when he returns home, and she rushes to his side after he's kicked out of the ring and knocked unconscious by Frost. She hugs him, saying that she was afraid that he had died. She also becomes greatly concerned when Goku loses his appetite and control of his energy because he's sick with his Delayed Onset Ki Syndrome and wants to feed him until he gets well.
• Badass Adorable: Chi-Chi as a child is this entirely by accident: cute as a button, but once chopped off a dinosaur's head and then recoiled in horror so hard she blew the head up with a laser beam.
• Badass Normal: Chi-Chi alongside Yajirobe is the only main human fighter in the series who doesn’t rely on Ki Manipulation (barring a Played for Laughs Kaioken-esque Battle Aura when she’s pissed off in the Garlic Junior Filler Arc). Yet as expanded material like the fourth movie shows, Chi-Chi is powerful enough to No-Sell Ki blast explosions and take down two alien soldiers (who could Beam Spam her Half-Human Hybrid Gohan son out of the sky) with a single kick. In the aforementioned Garlic Junior arc she’s presented as a genuine threat while Brainwashed and Crazy and when training her other son Goten Chi-Chi takes a kick from him when he accidentally goes Super Saiyan, considering even casual hits from a Super Saiyan can knock out Muggles and seriously injure someone like Frieza — this is extremely impressive. The only reason Chi-Chi doesn’t train to become even stronger is that she hates fighting.
• Badass Unintentional: Initially, Chi-Chi’s most stunning displays were all complete accidents, such as decapitating a T. Rex. Later on, she takes a level in badass and they became much more deliberate.
• Berserk Button: Don't call her an old lady. Maron almost had to learn this the hard way if Roshi and the others didn't restrain Chi-Chi from her.
• The Berserker: As Chi-Chi is focused on living a normal life and having a close family, she almost never engages in battle or employs her abilities, however when that family is in danger she will go into full attack-mode, such rages are feared deeply by every-one from Goku, to Gohan, to Piccolo.
• Best Her to Bed Her: While she was already in love with Goku and was eager to marry him, prior to their marriage, she insisted that he had to defeat her in combat before she would truly agree to it.
• Book Dumb: While it's not as obvious as Goku, she never actually had an education either and was raised in seclusion her whole childhood. No doubt this is a factor in why she pushes Gohan to obtain a proper education, in order for him to have more opportunities than she did.
• Both Sides Have a Point: Although she does have messed-up priorities and they often clash with Goku's, she does have a point about how Gohan shouldn't grow up being an idiot. In about 50% of her lectures, she is actually right.
  • It should be noted that Goku actually does agree with this 75% of the time, in part because he knows Gohan does enjoy studying. The last 25% is either because Gohan needs to train to help save the world or she is taking it a little bit too far.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: During the Garlic Jr. Saga, Chi-Chi becomes infected by the Black Water Mist and is able to hold her own against Gohan being absolutely ruthless in her fighting though Gohan likely held back to avoid seriously hurting his own mother who was not in her right mind due to the mist. She also becomes a devoted follower of Garlic Jr. and the Spice Boys whom she worships. Luckily, she gets returned to normal when Kami and Mr. Popo dispersed the Sacred Water on the Earth.
• Captain Obvious: In the Piccolo Jr. Saga, she screams "Goku's hurt!!" after Goku is shot through the shoulder by Piccolo's Breath Weapon. Really, Chi-Chi? The fact that Goku has a gaping hole in his shoulder and is coughing up his own blood and screaming in agony wasn't enough of an indicator?
• Character Development:
  • As a child, Chi-Chi was very shy and often thought about who she would marry. Despite being the daughter of the Ox-King, who had a reputation of being terrifying, she was shown to be of pure heart by being able to ride the Flying Nimbus. During fighting, she was often scared and defeated her opponents while crying. Her personality changed later on when she became an adult, especially after marrying Goku and having her son Gohan. She is often depicted as strong, shrewish, fiery, overbearing, misunderstood, nagging, temperamental, overprotective, controlling, tough and fundamentally well-meaning woman, with a feisty and more tomboyish personality.
  • She is notable for emphasizing Gohan's "academic achievement" rather than his fighting ability, as she was hesitant for Gohan to repeat Goku's habits of getting into danger, and she also did not want Gohan to grow up without proper education as Goku had. Therefore, she often became frustrated when Goku decides to take Gohan to fights. It takes all the way until the World Martial Arts Tournament and Intergalactic World Tournament for Chi Chi to openly admit that she is proud of her son for fighting.
  • In some cases, her insistence that Gohan study could also impact her common sense, as shown by her trying to prevent Gohan from aiding Goku when the latter was being attacked by a pair of assassins in order for him to finish his studies, causing Gohan to sternly ask her which between his studies or Goku's life mattered more, shocking her enough to let him go fight them. By the Androids Saga, Chi-Chi has grown more accepting of Gohan fighting, as she allows him to train because of the androids and attend the Cell Games, even though she did not want him to participate. She later taught Goten martial arts herself out of a desire to prevent him from being incapable of defending himself whenever needed, just like her father did with her and showed extreme strictness on it equal to when she was on Gohan about his education. Chi-Chi also allowed Gohan (and Goten) to participate in the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament.
  • Chi-Chi had a somewhat negative opinion of Super Saiyans as she seems to associate the transformation with delinquency due to its hair color. Though she retains her initial negative opinion of the Super Saiyan form, she does at least come to understand how the transformation works.
  • Eventually, she manages to control her anger better whenever it comes to Goku disobeying her and training. Though she loves Goku, she was often frustrated by his tendency to focus most of his time on martial arts training instead of contributing to their family financially, sometimes even scaring and threatening him into working on their family’s radish farm to earn a living rather than train to protect the planet. After the birth of her granddaughter Pan, Chi-Chi becomes adamant that Pan is raised as a gentle Girly Girl with a calm and normal life so that she will not end up as another “battle-loving idiot”. She also wants Goku to be a good grandfather and not just fight all the time; going as far as furiously hunting him down to forbid him from leaving with Whis to train under him alongside Vegeta so he can grow stronger to protect the Earth, attempting to scare him into submitting to her. However unlike the last times, she does not get mad after Goku blatantly disobeys her and leaves with Whis to go train, finally accepting that Goku means well.
• Character Exaggeration: The anime makes Chi-Chi more of a bossy, short-tempered Education Mama compared to the manga, to the point where she literally considers Gohan's schooling more important than saving the world.
• Characterization Marches On: As part of her growing up. She started off as a Daddy's Girl and was just as sheltered and naïve as Goku. Whoever thought she'd turn out to be an overprotective Almighty Mom with anger management issues.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Chi-Chi has superhuman strength, speed, and agility on the level of a superhuman and the only explanation that’s been given for it, is that she’s trained a lot.
• Chekhov's Gunman: She first appeared as a minor character who had a crush on Goku, and in the manga after her first appearance she was never seen nor mentioned again until the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament twelve volumes later where she's reunited with Goku and they wind up getting engaged. The anime screwed this up however by having her appear every now and then in a couple filler episodes.
• Chickification: She might have retired from fighting to being a housewife for Goku, but her fiery personality and temper haven’t changed one bit, and even the most powerful of the Z fighters are scared of angering her, especially her husband Goku.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Chi-Chi and Goku have this kind of relationship. Goku and Chi-Chi met during one of his adventures, and Chi-Chi had been pining after Goku ever since, even getting a Childhood Marriage Promise from him. However Goku, being Goku, didn't know what marriage or romantic love was for most of the first half of the series until she explained it to him when they met up again as adults, after which he returned her feelings. The two remaining married for the rest of the series.
• Childhood Marriage Promise: Chi-Chi and Goku first meet as children, and Goku promises to marry her, thinking marriage is a kind of food. He says so when an angry and all grown-up Chi-Chi brings it up in the Tenkaichi Budokai; Chi-Chi is saddened upon realizing that she had been sort-of waiting in vain... but Goku then adds that he doesn't want her to be sad and that he takes his promises seriously, so he officially asks her to marry him right there.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: She comes off as this at times since Goku can be a fight-obsessed idiot to the point of ignoring his family and other responsibilities. She forces him to work to support his family instead of mooching off of Ox-King and Mr. Satan and training all the time.
• Control Freak: While her heart is in the right place, it doesn’t change the fact that, Chi-Chi is an abrasive and very controlling woman both towards her husband and to her children.
• Covert Pervert: Despite being very conservative, Chi-Chi does have her moments that indicate she's got a perverted mind. Such as assuming that Gohan and Videl's training would end up with Videl attempting something naughty. Also, due to how events line up, Chi-Chi conceived Goten with Goku when Goku was constantly in his Super Saiyan state.
• Crazy-Prepared: For Gohan at least. These quotes basically explain it:
  Krillin: So what's with all this stuff?
  Chi-Chi: Here's his underwear, toothbrush, coloring book, and sleep mask. And here are some snacks for the trip and his medicine. And we have a hairdryer, full dinner set with salad and dinner forks. Multi-
  Krillin: Yeah, I think we get the picture.
• Cry into Chest: Does this when Goku was about to return to the Otherworld after his day was up. Did it again when Goku informed everyone that he wasn't dead anymore and could return home with his family.
• Cute Bruiser: Tomboyish? Check. Can kick serious ass? Check.
• Daddy's Girl: To the Ox-King, though he admits at one point that he might have spoiled her during his time as a villain.
• Demoted to Extra: Chi-Chi's role as a kid was limited, but as an adult, she got to fight in a world tournament, and appeared very prominently in DBZ as the overbearing and temperamental mother. Around the time the Buu arc got rolling, her role got a little smaller, and by the time DBGT came rolling around, she only made a few appearances. Overall, Chi-Chi still keeps her physical strength from the first series but has given up fighting in favor of being a housewife and overprotective parent. Though, with what goes on in this series, it's kinda hard to blame her.
  • Lampshaded in Kai:
    Roshi: That little firecracker wife turned out to be a real school mom, did she?
• Determinator: When she has goals involving her sons, she never gives up, even when she's obviously outclassed.
• Didn't Think This Through: When Chi-Chi slapped Majin Buu for supposedly killing Gohan, she never thought of the consequences of doing so. It ends as well as you'd expect.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She slaps Super Buu in the face because she thought he killed Gohan!!!...and promptly gets killed for it afterward. Regardless, very admirable. It also counts for if she ever scolds Goku after he becomes a god in Battle of Gods.
• Divine Date: Post-Battle of Gods, when her husband, Goku, becomes a Physical God.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: After smacking Majin Buu for killing her son (he's really alive, but she didn't know), the guy turns her into an egg and smashes her! She probably shouldn't have confronted him, but still, dick move!
• Doting Parent: Gohan. Goten. Compare and contrast.
• Doting Grandparent: She's very fond of her granddaughter Pan.
• The Dreaded: Her fiery temper manages to make her intimidating to characters who are far more powerful than she. Even Goku gets scared when she's angry. and Piccolo, but that was a filler episode.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: This is due to her being an obvious parody of the Asian mother. She comes off as this education-wise towards Gohan.
• Drives Like Crazy: As shown in filler episodes, and this also may be the reason why she made Goku take a driving test for a license.
• Dub Name Change:
  • She's known as Milk in Latin America, as "chi-chi" is a vulgar slang term for breasts in Latin American Spanish, akin to "tits".^note Ironically, "chichi" means "boobs" in Japanese too.
  • Averted in Spain, where Chi-Chi still maintains the original name, despite being the word used by kids for the female external genitalia.
• Easily Forgiven: This is best displayed in Super. When Goku leaves to go train under Whis, she's at first furious and exasperated, but she quickly cheers up, mentioning that it will just start all over again. Judging by this, it's easy to deduce that she wouldn't have it any other way.
• Education Mama: She acts like this towards Gohan, so he could avoid the violent lifestyle of his dad. When Goten was born though, she switched from academics back to martial arts, though Super shows she still has Goten's education in mind (though to a much less gung-ho degree than she was with Gohan's). This trait is more exaggerated in the anime compared to the manga, where she's still strict about Gohan's education but not the point that she considers it more important than saving the world.
• Enraged by Idiocy: With Goku's. A good example will be in a movie when she gets angry with him because he was acting like an idiot when she was trying to drill him for an interview.
• Expy:
  • Chi-Chi is Composite Character duplicate of both Princess Iron Fan and Red Boy, the respective wife and son of the Ox-King from Journey to the West. Where Red Boy and Wukong were sworn brothers, she and Goku got married.
  • Her personality and appearance, in adult form, are based on Mrs. Tsun, a character from Doctor Slump.
• Family Theme Naming: Chi-Chi (milk/breast) because her father is the "Ox-King." Their family is a reference to cows.
• Fatal Flaw: Chi-Chi's wrath and impatience are this. Because of her wrath and impatience, it causes her to think irrationally and to make the worst decisions. Her (albeit understandable) anger even caused her to get turned into an egg and killed by Majin Buu.
• Fearless Fool: One key flaw about Chi-Chi is that she's too impulsive. She usually tries to charge into battles to save her sons, without thinking of the possible consequences of her actions (with the other characters having to hold her back). She plays this straight when she walks up to Majin Buu, the scourge of the universe, and slaps him in the face for killing Gohan. She gets turned into an egg and killed as a response.
• Faux Horrific: In the Cell Arc, when Chi-Chi sees Gohan in Super Saiyan form for the first time, she freaks out about his hair color. This is more a case of values dissonance; blond hair is seen as a sign of being a delinquent in Japan.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Chi-Chi is regarded as being a very good chef and she is a Girly Bruiser.
• Foil: To Bulma, in numerous respects. Chi-Chi got married early and became a mother very soon, whereas Bulma had Trunks (by accident) when she was well in her thirties, and wasn't married. Chi-Chi is an Education Mama who puts a lot of pressure on her son Gohan to succeed, while Bulma spoiled Trunks. Chi-Chi dresses more traditionally, while Bulma often wears revealing clothing. Chi-Chi excels at cooking and housekeeping, while Bulma’s talent lies in her genius for science.
• Forgotten First Meeting: By the time she and Goku meet again at the Tenkaichi Budokai, he has forgotten about her and their promise and doesn't even recognize her. Chi-Chi didn't take it well.
• Freudian Excuse: It is implied that Chi-Chi became overprotective and overbearing towards Gohan because the Ox-King never seemed to have made any effort to get her an education, given how she was raised in seclusion like Goku.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Chi-Chi is a downplayed example of this. While the other characters don't hate Chi-Chi and they do consider her a good friend of theirs, they don't seem to enjoy her company due to her anger issues. On the flip side, they do understand that she does mean well and most of her freak-outs are due to her conern for her child Gohan being in dangerous situations.
• Frying Pan of Doom: She uses this in Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! to Master Roshi when he acts like... well, Master Roshi.
• Girly Bruiser: She is a skilled martial artist but she also enjoys being a housewife and she likes wearing makeup.
• Gold Digger: An unusual case - while she herself is happy to marry the dirt-poor Goku, she is very interested in the money that her son's girlfriend was born into. She is not very subtle about this.
  Chi-Chi: Videl comes from a very wealthy family. She's a perfect match for Gohan!
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Big time. Her temper has caused almost every character she confronted to fear her.^note Except Super Buu...
• Happily Married: To Goku. Sure, despite the fact that Goku is an Idiot Hero/lover of fights and Chi-Chi's a hardcore Education Mama, they prove, time and time again, that they truly love each other. Hell, when Goku dies, Chi-Chi simply doesn't bother remarrying.
• Hereditary Wedding Dress: The last few episodes of the Dragon Ball anime are about Goku and Chi-Chi preparing for their wedding. The wedding dress that Chi-Chi wears for the ceremony has been passed down for generations, with it last being worn when her father, the Ox-King, and her mother got married.
• Hime Cut: While it's difficult to tell after she becomes a mother, since she usually has her hair done up in a bun, on the rare occasions it's loose, she does have the blunt-cut even bangs, the two long forelocks reaching just below her shoulders, and the rest of her hair is long and straight. After her husband's death in the Cell Saga, once she's hit her thirties and her oldest child is in his mid-teens, she ditches the bangs and forelocks, and just pulls it all back into a more severe bun.
• Horrible Judge of Character: In the anime, she hires Mr. Shu to tutor Gohan, and is absolutely shocked to discover that Mr. Shu is a Sadist Teacher who beats his students with a whip and loves insulting Goku right to Gohan's face. Once she finds out, however, she's outraged and tosses him out the window.
• Hot-Blooded: As a teenager, she had quite the temper. Less so as an adult.
• Housewife: Chi Chi became this after she was Overshadowed by Awesome. When not cooking for her husband and sons, she's scolding Goku for always leaving to save the world and Gohan for not studying (because he too is off to save the world).
• Hypocrite Has a Point: Despite her Parental Hypocrisy, Chi-Chi is right to not want Gohan to fight for safety-related reasons. Chi-Chi is an Education Mama towards Gohan, insisting he study and not fight, despite the fact that she herself was a fighter as a child. However, other characters like Krillin and Bulma actually agree with her throughout the series about how children (Gohan, Goten, and Trunks) shouldn't even be fighting and engaging in dangerous activities in the first place. It also helps that Gohan was much younger than Chi-Chi was when he started fighting. Gohan was 4 while Chi-Chi was 12.
• Idiot Ball: She's a rational-minded but sometimes she's doing incredibly stupid things and have Skewed Priorities. For example, see Horrible Judge of Character.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Like her husband and their sons, Chi-Chi's heart is pure even at her worst. This allows her to ride the Flying Nimbus ever since she was a child, and she is still shown being able to ride it immediately following the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament.
• Interspecies Romance: With Goku, a Saiyan, while she is a human woman. (Though it wasn't yet known that Goku was an alien when they got married.)
• It's All My Fault: When she learns that Goku died in the Cell Games, she was very distraught and blamed herself for arguing with him over fighting, particularly over their then-only son taking part. This was profound enough to change her stance on martial arts almost completely when Goten is born.
• Jerkass Ball: She grab it sometimes. For example, see Out-of-Character Moment and No Sympathy.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the first few seasons of Dragon Ball Z. Chi-Chi may seem hot-tempered, abrasive, and a bit selfish, but at the end of the day, she loves her family very much and tries to do what's best for them. This does diminish in the Buu Saga when she mellows out and becomes a lot nicer.
• Large Ham: Chi-Chi has a reputation for being very loud and having a very overbearing personality.
• Let Me at Him!: Normally, when it involves her sons, Chi-Chi usually tries charging into battles to protect them. The Ox-King and the others always have to hold her back.
• Love at First Sight: Towards Goku. She didn't even know him for a day and wanted to marry him.
• Love Martyr: To Goku. She puts up with a lot given that Goku is sometimes childish, somewhat ignorant of human emotions, and often runs off to fight the threat-of-the-week. She still loves him unconditionally and never even considered remarrying either time that he died, even when it seemed like he was gone for good.
• Made of Iron: Overlaps with Iron Butt Monkey. Chi-Chi's one of the few fighters in the series who doesn't utilize Ki energy but much like Yajirobe has taken hits and attacks that would've killed or hospitalized the likes of Mr Satan or Videl. In Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, she runs through a Ki explosion fired by of Slug's soldiers no problem and later in the Buu Saga while training Goten she gets kicked flying into a tree by Goten when he accidentally became Super Saiyan Chi-Chi recovers quickly and is more upset than hurt. Keep in mind, grown men got KO-ed by SSJ Gohan's strikes and Frieza himself got beaten bloody by even Goku's casual love taps while he was Super Saiyan, making Chi-Chi's fortitude all the more impressive.
• Mama Bear: Chi-Chi might be overshadowed, but Goku, Krillin, Piccolo, and pretty much all of the main Z-Fighters are terrified of her, especially when anything involving her children is going on:
  • Chi-Chi is odd in that she's both taken a level in badass and was Overshadowed by Awesome alongside half the cast. Her Victorious Childhood Friend and husband has been dead for seven years, she's been led to believe that her older son has followed, and Chi-Chi is absolutely out of her mind with grief. While her father is able to hold her back the first time she tries to attack him, eventually she does walk right up to Super Buu, slaps him, and demands he bring Gohan back. Buu stares at her, turns her into an egg, and promptly crushes her. Worst of all, her seven-year-old son was watching the entire time.
  • In a filler episode just before the Trunks saga, Chi-Chi gets to play the trope straight. She hires a private tutor for Gohan by the name of Mr. Shu, unaware that he's a cruel Sadist Teacher who repeatedly kicks the dog by calling Goku worthless as a father and makes the poor kid bleed. Once she found out, it did not end well for Shu.
  • Similarly in Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone Chi-Chi initially protects Gohan against Garlic Junior's Quirky Mini Boss Squad, even pulling her son behind her and taking off the apron, before attacking Ginger.
  • In Lord Slug she beats off two of Slug's goons that were about to pounce Gohan (though she ends up being pounced herself).
• Master-Apprentice Chain: Yes, even she has one since she personally trained Goten and she was trained by her father who was a student of Master Roshi: Mutaito > Master Roshi > Ox-King > Chi-Chi > Goten
