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Biographies
Name: Goku
Goku is the main character in the Dragonball series. Son of Bardock and brother of Radditz, Goku is a member of the fighting race the Saiyan from planet Vegeta. He, like all Saiyans, has a simian tail. With it he can transform into a large ferocious ape and become very destructive. As an infant he was sent on a mission to help condition earth for take over, but a childhood head injury made him forget his primary objective. Thus becoming the gentle and sweetly innocent person we see now. As a child Goku had his tail removed and is no longer able to transform into an ape. Goku's strength lies in his passion to fight and to be the best fighter. He strives on fighting strong opponents. When it seems that Goku is beat he always comes up with something to fend off defeat. He was trained by great teachers such as Mutenroshi (or Kame-sennin, the turtle master), Sennin (that cute chubby cat with the sensu beans), and Kaio-sama (King Ki). When Goku matures (at around age 16-17) he marries Ox King's daughter Chi Chi. Together they have two children: Son Gohan and Son Goten. During the battle of Freeza, Goku was the first to inherited the ability to change into the legendary Super Saiyan. Having always the challenge of fighting stronger opponents, it was typical of Goku to stay ahead of everyone. What is strange about Goku is his ability to outwit and befriend his enemy. Some of his past enemies later become his ally. He does not bother nor care about leaders of Earth, politics, and power. His only concern is the righteousness of humanity (and all other races for that matter) and fightin strong opponents.
Name: Freeza
Space conqueror who killed King Vegeta and took over Planet Vegeta. He used the Saiyans as mercenaries to take over other planets.Freeza later destroyed Planet Vegeta itself. He attempted to seek the Namek dragonballs to wish for immortality and was responsible for blowing up Planet Namek, but was defeated by Goku. His body parts were found floating in space by his father (King Cold) and was rebuilt into robotic form. Than later Killed by Future Trunks In the afterlife, he allied with Cell to terrorize hell, but was defeated by Paiku-han and Goku. He attempted this once again in Dragonball GT, but was again defeated by Goku.
Name: Vegeta
Vegeta is the prince of all Saiyans (Saiya-jins). He was born an elite Saiyan and has the ability to become a Super Saiyan. Along with Nappa, Raddiz and Goku (Kakarot) he is one of the four survivors of his home planet "Vegeta"*. The Saiyans were part of Freeza's organization and used as tools to take over and prepare planets for sale. Freeza took Vegeta as a child and sent him out on special missions. While out fulfilling one of those missions, his home world was abruptly destroyed (this happened when he was a child). As Freeza's henchmen, Vegeta was regarded as one of the more powerful soldiers in the galaxy. He always knew that Freeza destroyed planet Vegeta and plotted to one day overthrow the vile ruler.
Name: Gohan
Goku and Piccolo team up in an effort to save Gohan from the Saiyan Radditz. The three battle it out in a frenzy. The advantage that Radditz has over Goku and Piccolo, however, is too much for the both of them. Eventually Radditz beats and tortures Goku. Gohan hearing his father's cries, gets enraged and shows his true powers. This is where we see Gohan's powers for the first time. Son Gohan is Goku's first son. He is a good natured boy and is polite to in every way. Like his father, he has a heart of Gold. But unlike his father, he does not like to fight. Gohan is mixed human and Saiyan, which makes him inherently more powerful than his father. He probably has the most potential over all of the Z warriors to be the strongest. But because he does not have the passion to fight, he never reaches his true potential. This can prove to be a weakness for him in battle. At one time he was trained by Piccolo who he looks up to and respects. In the battle of Cell, He displayed power and speed more than anyone. Gohan was the first to achieve the level of Super Saiyan 2. Eventually he grows up to be studious and intelligent, mainly because his mother is always on him to study. Gohan marries Videl, his high school classmate, and they both have one daughter Pan.
