Master Roshi

Articles About Master Roshi
Main Series	Dragon Ball - Dragon Ball Super Manga
Non-Canon	Dragonball Evolution

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“	But you are still within human limits! In order to become a master of martial arts, you must break the wall of humanity! That is the challenge!	„
	~ Master Roshi to Son Goku and Krillin

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That was a close one, Goku, and I must admit my victory was only due to our sizes. My legs are longer, so I could hit much deeper on that last flying kick. Sort of a cheap trick, but it was my only chance, and it was for your own good; maybe you'll thank me someday, when you're older.

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“	Goku... Krillin... You're the ones who showed this old fossil he still had something left to give. That it was too soon to let the limits of age sentence him to sit idly by on the sidelines. You boys who were never content to stop, who kept aiming for and climbing greater and greater heights want me to take it easy? Now, listen to me, boys! Always remember these words: Work hard, study well, and eat and sleep plenty! That is the Turtle Hermit way! We must master the art of peace in addition to the art of war! The Turtle Hermit School will be with you... always! This will be my greatest, most powerful Kamehameha!	„
	~ Master Roshi towards Son Goku and Krillin

Background

Master Roshi, also known as Muten Roshi, the Turtle Hermit, and God of Martial Arts, is a perverted, pedophilic hermit and a master of martial arts. He lives on his own isolated island called Kame House, where he may be willing to train students who travel to his doorstep. He is also the originator of the Kamehameha Wave.

