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Original Super Saiyan
| The Original Super Saiyan | |||
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 先代の超サイヤ人 Sendai no Sūpā Saiya-jin | |||
| Debut | Anime: "Goku's New Power" (1991) | ||
| Appears in |  | ||
| Race | Saiyan | ||
| Date of death | Implied 238 Before Age (2238 Before Age in English dub) | ||
"According to legend, the last Super Saiyan could only maintain his status in the transformed state. His power was extraordinary, he had no equal in the universe. But he was too primitive to control it, his rage burned so intensely that it eventually consumed him. In the end, he was destroyed by his own power." |
The Original Super Saiyan (先代の超サイヤ人, Sendai no Sūpā Saiya-jin; lit. "Previous Generation Super Saiyan") was an unnamed Saiyan who could transform into a Super Saiyan. He was originally thought to be nothing more than a myth.
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Overview
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Added by 10X KamehamehaVegeta states that the last Super Saiyan to appear was a thousand years prior (three thousand in the English Dub) to the beginning of Dragon Ball Z. The original legend of the Super Saiyan was more about his power than the Saiyan himself, stating that he had achieved a level of power so overwhelming that it could only be maintained in a transformed state. When the anime episode was released, a filler scene in the episode "Goku's New Power" was added showing the Super Saiyan as a Great Ape with yellowish colored fur instead of the standard brown.[1] It may be that he was the first Golden Great Ape, and he could not control it, which ultimately led to his demise.
Added by Kill YouThe Super Saiyan was fabled to have been destroyed by his own power, and the filler visual in the anime suggests that his power destroyed the planet that he was on. Vegeta states that the Original Super Saiyan destroyed the Original Saiyan Homeworld immediately after his transformation, thus forcing the remaining Saiyan survivors to flee to Planet Plant (which is now Planet Vegeta). In the series, the form was believed to be a myth, until Vegeta began to suspect that Goku was a Super Saiyan after seeing his drastic increase in power in a short period of time. Vegeta's suspicions are not confirmed until later, when Goku transforms against Frieza, and states that he was a Super Saiyan.
TechniquesEdit
Added by Kill You- Crushing in Hands – In Vegeta's telling about Original Super Saiyan, he uses his hands to crush people.
- Self Destruction
- Super Saiyan
- Golden Great Ape
TriviaEdit
Added by Beadtmdc- In the Dragon Ball manga, Vegeta's monologue about the Super Saiyan informs the audience of the legend. However, unlike the anime, the monologue in the manga is not accompanied by visual account.
- The Golden Great Ape transformation created in Dragon Ball GT is similar to the Original Super Saiyan's appearance in Vegeta's flashback. The resemblance has led some to believe that the Original Super Saiyan utilized the Golden Great Ape form.
- Contrary to Bardock who transformed into a Super Saiyan on Planet Plant, only seen in this form by Plants and Chilled, the Original Super Saiyan transformed on the original Saiyan homeworld, among other Saiyans. Bardock's story in Episode of Bardock explains Frieza's fear of the Saiyans, as Chilled passed his knowledge of Super Saiyans to his descendants, while the Original Super Saiyan explains the Saiyans' knowledge of the Super Saiyan legend.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Dragon Ball Z episode 66, "Goku's New Power"