Name: Piccolo
Piccolo is the reborn Devil himself. Many years ago, A Namekian was sent to earth in fear that a comet would soon hit the planet Namek. The man we know as Kami-sama (which translates into god or the god of earth) wanted to take the place of the watcher of earth. But in order for him to do that he had to purge the small amount of evil that was within him. When Kami-sama did this his spirit split into two. Thus, from the expulsion of Kami's evil side, was the birth of an evil entity called Piccolo-Diamao (Piccolo the demon). Piccolo-Diamao was evil and destructive causing cities to disappear. Eventually this evil being came across Goku (when he was young). They fought an epic battle, with Goku killing Piccolo-Diamao. On his dying breath he spat out an egg which hatch into the Piccolo in the Z team. Young Piccolo was evil like his father. A native of the planet Namek, he has the ability to regrow parts of his body that he lost. He and Goku were enemies as teenagers and fought many times. However when he was forced to train Goku's son Gohan before Vegeta and Nappa were to come to earth, a different side of Piccolo is revealed and we see that he is not entirely evil after all. Gohan's innocence and friendliness help Piccolo become a different person changing him to be on the side of good instead of evil. Further in the story Piccolo develops a paternal affection for Gohan, protecting him. During the Android saga, Kami-sama nulls on the decision to remerge with his "evil" counter part noting that Piccolo has good in his heart. Kami eventually decides to do so forever putting him on the side of good and fighting with the Z team.
Name: Trunks
There are two Trunks in the Dragonball world. One from the alternate timeline, future Trunks (Mira Trunks) and one from the actual timeline, young Trunks (Goku referred to this Trunks as Chibi Trunks). This profile focuses on the Trunks from the alternate future. In the alternate timeline, all of the Z team members were killed because of two destructive androids, except for Goku who never gets to fight because of a heart infection. The only survivors were Son Gohan and Trunks. Trunks is the son of Vegeta and Bulma. Gohan trained him to become stronger and to reach the level of Super Saiyan. One day the androids appeared and, Gohan confident that he can beat them, had enough of the destruction. By protecting the inexperienced Trunks, Gohan knocked him unconscious and fought them alone. Gohan is powerful, but is killed nevertheless. Trunks grieves deeply and vows to one day avenge Gohan's death. Meanwhile Bulma builds a time machine for Trunks so he could go back in the past to find Son Goku. She believes that if he were alive, things would have been different. Trunks comes to the past twenty years from the future in a effort to change history. Much like his father, he is hard and aggressive. But unlike his father he is very polite and has values. He thinks in conventional ways and is very civilized when making decisions. While Trunks was young, he grew up in awe of the father he never knew. Trunks was always anxious about meeting his father. He was both impressed and disappointed once they. During the battle of Cell however, Vegeta showed emotion upon seeing the death of his son (that may be subject to debate for all you hard core nuts!!) Vegeta then screamed with passion and attacked Cell. The Z team revived him after Cell was defeated. He decided to return to his timeline once the danger was over. Trunks had trained in that time so much that his power surpassed the two androids in his time. When he returned to the future, he not only took with him the skills to defeat the androids but also the knowledge of the father he loved so much.
Name: Krillin
Krillin is a long time friend of Son Goku's, meeting him in the oringinal DB series. Krillin is a warrior monk who trained along with Goku under Kamesennin. Once a rival, they became great friends. Krillin was killed by Piccolo, but later brought back. In DBZ, he was one of the Z Warriors that faced the Saiyajin. Though they lost badly, Son Goku's return gave them an easy victory over Nappa. Later, Goku had to give Krillin his Genki Dama energy, and though Kuririn missed Vegeta with the ball, Gohan managed to bounce it back at him. Krillin was an essential player during the Freeza Saga, as he and Gohan had to do pretty much everything on Namek until Goku showed up. His death by Freeza is also what caused Goku to turn Super Saiyajin. Later during the Cell Game, he gets a crush for 18 Gou (Number 18) and later they get married after she's wished into a human. They have a baby girl called Marron.
Name: Tian
Tien, along with Chaozu, originally trained under Tsurusennin but later abandoned this when they found out he was evil. They then worked as con artists, releasing monsters and getting payed for chasing them away. While Tien was originally an enemy of Son Goku, and faced him in the Tenkachi Budokai, he later becomes friends with him. Tien is quite a strong fighter, the strongest human in fact. Unlike some of the Z Warriors, he was also in the Boo Saga (can't let saiyajin do everything) and stopped a fireball before it killed Gohan.
