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Android 18
Android 18 is yet another of Dr. Gero's mechanical creations intended to kill Goku. Krillin fell in love with her after his first encounter with her.
Cell was determined to transform from his 2nd stage to his "Complete Form" or his 3rd and final stage. He finally engulfed Android 18 to become what he dreamed of, the "perfect fighting machine."
Android 18 isn't seen again until Cell is nearly destroyed by Gohan and he vomits her out of his body.
Krillin comes to her rescue. He later settles down with her and has a daughter.
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Goku
Goku is the main character of all the DragonBall series. He starts off at the beginning of the story as a young boy who's 12 years old (he says he's 14, but later learns that 12 comes after 11).The story follows his life up to adulthood, which covers 42 volumes of the comic book. At the beginning, he is living deep in the mountains by himself; he was raised by his late grandfather, Son Gohan. However, he's no ordinary boy, he sports a tail and is strong enough to lift small cars and deflect bullets. His grandfather had taught him kung-fu.
His rustic life is interrupted by a teenager named Bulma, who coerces him to come along on her quest to find the legendary dragon balls. Son Goku's life is changed forever; he meets the first human ever since the death of his step father, he encounters bandits, anthropomorphic animals, and an emperor of the world-wannabe.
Goku's isolated, rural origins are obvious at first, for initially, he can't visually tell the difference between males and females, doesn't know what money is, doesn't know how to use an elevator, and is surprised by various forms of technology.
After the first adventure with Bulma and some other characters they meet along the way, Goku finds his way to Master Roshi's place in order to pursue more martial arts training. There, he meets his life-long friend, Krillin.
From now on, Goku's life becomes that of continually furthering his fighting capabilities (to the point beyond any normal human can ever fathom). He encounters various foes, and each one seems to be exponentially stronger than the one before. Progressively, he fights off the ruthless Red Ribbon Army, the conniving Pilaf and Co., the evil Piccolo Sr., the evil Piccolo Jr., his bad brother Raditz, Nappa, Vegeta, the Ginyuu Special Combat Team, the cold Frieza, Androids, the diabolical Cell, and finally Majin Buu. Goku also enters into several martial arts tournaments, the Tenkaichibudoukai, the first two (#21 & #22) of which resulted in second place, and in the 23rd Tenkaichibudoukai, he finally won, over evil Piccolo Jr.
After the grueling match with evil Piccolo Jr., Goku formally marries Chi-Chi, fulfilling a promise that he unknowingly made when he was a boy. He has two children, Gohan and Goten. Goku dies twice in the manga, once after fighting Raditz, the other after he transports Cell. Ten years after he defeats evil Buu, Goku is hardy as ever, training for the 28th Budoukai. At that tournament, he meets the boy Uubu, who turns out to be the reincarnation of Buu. Goku, satisfied with this boy's potential, makes him his student, and leaves the tournament.
Son Goku also becomes the main character, along with Trunks and Pan, of the Dragon Ball GT TV series. DB GT is not based on manga, it is created from completely new plot with Toriyama Akira having little participation. In this TV series, a new adventure unfolds, with Goku turning in to a child, for starters.
Goku, by nature, is very kind-hearted and innocent. In fact, this influences many of his original rivals or enemies to eventually become his friends. These people include Yamcha, Krillin, Yajirobe, Tien, Chiaotzu, Piccolo Jr., and even Vegeta. He is also very adventuresome, and like a true Saiyan warrior, he loves to fight and is fueled by the insatiable hunger to get stronger.
He is already quite strong at the beginning of the manga, but he becomes even more powerful as he learns various techniques and trains hard. Like all Saiyans, he burns up an incredible amount of calories, and thus, he eats mammoth amounts of food. (As a boy, he once cleaned out an entire restaurant)
At the beginning of the manga series, we assume that Goku is human, albeit with a tail and a very minor, unnoticeable tendency to become a gigantic were-ape when he sees a full moon. However, when Raditz comes to destroy earth, we learn, and Goku learns, that Goku is actually a Saiyan, a lower-level warrior sent from Planet Vegeta to earth to exterminate humans.
In fact, Raditz is actually Goku's brother who comes to check up on his progress. The tail is a characteristic feature of the Saiyanaliens, which allows them to power up to ten times their normal level of strength during the full moon. In the TV series, we learn he is the second child of Bardock.
