Chaozu incorporated ideas from one of his earlier one-shot manga series, Dragon Boy.
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Chaozu incorporated ideas from one of his earlier one-shot manga series, Dragon Boy.
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Chaozu claimed that he has trouble drawing females, which is why there are relatively few female characters in the Dragon Ball series.
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Chaozu is led to Goku's location by the signal emitted by the four-star ball in his possession and recruits him as a bodyguard while hoping to get his four-star ball to grant her wish for a boyfriend.
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Chaozu is killed by King Piccolo's spawn Tambourine, but is later revived by Shenron.
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Chaozu is later revealed to be a Namekian—a green-skinned, four-fingered, hairless humanoid species who created the series' titular Dragon Balls.
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Chaozu is kidnapped by Goku's brother, Raditz, and locked up in a space pod.
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Chaozu is first shown conquering a planet with his partner Nappa by listening to Raditz's fight on Earth using their scouters.
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Chaozu helps fight against the Androids and Cell before returning to his timeline.
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Chaozu is often accompanied by his talking sea turtle companion, Umigame, who often tries to point out his flaws.
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Chaozu eventually becomes Goku's ally, starts a relationship with Bulma, and later becomes a pupil of Master Roshi.
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Chaozu remains as a regular member of the Dragon Team, but gradually becomes less active later in the series.
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Chaozu, Chiaotzu in the English anime dub, is a small human that resembles a jiangshi with white skin, red cheeks, and has one hair under his hat.
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Chaozu settles down with Krillin, and at some point, they have a daughter named Marron.
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Chaozu seeks the Dragon Balls to wish for world domination together with his two minions: Shu, a humanoid dog in a ninja outfit; and Mai, a woman who resorts to weaponry and technology, and serves as a foil to the bumbling personalities of her colleagues.
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Chaozu came into being when the Namekian who became Earth's guardian deity purged himself spiritually, and the negative energy took on a physical form after being cast off.
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Chaozu is imprisoned by Mutaito, the master of Master Roshi and Master Shen, in a rice cooker by the deadly Mafu-ba technique.
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Chaozu then takes over the King of the World's palace and has the King announce him as his successor before being confronted by Goku, who, in their second battle, punches a large hole through his abdomen.
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Chaozu is voiced by Takeshi Aono in Japanese, Scott McNeil in the Ocean dub, and Christopher Sabat in the Funimation dub.
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Chaozu's first shown offspring, Piano, helps him formulate his plan until he is killed when Goku knocks King Piccolo into him.
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Chaozu creates Tambourine to hunt down the contenders of the World Martial Arts Tournament to keep the sealing technique from resurfacing.
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Chaozu's father was imprisoned by Kami in the realm of darkness, leaving Garlic Jr.
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Chaozu obtains the seven Dragon Balls, wishes for immortality, and begin his quest for revenge.
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Chaozu is voiced by Don Brown in the Ocean dub of the film, while Chuck Huber voices Garlic Jr.
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Chaozu's organization, known as "Freeza's Gang" in the Viz Media localization and "Frieza Force" in the Funimation anime dub, controls a majority of Universe 7 at the peak of its power and serves as the primary antagonistic force of the first half of the Dragon Ball Z series.
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Chaozu is later rebuilt with cybernetic body parts and travels to Earth with his father King Cold and their forces to seek revenge, but all of them are easily killed by Trunks, who traveled back in time from the future.
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Chaozu is shown to be the most tactically skilled, as he deduced that Goku was masking his true power level by simply watching him fight.
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Chaozu takes the opportunity to swap bodies with one of Frieza's soldiers named Tagoma, but is killed by Vegeta shortly afterward.
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Chaozu survives Chiaotzu's self-destructing attack, causes Tien Shinhan to die of exhaustion, and kills Piccolo.
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Chaozu is defeated by Goku, who had returned to Earth after receiving intensive training from King Kai.
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Chaozu arrives on Earth, searching for his long-lost brother in order to recruit him in conquering other planets.
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Chaozu makes a single panel appearance in Toriyama's 2014 Dragon Ball Minus: The Departure of the Fated Child special, and a minor appearance in Dragon Ball Super: Broly.
