Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug

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Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug
Japanese box art
Directed by	Mitsuo Hashimoto
Produced by	Chiaki Imada Rikizô Kayano
Written by	Story: Akira Toriyama Screenplay: Takao Koyama
Starring	Masako Nozawa Naoki Tatsuta Hiromi Tsuru Mayumi Tanaka Toshio Furukawa Naoko Watanabe Yûsaku Yara Kohei Myauchi Kenji Utsumi Joji Yanami
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Release date(s)	March 19, 1991
Running time	46 min.
Language	Japanese/English

Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, known in Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokū (ドラゴンボールZ 超サイヤ人だ孫悟空, Doragon Bōru Zetto: Sūpā Saiyajin da Son Gokū, literally "Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiyan Son Goku"), is the fourth Dragon Ball Z movie. It was originally released in Japan on March 19th, 1991, between episodes 82 and 83, and later translated in America by Funimation in 2001. Bridge Entertainment's title is Super Saiyan Son Goku. It is the first Dragon Ball movie (not counting the later Ultimate Uncut edition of the previous movies) to be dubbed with Funimation's English voice cast.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Characters 2.1 Heroes 2.2 Villains 3 Major battles 4 Releases 5 Canonicity 6 Cast 7 Music 8 Trivia 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

[edit] Plot

An asteroid alert is wreaking havoc all over the planet as it is going to destroy the entire Earth. Goku and Krillin go to deflect the asteroid off course so it doesn't hit Earth. They have been told they can't destroy it because it is inhabited, and at the time they didn't know who inhabited it. They attempt to move it using a combined Kamehameha, but apparently miss and are blown away by the fierce winds produced by the near-clash of the asteroid with Earth.

The asteroid passes near Earth but misses the crash, exploding soon afterward. However, a spaceship from the asteroid lands on Earth, full of soldiers who serve Lord Slug. Lord Slug is the main antagonist in the movie. Along with his crew of vicious fighters, he traveled from planet to planet wreaking chaos as he went. They attempt to carry out on Earth the same destruction there that they had at a countless number of other planets. The way they dominated a planet was to literally change its atmosphere, freezing the planet. By conforming it to their liking, they made it more suitable for themselves and almost unlivable for any other people, including the native occupants of the planet. Later they transform the planet into a giant spaceship, and move on to find a new planet to conquer.

Upon their landing, a nearby Gohan attempted to stop Slug's soldiers. Slug noticed the Dragon Ball Gohan had on his hat. After reading Bulma's mind, Slug learned about the Dragon Balls and how to get them. Lord Slug had aged hundreds of years and was rapidly approaching the end of his life. So he sent his minions to gather the Dragon Balls, and used them to restore his youth and health; like King Piccolo before him, being fully restored gave him a far greater power.

Goku, along with his son Gohan and Piccolo, squared off against Slug's team and managed to defeat them all. The final battle against Slug was left in the hands of Goku. Goku was able to take Slug on in an incredibly fierce battle. Slug started having the upper hand, until Goku was able to go Super Saiyan (or False Super Saiyan as the form was later named), and started beating Slug.

But Slug then revealed his Namekian nature, and transformed into a giant version of himself. King Kai revealed that Slug was a Namekian who had left the planet a long time ago. But he had a strange mutation that made him pure evil, and was powerful enough to be called a Super Namek. In his new form, Slug started pounding Goku.

The battle was not going well for Goku until he was discarded by Slug who drew his attention away to Piccolo. In a surprising move, Piccolo torn off his ears and told Gohan to whistle. Exploiting a weakness of all Namekians, their extremely sensitive hearing, Gohan's whistling was able to bring Slug to his knees.

Piccolo also gave what little strength remained in him to Goku in his battle against Slug. Thanks to Piccolo, Goku was able to use the Kaio-ken, and managed to punch a hole through Slug's stomach, weakening the Super Namek severely. Goku was able to defeat Slug with ease from that point on. The movie ends with Goku flying up above the clouds to deliver the final blow to Slug with a Genki Dama powered-up from energy taken from the Sun. The Genki Dama heads straight into the freezing generator, taking Slug with it and destroying him.

The final scene involves Master Roshi waking up from his nap which he started before the aliens landed and he wishes that something interesting would happen.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Heroes

• Goku
• Gohan
• Piccolo
• Krillin
• Chi-Chi

[edit] Villains

• Lord Slug
• Dorodabo
• Medamatcha
• Angira

[edit] Major battles

• Chi-Chi vs. Unknown
• Piccolo vs. Dorodabo
• Gohan vs. Medamatcha
• Piccolo vs. Medamatcha & Angira
• Goku vs. Medamatcha & Angira
• Goku & Krillin vs. Slug
• Goku vs. Slug
• Piccolo vs. Slug (Giant Form)
• Goku vs. Slug (Giant Form)

[edit] Releases

The movie was originally released on both VHS and Laserdisc in Japan. They were in a 16:9 format, cropped from it's original 4:3 format. It was then released later in Japan as part of the well-known Dragon Box sets, remastered from it's original film masters and in a 16:9 anamorphic widescreen format. There was much controversy from fans over the decision to crop the movies from it's original 4:3 format. The controversy died down when Toei announced that the films were originally animated for widescreen viewing. The boxed set was released (containing all four Dragon Ball and all thirteen Dragon Ball Z movies) with great critical and audience reception.

