Piccolo

Piccolo is a male extraterrestrial anime and manga character who features in Dragon Ball.

Biography

Dragon Ball

Piccolo with Gohan.

Piccolo (Japanese: ピッコロ, Hepburn: Pikkoro) (May 9, 753 - November 3, 762; December 24, 762 - May 8, 774; May 8, 774 - 790) was an Earth-born Namekian warrior (unaware for years that he was an extraterrestrial), offspring of King Piccolo, the dark side of Kami. Created at the instant of King Piccolo's death, Piccolo lived only for revenge with him retaining his parents memories and techniques. Training for years, Piccolo- under the alias Ma Junior- battled Goku at the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament. After a fierce battle, Piccolo was defeated, but Goku helped his enemy survive.

During his wandering, he encounters a family celebrating the birthday of a young boy named Tai. During the boy's birthday celebration, Piccolo vandalizes their home and then runs away from their dog when Tai's father orders it to chase him. When the dog nearly catches up to the young Namekian, Piccolo blasts it away in fear with a beam, realizing some of the potentials he has. He is later seen by some sailors levitating above the water. He proceeds to shoot a Finger Beam into the water which creates a whirlpool that at fish jumps out of, which Piccolo grabs and kills via Electric Shock. The sailors are horrified and Piccolo noticing them fires another Finger Beam at their boat sinking it. Piccolo then starts eating the fish he caught.

After spending the three years training, a now physically adolescent Piccolo enters the tournament using the alias "Junior" ("Ma Junior" (マジュニア) in the Japanese manga and anime, with "Ma" meaning demon). The day before the tournament, Piccolo saves a kid from falling rubble, but then people run away after they see him. Piccolo manages to find Goku before the tournament properly begins, and Piccolo reminds himself not to let Goku win, and he must avenge his father. When the tournament starts, Piccolo easily breezed past the preliminaries and into the finals. From there he first faced off against Goku's friend Krillin. Though Piccolo managed to beat him with relative ease, even believing at one point that he had killed the small warrior, Piccolo was surprised by Krillin's resilience, and his ability to fly. Krillin even managed to score a hit, but missed Piccolo using a Kamehameha blast, as Piccolo had used an afterimage trick, and managed to knock Krillin back to the ground. In their fight, Krillin eventually gave up, realizing he could not beat Piccolo. His next match is against a powerful but awkward human named Hero, whom Piccolo soon discovers he was actually Kami, the good counterpart of Piccolo, in disguise by means of possessing a weak, everyday human. When Kami attempts to use Evil Containment Wave to seal Piccolo into a small container, Piccolo surprises everyone by reflecting it and instead of capturing Kami. Piccolo then swallows the bottle, making chances of freeing Kami to seem very slim since what is apparently the only way to rescue Kami is to kill Piccolo and if that happens, Kami will also die. Piccolo Jr.'s next fight is the one he was waiting for, the match/rematch with Goku. Though Piccolo uses an assortment of new powerful techniques, Goku finds a way to make many of them work to his advantage. Goku manages to free Kami from captivity when Piccolo increases his size, tricking him into getting so large that Goku could go down his throat and get the bottle. However, even after Goku seemingly defeated Piccolo by using the Meteor Combination, firing his new Super Kamehameha at Piccolo, Piccolo manages to cripple Goku's arms and legs after surprising him with a Mouth Energy Wave through his shoulder, saying he will not make the same mistake his father did. In the end, Piccolo loses narrowly, with Goku using flight on-screen for the first time and knocking Piccolo out of the ring with a headbutt. He is shown mercy when Goku gives him a Senzu Bean, which fully heals him instantly much to the shock and horror of his friends. Piccolo holds little gratitude for this act though and promises to continue his quest to destroy Goku and take over the world someday before leaving the tournament.