Name: Bulma
Bulma is a spirited young girl that was first introduced in the original Dragonball series. She just happened to hit Son Goku with a car! Anyway, she took him along as a bodyguard to journey for the dragonballs. On her journey, she met up with Yamcha, Oolon, Puarru, Kamesennin, and other characters. Eventually, she hooks up with Yamcha. In DBZ, Bulma is a great asset when it came to using saiyajin technology, as she made the trip to Namek with Krillin and Son Gohan. Bulma's most important role in the series is probably after she has a child with Vegeta. Her son, Trunks, was the key to saving the future.
Name: Master Roshi
Roshi is a perverted old dude that lives on Kame House with Oolong and Puarru. Master Roshi, or Kamesennin, is the first teacher of both Kuririn and Son Goku, teaching them both the infamous Kamehameha. He also gave Goku the Flying Nimbus.
Name: Yamcha
Road bandit/robber with a shyness towards girls. He befriended our heroes, loss his shyness, and became one of the good guys. In the Vegeta Series, Yamcha was killed by a Saiba-man, but revived with a wish from the dragonballs.
Name: Chaozu
Chaozu is the little friend of Tien. He was originally the emperor of Mifan and later studied the teachings of Tsurusennin. While not the greatest fighter in the world, he was one of the first Dragonball characters to use bujutsu (ability to fly) and he can also execute where he destroys himself and the enemy he's clinging on to. Though he tries this on Nappa, it has no effect. Chaozu becomes really useless after the Saiyajin saga, though he wasn't much of a use during it either.
Name: King Kai
He is the north Kaio that lives on a distant planet in Heaven. He enters the series when he needs to train Goku after Goku has died fighting Raddtiz. Kaio-Sama is known for his interesting since of humor and even starts off his training by forcing his students to make him laugh. Though very humorous, he is very intelligent and helps Goku alot, training him greatly for the battle with the saiyajin in the Vegtia saga. In the Freeza Saga, we also see Yamcha, Chazo, Tienshinan, and Piccolo train with Kaio-Sama. Kaio-Sama has a pet monkey named Bubbles which he uses in his trainng for gravity purposes as well as just being a friend. Kaio-Sama dies when Goku brings the soon-to-be self destructed Cell to his planet, using teleportation. Of course Kaio-Sama is pretty ticked off when he finds that Goku has blown up his planet but he quickly gets over it. Kaio-Sama is a great character and he is responsible for Goku's Kaioken and Genki Dama attacks.
Name: Dende
Dende is a young Namek Gohan and Krillin rescued from Frieza. He has the power of healing, and stayed with Gohan and Krillin during their visit to Namek.
Name: Nappa
Evil Saiyan partner of Vegeta. He and Vegeta traveled together to Earth to seek the dragonballs for immortality. Nappa is responsible for the deaths of Chao-tsuu, Yamcha, and Piccolo. When Goku beat him up, he was betrayed and killed by Vegeta. When Dr. Gero and Dr. Myuu escaped from hell in Dragonball GT, Nappa escaped as well and was killed again by Vegeta.
Name: Dodoria
The pudgy warrior Dodoria is one of Frieza's henchmen. He died in his encounter with Vegeta on the planet Namek, and was no match for the Saiyan prince.
Name: Zarbon
The effeminate Zarbon is a soldier of Frieza's forces, who defeated Vegeta by mutating into a more powerful state. When he encountered Vegeta again however, he was defeated easily, since Vegeta wasn't caught off guard the second time.
Name: Raditz
Raditz is Goku's evil brother, who came to Earth to recruit him in Vegeta's conquest of the universe. He kidnapped Gohan, and then lost his life to Goku and Piccolo, who put aside their rivalry and teamed up to defeat him.
Name: Eternal Dragon
Once all seven Earth Dragon Balls are collected, the Eternal Dragon can be summoned with the proper chant. The Dragon grants the user of the Dragon Balls any wish that is within his power. The Eternal Dragon and the Dragon Balls were created by Kame.
Name: Ginyu Force
Recoom, Burter, Jeice, Guldo, and Ginyu make up Frieza's elite fighting team, who travel to Namek to get the Dragon Balls back from Vegeta.
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