Even into Dragon Ball Z , Launch continues to appear, albeit in a less prominent capacity. Developing a crush on Tien a more age-appropriate partner, admittedly , Launch begins to dote on the triple-eyed Z-warrior and is seen drinking in a bar after Tien is killed in the battle against the Saiyans.
Strangely, however, Launch is never seen again other than in flashbacks. The audience might assume that she simply moved on from the Z gang after Tien's death , but it's still unusual for a long-running character to be written out of Dragon Ball without a clear explanation. Toriyama goes on to say that by the time Launch factored back into his thinking, the Super Saiyan transformation had been introduced, and the blond-haired power-up was too similar to Launch's gimmick to reintroduce her.
Fortunately, Toriyama didn't completely abandon Launch. If you do, you must know the history of the mysterious character, Launch. We will let you know here in this section. Launch is a female anime character in the famous Dragon Ball Z series. With a distinctive disorder, Launch has two personalities.
A charming and innocent one with blue hair, and a short-tempered and irascible one having blonde hair with a gun-totting crime record. She shifts into two characters whenever she sneezes. Launch usually has a red ribbon in her hair. The outfit of the character often changes, however.
The charming looking persona of the character is portrayed as a pure-hearted and lively-looking character flying Nimbus with Goku. The other side of the character has a deadly secrete. The character is revealed as a vicious, violent, and hardened heavily armed criminal which pops up almost instantly without warning.
Although Launch was not the main character of the series, Launch played a perfect ever-present supporting role for most of the series of Dragon Ball. She was a sight of comic relief with her unpredictable personality. Saiyan are innately assertive combatants who thought that they were the strongest combatants in the world. Saiyan played a central character in Dragon Ball Z. The question is, is Launch a Saiyan? Well, the general theory is that Launch is just a woman with strange personalities in which she continuously shifts from being innocent, peaceable blue haired with blue eyes to a violent ragged blonde-haired character with green eyes.
The problem with this theory is this strange personality. Next, Launch is able to get the crowd into the front row by shooting a gun up in the air, causing people to get scared and move.
She cheers for her friends and sneezes at times, appearing either in her good side or bad side in the crowd. Later on, when Goku was matched against Pamput , Pamput's manager tricked Goku into leaving the arena so he would be disqualified for not showing to the match, but Launch who was getting ice cream at the time saw this and chased after the car on a motorcycle.
Launch chased them into an alleyway, and then beat up his bodyguards and the manager, allowing Goku to get to the fight on time. During Goku and Krillin's fight, Launch urges her friends to get some backbone and pick a side, while she chooses to root for Krillin. However, after the match is over, she compliments both of their skills and joyously wants to go out to eat to celebrate.
Launch goes over and tries to smash Chiaotzu with a mallet, but the Crane Hermit interferes with his pinky and easily pushes Launch out of the way. After the tournament is over, Launch becomes attracted to Tien. Main article: King Piccolo Saga. Don't talk like you're not comin' home. If any of you get splattered, I swear I'll fill you with so many bullets, you'll jump back to life just to beg me for mercy!
Launch is with the group when they find Krillin dead, and, even though she is in her bad form, she is just as sad as everyone else.
After Goku raced off to find Krillin's killer , Master Roshi, upon seeing the symbol on a piece of paper nearby, tells the group of King Piccolo , Launch finds his name stupid. Later on, while the group is still waiting for Goku to return, Launch is the one holding Krillin, she also tells Oolong that no one feels compassion for him right now.
Eventually, the group returns to Roshi's house. When Tambourine arrives to try and kill Yamcha, Launch shoots him with an uzi but the bullets do no damage so she flees. Launch, Bulma, Yamcha, Puar , and Oolong remain at the house, they even fight off three convicts who tried to burgle Kame House.
She claims that if King Piccolo hurts Tien, she'll make him pay by shooting at him with her gun, but just after she says that, she sneezes into her good side. Main article: Piccolo Jr.
There, they meet back up with everyone. When the gang has trouble seeing through the crowd, Bulma tickles Launch's nose with a plant, causing her to sneeze into her bad form. Launch then takes out a gun and starts shooting to make everyone move. With her friends, Launch spectates the fights in the tournament, cheering for her friends that are fighting, such as throughout matches between Tien vs. Mercenary Tao and Goku vs. Piccolo Jr. Main article: Vegeta Saga.
Launch is shown in the Mushroom Forest , fleeing from the police on her S-Cargo after she robbed a bank to buy food for Tien Shinhan. She manages to blow up one of the chasing police cars with her Rocket Launcher and outruns the other one. Later, she joins Tien and Chiaotzu, who are training by a waterfall, and screams Tien's name, bringing him out of his concentration.
When all of a sudden there is an earthquake and the waterfall bursts which heads at Launch. Tien quickly intervenes and saves her, making her blush while in bad form. After being saved, she sneezes into her good side and leaves.
