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DragonBall Z
Saiyans' Saga
Dragon Ball Z is the continuation of the original Dragon Ball series. It was introduced a few years after the last Dragon Ball episode, but unlike Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z has a different plot. Dragon ball Z is geared toward more mature kids through it's battles and plot while the original Dragon Ball was geared more to little kids. The Dragon Ball Z series is divided into four sagas. In each saga, the Z warriors fight the same villain over and over. The first saga is the Vegeta Saga. This is after the battle against Piccolo. Here, Goku now has a son named Son Gohan. Goku learns of his origins through his brother, Raditzu, who lands on earth looking for him. He learns his race is the Saiya-jin and that he was sent to earth to wipe out the inhabitants. Raditzu tries to persuade Goku to join him in conquering the universe but Goku resists. Raditzu kidnaps Gohan to blackmail Goku into helping him. Goku teams up with Piccolo against a common enemy. They have a hard time but they manage to kill Raditzu. They find out that Gohan has hidden powers. But when Piccolo shot at Raditzu, Goku was holding him from behind so he was killed as well. Piccolo tells Raditzu that Goku can still be brought back to life using the dragon balls. Raditzu informs his comrades using his device that detects energy levels. Those two comrades are Nappa and Vegeta. They are supposed to be very powerful Saiya-jins. When Kame learns about this he decides to train the Z warriors. Klilyn, Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and Chaozu all go to Kame's tower to train. Goku, instead of just giving up, decides to train with the legendary Kaio-sama (King Kai). He has to run on Snake Way and make it to Kaio-sama's planet before the Saiya-jins come in one year. Piccolo takes Gohan to train him in some unorthodox methods. He leaves Gohan to survive in in the wild by himself. He learns of Gohan's ability as a Saiya-jin to transform into a huge gorilla with awesome power during a full moon. When Nappa and Vegeta arrive, the Z warriors including Piccolo and Gohan are ready to face them. However, they are still no match for them without Goku. In the fight before Goku arrives, Yamcha, Chauzu, Tenshinhan and Piccolo are killed. When Goku arrives, he easily beats Nappa. Instead of helping Nappa, Vegeta kills him with a fireball. Goku continues to fight Vegeta while Klilyn and Gohan go home. Vegeta is strong but with Goku's Kaioken technique he becomes stronger. Vegeta tries his Galick-Ho on Goku but with the increased energy from the Kaioken technique, his Kamehameha is more powerful. However, it doesn't kill Vegeta. Angry Vegeta makes an energy ball that simulates the light of the moon. He then turns into a huge gorilla. Goku gets thrown around. His body was already weak from the Kaioken technique. Gohan and Klylin come back to help Goku. They also get kicked around. Finally Yajirobe cuts off Vegeta's tail. Goku gives Klilyn some energy left over from his failed Genki Dama. Klilyn uses it on Vegeta but it doesn't kill him. Gohan who grew back his take turns into a huge Gorilla and fights Vegeta. Vegeta manages to cut off Gohan's tail. Gohan turns back into a little boy. Vegeta, exhausted and beaten, crawls into his space ship and leaves Earth. This is not the end of Vegeta.
