Character Guide: D - F

Dabora - “Darbura” (The Doubler)   Translated literally as The King of Darkness, he is the ruler of an alternate dark dimension.  Babidi locates him and possesses him, making him his loyal servant.  The Doubler’s ability to conjure weapons and turn people to stone with his spit make him a dangerous adversary.  When he outlives his usefulness, Buu toys with him a while, until he gets hungry and turns The Doubler into a cookie (which he eats immediately, of course).  It is said that Darbura is the equivalent of Satan, though that has not been clarified (Not Mr. Satan). o.O;

Dende  The 108^th child of Guru, Dende is a young Dragon Type Namekian who is nearly killed by Dodoria when the Village Elder refuses to give Frieza the village’s dragonball.  Dende is rescued by Krillin and Gohan, who protect the Namek boy throughout the Frieza Saga.  Quiet and reserved, he has the power to heal even mortal wounds, and he uses it to save Krillin, Gohan, and even Vegeta during the battle with Frieza.  As the only one around with the knowledge to activate the Namek Dragonballs, he reawakens Porunga so that Gohan can wish Piccolo to be alive and on Planet Namek.  Dende and Gohan later become the best of friends, and they stay together on Earth until the Namek people are ready to move to Namek II, their new home planet.  A few years later, Goku teleports to Namek II in search of a replacement Kami for Earth, at which point the Namek Elder Muuri suggests that Dende would make a good choice.  Dende returns with Goku as Earth’s new Kami, after which he powers up the Dragonballs, giving Shenlong the power to grant two wishes instead of one. 

Devil Man - “Akuman”   The fourth and previously final warrior of Uranai Baba, Akuman resembles a demon.  His special technique is awakening a person’s evil inside of them and with it, causing them to explode.  Unfortunately for him, Goku is pure of heart, possessing no evil inside him, and the move is thus ineffective.

Dinosaur - “Kyoryu”*   The brontosaurus that Gohan befriends while he is learning how to survive alone in the wilderness.  Gohan helps the dinosaur by removing a giant thorn from his side and treating his wounds, but later the Dinosaur is attacked and killed by the local T-Rex.

Doberman - “Doberuman”   The dogs that Shao calls upon in Dragonball to attack Goku and the gang in Pilaf’s castle.  Goku, who hasn’t eaten in hours, defeats the Doberman by imagining that they are roasted meat.

Doctor - “Dokutaa”   The chief doctor on Planet Frieza #79, he is a small dinosaur-like creature with a tuft of bright red-orange hair.  He monitors the rejuvenation tank while Vegeta is recovering from his battle with Goku, and later assists Vegeta as he prepares to depart for Namek.  The doctor is one of the few people to whom Vegeta shows any kind of respect.

Dodoria   One of Frieza’s top soldiers, he looks like a fat pink blob with spikes over his body.  He doesn’t appear to be powerful, but for his size, his power and speed are remarkable.  He is merciless and cruel, and willing to do any sort of wicked task for Frieza.  Vegeta easily slays Dodoria with one blast.  His power level is about 22,000 when he is killed.

Doll Tokii*   The leader of the Ruudo Cult, a fake organization which is only a cover for the harvesting of energy for Baby.  Doll Tokii has a strange and sick obsession with little girl dolls.  When Pan is turned into a doll, he decides to keep her for himself.

Dolphin - “Iruka”   A friendly dolphin in Dragonball that directs Goku and Chi Chi, who are riding on Nimbus, to Kame Island where Master Roshi resides.

Dore*   A member of Cooler’s Special Forces in DBZ Movie 6 “Battle of the Strongest”.  He is killed by Piccolo.

Dorodabo*   A fat flying villain from DBZ Movie 4, “Super Saiyajin Son Goku”.  His looks and personality were fashioned after Dodoria.  He is killed by Piccolo, who blows his head off with a ki blast.

