When they were trying to get him to teach them martial arts early in Dragon Ball , Goku and Krillin had to bring him an attractive woman to keep him company.
They encounter Launch, who was a wanted criminal in her blonde form. She frequently robbed banks at gunpoint and frequently got into heated firefights with local law enforcement. However, whenever she sneezed, Launch would transform into a meek, purple-haired woman leading Goku and Krillin to take her to Roshi's island leading to the start of her joining the main cast. The group quickly discovered that Launch's abrupt transformations were linked to her frequent, unpredictable sneezes, with the blonde Launch reemerging and attacking them.
Eventually, the blonde Launch grew to no longer attack Roshi and the others on sight, apart from the occasional comically violent outburst as the series progressed. Then, by the time he remembered Launch, the artist felt her 'bad state' was too similar to the all-powerful Super Saiyan form.
However, Toriyama did confess Launch reentered his mind at one point. The artist included the heroine in his made-up take on Tenshinhan's epilogue life. Toriyama said the martial artist would be found by Launch who "fell in love with him at first sight and has been constantly pursuing his whereabouts. Dragon Ball Super recently kicked off the 'Universal Survival' saga. 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.
Then, some guys with guns walk in and one of them think Goku is Launch's kid, which gets Launch angry and calls him an idiot. When a really large man comes and attacks the restaurant they are in, Launch tries to shoot him down with her machine gun, but with no success. During the film, Launch demonstrates more reserve and compassion in her violent state than normally expected, especially considering that she is one of the lead characters here and is only seen in her innocent state during an early scene in the film.
Oolong and Puar shapeshift to look like Shen and Chiaotzu, and Launch and Bulma claim to be their nuns. When asked where they are from, Launch angrily states that it doesn't matter.
She then grabs a necklace she likes from a woman, which frightens Bulma, Oolong, and Puar. Main article: Dr. Launch's good state makes a cameo appearance in the audience of a performance at Yapaiya castle attempting to make Princess Puruah laugh. She attends Mr. Satan 's banquet at his newly made hotel in celebration of defeating Buu.
The celebration is then crashed by a brother duo, Abo and Cado , whom are after Vegeta 's brother, Tarble. The brothers are challenged by Goten and Trunks but they fail in defeating them. The brothers, merged as Aka , unleash a technique that destroyed the hotel. Aka gets defeated by Goku with a Kamehameha.
After this encounter, they continue their feast. Main article: Dragon Ball Online Launch makes the news in Age , somehow, as she jailbreaks successfully for the th time. If spoken to she reveals her getaway car she was carrying loot in from her recent heist ran off into the ravine as she was trying to get away from the authorities.
If the player follows her car's tracks they can find it at the bottom of the ravine where they can collect the items from her heist.
Launch, however, is properly introduced during the Intermission following the Saiyan Saga. After meeting Master Roshi at Kame House, he tells Gohan he sent Krillin and the others to search for Launch as he is afraid she might have gotten into trouble during the Saiyan Invasion due to her chasing after Tien. He then tells Gohan he heard that a woman fitting her description was seen near West City and plans to tell the others when they get back but Gohan offers to check himself.
Master Roshi gives him a description of Good Launch but fails to mention her personality shifts and hair color change to Gohan. However, this causes Gohan to step in to protect the woman he thinks is Launch.
After defeating the robots, Bad Launch mentions he reminds her of Goku and Gohan asks how she knows his dad.
She explains that the couple stole her map and she was trying to get it back. Launch conspicuously disappeared from the series as she was largely forgotten by the creator of the series, Akira Toriyama. She was overlooked by one of the creators. The most outstandingly bad example of this is of course the enigmatic character of Launch.
Being part of the early days of the series, the fan-favorite dual personality character was completely hobbled into the background with the eventual loss of the character being forgotten as the story grew. You love anime characters. 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.
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