Radditz is one of the four surviving members of the Saiya-jin race from the planet Vegeta that was destroyed. He comes to earth in search of Kakarot (Goku). Radditz told Goku that they are brothers and he has come to take Goku with him. When Goku wouldn't join him, Radditz took Goku's son named Gohan and flew off to hide on the earth to put pressure on Goku to join him. Piccolo showed up at the Kame House where Goku was debating on how to handle the situation. Piccolo proposed that they make a temporary alliance to defeat Radditz. For those of you who don't know Piccolo and Goku were arch enemies before Dragon Ball Z so this was definitely a surprising subject for Goku. Nevertheless Goku agreed and they when't off to attack Radditz. When Goku and Piccolo showed up at the Radditz "hide out" he was surprised. One thing he didn't expect was for anyone to find him without scouters. A battle took place, now while Radditz was much stronger, he underestimated Goku and Piccolo several times. The fact he believed he was superior to them was most of which led to his downfall. Even though Goku showed mercy to Radditz and let go of Radditz 's tail that was crippling him, Radditz took advantage of his mercy and attacked Goku after he was released from the restraint of pain. As all hoped seemed lost, Gohan exploded in anger and burst from the Saiya-jin space pod that Radditz put him in. Gohan's fury exploded and he attacked Radditz. After being severely injured Radditz knocked out Gohan and prepared to kill him. Once again Radditz was careless and forgot about Goku, who came up from behind and held him tight. Piccolo charged his Makkankosappo attack. Goku knowing there was no other way to defeat Radditz, he sacrificed himself by holding Radditz and being caught up in the Makkankosappo. Both were killed, but before Radditz died he told of the coming Saiya-jins that now know of the dragon balls on the earth.
Nappa was Vegeta's partner when they came to earth. Nappa had a power level of 4,000, and classed as an Elite Sayian. Nappa was probably the only bald Saiyan. He was all muscle and no brains. He was the one who did all of the damage before Goku showed up. He also killed Chauzu and Tien. Goku used the Kaio-Ken attack to easily defeat Nappa. Once Vegeta saw that Nappa was finished he killed him.
Dodoria is frieza's left hand assistant. He is not as powerful as Zarbon. Dodoria is a fat, pink creature. On plant Namek he took care of 3 Namek warriors. He was then attacked by Gohan and Krillin because Dodoria went after a Namek child. Dodoria was mad so he chased after them. Dodoria then lost them, but on the way back to the village he was attacked by Vegeta. They had a little fight before Dodoria was sent to the next dimension.
Zarbon was the strongest of Frieza's assistants. He's also the most femenin, always worried about how he looked. He has two forms, the first being a green haired pretty boy, and the second being an powerful, but ugly, lizard-type creature. While on planet Namek, Zarbon fought and defeated Vegeta in search of one of the dragonball's he thought Vegeta had. After Vegeta recovered from the fight he was much stonger and thus able to kill Zarbon. They fought again and Zarbon was defeated by Vegeta.
The Ginyu Force is Freeza's own special task force. They are the absolute best of the best in the known universe. Consisting of five essential members. Burter, a tall blue fish form character who is supposed to be one of the fastest creatures in the universe. Recoome, the red head and bulky character who holds an incredible amount of strength and power. Guldo, the small green frog-like character who has the ability to freeze time. Jeice, who is red with white hair and seems to have a fair amount of power in every aspect instead of it being completely in an individual trait. Finally, Ginyu, the purple and horned leader of the Ginyu Force who is not only extremely powerful but also has the ability to switch bodies with another individual.
The Ginyu Force's history is short but important. Freeza sends for them to collect the Dragonballs which all his other henchmen failed to do. The Ginyu Force caught up with Vegeta, Gohan, and Krillin before they were able to make their wish. Ginyu took the dragonballs back to Freeza's spaceship from there Vegeta, Gohan, and Krillin were forced to face the remaining four members. First Gohan and Krillin took on Guldo and failed to win, Vegeta came to their rescue and killed Guldo. Then Vegeta took on Recoome with valiant effort but without succeeding, Gohan stepped in but also failed to bring him down but had his neck broken by Recoome. Luckily Goku's ship landed just shortly after this happened. Goku defeated Recoome and Burter with a single attack on each of them. Jeice became frightened and whent to get Captain Ginyu.
