"Terror on Arlia" (宇宙一の強戦士サイヤ人めざめる！ Uchūichi no Kyō-senshi Saiya-jin Mezameru!, lit. "The Saiyans, Strongest Warriors in the Universe, Awaken!") is the 5th episode of the Vegeta Saga in the uncut Dragon Ball Z series. This episode first aired in Japan on July 12, 1989. Its original American airdate was June 30, 2005.
Summary[]
Gohan cooking a piece of dinosaur
As Gohan endures his survival training, he becomes stronger; so much so that the meat-eating dinosaur has had the tables turned on it and is instead being eaten from the tail up by Gohan as he continues to slice off parts of its tail with his sword and cook the pieces.
Vegeta in his space pod
Elsewhere, Vegeta and Nappa, heading for Earth, decide to take a short detour to a planet called Arlia to stretch their legs a bit. Nappa is disappointed with the barren, reddish, desolate planet, but then two insect creatures (Arlians) appear riding on giant millipede-like steeds. When the two Saiyans refuse to capitulate to the aliens, the Arlians both blast them with beams of energy from their mouths, and are confident that they have killed them. They are shocked when the smoke clears, revealing an unharmed Nappa and Vegeta. Nappa moves to retaliate against their attackers, but Vegeta tells him to hold off for now and "surrender," so they can be taken as prisoners and have a little fun with their captors. They surrender and are chained. The Saiyans are taken to a large, ruined fortress and put in the dungeon. Their cellmate is an Arlian named Atla, who explains the planet's current desolate state to them. Apparently Arlia was conquered by the evil King Moai, who among other things took Atla's bride, Lemlia, away from him on the day they were to be married and had Atla imprisoned. However the two have both managed to hold on to the gold wedding bracelets they exchanged as gifts.
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Planet Arlia
Elsewhere in the fortress, King Moai is watching two of his guards, Lesoy and Greger, fight a duel in an arena. This is apparently a regular occurrence. He invites Lemlia, a pink female Arlian in a white shroud, to come and watch the fight with him. She politely refuses. Annoyed, and noticing she is still wearing the gold bracelet Atla gave to her, Moai reminds that she is his queen now, and to forget her past. She replies that her love for her imprisoned groom will never change. Just then, Lesoy wins the duel by stabbing Greger in the abdomen. The King declares him the new champion, and orders the loser, Greger, to be put into "the pit." Two guards seize Greger and drag him to a raised portion of the floor. One pushes a button, and the floor opens, dropping the defeated fighter down into a cavernous anteroom located underneath the arena. As he pleads to be let out, something gigantic rises up out of the shadows behind him. Seeing it, a terrified Greger calls it "Yetti" and pleads with it to stay away from him.
The king, still with Lemlia in the arena, complains of "royal boredom," prompting a guard to inform him of the recent capture of the "aliens." King Moai sounds interested, and orders some guards sent to the dungeon for them. However Vegeta and Nappa have already let themselves out and approach the steps leading to the king and queen's thrones. When told they killed some of his men while escaping, Moai is angry. Nappa irreverently insults the King, who is suddenly impressed with "the shiny-headed one," and decides to see how he'll fair against the new arena combat champion, Lesoy. He sadly complains that "the little one" (Vegeta) does not look like much of a warrior, though. Lesoy steps forward and moves to attack the Saiyans. Before he reaches them, Vegeta raises one finger and fires a beam from it, which beheads the Arlian. King Moai is shocked. The Saiyans are further unimpressed and desire to fight all of the King's warriors, and so Moai summons all of his men who surround the Saiyans with swords drawn. He gloats that they can not defeat his elite fighters, but then Nappa begins laughing as electricity arcs over his body and the ground shakes. The Arlians look on in growing alarm, and then, with a scream, Nappa raises two fingers, and all of the King's guards disintegrate in a bright flash of light which rocks the entire fortress.
