| “ | Gohan, you’re the only real friend that I’ve ever had… I wanna thank you, I still remember the first day I brought you here, you were small, helpless… you’ve changed so much since then. The harder things got the more determined you became, the more dangers you faced the stronger you grew as a warrior… I know I was hard on you but it was for your own good! Your like the son I never had… I’m proud of you. | „ |
| ~ Piccolo after sacrificing himself to save Gohan from Nappa. |
| “ | I'm neither Kami nor Piccolo now. I'm only a Namekian who has long since forgotten his true name. | „ |
| ~ Piccolo after he fused with Kami. |
| “ | More than a point, Gohan. This is why you need to keep up with your training. | „ |
| ~ Piccolo to Gohan about his training after defeating Cell. |
Piccolo Jr., simply referred to as Piccolo, is one of the main characters of the Dragon Ball franchise. He is a namekian who is the youngest son of King Piccolo and the best friend and mentor of Gohan. He was originally a villain before redeeming himself in Dragon Ball Z.
He is voiced by Toshio Furukawa in Japanese, and Christopher Sabat, who also voices his father, Vegeta and Yamcha in the same franchise, and also voiced Kazuma Kuwabara and Alex Louis Armstrong.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Good?[]
In General[]
- Some say his moral agency was altered when making the fusion with Nail and Kami, as they have been on record to be more incorruptible than him. However, Piccolo has made reforms before doing the fusions, is the main operating personality of them and chose to let them be part of him on his own accord, making his issues with moral agency lack validation.
- Even when he was still a villain, he was far less malicious and sadistic than his father. Unlike King Piccolo, he never went out of his way to harm innocent people or display his superiority, and his main goal was to avenge his father's death and honor his dream of conquering the world.
- While he had some corrupting qualities, he subverts most of them by the Frieza Saga.
- While he has no problem to accept his namekian heritage and cares about the fellow namekians, he chooses to stay on Earth.
- Although his seriousness early on may have darkened some moments in the story, such his unpleasant presence during the Saiyan Saga, his serious demeanor soon didn't cause this anymore, being mainly for his goal to protect the Earth and the Universe.
- After the Frieza Saga, he grew to be an honorary family member of Goku's family (which includes extended family members).
- He serves as a role model and later a mentor for Dende. He and Mr. Popo don't hesitate to help him out.
- Since after fuse with Kami, he's being more respectful to Mr. Popo.
- He inspires Gohan to learn some of his techniques such as Masenko and even Special Beam Cannon. Also in few occasions, Gohan wears Piccolo's exact outfit of wearing both gi and cape.
- Although Goku and eventually Vegeta have more admirable feats, it's not fully fair to compare Piccolo to them, as Goku and Vegeta has have significantly more on-panel/screen time and have been more powerful than him throughout most of the series.
Dragon Ball classic[]
23rd World Tournament Saga[]
- (Anime only): He saved an innocent human woman and her son from the falling debris.
- Unlike Cyborg Tao, he never uses weapons at the tournament.
- Even when he was Kriilin's enemy, he considers Krillin the only human, at that time, as a worthy opponent and realizes that conquering the Earth is not as easy as he thinks.
- Despite lose to Goku at the tournament and vows to kill him later, he humbly accepts his defeat.
Dragon Ball Z[]
Saiyan Saga[]
- Teams up with Goku to take down Raditz in order to save Earth. Although he kills Goku which was his goal to avenge his father, Goku willingly sacrifices himself to defeat Raditz.
- He does not commit cannibalism and he's very offended when Krillin thinks he was about to eat Gohan. (It's later revealed that namekians do not need to eat for survival).
- While he technically kidnapped Gohan, this is only because he needs all the help he can get in order to defeat Raditz's comrades: Vegeta and Nappa.
- Trains Gohan to prepare for the battle with Vegeta and Nappa.
- Had no other options but to destory the moon because it one of few requirements that the saiyans need to transform into a great ape.