Despite his lecherous tendencies and his old age, Roshi is an extremely respected and capable warrior, serving as the master of Grandpa Gohan, Ox-King, Son Goku, Krillin, and Yamcha. His drive to push his students to new heights and support them on their martial arts journeys makes him one of the most notable supporting characters in the series.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Master Roshi’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Background Master Roshi, the younger brother of Fortuneteller Baba, is a martial artist trained by the great Master Mutaito a few hundred years before the beginning of Dragon Ball. He was the first one to climb the extremely tall Korin Tower and train under the legendary Korin. It took Master Roshi 3 years to catch Korin and obtain the Sacred Water, which was rumored to tremendously increase one's strength and speed. Before King Piccolo's rampage on Earth, Master Roshi and Shen were rivals, but later on the two became friends. Together they aided their master Mutaito in his battle with King Piccolo. The three of them were no match for King Piccolo, but Mutaito used a special technique - the Evil Containment Wave - to seal him away, dying in the process. Roshi and Shen threw the electric rice cooker he was sealed in to the bottom of the ocean so that King Piccolo would never be released. He would go on to establish the Turtle School based on Mutaito's teachings. After fifty years, Master Roshi mastered a unique attack of his own invention, called the Kamehameha. He was also Gohan's and Ox-King's martial arts instructor. Emperor Pilaf Saga After his friend the Turtle had been lost for a whole year, Roshi is taken to the people who brought him back which are a boy named Goku and a girl named Bulma. Roshi ends up giving his Flying Nimbus to Goku and is surprised that he is pure-hearted and able to ride it. Roshi also gets to see under Bulma's nightgown in exchange for his Three-Star Dragon Ball. When returning to his house he sees that Emperor Pilaf and his minions have raided his house looking for the Dragon Ball which he gave away. While Pilaf and his minions ask for help to pushing his ship back in the water to catch them, Roshi pokes a hole in it causing Pilaf to sink to the bottom of the ocean. A few days later, Goku returns with the Ox-King's daughter Chi-Chi to borrow the Bansho Fan to put out the flames on Fire Mountain. Unfortunately for them, he threw it away when he accidentally got it messy from using it as a placemat, but decides to use Baby Gamera to fly over to Fire Mountain and put out the flames using the MAX Power Kamehameha in exchange to touch Bulma's breasts. When Roshi destroys the fire, he realizes that he accidentally put too much power into his Kamehameha and destroys Ox-King's entire castle. When he is finished putting out the flames he sees Goku deciding to try the Kamehameha on a car and destroys it. Being surprised that he can manage to do an attack that took him decades to master, Roshi decides to take Goku in as his student, after Goku is finished with his quest gathering the Dragon Balls. When Goku returns to Roshi's house to start his training, Roshi has Goku find him a female companion. After Goku fails to find him an attractive woman, a former Orin Temple student named Krillin comes and requests to train under Roshi as well. After being bribed with Dirty Magazines, Roshi decides to allow him to train under him with Goku if they can bring him a beautiful girl. They eventually bring back a girl named Launch. Roshi packs up his house in a capsule and moves the ladder over to his special Training Island. He makes Goku and Krillin wear Turtle Shells as he puts them through tough and "unique" physical training, which begins at 4:30 A.M. and includes early morning milk delivery, tilling land bare handed, construction work and even studying. After eight months have passed, Roshi brings them to Papaya Island to participate in the annual 21st World Martial Arts Tournament and test out their strength and skill. Master Roshi enters the tournament himself in disguise as "Jackie Chun" (a parody of Jackie Chan) in order to make sure that his students will not win; he does this so that they will still feel challenged and will not become overconfident. Roshi easily wins the elimination rounds and is matched against Yamcha (one of Goku's friends from his quest finding the Dragon Balls) and defeats him with ease. Next, Roshi is matched with Krillin in the semi-final. Krillin distracts him by throwing panties into the arena, but Roshi still wins. When Goku beats Nam in his semi-final match, Roshi reads Nam's mind and helps him out by giving him a storage capsule to fill with free water for his village. In exchange, Roshi has Nam pose as Master Roshi in the crowd to convince Yamcha that Jackie Chun and Master Roshi are not the same person. Roshi fights Goku in the final match. When Goku looks at the full moon, he turns into a Great Ape, and Roshi is forced to destroy the moon with a Kamehameha to restore Goku back to his original form. When the fight restarts, Roshi and Goku charge at each other, both kicking each other in the face, but ultimately, Roshi just barely wins, as he has slightly more energy than Goku, and his legs are longer than Goku's, so his kick did more damage. Once the tournament is over, Roshi teaches Goku that there is always someone better out there and that he should never think of himself as the best. Having said this, Roshi decides that Goku should go out into the world and begin a journey of his own. Roshi heads back to Kame House with Krillin so they can continue training. After a few days Goku returns with Bulma to get a submarine that he let them borrow in exchange for Bulma's Micro Band. When Launch returns from getting groceries, Roshi decides to use the Micro Band to his advantage and draws her into a bath so he can spy on her but Launch transforms into her hostile state threatening to shoot him if he does not do what she says. Captain Dark of the Red Ribbon Army has his troops come to his island to retrieve the Dragon Balls that Goku left behind and to make him build a radar for the Red Ribbon Army thinking that he is a scientist that gave him the radar. Roshi easily defeats the troops and Captain Dark, although he lets one soldier leave alive. When Goku, Bulma and Krillin return, they gave Roshi an expensive diamond they found in the cave when retrieving their third Dragon Ball, as compensation for destroying his sub. Launch who is still in her bad form takes the diamond and leaves while General Blue of the Red Ribbon Army uses his psychic powers to tie up everybody while he takes the Dragon Balls and leaves a bomb to blow everybody up. They are saved when Launch returns in her good form and frees Goku to get rid of the bomb. While the Red Ribbon Army are left being Goku's problem, Roshi has his Micro Band confiscated from Bulma because of the perverted tricks he had tried. While everybody seems to be relaxing for the time being, Bulma makes a scout plane that reveals that Goku is heading straight for the Red Ribbon Army Headquarters which they think would be suicide. Roshi has Bulma contact Yamcha and bring an airplane so they can catch up with Goku and help him in his risky fight. When they make it to the base, Goku has already defeated the Red Ribbon Army shocking Roshi even more on how powerful Goku has become. He even says that Goku could be even stronger than him. Fortuneteller Baba Saga Roshi and the others go back to Kame House after retrieving Goku from his victory over the Red Ribbon Army. Seeing that the last Dragon Ball's location is unknown, Roshi points them in the direction of his older sister, the Fortuneteller Baba to have her reveal the position for them. Later on Goku comes and grabs Master Roshi and Bulma and takes them to Fortuneteller Baba's Palace as part of a plan Krillin has. While Yamcha is facing See-Through the Invisible Man, Krillin pulls Bulma's shirt down showing Roshi her bare breasts causing his nose to bleed and spray onto the Invisible Man, revealing his position to Yamcha and be easily defeated. Roshi follows the rest of the gang and spectates the battles that Baba has them fight for her to tell them where the Dragon Ball is. After being impressed with seeing Goku defeat Bandages the Mummy and Spike the Devil Man at the Devil's Toilet, Goku has to fight a mysterious fighter that seems familiar to both Goku and Roshi. Midway through the fight, Roshi figures out who it is, with Goku still not knowing. When the mysterious fighter gives up, he reveals himself to be Goku's grandpa Gohan who Baba brought back from the Other World for the day. When Goku retrieves the last ball, Roshi tells Goku to train on his own, as he will not get any stronger by training with him anymore. Bulma convinces Roshi to take on Yamcha as his student and begins training for the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament. Tien Shinhan Saga Three years later, Roshi enters the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament under his alias of Jackie Chun once again. At the tournament gates, he meets his old rival, Master Shen, the Crane Hermit, who decides to enter his students because he heard the news of Roshi's students getting far in the last tournament. Jackie Chun makes it past the preliminaries and in the quarter finals is put up against Man-Wolf, who is holding a grudge against him. Man-Wolf wants revenge on Roshi due to Roshi destroying the moon in the last tournament, causing Man Wolf to stay stuck in his wolf form. Roshi easily beats him in the arena, and also takes advantage of Man-Wolf's dog like behavior, by making Man-Wolf run out of the ring in order to retrieve a bone, thus losing the match. Roshi is able to cure Man-Wolf's problem by using Krillin's head as a substitute moon. In the semi-finals, he is put up against the Crane Hermit's star pupil, Tien Shinhan. During the fight, Roshi and Tien are almost evenly matched, with both of them landing critical hits on each other, with Roshi managing to greatly surprise Tien with his skills. However, Roshi eventually forfeits the battle (much to Tien's surprise) since Tien found out that he is really Roshi in disguise and because he had faith in Tien's abilities, so he decides that he would be a better match for his students than himself, thus retiring himself as Jackie Chun. While Tien is conflicting with the commands Master Shen gives him in the final match against Goku, Roshi convinces Tien that Master Shen's ways are not right. During Goku's match against Tien, Roshi saves Chiaotzu from Shen, who tries to kill Chiaotzu for disobeying him when Shen orders Chiaotzu to paralyze Goku and Tien so he can kill them for Tien's earlier betrayal. Roshi blasts Shen out of the Tournament area with a Kamehameha blast before Shen can inflict harm on Chiaotzu. King Piccolo Saga When Krillin is killed after the tournament by Tambourine, Roshi is able to identify that he is a spawn of the evil demon King Piccolo that his former mentor, Master Mutaito sacrificed himself to seal away. This knowledge scares Roshi, and realizing that King Piccolo is back, Roshi decides to travel with Tien and Chiaotzu to retrieve the Dragon Balls before the demon king can. When King Piccolo finds them, Roshi knocks out Tien, to make sure in case Roshi fails, Tien is there to help. Roshi attempts to use the Evil Containment Wave on King Piccolo, but misses the Electric Rice Cooker by an inch and the technique drains his life force. It is worth noting that Roshi never used his MAX Power form in the fight against King Piccolo. Whether this was because of its increased stamina usage, him not believing it would work, or for other reasons is unknown. Roshi with his dying breath tells King Piccolo that he will eventually fail and be brought down. After Roshi finishes his speech, he falls to the ground, dying from his lack of energy. Roshi is brought back to life after Goku defeats King Piccolo and travels to The Lookout to revive Shenron. Piccolor Jr. Saga Three years later, Master Roshi attends the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament to cheer on his friends and watches the battle with Goku, who has been training with Kami, against the reincarnated Piccolo. He is one of the few people who stays until the end of the tournament to see Goku win the battle. After Goku stops Kami from killing Piccolo causing Kami to lament that Piccolo's existence is his fault, and for that he is no longer worthy of life, let alone to be the Earth's Guardian. But Master Roshi tells him that is not so, the world is at peace again, and Son Goku and everyone else would not be here if it was not for the Dragon Balls. This whole thing started because of just one Dragon Ball, and now the world is safe. Kami tells Goku he has a great teacher, and Goku agrees, although admits Roshi is a bit of a pervert. He is shocked along with everybody else when Goku rudely refuses Kami's offer to become Guardian of Earth and flies off with Chi-Chi on the Flying Nimbus. Saiyan Saga Five years later Master Roshi is seen at his home with Krillin, and Bulma, waiting for their reunion with Goku and his son, Gohan. The group is soon confronted by a man named Raditz, who reveals he is Goku's brother. He also reveals to Goku that he is a Saiyan warrior and was sent to Earth when he was a baby in order to wipe out all life. Master Roshi informs the confused and shocked Goku of a story that Grandpa Gohan told him. When he was a baby he hit his head and lost his memory, thus Goku lost his violent nature and became a happy, loving boy. Raditz implores Goku to join him in conquering planets, but is refused. However, Goku's son Gohan is kidnapped in order to get Goku to cooperate. Piccolo arrives to help Goku fight, and the two go off to take down Raditz. Later, Krillin, Bulma, and Master Roshi head to the battlefield and find Goku dying, a result of sacrificing himself to kill Raditz. Piccolo informs the group that two more Saiyans will be coming to Earth in one year, and that they are far more powerful, with Piccolo taking Gohan to train for the invasion. A year later, the Saiyans arrive and Master Roshi, Bulma, Oolong, Puar, Ox-King, and Chi-Chi watch the battle on TV. They watch Yamcha fall, but the TV network shorts