Nappa and Vegeta face Yetti
Moai, clinging to his throne to steady himself (Lemlia does the same alongside him), yells for "Yetti" to be released. The section of the floor covering "the pit" is opened, and the thing which ate Greger before rises up into view on a hydraulic platform. Yetti is finally revealed as an Arlian exactly like the others, only over fifty feet tall and incapable of speech. Vegeta and Nappa look excited, as an indignant Moai commands Yetti to kill them. The gigantic and cannibalistic Arlian begins a lengthy and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to kill the two Saiyans, swatting at them with his massive hands and firing Eye Lasers. To Moai's growing dismay, Yetti is doing more damage to his arena than either of the Saiyans. Yetti throws a punch at Nappa who is standing on the ground. Nappa catches his hand, stopping the punch, and the two struggle against one another. The bald Saiyan finally wins by ripping off one of Yetti's fingers, and then dodges as Yetti attempts to grab him with both cupped hands. Tired of fooling around, Nappa hurls a Murder Grenade at the flummoxed Arlian, which unleashes an explosive eruption of ki that vaporizes him. Terrified now that his biggest and best fighter has easily been killed, Moai attempts to flee, hiding behind his throne. Disgusted by the King's cowardice, Vegeta sends a hail of debris flying at him. A sharp rock pierces Moai's torso, and then the top half of his throne breaks off and crushes his neck, pinning his dead body against the arm of the throne.
Vegeta destroys Planet Arlia
In the meantime, we discover that upon escaping the dungeon, Vegeta and Nappa did not kill Atla, who hurries to the arena, having heard the sounds of battle during his search for Lemlia. He is shocked to find King Moai dead and all of his guards nowhere to be found. Realizing that the Saiyans have freed their people, Atla hails them as heroes. Vegeta ignores him and uses his scouter to summon his and Nappa's spacepod. They climb in and fly away even as Atla is still exulting over the King's death. He is distracted however when he turns and sees Lemlia, who survived the battle. We now see she has a pair of beautiful butterfly wings.
In space, Vegeta and Nappa exit their pods and look down at Arlia. Nappa comments on how Atla said they were their heroes, and Vegeta, finding the planet to be annoying, fires his Galick Beam which destroys Arlia entirely just as Atla and Lemlia run happily into one another's arms. After watching the planet get blown up, the two Saiyans decide to resume their journey to Earth.
Launch chased by the cops
Meanwhile, back on Earth, the blonde Launch is seen on her S-Cargo being chased by the police in the Mushroom Forest after robbing a bank. She manages to blow up one of the police cars with her Rocket Launcher and outruns the other one.
Major Events[]
- Nappa and Vegeta visit Planet Arlia and are arrested.
- They break free and cause havoc.
- Vegeta destroys Planet Arlia.
Battles[]
- Vegeta and Nappa vs. Yetti
- Launch vs. Polices
Appearances[]
Characters[]
Locations[]
Objects[]
- Gohan's Sword
- Turtle School Uniform (Demon)
- S-Cargo
- Rocket Launcher
- Scouter
- Battle Armor
- Attack Ball
Differences from the manga[]
- Aside from the scene where Gohan eats berries and confronts the Ferocisaurus, all other scenes in this episode were exclusive to the anime.
Trivia[]
- This episode shows the type of humor Nappa and Vegeta have, as they frequently make jokes during their stay on Arlia.
- By this episode, Gohan has learned how to consciously harness ki to fire energy projectiles, whereas previously he could only do so while under the influence of his own rage. How Gohan learned the principles of ki manipulation is left unexplained however.
- In light of his daughter Pan using Ki to fly seemingly on her own (possibly through Mimicry of her parents, Grandpa Goku, or Goten) with no instructions, it is possible that her father may have figured out how to manipulate his ki to fire basic Energy Waves, which would be well within his capabilities considering he can fire extremely powerful energy waves under stress due to his Saiyan heritage (similarly, his father was able to figure out how to fire a Kamehameha after seeing Master Roshi's MAX Power Kamehameha with seemingly little understanding of the concept of ki manipulation).
- The original Saban/Canadian dub of this episode excluded the scene with Launch, likely due to the scene involving guns and resisting police arrest. Oddly, despite a good amount of the violence done to the Arlians being retained, a scene of the prison guards' fried corpses with Atla making his escape (Vegeta says "Your guards met with an unfortunate accident.” in the aforementioned dub as well, but is not depicted onscreen) is excised.
- Vegeta and Nappa are shown to have no issue surviving in open space when the former destroys Arlia. Frieza states in "Namek's Destruction" that Saiyans cannot breathe in space; this episode was conceived and aired well before the aforementioned was revealed, making an inconsistency here. "Boss Rabbit's Magic Touch" in hindsight made this issue apparent as well when Goku took the members of the Rabbit Mob up to the moon as punishment for their crimes via his Power Pole, seemingly no worse for wear despite a lack of protection.
- It is possible that the Saiyans are making use of the oxygen still emanating from their ships as they watch Arlia explode, though it does not explain how they are able to keep standing on their pods while doing so.
Gallery[]
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