Dodoria
Dodoria is a male extraterrestrial anime and manga character who features in Dragon Ball Z.
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Biography
Dodoria (Japanese: ドドリア, Hepburn: Dodoria) was a male extraterrestrial being who came to join the ranks of the Frieza Force and served as one of Frieza’s top soldiers. Originally, he served under King Cold as a member of the Cold Force alongside Zarbon and the Ginyu Force prior to their mastes retirement. After he retired, he passed control over to his son Frieza leading to the Cold Force being renamed the Frieza Force with Dodoria eventually began serving Frieza alongside Zarbon going forward. Due to his high power level, he became Frieza's enforcer and one of his two attendants and highest-ranking generals, the other being Zarbon. Years before, he had personally eliminated the friends of Bardock, and even came close to killing Bardock himself. Dodoria and two of his underlings killed Tora and the other members of his squad after they were contacted by Leek about the order to return to Planet Vegeta. Dodoria was sent to Planet Meat to eradicate Team Bardock, a Saiyan attack force sent to that planet and thus potential survivors of the planned Saiyan genocide.
Dodoria accompanies Zarbon alongside their master Frieza to planet Namek in search of the Dragon Balls, which Frieza plans to use to gain immortality, thus maintaining his dominance in the universe. Dodoria is able to help him collect most of the Dragon Balls by mercilessly slaughtering the Namekians as a means to extract information from them. He took great joy in slaughtering the many natives who did not bow to Frieza and, in some cases, even those who did so. Vegeta soon shows up on Namek with his own desire to find the Dragon Balls and quickly kills Cui, who was sent to dispose of Vegeta. As he does so, Dodoria's scouter runs wild, telling him that Vegeta's power level is 24,000, which Dodoria dismisses as a malfunction given that would have meant Vegeta was stronger than him. At the same time, a group of three Namekian warriors arrive to save the survivors of Frieza's most recent attack. Dodoria reads the Namekian warriors' power levels as lower than Frieza's soldiers and proceeds to mock them. However, the group of Namekians power up and kill Frieza's low-level minions easily, confusing Dodoria. After the village elder Moori ruined their chances of locating the other Dragon Balls by destroying their scouters, Dodoria attempts to attack the elderly Namekian in revenge, although he is quickly called back by Frieza to deal with the three Namekian warriors first. Dodoria makes quick work of the three on Frieza's orders, brutally slaughtering the Namekians without mercy, also citing when they try to gang up on him that he was able to handle ten of them.
In the hopes of preventing further bloodshed, Moori then reveals the location of the Dragon Ball in his village. Frieza asks him to reveal the location of the other villages as payment for Moori's earlier destruction of their scouters. Moori refuses and orders Cargo and Dende to run away while he buys them time. Dodoria kills Cargo with a blast over Moori's shoulder, and then grabs Moori in a choke hold before brutally cracking his neck. As Dodoria moves along to finish Dende, Gohan in a rage intervenes by kicking Dodoria into a Namekian house, thus Krillin and Gohan save the young Namekian. Dodoria, enraged by their interference, is ordered by Frieza to pursue them. Dodoria catches up to the three of them quite swiftly, briefly managing to capture Krillin. However, he is halted by the temporary blindness that Krillin's Solar Flare induces, allowing them to seek refuge. Once Dodoria comes to his senses, he unleashes his Maximum Buster, demolishing the land below. Convinced that this onslaught was enough to finish Krillin, Gohan, and Dende, Dodoria makes his return to Frieza, not noticing that the trio had survived his attack by floating high above him. As he makes his way back to Frieza, Dodoria is attacked and forced into the waters below by an unknown force. Upon surfacing, he finds his assailant to have been none other than Vegeta, who has now decided to betray Frieza to achieve immortality and destroy Frieza and conquer the universe. Dodoria encourages him to run away while he can, but Vegeta decides to challenge Dodoria instead. Angered by Vegeta's confidence, Dodoria attempts to get the scouter from Vegeta, which the latter drops on the ground. However, Vegeta crushes it with his foot, as he can now sense energy. He then brings up his increase in power. This causes Dodoria to remember the time when Vegeta's powering up caused Zarbon's scouter to break. Rebuking that Vegeta has gotten stronger, Dodoria tries to finish him quickly with the Maximum Buster. Easily avoiding the attacks, Vegeta then grapples Dodoria into submission while telling him of how Saiyans get stronger from near death experiences like he did from his battle on Earth. With this, Dodoria realizes the true extent of Vegeta's power. In an attempt to save himself, Dodoria tries to bargain with Vegeta, offering to tell the secret behind the destruction of the Saiyan homeworld. Vegeta takes him up on the offer and releases him, as Dodoria informs Vegeta of the planet's true fate, and at the same time takes the opportunity to try and fly back to Frieza. Vegeta, however, is not in a forgiving mood and reveals his anger at being their pawn, while declaring they would pay. He ruthlessly eliminates the fleeing Dodoria with a Finish Blaster.
When Gohan and Krillin intervened and rescued Dende from his claws, Dodoria gave chase to them, but eventually lost them.
On his way back to Frieza, he encountered Vegeta. The two fought, but Vegeta overpowered Dodoria, who hoped Vegeta would let him go if he told him the truth about Planet Vegeta: that it had really been Frieza who destroyed the planet and not a comet as everyone had been told. Unfazed by this news, Vegeta simply blasted Dodoria to nothingess as he tried to flee.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Dodoria was a fat pink humanoid monster that was covered in spikes.
An evil, vicious brute, Dodoria was willing to do any evil task for Frieza.
Out of all of Frieza's men, Dodoria is arguably the most vicious. He is shown to be very sadistic and enjoys murdering Saiyans and Namekians. He has no qualms against murdering children such as Cargo and Dende or the elderly such as Moori. He is also very violent and tends to settle his problems with force. He also tends to look down on Saiyans much like Zarbon does. Nonetheless, and despite having suggested himself that the Saiyans were better be exterminated, when Frieza blew up the planet—and anyone on it, his own army included—in Age 737, he was shown looking at those which the emperor described as "fireworks" with horrified face; also, Dodoria was shown being nervous when Frieza ordered Zarbon to open the spaceship, without waiting for the army to come back. This means that Dodoria's cruelty and viciousness had a limit, while Frieza maniacally laughed at the genocide he caused.
Powers and abilities
He was able to manipulate his body's ki and could channel it to achieve various feats. Despite this power, he lacked the ability to use his senses to detect a person's energy and instead had to rely on a Scouter.
Notes
- Dodoria was created by Akira Toriyama where he featured in the setting of the Dragon Ball universe.
Alternate Versions
In other media
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Appearances
- Dragon Ball Z:
- Dragon Ball GT:
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