Character BIOS

Character BIOS

Good Guys

Goku:

Goku is the main hero of the series. Son Goku is the primary hero of the Dragon Ball series. The series started out with Goku as a child of age 12. Once he grew up and his son was born, the TV series' name changed from Dragonball to Dragonball Z. At the end of the series, Goku was roughly 45 years old.

Bulma

Bulma is the second character to appear in the series, and has been a major character in both DB and DBZ. She created the "Dragon Radar" which can sense the location of the Dragon Balls by the radiation they emit, and was the one who first started the se arch for the Dragon Balls. She is also Trunks' and Bra's mother. She is a major influence on almost all of the major characters and is most notably the only character who was able to "tame" Vegita.

Master Roshi

Master Roshi was Goku's first trainer and was once the strongest person on earth. He founded the "Kamehameha" technique which was used A LOT in the series. He's also incredibly perverted; he has a panty fetish and is always trying to find ways to get "peeks " or "feels" of young, beautiful women. However, he has a companion, Umigame, a sea turtle, who tries to curb his "urges." Despite his perverted wishes, Mutenroshi is very old and wise, and has an excellent battle sense. Like many other characters in DB, Mutenroshi played his prime role in the first series.

Oolong

Oolong was one of the earliest characters to appear in the DB series. He is a small pig with the ability to change his shape to whatever he wants for 5 minutes. Then he has to rest for 1 minute before he can shape-change again. Like Master Roshi, he is also a pervert with a panty fetish, but he is not nearly as lecherous. Yet another character whose prime importance was in the earlier series.

Pooalu

Pooalu is a floating blue cat that went to the same shape-changing school as Oolong. He has somewhat of a rivalry with Oolong left over from kindergarten; Oolong had bullied him before getting kicked out for stealing the teacher's panties. Unlike Oolong, Pooalu can do "true" change, and does not need to rest every 5 minutes. Pooalu is also a friend of Yamcha. He has always served as somewhat of a minor character in both series, although he has had his high points.

Yamcha

One of the first characters to appear in the series, Yamcha was originally Goku's enemy, but soon became friends with him. Yamcha is characterized by a constantly changing hairstyle and an intense fear of women. (at least at the beginning) He was somew hat of an important character during the first series but less so in the second, being the weakest of all the Z fighters.

Chichi

Chichi is Ox King daughter, who also first appeared about the same time as he did. After the first time we see Ox King and Chichi they don't reappear for a long time (in the manga). The next time we see Chichi, she gets married to Goku. Therefore, she is also Gohan and Goten's mother. Her distinguishing trait is her temper; she gets mad a LOT. She is a very overprotective mother, which is probably justified in that her son is constantly drawn into fights against some of the toughest people in the unive rse.

Krillin:

Krillin is Goku's best friend, and has been around since the first series. He is a fighting monk who leaves his temple to find and train with Master Roshi. He is kind of short, has no nose and throughout most of the series, has no hair either. Kulilin trained with Goku under Master Roshi and afterwards shared many adventures with him. Krillin has died more times than anyone else in the series. He is one of the weaker fighters, but this is partially due to his low self-confidence. Nevertheless, he has gotten fairly powerful due to all his fights with the really powerful enemies, and I think is the next strongest Z fighter after Piccolo.

Karin

A very old, wise cat which lives high on the top of Karin Tower. It is there that he grows the Senzu seeds, magic beans that heal and energize whoever ate them, plus each seed is worth 10 days of food when eaten. Karin also has the Choushinsui, a magical but very poisonous tea that grants a large power-up to whoever drinks it and survives.

Baba

Baba is Master Roshi's older sister, who runs a fortune telling "business." For 10,000,000 zeni (the DB world's money) you can have your fortune told, or else you have to beat 5 of her fighters to have the future told. She also has the power to allow someone to come back from the dead for one day. She does this for Goku's "grandfather" and Goku later on.

Son Gohan

There are 2 Son Gohans in the series. This one is Goku's "grandfather" who found Goku abandoned in his Saiyajin space capsule and took him in. Goku squashed Gohan flat when he turned into a giant monkey. Gohan comes back from the dead in the series as one of Baba's 5 fighters to talk to Goku.