• Memetic Badass: An In-Universe example.
  Master Roshi: I know why! Because he's scared, that's why! Of the one more powerful than a Super Saiyan...his wife! (Hears Chi-Chi growl "What!?" and now sees her with a sword)
• Misplaced Retribution: She blamed Goku for Gohan's injuries after their fight with Vegeta.
• Missing Mom: We never see her mother, only in a picture with Chi-Chi as an infant, where she is The Faceless, as this is an anime-only addition. It turns out the poor woman got sick when she was really little and quietly passed away. This is speculated to be why she's the apple of Ox Satan's eye and why she insists on being super present in her sons' lives.
• Modest Royalty: By the Z period, you could be forgiven for forgetting (or, if you only read or watched DBZ, never realizing) that she's royalty at all.
• Morality Pet: It is hinted that she is this to the Ox-King when he was still evil.
• Ms. Fanservice: Chi-Chi has been occasionally exploited over the years especially her first outfit despite her age, but when she grows up Chi-Chi is given a less revealing appearance aside from one Bathtub Scene in Filler. Most people forget Chi-Chi can be very attractive when she wants and isn't just the annoying House Wife that some make her out to be. The outfit she wore at the Dance Party Ending has been noted by fans (even her detractors) to be pretty damn hot.
• Ms. Vice Girl: She encourages Gohan and Videl's relationship when she finds out Videl is rich.
• My Beloved Smother:
  • Chi-Chi has a rather skewed sense of priorities when it comes to choosing between the human race's continued survival and her son's studies (something that Gohan even Lampshades in Super Android 13! when, after Chi-Chi tried to stop Gohan from going after the androids due to homework, he asks her which she values more, his studies, or Goku's survival against the Androids, which shocked Chi-Chi with this revelation enough for her to allow Gohan to go).
  • She was also opposed to Videl's apparent interest in Gohan... until she discovered how much money Videl has.
  • By the time Goten is born however, Chi-Chi has mellowed out a bit. She has no problem with Goten training to fight or entering tournaments. In fact, she is the one who even initiates Goten's training.
• No Badass to His Valet: She is married to one of the most powerful and feared beings in the universe. Doesn't stop her from yelling at Goku and forcing him to get a job. Several characters, including her son, call her the real powerhouse in the universe. She also orders around several other powerful characters like Krillin, Piccolo, and her sons, not caring that all of them can easily break her in half. The only person she never yells at is Vegeta and that's mostly because her interactions with him are limited.
• No Indoor Voice: Mostly before the Buu Saga in the show, because she's known for being very loud. She's gotten moderately better than she was as a child, but still shows that she can ramp it up when necessary.
• No-Sell: Chi Chi of all people manages to do this to Ki blast explosions before taking down two alien soldiers.
• No Social Skills: Like Goku, she was raised in seclusion as a child.
• No Sympathy: Only once. She was so upset at Gohan being at the battle against Vegeta and Nappa that she showed no concern whatsoever for Goku, who by the time the fight was over, didn't have a single unbroken bone in his body. Also an Out-of-Character Moment.
• No Sympathy for Grudgeholders: This is how Chi-Chi is portrayed regarding Piccolo. She's portrayed as an asshole when she shows her open contempt for him (mostly filler scenes). This is due to his past actions as a demon king. It also helps that she even witnessed Piccolo try to kill her husband (then fiancee). He even succeeded in doing so in the Saiyan Saga (granted Goku was doing a Heroic Sacrifice, but still). Piccolo also kidnapped her son Gohan for a whole year, and he was the reason Gohan almost got killed in the Vegeta fight (that she irrationally blamed Goku for). This does diminish in the Buu Arc when she's shown to respect Piccolo more.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Unlike her usual reaction to Goku fighting, after hearing that Goku Black killed an alternate version of her and Goten and that her Goku lost twice is to ask Goku why he hasn't killed him yet and that he should be ashamed for losing twice before telling him to go and finish the job.
  • Chi-Chi's frantic behavior when Goku himself starts acting out of character when he was ill and when Hit was hunting him down is very unusual for her.
  • The only person on Earth who can be more protective of her children and grandchild than she is Piccolo. His intensity and fury when Gohan or Pan are involved is the only thing terrifying enough to scare her into submission, something even Super Buu couldn't do (and he killed her).
• Oh, Crap!: Chi-Chi gets this expression shortly after she slapped Super Buu in the face before she was turned into an egg and killed.
• One Head Taller: Originally, she was taller than Goku but when they became adults, she became this.
• Only One Name: Although she is called "Son Chi-Chi" after she marries Goku, we never hear a last name for her.
• Only Sane by Comparison: Chi-chi is portrayed as very hysterical and irrational due to her Skewed Priorities and her Education Mama tendencies. However, she is the main one who understandably points out how Gohan is too young to be fighting and that he shouldn't be too focused on saving the world as a little boy.
• Out-of-Character Moment:
  • In a filler scene when she ends up getting mad at her dad and throws a destructive tantrum. Chi-Chi is usually never like that towards her father at all.
  • Only once, she was so upset at Gohan being at the battle against Vegeta and Nappa that she showed no concern whatsoever for Goku, who by the time the fight was over, didn't have a single unbroken bone in his body.
  • In Bojack Unbound, Chi-Chi is so worried about Gohan studying all day that she allows Gohan to participate in the tournament.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Chi-Chi still has unusual origins and is ridiculously strong and powerful by human standards, but anyone who isn't at least part Saiyan will eventually be exponentially outstripped and never able to catch up again, either because Goku is just that freakishly talented (as shown in the page image for the tropes), or later because Saiyans are that good and devoted to fighting.
• Parental Hypocrisy:
  • Chi-Chi comes off as this towards Gohan, forbidding him from fighting despite her fighting herself when she was a teenager. This is understandable, as even other characters like Krillin and Bulma lampshaded throughout the series about how children (Gohan, Goten, and Trunks) shouldn't even be fighting and engaging in dangerous activities in the first place. It also helps that Chi-Chi started fighting when she was 12, in contrast to Gohan who started fighting when he was 4.
  • Unfortunately she's at it again with her granddaughter Pan, stubbornly arguing that she wants Pan to grow up lady-like and not a martial arts freak like the rest of the family. Yet she says this while snatching Pan away from Gohan and Mr. Satan and effortlessly leaping backward across the room in a single bound onto a piece of furniture. She gets over this once Videl sets her straight.
• Parenting the Husband:
  • Chi-Chi treats her husband Son Goku very much like this. However, it could be subverted, as the fact that Goku is a phenomenally powerful alien Martial Artist makes this relationship look more equitable than most other examples — Chi-Chi "takes care" of Goku at home, Goku "takes care of her in return"... by saving the world on a regular basis. To say nothing of when Goku actually does get de-aged to a child. Also Goku's home life isn't that explored in the story, what with him either dying or away fighting aliens, so Chi-Chi probably doesn't count on him doing chores around the house.
  • Dragon Ball Super explores their homelife a little, with Chi-Chi forcing Goku to get a job as a farmer partly to set a good example for their son Goten and partly so they stop sponging off her father's money. In the first episode Mister Satan gives Goku a ludicrous amount of money as a reward for defeating Majin Buu, which convinces Chi-Chi to let him dump his job and go back to training. However, later on she lies about having blown through the reward money in order to get Goku to go back to farming.
• Parents as People: Chi-Chi loves her son Gohan, but she has her issues with raising him. While she means well with her Education Mama approach (due to her wanting Gohan to be an educated productive member of society), she takes it too far sometimes and can be needlessly overbearing towards him. She is a much better parent towards Goten in the Buu Arc. While she becomes an Education Mama towards Goten in Super, she isn't as obsessive as it with him as she was with Gohan.
• Pink Means Feminine: Chi-Chi childhood outfit qualified for this trope along with True Blue Femininity. Her boots, gloves, and helmet are pink.
• Pretty Princess Powerhouse: People often forget Chi-Chi is a princess that can kick almost any human's ass. She's also the one person that can actually control Goku.
• Prim and Proper Bun: Chi-Chi wears a high bun throughout the Boo Saga and Dragon Ball Super. While she has softened up from her Education Mama attitude during the Time Skip between the Cell Saga and Boo Saga, she returns to her old mentality again after the Boo Saga ends. The hairstyle mostly serves to make Chi-Chi look older after the Time Skip (while Bulma, ironically, looks younger than before despite being four years older than her), which becomes obvious when she has her hair down in Super.
• Principles Zealot: One of Chi-Chi's flaws is that she seems so caught up in wanting the best for her family that she fails to see the big picture. Her principles include believing that education and having a good source of income is so important to the point that she seems so narrow-minded. She means well, but her delving on this trope doesn't solve anything (while not wise, some of her viewpoints come off as justified since Heroism Won't Pay the Bills in their world).
• Properly Paranoid: Gohan may be a Half-Saiyan, but Chi-Chi was not okay with Gohan leaving to go to Namek for two months. While Chi-Chi may be unreasonable sometimes, she was rightfully paranoid with Gohan going to a potentially dangerous planet and leaving her alone for two months (she had not seen him for a whole year) to revive Piccolo, the same guy who blasted a hole through Goku and killed her husband in the Saiyan arc. And who followed that up by kidnapping Gohan to train him to fight against Vegeta and Nappa. She displays this trope throughout the series when Gohan goes up against the Androids and Cell, fearing for Gohan's health and well-being when he's fighting bad guys.
• Puppy Love: Chi-Chi and Goku were very sweet together as kids in Dragon Ball though Goku misunderstood the Childhood Marriage Promise that Chi-Chi made him keep which caused some grief when they met again as teenagers. The anime expanded this with Filler of Goku and Chi-Chi meeting again when they were young and having an adorable fistfight together.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She's black-haired and pale-skinned, and when she reappears during the Piccolo Jr. Saga, both Krillin and Yamcha openly comment on how gorgeous she is.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red oni to Bulma’s blue oni. Chi-Chi is nagging, controlling and has No Indoor Voice, Bulma is more happy and easy going. This is color coded to some degree as well. Chi-Chi’s Played for Laughs Battle Aura is red, while Bulma has blue hair.
• Refusal of the Call: Like Goku, Chi-Chi has had a background in martial arts. Her father was a champion who trained with Master Roshi. When battling during the 23rd World Martial Tournament, her power level is at 130 but grows to be 300 during the Saiyan Saga. These levels may seem like a small amount compared to the Z-Fighters, who are in the thousands, but it still makes Chi-Chi the most powerful human female in the series^note The farmer Raditz killed had a power level of 5, despite having one of the most physically demanding jobs out there. Chi-Chi can wield some ki attacks even though she never learned how to fly. With her powerful abilities more often displayed in her video game appearances, Chi-Chi doesn't do more to help the Z-Fighters in battle. Unlike Goku, she believes she has a higher duty as a housewife instead of a fighter.
• Retired Badass: She chose to become an Education Mama when she had Gohan.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: In one of the last episodes of Z, "He's Always Late," she is shown in more casual clothes than her usual matronly attire. She gets quite some compliments about how good she looks.
• She Is All Grown Up: In the last part of the original series, Goku didn't notice that the Tsundere he was fighting against in the Tenkaichi Budokai quarterfinals was the girl he agreed to marry when they were kids (she entered the tournament anonymously), and he didn't find out until Chi-Chi revealed herself. ("But-but-but are you the same little Chichi I met so long ago?!" "Hey, of course I am!") Basically, she got tired of waiting for him and decided to approach him more on his terms...and this time it stuck.
• Shipper on Deck: Chi-Chi initially found Videl irritating and told her off for chasing her son Gohan. Then Chi-Chi learned how wealthy Videl was and immediately started talking about marriage leading to a glorious Spit Take from Gohan. In Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn Chi-Chi says Videl has the makings of a great wife making Videl blush and drop the dishes.
• Shout-Out: Her classic helmet with the throwable blades and lasers is a clear one Ultraseven, whose Eye Slugger and Emerium Beam are almost identical. Given Toriyama's affinity for the Ultra Series this is almost certainly intentional.
• Silver Vixen: By the end of the original manga/end of Z anime, Chi-Chi still looks good after Pan is born. It's more obvious when Chi-Chi doesn't do her hair up in a bun.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Chichi has been Goku-sexual since day one, and she's succeeded in marrying him and having two kids. She didn’t remarry while he was dead for seven years. The only other person she's attracted to was Yamcha.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She falls in love and marries Goku, who is pure of heart and has saved the Earth on more than one occasion.
• Skewed Priorities: She's sometimes convinced that Gohan's education is more important than saving the world. She doesn't really take into consideration that the world needs to be saved so Gohan can have an education she wants him to have. In Super Android 13!, Gohan asks her if his education matters more to her than her husband's life when she tries to stop him from helping out, which shocks Chi-Chi enough that she lets him go.
  • A more positive example is when she learns an alternate version of Zamasu has killed her and Goten, she totally ignores her own demise and is more concerned about Goten's well being.
• Slapstick: Chi-Chi, gets her fair share of Amusing Injuries towards her, especially around Goku. Since she is not as strong as Goku yet strong enough to take physical harm; she has been slapped by Goku through the side of their house, through several boulders and a tree, and when he has healed from his heart disease and she went out to greet him, he accidentally threw her high into the air.
• Stacy's Mom: She still looks good even after visibly aging. For example in the OVA, Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!, Master Roshi acts perverted to her and stares at her boobs. Cue Frying Pan of Doom from her to the Dirty Old Man.
• Stalker with a Crush: Towards Goku in Dragon Ball. She entered the Tenkaichi Budokai in order to get him to marry her. When Chi-Chi was visibly heartbroken when she felt his promise wasn't genuine, Goku then proposed to her for real.
• Stern Teacher: She was one for Gohan before he enrolled in high school, as he was home-schooled most of his life after all.
• Stripperiffic: Chi-Chi is a disturbingly played straight example of this, considering she is only *12 years* old. Though when she gets older she changes to more modest clothing like a Kung fu outfit. *She's implied to be 12 as she's Goku's love interest, though this is never confirmed.
• Supreme Chef: Chi-Chi is known to be a good cook by other characters and has received a lot of comments about how good it is. This is shown best in a filler episode when she threatens to stop cooking meals for Goku and Piccolo if they didn't go to driving school. Also, Videl commented on her rice and even asked for the recipe, not to mention that Chi-Chi cooks better than any of Mr. Satan's cooks.
• Teen Pregnancy: Downplayed. She was 19 years old when Gohan was born.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Chi-Chi and Bulma play with this trope. In the middle of the series, after Lunch has been chucked out, Bulma is the adventurous wrench wench while Chi-Chi is mostly concerned with being a good wife and mother. Later on in the series, Bulma settles down and doesn't change much otherwise, but Chi-Chi has relaxed a lot and is much more comfortable with reminding everyone that she's an extremely skilled martial artist in her own right. Videl is a straight out Tomboy to both of them. She prefers a boyish appearance and training in martial arts. Android 18 would fall in the middle as she was initially a rebellious teenager who never wore dresses, yet shops and dresses nice. This makes Bulma a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak and Chi-Chi a Girly Bruiser with Videl as the Tomboy who gets a Girliness Upgrade and 18 as a Tomboy with a Girly Streak.
• Too Dumb to Live: In the Buu Arc, when she slapped Super Buu for killing Gohan while yelling at him for killing her oldest son (who was leagues more powerful than her by dint of being a Super Saiyan 2). While this was a perfectly understandable Mama Bear reaction, she still got promptly transformed into an egg and crushed to death for her stupidity. To add to the stupidity, Piccolo specifically warned her, and everyone else on the Lookout, not to provoke Buu or else they'd die.
• Took a Level in Badass: When she was first introduced, she was a Badass Unintentional who unintentionally killed a T. rex (keyword being unintentionally). After She Is All Grown Up, she was an even match for Goku (who, by that point, has taken down an army and the resident Satanic Archetype, and rivals Earth's god in power). Taken further when she's training Goten, wherein she (probably middle-aged at that point) not only was an even match for someone who was close to going Super Saiyan but survived a blow from him when he actually went Super Saiyan (which is like an ant surviving getting run over by a speeding truck).
• Took a Level in Kindness: Before the Buu Saga, Chi-Chi was an overbearing mother and a hard person to be around for most of Z. After the events of the Cell Saga, she does not get upset as much and she's less harsh on Goten than she was on Gohan, allowing him to play and not study all the time. She even trained Goten in martial arts and allowed Gohan to skip school so he could get ready to enter the World Martial Arts Tournament. Part of this was because she took Goku's death very hard, and decided to ease up on them in honor of him.
• Town Girls: In Dragon Ball Z, Chi-Chi is the strong and able fighting housewife neither, to Videl’s crimefighting butch, and Bulma’s stylish non-combatant femme.
• True Blue Femininity: Her outfit as a child qualified for both this and Pink Means Feminine. She also wears a blue dress when she reappears All Grown Up at the 23rd Budokai.
• Tsundere: Originally, Chi Chi is more the Sweet type, prim and proper while having a massive crush on Goku. She would only lash out at Goku when he was rude or did something stupid. After Dragon Ball Z rolls around though, she becomes more Harsh. She then went back to her more sweet personality after the Cell Games.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Currently provides the image for the trope. Chi-Chi, after the aptly named Ox-King produces a photo of her, the only response anyone has to offer is, "Whoa. She certainly doesn't take after you."
• Undying Loyalty: Chi-Chi constantly shows how much she cares for her husband and sons. Despite berating Goku's antics and actions frequently, she still stays with him. Goku died twice over the course of Dragon Ball Z and after the first time, disappeared without a trace for a long period of time. After dying again, he chose to stay dead and left Chi-Chi to raise Gohan (and then Goten) herself. Then later on, he even decides to leave her again to go train Uub and when he got turned back into a child, he was willing to stay that way. Yet, in spite of all that, Chi-Chi remained his wife, not just in legal terms, but also in emotional terms.
• Uptown Girl: For Goku because she's a princess. Goku was a practitioner of martial arts who lived in the mountains and he made the promise to marry Chichi, the daughter of the Ox-King, who had a castle full of treasures. However, the difference in social status was not an impediment because Chichi's father and Goku's grandfather were friends before, and Goku had saved the earth several times.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Chi-Chi doesn't take too kindly to it when Mr. Shu dares to insult Goku in front of her and Gohan.
  • She was also very angry when Frost knocked Goku out and it seems that she holds a grudge, when Hit was hired by someone she theorizes that it must be "that evil Frost guy".
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Bulma. They usually get into arguments involving their husbands or sons, but they show they care for each other.
• Was Too Hard on Him: Seems to feel this way about how she raised Gohan given that she is not as strict with Goten.
• Weak, but Skilled: When training Goten, she was more than a match for her much more powerful son despite not knowing squat about ki control.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Before Goku first went to train with Whis, she has him in an armlock when she catches him.
• Wet Blanket Wife:
  • She wanted Gohan to be a scholar and learn to resolve issues peacefully, despite the dangers she and Goku faced in the past (though since this is before the Saiyans arrive, Goku was still pretty much World's Strongest Man so she probably didn't have much to worry about at first.) She remains against all the danger her husband and son go through but learns to adapt. After the seven-year Time Skip, she mellows out a bit with their second son, Goten (to the point that she actually trained him) and she really can't yell at Goku anymore because he's already dead. In fact, Gohan theorizes that Chi-Chi feels guilt over this behavior now that Goku's gone and that she believes might have an indirect effect on his death.
  • In Super, Chi-Chi is initially dead set against Goku training, demanding that he gets a job and work as a human, despite having barely survived his encounter with Beerus. It's at least partly her desire to have Goku be someone respectable to their granddaughter Pan. Of course, once Goku does bail out to train some more, Chi-Chi just calmly accepts it and thinks about throwing a party for when he comes back.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Chi-Chi has good intentions for her family, but the way she goes at it tends to be problematic.
• Women Prefer Strong Men: Her first love interest was Yamcha who is strong in his own right, and she eventually married Goku, who is well on his way to becoming the World's Strongest Man.
• World's Strongest Woman: She is the strongest woman on the planet untrained in ki control, as pointed out by the other characters, including her youngest son, Goten.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • She gets called out by Yajirobe for only showing concern for Gohan and not for Goku at the end of the Saiyan Saga.
  • Chi-Chi also gets called out by her father in the Cell Arc (it's filler) for getting upset with Goku for allowing Gohan to fight Cell.
  • She herself regularly dishes these out to Goku when it comes to wanting to take Gohan to fight dangerous battles. However, considering how the writing is on the show, it doesn't work. Some of what undermines her argument are that Goku may train Gohan for battle, but until the Cell Games (in which Goku made sure Gohan surpassed him) he never actually put him in a live battle. The times that it happened, Saiyan and Freeza Saga, it was beyond Goku's control since he wasn't there. When he's around, the first thing he does is sideline Gohan. Not to say she doesn't have a point since Gohan is still a child during the Cell Games.