- He express his disgust at Vegeta, who was evil at the time, for willing to kill any allies the latter has.
- He saves Gohan from one of the Saibamen.
- Redeems himself by sacrificing his life to save Gohan from Nappa. As he dies, he tearfully thanks Gohan for being his first friend and as well as apologizes of being too harsh on him.
Frieza Saga[]
- While he disobeys King Kai's orders to not fighting Frieza, this is only because he wanted to avenge the namekians that the tryant and his forces have slaughtered.
- He has Gohan and Krillin to wish him back to life so that Kami and the Earth's Dragon Balls are restored.
- While he was reluctant to merge with Nail at first, he comes to his senses and agrees with Nail's proposal as he recognizes that he's going to require every assistance at his disposal in order to beat Frieza.
- He planned to kill Vegeta for the horrible things he's done after he was finished with Frieza.
- He tells Dende to take cover before he fights Frieza so he doesn't get caught in the crossfire.
- He attempts to defeat Frieza on his own, but ultimately needs help from the Z Fighters when Frieza uses transformations that are stronger than the latter's 2nd form.
- After Frieza knocks back Gohan's full power Masenko, Piccolo deflects it with a blast of his own before it can hit Gohan, saving him.
- Tries to prevent Gohan from fighting Frieza for his safety and later apologizing to Gohan for being so useless against Frieza despite all the training he'd done to prepare for this confrontation.
- Rightfully angry at Frieza for killed Dende and attacks him alongside Gohan and Krillin.
- He, Krillin, and Gohan hold off Frieza long enough for Goku to prepare the Spirit Bomb against Frieza.
- (Anime only): He pushes Goku out of the way when Frieza fires a Death Beam, saving his life.
- He holds on his life long enough to be recovered by the resurrected Dende. Because of that, Mr. Popo was able to use Earth's Dragon Balls to revive everyone that was killed by Frieza and the Frieza Force. (Sadly, the namekians that were killed by Vegeta don't count because Vegeta already quits the Frieza Force by he time he arrived on Planet Namek.)
- (Anime only): Stopping Vegeta from attacking Gohan any further.
Cell Saga[]
- After overhearing the conversation Future Trunks and Goku had, Piccolo properly explains the situation to the other Z Fighters while avoiding the mention of Bulma and Vegeta getting together in the future.
- He trains with Goku and Gohan in preparation for the androids.
- He intended to fight Android 19 and save Goku if not for Vegeta arrived at the battlefield.
- When Vegeta kicked Goku off from his fight with Android 19 due to the heart virus, Piccolo catched Goku to set him down.
- Before Yamcha takes Goku back home to give him the antidote for the heart virus, Piccolo advices him that the virus might be contagious, if it is turns out to be true, they must take the medicine for the heart virus.
- Defeats Android 20, ultimately revealed to be Dr. Gero, in battle and prevents him from absorbing any more energy.
- Ultimately tells the Dragon Team and allies that Future Trunks is the son of Vegeta and Bulma (from a different timeline) since, the time paradox was already happen the moment Future Trunks first arrived in the main timeline.
- Piccolo is the only Z Fighter that quickly realizes Android 18 is having Vegeta to waste his energy before defeating him due to both 17 & 18 have unlimited stamina. (Even before then, Androids 16, 17, & 18 are not just already stronger than all the Z Fighters at that point, but also they are far stronger than 17 & 18's counterparts from Future Trunks's timeline.)
- He tries to save Tien from Android 17, but fails since 17 knocks him down as well.
- After realizing the threat of the androids, he puts aside his pride and convinces Kami to fuse with him in order to defeat the androids.
- Upon enountering Imperfect Cell, he's horrfied how excatly the creature kills his victims.
- He tricks Imperfect Cell into revealing his origins, allowing the Z Fighters to better prepare for his new arrival. He then attempts to kill Imperfect Cell himself and nearly succeeded had Cell not used the Solar Flare.