Dr. Briefs – “Buriifu Hakase”   Bulma’s father, and the founder of the Capsule Corporation, he invented the Hoi Poi Capsules that allow fast and easy transportation of anything from small objects such as magazines to entire houses.  Capsule Corp soon expanded to the vehicle industry and entered the world market of auto industry in 750 A.D.  At that time, Capsule Corp held 40% of the market to itself.  Its’ main competition was with the Red Ribbon Army, which held 16% of the market.  By 778 AD, Capsule Corporation dominated the industry with 48% of the market.  Although he is a genius, Dr. Briefs is somewhat absent-minded, eccentric to say the least.  He’s also a bit of a pervert, referring to the dirty magazines that Bulma discovered in some of his capsules.  A few of his greatest inventions were Goku’s modified Space Pod and Vegeta’s 400+g gravitron.  Dr. Briefs was born around the year 700 AD.

Dr. Frappe*   Only mentioned briefly in Dragonball Movie 4, he is supposedly the creator of Android 8, but this becomes a plot-hole when paired with the series, where it is stated that Dr. Gero was Hatchan’s creator.

Dr. Gero - “Dokutaa Giro” (see Android Number 20)   A brilliant scientist, he is the mastermind behind the Red Ribbon Army.  He constantly created new and better robots and androids in order to one day conquer the world.  All of his hopes for world domination are crushed by the young Goku, who remained undefeated by even Dr. Gero’s most powerful and destructive creations.  He is driven nearly insane by his desire to get revenge on Goku for eradicating the entire Red Ribbon Army.  He later creates Cell, by far his greatest creation of all time, by collecting DNA samples from the strongest fighters ever to set foot on the Earth, and combining them into one biological creation that takes many years to grow.  Gero then quickly sets about building Androids 16, 17, 18 and 19 (Although 16 was probably built before Gero had begun the Cell project), and later transplants his own brain into an android body built to look exactly like him so that he can continue his research.  He is ultimately killed by Android 17 before he can see his perfect creation (Cell) arise and wreak havoc on the Earth.  Android 17 kicks off the head of his master and creator, and then stomps on it, crushing his head (although the scene depicting blood oozing over the floor is probably a bit overdone, considering he’s a true android).

Dr. Koachin - “Dokuta Kochin”*   Dr. Willow’s android assistant in DBZ Movie 2 “The World’s Strongest Man”.  He gathers the Dragonballs and frees Dr. Willow from his icy prison.  Even though he appears old and harmless, Dr. Koachin is actually well-equipped for fighting.  His hand can transform into a machine gun, while his staff can hurl energy blasts.

Dr. Myuu* A deranged but brilliant scientist, he is thought to be the last surviving member of the Tsufurujin race, who returns to activate his people’s ultimate weapon against the Saiyajin, Baby.  Dr. Myuu believes that he is “creating” Baby, while it is later discovered that he is only an android that was programmed to activate Baby when the time came.  Even so, there must have been some biological element to Dr. Myuu, because after he is destroyed, he appears later in GT as an ally of Dr. Gero in Hell, and together the two of them build “New” Android 17.

Dr. Raichi - “Dokuta Raichi”*  A villain who appeared in two Dragonball Z home videos that were actually animated guides to two video games for a video game system that never came out in the United States, called the Playdia.  Neither game was exactly terrific, but the interesting part is that the two home movies played out as a normal story of DBZ, but actually were guiding you through the game.  Dr. Raichi is the villain of the games.  He is a member of the Tuffle race, which the Saiyajin wiped out, and he returns to get revenge on the Saiyajin.  Goku and the crew defeat him easily, since the only thing he has to protect him is a force field that Vegeta gets around by shooting a blast into the force field with him.

Dr. Willow - “Dokuta Uiro”*   The main villain in DBZ Movie 2, “The World’s Strongest Man”.  He was a brilliant scientist who performed evil experiments with his android assistant Dr. Koachin.  But 50 years before the start of Dragonball Z, horrible weather said to be sent from the gods sealed him in his laboratory in the Tsurumaitsuburi Mountains.  His brain was transplanted into a large mechanical device that would keep him alive until the day when he could find the world’s strongest man and take control of his body.  Goku finishes him off with the Genki Dama (Spirit Bomb).

