Dragon Ball

The Dragon Ball anime made Goku a meme and Vegeta a legend, but without their power in the Garlic Jr. Saga arc, a DBZ villain finally got a moment of glory.

Garlic Jr. Over the course of the film, Garlic Jr. still remains one of the only Dragon Ball villains to date (with the exception of Cell) to really come close to killing the Z Fighters, and even then, he still remains the only one to come close to conquering and subsequently destroying Earth, and achieving his ultimate goal of freeing his father while becoming immortal in the process. The central premise of the Garlic Jr. Using the power of a malevolent celestial object known as the Makyo Star, Garlic Jr. Nearly killing Kami, the then-current Guardian of the Earth, Garlic Jr. All hope seems lost — that is, until Gohan devises a way of destroying the Makyo Star and once again yeeting Garlic Jr. After beating Kami in combat and imprisoning him in a sphere, Garlic Jr. Directed by Daisuke Nishio, who served as series director for the first 199 episodes of the Dragon Ball Z anime series, and written by Takao Koyama, known for having written for the Dragon Ball series along with other notable anime like Saint Seiya, the film chronologically takes place between the events of Dragon Ball and the beginning of Dragon Ball Z. And yet, there is one villain in particular who is conspicuously absent from nearly any and all discussions of Dragon Ball’s greatest villains, a villain who — despite being attached to one the most maligned story arcs of Dragon Ball Z — nonetheless stands the test of time as one of the only Dragon Ball villains to date to actually get just shy of everything he wanted. first appeared in 1989’s Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, the first Dragon Ball movie ostensibly set within the continuity of the Dragon Ball Z anime. Then there are the innumerable variant reappearances of villains like Frieza and Cell and