Worst Dragon Ball Z Characters

The Top Ten
1 Chi Chi Chi-Chi is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.

Chi Chi's character is a poor one. Stupid, selfish and overall loud, very loud. Most people despise her because of that alone. She has an insufferably bad attitude that makes you wish she was right in front of you to tell her shut up. Before you defend her desire to make him smart with a good education. He was home schooled and sheltered. He demonstrates he is very socially inept in his high school saga to the point you'd just wish it would stop. He's even demonstrated that he does not know how to even cook. What's more making a child sit and study every single day with no exercise hinders the development of the brain. Her character is a pointless element of conflict overall. Her father is a martial artist, she was raised to be a martial artist, her husband is a martial artist as well as her in-laws Hercule and Videl. To break these traditions with her children despite the fact she willingly married a martial artist is purely selfish and only alienating her entire family in the process. Education is not a bad thing but it's a waste if you lack the knowledge to survive in the world which is something she fails to understand. I know Goku is most definitely not the most responsible parent, but she overall is worse. Why do you think we rarely see her in the series?

2 Pan Pan (パン, Pan) is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. She is the granddaughter of Earth's savior, Goku and the world champion, Mr. Satan. Pan's heritage is primarily Earthling, being the offspring of the Saiyan-Earthling hybrid Gohan and the Earthling Videl, thus making her 1/4 Saiyan.

The thing to remember about Pan is that she is a fictional character, and if she acts a certain way, it's because the writers wanted her to be that way. If she's bossy and whiny, it's because the writers wanted her to be bossy and whiny. If she never does anything useful, it's because the writers didn't want her to ever do anything useful. If she's significantly weaker than Goku and Trunks, it's because the writers wanted her to be significantly weaker than Goku and Trunks. And why would they want those things? Based on the legacy left by DB and DBZ, I'd say it's because the people involved with this franchise either can't imagine a female being useful and likeable, or simply refuse to do so. That's a reason to hate the people working on this thing, not to hate the character herself who, as an adolescent girl with super strength, would've been a great character in the hands of competent writers.

3 Hercule Satan

Halt your nerd rage guys, you should all note that, in the Buu saga, he actually developed into a decent person; he bought Goku time to charge up his spirit bomb, convinced the entire world to contribute their energy to said spirit bomb, and rescued Vegeta before the spirit bomb went down on Buu. He is not the worst fighter in the world; keep in mind he IS the legitimate world champion. We may mock him for being so damn weak compared to the Z Fighters, but his strength and durability are actually insane for an earthling. He took a punch from Buu to the face and survived! Additionally, he IS responsible for getting Android 16's head to Gohan, thus making him actually able to transform into Super Saiyan 2. I think we all sometimes forget what Hercule has contributed to the series; he's funny, derpy, and without him, the Z fighters, earth, and the universe itself would be no more.

4 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... read more

I hate how the new cool thing is to make goku look like the worst father/husband ever over some little things.

Slapping chichi though walls: it was an accident he wasn't used to his strength he even instantly apologized to her when it happened.

Leaving his family when he could see them: he stayed dead even though he could come back alive because he thought staying dead would keep the earth safer. Most of the huge threats in DBZ where after goku or came to earth because of him. It's not that far fetched to believe that him staying dead would lessen that, right?

Saving hurcule & dende instead of trunks & his own son:
Come on! You could tell there was instant regret even before vegeta started yelling at him! Plus, he thought getting dende would make it possible for them to wish them back (yes that wasn't the case, but he forgot some important details).

Give goku a break for fss sake

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

So many people keep blaming him for having awoken Broly, which is in a mere movie and didn't actually happen in the canon manga. Just read the manga version and see for yourself, Broly doesn't even exist. Plus Goten is just a little boy, why do you keep blaming him for that? It's natural for a kid to react like that. And stop saying as if Broly wouldn't get out sooner or later.

I really don't understand WHY people prefer Kid Trunks over Goten. Is it because of Future Trunks? Because Future Trunks and Kid Trunks are COMPLETELY separated, different characters. Future Trunks DOES serve a purpose, Kid Trunks doesn't other than Gotenks. He is no better than Goten.

Alright. Chi-Chi is at the top spot, which is fine. But Goten deserves the second place. He's just the poor man's kid Goku/Gohan without any character development and the personality that made his father and brother so charismatic. The only purpose of his existense was being the fusion partner to Trunks.