Son Gohan

See Dragon Ball: Son Gohan

Son Goten

See Dragon Ball: Trunks and Son Goten

Mr. Satan/Hercule

Mr. Satan (ミスター・サタン, Misutaa Satan) / Hercule (English dub only) / Mark (マーク, Maaku)

Voiced by (Japanese): Daisuke Gōri, Unshō Ishizuka (Kai, Xenoverse, and Super), Masashi Ebara (Kakarot onward)

Voiced by (English): Chris Rager (Funimation dub); Don Brown (Z), Dave Pettit (GT) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Paul Bandey (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub); Jamieson Price (Bang Zoom!/Toonami Asia dub of Super)

Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Roberto Sen (Z, eps. 173-219 except ep. 200), Mario Sauret (Z, episode 200), Rodolfo Vargas (Z, eps. 224-234), Ricardo Brust (Z, eps. 243-291, GT and Movies), Bardo Miranda (Kai and Super)

Voiced by (French): Frédéric Bouraly and Antoine Nouel (GT)

Voiced by (Italian): Riccardo Lombardo

"Don't you worry about me! I'm a master of martial arts and I'm also packin' some serious heat!"

A human who became the World Martial Arts Tournament champion while Goku and the others were busy with their own things. At first, introduced as a pompous loudmouth who thought of all the energy ball throwing and flying as "tricks". He slowly but surely, however, manages to prove his worth near the end of the series.

