Frieza

Frieza, also known Emperor Frieza, F, Freeza, Freezer, Lord Frieza and Universal Emperor, is a character from the Dragon Ball series.
== Charactah Account ==
Frieza is a tyrannical evil overlord who is trying to take over the universe, but his first agenda is to gain immortality through the Namek Dragon Balls. A member of a highly formidable race, Frieza is every bit as cold-hearted as the name suggests, and then some. Responsible for nearly destroying all of the Saiyan race. After a lot of cat and mouse with the Z Fighters  on Planet Namek, he comes into confrontation with Goku leading to the single longest fight in the entire series. Eventually, he is struck down by his own attack and presumed dead after Namek is destroyed. However, he survived and is rebuilt as a cyborg by his father, King Cold, and heads for Earth only to be chopped into bits and blasted to atoms by Future Trunks upon arrival.
Sixteen years after his death, Frieza is revived using the Earth's Dragon Balls to restore the Planet Trade Organization in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'. Instead he chose to seek revenge against Goku and Trunks. After being told that Goku defeated Majin Buu, one of the two people he was told never to cross, Frieza decides to train for the first time in his life to bring out all his latent power. He largely succeeded and gained a new ultimate transformation. However, he's still done in because he was too impatient to master his Golden Super Mode and his stamina runs out, again. After losing to Goku and Vegeta, he decides to destroy the Earth. Whis rewinds time on him, allowing Goku to kill Frieza once and for all.
However, sometime after the events of his revival and death, Frieza is asked by Goku to take Buu's place, who fell asleep, on the Universe 7 team for the Tournament of Power hosted by Zeno. He is given a 24-hour pass into the mortal realm thanks to Fortuneteller Baba and is completely revived once again by Whis after assisting in Universe 7's victory. The stinger shows that he has already undertaken steps to revive his empire.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Dragon Ball GT
* Dragon Ball Super
* Dragon Ball Super: Broly
* Dragon Ball Z
* Dragon Ball Z Kai
* Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 05: Cooler's Revenge
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 12: Fusion Reborn
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 15: Resurrection 'F'
* Dragon Ball Z Special 1: Bardock, The Father of Gokuu
* Dragon Ball Z: Gather Together! Gokuu's World
* Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans
* Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock
* Orb Panic Adventure!
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes
=== Manga ===
* Dragon Ball
* Dragon Ball SD
* Dragon Ball Super
* Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
* Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock
* Jaco the Galactic Patrolman
* Neko Majin
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm Mission!
=== Video Games ===
* Battle Stadium D.O.N
* Cult Jump
* Data Carddass Dragon Ball Z
* Data Carddass Dragon Ball Z 2
* Dragon Ball Collectible Card Game
* Dragon Ball Discross
* Dragon Ball FighterZ
* Dragon Ball Fusions
* Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout
* Dragon Ball Heroes
* Dragon Ball Legends
* Dragon Ball Online
* Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butouden
* Dragon Ball Xenoverse
* Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
* Dragon Ball Z
* Dragon Ball Z 2 V
* Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game
* Dragon Ball Z For Kinect
* Dragon Ball Z II: A Fierce God Freeza!-!
* Dragon Ball Z III: A Violent Battle of Artificial Humans
* Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z Side Story: True Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans - Earth Saga
* Dragon Ball Z TV game
* Dragon Ball Z: Assault! The Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z: Bakuretsu Impact
* Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
* Dragon Ball Z: Battle Taikan Kamehameha - Omee to Fusion
* Dragon Ball Z: Battle Taikan Kamehameha 2 - Ossu Omee Gokuu Tenkaichi Budoukai
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
* Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden
* Dragon Ball Z: Collectible CD Picture Cards
* Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle
* Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Battlers
* Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden
* Dragon Ball Z: Gekitou Tenkaichi Budoukai
* Dragon Ball Z: Goku Gekitouden
* Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension
* Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World
* Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
* Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors
* Dragon Ball Z: Sagas
* Dragon Ball Z: Scouter Battle Taikan Kamehameha - Ora to Omee to Scouter
* Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai
* Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokuden - Kakusei-Hen
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Legend
* Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors
* Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legend
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legend of the Great Son Goku
* Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
* Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
* Dragon Ball Z: W Bakuretsu Impact
* Dragon Ball: Raging Blast
* Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2
* Dragon Ball: Tap Battle
* Dragon Ball: The Breakers
* Dragon Ball: Ultimate Swipe
* Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle
* J-Stars Victory Vs
* J-Stars Victory Vs+
* Jump Force
* Jump Super Stars
* Jump Ultimate Stars
* Jumputi Heroes
* IC Carddass Dragon Ball
* One Piece Treasure Cruise
* PUBG Mobile
* Super Dragon Ball Z
== Trivia ==
* In-universe Frieza's name has been shown to be spelled as Freeza.