While leaving, she spots a bunch of flowers and plays in them, but eventually Launch ends up sneezing back into her bad form and finds Tien and Chiaotzu again. When the two go to The Lookout in order to train for the battle against the Saiyans , Launch is seen at the Sacred Land of Korin , rummaging Bora 's tepee in order to find something that will help her climb Korin Tower and find Tien again, but Upa and Bora find her and they tell her to leave. She refuses and begins shooting at Upa with a gun, but Bora hits it away from her, and when she tries to get it back, she sneezes into her good side, frightening Upa and Bora.
Vegeta ". After Tien Shinhan is killed, she is seen in a bar drowning her sorrows and soon she feels the earthquake caused by the battle of Goku and Vegeta. Main article: Frieza Saga Launch does not appear again for the majority of the series, except in a flashback from Goku when he was losing badly against Frieza.
Launch's final appearance in the manga is actually during an extra scene in the Frieza Saga , the only instance where she appears after the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament. Main article: Cell Games Saga In the anime, Launch also appears in a flashback when the gang was having memories of Goku after he died saving the Earth. Main article: Kid Buu Saga. Although this did not occur in the manga by Akira Toriyama , it is one of the many filler stories written by Toriyama and his staff.
After this, Launch finds Tien Shinhan once again; she fell in love with him at first sight and had been constantly pursuing his whereabouts. He even reluctantly lives together with her, but she is not cut out for farming and Tien has no interest in romance, so she leaves after just a few days. After that, Launch apparently drops in from time to time.
Launch goes to the Devil's Castle in order to steal the Sleeping Princess , which is a giant jewel. But then, she sneezes and turns into her good side.
Launch as well as Goku and his friends are captured and encased in a wall of rock. It is the night of a full moon , and the moonlight used to power the jewel also turns Goku into a Great Ape. Goku grabs Launch, but he then returned to normal thanks to Yamcha and Puar. Goku and Krillin return to Kame House with Launch, and Master Roshi takes them both on as students, thinking Launch is the sleeping princess.
He then tries to take advantage of Launch, but she sneezes into her bad side and attacks Master Roshi, Krillin, and Goku instead. Then she sneezes back into her good side, and Master Roshi, Krillin, Goku, and Turtle back away in fear. Main article: Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure. I've never been here before! In the movie Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure , Launch is first seen eating with Roshi and his students when they hear sirens. Launch is worried it is the cops, but Krillin tells her not to worry so she relaxes.
Later on when Goku was matched against Pamput, Pamput's manager tricked Goku into leaving the arena so he would be disqualified for not showing to the match, but Launch who was getting ice cream at the time saw this and chased after the car on a motorcycle.
Launch chased them into an alleyway, and then beat up his bodyguards and the manager, allowing Goku to get to the fight on time. During Goku and Krillin's fight, Launch urges her friends to get some backbone and pick a side, while she chooses to root for Krillin.
However, after the match is over she complients both of their skills and joyously wants to go out to eat to celebrate. Launch goes over and tries to smash Chiaotzu with a mallet, but the Crane Hermit interferes with his pinky and easily pushes Launch out of the way. After the tournament is over, Launch becomes attracted to Tien.
Launch is with the group when they find Krillin dead, and, even though she is in her bad form, she is just as sad as everyone else. After Goku raced off to find Krillin's killer , Master Roshi, upon seeing the symbol on a piece of paper nearby, tells the group of King Piccolo, Launch finds his name stupid.
Later on, while group is still waiting for Goku to return, Launch is the one holding Krillin, she also tells Oolong that no one feels compassion for him right now. Eventually the group returns to Roshi's house. Launch, Bulma, Yamcha, Puar , and Oolong remain at the house, they even fight off three convicts who tried to burgle Kame House.
Launch spectates the fights in the tournament. Tien shows no interest in Launch then or in Dragon Ball Z , and he is actually happy when she decides to leave after sneezing and becoming the Good Launch he found Bad Launch very annoying. She is first seen fleeing from the police on her S-Cargo. She blasts the chasing police cars with her bazooka. Later she finds Tien and Chiaotzu training by a waterfall when she screams his name and brings him out of his concentration. When all of a sudden the waterfall bursts and is heading at Launch, Tien quickly intervenes and saves her, making her blush while in bad form.
After Tien Shinhan is killed, she is seen in a bar, drowning her sorrows. Then feels the earthquake caused by the battle of Goku and Vegeta. She does not appear again for the majority of the series, except in a flashback from Goku when he was losing badly against Frieza.
She seems to have aged somewhat. Although this did not occur in the manga by Akira Toriyama, it was one of the many filler stories written in the Goku Densetsu book by Toriyama and his staff. Launch's final appearance in the manga was actually during a filler scene in the Frieza Saga, the only instance where she appeared after the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament.
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