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Vegeta
Vegeta was Goku's enemy but later became simply his rival. Born on Planet Vegeta as a prince, this proud Saiyan is classified as an elite warrior.
He arrives on earth after hearing that Raditz has died. Along with Nappa, another Saiyan, they have come to claim earth and find the Dragon Balls, which they learned from Raditz shortly before his death.
Goku easily defeats Nappa, but a big battle unfolds between Goku and Vegeta. Goku realizes the strength of his opponent and uses his newly learned Kaiouken. Vegeta, on the other hand, is enraged that a lower-level warrior like Goku can put up such a good fight. This major battle, which was, I'd say, well sequenced and excellently portrayed in the manga, ends up nearly in a draw. Goku, who fights to his limits, pushes Vegeta into using the big ape form. This is a major blow to Goku (literally). However, the fight ends up nearly tied, as Yajirobe daringly slices Vegeta's tail off (this returns the ape back to normal) and as Gohan turns into a giant ape and falls on top of Vegeta.
Later, on Planet Namek, Vegeta ends up teaming up with the Z Warriors to battle the common enemy, Frieza. This relationship is an uneasy one; Krillin and Gohan are wary of him and, indeed, Vegeta was planning to finish them off after Frieza was cleared away. Vegeta fights the Ginyuu Special Combat Team and Frieza, before being killed by the ice box from Hades
He is brought back to life on earth and ends up living there after the Frieza Episodes. On earth, Vegeta sort of mellows out, develops a relationship with Bulma, and has his son, Trunks. With the other warriors, he fights evil Androids 19 and 20 (Dr. Gero), the supposedly evil Androids 16, 17, and 18, fights the various stages of Cell, and takes on Buu.
Vegeta is driven by the incessant desire to become stronger than Goku, who always seems to be a step ahead of him. Proud and adamant, he will not allow anyone to be more powerful than he is; after all, he is the prince. Like Goku, the Saiyan blood in him makes him crave fighting.
However, being with Goku and his friends changes him. Once full of pure evil, his black heart becomes diluted into a shade of gray. He shows signs of affection to his son, Trunks, when they are training in the gravity room at Capsule Corp. headquarters. (He promises to take him to an amusement park.)
But, apparently, there is a violent conflict deep down inside him; he tries to deal with his inherent evil and his acquired goodness (hey you psych majors -the cognitive dissonance musta been great). This conflict plays out in the Buu Episodes, when Vegeta willingly submits to Babidi's trance in order to clear his conscience and fight Goku as an evil enemy as he was way back when.
But, Goku sees through Vegeta's antics and knows that Vegeta will never be able to return to the pure evil that he once was. Goku is right; Vegeta stops his battle with him and fights Buu instead. For the first time in his life, he fights for a cause that is not his own. Shortly before he self explodes to destroy Buu, he puts his hand on Trunks and tells him his last words and regards for his wife Bulma.
Vegeta is later revived in order to help Goku fight Buu, and they fuse through Potara into the warrior, Vegetto. In the end, Vegeta relinquishes his evil (or most of it) and stymies his pride when he calls Goku the number one warrior. In the epilogue, we find out that he has a second child, Bra.
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Piccolo
Piccolo is one of the characters who was originally "evil", but through series of unexpected events, the "evil" in him was slowly washed away as Piccolo took different forms.
Piccolo is the offspring of Daimon, who was the pure "evil" which separated from Kami-sama as another body. Piccolo and Kami-sama are one person in two bodies. If one of them dies, both will die.
Daimon was killed by Goku, but with his dying breath he vowed that his offspring Piccolo would avenge him. Therefore Piccolo is not pure "evil" as Daimon was, but rather he is intensely focused on eliminating Goku. Their first meeting was in the BudokaiWith the arrival of Raditz, Piccolo was to become the unwilling partner of Goku. Together they defeated the evil Saiyan, but he learned from the warrior that two even more powerful Saiyajin would avenge him. With this knowledge he found himself even more unwillingly on Goku's side when he volunteered to train his son, Gohan, to become a great fighter to combat the eminent Saiyan menaces.
Piccolo's strict training turned Gohan into a stronger person and he gradually released Gohan's tremendous power and talent. Strangely enough, while training Gohan, Piccolo began to develop feelings of love and care towards the child, and this selfless care was ultimately demonstrated when he sacrificed himself to save Gohan in his battle against Nappa. These feelings become even more apparent throughout the Frieza and Cell sagas.
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