Piccolo

**Piccolo Jr.** (ピッコロ・ジュニア '**Pikkoro Junia'**), usually just called **Piccolo** also known as **Ma Junior**, is a Namekian and also the final child and reincarnation of the Demon King Piccolo, later becoming the reunification of the **Nameless Namekian** after fusing with Kami. According to Grand Elder Guru, Piccolo, along with Kami and King Piccolo, are part of the Dragon Clan, who were the original creators of the Dragon Balls.

A wise and cunning warrior who was originally a ruthless enemy of Goku, Piccolo later becomes a permanent member of the Dragon Team, largely due to forming a mutual respect to Goku and even more from forming a close bond with Goku's first-born son Gohan.

## Appearance

Piccolo is a very tall and muscular Namekian. While greatly resembling his father/incarnation, he is noticeably shorter and somewhat thinner. He also has a more solid facial structure with less pronounced cheekbones and a straight nose. Piccolo only has four fingers in the *Dragon Ball* manga, but five in the anime series. Piccolo Jr.'s outfit when he was a kid is very similar to the one King Piccolo is first seen wearing, with the same color scheme shown on the *Kanzenban* manga covers. From the time he is a young adult onward, Piccolo wears a dark purplish blue gi with a sky blue obi (red in the manga). When not fighting seriously, Piccolo also wears a white turban and a white cape along with it.

Like Goku, Piccolo generally wears and trains with Weighted clothing. The cape itself is not weighted, but there is weighted padding underneath; this is seen twice in the series: when his cape is damaged while fighting Frieza in his second form, and when it is damaged by Lord Slug's henchmen. As the series went on, Piccolo Jr.'s outfit became more his own and by the time he faced the Androids. The outfit's neckline become more low-cut like Goku's outfit, minus Goku's own undershirt. In the manga, many of the movies, and certain video games (*Supersonic Warriors 2* and *Super Dragon Ball Z*), Piccolo wears a red obi rather than a sky blue one.

## Personality

Throughout the franchise, regardless of Piccolo's allegiance, his general demeanor has always been a stern if not grumpy with an indifferent attitude towards others. Piccolo he rarely smiles and enjoys solitude. Piccolo is frequently seen meditating in quiet places and drinking thawed ice water in the north area.[3] However, he shows a noticeable cockiness when fighting. He can also be very and confrontational toward people, showing very direct and honest opinions about a situation or an individual. Piccolo is known for his very precise and efficient methods in battle and likewise is shown to be very analytical and tactical in battle, able to see through his opponent's skills and weaknesses to devise effective strategies for victory. In the Baby Saga, Baby openly acknowledged Piccolo as one of the most brilliant fighters in the galaxy.

Originally, Piccolo inherited his father/former self's desire for world domination and destroying Goku. He was determined to prove his superiority and possessed many of the villainous properties of his father, such as a violent and destructive nature and a total disregard for anything besides victory. This was shown during his battle with Goku in the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, where he shows almost no mercy for his opponent, breaking all of Goku's limbs while laughing sadistically, believing it was necessary after what Goku had done to his father. Despite all this, Piccolo was not without a measure of restrain and honor, as he for no reason saved a mother and daughter from debris during a storm.[7] He also let Krillin walk away after submitting in the tournament. Piccolo has also shown traits of pragmatism, teaming up with his archrival Goku and later the rest of the Z Fighters when the threat of the Saiyans proves to be too much for him alone, citing the aliens' defeat as a shared goal. According to Goku, his overall evil nature became more of stubborn and angry attitude than flat-out villainous.

After his battle against Goku, Piccolo gradually began to develop for the better as the evil nature only dwelled through his desire to destroy Goku inherited from his father/former self. Later, when he and Goku team up to battle Raditz, Piccolo began to show more respect during battle, even commemorating Goku on his noble sacrifice despite still considering him an enemy and, during the battle against Nappa, praised the other Z Fighters' bravery and tactics.

