for Bulma Breif and Pan being bound and gagged in a burqa. Bulma is the most significant
female character in the series. Aside from Goku, Bulma is the single
longest-running character in the entire meta-series, being introduced in
the first Dragon Ball chapter and episode, and maintaining a prominent role until the final chapter of the manga and the final episode of DragonBall GT.
Her personality was based on the princess from Akira Toriyama's one-shot Dragon Boy and her appearance was from Plamo from another one of Toriyama's one-shots named The Adventures of Tangpop.
Bulma
has a temperamental personality while being very tomboyish and girly at
the same time. While known for her extreme intellect, Bulma is
considerably spoiled and vain, using her great beauty as an excuse for
her selfish behavior. Her selfishness prevented her from being able to
ride the Flying Nimbus. While in stressful conditions, she becomes
frightened easily and gets angry toward everyone including her allies.
Bulma tends to have a great deal of concern over her hygiene, frequently
complaining when circumstances prevent her from taking a bubble bath or
replenishing her beauty supplies, even when her hygiene is the least of
her worries such as being stranded in the wilderness.
Despite
her temperament, Bulma often displays friendliness and helpfulness
towards others. She tends to approach major situations rationally, often
making crucial decisions on her own, and she tends to be very
persistent in achieving her goals. As she gets more mature, Bulma
focuses on becoming a great scientist and helps out by creating and
fixing inventions that help the Dragon Team and her family. She is shown
to be very witty, usually teasing her friends, apart of being happy and
easy-going
Bulma enjoys strawberries, attractive boys and bubble baths. While dealing in certain social dilemmas, Bulma sometimes has to deal with using her sex appeal to get what she wants. Though she shows a strong annoyance to perverted men, she herself got infatuated towards any attractive guy she saw even in her early adulthood, even during the time she was dating Yamcha, whom she claimed she was in love with and intended to marry. However, she loses interest in him due to his lack of commitment to her and becomes more committed to her relationship with Vegeta. At times, she doesn't watch her mouth, which gets her into trouble.
Despite their rocky start and quarrelsome natures, Bulma
tends to have a unanimous relationship with Vegeta, which increasingly
improves after they get married. Bulma tends to take control over Vegeta
and often berates him for his rude behavior, yet she takes pleasure in
teasing him. Although they can argue often and despite him being a
former enemy to the Z Fighters, Bulma is very devoted to Vegeta and
truly loves him, even taking great pride at being his wife. After
becoming a mother, Bulma is a very loving one towards her son and
daughter, even though she demonstrated some irresponsibility when she
took Trunks to the Androids battlefield when he was a baby, but she
later learns from this mistake.
As she got older, Bulma was shown
to have some irritation towards her fellow Z-Fighters for constantly
relying on the Dragon Balls to revive people when dealing with a threat.
This eventually came to a head when Piccolo, Goten, and Trunks were
sealed inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber when fighting Super Buu, where
she called them out on their stating they'll revive Goten and Trunks
with the Dragon Balls in case they get killed, especially when Goten and
Trunks were children (also calling the rest of the Z-Fighters cowards
in the Japanese dub), after Krillin suggested that Piccolo, Goten, and
Trunks commit suicide and then revive them.
Though she is not a fighter, Bulma can be violent when angered and defend herself if need be. Several characters such as Krillin, Gohan, Goku and even to some extent Vegeta, are shown to fear her violent temper. When it seemed Frieza had been destroyed by the Large Spirit Bomb Krillin freaked when he remembered they had left Bulma all alone on Namek and Krillin even suggested that an angry Bulma is more terrifying than Frieza. Much later, Goku freaked out when he realized he had forgotten it was Bulma's birthday and even suggested she might be more terrifying than Beerus. Also, Vegeta adamantly refused to go training with Goku during Bulma's pregnancy because he feared she would never forgive him, although it's more likely that Vegeta wanted to be there for Bulma in this unsure time.
Even though she has noble qualities, she puts too high of an
emphasis on her appearance, which is possibly one of the reasons why
the Nimbus Cloud wouldn't allow her to ride on it. As she grew older,
she became so paranoid about losing her good looks that she went so far
as to collect the Dragon Balls simply to make herself look 5 years
younger, as in Dragon Ball Super: Broly, she had already collected 6 out of 7 of the Dragon Balls. It's also implied that she'd done this a few times before.