After getting Captain Ginyu, he and Jeice returned. Krillin and Gohan took off and Vegeta abandoned Goku just before the fight. Ginyu fought Goku and he seemed to have the advantage, but Ginyu knew Goku was hiding his true power. He convinced Goku to show it, but from doing this it revealed Goku was much stronger than Ginyu. Ginyu knowing winning was impossible, intentionally hurt himself severely. He held out his arms, screamed "CHANGE!" and switched bodies with Goku. Ginyu, then in Goku's body took off for Freeza's spaceship.
Upon returning, Ginyu and Jeice found Krillin and Gohan who had found the dragonballs. After realizing that the man in Goku's body was not Goku, Krillin and Gohan reluctantly fought with Ginyu who had not adjusted to the change of bodies and his power level was relatively low. As his power slowly increased Goku arrived in Ginyu's old body and helped fight. Vegeta began and ended a fight with Jeice, then decided to fight with Ginyu in Goku's body. Vegeta attacked and easily beat Ginyu, Ginyu made an attempt to switch to Vegeta's body but Goku in Ginyu's body jumped in the way and therefore both were back to their original selves. Ginyu now restored to his own body was once again attacked and beat up by Vegeta. Ginyu made one last try to switch bodies with Vegeta but Goku through a namekian frog in the way. Ginyu then became the frog and the frog became Ginyu.
That for the most part ended the Ginyu Force legacy, Ginyu did however make one final attempt to get to a stronger body. He be-friend Bulma while Goku and Freeza's fight was going on. Bulma created a device to allow her new frog friend to talk. Ginyu could then scream "CHANGE!" switching bodies with Bulma. Ginyu in Bulma's body whent to the battlefield, finding Piccolo there he began to do his change sequence but, Gohan discovered it was not really Bulma, threw the frog that the real Bulma was inhabiting, directly into the path between Piccolo and Ginyu. Ginyu was then changed back into a frog and Bulma was herself again. Finally the Ginyu Force members do make some short appearances in the Dragon Ball Z series while in the afterlife.
He is one of the major villains who appears after the epic battle between Son Goku and Vegeta. The battle against Freeza was the longest segment of the entire series. He was the villain who destroyed Goku’s home planet. Even though Freeza would not openly admit, his greatest nightmare is the Saiyajin, that is why their home planet must be destroyed.
Shortly after Vegeta finished his battle with Goku, we encounter Freeza in the planet of the Namek. Both the Dragon Ball Warriors and Freeza and his minions arrived at the planet to acquire the more powerful Dragon Balls. Although both arrived with the same purpose, their motives were quite different. The Dragon Ball Warriors wanted to revive Piccolo and his other half, Tenshin, while Freeza, with his insatiable appetite for power, wanted eternal life. He did not begin to demonstrate his capabilities until he started the battle against Vegeta when he took his first transformation. Freeza is capable of three transformations, becoming more powerful each time, during which, Vegeta was killed and Piccolo met nearly the same fate. Then, Son Goku joined the battle.
This is the battle where first saw the Super Saiyajin. Freeza served as the catalyst for that when he killed Kuririn out of his frustration. The angry Son Goku became Super Saiyajin and eventually overcame Freeza. Goku, being a good sportsman like always spares Freeza's life so he could challege Freeza again. But Freeza's uncontainable pride and unwillingless to accept defeat sealed his fate. Miracalously, he still managed to survive until recued by his father After being rescued by his Father, Freeza decided to go to earth for his revenge, but only to seal his fate by the arrival of Future Trunks.
