Dragon Ball/Characters/Original Series Villains: Difference between revisions

** The Nazi regime is referenced by their modus operandum (Heck, one of their members, General Blue, is clearly designed to resemble a Strumabteilung officer, heavily resembles the ideal Nazi soldier in both physical appearance as well as abilities, and has several... quirks taken from Ernst Rohm, the former leader of the S.A., and even spoke German at one point), and the Soviets were mentioned via a similar name, as well as via General White, a high ranking officer who is implied to be of Russian descent.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Almost every major member of the army is named after a color, the exceptions being Full Metal Jacket (although the English version sort of keeps up with the theme naming by calling him "Metallitron"), Captain Dark (as some official sources imply that his name is actually pronounced as "Dock", as in the structure ships stop at), and Dr. Gero (who was created years after the rest of the characters).

 

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* [[Super Strength]]: Such as lifting boulders and crushing phone booths with his bare hands. Also goes in line with superhuman endurance due to his surviving an electric eel's shocks with no apparent ill effects afterwards, and snapped its neck.

* [[Theme Naming]]: After a color.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: After he ditches his uniform to swim through a sea cave.

* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: Let's put it this way: He's the only Red Ribbon Army member who is actually playable in any of the DBZ fighting games (Budokai, Budokai Tenkaich, etc). Sure, it was only for one game (Budokai Tenkaichi 3), but the rest of the Red Ribbon Army didn't get playable in any of those games.

** When he fails to stop Goku, Blue himself is essentially executed by Commander Red, who offers to spare his life if he can beat Mercenary Tao, knowing that Blue stands no chance.

 

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: The wackiness of Dragon Ball with its childish enemies ended officially with him.

* [[Large and In Charge]]: He's well over 8 feet tall.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]

* [[Mook Maker]]

* [[Satan]]: In the Latin American dub, they literally called him this.

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: He was sealed inside an electric rice cooker for over 100 years before being released by Emperor Pilaf.

* [[Take Over the World]]: He was actually ''successful'' in doing this. But Goku quickly restored the natural order of things.

* [[Theme Naming]]. A piccolo is a type of flute. His name is not based on pickles.

 

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