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A selection of Dragon Ball ' s extensive cast of characters at the conclusion of the manga. Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, Dr. Slump.
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.
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 ...
The same mysterious alien arrives at the island and reveals himself: he is a Saiyan warrior named Raditz, part of a war-like race that wipes out the population of entire planets to sell the now uninhabited world to the highest bidder, and he is Goku's older brother, meaning Goku is actually a Saiyan, explaining his unnatural strength and the ...
A man named Raditz arrives on Earth, identifies Goku as his younger brother Kakarrot, and reveals to him that they are members of a nearly extinct extraterrestrial race called the Saiyans (サイヤ人, Saiya-jin), who sent Goku to conquer Earth for them; however, Goku had suffered a severe head injury as an infant and lost all memories of his ...
Broly (ブロリー, Burorī) is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball media franchise.. Two different versions of the character exist: original Broly, a non-canon major villain created by screenwriter Takao Koyama who appeared in a trilogy of 1990s Dragon Ball Z films, Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993), Broly – Second Coming (1994) and Bio-Broly (1994), followed by a ...
Named after the Pehuenche people, whose name means "people of the monkey puzzle tree", and suchus, the Greek name of the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek. Pekania pennanti : mustelid: Abenaki: From pekan, its name in Abenaki [citation needed] Pelorocephalus ischigualastensis † temnospondyl: Cacán
Son Goku [nb 20] is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama.He is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Gokū in Japan and the Monkey King in the West), a main character of the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with influences from the Hong Kong action cinema of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee.