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Frieza
| “ | Oh, to see the Dragon Balls turn to stone at the very moment your wish might have come true. Quite a pill to swallow, eh, Vegeta? Of course, even more so for myself. As a matter of fact, in all my years, I have never been so angry as I am now. How incredibly irritating not to have seen the writing on the wall... now you pay! You vile, filth-sucking maggots! You will rue the day you crossed my path! Prepare yourself to face oblivion! | „ |
| ~ Frieza to Vegeta, Son Gohan, and Krillin |
| “ | I desire but one tiny little wish, for the one thing I don't already have: the power of Eternal Life. | „ |
| “ | I never imagined that there would be a fool who’d dare to challenge Frieza! I applaud your overconfidence, sir! Of course, I’m sure you will quickly regret not simply revealing the secret of the Dragon Balls... When you have to gasp it out in agony! | „ |
| ~ Frieza to Nail |
Background
Frieza is the main antagonist of the Dragon Ball series. He is the leader of his own imperialist army and emperor of parts of Universe 7. A cruel tyrant, he is feared throughout the universe for his ruthlessness and immense power. He is the descendant of Chilled, the youngest son of King Cold, the younger brother of Cooler and the father of Kuriza.
Considered Goku's greatest foe and arch nemesis, he has made several comebacks since his fight with Goku on Namek, including multiple invasions of Earth. Recently, he was chosen to represent Universe 7 as the tenth member of Team Universe 7 for the Tournament of Power as a replacement for Good Buu. This makes him the most recurring villain of the Dragon Ball series.
After the events of the Tournament of Power, he was revived, recovering his title as Emperor of Universe 7.
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Statistics
Key: First Form | Second Form | Third Form | Final Form | Mecha Form
Tier: High 5-B | At least High 5-B | At least High 5-B | At least High 5-B, Higher as 100% | At least High 5-B
Name: Frieza
Origin: Dragon Ball
Sex: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Alien, Frieza Race, Emperor of the Universe, Strongest in the Universe, Ruler of the Frieza Force, Lord Frieza, Emperor Frieza, Universal Emperor
Status: Deceased (Killed by Future Trunks during the Frieza and Android Saga Interlude)
Alignment: Neutral Evil (Frieza is a cold relentless killer, though he does it initially in a diplomatic sense, he won't directly kill something he views has use to him or benefits him, though if he views them as threat, useless, or does more harm then good then he has no qualms about killing them off. Massacred the entireity of the Namekians purely to gain their Dragonballs and get eternal life)
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: Large Planet level (Destroyed Planet Vegeta, which has ten times the gravity of Earth, requiring a GBE of this level to overcome) | At least Large Planet level (Far more powerful then before, easily stomped Vegeta who was his equal beforehand) | At least Large Planet level (Far more powerful then before, easily stomped Piccolo, who was on par with his second form) | At least Large Planet level (Vastly more powerful then before, even Vegeta's zenkai boost that put him beyond Frieza's third form was not remotely enough to even harm a massively casual Frieza, went on to easily beat Son Goku while using only 50% of his power), Higher at 100% (Was able to fight on par with Super Saiyan Goku who prior easily stomped Frieza at 50% of his power) | At least Large Planet level (Noted to be stronger then before after being rebuilt, his supernova was noted to be ten times the energy he used on Namek[1], which makes him in this state, 2,264 times above his first form)
Durability: Large Planet level | Large Planet level | Large Planet level | Large Planet level, Higher at 100% | At least Large Planet level
Striking Strength: Large Planet Class | Large Planet Class | Large Planet Class | Large Planet Class, Higher at 100% | At least Large Planet Class
Lifting Strength: Class M, likely Higher (Superior to King Piccolo Saga Goku, who fused his untapped potential with the Oozaru within him, making his power tenfold above his previous self who moved a giant boulder with a lot of effort) | Class M, likely Higher | Class M, likely Higher | Class M, Class G with 100% Power (Comparable to Namek Saga Super Saiyan Son Goku, where the super saiyan transformation increases him by 50 times, putting him at this level) | Class G
Travel Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Far faster then Son Goku during his fight with Captain Ginyu) | Massively Hypersonic | Massively Hypersonic | Massively Hypersonic+ (Superior to Frieza fight Son Goku, who traveled to the Freiza fight at these speeds), FTL with 100% Power (Can keep up with Super Saiyan Goku, who fought so fast that King Kai could not keep up with him, despite King Kai being able to track his spaceship without problem) | FTL
Combat Speed: At least FTL, likely Far Higher | At least FTL, likely Far Higher | At least FTL, likely Far Higher | At least FTL, likely Far Higher | At least FTL, likely Far Higher
Reaction Speed: At least FTL, likely Far Higher (Far beyond Kid Goku who could dodge a laser and a Kamehameha point-blank) | At least FTL, likely Far Higher | At least FTL, likely Far Higher | At least FTL, likely Far Higher | At least FTL, likely Far Higher (Was noted to have ten times the energy he used on Namek, where he is 6,666,666 times the speed of light)
Stamina: Superhuman+ (Frieza is incredibly duruable, fighting all of the Z-Fighters, back to back while going through all of his transformation and using massive amounts of ki attacks without ever tiring once. Taking various different hits and surviing with no trouble, even moves that were thought to kill him like the Spirit Bomb, didn't actually kill him and he still had more then enough energy to keep fighting. Went on to fight in a long drawn out fight against Super Saiyan Son Goku in his 100% power state, and even after being cut in half and blasted away he still ended up surviving and having his body rebuilt)
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: At least Genius (Frieza is a supreme ruler of the universe, originally commanding and controlling an entire planet of people to go take planets so he could sell them, and has a massive army throughout the cosmos, being capable of using his sadistic and Pseudo-diplomic nature to get people to do what he wants, with Frieza himself even noting that Son Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta were the first people ever to make fools of him)
Powers and Abilities
Standard Equipment
- Frieza's Spaceship: The large ship designed by Kikono and utilized by Frieza and his men for interplanetary travel. Frieza has had three ships over the course of his life with his first ship being the one he used during the Genocide of the Saiyans up until it was destroyed during the Battle on Planet Namek when Namek exploded.
- Frieza's Hover Pod: A floating, egg-shaped vehicle used by Frieza as a means of transportation. Even though he is extraordinarily powerful and perfectly capable of walking and flying, Frieza (in his first form) seems to prefer using the hover pod as a means of getting around, even inside his own spaceship. The reason for this is unknown, although it is possible, he sees it as a status symbol.
- Scouter: For most of his life, Frieza lacked the ability to naturally sense ki and relied heavily on Scouters to detect ki. Frieza wears a scouter just before attacking Planet Vegeta and takes it off in order to fire his Eye Lasers at King Vegeta's brigade. Frieza's scouter on Namek was a newer model of the same color that was personally given to him by the Ginyu Force. Frieza uses this scouter to find Guru's home. When Frieza personally fights Nail, his scouter measures the lone Namekian's power level (42,000), which somewhat impresses the emperor. After having severely beaten-up Nail, Frieza uses his scouter to contact the Ginyu Force, only to find out they are all defeated. While fighting against Vegeta, Gohan, Krillin and Dende, Frieza uses his scouter to measure Vegeta's power, ending the conflict when Frieza's scouter blows up due to Vegeta's power now rivaling his own, apparently, much to Frieza's disbelief.
- King Cold's Spaceship: A large spaceship owned by his father King Cold, which Frieza uses when he first visits Planet Vegeta with his father in Broly. The ship later recovers Frieza after his battle on Planet Namek and is used by Mecha Frieza and King Cold to invade Earth. However, it is destroyed during their fatal conflict with Future Trunks.
Notable Techniques
- Survivability: Frieza has the ability to survive anywhere, in any condition without sustenance, even the most horrifying injuries, a trait which was passed onto Cell. This is shown when he manages to survive being blasted into Namek's core and then the planet exploding with him inside it, he still survives even with his lower body sliced off and half of his head blown off, while floating in the vacuum of space. His most impressive feat in this area being how he managed to stay alive and conscious even when sliced into small pieces by Future Trunks. Even when in pieces, Frieza was still able to attempt to put himself back together via telekinesis - though he fell apart very quickly.
- Bio Suit creation: Frieza's race possess the natural ability to grow natural armor that they can shed at any time. In his true form, Frieza always wears the Z Fighting Suit. It is implied that Frieza can control the color of his Bio Suit in his Ultimate Evolution as he claims he made it gold so it would be easy to understand how strong he had become to his enemies.
- Pure Progress: Owing to his status as a mutant prodigy, Frieza is capable of growing in power at an alarming rate over a short period of time.
- Flight: The ability of flight through the manipulation of ki.
- Ki Sense: At the time of the Battle on Namek, like the rest of his minions, who use scouters as a compromise, Frieza seems to be unable to sense the ki of other people. However, he is able to have a glimpse of a "powerful Saiyan developing and heading to Namek" before the person in question (Goku) actually appeared in front of him. Also, given enough time, Frieza can lock his senses and his mind onto his opponent to read his/her position at any given moment; he demonstrates this when he begins fighting Goku with 50% of his power. Frieza was able to sense Jiren's energy during the Tournament of Power. In Shin Budokai, Frieza gains the ability to sense ki and suppress his own ki, and he also displays the ability in Dragon Ball GT.
- Godly ki sense: Frieza is able to sense godly ki after his four months of training in the Golden Frieza Saga, as he notes that he can sense Super Saiyan Blue Goku's power, and feels that it is less than his.
- Ki Transfer: The ability to transfer a portion of one's ki to someone else, used in the Universal Survival Saga when Frieza did this to Goku, in a twist of fate seeing as Goku did this towards Frieza on Namek.
- Ki Blast: The most basic form of energy wave.
- Death Beam: To perform the technique, the user extends his right arm and fires a small, thin, very fast and concentrated laser-like beam of ki from his index finger, which barrels down and pierces through the opponent. The user is able to fire the attack very quickly, while maintaining precise aim. Frieza has also been shown firing the beam from his left hand's thumb.
- Death Bullet: The first method has the user prepare his index and middle fingers on both of his hands, and then he fires a Death Beam at the opponent at a very rapid rate, inflicting a great deal of damage. The second method has the user simply flicking his finger with deadly force.
- Full Power Death Bullet: A powerful finger blast shot from the index finger.
- Finger Beam: The user holds out their index finger and releases an energy beam from their fingertip.
- Barrage Death Beam: First, the user extends his index finger at the target as if he were to fire the Death Beam. Then, he fires multiple Death Beams at a very fast rate, inflicting a great deal of damage.
- Eye Laser: The user shoots laser-like beams from both eyes. The potency of the Eye Laser technique varies, but most of them are very fast and able to nullify weak attacks and small projectiles, as well as cripple opponents and damage other objects.
- Floating Attack: Eye Lasers used in the air.
- Invisible Eye Blast: A Kiai shot from the eyes.
- Death Ball: Frieza lights a spark of energy on his index finger. Once enough energy is gathered, this spark may grow to the size of a small moon and is thrown towards the target. Typically, this attack is used to destroy planets or as a last-ditch effort to kill an opponent.
- Black Hole Death Ball: The basic version of the Death Ball, charged by Frieza for use against Goku on Namek, and for use against Kale and Caulifla in the Tournament of Power, but was never fired on either occasion.
- Supernova: The user raises his finger and gathers their energy in the form of a giant yellow-orange, sun-like energy sphere. Once it is ready, the user launches the attack against the target. Like the normal Death Ball, it is mostly used to destroy planets, or as a last ditch-effort to kill an enemy.
- Destroy The Planet!: Frieza puts the palms of his hands together in front of his chest and brings them apart as he forms a pink energy sphere. Then, he raises it upward and charges it with more power, changing it into a red and orange energy sphere and making it bigger and more powerful with additional streaks of black electricity. Finally, he fires the attack at the opponent, inflicting a massive amount of damage. When thrown into a planet, it is shown that it tunnels into the ground until it destroys the planet's core.
- Death Comet: Frieza fires several energy waves coming out of the aura around his body.
- Whirlwind Blow: By lightly blowing, the user produce strong winds that formed a tornado. Then, the tornado lifts the opponent into the air and throws them a great distance away.
- Death Storm: Frieza raises his hand and opens it to release a giant Exploding Wave.
- Death Fork: Frieza charges at the opponent to impale them in the chest with one of his horns. Next, he shifts his head up and down, further injuring the opponent and causing more blood to leak out of them. Finally, Frieza throws the opponent off his horn down to the ground.
- Kiai: It is a technique where the user affects the air currents around him with ki to produce powerful shockwaves in order to strike the opponent.
- Telekinesis: A technique that allows the user to manipulate objects and other people with the power of one's mind.
- Psycho Blast: The performer uses telekinesis to lift a medium-sized to large boulder from the ground nearby, and then throws it at the opponent, inflicting moderate damage.
- Imprisonment Ball: Frieza appears behind the opponent and holds his hand out, ensnaring them in an inescapable golden sphere of energy. He then toys around with this containment like a soccer ball. When Frieza is finished beating the victim around, he kicks the ball away, where it detonates on contact with anything other than Frieza himself. The resulting implosion is so immense it creates a vacuum that sucks in anybody near by.
- Psychic Move: Frieza raises his hand and swipes it sideways, creating a razor-sharp storm of Ki blades that slice the opponent and create a red explosion, sending them flying back. The attack usually leaves a large crescent-shaped crater.
- Death Psycho Bomb: Frieza catches the opponent with a small, invisible energy sphere shot from his index finger in a fashion similar to his Death Beam. Then, he raises his arm upward, controlling and pulling the opponent high in the air with telekinesis. Finally, Frieza clenches his hand into a fist, detonating the opponent's ki and causing them to explode.
- Gigantic Rock Throw: The user picks up a boulder in front of them and throws it at the opponent, inflicting considerable damage.
- Death Psychokinesis: Frieza imprisons his foe using Imprisonment Ball and then bombards them with blocks of Kachi Katchin.
- Death Wave: To use it, Frieza puts his middle and index fingers together and charges an energy sphere on the tips. He then swings the energy sphere around, creating a large Death Beam in the form of a giant, razor-sharp energy blade that can slice through anything.
- Nova Strike: First, the user charges up and surrounds their body in a sphere of energy. Then, charges at the opponent using the energy sphere as a shield, headbutting them and inflicting a massive amount of damage.
- Death Saucer: A chasing energy disk attack that can be controlled by the creator to change direction. The Death Saucer can be created in pairs, and is able to lock onto the ki signature of a target. As long as the original user maintains their concentration, the Death Saucer will continue to follow the victim. Once concentration lapses, the attack can wind up anywhere.
- Death Cannon: Frieza holds one of his hands in front of him with the other hand supporting it (in a manner similar to the Explosive Demon Wave). Then, he fires a large purplish-pink energy wave or energy sphere at the opponent, inflicting a huge amount of damage. The blast creates a huge mushroom cloud explosion on impact and has an electrical aura surrounding the explosion.
- Red Energy Blast: A large red energy wave.
- Punishing Blaster: Frieza gathers pink energy in his hand and thrusts it forward to fire a large energy wave at the opponent, inflicting a high amount of damage.
- Red Energy Blast: A large red energy wave.
- Ruthless Blow: The attack starts off with Frieza saying "Out of my way!", he charges towards the opponent at high speed, then he uses Rapid Movement (disappearing from the opponent's line of sight). The opponent suddenly feels a stabbing pain, and discovers to their shock and horror that Frieza has thrust his hand/palm into their back. Frieza ends the attack by pulling his hand out of the opponent's back and letting them fall helplessly to the ground.
