Character Guides

Android 17 is the quiet park ranger who ends up saving every universe in the Dragon Ball Super manga. Once a villain built by Dr. Gero to kill Goku, he has long since settled into a peaceful life protecting animals on a remote island — until Goku recruits him for the Tournament of Power, where…

Beerus is the God of Destruction of Universe 7 in the Dragon Ball Super manga — the being whose whim opens the entire series and whose power still stands, years later, as the ceiling the heroes train beneath. A hairless, purple, cat-like god who has destroyed worlds for longer than recorded history, he is at…

Broly is the legendary Saiyan of overwhelming, untamed power in the Dragon Ball Super manga — and, unusually, a character the manga mostly keeps at the edge of the frame. His rampage against Goku and Vegeta happened in the Dragon Ball Super: Broly film, which the manga recaps only in passing; his real manga role…

Dr. Hedo is the superhero-obsessed genius who accidentally restarts the Red Ribbon war in the Dragon Ball Super manga. The grandson of the infamous Dr. Gero, he builds the heroic androids Gamma 1 and Gamma 2 — and, under pressure from his employers, the monstrous Cell Max — across the Super Hero arc, before ending…

Frieza is the galactic emperor who haunts the Dragon Ball Super manga from outside the frame: barely present for its first half, decisive in its middle, and — in a single appearance at the end of the Granolah arc — suddenly the most dangerous figure in the universe again. His newest form, Black Frieza, revealed…

Future Trunks is the time-travelling swordsman of the Dragon Ball Super manga — the sole surviving defender of a ruined future, who crosses timelines twice: once as a child of the android era in the previous series, and again here, fleeing an enemy wearing Goku’s face. His Super storyline, the Future Trunks arc, is the…

Gamma 1 is the first of the two android heroes built by Dr. Hedo in the Dragon Ball Super manga’s Super Hero arc. Stoic, disciplined and utterly convinced he is a champion of justice, he is sent to destroy the Z Fighters — and becomes one of the arc’s true heroes once he learns who…

Gamma 2 is the second of Dr. Hedo’s android heroes in the Dragon Ball Super manga — the flamboyant, pose-striking counterpart to his brother’s discipline. Built to be a superhero and determined to act like one, he gets the Super Hero arc’s most heroic moment: a final, self-sacrificing attack against Cell Max that defines what…

Granolah is the last survivor of the Cerealians in the Dragon Ball Super manga: a sniper whose people were wiped out by the Saiyans forty years ago, and who trades most of his remaining lifespan for the power to take revenge. His story — the Granolah the Survivor arc — is a tragedy built on…

Jiren is Universe 11’s strongest Pride Trooper in the Dragon Ball Super manga — a silent, solitary warrior whose raw power exceeds his own God of Destruction and who serves as the final wall of the Tournament of Power. He is not a villain in any ordinary sense: he is a hero of his universe…