Frieza (DuttPanda)

 ""I doubt I need an introduction, but just in case, I am the mighty Frieza, and yes, all the horrible stories you've heard are true.""

- Frieza to the Namekians

Frieza (フリーザ, Furīza) was the prince and the emperor of the universe, who controlled his own imperial army and was feared for his ruthlessness and power. He was the descendant of Chilled, the second son of King Cold, the younger brother of Cooler, and the father of Kuriza. Frieza is the catalyst antagonist of the entire franchise, as it is his actions that led to Goku arriving on Earth.

He is considered one of the greatest villains in the entire franchise and also one of the bigger bads in the history of anime as a whole. He was also the catalyst and perpetrator of many of the major evil acts in the Janemba Crisis, without confronting the Z-Fighters during the Battle for the Other World, and along with his humble minion, the Dictator, his plans came to fruition, and he rised as the new ruler of the Demon Plane after all the events clear, establishing his status as the emperor, transcending through the physical world. Appearance According to Akira Toriyama, Frieza's design is an amalgamation of what he thought monsters looked like in his childhood. According to the Daizenshuu, Frieza was also inspired by Toriyama's second editor, Yū Kondō. According to Daizenshuu 2, Toriyama was also inspired to create Frieza due to the events of the Japanese economic bubble that had occurred at the time he was writing the Saiyan Saga, with Frieza specifically being based on real estate speculators, which Toriyama claimed were "the worst sort of people."

Frieza is one of the villains in the series who possesses an entire range of transformations, each one being quite different than the others. It is implied by Vegeta and Frieza himself in the series that Frieza's fourth, most powerful form is actually his original form, with the other three being forms that suppress and conserve his enormous power. Frieza later confirms this while fighting the main protagonist, Goku. His forms seem to revolve around both western and Japanese concepts of demons. According to an interview done by Shonen Jump with Toriyama, Frieza's final form was purposefully made to look small and less menacing: Toriyama wanted to go against the expectation that villains and monsters become bigger and meaner looking the stronger they are. In his first form, Frieza usually wears battle armor with a purple chest plate. When in his true natural form and also his golden form, Frieza wears his race's ultimate Bio Suit, the Z Fighting Suit. When in his Mecha form his body is equipped with a permanent Cosmic Suit. A series of stamps showed "Ideal Boss Frieza", some depicting the tyrant wearing a black tuxedo with a white undershirt and a red tie.

Personality
At his core, Frieza relishes death, agony, and destruction, as he shows in his enjoyment of Planet Vegeta's annihilation, as well as his maniacal glee when twice attempting to blow up Planet Namek. He is noted as being one of the most sadistic characters in the series, and often tries to make his enemies suffer before he kills them. Like most other villains in Dragon Ball Z, Frieza has an ego to match his power. He also has a sardonic wit and explains in "Face Off on Namek" that the three things he refuses to tolerate are cowardice, bad haircuts and military insurrection, and subsequently declares that Vegeta possesses all three of these qualities.

He utilizes dark humor at times, such as saying "Long live the King!" shortly after killing King Vegeta, as well as singing "Pop goes the weasel!" after violently murdering Krillin (both are mentioned in the FUNimation dub only). Frieza is fully aware of his reputation for brutality, and makes no effort to deny it, as evidenced by his introduction to the Namekians. Despite his cold-heartedness and numerous observations by other characters that he cares about no one but himself, Frieza does make several displays of respect towards his father, King Cold. It is stated in a Budokai Tenkaichi 3 biography that Cold is in fact stronger than Frieza (though Toriyama stated that Frieza was always in a league all his own). His mention of his parents being able to cause pain to his true form, as well as Piccolo's statement of a stronger power being with Frieza during his arrival to Earth before Future Trunks' appearance, implies that this may be the case in the main series as well. However, this respect is not absolute, as even after King Cold is introduced, Frieza continues to dub himself the most powerful being of his time, despite his own admission that his father was able to cause him pain in his final form. In addition, when he was revived, he specifically refused his soldier's suggestion that they revive King Cold due to thinking he failed.

In a narrative sense, Frieza serves as a counter to the easy going, peaceful personality of Goku. He tends to react to any given situation quite evenly, and is only really driven over the edge once his full power starts to slip away and Super Saiyan Goku takes the upper hand in the final moments of their battle on Namek. Frieza is quite confident in his abilities, and often takes the opportunity to flaunt them (e.g. not using his limbs in some fights). For all of Frieza's power and arrogance, he is not so overconfident as to totally disregard potential threats to his rule, and sometimes displays what may be considered a paranoid attitude. He destroyed Planet Vegeta simply because of his nagging fear of the legend of the Super Saiyan, as well as the fear of a possible mass Saiyan revolt. Frieza is rather narcissistic and reacts violently to criticism. Unlike most other primary antagonists, he actually displays a very calm, civilized and refined demeanor, using very polite, regal, eloquent language rather than the more tough-talking style of most of the other villains. Despite these traits, he is quite cold-hearted, almost to the point of being machine-like in nature. He tends to view most problems and situations in an intellectual manner, like an academic or a professor, rather than as a manner of life or death (largely because his immense power causes him to believe he can easily defeat anyone the old fashioned way if he chooses to). Despite being very clever and intelligent Frieza's sheer power leads him to believe no force in the universe could challenge his authority since he extinguished Planet Vegeta, he typically underestimates his foes, resulting in his eventual downfall.