- Death Raid: Frieza surrounds his body with aura and dashes straight at the opponent, hitting them in the stomach with a powerful punch. Or Frieza jets into the air and fires a powerful orange ki blast at his opponent.
- Frieza Head Smash: A flying headbutt.
- Punishing Rush: Frieza shouts "Here I go!" as he elbows the opponent in the stomach and hits them on their legs with his tail, turning them around. He then double slaps the opponent on their back, knocking them away and teleporting in front to backhand punch them in the face, inflicting a high amount of damage.
- It's Just Getting Exciting!: First, as he asks "How would you like it?", Frieza knees the opponent in their stomach and kicks them up into the air. Then, he appears above the opponent to fly down and punch them down into the ground, inflicting a high amount of damage.
- 50% Power: First, Frieza snickers as he elbows the opponent in their face. Then, he teleports behind the opponent and knocks them up off the ground with a low roundhouse kick. Next, he catches the opponent by their neck with his tail and brings them closer to elbow them in the ribs. Finally, Frieza says "I enjoyed that" as he tosses the opponent away with his tail, inflicting a great deal of damage.
- Death Break: As he shouts "I'll never give up!", Frieza punches his opponent in the stomach. He then attacks and knocks the opponent away up into the air with two roundhouse kicks. Finally, Frieza appears above the opponent and knocks them down into the ground with a hook kick in their stomach, inflicting a high amount of damage.
- You Thought That Was It?: Before the opponent attacks him, Frieza says "Watch what I can really do!" and dashes across the opponent with a punch to their face. Then, he flies back and elbows the opponent in the face. Finally, he punches them down into the ground, inflicting a high amount of damage.
- Punishing Counter: When the opponent attempts to attack, Frieza turns around and back kicks them in the face. He then moves behind the opponent and blasts them away with a Death Cannon, inflicting a high amount of damage.
- Sonic Warp: Frieza uses a form of rapid movement that moves so fast it looks like he's teleporting.
- Frieza Stance: A Fighting Pose often used by Frieza where he holds both arms down to his sides with his hands out stretched.
- Transforming Ability: It allows the user to transform into a weaker state, and then transform up from it into other stronger forms.
- Crazy Finger Beam: An incredibly fast burst which explodes at a location Frieza points to.
- Vengeance: A combination of many punches and kicks, ending with a Left Chop. Named in the Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game.
Other
Standard Tactics: Frieza will utilize hand to hand techniques along with ki attacks, sometimes he will utilize his telekinesis to overwhelm his opponent. Due to his cockiness, he will always try and fight his opponent holding back due to his belief that he is far superior to them. If the opponent overwhelms his form he will proceed to transform into the next form, even if the opponent doesn't overwhelm him, if they at all give him the belief that they are approaching his power, his paraonoia will cause him to transform.
Weaknesses: Frieza is a sadistic and arrogant being that will make sure his opponent suffers before instantly killing them, causing him to not take out an opponent when needed allowing them to find a way to defeat him. Frieza is a massive egotist to the point that he refuses to believe anyone can surpass him and even when the person is shown to surpass him he will make any excuse possible for why he can defeat them. Upon reaching 100% power his ki drains quickly.
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[3].
Explanations
Power level blog listed here for more in-depth explanations.
Frieza Saga
First Form Frieza, who destroyed Planet Vegeta, which has ten times the gravity of Earth, requiring a GBE of this level to overcome. Making him High 5-B. He also has a power level of 530,000.
Second form Frieza’s PL is over 1,000,000, 1.89x above First Form Frieza.
50% power Final Form Frieza has a PL of 60,000,000, putting him 113.21x above First Form Frieza.
100% Final Form Frieza has a PL of 120,000,000, putting him 226.42x above First Form Frieza.
Frieza Saga/Android Saga Interlude
The events of the Mecha Frieza fight King Kai notes that Frieza used ten times the energy he used to destroy Namek[4] so his PL here is 1,200,000,000. Putting him 2,264.1509433962264151x times above First Form Frieza.