Freeza Saga
Dragonball Z returned for another season after the fight against Vegeta. This series, twice as long as the Vegeta Series, caused the popularity of Dragonball Z to skyrocket. Years ago, Freeza killed Vegeta, the Saiyan king, and conquered the Saiyan Planet. Then, he used the primitive Saiyan inhabitants as mercenaries to conquer other planets. Vegeta's son, named after his father, also worked for Freeza despite the fact that he was the Saiyan Prince. A legendary hero rose. His name was Bardock, and his story is told in the Lonely Final Battle. The tragic fate of the Planet Vegeta and the Saiyans were at hand, and only few Saiyans were left now. After the Vegeta Series, only two pure Saiyan breeds were left. One was the Saiyan Prince, Vegeta. The other was Bardock's son, Gokou... After the death of Raditz, Vegeta learns from the message from Raditz's scouter that Dragonballs existed. Later, he figured out that Namek Dragonballs also existed. After getting beaten by Gokou, Vegeta retreats to Freeza's planet to recover. Now, he carries on the new goal of gathering the dragonballs for himself to be granted the wish of immortality. He also plans to kill Freeza. Freeza is also in search of the Namek Dragonballs to become immortal and begins to terrorize Namek for the dragonballs. Meanwhile, Bulma learns about the Namek Dragonballs PoPo, Kami's assistant. With the hope to gather the dragonballs to wish their friends killed in the Vegeta Series back to life, Gohan, Klilyn, and Bulma venture off to Namek on the spaceship that Kami rode on to travel to Earth years ago. Great battles on Piccolo's home planet are to take place... Gohan, Klilyn, and Bulma learn that Vegeta is also on Vegeta and also learn about Freeza. Gokou is informed of this and recovers from the battle against Vegeta by eating a senzu bean from Yarijobe. Using the space pod in which he got to earth long ago, Gokou travels to Namek. At the same time, the deceased Yamcha, Tenshin-han, Chauzu, and Piccolo are training with Kaiou. Meanwhile, Vegeta begins his fight against Freeza. With strategic actions, Vegeta kills Dodorian and Zarbon, Freeza's right and left hand men, and steals the captured dragonballs from Freeza. However, Vegeta learned from Dodorian that the Saiyan planet was not destroyed by a meteor as stated, but by Freeza. Ambitions to kill Freeza are strengthened. Freeza learns of Vegeta's betrayal and calls forth the Ginew Squad. Team Ginew, consisting of five members who constantly pose in funny dances, have a reputation as being powerful warriors of destruction. Gokou finally lands on Namek. The Z warriors now have a new enemy, one who must be defeated for the safety of the entire galaxy. Everyone plans to defeat Freeza, but Freeza is too strong. Realizing that he himself cannot defeat Freeza, Vegeta joins the Z warriors, but boasts that it is only to insure that Gokou survives the battle so that he could kill him personally. (However, Vegeta ends up marrying Bulma, and Bulma gets pregnant a son that would become known as Trunks.) Team Ginew is killed by the combined forces of Gokou and Vegeta (except for Ginew, who accidentally turned into a frog when he tried to swap bodies with Vegeta and Gokou threw a frog in his path). Then, follows the fights against Freeza himself. To everyone's surprise, Freeza has the ability to transform into a few stages. With each physical transformation, Freeza's power increases. Klilyn is killed in battle and Gokou becomes enraged in an anger so deep that he too undergoes a transformational powerup. Gokou's hair becomes golden and spikes up, and he reaches Super Saiyan level for the first time. The tides of battle now turn to Gokou. Freeza can't bear anyone being stronger than he so he launches an energy blast to destroy the entire planet but luckily he has been so weakened from his fight with Goku that his blast isn't strong enough to destroy it immediately. The planet will be destroyed within 5 minutes though. Being SSJ Goku now easily batters Freeza around and defeats him. Now we see the planet explode. The Z warriors are back on Earth. The dead Z warriors are granted back to life but when they want to grant Goku back to life Shenlong tells them that Goku is still alive (he escaped to planet Yardrat with one of Ginew's capsules) and that he will come to earth on his own. Cold, Freeza's father, learns about Freeza's defeat and quickly gathers Freeza's body parts, which are floating around in space. His henchmen quickly re-ensemble Freeza. (This is why Freeza is half robotic.) Freeza tells his father about Gokou and his powers, but his father doesn't believe him. Cold continues to boast that he is the universe's strongest warrior and best space conqueror, and can never be defeated. The villains land on Earth to seek revenge for Freeza's defeat. The Earth becomes endangered once again. All of a sudden, a figure appears out of nowhere. It is adult Trunks, but no one knows who he is or where he came from. He turns into his Super Saiyan level and aids the Z Warriors in their battle. Trunks single-handed kills Freeza and Cold with the aid of his sword. Trunks introduces himself as Bulma and Vegeta's son. He grew up and traveled back in time to prevent his chaotic future. Trunks tells about deadly androids.He carries the heart decease medicine and tells that Goku will land any minute now and that they have to follow him to the landing spot. In a few minutes, Gokou really lands on Earth in front of everyone and meets Trunks.