In the United States, it was released in August 7, 2001 by Funimation, in VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD. It was released in a 4:3 format.^[1]. The movie was later re-released on October 15, 2002, bundled with Cooler's Revenge and The Return of Cooler. ^[2]

Funimation re-released this film in September 16, 2008, alongside the third movie, Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, digitally remastered and in a 16:9 format, as a "Double Feature" DVD and Blu-ray.^[3]

[edit] Canonicity

This film takes place after Movie 3. However, the events of this movie cannot be placed correctly in the anime continuity. It most likely takes place in an alternate time line where Piccolo survived the Nappa/Vegeta encounter and before the trip to Namek.

Goku's "Super Saiyan" form, in the film, is a different form of Super Saiyan (created for the movie) and is known as the False Super Saiyan, as it is a supposed prequel to the actual Super Saiyan form.

[edit] Cast

Character Name	Voice Actor (Japanese)	Voice Actor (English)
Goku	Masako Nozawa	Sean Schemmel
Gohan	Masako Nozawa	Stephanie Nadolny
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Christopher Sabat
Krillin	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Yajirobe	Mayumi Tanaka	Mike McFarland
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Tiffany Vollmer
Chi-Chi	Naoko Watanabe	Cynthia Cranz
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Bradford Jackson
Master Roshi	Kôhei Miyauchi	Mike McFarland
Shenron	Kenji Utsumi	Christopher Sabat
King Kai	Joji Yanami	Sean Schemmel
Angila	Keiichi Nanba	John Burgmeier
Kakuja	Shouzou Iizuka	Christopher Sabat
Commander Zeeun	Kouji Totani	Bradford Jackson
Wings	Daisuke Ghori	John Freeman
Gyoshu	???	Sonny Strait
Medamatcha	Yukitoshi Hori	Sean Schemmel
Lord Slug	Yusara Yara	Brice Armstrong
Narration	Joji Yanami	Kyle Hebert

[edit] Music

• Opening Theme (OP)
  1. "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" (Chara Hetchara)
     • Lyrics: Yukinojō Mori, Music: Chiho Kiyooka, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: Hironobu Kageyama
       • Song Lyrics

• Intermission Song (IN)
  1. "Kuchibue no Kimochi"; (The Feeling of Whistling)
     • Performed by Hajime Ueshiba

• Ending Theme (ED)
  1. "“Ya” na Koto ni wa Genki-Dama!!"; 「ヤ」なことには　元気玉!! (There's a Genki-Dama in Bad Things!!)
     • Lyrics: Dai Satō, Music: Chiho Kiyooka, Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto, Vocals: Hironobu Kageyama, Chorus: SHINES
       • Song Lyrics

• Funimation Dub
  1. Finger Eleven - Drag You Down
  2. Finger Eleven - First Time
  3. Dust for Life - Seed
  4. Dust for Life - Dragonfly
  5. American Pearl - Automatic
  6. Dust for Life - Step Into The Light
  7. Disturbed - Fear
  8. American Pearl - Free Your Mind
  9. Boy Hits Car - The Rebirth
  10. Deftones - Elite
  11. Disturbed - Stupify
  12. Boy Hits Car - I'm A Cloud
  13. Breaking Point - Coming Of Age

[edit] Trivia

• The movie reveals that Namekian ears are sensitive to certain sounds, like whistling.

• In the scene where Chi-Chi realizes Gohan has disappeared from home, a poster of Arale from Akira Toriyama's previous hit series "Dr. Slump" can be seen. Incidentally Goku met Arale when he was a child.

• This is the last movie where the Dragon Balls were used until Broly: The Second Coming.

• Lord Slug is killed in a similar manner to Turles from the previous movie, The Tree of Might. Both are hit by Goku with a Spirit Bomb and knocked into their device used to do evil things to the earth (Tree of Might for Turles, and Terra Freeze machine for Slug), destroying it as well.

• Two of Slug's henchmen, Angila and Wings, are modeled after, and strongly resemble Zarbon and Dodoria respectively. Commander Zeeun slightly resembles Mustard.

• This is one of the only movies in which Chi-Chi fights. However brief it is, she does get in a good shot, knocking out two of Lord Slug's foot soldiers. She also fought briefly in Dead Zone.
• This movie is the first movie to have the main villain's name in the title.
• The sun plays an important role, its light is shown to be harmful to an exposed henchmen of Lord Slug and it is where Goku gathers the energy to make the Spirit Bomb.
• It is the second time that a Namekian increases its size.

[edit] See also

• List of films

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• MyFavoriteGames - Movie Summary

Dragon Ball films
Dragon Ball adaptations
Theatrical films	Curse of the Blood Rubies • Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle • Mystical Adventure • The Path to Power
Dragon Ball Z adaptations
Theatrical films	Dead Zone • The World's Strongest • The Tree of Might • Lord Slug • Cooler's Revenge • The Return of Cooler • Super Android 13! • Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan • Bojack Unbound • Broly - Second Coming • Bio-Broly • Fusion Reborn • Wrath of the Dragon
Television specials	Bardock - The Father of Goku • The History of Trunks
OVAs	Gaiden: Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku • Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!
Dragon Ball GT adaptations
Television specials	A Hero's Legacy
Other adaptations
Live-action films	Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins • Dragonball: Evolution