Dragon Ball Z

After his defeat at the hands of Goku, Piccolo vowed to continue his quest to avenge his father and kill Goku and flies off into the sky. Five years later in 762, Piccolo had continued to train and planned a time when he would successfully kill Goku. One day, he was confronted by a powerful warrior named Raditz who was one of the Saiyans. The alien warrior had found Piccolo due to his Scouter when he was trying to locate his brother Goku. In complete awe over the sudden arrival of this stranger, Piccolo demands to know Raditz's origins and intentions. Raditz smirks at Piccolo's demands, to which Piccolo retaliates with a Destructive Wave. Raditz shrugs off Piccolo's most powerful technique without a single dent, with Piccolo trembling in fear. Before Raditz can murder Piccolo, his scouter locates another strong power level. This makes Raditz ultimately ignore Piccolo in favor of his true target whose power reading he had initially mistaken Piccolo's for due to their similar levels of progress whilst his younger brother Kakarot turned out to be Goku. Piccolo follows Raditz to Kame House, where Goku and his child Gohan went to meet up with old friends, Piccolo learns of Raditz's plan to destroy humanity by hiding behind the house and listening in to the conversation with his strong hearing abilities. When Raditz easily subdues Goku and kidnaps Gohan, Piccolo offers to Goku a temporary truce in the face of this new threat, intending to resume his ongoing struggle with Goku afterward. Goku agrees, despite the pleas of his friends against the idea, and the two make their way to defeat Raditz. Once Goku and Piccolo locate Raditz, Goku makes a feeble effort to rescue his son through discussion rather than action, but this fails, resulting in a battle. Raditz easily tackles both Piccolo and Goku, managing to sneak attack and surprise them every chance he gets, with Piccolo and Goku not even being able to land a single hit. When the battle takes to the air, Raditz fires two energy waves downwards at Goku and Piccolo. Goku luckily dodges, but Piccolo is less fortunate, with his left arm being lost by disintegration. With the battle seemingly hopeless, Piccolo asks Goku if he has developed any new techniques to assist in these kinds of battles. Goku answers he has not, with Piccolo scoffing at Goku's lack of planning or preparation. Piccolo reveals he has developed a technique to pierce even the strongest of bodies, naming it the Special Beam Cannon. Piccolo demands for Goku to buy him extra time to charge the technique but states the wait will be worth it. As Goku begins to get pummeled, Piccolo finishes charging the attack, but is now in even more woe, as he fears Raditz will be fast enough to evade. Piccolo's prediction comes true, as he fires the blast, Raditz manages to side-step the attack, taking off only a small fragment of his Battle Armor.

Raditz discovers his earlier assumptions on Goku, and Piccolo's power levels were wrong, as he now knows Goku and Piccolo both have the ability to raise their power levels over 1,000, something Raditz was unaware of at first. When all hopes seem lost, as Raditz starts to pummel Goku into submission by breaking his ribs, Goku's young son Gohan intervenes after destroying the pod he was contained in and charges towards Raditz, damaging Raditz's armor and hurting him greatly by smashing into his chest. Now due to Raditz being much weaker from the assault, Piccolo manages to mortally wound Raditz with the Special Beam Cannon, although Goku sacrifices his life in the process to restrain Raditz, and Piccolo thus avenges his father at a bit of an unexpected moment. Before dying, however, Raditz tricked Piccolo into telling him about the Dragon Balls, and revealed that two other, more powerful Saiyans, Nappa and Vegeta, will be arriving on Earth in one year. In anger, Piccolo finished Raditz off with one final blow rather than making him suffer, an action noticed by Kami who suspects that Piccolo is changing. When Goku dies shortly afterwards his body mysteriously vanishes, with Piccolo confirming Kami's intervention. Learning that two even more powerful Saiyans were due to arrive, Piccolo took Goku's son Gohan, and trained him to use his vast innate power. They went to the Break Wasteland in order to train the boy and raise his survival skills, so Piccolo can use Gohan's massive potential to help defend the Earth from the Saiyans, and originally, to help Piccolo take over the world afterwards. Though his treatment to Gohan is initially harsh, leaving him alone in the Wasteland for six months to raise his survival techniques, then brutally training the boy for the next six months, he begins to warm up to Gohan, and the two form an unbreakable bond. While the training occurred, Piccolo shows a little affection for Gohan in the first night of his six-month survival training by giving him three apples, as Gohan had not eaten anything in days. Piccolo does become annoyed when Gohan complains about the apples' bitter taste, remarking Gohan will need to let go of his time with his parents who pampered and spoilt him. Suddenly, Gohan transforms into a Great Ape and proceeds to destroy the wasteland around him, much to Piccolo's shock and slight fear. Piccolo then destroyed the moon to turn Gohan back to normal, knowing the two invading Saiyans could use this technique to their advantage also. Piccolo then proceeds to remove Gohan's tail and makes him new training clothes and a sword.