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Chaozu is voiced by Shigeru Chiba in Japanese, Jason Gray-Stanford in the Ocean dub, and Justin Cook in the Funimation dub.
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Chaozu is Frieza's brother who travels to Earth to seek revenge on Goku.
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Chaozu is voiced by Ryusei Nakao in Japanese media, and Andrew Chandler in the Funimation dub.
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Chaozu is an artificial life form created using the cells of several characters from the series, including Goku, Piccolo, and Frieza; as a result, Cell is able to perform techniques such as the Kamehameha.
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Chaozu needs Androids 17 and 18 to evolve, and when he discovers that they are already dead in his timeline, he kills the Trunks of his timeline and uses his time machine to travel back in time.
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Chaozu eventually absorbs both after many battles and ascends to his perfect form.
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Chaozu decides to hold the Cell Games, a tournament in which he fights against Earth's strongest fighters.
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Chaozu is depicted to be born with a power greater than most elite adult Saiyans, and is mentally unstable as an adult.
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Chaozu eventually becomes the "Legendary Super Saiyan" spoken of in legends, with his destructive tendencies only being quelled by a special controlling device created by scientists for his father, Paragus.
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Chaozu was temporarily sealed by Bibbidi and brought to Earth, their next target, but Bibbidi was killed by the last surviving Supreme Kai.
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Chaozu arrives on an alternate future Earth, encounters that timeline's version of Trunks, and wreaks havoc on the remaining human population for the sake of "justice" while calling himself Son Goku.
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Chaozu makes the first shown wish with the Dragon Balls: a pair of panties.
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Chaozu is voiced by Naoki Tatsuta in Japanese, and by Alec Willows and Richard Newman in the Ocean dub.
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Chaozu relaxes her stance with her younger son Goten, even training him herself.
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Chaozu is loosely based on the Bull Demon King from Journey to the West.
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Chaozu was trained in martial arts by Master Roshi alongside Goku's adoptive grandfather, Grandpa Gohan.
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Chaozu becomes Goku's father-in-law, Gohan and Goten's grandfather, and Pan's great-grandfather.
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Chaozu has a split personality where she changes between a nice, polite, blue-haired woman and a trigger-happy blonde bad girl every time she sneezes.
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Chaozu is not seen after the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament but is said to be chasing after Tien Shinhan.
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Chaozu is voiced by Mami Koyama in Japanese, Edie Mirman in the Harmony Gold dub, and Meredith McCoy in the Funimation dub.
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Chaozu is an elderly scientist who is one of the smartest and richest men in the world.
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Chaozu creates a special spaceship for Goku, allowing him to train in a gravitational field 100 times stronger than Earth's.
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Chaozu is a minor deity who lives at the top of Karin Tower, which is situated underneath Kami's lookout; a warrior named Bora and his son Upa live at the base of the tower and serve as its guardians.
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Chaozu trained Master Roshi for three years and gave him the Kinto'un and the Nyoi-bo, both of which are later passed on to Goku.
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Chaozu is responsible for deeming people worthy of meeting Kami; Goku is the first human he has ever deemed worthy.
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Chaozu is voiced by Ichiro Nagai and Naoki Tatsuta in Japanese, Paul Dobson and Ted Cole in the Ocean dub, and Mark Britten and Chris Sabat in the Funimation dub.
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Chaozu was originally a wanderer that lived off the land, but lives with Korin after meeting him.
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Chaozu grows Senzu Beans and delivers them to Goku and his companions.
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Chaozu is voiced by Brian Drummond in the Ocean dub, Lucas Gilbertson in the Blue Water dub, and Mike McFarland in the Funimation dub.
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Chaozu is voiced by Takeshi Aono in Japanese, who would do so up until the Frieza arc in Dragon Ball Kai.
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Chaozu interprets the Earthlings' wishes when utilizing the Namekian Dragon Balls, as the wish must be said in the native language of the Namekians.
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Chaozu accepts the position, revives Earth's inert Dragon Balls, and continues to serve as Earth's guardian deity throughout the rest of the series.
