50 Fun Facts About Dragon Ball Super

Which animal, modelled on a pet owned by creator Akira Toriyama, gives Dragon Ball Super's Beerus his look?

A cat it is: Toriyama based Beerus on his own Cornish Rex, which recovered from an illness so suddenly that the vet joked it was demonic. The studio's first draft of the god had looked like a lizard.

When Dragon Ball Super begins, which humble job has Chi-Chi forced Goku to take instead of training?

A farmer is what Earth's saviour has become, because Chi-Chi insists he earn a living. A reward of 100 million zeni from Mr. Satan soon buys him permission to go and train.

Free public screenings of Dragon Ball Super's final two episodes filled entire stadiums in which country?

Mexico filled stadiums with fans for the free finale showings, and screenings across Latin America each drew crowds numbering from the thousands to the tens of thousands.

Dragon Ball Super's Gods of Destruction and their attendants share a naming theme based on puns about what?

Alcoholic drinks supply the names, a pattern that began by accident when Akira Toriyama misread the name Beerus as a pun on beer. Later arrivals followed suit, such as Vados, from calvados.

Dragon Ball Super's opening story arc retells which 2013 film, the first to feature Beerus?

Battle of Gods and its sequel were both retold with extra scenes, which is why the first 27 episodes cover ground that cinema audiences had already seen.

Which fighter is the last one standing for Universe 7 at the end of Dragon Ball Super's Tournament of Power?

Android 17 outlasts everyone, Goku included, to win the whole tournament. Away from fighting he works as a ranger guarding rare animals on a remote island.

After training for the first time in his life, Frieza returns in Dragon Ball Super with a new form of which colour?

Gold skin replaces his usual white once he draws out all his latent power, the result of just four months of hard work by a tyrant who had never needed to practise.

Which attendant of Beerus in Dragon Ball Super is also his martial arts teacher and trains Goku and Vegeta?

Whis is so powerful that Beerus ranks his own teacher as the strongest opponent he has ever faced, placing Goku only second.

In Dragon Ball Super, what colour does Goku's hair turn when a ritual makes him a Super Saiyan God?

Red hair marks the god form, which needs five pure-hearted Saiyans to channel their power into a sixth. Vegeta later learns to reach it too.

In Dragon Ball Super, which God of Destruction of Universe 6 is the plump twin brother of Beerus?

Champa loses the tournament he stages against his brother's fighters, yet Beerus spends the winning wish on restoring Universe 6's Earth for him.

Which childlike ruler of all twelve universes in Dragon Ball Super befriends Goku with a handshake?

Zeno answers to the title Omni-King, and most characters think it shockingly disrespectful when Goku casually calls him Zenny, though the king takes to him at once.

Which stoic Pride Trooper from Universe 11 is the strongest fighter Goku meets in Dragon Ball Super's final arc?

Jiren has power said to rival that of the gods themselves, yet he stays mostly inactive while most of his own teammates are eliminated early on.

Which state, which even the gods find hard to master, does Goku reach in Dragon Ball Super's Tournament of Power?

Ultra Instinct was invented for the final arc as a deliberate break from the Super Saiyan forms: the writers wanted a power completely different from every transformation Goku had used before.

In Dragon Ball Super, which rogue Supreme Kai apprentice steals Goku's body and becomes the villain Goku Black?

Zamasu despises all mortal life, so he uses the Super Dragon Balls to hijack the body, then allies with his own future self in a plan to wipe out every mortal.

Vegeta finally loses his temper with Beerus in Dragon Ball Super when the god strikes which member of his family?

Bulma had slapped the god first, for ruining her birthday party. Seeing her struck in return makes Vegeta power up beyond anything a Super Saiyan 2 had managed before.

Which villain of three non-canon 1990s films did a 2018 Dragon Ball Super film rewrite into the official story?

Broly was reworked by Akira Toriyama himself, who wrote the screenplay and redesigned the character with his classic image in mind.

Which Universe 6 assassin in Dragon Ball Super wins fights by freezing a tenth of a second for everyone else?

Hit is more than a thousand years old and known for finishing targets with a single strike. His bout with Goku inspires him to stretch the trick to half a second.

