Dragon Ball/Characters/Supporting Cast: Difference between revisions

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]/[[Meaningful Name]]: Shen Long is Chinese for "God Dragon."

* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]/[[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: The name Shenron comes from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese reading of Shen Long. Really, the dub was better when it just used "Eternal Dragon."

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]

 

** Didn't they get [[Stuff Blowing Up|blown up]] by Roshi?

*** Chichi stated that they were running out of her dad's money. Feeding Goku, Gohan and Goten probably added up.

* [[Skewed Priorities]]: As mentioned above.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Mayumi Shou, Chi-Chi's original seiyuu, left the series and was replaced by Naoko Watanabe.

A small, old witch that can divine things with the crystal ball she floats around on. The older sister of Master Roshi, she lives in a pyramid, providing divinations to those who can match one of two requirements--pay an outrageous fee, or defeat her chosen champions in combat. She can also provide a dead warrior a 24-hour return to the living, making for some joyous reunions. After the Red Ribbon saga, Goku's friends go to her for help finding the last Dragon Ball, and she periodically pops up to help for free, as the Z-warriors are now more powerful than any warrior she can employ.

 

* [[Crystal Ball]]

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Hints that Goku will save the world, which he does two saga's later... and keeps on doing until the end of the series.

* [[Psychic Powers]] / [[Telepathy]]: Can use his "cricket antennae" to have psychic conversations with others. He uses this to communicate with Goku and the others, coordinate plans (the wishes while Goku was fighting Freiza), and warn Goku of potential danger to the earth (several of the movies).

* [[Talking to Himself]]: See Goku.

 

 

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Akira thought he was pretty good, so he gave him a cameo. Further emphasized in ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'', where the Bardock Special functions as a ''prequel'', in an anime that basically was to be the manga, but with less filler and padding.

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: None of the other Saiyans believed that Freeza would destroy them.

* [[Death By Origin Story]]: [[Too Dumb to Live|take on Frieza in his first and weakest form, when you couldn't even take down Dodoria, who's weaker than both Zarbon and the Ginyu Force.]] [[Badass|It's still pretty awesome though]]

* [[Determinator]]: Blasts his way through hundreds of henchmen to get to Freeza.

* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: 17 is a brunet while 18 is blonde, but they do look alike at least in facial features.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: For both of them, although 17 later undergoes a [[Face Heel Turn]] as a result of [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] in ''GT'' (but he gets better).

* [[Lovable Rogue|Lovable Rogues]]

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy|Lovable Rogue is Not a Toy]]: As Dr. Gero explicitly finds out several times courtesy of 17.

** And finally, he prevent Goku from being impaled by a statue (courtesy of Syn Shenron)... by destroying the statue.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Surprisingly inconsequential in GT, despite Goku's intention to [[Passing the Torch|have him take his place as Earth's guardian.]]

* [[Massive Numbered Siblings]]: it's stated he's the first of five children.

* [[Reincarnation]]

 

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Like her mother, her hair was purple in the manga, blue in the anime

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: ''GT'' costume.

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

* [[Lady in Red]]: Her GT costume.

* [[Living Prop]]: In the manga she existed just to show that Vegeta and Bulma are still together and [[Happily Married]].

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Theme Naming]]/[[Unfortunate Name]]: Named after undergarments like the whole Briefs family.