* Frieza is the first character to survive a full-power Spirit Bomb, the second being Jiren.
* Frieza's English dub voice actor, Chris Ayres, is the brother of Frost's English dub voice actor, Greg Ayres.
* Frieza is the final villain in the Dragon Ball manga to have a desire for the Dragon Balls.
* Frieza has a merchandise only joke form called "Pure Gold Frieza" which is based on Golden Frieza. It is stated by Frieza that this form is the result of him "overtraining" - causing him to gain an Ultimate Evolution-like state that is pure gold in appearance.
* An error in the Funimation dub had Frieza (in his first form) saying he was 530,000 times stronger than Nail, who had a power level of 42,000. This meant that Frieza's power level was 22,260,000,000. In the original Japanese dub, Frieza states he has a power level of 530,000 and he later states this in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z Kai as well.
* Frieza's third form somewhat resembles a Xenomorph from the Alien film series, particularly in skull structure and his dorsal spines (in addition, Cooler's final form vaguely resembles a Predator).
* The fight between Goku and Frieza was the longest in the Dragon Ball Z anime, at 19 episodes. It is also considered to be the longest recorded fight in an anime, clocking in at roughly 3.5 hours of screentime. Similarly, the fight was the longest in the Dragon Ball manga, at 20 chapters.
* Frieza has his tail cut off four times. The first time is when he was in his second form, when Krillin chops it off with a Destructo Disc, though it seems to regenerate when he enters his final form. The second is when he is hit by Goku's Spirit Bomb, as part of it is unable to withstand the blast and thus comes off. The third is when he is cut in half by his own attack, the energy disks slice off his body in half, along with one arm and his tail. The fourth is from slamming Jiren into the arena with his Nova Strike.
** In addition, Frieza is chopped in half twice during his lifetime. The first is when he is chopped horizontally in two by his own energy disk. The second is when Future Trunks slices him vertically in half, seconds before chopping him to pieces and completely destroying him. In Dragon Ball GT, Frieza is chopped in half a third time while fighting Goku in Hell and using Krillin's Destructo Disc against him, which Goku turns back on him.
* In Dragon Ball SD, Roshi has a Freezer brand fridge.
* Frieza is the second villain to be defeated by Goku and return as a cyborg. The first is Mercenary Tao. Interestingly, both characters suffered grave injuries resulting in receiving cybernetics because of dirty attacks towards Goku (i.e., begging for mercy, and then attacking Goku when his guard was let down), and both were given cybernetics by a relative of theirs. They were also both defeated very quickly after reappearing by someone other than Goku. But unlike Tao, Frieza is no longer a cyborg.
* Frieza had inspired many other villains in the Shounen genre, notably Orochimaru from the Naruto series. During the first Naruto series animation run, Masashi Kishimoto remarked that he hoped Orochimaru would get a voice actor just like Frieza's.
* Frieza is the second character to make Goku shake in fear, the first being Raditz, and the third being Hit.
* Of all four of the main villains in Dragon Ball Z, Frieza has the largest on-screen body count: he murdered numerous Saiyans, Namekians, committed several atrocities with an innumerable casualty count, and has murdered many characters recognized as individuals on-camera.
* Frieza is the second villain to yell "Damn you Goku!" as his last words, with the first being Dr. Wheelo. Coincidentally, both villains also ended up obliterated by a significantly powerful ki attack shortly afterward (Wheelo by a Spirit Bomb, and Frieza by the God Kamehameha), and both even made a reference to Hell immediately beforehand (in Wheelo's case, as an expletive when demanding to know what Goku was about to do, and in Frieza's case, telling Vegeta and everyone else to go there without him in reference to his attempt at destroying Earth before Goku intervened).