While training Goku's young son, Gohan, while originally only for to prepare for the coming Saiyans, Piccolo's heart and motives quickly begin to change as the boy takes his time to talk with Piccolo and have normal discussions that do not result in a violent outbreak, this stemming from Gohan agreeing on Goku's views of Piccolo now being more grumpy than truly evil. During the battle with Nappa, Piccolo goes as far as to sacrifice his life to save Gohan, stating how his friendship and love had changed him forever. Piccolo has stated that Gohan was the first person to see him not as a monster and was proud to call him his friend. From then on, Piccolo became very protective of Gohan, proud in his growth as a man and seeing Gohan a surrogate-son, to which Gohan himself came to care for Piccolo as a dear uncle or even second father. This also truly cemented his change from evil to good and a true friend and team-mate for the Z Fighters. He also came to view Goku in a similar light as a dear friend and ally as after being teleported from the self-destructing Planet Namek and learning of Goku's intentions, Piccolo noted he would have preferred to fight alongside the noble warrior to the end, showing his respect for the Earth's savior.

Despite having spent most of his life unaware of his origins as an alien rather than a demon and shocked to learn such, Piccolo came to appreciate learning this truth. To which, upon learning of Frieza's genocidal attack on the Namekians, Piccolo was determined to fight Frieza and avenge his people, even when King Kai warned him of the danger Frieza's might possesses. After fusing with Nail and acquiring all his knowledge of Namekian culture, Piccolo felt whole as a person, now able to understand his roots. The greatest change in his character was when he made the choice to remerge with Kami so he could battle the androids. Kami's willingness to do this showed how little evil was left in Piccolo, trusting that Piccolo would use the extra strength along with Kami's divine powers and centuries-worth of experience for good. Once reunited, all remaining traces of evil disappeared from Piccolo. While still having a stern demeanor for the most part, Piccolo showed genuine compassion for all living being beyond those he deemed a friend, as he tried to get Cell to spare the man in Ginger Town. Although he still has little to say unless it involves battle and does not seem to understand the concept of romance, referring to it as "mushy stuff", although this is understandable do to Namekians lack romantic relations.

As Piccolo carries on in life, he becomes slightly more relaxed and joyful, which simultaneously made it easier to stress and annoy him. He would partake and enjoy various parties and social events, including Bulma's birthday and Gohan's wedding. Even more, in *Dragon Ball Super*, Piccolo's kindness continued to show, displaying a gentler and nurturing side, helping in the raising of Pan, showing a very efficient job of it as he had a whole list set up on what to do for the baby and genuinely enjoyed it. In *Dragon Ball GT*, his compassion and selflessness was even willing to sacrifice his life permanently to make sure the Black Star Dragon Balls remained unusable. While encouraging Gohan to find his own path in life, he still firmly believes that Gohan must keep up his training to better protect that which he loves. To which, he proudly accepted Gohan's request to retraining him after the second battle against Frieza cost Piccolo his life again to save Gohan. During which, Piccolo retains his harsh and merciless training methods, all in the goal of restoring Gohan's fighting instinct and true power.

In *Xenoverse*, Piccolo is shown to have learned from his father's mistakes even using Master Mutaito's defeat of King Piccolo with the Denshi Jar and Evil Containment Wave as an analogy of why one must use whatever items or abilities one has at their disposal to win. This is further shown in the original manga/anime by Piccolo's development of the Evil Containment Wave Reflection technique which he used to counter Kami's use of the Evil Containment Wave essentially removing the one threat his father had feared the most.

## Power

Manga and Anime
Piccolo is the most powerful Namekian in Universe 7 and Universe 6, with Grand Elder Guru remarking him (or rather his original self the Nameless Namekian) to be a prodigy amongst prodigies, and even strong enough to stand up to Super Saiyans.

As he is the reincarnation and final son of King Piccolo, Piccolo retains all of his father's memories and experiences, as well as skills and abilities. This along with his dedication to training and meditation, allowed him to well surpass his father at his peak. Unlike his father, Piccolo even developed Evil Containment Wave Reflection, rendering the one technique his father feared useless on him as shown when he manages to counter Kami's use of the technique back at him. Like his father, Piccolo was a challenging opponent for Goku, who barely managed to defeat him with a flying headbutt. Though he was defeated and ironically spared from being killed by Kami by Goku, Piccolo continued to train to defeat Goku, leading him to develop the Special Beam Cannon which allows him to channel all his energy into his finger tips and is one of his most powerful techniques as it ultimately succeeded in killing Goku as well as his brother Raditz, however he only managed to overcome Raditz with the assistance of Goku and Gohan who had managed to weaken the Saiyan.