Trivia
- In-universe his name has been shown to be spelled as Freeza.
- Frieza is the first character to survive a full-power Spirit Bomb, the 2nd being Jiren.
- Frieza's English dub voice actor, Chris Ayres, is the brother of Frost's English dub voice actor, Greg Ayres.
- Frieza is the final villain in the Dragon Ball manga to have a desire for the Dragon Balls.
- Frieza has a merchandise only joke form called "Pure Gold Frieza" which is based on Golden Frieza. It is stated by Frieza that this form is the result of him "overtraining" - causing him to gain an Ultimate Evolution-like state that is pure gold in appearance.
- An error in the Funimation dub had Frieza (in his first form) saying he was 530,000 times stronger than Nail, who had a power level of 42,000. This meant that Frieza's power level was 22,260,000,000. In the original Japanese dub, Frieza states he has a power level of 530,000 and he later states this in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z Kai as well.
- Frieza's third form somewhat resembles a Xenomorph from the Alien film series, particularly in skull structure and his dorsal spines (in addition, Cooler's final form vaguely resembles a Predator).
- The fight between Goku and Frieza was the longest in the Dragon Ball Z anime, at 19 episodes. It is also considered to be the longest recorded fight in an anime, clocking in at roughly 3.5 hours of screentime. Similarly, the fight was the longest in the Dragon Ball manga, at 20 chapters.
- Frieza has his tail cut off four times. The first time is when he was in his second form, when Krillin chops it off with a Destructo Disc, though it seems to regenerate when he enters his final form. The second is when he is hit by Goku's Spirit Bomb, as part of it is unable to withstand the blast and thus comes off. The third is when he is cut in half by his own attack, the energy disks slice off his body in half, along with one arm and his tail. The fourth is from slamming Jiren into the arena with his Nova Strike.
- In addition, Frieza is chopped in half twice during his lifetime. The first is when he is chopped horizontally in two by his own energy disk. The second is when Future Trunks slices him vertically in half, seconds before chopping him to pieces and completely destroying him. In Dragon Ball GT, Frieza is chopped in half a third time while fighting Goku in Hell and using Krillin's Destructo Disc technique against him, which Goku turns back on him.
- In Dragon Ball SD, Roshi has a Freezer brand fridge.
- Frieza is the second villain to be defeated by Goku and return as a cyborg. The first is Mercenary Tao. Interestingly, both characters suffered grave injuries resulting in receiving cybernetics because of dirty attacks towards Goku (i.e. begging for mercy, and then attacking Goku when his guard was let down), and both were given cybernetics by a relative of theirs. They were also both defeated very quickly after reappearing by someone other than Goku. But unlike Tao, Frieza is no longer a cyborg.
- Frieza had inspired many other villains in the Shonen genre, notably Orochimaru from the Naruto series. During the first Naruto series animation run, Masashi Kishimoto remarked that he hoped Orochimaru would get a voice actor just like Frieza's.
- Frieza is the second character to make Goku shake in fear, the first being Raditz, and the third being Hit.
- Of all four of the main villains in Dragon Ball Z, Frieza has the largest on-screen body count: he murdered numerous Saiyans, Namekians, committed several atrocities with an innumerable casualty count, and has murdered many characters recognized as individuals on-camera.
- Frieza is the second villain to yell "Damn you Goku!" as his last words, with the first being Dr. Wheelo. Coincidentally, both villains also ended up obliterated by a significantly powerful ki attack shortly afterward (Wheelo by a Spirit Bomb, and Frieza by the God Kamehameha), and both even made a reference to Hell immediately beforehand (in Wheelo's case, as an expletive when demanding to know what Goku was about to do, and in Frieza's case, telling Vegeta and everyone else to go there without him in reference to his attempt at destroying Earth before Goku intervened).
- Of all the main Dragon Ball villains featured in media, Frieza is the most prominent "true" villain that appeared as a major character in more than one mainstream Dragon Ball media (anime or manga (that excluded related merchandising)), this includes appearances in the Dragon Ball Super anime, as the main antagonist of its second saga, then later appearing as a member of Team Universe 7, for the Universe Survival Saga.
