Character Guide: C 

Captain Chicken - “Kyaputen Chikin”   One of the many goofy (though muscle-bound) competitors in the 28^th Tenkaichi Budoukai.  Basically he’s a man in a chicken suit. o.o;;

Cashew - “Gashyu”*   One of Garlic Junior’s minions in the anime.  He is powerful, and one of the last characters to die in the Saga.  Like Garlic Jr., he receives a big dose of power when the Makyo-sei, or Devil Star Planet (Makyo Star) nears Earth.

Caterpi - “Kiyatapi”   A competitor in the Annoyoichi Budoukai who faces off with Goku.  As Goku’s first opponent, he underestimates Goku’s power and attempts to tickle Goku into submission with his many hands, but it doesn’t quite work.  Without warning, in the middle of the match he goes into a pupa state.  As South Kai tells Goku and the crowd, Caterpi would later hatch out as a much more powerful adversary.  The only problem is, the incubation period in the cocoon lasts for 1,200 years!  Thus, without much argument, the match is forfeited to Goku. (Is it just me, or does this guy have the same name as a Pokemon…? O.o;;)

Celipa*   The female member of Bardock’s team.  She is cool and casual, and seems to have known Bardock for longer than the others.  In the Bardock Special, she teases Bardock about his habits and asks him more personal questions than the other members, such as why doesn’t he visit his newborn son.  Celipa is killed by Frieza’s henchmen, who were sent specifically to assassinate Bardock and his team.

Cell - “Seru”   The greatest biological warrior ever created.  Dr. Gero originally brought forth the general concept of Cell, although it is not Dr. Gero who directly creates Cell, but rather his computer.  Over a period of about a year, Dr. Gero collected blood samples from the greatest fighters who had ever walked the Earth, including Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Nappa, Frieza, and King Cold.  Gero accomplishes this feat by using a tiny robot drone disguised to look like a typical bee to collect each blood sample.  Gero then combined the DNA of all these fighters to create the ultimate biological weapon, which began as a small life form in its larva stage sealed within Gero’s secret laboratory, and would continue to grow in a tank monitored by the computer until it reached its hatching stage, a process which takes about 24 years.  However, when Cell first emerges as “complete,” he is far from the biological weapon Gero had dreamed Cell would become.  His first form as Imperfect Cell resembles that of a giant cockroach.  In order for Cell to become “perfect,” he must absorb two components built by Dr. Gero, which are Androids 17 and 18.  Cell is actually from the future, as the time of his hatching is several years too late to absorb the Androids, who were killed by Trunks.  Cell solves this problem by killing Trunks and stealing his time machine, then traveling back in time to 4 years before the appearance of the Androids, during which time he absorbs nutrients underground until he can emerge once again.  He searches long and hard for the two Androids, absorbing entire towns full of people along his way.  Vegeta, Piccolo and the crew are hardly a match for him as he grows stronger.  He finally succeeds in absorbing both androids, and as Perfect Cell, his power is just short of invincible.  To prove his superiority to every single fighter on the planet, he organizes the Cell Game, his own World Tournament, which turns out to be more like a battle to save the planet.  Cell proves that he is stronger than even Goku, and later manages to kill both him and Trunks.  An enraged Gohan then takes on Cell, who continues to pick at the boy’s anger by releasing his asexually-produced children called Cell Juniors upon the rest of the fighters there.  When Cell destroys Android 16 and crushes his head with his foot, the act ultimately causes Gohan to reach SSJ2.  Gohan finally destroys Cell once and for all with a huge, one-handed Kamehameha (due to his broken arm), with the help of Vegeta who distracts Cell by firing a Final Flash at the monster from behind just as Gohan adds more energy to his blast.  Because Cell’s body completely disintegrates in the blast, he cannot regenerate himself and so is truly dead.  Cell dies on May 26^th, 767 AD.

Cell Junior   Another trait Cell has acquired through his Namekian genes (or at least, its assumed that’s where he got this) is the ability to asexually reproduce.  He produces 7 small versions of himself, called Cell Juniors, from a tube in his back (once the end of his tail).  The Cell Juniors are feisty midgets who resemble Seibamen, except much more powerful.  They wield a good fraction of Cell’s strength, and seem to match the strength of every fighter they face, even that of a Super Saiyajin.  Cell creates 7 Cell Juniors in order to have one for each of the warriors present, and he commands them to severely beat each fighter in attempts to raise Gohan’s anger.  All of the Cell Juniors are violently killed by Gohan when he reaches Super Saiyajin 2.

Chaozu - “Chiaotsu”   Chaozu is Tien’s midget telepathic friend.  Tien and Chaozu’s pasts are never completely revealed, but Tien makes it clear that he will protect Chaozu no matter what.  Chaozu is apparently human, with a few different traits than most characters in the series.  He looks more like a doll than a human, and never seems to grow or age physically.  He weighs 73 lbs and stands 4’5” tall.  Chaozu can fight well, although most of his special abilities center on telepathy.  He can halt a person’s movement if he is able to hold his concentration, and he can speak to Tien telepathically.