His power level in early *Dragon Ball Z* is 322, and without his weighted clothing it is 408. A year later, during the battle against the Saiyans, his held back power level is 3,500. After fusing with Nail he was able to combat and gain the upperhand over Frieza in his second form who boasted a power level of 1,000,000.

After his training in preparation for the Androids, despite Android 20 absorbing most of his energy, once rejuvenated by a senzu bean, he was able to charge himself up to easily dominates Android 20. This made Krillin exclaim that Piccolo reached the Super Saiyan realm of strength. After fusing with Kami, he can defeat Imperfect Cell (with the population of Gingertown absorbed) while wearing his weighted clothing. Later, once removing his weighted clothing, his strength was on par with Android 17. Also, with his superior combat experience and ingenuity, he was able to keep up with the android's unlimited energy to gain a slight advantage over the foe. Once Imperfect Cell arrived, Piccolo's sneak attack was able to somewhat hurt Imperfect Cell (with several thousands of humans absorbed). After Piccolo's training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for a day, Goku states that Piccolo has become a lot stronger but is still no match for Perfect Cell. With his new power, in the anime, Piccolo is able to hold his own against and even hurt the Cell Juniors (who were said to have power similar to the suppressed Perfect Cell in the English dub).

During the very beginning of the Majin Buu Saga, Piccolo is too intimidated to fight Shin, either due to his strength or godly status. It is implied that Piccolo is stronger than Goten and Trunks, as when Gotenks' fusion wears off inside Buu, Piccolo's traits become dominant - and it is said that Buu's strongest absorption victim is the one who he shows dominant traits of.

Piccolo has been the strongest Z Fighter in the series at two points: when he fuses with Nail to battle Frieza and after he fuses with Kami to become the Nameless Namekian again and fight Imperfect Cell; in both cases, Piccolo fused with another Namekian.

In *Dragon Ball Super*, Piccolo is easily defeated by the God of Destruction, Beerus with a kiai. During the Golden Frieza Saga, Piccolo is easily overpowered by Frieza's strongest soldier, Tagoma, who is much weaker than Gohan as a Super Saiyan.

In the anime, after Frieza's defeat, Piccolo begins retraining Gohan. By the time of the Tournament of Destroyers in the anime, Piccolo was slightly ahead of Gohan's base power, as after a match, only Gohan showed exhaustion. In the anime, Goku and Piccolo both believed that he had no chance against Frost, however, they did not know that Frost defeated Super Saiyan Goku only by cheating. Piccolo proved to be stronger than expected, able to hold off Frost's assault with a single hand while gather energy in the other for charged blasts. Ultimately, his strength combined with strategic skills and experience, able to successfully defend himself long enough to finish charging his Special Beam Cannon. Once catching Frost off guard, he was able to hold Frost in place with one arm, with Frost being unable to break out without cheating with his poison needle, Frost admitted that Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon would have definitely defeated him, which instead put a large hole through Vados's force field barrier, which stunned Champa, a God of Destruction who believed her barrier to be unbreakable. In the manga, Piccolo proved able to skillfully dodge all of Frost's blasts with his weights on. Once removing them, Piccolo proved able to fight on par against the Universe 6 Emperor, dragging out the fight until both fighters were left winded, making Frost resort again to using his needle; this was made even more impressive considering that in the manga Frost managed to put up a good fight against Super Saiyan Goku.

In the anime, after the tournament, Goku challenged Piccolo to a speed contest involving harvesting cabbages in a field. Piccolo, with his weighted clothing, managed to match Goku's speed, showing a tremendous increase in power after Frieza's second invasion.