- He can be considered the main antagonist of the Dragon Ball Franchise and Goku's arch-enemy due to being the most recurring villain of the series.
- His appearance in Dragon Ball GT might not count, along with Cell, as they made very short appearances in Hell as minor villains and were outsmarted by Goku.
- He is also the only major villain to appear in more than one film (TV/Theatrical), the most prominent and significant one being in Resurrection ‘F’.
- Majin Buu (any incarnations) also does not count, as the Good Buu may have appeared in other series than DBZ, like Dragon Ball Super, he is merely a purely good entity fissioned from and is completely separate from the true, pure evil version killed in his only anime appearance, Kid Buu.
- Additionally, Frieza is one of the most referenced villains in the series, as seen many times when the characters constantly use Frieza as a measuring stick for the power of other characters. Such instances are when describing Android 17 and 18 and Imperfect Cell, as well as during Goku's fight with Uub when the Saiyan states that he hadn't been so forced back in a battle since Frieza. Beerus also displayed visible shock when he heard of Frieza's defeat, indicating the profound impact he's had on the series.
- Frieza's wish of becoming taller is almost identical to Commander Red's; it is also probable that he developed a Napoleonic complex, feeling inferior and less respected to most people due to his height, which is why he killed any soldier who ever commented on it. Lemo even warned Cheelai to watch her tongue when she mentions hearing that Frieza was short.
- This characteristic wasn't evident in Dragon Ball Z; instead, Frieza took advantage of his height, as enemies tended to underestimate his power.
- In the Greek dub of Dragon Ball Z (except for episodes 78-87), Dragon Ball GT, the movies and Bardock - The Father of Goku, Frieza is a woman. In Dragon Ball Super, Frieza is a man.
- On a related note, this makes Frieza the third character to have his gender changed in the Greek dub, after General Blue and Zarbon.
- Frieza can be considered a foil to Goku (which is very fitting). Goku was born extremely weak and had to train to get stronger, is naturally peaceful and often shows enemies mercy, and even rejected his violent Saiyans ways of conquest. Frieza on the other hand was born extraordinarily powerful and never required much effort in training for extra strength, rarely shows mercy, and took over 70% of Universe 7.
- Frieza's Ghost Warrior is the only one of the Ghost Warriors in the OVA to not have originated in a movie.
- Frieza's speech while reveling in his destruction of Planet Vegeta differed between languages. In the original Japanese version, he specifically called Dodoria and Zarbon to come watch the "splendid fireworks" (referring to the constant explosions occurring on the surface of the soon-to-be-destroyed Planet Vegeta). In the original and Remastered Funimation dubs, Frieza instead compares the ongoing destruction to a live performance such as a play that was done spectacularly well. The former was eventually used for Dragon Ball Z Kai.
- Frieza's voice in his second and third forms are different from how he sounds in his base and final form. When he was voiced by Linda Young, his second form voice was quite different and was much lower and raspier. This was also the case for his third form, though in original Dragon Ball Z dubs, his third form voice was a combination of both first and second form. When voiced by Chris Ayres in Dragon Ball Z Kai, his second form voice is slightly lower than first form and sounds similar to first form. In Dragon Ball Z Kai, his third form is when the difference in his voice starts to become drastic and noticeable, rather than being noticeable in his second form like in Dragon Ball Z.
- Frieza is shown to have an excellent memory: he remembered Bardock's appearance after seeing him only once and several years before, and recognized it in Goku's look. The anime expands upon this by having him explicitly deduce Goku was Bardock's son.
References
- ↑ https://youtu.be/rP_LZkQychQ?t=40
- ↑ Dragon Ball Super Episode 20
- ↑ "What work do you do on the films, Sensei?
I check the plot and script that gets sent to me from Toei Animation. I also do some character designs and touch-ups, as well as altering the names and such." - ↑ https://youtu.be/rP_LZkQychQ?t=40
Battle Records
None.