Scattered across two universes, each Super Dragon Ball in Dragon Ball Super is about the size of what?

A planet is the scale of each one, and the familiar sets are mere chips off them: Namekians broke fragments from these giants to make Dragon Balls of their own.

Beerus first turns violent in Dragon Ball Super when a party guest refuses to share which dessert?

Pudding starts the fight: Majin Buu hoards the last of it, and the god attacks him for the insult. Trunks and Goten are later punished for mocking the obsession.

Which Japanese studio, also behind One Piece and Sailor Moon, produced Dragon Ball Super?

Toei Animation has animated Dragon Ball ever since the first series reached Japanese television in 1986, and its other series include Digimon and Slam Dunk.

What does Goku Black name his own counterpart to Super Saiyan Blue in Dragon Ball Super's Future Trunks arc?

Rosé is the name he coins himself once the battle with Goku lets him take full control of the stolen body. The pink-haired form then overpowers Vegeta and leaves him critically wounded.

Which fused warrior, formed by the Fusion Dance, wins the climactic fight of the 2018 Dragon Ball Super film?

Gogeta appears only on the third try: two botched attempts at the dance first produce a fat and then a skinny weakling called Veku.

In Dragon Ball Super's Tournament of Power, what fate awaits a universe whose entire team is knocked out?

It is erased from existence, with everyone in it. The eventual winner spends his single wish on the Super Dragon Balls to bring every lost universe back.

Beerus hypes which weakling as his team's strongest fighter in Dragon Ball Super, purely to motivate Goku and Vegeta?

Monaka turns out to be an ordinary mail delivery man. His only bout ends in victory because a far stronger opponent decides to take a dive.

Which humble young fighter from Universe 6 comes to see Vegeta as his mentor in Dragon Ball Super?

Cabba is as polite as most Saiyans are savage. He comes from Sadala, the original Saiyan home world, which in Vegeta's universe was destroyed by internal discord long ago.

Which Universe 6 counterpart of Frieza beats Goku in Dragon Ball Super by cheating with a hidden poison?

Frost is seen in a positive light by most of his subjects, unlike his tyrant double. Once the trick is exposed, Goku is allowed back into the tournament and Vegeta defeats the cheat.

Which member of Universe 7's team seals an opponent inside a small bottle in Dragon Ball Super's Tournament of Power?

Master Roshi wins with the Evil Containment Wave, then tosses the bottle out of the ring. The same sealing technique was once used against Piccolo's previous incarnation.

Which character from the comedy manga Dr. Slump sends Vegeta flying in a Dragon Ball Super crossover episode?

Arale is a little robot girl with super-strength, and Vegeta cannot cope with her cartoon physics. Goku recognises her at once, having met her in his youth.

Which sport do Universes 6 and 7 play in a comic Dragon Ball Super episode where only Yamcha has any experience?

Baseball suits Yamcha, a professional player in Dragon Ball Z, who scores the winning run while lying flat out at home base. The game is called off when two gods start brawling.

Dr. Hedo's rampaging giant in the film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is an improved copy of which older villain?

Cell was the work of Hedo's grandfather, and the grandson reluctantly reuses the old schematics. The result, Cell Max, is switched on by a furious Commander Magenta.

Whose rage erupts into a new form called Beast at the climax of the film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero?

Gohan snaps after watching Piccolo fall. Akira Toriyama tried drawing the form with a scary face, found that it did not suit the character, and added upturned hair.

Which former television director, who once drew Dragon Ball only as a hobby, illustrates the Dragon Ball Super manga?

Toyotarou assumed an official job was impossible and resigned himself to drawing for fun. Then he took his artwork to the publisher in 2012 and made his debut six months later.

Which veteran actress voices Goku, both of his sons and the villain Goku Black in the Japanese Dragon Ball Super?

Masako Nozawa has voiced Goku in every Dragon Ball anime series. Akira Toriyama chose her after hearing her audition sample, remarking that only Goku could sound like that.

Which programming block, an early American home of Dragon Ball Z, also aired the English dub of Dragon Ball Super?

