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00:36Dragon Ball Z is so full of cool attacks and heroes and villains that we all love,

00:40but they all come together to form unforgettable moments.

00:44These are the reasons why we remember Dragon Ball Z years later.

00:47Now there's 291 episodes of this friggin' show, so of course limiting it to just 10, kind of a challenge,

00:52but we think the 10 you see here are the ones that define Dragon Ball Z as a whole.

00:57Hey, I'm Nervous Nick for ScrewAttack's Top 10 Dragon Ball Z Moments.

01:04Goku may befriend a lot of his former enemies, but Vegeta's true conversion was a much slower process.

01:10Throughout DBZ, he's motivated by one thing and one thing only, to be better than Kakarot.

01:17But in one of the show's absolute most heroic moments, Vegeta finally puts his selfish ambitions aside for something greater than himself.

01:26A sacrificial act to save the world from...

01:29A talking pink marshmallow.

01:32Don't let Majin Buu's goofiness undermine what's going on here though.

01:36Vegeta hugs his son for the first time and sacrifices himself in the hopes of killing Majin Buu for good.

01:42The thing about this moment is the fact that there are no second chances for Vegeta.

01:47You won't get to hang out with Goku in heaven, and in fact, he's probably going straight to hell for all his transgressions.

01:53Even knowing this, Vegeta still does it.

01:56And it actually works!

01:58For two seconds before the Buu confetti begins to regenerate, rendering the entire suicide blast pointless.

02:04But still, it was noble of the Prince of All Saiyans to put the needs of others before his never-ending quest to be the strongest of all.

02:13Number 9

02:15It goes without saying, but the world of Dragon Ball is weird.

02:18Like, super duper weird.

02:20When you die, you apparently lose your body and are judged by a giant red guy sitting behind a desk and sent to either heaven or hell.

02:27So when Goku is killed in the battle with Raditz, he basically ends up visiting both.

02:32While running the million mile long snake way, Goku has some really interesting encounters.

02:38Not the least of which was that time he fell off and ended up in hell.

02:42I'm sorry, did I say hell?

02:44I meant home for infinite losers.

02:47Yep, censors at the FCC wouldn't let you show the word hell in a kid's show, so they had to make do.

02:53Ironically, it's the losers who get the last laugh when the staircase back up to Snake Way makes Goku start all the way back at the beginning.

03:00Goku's adventures in Otherworld introduced many of us to the bizarre realms beyond Earth that shaped the Dragon Ball universe.

03:06Something that even later shows like Dragon Ball Super would continue to explore.

03:10Number 8

03:12For better or worse, Dragon Ball Z is infamous for high action battles, crazy hairstyles, screaming, and filler out the anus!

03:22Now that DBZ Kai is a thing, it's kind of hard to go back to the original 291 episode series.

03:29But if there is a moment of pointless content we kinda miss, it's Goku and Piccolo learning to drive.

03:35Seeing two of the Earth's most powerful warriors put on street duds and try to act like normal people is an amusing change of pace to say the least.

03:43And what makes things even better is that you would think these great warriors would have some kind of driver's instincts, but nope!

03:50They both suck at it, especially Goku.

03:53He's constantly speeding excessively, breaking the steering wheel, and nearly killing his elderly instructor, not to mention a bunch of innocent bystanders to boot.

04:02This episode was a refreshing moment of levity in a show where people get cut in half, impaled, their arms get punched off, and not to mention it's just legitimately funny.

04:12And thanks to all that, this filler episode became legendary.

04:17Number 7

04:19For a show that was rated appropriate for seven-year-olds on Toonami back in the day, Dragon Ball Z sure wasn't afraid to get gruesome.

04:25Even with certain moments being removed from the Cartoon Network run back in the day, others just couldn't be avoided.

04:31Including one of the most harrowing moments of all, Frieza getting cut in half.

04:36I was maybe 11 years old when I saw this for the first time, and it was easily the most intense thing I had ever witnessed on TV.

04:44What made it even more disturbing was that Frieza was still alive, and it was his own attack that did it.

04:51Yeesh!

04:53That's, uh, pretty dark, Toriyama.

04:55It's pretty dark.

04:56Anyway, Frieza's accidental mitosis reminded us all that this show had some real stakes, and people will get hurt on this crazy adventure.

05:04And what better way to deliver that message than a violent end to a violent ruler?

05:09Number 6

05:11With the arrival of the Saiyans, Goku's world got a whole lot more interesting.

05:15When Vegeta, the most powerful of those Saiyans, turned into the Great Ape, Goku's world also got a whole lot more painful.

05:21But thankfully, somebody was paying attention in the original Dragon Ball, and that somebody was Yajirobe.

05:27Goku was about to face a crushing defeat when Samurai Jack Black came out of actual nowhere and sliced Vegeta's tail off to revert him back to normal.

05:36This moment was cool because it directly built upon lore established in Dragon Ball, but then just cranked it up to 11.

05:42It even retained a bit of the classic Dragon Ball humor by having the mighty Vegeta cut down to size by an eating disorder in an orange robe.

