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The Ginyu Force
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Activated:

Before
Age 762

Deactivated:

December 24th, Age 762

Located:

Unknown

Leader:

Captain Ginyu

Main Members:

Jeice
Burter
Recoome
Guldo

Allies:

Planet Trade Organization

Conflicts:

Battle on Planet Namek

  

The Ginyu Force (ギニュー特戦隊, Ginyū Tokusentai; lit. "Ginyu Special Squadron") is a group of characters in Dragon Ball Z, and most of them appear briefly in Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn and Dragon Ball GT. They are an elite mercenary team working for Frieza to conquer planets, and are part of the Planet Trade Organization.

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Creation and ConceptEdit

The Ginyu Force has some resemblances and references to Super Sentai teams (like the Power Rangers): five color-coded warriors, tendencies to pose during battle, role calls and supernatural powers. However, because Akira Toriyama's works usually feature parody, the stances used by the Ginyu Force may be a parody of the stances seen in magical girl animes of the time. Some of the recent references to the Ginyu Force's stylistic forms of poses and colorful display comes from Super Sentai series and even Sailor Moon. This resemblance to Super Sentai may be due to Toriyama's son interested in Super Sentai shows as stated by Toriyama in an interview.

The Ginyu Force members follow the tradition of Dragon Ball characters being named for puns; in this case, all manner of dairy products: Guldo is derived from "yogurt", Recoome from "creme", Burter from "butter", Jeice from "cheese", and Ginyu is derived from "milk". The name Ginyu Tokusentai itself translates to "Special Corps. Milk".

HistoryEdit

BackgroundEdit

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The Ginyu Force
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The Ginyu Force is a team of super-elite and powerful warriors. Unlike any others who serve the galactic empire, they are merely freelancers greatly favored by the tyrant rather than forcefully subdued slaves or servants. Despite being evil, ruthless and cold-hearted similarly to their master, the Ginyu Force follows an independent mentality forged within the group and have a code of honor and fairness of their own. These are altogether features that sets them apart from the rest of the Planet Trade Organization and the only ones not threatened or disrespected by Frieza.

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Burter and Jeice
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Though physically some of the strongest in the universe, the Ginyu Force's arrogant members delight in coming up with strange poses, betting candy on fights, and playing Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide the order they should fight in. The strongest of them all is Captain Ginyu himself, who, for a majority of his appearances in the series, occupies the body of a horned, purple-skinned extraterrestrial, though he is capable of changing bodies at will. They have their own individual special or gifted abilities into which they can supplement their own ki: Guldo has psionic abilities, Recoome has high-endurance, Burter has incredible speed, Jeice is specialized Ki Blast techniques, Captain Ginyu has consciousness transferring. All their special powers originated during their childhood. Guldo realized he had psychic powers as a kid: he was a real brat, using his powers to lift up girls' skirts and steal whatever toys he wanted. Recoome practiced dance, which is how he got his agility and various battle poses. Burter's mother was very strict, making him do all the household chores and slapping him if he was late preparing dinner; because of this, he became the fastest in the universe. Jeice was a pitcher in the Galactic Little League, and it was there that he developed the Crusher Ball as his special technique. When Ginyu first learned of his Body Change ability, he swapped bodies with the richest kid in his class, which made him popular with girls but also stupid, and he soon realized that men should compete in terms of strength rather than money.[1]

Namek SagaEdit

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Ginyu and Jeice on Namek
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The Ginyu Force are called upon by Frieza to assist in the defeat of Vegeta and obtainment of the Dragon Balls on Namek during the course of the Namek Saga and Captain Ginyu Saga in an attempt to regroup from Zarbon and Dodoria's previous failure, which caused their deaths. The overall embarrassment Frieza displayed when they perform their strange poses when arrived on Namek seems to imply that he had never gotten used to their goofy attitude (or that he had never met them in person before). All but Ginyu are killed by Vegeta, with Ginyu having the unfortunate mishap of body-switching with a Namekian Frog (and Vegeta deciding to be merciful for once).

AftermathEdit

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The Ginyu Force in Hell
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All the members of the Ginyu Force reappear (in the anime only) during the Frieza Saga from their current positions of defeat. Captain Ginyu (currently in the body of a frog) switches bodies with Bulma in the episode "Frieza's Boast", but inadvertently switches back with her while going after Piccolo in "Embodiment of Fire". In the following episode, "Trump Card", Recoome, Burter, Jeice, and Guldo (who are all dead) arrive at King Kai's planet. Recoome fights Yamcha, Burter and Jeice fight Tien Shinhan, and Guldo fights Chiaotzu. Powered up from their training with King Kai, the dead members of Earth's Special Forces (which will later be expanded to the Z Fighters) are easily able to overpower the dead Ginyu Force members, sending all of them into Hell where they are unable to escape.

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The Ginyu Force and Frieza in Hell
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The Ginyu Force team up with Frieza, King Cold, and Cell in the episode "Warriors of the Dead", but are all beaten by Goku, falling into the Bloody Pond, and are later impaled on spikes by Pikkon, and are locked up. Ginyu has a few cameo appearances as a frog on Earth throughout the series, until Kid Buu kills him by blowing up the Earth.

In the 1995 film Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn and Dragon Ball GT episode "A Dangerous Union", where the members of the group make their escape from Hell, but are all eventually defeated and sent back.

Team attacksEdit

Video GamesEdit

In most of the video games they appear, only Ginyu and Recoome are playable, though the first Dragon Ball Z arcade game also featured Burter. In the opening sequence of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2, the entire Ginyu Force strikes their famous team poses; however, only Recoome and Captain Ginyu appear in-game. Dragon Ball Z: The Legend was the first video game to feature all of the members.

