Antagonists
Original Series Villains (Red Ribbon Army [Cell]) | DBZ Villains (Frieza's Empire [Freeza/Frieza [A to H, I to Y], Cooler/Coola], Majin Buu) | DBZ Movie Villains (Broly) | GT Villains | DBS Villains (Goku Black, Zamasu/Zamas [Fused Zamasu/Zamas])
Freeza / Frieza (フリーザ, Furīza)
Voiced by (English): Pauline Newstone (Z), Jennifer Bain (GT) (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Linda Young (Z, up to first episode of Kai), Chris Ayres (Kai and Kai era dubbed games, Super; Resurrection 'F' Saga, Tournament of Power Saga; Home Release, DBS: Broly), Daman Mills (Super Tournament of Power Saga; TV Broadcast, FighterZ, Kakarot) (Funimation dub);note Kevin Seymour (DBGT - Final Bout); Ed Marcus (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub); Apollo Abrahm (Creative Products Corp., Philippines); Derek Stephen Prince (Bang Zoom!/Toonami Asia dub of Super)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Gerardo Reyero (current voice), Enrique Cervantes (Bardock: Father of Goku), Dafnis Fernández (Kai)
Voiced by (Brazilian Portuguese): Carlos Campanile, Hamilton Ricardo (Kai)
Voiced by (French): Philippe Ariotti
Voiced by (Greek): Matina Karras
A tyrannical Evil Overlord who aspires to take over the universe, but his first agenda is to gain immortality through the Namek Dragon Balls. A member of a highly formidable race, Frieza is every bit as cold-hearted as the name suggests, and then some. Responsible for nearly destroying all of the Saiyan race (despite the fact he was employing them in the first place). After a lot of cat and mouse with the Z Fightersnote on Planet Namek, he comes into confrontation with Goku leading to the single longest fight in the entire series. Eventually, he is struck down by his own attack and presumed dead after Namek is destroyed. However, he survived and is rebuilt as a cyborg by his father King Cold and heads for Earth... only to be chopped up and blasted to atoms by Future Trunks upon arrival.
Years later, he was revived using the Earth's Dragon Balls to restore the Planet Trade Organization in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'. Instead he chose to seek revenge against Goku and Trunks. After being told that Goku defeated Majin Buu, Frieza decides to train for the first time in his life to bring out all his latent power. He largely succeeded and gained a new ultimate transformation. However, he's still done in because his Golden Super Mode quickly drained his stamina. After losing to Goku and Vegeta, he decides to destroy the Earth. Whis rewinds time on him, allowing Goku to kill Frieza once and for all.
Sometime after the events of his revival and death, Frieza is asked by Goku to join the Universe 7 team for the Tournament of Power hosted by Zeno. He's given a 24-hour pass into the mortal realm thanks to Fortuneteller Baba and is completely revived once again by Whis after assisting in Universe 7's victory. Unlike Goku's other adversaries, Frieza doesn't become an ally after this, choosing to rebuild his empire once more and surpass the Saiyan.
Aside from this, Frieza is the one who modernized the concept of One-Winged Angel as well as the Bishōnen Line as he abuses both in his fights with the Z-Fighters with ridiculous power increases and used to hide his true power in his fourth form, which is his normal state. Even more notably, other than his obviously justified Smug Super attitude is his absolute sadism, Lack of Empathy and the brutal beatdowns he inflicts on his enemies. The rest of his family are no different, and he takes after his equally vile father the most. He also has an older brother of dubious canonical status named Cooler that rivals his might.
It's also interesting to note that Frieza is the last villain in the original manga to have any interest in the Dragon Balls; all subsequent villains, particularly Cell and Majin Buu, were more concerned with either acquiring power for themselves or simply wanton mass destruction. It isn't until Dragon Ball Super that the titular holy orbs became a point of interest again for the villains.
Check out his self-demonstrating page.