* Of all the main Dragon Ball villains featured in media, Frieza is the most prominent "true" villain that appeared as a major character in more than one mainstream Dragon Ball media (anime or manga (that excluded related merchandising)), this includes appearances in the Dragon Ball Super anime, as the main antagonist of its second saga, then later appearing as a member of Team Universe 7, for the Universe Survival Saga,
** Frieza can be considered the main antagonist of the Dragon Ball franchise and Goku's arch-enemy due to being the most recurring villain of the series.
** Frieza's appearance in Dragon Ball GT might not count, along with Cell, as they made very short appearances in Hell as minor villains and were outsmarted by Goku.
** Frieza is also the only major villain to appear in more than one film (TV/Theatrical), the most prominent and significant one being in Resurrection ‘F’.
** Majin Buu (any incarnations) also does not count, as the Good Buu may have appeared in other series than DBZ, like Dragon Ball Super, he is merely a purely good entity fissioned from and is completely separate from the true, pure evil version killed in his only anime appearance, Kid Buu.
** Additionally, Frieza is one of the most referenced villains in the series, as seen many times when the characters constantly use Frieza as a measuring stick for the power of other characters. Such instances are when describing Android 17 and 18 and Imperfect Cell, as well as during Goku's fight with Uub when the Saiyan states that he hadn't been so forced back in a battle since Frieza. Beerus also displayed visible shock when he heard of Frieza's defeat, indicating the profound impact he's had on the series.
* Frieza's wish of becoming taller is almost identical to Commander Red's; it is also probable that he developed a Napoleonic complex, feeling inferior and less respected to most people due to his height, which is why he killed any soldier who ever commented on it. Lemo even warned Cheelai to watch her tongue when she mentions hearing that Frieza was short.
** This characteristic wasn't evident in Dragon Ball Z; instead, Frieza took advantage of his height, as enemies tended to underestimate his power.
* In the Greek dub of Dragon Ball Z (except for episodes 78-87), Dragon Ball GT, the movies and Bardock - The Father of Goku, Frieza is a woman. In Dragon Ball Super, Frieza is a man.
** On a related note, this makes Frieza the third character to have his gender changed in the Greek dub, after General Blue and Zarbon.
* Frieza can be considered a foil to Goku (which is very fitting). Goku was born extremely weak and had to train to get stronger, is naturally peaceful and often shows enemies mercy, and even rejected his violent Saiyans ways of conquest. Frieza on the other hand was born extraordinarily powerful and never required much effort in training for extra strength, rarely shows mercy, and took over 70% of Universe 7.
* Frieza's Ghost Warrior is the only one of the Ghost Warriors in the OVA to not have originated in a movie.
* Frieza's speech while reveling in his destruction of Planet Vegeta differed between languages. In the original Japanese version, he specifically called Dodoria and Zarbon to come watch the "splendid fireworks" (referring to the constant explosions occurring on the surface of the soon-to-be-destroyed Planet Vegeta). In the original and Remastered Funimation dubs, Frieza instead compares the ongoing destruction to a live performance such as a play that was done spectacularly well. The former was eventually used for Dragon Ball Z Kai.
* Frieza's voice in his second and third forms are different from how he sounds in his base and final form. When he was voiced by Linda Young, his second form voice was quite different and was much lower and raspier. This was also the case for his third form, though in original Dragon Ball Z dubs, his third form voice was a combination of both first and second form. When voiced by Chris Ayres in Dragon Ball Z Kai, his second form voice is slightly lower than first form and sounds similar to first form. In Dragon Ball Z Kai, his third form is when the difference in his voice starts to become drastic and noticeable, rather than being noticeable in his second form like in Dragon Ball Z.
* Frieza is shown to have an excellent memory: he remembered Bardock's appearance after seeing him only once and several years before and recognized it in Goku's look. The anime expands upon this by having him explicitly deduce Goku was Bardock's son.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Frieza at Dragon Ball Wiki
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