Chi Chi   The wife of Goku and mother of Gohan and Goten.  She is the daughter of Gyuu Maou, or Ox-King, who promises her hand in marriage to Goku when they are only little kids.  Chi Chi later meets Goku again at the 23^rd Tenkaichi Budoukai, where the two must face off in a match.  She loses to Goku, but reminds him when the match is over who she is, and asks if he wants to marry her.  The naïve Goku answers with a simple “Sure,” although he doesn’t know what marriage is.  Chi Chi is set on making her son Gohan a scholar, and so she is very hard on his academic life.  Although it is more over-pronounced in the anime than in the manga, Chi Chi often goes ballistic over her son’s less-than-perfect study habits, and Goku’s influence upon them.  Though it may not always be particularly noticeable, she really loves her husband dearly, and in the anime there are some sweet scenes between the two.

Chico*   A little orphan girl who, along with her brother, discovers young Gohan washed up on a beach.  She is the youngest of all the orphans in the clan led by Pigero.

Chinshyou Ken*   He attempts to prevent Goku from participating in a martial arts tournament by pouring a laxative in Goku’s miso soup.

Chyapu Chyai*   A vertically challenged competitor in the Annoyoichi Budoukai who has the special ability to create many duplicates of himself in order to confuse and overwhelm the opponent.

Clothing Store Man - “Fuku Ya no Oyaji”   The manager of the clothing store in which Android 18 steals some clothes from the store display.

Cooler - “Kuura” (read as Koola)*   Brother of Frieza, son of King Cold.  One common alternate spelling of his name is Koola.  Cooler appears only in DBZ Movies 5 and 6.  Like his brother, Cooler has the ability to transform in order to increase his power level.  However, he is in his 4^th form when he first appears in Movie 5, and later he evolves into a menacing 5^th form.  He cares nothing about his brother, and goes to Earth only because he finds it interesting that a single Saiyajin could defeat him, rather than to seek revenge for his brother’s death (despite the dubbed movie title “Cooler’s Revenge”).  In Movie 5, Goku defeats Cooler by blasting him and his Death Ball into the sun with a Kamehameha, supposedly incinerating him.  However, Cooler returns in Movie 6 as a cyborg.  A planet-devouring mass of intelligent machinery, called the Big Ghetti Star saved Cooler’s brain, recognizing Cooler as a powerful fighter and a valuable tool to gaining power and data.  Cooler’s disfigured head remains at the core of the ship, as it was the only part of Cooler that survived being shot into the sun.  Eventually Cooler learned to control the Ghetti Star to a point with his mind, and he travels about from planet to planet, robbing each of its energy to feed the Ghetti Star.  He attempts to take over a nearby planet, which happens to be Namek II, or New Namek, the planet that the Namekians migrate to after the destruction of their first planet.  Cooler enslaves the people of Namek and forces them to work and bring valuable energy to the Ghetti Star, which is his power source.  Goku, Vegeta and a few of the Z Senshi arrive not a moment too soon, only to discover that Cooler is far more powerful than he had been the first time Goku faces him, because of his new cyborg form.  Cooler has great advantages over the Super Saiyajin because of the fact that he can create hundreds or even thousands of clones of himself using the Ghetti Star’s power.  Cooler easily captures Goku and Vegeta, and contains them in a holding room, where they are held by special wires attached to all parts of their bodies.  These wires drain their Super Saiyajin energy to feed the Ghetti Star whenever Cooler so chooses.  What Cooler did not guess was that the sheer immensity of the Saiyajins’ willpower could give them incredible energy even when all hope was lost.  The two Super Saiyajin literally defy logic, and manage to raise so much energy that they overload the entire system.  In a final all-out battle, Cooler attempts to finish Goku and Vegeta before he loses his power source, but it is only in vain, as the Ghetti Star is ultimately destroyed, along with the last remains of Cooler.

Crane Elder – “Tsuru Sennin” Tsuru Sennin means “Crane Hermit,” as opposed to Kame Sennin, or “Turtle Hermit” (Master Roshi).  The Crane Elder trained alongside Master Roshi at Mutaito’s martial arts school.  The two were born rivals, and their rivalry carries through to Crane Elder’s pupils Tien and Chaozu.  Tsuru Sennin’s younger brother is the infamous assassin Tao Pai Pai (General Tao in the dub).

Crop Farmer   At the opening scene of the first episode of DBZ, Radditz’s space pod crashes on a farmer’s property.  The frightened farmer quickly rushes to investigate.  He tries to intimidate Radditz away from his property with his shotgun, but fails miserably.  In desperation he fires his gun at the approaching Saiyajin, but Radditz merely catches the bullet in his fingertips and casually flicks it back at the farmer, killing him instantly.

Cymbal – “Shinbaru”   The 3^rd son of Piccolo Daimaou, he resembles a humanoid plump dragon.  He is killed by Yajirobe, who slices him in half, then roasts him over a fire and eats him (mmm, roast Namek o.O;;).  He stands 5’9” tall and weighs 255.5 lbs.  He was born and killed in the year 753 AD.