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This art no. Original Super Saiyan was never meant to have red eyes. The first appearence of Super Saiyan on the original run was colored by Akira and had blue eyes. But there was a few chapters where they used limited colors giving very cool aesthetic. In those instances, Super Saiyan appeared to have red eyes.
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General Blue (ブルー将軍, Burū Shōgun) is a powerful high-ranking officer in the Red Ribbon Army and is the leader of the Blue Corps. He also has powerful psychic abilities. Blue is the only Red Ribbon officer with a confirmed age; he was 28 when killed by Mercenary Tao. He is the main antagonist of the General Blue Saga.
General Blue is a tall, blond-haired (the shade of blond varying between golden blond in the manga and light blond in the anime), blue-eyed man with a handsome appearance. He also has a muscular build, even without his powering up. He usually wears a uniform composed of a brown double-breasted suit and red tie (black in the manga and The Path to Power), a brown double-layered officer's cap with the Red Ribbon Army logo prominently displayed (with the 1990s remake of Dr. Slump giving the bottom layer a blue color), a Red Ribbon Army logo patch on one of his shoulders (right shoulder in the anime, left in the manga) a black belt (brown in the manga) with a side-strap on the right shoulder as well as a gold (Silver in Path to Power and the 1990s remake of Dr. Slump.) circular belt buckle depicting an eagle alongside a smaller buckle colored the same (gold in the anime, silver in the manga and Path to Power, with the only exception being the 1990s remake of Dr. Slump, where the smaller buckle was colored gold instead of silver), blue horse-riding trousers, and black jackboots. He also possesses a blue armband on his left arm with his name on it. Unlike the other members of the Red Ribbon Army, General Blue does not wear a red bandana around the arm or neck. He also has slight eyelashes near the edges of his eyes, a subtle hint at his effeminate, homosexual nature.
Out of all the redesigns in the Path to Power, Blue's redesign resembles his anime counterpart the most. The only significant differences are that he was slightly slimmer than in the anime and manga, and his hairstyle is slightly longer. Coincidentally, the redesign also resembled Barry Kahn.
General Blue is based on German militaries, more specifically those within Nazi Germany, as implied in the VIZ manga translation through his spoken line "Auf Wiedersehen" just before departing to leave Bulma and the others to die of an explosive, which essentially means "Goodbye" in German. It is possible that this character was based on Adolf Hitler's ideal men and belief that blonde-haired, blue-eyed people (Aryans) are superior to other races as seen in his feats of superhuman strength and psychic abilities. Even his sexuality (although never explicitly revealed) could be inspired by the Sturmabteilung (S.A.) "Brownshirt" stormtrooper division within the Nazi Party, seeing how his outfit was similar to an S.A. trooper (which was itself derived from uniforms originally intended for use by the Schutztruppe stationed in the African colonies belonging to what was originally Imperial Germany before the results of World War I had them being sold cheaply). His sexuality, in that case, may also stem from the fact that S.A. leader, Ernst Röhm was homosexual, and that the unit itself was known to have a high percentage of homosexual members. On a similar note, General Blue's unit being an implied maritime unit may be related to the SA-Marines, a division of the Sturmabteilung tied to maritime duties, and having an expanded uniform design to themselves. His physical appearance itself bore some resemblance to Gustaf Gründgens, a German stage actor who had a complicated relationship with the Nazis largely due to being a far-left radical who has contributed to Marxist plays as well as openly practicing homosexuality and such being an open secret in the German theater group, yet Hermann Goring protecting him from Nazi persecution for unknown reasons.