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• 100% Heroism Rating: As the hero who defeated Cell, he's beloved the world over from the Cell Saga onwards. Orange Star City was renamed after him, the entire World Martial Arts Tournament centers around him to the point he can skip the elimination round, something no other champion before him could do, and gets military support by just asking. It really shines during the fight with Kid Buu; the people of Earth ignore Goku and Vegeta's pleas for their energy to fuel the Spirit Bomb and refuse to help them, but they almost immediately change their tune when Mr. Satan steps in and yells at them to cooperate.
• Adaptational Badass: In some of the fighting game entries, he is able to to head toe to toe with many of the series' casts, including Frieza and Cell. This is actually the basis of his story mode in Budokai where he defeats the Z-Fighters and Cell at the Cell games.
• Aerith and Bob: His real name is Mark. Despite it doubling as a 'devil' pun in Japanese (see All There in the Manual) it's among the real given names in the series.
• Accidental Hero: A long term example. He took credit for beating Cell purely for his own ego, and it led to him getting worshiped as a hero. This ends up what helps Goku defeat Buu, as the people of Earth were hesitant about giving him their energy for the Spirit Bomb until Mr. Satan spoke up.
• Action Survivor: Before being killed in Frieza's destruction of the Earth in Resurrection ‘F’ (the movie and the Dragon Ball Super saga), he was one of the few characters to not have died in the series at all, even if it was rendered null by the time rewind. In the Shin Budokai games, it's shown that his Future counterpart even survived the Android genocide.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In the anime version of the Buu saga, he makes a martial art out of this. It's so effective, he manages to pull a You Shall Not Pass! on Kid Buu until Kid Buu, in disgust, spits out Fat Buu and the two Buus then go and fight each other. Goku is impressed with the former, and Vegeta is pleasantly surprised with the latter, coming as close to praising Mr. Satan as he's come to praising anyone at that point in time.
• Ascended Extra: Goes from a one-note joke at the end of the Cell saga to become one of the main characters (and eventually one of the Z-Fighters) in the Buu saga.
• Attention Whore: Oh, big time. Note however that this actually works in the heroes' favor, helping to maintain The Masquerade by claiming responsibility for acts of world-saving or alternately garnering public support for the otherwise unknown heroes. The world has never heard of Goku or Vegeta or even Krillin, but they have heard of Mr. Satan, and will follow his orders without question.
• Badass Normal: He won the World Martial Arts tournament fairly several times. He just lives in a world where humans with knowledge of supernatural martial arts have the power to survive the impact of bullets, and they're the weakest of the bunch. He's even brave enough that he jumps at the chance to be on the Universe 7 team for the Tournament of Power before changing his mind after realizing how out of his league he would be.
• Badass on Paper: Top non-super martial artist, check. Yet even without powers like Goku and his friends he's helped save the universe thrice. Granted, never by winning a fight against real threats, but that's not the only way to be a hero. Goku is even aware of this, and considers him and not Yamcha for the last member of the U7 team, though warning that the tournament will involve lots of strong opponents. Mr. Satan declines knowing the kind of people in the tournament would run out even his incredible luck quickly.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: Parodied in the Buu arc. Despite knowing how futile it is to attack Buu with conventional weaponry (he saw for himself that a large bomb detonation had no effect on Buu at all), he still treats his regular .45 handgun as his regrettable trump card. He foolishly tries to shoot down Super Buu and his huge energy blast. Both times, someone else coincidentally steps in (first Tenshinhan, then Goku) and Mr. Satan is left thinking that his gun was what did the damage.
• Becoming the Mask: At first he only pretended to be Fat Buu's friend so he could get close enough to kill him. It wasn't until Fat Buu's Heel–Face Turn (and seeming inability to be killed) that he became friends with him for real.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Played for Laughs. With all the people cheering for him, he has a tendency to get swept up in the moment and actually believe he can take on the likes of Cell and Majin Buu before he remembers that no, he really can't.
• Best Friends-in-Law: He and Goku become Fire-Forged Friends near the end of the Buu saga, and their daughter and son respectively end up becoming husband and wife.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths:
  • He truly believes that he is the strongest person in the world, which is why he challenges Cell. Even after proving outmatched time and time again, he still remains a boastful idiot who buys into his own hype. At the same time, he truly cares for the safety of the Earth and its people to the point of refusing to obey Vegeta when he demands all their energy to make the Spirit Bomb stronger, even when knowing that would risk their lives. His ego also becomes more manageable after he becomes friends with Goku, and he uses his fame to help them in various ways. In Super, he receives an enormous cash prize for protecting the world, and he immediately (though privately) gives it to Goku, since he knows that Goku is the one who actually deserves it (well, that and he's filthy rich anyway, he doesn't need any more money).
  • One moment in Super shows that where the family is concerned, he's the only person other than Bulma and Videl that will stand up to Chi-Chi. Gohan tried to break them up before a fist fight broke out when they started arguing about his roughhousing with Pan and if Pan should learn martial arts. While Mr. Satan may have lost the battle by being locked out of the house with Gohan, he won the war because in End of Z, Pan chose to become like her grandfathers.
• Boisterous Bruiser: His taunts sound less like those of the martial artist he is and more like those of the 80s pro wrestler he looks like.
• Boisterous Weakling: He is very strong for a normal human and has survived things that would've killed most people. However, he's laughably weak compared to any villain in Z and he isn't smart enough to realize this, challenging both Cell and Buu. Thankfully, he gets better after making friends with Goku and learns his place on the power scale.
• Born Lucky: He's one of the few characters to survive Dragon Ball Z without being revived once, and manages to keep up his Fake Ultimate Hero persona despite the fact that doing so stretches any credibility. In fact, the only time he's died was during Resurrection of F and its retelling in Super, when Frieza blew up the Earth - and even in that case, it was only because he was asleep at the time.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: By normal human standards at least. It's implied that's he grown weaker since the Cell games, owing to his reputation as the Earth's savior going to his head, and it's shown that he didn't even bother training at all for the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament, yet he still scores considerably above that of the average contestant during the qualifier testing.
• Bumbling Dad: To Videl's chagrin, he serves as the comic relief and can be very goofy at times.
• Butt-Monkey: He's usually a victim of a lot of Amusing Injuries.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: In episode 73 of Super, he nearly reveals to a popular idol who is one of his costars in the "Great Saiyaman vs. Mr. Satan" movie that Gohan is the real Great Saiyaman, but Videl stops him and tells him that Gohan neither wants the fame nor would he find it helpful. The same costar ended up finding out about it anyway, though not from Mr. Satan.
• The Casanova: Ever since his wife's death and his subsequent rise to martial arts stardom, Mr. Satan became a hedonistic womanizer, much to the annoyance of his daughter Videl. This is the main reason she doesn't have a problem with Gohan and the others bringing him down a peg or two.
• Character Development:
  • When Mr. Satan was first introduced, he was a Manipulative Bastard, Fake Ultimate Hero, Dirty Coward, and Jerk with Good Publicity. However, when he honored 16's last request by throwing his head close enough to speak to Gohan, even when doing so put him at great personal risk (16 prodded his ego a bit, but still), this directly led to the world being saved via 16 giving Gohan an Obi-Wan Moment. In a way, he really did save the world in the Cell Games (though he took all credit for beating Cell). This revealed his tendencies as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, The So-Called Coward, and Classical Anti-Hero, which became his defining features throughout the Buu saga.
  • As time has gone on and he's become further integrated into the Dragon Team, he's shown himself to be more humble and appreciative of their powers and heroics underneath all of his grandstanding, going out of his way to grant them their due for all they've done. In the OVA Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!, he treats the entire gang to a feast at the hotel being built in his honor for supposedly beating Buu. Later, in Dragon Ball Super, he's being handed a World Peace Prize and one-hundred million zeni, but immediately starts offering the money to Vegeta, who turns it down, then to Goku, who Goten convinces to accept. Also, he built Gohan and Videl a house.^note Though that may be more because they're his future son-in-law and his daughter respectively, but even then he was shown to have a criteria for guys dating Videl, which the kid who actually beat Cell clearly qualifies for. Not bad for a guy who once shamelessly took all the credit for killing Cell while calling the real heroes fakes thinking he'd never see them again.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: While he's nowhere near Z-Fighter tier in this regard, it is still worth noting that in his first appearance, he pulled four buses behind him, tore a phone book in half while towing them and then punched a hole through one of the buses.
• Classical Anti-Hero: As odd as it may sounds for a character like him. He tries to be an Ideal Hero to the citizens of Earth and everyone, save for the Z-Fighters, sees him as the savior of the universe. Truth is, Mr. Satan is an unapologetic Glory Hound who stole credit for killing Cell from Gohan. He is more often than not scared of fighting anyone stronger than him and will bribe others to throw fights so he can keep his reputation. At the same time, he does have a noble heart and will fight to protect others, even if it means risking his own life. He helps Goku and Vegeta kill Kid Buu by using his heroic status to get the people of Earth to loan energy for the Spirit Bomb.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: For Fat Buu in Dragon Ball Super. Satan will call Buu out when he's starting to go overboard and has ways to distract him if the situation needs it.
• Cool Old Guy: Has a good relationship with Pan in GT.
• Cowardly Lion:
  • May not have the courage of a hero, but he certainly has the heart of one. His willingness to do good in spite of his cowardice and incompetence is enough to earn Piccolo's respect and approval as the "True Champion of the World." The few times the bad guys he's fighting are normal (but dangerously armed) criminals instead of superhuman monsters, he effortlessly beats them down. And during the final showdown of the Buu Saga, he actually musters the balls to attack Kid Buu head-on; it doesn't work and almost kills him, but hey, points for trying. He also saves Vegeta's life by carrying him away from a distracted Kid Buu, giving Goku the perfect opening to throw the Spirit Bomb.
  • He also tries to replace Majin Buu for the Tournament of Power before realizing that he wouldn't be helpful. Goku would have taken him along if he had wanted to come because he still has massive respect for him after he saved the world from Kid Buu.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Yes, really. As shown in a flashback, he delivered one to Spopovich during one of the World Martial Arts Tournaments, effortlessly dodging all his moves before kicking him once so hard he's sent flying out of the ring. To note, Spopovich physically dwarfed him. And that's how he became the champion of the world while Goku and the rest of the Z Warriors were out.
  • When the two guys shoot Bee, he loses it and kicks the crap out of them. It takes one hit each.
  • Fusion Reborn sees him curbstomp an army of zombies singlehandedly. In general, if he's pitted against anyone that's not superhuman, he'll make short work of them.
• Depending on the Writer: Not related to his personality or power level, but the way other characters react to him may depending on whether it's a Toriyama written scene or a Toei written one. Toriyama has the other characters think of him with disdain, while Toei may have characters the same characters randomly think better of him. It's at its most noticeable with Dende and Old Kaioshin, where Dende is shown to be honored to meet him in one Toei written scene, and clearly is just annoyed with him whenever a scene from the manga is adapted. Old Kaioshin is more extreme, in episode 278, when Dende says that Kaioshins are huge deal as gods, Satan is dismissive of them and wonders why they didn't just defeat Buu, and Old Kaioshin comments Satan is not easy to like, and later in the same episode he shows amusement when seeing Satan thinking Earth being destroyed is just a dream and he tries to fly, only to fail. In the next episode when Shin mentions he forgot to teleport Satan with them, Old Kaioshin is quickly dismissive of him. In episode 282 when Old Kaioshin says Satan being killed wouldn't be much of a loss, in the manga Shin agrees with him, but in the anime Shin defends him since he's the last living human.
• Didn't Think This Through: When a large number of participants drop out of the tournament, Mister Satan suggests that they make a Battle Royale. Shortly after the assistant mentions that since he is the champion, it is most likely that the other four fighters will join forces to defeat him, with Satan realizing too late the mistake he made. (Luckily for him, two of the fighters were 18 and the children, who had no interest in him)
• Disco Dan: In a way, Mr. Satan actually would have been right at home with all the other hammy martial artists if he had been introduced earlier in the series. Unfortunately, he arrives several arcs too late and now has to contend with Super Saiyans, Androids and genetically-engineered freaks.
• Don't Try This at Home: Gives this warning before trying stunts on live television. Having a daughter who does try and imitate him, he warns the parents to make sure the children won't try it.
• Doting Parent: He absolutely adores his little girl Videl.
• Doting Grandparent: He similarly dotes on his granddaughter Pan and hopes that she would follow in his footsteps as a martial artist. He's even willing to stand up to Chi-Chi when she opposes this, something that not even Goku would do.
• Dub Name Change:
  • One of the most notorious examples of this in Dragon Ball, "Mr. Satan" became "Hercule" in the English dub to avoid the obvious controversy having a character named "Satan" in a kids' show would have caused. The uncut English DVDs switch back to "Mr. Satan", but also try to retcon "Hercule" into being his first name.
  • The Filipino dub goes completely out-of-whack and renames him "Master Pogi" (literally, "Master Handsome", which hardly fits his appearance).
  • Strangely averted in the Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese dubs (considering most Latin American countries are very Catholic) which kept the name and the crowds cheerfully chanting "Satan! Satan!" This is probably due to the usual term to refer to the Devil in the region being "Satanás", "Satán" being a little less common. The Brazilian Portuguese dub also changed the stress of pronunciation from "satÁn" (usual pronuntiation in Spanish and Portuguese) to "sÁtan".^note As an additional cultural note, in Latin America, especially in Mexico, the country from which the series was dubbed in Spanish, there's no shortage of MMA fighters and wrestlers (normally heels/rudos) with more outrageous nicknames or arena names than "Mr. Satan", so the Latin American audiences wouldn't find such a name offensive or religiously insensitive.
  • Some toys released in the US before Funimation dubbed his episodes used the name Mr. Savage.
  • Many think the name "Hercule" originates from the French localization, which was one of the first dubs produced for the series. However, his name wasn't changed because of religious reasons, but because there was already another character called Satan in the dub — Piccolo.
  • The Viz manga calls him Hercule, but does mention that he was formerly known as Mr. Satan.
• Everyone Has Standards: He may be an unapologetic Glory Hound who takes every opportunity to relish in the spotlight, but even he finds the Cell Games Reenactment embarrassingly cheesy (even if the general public likes it).
• Expy:
  • Seems to be based on John Keehan, aka "Count Dante", a real-life martial artist huckster from the 1960s and '70s. Aside from the Satan/Dante name pun, he was known for claiming to be "the most dangerous man on earth", having distinctive facial hair and hairstyle (same as Mr. Satan's), and even wearing a cape.
  • His voice in the English dub is a spot-on pastiche of '80s era wrestlers like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage.
• The Face: He effectively becomes this to the heroes on Earth following his Character Development. He's the one Z-Fighter who, despite being without any actual superpowers, the citizens almost universally trust, so he uses that trust to rally them behind the likes of Goku and the others, who do the rest of the actual work. This arrangement saves the world on more than one occasion.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: The public believes that he saved the world twice, first from Cell and then Majin Buu. Granted, he is still a decent and kind-hearted man (…after some Character Development) who genuinely wants to make the world a better place; he has the heart of a true warrior, if nothing else. Subverted at the very last minute, when he does legitimately save the world! However, he's really only a Fake Ultimate Hero because he's in a world where he's Overshadowed by Awesome. When we do see him take on normal, but still legitimately dangerous people, he beats the tar out of them. The heroes actually exploit this. They don't want the attention and he gets to keep his popularity, which has actually helped them in the past, so it's kind of a win/win.
• Famed In-Story: He's a Fake Ultimate Hero who's lucky to survive the stuff he puts himself through, but to the people of Earth he's their greatest champion and savior. They named a city after him, the entire World Martial Tournament centers around him to the point he can skip the elimination round, something no other champion before him could do, and gets military support with just asking. His fame does comes in handy during the final story arc.
• Family Theme Naming: Mr. Satan's daughter is named Videl, which is an anagram of "Devil". However, according to Toriyama in the Super Exciting Guide: Character Volume, Mr. Satan is just a stage name; his real name is Mark. In Japanese, the name (Maaku) becomes an anagram for Akuma (Devil/demon), thus continuing the family's supernatural naming convention. Likewise, his late wife, Miguel, has a name that means an Archangel (and Lucifer was an Archangel before his fall).
• First Friend: Mr. Satan of all people would become this to Fat Buu. Before meeting him, Buu killed and destroyed because Bibidi and Babidi told him to, and that's all he knew what to do even after their deaths. Mr. Satan, despite originally intending to kill him, gets a first glimpse to Buu's innocence when he sees how gently Buu played with the dog who would be named Bee (who never ran away from Buu out of gratitude for healing him), causing him to suspect that Buu can change. His suspicions are confirmed when he learns of Buu's reasons for destroying everything around him and convinces him to stop, and their friendship would bring out the best in both of them as they contribute to destroying Kid Buu and becoming great allies to the Z-Fighters.
• Five Stages of Grief: Namely denial. After Buu destroys the Earth and he meets the Supreme Kais, he decides that the entire arc must be a dream and that he made Buu up from the beginning since pink men and purple guys with pointy ears don't exist despite what Dende says. This being Satan, it's Played for Laughs.
• Flash Step: Despite being a normal human, he does this when Van Zant has him at gunpoint. Van Zant does manage to shoot him afterwards, but it was mainly on reflex and threw off Zant's aim enough to avoid an instantly fatal shot, saving his life.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: For the longest time he absolutely refuses to acknowledge chi techniques are real, dismissing them as trickery no matter how often he gets demonstrations of them right in front of his face. He only gives in once his own daughter starts flying around.
• Friend to All Children: Although Trunks was soundly out of his league anyway, he'd planned to throw the match against the Junior Division of the World Martial Arts Tournament from the beginning. He also comforts some of the losing children of the kids tournament when they start to get upset. It should be noted that unlike when he wanted to flaunt his strength with the punch machine for the press cameras and internally monologued about how he hated that the cameras were destroyed, Mr. Satan did not even think about that when helping the kids. The closest he gets to panicking about his image in relation to this is when he panics over how strong Trunks is.
• Glory Seeker: Seems to be his initial reason for challenging Cell in the Cell Games, although he does legitimately want to save the planet as well, so there's a bit of win-win there.
• Good Parents: Despite being overprotective towards Videl, he adores her and his eventual grandchild, Pan, as well. He also is a good father-in-law to Gohan after his initial misgivings, helping to finance him and Videl and generally helping them out wherever possible.
• Go Through Me: In perhaps his most selfless act, Mr. Satan shields the unconscious Fat Buu with his own body and begs Vegeta not to kill him. While Vegeta explains the logical risks of keeping Buu alive and threatens to kill him too if he doesn't step aside, Mr. Satan stubbornly clings onto Buu nonetheless. Thankfully, Goku steps in to call Vegeta off, reasoning that they all owe their gratitude to Mr. Satan and Buu for their help.
• Guile Hero: Mr Satan is a buffoon, but he isn't stupid. He tries to kill Fat Buu with a whole assortment of sneaky tricks and explosives (they fail but props for trying), before genuinely befriending him. He's also vital in the final battle against Kid Buu, where he uses his Popularity Power to give a Motivational Lie to all of planet Earth, requesting that the give "him" their power to help finish Goku's Spirit Bomb.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power:
  • He just isn't able to keep up with his superpowered allies and family (even Videl, his similarly human daughter, is stronger than he is). That said, what he does have is his massive popularity around the world, which he willingly uses to aid Goku and the others when he realizes that he's no match for whatever threat is happening at the time.
  • Goku has an extremely high opinion of him after seeing how hard he fought against Kid Buu. It's enough to make him consider taking him along to the Tournament of Power before Mr. Satan realized he would only be a burden to them.
  • A literal version is his "defeat" of Fat Buu - he convinced Buu to pull a Heel–Face Turn by befriending him. Keep in mind that up to that point, Buu was an invincible juggernaut who could take out a Super Saiyan 2 with one blow and who even Super Saiyan 3 Goku couldn't really hurt (though neither of them were fighting seriously). This even saves the heroes indirectly later, as Super Buu agrees to wait an hour because of Fat Buu's influence when Videl asked (he smelled Videl and recognized her as Satan's daughter). Piccolo thinks his heart is a much more valuable ability than Vegeta's power.
    Piccolo: Mr. Satan was the one man Boo ever trusted. While we were trying in vain to crush him with sheer power, Mr. Satan chose to befriend him. Although his motives were... strategic, of course. As proof, Boo just wiped out humanity... but left Mr. Satan alive. Even after becoming this beast of destruction. Your father may not have the strength he claims... but he does deserve his title of "Champion of Earth."
  • His popularity and skill at working a crowd are very useful in a world where the Spirit Bomb exists.
• Heroes Love Dogs: He and Buu adopt Bee, a random puppy that served as Buu's Morality Pet. After Buu's evil side takes over, Mr. Satan protects the dog from the carnage that ensues. Bee lives a long, healthy life in Mr. Satan's care, as we see him fully aged at the end of the manga, after the Time Skip.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Fat Buu. The two become close friends throughout the Buu saga, and end up being roommates and life-long friends thereafter.