Tien

Tien is a 3-eyed man who was a student of Master Roshi's rival Tsurusennin, from whom he learned a lot of interesting techniques. He can communicate telepathically with his best friend Chaozu, and his master Tsurusennin. Originally he trained to be an assassin, but eventually realized that being one was not what he wanted. He beat Goku to win the 2nd Tenkaichi-budokai, and was fairly powerful during the first series, second only to Goku. Recently, though, he has taken a subordinate role in the series like Yamcha. Next to Yamcha, he is probably the weakest Z fighter.

Chaozu

A small, pastel-white floating child, and friend of Tenshinhan. Like Tenshinhan, Chaozu is a student of Tsurusennin, and competed in the second Tenkaichi-Budokai in the series. Chaozu is a fairly good fighter, but is not very good at math; this proves to be his weakness. He is tied with Krillin for the most number of deaths in the series.

Yajirobe

A friend of Goku's and a minor character in the series who carried Goku up Karin's tower during the time when the old Piccolo was around. For some reason he decided to stay there. He occasionally comes down to supply Senzu seeds. Normally a coward, he occasionally does something brave, like attacking Vegita and cutting off his tail. He is a fairly good fighter in his own right but not up to the standards of Goku and the others.

Mr Popo

Mr Popo is a short, jet-black humanoid with a turban who lives up in the Tenkai and is a servant to whoever is the current Kami of earth. He's been there since even before Kami was there, and is fairly strong, though nowhere near as powerful as any of the other Z fighters.

Kami

Kami, the god of Earth, created Shen-Lon and the Dragon Balls. He is a Namek- like Piccolo. Actually, he is Piccolo; he cast away all his evil into the old Piccolo. Therefore, if Piccolo dies, so does he. Kami lives in the Tenka i, a floating palace high above Karin's tower, where he can look down and see what is happening on earth. He no longer exists, having fused with Piccolo to give him a large power-up so he could fight Cell.

Piccolo

There are two Piccolos in the DB/DBZ series. The one who became a "good guy" was actually the "new" Piccolo, the son of the first. Piccolo is Goku's old rival. He was born after Goku killed his father when he was a kid; in his last breath the old Piccolo spat out an egg, and the new Piccolo hatched. Piccolo then went on to fight Goku in the final round of the Tenkaichi-Budokai, which he subsequently lost by a very close margin.

Son Gohan:

Son Gohan is Goku's first son. At the end of the series he was 26 years old but in this picture he is 9. For a short while after the second time Goku died in the series, Gohan became the primary character. Gohan is the most powerful non-fused character in the DBZ world, but lacks the love of fighting his father has and thus rarely uses his full strength.

Vegita

Aside from Goku, the only pure Saiyajin left alive by the end of the series. Vegita is the "bad guy among the good guys." He first made his appearance back when Gohan was 4. Although he fights alongside the other Z fighters, he is still decidedly evil. As the prince of the Saiyajins, he is very proud, has a huge ego, and is constantly trying to prove that he is the best fighter in the universe.

King Enma

King Enma is a huge man that guards the entrance to the afterworld. He sits at a desk and sends all the spirits that come there to either Tenkoku (heaven) or Jigoku (Hell). He plays a fairly minor role in the series but often deals with what happens to dead main characters, allowing them to return to Earth.

King Kai

One of four Kaios, beings from each corner of the galaxy who monitor activity in their sector of the galaxy. He lives on a ridiculously small planet at the end of a long road in Heaven. He has a pet monkey Bubbles and in the TV series, a cricket, Gregory. The first time Goku died, he trained with King Kai and learned the Kaio-ken and Genki-dama(Spirit Bomb). Kaio's planet was destroyed when Cell blew up on it.

Dende

Dende is Kami successor as the god of Earth. Like Piccolo and Kami, he is also a Namek, and is even younger than Gohan. Gohan and Krillin first met Dende on their trip to Namek to gather the Namek Dragon Balls. He has the power to heal injuries by laying his hands on the injured, and created more powerful Dragon Balls on Earth that can grant three wishes.

Nail

A minor character during the Namek episodes, Nail is the bodyguard of Guru, the planet's elder and source of life for the Dragon Balls. He fused with Piccolo to give him a power-up to fight Freezer.

Trunks

Trunks is Vegita's first child. There are two different Trunkses in DBZ. Trunks is Vegita's son. In his future, all of the Z fighters were killed by the Androids, except for Goku, who died of heart disease. Trunks travels 20 years back in time to give medicine to Goku so he can survive this disease and defeat the Androids. Trunks' returning in time alters the past in other ways which can be seen later.

