Giant Fish
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| Giant Fish | |||
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| Alternate names | Big Fish Fish | ||
| Debut | Manga: "Bloomers and the Monkey King Anime: "Secret of the Dragon Balls" | ||
| Appears in |   | ||
| Race | Fish | ||
| Date of death | 749 Age | ||
A Giant Fish that lived in the lake of Mount Paozu but was caught by Goku in the first episode of Dragon Ball to be Goku's lunch just before his encounter with Bulma. The fish plays a very memorable figure of Goku's childhood in Mount Paozu and has been reenacted in alternate versions of the beginning in the movies such as Curse of the Blood Rubies. A number of very similar looking fish of the same breed have been seen throughout the series such as in Cooler's Revenge where one was caught by goku (ironicaly he says that it,s "a little on the small side but just right for making sushi") and the episodes Goku's Ordeal where another is caught by gohan and Memories of Gohan where it is caught by goku again. It is seen in background of the main menu of Dragon History mode in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3. The Giant Fish was the first living thing to be killed on screen. He speaks in the Japanese version, but is silent in both English versions.
[edit] Trivia
- The Giant Fish is the first on screen death in the entire series.
- In real life there are legends of mythical giant catfish in Japan (and other parts of the world) but none of the ones in Dragonball bear any resemblance to catfish.
- In all versions of the episode including the movies, the original (and most popular of the giant fish) is never eaten as Goku and Bulma leave before it is cooked.
- However, in Dragon Ball: The Path to Power, the fish was eaten by Goku and Bulma.
- In all versions in which it appeared, it was blue and purple. However, in Dragon Ball: The Path to Power it was colored green and yellow.