She
even angrily slapped the God of Destuction, Beerus for ruining her
party (however this was partially due to her belief that Beerus was a
friend of her husband's). Fortunately, Beerus responded by simply
slapping her right back, causing Vegeta to angrily attack Beerus in
order to defend his wife. Over time, even Beerus came to fear her temper
and often tries to avoid saying anything that will anger her. When she
finally comes face-to-face with Frieza after his revival and confronts
him along with the Dragon Team and Jaco, Bulma bravely confronts Frieza,
to the point of even addressing the tyrant impolitely and rudely.
However, her confidence and bravado were shown to due to her belief that
Gohan and the other Z Fighters were stronger than Frieza and quickly
lost her bravado (to the point she began speaking politely to Frieza)
when Gohan and Piccolo pointed out that Frieza had become far stronger
than he was previously. She even attempted to get Frieza to wait for
Goku, but when Frieza agreed to wait only ten seconds for Goku to
appear, she lost her temper and called him a stingy jerk (and in the
Funimation dub even said "Screw you!" to Frieza and called him names,
such as bastard and scumbag). On that note, in the Japanese version, she
was shown to use very coarse language at times, with a very notable
example of this being the aforementioned interaction with Frieza, where
she demanded bluntly that Vegeta and Goku return to Earth immediately
due to Frieza having returned from the dead, while describing him as
being an "evil, rotten, [censored]ing asshole", with Frieza taking
offense to the last part of the description (the Funimation dub tones
this down to have Bulma refer to Frieza as an evil scumbag instead).
Pan is
the granddaughter of Earth's hero, Goku and the world champion,
Mr.Satan. Her heritage is primarily Earthling, being the daughter of the
Saiyan-Earthling hybrid Gohan and the Earthling Videl, thus making her a
quarter-Saiyan. She's been stated to have inherited Gohan's great
potential.
She is the only child of Human/Saiyan hybrid Son
Gohan and the Human woman Videl, making her a quarter-blood Saiyan
hybrid. Much like her grandfather Son Goku (and unlike her father and
uncle Son Goten) Pan had a passion for the martial arts that was typical
of a Saiyan. Even at a young age, Pan exhibited incredible potential
that surpassed even that of her father's.
She regards the family
of Bulma and Vegeta as a family as well and may sport a crush on
Trunks. Her name derives from two traditions: Goku's family naming
system, based on foods, and Videl's, based on mythological and religious
tricksters. Like with Goten, Trunks and Bulla, it is unknown if she was
born with a tail.
While her power level is formidable and should
never be underestimated, she is also never shown to become a Super
Saiyan. Akira Toriyama has said he struggled with what she would look
like in that form, while fan speculation has placed Gohan's 'Mystic
Saiyan' mode, which involved SSJ-like power without the physical
transformation, as the cause for this. However, only a brief portion of
her life is ever depicted in the series, and since her own descendants
had this power, it remains possible she developed it later on.
During her first appearance toward the very end of Dragon Ball Z, Pan is an extremely confident child who is extremely independent for her young age, flying around the world without the accompaniment of any family or friends, showing little fear in the face of danger, although she will display behavior usual for her age, such as crying over losing at a fair game. She prefers to take control of a situation and takes credit for something she had little to no part in, such as collecting the Black Star Dragon Balls, like her maternal grandfather.
In Dragon Ball Super, as a baby, Pan was shown to be very playful and easily amused, smiling and laughing when Piccolo was making faces at her, whenever Gohan (in his Great Saiyaman disguise) and Mr. Satan are either play-fighting against one-another or chasing her around. Even as an infant, she took delight in fighting, which was seen when she playfully kicked Future Trunks, pulled on his hair, grabbed his nose, and tried to steal his sword. Gohan admits that he believes the reason behind Pan's brash behavior is because he gets soft with her and can't bring himself to discipline her, therefore she has been spoiled by her family since birth.