out, and they are unable to watch the continuing carnage, as Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, and Piccolo all fall on the battlefield as well. Later they go to the battlefield to retrieve their injured friends, Krillin reveals the home world of Piccolo is a place named Namek where there are another a set of Dragon Balls that could be used to revive their fallen friends (as when Piccolo died, Kami did as well, rendering the Dragon Balls inert). Frieza Saga Master Roshi watches as Bulma, Krillin, and Gohan blast off into space, headed for Namek. Roshi is called by Bulma after they had arrived on Namek, but revealed the horrible news that Vegeta and a stronger being named Frieza were on the planet as well. Master Roshi visits Wukong Hospital to tell Goku of the trouble on Namek. Later, Master Roshi is seen at Capsule Corporation with his friends who are worried about Goku, Gohan, and Krillin as they struggle to survive against Frieza on Namek. Later, after Chi-Chi asked Dr. Brief to build a second Capsule Corporation Spaceship, she took Master Roshi, Yajirobe, Puar and Oolong with her to go to planet Namek. While Goku as a Super Saiyan was fighting Frieza, their attempts to fly were always cancelled either because of a breakdown of the spaceship or because of getting messages from the group on Namek. When Goku is revealed to have survived Namek's destruction, but refuses to come home yet, Roshi ends up yelling in frustration that Goku's reason for not returning is that he's scared of the one being that is more powerful than a Super Saiyan: Chi-Chi, Goku's wife, only for him to immediately recant the remark after Chi-Chi, overhearing the remark, starts holding a sword out with the intent of stabbing him with it. Frieza-Androids Saga Around a year later, Goku comes back to Earth. After meeting a boy who reveals himself to be the son of Vegeta and Bulma from the future, Trunks, Goku shows his friends his new technique, the Instant Transmission, by going to Kame House and stealing Roshi's sunglasses. When Krillin brings the sunglasses back to Roshi, Roshi tells him that the ghost of Goku came and stole his sunglasses. Androids Saga Three years later Master Roshi is at his house with Oolong and Chiaotzu as they await the news regarding the battle with the Androids. Later, Goku who had come down with the heart virus is brought to his island to hide from the Androids, who were on the hunt for the fallen Super Saiyan. Cell Saga They later discover a monster named Cell (who is an Android from the future, who had come from another timeline in another time machine) who needs to absorb Android 17 and Android 18 to reach his "Perfect" form. A few days later, Goku recovers and he decides to continue his training in order to combat the Androids. Later the Androids arrive at his island looking for Goku, but Piccolo, who had merged with Kami, takes the Androids to a nearby island to fight. Later the house is flooded due to Cell's final transformation. Master Roshi is later seen at Capsule corp. listening to Cell's announcement of the Cell Games that will take place in ten days. Later, Master Roshi watches the Cell Games on TV at his house with Bulma. World Tournament Saga Seven years after the defeat of Cell, Master Roshi is told by Gohan that Goku will be returning to Earth to attend the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament. Master Roshi attends the tournament to cheer on his friends. The appearance of Babidi changes the course of events, and after Vegeta is taken over by the wizard, he kills hundreds of people at the tournament in order to get Goku to fight him. Master Roshi goes with the others to look for the Dragon Balls in order to revive those killed by Vegeta. Majin Buu Saga However, a much larger threat surfaces when Babidi's monster Majin Buu is released. He later takes refuge from Majin Buu on The Lookout. A day later, Buu undergoes a transformation into Super Buu, who finds The Lookout and allows them to live for a short time as he awaits to fight the powerful warrior Goku promised him. While on The Lookout, Super Buu uses his Human Extinction Attack to kill all the people on Earth except for those on the Lookout. He is later tricked into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber in order for Gotenks to fight him on his terms. After Piccolo believes Gotenks had lost, he destroys the door to the chamber, trapping them in for eternity. However, Buu is enraged when he learns he will not be able to eat chocolate and rips a hole in the dimensions using his powerful voice. Super Buu escapes and turns everybody into chocolate and eats them. Later, Master Roshi is revived and gives his energy to Goku to fuel the Super Spirit Bomb to defeat Kid Buu. He later witnesses with happiness the return of Goku and his friends on Earth after Kid Buu's defeat. God of Destruction Beerus Saga Sometime after the conflict with Majin Buu, Roshi runs over to Goku's House when he hears that Goku received 100 million Zeni and tries to ask him to buy some "interesting DVDs" for him, but finds that he already left. Chi-Chi is there and attacks him, kicking him out for suggesting to buy perverted things with their money. He attends Bulma's birthday party and is watching women on the beach with Oolong, who both later get blocked by Chi-Chi. Master Roshi is later shown looking at nude magazines with Oolong. At one point, Master Roshi tries to poke Bulma's breast but gets slapped in the face. Soon after that, he and every passenger on the ship helplessly watches as Beerus charges an enormous purplish energy ball. Krillin, who's standing right next to him, asks Piccolo if aiding them in the attack against Beerus would've helped, to which Piccolo sharply tells him no. During the course of Goku and Beerus' duel, Master Roshi chooses to join Bulma and several others in her space-pod to get a better view of their fight. Golden Frieza Saga Master Roshi was seen being picked up Krillin when they heard news of Frieza's return and the two of them join Tien Shinhan, Gohan, and Piccolo in the fight against him and his army of 1,000 soldiers. He begins by powering up to max and began estimating a quota of 170 soldiers each. He uses kiai kick against his opponents. Before using his cane to defeat one of the soldiers. When Krillin is scared while being threatened by the army, Master Roshi, while wrestling with a soldier, encouraged him by telling him that "he saw a lot of fights by many amazing warriors and that he will not be hit by such weaklings" and that "he should be proud because, he was trained by the great Master Roshi". After Krillin regained confidence, he then used "an original move of Master Roshi", the Kamehameha, against his opponents before powering down. He later watches the fight between Goku and Frieza and later Vegeta who steps in after Goku is taken out. After Frieza destroys the Earth, Roshi gets protected by Whis, along with the others. Whis undoes time for Goku to able to kill Frieza and send him back to Earth's Hell. He is later seen at a party, with the other Z fighters who participated in the fight, talking to Tien and Vegeta. Universe 6 Saga Master Roshi is present at the sidelines with his friends, spectating the Tournament of Destroyers on the Nameless Planet. After Team Universe 7 wins the tournament, the group locates the seventh and final Super Dragon Ball, which was actually the planet they were on. Copy-Vegeta Saga Master Roshi attends Bulma's Universe 7 victory party with his friends and learns that Monaka isn't a fighter. He then watches as Beerus dons a life-sized Monaka costume and fights with Goku, and later starts the party with Monaka's secret protected. Goku Black Saga Master Roshi teaches Goku the Evil Containment Wave as a mean to defeat Future Zamasu. However, Roshi later calls Bulma to tell her that Goku forgot to take the seal to the future timeline, preventing them from sealing Zamasu. Universe Survival Saga Knowing it is a tournament that isn't purely about power but team work and strategy as well, Gohan recommends Master Roshi as a member of Team Universe 7, saying his massive experience and enormous bag of tricky attacks will be extremely useful. Goku agrees saying Master Roshi can easily hold his own with his special moves alone. Roshi shows up to Yamcha's home as the latter is watching TV. Yamcha thinks Roshi is inviting him to join the team, but Roshi is only here to get Puar to transform into a young woman. Roshi claims that he is doing this because he wants to overcome his perversion before the tournament starts, but Yamcha isn't so sure it will work. Oolong already refused to help Roshi so the latter turns to Puar. After a short while, Master Roshi finally overcame his weakness and heads to Korin's tower for some training. He soon meet up with the others at Capsule Corp. realizing that Majin Buu has fallen alseep, as he listens on as Goku and Beerus discuss the new 10th member, he and the rest of the Universe 7 team were shocked when his former student suggested bringing Frieza back to life. After Goku returns with Frieza, Master Roshi and the others are transported by Whis to the Null Realm. While at the Tournament of Power, Krillin asked him would he be okay when seeing the two females Caulifla and Kale, the turtle hermit assured him and Tien Shinhan that he will be fine. The Battle Royal starts and Master Roshi chooses to stay alongside Gohan, Piccolo, Krillin, and Tien Shinhan, he and the others are cornered by Lavender, Botamo, Comfrey, Shosa and Dercori; the team launched their assault (with Master Roshi firing the Kamehameha), which did little to no damage. Later after Krillin damages Zium's wing with his Destructo Disc, Roshi blasts Zium out of the arena with his version of the Kamehameha. After Kale's rampage, Master Roshi runs into Za Priccio, whom he traps with his Thunder Shock Surprise, and Tien knocks him out with the Neo Tri-Beam. He regroups with the other members of Team Universe 7. Seeing the situation of the tournament, Gohan, Piccolo, Tien and Master Roshi decide to fight separately, dodging a Ki Blast from Kunshi. After completely scoping out everything since the tournament begin, Master Roshi ventures off on his own, while analyzing the status of the remaining fighters; he is soon confronted by three of the Universe 4 fighters; the first was Caway (whom was trying to seduce him), but her efforts backfired as he chased her off the stage; the second was Dercori (whom used her talismans to trap him in an illusion), Master Roshi successfully sealed her inside a jar with the Evil Containment Wave and tossed it off-stage (with both Omni-Kings allowing the jar, saying it was neat); the third and final opponent was Ganos, who transformed in order to fight Roshi. Initially Master Roshi was overwhelming him but was overpowered when the latter increased in power. Left with no other option, Master Roshi uses up all of his energy to knock Ganos out of the arena with The Greatest Kamehameha while at the same time, reminiscing the things he had learned from Goku and Krillin, as well as their time spent together. He almost died until Goku revived him with some of his energy, afterwards the two head off together. Master Roshi sits down on a rock, Goku asks him if he will be fine. Roshi tells him that he will be fine with some rest. Roshi then tells Goku to go on and fight for him. Goku then departs. Roshi is next seen resting and hiding in a rock circle recovering and laminating how recovering was easier when he was younger. He is then attacked by Frost and is battered around thanks to being tired and their power gap. Roshi calls out Frost on going after weakened and tired fighters and Frost begins to torture his newly injured left shoulder. Frost mentions it's not fun if they can't fight back and goes to eliminate Roshi, but Roshi unleashes his Full Power and manages to push Frost back for a few moments but is overpowered. Frost says that it's hard for him to fight here as he has to be careful not to kill him by accident and blasts him with several Chaos Shots. Roshi, having been blasted back to his base form, uses the Evil Containment Wave again and almost manages to seal Frost; still, his injured shoulder prevents him from aiming properly. Frost, horrified at Roshi for having such a useful attack, forgets the rules and tries to kill Roshi, but Vegeta steps in and saves him, mentioning that he isn't saving him, it's just Frost pisses him off. Roshi sits back and lets Vegeta handle Frost and the now present Augo Magetta. When Frost mentions that he can't beat him in a normal convention, Roshi goes for the Evil Containment Wave again, trying to seal both Frost and Magetta; however, Frost uses a reflection to gain control. Vegeta rushes in to save Roshi once again, but Beerus sees through the trap and tells Vegeta to move, but it is too late, and Vegeta is hit by and sealed away. Roshi, refusing to let Vegeta get eliminated thanks to him, charges and is easily blown back by Frost and shot with more Chaos Shots. In a last-ditch effort, Roshi fires a Turtle Orb at the jar and seems to miss. Frost mocks Roshi's attempt, but Roshi shows he actually can use the attack like the Spirit Ball and redirects it back to blast the jar open, freeing an enraged Vegeta, who comes out as a Super Saiyan Blue and blasts the custom rock made hearing protectors off of Magetta and calls him a bastard, which makes him curl up into a ball. Frost retreats as Vegeta casually rolls Magetta off the stage. Roshi apologizes to Vegeta, to which he doesn't answer and instead asks Roshi to retire and eliminate himself before he dies from exhaustion. Roshi, realizing that Vegeta is right, agrees with him reluctantly. Vegeta then promises Roshi that he will take care of everything else as he has done enough. Roshi, leaving the rest of the fight to Vegeta, allows himself to pass out and fall out of the ring. Tien and Krillin catch Roshi and give him a Senzu Bean, reviving him. Beerus, while initially appearing to be angry, reveals that he is only joking and says the three did very well given the situation and, in a rare show of respect from the God of Destruction, Beerus calls Roshi "Master". Super Hero Master Roshi makes a cameo appearance in Magenta's false depiction of the Dragon Team as villains confronting Cell.