AppearancesEdit

Ginyu Force members have appeared as enemies in:

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The Ginyu Force arrives on Namek in Legend of the Super Saiyan
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Ginyu Force members have been playable characters in:

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Art of the Ginyu Force in Dragon Ball Heroes
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The Vegeta ForceEdit

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The Ginyu Force posing in Budokai
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In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2, on Namek Stage, when confronting Captain Ginyu for a third time as Vegeta, Vegeta will say that the Ginyu Forces is now disbanded and invites Captain Ginyu to "The Vegeta Special Forces" instead. Ginyu considers it, but suddenly declines, thinking that Vegeta will have a better pose than him. Vegeta gets angry and says that Ginyu is such a pathetic fool for that decision.

In Dragon Ball: Raging Blast, "The Vegeta Force" is the title given to Ginyu Force after Vegeta defeats Captain Ginyu in the What-If scenario, "Ginyu Force Shakeup Part 2: Ginyu Demoted." Vegeta takes the role of captain of the Ginyu Force and renames the Ginyu Force after himself. He also comments on how pathetic the fighting poses are when Recoome asks what their new poses will be. He also calls the current members of the Ginyu Force losers for having poses.

TriviaEdit

  • Befitting the team's over-the-top nature, its theme song "Take the Stage!! Ginyu Special Squad!!" is composed of comical, silly lyrics. These include references to frogs, rock-paper-scissors, and afternoon snacks, all related to the Ginyu Force's time spent menacing the Z Fighters. It is sung by the Ginyu Force in the order that they arrive on Namek (Recoome, Burter, Jeice, Guldo, and Captain Ginyu).
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The Ginyu Force insignia on a Space Pod
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  • The Ginyu Force insignia is an upside down A that resembles Ginyu's head.
  • Each Ginyu Force member wears a green scouter. The only exception is Guldo, who does not wear a scouter at all.
  • All four members of the Ginyu Force that are killed in the Ginyu Saga are killed by Vegeta, although Jeice is actually the only one of the four that Vegeta defeats in a battle prior to destroying him. Vegeta also had a chance to squash and kill Captain Ginyu (as a frog) but decided not to as he did not want to get his boots dirty (though in Dragon Ball Z Kai, his amusement at Captain Ginyu hopping around stopped him from doing so).
  • Three members of the Ginyu Force (Burter, Jeice, Recoome) were all played by Christopher R. Sabat in the FUNimation Dub of Dragon Ball Z. However, Burter was originally played by Mark Britten, and was replaced by Sabat after taking leave. In Dragon Ball Z Kai, Sabat kept the role as Recoome, so Vic Mignogna and Jason Liebricht handed over the roles as Burter and Jeice, respectively.
  • In addition to their resemblance to the Sailor Senshi from Sailor Moon, the Ginyu Force is also similar to the Witches 5, five chief villains from Sailor Moon, in that they are shadowed when we first see them, and the only ones that last long in a fight against the heroes are the leader and the least serious one (Ginyu and Recoome).
  • In Pokémon episode 86 (87 in the Japanese version), "The Crystal Onix", when Team Rocket does their motto, when Jessie and James say their names near the end, they strike poses similar to the Ginyu Force. Jessie's pose resembles the one Recoome strikes when he is about to fight Vegeta (glimpsed again when Ginyu begins to absorb that Guldo, Recoome, and Burter are dead). James's pose looks like the kind of pose that any member of the Ginyu Force (particularly Jeice or Ginyu) would strike.

GalleryEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu strategy guide, 1992
GinyuForceSymbol The Ginyu Force GinyuForceSymbol
Members Captain Ginyu • Jeice • Burter • Recoome • Guldo
Soldiers who tried out for a spot Goose • Captain Strong • Strock • Oggers
Related articles Attack Balls • Burter's mother • Cooler's Armored Squadron • Fighting Poses • Galactic Little League • Planet Trade Organization • Battle on Planet Namek
Planet Trade Organization
Leaders Chilled • Cooler/Future Cooler • Frieza/Future Frieza • King Cold/Future King Cold • Kuriza
Scientists Malaka • Planthorr
Soldiers Abo • Aka • Appule • Banan • Blueberry • Burter • Cabira • Captain Ginyu • Captain Strong • Cui • Dodoria • Dore • Fisshi • Frog-Face • Goose • Guldo • Iru • Jeice • Kado • Mei • Namole • Nappa • Napple • Neiz • Oggers • Onio • Orlen • Raditz • Raspberry • Recoome • Salza • Strock • Sūi • Toobi • Unnamed Captain • Unnamed Commander • Vegeta • Zarbon
Squadrons Armored Squadron • Dodoria's Elite • Frieza's Elite • Frieza Soldiers • Ginyu Force • Saiyan Army
Races allied Appule's race • Arcosians • Beppa-seijin • Brench-seijin • Frieza's race • Litts • Saiyans • Zalt-seijin
Planets Arcose • Coola No. 6 • Frieza No. 79 • Coola No. 98 • Coola No. 256 • Kanassa • Litt • Meat • Shikk • Tritek • Vegeta
Mother ships Chilled's spaceship • Cooler's spaceship • Frieza's spaceship • King Cold's spaceship
Technology Attack Balls • Battle Armors • Hoverchair • Medical Machines • Scouters • Saibamen
Operations and Wars Attack on Planet Plant • Occupation of Planet Vegeta • Kanassan war • Invasion of Planet Meat • Genocide of the Saiyans • Shikk conflict • Tritek conflict • Destruction of Planet Arlia • Saiyan conflict • Attack on Bun's planet • Battle on Planet Namek • Attacks on Earth
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