Piccolo

**Piccolo Jr.**, usually just called **Piccolo** or **Kamiccolo** and also known as **Ma Junior**, is a Namekian and also the final child and reincarnation of 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, he was the main antagonist in the final saga of *Dragon Ball*, the Piccolo Jr. Saga, and was thus a ruthless enemy of Goku.

However, starting with the first saga of *Dragon Ball Z*, the Raditz Saga, he began to lose all villainous traits, and when he started training Goku's son Gohan during the Vegeta Saga which led to the two developing a strong bond with each other, he became a permanent member of the Dragon Team and eventually one of Earth's greatest heroes.

He is one of the Husbands of Luna Ordeis and by extensions one of the Fathers of Adam Ordeis.

## 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, a rounder chin, and a straight nose.

Piccolo has five fingers with white nails.

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, pointy orange shoes and sky blue obi.

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 once in the series: when his cape is damaged while fighting Frieza in his second form.

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 becomes more low-cut like Goku's outfit, minus Goku's own undershirt.

Even though Piccolo Jr. discards his old symbol, he uses it once in the series when he made his pupil Gohan a uniform after his previous outfit was torn in a Great Ape transformation.

## Personality

Throughout the franchise, regardless of Piccolo's allegiance, his general demeanor has always been stern, if not grumpy, with an indifferent attitude towards others. Piccolo rarely smiles and enjoys solitude.

Piccolo is frequently seen meditating in quiet places and drinking thawed ice water in the north area.

However, he shows a noticeable cockiness when fighting.

He can also be very 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 as well as his lust/love for Luna Ordeis.

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 restraint and honor, as he for no reason saved a mother and daughter from debris during a storm.

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 a 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 the 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 time he was training Gohan, both Mr. Popo and Kami noted the change in Piccolo's personality with Mr. Popo noting he was no longer the Demon King of old referencing his loss of Demon Clan status and Kami himself surmised that he had the same premonition of death that Kami himself had and that Piccolo wanted to leave behind some kind of legacy even if it was in the son of his sworn enemy.

Around the start of Gohan's training Piccolo told Gohan that if he feels resentment towards him, then he should curse his own fate like Piccolo did, indicating Kami was right about Piccolo's motivation.

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.

Furthermore, during the Fusion Saga, when Super Buu exterminates the human race with a single attack, Piccolo drops to his knees, both in shame for suggesting Buu to kill more humans (believing that it was necessary in order to bide time for Goten and Trunks to train, and as the Earthlings could be restored to life with the Dragon Balls) and horror, with Piccolo desperately hoping for redemption and vowing to bring them all back to life.

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 since Namekians lack romantic relations. (At least until he entered a relationship with Luna alongside Goku).

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.

Unlike most Namekians, Piccolo has a history of consuming solid food in addition to the Namekian's normally liquid diet of water.

As a child, he is seen catching and eating a fish. Even after it is revealed Namekians only require water to survive, Piccolo occasionally eats solid food.

In *Dragon Ball Super* he can be seen occasionally with a plate of food during various social gathers implying Piccolo eats socially. However, his favorite food is water from the Northern Mountains indicating he still retains a normal Namekian diet in addition to eating solid food.

## Powers & Abilities

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.

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 in order to combat the Androids.

Through the rest of the series, he has tended to rank in power below Goku and Vegeta but above Tien and Krillin.

His special techniques often allow him to damage opponents with raw power higher than his own by concentrating it into a single attack, most notably the Special Beam Cannon.

Like his father, Piccolo was a challenging opponent for Goku, who barely managed to defeat him with a flying headbutt.

His power level in early *Dragon Ball Z* is 322, and without his weighted clothing it is 408.

His power was significantly inferior to Raditz, and Raditz' superior speed allowed him to dodge Piccolo's stronger attacks.

Piccolo was able to generate an attack with a power level of 1,330 to kill Raditz and Goku after significant charge time.

However, he managed to overcome Raditz only with the assistance of Goku and Gohan, who had managed to weaken the Saiyan.

A year later, during the battle against the Saiyans, his power level is 3,500.

Even after all his training, Piccolo was unable to to land any serious damage against Nappa, even with help from Krillin and Gohan.

After training with King Kai and fusing with Nail, Piccolo was able to combat and gain the upper hand over Frieza in his second form, who boasted a power level of 1,000,000.

Once Frieza transformed into his third form, Piccolo initially believed that he was still the faster of the two, but was quickly proven wrong when Frieza trapped him in a torturous barrage of Death Beams.

In order to give Goku time to finish the Large Spirit Bomb, Piccolo (with energy from Gohan and Krillin) fought Frieza in his final form and managed to surprise him with a sneak attack before being overpowered.

After his training in preparation for the Androids, despite Android 20 absorbing most of his energy, once rejuvenated by a senzu bean, Piccolo was able to charge himself up to easily dominate Android 20.