Cell Saga
After years of anguish from a defeat that took place decades ago, Dr. Gero continues to plot revenge against the character who destroyed Red Ribbon and ruined him- Gokou. Android #19 is the first project not to fail. Along with the scheme, Dr. Gero requests Android #19 to make him into a cyborg so that he would become stronger, and this bears witness of the transformation of Dr. Gero to Android #20. The Z Warriors meet with Androids #19 and #20 and the two sides engage in battle. Gokou leaves the battle because of a heart-attack and Vegeta faces Android #19. The android is destroyed and Dr. Gero flies to his secret base. Gokou is taken to his house where he is given the medicine he got from future Trunks. It will take him 10 days to recover. Arrived at his base he sees no chance but to activate #17 and #18 but they kill Dr. Gero. Android #17 and Android #18 leave the lab and unleash Android #16. But as it turns out, Android #16 is a peaceful android. (This can be shown through his love towards the wild animals.) As time passes, the Z Warriors become aware of the new androids as they battle again and again but always reach a stalemate. However, the Z Warriors are still not match for the androids because the androids are robots, and therefore do not tire in a long battle while the Z Warriors eventually run out of energy. The Z Warriors all get beaten up and the cyborgs leave. Krilin gives them some senzus and they all leave to practice and get stronger. Meanwhile, Piccolo fuses with Kami, his half father, to become stronger. Dende, a Namek child, will later replace Kami as guardian of the dragonballs. Androids #16, #17, and #18 go to seek Gokou to destroy him. Piccolo finds the androids first and begins to fight them. In meantime Cell (one of Dr. Gero's projects that wasn't finished when he died - his computer worked on it though) has killed Trunks in the future and used his timemachine to return to the past to absorb #17 and #18 to reach his ultimate form. On his way to the cyborgs he devours the souls of the unlucky civilians he passes to become stronger. To our heroes' surprise, they learn that Androids #17 and #18 know nothing about Cell. Cell and Android #17 threaten to kill each other. Android #17 heads out to fight him. But, he does not stand up to Cell and is easily defeated. This is when our heroes learn the great powers of Cell. Android #18 is now worried, but Android #16 flies out to fight Cell. To everybody's amazement, Android #16 is able to stand up to Cell but Cell sees a chance to absorb Android #17 and he changes into Cell--form 2. With the power of Android #17 combined to his, he becomes stronger than ever. Then, he heads over to devour Android #18. Android #18 tries to escape, but she is still eventually devoured. Cell now changes into Cell form 3, and becomes Perfect Cell. After Cell is gone, Bulma collects the body parts of Android #16 and repairs him. Android 16 is re-programmed to fight on the Z Warriors' side. Cell now starts the Cell Games. Gokou is back in business and our heroes now head out to fight Cell, and Android #16 is once again destroyed. Cell grows strong enough and reproduces. From his body come 7 Cell Juniors, miniature blue duplicates of Cell. With the death of Android 16, an enraged teenage Gohan powers up and reaches Super Saiyan level 2. Gohan then destroys all the Cell Juniors and fights Cell. In a following battle, Cell is kicked and Android #18 is spit back out. (She is unconscious.) Cell turns back into form 2 and is defeated. But, he activates his self destruction mode so that when he dies, the world will blow up with him. To save the Earth, Gokou teleports Cell out of Earth and into Kaiou's planet, where Cell blows up. Thus, Gokou, Kaiou, Bubbles, and Gregory die as well. The Z Warriors mourn the loss of Gokou, but cheer at the victory over Cell at the same time. A fireball flies out of nowhere and pierces through Trunks. Upon Trunks' death, Cell, in form 3, appears. He tells that when he blew up, a brain cell survived. From the cell, other cells multiplied and he was once again formed. Cell happily laughs as he tells that he is amazed he is able to rebuild himself into form 3! Then, Cell threatens to destroy the earth. Now it is up to Gohan to try to save our planet. With one arm (the other injured when he went to let a fireball meant for Vegeta hit him), Gohan prepares a fireball. He fires at Cell and Cell fires back. A stalemate is meant, but with Kaiou's help, Gokou is able to talk to Gohan and encourages him. Meanwhile, Klilyn protects the unconscious Android #18 and Yamcha, Tenshin-han, and Vegeta attack Cell in hope that this will Gohan distract Cell. With the help of the now dead Kaiou, Gokou, also dead, is able to communicate with Gohan and encourages him to use all his power to defeat Cell. Gohan overpowers Cell and Cell is disintegrated by Gohan's fireball. (But, Sataan takes credit for Cell's death because of his lies to the reporters.) At the end, the warriors gather the dragonballs to bring those killed by Cell back to life. However, Gokou is still dead because he was already brought back to life once and cannot come back again, but tells that he is okay and is now with Kaiou. Android #18 awakens and flees. However, everybody learns here that Krillin has developed a crush on Android #18! At the end of this series, there is a short memorial about the life of Gokou.