In Dragon Ball GT, due to her young age in the series, if the simplest of negative things happens to Pan, she can exaggerate its importance and set off her fiery temper. Simple mistakes, such as losing to a video game, can cause her to storm off or blame somebody else for her own mishaps without much of a second thought. Despite these tantrums, Pan does truly care for her family in her more sincere moments and will assist them any way she can. Pan is also shown to be a tomboy, similar to her mother, wishing to fight when she can rather than stand on the sidelines. She also is rather violent verbally and physically, not unlike her paternal grandmother Chi-Chi and Goku has even pointed out Pan's similarities to her grandmother. In the animanga, Pan refers to Vegeta as "Uncle Vegeta", even though they are not blood related, signifying a meaningful bond between Vegeta's family and Goku's in Dragon Ball GT, however their families are shown to have drifted apart by Age 889 as she and Bulma Leigh do not know each other. She is close friends with the children of the other Z Fighters and shares a unique bond with her grandfather Goku; in GT, despite her initial disgust with his child form, Pan still loves him and is constantly worried about him in midst of intense battles. In GT she is shown to find Poperu's gentle and ladylike personality attractive and cute but becomes frustrated when she ends up scaring him off when she uses her strength to foil a bank robbery.
In various video games, Pan is shown to be embarrassed by her parents' superhero alter-egos Great Saiyaman and Great Saiyaman 2 as she finds their posing and costumes to be uncool and embarrassing. In Dragon Ball Fusions, Pan is also shown to hate the dance like poses used to perform Five-Way Fusion and like Vegeta she hates having to pose to perform fusion even stating she does not want to perform Five-Way Fusion again after fusing with Kid Goku, Kid Goten, Kid Trunks, and Tekka to form an Ultra Fusion, though despite this she is seen smiling when performing Five-Way Fusion. She also dislikes the Para Para Brothers' Para Para Boogie for the same reason as she finds it stupid and tacky. However, despite this she uses the technique herself in the Xenoverse series and in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, she is shown to be more interested in fusion and even asks the Future Warrior if they want to try fusing sometime while she is their instructor.
Despite being more dedicated to the martial arts and possessing great potential, in GT she is shown to have little interest in growing stronger or improving her strength through additional training, though this may be due to growing up in peaceful times around more experienced and extremely powerful fighters like Goku and Vegeta, whose strength she often relies on when the Earth is under threat by powerful villains like Baby Vegeta, Super 17, and the stronger Shadow Dragons like Nuova, Eis, Syn/Omega Shenron. However, in Xenoverse 2, she demonstrates an interest in acquiring the Super Saiyan form, though it is implied that this is partially out of vanity due as she likes the form's golden blonde hair and rhetorically asking the Warrior if they thought she would look good with blonde hair. She has also stated that her goal is to be strong like Grandpa Goku, so while she does wish to grow up to be a strong martial artist like him someday, she is in no hurry to surpass him as a child or teenager.
Despite being only 1/4 Saiyan, Pan is somewhat more dedicated to her martial arts training, though this is likely due to the influence of her family and growing up around some of Universe 7's most powerful martial artists. It may also be due to her status as the granddaughter of Mr. Satan as he wishes for her to carry on his martial arts legacy. However, in GT, Pan herself is shown to reject the idea indicating that while she enjoys martial arts, she has little interest in taking her maternal grandfather's place.
In Dragon Ball Online, Pan ends up becoming an instructor for the Pan Fighting Network after she is forced to subdue a mob of angry customers who hated Mr. Satan's Telecommunicated Satan-style Martial Arts Course after they storm Satan House which results in a big scandal, leading to the course being rebranded as Pan Fighting Network. However, like her father and grandfather, she is shown to have no desire to publicly take on the role of Earth's hero and savior as an adult, as she chooses to conceal her identity wearing a Saiyaman-like costume while fighting the Frieza Force at age 41 after they invade in Age 820 following the death of her grandfather Mr. Satan, despite the fact she could have easily fought the Frieza Force without wearing such a costume (which she is known to dislike) as most of the Earth's population would have not been surprised if granddaughter of the late Mr. Satan were to defend the Earth from invading aliens as her superhuman abilities would be expected of someone related to Mr. Satan and the fact that it would have likely attracted more business for Pan Fighting Network, showing she has no interest in profiting off of her exploits or her status as Mr. Satan's granddaughter. However it should be noted that she tells the Future Warrior in Xenoverse 2 that when she grows up she's going to be like both of her grandpas and will get super famous saving the galaxy and everyone will love her for it, though this may be attributed to her being a teenager and presumably grew out of it as she got older (of course it could also be due to differences in the GT and Dragon Ball Online timelines).
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