General Blue is very persistent and loyal to the Red Ribbon Army, and he tracked Goku through more than seven episodes of obstacles to obtain the Dragon Balls, even returning to the Red Ribbon Army Headquarters, so he could give Commander Red the Dragon Radar, despite failing to get the Dragon Balls themselves. While loyal, he also was shown to not be privy to the underlying reasons behind his orders, as made clear in the Japanese version where he replies to Bulma's demand to know why his group needed the Dragon Balls that even he doesn't know why Commander Red desires them, nor does he really care since it's "not in their place to know." Despite his loyalty to the Red Ribbon Army, however, he is not above doing mercenary work on the side, as implied in Budokai Tenkaichi 3 where he tells Mercenary Tao "If you're the best mercenary in the world, then I'm the best mercenary in the universe!". On a similar note, he is also not above trying to enrich himself, at least in the anime, as when the Pirate Cave was collapsing and he got a direct look at the full extent of the pirate treasure, he deeply considered hoarding the treasure solely for himself when he originally intended to gain it for the benefit of the Red Ribbon Army before being forced to abandon it after narrowly surviving being buried under rubble (in the manga, while he does still try to retrieve the treasure, he was mostly doing it to salvage something out of his overall failure in gaining the Dragon Ball in the cave, implying he still intended to provide it for the Red Ribbon Army ultimately.). In the Japanese anime as well as the manga, owing to his high rank within the Red Ribbon Army, he was firmly aware of Red's intolerance for delays and failure, as he warned a Tiger soldier under his command that Red will be very furious with him and his unit should they not find the Dragon Ball soon (the English dub tones this down by having him be personally annoyed by the lack of progress and berate his solders as lame while implying he's the only one capable of doing anything in the area without even mentioning Red.).
Blue's hobby is shown to be karaoke, and he seems to be a flower lover, as evidenced by his staring at and eventually sniffing a jar of roses. He also at times uses flowers as a subtle method of threatening his soldiers, as when briefing them on their new mission to locate Goku and Bulma's submarine as well as the dragon ball, and also to capture Master Roshi's island, he proceeded to grab a rose and then crush its head in his hand before scattering the petals in front of them as a visual demonstration of failing their mission or any of his orders would immediately result in their execution. It is implied in the English Dub that he prefers to wear bikini trunks when having to go into the water, and otherwise wants to avoid getting wet (in the Japanese version and manga, he was actually concerned about whether it the water was clean or ocean water due to the latter proving hazardous to human skin, and his "admiring his reflection" was him sighing in resignation that he ultimately has no other choice but to dive in). Blue is also disgusted of vermin and rodents such as mice, which led to his downfall in his first battle with Goku. To lesser extent, he, at least in the anime, was also shown to be disgusted with bodily wastes, as evidenced by his being disgusted and terrified by Arale trying to give him poop on a stick after his stolen car ended up smashed by her by accident. Blue may have been a germophobe in at least the anime, as shortly after ordering for a soldier to be executed for nose-picking, he orders a nearby crocodile soldier to decontaminate the workplace of its former occupant.
Along with his effeminate behavior and mannerisms, he was a perfectionist who was extremely obsessed with his looks; enough for him to qualify as a narcissist, being especially evident when admiring his reflection a few times, as well as his reaction when Krillin wounded him in the English dub. In the Manga and Japanese anime, similar to Nappa, he seems to react badly when he manages to get a lowly wound such as a nosebleed despite being a General due to it betraying his rank. Related to his narcissism, he also tends to get very angry whenever people mock or belittle him such as calling him weird, which can be inferred with his comment to Bulma and Krillin after the latter two deduced his sexual preferences, as well as his exchange with 18 in Budokai Tenkaichi 3, and to a lesser extent when he scolded a soldier in the Japanese version for praising him for being unhurt due to the implication that he could potentially be killed easily in combat. He was also shown to be extremely confident in his abilities, to the extent that, in the Japanese version before meeting his ultimate fate upon returning to the Red Ribbon Army HQ, he boasted to a nearby soldier who noted he was unhurt that he cannot be killed easily. Blue was also very strict and militant (although not to the extent of Commander Red), ordering his men executed for crimes very trivial (once executing a man for nose picking), and also implying another time that he'll kill anyone who fails to deliver a report about Goku on time. He also may be somewhat insane and sadistic, as evidenced when he privately tells himself how much he loves gunshots and people dying after he sent the soldier who picked his nose to be executed. His sadism is further demonstrated when having Goku at his mercy and preparing to kill him with a shotgun, where he deliberately takes his time in pulling the trigger for his shotgun in order to take ecstasy in Bulma and Krillin's fear, as well as later when trying to impale Goku, where he chuckles repeatedly when approaching with the sharpened log. He has another executed for missing a target twice with torpedoes, and he personally executes a soldier who hides from Goku and Krillin for cowardice (and possibly also for sleeping on the job, at least in the English dub). Because of his militancy, he also conducts actions during battle that would technically be considered unfair if it ensures his victory, as evidenced by his telling Bulma when she protested his paralyzing Krillin via staring at him that there are no rules to cheat in regarding a duel to the death. Likewise, at least in the English dub, he also does not believe in fighting fair due to believing it to be the "last resort of the weak", as evidenced by his response to Goku when demanding he stop complaining about a mouse and fight fairly.
