Top Ten Underrated Dragon Ball Z Characters

The Top Ten
1 Zarbon Zarbon is Frieza's right hand man and highest ranking Commander and General in an army of millions. He is always beside his master and emperor, Lord Frieza, following his orders and carrying out his dirty work alongside his comrade, Dodoria. Zarbon is responsible for advising Frieza on numerous matters, ...read more.

Zarbon has an excellent persona and villainous attitude. He's also got a great design and he's a morally complex character overall when it comes to both his elegant form and his monstrous deadly form. Aside from the fact that he serves Frieza with utmost loyalty, he's also one of the most brutal tacticians and military commanders in the entire universe.

Zarbon is responsible for telling Frieza to eliminate the Saiyan race, goes about pounding Vegeta's daylights in the most brutal fight scene in the entire series, and has likely the most exciting death scene in the entire series as well.

Zarbon wins on so many levels; be it by appearance, persona, or the story. As an elite military General or just plain knockout by design, Zarbon not only propelled much of the story of Dragon Ball by causing the Saiyan Genocide alongside Frieza, he did with a style and grandeur that lasted until the end of the Frieza Saga.

Zarbon is a lover of beauty and holds a dormant power, the ability to transform into a reptilian beast. He is the deadly dynamic of the combination of the beauty and the beast and the most mysterious yet demonic, ruthless, and brutal villain in the series.

2 Piccolo Piccolo is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. He first appeared in chapter 161 of the Dragon Ball manga in the Shonen Jump magazine on February 22, 1988. He is a member of the alien Namekian race and has abilities such as ki manipulation, regeneration, telepathy, flight, and superhuman hearing.

One of the smartest fighters. Has gone through massive character development in terms of both personality and power.

He is my second favorite character in Dragon Ball.

3 Dodoria Dodoria is one of Frieza's top two right hand men and in an army of millions. He is always beside his master and emperor, Frieza, following his orders and carrying out his dirty work alongside his comrade, Zarbon. Dodoria is responsible for advising Frieza on numerous matters and remains loyal to Frieza throughout the entire story arc, executing young Namekian children and elderly, collecting the Namekian Dragon Balls, and in general, offering his efforts to increase Frieza's reign in the galactic planet trade. As a brutal warrior, several years ago Dodoria ruthlessly carried out the execution of Bardock's team of elites as they were growing powerful and becoming a threat to Frieza's power. ...read more.

Ruthless and vicious, Dodoria is the massive brute of the Frieza team; Zarbon being the calm adviser and Frieza the sinister tyrant.

Awesome ruthless warrior and loyal servant! Love his vicious and savage tendencies.

4 Gohan Son Gohan is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. Gohan is introduced as the first son of the protagonist Goku, and his wife Chi-Chi, in chapter #196 Kakarrot, first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on October 24, 1988. Chi-Chi is a strict and protective mother to Gohan, forcing him to focus on his studies and forbidding him from practicing martial arts. However, due to the various threats to the Earth, she reluctantly allows him to fight, with him ultimately becoming one of the strongest characters in the series. Gohan has been well received by both fans and critics, the latter usually citing the character's growth from his initial appearance ...read more.

He stopped cell, and could do so by himself(but needed emotional help), trust me if you paid attention he had the power to by himself, but his dad's ghost helped him in the attack

5 ChiChi

She and Goku actually had good values. ChiChi even taught good values to her sons. But people could not understand that. It was not that ChiChi didn't want Gohan to not protect earth. There were thousands other reasons. Even Goku had reasons to go to train but does not mean he never loved his family. Swines Vegeta and Bulma spoilt Trunks. Trunks became arrogant and stupid because of them both because immature fans could not understand.

She's arguably the most levelheaded character in the show.

6 Bardock Bardock is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama. He is the father of Goku. ...read more.
7 Trunks Trunks is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.

Future Trunks is way stronger than most people say he is, I mean in Xenozerse he held his own agents Bill, and he didn't even go super Saiyan... That's right Goku went super Saiyan God to handle agents Bill

Also Future trunks had no real time to train before the cell saga, because 1 he wasn't born 2 we had to hide from the OP androids(and cell later), but over took all three after he returned

8 Krillin Krillin (クリリン, Kuririn) is a supporting protagonist in the Dragon Ball manga, and the anime series Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super. ...read more.

He is overhated.

9 Master Roshi Master Roshi is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.

He learned Goku the Kamehameha.

10 Whis Whis is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Super, created by Akira Toriyama.
The Contenders
11 Vegito Vegito is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.

Not most underrated,but definitely needs to be a little higher.

Really underrated

12 Raditz Raditz is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.

We didn't see any of him after the beginning of dbz even though he was goku's only surviving family member

13 Yamcha

I really do like Yamcha, I feel like he gets a lot of hate for being weak. Yeah I get it, he's lost a few times but he is far from weak. I think he brings a lot of humour to Dragon Ball and I feel like he should be used more to be honest.

Yamcha is extremely underrated He took on olibu with ease and olibu was equal to pikkon so yamcha is by far not weak.

14 Uub

Super needs to give Uub a big role, I feel like they will. A lot of characters have been forgot about and left behind to be in the background but Uub has been talked about in Super so we know that he will be in it, I just hope he has a big role like he deserves.

15 Captain Ginyu Captain Ginyu is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.
16 Tenshinhan Town is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.

Strongest human, smoked cells 2nd form

17 Goten Goten is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.

Goten is son of Goku, of Gohan and
the youngest super saiyan. He had more potential. I am not saying as much as Goku or Gohan but neary equal.

18 Cui

Cui had that great side story with Vegeta and he was great because of how he challenged Vegeta and was executed after attempting to flee.

Third highest ranking commander in Frieza's army, directly under Zarbon and Dodoria and leads squadrons to conquer planets under Frieza's reign.

19 King Cold
20 Cell Cell is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball series by Akira Toriyama. He is the main antagonist of the Android Saga, being an android/artificial life form from the future, whose goal is to become "perfect" via absorbing Androids 17 and 18 and becoming the strongest fighter in the universe.
21 Frieza Freeza (Pronounced "Frieza" in the Funimation dub) is fictional character in the Dragon Ball series by Akira Toriyama as the primary antagonist of the Freeza Saga. He is a galactic tyrant who governs the Planet Trade Organization and is feared by the universe for his sadistic and brutal nature. He is ...read more.
22 Goku Son Goku (Kakarrot) is the main protagonist in Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. He has many abilities like, super strength, utilization of ki, flight, teleportation, super speed, enhanced reflexes, and Super Saiyan transformation that increase strength, speed, and durability. His real name was suppose to be Kakarrot because that's his Saiyan name, and he is the son of Badrock, and Gina. His brother was Raditz. When they sent Goku (Kakarrot) to Earth his grandfather Gohan took care of him. Later on Goku didn't realize it when he was a kid, but he killed his grandfather Gohan because it was a full moon, and Goku looked at it, so he turned into a giant ape.

Many people misunderstood Goku about being bad father.

23 Burter Burter is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.
24 Jeice Jeice is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.
25 Recoome Recoome is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.
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