Android #17 and #18

These two Androids were also created by Dr. Gero to kill Goku. They are twin brother and sister, #17 being a man with long black hair, and #18 being a girl with blond hair. In Trunks' future, they are both very much "bad guys," having wiped out most of the population of Earth. However during the altered timeline they are less destructive, focusing just on killing Goku. They end up joining the Z fighters to fight Cell, as Cell wanted to absorb both of them. Cell absorbed both, which was the last time we ever see or hear of #17 until the very end of the manga series, but Cell eventually spits out #18. Later on after Cell is killed, #18 marries Krillin and has a daughter named Pan, who is in the Dragon Ball GT series.

Android #16

Android #16 is a very large robotic man with a red mohawk and green armor. He was made by Dr. Gero to kill Goku as revenge for destroying the Red Ribbon Army, but joined the Z fighters to fight Cell. He is normally very quiet and introverted, and possesses a strong love and respect for nature and life. His death at the hands of Cell was what triggered Gohan to go Super Saiyajin 2 for the first time.

Mr. Satan

Used mostly as comic relief, Mr. Satan is the "hero of earth," taking credit for having killed Cell and saving the planet. Among "normal" Earthlings, he is fairly strong, but in reality he is a weakling and a coward. However, he performs the occasional heroic action, and occasionally manages to save the rest of the Z fighters by some minor action. He is also one of the only characters in the Dragon Ball series who has never died. Mr. Satan befriended Buu, but for the reason that some stupid earthlings killing a dog "Evil Buu" spared, Buu went psycho, then the dog was healed. But then a stronger, and Evil Buu was created while the good Buu was angry, and ate good Buu (had the power to turn things into candy), but then it couldn't hurt Mr. Satan, so that gave Goku to power up, and save Earth, so Mr. Satan has actually helped to save the universe. He also has a daughter called Videl who Gohan teaches to fly and marries.

Videl

Videl is Mr. Satan's daughter, and is the same age as Gohan. While not nearly as strong as any of the other Z fighters, she is a lot better than her father. She is in Gohan's high school class and uncovers his identity of "Great Saiyaman." Eventually she and Gohan get married.

Son Goten:

Goten is Goku's second son, and looks exactly like Goku when Goku was a little kid. At the end of the series, Goten was 17 and looked nothing like Goku though. Goten is very powerful for someone his age, although he is a little bit naive like his father. He can fuse with Trunks to become Gotenks, one of the most powerful characters in the series.

Maron

Maron is Krillin and #18's daughter with a very round head and pigtails. She plays a very minor role in the series.

(East) Kaio-shin

Kaio-shin is one of four gods of the Kaios. Most of the other Kaio-shins were killed off by Majin-Buu, and one was imprisoned within the Zed Sword. Kaio-shin then traveled to Earth to stop Babidi from reviving Buu, and enlists the help of the Z fighters. However, his plan to stop the revival backfires as Gohan goes into SSJ, and his power was absorbed, and that was what revived Buu.

Kibito

Kibito is Kaioshin's assistant. He has the power to heal wounds with his hands much like Dende. He plays a fairly minor role in the DBZ series. Eventually using 15-dai-mae Kaio-shin's earrings, he fuses with Kaio-shin permanently.

Buu

Buu was one of the strongest villians in the Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z universe, but he eventually became a good guy. He has gone through more different forms than Freezer and Cell combined. The first Buu is fat Buu, a fat, round pink man with a cape and the mind of a baby, but is very strong. When he got really angry, the smoke that came out of his head changed into Skinny Buu. Fat Buu (who became a good guy around this point) tried to change him into a chocolate, but Skinny Buu blew the blast back at him. Fat Buu turned into a chocolate, Skinny Buu ate him, and turned into Super Buu.

15 Dai-mae Kaio-shin

15 Dai-mae Kaio-shin was the Kaio-shin trapped in the Z Sword. When it broke, he was released. Like Master Roshi, he is a real pervert, but he has an interesting skill; he can give a huge power-up to anyone who can sit through a 25-hour power-up. He uses this skill to make Gohan the most powerful non-fused character in the series.