Following his crushing defeat on Namek, Frieza became obsessed with taking his revenge on Goku and his friends, as he headed to Earth as soon as he received the cybernetic modifications and becoming Mecha Frieza, believing the might his new cybernetic form was enough to challenge even a Super Saiyan. However he suffered another humiliating defeat at the hands of Future Trunks' Super Saiyan form which resulted in his death. After his transcension to Hell and the many years he stayed there, and suffering from the things he hated the most, like being treated inferiorly, constantly dominated by the Emperor Dabura's lineage, etc. All the years of such mental torture caused him to go through a breakdown, and he lost a lot of the pride and arrogance he held for himself, and realized that in order to counter his enemies, he needed to have the same amount of force, and Frieza begun his quest to regain his physical body, in order to grow stronger. After Dabura was possessed by Babidi, and Demigra took over as the Demon Plane Ruler, Frieza grasped the opportunity, and tactfully found his way into the Royal Army of the Makaioshin Realm, thus, complimentarily, regaining his body. Ever since then, Frieza regained his former glory and pride, however, in his search for power to momentarily crush the Royal Lineage and take over hell, he seemingly lets go of his plans of revenge against Son Goku. However, during the Janemba Crisis, seeking the perfect opportunity, and seeing that Goku and Vegeta were involved in the fray in the battle against Janemba, seeking the opportunity, he caused the Other World to be thrown into utter chaos, thus getting payback against the Z-Fighters for his shameless defeat.

After he gained the title as the Demon Plane Ruler and got a divine power up, Frieza hailed himself to the status of a god, and he decimated all the previous members of the Royal Lineage through wiping out their very existence. His god complex ascended to a new level, however, in fact, his newfound pride and glory refueled him to draw the Demon Plane and Hell to rise to it's former glory, and cause even more chaos, and because of Frieza fitting the role as the King of Hell perfectly, Supreme Kai could do nothing but form a mutual contract between Hell and the Heavens, thus proving that Frieza is a master tactician as well just by his status.

Dragon Ball Z
The events that are followed in the anime are in the same canonical path, excluding all the fillers involving Frieza and Cell allying together to cause chaos in Hell. Rather all this time, Frieza was desperate to find a physical body to grow stronger and crush Dabura as the Demon Plane Ruler, who constantly treated and beat up Freiza, making him feel inferior. After Dabura is possessed by Babidi in the Majin Buu Saga, Frieza got the perfect opportunity, and along with the dictator Adolf Hitler, he sneakily joined the ranks of the Royal Army, and obligatorily, received a physical body. From then onwards, Frieza trained hard, throwing aside all his ambitions of revenge temporarily, just to grow physically strong to outrank the entire Royal Army.

Techniques & Abilities

 * Death Beam – Also known as Frieza Beam, this is Frieza's favored killing technique. He extends one arm and fires a small, bullet-like beam of ki from his index finger. It is able to be fired very quickly while maintaining precise aim. It can vary from either an explosion or piercing attack; killing Dende and Vegeta, respectively in this fashion, and also heavily wounds Piccolo. Called Death Beam in the U.S. releases of recent Dragon Ball Z video games. His third form uses a variant of this attack called Crazy Finger Beam, where he fires continuous Death Beams all at once; this attack is used on Piccolo during the Frieza Saga.
 * Death Ball – Frieza creates a spark of ki lights on the index finger and, once enough energy is gathered, this spark may grow to the size of a small moon. When ready, this Death Ball is thrown towards the target. Typically, this attack is used to destroy planets or as a last-ditch effort to kill an opponent.
 * Death Saucer – Similar to the normal Destructo Disc (most commonly used by Krillin), Frieza's are faster, a different color (purple), and can be controlled remotely. Frieza creates two of these to hound Goku until he's sliced in half by his own attack. Named in the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi video game series. Frieza can also use the regular Destructo Disc.
 * Survivability and oxygen independence: Frieza can breathe without atmospheric air, enabling him to survive in space, which is why he is not afraid to attack a planet with the Death Ball. Frieza has the ability to survive anywhere, in any condition without sustenance, even the most horrifying injuries, a trait which was passed onto Cell. This is show when he manages to survive being blasted into Namek's core and then the planet exploding with him inside it, he still survives even with his lower body sliced off and half of his head blown off, while floating in the vacuum of space. His most impressive feat in this area being how he managed to stay alive and conscious even when sliced into small pieces by Future Trunks.
 * Bio Suit creation: Frieza's race possess the natural ability to grow natural armor that they can shed at any time. This is a form of biological cell creation and modification. He can even create biological protusions and weapons out of his own skin, capable of piercing through alloy or alluminium at maximum power.