• Hidden Depths:
  • It's been implied that he has a significantly weaker Weirdness Censor than the rest of the world. For example, he does recognize Piccolo's resemblance to the Demon King Piccolo (Piccolo's father/past life) in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai's Legend of Hercule mode (which is, while non-canon, set after a point where the entire world just forgot about Ki as a concept). In the main series, his internal monologues show that he can accurately gauge when someone is clearly stronger than him, but he can never let the mask of bravado slip in public.
  • Despite being rich enough to afford his own chef and numerous other servants to take care of his home, during his time living with Majin Buu, it's revealed that he's actually pretty accomplished at both housekeeping and cooking his own meals.
• Homage: He is a homage to professional wrestlers, especially back in the days when they were still pretending their fighting is real. He acts overly cocky, theatrical, down-right silly, pretends his fights are real, and while he's strong, he is not the strongest. Toriyama himself admits that he finds professional wrestling to be silly in these same ways.
• Hope Bringer: Not for the main cast, but to the entire rest of the world. He was the only thing that kept the people of Earth somewhat sane during Majin Buu's rampage and to a lesser extent Cell. In Super, they call him when things go wrong.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Mr. Satan got smacked by Perfect Cell and goes flying into a mountain, survives getting smacked around by Kid Buu, is hilariously drowned in a bathtub by Fat Buu, obliterated in a public fight against Trunks, dropped by Dende from 100-something feet and crushes his crotch against a rock, and more. Although he is hopelessly outpowered by the main cast, it is agreed that he is very skilled for a human that cannot use energy-based techniques.
• Ironic Name: Toriyama, who is critical of celebrity worship culture in some of his work, squeezes plenty of comedic irony out of a universally adored hero literally named Satan. The oblivious human populace regularly chanting his name would seem like devil-worshipping in any other context. For added irony, while Mr. Satan is a lying, cowardly glory-hound, he is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold deep down. It all comes full circle when Mr. Satan finally earns his reputation as Earth's ultimate hero by using his fame to convince humanity to donate their energy to the Spirit Bomb used to finish off Majin Buu.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In Dragon Ball Z. Sure, he's a greedy, lying, skirt-chasing coward... but, he is still a fundamentally decent, sensitive and kind-hearted human being who wants to make the world a better place.
• Joke Character: Dan Hibiki, meet your long-lost ancestor! This gets carried over into pretty much all of the fighting games, where he can't even use energy blasts. His long-range attack is throwing rocks. And he has a Jet Pack for when the battle is taken to the skies.
• Kid With The Remote Control: Well, not a kid and underpowered mostly as a side effect of being Overshadowed by Awesome, but has earned the trust of Fat Buu, who is superpowered and will go to bat for him.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Mr. Satan may be a boisterous idiot, but he fully understands how out of his league he is amongst the Z-Warriors and the kinds of monsters they regularly face. However, as much as he would like to surrender, his status as Earth's champion means that he can't afford to be show weakness in front of any opponent, forcing him to get creative in finding ways to wriggle out of conflict.
  • According to his offscreen backstory, Mark has had this mentality drilled into him since his early career as a martial artist. His master picked a fight with a weak-looking opponent and made fun of his haircut. That opponent's name? Taopaipai. It ended about as well as you'd expect, with Taopaipai killing his master instantly. Since then, Mr. Satan vowed to never fight opponents who were ridiculously out of his league or those whose power levels he couldn't judge. Evidently, losing to Cell reminded him of this important lesson as he uses every excuse in the book to get out of fights against the Z-Warriors and Buu.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Only one of the main cast who's not borderline Bishōnen.
• Large Ham: Even more so than most of the series' Big Bads, though it becomes more and more of a performance as the series goes on.
• Last of His Kind: For a very brief period, after Super Buu kills nearly every other human and Kid Buu destroys the Earth.
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: He's one of the biggest Linear Warriors in the franchise. While he's the World's Best Warrior as far as garden-variety, Muggle-class martial artists go, he's still an ant compared to the ki-using characters of the series.
• Meaningful Name: In Christianity, Satan is sometimes referred to as "the Father of Lies". If there's one thing Mr. Satan has in common with his Biblical namesake, it's his remarkable talent for spinning elaborate deceptions and manipulating people into doing his bidding. The cult-like worship that the Earthling population show for him can help to further the comparisons.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: An obscure piece of offscreen lore revealed by Toriyama is that Mr. Satan's master was killed by Taopaipai many years ago after stupidly mocking the assassin's haircut, which inspired Mr. Satan's self-preserving behaviour. Now there's a connection you wouldn't expect to see!
• Miles Gloriosus: Hits Fake Ultimate Hero as he gains more character development. At least, he proves to be braver than he looks.
• Morality Chain: For Buu. When he and poor Bee were shot, Buu horribly LOST IT. When he accidentally got knocked out during Buu's fight with Basil, Buu didn't care that Basil didn't do it on purpose or even know about it; Buu immediately stops playing with him and kicks Basil's ass as hard as he could without killing him.
• Morality Pet: Mr. Satan acts as this for Broly in Supersonic Warriors 2.
• Naked People Are Funny: An anime-exclusive scene shortly after his "win" against Android 18, had in the shower room in a Modesty Towel when some Paparazzis burst in and started questioning him about his win against Android 18, and he claims to "not hide anything from the fans", and while laughing, accidentally drops his towel in front of the cameras.
• Nice Guy: In Dragon Ball Super, he's become much more humble and generous, and a genuine friend to the Z-Fighters.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's based on real-life martial arts blowhard Count Dante, and his English vocal performance recalls Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage. He also bears an uncanny resemblance to '80s era Frank Zappa.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Delivers one to Van Zant for shooting Bee, spending a good 20 seconds straight pummeling the crap out of him.
• Not Worth Killing: During the Cell Games, the Z-Fighters theorize that the only reason Mr. Satan survived getting backhanded into a mountain by Cell is because Cell didn't want to waste any energy before he fought Goku.
• Odd Friendship: With Majin Buu. Hercule and Buu are nothing alike and their dynamic is a bit strange, but their friendship is truly genuine and unbreakable.
• Oh, Crap!: Mr. Satan has a major freak out at the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai upon the realisation that the weird blonde-haired guys who actually fought and defeated Cell are attending. Worse, their young children have inherited their power and he'll have to go up against one of them at the end of the kids' bracket. Throughout the tournament and the subsequent Majin Buu crisis, he seems to be in a constant, barely-supressed state of pants-wetting fear.
• Older Than They Look: Doesn't look like he aged at all in the 7 year Time Skip between the Cell games and the Majin Buu saga. Age catches up to him by the Distant Finale and Dragon Ball GT, where he starts balding. If you take into account Goku's age according to the Daizenshuu and newer information released about Mr. Satan's origin, Mr. Satan is only one year older than Goku. The aging is especially evident if you compare their appearances during the Cell Saga when they were still only one or two years apart and Goku hadn't spent seven years dead. Taken even further when you take into account Dragon Ball Minus' age listing for Goku, where Goku is a couple years OLDER than Mr. Satan.
• Old Shame: In-Universe. He considers the Cell games reenactment movie (made without his approval) an embarrassing, dumb schlock... and seeing how low-budget and cheap it is, he has a point.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Perhaps the only time that Mr. Satan fully drops the comedic Large Ham act is when he attacks the two crazed gunmen who shot Buu's pet puppy. Not only does he seriously kick the crap out of them like a true martial artist, he furiously shames them for their idiotic cruelty and spits on their defeated bodies afterwards.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Under normal circumstances, he would be an incredible fighter, and legitimately won the World Martial Arts Tournament (a tournament of such high level that itself overshadows any other tournament on Earth without superhumans around). Unfortunately for him, these are not normal circumstances.
• Pals with Jesus: As well as being best friends with Majin Buu, Goku, who became a Physical God as of Battle of Gods, becomes Mr. Satan's in-law after Gohan's marriage to Videl. Luckily, Goku holds no ill will towards Satan for his past glory-hogging and becomes good friends with him.
  • He starts hanging out with Dende on the sidelines after Gohan's return to Earth. Along with Goku and Vegeta, Mr. Satan and Dende are the only survivors of Earth's destruction at the hands of Kid Buu. There's definitely some irony in a guy named Satan becoming friends with a kid whose official title is God of Earth.
  • Mr. Satan is also the first full-blooded human to travel to the Kaioshin Realm, home of the highest Gods of Creation in Universe 7. He also gets along fairly well with Beerus and Whis.
• Papa Wolf: He's absolutely pissed when Spopovich beats Videl to a bloody pulp and nearly kills her.
  Mr. Satan: You tell that freak I just declared open season on psychopaths! Spopovich, for every second Videl's in recovery, I'M GONNA BREAK SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD!
• Paper Tiger: Zigzags. For an ordinary human. However, he is horribly weak compared to the monsters in Z. That doesn't stop him from boasting about his strength and challenging the likes of Cell and Buu, both beings so powerful that they can kill him without even looking at him. He is also dismissive of the previous champion, Goku, assuming Goku to be a weakling who won by trickery.
• Plot Armor: In a series where death itself is treated as an inconvenience, Mr. Satan stands out as having Plot Armor so thick he could probably survive getting hit by a nuke through some improbable circumstance. You would think that getting fly-swatted by Cell and attempting to murder Buu via video games would get him killed. And you would be wrong. Mr. Satan, Fortuneteller Baba, and East Supreme Kai are the only main characters in the entire series to never die prior to the Dragon Ball Super era, which is quite an achievement in this series! Even then because of the nature of his revival, he technically never died because Whis reset the timeline. Even funnier, it is confirmed by Toriyama that Mr. Satan is one of the few survivors in the Bad Future, at least the first time around.
• Popularity Power:
  • Earlier in the series, most people acknowledged the existence of ki energy and there was little doubt that Master Roshi's Kamehameha — by then considered a legend among martial artists — was a very real and deadly technique, and while Goku and his friends never became celebrities, the public always looked forward to watching them fight whenever there was a World Martial Arts Tournament. Everything changed once Mr. Satan declared that ki attacks were nothing but tricks, which made the entire population of the world grow skeptical.
  • He does use his Popularity Power in a good way as well, though: when Goku desperately needs the people of Earth to give him energy for his Spirit Bomb, but nobody is listening, Mr. Satan claims that he is the one fighting Buu and is the one who needs their energy, at which point the entire population happily gives it up. The resulting Spirit Bomb is powerful enough to annihilate Majin Buu once and for all.
    "Yes, I am the one who is really fighting Majin Buu! [glances sheepishly at Goku] Um, sorry about that, I just don't think they'd listen if they didn't think it was me doing it."
• Porn Stache: The only main character with one, until Vegeta in GT.
• Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: He is hailed by the people of Earth as the savior who defeated Cell. It is often brought up even a decade after Cell's death. He is also credited with killing Majin Buu and is given the World Peace Prize.
• Ridiculously High Relationship Standards: Mr. Satan insists that only someone who can beat him in a fight can date Videl, which she finds ridiculous. While Mr. Satan is a weakling by the standards of this series, compared to the average person he's pretty strong, being a multi-time martial arts champion, so this standard is quite unreasonable. Fortunately, for Videl, her boyfriend Gohan, is more than up to the task.
• Secret-Keeper: He becomes this to the Z-Fighters after he's accepted into the group and he acknowledges their power. He still takes the fame for their work, like claiming he defeated Beerus in Super, but he now does it to hide their identities.
• Shadow Archetype: Can be seen as this to Goku and the rest of Roshi's pupils. Mr. Satan represents what Roshi fears his students would become if they let their victories get to their heads and lost their passion for martial arts, which was what led to Roshi becoming Jackie Chun to teach them humility. Mr. Satan, in contrast, never had the humbling experience needed to turn him into a better person until he befriended Buu.
• Slain in Their Sleep: Dragon Ball Super marks the first time Mr. Satan dies in the series, being killed off by Frieza's destruction of the Earth. He was sleeping alongside Majin Buu at the moment. This was undone by Whis' time powers. Presumably, this is how he dies in Resurrection ‘F’ too, as he was Killed Offscreen.
• Small Name, Big Ego: For a while, anyway. While very powerful for an Earthling, he's an ant even compared to the weakest Z-Fighter since he can't even do energy attacks. That didn't stop him from claiming that all the fighters before him used tricks and weren't true martial artists. He finally gets over this after befriending Buu and the rest of the Z-Fighters, though he still invokes the trope as a showy persona to maintain his fame, which he occasionally uses to help them out.
• Smug Snake: During the Cell Games, the Z-Fighters all get so irritated by Mr. Satan's loudmouth, overbearing, braggart attitude and his constant underestimation of Cell's ability that they end up taking Cell's side during the Single-Stroke Battle between them; Piccolo in particular is vocally disappointed that Cell didn't kill him.
• The So-Called Coward: He's not fearless; but his willingness to stand up and do something when it matters in spite of being a weakling makes his bravery outstanding enough to earn Piccolo's respect and approval.
• Straw Loser: To a point, Mr. Satan filled this role. He was the loud, brash and obnoxious World Champ, who couldn't lay a finger on any of the main cast unless they let him, and whose bravado made them seem all the better for their humility (or at least willingness to forgo fame to be an actually better fighter). This includes taking credit for beating Cell.
• Strong and Skilled: By human standards he's this: he's strong enough to pull four buses, rip through three phone books, and punch through a bus (all things he did in quick succession in his first appearance to show off his strength to the world), and has the skills to move like a ballet dancer and then strike an opponent in the back of the head and send them flying without doing lasting damage.
• Support Party Member: He has this dynamic within the cast. He's no match for the regular rogues gallery of enemies they face (which, in his defense, isn't entirely his fault, as he is a legitimately fantastic fighter against regular humans), but he instead supports them from the sidelines using his prestige, wealth, and popularity.
• The Team Benefactor: In Super, he fronts the bill for Gohan and Videl's marital home, and him making Goku and Chi-Chi rich subsidizes Goku's ability to train (and, by extension, allow him to continue protecting Earth).
• The Team Normal: Of Goku's friends, he's the only one who doesn't have any sort of superpower - even his daughter Videl can at least fly and, in some media, use basic ki attacks. It doesn't stop him from being a good man and legitimate hero in his own way and someone Goku is proud to have as a friend.
• Tender Tears: Mr. Satan is an incredibly sensitive soul who is able to shed tears for a demon who wiped out the human race, and on top of that has faith that Buu can become a better person. That faith ends up being justified, granting him a new lifelong friend.
• Too Dumb to Live: He usually subverts this trope by taking on powerful villains, but not dying or getting seriously hurt from it.
• Took a Level in Badass: When Goku and Vegeta fail to telepathically convince the people of Earth to lend their energy for Goku's Spirit Bomb, Mr. Satan angrily yells out for them to do so. Thanks to his popularity back on Earth, it works. Then after the energy isn't enough, he stands up to Vegeta, who is demanding that he do it again. He refuses because the initial energy push to build up the Spirit Bomb had drained most of the population's energy already, and asking them to give another dose would kill those who didn't have enough to give.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • He is still a Glory Seeker ham, but he is much more humble after being introduced to Goku and his friends. He continues to take credits for Goku and others' world saving because they don't want the fame and he's useful when it comes to dealing with common people.
  • In Super, he takes the 100 million zeni reward given to him for "defeating" Buu and gives it to Goku as thanks. Compare this to his portrayal in the earliest parts of Z, especially the movies, where he was shown to be quite greedy.
  • Also from Super, he begs Whis to stop Goku and Beerus' fight (their battle is slowly destroying the universe) not for his own sake, but to spare his daughter and unborn grandchild.
  • He did not like Gohan when they first met in Z, but as of Super he's incredibly fond of his son-in-law, not only paying for his and Videl's house but also getting Gohan a role in the Mr. Satan vs. Great Saiyaman movie because he wanted Gohan to receive some kind of recognition for his heroic exploits. And that's not getting into the two of them play-fighting to entertain baby Pan, which is several dozen kinds of adorable.
• Trade Your Passion for Glory: After getting caught up in the fame, fortune, and women he got for supposedly defeating Cell, he stopped training. As a result, Videl surpassed him long before Gohan taught her how to fly.
• Uncle Pennybags: In Dragon Ball Super, he gives Goku the prize money that should have been his if anyone knew the truth (after Vegeta had already refused), to support Goku's preferred lifestyle, both to thank him for saving the planet many times in the past and to ensure the Saiyan can keep training to keep the world safe in the future. On top of that, he personally funded the construction of Gohan and Videl's post-marriage home and pays their bills.
• Underestimating Badassery: He initially has a really bad habit of underestimating his opponents to comical levels. He dismisses Cell and the other Earth's warriors as tricksters even after Cell knocked him out of the ring and the landscape was exploding around him. He also dismisses Goku, the former World Champion, as not being a true martial artist since he use 'tricks' to win. By the time he faces Buu, he gets a little better since he knows that there is no way he can win a straight fight against Buu, however, he truly believes that he can kill Buu with poison and explosives. After the events of the Buu Saga, he knows and accepts where he stands on the power scale in the Dragon Ball universe.
• Unluckily Lucky:
  • He goes through a lot of embarrassment, physical abuse, and dangerous situations that would kill anyone else, but he comes out on top and maybe better than ever. Be it managing to trick everyone else into thinking he defeated Cell since there's no footage of Gohan doing so, convincing Trunks to "lightly" punch him in the face, which was much stronger than he expected, but he still managed to pretend he lost intentionally, 18 letting him win so he gets to still be known as the world champ... Even his murder attempts on Buu didn't work and Buu didn't notice them. Super Buu killed most people on the planet but specifically decided to not kill him because of Fat Buu's influence, and when Kid Buu does destroy the planet, Goku saves him, and once Goku kills Kid Buu, Satan was so helpful during it that he befriends the Z-Fighters afterwards, and he made Fat Buu realize that killing was wrong so he became another ally.
  • Him winning the 25th tournament is also this. While it happened offscreen, he was lucky he participated in a tournament long after the Z-Fighters didn't care about it anymore, as no other ki user or even someone on Giran's level (Who gave Goku some trouble after training with Roshi, though mostly because of trickery) participated as well, so he got to fight people on his level, who he can beat pretty handily.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: The Wacky Parent to Videl's Serious Child.
• Weak, but Skilled: Completely outmatched by the Ki-using Z Fighters and the monsters they fight in terms of power, but his hand-to-hand skills are good enough to have him perform a Flash Step, and his attack on Cell shows that he knows perfectly how to destroy a normal human. The flashback of his fight with Spopovich, where he deals with a human-level opponent in hand-to-hand, showcases just how good he is among normal humans.
• What You Are in the Dark: He's initially a Glory Hound and Fake Ultimate Hero, but he certainly has the heart of a hero if nothing else. This is exhibited mid-way through the Buu arc when he's left to his own devices with the titular villain; after promising to the public to kill him and failing via various means, he sees Buu's friendly nature and befriends him instead. The full extent of his moral character is shown at the end, where he tries to fight Kid Buu despite knowing he doesn't stand a chance, and helps contribute to the Spirit Bomb that ultimately finishes him off.
  Mr. Satan: I've been a shameless fake my whole life. But they believed me. They loved me. So if I turn my back on them now, what will it make me?
• What the Hell, Hero?: He calls out everyone on Earth for refusing to give Goku any energy for the Spirt Bomb after witnessing Fat Buu nearly being beaten to death by his Evil Counterpart. It works!
• Would Hit a Girl: During his fight with Android 18, as her gender wasn't even an issue considering that he knew he was much weaker than she was. In the end, even his Megaton Punch did nothing but annoy her.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: In cases where the woman isn't a super-warrior, though, he plays this one straight — as seen in an episode of GT when Bulma and Chi-Chi hit him, and he doesn't hit back.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: When Trunks wins the junior tournament and gets an exhibition match against Mr. Satan, Mr. Satan gives him a free shot. He obviously didn't expect to get punched clear out of the ring, but he intended to throw the fight from the start and even tells his assistant that he wouldn't fight a child.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Believed for a long time that ki techniques were tricks and not real martial art techniques due his own impressive martial art experience.
• Younger Than He Looks: At first, anyway. Would you believe he's only three years younger than Yamcha? He's the same age as Goku!
• Your Size May Vary: Officially, he's 6'2". Often times, he's drawn as if he's the same size as Vegeta. And then during the Cell Games, he's even sometimes randomly drawn as if he's 10 feet tall.
• You Should Have Died Instead: Vegeta is not happy that Goku ended up saving him (and, to a lesser extent, Dende) at the cost of Gohan, Goten, Piccolo, and Trunks. Given how Mr. Satan's first action upon arriving to the Kai planet is to comically jump off a cliff under the illusion that everything was just a dream, it's hard not to feel empathetic to that point. However, the decision pays off with Mr. Satan's interference in the battle with Kid Buu, as it allows the good portions of Majin Buu to escape from his evil side's body. And it really pays off when Mr. Satan's influence helps to convince the people of Earth to lend Goku their energy for the Spirit Bomb.