By the time of the Tournament of Power, Piccolo's continued training made his power reach such a level that he found Gohan's current progress as below satisfactory despite recently being reconditioned to stronger than ever. During a last-minute preparations for the tournament, a sparring match left Super Saiyan Gohan amazed by how powerful Piccolo became, easily overpowering his pupil with his weighted clothing on. Without his weights, Piccolo equally overwhelms Super Saiyan 2 Gohan. However, once Piccolo reawakens Gohan's warrior spirit, letting Gohan access the full potential of his Ultimate state without Super Saiyan, even with his cloning technique, Piccolo was quickly overpowered. However, through strategy, he could still compete with the Saiyan-hybrid. Later when sparring with Goku, Piccolo (without his weights) proves to be able to fire off an Hyper Explosive Demon Wave that base Goku can barely hold back.

During the Tournament of Power, in the anime, rather than going off on his own, Piccolo chose to remain with Gohan, Krillin, Tien Shinhan and Master Roshi - they launched an assault that caused little to no damage against Lavender, Botamo, Comfrey, Shosa and Dercori. He easily dodged Jirasen's assault. He easily defeated Rubalt with his Hellzone Grenade. He was able to withstand Hermila's Ki Blasts, albeit losing both arms. However, Piccolo was able to quickly regenerate multiple times from the same assault and continue battling effectively, showing considerable stamina. Piccolo was able to briefly fight on par with Saonel, and was able to blast him away with a *ki* blast when Gohan caught his hand. After realizing both Pirina and Saonel had assimilated many Namekians from Universe 6, Piccolo was still able to fight Pirina on somewhat equal footing (although his Hellzone Grenade is ineffective against the bulky Namekian). His non-fully charged Special Beam Cannon was able to deal some light damage to Pirina and his full power Special Beam Cannon is able to pierce both Namekians and go through Pirina's energy wave. Saonel was amazed that there is a Namekian like Piccolo who possesses such amazing power to actually cause significant harm to both himself and Pirina in one attack. Against Gamisaras, after his silhouette was revealed by the smoke Gohan made, Piccolo quickly defeated him, knocking him out of the arena with a Mouth Energy Wave. Piccolo was also able to knock Shantza out of the arena with a single Ki Blast. However, against Damon, while Piccolo could follow the foe's energy trail, because he mistook the foe's diminutive stature for invisibility, he struck too high and missed, letting Damon knock Piccolo out of the arena with a barrage of blows.

In the manga version of the Tournament of Power, Piccolo proved able to effortlessly defeat Jirasen with a simple energy blast. He than easily evaded a sneak attack from Napapa, blocking the large foe's assault with a single hand before eliminating him.

In *Dragon Ball GT*, Piccolo's power has grown substantially. During the Black Star Dragon Ball Saga, it is remarked by Trunks that Piccolo is one of the people on Earth stronger than him.

During the Baby Saga, Piccolo takes a Kamehameha from Super Saiyan Baby-Gohan. While he's not able to resist the attack from his possessed pupil, Piccolo was powerful enough the endure the attack and save Goten from it. Though he is heavily injured, he was able to endure it long enough to help Goku with the final evacuation of the people of Earth and provide Goku with enough energy to teleport while in his underdeveloped child form.

When Piccolo reappears during the Super 17 Saga, he decides to become the warden of Hell. Due to his status as someone dead, he's decided to be sure that none of the residents of Hell are unable to escape again. As shown in the Shadow Dragon Saga, Piccolo is doing fine with his position as the powerhouse in hell. Preventing all of the villains from gaining any sort of control. Showing that Piccolo has improved to the point where he can handle all of the villains of the past with no problems.

Films
Turles' reads Piccolo's power level at 18,000 in *The Tree of Might*.

In *Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods*, Piccolo is easily defeated by the God of Destruction, Beerus. He has defeated with ease by two chop sticks to two vital pressure points on the chest.

In *Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’*, Piccolo is able effortlessly defeat 1,000 of Frieza's elite soldiers. Against the strongest warrior in the Galactic Frieza Army, Shisami, Piccolo was able to hold his own despite, stating to Gohan that he would have won even if Gohan had not stepped in.

