Guldo
Guldo is a male anime and manga character who features in Dragon Ball.
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Biography
Guldo (Japanese: グルド, Hepburn: Gurudo) was a male extraterrestrial Bas race who was born on a world in the universe. It was noted that during his childhood years that he began to showcase his special powers. He realized he had psychic powers as a child, and caused mischief like lifting up girls' skirts and stealing whatever toys he wanted. At some point, Guldo became a part of the galactic army of the warlord Frieza. In that time, Guldo was recruited into the ranks of the elite Ginyu Force as its last member. In his membership test, he had to fight against Burter, Jeice, Recoome, and their leader Captain Ginyu to see if he was worthy to join. He fought alongside a partner as new recruits were allowed one helper and managed to prove his worth, thus being given membership.
Upon their arrival on Namek under Frieza's orders, Guldo and the other members of the Ginyu Force find Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan trying to make a wish with the Dragon Balls, however, when Vegeta tries to throw one away, Burter shows his remarkable speed by catching it. Vegeta then orders Krillin to destroy the Dragon Ball he was holding, Krillin tries to do so but Guldo intervenes by stopping time and taking the ball out of his hands.They then play a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors in order to decide who gets to fight Vegeta and who gets stuck with the 'trash', Gohan, and Krillin. Recoome wins outright, and Guldo, as the runner-up, fights Gohan and Krillin, much to his displeasure. However, their speed and strength catches Guldo off guard, forcing him to resort to sneak attacks and time-freezing. Every time Guldo tries to use the Time Freeze technique, Gohan and Krillin are too close for comfort, which makes Guldo resort to running away every time, usually running out of breath even faster, due to his bad health. Finally, after realizing using the Time Freeze technique is going to get him nowhere, he now prepares to use the full extent of his psychic powers. Using his mental capabilities, Guldo reverts to his mind freeze technique in order to physically paralyze their bodies, rendering them helpless. Now laughing instead of running, Guldo uses his telekinetic abilities to lift a tree, as he prepares to throw the sharp trunk straight towards Krillin, which will impale him. As he prepares to finish them off, however, Vegeta unexpectedly steps in and saves them by brutally cutting off Guldo's head. Guldo's severed head rolls on the ground and lives long enough to curse Vegeta for interfering, complaining that what Vegeta did was cheap, and unfair. Afterwards, the Saiyan Prince disintegrates his head with another blast.
In the Other World, Guldo joined up with the rest of the Ginyu Force to go to King Kai's planet. There, the Z Warriors slain by Vegeta and Nappa defeated them all and sent them down to Hell (HFIL). The Ginyu Force teamed up briefly with Frieza, King Cold, and Cell in an attempt to take over Hell, but they were stopped by Goku and Pikkon. He remains imprisoned there to this day.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Guldo was a short round alien with light green skin and four eyes two of which were small ones located like a humans eyes and two much larger eyes located at the sides of his head. He wears a white variant of the regular custom armor Frieza's army wears, but does not carry a scouter due to his head structure. Being a member of the Ginyu Force, he has the Ginyu Force symbol on one of his armor's chest plates.
Guldo displays a strong hatred towards Saiyans, especially Vegeta due to negative past conflicts between the two. He had little respect for them as warriors. Guldo especially showed his desire to destroy his hated adversary when he has to play Rock-Paper-Scissors with Recoome, Jeice and Burter, and hopes to win so he can crush Vegeta after all these years of waiting. Guldo seems to have an inferiority complex, being the weakest member, and becomes cowardly and desperate when things do not go his way, sometimes resorting to moves and tactics he has not used in a long time. He was also quite out of shape.
Guldo was very proud of his position on the Ginyu Force and does not want to be kicked off the team. Guldo is noted to have a nasty personality, as he planned on eating Gohan and Krillin after skewering them. He also showed a sadistic side by tormenting he two after he had paralyzed them. He was also rather perverted, as he used his powers to look up girls' skirts as a child.
Powers and abilities
Guldo was a green-skinned member of the Bas race. Despite his tiny size, he was very powerful, and had the ability to freeze time at will for as long as he could hold his breath
Guldo was commented on being the weakest member of the group. Vegeta commented on how he has low battle strength but relied on telekinesis. Krillin also comments that Guldo isn't that great and he wonders why he is among the Ginyu Force. Before being attacked by Gohan and Krillin, Guldo was confident he could win. However, once the battle began, both Krillin and Gohan, with respective power levels over 10,000,[8] were too fast for him to keep up even with his ability to freeze time, and he was forced to resort to telekinesis to gain the upper hand. Despite this lack of power, he is clearly fast enough to keep pace with his fellow Ginyu Force members. He was also capable of surviving decapitation for at least a short time, only dying when Vegeta destroyed his head.
Notes
- Guldo was created by Akira Toriyama where he featured in the setting of the Dragon Ball universe.
In other media
Television
- In Dragon Ball Z, Guldo appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actor Kōzō Shioya and by English voice actor Dylan Thompson in the original dub, Terry Klassen in the Ocean dub, and by Bill Townsley in the remastered dub. An original scene in the anime was a flashback where Guldo encountered the Saiyan Prince Vegeta encountering one another before. The Saiyan insulted Guldo by saying that he suffered from bad breath and was about to strike when Frieza interfered, asking Vegeta to help him conquer a planet and disgracing Guldo's judgment. This caused Guldo to hold a grudge against Vegeta.
Films
- In Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Guldo made a minor non-speaking appearance in the setting of the anime film.
Video games
- In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Guldo appeared as a guest supporting character for Captain Ginyu where they featured in some of his attacks.
Appearances
- Dragon Ball Z:
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