Presumably, he is very abusive and disrespectful towards his underlings as, in the anime, he knocked a soldier who attempted to speak with him into a wall and declared that it is very difficult to sneak up upon a general and at the same time keep [the soldier's] teeth, as well as implied that this was not the first time this happened (though it should be noted that in the Japanese version, Blue, while still giving the same warning and insult, was slightly less threatening towards the soldier). When giving his speech before dispatching Company A to Kame House and Company B to pursue Goku and his friends, he also implied that he considers his soldiers failing Blue to be far worse than the soldiers failing themselves. In the English dub, just before meeting his ultimate fate upon returning to the Red Ribbon Army HQ, he also scolds a soldier when addressing him (with the specific reason varying between versions, with the English dub having him scold the soldier for fake sympathy and claiming he knew they wanted him gone from the start, and the Japanese version boasting that he cannot die easily.). Nonetheless, he was willing to support his troops and boost their morale for the Red Ribbon Army, as evidenced by his rallying speech to the soldiers under his command upon entering the Pirate Cave. In addition, he also had some degree of care for his soldiers, as evidenced by his being reluctant to see what befell the same soldiers when they were killed.
According to Commander Red, General Blue was also a brilliant strategist, which was showcased when he drew a fake arrow to draw Goku away from his friends so he could corner them, and earlier his deduction that the cave had another path when discovering via his men the arrow floor trap. Similarly, he also very quickly deduced from seeing Goku's sub approach a cave that the dragon ball was most likely located inside the cave, and also stole the radar largely because he realized its effectiveness due him being detected by Goku with the radar. Likewise, although he initially believed that he could handle Goku despite being given orders not to underestimate him, his witnessing the boy take out two of his officers had him heed his orders to not underestimate his abilities. He also held at least a degree of respect for Goku and Krillin's fighting abilities, at least prior to his first fight with them, as he noted that the two were "darn good" for kids after witnessing them put up a fight against the Pirate Robot, and even acknowledged that Goku specifically made a "very worthy opponent". In the manga, he was also shown to stutter when agitated. In Budokai Tenkaichi 3, during a special match against GT Goku, he oddly enough seemed to lack any hostility towards the newly de-aged Goku, and even seemed to be pleased by Goku denouncing him as not manly for resorting to cowardly techniques, and even seemed to like the idea of being beaten by him in his lose quote. Whether he is aware of his evil nature or not is ambiguous. When confronting Goku for the first time, he mentions in the Japanese version that Goku will soon learn how "terrible" he truly can be to others, implying he was to some level aware of how heinous he is. Despite this, in Dragon Ball GT, also in the Japanese version, he seems to think he might end up going to Heaven this time when waiting at the check-in station (causing a sarcastic retort from Black about how he'll be "God" if Blue gets into heaven). His loss quote in Budokai Tenkaichi 3 has him saying it felt kind of nice before laughing himself unconscious, implying he may have had masochistic tendencies.