General Information

Name: Master Roshi

Other Names: Muten Roshi

Origin: Dragon Ball

Overall Series: Dragon Ball

First Appearance: Dragon Ball Chapter 2

Latest Appearance: Dragon Ball Daima (Latest canonical appearance)

Company: Shueisha, Toei

Creator: Akira Toriyama

Actor

• Japanese Voice Actor: Kohei Miyauichi (Dragon Ball: Goku's Traffic Safety, Dragon Ball: Goku's Fire FIghting Regiment, Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure, Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z: Gather Together! Goku's World, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Dragon Ball: SleepingPrincess in Devil's Castle, Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest, Dragon Ball Z: History of Trunks, Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler, Dragon Ball Z: Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan, Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!, Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle, Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound), Joji Yanami (Dragon Ball), Hiroshi Masuoka (Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3, Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!, Dragon Ball: Origins, Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo, Dragon Ball: Origins 2), Kinya Aikawa (Dragon Ball: The Path to Power), Takko Ishimori (Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure), Masaharu Sato (Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon, Dragon Ball Kai, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Dragon Ball Legends, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Super, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO), Nobuaki Kanemitsu (Dragon Ball Daima)
• English Voice Actor: Mike McFarland (Ford, Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure, Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle, Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest, Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks, Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, Dragon Ball Z: Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan, Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball: The Path to Power, Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3, Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy, Dragon Ball Z: Sagas, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi, Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure, Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Dragon Ball: Origins, Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo, Dragon Ball Kai, Dragon Ball: Origins 2, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Dragon Ball Legends, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Super, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO), Ed Marcus (Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure, Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies, Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle, Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest, Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks, Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler, Dragon Ball Z: Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan, Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!, Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound), Michael Donovan (Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies, Dragon Ball), Dean Galloway (Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball GT), Peter Kelamis (Dragon Ball Z), Ian James Corlett (Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone), Terry Klassen (Dragon Ball Z), Don Brown (Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest), Nesty Calvo Ramirez (Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler), Kirk Thornton (Dragon Ball Super), Jordan Dash Cruz (Dragon Ball Daima)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Handedness: Right-Handed

Age: 319 during Emperor Pilaf Saga (Master Roshi was born in Age 430, with the Emperor Pilaf Saga taking place in Age 749), 320 during the 21st Budokai Saga (Noted that the training for the 21st Budokai took about 8 months, meaning that about a year has passed leading into the 21st Budokai Saga), 323 during the 22nd Budokai Saga (3 years have passed since the 21st Budokai), 326 during 23rd Budokai Saga (The 23rd Budokai Saga is 3 years after the 22nd Budokai), 331 during the beginning of Dragon Ball Z (Five years have passed since the end of Dragon Ball), 332 during the Saiyan, Ginyu, and Frieza Saga (The saiyans were noted to take one year to get to Earth, though they were a month early, with Frieza Saga taking place in the timespan of a week), 333 during the Frieza-Android Interlude (Noted that a year has passed), 336 during the beginning of the Android Saga (The Z-Fighters trained for 3 years to prepare for the Androids), 343 during the beginning of the Buu Saga (7 years have passed since the end of the Android/Cell Saga), 347 in God of Destruction Beerus Saga (The God of Destruction Saga takes place 4 years after the Buu Saga), 348 during Resurrection F (Around a year passed leading into the Resurrection F saga), 349 during Goku Black Arc and on (Around another year passed leading up to this arc), 353 by the end of Dragon Ball Z (Peaceful World Saga is 10 years after the Buu Saga)

Birthday: Unknown

Birth Year: Age 430

Time Period: Varies on Age (The Dragon Ball series goes as far as the era of Dragon Ball Heroes which is long past Goku's time and all the way back to when Chilled still ruled)

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Kame House

Story Role: Hero, Martial Arts Master, Warrior, Pervert Trope

Legacy Global Legacy (Master Roshi is known as the strongest martial artist by many aspiring martial artist)

Influence: Event Influence

Language: Japanese

Ethnicity: Asian

Religion: N/A

Classification: Earthling, Turtle Hermit, Sensei, Master, Martial Artist, Turtle School Master

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Saiyan Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: None

Combat Style: Turtle Hermit Style (Is the creator and master of the Turtle Hermit Style)

Affiliations: Bulma, Piccolo (Former enemy), Krillin (Student), Tien Shinhan (Fought with him in the tournament and later trained him as a student), Yamcha (Student), Chiaotzu, Oolong, Puar (After going to Pilaf's Castle), Launch, Nam

Enemies: Emperor Pilaf, Pilaf Gang, Tao Pai Pai, Red Ribbon Army, Tien Shinhan (Formerly), King Piccolo, Piccolo (Formerly), Raditz, Frieza, Majin Buu, Beerus (Formerly)

Height: 165 cm (Officially listed as 165 centimeters)

Weight: 44 kg (Officially listed as 44 kilograms)

Status: Has been both Alive and Deceased (Master Roshi has died two times during the course of Dragon Ball, the first time being him losing his life force after failing the mafuba technique to try and seal King Piccolo, the other time is when Super Buu turned everyone into candy on the lookout and killed all of them. He has been brought back to life on both occasions)

Date of Death: King Piccolo Saga for the first death, Majin Buu Saga for his second death

Alignment: Neutral Good (Though Master Roshi is perverted, a sexual harrasser and a pedophile, the narrative of Dragon Ball points towards him following the philosophy of his style, where one lives well, eat wells, and uses martial arts to stop evil-doers)

Protection Level: Global Protector (Attempted to stop King Piccolo from taking over the world. Aided Gohan and co. in stopping Frieza from destroying Earth)

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Growth Potential
• Level of Potential: Growth
• Description: Earthlings in Dragon Ball grow as they constantly train, reaching new levels of strength unheard of even by people that were originally meant to be the strongest martial artist in the world.
• Limitations: Their potential extends as far as they're willing to train.

