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[[File:SSJreee_9742.png|frame|<small>I'm a proud Saiyan who calls Earth home, and I'm here to defeat you. I am the warrior you've heard of in legends, pure of heart, and awakened by fury. That's what I am. I AM THE '''SUPER SAIYAN, SON GOKU!!!'''</small> ]]
''[[Dragon Ball]]'' has many awesome moments per character, but putting down the crowning ones is a tough job to do.▼
▲''Dragon Ball'' has many awesome moments per character, but putting down the crowning ones is a tough job to do.
* Chichi may be an [[Overprotective Dad|overprotective]] [[Education Mama|education]] [[The Scrappy|mama]], but she's definitely one of the strongest characters in the series. Sure, she's a normal human, except for the fact she can
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** Admittedly, for a character that doesn't have as many victories as the main characters, his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] tends to be the insane amount of damage he can take and still be up like in the one minute of beatings he took that Goku then proceeded to waste. But his being a tank with attitude is probably what makes this character a [[Badass]]. But he does have his moments such as his owning Imperfect Cell and then his Final Flash against Perfect Cell.
** [[How Much More Can He Take?|How much of a beating can he take and keep fighting?]] In the fight against Kid Buu, he gets pounded into the ground not once, not twice, but three times. Buu thinks he's won, when Vegeta stands up, covered in blood, slowly walks toward him, and starts making a speech about how he can't be defeated by such measly attacks. Buu is frozen with a look of utter shock on his face, and then he ''takes a step back in fear''. When you scare the fight out of ''Majin Buu'', you know you're [[Badass]].
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** There was also his fight with Recoome. He knew from the very beginning that he was completely outclassed, yet he still beat the shit out of him various times by using every trick in the book. Recoome seemingly won the battle at various points, yet Vegeta would pop right back up and lay the smackdown some more.
*** What really makes this scene is Vegeta's awesome power-up in the anime. No one screams better than [[Ryo Horikawa|Vegeta]]. After the screaming, he kneels the way football players kneel at the line of scrimmage... and '''THEN''' takes off.
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** The way Bardock becomes a Super Saiyan in the anime is quite awesome too. After being knocked about by Chilled and seeing him supposedly kill a young native, he kneels in the dirt, feeling pathetic to the point where he is implied to be crying, remembering what happened to his friends and his race, and blaming himself for being too weak to save them. Then his sadness turns to anger, and you get that moment where ''his shadow flashes yellow.'' Then, after repeatedly glowing yellow, he turns around to face Chilled, seeing both him and Frieza at the same time. Chilled laughs, Bardock screams to the heavens, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|and finally becomes a Super Saiyan.]] He then proves that [[Lamarck Was Right|Goku inherited his badass gene from him]] by doing to Chilled what Goku did to Frieza: ''completely thrash him.''
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqaIX7W0kzs See for yourself.]
* The first duel between Goku and Vegeta. That battle was memorable as it started out their rivalry in the first place, which served as a basis for the first writeup of the [[
* Yajirobe. In that battle, he comes out of nowhere and cuts off Vegeta's tail after he becomes an Oozaru at the (huge) risk of his own life, after being portrayed as a coward who doesn't want to fight Vegeta. And earlier in Dragon Ball, when he kills and ''eats'' Cymbal, one of Piccolo Daimaou's kids.
** On the topic of Cymbal, note that Yajirobe finishes him off with a ''single stroke.'' This is one of the henchmen that were able to rival the winners of the World Martial Arts Tournament. Yajirobe wasn't always just comic relief.
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* "King Kai" and "Awesome" are usually not said in the same breath, but oddly enough, he gets one. After the deaths of the Ginyu force, they arrive at Kai's place unexpectedly and start wreaking havoc, but are soon dispatched in a fun little match between them and Tien, Yamcha, and Chaotzu. We then find out that Kai ''invited'' these terrors of the universe in order to test his students' abilities.
** The fight itself is a Crowning Moment for the human Z-fighters, who were otherwise essentially reduced to Jobber status from the Sayjin saga onwards. For once, the human heroes win a battle without needing the Sayjins to win it for them.
* Credit needs to be given to pre-Z Dragon Ball here, considering it gave us Tao Pai Pai. The man killed General Blue [https://web.archive.org/web/20090814094837/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/dragon_ball/v08/c001/9.html with] [https://web.archive.org/web/20091026213422/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/dragon_ball/v08/c001/10.html his] ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090704222529/http://www.mangafox.com/manga/dragon_ball/v08/c001/11.html tongue]''.
** When Tao Pai Pai says "Who needs a jet when when we've got a perfectly good pillar." He taps the pillar and breaks it out, while leaving the building completely intact then throws the pillar and jumps onto it while it's moving.
* While Piccolo Jr. gets a lot of moments, serious props have to go to Demon King Piccolo in the original ''Dragon Ball''. After he gathers all the Dragon Balls and has Shenron restore his youthful strength, he decides to fix it so that nobody can ever use the Dragon Balls against him, so he shoots a Ki blast that ''blows Shenron, the Eternal Dragon into [[Ridiculous Gibs|meaty chunks]]''! At that point in the story, that was roughly equivalent to ''killing God''! And he did it with ''one attack.''
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* One moment that is overlooked is in the very first episode of Dragon Ball. When Goku and Bulma first meet go off to begin their quest, a Pterodactyl kidnaps Bulma. At this point, Goku does not know how to fly, and he even doesn't have the Nimbus yet. So what does he do? He uses Bulma's motorcycle to launch himself off a hill like a ramp in a similar way we saw a few minutes before, bashes the Pterodactyl's head with the Power Pole, and throws the Pole like a Javelin to pin Bulma safely on a cliff. This was just an early example of Goku's Determinator skill. No matter what happens, he will give it his all to keep his friends safe. (And Pray to Kami if you get in his way as most of the above examples show.)
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