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Chaozu is brought back to life when those killed by Cell are revived with the Dragon Balls.
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Chaozu is recruited by Team Universe 7 for the Tournament of Power, where he secured victory on their behalf.
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Chaozu later befriends Majin Buu and convinces the creature to reform, leading him to expel his evil tendencies which becomes a separate lifeform.
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Chaozu later helps defeat the evil version of Buu by using his celebrity influence to rally the people of Earth to contribute their energy to Goku.
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Chaozu is a martial artist but surpasses her father in strength.
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Chaozu uses her abilities to fight crime in the city, and after Gohan appears as the Great Saiyaman, she quickly figures out his identity, and uses that knowledge to blackmail him into teaching her new techniques, including the ability to fly using her ki.
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Chaozu appears again in Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn as a major supporting character, and in various Dragon Ball video games.
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Chaozu appears as a young child in the final installments of the original manga and the Dragon Ball Z anime series.
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Chaozu fails to track down the alien, who turns out to be Goku, but befriends Bulma's older sister Tights and returns to space.
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Chaozu appears in the fifteenth Dragon Ball Z film, and becomes a recurring character in Dragon Ball Super.
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Chaozu possesses a magic floating crystal ball that she rides on top of, which she can use to see the location of any lost item and to see into the future.
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Chaozu is able to travel to the afterlife, where she recruits deceased individuals and brings them back to the living world to fight for her, though only for one day.
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Chaozu is brought back to life for one day by Baba Uranai to fight Son Goku and see his growth as a martial artist.
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Chaozu is voiced by Osamu Saka in the Japanese version of the original series, Kinpei Azusa in Bardock: The Father of Goku, and Shigeru Chiba in Dragon Ball Kai.
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Chaozu is portrayed by Randall Duk Kim in the American live-action film Dragonball Evolution; his voice was dubbed by Hiroya Ishimaru in the Japanese version.
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Chaozu is the only other Kai to appear in the original manga besides the South Kaio, and as such is usually simply referred to as Kaio-sama or Northern King Kai.
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Chaozu continues to help Goku and his friends throughout the series, lending his planet locating and telecommunicating abilities for their use.
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Chaozu led the Saiyans, who have historically lived a violent lifestyle where they raid other planets, to victory in the ten-year war against the Tuffles, after which the Tuffles' home planet was renamed Planet Vegeta in his honor.
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Chaozu is voiced by Christopher Sabat in the Funimation dub of the series.
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Chaozu has purple skin and a white mohawk and is always accompanied by his attendant Kibito.
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Chaozu uses his power to increase Gohan's and his own life force to resurrect Goku, who decides to remain in the afterlife after his death by a self-destructing Cell.
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Chaozu is voiced by Daisuke Kishio in the Japanese version of the series.
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Chaozu has a long-running rivalry with Beerus, and they often bicker or engage in acts of one-upmanship like food contests and proxy wars.
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Chaozu is first introduced in Dragon Ball Super as a competitor for his universe during the Tournament of Destroyers.
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Chaozu is eventually exposed as a devious manipulator who feigns benevolence who is a space pirate and planet broker that discreetly profits from warmongering activities in his universe.
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Chaozu is known for using his signature Time-Skip ability to manipulate time and for his capability to eliminate his assassination targets with a single strike.
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Chaozu is shown to be polite and respectful, even when addressing lesser beings or those who are not from her universe, such as Goku.
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Chaozu is usually accompanied by his attendant and martial arts teacher Marcarita.
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Chaozu's quiet, stoic demeanor is a glimpse of his solitary nature; he is haunted by his past losses and desperately tries to undo it all by forging his own path of justice.
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Chaozu is served by a pair of identical-looking attendants and is advised by the Grand Minister.
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Chaozu is responsible for enforcing Zeno's decrees and welcoming guests to the supreme deity's residential palace.
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Chaozu praised the themes from the warriors, saying they speak to "basic yet powerful themes like faith, confidence, heroism, sacrifice, love, and understanding what is truly worth fighting for", and the ways they react while fighting, although the fights can sometimes become very long with little plot development.
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