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

Never understood why this man was never put in jail for his actions. I don't care how old he, it's the fact that he gropped 16-30 year old women's breast and butts. That's disgusting and that counts as sexually harassment. I mean honestly, you can't tell me that his whole character is creepy. What perverted old man lives miles away from the city on a small island and is addicted to seeing and touching young girls? CREEPPY. I'm shocked that he's not higher on this list.

Why is Bulma currently at #5 on this list and Master Roshi only at #11? Does that mean people see a problem with Bulma's behavior but not with that of a man who sexually harasses her? I realize the show plays up Bulma as a stupid teenage girl who doesn't deserve to be treated well and encourages the audience to sympathize with Master Roshi as a lonely old man who just wants to have a little fun, but you'd think people would be smart enough to see through that.

7 Bulma Bulma is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. Bulma is the most significant female character in the series.

Bulma is the best female character in DBZ. How is she on this list and up this high? She's nothing but useful and kind when needed.

Who opened her home to the Namekians when they had no place to go? BULMA.

Who opened her home to a murderous badass, risking her life in the process all because they needed him to help fight the Androids? BULMA.

Who builts the dragonball radar to find the magic balls Goku relies on so much? BULMA.

Who risked the safety of her only son to save Goku's ass from a virus as well as the future of their world and build a time machine? BULMA BRIEFS!

Who tamed Vegeta? BULMAAA!

Don't even get me started on how useful and brilliant she is in the recent movies and series.

How come dbz is so sexist? All the girls are useless weak powerless whiny bratty annoying and stupid. I mean the boys are always saving the day (how interesting.) but girls seem to be the background annoying people who get in the way. I bet they think girls got no power. Try watching Glitter force, sailor moon, and more. Girls are always using critical rods to rainbow Phoenix Fire to huger goddess princess fire. OP, huh? Well they at least never died..

8 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... read more

How Goten turned out clean and gohan turned out dirty.. He's weird and never ended puberty... I know so because he still has a high voice, not a deep voice. He married a little girl so he looks around 17 and videl looks around 5 or 7. That is bad, especially because they are still going through puberty and has a daughter..

How can anyone hate Gohan? : ( He's kind, humble, powerful, badass, well-developed, and an all-around perfect character. Doesn't deserve to be ten miles near this list.

Looks like the series completely lost hope for Gohan ever since DBS. Neither him, Vegeta, nor his father Goku deserve to be on the list, despite all of this.

9 Yamcha Yamcha (ヤムチャ, Yamucha) is a Bandit and a main protagonist in the Dragon Ball manga and in the anime Dragon Ball, and later a supporting protagonist in Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super, with a few appearances in Dragon Ball GT. He has black hair and has a scar across his eye and cheek.

I feel bad for the guy honestly. people say Bulma got the short end of the stick... well this guy was never helpful, always was the fall guy or the one who did nothing but die, went through a bumpy relationship with bulma for no reason/for bulma to just dump him for vegeta randomly, and was one of the weakest Z fighter (if not the weakest). Like I honestly do not know y they brought him into the show in the first place, as he seemed to serve no purpose but to be the #1 loser of the whole show.

Whenever there's serious fighting going on, Yamcha always seems to be the first person to be killed or incapacitated in some way. He hasn't been cool since like the fifth episode of Dragon Ball. When the gang went up against Emperor Pilaf, Oolong did more to save the day.

I'm so glad that on DBS, he isn't even on the team anymore. This dude is useless and had no purpose on the show or fighting for that matter. Any time there's a fight going on the rest of the gang can survive but this dude can't even survive for at least 2 minutes. Pathetic.

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

She did nothing to help the story. She always bullied Gohan and made his life hell. She's also arrogant, thing that she's the bee's knees, but Super Buu killed her anyway. Broly and Spopovitch made her look stupid too. And she made that brat Pan.

She's ok but she shouldn't have married gohan so pan wouldn't be here.. I pefer naruto since there's black pretty girls and dbz has ugly fat crappy looking buck eyed over sized Freakish demons from so called "HFIL" which sounds like hell. Good job dbz. Just kidding.

She's an awesome human & 1 of the better treated females in the show. She goes out to fight crime while she was still in school & speaks her mind. And she doesn't really like to put up with her dads bs. And she's one of the strongest humans too. Of course she's not as strong as a syain, alien, android, etc... but she even shows gohan that she can handle herself just fine.

The Contenders
11 Android 17 Android 17 is an anime fictional character from the anime series, Dragon Ball Z, created by Akira Toriyama.

