35 Facts About Krillin

Krillin is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama.

Krillin's appearance stays relatively the same for the majority of the series.

Krillin is first introduced at age 13, with a shaved head and still dressed in the yellow-and-orange clothing worn at the monastery at which he had been training.

When he settles down with his family, Krillin is shown wearing a workout outfit consisting of a red "Tacos" T-shirt and brown drawstring pants.

Krillin first appears arriving at Kame-Sen'nin's island to become his apprentice, meeting Son Goku, and the two become rivals.

Krillin beats the odored fighter Bacterian, who uses his stench as a weapon, and makes it to the semi-finals.

Krillin continues to train with Kame-Sen'nin and helps Goku to collect the Dragon Balls by fighting against General Blue and participating in Baba Uranai's tournament.

Krillin then tries to intervene in the fight between Piccolo and Goku when Piccolo gains the upper hand, until realizing he is outclassed.

Several years later, in the span of a day, Krillin is attacked by Raditz while attending a reunion, and is unable to save Gohan from Piccolo, who takes him for training.

Krillin later goes toe-to-toe with Nappa alone, launching a Kienzan at him that Nappa almost catches before Vegeta warns him, and is saved from an attack from Nappa by Piccolo.

Krillin receives an increase in power from Guru, the grand elder of the Namekians, when he unlocks his hidden potential.

Krillin is momentarily forced to leave his friends with the androids to take Yamcha away from the battlefield in the aftermath of his deadly encounter with Gero, who Krillin finds the base of and signals the others to his location after having a fight with Gero.

Krillin later participates in the Cell Games, a martial arts tournament created by Cell for entertainment, and fights one of the Cell Juniors who attack him and his friends, but is saved by Gohan.

Krillin tries stopping a pair of wrongdoers when he is knocked out by an arriving Gohan in his Saiyaman guise.

Krillin is requested by Goku and Gohan for participation in the Tournament of Power; he accepts.

Krillin eliminates Universe 4's Shosa and Majora before being eliminated himself by Frost.

Krillin later appears in a flashback after Frieza intends to provoke the wild Saiyan, Broly, into becoming a Super Saiyan, remembering the time that he murdered Krillin that sparked Goku's own transformation on Namek.

Krillin appears in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero with his wife and friends, having shaved his head clean again, providing assistance for Piccolo and Gohan during the battle against the monstrous Cell Max.

Krillin was later resurrected using the Dragon Balls, and later appears on Master Roshi's island, and spars with his old friend, Goku, one last time, until he vanishes suddenly.

When Dragon Ball Z received a short-lived English dub by Saban Entertainment, Funimation, and Ocean Productions in the mid 1990s, Krillin was voiced by Terry Klassen.

Krillin reprised his role in the Ocean dub of the latter half of the series produced by AB Groupe for European and Canadian markets.

In filler episodes of Dragon Ball Z, during the Saiyan arc, Krillin fails to tell Chi-Chi of Goku's passing after being tasked with informing her, though does inform Yamcha when coming to one of his baseball games followed by recruiting him for training with Kami, and trains for the Saiyans by facing members of their race from the past using the Pendulum Room.

Krillin is revived by Shenlong after the defeat of Omega Shenron and has a match with Goku, who decided to leave Earth.

Krillin is shown in GT sporting a mustache, wearing grey pants, shirt and tie with a cardigan in his few appearances.

Krillin appears in multiple Dragon Ball-related video games, sometimes as a playable character.

Krillin appears during Android 18's mentorship of the player, fighting them alongside her.

Krillin appears in the Dragon Ball and One Piece crossover manga Cross Epoch where he and Tony Tony Chopper run the Kuri-Chopa Marine Train Coster.

The song "Blessing" by Chance the Rapper mentions Krillin referencing Android 18 to the lyricist's delight.

Krillin appears in an episode of Mad watching the other Dragon Ball characters after they are drafted for the Oakland A's by Billy Beane in a parody of the film Moneyball.

Krillin is a popular character in the series; in 2004 Japanese fans voted him the seventh most popular character.

Krillin ranked third in the men's poll and sixth in the overall poll.

Krillin said it was more fun to play Krillin when he was a dirty-minded bad kid, that she was not fond of him growing his hair out and was shocked when he died for the first time.

Manga author Masashi Kishimoto said that when creating the protagonist of his series Naruto, Krillin was more influential than Goku because the former came across as more human than the protagonist as he showed several flaws.

Various publications for manga, anime and other media have commented on Krillin's character, adding praise and criticism to his development and traits in the series.

Also believing the first anime to have more development than the sequel, Tim Jones from Them Anime Reviews cited how Krillin was not a friend to Goku when first introduced.