Character Guide: N - O 

Nail - “Neiru” The strongest Namekian warrior on the planet Namek, he is the personal guardian of the Great Elder (Guru).  His maximum power level is 42,000, much higher than most of Frieza’s henchman.  When Frieza threatens the Great Elder, Nail offers a challenge to Frieza in order to distract him away from Guru, and Frieza unwittingly accepts.  Although he fights honorably and with great courage, Frieza beats Nail horribly, defeating him almost effortlessly.   When he senses that his death his near, Nail laughs in Frieza’s face as the changeling realizes the eternal dragon has been summoned, telling him that the boy had the password to the dragonballs all along.  Frieza instantly takes off, leaving the Namekian warrior to die.  However, Piccolo comes across the fallen Nail while flying toward Gohan and Krillin.  Nail offers to give his strength to Piccolo by merging their energies.  Piccolo is reluctant to merge, but he also knows that times are desperate and he needs the energy.  He finally agrees, on the terms that they keep his body, and the two Namekians fuse permanently, joining their energies to create a new Namekian more powerful than ever before.  Piccolo’s strength is more than doubled, and he blasts off to find Frieza.  Although the two have fused, Nail’s spirit remains alive within Piccolo’s and can separate itself at will.  Nail shows face twice more in the series, once when he looks at Dende, and the last time when Piccolo is fighting Frieza. Nail’s features take over for several seconds as he taunts the befuddled Frieza that he is still alive and back for vengeance.  Nail remains a part of Piccolo for the rest of the series, although his personality never surfaces separately from Piccolo’s again after the Frieza Saga.

Nappa  A big, hulking Elite Saiyajin who accompanies Vegeta to Earth in the Saiyajin Saga.  Nappa considers himself and Vegeta to be “partners”, although Nappa is much the weaker of the two.  While the manga only shows them as fellow soldiers, in the anime Nappa is portrayed as a sort of personal bodyguard for Vegeta when he was a child.  Since childhood Vegeta had already been stronger than his own father, and Nappa, who was about 30 years old, feared the prince’s power from early on.  As Vegeta grew in age and strength, it became more obvious that the idea of Nappa being a “bodyguard” was really only Vegeta’s tolerance of his presence.  Nappa carried out most of the work that did not require a great amount of intelligence, and Vegeta did the rest.  Nappa is about 50 years old when he first appears in the manga.  He is bald and has a thick mustache, and is considered ugly by most standards.  In the Bardock Special, Nappa is shown with a small tuft of hair, but this is obviously many years earlier.  Although he is not stupid, Nappa is not particularly brainy, and when his temper flares, he loses control of himself, particularly when an opponent proves to be stronger than he in combat.   Upon arriving on Earth, Nappa promptly destroys the entire city he and Vegeta have landed in, wiping out all signs of life in a radius of at least 20 miles.  He chops off Tien’s arm with a single blow, and destroys several helicopters of idiotic news crews who pull in too close.  Chaozu latches onto his back and blows himself up in attempts to take the life of the Saiyajin, but Nappa is practically untouchable at a power level of 4,000, leagues ahead of most of the Z Senshi at the time.  In the anime, when Vegeta forces him to wait for 3 hours, Nappa decides to have a little fun, and flies out to the coast to meet Earth’s military forces.  The Saiyajin blasts his way through fighter planes, ripping and tearing as he goes, and destroys entire navy and air force fleets that attack him.  As an Elite Saiyajin, Nappa has evolved a bit, and so minor problems that lower Saiyajin like Radditz experience are beyond him, such as intense pain when the tail is pulled.  Not knowing this, Piccolo attempts to restrain him by yanking his tail, but Nappa only punches his lights out.  The Saiyajin nearly kills Gohan with a huge ki blast, but Piccolo leaps in the way of the beam and takes the shot instead, sacrificing himself.  When battling Goku, Nappa begins to lose his cool as he starts to realize that the 3^rd class Saiyajin could possibly be stronger than he.  Nappa has the worst potty mouth in the entire series, next to Vegeta only because the prince lasts as a major character for much longer.  He constantly curses at Goku as the 3^rd class warrior defeats him at every turn.  Vegeta forces Nappa to stop fighting when he loses all control during combat.  Nappa obeys, but instead of resting, he mistakenly chooses to release his rage upon Gohan and Krillin.  Goku must use Kaio Ken to stop him, and ultimately breaks Nappa’s back in doing so.  To everyone’s surprise, Vegeta turns on Nappa and kills his own “partner” for his insolence by blasting him into oblivion.  Nappa returns near the end of GT when Hell breaks loose upon the Earth.  He appears to want revenge on Vegeta for killing him, but his power level is still nothing compared to Vegeta’s, and it is unclear whether or not he actually thinks he has a chance against the prince.  Either way, with a smile, Vegeta simply blows him away again.

