"It's the star from this solar system. Maybe I'll just blow that up instead and let them all freeze to death in darkness. Wait a second - I'm headed right for it!" |
The Sun (太陽 Taiyō) is the star at the center of the Solar System.
Overview[]
The Sun as shown in Dr. Slump
In Dr. Slump and The Adventures of Tongpoo, the Sun is shown as a living being with a face, which is not carried over to its appearances in the Dragon Ball series.
Baby sent to the Sun
The Sun has a minor role in several of the Dragon Ball movies: in Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle, Lucifer wanted to get rid of the Sun so he can take over the Earth. Lord Slug blocked out the Sun with a cloud produced by a special machine so that his henchmen could survive on Earth without their special equipment. Later in the movie, Goku used the energy of the Sun to make a Spirit Bomb and destroyed the machine and Slug along with it. Cooler (in Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge), Broly (in Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming), and Baby (in Dragon Ball GT) are all defeated by being blasted into the Sun, each by a different variation of the Kamehameha. Ironically, in the Funimation dub of the first example, Cooler considered destroying it to have the planet and any surrounding planets freeze in the resulting darkness, although he was forced to discard this plan when realizing that he himself was headed for it.
The Sun is frequently used to assist in the Solar Flare version used by Krillin and Cell.
Suns of the universe[]
Planet Vegeta's two suns
There are several other suns in the universe. Namek has three suns and Planet Vegeta has two suns. Planet Brench is also located in a solar system with two suns. There are several suns in the Sacred World of the Kai, but only one gigantic sun in the Other World which rotates around Heaven. Beerus' planet has two suns but at some point, in time, he destroyed both until Whis did Temporal Do-Over, gaining the suns back. In Dragon Ball GT, there is a sun behind of the Deserted Starship which is 70x Earth's normal gravity.
Video Game Appearances[]
The Sun as represented in Dr. Slump is shown in Dragon Ball: Daimaō Fukkatsu, in the Penguin Village stage background in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, and in Dr. Slump: Arale-Chan.
Voice Actors[]
- Japanese: Toshio Furukawa (1981 Dr. Slump and DB), Shinichiro Ohta (1997 Dr. Slump)
- English: Steve Sanders † (DB), Phil Parsons (DBS)
Gallery[]
 The Sun in The Adventures of Tongpoo .png "Sun(DSremake).png (133 KB)") The Sun in the Dr. Slump remake  Two suns seen from Planet Plant  Goku under the morning sun  A sunset behind Piccolo and Gohan _20120418-20573370.jpg "Dbz246(for dbzf.ten.lt) 20120418-20573370.jpg (6 KB)") The sun during the Fusion Saga .png "VegetaSunlight(Ep288).png (214 KB)") Vegeta watches a sunset  Planet Rudeeze's three suns  A large sun behind of the Deserted Starship  Cooler sent to the Sun in Cooler's Revenge  New Namek's sun being eclipsed by the Big Gete Star in The Return of Cooler  The Sun in Broly - Second Coming  Broly blasted though the sun in Broly - Second Coming .png "Sun1(BoG).png (678 KB)") The sun in Battle of Gods  An image of Future Goku appears in the sunset in The History of Trunks .png "Final(AEoB).png (473 KB)") Bardock walking into the sunset in Episode of Bardock |