Dracula Man - “Dorakyu Man”   One of Uranai Baba’s ghostly fighters, he fights using the typical vampire techniques, sucking his opponent’s blood.  He defeats Kryllan, but he loses to Upa and Puar.  The two use a combination of Puar’s transforming ability and Garlic Breath to defeat him.

Drum - “Doramu”   The shortest-lived of Piccolo Daimaou’s evil spawn, Daimaou spits him out just as Tien arrives to try and trap Daimaou in the Denshi Jar.  Drum attacks Tien, and clobbers him quite easily until Goku arrives, at which point Goku flies at him and knocks his eyes out with one kick.

East Kai - “Higashi no Kaio”*   One of the four Kaios of the universe, she is the only female Kaio.  She looks similar to King Kai, but with a pink complexion.  She is somewhat haughty when it comes to the strength of her fighters, and she is very bossy.  Before the Annoyoichi Budoukai begins, she teases King Kai because he’s dead, and later challenges Goku to a race to the other side of the “room” (a special room of the Grand Kai’s which appears to hold the entire universe inside it, though it actually does have limits).  The Grand Kai intervenes by appearing at the end of the room and claiming himself to be the winner.  At the Annoyoichi Budoukai, the last of her fighters to fall out of the tournament is Arqua, who loses to Goku.  She punishes her students for losing so early in the tournament by promptly ordering them to run a million laps around the stadium (which has to be enormous, considering the crowd consists of practically all the non-evil fighters in the Afterlife).

East Kaioshin -   see Kaioshin

Ebifuriya*   One of Dr. Willow’s experimental creations from DBZ Movie 2, “The World’s Strongest Man,” who can freeze victims in a huge ball of ice with one blast from his hand.  He is killed by Goku.

Erasa - “Ireeza” (read as Eraser)   A ditzy, blonde girl in Gohan’s high school class, she sits right next to him.  She has a bit of a crush on Gohan, but never directly confronts him about it.  She introduces Gohan to Sharpener and Videl.  Erasa later goes to the Tenkaichi Budoukai with Sharpener, and proves that not all blondes are dumb when she is the first to figure out that Mr. Satan might actually be wrong, and the fighters in the tournament might actually be truly flying instead of using special ropes or tricks.

Faschia -   see Celipa

Frieza - “Furiza” (reads as Freezer)   An evil tyrant, one of the greatest threats to the entire universe.  He and his armies purge planets of life, and sell them to the highest bidder.  Or if he’s so inclined and the mood is right, he may simply wipe out a planet for fun.  Frieza sees himself as the most powerful being in the universe, with no equal (although his father King Cold and brother Cooler are both stronger).  However, Frieza’s greatest fear was the Saiyajin race, not only because they were the strongest species he had ever encountered by far in all the universe, he also feared them because of an ancient legend among their people.  It was said that every few thousand years or so, a super-powerful Saiyajin was born to their people, the legendary Super Saiyajin.  Because the Saiyajin race was already so powerful and great in number, Frieza could not fathom how powerful a Super Saiyajin might be, and so he decided to employ them.  Fearing for his people and his throne, King Vegeta went along with Frieza’s wishes for several years until he could form a plan to gather all the Saiyajin forces to fight as one against Frieza and defeat him once and for all. Before this can be accomplished in full, however, Frieza acts first.  When he feels that the Saiyajin are getting too strong, he simply destroys their home planet, Vegetasei, to prevent any more super powers that might possibly rival his own from being born.  Frieza has 3 transformations, each one more powerful than the last.  Every time he transforms, he has access to a greater portion of his core power level, until his final transformation, in which he can reach his maximum.  Frieza is supposedly finished by Goku on Namek.  However, his “remains” are found by his father King Cold, who orders his men to work to rebuild him into an ultimate cyborg.  Frieza and King Cold go to Earth seeking revenge, and it is there that Frieza finally meets his end by the blade of Trunk’s sword.  Trunks literally slices and dices the monster, and Frieza goes to Hell (or HFIL, as all dubbies should well know it).

Frog - “Fuuragu”*   A humanoid frog-like creature who competes in the Annoyoichi Budoukai.  He is not particularly strong, but he has acquired the ability to expand his body to huge proportions, thus he wins a match simply by pushing his opponent out of the ring.