North Kai -   see King Kai

Oolong - “Oorongu”  A perverted, greedy shape-shifting pig, he meets Goku and Bulma in one of the first few episodes of Dragonball.  He terrorizes a village and is known there as “Oolong the Terrible”.  He kidnaps three young women in the form of a huge scary monster.  Oolong has the ability to change his shape into any form, even inanimate objects, but he can only hold that form for 5 minutes.  His strength is not increased by the change, and he can’t turn into something that can be used up, like fuel or food.  Goku and Bulma are offered a dragonball as a reward for the safe return of the girls to the villagers, and so they search out Oolong, only to find that the monster doesn’t wish to fight Goku.  Naturally Bulma and Goku follow him to his lair, only to discover that the girls have been living like queens in his cave, which is actually more of a palace.  Oolong willingly returns the girls, who have been eating him out of house and home, and agrees to help Bulma and Goku on their quest for the dragonballs.  He has a fair amount of money and a huge collection of women’s underwear.  Oolong was born in the year 740 AD, and went to shape-shifting school with Puar.  Although she made straight A’s, Oolong flunked out, explaining why Puar can hold any form as long as she chooses, while he has a limit of only 5 minutes.  He is 3’9” tall and weighs 71 lbs.  At first Oolong tries to take the dragonballs for himself, but he eats some cursed candy that causes him to have to pee anytime someone says the word “piggy”, which Bulma often uses against him in the first saga.  Eventually he becomes good friends with Goku and the others, and helps them to find more dragonballs.  When Pilaf steals the dragonballs from them and is about to make his wish to rule the world, Oolong heroically dives in the way and interrupts him, shouting that he wishes for the panties off a hot babe.  Almost immediately, a pair of panties with a pink bow on them come down from the sky and smack Oolong in the forehead.  The perverted pig appears every so often in Dragonball, helping out the gang when he can.  In DBZ, his character dwindles to little importance, although in the anime and several movies, he appears quite often as comic relief.

Ox-king - “Gyuu Maou”  Chi Chi’s father and Gohan’s grandfather, he is an over-sized warrior with a thick beard, wears glasses and dons a Viking-style hat with horns.  Many years ago, he trained under Master Roshi alongside Grandpa Gohan under Master Roshi.  Ox-king once lived with his daughter in their mansion atop Mt. Frypan, and killed anyone who came after his treasure.  He still feared that thieves would steal his treasure, so he hired a sorcerer to conjure a spell that would barricade his fortress with a wall of fire.  The only problem was, the sorcerer cast the spell before Ox-king or his daughter had gotten back inside the castle, and so the two could not return to their own fortress through the wall of fire that was supposed to protect them.  Ox-king and the young Chi Chi are forced to live at the bottom of the mountain until they can find a way to break the barrier that keeps them from their castle.  Bulma, Goku and the gang stumble upon Ox-king and Chi Chi on their quest for the dragonballs.  They agree to help him, and Goku brings back Mutenroshi, the only one strong enough to break the barrier.  Roshi fires a large Kamehameha at the wall of fire, and destroys it.  However, the Kamehameha is so big that it takes the entire mountain with it.  Although his castle is gone, Ox-king and Chi Chi build another home on Mt. Paozu.  After Goku finds Chi Chi, who had been missing, and returns her to her father, Ox-king offers her to Goku as a wife in gratitude of her safe return.  Not know what a wife is, Goku shrugs it off.  Many years later, Chi Chi is a teenager and Ox-king wants to make sure that she will get a good husband who can take care of her, so he makes a fighting contest with Chi Chi as the prize.  Goku loses the contest on purpose, but Chi Chi beats up his opponent so that he still wins the prize – Chi Chi.  Ox-king may seem fierce at first glance, but he is really a nice guy.  After losing his mansion and treasure on Mt. Frypan, he gives up being a warrior and, although he is still huge, is more visibly friendly.  In DBZ, he appears in the anime more frequently throughout the sagas, usually seen at home trying to calm Chi Chi down.