Dragon BallSuper Dragon Ball HeroesDragon Ball GTMystical Adventure
Lieutenant Blue is one of Emperor Chiaotzu's loyal guards. He wears a Mifan Army uniform, and his role is of a supporting protagonist. Lieutenant Blue is shown in the beginning of the film harassing a trucker who refused to show his luggage, and then giving a quick apology upon finding out trucker does not have Chiaotzu's missing doll/wife Ran Ran. Lieutenant Blue warns Emperor Chiaotzu about Master Shen's plans to use his army to collect the Dragon Balls in order to take over the kingdom after discovering Ran Ran inside of Shen's bedroom. When Shen learns about this, he gets angry and sends General Tao to threaten Blue. Lieutenant Blue uses his psychic powers against the general, but they prove useless. Blue then charges with his sword to attack Tao, but he is quickly killed by a pressure point attack from General Tao (in the same way as in the original series).
The Path to Power
General Blue first appears on a Red Ribbon Naval ship shortly before being blown away by Master Roshi's MAX Power Kamehameha. However, he manages to survive and captures Goku's group. Back at the Red Ribbon Army Headquarters, General Blue is executed on Commander Red's orders by some low-level privates who drag him in a room and shoot him to death; not even the fact that General Blue had just given Commander Red five of the seven Dragon Balls was not enough to make up for the fact that he missed one lying buried in sand nearby. However, it was implied the true reason for Red's execution of Blue was because the latter had unintentionally and unknowingly infuriated Red by approaching him and delivering the balls in person due to his significant height difference, due to Red's self-loathing of his own height and especially his hatred of much taller people than himself.
Super Hero
General Blue makes a cameo appearance during the Red Ribbon Army recap where he is defeated by Goku in the Pirate Cave.
Dokkan Battle
Telekinetic Rampage In Area 12, General Blue appears as a boss who can only be encountered on Z-Hard difficulty. He is found in a secret area along with Guldo, Shugesh, and a Frieza Soldier. Future Trunks and his partner find him apparently lost and trying to get back to Red Ribbon Army HQ to deliver something important, implying he was brought to the present time by the dimensional distortion that the Time Patrol is investigating for King Kai. Unaware of his affiliation to the Red Ribbon Army, Future Trunks asks if he is alright, only for Blue to become smitten with Future Trunks as he notes Future Trunks is just his type and declares the young man will be his. However, Future Trunks and his partner manage to defeat General Blue in self-defense. General Blue decides to retreat though declares he hasn't given up on making Future Trunks his. Future Trunks is left confused by his behavior.
Manga and anime
General Blue is a "Kenpō master". He is considered the strongest Red Ribbon officer other than possibly Staff Officer Black. Aside from his accomplished martial arts, General Blue has special psychic techniques which allows him to temporarily paralyze people so they can't move. He used this to his advantage to temporarily immobilize Goku. However, at least in the anime, this technique seems to have little to no effect against stronger opponents, such as Mercenary Tao, who only felt some minor discomfort shaking off the technique. His psychic abilities made him a dangerous enemy for young Goku and Krillin. Blue was able to defeat Krillin, post 21st World Martial Arts tournament, with seeming ease, and also managed to hold his own against Goku (the anime even going so far as to have him land several hits on Goku, albeit with accidental help from Bulma, while the manga had him largely proving resistant enough to Goku's punching him in the gut to sarcastically compliment him and then attempt a counterattack via a leg-sweep kick), although the latter eventually forced him to use his psychic powers. He was also easily outmaneuvered and killed by Mercenary Tao. His psychic powers were also such that he can make ordinary ropes nearly indestructible and inescapable when bound to people without help as well as the effects being such that they last even while he was fairly far away, which is also further supported by Goku only being able to break out of Blue's paralysis after Arale forcibly launched the Red Ribbon General far beyond the horizon. Blue implies with his mentioning "enhanced mental capabilities" prior to telekinetically tying up the Dragon Ball Gang at Roshi's house in the English dub that his potent psychic powers were the result of artificial experimentation to draw them out, which fits with the army's other research projects to increase its military power such as the development of Androids. On a similar note, he was also implied to be capable of suppressing his ki to some level, as he proceeded to ambush Goku, Krillin, Bulma, Turtle, and Master Roshi, the latter being a master at Martial Arts, with the Japanese version even having Roshi mention that he couldn't even sense Blue beforehand.