Buu Saga
Gokou is competing in a fighting tournament of the dead. His meets a stalemate with his new friend and opponent, Paiku-han. On Earth, Gohan is training Goten and Vegeta is training Trunks. Gohan and Vegeta become shocked at the fact that Goten and Trunks can reach Super Saiyan stage at such young ages. There is another Tenkaichi Boudoukai on Earth. Goten and Trunks want to attend in the competition, but are banned because they are too young. However, they steal a competitor's costume and wear it. They battle Android 18 and their disguise is revealed. Piccolo faces someone known as Kaiou-shin, but freezes upon sensing his opponent's power. Gokou is granted a single day of life to fight at the tournament so he is also present. It is Gohan's turn to compete. He has assumed the identity as a masked crime fighter known as the Great Saiyan-Man. Gohan powers up and turns Super Saiyan mode. This blows off his disguise and the audience learns that the Great Saiyan-Man is really the nerd Gohan. Spopobitch and Yamu, two competitors with a "M" on their foreheads, fly out to the battle ring and approach Gohan. Then, the two mysterious men take out a lamp and use it to absorb Gohan's energy. Gohan falls unconscious, Spopobitch and Yamu fly away, and everyone else become shocked and wonder what just happened. Kaiou-shin and his partner approach the Z warriors and revive Gohan. Then, they tell their story. They are really godly beings beyond Kaiou and are here to stop the plot of Babi-di and Darbura. Babi-di is an ugly little being who wants to destroy all life just for the fun of it. Darbura is the Prince of Darkness. Babi-di and Darbura are allied at the task of reviving someone called Boo. To do so, a lot of energy is needed. Everyone learns that Spopobitch and Yamu are zombies of Babi-di. That is why they absorbed Gohan's energy. Allowing Sopopobitch and Yamu to attack Gohan was part of the plan to follow them to Babi-di's lair. A new terror breaches over the Earth. The Z warriors decide to help Kaiou-shin for the sake of their planet, and follow Spopobitch and Yamu to Babi-di and Darbura's lair. Babi-di and Darbura's minions are killed in the battles to come. Our heroes face Darbura now. Unaware of Darbura's ability to "stone", Klilyn and Piccolo are turned into stone. The only remedy to the curse would be Darbura's death. Darbura is eventually killed and Klilyn and Piccolo are restored to normal. Learning that becoming Babi-di's slave will make him stronger, Vegeta volunteers to become Babi-di's slave. A "M" appears on Vegeta's forehead and he turns evil once again. Majin-Vegeta looks forward for another battle against Gokou and hopes to defeat him once and for all. Vegeta's power donation to Babi-di grants enough energy to revive the fat being known as Boo. Boo is re-awakened and Babi-di rides around the city on top of him. Cities begin to get terrorized. Majin-Vegeta knocks out Gokou, but realizes that good triumphs over evil. He regains his sanity and truely becomes good. Majin-Vegeta goes off for Boo and fights him. Boo is a lot stronger and has the advantage. In a final effort to defeat Boo, Vegeta self-destructs, hoping that his sacrifice will take Boo down with him. To his dismay, Boo survives. Even in Super Saiyan level 2, Gokou is unable to defeat Boo. Rage increases, and Gokou reaches Super Saiyan level 3 for the first time! Meanwhile, Bulma gathers the dragonballs to revive all the civilians killed by the Majins since the Tenkaichi Boudoukai. Boo grows tired of being Babi-di's slave and kills him. Then, he purifies himself by fission and splits into two beings. One is pure good, and the other is pure evil. The two Boos fight and the evil one turns the good Boo into a cookie. The cookie is eaten, and Boo powers up in a body transformation. The fat Boo is now leaner and more muscular. Meanwhile, Gohan heads to Kaiou-shin's planet to receive training. As a sign of respect, he wears the Kaiou-shin suit. Gohan pulls out the legendary Z Sword and begins to train under Dai