Later on, the appointed time when the Saiyans were said to be arriving on Earth with Piccolo and Gohan being ready to confront them. The two were met by Goku's friends Krillin, Chiaotzu, Tien Shinhan, and Yamcha, and Piccolo. Goku had been wished back to life but would take several hours to arrive. It was then that the Saiyans Vegeta and Nappa approached ready to begin their battle. Piccolo soon learned from the Saiyans that he was a Namekian rather than a demon as he had previously believed. The Saiyans then start the fight off by growing six Saibamen, small, humanoid plant-like aliens grown from the ground who all have power levels equal to Raditz's 1200, which they instruct to fight in a mock tournament against the Earth's defenders. The Saibamen are all destroyed, though Yamcha is killed in battle when one of them manages to grip him and self-destruct, killing them both. Piccolo destroys the last remaining Saibaman, after it attacks Gohan, with a punch in the stomach, followed by a mouth blast, disintegrating it. With the Saibamen gone, Nappa, the larger Saiyan, decides to enter combat. In the ensuing fight, Chiaotzu and Tien perish, and the defenders of the Earth are heavily beaten. When Chiaotzu prepares to self destruct while holding Nappa, Piccolo orders Gohan to watch Chiaotzu's sacrifice, and then proceeds to compliment Chiaotzu by saying Chiaotzu has won his respect for his sacrifice to take down a powerful enemy. Despite Piccolo landing some decent hits, and planning team attacks with Krillin and Gohan, Nappa seems invincible. During one of the team attacks, when Gohan gives into his fear and runs away from Nappa instead of blasting him as Piccolo ordered, Piccolo deems Gohan a failure, and when the three-hour break occurs, suggests Gohan should go home, and not be a distraction in this fight. Remembering that during his fight with Raditz, Goku pulled and squeezed his tail tightly and had caused him unbearable pain, Piccolo attempted the same feat and got a hold of Nappa's tail but the monstrous Saiyan revealed he and Vegeta were immune to that handicap and knocked the Namekian unconscious for a short while. Later in the battle, when Nappa attempts to finish off Krillin with a final blast, Piccolo saved him just in time with a small hand blast launched at Nappa's back.

When the smaller but more powerful Saiyan named Vegeta detects that Goku is arriving, and that he is more powerful than anticipated, he ordered Nappa to quickly kill the remaining defenders, as their working with Goku might result in a challenge. Goku's resurrection proves that the Dragon Balls are legitimate, so they can use the ones on Namek and do not need the ones located on Earth. Nappa first aims for Gohan with an extremely powerful attack, but Piccolo jumps in the way of it, sacrificing himself to save Gohan. His body ruined, Piccolo falls to the ground. With tears in his eyes, Piccolo bids farewell to Gohan, whom he admits made him soft and is the only person to ever call him friend. Piccolo's death also results in Kami's passing, as they were once a single being, and therefore if one dies then so would the other. After the Saiyans are beaten by Goku and the remaining fighters, and Vegeta retreats, Gohan, Krillin and the brilliant inventor Bulma head to Namek and to locate the Dragon Balls so that they can wish Kami, Piccolo, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu back to life and restore the Dragon Balls of Earth. Arriving in the Other World, Piccolo was forced to travels down the winding Snake Way just as Goku had done on his death until he found his way to King Kai's world. Whilst there, he was alongside the other slain Z Warriors namely Chiaotzu, Tien, and Yamcha all of whom decided to train under the watchful eye of King Kai.. Unlike the other Z Warriors, Piccolo refused to participate in Kai's apparently silly training exercises, preferring to train by himself.

After Frieza arrived on Planet Namek and battled Goku and company, Piccolo was revived and sent to his ancestral homeworld. He soon merged with Nail, the strongest warrior among the Namekian race, and attained great power. Piccolo battled Frieza in his second stage, but was defeated when the villain changed to his third form. Piccolo was badly wounded by Frieza in his final form, but survived after being sent to Earth.

Piccolo learned- using his superior hearing- about Trunks' future (and his being Vegeta and Bulma's son) after his arrival, and cooperated with Goku and Gohan's training to battle the androids. After he was badly beaten by Android 17, Piccolo realized he would need even more power, and grudgingly decided to merge with Kami- thus recreating, in effect, the original Namekian that existed before Kami and King Piccolo split. Vastly enhanced in power, Piccolo took on Imperfect Cell, then tried to defeat Android 17 before Cell could absorb him. He failed, nearly killed by Cell and saved by Goku. Piccolo trained even more in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for the Cell Games.

At the Cell Games, Piccolo opposed Goku's decision to have Gohan face Cell, understanding that Gohan had no love of fighting as Goku did. He later helped defeat Cell in his final Kamehameha duel with Super Saiyan 2 Gohan. Piccolo came to live at the Lookout with Dende and Mr. Popo, continuing to train. He was largely a bystander during the crisis with Majin Buu- turned to stone by Dabura and then restored, training Goten and Trunks in the Fusion Dance, absorbed by Buu (who became Super Buu). Piccolo was freed from Buu, only to die when the Earth was destroyed- but was restored by the Namekian Dragon Balls.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Piccolo was a very tall and muscular Namekian thus possessing green skin, antennae on his forehead and no hair on his body. While greatly resembling his father, he was noticeably shorter and somewhat thinner.