He also possesses superhuman strength, speed, and endurance, as implied with his being able to survive being electrocuted by a Giant Electric Eel and then killing it with his bare hands, as well as apparently surviving/escaping from the Pirate's Cave's collapse despite being near the core of the cave, him jumping out of a jet-copter over Kame House at a massive enough height that he had to use binoculars to determine whether Kame Island was below and landing on his feet, surviving an aircraft collision into a mountain at high speed and later being knocked all the way from Penguin Village to Egypt with comparatively minimal injuries (namely, minor scratches all over his body as well as one wound on his forehead that was large enough to require a cross-shaped bandage). Other demonstrations of his superhuman strength are when he effortlessly crushes a phone booth in front of Sourman, manages to damage Sourman's car in a confrontation with the police, and picks up a tree with his bare hands with the intention of impaling Goku with it. General Blue is also capable of bulking up his body at will.
He was also shown to be a skilled pilot, due to his utilizing various flying maneuvers to challenge even Goku while he was riding the Flying Nimbus in pursuit.
By the time of his revival from Hell during the Super 17 Saga, General Blue was indicated to be vastly inferior to Pan, the granddaughter of Goku, to the extent that her merely flying by him was more than enough to vaporize him.
He was considered at least powerful enough to be included in the Super Space-Time Tournament and in the manga, he was able to last during Vegeta and Goku's fight (with his teammates Ninja Murasaki and General White being effortlessly wiped away by them). However, he was no match to the intruding Hirudegarn, being effortlessly knocked away by the Phantom Majin.
•Flight – Used in Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Dragon Ball Heroes, and World Mission.
•Hikou - Used in •I'll Shoot You! – The user takes out a large Rocket Launcher or a shotgun, and fires it at the opponent, inflicting a great deal of damage.
•Skewer! – Blue uses his Psychic Eyes technique on his opponent, which leaves them paralyzed, and then he takes a sharpened tree and slams it into his opponent.
•Rocket Engine Spark – First, General Blue kicks his opponent into the air, and pulls out a capsule. He then gets into the Thunder Rocket and his opponent chases after him. He then says, "Ignite rocket engine!" and releases a stream of fire from the rocket, inflicting a great deal of damage.
•Hypnosis Technique – Used in Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo.
•Telekinesis – A technique that allows the user to manipulate objects and other people with the power of one's mind.
•Ithaca M37 pump-action shotgun - It has a slow rate of fire but the shells it fires are incredibly powerful.
•Bazooka - Colonel Silver's Bazooka, used by General Blue in several video games.
•Jet-copter - A Red Ribbon Army-owned aircraft that were utilized by the Blue Corps.
•Time Bomb: An old fashioned looking time bomb with high destructive power. It was implied to be particularly heavy, presumably as a deterrent against someone simply lifting it up and disposing of it, as Launch when trying to dispose of it at the others request began to tire and struggle lifting it barely a few feet off the ground and considered simply putting it in the garbage can until Bulma said that's not going to work.
•Thunder Rocket - Anti-gravitational aircraft designed for one person, not equipped with any weapons, it is used for long-distance travel.
•Knife - General Blue carries a combat knife that he uses to hold Arale hostage despite Senbei's warning General Blue it was a bad idea as Arale licks the blade without injury to General Blue's shock and horror (General Blue was unaware Arale is an Android).
The king of the beasts, emperor kaido. I think it's an early design of Shenron. Early Dragon Ball was sillier, being focused on comedy. Shenron appears later with its standard design, and thus is from before its official first appearance. Shenron’s brother Kyle.
Wait until YuGiOh ended up in Olympic. One day when I get a chance to be famous imma be pulling this shit too but with my own fave card/ace — Starving Venom Fusion Dragon! I went to high school with this guy, technically. When my opponent reveals to me their Blue Eyes White Dragon to special summon out Alternative.
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