These facts cover all three Dragon Ball anime
series (Dragon Ball , Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon
Ball GT ).
1. Goku has perfomed the “Kamehameha” a total of
97 times throughout all three series.
2. Actor Sean Shemmel passed out while voicing
Goku’s epic transformation to Super Saiyan Level
4 in the English-language dub of Dragon Ball GT.
3. Bulma’s name roughly translates to “panties.”
4. Bulma goes through 17 different hairstyles
throughout the series.
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5. Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball , named
Piccolo as his favorite character. He says, “It
really is cliché when bad guys turn into good
guys, but it just feels great drawing it!”
6. Hitler makes an appearance in the movie Dragon
Ball Z: Fusion Reborn . Hitler was ultimately
defeated by Goten and Trunks.
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7. Goku’s mother is a Saiyan known as Gine .
8. Launch, who appeared throughout the first
Dragon Ball series, never appears in Dragon Ball Z
because Akira Toriyama “forgot” she existed.
9. Namekians grow at a faster rate than humans
or Saiyans. For this reason, Piccolo is a full
grown adult at the age of 3 when he fights Goku
at the World Martial Arts Tournament. Also, he’s
only four years older than Gohan during the
Saiyan saga.
10. Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta first appeared in the
2009 video game Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Battlers
that was only released in Japan.
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11. Future Trunks, Present Trunks, and Gogeta
are revealed to have Super Saiyan 3 capabilities in
the 2012 video game Dragon Ball Heroes .
12. Android 17’s real name is Lapis.
13. Android 18’s real name is Lazuli.
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14. In Arab dubs of the show, Saiyans “summon”
their Great Ape forms as opposed to transforming
at the sight of the moon.
15. The fight between Goku and Frieza took up a
total of three and a half hours of screen time,
making it the longest fight in anime history.
16. Vegeta, one of the Universe’s strongest
warriors, has a fear of worms .
17. Yu-Gi-Oh’s Tyler the Great Warrior was
modeled after Future Trunks.
18. In an alternate and more depressing Dragon
Ball Z timeline, “Perfect” Cell kills off Future
Trunks after he goes back to the future. Since
Future Trunks was the last remaining Saiyan, this
means that his death officially marks the
extinction of the Saiyan race. It also means that
earth is left to rot as a wasteland.
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19. Future Trunks received his sword from
Tapion, as revealed in movie The Wrath of the
Dragon .
20. Broly and “The Legendary Super Saiyan” are
not the same. “The Legendary Super Saiyan”
actually self-destructed as a Golden Oozaru 1,000
years prior to the Saiyans’ arrival to earth.
21. Cooler, Broly, and Baby from Dragon Ball GT
were all defeated by being blasted into the sun.
22. Unlike humans, Saiyan hairstyles always remain
the same.
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23. During the cell games saga, King Kai claimed
to know about the “Instant Transmission”
technique but never taught it to Goku because he
never asked. This means that Goku COULD HAVE
arrived to fight the Saiyans and SAVED THE LIVES
of Piccolo, Yamcha, Chaotzu and Tien.
24. Nappa had hair.
25. The six dots on Krillin’s forehead are from
incense burns from his time training to be a monk
at Orin Temple.
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26. In the manga version of Dragon Ball , nudity
was frequently used, especially for Bulma.
27. Majin Buu is five million years old.
28. Goten was originally brought in with the
intention of replacing Goku as the main character.
However, fans widely disapproved.
29. There are no female Namekians, since they
reproduce asexually by giving birth to eggs
through their mouth.
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30. Because Android 17 and 18 are technically
twins, and Krillin married Android 18, this would
mean that Android 17 is Krillin’s brother-in-law ,
and Dr. Gero is his father-in-law.
31. Broly’s power level was 10,000 at the time he
was born. This would mean that his power level as
a baby was stronger than Piccolo ( 322), Goku
( 334 ), and Raditz ( 1,500 ) combined.
32. Goku and Yajirobe mistakenly appear twice
when all the Manga books are aligned in order.
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33. Kid Buu technically kills Captain Ginyu. When
Shen Long transported all the Namekians to earth,
Ginyu was also transported in his frog form.
When Kid Buu destroyed the earth, Ginyu perished
along with everyone else.
34. By the time Dragon Ball Z wraps up, Master
Roshi, who is human, is 354 years old. This is
possible because according to the “Fanning the
Flame” chapter in the Dragon Ball manga series,
Turtle explains that Roshi consumed an
“immortality elixer.” It should be noted that
immortality does not mean invulnerability, as Roshi
dies while performing the “Evil Containment Wave”
against King Piccolo. Roshi would later be revived
by the Dragon Balls.
35. Trunk’s favorite food is yankiku , or grilled
meat.
36. Frieza is head of the Galactic Trade
Organization, a group that conquers planets and
auctions them off at higher prices. Toriyama
based the character off of real estate speculators,
whom Toriyama considers “the worst kind of
people.”
37. Vegeta and Bulma had a second child named
Bra .
38. Chiaotzu has only one strand of hair.
39. Chiaotzu’s face appears as a mask in the
Naruto manga series:
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40. One of Goten’s favorite foods are Pocky
Sticks .
41. Yamcha has always lost in the quarter finals
of every World Martial Arts Tournament.
42. Yamcha is either killed, severely injured, or
already dead in every saga.
43. Yamcha is actually a baseball player from West
City.
44. Goku has only won the World Martial Arts
Tournament once .
45. Masako Nozawa is the original Japanese voice
of Goku, and has voiced him for the entire run of
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46. For a time, Piccolo was the strongest of all
the Z Warriors, including Goku and Vegeta, after
he fused with Kami, making him stronger than any
Super Saiyan.
47. The names of Bibidi, Babidi, and Buu were
taken from the lyrics of the famous Cinderella
incantation .
48. Goku, Oolong, Bulma, and Yamcha are based
off the Chinese epic, Journey to the West .
49. According to Director James Wang, he had
never seen a single episode or read a book from
the manga prior to his involvement in the 2009
live-action film.
50. Goku has a legit fear of needles and hospital
food .