05:49Serves you right, Vegeta!

05:52Number 5

05:55Dragon Ball Z tends to be a festival of fighting, but with that comes some real serial moments.

06:00Example, Piccolo's relationship to Gohan and the sacrifice he makes when squaring off against the Saiyan invasion.

06:07During the fight, Nappa decided it was time to wrap up the skirmish with Gohan, and the kid was just too afraid to move.

06:12Fortunately, Gohan and Piccolo formed a father-son relationship strong as any blood bond.

06:17So when the blast hit, the Namekian took the blow without thinking twice.

06:22While the gripping conclusion was a poorly placed Masenko and an Oscar-worthy death scene,

06:26it was a major turning point for Piccolo in an affirmation of the strong bond created in the short time they'd spent training together.

06:33Having the son of your enemy go on to become one of your only true friends is really what anime is all about.

06:39You're like the son I never had. I'm proud of you.

06:43Number 4

06:45Across the entirety of Z, the all-powerful attack known as the Spirit Bomb had been thought to be an ace in the hole.

06:53You know how it goes, Goku crowdsources energy from all living things, but more often than not, it winds up being the mighty number 9 of finishing blows.

07:00That is, until it was time to put down Kid Buu and we finally got our Shovel Knight!

07:06What I'm trying to say is that it worked, okay? It didn't happen till the very end of the series, but it finally worked and it was awesome, okay?

07:12Thanks to a little help from Satan himself... Mr. Satan...

07:16All the people of Earth come together, hands held high, empowering Goku to create the Super Spirit Bomb.

07:22And even still, it took like 10 full minutes of pushing this ball across the surface back and forth before it finally, finally vaporized Kid Buu for good.

07:31But it did, which means it finally lived up to its nature as one of the greatest attacks in all of Dragon Ball Z.

07:37Number 3

07:39Like, everybody loves the fight against Frieza. The villain was super memorable, pushed the main hero to new heights, yadda yadda yadda.

07:46But one of the best things it did was make way for one of the coolest introductions in the entire series.

07:52Future Trunks, baby!

07:54At this point in the show, you know how hard it was to put Frieza down before it was.

08:06You know he's not somebody you just screw around with.

08:10So when Trunks just annihilates him with a sword in like a second, our jaws dropped clear to the floor.

08:16Being the son of the Prince of All Saiyans already gave him a well of power to draw from,

08:21and his suffering has molded that power into that of a mighty Super Saiyan warrior.

08:26Look, first impressions are huge, both in real life and in anime.

08:30Trunks' introduction flew us away.

08:33Also, he somehow pulls off a bowl cut? I think that's a superpower by itself.

08:38Number 2

08:40Oh, but speaking of Super Saiyans, there is nothing quite like the first time.

08:45Planet Namek was being torn apart. Families were left broken and bleeding.

08:50Goku's best friend just died at the hands of a tyrant.

08:53And you, the viewer, know exactly what's about to go down.

08:57See, before the events of the Frieza saga, the legend of the Super Saiyan was just that, a legend.

09:03But after coming back from the dead, having trained on another plane of existence and witnessed such horrors,

09:08Goku achieved that next level.

09:11Seeing our main hero go from the black-haired, doe-eyed warrior to the god-slaying blondie of legend was quite possibly the most pivotal moment of all.

09:21Going forward, Super Saiyan's status became a cornerstone of Dragon Ball itself.

09:26Yeah, the gold-haired transformation got a little bit less cool with every new character who achieved it,

09:31but it just further cements the introduction of Super Saiyan Goku as one of the most important moments in the whole show.

09:42From the first episodes of DBZ, Gohan's hidden power had been teased, alluded to, and hinted at

09:48until we finally got to see it explode full force against the Bio-Android Cell.

09:53After his dad's noble sacrifice proved ineffective, all eyes turned to Gohan as he unleashed one last desperation move.

10:02And as they say, like father, like son.

10:05Kamehameha!

10:14This moment is equal parts feels and hype. A FIPE moment, if you will.

10:24Even though he only had the use of one arm, Gohan refused to back down.

10:28He met Cell head-on with a Kamehameha of his own, with dear old dad with him every step of the way.

10:34To make things even better, all of the side characters you thought were so useless by now,

10:39prove their worth by creating an opening for Gohan to personally introduce Cell to oblivion.

10:45Yeah, the entire father-son Kamehameha scene is exactly as satisfying as you imagine.

10:52In fact, it would have made for a perfect wrap-up for the whole Dragon Ball saga.

10:56But not everybody agreed!

10:59But hey, the good news is that the great Saiyaman, Dragon Ball GT, and Gohan's green tracksuit

11:04can't detract from DBZ's finest moment.

11:08For a secret number 11, we've got to acknowledge a particular scene that once transcended Dragon Ball

11:12and even anime as a whole.

11:14Basically a nice way of saying it's a dead meme.

11:16Yep, the over 9,000 moment.

11:18There, we showed it.

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11:22See you next time!

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