Krillin
Krillin is a male anime and manga character who features in Dragon Ball.
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Biography
Dragonball
Krillin (Japanese: クリリン, Hepburn: Kuririn) (736 - May 7, 753; May 9, 753 - December 24, 762; May 3, 763 - May 8, 774; May 8, 774 - 790; 790 - ?) was a warrior of short stature, but with great power; also Goku's best friend. Krillin was a monk from the Orinji Temple sect. As a child there, he was frequently belittled by older monks at the Temple. As part of his training there, he shaved his head so that his hair couldn't be grabbed by an opponent in battle.
Krillin eventually sought out Master Roshi, at the same time as Goku. He bribes Master Roshi with dirty magazines in order to be accepted as his student. Krillin's initial desire for learning martial arts under Master Roshi was to become more popular with girls. Before deciding to take both Krillin and Goku as his students, Master Roshi tasks them with bringing an attractive woman to his island. With Goku unwise to such things as physical attractiveness, it falls on Krillin who, after rescuing Launch from the police, decides that she would be perfect for Master Roshi. At first, he detests Goku, whom Krillin finds unintelligent and childish. It is to Krillin's increased annoyance that he discovers that Goku is a more powerful fighter than him in every way. The only time Krillin is ever able to get the better of Goku is through trickery and deceit. Even then, his reward (dinner that evening) is unenviable when he eats fish cooked by Launch that gives him and Master Roshi food poisoning. Goku, in his characteristic naïveté, remains almost totally unaware of Krillin's one-sided rivalry with him. The two eventually became friends as they trained together. As their grueling training progresses over the next eight months, the two are finally able to push the huge boulder that Master Roshi had tasked them with prior, a feat that he deemed impossible. Goku and Krillin bond and by the time of the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament, become inseparable friends; this aspect of their relationship never diminishes. Goku is always there to offer the insecure Krillin confidence and support, as well as fighting tips, and Krillin is often on hand to offer a pragmatic perspective to the often overly innocent and idealistic Goku, as well as clue him in on basic social knowledge that Goku missed out on growing up. Krillin fought (along with Goku) at two World Martial Arts Tournaments. In his and Goku's first World Martial Arts Tournament, Krillin fares very well, even defeating bullies from his old training school by kicking one of them straight through a wall. He easily advances as one of the eight warriors going onto the main event. He makes it past the quarterfinals, defeating the disgusting Bacterian, as without a nose, Bacterian's stink has no effect on him: at first, Krillin is overwhelmed by the odor of Bacterian. However, Goku reminds Krillin that he does not have a nose. After realizing this, he is easily able to overcome his opponent. In his semi-final match, Krillin is matched against Jackie Chun, who is Master Roshi in disguise. Krillin is able to put up a respectable fight against his master, using his strength and cunning, at one point knocking Jackie Chun out of the ring by using panties as bait. Using a Kamehameha, Jackie Chun propels himself back into the ring. Krillin charges at Jackie Chun, but Jackie Chun dodges the attack so quickly that he leaves an after image. Krillin unknowingly attacked the after image. Jackie Chun appears behind Krillin, who is quite bewildered, and lands a heavy blow on the young fighter's back for the win.
After the tournament, he trains under Master Roshi again, although he takes a break to aid Goku in his search for the Dragon Balls and fight against the Red Ribbon Army. Krillin, Goku and Bulma enter a cave to find some pirate treasure but are followed by General Blue, who confronts Krillin and defeats him in battle. During the battle, Krillin manages to kick Blue in the face, giving Blue a nosebleed, which just makes Blue much more intent on killing Krillin. Krillin is almost killed when Blue uses his telekinesis to freeze Krillin, however Goku manages to save him, and fights Blue. When Goku defeats Blue, the cave begins to collapse, but Krillin, Bulma, and Goku manage to escape in a submarine, though General Blue manages to survive as well and follows after them. Later on, Krillin, Bulma, and Goku soon return to Kame House with the ruby Bulma managed to retrieve from the Pirate Cave. However, the ruby is stolen by Launch, and General Blue, who had found Kame House, uses his telekinesis to tie up Krillin and his friends and steal the Dragon Balls while setting a bomb to explode soon. Luckily, Launch returns in her good state and unties Goku, who throws the bomb away and chases after General Blue. Krillin also assisted Bulma, Yamcha and other residents of Kame house to help and save Goku who was on his way to fight the Red Ribbon Army's Headquarters, but they arrived late and were surprised at Goku defeating the entire army single-handedly in a head on battle.