Originally, he inherited his father's desire for world domination and sought to destroy Goku. He was determined to prove his superiority and possessed many of the villainous properties of his father, such as a violent and destructive nature and a total disregard for anything besides victory. In that time, she showed almost no mercy for his opponent, breaking all of Goku's limbs whilst laughing sadistically, believing it was necessary after what Goku had done to his father. Despite all this, Piccolo was not without a measure of restraint and honor, as he for no reason saved a mother and daughter from debris during a storm. He also let Krillin walk away after submitting in the tournament. Piccolo has also shown traits of pragmatism, teaming up with his archrival Goku and later the rest of the Z Fighters when the threat of the Saiyans proves to be too much for him alone, citing the aliens' defeat as a shared goal. According to Goku, his overall evil nature became more of a stubborn and angry attitude than flat-out villainous.

He ultimately confessed to Gohan that he had been the only real friend I've ever had and came to thank the boy for his friendship.

Powers and abilities

Originally, it was believed that he was a demon but it was later revealed that Piccolo was in fact a member of the extraterrestrial Namekian race. He had the ability to channel and manipulate ki in order to achieve a number of feats such as harnessing it to direct it into energy attacks, flight and a range of abilities. As a Namekian, he had his species natural ability to regenerate lost limbs from his body. This allowed him to regrow lost arms or heal serious injuries after a period of time. Piccolo was capable of telekinesis where he was able to manipulate objects and other people with the power of one's mind.

Krillin came to believe that Piccolo by this point had reached the Super Saiyan realm of strength. Piccolo's intensified training gave him an explosive boost in power. After Piccolo's training with Gohan, it was noted by Goku that they have both become far more powerful.

He knew a number of special techniques and abilities that included:

• Demon Hand (魔手（ましゅ Mashu, lit. Hand of Demon) :
• Special Beam Cannon (魔ま貫かん光こう殺さっ砲ぽう Makankōsappō, lit. "Demon's Penetrating, Killing Light Gun") : the Special Beam Cannon (Makankosappo) was a beam attack developed by Piccolo originally for use against Goku as his trump card to defeat the Saiyan. It involved toching his index and middle fingers of one hand to his forehead where he began to charge his ki for the attack, Piccolo then extended his fingers forward and two energy beams were unleashed from them where one was straight whilst the other coiled around the central beam. The beam cannon was powerful enough to drill through most targets and even exploding where it could be performed with one arm.
• Scatter Shot (連続閃光弾 Renzoku Sen Kōdan) : Scattershot
• Hellzone Grenade (魔空包囲弾 Makūhōidan, lit. "Demon Air Besieging Bullet") : the Hellzone Grenade involved Piccolo charging up several energy spheres that were thrown randomly in the direction of an opponent with no intent of hitting the target. Through efficient ki control, the multiple energy spheres were suspended in the air completely surrounding the area. Piccolo then commanded the spheres to rain down on his foe in an onslaught coming from every direction leading to them emitting a blind light and a massive amount of damage.
• Light Grenade (激げき烈れつ光こう弾だん Gekiretsu Kōdan, lit. "Raging Fury Light Bullet") : Light Grenade

Generally, he was known to wear weighted clothing with this taking the form of a turban and cape. He often trained in it where the cape itself was not heavy but was weighed down by padding underneath it. When taking part in serious fights, he was known to discard these items in order to allow him to fight at his full potential.

Notes

• Piccolo was created by Akira Toriyama where he featured in the setting of the Dragon Ball universe.

Alternate Versions

• In Dragon Ball GT, an alternate version of Piccolo was shown in a timeline that existed many years after the Majin Buu Saga. Following Baby's attack, Piccolo chose to die on the destabilizing Earth when there wasn't enough energy left to transport both himself and Goku to the Tuffle Planet. Piccolo was sent to the upper realms of the Other World as a hero. However, he chose to act villainously to force his being sent to Hell (HFIL), so he could help Goku escape from there after he was trapped there by Dr. Gero and Dr. Myuu. Presumably he is still there.

Appearances

• Dragon Ball:
• Dragon Ball Z:
• Dragon Ball GT:
• Dragon Ball Super:

External Links

• Dragon Ball Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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