Ginyu Force
The Ginyu Force are a team that features in Dragon Ball Z.
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History
The Ginyu Force (Japanese: ギニュー特とく戦せん隊たい, Hepburn: Ginyū Tokusentai, lit. "Ginyu Special Squadron") were a team of highly-skilled, powerful warriors led by Captain Ginyu that did special favors for Frieza and were characterized by crazy dances and silly poses. The Ginyu Force were aboard King Cold's Spaceship as it heads to Planet Vegeta with the rest of the Cold Force's elites during their announcement of King Cold's retirement and the passing of the control over the Saiyans to Frieza and his newly branded Frieza Force.
Later on, they were summoned to Planet Namek on Frieza’s order to kill Vegeta and obtain the Dragon Balls after his regular forces failed to do so. After 5 days of traveling at full speed in space they arrive to Planet Namek, they deliver Frieza his requested new model Scouters. Upon arriving, they seemed to easily outclass the joined force of Vegeta, Gohan and Krillin.
Vegeta eventually killed Guldo and Jeice, and finished off Recoome and Burter after they'd already been beaten by Goku. Ginyu survived, but switched bodies with a frog. In the Other World, the dead members of the Ginyu Force worked for Frieza, but Ginyu spent the rest of his days as a frog on Earth.
The dead members of the Ginyu Force namely Recoome, Burter, Jeice, and Guldo later arrived on King Kai's planet where they battled the similarly deceased Z Warriors. The Ginyu Force team up with Frieza, King Cold, and Cell, but are all beaten by Goku, falling into the Bloody Pond, and are later impaled on spikes by Pikkon, and are locked up. Later on, they along with the other dead villians are watching Goku's fight with Kid Buu on a huge Crystal Ball. Ginyu has a few cameo appearances as a frog on Earth throughout the series, until Kid Buu kills him by blowing up the Earth. However, he is unknowingly revived.
Ginyu later saw Frieza's remaining soldiers, Sorbet and Tagoma picking up his master's remains after being wished back by the Earth's Dragon Balls. They are later seen as silhouettes in Sorbet's vision of the Frieza Force elites who were defeated on Namek whose downfall led to the collapse of the Frieza Force internally and externally. After Tagoma kills Shisami and upon him challenging the Dragon Team, Sorbet scans Tagoma with his scouter and expresses amazement that the latter surpassed the entire Ginyu Force, to which Tagoma replies without any excitement that he does remember them, but added as sort of a mockery about their strength that 'they belong to the old time'. Ginyu would later switch bodies with Tagoma with trickery and challenge the Z Fighters, but after Vegeta arrived, Ginyu was killed instantly. In the Funimation Dub Ginyu makes a statement towards Frieza that he understands his master's anger at Goku 'for what he did to his proud Ginyu Force'.
Overview
In appearance, the Ginyu Force were an elite force of mercenaries all of whom could manipulate ki to achieve various feats. They were designated as an all special troops of High-Level Executive Class within the larger Frieza Force.
At the time, they were regarded as the fiercest and deadliest fighting team in the galaxy. King Kai had considered them to be most fearsome group in the universe. Such was their enormous evil powers that they could be felt from outer space by those with the ability to detect ki energy.
They were also equipped with Scouters that could scan a person's power level.
Members
- Captain Ginyu : the leader and the strongest among them with a power level of 120,000 at maximum.
- Burter
- Guldo
- Jeice
- Recoome
Notes
- The Ginyu Force were created by Akira Toriyama who appeared as antagonists in Dragon Ball Z where they first appeared during the Namek Saga.
In other media
Television
- In Dragon Ball Z, the Ginyu Force appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation.
Films
- In Dragon Ball Super: Broly, the Ginyu Force made a small appearance in the setting of the 2018 anime film. The Ginyu Force appeared on King Cold's Spaceship as it heads to Planet Vegeta with the rest of the Cold Force's elites during their announcement of King Cold's retirement and the passing of the control over the Saiyans to Frieza and his newly branded 'Frieza Force'. It seemed that King Cold and not Frieza had assembled them unlike what was stated in all previous materials. They are wearing the first generation scouters, which are blue in color.
Video games
- In Dragon Ball Fighterz, the Ginyu Force appeared in the setting of the fighting video game. Only Captain Ginyu was a playable character but he made use of the team as part of his power set and fighting moves.
- In Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, the Ginyu Force appeared in the setting of the video game adaptation. A new member was shown named Bonyu who was a red-skinned female with long white hair.
Appearances
- Dragon Ball Z:
