Captain Ginyu
Captain Ginyu is a male anime and manga extrateerrestrial character who features in Dragon Ball.
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Biography
Ginyu (Japanese: ギニュー, Hepburn: Ginyū) was a humanoid male extraterrestrial who came to enlist into the armies of the Frieze Force. In time, he came to head an elite group of warriors that came to be known as the Ginyu Force. Captain Ginyu and his comrades are commissioned after Frieza learns that Vegeta is searching for the seven Dragon Balls on Namek and that the Saiyan's Power Level is growing rapidly, quickly surpassing Frieza's personal henchmen, Dodoria and Zarbon. The force spends five days traveling the stars en route to Namek, and upon reaching the planet, Frieza dispatches the team to capture Vegeta, kill his two companions, and recover the Dragon Balls which have since been stolen by Vegeta. Efficient as they are, the Ginyu Force does not take long to track down their targets and locate all seven Dragon Balls, with the rest of his team showing off their special talents, such as Burter's tremendous speed and Guldo's time freezing. Initially, Captain Ginyu intends to slay Vegeta by himself, but when his subordinates complain that they have not had the opportunity to fight, Ginyu concedes, allowing them to deal with Vegeta and the others while he returns the Dragon Balls to Frieza's Spaceship. Captain Ginyu transfers the Dragon Balls back to Frieza, using his telekinetic powers to levitate the Dragon Balls, but the two almost instantly discover that they can not activate the artifacts to summon the Eternal Dragon. Remembering one of his previous Namekian victims whose last words told of how Frieza could never make a wish even with the seven Dragon Balls gathered, Frieza deduces that there must be a secret Namekian Language custom used to activate them. The tyrant uses his scouter to investigate the vicinity for Namekians, finding three of them in an area that his forces left untouched. Captain Ginyu volunteers to force the secret out of them, but Frieza declines in favor of handling the task himself. In the meantime, Captain Ginyu is assigned to watch over the seven Dragon Balls.
Despite being the strongest of the Ginyu Force, Ginyu came to find that he was still no match for Goku. He realized this early in their battle, and fooled Goku into thinking he would surrender. Then, as Goku watched in horror, Ginyu punched a bloody hole into his own chest and then used his singular special ability, which is the power to swap bodies with anyone he choose by shouting, "Change now!"
After successfully trading bodies with Goku, he easily fooled Gohan and Krillin, who did not realize what had happened. Later a weakened Goku arrived on the scene to announce that Ginyu had not mastered his fighting techniques inside Goku’s body, and so he was still vulnerable. The others ganged up on him until he was forced to attempt a body swap with Vegeta, although Goku jumped in the way of the body-changing beam before it hit Vegeta, and as a result Ginyu was back in his old, wounded body. Vegeta, taking advantage of this, proceeded to pound the living daylights out of Ginyu. This was exactly what Ginyu wanted, and he attempted to use the body swap on Vegeta one last time. Goku however caught and threw a frog into the path of the beam, and Ginyu instead changed bodies with the amphibian.
Ginyu managed to trick his way into switching bodies with Bulma, but was soon sent back to his frog body. He remained trapped in that body thereafter, and was eventually transported to Earth with the Namekians during Goku's final battle with Frieza.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Ginyu was a tall, purple-skinned humanoid alien with large black horns growing from the sides of his slightly oversized cranium.
Unlike his comrades, Ginyu is a very calculating and methodical man, preferring a pragmatic approach in battle. He is noted by his subordinates to always research the mission at hand before acting. He is shown to have a very developed understanding of ki and fighting.
He showed a degree of cunning when fighting strong foes as he could use his body change ability to swap places with them. When fighting a strong foe, he was known to actually wound his body prior to swapping bodies so that his opponent was in a weakened condition in his old body.
Powers and abilities
Ginyu was a member of an unknown alien species where he gained the power to manipulate his ki. Through this, he was able to achieve a wide variety of feats including increased strength, endurance, flight and channel energy blasts. He was shown as having some form of telekinesis as he was able to lift objects through his mind alone. By far the strongest of the Ginyu Force with a power level of 120,000. When Frieza confronted Goku, he stated that he did not think anyone in the universe had surpassed Ginyu.
The most notable ability of Ginyu was the power to swap his essence with another. Through his Body Change (ボディチェンジ, Bodi Chenji) technique, he switched bodies with another whereby he gained their former and they moved to his old body. After possessing Tagoma's body, he was shown to hold a greater power level than his new host form.
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Galaxy Dynamite (ギャラクシーダイナマイト, Gyarakushī Dainamaito) :
- Milky Cannon (ミルキーキャノン Miruki Kyanon) :
Similar to the other members of the Frieza Force, he was known to be equipped with a Scouter that allowed him to register power signatures.
Notes
- Captain Ginyu was created by Akira Toriyama where he featured in the setting of the Dragon Ball universe.
Alternate Versions
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Appearances
- Dragon Ball Z:
- Dragon Ball Super:
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