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After the truth of Goku's heritage is revealed, Saiyan characters play a central narrative role from Dragon Ball Z onwards: Bardock and Trunks from an alternate future timeline serve as the protagonists of their respective side stories, while Goku's son Gohan briefly assumes the role of series protagonist following the conclusion of the Cell ...
As with the franchise's anime television series, all 20 films and the first three TV specials were licensed in North America by Funimation. In Europe, AB Groupe licensed the first three Dragon Ball movies, the first nine Z movies, and the first two TV specials. Dragon Ball is one of the most successful franchises in animation history. [1]
Beerus, the God of Destruction, has a dream where he faces a warrior known as "Super Saiyan God" and wishes to find him. Seeking Saiyans out, Beerus is challenged by Goku but defeats him quickly and announces his plan to destroy Earth. Goku has his fellow Saiyans pass him their powers so that he can become the Super Saiyan God; the fight ends ...
Character names are almost always puns sharing a theme with characters related to them, most commonly food. For example, all Saiyans are named after vegetables, saiya (サイヤ) being an anagram of the syllables for yasai (野菜) which means vegetable; such as Kakarrot (カカロット, Kakarotto) taken from carrot (キャロット, kyarotto ...
Gohan is introduced as the four-year-old son of Goku and Chi-Chi, named after Goku's adoptive grandfather. Described as well-mannered and reserved, [28] [29] Gohan is abducted by the extraterrestrial Saiyan named Raditz, revealed to be his paternal uncle. While Goku is pinned to the ground, Gohan's extreme distress explodes with the release of ...
Name Source Type Saiyan: Dragon Ball Z: A naturally aggressive warrior race hailing from the planet Vegeta who are, purportedly, the strongest warriors in the fictional Dragon Ball universe. Most of the Saiyans were exterminated by galactic overlord Frieza after Goku was born. With only few known survivors, they are functionally extinct.
While taking a break, King Kai tells Goku about the Saiyan people. They were a warrior race who shared Planet Vegeta with the smarter, though weaker, Tuffles. After a long war, the Saiyans overpowered and destroyed the Tuffles and stole their technology. The Saiyans became space pirates and began cleansing planets of civilizations and selling them.
After the release of Battle of Gods, Toriyama expressed interest in having Vegeta be the lead in the event of another animated feature, though he insisted this was only his intent and no decision had been made. [10] Following the trend that names of members of the Saiyan race are puns on vegetables, Vegeta's name is a pun of the word vegetable ...