Android 13
Android 13 is a male robotic anime and manga character who features in Dragon Ball.
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Biography
Android 13 (Japanese: 人造人間１３号 Jinzōningen Jū San-Gō, lit. "Artificial Human No. 13") was a humanoid mechanical being developed as one of a series of androids being constructed by Dr. Gero of the Red Ribbon Army. He was built alongside Android 14 and Android 15 but all three were deemed failures. They came to be placed in a remote laboratory that was overseen by one of the doctor's supercomputers. It was responsible for completing each of the androids that were programmed to kill Goku and his allies.
Android 13 is completed by Dr. Gero's self-aware supercomputer after Android 14 and Android 15, who by this time are already taking up arms against Goku and Future Trunks. Upon his arrival on the Glacier, 13 confronts Goku, leaving Future Trunks and Vegeta to fight against 14 and 15 respectively. During his fight with Goku, he has the utmost confidence he will surely win the battle and seems to have a slight edge over him. Goku then transforms into a Super Saiyan in hopes to turn the tables,but 13 is still able to fight on par with him if not still having the edge. Shortly after which Piccolo intervenes to assist Goku. Ultimately, 14 and 15 are defeated, following Future Trunks and Vegeta's transformations into Super Saiyans; their deaths are fail-safe, however, as 13 absorbs components from both, resulting in his transformation into Super Android 13. Vegeta is the first to attack the newly transformed 13, only to quickly be brought to his knees by his amazing new strength. Goku, Future Trunks, and Piccolo's attempts are also foiled with little effort on 13's part. Becoming desperate to kill 13, Goku is forced to prepare his ultimate weapon, the Spirit Bomb, while Krillin, Vegeta, Gohan and Future Trunks distract 13. Super Android 13 easily dispatches them (in the Funimation dub, he informs Goku that he knows about his Spirit Bomb technique). He begins charging up his S.S. Deadly Bomber when Piccolo charges at 13 and puts him in a Full Nelson. Super Android 13 quickly counters it and begins crushing Piccolo's head, but he stops short when he notices Goku's Spirit Bomb charging.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Android 13 was a muscular man with greenish-blue eyes and long white hair. He wears a yellow-brown vest adorning the Red Ribbon Army logo on his left side, as well as tiny gray suspenders worn underneath his vest, dark green trousers, dark grey boots with black tips, brown gloves, as well as a gray and yellow baseball cap with the Red Ribbon Army logo on its front.
Being a man-made android and serving only as a lackey to target and kill Goku, Android 13 seems to display little-to-no emotion. His face seems to always display a diabolical grin. In the original version, he is dead-set on this goal although he seems to be laid-back about approaching it, saying that anyone who gets in his way will die as well.
He believed that free will had brought nothing to humanity except war, segregation, and hatred.
Powers and abilities
He had the ability to transform into a more powerful form known as Super Android 13 (合体１３号 Gattai Jū San-Gō, lit. "Union No. 13") upon absorbing Android 14 and Android 15's battle data, computer chips, and energy reactors
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Deadly Assault (デッドリィアサルト Deddori Asaruto) :
- Abyss Impact (アビスインパクト Abisu Inpakuto) :
- Deadly Crash (デッドリィクラッシュ Deddoryi Kurasshu) :
- S.S. Deadly Bomber (S・S・デッドリィボンバー S.S. Deddoryi Bonbā) :
- S.S. Deadly Hammer (S・S・デッドリィハンマー Esu Esu Deddorī Hanmā) :
- Super Explosive Wave (超爆発波 Chōbakuhatsuha) :
Notes
- Android 13 was designed by Akira Toriyama where he featured in the setting of the non-canon film Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!.
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!: (1992)
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