Destroy The Planet!

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Destroy The Planet!
この星を消す!
Kono Hoshi wo Kesu!
Alternate names	Death Ball Death Bomb Killer Ball This Planet Will Be Destroyed! Planet Destroying Death Ball Planet Destruction
Debut	Manga: "The Tables Turn" Anime: "Namek's Destruction"
Inventor	Frieza
Users	Frieza
Color	&       and       &       &       (electricity) or       &       &
Class	Energy Sphere
Similar Techniques	Death Ball 100% Death Ball Destroy Everything! Kill Driver Flaming Death Ball Planet Burst Repeating Death Beams

"You and this pathetic planet can perish together!" — Frieza ("Namek's Destruction")

Destroy The Planet! (この星を消す!) is a variant of the Death Ball used by Frieza in his final form which contains enough power to destroy an entire planet (as it's name suggests) on impact.

Overview

Frieza puts the palms of his hands together in front of his chest and brings them apart as he forms a pink energy sphere. Then, he raises it upward and charges it with more power, changing it into a red and orange energy sphere and making it bigger and more powerful with additional streaks of black electricity. Finally, he fires the attack at the opponent, inflicting a massive amount of damage. When thrown into a planet, it is shown that it tunnels into the ground until it destroys the planet's core.

Frieza prepares the "Destroy The Planet!" Death Ball

Frieza uses this attack during his battle against Super Saiyan Goku in an attempt to destroy planet Namek so Goku will not be able to breathe in space. However, the planet is not entirely destroyed because Frieza held back in fear of being severely injured or even killed in the blast's impact, but he then reveals that he destroyed the planet's core and Namek will explode in five minutes. Frieza then powers up to his 100% Power form, and he and Goku continue their battle.

Appearances in games

Frieza prepares a Death Bomb in Tap Battle

It appears under the name Death Ball in Dragon Ball Z Arcade, the Butōden series, and the Supersonic Warriors series. In Frieza's story in the first Supersonic Warriors, Frieza uses a supercharged Death Ball to destroy Present Cell, in the same way that the Father-Son Kamehameha did to destroy Cell in the main timeline. The attack was named "Destroy The Planet!" in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and the Raging Blast games, where it is Frieza's Ultimate Blast in his final form; despite its name, the attack does not destroy the stage while there actually are attacks that destroy and transform the stage into a ruined state in Budokai Tenkaichi 3. Frieza also uses it in a cutscene in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z, thus giving Goku and the other Z Fighters only 5 minutes to attempt to defeat him.

It also appears in Dragon Ball: Xenoverse, where it is used by Frieza during the game's Frieza Saga to destroy Planet Namek in a bid to kill both Super Saiyan Goku and the Future Warrior, in "Finally! Raging Super Saiyan" Cutscene 3.

The technique is named Death Bomb in Dragon Ball: Tap Battle, where it appears as Final Form Frieza's ultimate skill; in this game, the sphere is blue and white with a dark surrounding.

Trivia

• Frieza notes that Namek will explode in five minutes after using the Destroy The Planet! attack. However, the remainder of the battle between Goku and Frieza takes eight episodes, indicating that five minutes should have passed earlier in the battle. This is also known as one of the biggest examples of filler in the entire series. However, it is possible that Frieza's "minute" is different from the minute we are used to on Earth. Because of the fact that most planets have their own revolution period around their star, it is very possible that Frieza's minute is far longer than that of ours.

Gallery

Frieza prepares Destroy the Planet! in the manga Frieza concentrating his ki to use the technique Frieza's Destroy The Planet! sphere Frieza launches his Destroy the Planet! attack Frieza launches the Destroy The Planet! Destroy The Planet! coming on Namek Ground Destroy The Planet! Destroying Namek The effects of "Destroy The Planet!", as seen from space Frieza's Death Ball in Supersonic Warriors 2 Destroy The Planet! in Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Destroy The Planet in Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Frieza charges his attack in the intro to Ultimate Tenkaichi Frieza fires his attack in the intro to Ultimate Tenkaichi Frieza launches his Death Bomb in Tap Battle Frieza's Death Bomb hits Cell in Tap Battle Frieza prepares the technique in Battle of Z