Videl

Videl (ビーデル, Biideru)

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Voiced by (Japanese): Yuko Minaguchi (Z, GT, Super), Shino Kakinuma (Kai)
Voiced by (English): Kara Edwards (Z, Kai, Super), Susan Huber (GT), Brina Palencia (Super DBZ video game) (Funimation dub); Moneca Stori (Z), Jennifer Holder (GT) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Erika Harlacher (Bang Zoom!/Toonami Asia dub in Super)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Carola Vázquez (current voice), Mónica Manjarrez (Z ep. 200)
Voiced by (French): Brigitte Lecordier (Z), Jennifer Fauveau (Kai, Super)
Voiced by (Italian): Cinzia Massironi

"I can't go out like this... I'm the daughter of Mr. Satan!"

Mr. Satan's daughter and Gohan's girlfriend who became his wife. She is introduced as a crimefighter who far surpasses her father in strength. When a teenage Gohan appears on the scene as the "Gold Fighter" and then Saiyaman, she grows suspicious and eventually manages to find out Gohan's secret. However, the more she gets to know him, the more she falls for him and the rest is history from there.

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• A Day in the Limelight: Broly – Second Coming has her joining Gohan, Goten, and Trunks as the main heroes saving the day. Wrath of the Dragon also focuses on her and Gohan in the beginning half.
• Adaptational Badass: As far as ki goes, she only really learns how to fly in the series proper. In some of the fighting games, however, she can learn basic Ki Blasts, as well as, in the case of Xenoverse 2, the game's general, all-purpose Super Kamehameha.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Downplayed example. In the manga, she figured out that Gohan is the Great Saiyaman immediately upon meeting him and pulls a You Just Told Me trick to get him to blow his cover to her. In the anime, she doesn't and it takes three more episodes before she finally does. This is lessened in Kai: The Final Chapters where Videl gets the hunch that Saiyaman is actually Gohan after her second encounter with Saiyaman and wants to fight him based on that hunch, even declaring she knows he's Gohan when Gohan nearly lets his name slip out, and then after this encounter she starts researching into who Gohan's father was and what's publicly known about their family history so she can be absolutely sure of the truth when she exposes it in her next meeting with Gohan at school.
• All Amazons Want Hercules: She starts to fall for Gohan after she finds out he's the Great Saiyaman (and after he starts teaching her how to fly). Incidentally, he is the only boy on the planet that is a better martial artist than she is.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Although she has friends, she prefers to act alone while fighting crime and doesn't take the presence of Saiyanman kindly. She is also cold and distrusting of Gohan when he first went to school. Later, this is implied to be a coping mechanism for her personal insecurity being the daughter of a celebrity.
• Always Second Best: Played for Laughs with Goten during flying practice. While Videl is a fast learner, Goten completely outshines her, much to her frustration. Gohan had to tell Goten to tone it down so Videl would stop being jealous.
• Anger Born of Worry: It's shown after she reunited with Gohan after Kid Buu is killed.
• Badass Adorable: Cheekily pointed out by Krillin to Gohan:
  Krillin: Mr. Satan's daughter, eh? She's so cute, you'd never guess. So Gohan, when are the wedding bells gonna toll, boy?
  Gohan: Oh come on, Uncle Krillin! It's not like that! We're not even dating!
• Badass Normal: By ki-ignorant, normal human standards, she's one of the best fighters on Earth (still an ant by Z-fighter standards, but credit where credit is due).
• Battle Couple: With Gohan as Saiyawoman at the end of the Z series and in movies.
• Blackmail: She blackmails Gohan by threatening him to enter the tournament lest she reveals his secrets to his classmates. Thankfully, she doesn't and even joins in on his superhero career.
• Blue Is Heroic: She wears a teal suit as the Great Saiyawoman while fighting crime.
• Boyish Short Hair: After she cuts it, due to Gohan's request.
• Brainy Brunette: She does well in school, and can instantly discover Gohan's identity as the Great Saiyaman with ease.
• Chickification: This is mostly Depending on the Writer (see the entry below)
  • Played straight for the most part in GT, where she is barely present beyond scenes establishing her as Gohan's wife and/or Pan's mother. However, one Played for Laughs moment where she tries dressing up as Great Saiyawoman again and joins Chi-Chi in going to take on Super 17, only to arrive at the battlefield too late, shows that she's still got it deep down.
  • Also played straight in Super. While it seems like she's completely mellowed since Z, this is only because she's become comfortable expressing herself to her husband, friends, and family, and no longer has anything to prove to others, including being the best in martial arts. Yet when Barry Khan tries to implicate Gohan as cheating on her, she sees right through it and calmly tears him down with words. Considering how easily she flew later in that same episode, she likely could've floored him then and there had she wished but chose the high road. Plus at the same time, anyone who's been a parent knows child-raising is a full-time responsibility; it's hard to balance martial-arts training with this (Just ask Goku!).
  • Seemingly reversed by the time of Super Hero, as Pan growing old enough to handle being left with other caretakers beyond just her mother finally allows Videl to balance her family life with a career as an instructor at a martial arts dojo.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Brutally subverted. The fact Videl manages to actually temporarily beat Spopovich with relative ease (even if she did accidentally go to far and snap the man's neck) seems like it'd be something to cushion the blow of her loss right? Wrong, the next several minutes result in not only her brutal and devastating beatdown, but it shows her hits earlier meant nothing to what Spopovich has become.
• Cute Bruiser: Good-looking and capable of taking down most normal humans with little effort.
• Cry into Chest: After the fight with Kid Buu, she does this to Gohan during their reunion.
• Daddy's Girl: Mr. Satan at least thinks so. On her part, it's quite subverted. Though in the tournament arc she is shown to have a lot of pride at being Satan's daughter, seeing him as a great fighter.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Mr. Satan didn't take too kindly to Videl being awfully close to Gohan (as Saiyaman). Subverted eventually, as it's shown Gohan eventually won him over, even to the point where Mr. Satan subsidized Gohan and Videl's marital home.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not often, but she can have her moments. One of the biggest examples would be during Wrath of the Dragon, where she's extremely suspicious and dismissive of Hoi in contrast to Gohan who's more willing to give him a chance.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: More so in the anime, in which she is portrayed as more bitchy initially but, around the time of her haircut, starts to act nicer toward Gohan. After getting married to Gohan, Videl reserves this attitude only to people she is very uncomfortable with.
• Demoted to Extra: After Z. Justified along the same lines as Krillin and Yamcha. She's a normal human and so she can't keep up with the superpowered aliens.
• Demoted to Satellite Love Interest: She's introduced as an Audience Surrogate at the start of the Buu saga, her budding romance with Gohan is given a lot of development, and she has a brutal fight with Spopovich that actually gets more attention than Goku and Vegeta's long-awaited rematch does later in the story. Then the Z-Fighters go to fight Babidi, and she has no further plot relevance beyond being Gohan's girlfriend (later wife).
• Depending on the Writer: When written by Toriyama (the manga, Battle of Gods, Super Hero) and Takao Koyama (several anime filler episodes, movies and specials), she is tomboyish with a quick temper who is not afraid of expressing her feelings. When written by Toei animation (the anime filler episodes not written by Koyama, GT, Super etc) she is less angry and behaves more more like a proper lady. This is notable when one compares her characterization in the movie and anime adaptation of Battle of Gods. In the movie version, she is embarrassed by the drunken antics and ego of Mr. Satan, to the point that she yells at him in public, while, in the anime adaptation, she behaves very sweetly and when she finds Goku's comments offensive, she only mildly protests.
• Determinator: When Videl is set on something, she won't give up no matter what. Whether its learning how to fly or fighting Spopovich until her very limits. However...
• Detrimental Determination: ... because of her determination to beat him and prove herself a good fighter, she ends up getting brutalized and tortured, to the point when she decides to call it quits, she's too slow to escape and gets beaten down even more.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She throws a crystal at Broly! It was done to distract Broly from killing Gohan. Regardless, very admirable, particularly since it succeeds in its intended purpose.
• Dub Name Change: Her superhero identity of Great Saiyaman 2 became Great Saiyawoman in the English dub because the original name doesn't translate well. After all, she isn't a man.
• Empowered Badass Normal: She is a highly skilled and strong martial artist who can take down people bigger and more muscular than she is. She then gets Ki training from Gohan and learns to fly.
• Fair Cop: She fits the position nicely, given her good looks and the fact that her job is actually being a crime fighter.
• Family Theme Naming: Her name is an anagram for "devil" and she's the daughter of Mr. Satan. Although 'Mr. Satan' is just his stage name, his real name Mark or Maaku in Japanese becomes an anagram for Akuma (Devil/demon). On the flipside of that, her late mother was named Miguel, Spanish for "Michael" (the name of one of the biblical archangels), and has a similar phonetic cadence as "Videl". One could say Videl's name is a fitting and clever blend of both parents' names. Also, while probably unintentional, her name is a near homonym with "victual" which goes along with the Son family's Edible Theme Naming.
• Fearless Fool: Sometimes. Videl charges into battle and picks fights with opponents she knows she can't defeat highlights include Broly and Hirudegarn. Due to Chickification during Super, she no longer gets into any fights.
• Girliness Upgrade: She became a lot less tomboyish in Battle of Gods and Super. Although this could be attributed to her recent marriage and motherhood, by the epilogue of Z when Pan is a toddler, she's dressing less girly but not quite tomboyish either, lying more firmly in the middle, which tracks with her getting a career running a dojo.
• Girlish Pigtails: She was introduced with her hair in pigtails, and they were her only feminine trait at the time. She cut them off at Gohan's recommendation (he said short hair would be more practical for martial arts).
• Girly Bruiser: Wears some fancy dresses and styles her hair yet can take down muggers on Earth quickly.
• Good Parents: She's a wonderful stay-at-home mother and adores her daughter Pan.
• Happily Married: To Gohan by the time of Super. There's a lot of scenes about their happy domestic family life.
• Heroic Lineage: She is the daughter of Mr. Satan, the savior of Earth and the universe.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Although she's actually better than him, she told Gohan that Hercule would probably beat her in a sparring match. Justified because she genuinely didn't know she's a Superior Successor.
• High-School Sweethearts: Becomes this with Gohan after the events of the Buu Saga. They eventually marry and have a little girl together.
• Housewife: After Kid Buu's defeat and starting a family with Gohan, she's more focused on raising Pan than martial arts (but she still does them). She later sheds this in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, starting up her own martial arts dojo, which can keep her busy outside of home.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The top of her head barely reaches Gohan's mid-back; her shoulders are level with his waist. Not only is Videl short, but Gohan is also tall.
• I Just Want to Be Special: This trope is the main reason she trains so hard because she wants to be as powerful as her father who supposedly defeated Cell and was already strong enough to be asked for help from the police. When she discovers Gohan's secret identity, she stalks him until he teaches her how to fly (with Goten who by the way hilariously surpassed her) and uses her chi like the z warriors. After this, she became the third most powerful Earthling woman in the series (after 18 and Chi-Chi). Discovering Gohan and his friends actually far surpass her father has Videl later drop this.
• Important Haircut: We first see that she's warming up to Gohan when he tells her that short hair suits a warrior better and she thinks he likes short-haired girls. The next day she shows up with her Girlish Pigtails cut off.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: How she confirmed her suspicions about the Great Saiyaman's true identity in the manga.
• Interspecies Romance: With Gohan who is a half-Saiyan. They eventually get married.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: During her "fight" with Spopovich. Videl realizes she's way out of her league and allows herself to be thrown out of the ring; however, Spopovich grabs her in mid-air and tosses her right back in so he can continue beating her senseless.
• The Law of Conservation of Detail: She's the only character to be significantly redesigned in Battle of Gods, while even Goten and Trunks still have their kid designs despite being several years older, you'd think she's unusually important and she's the final piece to unlocking Goku's Super Sayian God form.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She used to be an arrogant jerk toward Gohan when she first met him. But, after getting to know him better, she turns out to be much nicer than before.
• Jerkass to One: Normally, Videl is a very morally good person and is all for saving civilians. She's extremely dismissive of Hoi in Wrath of the Dragon, even telling him to jump off the building he's on when she and Gohan are supposed to be saving him. That said, she has every right to be critical of him.
• Killed Offscreen: Played straight in the manga when Super Buu turns the majority of the Z-Fighters into candy and all we see is Goku's horrified reaction in the Realm of the Kais. Averted in the anime however when we see a terrifying Shadow Discretion Shot of her and the others (except Krillin's family) being changed and devoured.
• Leg Focus: In certain scenes, the camera tends to focus on her legs. Though this is normally seen when she has spandex, a skirt, or actual shorts on.
• Let Me at Him!: She tries to save Gohan from Spopovich and Yamu, but Goku has to hold her back. This solidifies her badass status, as she had, only a few minutes earlier, gotten the hell beat out of her by Spopovich, yet she still wants to help. Better yet, unlike a Saiyan, she doesn't get stronger after healing from near fatal attacks.
• Little Miss Badass: She's got low ki control and no superpowers, but is very physically strong and tough for a normal human. Probably would've made it to the World Martial Arts Tournament semi-finals, if she'd been born 20 years earlier.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Initially in the Majin Buu arc, most noticeably at the tournament where Gohan goes out of his way to try and stop her from finding out about the Saiyans and other aliens. Completely averts this after the Buu arc and joining the Z fighters.
• Made of Iron: She was able to take a beating from Spopovich, which could have killed any regular human being.
• Mirror Character: Definitely with Chi-Chi, which is why they quickly get along. Both have dark hair and pale skin. Both lost their mothers at an early age and were raised by their fathers. Both women are the sheltered beautiful daughters of heavily-built rich men with heavy facial hair. Both have initially overprotective fathers who ease off later. Both are somewhat socially insecure in their youth. Both Chi-Chi and Videl are headstrong tomboy martial artists who happen to marry a Saiyan. Both women retire from martial arts after marriage. Both even mellow out similarly after some tension with their future husbands when first interacting with them.
• Missing Mom: She once angrily remarks that "ever since Mom died, Dad uses his fame and championship to sleep around with different women every day!" (Though some media changes the "died" for "left.")
• Ms. Fanservice: Heavily Averted in the manga and anime. Leg Focus and the one scene with Roshi poking her breasts aside, Videl is probably the least fanservice-y female of the entire female cast next to Android 18 ^note who had at least two instances in the anime. Played Straight in some of her video game appearances (especially the Xenoverse series) where Videl can wear bikinis as a custom outfit ^note it's also the only way to unlock the customizable bikini for the female custom characters, as Android 18 (who can also be made to wear a bikini which is what the players will give to her once her mentor friendship is maxed out) will gift players from her set of clothes and oddly enough, one of them is Bulma's iconic camouflage bikini and this gets taken further to it's logical conclusion with the Dragonball Gal figurine collection via heavy Fanservice Pack.
• Nice Girl: Eventually mellows out into this. But only if you don't annoy her.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Is on the receiving end of an absolutely savage one at the hands of Spopovich once he stops holding back; Spopovich goes so far as to stomp on her head until she's literally crying from the pain. It's only because of Yamu ordering Spopovich to stop and ring her out that Videl got out alive.
• Perky Goth: During Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (and the corresponding saga in Dragon Ball Super) she's become more fashion-conscious, trading in her plain shirts and gym shorts for a red dress with a black devil's face on it and her hair is more stylized. She really stands out compared to her nerdy husband and the other more conventional-looking women. By the epilogue of Z, however, she's taken on a more mature style, although maintaining the red color.
• Perpetual Frowner: She's this until she mellows out. In short, when she has the pigtails she's usually frowning, but when she cuts her hair short she's a lot more prone to smiling.
• Pink Means Feminine: As The Great Saiyawoman, she has a peach colored cape and helmet.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She only comes up to Gohan's chest, but she can apparently lift more weights than Sharpner with ease.
• Pregnant Badass: A downplayed example in Dragon Ball Super. Although she doesn't do any fighting, she does talk down an angry god of destruction, then becomes the first and only known full-blooded human to turn Super Saiyan by channeling her unborn daughter's power.
• Secret-Keeper: Of the blackmailing kind initially after she learns that Gohan was the Great Saiyaman. She then later finds out that Gohan is the gold fighter and the person who actually killed Cell seven years ago. By the end of the Buu Saga, she becomes an official member of the group along with her father.
• Silk Hiding Steel:
  • She may have become a sweet and gentle housewife six years after the defeat of Majin Buu, but Videl's strength of character has, if anything, become even more formidable. This is best exemplified by her reaction to Barry trying to blackmail her into sleeping with him with photos of Gohan being on the receiving end of a chaste and innocent kiss. Whereas Videl the Tomboy would have smashed Barry's teeth out (and she no doubt still could) for this insult, Videl the Mother told Barry with firm-dignity without even raising her voice that she believes in her husband, and calmly asks him to leave her house, soundly defeating the creep without so much as a clenched fist. Truth in Television - an overwhelming majority of martial artists would rather defuse a confrontation with words rather than violence.
  • Yuko Minaguchi brought a wonderfully convincing performance of the "kind but strong mother" that she has spent the last two decades perfecting with roles like the equally-adorable mom Akiko Minase of Kanon to this scene. She gives a little speech about this when talking to Chi-Chi about Pan's future, saying that while she always liked girly things, she's also always loved Martial Arts too and considers both to be important parts of her life, and she would be fine with Pan growing up to be a fighter too.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Part of the reason Videl fell in love with Gohan is that, unlike her father, he was much more humble when it came to how strong he was.
• Small Role, Big Impact: With a single deal with Gohan, Videl single-handedly kicks off the chain of events that lead to the Buu Saga: Gohan wasn't interested in participating in the World Martial Arts Tournament until Videl prodded him into it after learning that he was the son of Goku, the legendary (within the martial arts community) fighter who was the champion before her father. This would lead to the Z-Fighters reuniting at the Tournament (including Goku himself, despite being dead) and meeting Babidi's minions Yamu and Spopovich, and the Supreme Kai.
• Snark Knight: Videl as the Great Saiyaman 2, especially in contrast to Gohan's genuine but over-the-top enthusiasm. Her total indifference and constant snark when dealing with Hoi's Wounded Gazelle Gambit makes the scene increasingly hilarious, with her mocking him when he's pretending he'll jump from a skyscraper, flying while in annoyed poses and "attempting" to fix the music box (read: glancing at it for two seconds) before simply tossing it away like garbage.
• Spoiled Sweet: She comes from a rich family, but she's still a good girl.
• Superior Successor: Even before she trains with Gohan she was stronger than her dad. Mr. Satan seems to suspect this, which is why he refuses to train with her.
• Theme Naming: Videl is an anagram for "devil" keeping with the theme that her father is Mr. Satan.
• Tomboy: Loves martial arts. She even cut her hair to make herself a more effective fighter per Gohan's advice. Though initially, she thought Gohan liked girls with short hair better, even blushes at his suggestion.
• Tomboyness Upgrade: Videl is a Tsundere girl who has a streak for martial arts who feels something for her classmate Son Gohan. When they became a couple, she replaced the Girlish Pigtails and the skirt for a Boyish Short Hair and pants, also becoming more serious with martial arts and even learning the ki attacks of the other Z-Warriors. Averted when Videl became a mother in GT and Super, where she got the Girliness Upgrade with the long hair and more feminine clothes.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to her friend Erasa's Girly Girl.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: While she wears pants under her skirt when fighting, she seems quite comfortable in mini skirts and dresses, especially after starting to date Gohan. She sums it up well in one episode of Super, saying she enjoys feminine things and Martial Arts and sees no problems with this.
• Took a Level in Badass: In the Battle of Gods saga of Dragon Ball Super, while she doesn't really fight, she gets the distinction of being the first pure-blooded human to go Super Saiyan (thanks to being pregnant with the 1/4 Saiyan Pan), even if it was temporary. Also, in Dragon Ball Xenoverse, her Ki knowledge has gotten to a point where she can shoot standard Ki blasts.
• Took a Level in Kindness: At least towards Gohan who she stalked and bullied before falling in love with him.
• The Tooth Hurts: In the manga, she clearly has some teeth broken after getting kneed in the face by Spopovich during his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. It's healed up thanks to the Senzu beans.
• Totally Trusting Love Interest: When Barry Khan tries to frame Gohan for infidelity by presenting a photo of Cocoa kissing him, Videl just calmly tears the photo in half and calls out Barry for being so childish and petty. She knows Gohan would never cheat on her and is absolutely certain that no matter what it might look like, there is a reason for it.
• Tsundere: Type A. Despite being a crime fighter she's usually cold to others, but usually warmer to Gohan. Especially after he starts training her in flight. Switches fully into type B by the time of Super.
• Undying Loyalty: When Barry tries to blackmail Gohan by showing a photo of Cocoa kissing him into perceiving Gohan as if he cheats on Videl, she refused to believe it is true and knows that Gohan isn't the type of person to do this.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: She is Mr. Satan's daughter and she is quite the looker. Even Krillin lampshades this trope.
• Uptown Girl: For Gohan, who grew up in the mountains and is socially awkward at times while she comes from a rich family.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: The Serious Child to Hercule's Wacky Parent. While her father usually acts silly, she is usually laid-back most of the time.
• Weak, but Skilled: Back in the original Dragon Ball, flying was considered a very advanced technique. Goku didn't learn it until the very end of the series. Videl learns it in ten days after she first learns that ki even exists. Case in point, she managed to defeat Spopovich initially (though she went too far and would have killed him had he not been magically enhanced) and only lost because she was unprepared for someone to be that severely augmented with ki.
• When She Smiles: More noticeable in the Great Saiyaman and World Tournament sagas. She gives off a very cold demeanor throughout a lot of her interactions with people, but when she starts her training with Gohan, we see her start to lighten up and blush, showcasing a surprising warmth and vulnerability. The focus the animation gives to her bright, wide-eyed, blue eyes probably helps as well.
• You Just Told Me: Manga-only, where Videl figures out Gohan is Saiyaman in about three seconds. The anime took a bit longer, and only because an identical cut from Saiyaman was on Gohan.

Pan

Pan (パン)

^{Click here to see her in GT}

^{Click here to see her in Super}

Voiced by (Japanese): Yuko Minaguchi, Shino Kakinuma (Kai)
Baby Pan voiced by (English): Jeannie Tirado
3-year-old Pan voiced by (English): Jeannie Tirado
4-year-old Pan voiced by (English): Susan Huber (Z), Kate Bristol (GT flashbacks), Elise Baughman (Kai) (Funimation dub); Brenna O'Brien (Ocean dub); Caitlynne Medrek (GT flashbacks) (Blue Water dub)
10-year-old Pan voiced by (English): Elise Baughman (Funimation dub); Caitlynne Medrek (Blue Water dub); Dyanne DiRosario (GT - Final Bout)
Old Pan voiced by (English): Elise Baughman (Funimation dub); Mariette Sluyter (Blue Water dub); Mirabelle Kirkland (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Circe Luna (current voice), Ángela Villanueva (Old)
Voiced by (Hebrew): Shira Naor
Voiced by (French): Julie Turin
Voiced by (Italian): Federica Valenti

The daughter of Gohan and Videl, introduced at the tail end of the original series though given more of a fleshed-out character in the anime-only GT series. Very much a tomboy and thrill-seeker, willing to prove she's just as tough as her grandfather when given the chance. But not without a soft side either.