Later, Krillin competes with Goku and Yamcha in Fortuneteller Baba's tournament for Goku to get the location of a Dragon Ball in order to revive Upa's fallen father. He offers to fight first and is met by Fangs the Vampire, who starts to dance on the arena, greatly annoying Krillin. Krillin eventually loses the battle by getting the blood sucked out of his head, causing him to lose consciousness and get kicked out of the area. However, Krillin cunningly comes up with the strategy that allows them to later defeat See-Through the Invisible Man. The side of Krillin that uses his wits, rather than his strength, to his advantage is seen many times in both series, particularly as he becomes comparatively less powerful. Three years later and at 17 years of age, Krillin enters the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament once again with his friends Goku and Yamcha. There he and the others form a rivalry with the Crane School during the preliminary matches, with Krillin having a particular distaste for student Chiaotzu. As expected, Krillin easily makes his way through the preliminaries and into the finals. While the fighters are drawing lots for the fight order, Chiaotzu purposefully puts himself against Krillin using his telekinesis. Later on, during their quarter-final match, Krillin initially has the upper hand in terms of strength and pulls off a Kamehameha for the first time that almost knocks Chiaotzu out of the ring. However, the tables soon turn when Chiaotzu uses his telekinetic powers to freeze Krillin in place. Krillin uses his cunning in order to defeat Chiaotzu and yells math problems at him in order to use up his telekinetic powers; Krillin manages to defeat Chiaotzu while the latter was trying to do basic mental arithmetic. Krillin then advances to the semi-finals where he faces Goku. Both agree not to hold anything back and charge into the fight, though Goku seems to have the advantage in power, Krillin has several tricks up his sleeve. Knowing that he cannot beat Goku in a straight-up fight, Krillin fires a Kamehameha at him. Goku easily blocks the attack, but it was intentionally a distraction and Krillin used it to get behind Goku and grab his tail. Goku goes down until the referee reaches the nine count when he springs back up and tosses Krillin to the ground; over the course of his training, Goku's tail is no longer a weak spot. Krillin then pretends to see something and strikes Goku when he looks in the same direction, Goku decides that if all is fair to use a trick of his own and seemingly vanishes. Goku reappears directly in front of Krillin and knocks him out of the ring with what looks like a single hit, though it was actually eight and a kick.
However, he was slain by Tambourine, one of King Piccolo's spawn. He was resurrected by the Dragon Balls.
Dragon Ball Z
Years later, he decided to attend a reunion with his friends where they were to meet on Master Roshi's island. Whilst there, they finally met Goku who revealed that now had a son who was named Gohan. It was then that they were confronted by an extraterrestrial named Raditz. He was a member of a race of warriors named the Saiyans and that Goku was his brother. Raditz looked for Goku to join him but after refusing the Saiyan settled with kidnapping Gohan. To save his son, Goku came to ally with Piccolo where they succeeded in killing their foe but this came at the cost of Goku's life. It was then learnt that Raditz's fellow Saiyans were coming to Earth after learning about the Dragon Balls and looked to make a wish from the Eternal Dragon. In preparation, Krillin joined other powerful Earth-based warriors to train and prepare for the coming fight against the Saiyans. They would travel to the Lookout in order to train under Kami.
Krillin later helped Goku and company fight the Saiyans Vegeta and Nappa, and was one of the few to survive that devastating battle. When Yamcha is quickly killed by a kamikaze Saibaman, Krillin is enraged at his friend's death and unleashes his Scattering Bullet attack that obliterates all but one. Piccolo, Vegeta, and Nappa are all impressed with the sheer power of his attack, but it is not fast enough to work on the Saiyans. The battle continues, with Chiaotzu and Tien falling. Piccolo, Krillin, and Gohan come up with a plan to grab Nappa's tail to weaken him, then while he is off guard, they blast him. However, the plan failed as Nappa had already trained his tail from attacks. Eventually Piccolo dies, taking Kami and the Dragon Balls with him, rendering Krillin and Gohan the only ones left to fight. They are saved by Goku, who shows his new power against Nappa, until Nappa is killed by Vegeta. Krillin asks Goku to fight Vegeta somewhere else to make sure the corpses of their dead friends do not get destroyed. Goku has Krillin take Gohan away from the battle. On the way back home, Gohan decides they can not let Goku face this danger alone. They go to Gizard Wasteland and are able to help Goku with the Spirit Bomb he creates to defeat Vegeta; Krillin throws the ball, missing Vegeta, but Gohan bounces it back and it hits the Saiyan Prince, damaging him. At the end of the battle, Krillin is the only one of the five survivors who still has the ability to walk. As Vegeta struggles to crawl to his spaceship to escape, Krillin picks up Yajirobe's Katana and prepares to kill him to end his reign of terror. Goku tells Krillin not to and he explains that it is not right as Vegeta is now defenseless and may turn over a new leaf as a result of being spared, and also so that he may be able to fight him once again, impressed by Vegeta's strength. Krillin is understandably incredulous over Goku's compassion for the man who almost destroyed the planet and scoffs at the idea that Vegeta is capable of turning over a new leaf, but he reluctantly decides to trust Goku's judgment and let Vegeta go.