Kaiou-shin, the Elder Kaiou-shin. Gohan is learning how to use his hidden powers without getting angry to go Super Saiyan mode. Kaiou-shin reflects at his past. When he was young, he lived in peace with his family at his home planet. Then, an evil sorcerer, Babi-di's ancestor, used Boo to terrorize. (At the time, Boo was smaller than how he appears during the current section of the series.) Boo killed all of Kaiou-shin's family members. The Kaiou-shins cursed Boo into his fat form and made him dormant. Kaiou-shin, his partner, and Dai Kaiou-shin are the only Kaiou-shins left. Now, years later, Boo has been revived. Everyone is at Sky Palace (Dende and PoPo's palace) except Gohan, who is still training under the Kaiou-shins. Gokou taught Goten and Trunks the art of fusion. Goten and Trunks fuse and become Gotenks! Then, he teleports to Kaiou-shin's planet and watches everything through Kaiou-shin's crystal ball. Boo heads for Sky Palace to look for the "strong" being he sensed. He needs to absorb more powerful beings to be restored to his original form, the stronger form that he was in before the dying Kaiou-shins cursed him. The "strong" being in which Boo searches for is Gotenks. Goten and Trunks are training in a room inside Sky Palace. Piccolo tricks Boo into waiting for the boys to come out. Time passes by slower in the room, so it will buy some time for the boys to train more. Chi-Chi, seeing Boo, goes up to him to scold him for killing so many innocent people. Boo turns Chi-Chi into an egg and squashes it. Boo grows tired of waiting and threatens to be taken into the room in which Goten and Trunks are in, or else he will kill everyone at Sky Palace. Piccolo, knowing that he is too weak to fight Boo, takes Boo to Goten and Trunks with the hope that the boys have become strong enough to fight Boo. Goten and Trunks fuse into Gotenks and fight Boo. Gotenks is able to stand up to Boo, but neither side is winning. Piccolo blasts the doorway in the room. Then, he tells that without the exit, everyone will remain trapped in it forever so Boo can no longer kill any more people. Gotenks argues with Piccolo that they too have become trapped. Boo creates a fireball that produces a portal exit. He exits the room and returns Sky Palace. Gotenks and Piccolo look at each other in grief; they are not trapped and Boo is free. Super Saiyan Gotenks tries to create the same fireball that Boo created, but is too weak to. He powers up and reaches Super Saiyan level 3. Now much stronger, he is able to produce the portal. Piccolo and Gotenks exit the room and face Boo once again. In the battle followed, Sky Palace is destroyed. Super Saiyan level 3 Gotenks is overwhelming Boo and winning. Boo is thrown back to Earth. Gotenks and Piccolo return to Earth to search for Boo's body. Boo survived the attack and reappears. Gotenks prepares to fight again, but the fusion wears off. Goten and Trunks unfused are too weak to fight Boo. Gohan completes his training with Dai Kaiou-shin. He chooses a change in clothes to wearing his father's suit and wishes everyone goodbye. Gokou wishes his son luck, but envies that he cannot help because he is dead. Kaiou-shin's partner teleports Gohan to Earth. Gohan appears in time to save Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo. Gohan beats Boo and Boo self-destructs. Thinking they won the battle, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Boo fly off. They see Sataan and Dende on their journey and take them with them. A being flies towards them. It is Boo! Goten and Trunks fuse again and are in Super Saiyan level 3. Eagerly wanting to fight again, Gotenks boasts about beating Boo. Taking advantage of the distraction, Boo absorbs Super Saiyan level 3 Gotenks and undergoes another body change. Now a lot stronger, Boo overwhelms Gohan. Boo throws a fireball at Gohan. Gohan tries to block, but another fireball pushes Boo's fireball away from Gohan. The ally is Tenshin-han. However, Boo prepares another fireball. In the judgement court, King Yemma grants Vegeta