This made Krillin exclaim that Piccolo reached the Super Saiyan realm of strength, though Vegeta was dismissive of this.

After fusing with Kami, he could defeat Imperfect Cell (with the population of Gingertown absorbed) while wearing his weighted clothi\\ng.

Later, after 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).

Unfortunately, he is still utterly dominated by Imperfect Cell, and even his most powerful attack was unable to damage Cell.

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.

After Goku surrenders to Cell during their fight, the evil Bio-Android states that neither Vegeta or Future Trunks compare to Goku at his full power, but in Dragon Ball Z Kai, he includes Piccolo (implying that Piccolo was comparable to Vegeta and Future Trunks at the time).

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).

In anime, Piccolo and the other Z Fighters fail to hurt Super Perfect Cell during his beam clash with Gohan; only annoying him, before being pushed aside when he flares up his aura.

Only Vegeta distracted Cell long enough for Gohan to finish him.

During the very beginning of the Majin Buu Saga, Piccolo is too intimidated to fight Shin, either due to his strength or godly status.

Against Babidi, Piccolo is able shake off the foe's magic attacks and breach his barrier, allowing him to easily defeat the wizard by cutting him in half.

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.

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.

In the anime, after Frieza's defeat, Piccolo begins retraining Gohan.

By the time of the Tournament of Destroyers in the anime, Piccolo was ahead of Gohan's base power, as after a match, only Gohan showed exhaustion.

During the tournament, Piccolo and Goku both rated Piccolo's power as insufficient to stand a chance against Frost, but Piccolo proved strong enough to hold his own, as well as possessing enough raw strength to hold Frost in place with one extended arm.

Frost also admitted that Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon would have definitely defeated him.

Additionally, Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon was strong enough to create a large hole through Vados's force field barrier, to the shock of Champa, who believed her barrier to be unbreakable.

By the time of the Tournament of Power, Piccolo's intensified training gave him an explosive boost in power.

Piccolo easily overwhelms Gohan in his Super Saiyan 2 form, but falls short of Gohan's reawakened Potential Unleashed form.

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 a 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 Dyrasem's assault; when fighting Rubalt, the two seemed to be evenly matched, but Piccolo managed to instantly knock Rubalt out of the arena 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.

Piccolo was also able to knock Xiangca out of the arena with a single *ki* blast.

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 is referred to as the mightiest Namekian by Baby - and a suitable opponent to test Super Saiyan Gohan's power on.

Piccolo takes a Kamehameha from Super Saiyan Baby Gohan and while he's not able to resist the attack from his possessed pupil, Piccolo was powerful enough the endure the attack even without guarding and while protecting 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 able 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.

* **Flight** - The ability to fly through the use of *ki*.
* ***Ki* Blast** - The most basic form of energy wave.
* ***Ki* Sense** – An ability that allows the user to sense *ki* and power levels.
	+ **Godly *ki* sense** – By the time of *Broly*, Piccolo has learned how to sense godly *ki*. Although it's unclear how he managed to do this, it's possible he gained or learned the ability from Kami since Kami was originally a deity and could likely sense godly ki like his successor Dende can.
* **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.
	+ **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.
* **Healing** - It allows the user to heal another being's wounds and restore them to somewhat full strength. Only used in the anime.

* **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 Beam Cannon** - A combined attack utilized by Gohan and Piccolo.
* **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.
* **Feel the Pain of the Namekians!!** - A technique used by Piccolo against Second Form Frieza where he rush attacks the opponent then blasts them with a powerful energy wave. Named in *Dokkan Battle* where it appears as Piccolo (Assimilated)'s Super Attack.

* **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. Used a similar move against Great Ape Gohan.
* **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.
* **Self Destruction** - In a final attempt to defeat Moro, Piccolo prepares a self-destruction technique, however he is stopped before he can activate it.
	+ **Final Explosion** - In a what-if scenario in *Tenkaichi Tag Team* where Piccolo is taken under Babidi's influence instead of Vegeta, Piccolo uses the Final Explosion against Buu.
* **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.
* **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.
* **Sonic Kick** - A Flying Kick forwards then backwards.
* **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.
* **Persuasion** - A user of persuasion are incredibly persuasive and are able to bring anyone to understand and feel for there viewpoint, and can convince others of virtually anything.
* **Illusion** - In the Z-Encyclopedia notes for the *Saiyan Saga Episode 3* entry in *Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot* it is stated that Piccolo did not destroy the moon, but instead created an illusion where it appeared destroyed.
* **Reverse-Side Sword Attack** - Used by Piccolo alongside Zoro in *Cross Epoch*.

## Family

* King Piccolo (Father/Past Life)
* Luna Ordeis (Wife)
* Adam Ordeis (Son)