Along with Gohan and Bulma, Krillin travelled to Planet Namek to find their set of Dragon Balls. This eventually led Krillin into battle with Frieza's forces, ultimately resulting in his death at the hands of Frieza himself.
In the aftermath, Krillin came to recover from his injuries at Wukong Hospital alongside the other survivors. The death of Piccolo meant that Kami himself was also killed leaving the Dragon Balls inert thus preventing them from using them to bring back their slain comrades. However, Krillin came upon an idea namely that if Piccolo was a Namekian then it meant that others of his kind would potentially have their own Dragon Balls which they could use to resurrect Kami and bring back the Earth Dragon Balls. For this task, Mr. Popo came to show Krillin Kami's old spaceship whose incredible speed was shown to Bulma. This led to Bulma, Krillin, and Gohan heading off in the spaceship towards Planet Namek to start their mission.
He was resurrected a Namekian year (153 days) later by the Namekian Dragon Balls and the Eternal Dragon of Namek, Porunga.
Krillin trained to battle the androids, but played only a minor role in the battle against them and Cell; however, he did fall in love with Android 18. After the Cell Games, Krillin let his hair grow back, and married 18, having a daughter named Maron.
Krillin remained on the sidelines through most of the remaining battles, although he was eaten by Super Buu.
Dragon Ball Super
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Krillin was a short male human being who had no visible nose and tended to shave his head with him having six spots of moxibustion burns on his forehead. For a time, he allowed his hair to grow out but upon re-joining the Z Warriors who came to shave his head again.
Originally, he was shown as being a jealous and selfish person who did not respect rules when confronted with Roshi's training.
At first, he came to develop a rivalry with Goku when the two found themselves as students of Master Roshi. However, over time, this came to develop into a friendship between the pair.
Krillin came to find himself attracted to Android 18 (人造人間１８号 Jinzōningen Jū Hachi-Gō) and worked hard to save her from Cell. She would come to reciprocate his feelings where the two came to be involved with one another. The two later married where she came to be his wife and gave birth to their daughter who was named Marron (マーロン Māron).
Powers and abilities
Krillin was a human being who came to be trained in martial arts and learnt the means to manipulate ki to achieve various feats. He was later able to use ki to channel superhuman abilities such as increased speed, strength, endurance, the power of flight and to channel it into energy blasts. Krillin also possessed a ki sense allowing him to sense its energy in other people and thus gauge their power level. Through ki manipulation, he also gained the power to fly using Bukū-jutsu (舞空術, lit. "Air Dance Technique").
At 13 years old, he already possessed superhuman ability with the ablility to fell trees with his kicks and jump roughly twenty meters from his boat to Master Roshi's island. After training under Roshi, Krillin is able to easily defeat his former bullies at the 21st World Tournament. After three years of training, Krillin participates in the 22nd World Tournament. He was shown to had become much stronger and was evenly matched with Chiaotzu in the quarter finals.
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Solar Flare (太陽拳 Taiyōken, lit. "Sun Fist" or "Solar Fist") :
- Jumping Energy Wave (跳躍波 Chōyakuha, lit. "Bounding Wave") :
- Scattering Bullet (拡散弾 Kakusandan, lit. "Diffusion Bullet") :
- Destructo Disc (気円斬 Kienzan, lit. "Spirit Circle Cut") : Destructo Disc
- Double Tsuibikidan (ダブル追尾気弾, Daburu tsuibi ki-dan, lit. Double Chasing Energy Bullet) :
- Kamehameha (かめはめ波は Kamehameha) :
Notes
- Krillin was created by Akira Toriyama where he featured in the setting of the Dragon Ball universe.
Alternate Versions
- In Dragon Ball GT, Krillin appeared in the alternate reality setting that was set many years after the Majin Buu Saga. He was also possessed by the Tuffles, then slain by a maddened Android 17 (he was ultimately resurrected by the Dragon Balls after the defeat of the Evil Shenrons).
In other media
Television
Films
- In Dragon Ball movie #3: Mystical Adventure, his name was changed to "Bongo."
Video games
- In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, Krillin appeared in the setting of the fighting video game.
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