Archetype: Mentor/Master

Codex Statistics

Dragon BallDragon Ball Super

Key: 21st Budokai | 22nd Budokai

Grade: B | B

Tier: 9-B, Higher at Full Power. Varies-E with Strongest Charged Blast | At least 9-B, Higher at Full Power. Varies-E with Strongest Charged Blast

Grade: B (Master Roshi was noted as the strongest person on Earth at one point in time) | B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Ki (All beings in Dragon Ball have ki, the very life force energy of all characters, ki allows a fighter to extend beyond their bodies limits, allowing them to even block attacks that would otherwise kill them from raising their guard, higher level users can lower their own durability to allow people far below them to fatally wound them)

Attack Potency: Wall level (Potency) (Fought against 21st Budokai Saga Son Goku and ultimately won, who defeated General Blue, who tanked his plane crashing into a mountain at full speed), Higher at Full Power. Varies: Skill with Strongest Charged Blast (Charged Blast have one focus all of their energy into one single point, putting the blasts power far beyond what their peak strength is, allowing them to destroy things they couldn't prior with their regular attacks, this also allows them to use charged attacks that can stop enemies far beyond their level, such as Tien Shinhan pushing back Semi-Perfect Cell with his Neo Ki-Ko-Ho, along with stopping an attack shot from Buu absorbed Gotenks. Strongest charged blast can gather ki to shoot out blast far beyond what the character is normally capable of, with blasts capable of seriously damaging/destroying the Earth along with completely obliterating the opponent. Charged Blast also rely heavily on emotional states for example Gohan not believing in himself was having Cell overpower him in a beam clash) | At least Wall level (Potency) (Secretly trained to keep up with his students, making him comparable to Son Goku and Krillin redirected a full powered kamehameha wave from Tien Shinhan), Higher at Full Power. Varies: Skill with Strongest Charged Blast

Durability: Wall level, Higher at Full Power, Higher with Guard Up (Ki allows a fighter to extend beyond their bodies limits, allowing them to even block attacks that would otherwise kill them from raising their guard) | At least Wall level, Higher at Full Power, Higher with Guard Up

Striking Strength: Wall Class (Potency), Higher at Full Power | At least Wall Class (Potency), Higher at Full Power

Lifting Strength: Superhuman (Can move a boulder that's larger then him) | At least Superhuman (After training, he should be superior to 21st Budokai Saga Son Goku and Krillin who were able to move a giant boulder with a lot of effort)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Could travel 100 meters in 5.6 seconds) | Superhuman

Attack Speed: Supersonic (Should be superior to beginning of Dragon Ball Son Goku, who appeared faster than a trained bandit could see, traveled 120 km in a short timeframe. Tagged a pterodactyl, which can reach up to 67 miles per hour, 29.95 meters per second), Higher Attack Speed (His kamehameha can reach the moon in a short timeframe) | Supersonic, Higher Attack Speed

Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Can fight comparable to 21st Budokai Saga Son Goku, who can avoid bullets from close range, on a consistent basis) | Supersonic (Comparable to 22nd Budokai Son Goku, who could dodge a mouth blast from Tambourine, which he used to tag the flying nimbus which is noted to move at Mach 1.5)

Stamina: Superhuman (Fought with Son Goku in a very long and drawn-out battle where he had to use his greatest skills against Son Goku)

Range: Standard Melee, Interstellar with Ki Attacks (Ki attacks can reach out of the planet and to other planets. All ki attacks should be comparable to Goku's kamehameha, which reached all the way to the sun)

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence

Knowledge: At least Master level (Master Roshi is a renowned martial artist, originally being the strongest martial artist in the world. Invented legendary techniques such as the kamehameha wave, a technique that took him fifty years to develop, he has also been shown to be able to utilize different martial arts styles, such as the drunken fist. Noted by 21st budokai Krillin that his abilities are way out of his league, consistently referred too as the invincible Muten Roshi)

Key: Golden Frieza Saga | Universal Survival Saga

Grade: B | A (Goku considered and asked Master Roshi to be a candidate for the tournament of power, where all the best fighters of each universe come to battle against each other)

Grade: B

Tier: At least 8-B, Higher at Full Power. Varies-E with Strongest Charged Blast | Up to 7-A. Far Higher with "Most Powerful Kamehameha". Varies-E with Strongest Charged Blast

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Ki (All beings in Dragon Ball have ki, the very life force energy of all characters, ki allows a fighter to extend beyond their bodies limits, allowing them to even block attacks that would otherwise kill them from raising their guard, higher level users can lower their own durability to allow people far below them to fatally wound them)

Attack Potency: At least City District level (Potency) (Has been training in secret to keep up with the others, shouldn't be too far off when he's using his full power), Higher at Full Power (Went full power and could easily defeat several of Frieza's soldiers with just a kick, who view power levels of 1000 as completely weak, making them far beyond Piccolo who had a power level of at least 408, who is superior to 23rd Budokai Saga Son Goku, allowing him to fight against King Piccolo, who destroyed parts of a city with an energy wave). Varies: Skill with Strongest Charged Blast (Charged Blast have one focus all of their energy into one single point, putting the blasts power far beyond what their peak strength is, allowing them to destroy things they couldn't prior with their regular attacks, this also allows them to use charged attacks that can stop enemies far beyond their level, such as Tien Shinhan pushing back Semi-Perfect Cell with his Neo Ki-Ko-Ho, along with stopping an attack shot from Buu absorbed Gotenks. Strongest charged blast can gather ki to shoot out blast far beyond what the character is normally capable of, with blasts capable of seriously damaging/destroying the Earth along with completely obliterating the opponent. Charged Blast also rely heavily on emotional states for example Gohan not believing in himself was having Cell overpower him in a beam clash) | Up to Metropolis level (Potency) (While in a mind controlled state, fought and overpowered Tien Shinhan, who when he was far weaker casually defeated a Saibamen who are each noted to rival Raditz in power, who with his blast can cause explosions dwarfing the mountains), Higher at Full Power. Far Higher with "Most Powerful Kamehameha" (Roshi notes this to be his most powerful kamehameha, and allowed him to one-shot Ganos, where Ganos was getting stronger and faster then Roshi). Varies: Skill with Strongest Charged Blast

Durability: City District level, Higher at Full Power, Higher with Guard Up (Ki allows a fighter to extend beyond their bodies limits, allowing them to even block attacks that would otherwise kill them from raising their guard) | Up to Metropolis level, Higher at Full Power, Higher with Guard Up

Striking Strength: City District Class (Potency), Higher at Full Power | Up to Metropolis Class (Potency), Higher at Full Power

Lifting Strength: Class 1 (Superior to Early Saiyan Saga Goku, who before training with King Kai is able to barely move around and jump in gravity that multiplies his weight by ten times, where he's naturally 62 kg, thus making him 620 kg on King Kai's planet) | At least Class 1 (Superior to Tien Shinhan who can move around on King Kai's planet which has ten times the gravity of earth)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Superior to Dragon Ball Saga Son Goku, which it was noted by Goku that it took him six months to travel snake way, which results in these speeds) | At least High Hypersonic (Superior to Saiyan Saga Son Goku, with Goku being capable of traveling over a million of kilometers in two days which results in these speeds)

Attack Speed: Supersonic, Higher Attack Speed | High Hypersonic, Higher Attack Speed

Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Superior to 22nd Budokai Son Goku, who could dodge a mouth blast from Tambourine, which he used to tag the flying nimbus which is noted to move at Mach 1.5) | High Hypersonic | High Hypersonic

Stamina: Superhuman (Fought with Son Goku in a very long and drawn-out battle where he had to use his greatest skills against Son Goku)

Range: Standard Melee, Interstellar with Ki Attacks (Ki attacks can reach out of the planet and to other planets. All ki attacks should be comparable to Goku's kamehameha, which reached all the way to the sun)

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence

Knowledge: At least Master level

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Powers and Techniques

Standard Ki AbilitiesUnique Abilities

• Chi Manipulation & Ki Manipulation (All beings in Dragon Ball have ki, the very life force energy of all characters, ki allows a fighter to extend beyond their bodies limits, allowing them to even block attacks that would otherwise kill them from raising their guard, higher level users can lower their own durability to allow people far below them to fatally wound them)
  • Aura
    • Projection: A users ki aura can exert itself as a weapon to attack.
    • Explosive: Ki users through powering up can form an entire aura around themself, radiating their immense power, where depending on their immense strength, can cause them to explode their aura outwards to remove excess ki from themself.
    • Mood Reflection: Goku and Piccolo Jr. with their auras and their stern concentration on each other reflected in their electric auras, even shooting electricity at each other.
  • Emotional Empowerment (It's noted that ki users can receive energy through one cheering them on. Ki users can be greatly increased by their emotions and beliefs, Son Goku explains that Son Gohan needs to remember the time he fought Cell and bring out all of the power he has, this way he can lose to no one where it's shown during the Cell beam clash that he was holding back greatly out of fear of destroying the earth but from being cheered on and using all of his power within him, he was able to overpower Cell)
  • Attack Reflection (All Ki users are able to reflect attacks just by being stronger than their opponent. Examples include, Nappa deflecting a masenko from Son Gohan, Son Gohan being able to bounce back the spirit bomb, Son Goku deflecting a crusher ball from Jeice, Frieza deflecting a Final Burst Cannon from Vegeta, Son Goku reflecting multiple death beams back to back from Frieza, and Future Trunks being able to completely repel an energy blast with his hand from a Frieza Soldier just by being much stronger than them)
  • Homing Attack (Ki users can create attacks that will home in and chase a target forever)
  • Penetration Damage
    • Bladed Penetration: Ki users can conjure up a circle of chi that is sharp and can cut through enemies far more powerful then themselves, along with this they can conjure ki as a means to create weapons in the shape of a sword to stab through an opponent.
  • Weapon Creation (Ki users can create energy weapons out of their attacks)
  • Power Absorption & Energy Transferal (Ki users can transfer their ki to others and absorb the ki given to them from others)
  • Attack Nullification
    • Ki Energy Based: Those with ki can nullify attacks of lesser ki with their ki alone. They can also catch and nullify ki attacks around their level through focusing enough.
  • Power Nullification
    • Ki Energy Based: Through having greater ki, one can nullify the powers done through ki attacks, such as Frieza being able to nullify a hakai ball, which fully destroys a target, though he is unable to resist a hakai ball from Toppo due to him being stronger, this ability however only works on ki, attacks unrelated, characters cannot resist through being stronger, such as how Vegeta, Krillin, & Son Gohan are unable to resist Guldo's psychic powers, along with even the likes of Son Goku.
  • Forcefield Creation (Ki users such as Cell can generate forcefields around themselves. These forcefields can be expanded, and used to protect others and defend against attacks far higher then the user. Forcefields effectivel allow the ki user to be able to block substances from other ki techniques, such as poisons. Ki users can also project forcefields around themselves to protect themselves from ki absorptions that require grabbing them and bringing them into one's body)
  • Super Armor (Through releasing one's ki, they enter a state known as "Hyper Mode", in this state they do not flinch from weak melee attacks)
  • Self-Destruction (Ki users in Dragon Ball are able to release all of the energy within them to cause a massive self-destruction of energy that normally kills the user and turns them into dust though one can control it to surviving but having no stamina or energy left)
  • Dormant Power Reservoir (Ki users have a dormant power reservoir within them, as shown in arcs like the Buu Saga where Babidi saps this energy in order to use the energy to revive Buu and break his seal)
  • Internal Destruction (Powerful ki users can overload enemies with their ki, causing them to swell up and explode from the sheer density of ki within them)
  • Binding
    • Energy Binding: Ki Users can use their ki to bind targets to objects, making them unable to escape even if they're of equal power, however, those stronger than the ki user can easily break out of it.
  • Dreaming Existence (Characters in Shin Budokai have shown to create physical bodies in alternate timelines through dreaming)
  • Non-Standard Interaction
    • Intangible Interaction: Those with ki can block intangible attacks when they focus and notices them.
    • Space-Time Interaction (3+1-D): Characters can blast space-time distortions to close them.
  • Healing
    • Healing Singular Targets
      • Advanced Healing: Ki can be used to heal beings, allowing them to survive even with half their torso, it can also heal from near death.
  • Resurrection
    • Resurrection of the Deceased (Limited): Ki users can resuscitate ones heart from death through instilling lifeforce into their ki and hitting their heart, restarting it.
    • Resurrection from Exhaustion: Can heal downed allies to give them ki back, reviving them)
  • Intimidation & Spirit Manipulation (Ki is the manifestation of one’s lifeforce, along with the aura giving one the feeling of being crushed, exerting fear into the target, sometimes making them incapable of moving as their body is instinctively stuck due to the sheer difference in power)
  • Link Manipulation & Mind Manipulation (Characters can link their ki together and train within each other’s mind enacting in image training)
  • Vibration Manipulation
    • Seismic Vibration Manipulation: Ki users can transfer their ki into an object and cause it to vibrate and shake greatly. Powerful ki users can cause the very ground itself to shake when they power up.
  • Electricity Manipulation
    • Unknown Voltage: Powerful Ki users can generate electricity around their aura that can outright electrocute their opponents, Goku and Piccolo Jr. showcased being able to utilize their aura as pure electricity during their clash.
  • Weather Manipulation (Powerful Ki users can generate entire storms through merely powering up alone, Nappa used this in order to conjure the electricity from the storm. Goku showcases this when he first turns super saiyan, causing a massive lightning storm in the background)
  • Energy Manipulation (Ki is the latent power in one's body, this latent power allows them to form and create energy from controlling their ki)
    • Energy Projection (Can shoot energy blast out of their hands through controlling ki)
    • Possible Delayed Effect (Ki users can have their attacks have delayed effects to them, such as when Baby felt the affects of the kamehameha delayed)
  • Explosion Manipulation (Ki attacks can create massive explosions, or control the ki to set off a huge explosion under the enemy, or in front of them)
  • Portal Manipulation
    • Non-combat applicable: Characters in GT can link their minds together to open a portal between the living realm and the other world.
  • Heat Manipulation
    • At least 100 C: Ki user's ki attacks produce heat allowing them to cook and grill animals and raw meat, along with leaving behind steam after the attacks hit an area, showing its latent heat. Ki users electricity aura can burn objects that touch it.
  • Fire Manipulation (Ki users can manifest fireballs to throw at enemies)
  • Light Manipulation (Ki can be used as a flash of light, Degisu seeing ki attacks be fired notes that the characters are "firing light from their hands").

