Character Guides

Merus is the Galactic Patrol’s top agent in the Dragon Ball Super manga — and secretly an angel in training. Introduced as the cool-headed patrolman who recruits Goku and Vegeta to hunt the escaped prisoner Moro, he becomes Goku’s teacher in Ultra Instinct, and his choice to break the angels’ law of neutrality is one…

Moro is the ancient planet-eating wizard who headlines the Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc of the Dragon Ball Super manga. Ten million years before the present story, his magic threatened all of Universe 7; when he escapes from the Galactic Prison in the present day, he becomes a threat that raw strength alone cannot stop, because…

Piccolo is the Namekian mentor at the tactical heart of the Dragon Ball Super manga — the former demon king turned guardian whose planning, patience and teaching hold Earth’s defence together whenever the Saiyans are away. The manga rewards his decades in that role with the Super Hero arc, a storyline he drives almost single-handedly,…

Son Gohan is Goku’s elder son in the Dragon Ball Super manga: a scholar and father whose dormant power has always rivalled anyone’s, and whose story in this series is about what happens when the strongest person in the room would rather be at home with his family. The manga keeps him on the sidelines…

Son Goku is the protagonist of the Dragon Ball Super manga: a Saiyan raised on Earth whose love of fighting stronger opponents drives nearly every storyline, from his first clash with the God of Destruction Beerus to the manga-only arcs — Galactic Patrol Prisoner and Granolah the Survivor — that continue well past the end…

Vegeta is the Saiyan prince and Goku’s lifelong rival in the Dragon Ball Super manga, and the manga treats him as a genuine co-protagonist: he gets his own training arcs, his own divine technique, and a long, quiet storyline about pride, guilt and what a Saiyan should stand for. Where Goku grows toward the Angels’…

Whis is the Angel attendant of Universe 7’s God of Destruction in the Dragon Ball Super manga — Beerus’s caretaker, cook and martial arts master, and quietly one of the most powerful beings in existence. He is also the manga’s chief expositor of how the divine world works: it is Whis who first explains Ultra…