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Heroes Goku Goku is the primary hero of
the Dragon Ball series. The series started out with Goku as a child of age 12.
Once he grew up and his son was born, the TV series' name changed from
Dragonball to Dragonball Z. At the end of the series, Goku was roughly 45 years
old. Goku is a Saiyan (or it is spelt Saiyajin but we prefer Saiyan) whose
native world is the planet Vegita. He was sent to Earth in a space capsule right
after he was born so he could conquer the planet. However, he hit his head and
lost his "programming," thus becoming the kinder, gentler Goku we see
in the series. Goku was raised as a human on Earth by Gohan (not his son), and
did not learn of his true nature until his brother Raditz came to Earth. He
detests being a Saiyan and considers himself a human. Later, when Goku's rage
was awakened by witnessing the death of his friend Krillan his Super Saiyan
power was awakened. When he goes Super Saiyan his eyes turn green and his hair
gold. Currently, Goku can go to the 3rd stage of Super Saiyan power. Gohan Gohan is Goku's first son. At
the end of the series he was 26 years old. For a short while after the second
time Goku died in the series, Gohan became the primary character. Gohan is the
most powerful non-fused character in the DBZ series, but lacks the love of
fighting his father has and thus rarely uses his full strength. Gohan is a very
good-natured boy and unlike his father, hates fighting, although for a while he
was more powerful. He is truly one of the most poweful beings ever. He is very
polite towards just about everyone except to his enemies. He has an extreme
power sleeping inside of him that is awakened whenever something he loves is
threatened. He is a force to be reckoned with whenever enraged. Everyone always
underestimates him as a kid but he uses his sensitivity to his advantage. Gohan
is very bright and studies very hard, although this is somewhat due to the
wishes of his very strict mother, Chi Chi. Gohan is the first character in the
series to go Super Saiyan level 2, during the Cell Game; the power of his anger
was kindled by watching his friends get beaten up, and the death of Artificial
Human #16 sent him over the edge. It was roughly at this time that the series
switched main characters from Goku to Gohan. Piccolo Piccolo is Goku's old rival.
He was born after Goku killed his father when he was a kid (accidentally by
turning into the monstrous ape in the full moon); in his last breath the old
Piccolo spat out an egg, and the new Piccolo hatched. Sick huh. That is one of
the things rumored to how Piccolo was made but the true reason how it happened
was that Kame was trying to get rid of all the evil in his spirit. Unfortunately
he did thusforth creating Piccolo. Piccolo then went on to fight Goku in the
final round of the Tenkaichi-Budokai, which he subsequently lost by a very close
margin. Piccolo is a native of the planet Nameck, although he doesn't learn this
for quite some time after his first appearance. As a Nameck, he can regenerate
almost any part of his body lost. (usually the arms) He can also extend the
range of his arms till they're really long. Later, he goes to Nameck to help
Krillan, Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta fight Freeza after the Tenkaichi-Budokai,
Piccolo becomes more and more of a "good guy." Eventually he becomes
Goku's friend. Once one of the most powerful characters in the series, he can be
considered a "high class fighter," and strong among the Z fighters.
Although he acts like he doesn't care about anyone it is very untrue. Gohan
taught him how to have emotions. Piccolo always challenges Goku early in the
series but they eventually become friends. Vegeta Vegeta is the "bad guy
among the good guys." He first made his appearance back when Gohan was 4.
Although he fights alongside the other Z fighters, he is still decidedly evil.
As the prince of the Saiyans, he is very proud, has a huge ego, and is
constantly trying to prove that he is the best fighter in the universe. Vegeta
has a continual rivalry with Goku, or "Kakarott," (Goku's Saiyan name)
and is obsessed with beating him in combat just to show that he is the stronger.
This obsession with trying to be stronger than Goku proves to be a fairly large
weakness as well. Despites his efforts to show otherwise, Vegeta has changed and
has developed a conscience, and deep down cares about his friends. Furthermore,
he is also somewhat emotional at heart. He demonstrates this when dealing with
his son, Trunks, most notably just before he died trying to kill Majin-Buu.
Although he pretends to hate Goku with a passion in reality he respects his
power and maybe even likes him a bit. Trunks Trunks is Vegeta's son. In his
future, all of the Z fighters were killed by the Artificial Humans, except for
Goku, who died of heart disease. Trunks travels 20 years back in time to give
medicine to Goku so he can survive this disease and defeat the Artificial
Humans. Trunks' returning in time alters the past in other ways which can be
seen later. After giving the medicine to Goku, Trunks goes back to his own time,
but returns again three years later to help the Z fighters battle the Artificial
humans. During this time, he becomes extremely powerful and surpasses every
other one of the Z fighters except for Gohan and (maybe) Goku. The Trunks here,
"Future Trunks" and the "current Trunks" are radically
different characters. "Future Trunks" is very polite like Gohan and
has very strong values, but the current "Chibi Trunks" has a bad
attitude and is somewhat like his father. Chibi Trunks never truly reaches the
power level of his future counterpart; possibly because he lived through mostly
peaceful times, whereas Future Trunks did not. Bulma She is the second character to
appear in the series, and has been a major character in both DB and DBZ. She
created the "Dragon Radar" which can sense the location of the Dragon
Balls by the radiation they emit, and was the one who first started the search
for the Dragon Balls. She is also Trunks' and Bra's mother. She is a major
influence on almost all of the major characters and is most notably the only
character who was able to "tame" Vegeta. Her father also built the
space ship for Goku's trip to Nameck. Chichi Chichi is Ox King's daughter,
who also first appeared about the same time as he did. After the first time we
see Ox King and Chichi they don't reappear for a long time (in the manga). The
next time we see Chichi, she gets married to Goku. Therefore, she is also Gohan
and Goten's mother. Her distinguishing trait is her temper; she gets mad alot.
She is a very overprotective mother, which is probably justified in that her son
is constantly drawn into fights against some of the toughest people in the
universe. She wants Gohan to become an Astronaut or something like that which
would be a true waste. Krillan Krillan is Goku's best friend,
and has been around since the first series. He is a fighting monk who leaves his
temple to find and train with Mutenroshi. He is kind of short, has no nose and
throughout most of the series, has no hair either. Krillan trained with Goku
under Mutenroshi and afterwards shared many adventures with him. Krillan has
died more times than anyone else in the series. He is one of the weaker
fighters, but this is partially due to his low self-confidence. Nevertheless, he
has gotten fairly powerful due to all his fights with the really powerful
enemies, and I think is the next strongest Z fighter after Piccolo. He becomes
good friends with Gohan probably because they are almost the same height in the
beginning. He is caring and will do almost anything for his friends. Goten Goten is Goku's second son,
and a dead ringer for Goku when he was a little kid. At the end of the series,
Goten was 17 and looked nothing like Goku though. Goten is very powerful for
someone his age, although he is a little bit neive like his father. He can fuse
with Trunks to become Gotenks, one of the most powerful characters in the
series. Gotenks Using the Fusion, Goten and
Trunks can fuse into Gotenks. Gotenks is very powerful, second only to Gohan and
Vegitto, and also is the only character other than Goku that can change to Super
Saiyan 3. However, he has a huge ego which gets him in trouble. Vegito and Gotenks When Goku and Vegita fuse
using the fusion earings, they become Vegitto (Vegita+Kakarott=Vegitto), the
most powerful character in DBZ. When Vegita and Goku fuse with the earrings of
Kaioshen they become Vegetto and when they do manual fusion its called Gogeta.
They are two different fusions. Like Gotenks, Vegitto has a huge ego.
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