• Limited Resistance to
  • Durability Negation (Ki users can focus their energy to localize an object to a specific spot to stop them from attempting to destroy their organs/insides)
  • Soul Manipulation (Characters with a strong enough will can keep moving after getting their soul reaped, though this requires something akin to a familial or friendship empowerment)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Martial Arts (Striking Arts; Master Roshi is the creator of the Turtle Hermit Style, a style training one to break the wall of humanity mastering the art in both body and mind. This style requires one to train in knowledge, work on one's stamina work on their muscles and speed dodge attacks even while tied to a rope in a short range all the while wearing 20-kilo shells. The Turtle Hermit Style are incorporated within this, allowing for students that trained under this style to be capable of fighting against other martial artists without needing to be taught any real fighting along with taking no damage from attacks due to the style training their durability. Master Roshi is a renowned martial artist, originally being the strongest martial artist in the world. Can utilize martial arts techniques such as the drunken fist), Acrobatics (Has shown to be capable of doing backflips and acrobatic jumps), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Has shown awareness that he's in a gag manga), Pressure Points (Roshi can easily hit pressure points to stop a fighter from moving), Accelerated Development (Training; Physical Stats; Secretly trained to keep up with his students, making him comparable to Son Goku and Krillin), Power Suppression (Statistics Suppression; Can control his muscles to be in and out of his max power state), Enhanced Senses, Longevity (Drank from the immortality elixir, which was later revealed in Dragon Ball Super to be a "paradise plant" that allows him to keep living for over thousands of years), Afterimage Creation (Can make afterimages of himself), Telepathy (Can look into one's mind and see what they're thinking), Summoning (Can summon Baby Gamera to help him fly), Fusionism (Master Roshi can perform the Fusion Dance like others), Sleep Manipulation (Roshi can use hypnosis techniques to put his opponent to sleep. Has sleeping gas on hand to put one to sleep), Mind Manipulation (Can use his hypnosis to trick someone into believing things such as the back of a bald persons head is the full moon), Electricity Manipulation (Can trap his target in an electrical attack with the Bankoku-Bikkuri-Shou), Sealing (With the Mafu-ba technique, can seal one into a jar, though if it fails, Roshi will die), Air Manipulation (Can create strong gusts of wind to push back his opponent)

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Equipment

• Turtle Shell: The shell of a turtle.
• Flying Nimbus: A magical, yellow cloud that serves as a way of transportation. Roshi was able to ride it in his youth though his heart eventually became impure due to Roshi's perversion and was given to Son Goku for helping Turtle, though it was later destroyed by Tambourine and a new piece of it came from a cloud.
• Bansho Fan: A mystical fan designed to stoke and control the flames of the magical furnace.
• Electric Rice Cooker: Machines used to cook rice though Roshi uses it as the container for the Evil Containment Wave like his mentor Master Mutaito.
• Sleep Gas: Sleep gas he kept during the King Piccolo saga to knock out Tien Shinhan to keep him alive from King Piccolo.

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Notable Techniques

• Ki Blast: The most basic form of energy wave.
• Kamehameha: A powerful Ki blast fired with two hands after concentrating a large amount of Ki.
  • The Original Kamehameha: The technique involves wide sweeping arm movements and cupping the hands together before bringing them forward to fire a blue wave of energy.
  • MAX Power Kamehameha: While the fundamentals of the technique are exactly the same as a regular Kamehameha, the overall power of this Kamehameha is even greater due to Master Roshi being in his MAX Power form.
• One-Handed Kamehameha: A variation of the Kamehameha that is performed with one hand.
• Afterimage Technique: An ability to move so swiftly that an image of the user is left behind.
  • Afterimage Strike: A variation in which the user distracts their opponent with several afterimages.
• Kiai: A technique where the user affects the air currents around him with ki to produce powerful shockwaves in order to strike the opponent at mid range. Also called Sawayaka Na Kaze.
• Hypnosis Technique: A technique that can hypnotize and control the mind of the opponent.
  • Sleepy Boy Technique: A hypnosis move used to put the opponent to sleep, by using hand motions and weird voice sounds.
• Telepathy: A way to communicate with others using one's mind.
• Thunder Shock Surprise: The user shoots a lightning blast towards the target using both hands and traps the opponent within an electric field.
• Evil Containment Wave: A technique designed to seal demons away by sucking them into a container with a special "Demon Seal" ofuda on it. The move requires huge stamina and endurance to perform, if user does not have enough life force they will die soon after performing it, despite the success of the technique.
• Turtle Orb: The user throws a small blue energy sphere and redirects it to where they point.
• Turtle School Ultimate Fist: Master Roshi's Blast 2 rush attack in his Max Power form in the Budokai Tenkaichi series.
• Rock, Scissors 'N' Paper: In the original version, the user shouts "Jan Ken", then a name corresponding to the attack: "Gu", equals rock and will be a strong punch. "Chyoki", equals scissors and will be a poke in the eyes. "Pa", equals paper and will be an open palm strike. Master Roshi taught Gohan this technique, but it's unknown whether he is the inventor of the technique.
• Drunken Fist: A fighting style that imitate the movements of a drunk person.
  • Drunken Turtle Punch: A cane smack performed while acting drunk.
  • Drunken Turtle Kick: A kick performed while acting drunk.
• Cobra Twist: Roshi never showed this technique. However, during the climax of his fight against Goku in the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament he considered using it, but desisted because such move would not work on an opponent with short limbs like Goku at that time, so it can be assumed it is some sort of throw or holding move.
• Elephant Punch: A punch performed with the back of an opened hand.
• Pressure Point Attack: A technique which, by touching or hitting weakly certain pressure points on an opponent's body, can incite effects such as paralysis or knock the opponent out. Enough prolonged pressure on the pressure points can also kill the opponent.
• Two-Level Knee Hit: A jumping knee strike followed by a kick.
• Serious Form: Upon getting serious, Roshi is much more muscular than at his normal level of power, but the muscles are not as large as that of his max power. Roshi is first shown buffed up and uses this while exercising in the episode "Korin Tower", and later again when Roshi fought Tien in this form at the 22nd World Tournament, noticing that it would take more strength to beat him. His power level is 180 when in this state.
• MAX Power Form: Master Roshi can also increase his energy and achieve his final stage. In this state, his appearance changes dramatically, with an enormous increase in muscle mass and likewise height (nearly equal in height to Piccolo). In this state, he can perform many ki attacks at their maximum potential. Roshi uses this state when he puts out the fires on Fire Mountain, when he destroys the Moon as Jackie Chun.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Master Roshi will deploy several different martial arts techniques during the course of the battle along with ki attacks.