Dumb child. Up to that point in the series, we had seen Demon King Piccolo with his Mutated Namek offspring, The diabolical Red Ribbon Army and their disciplined soldiers, the very wrath of Lord Frieza and his Galactic Military Empire, and Dr. Gero's genius scheme... Android 17 was the dumbest character to be introduced and he couldn't have been absorbed soon enough. It made it even dumber when he came back in GT along with the dual Hell Fighter version and combined to make the equally dumb Super 17 character.

What a boring character, couldn't wait for him to be offscreen. Android 19 had that amazing fight against Goku and Vegeta; Dr. Gero was a genius mastermind and mad scientist, and Android 16 sacrificed himself to set off Gohan's rage. Android 17 was just lame.

Stupid kid and lame. What was his point other than going against Gero and getting absorbed? The future version was more effective for plot but still sucked and got creamed by Future Trunks with ease.

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

He is the reason the buu saga waa so unbearable. On top of having a terribly uninspiring theme, he is a snobby over confident idiot, who somehow managed to get the worst qualities from trunks and goten. His double voice gave me headaches, his mastery of ssj3 put the entire power-up to shame, he has ugly old person looking hair, and deserved to die in the hyperbolic time chamber. Anytime he would open his mouth I would hope that Goku and Vegeta would come back from the grave to teach him respect, he further demoted Piccolo to babysitter AND pushover, and made me want to root for the destruction of Earth because even Super Buu had more redeemable qualities.

In short, he sucks and I hate him.

There is not one good thing about him. His incessant bragging in third person, his completely STUPID outfit (seriously, how do two gi's combine into a puffy vest and hammer-pants? ), the way we're expected to believe that combining two half-saiyan children can produce something stronger than a full-blooded saiyan adult, AND the B.S. way he can just so happen to mimic plot-specific abilities in a pinch make me wish they could have killed kid Trunks and somehow kept future Trunks, paradox be damned.

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

This guy was a bunch of wasted potential. It actually seemed like Goku and friends had to face an interesting dilemma: If they won, they would get the Super Dragon Balls, but they would also be trouncing Frost's efforts to benefit his universe, and they would potentially be ruining billions of lives. Then the writers completely tossed that out and made him a generic tyrannical overlord at the last second, just so we wouldn't feel bad about him getting his butt handed to him. And the reason that people hate this guy is because they think he cheated in the tournament, even though the poison was a natural part of his body much like Magetta's thermo-reactor.

This guy wants to CHEAT to defeat Goku and Piccolo? He should be #1

The only reason people like him is because he looks like Frieza, other than that he sucks

14 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.

Krillin had a brief rivalry with Goku when they first met and trained under Master Roshi, but they quickly became lifelong best friends.[8] One of the most powerful and talented Human martial artists on Earth, Krillin is... read more

Oh my I hate krillin because he is bald. He is technically the strongest human, helped Goku save the world several times, saved Gohan's life, fought Frieza, helped Goku transform in the most memorable anime scene ever, threw the spirit bomb, fought kid buu, but sure, he is bald.

He is a beta who put his friends and the entire planet on the line just because he had a crush on android 18. Plus he is incredibly useless.

Him taking on Blue when he still would be unable to beat Frezia in his base form has made him to unrealistic. Constantly dying. and having the most worst dialogue in the series.

15 Broly Broly is the main antagonist in the Broly Triple Threat trilogy and Dragon Ball Super: Broly movie. He appears to be the latest of the Legendary Super Saiyans who appear every thousand years. His father was Paragus.

Nothing says "whiny baby" like a fully grown man with nearly Hulk-level power and infant-level emotional maturity.
"Weeeh, weh, I'm crazy 'cause baby Carrot wouldn't stop crying, so I'm gonna seek revenge forever and ever and never forgive him! "
"Yeah... Our king tried to kill us and our planet was destroyed, son. Clearly worse has happened. Also, how could you remember something like that when you were only a few days old?! "

I like him. But I like him for how ridiculously over the top the film made him out to be, which is pretty much why half the world hates him.

OP and boring! Each Broly movie is more insufferable than the last.

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

Bulla isn't pointless or unnecessary. Her existence at the end of Z implied that Vegeta really settled into his life as a husband and father, and that he had the opportunity to become a parent again at a time when he was actually prepared for that role, which I think brings his story arc to a very positive conclusion. Although her significance is entirely symbolic since she doesn't do anything for the plot, there is definitely a good reason for this character to exist.

Bulla is such a dependent kid. She cannot fight and is practically useless and weak. So disappointing considering how powerful her father is. The one character I can call useless in every way.