First Form
In his first form, Frieza is a short humanoid being with a large chestnut-shaped skull with two horns that protrude at near 45 degree angles. He also has a tail with a spiked end, which is relatively thick in width, able to crack the ground when slammed, as well as having three talon-like toes. He has purple sections on his head, shoulders, and abdomen.

His pink parts with lines appear on his arms, legs, and cheeks as well as his lilac skin on his face, feet, and hands. He dons the wristbands and ankle bands with brown sections with lines on the front. He has red eye pupils and his lips are darker red. He wears the same upper-body armor and shorts that many of his subordinates (including the Saiyans) are shown to wear, and in addition with a red scouter on some occasions. His power level has been stated to be 530,000 by himself.

Second Form
His second form is similar in appearance to the first, except much larger, both in height and muscle mass, and a more mature-looking face. His horns grow longer and curve sharply upwards into near right angles. His armor cannot contain his form and shatters, leaving him with a new, white natural armor covering his chest and shoulders. He has purple sections on his shoulders and abdomen, and orange sections on his forearms and shins. His power level has been stated to be over 1,000,000 by himself.

Third Form
Frieza's third form is again more brutish, with an extremely elongated skull. His facial features contort and change, with his nose melding into his mouth to form a crude beak. His original horns recede and are now white in color, erupting in pairs along the length of his head. Two pairs of spikes grow out of his back and curve upward somewhat, and the armor on his shoulders fling themselves outward like shoulder pads. He walks and stands with a slight hunch, as if the strain of supporting his head was too much for even Frieza's own body to bear. Frieza stated that no one had ever seen this form before. It's unknown what the exact power level in this form is, but he is able to completely dominate Piccolo who had merged Nail (increasing his power to 1,200,000).

True Form
This form is also referred to as Super Frieza (超フリーザ, Sūpā Furīza). It is the form that Frieza was born in, thus being his "true" or "base" form. Drastically differing from his previous transformations, in his fourth form, Frieza instead regresses, with his former form cracking and shattering like a shell, becoming a sleek and short, white lizard-like, almost harmless-looking creature; his horns and spikes disappear and his physique becomes streamlined. His skin becomes pure, solid-white with purple sections on his head, shoulders, forearms, abdomen and shins with the lines on his cheeks remained intact. His arms, legs, cheeks, and tail is longer and white the lilac skin on his face, neck, hands, and feet. All injuries taken in other forms are healed. This is the form that allows him to reach his full potential. Frieza's regular final form is him using less than a third of his power. According to him, the only ones who have ever managed to harm him in this form are Goku and his father.

Because of his initial difficulty controlling his true power, Frieza's body is strained when unleashing too much power. Against Goku, he decided to use 50% of his power to ensure that his opponent didn't outclass him. He also noted that he has never had to power up to 50% to fight an opponent before, as everyone else was defeated by lesser levels of his power. When he finds that he is easily beating Goku at this point, he decreases his power slightly by an unknown amount and still outmatches him. Frieza later increases his power up to 70% to survive Goku's Large Spirit Bomb. Once attaining at least 85% strength in his true form, the strain of containing this immense power begins to noticeably effect Frieza's body, causing his muscles to increase. At 100%, his muscle mass becomes engorged compared to his previously sleek frame. With absolute strength, he is able to make Super Saiyan Goku struggle during the final battle on Planet Namek. However, due to the strain on his body, he is not able to fight at maximum capacity for long, slowly weakening. Also, Goku says he was holding back to test the limits of Frieza's full power until Porunga appeared. In this state, he obtains a light blue aura.

Mecha
Mecha Frieza (メカフリーザ), briefly referred to as Powered-Up Form by Frieza in the manga, is Frieza rebuilt with cybernetic enhancements by scientists after what remained of the still-living Frieza was salvaged after being physically ruined while caught in Planet Namek's explosion.

The whole of the lower half of his body, entire left arm, and right side of his face was replaced with scarring and metal accouterments covering what little was left of his organic self. These enhancements allowed him to exceed the limits imposed by his fully organic form, though by how much or in what way is unknown. In the English dubbed, this form has a slight mechanical sound to his voice.

Makaioshin
After obtaining the ultimate status of the Makaioshin Realm/Hell through becoming it's Absolute Lord/Emperor, Frieza received a divine power up through the collection of dark matter, and additionally, since there needs to be a dominant power entrusted to deal with the chaos caused in hell, the Kaioshins reluctantly donated a divine power-up to Frieza, extensively enhancing his power. Although there is no visible change to his appearance, his ki varies from a fiery golden colour to a dark black and purple aura, he is two times more powerful than a Super Saiyan 3 in his Makaioshin base now. If he were to hypothetically start training again, he would grow unimaginably stronger.