Weaknesses

• Standard Ki Weaknesses: Ki users that do not have sufficient training over their emotions put their power within a mental lock, with changes to their emotions can seriously limiting their powers or making them uncontrollable. Their emotions can also have them instinctively block using the full power of their attacks out of fear of the destruction along with lack of confidence in themselves.Ki users can only sense targets moving at super speed through feeling their chi, with them becoming so accustomed to tracking energy that they've lost their eyes for movement. Ki users can get hit by off guard attacks from characters far slower then them. If ki users are paralyzed or their nerves are numb, they can be killed by much weaker attacks. If a Ki user is inflicted with any kind of status, disease, or poison, powering up or transforming will put further strain on the body and can speed up the process of poison. Users of Ki Sensing cannot sense beings that invisible, even if the character is in front of them attacking them, they have a hard time countering them due to being invisible. Users of Ki Sensing also have a harder time sensing the true being using illusions, requiring them to focus in on energy fields to see who is moving and who is casting the illusion. Due to the nature of ki draining stamina and energy, Dragon Ball characters ki usage requires them to usually use their higher levels of energy in short bursts, using a large amount of ki overtime can greatly weaken them to the point that characters far lower then them can actually harm them with attacks. Taking large amounts of damage can greatly deplete a ki users attacks, making it where attacks that would otherwise kill massively weakened characters, only pushes them back. Ki users cannot put all of their ki and strength into an attack if parts of their body are broken/injured, they also lose half of their chi if something like one of their arms are badly injured or broken.Ki users that are able to ki sense cannot do it when their guard is dropped, such as when Vegeta was able to sneak attack Son Goku during the end of their fight in the Buu Saga. Despite some ki users being able to reach blasts that can destroy planets through charged attacks or techniques, they have not shown to be able to tank such blasts themselves, with attacks that have destroyed several planets in the series always killing the character. Even characters such as Majin Buu's body cannot withstand the energy of a planet exploding. Using ki volley attacks come with the caveat of their aim being rather poor, making it harder to hit moving targets. If ki users are at all possessed, even by accident, their true self will be sleeping within, with the possessor needing to awaken them. Even if awoken, they are immobilized and unable to move without the possessor giving them the ability to, even with them wanting to wake up, they cannot do it. Specific waves can can suppress a ki users power, and put their consciousness to sleep. If Ki users stamina is broken, they will unable to be able to continue fighting for a short while, this will also cancel out any ki attack they were attempting to use, including ultimate's, this also adds on that ki users guards are down while charging ultimate attacks. Their stamina can also be broken if a character moves far too fast and surprise attacks them while they're charging their ki. Ki Users can also be grabbed out of charging their attacks. When ki users radiate their Ki at its highest, their body is also freed the most, making them open to attacks and making them easy to possess. Ki attacks can be blocked by magma based attacks, such as even when Vegeta's strongest charged blast, the final flash, was being blocked by Magetta's magma. Ki users have far lower reactions and speeds when they do not have their ki up or are not on guard, such as when Mai's sniper would've hit Goku Black if she didn't miss.
• Turtle Hermit Style Weaknesses: As the style does not incorporate any real fighting techniques, it has a heavy reliance on durability, stamina, muscles and speed, along with agility, thus anyone with superior statistics then them can easily overpower this style, along with this any character capable of using attacks that bypass defense altogether such as pressure point strikes can easily overcome a turtle hermit style user, even if they use extra forms and techniques to heighten their defenses. Thus anyone with techniques that ignore statistics or are simply higher in statistics than a Turtle Hermit Style user can easily overcome this style.
• Unique Weaknesses: Master Roshi can get nauseous and sick from flying. The mafuba technique requires the caster to be relative in physical strength to the opponent they use it on or else they will fail and die.

Note

• Some clips used on the profile come from an anime or movie due to the fact that some abilities from ki use shouldn't function much differently from how they can in canon, along with this sometimes the anime version/video game version of a scene will be used for cleaner visuals. Toriyama himself directly overlooks scenes in the anime and movies and gives Toei the thumbs up.
• The speed scaling for PLs are taken with a grain of salt as there are noticeable times where someone's speed isn't equal to their power, such as Burter being faster then Recoome and Jeice, along with Super Saiyan Grade 3 Trunks having his power greatly increased but his speed decreased.

Trivia

• His title appears in the original manga as Muten Roshi (武天老師) in on'yomi, or Wǔtiān Lǎoshī in pinyin, which means "Old Heavenly Martial Arts Master". His name in English adaptations is a phonetic adaptation of that title: Master Roshi. The Japanese word roshi (老師) correlates to the Chinese word for "teacher" (lǎoshī) and Muten (武天) is made up of the characters for military/martial and heaven. It is humorous to note that the English adaptation would translate it to "Master Old Teacher", or simply "Master Master". Most frequently, he is also known as Turtle Hermit (Kamesennin). During the World Martial Arts Tournaments, he adopted the moniker Jackie Chun (ジャッキー・チュン), an obvious parody of the actor and martial arts master Jackie Chan, in order to remain anonymous so that he could demonstrate to his pupils that the world was a big place where there was always someone stronger.
  • Which is why "Master Muten" is used in the Italian dub.
    • The name "Master Muten" (or more translated, "Boski miszcz" (note: that "master" is "mistrz" in polish, "miszcz" may be a mockery of his title) is somehow used in the polish manga of Dragon Ball.
      • However, Muten has the same pinyin rendering as Goten (which is "Wutian").
• His blood type is O.
• Like his rival, Master Shen, Master Roshi is not given a real name in the original Japanese version, as Kamesennin and Muten Rōshi are both merely titles meaning "Turtle Hermit" and "Old Heavenly Martial Arts Master", respectively.
  • Strangely, in chapter 13, he shows Chi-Chi his driver's license to prove that he is really Muten Roshi. It is possible Chi-Chi learned his real name from her father, and merely does not mention it.

God in Dr. Slump

• Master Roshi is based on the God of the Galaxy in Dr. Slump.
• One of King Vegeta's Warriors in Dragon Ball Super: Broly resembles Master Roshi, with the only discernable difference besides lack of sunglasses being that he has a significantly large and deep scar on the top of his head.
• It is probable Roshi designed his Jackie Chun disguise to be a homage to Master Mutaito, as it has the same hairstyle Mutaito had.
• Master Roshi's hobbies are reading, watching TV, internet (adult sites too of course), video games, and afternoon naps.
• Master Roshi's favorite food is home-delivered pizza.
• Master Roshi's favorite vehicle is an air wagon.
• Master Roshi was ranked at first place on Watchmojo's top male perverts.
• Toriyama said Master Roshi will live the longest and also said Roshi is mischievous.
• When there are no battles or on days off, Master Roshi watches videos.
• Master Roshi is currently the only playable character in Dragon Ball FighterZ who isn't also playable in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2.
• While Master Roshi's lecherous behavior towards women is infamous, it has been somewhat toned down over the years since the original manga to due to changes in comedic style and broadcast requirements.
  • To add on, his behavior borders on the line of pedophilia, as he constantly tried to flirt with Bulma who was only 16 during the beginning of original Dragon Ball.

Explanations

• Blog discussing Moon level Roshi.
• Before discussing anything regarding planetary, cosmic tier, etcetera Dragon Ball, please do read the full explanation page.

Codex Statistics Questions

Q: What about the planetary feats in Dragon Ball?

A: Planetary feats are normally done through their strongest charged blast, where they can gather ki to shoot out blast far beyond what the character is normally capable of, with blasts capable of seriously damaging/destroying the Earth along with completely obliterating the opponent, though they themselves are never capable of leaving this unscathed.

ExamplesNon-Planetary Showings

Frieza throws a destroy the planet death ball attack but it doesn't destroy the planet. Goku then interestingly notes the reason the planet didn't blow up is because Frieza was too scared of getting caught in the blast . Vegeta's final flash is noted it's going to destroy the planet and Perfect Cell, who is beyond Vegeta, couldn't tank the blast and had to dodge it last second or it would've killed him. Goku's kamehameha was going to destroy the earth and Cell cannot tank this blast, needing to regenerate. Semi-Perfect Cell explosion was consistently noted it was going to destroy the planet and Gohan and it killed Goku. Ultimate Gohan dies to an attack that destroys the earth, his guard was up too since this was when he was fighting Super Buu. Kid Buu shoots a blast trying to destroy the planet, with Vegeta noting he's going to take himself out with it if he lets it off. In Dragon Ball GT, Great Ape Baby Vegeta shoots a super galick gun that he claims will destroy Earth, when Goku is hit by it, he is knocked out to the point that he can't move for a good while, Elder Kai and Shin later state that Baby is going to shoot another blast that will destroy the planet on, greatly injuring Baby if he's caught in the Blast and will kill everyone on the planet if done. Frieza destroyed the entire earth, killing Vegeta in the process. In the Dragon Ball Super Manga, Gohan tells Goku that he doesn't need to hold anything back and can go all out because anything that happens to the Earth can be restored with Dende and the Dragon Balls. Yet, none of Goku's all out attacks destroy the planet but just heavily causes shockwaves around it. Semi-Perfect Cell unleashes a several blast that destroys several islands Android 16 notes that the attacks are just strong enough to not kill Android 18.

In the fight of Trunks vs. Mecha Frieza, who is far stronger than his final form, Mecha Frieza immediately goes for his strongest attack, the Supernova. In the original Z anime King Kai even states this is ten times stronger than the power he used on Namek:

• DBZ Kai Version.
• Original DBZ Anime Version. The attack is directly noted that it could destroy the planet, but doesn't because Trunks catches it, when Mecha Frieza proceeds to detonate it, the explosion is massive but the planet is still intact, implying Frieza must target the core in order to destroy the planet.

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