Gotenks

Using the Fusion, Goten and Trunks can fuse into Gotenks. Gotenks is very powerful, second only to Gohan and Gogita, and also is the only character other than Goku that can change to Super Saiyajin 3. However, he has a huge ego which gets him in trouble.

Gojita

When Goku and Vegita fuse, they become Gojita, the most powerful character in the DBZ world. Like Gotenks, Gojita has a huge ego, probably from Vegita.

Pan

Pan is Gohan and Videl's daughter. She looks just like Videl did at 16, just a lot smaller. She's pretty tough in a fight for her age and size, and certainly has the potential to become fairly strong.

Bra

Bra is Trunks' little sister. She looks like a copy of Bulma when we first see her way back in DB book #1, only much smaller.

Uub

Uub is a polite little kid with a mohawk, He is the reincarnation of Original Buu. (Uub=Buu backwards) He is very powerful for a human his age. At the end of the series, Uub goes back to his home town with Goku, who is going to train him.

The "Bad Guys"

The Red Ribbon Army

The Red Ribbon Army is another populace-terrorizing organization, set on finding the Dragon Balls so that the leader can make himself taller. They played a major part in the first series, as Goku singlehandedly opposed them. The important members of the Red Ribbon are:

Red Sosui: The leader of the Red Ribbon army, Red Sosui is a very short man who is very hung up on his height. He secretly wants the Dragon Balls to become taller. He despises failure and executes any of his soldiers who fails on the spot.

Black Hosa: While Red is the leader of the Army, the true coordinator of everything is Black. Black is Red's top advisor and the trainer of the army forces. He is really idealistic and wants to see the Red Ribbon Army conquer the world.

Silver Taisa: Silver Taisa is one of the officers of the Red Ribbon in charge of searching for the Dragon Balls. He is fairly strong, but is no match for Goku.

White Shogun: The head of Muscle Tower, White Shogun terrorizes the north section of the world, focusing his efforts on Jingle Village, a nearby town.

Metallic Gunso: A robotic man who mans one of the floors of Muscle tower. He is quite tough and can take a lot of punishment.

Murasaki Socho: A ninja who is very fast and has lots of tricks up his sleeve. He serves as one of the top commandants of Muscle Tower, second only to White.

Buyon: Well, not a real member of the Red Ribbon Army, Buyon is a rubber-like monster who lives in Muscle tower.

Blue Shogun: One of the strongest members of the Red Ribbon Army, Blue Shogun can fight and has psychic ability to back it up. Of all the officers of the Red Ribbon army, he was a threat for the longest period of time.

Violet Taisa: We never get to see much of this character. She's a woman with short hair. She appears in one panel, so there's not much to say about her.

Yellow Taisa: Yellow is an anthropomorphic tiger. He attempted an assault on Seichi Karin but was foiled by Goku and Bora.

Copper Shogun: We never get to see this character, he's only mentioned, but since he's a Shogun, he has to be important in some way to the Army.

Goku almost singlehandedly defeats the Red Ribbon Army. One of the scientists of the Army, Doctor Gero, survived, however and caused lots of problems for Goku and company during DBZ.

Tsurusennin

Tsurusennin is an old man who trained together with Master Roshi under Mutaito when they both were younger. He is also the older brother of Taopaipai. He and Taopaipai created their own school of martial arts, and together they trained Tien and Chaozu. He is very angry at Goku for killing Taopaipai and wants to get revenge against all of the Kamesennin school. Later he also gets a grudge against Tein and Chaozu for "defecting to Kamesennin's side."

Piccolo-Daimao and his henchman

Piccolo-Daimao (Kami-sama's evil side) was released by Pilaf during the second Tenkaichi-Budokai in the series, and attempted to conquer the world with his henchman, Tamborine, Cymbal, Piano and Drum. He used the Dragon Balls to restore his youth and str ngth, and afterwards held the entire world prisoner until he was killed by Goku. In the last moments before he died, he spat out an egg that hatched into the "new" Piccolo, the one that became a "good guy" in the second TV series.

Raditz

Raditz is the first villain to appear in the second series. He is Goku's older brother, and traveled to Earth to see whether or not his brother Kakarott had conquered the planet. Upon learning of Goku's "reprogramming," Raditz demanded that Goku kill 100 Earthlings and show the bodies to him, or else he would kill Gohan, who was only 4 at the time. Goku and Piccolo chased after him, and after a battle, managed to kill him. However, Goku sacrificed himself by holding Raditz in place while Piccolo could attack, and was killed in the same blow.