- Before Androids 16, 17, & 18 arrive at the Kame House, he and the Z Fighters tried their best to hunt down Cell.
- When Cell arrives, Piccolo and Android 17 attempt to eliminate him. Also Piccolo warns 16, 17, & 18 about everything what Cell does and tries to prevent Cell from abosorbing 17.
- Despite reciving a fatal wound from Cell, Piccolo hold on his life long enough to eat a Senzu Bean from Goku.
- He does not get angry at Krillin for destriy the remote that would've shut down Android 18. Instead, he rightfully gets angry about Vegeta for allowing Cell to absorb Android 18 on purpose.
- Even though he's unable to keep up with the saiyan Z Fighters (in terms of power) at this point, he still willing to train at the time chamber.
- He convinces Goku to save Gohan from Cell by reminding him that Gohan does not have a fighting spirit and is only a child.
- Seeing Gohan in his Super Saiyan 2 form, Piccolo finally understand of why Goku fight Cell first when he knew he couldn't win. He admitted that Goku's fight with Cell must have really help Gohan out due to his newly Super Saiyan 2.
- (Manga only): He expresses his frustration at not being able to help Gohan against the newly empowered Cell.
- (Anime only): He, Yamcha, Krillin, and Tien try to distract Cell long enough for Gohan to defeat him.
- Very proud of Gohan for defeat Cell for good.
- He thanks Vegeta for help out Gohan at the end.
Majin Buu Saga[]
- (Anime only): While he destroys the cameras, this is only because he doesn't want any chances of Gohan's identity as Great Saiyaman to be exposed.
- During the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament, after sensing Shin's divine nature, he immediately surrenders. Upon learning that he's the Supreme Kai himself, he shows Shin tremendous respect.
- While he chews out Krillin of bringing up the former's villianous past, this is only because he's not proud of that.
- He nearly kills Babidi by preventing him from using Majin Buu as a weapon of mass destruction. He also did this in an attempt to avenge Gohan and many innocent lives that Babidi harms.
- He and Krillin forgive Vegeta of the latter's past actions as they sadden of his death.
- After Vegeta sacrifices himself to try and stop Majin Buu, Piccolo pays respects to his fallen comrade.
- Finding out Babidi is still alve, Piccolo tries to kill him for good. However, when finding out Buu is still alive and regerates, Piccolo is force to retreat since Buu is already more powerful than Gohan, Vegeta, & Goku as Super Saiyan 2.
- Trains Goten and Trunks to fight Majin Buu and save the world.
- Though he suggests Super Buu pass the time by killing everyone on the planet, he only does it as a last resort to buy more time for Goten and Trunks to train, and feels incredibly remorseful for all the lives lost. Then, he attempts to take the long way to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber to stall for time and give Goten and Trunks more time to train. In addition, he intended to have everyone Buu killed wished back.
- Tried to stop Chi-Chi from being killed by Buu.
- He destroys the entrance to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber (as a last resort) to try and stop Super Buu from destroying the universe.
- Rightfully angry at Gotenks for not fighting Super Buu seriously til the last minute.
- Horrified that Buu ate everyone at the lookout.
- He's not too happy that the lookout is being destoryed even though Super Buu needs to be defeated.
- Thanks Gohan for saving him, Goten, and Trunks from being killed by Super Buu's self destruct.
- He's very happy that Dende is alive and being greatful of Mr. Popo prevented the young guardian from being killed by Super Buu.
- Lends Goku his energy for the Spirit Bomb, defeating Kid Buu and saving the universe.
Dragon Ball Daima (anime exclusive series)[]
- Joins Goku in his quest to the Demon Realm to help him search for the Demon Realm Dragon Balls to turn their friends back to normal.
- Rescues Dende from being killed by Degesu.
- Helps Goku in his battle against Gomah.
Dragon Ball Super[]
- In general, if he has nothing else to do, he helps out the Son Family with various small tasks.