Toonami first carried the dub as an 11:30 p.m. Saturday encore, after an 8 p.m. premiere on Adult Swim. The block had picked up Dragon Ball Z soon after its own launch in 1997.

Which Galactic Patrolman, the hero of a 2013 Akira Toriyama manga, becomes a recurring character in Dragon Ball Super?

Jaco starred in an eleven-chapter manga set before Dragon Ball begins, then crossed into the main story with the film Resurrection 'F'.

Dragon Ball Super was the first Dragon Ball anime to tell an original story since which series ended in 1997?

GT was an anime-only sequel that Akira Toriyama called a grand side story of his manga. For the 2015 series he wrote the plot outlines himself.

Which low-class Saiyan warrior sends his infant son Kakarot to Earth in the opening of the 2018 Dragon Ball Super film?

Bardock grows suspicious when Frieza summons every Saiyan home, so he and his wife Gine launch the baby shortly before their race is exterminated.

Which American actor, the English voice of adult Goku since 1999, also voices Goku Black in Dragon Ball Super?

Sean Schemmel has voiced the grown hero throughout Funimation's in-house dubs, while the child version of the character has passed between three different actresses.

Which ancient wizard, who drains the life energy of whole worlds, escapes prison in the Dragon Ball Super manga?

Moro had been sentenced to death, but nobody proved able to kill him, so he was given life in prison instead. A deity had sealed away his magic ten million years earlier.

Which stolen item lets Goku Black hop between timelines at will in Dragon Ball Super's Future Trunks arc?

Time Ring on his finger, he needs no machine to travel, and it also shields him from temporal paradoxes: he survives even when his own past self is killed.

Which Cerealian bounty hunter in the Dragon Ball Super manga wishes to become the strongest warrior in the universe?

Granolah pays dearly for the wish, which shrinks his remaining 150 years of life to just three. He wants revenge on Frieza and the Saiyans for massacring his people.

Which singer known as the Prince of Enka made his anime theme debut with Dragon Ball Super's second opening song?

Kiyoshi Hikawa built his fame on traditional enka ballads. The theme, Limit-Break x Survivor, has lyrics by Yukinojo Mori, who has written numerous Dragon Ball songs, the first opening among them.

Which Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor voiced a Dragon Ball Super villain under the pseudonym David Gray?

James Marsters kept the secret until 2021. He had played the demon king in the 2009 live-action film Dragonball Evolution, and took the dub role as a fan of the franchise.

To which harsh planetoid does King Vegeta exile a dangerously powerful Saiyan baby in the 2018 Dragon Ball Super film?

Vampa was chosen in the hope that the infant would die there. Instead his father crash-landed in a stolen ship while trying to rescue him, and raised the boy for revenge.

Which commander of Frieza's surviving army travels to Earth to wish his leader back to life in Dragon Ball Super?

Sorbet is warned by Shenron that the wish is futile, since Frieza was cut to pieces when he died. He goes ahead anyway and has the remains put back together.

Which Japanese actor, also the voice of Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel, plays Beerus in Dragon Ball Super?

Koichi Yamadera is also the official Japanese voice of Donald Duck and the regular dubbing artist for Will Smith, Eddie Murphy and Jim Carrey.

Which Frieza Force soldier steals and breaks the remote controlling the wild Saiyan of the 2018 Dragon Ball Super film?

Cheelai later saves his life as well: with a partner she summons Shenron and wishes him safely away just as a finishing Kamehameha is about to land.

Which long-running yokai anime took over Dragon Ball Super's Sunday morning slot on Fuji TV in April 2018?

GeGeGe no Kitarō launched a new series on April 1, 2018, one week after the Tournament of Power reached its end, and ran for two years.

Which setting, chosen so fighters can use their full power, hosts Dragon Ball Super's Tournament of Power?

Null Realm conditions ground almost everyone: only deities and natural fliers can fly freely there, so a fighter knocked off the arena has no way back.

Which granddaughter of Goku is kidnapped as bait by the villains of the film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero?

Pan proves a poor choice of hostage, knocking out the henchman Carmine when he tries to kill her. The kidnap is staged to lure her father into a trap.