Statements by authors and guidebooks
According to *Daizenshuu 2*, even just upon being born Piccolo was a great fighter as he had access to all of King Piccolo's memories and techniques.[8]

In *Daizenshuu 7*, Piccolo's biography states that after fusing with Nail, their combined power level is "Over 1,000,000" and is enough to defeat Frieza's 2nd form (who stated in both manga & anime to be over 1 million himself).

Video games
In *Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai*, which is set a few years after Kid Buu's defeat, Piccolo's power has increased enough that in his "Fuse with Kami" state he is able to fight against a powered up Perfect Cell (though the fight leaves Piccolo tired) as well as against Super Saiyan Teen Gohan.

In *Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2* what if scenario, Destined Rivals, Piccolo is able to defeat Shin in battle without even having to take off his weighted clothing. In the video game *Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors*, Piccolo fuses with King Piccolo, after fusing with King Piccolo and thus gaining his full potential, Piccolo states that a battle against the fat Majin Buu would have been an "easy victory" and Super Buu states that Piccolo is stronger than he is even with weighted clothing on. In the sequel video game *Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2*, Piccolo goes under the influence of Babidi, increasing his power above Super Buu's as well, and later absorbs Super Buu's power, becoming much stronger.

According to *Dragon Ball Z: The Anime Adventure Game*, his power is 800,000 after training with King Kai and it is 1,200,000 after he had fused with Nail (which is around Second Form Frieza's power level of about 1,000,000), it also states that his power is 2,000,000 during the Garlic Jr. Saga.

In the video game *Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu* (which covers up the series from Raditz's arrival to the Frieza Saga finale), Piccolo's power level in level 48 (the top level in the game, after fusing with Nail, Dende, Tsumuri and Maima) is 1,900,000.

In a special mission in the video game *Dragon Ball Z: Scouter Battle Taikan Kamehameha*, Piccolo Jr's power level is 500,000,000.

In the Universe 6 story DLC for *Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2* due to Goku being missing Piccolo steps up into Goku's place and defeats Botamo by knocking him out of the ring, and is capable of fighting on par with Cabbawhen the latter was using his base form, and while in the midst of fighting Cabba, Piccolo was able to move to the opposite side of the ring and save the Future Warrior 2 from Frost's poison and then swap back to fighting Cabba.

## Abilities

* **Flight** - The ability to fly through the use of *ki*.
* ***Ki* Blast** - The most basic form of energy wave.
* **Eternal Youth** - An exemption from natural death such as from old age or disease, as well as halting age altogether.

* **Regeneration** - The ability to regrow certain body parts or cells that have been dismembered or destroyed and replace them with brand new cells, or simply regrouping all of their separated parts back together.
* **Healing** - It allows the user to heal another being's wounds and restore them to somewhat full strength.

* **Demon Hand** - A Namekian user stretches their arms by expanding and contracting the cells in their body through willpower. This allows them to grab and attack opponents that are out of the normal reach of the user's unstretched arms.
* **Explosive Demon Wave** - The user fires a very powerful energy wave shot from a single hand, with the other arm supporting the one that is firing the attack.
	+ **Dust Attack** - The technique is a smaller, less efficient variant of the Explosive Demon Wave.
	+ **Chasing Bullet** - Piccolo uses this attack with one arm supporting the one that is firing the beam itself. The beam is faster than the Explosive Demon Wave and has the ability to home in on its target, with considerable power.
	+ **Hyper Explosive Demon Wave** - Piccolo creates a massive explosion with himself as the nexus.
	+ **Light Grenade** - The user puts their hands together in front of them as they charge a yellow energy sphere in their hands. Then, they bring their hands forward and fires the energy sphere, inflicting a massive amount of damage.
	+ **Makosen** - Piccolo uses a two-handed Explosive Demon Wave similar to the Makosen.

* **Special Beam Cannon** - The move is performed by touching the index and middle fingers of one hand to the forehead and charging enough ki to attack. Its speed changes to the power level of the user performing the move. When ready, the fingers are extended forward, and two thin energy beams are unleashed from the fingers. One remains straight while the other coils around the straight beam. The resulting beam is quite powerful, drilling through most targets, and exploding on the ones it can't. It can also be used with only one arm.
	+ **Full-Nelson Special Beam Cannon** - Piccolo says "sorry to keep you waiting" and fires his Special Beam Cannon at the opponent. Then, Goku sneaks up behind the opponent and puts them in a Full-Nelson so they can not escape. Finally, as the opponent tries to escape Goku's full-nelson, the Special Beam Cannon impales both the opponent and Goku, inflicting a huge amount of damage.
* **Masenko** - The attack is performed by the user placing both hands above the head with the palms facing the target and one hand in front of the other with the fingers going in opposite directions. When the user thrusts their hands forward, they call the name and fire a beam of yellow, white, or orange energy.

* **Scatter Shot** - First, Piccolo swings his arms apart and charges an energy sphere in each hand. Then, he yells "Scatter Shot!" as he fires multiple energy spheres against the opponent, inflicting a huge amount of damage.
	+ **Hellzone Grenade** - Piccolo charges up and fires several energy spheres randomly in the opponent's direction, disregarding accuracy and with no intent on actually hitting the enemy. With efficient ki control, the multiple energy spheres are suspended in the air, completely surrounding them. Finally, Piccolo commands the energy spheres, which change from a yellow to purple color, to rapidly spin around the opponent and inevitably rain down on them with a vicious onslaught from every direction, filling the sky with a blinding light and inflicting a massive amount of damage.
* **Rapid Fire** - The user charges energy spheres in his hands and fires them one after another, inflicting a great deal of damage.
* **Risking it all for a friend** - A technique in which the user jumps in the way of an incoming Ki Blast to save another.

* Cloning - The general ability to split into several identical duplicates to fight as a group.
	+ Doppelganger - A cloning technique.
		- Tri-Form - A technique that allows its user to split into three identical duplicates to fight as a group.
	+ Multi-Form - The user powers up and splits into two, then those two split clones into four. Unlike the Afterimage Technique, these are tangible clones, not just imprints left by speed. This technique has a quite obvious weakness, however. The four clones are created by the user's energy level divided into four.
* **Mouth Energy Wave** - The user blasts a large amount of energy from their mouth.
	+ **Explosive Breath Cannon** - First, Piccolo yells out "Die!" as he charges at the opponent and elbows them in their stomach before kicking them up into the air. Then, he flies after the opponent and double axe-handle punches them down to the ground, where he teleports beside them and grabs their arm. Finally, Piccolo says "I'll beat you to death!" as he punches the opponent in their stomach and throws them in the air before blasting them with a yellow Mouth Energy Wave, inflicting a huge amount of damage.
* **Demon Rend** - First, Piccolo punches the opponent in the face and knees them in the stomach. Then, he hook kicks the opponent away and extends his right arm to grab them before hand chopping them away.
* **Antenna Beam** - A bolt of electricity fired from the antennae.
* **Destructive Wind** - First, Piccolo holds both of his arms at his side and charges electricity around his body. Then, he pulls his right arm back and swings it forward to fire a funnel of energy-charged air at the opponent, inflicting a great deal of damage.
* **Eye Flash** - The user releases a bright flash of light from their eyes, temporarily blinding the opponent.
* **Eye Laser** - The user shoots laser-like beams from both eyes.
* **Thunder Shock Surprise** - The user shoots a lightning blast towards the target using both hands, and traps the opponent within an electric field.
* **Evil Containment Wave** - A technique designed to seal demons away by sucking them into a container with a special "Demon Seal" ofuda on it. The move requires huge stamina and endurance to perform, if user does not have enough life force they will die soon after performing it, despite the success of the technique.
* **Evil Containment Wave Reflection** - It allows the user to reverse and capture the user of an Evil Containment Wave into a small container.
* **Explosive Wave** - A technique where the user bursts out ki from all over their body in order to repel the opponents around them.
* **Afterimage Technique** - An ability to move so swiftly that an image of the user is left behind.
* **Magic Materialization** - A magical ability used to create physical matter out of thin air.
* **Telekinesis** - A technique that allows the user to manipulate objects and other people with the power of one's mind.
* **Portal Opening** - The technique is used when two users create an interconnecting energy beam to each other, which creates a gate between their two different locations.
* **Telepathy** - It is a way to communicate with others using one's mind. Users can also read the minds of the ones they communicate with, similar to telepathic eavesdropping.
* **Far-Seeing Arts** - Using this art, People in the higher realms constantly observe the situation in the lower realm.
* **All-Out** - A power up.
* **Kiai Defibrillation** - This is performed by placing one or both hands over the target's chest and performing chest compressions while releasing Kiai or weak energy blasts directly at the target.Bansho Fan

A mystical fan that raises a typhoon in one wave, a thunderstorm in two, and a monsoon in three. Used by Piccolo in *Dragon Ball Z Gaiden: Shin Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku - Chikyū-Hen*, Piccolo uses the Bansho Fan to quell a storm near a volcanic area.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Piccolo is very serious and keeps everyone in line. During missions, he works with Supergirl and Wonder Woman.

## Trivia

* Piccolo is named after the half-sized flute, piccolo, continuing his family's name puns based on musical instruments. In the series, it is revealed that his name means "another world" in the Namekian language. The phrase "Piccolo" is used to open the door of the Namekian spaceship.
* Piccolo is Akira Toriyama's favorite character. He explains thoroughly *"I believe mine would be Piccolo. He was the first character in my manga where I was like, 'He has a scary face, but he's so cool!' It really is cliché when bad guys turn into good guys, but it just feels great drawing it!"*.[9] However, he contradicts this in an interview with *Shōnen Jump* where he states that Goku is his favorite character in the series.[10]

* Piccolo has trained both of Goku's children: he trained Gohan to fight the Saiyans and Goten to fight Majin Buu. Alongside Goten, he also trained Trunks.
* Piccolo was temporarily the strongest Z fighter. After he fused with Kami, his powers surpassed that of Goku and Vegeta's Super Saiyan at the time.
* In the second half of the *Dragon Ball GT* episode "Raising the Stakes", when Videl is changing to her Great Saiyaman 2 outfit, a small Piccolo toy can be spotted in a box.
* Piccolo is one of several enemies or rivals to become an ally or friend. Others include: Oolong, Yamcha, Krillin, Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu, then Vegeta, Androids 16, 17 and 18, Majin Buu, and finally Nuova Shenron.
* Piccolo was the youngest villain in the series, being only three years old when he fought Goku (despite having the physical and mental maturity of a teenager). Conversely, his father was the *oldest* villain in the series prior to the introduction of the millennia-old Majin Buu, having been an ambiguously high number of decades old when he was released from the Denshi Jar.
* Piccolo was fittingly born on Piccolo Day, the holiday created by his father. He shares his birth date with his older brother Drum, who was born and died shortly before Piccolo was born.
* Piccolo's hobby is meditating in quiet places.[3]
* Piccolo's belt is usually colored blue in the anime, though a few video games (such as *Dragon Ball Z: Super Butoden*, *Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors* and *Dragon Ball Online*) have Piccolo wearing a red belt.

* In the old temple on Namek in *Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku* their are statues of Piccolo.
* Piccolo is one of the few Namekians actually seen consuming food, as he is seen eating a fish when he was a child.
* In *Dragon Ball Xenoverse*, he is revealed to also be fond of the special water found in the Time Nest due to its ability to cleanse the mind and soul. As a result, he considers the Time Nest as a kind of utopia for Namekians (due to the fact his people subsist on water).
* During the fight between him and Goku in *Dragon Ball*, as well as on the fight with Raditz when he loses his arm, Piccolo is seen with red blood. But later in the series, he bleeds purple blood. In Dragon Ball Super, he was bleeding green blood.
* Piccolo's favorite food is water (particularly the thawed ice water from the north area).[3]
* On the front cover of the VIZBIG EDITION of DRAGONBALL VOL. 12, Piccolo's skin tone is a pale bluish color.
* Piccolo is the only known Z fighter who knows CPR, as seen when he resuscitates Gohan and does multiple heart compressions on Goku after being hit by Hit's Flash Fist Crush.