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• Action Girl: At the tender age of three as seen in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, she is already a Cute Bruiser who can easily overpower the average human being, and she even managed to hold Dr. Gero hostage in GT.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: As bratty as her GT counterpart was, the Xenoverse games portray this version of her largely as a friendly, enthusiastic, and patient mentor to the player.
• Aesop Amnesia: No matter how many times in GT Pan nearly dies or gets captured as a result of her jumping into things without thinking, she'll be sure to do it again a few episodes later, regardless of what anyone says.
• Age-Inappropriate Dress: In GT, she wears a crop top despite being only ten, gets played for Fanservice in the Baby Saga when an alien deer attempts to put it's head right into Pan's shirt, very nearly exposing her breasts simply by trying to get more affection from her.
• Affirmative Action Girl: While Dragon Ball always had a few female characters scattered throughout the supporting cast, the anime-only Dragon Ball GT was the only time a girl regularly joined in on the world-saving. However, she was written as a Damsel in Distress quite often in order to be saved by Goku. This was a directorial decision, as the director wanted Pan to have a good memory of her grandpa in the late future.
• The Apprentice: Goku personally trains her to be his successor.
• The Artifact: Pan's bandanna in GT is supposed to be a Continuity Nod to the Great Saiyaman's bandanna, as it's the same orange color. This doesn't work since the anime version of the Majin Buu saga (and most adaptations) makes the bandanna white, losing the reference. Thought due to the orange color, it might have belonged to Android 17 ^note whose original outfit also had a similar looking bandanna which was worn on his neck, who gave it to her as a gift.invoked
• Badass Adorable: Like everyone else in the Son bloodline, she's a cute little kid who can crush bones. Doubly so as an adorable baby in Super since she can fly and control ki.
• Berserk Button: Never make fun of her eyebrows.
• Boisterous Weakling: In GT, she's admittedly strong for her age, but pales in comparison to her allies and foes alike which results in her getting swatted like a fly more often than not.
• Boyish Short Hair: No surprise since she is a Tomboy. As a child, she has a short hairstyle that resembles that of her mother, as a teen, her hair is slightly longer but still boyish.
• Bratty Half-Pint: In GT, she is a brat who constantly belittles her grandfather, pushes around Trunks, and bullies Giru.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Despite being a bit younger than a teenager, she plays this trope regularly in GT where she is a whiny brat instead of a Cheerful Child like at the end of Z
• Call-Forward: Pan learning to fly as only a baby in Super. Her introduction at the end of Z had her come flying in after taking several laps around the planet at only four or five years old.
• Cheerful Child: In Z and also as a baby in Super. She inherited her family's positive attitude.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Videl being pregnant with her was all Goku needed to complete the Super Saiyan God transformation.
• Child Prodigy:
  • Despite being only nine, she is already very powerful, and the Dragon Ball GT Perfect Files state she has the potential to transform and imply she might become a type of Super Saiyan never seen before. Though this remains largely an Informed Attribute, as she never scores a victory without someone else contributing
  • This is taken further in Super when she's shown as an infant to have learned how to fly all on her own, far younger than any other character seen so far. Remember that even her uncle Goten who could turn Super Saiyan at 7 couldn't fly until he was instructed on how.
• Cute Bruiser: Just because she is a cute little girl doesn't mean she won't kick your ass. Best shown in Super Hero where she easily takes down a guy ten times her size despite being only 3 and a half years old.
• The Cutie: As a four-year-old (and a baby), she was seen as cute and bubbly, and full of energy. This rarely appears in GT though.
• Does Not Like Spam: In the English dub of Super, when explaining her Trademark Favorite Food, Piccolo suggests she doesn't like celery.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: In GT, she finds herself constantly being belittled by her family and friends, which leads to her wanting to prove herself at multiple points in the series.
• Family Theme Naming: Pan is a triple-themed name: the food puns for Gohan's side of the family, the devil/Satan theme from Videl's family^note Especially as Pan's horns and goat legs were the inspiration of classical depictions of the devil, and the musical theme from Piccolo who has been extremely close to Gohan and often babysits Pan. There's also, arguably, a fourth that references the Briefs family (as Bulma has been like a Cool Big Sis to Goku since childhood) since her name is also the first three letters in panty.
• Fearless Fool: In GT she legitimately challenges multiple people that are way above her in terms of strength, and would occasionally taunt or insult them. Unfortunately, this causes her to get in trouble quite often.
• Fanservice: The infamous scene with the alien deer in the Baby Saga which nearly got Pan's breasts exposed on-screen due to it wanting more affection from her and got a bit too close for comfort by sticking it's head right under her top, forcing Pan to quickly pull her shirt down.
• Faux Action Girl: Despite being the main character alongside Goku in GT, Pan is largely delegated to the Damsel in Distress role, oftentimes making the situation worse because of her inability to properly protect herself. The amount of victories she has against adversaries is enough to count on one hand and still have fingers left over, and the amount of victories she has without the help of anyone else brings that number to one.
• Genki Girl: She is really full of energy.
• Goo-Goo-Godlike: Baby Pan has not only learned to fly on her own, but her just powering up destroys Pilaf's battle machine. She's also strong enough to carry Pilaf's gang back to Earth after they shot themselves into the stratosphere.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: She gets angry very easily for trivial reasons as a kid. In GT, she gets worse, yelling at nearly everybody for things that aren't their fault.
• Heir to the Dojo: Of Satan-style. She winds up running the dojo as a teenager.
• Heroic Lineage: She comes from two heroic lineages. Her grandfather, Goku, is a warrior who saved the Earth countless times and her father saved the world from Cell and was critical to everyone's survival during the Saiyan Invasion and Namek. Her other grandfather, Mr. Satan, is a Badass Normal who in a world of Super Weights is relegated to Fake Ultimate Hero; he is seen as the world's savior but really did help save the world from Cell, though he played a small but key role in the last stand against Buu (yes, really!). Her mother is a Badass Normal who used to help the police fight crime on a regular basis without any Ki or superpowers.
• Informed Attribute: It's claimed in extra materials she could transform, but there's nothing in the series that even hints this as being possible, especially with her poor performance.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Pan in GT is moody, disrespectful, selfish, and bratty- a far cry from when she was younger. But she can be rather nice, she is firmly on the side of good, and she wants to do her best to help her friends and family.
• Kamehame Hadoken: Unsurprisingly good at it, considering her father, grandfather and uncle are.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Pan is a Type 3. Even if she'd get destroyed in the main fight, she still tends to try, and if she's not doing that, there's a good chance she's doing something else on her own, which tends to help out (pursuing Giru, finding and saving the kid who was possessed by Baby, and calming Goku down while he was a Golden Great Ape are all good examples).
• Last Episode, New Character: In the manga and Z, where she was introduced at the very end of the series. Averted in GT, where she is one of the main characters. Inverted in Super, where Videl announced her pregnancy in the first arc.
• Little Miss Badass: Four years old in Z, around nine years old in GT, but badass and adorable all the way.
• Little Miss Snarker: In the GT series, she's a snarky and often disrespectful preteen.
• Male Gaze: Pan has had at least one awkward close-up of her butt. The fact that she might be as young as ten didn't stop the crew.
• Master-Apprentice Chain: She is Goku's second student, giving her a complex chain since Goku had many masters, one which includes Whis:
  • Mutaito > Master Roshi > Son Gohan, Sr > Son Goku > Pan
  • Master Korin > Master Roshi > Son Goku > Pan
  • Master, Korin, Kami, King Kai, and Whis > Son Goku > Pan
• Mouthy Kid: In GT, she is rather mouthy and verbally violent (and physically too, just like her grandmother.)
• Mythology Gag: Her love of stars and desire to fly into space in Super, as well as Goku's promise to take her there, are probably nods to GT.
• No Guy Wants an Amazon: Her potential boyfriend runs away when he sees her abilities as she fights some random criminals.
• Older Than They Look: Old Pan in the Distant Finale of GT does show her age, but she looks about 80, not her real age of over 110. Perhaps at least partially explained by her Saiyan ancestry, as Saiyans age at more or less half the speed of humans.
• Outdated Outfit: Her clothes in GT are extremely 90s, and highly inappropriate due to its heavy Fanservice style.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: She already possesses tremendous strength and the ability to fly by the time she was four years old. In fact, she's shown to be quite powerful as a baby as well.
• Shorttank: Combination of Tomboy and Action Girl.
• Superior Successor: To Hercule. She is much stronger than her father or Goten as children. Even in GT where she never went Super Saiyan, she takes out the Red Ribbon Army with ease and helps kill one of the Shadow Dragons. On top of that, if Hercule is successful in making her his successor as World Champion, she'll succeed him by leagues. Unfortunately, she falls flat when it comes to Gohan/Goku's lineage.
• Theme Naming: Pan is Akira Toriyama's crowning achievement in theme names:
  • The obvious facet is that "pan" is a Portuguese and Spanish loan word for "bread", punning off her dad's name, which means rice (and if you want, you can stretch the pun: Chi-Chi can mean "milk" or "breast milk.").
  • Pan is also a satyr in Greek mythology whose imagery was borrowed for the Christian devil. Her mother's name is an anagram of "devil", and her maternal grandfather is Mr. Satan (whose real name, Maaku, is an anagram of Akuma or Devil/Demon)! If you want to stretch that even further, it's a retroactive, indirect reference to Satan's late wife Miguel. Miguel is a Spanish version of the name Michael, the name of an Archangel (and Lucifer was an Archangel before he was Satan).
  • Pan could also be a reference to the Pan Pipes in honor of Piccolo, who, being the reincarnation of a Daimaō, would fit the devil theme above as well.^note Especially after receiving a Satan-based name in the French dub based on that very fact.
  • Her name might also be a reference to her Saiyan heritage, as the genus of the Chimpanzee species is called Pan.
  • Pan may also be an abbreviation of panties or pants, in honor of the clothing-based names of Bulma's family.
  • Here's the kicker: In Greek, "pan" is a prefix meaning "all". So Pan is, in fact, most likely named after all of these characters—making her a living and breathing ode to her parents' family and friends.
• Token Mini-Moe: In GT. A little girl who is likely stronger than every human on Earth. Unfortunately for her, this still makes her weak in comparison to Trunks and especially Goku.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: There's her love of martial arts and boyish way of dressing, but when a certain GT arc involved another planet's marriage rituals, she said she admired the dress. She also enjoys sweets and takes offense over her bad cooking.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Her aged appearance in the last episode of GT comes with the addition of Pan being kinder, happier, and much more respectful towards other people.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to "Piccoyo" (Piccolo), Baby Pan's favorite food is vegetable pancakes with tuna and soy pulp (with the specific vegetables in the pancakes being carrots, onions, spinach, and broccoli).
• Tsundere: Type A, as her grandmother and mother, in GT. If the simplest of negative things happens to Pan, she can exaggerate its importance and set off her fiery temper, but despite these tantrums, she does truly care for her family in her more sincere moments and will assist them in any way she can.
• Uneven Hybrid: Pan is a quarter Saiyan through her grandfather Goku and three-quarter human. Oddly enough, she's considered a Saiyan despite having more human blood. She also developed faster than the half-Saiyans since she's barely a year old and can fly.
• Younger Than They Look: Very downplayed. But she looks and acts like a young teen, but she's not even 13 by the time GT starts.

Son Goku Jr.

Son Goku Jr. (孫悟空ジュニア, Son Gokuu Junia)

Voiced by (Japanese): Masako Nozawa
Voiced by (English): Stephanie Nadolny (Funimation dub); Zoe Slusar (Blue Water dub); Jodi Forrest (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Laura Torres (GT), Irma Carmona (TV Special)

The protagonist of the Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy TV special. He is a descendant of Goku. While he has Goku's looks and appetite, his personality is more like that of an ordinary child although that may be due to the fact that—unlike his ancestor—he wasn't Raised by Wolves. Goku lives with his great-great-grandmother Pan and endures endless Training from Hell from her as she tries to mold him into Earth's next great hero.

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• Action Survivor: Before he discovered the Super Saiyan transformation, he would often be rescued from dangerous situations by sheer luck or thanks to someone else's assistance.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Often goes into panic mode when in dangerous situations.
• Canon Foreigner: So far he's only appeared in a GT TV special, and not in the manga.
• Disappeared Dad: Goku Jr.'s father is never really mentioned at all.
• Hereditary Hairstyle: This seems to be a common trait in the family.
• Identical Grandson: Great-great-great-great-grandson, technically.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: A family trait.
• Kid Hero: Becomes the main hero of the GT TV special despite being only a kid.
• Legacy Character: Named after his famous ancestor, the original Goku.
• Lovable Coward: A trait he shared with the second Gohan.
• Missing Mom: Much like the above-mentioned father, not referenced at all.
• Mooning: Does this after escaping the bad guys in A Hero's Legacy
• Raised by Grandparents: Pan raised and trained him herself for currently unknown reasons.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Much like Goten, he is a dead ringer for Goku when he was a kid.
• Took a Level in Badass: Becomes much tougher by the end of the special, and even tougher by the time he shows up in the final episode of the main series.

Bulma's Family

Dr. Brief and Bulma's Mom

Dr. Brief (ブリーフ博士, Burīfu Hakase) and Bulma's Mom (ブルマのママ, Buruma no mama)

Dr. Brief voiced by (Japanese): Joji Yanami (Most media), Ryoichi Tanaka (Resurrection 'F', Super)
Dr. Brief voiced by (English): Chris Forbis (DB and Z), Mark Stoddard (Kai and Super) (Funimation dub); Paul Dobson (Z Season 2), Scott McNeil (Z Season 4-6), Corby Proctor (DB) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Paul Bandey (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Dr. Brief voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Ricardo Hill (Current Voice), José Luis Castañeda (DB), Humberto Vélez (Kai)

Bulma's Mom voiced by (Japanese): Mariko Mukai (DB and Z Seasons 1 and 2), Youko Kawanami (Z Seasons 3+, Kai), Hiroko Emori (Z Season 5 and DBS)
Bulma's Mom voiced by (English): Cynthia Cranz (Funimation dub); Jane Perry (Z Season 2), Saffron Henderson (Most of Z Season 4), Jillian Michaels (End of Z Season 4), Kelly Sheridan (Z ep. 240), Willow Johnson (Z ep. 245-246), Jennifer Bain (DB) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Jodi Forrest (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Bulma's Mom voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Ángela Villanueva (Current Voice) , Magda Giner (DB), Maru Guzmán (DB epi. 44)

Dr. Brief is the founder of Capsule Corp and the father of Bulma. Bulma's Mom, Panchy, is the mother of Bulma and the wife of Dr. Brief.

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• Absurdly Youthful Mother: Bulma's Mom, she looks the same through her daughter's teenage years and her grandson's childhood. If we assume that she was at least 18 when she had Tights, then that means that she could be no younger than 71 as of the Buu Saga.
• Accent Adaptation: Dr. Brief is given a thick British accent in the Ocean and Funimation dubs of the series, though it was done away with from Kai onwards. His wife by contrast was given a Brooklyn accent for Funimation's dub.
• All Men Are Perverts/All Women Are Lustful: They are both depicted as swingers and both are equally lustful, with her mother telling her to bring any handsome boys she meets home with her when she comes to visit and appearing to hit on a very young Goku and chiding her daughter not to be a "prude" when she objects.
• Ambiguously Human: While most non-Saiyan characters visibly age, Bulma's mom doesn't. This, among other things, has led to theories that she's actually a Ridiculously Human Robot.
• Ascended Extra: In an interesting contrast to most who are introduced pre-Z, they actually get more prominence in the Z era, or at least Dr. Brief does. He is the one to rebuild Goku's old saiyan pod so the latter can get to Namek quickly and later repair Android #16 to help fight in the Cell Games. Back in the original anime, Brief and his wife only appeared canonically in the Red Ribbon Army arc as stop-gap comedic relief (they make a return in the King Piccolo filler when the titular villain vows to destroy West City as part of celebrating Piccolo Day).
• Big Applesauce: Bulma's mom has a Brooklyn accent in the English dub.
• Brainless Beauty: Bulma's mom, which is hilarious when you consider how intelligent her equally beautiful daughter is.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dr. Brief. Bulma clearly gets her brains from him and his intellect has made him the smartest and richest man on the planet through his being the founder and chairman of Capsule Corp. He is also an unquestionable Ditzy Genius.
• Butt-Monkey: Dr. Brief becomes one particularly in the anime version of Freeza Saga, usually on the wrong side of Chi-Chi's yelling for him not getting the ship done fast enough.
• Captain Oblivious: Bulma's mom tends to state the obvious.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: They're nowhere to be found in Dragon Ball GT and it is mentioned that in the second episode Trunks has succeeded his grandfather as the president of Capsule Corporation. Whether this means that they retired or passed away is unknown. Even in the Z episode "He's Always Late", which features almost the entire cast at a party within the Capsule Corp., neither Dr. Brief nor his wife is seen attending. Their last appearance in the anime and manga before Majin Buu wiped out all humanity was when Trunks went to West City to obtain the Dragon Radar.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Bulma's mother never seems to age and frequently seems completely divorced from reality. Dr. Brief himself tends to blurt out awkward remarks, particularly in his debut, though he is quite a bit saner.
• Dirty Old Man: Dr. Brief, revealed that he hides a collection of dirty magazines.
• Ditzy Genius: Dr. Brief was able to reverse engineer the engines to advanced spaceships to create an actual spaceship in a month and considered it unready because he hadn't figured out where to put a coffee maker. In Battle of Gods he had no idea he was the richest man on the planet until Chi-Chi pointed it out and was perfectly willing to get Mr. Satan a drink when he was mistaken for a waiter, even after Satan apologized.
• Doting Parent: They are very fond of their daughter Bulma and their grandson Trunks and Future Trunks.
• Dumb Blonde: Bulma's mom has blonde hair and has been shown to be ditzy. Along with her husband, she is almost entirely oblivious to a serious situation. Super has largely done a 180 on this, where she is instead shown to be surprisingly intellegent and insightful, seemingly signified by the fact she finally opens her eyes.
• Eyes Always Shut: Bulma's mom. She only opens them once in Z, and her eyes turn out to be blue... however, this has been increasingly downplayed in Super, as she's been shown with her eyes open a bunch, usually when presenting thoughtful or insightful advice.
• Family Theme Naming: The Briefs family (Bulma/Bloomer, Dr. Briefs, Panchy/Panty/Bikini, Trunks, Bulla/Bra, Tights) are named after undergarments.
• Friend to All Living Things: They take in a large number of strays including dinosaurs and freaking kaiju!
• Gadgeteer Genius: Dr. Brief built the technological empire known as Capsule Corp. He also helps Bulma repair Android 16 and Cell's Time Machine in Super.
• Happily Married: They are in a good marriage.
• Honor Before Reason: Whenever the Earth is threatened, they refuse to retreat to Kami's Lookout, saying it wouldn't feel right to leave their home and pets behind.
• Housewife: Bulma's mom, who is often seen baking cookies and cakes.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: In the rare moments that Bulma's mom opens her eyes, they're revealed to be blue. Her eyes are always opened in Super.
• Killed Offscreen: They refused to accompany the rest of the Z-Fighters to Kami's Lookout when Majin Buu was unsealed, wanting to keep their pets company. Later when Buu transforms, he utilizes an attack that wipes out virtually the entire population of Earth, including the Brief Family by that logic.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Dr. Brief is often seen with a small black cat either on his shoulder or in his hands. The cat is nameless in the manga, but the anime gives it the name Tama (or Scratch in the English dubs).
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Despite Bulma's Mom being ditsy, she is very polite.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Dr. Brief. His daughter, Bulma, inherited his love for inventing things and being a genius.
• Mr. Fixit: Dr. Brief, who helps Bulma repair Android 16 and Cell's Time Machine.
• Mrs. Robinson: Bulma's mother has flirted with Yamcha, Goku, and Vegeta, who brush her off. This even provoked Bulma's jealousy at one point!
• Nice Guy: Both of them are quite friendly.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Bulma's Mom, from Marilyn Monroe. Also overlaps with Casting Gag, as her Japanese voice actress (Mariko Mukai) was her defacto voice actress for Monroe in almost all the Japanese dubs of her films. Dr. Brief resembles Albert Einstein.
• Older Than They Look: Despite the passage of several decades in-universe, Bulma's mom is never shown aging. Even in Jaco the Galactic Patrolman, a prequel set roughly a decade before Dragon Ball begins, she still looks the same.
• Only One Name: He's just "Dr. Brief". He does not pass this name on to his descendants, and his wife's name is likewise not "Mrs. Brief".
• Opposites Attract: He is old and intelligent while she is a young Dumb Blonde.
• Parental Favoritism: Dr. Brief loves Bulma dearly, and his idea of spending quality time together involves working together in his lab, which suits Bulma just fine. His older daughter, Tights, on the other hand...well, he can't be bothered to remember the fact that she had already graduated from college two years after the fact.
• Perpetual Smiler: Bulma's mom. Even when she was angry one time, she still had a smile on her face!
• Polyamory: Implied in several comedic moments with them, while they seem Happily Married, the manga has them both ask Bulma and Goku to bring them back mates while they're out searching for Dragon Balls, much to their daughter's annoyance. Dr. Brief also keeps a large number of nudie magazines but besides Bulma's anger and her dad's Oh, Crap! realization that she took the collection and not her own capsules, it's seemingly not made a huge deal of (Bulma was even half expecting it to be something crude). Bulma's mom in the Frieza arc paws at Goku when he comes to see Dr. Brief's work on his ship...this despite seemingly knowing that he's already in a committed relationship with Chi-Chi and with a five-year-old son to boot. She even passively flirts with Vegeta during his initial stay at the Capsule Corp. despite him still being mostly an evil wannabe conqueror at the time. That last one gets a bit icky considering he'd formally become her son-in-law after the Cell arc.
• Porn Stash: Dr. Brief has them stored in his own personal capsule, as Bulma discovers by accident, much to her disgust and Goku's bewilderment.
• Rich Genius: Dr. Brief and his daughter are both genius inventors who created the capsules, those tiny things that are able to store anything of ANY size. They also own a yacht, are able to host big parties, and have their own professional chefs.
• Silver Vixen: Bulma's mom still looks great even after her grandson Trunks is born.
• The Tease: Bulma's mom is rather flirty, even with men half her age.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: In photos of Dr. Brief and Bulma's mom, Bulma's mom is shown to be taller, as shown here.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Dr. Brief is old and wrinkly while Bulma's mom is ridiculously cute.
• Unnamed Parent: Bulma's mom is only called Bulma's mom. (Akira Toriyama said it would have been "Panchy" (from "panty") if he had bothered to give her a name, while Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot calls her "Bikini".)

Tights

Tights (タイツ, Taitsu)

^{Click here to see her as an adult}

Voiced by (Japanese): Hiromi Tsuru (Anime)

Voiced by (English): Anastasia Muñoz

Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Mónica Manjarrez

A girl that Jaco and Omori encounter in East City, fascinated with aliens and outer space. Is also a stunt double for An Azuki's rocket launch as well as the eldest daughter of Dr. Brief.