The daughter of the baddest couple on the show; of course she's gonna be awesome.

17 Beerus Beerus is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama. He made his first appearance in the 2013 feature film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods.

I love Beerus the most out of all characters but he has a big issue. When Dbs first started we all were happy to see Goku and Vegeta appear. But then turned to a big disappointment when Beerus was their first big match just to get destroyed by him. He made them look bad. I prefer Beerus out of all the Dbs characters (Maybe not 17) but I wish they introduced Frieza first to give Goku and Vegeta a cooler fight. Maybe that would´ve spiced up Dragon Ball Super a bit more.

He's so annoying and is so bossy. He thinks that he is the greatest thing to ever exist and his biggest threat is like if I'm annoyed I'll just destroy you he thinks everyone is annoying

When I first heard about him, I tought it was going to be someone good, who really looks like god, but instead we get an dressed cat.

18 Puar

Puar isn't supposed to fight. Ya he's not the best (wait he is) bee and puar and adorable. Yet nobody but Yamaha the weak one likes him? Puar isn't supposed to fight you 4 year olds! It doesn't matter if he's weak he is not programmed to fight! And he is so compassionate, and you should've saw him when Yamaha died. I mean I didn't care but puar of course did. He has the sweetest voice and I almost thought he was a girl!

If you're reading this Akira Toriyama I only have one question why did you think it was a good idea to add a character with no use to the show once so ever then decide to give him one of the most painfully ear piercing anime voices ever please tell me why?

Unlike some other Dragon Ball characters who fade into obscurity, Puar was never important. He was never cool. He was never funny. He was never interesting. He barely has a personality besides being Yamcha's friend/pet and a sorta-rivaly with oolong, who is much funnier and more entertaining. In short, Puar is a waste of a character. Chioatz is almost as bad.

19 Chaoz

I think this character needed more explanation. Why does he look like a creepy levitating doll? Why does he never change mentally or physically? Is he retarded? Why are he and Tien so attached to one another?

Chiaotzu really should be higher on the list. The only reason he isn't is because he has two entries, one being misspelled.

He looks so damn pointless on DBZ. He did nothing noteworthy. He's pretty much a filler. At least Tien fought against Super Buu and Cell

20 Android 18

She's not that bad, I actually find her scarier when she was married to Krillin (Roshi found out the skull crunching way). Android 17, on the other hand, is an overrated moron! His plan to reach Goku at Kamihouse (which is in the middle of the ocean) is to drive there in a van, WHEN HE'S AWARE HE AND HIS SIBLINGS CAN FLY AT OVER MACH 9! It's no wonder Imperfect Cell choose to eat him first, it's to get him over with! Super 17 (basically C-17 and the lazily named "Hell-Fighter 17" combined) is even lamer, with his death by Goku - I mean "Kid Goku" charging through his belly being a complete rehash of King Piccolo's death.

I'm surprised she's on this list. One of the few female charactors who can actually throw a punch and hurt what she punches. She is pretty irrelevant at this point, but so is any non-sayian or non-part-sayian Z-Fighter. (Except maybe Piccolo)

She's become so useless and is only relevant if Krillin is on screen, which is not much.

21 Present Trunks

Like Goku is better than Vegeta, Goten is better than stupid Trunks. Smarter, way cuter and more powerful too. Poor Goten has a pile of poo for a friend, he deserves better than retarded Trunks.

He needs to be lower than 50. He's the coolest kid on the show. So young yet so handsome and badass! Definitely the most badass anime character's son.

He's a cocky, over-confident kid. He's the reason why Gotenks keeps messing around with Kid Buu and makes the situation worse. He took it from him.

22 Brianne de Chateau

Single most obnoxious character in the series and to be shown off so much and to be so powerful was disgraceful for the entire series.

Take her to the number one spot!

Should be in the top 5

23 Oolong

The episode that introduced Oolong contained a lot of pedophilic humor that was pretty gross. Afterwards, he went on to become the most pointless character in the entire series.

I know he's not as bad as Master Roshi, but if sexual predation is a worse offense than whining, he should still be higher than every female character on this list, even Pan.

Oolong is a coward he turns into a huge knight and then runs away and he's completely useless in Z.

24 Bio-Broly

A disappointing execution of an interesting concept.

25 Uub

Although he's said to be the reincarnation of Buu, he actually seems to be the reincarnation of Nam from Dragon Ball.

Bit of a random way to end the series.

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