Nappa and the Saibaimen

Nappa is a large, bald Saiyajin who was Vegita's caretaker as a child, and came to Earth the same time he did. The Saibaimen were seeds that Nappa brought with him to earth that could hatch into small fighting humanoids when planted in the ground. The Saibaimen killed Yamcha, but were then all the rest except for one were destroyed by Krillin. Piccolo picked up the last one However, Nappa then managed to kill Tienn, Chaozu and Piccolo before Goku could come to help. Goku defeated Nappa, who was promptly killed by Vegita for his failure.

Kui

Kui is a henchman of Freezer, the evil mastermind of the Namek storyline, and an old rival of Vegita. He informed Vegita that Freezer was going to Namek to find the Dragon Bal ls and make himself immortal. Vegita then went to Namek himself to use the Balls himself. Kui followed in an attempt to stop him, but Vegita killed him.

Zarbon and Dodoria

Zarbon and Dodoria are Freezer's two top henchman. Dodoria is a large, bloated alien with a spiky head, and Zarbon is an alien that looks like a human but has the ability to transform into a powerful reptilian-like creature. They had traveled to Namek to assist Freezer in his search for the Dragon Balls. While chasing Gohan, Dodoria ran into Vegita and was killed by him. Zarbon likewise ran into Vegita in a search for a Dragon Ball, but when Vegita attacked him, transformed into his reptilian form and won. However, at their second confrontation, Vegita killed Zarbon.

The Ginyu-force

When Vegita, Gohan, and Krillin started causing trouble on Namek, Freezer called the Ginyu-forcei, a five-man elite fighting force. They are fairly famous throughout the galaxy and often show off in ridiculous battle formations. The members of the Ginyu-force are: Guld, a small, four-eyed creature with the ability to stop time, Jiesu, a human-like being with long hair, Burter, a reptilian humanoid, Rikoom, a very large humanoid who can take a LOT of punishment, and the leader Ginyu, who has the power to change bodies with his target. Guld and Jiesu were killed by Vegita, Rikoom and Burter were beaten by Goku, (and then immediately killed by Vegita) and Ginyu was effectively stopped when Goku threw a frog into his body-changing beam, thus turning him into a frog.

Friezer

Friezer is probably one of the three most important villains during all of the DBZ series; he was the major bad guy for nearly eight manga volumes, and the actual fight against Friezer was the longest, most drawn-out battle in the entire series. Friezer is an alien bent on controlling the entire universe, and wanted to make himself immortal using the Namek Dragon Balls. He is also the leader of a large fighting squadron. Freezer has the ability to transform himself three times with each form more powerful than the last. After his final transformation, he killed Dende and Vegita before Goku could come and fight him. Goku apparently killed him with a Genki-Dama, but he survived and killed Krillin, upon which Goku went Super Saiya for the first time. Again, Goku apparently killed Friezer, but he managed to survive to come back to Earth as a half-cyborg one year later. However, when Freezer came to Earth Trunks made his first appearance and finished him off for good.

King Cold

King Cold is Friezer's father, who played a minimal role in the series. He came to Earth with Friezer, but was killed by Trunks very quickly, but he is actually stronger than Frieza.

Android #19 and #20

As revenge for destroying the Red Ribbon Army, Dr. Gelo constructed #19 and #20 for the sole purpose of killing Goku. #19 is a fat robot with holes in the palms of his hands with which he can absorb energy, either by absorbing energy blasts, or by grabbing someone and sucking out their life energy directly. #20 is actually Dr. Gero's brain in a robot body, with powers similar to those of #19. Neither of them had the power to stand up to a Super Saiya-jin, though; #19 was killed by Vegita. After being beaten badly by Piccolo, #20 (Dr. Gero) retreated to his lab where he activated #17 and #18, who killed him almost as soon as they were awake.