Beerus Saga, Golden Frieza Saga, Universe 6 Saga, Future Trunks Saga, and anime filler arcs[]
- Tries to prevent Beerus from destroying Earth.
- He and most of the Z Fighters fight off the Frieza Force (including Captain Ginyu).
- Sacrifices his life to save Gohan from being killed by Frieza.
- He acts as a babysitter for Pan, taking care of her and even acting as a grandfather figure to her. When Goku, Chi-Chi and Goten temporary stay at Gohan's house, Piccolo gives them a list of detailed instructions, demonstrating how seriously he takes his role as Pan's caretaker.
- Participates The Tournament of Destroyers for Universe 7.
- He creates a video on how to use the Evil Containment Wave just in case Future Trunks needed it. Thanks to the instructions, Future Trunks nearly succeeds in sealing Future Zamasu, though he narrowly escapes due to Goku forgetting the special seal needed for the container.
- Along with Gohan, Piccolo goes to see Future Trunks and Future Mai off before they leave to another timeline.
- (Anime only): He revives Goku after Hit kills him.
Tournament of Power Saga[]
- He trains Gohan for the Tournament of Power.
- When Android 17 arrives for the Tournament of Power, despite their past, Piccolo shakes the android's hand and thanks him for participating in the tournament.
- Gets annoyed that Vegeta destroys the time chamber for a second time.
- Like the rest of Team Universe 7, he's not amsued that Goku chooses Frieza to be part of the team.
- Fights in the Tournament of Power to save Universe 7 from being erased. During the tournament, he also chooses to stay as a group unlike many of the other members of the team.
Broly Movie/Saga, Galactic Patrol Prisoner Saga, and Super Hero Movie/Saga[]
- Wanted to assist Goku and Vegeta to take down Broly.
- Reteaches Goku and Vegeta the Fusion Dance, which was what helped them defeat Broly and Frieza.
- Helps defeat Moro and end his rampage for good.
- Acknowledges Vegeta's atonement as they fight ioff Moro.
- He continues acting as a supportive grandfather figure for Pan, training her and using far more humane training than he did with Gohan, showing his desire to be a good role model.
- Thinking that Gohan was not as strong he used to be, Piccolo once more trains Gohan to become strong again.
- Piccolo uses Earth's Dragon Balls to gain power strong enough to defeat Gamma 2 when he got his newly form known as "Orange Piccolo".
- He and Gohan redeem Gamma 1, Gamma 2, and Dr. Hedo.
- Assists Gohan, Trunks, Goten, Krillin (manga only), Android 18, Gamma 1, Gamma 2, and Pan (manga only), to defeat Cell Max.
- Trains Gohan to help him to be more control of his Beast form to face potenial future threats.
What Prevents Him From Being Pure Good?[]
- Despite fully redeeming himself, he can still be a bit of a jerk towards others from time to time, as shown when he acts a bit harsh towards Goten and Trunks during their training, not even letting them rest, something that their respective mothers, Chi-Chi and Bulma, call him out on.
Trivia[]
- Ironically while he is Near Pure Good, he is the son/reincarnation of King Piccolo who is Near Pure Evil.
- He, Goku, and Goten are the only Dragon Ball franchise characters so far to be in Near Pure Good.
- He is one of five Near Pure Good heroes who also has Villainous Benchmark page, others include Scorpion from Mortal Kombat Legends, Bucky Barnes from MCU, Starlight Glimmer, Megamind, Vaggi from Hazbin Hotel, and Ereshkigal from Fate/Grand Order.
External Links[]
- Piccolo on the Dragon Ball Wiki
- Piccolo on the Heroes Wiki
- Piccolo on the Villains Wiki
- Piccolo on the Villainous Benchmark Wiki
- Piccolo on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- Piccolo on the Love Exalted Wiki
- Piccolo on the Shonen Rivals Wiki
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