Dende's Demise

is the 10th episode of the Frieza Saga and the eighty-fourth overall episode in the uncut Dragon Ball Z series. This episode first aired in Japan on April 3, 1991. Its original American airdate was October 1, 1999.
==Summary==
Having transformed into his final form, Frieza immediately kills Dende with an explosive Death Beam, ensuring that nobody will be healed anymore. Enraged, Krillin, Gohan and Piccolo attack Frieza together with a Kamehameha, Masenko and an Explosive Demon Wave, but are unable to touch him. Frieza, with speed faster than light, fires a Death Beam at Gohan, but Vegeta, the only one who was able to see Frieza, intervenes at the last second and saves Gohan again by knocking him over.
Vegeta then surprises everyone by declaring that with his new strength, he will take on Frieza alone. To prove that he has finally become a Super Saiyan, Vegeta powers up to his maximum power and unleashes everything he has on Frieza. Although he cannot touch him, he seems to have Frieza on the defense, and even screams out loud that Goku will not get a chance to fight him after all. Gohan and Krillin cheer Vegeta on, but Piccolo spoils the celebration by telling them Vegeta is much stronger than before, but still no match for Frieza.
Indeed, as the fight takes off into the air, Frieza dodges an attack from Vegeta, and Vegeta cannot sense where Frieza is, despite Frieza not being too far away from him. Severely hit by the fact that he is not a Super Saiyan after all, Vegeta is stunned with fear.
==Major Events==
*Dende is killed by Frieza.
==Battles==
*Gohan, Krillin, Piccolo vs. Frieza (Final Form)
*Vegeta vs. Frieza (Final Form)
==Appearances==
===Characters===
*Goku
*Gohan
*Krillin
*Piccolo
*Dende
*Vegeta
*Frieza
*King Kai
*Tien Shinhan
*Yamcha
*Chiaotzu
===Locations===
*Namek
*Other World
**King Kai's Planet
===Objects===
*Battle Armor
*Frieza's Spaceship
*Medical Machine
===Bruce Faulconer tracks===
*"Vegeta's Theme" - After Vegeta saves Gohan's life.
*"Vegeta Powers Up" - When Vegeta powers up against Final Form Frieza.
*"Ginyu Force Theme" - When Vegeta attacks Frieza.
==Differences from the manga==
*King Kai commenting on Frieza's terrifying new form as Tien and Yamcha listen on is exclusive to the anime.
*In the anime, when Vegeta knocks Gohan out of the way of Frieza's Death Beam, he slaps him across the back to knock him down. In the manga however, he kicks him in the face to get him out of the way.
*In the anime, after Vegeta proclaims himself a Super Saiyan, he begins to power up prior to fighting Frieza and even takes on a golden aura. In the manga, he never powers up and just jumps straight into battle.
*In the manga, Vegeta only attempts to hit Frieza twice before seeing that Frieza has him beat. In the anime, he punches at Frieza many more times before he sees that Frieza has him outpaced. This continues into the next episode where the fight is expanded before Vegeta finally sees its hopeless and loses his will to continue.
==Trivia==
*The episode's original Japanese title is a reference to the ending theme, "Detekoi Tobikiri ZENKAI Power!".
*In the Remastered Box Sets, this is the final episode to use Nathan Johnson's score during the eyecatchers. From "The Renewed Goku" onward, an excerpt of Bruce Faulconer's score from "Captain Ginyu... The Frog" is used until the Majin Buu arc.
*In the original Japanese, Tien was voiced in this episode and previously in "Frieza's Second Transformation" by Kōichi Yamadera. His regular actor at the time, Hirotaka Suzuoki, was out with an unspecified illness during the recordings of those installments.
*Piccolo briefly suggests retreating upon taking in Frieza's final form in the American dub. This contradicts the previous episode where Krillin made the same suggestion to withdraw, only for Piccolo to counter that Frieza just may decide to destroy Namek entirely if they did that. In the Japanese version and Kai, Piccolo only lamented not being able to do anything to dent Frieza and confessed that there was nothing more for him to do, much to Gohan's horror.
*Frieza's voice in his final form during the original English dub was pitched down for the duration of the Frieza and Trunks Sagas, though not to the extent of his second form. Starting from his appearance in "Warriors of the Dead" during the Other World Saga, his voice is no longer pitched down making him sound much closer to his first form. In the remastered version of this episode, Linda Young redubbed her character to make Frieza sound much closer to how she would portray him in those future outings as the character. Strangely, she did not continue redubbing Frieza the rest of the series, despite it leaving a glaring vocal inconsistency during the Frieza and Trunks Sagas.
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