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However, as the word "vegetable" is a culinary term, and not a botanical term, the name can also continue the naming scheme for Saiyan characters, which derives names from puns on vegetables. [2] In conceptualizing for Gohan's character, Toriyama originally included glasses or a jacket to his apparel, and commonly, his hair is spiked up as seen ...
For example, Bulma and her family are named after undergarments, members of the human-like alien race known as the Saiyans are named after vegetables, and because Frieza is a pun on freezer, the Ginyu Force are named after products that are kept in a refrigerator. [11]
Character names are almost always puns sharing a theme with characters related to them, most commonly food. For example, all Saiyans are named after vegetables, saiya (サイヤ) being an anagram of the syllables for yasai (野菜) which means vegetable; such as Kakarrot (カカロット, Kakarotto) taken from carrot (キャロット, kyarotto ...
After the release of Battle of Gods, Toriyama expressed interest in having Vegeta be the lead in the event of another animated feature, though he insisted this was only his intent and no decision had been made. [10] Following the trend that names of members of the Saiyan race are puns on vegetables, Vegeta's name is a pun of the word vegetable ...
Broly (ブロリー, Burorī) is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball media franchise.. Two different versions of the character exist: original Broly, a non-canon major villain created by screenwriter Takao Koyama who appeared in a trilogy of 1990s Dragon Ball Z films, Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993), Broly – Second Coming (1994) and Bio-Broly (1994), followed by a ...
The same mysterious alien arrives at the island and reveals himself: he is a Saiyan warrior named Raditz, part of a war-like race that wipes out the population of entire planets to sell the now uninhabited world to the highest bidder, and he is Goku's older brother, meaning Goku is actually a Saiyan, explaining his unnatural strength and the ...
Son Goku [nb 20] is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama.He is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Gokū in Japan and the Monkey King in the West), a main character of the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with influences from the Hong Kong action cinema of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee.
Name Source Type Saiyan: Dragon Ball Z: A naturally aggressive warrior race hailing from the planet Vegeta who are, purportedly, the strongest warriors in the fictional Dragon Ball universe. Most of the Saiyans were exterminated by galactic overlord Frieza after Goku was born. With only few known survivors, they are functionally extinct.