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• Demoted to Extra: Shared the main character spot with Jaco in his titular series, barely a footnote in Super.
• Expy: Is similar in a number of ways to Bulma from Dragon Ball. And for good reason too, as she's Bulma's older sister.
• I Should Write a Book About This: Became a successful science fiction novelist in the epilogue, however her book based on Jaco, Space Police Chako, was a flop.
• Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed for the most part (especially compared to her younger sister Bulma's moments), but the Dragon Ball Minus bonus chapter of Jaco features Tights taking a dip in the ocean, complete with a Walking Swimsuit Scene.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Subverted. When Jaco pushes her on her face, she pushes him from the cliff, following that he misses to notice the alien threat landing on Earth. On the other hand, the said alien "threat" was Son Goku, so Tights actually saved Goku's life.
• Nominal Importance: In Super she's only given a short scene in order to make a connection to Jaco, and to inform everyone that Bulma does in fact have a sister. Even Vegeta, Bulma's own husband, reacts with total shock.
• Only One Name: The only character introduced to have only one name. Considering that the vast majority of the Dragon Ball cast have only one name, including her family, she follows this trend.
• Older Than They Look: When she first appears in Super, she looks to be in her 30's. She's actually 58.
• Punny Name: It foreshadows her relatives.
• Remember the New Guy?: Tights being Bulma's previously unmentioned older sister is handwaved by her being extremely independent, and thus unlikely to be around Capsule Corp and by her parents being extremely absentminded and unlikely to remember she exists. This gets a giant lampshade in Dragon Ball Super when Bulma casually says she's going to call her sister, and both Goku (who's known her for decades) and Vegeta (Bulma's husband) react with "You have a sister?!"
  • Note that she is also 11 years older than Bulma is, and thus would have been 27 and trying to start her career during the events of the first few arcs of Dragon Ball.
  • Amusingly, with Tights both Vegeta and Bulma have something in common: a long lost relative, with Tarble.
• Secretly Wealthy: She insists that a sci-fi writer has to have their own experiences in the world, and doesn't want to rely on her family's wealth to solve her own problems. As such, she only reveals her wealth in order to help someone else.
• Stunt Double: In-Universe. To An Azuki for the rocket launch, the implication being that Tights is being considered completely expendable on a program with a terrible record.
• Teen Genius: Graduated from the university at the age of 16. Evidently, it runs in the family.
• Walking Spoiler: Again, her presence in Dragon Ball titled works end up spoiling her debut manga.
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: As mentioned above, the majority of the Dragon Ball Minus bonus chapter of Jaco features Tights walking around in her swimsuit following her dip in the ocean.

Bulma

See Dragon Ball: Bulma

Vegeta

See Dragon Ball: Vegeta

Trunks

Dragon Ball: Future Trunks has his own page
See Dragon Ball: Trunks and Son Goten for present-day Trunks

Bura/Bulla

Bura/Bulla (ブラ, Bura)

^{Click here to see her in GT}

^{Click here to see her in Super}

Voiced by (Japanese): Hiromi Tsuru (All media up to 2017), Aya Hisakawa (Broly onwards)
Voiced by (English): Megan Woodall (Z), Parisa Fakhri (GT), Brina Palencia (Budokai Tenkaichi 3), Lauren Landa (Kai), Bryn Apprill (Super, Broly) (Funimation dub); Cathy Weseluck (Z), Leda Davies (GT) (Ocean/Blue Water dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Gaby Ugarte (Z), Isabel Martiñón (GT and Kai: The Final Chapters)

Vegeta's and Bulma's second child. Most of her characterization is from GT.

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• Adaptational Badass: She's never shown fighting in GT, where most of her screen time is. In Dragon Ball: Fusions, she can kick ass with the rest of them (which she proudly attributes to her parentage), being a Moveset Clone of Pan. Subvertedly Played for Laughs in Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle and Dragon Ball Legends, where she fights fine normally, but her Super Attack has her push Vegeta into the battlefield to have him fire off his Galick Gun or Final Flash.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Like her mother, her hair was purple in the manga, and blue in the anime.
• Age-Inappropriate Dress: She's a year away from being ten in GT, yet she dresses and acts like a teenager.
• Badass Boast: In Fusions, screwing up her Wounded Gazelle Gambit to win Dennish's heart multiple times eventually causes her to fight you with the help of some of her friends. Kid Trunks is surprised to learn that she at least has some fighting prowess, to which she angrily and proudly claims her lineage, something that sounds similar to what Vegeta has said before about Saiyan blood coursing through his veins.
  Bra: Just who do you think I am?! The blood of my mother and father run through my veins!
• Brainwashed and Crazy: By Baby, although she doesn't do much except help Baby reach his final form in Vegeta's body.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Played for laughs when she lets Vegeta know exactly what she thinks of his mustache.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite appearing in the last episode before it, in the last arc of GT, she's never seen or mentioned ever again. Especially jarring when both of the Saiyan families, as well as Uub and Mr. Satan, are present during the fight against Omega Shenron in the finale, and when it seems like they lost and may have to flee the Earth, Bulla isn't even brought up then.
• Daddy's Girl: She's the only person Vegeta actually listens to. She even made him shave his ridiculous Porn Stache.
• Deliberately Distressed Damsel: In Fusions, she tries to look like she's being attacked by unruly men (actually her friends that she managed to persuade into helping her) so that Dennish, her crush, believes she's in trouble and comes to her rescue. Too bad the protagonists fell for it too.
• Express Delivery: Thanks to Whis, who used his staff to speed up the birth AND pretty much teleport her out of Bulma (and wrap her in a blanket too) with no pain whatsoever.
• Family Theme Naming: Like the rest of her family, she's named after undergarments ("bura" = "bra"). Vegeta initially wanted to name her "eschalot" (comes from "shallot", a type of onion, ie the Saiyan vegetable theme-naming), but Bulma beat him to it.
• Fille Fatale: She likes to flirt with much older men, much to Vegeta's annoyance, keep in mind that she is nine.
• Flat Character: Like Marron (the daughter of Krillin and Android 18), she has a lot less relevance to the plot than her parents and her brother, Her only notable contribution is in the Baby Saga, where she gives her energy to Baby Vegeta.
• Gadgeteer Genius: In the manga's Super Hero saga, Bulla removes a computer virus when Trunks tries reading one of Dr. Hedo's discs on Bulma's computer.
• Generation Xerox: Looks exactly like her mom and with the same temperament.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Just like her brother, she's half-human, half-saiyan.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Her GT outfit.
• Inconsistent Dub: So is her name Bulla, Bra, or Bura? Her name has been changed to these three different variations between the Z and GT anime and manga, with Super reverting back to Bulla or Bura depending on which medium as well.
• Last Episode, New Character: She along with Pan and Uub is not introduced until the last pages of the original manga. She plays a somewhat bigger role in GT, but she has the least screen time between Pan and Uub.
• Living Prop: In the manga, she existed just to show that Vegeta and Bulma are still together and Happily Married.
• Nice Girl: Generally, if a bit spoiled. When it's to her family or the Son family or some other close allies, it devolves into Hidden Heart of Gold to some members.
• Morality Pet: To Vegeta.
• Satellite Character: Everything about her character, is only seen in relationship with Vegeta.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's designed to be a Ms. Fanservice, attracted the eyes of a couple older men, and is around as tall as a number of the adults. That said, she's only nine, and much taller than Goku was at twelve (and a bit taller than the slightly-older Pan). Plus, Saiyans and half-Saiyans tend to have a major growth spurt in their mid to late teens, so she could get significantly taller.
• Stripperiffic: In GT she wears a red midriff top with exposed shoulders, red finger-less gloves that go up to the shoulders, a red mini skirt with a yellow belt buckle, and red thigh-high boots.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Looks just like her mother did when she was a teenager.
• The Tease: Flirted with two older men while her father was driving.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She and Marron are the girly girls to Pan's tomboy.
• Tsundere:
  • In the quest to recruit her to your team in Fusions, after you defeat her in a battle and explain that you kept screwing up her attempts to get Dennish's attention because you thought she was in danger, she'll call you stupid but also blurts out that she likes you and joins your team.
  • In Budokai Tenkaichi 2, she makes comments on how her parents were 'so lame', as she came from further down the timeline than where the game takes place. Later on in the future section of Fusions, she proudly proclaims her parentage to her brother's younger version when he expresses shock that she knows at least basic combat, so it's not like she actually hates her parents or anything.
• Valley Girl: Like mother, like daughter.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The last time she is seen in GT is helping summon Shenron at the end of the Super 17 arc, only for the Shadow Dragons to be summoned instead.
• Younger Than They Look: Officially born in the Age 780, making her nine years old at the start of GT, and younger than Pan by a year.

Vegeta Jr.

Vegeta Jr. (ベジータジュニア, Bejita Junia)

Voiced by (Japanese): Ryō Horikawa
Voiced by (English): Christopher Sabat (Funimation dub); Scott Hendrickson (Blue Water dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Luis Daniel Ramírez

Vegeta and Bulma's great-great-grandson, who made his first (and thus far only, ^note  though he has since appeared in the video game Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle) appearance in the final episode of Dragon Ball GT as Goku Jr.'s opponent in the World Martial Arts Tournament Junior Division.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: He managed to obtain the Super Saiyan form as a child with seemingly little effort, not even having a clue he'd done something amazing.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He has shades of this, but not quite as bad as his ancestor though.
• Badass Adorable: Considering that he must have acquired his Super Saiyan transformation at about the same time as Goku Jr., despite not knowing what it's called. He seemed well-versed in how it works.
• Innocent Prodigy: He didn't even know what a Super Saiyan was when he transformed during his match with Goku Jr. at the tournament.
• Identical Grandson: To his great-great-grandfather, Vegeta.
• Last Episode, New Character: He appears only in the final episode of GT.
• Legacy Character: Named after his famous ancestor, the original Vegeta.
• Pint-Sized Kid: Without his pointed hairstyle he'd most likely be shorter than Goku Jr.
• Warrior Prince: Technically he's this since he is descended (however distantly) from Saiyan royalty, but it's unlikely he even knows it.

Krillin's Family

Kuririn/Krillin

See Dragon Ball: Krillin

Android 17 and 18

See Dragon Ball: Androids 17 and 18

Marron

Marron (マーロン, Māron)

^{Click here to see her in EOZ}

^{Click here to see her in GT}

Voiced by (Japanese): Tomiko Suzuki (Z), Naoko Watanabe (Yo! Son Goku and Friends Return and Battle of Gods), Hiroko Ushida (Kai, Super)
Voiced by (English): Melodee Lenz (Z)^note Susan Huber in ep. 284, Laura Bailey in ep. 286 and 288, and Kara Edwards in 290, Meredith McCoy (Bio-Broly, GT, and Battle of Gods), Tia Ballard (Resurrection 'F', Kai, Super) (Funimation dub); Cathy Weseluck (Z), Lori Barnes Smith (GT) (Ocean/Blue Water dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Cristina Hernández (current voice), Gaby Ugarte (Bio-Broly)

Krillin's daughter with Android 18.

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• Aerith and Bob: Her name is pronounced "Maron" and is the French word for "chestnut", which Krillin (Kulilin) is also named after, which is still a more relatively normal name compared to the likes of Vegeta, Goku, and Piccolo.
• Break the Cutie: In GT, the poor girl had to witness her father being murdered by her own uncle. She didn't witness when Super Buu murdered her father in Z, though, since Buu immediately targeted BOTH her and her mother at the same time.
• Cheerful Child: As shown in many scenes with her parents and when she's cheering for her mother in the tournament in the Buu Arc. In Dragon Ball Super she spends most of her time at Bulma's party gleefully playing with Chaotzu.
• Children Are Innocent: While everyone else is panicking at Beerus and Goku's battle throwing them around, Marron treats it like she's on a fun ride at an amusement park.
• The Cutie: A sweet adorable little girl who is filled with life and energy. She's just as cute, if not even cuter in Super. Exaggerated with DAIMA de-aging her to a literal infant that her de-aged mom has to carry and care for.
• Death of a Child: She's three years old at the time of the Buu Saga... and is turned into chocolate and devoured by Buu alongside her mom and with everyone else. Thankfully, she lives in a world where Death Is Cheap. She also dies temporarily alongside her parents when Frieza blows up the Earth in Resurrection of F and its anime adaptation only for it to be undone by Whis.
• Family Theme Naming: Krillin and Marron are both puns on chestnuts.
• Flat Character: Compared to her parents, she has very little relevance to the plot. In fact, she is almost always only there to show up as their daughter.
• Fountain of Youth: Gets turned into a baby in the upcoming DAIMA by a wish from a an unknown enemy.
• Girlish Pigtails: She has blond, girlish pigtails as a child, teenager, and adult in GT. She loses them in Super, where she now has a short bob hairstyle.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blond hair and is nothing but a good girl.
• Harmful to Minors: She had to watch her father get turned into chocolate by Super Buu and get eaten. Then she was killed and eaten herself alongside her mother. Note that, according to the Daizenshuu, Vegetto was only able to keep his power after being turned into candy because of the special properties of his earrings. However, it implies that he'd still be self-aware even if he didn't retain his power. So Marron and the others would still be fully conscious while Super Buu was chewing on them.
  • In GT, she watches her father get brutally murdered again, this time by her own uncle Android 17.
• Innocently Insensitive: In one scene when Master Roshi says that he wants to enter the tournament and she responds with "No way, you're too old!!" Justified as she is only three years old, and she probably doesn't know any better, she's also unaware that Roshi had entered before.
• Kill the Cutie: DAMN YOU, SUPER BUU...and FRIEZA! Thankfully, like many others in the series, she's revived. She temporarily dies again when Earth gets blown up by latter, luckily Whis was there to rewind time this time.
• Killed Offscreen: For better or worse in the manga, it never shows Marron and the others being eaten after Super Buu escapes the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Averted hard in the anime where Marron and her mother are the next to go after Krillin dies, with Dende and Mr. Popo watching helplessly (though we the viewers don't see Buu chowing down on them). Downplayed in Super as she's shown doing her homework right as Frieza's Earth-Shattering Kaboom occurs.
• Like Brother and Sister: Her interactions with both Goten and Trunks as children. Goten and Trunks are romantically paired off with Valese and Mai respectively.
• Living Prop: She's mainly used as a visual cue to Goku and the readers that yes, Krillin and 18 were a couple and eventually got married and had a child together. Super gives her a little more personality, but she's still pretty flat.
• Non-Action Guy: In GT, which is ironic because her parents are a Battle Couple and Marron's not.
• The Noseless: As a toddler.
• Only One Name: Like her parents, she doesn't have a last name.
• Plot Hole: She doesn't age at all during Super and no reason is given for it. Despite Super starting around 5 years after Buu was killed she still looks the same age as before, and this contrasts with how Goku, Krillin and Gohan aged over the years. Unlike Goten and Trunks who got an excuse for it^note in Super Hero Gohan claims that saiyans don't grow up for years until they hit a growth spurt, and that explanation contradicts how Gohan visibly grew over the years, nothing of the like is said about Marron, and the last time she showed up in Super was during the preparations for the Tournament of Power, and when she shows up in End of Z she looks like a teenager, meaning she went from looking and acting like she's less than 5 to a teenager in three years.
• Plucky Girl: Mildly developing into one in Super. While she doesn't fight or train, she's shown to love all the fighting and danger that goes on around her. When everyone else is screaming and panicking, she laughs and has the time of her life. Also, when given the chance to help Goten and Trunks hunt poachers on an island full of monsters, she jumps at the chance despite having no apparent means of defending herself. ^note Though Android 18 states that Marron's not an ordinary girl and that she's far tougher than she looks, heavily implying she may or may not have gotten some private training by her parents and Roshi off-screen prior to the Tournament of Power, in case Marron ever got herself into danger.
• She Is All Grown Up: In GT.
• Skintone Sclerae: Just like her father, but only as a child.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Marron looks like Krillin with 18's blond hair (though done up with pigtails instead of copying her mom's iconic shoulder-length style) as a toddler, which she keeps by End of Z as a teenager. As a teenage girl in End of Z and as an adult in GT, whenever she has a disinterested expression, she resembles her mother. She returns to her iconic toddler look for Super but now has her hair done up in a shortbob haircut making Marron further resembling her mom.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She and Bulla are the girly-girls to Pan's tomboy.

Piccolo's Family

Katas

Katas (カタッツ Katattsu)

The father of the original Nameless Namekian who sent his prodigal son away to Earth to escape planet Namek's ecological collapse in ancient times.

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• Fling a Light into the Future: Sent his son away to Earth when planet Namek's climate drastically shifted and died shortly afterward, mirroring the role of Jor-El in the Superman origin story and later Bardock's motive in sending baby Kakarot away in Dragon Ball Minus.
• Good Parents: Grand Elder Guru describes him fondly as a good father to the Nameless Namekian who was willing to do anything to protect his son.
• Mistaken Identity: Even official sources often mistake him with his son and claim that the Nameless Namekian was Katas... kind of ruining the point of him being called the Nameless Namekian.
• Posthumous Character: Died centuries before the beginning of the story.
• The Smart Guy: Guru says that Katas was a genius, implying that he designed the spaceship that carried his son to Earth.

The Nameless Namekian

The Nameless Namekian (Known later in life as Piccolo)

Voiced by (Japanese): Takeshi Aono (DB, Z ep. 54 and 137), Toshio Furukawa (Z ep. 141 onwards)
Voiced by (English): Scott McNeil (Ocean dub); Christopher Sabat (Funimation dub); Ethan Cole (Blue Water dub)
Voiced by (Brazilian Portuguese dub): Luiz Antonio Lobue (most media)

A gifted Namekian who narrowly escaped an apocalyptic event from his home planet and split himself into good and evil halves: Kami and King Piccolo.

For information on Kami, see the Allies page.

Demon King Piccolo has his own page.

Piccolo Jr has his own page.

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• The Ace: Through Namekian legend, the Nameless Namekian was considered a prodigy among prodigies with unrivaled fighting potential. His power was considered to be on par with a mastered Super Saiyan, and this is proven when Piccolo shows himself to be a match for Imperfect Cell after fusing with Kami.
• The Gift: Legend has it that his power was comparable to a Super Saiyan's, and Piccolo proves this after fusing with Kami. This makes him the most powerful Namekian in the universe by a very long shot.
• He's Back!: Sort of. Piccolo effectively becomes the Nameless Namekian after fusing with Kami, as the two are once again one person and their combined power is far greater than either individual's peak had been to this point. However, Piccolo remains the dominant persona, and in regards to his previous incarnations' memories, he attains only the key knowledge of said memories, not the personal aspect.
• Jack of All Trades: He was a Dragon Clan Namekian, which meant that he had mystical abilities and could create sets of Dragon Balls, but he was also far stronger than any Warrior Clan Namekian.
• Literal Split Personality: He split himself into two beings that represented the good and evil halves of his soul. They became known as Kami and King Piccolo. Centuries later, King Piccolo's son/reincarnation re-merged with Kami to combat Cell and briefly abandoned the name Piccolo, calling himself the Nameless Namekian. However, Piccolo being the "base" of the fusion meant that he was still Piccolo for all intents and purposes, just with a momentous power boost and Kami's wisdom in his subconscious (as well as a sudden reverence for the Lookout).
• Name Amnesia: He may have had a name once, but he had forgotten it by the time he arrived on Earth. When Piccolo and Kami finally merged back together, he decided to keep the name "Piccolo".

Demon Spawn

See Dragon Ball Original Series Villains

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