Master Roshi

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

“	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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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.

Statistics

Key: 21st Budokai | 22nd Budokai

Tier: Low 8-C, 7-A at Full Power | 7-A, Higher at Full Power

Name: Master Roshi, Muten Roshi

Origin: Dragon Ball

Sex: Male

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), 353 by the end of Dragon Ball Z (Peaceful World Saga is 10 years later)

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

Species: Human

Occupation: None

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 occassions)

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)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Small Building level+ (Fought against 21st budokai saga Son Goku and ultimately won, who defeated General Blue, who survived his plane crashing into a mountain at full speed), Mountain level at Full Power (Destroyed Mount Frypan with a full power kamehameha) | Mountain level (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)

Durability: Small Building level+, Mountain level at Full Power | Mountain level

Striking Strength: Small Building Class+, Mountain Class at Full Power | Mountain Class

Lifting Strength: Class 5 (Can move a boulder that's larger then him) | Class 100 (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 ,which takes this amount of power)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Could travel 100 meters in 5.6 seconds) | At least Supersonic, likely Far Higher (Should be faster than Mercenary Tao, who stated that a jet would take too long and used his pillar, with fighter jets reaching up to 1000 mph)

Combat 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), Relativistic Attack Speed (His kamehameha can reach the moon in seconds) | FTL

Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Can fight comparable to 21st Budokai Saga Son Goku, who can avoid bullets from close range, on a consistent basis) | FTL (Comparable to 22nd Budokai Son Goku, who could avoid a point blank laser beam, could avoid the Kamehameha which could reach the moon in a very shot timeframe, along with tagging someone who could react to a Kamehameha)

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 Range, 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: Genius (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 invicible Muten Roshi)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, 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. A users ki aura can exert itself as a weapon to attack), 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), Mind Manipulation (Characters can link their ki together and train within each other’s mind enacting in image training), Power Absorption & Transferal (Ki users can transfer their ki to others and absorb the ki given to them from others), Aura (He can surround himself in an aura of Ki. Has an aura of ki surrounding him whenever he exerts ki), Vibration Manipulation (Powerful ki users can cause the very ground itself to shake when they power up), Intimidation, Metaphysics Manipulation & Pain Manipulation (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), 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, which can be used to shoot out energy blast), Explosion Manipulation (Ki attacks can create massive explosions, control the ki to set off a huge explosion under the enemy, or in front of them), Heat Manipulation (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), Power Nullification (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), 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), 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), Light Manipulation (Ki can be used as a flash of light), Non-Physical Interaction (Those with ki can block intangible attacks when they focus and notices them), Healing (Ki can be used to heal beings, allowing them to survive even with half their torso, it can also heal from near death), Fusionism (Master Roshi can perform the Fusion Dance like others). 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)

Martial Arts (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), 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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Standard 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: 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, allowing them to not be able to tank or die to far lower attacks such as attacks that have destroyed the planets of several worlds. Master Roshi can get nauseous and sick from flying.

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.

Note 2: 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.

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