Cell

Cell is Dr. Gero's "Ultimate Artificial Human." He is completely organic, made up of the cells of Goku, Vegita, Piccolo, and Freezer, all collected during their various battles on Earth by a spy robot. He has a long tail with which he can absorb humans and take their energy. If he absorbs #17 or #18, then he changes his shape and gets a huge power up. If he manages to absorb both, he is in his perfect form. He manages to do this and becomes so powerful that none of the Z fighters can come even close. Cell is in many ways very similar to Goku, in that he lives to fight strong opponents. Hoping to have a fun battle, he holds the "Cell Game," a tournament like the Tenkaichi-Budokai. He says that if nobody can beat him in a one-on-one fight, he will destroy the Earth. Goku tries to beat Cell but could not, so he makes Gohan fight him instead. Gohan manages to kill Cell, but not before Cell kills Goku. And Mr. Satan takes the credit (like always).

Cell Juniors

During the Cell Game, in an attempt to make Gohan angry enough to show his true power, Cell creates the "Cell Juniors" to beat up Gohan's friends. Although the Z fighters fight well to start with, the Cell Juniors have incredible constitutions and start beating badly. Eventually Cell's plan works and Gohan gets so angry that he goes Super Saiyajin 2, and kills every one of the Cell Juniors without so much as a scratch.

Madoshi Babidi and his henchmen

Madoshi Babidi is an old wizard, son of Bibidi who created Buu. He intends to revive Buu and sends two of his henchman, Supopobitchi and Yamu to the Tenkaichi-budokai to get energy to help, and they take Gohan's. Babidi also has two other minor henchmen, Puipui and Yakon. Puipui and Yakon are killed by Vegita and Goku respectively, and Babidi and Puipui kill Supopobitchi and Yamu when their usefulness runs out. Eventually Babidi revives Buu and controls him for a while, but Buu eventually tires of taking orders and kills him.

Dabura

Dabura is the King of the Demon World, who is Babidi's right-hand man. Babidi has the power to control those with evil hearts so he controlled Dabura, the most powerful evil being. (except for Vegita) Dabura is fairly powerful, his spit can turn people to stone and he did turn Piccolo and Krillin to stone. However, once Buu was revived Dabura made the mistake of insulting him. He was promptly beaten to a pulp, and then changed into a cookie and eaten .

Super Buu

Super Buu is the most powerful bad guy in all of DBZ. He looks like Fat Buu without the cape and the fat. He also is very evil. He kills every person on the planet except for Trunks, Goten, Piccolo, Dende, Satan, Tien, and Chaozu. He can change his form by absorbing people and can adopt their powers. He absorbes Gotenks, Piccolo, and Gohan this way. Eventually he gets all the people he ever absorbed pulled out of him and turns into Original Buu, who looks like a child version of Super Buu.

Original Buu

Original Buu is the final form of Buu we get to see. The first form of Buu without anybody absorbed, he possesses merely animal intelligence being unable to speak outside of growls, but is still extremely dangerous. Original Buu is slightly weaker than default-unfused Super Buu, which allowed Goku, Vegita, and Fat Buu to stand a chance against him, Gotenks and Gohan being "incapacitated" at the moment. With some help from Satan, everybody on Earth, and the Dragon Balls, Goku was able to make a Genki-dama strong enough to defeat him.

Other characters: Neutral or minor characters, and characters never given names.

Shen-Long

ShenLong is the Dragon God (Eternal Dragon). When all 7 Dragon Balls are brought together and the words "Ide yo, Doragon!" (Come out Dragon) are said, he comes out and grants the first wish asked of him. Shenlong can never grant the same wish twice; this became a big deal in the second series, as hero deaths were fairly common and nobody could be revived twice. For the most part, bringing back dead people is the usual wish, too. After Dende becomes the Earth's Kami, he powers up the dragon Balls so they can grant more wishes.

Porunga

This is the Namek equivalent of Shenlong. He looks much different than Shenlong. He is much bigger and is sort of like the upper torso of a dragon-like humanoid, rather than a long Eastern Dragon. Porunga's powers differ slightly than Shenlong' s; he cannot bring large numbers of people back from the dead at once, but he can grant three wishes and can grant the same wish more than once. Later Porunga gains a powerup so that he can bring large numbers of people back to life in one wish.

Brief and Bulma's mother

Brief is Bulma's father, but we never learn Bulma's mother's name. Brief is the head of the Capsule Corporation, the company that makes the Hoipoi capsules that turn into big things like cars and houses. Both Brief and Bulma's mother make appearances every once in a while throughout both DB and DBZ, but aren't really major characters. Occasionally Brief will make some important invention, though.