The last surviving member of the Red Ribbon Army, Dr. Gero is a mad scientist and the creator of the androids. He makes the androids for only one purpose, to kill Goku. Dr. Gero had a deep hate for Goku for destroying his precious army, and wanted him dead at any cost. In order to do this, he creates Androids #16, #17, #18, and #19. Dr. Gero created all of these androids after studying Goku for years (except for the battle on Namek) so they would know all of his attacks before he would use them. Later, he gets #19 to make him into an android as well. He is later killed (got his head kicked off) by his own creation, Android #17, after he activated them. But, he allies with Dr. Myuu in hell to create Super 17 and escapes to Earth, where he was betrayed and killed by Super 17 upon Dr. Myuu's orders.
Android 17 (aka #17) is yet another android created by Dr. Gero. In Trunk's future, #17 and #18 both terrorize Earth, and destroy everyone before travelling to the past to kill Goku and the rest of the dragon ball team. He is consumed by Cell in a later battle. However he is later revived by Shenlong, and later goes on to become Super 17, and is used again to destroy the Z warriors.
Android 19 (aka #19) is the Fat android with stereotypical chinese eyes constructed by Dr. Gero. Just like Dr. Gero he has power absorbers on the palms of his hands, giving him the ability to absorb the attack and vital energy from an enemy. He is later killed by Vegeta.
A few words come to mind when I think of Cell. Strong as hell are a few of them. Cell is not your average artifical human. This bad motha is composed of biological cells of all of the greatest z senshi and villians, meaning he can use Kuririn's kienzan, Gokou's kamehameha, Freezer's beam, and can even regenerate a la Piccolo. Which makes his ass hard to beat. Even after Going ssj2, Gohan has a helluva time beating him. Since he has saiya-jin cells, he gets more powerful when he gets beat or near death. So after being blowing himself up(since he couldn't beat ssj2 Gohan he tried a kamekazie attack) he regenerated, even stronger. His death was at the hands of ssj2 Gohan's kamehameha.
Majin Buu is the evil creation of Babi di. He is perhaps the most interesting of all villains in Dragon Ball Z. Not only is he the most powerful and indestructable villain, but his personalities also seemed boundless. Buu is capable of absorbing his enemies and their powers as well. He absorbs his enemies in two ways. The first way is transforming the target into a palatable item (such as chocolate - Buu's favorite) by his "antenna." The second method is by wrapping the target using a part of himself as a blanket and pulling the victim into his body. Every time he absorbs an enemy, his appearance will also mutate, resembling the look of that enemy.
Buu first showed himself as fat and goofy-looking. The reason why Buu looks fat and goofy is because he had previously engulfed a kaiwongshin with such figure. Buu's encounter with Mr. Satan was the most interesting. Mr. Satan revealed the "good" side of Buu which we never thought Buu had. Mr. Satan even convinced Buu never to commit any evil deeds again. Unfortunately, the "evil" in him cannot be contained. The "evil" was unleashed when Buu was angered by the near fatal shooting of Mr. Satan. The "evil" Buu splits from the "good" Buu. The "evil" Buu easily defeated and re-absorbed the "good" Buu demonstrating that there is really more "evil" than "good" in Buu. The absorbtion transformed Buu into a purely evil entity. We do not see the "original" appearance until the combined Vegetto infiltrated the body of Buu and plucked out everyone he has absorbed, including "good" Buu, also dramatically reducing his power. Nevertheless, he still has enough power to destroy earth, and does so.
Brolly is the Legendary Super Saiya-jin his power level at birth was 10,000 and he would only get stronger. King Vegeta ordered Brolly's death because he would be a threat and he would take attention away from his son Vegeta. Before that Brolly had a tramatic experience the baby next to him started to cry and this scared Brolly and he started to cry in fear. There is a legend that if two Sayian's are born on the same day and one dominates the other, the dominate one will have extreme hatred for the other, that baby's name happen to be Kakarot. Brolly can be controlled by his father with a device but when Brolly sees Goku he breaks free of the control and kills his father and attempts to kill Goku but is beaten up badly. Brolly goes to Earth after being beaten on Planet Vegita and runs into Goten, Trunks, and Videl and thinks that Goten is Goku and goes Berserk. Gohan senses that Brolly is there goes to fight him and in the end Brolly is killed by a triple Kame HameHa by Gohan, Goten, Goku, and a little help from Trunks.