life so that he could help save the planet. In Kaiou-shin's planet, the Kaiou-shins tell Gokou about fusion earrings. Kaiou-shin and his partner demonstrate. Each partner wears one of the earrings and the to permanently fuse. The earrings are given to Gokou. He is to give one to Gohan so that he and Gohan could fuse to beat Boo. To bring Gokou back to life, Dai Kaiou-shin exchanges his life for Gokou. Gokou's halo disappears, and Dai Kaiou-shin falls dead. Then, he re-awakens with a halo on top of his head. Gokou thanks everyone and teleports to help save Earth. Boo is about to throw a huge fireball at Gohan. Gokou teleports to the scene and throws a fireball at Boo. Boo is sliced and his legs and lower part of his antennae are cut off. Gokou tells Gohan about the fusion earrings and throws one to Gohan. Gohan catches it and prepares to wear it. The cut off part of Boo's antennae engulfs Piccolo and Boo changes into a stronger form again. The cut off lower body of Boo walks and kicks Tenshin-han unconscious. Then, it engulfs Gohan and Boo powers up again. Gokou feels despair again. Vegeta appears and aids Gokou. Gokou tells Vegeta about the fusion earrings and Vegeta finds the earring dropped by Gohan when Gohan got absorbed. Gokou and Vegeta are pulled together and become Vegetto! Vegetto beats Boo, but purposely gets absorbed by Boo to save their comrades. The absorption cancelled out the effect of the permanent fusion and Vegetto splits back into Gokou and Vegeta. They find and rescue Goten, Trunks, Gohan, and Piccolo by carrying the bodies and escaping through one of Boo's pores. Good Boo is also still in Boo's body. As the characters left Boo's pores, they returned to their original size. Meanwhile, absorbing Vegetto had given Boo enough energy to complete his phase change. He powers up as the escapes from his body takes place, and returns to his original form. "Original" Boo is back. Boo does a giant fireball and blows up the Earth. The newly fused Kaiou-shin teleports to help Gokou teleport Vegeta, Trunks, Goten, Gohan, Piccolo, Dende, and Sataan to safety in Kaiou-shin's planet. Boo teleports and follows Gokou. Gokou and Boo battle. Gokou gets beaten and is weak, so Vegeta joins the fight. Vegeta admits that Gokou is better than him for the first time and then fights Boo. Boo beats Vegeta and is about to kill him, but Sataan pops up and threatens Boo. Boo attacks Sataan but Sataan dodges the punch. All of a sudden, Boo goes in pain and spits the good fat Boo out. The two Boos fight and the good Boo gets beat unconscious. Gokou and Vegeta continue to face Boo. Vegeta tells Kaiou-shin to gather the Namek dragonballs. He does so, and makes the first wish to restore the Earth. The second wish revives all the civilians that Boo killed. The third wish is saved for later. Everyone is back on Earth except Gokou, Vegeta, and Boo. Gokou begins to create a Genki Dama while Vegeta distracts Boo. Our heroes on Earth tell people to raise their hands. Doing so will donate energy to Gokou's fireball. However, no one listens. Sataan, still famous after the Cell Game, raises his hands. Following the example of their idol, everyone on Earth raises their hands. Gokou gets enough energy for his fireball and he fires it. Boo is too strong to get blasted and holds the fireball back. Kaiou-shin makes the last wish from the dragonballs to restore Gokou's energy. Gokou's power restores from his weakened state and he uses his revived strength to strengthen his fireball. Boo, unable to repel Gokou's Genki-Dama, is killed by the fireball. Our heroes have won the battle. Fat Boo awakens. Our heroes debate on whether or not to kill him, but Sataan pleads that this Boo saved his life. Boo is spared and joins the Z warriors. Ten years after, Goten and Trunks are teenagers. Gohan married Videl, and the two became parents of five-year old Pan. Gokou wished the evil Boo back to life to fight him again. The wish reincarnates Boo into Ubuu; all evil cleansed. Gokou is training Ubuu. There is peace on Earth... |
