Super 17
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| Super 17 | |||
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JapName=超１７号 | |||
| Anime name | Super 17 | ||
| Manga name | N/A | ||
| Alternate names | Ultimate Super 17 Super #17 Super Android #17 Super Hell Fighter #17 Super Artificial Human #17 | ||
| Debut | DBGT ep. #44 | ||
| Appears in |  | ||
| Race | Human/Android/Machine Mutant | ||
| Date of death | 795 A.D. | ||
| Family | |||
"I'll never understand these Earthlings with their emotions. Lets clear out the rest of this planet's threat to us, even though it is quite small. I'll start with this pathetic louse before he gets a chance to embarrass himself again." |
Super 17 is a major villain in Dragon Ball GT. He is created by the fusion of the Android 17 in the real world and the Android 17 that was created in the deep depths of hell by the evil scientists, Dr. Gero (Android 20) and Dr. Myuu.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early conception
After the evil Baby is finally killed by Goku, peace is thought to have been finally restored. However, in the depths of Hell, two master-minds worked on a horrific plot. Dr. Gero, the evil brilliant scientist who was responsible for all of the androids, and Dr. Myuu, who was responsible for the completion of Baby, teamed up to create the ultimate being. They decided that by merging the normal Android #17, with a machine mutant that they created in Hell, they could create the near-ultimate android killing machine.
Myuu and Gero then used the machine mutant clone to brainwash #17 into joining them, first using both #17s to sync their energies together to open the gates of Hell, allowing themselves and mostly all other previously destroyed villains to escape. The real #17 then asked his twin sister Android 18 to join, but would wind up killing Krillin when he tried to contradict the mutant clone's voice in #17's head, then fending off #18's attack with relative ease. A short time later, #17 reaches his Hell Fighter counterpart, interrupting the latter's fight with Vegeta, at the same time as the Z Fighters.
[edit] Fusion and defeat
At the point, the two #17s finally fuse together, and transform into the ultimate killing machine, Super Android #17. The super android then battles Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Uub (Goku was trapped in hell) and defeats them all. He also once again kills Dr. Gero, and Myuu reveals that he had programmed Super #17 so that he would have full control and that Gero would have none.
Goku then returns to Earth with some help from Piccolo and Dende. He immediately engages Super 17, and, once transformed into a Super Saiyan 4, is able to fight competently against the android. However, Super 17 is able to absorb all of the energy attacks that Goku unleashes on him, and by the time Goku realizes this, Super 17 has absorbed enough energy to overwhelm the Saiyan.
However, #18 comes to Goku's aid and distracts Super #17 long enough for Goku to find his weak spot.Eventually, Goku notices that while #17 is in his absorption pose, he has created a shield around him to prevent #18's blasts from reaching him; all the while laughing hysterically. It is at that point that Goku realizes Super #17's sole true weakness: when Super #17 absorbs energy, he is actually vulnerable to attack. Goku charges #17 with the Dragon Fist, blowing a hole straight through him. He then shoots a barrage of Kamehameha waves, that finally kills the super android once and for all. It is later explained that Android 17 had been influencing Super 17 to reveal this weakness and leave himself vulnerable to attack.
[edit] Techniques and special abilities
- Ultra Sensitivity - By concentrating his mind, Super 17 can sense the very changes in the air and sound, which allows him to detect even the stealthiest opponents, such as Goku using the Shunkan Ido. This ability can be nullified with loud noises.
- Ki Blast - The most basic form of energy wave.
- Levitate - Like most characters in the series, Super 17 can fly in the air. However, like most Androids, he does not possess ki, so he flies by the means of a certain machine called Hikou in his body.
- After Image Technique - By moving at extremely high speeds, Super 17 can create after images that make the opponents think he is still standing on a certain location.
- Android Barrier - Android #17's signature defense technique, which has been retained in this Super form. This is an Energy Shield that protects Super 17 from harm, and seems to be very resilient enough to withstand Super Saiyan 4 Goku's self destruction technique.
- Thunder Eraser - An attack featured in Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World where dashes towards his enemy with an open hand and he sends purple energy outward to force his opponents backward and cause damage.
- Absorption Barrier - Like other Androids, at least #19 and #20, Super 17 has the ability to absorb energy into himself through a certain pose and add it to his own. This is a feature Dr. Myu installed into Super 17, without Dr. Gero's knowledge. He's made this his own type of absorption ability by not only regaining energy by stealing it, but by adding it to his maximum power and making him stronger. He doesn't absorb energy with the inlet devices on his hands (or rather, in his case, on his gloves) like the other two, instead he extend his arms and legs outward to somewhat resemble a star and raise an invisible field capable of absorbing what seems like anything as long as he holds that pose. The limit on how much energy can be absorbed (if there is one) is unknown, as he even absorbed Goku's 10x Kamehameha.
- Flash Bomb - Super 17 places both hands forward with his fingers stretching out, concentrating energy into his fingertips. He then fires several hundred small yellow shots of energy that act as a machine gun blast. He also seems to be able to fire the attack in a cone shape, causing a shotgun effect.
- Super Flash Bomb - This is an enhanced version of Flash Bomb, as it has a longer range, being able to span across half the planet, and augmented power.
- Hell Storm - This attack was only named in the Budokai Tenkaichi series, but it still holds enough danger to be counted as a named attack. Super 17 does what Android 16 does and takes off his hands, only one though, and instead of firing massive blasts from the gun hidden in his arm, he fires several hundred bullets much like Flash Bomb, only causing more damage by firing in a concentrated and narrow straight line.
- Shocking Death Ball - Super 17's most powerful attack. He places his hands forward as if he were going to do a flash bomb attack, only he forms a sphere of black energy that has another gray sphere inside it that turns black in the center and has red electricity flowing around it. If he charges the attack for a few seconds, it seems to take on a decagon shape, but most commonly looks like a circle. Once he fires it, it leaves a shot black trail of energy behind before it hits the target, very easily causing a small nuke sized explosion that destroys everything caught in the explosion. This is the attack he uses on Dr. Myuu when he says to show no one controls him. An interesting point is that in the Budokai Tenkaichi series, the attack is named Shocking Death Ball, yet he calls out "Electric Hell Sphere."
[edit] Trivia
- According to the second GT Perfect File,the wish that Goku gave himself for at the end of GT, which had brought back to life all the good people that died in the battles from the Super 17 saga on through to the Shadow Dragon Saga, revived both Krillin and the real Android 17. This suggests Android 17's fusion was not necessarily permanent, and what Goku said about Android 17 "holding back" Super 17 may have been true.
- In the Budokai Tenkaichi series, he is the second tallest non-giant/ape character, second only to Broly as the Legendary Super Saiyan.
- The way that Super 17 was defeated mirrored how Goku defeated King Piccolo (specifically the part involving an animalistic powered fist through the chest).
- Super 17 is the shortest-lived villain to ever have a saga named after him; he was only in the series for seven episodes.
- 17 is the only android that hadn't met Goku during the Android saga through the Imperfect Cell saga and meets him for the first time in this saga.
- Though he was an antagonist, the only characters Super 17 ever killed were Dr. Gero and Dr. Myuu, the two evil scientists who essentially created him. However, Hell Fighter 17 did indirectly cause the brainwashed original 17 to kill Krillin just before the merger could occur.
| Androids | ||
| Android characters | Major Metallitron • Android 8 • Android 13 • Android 14 • Android 15 • Android 16 • Android 17 • Android 18 • Android 19 • Future Android 17 • Future Android 18 • Arale Norimaki • Obotchaman • Hachihyaku • Cell • Future Cell • Dr. Gero • Dr. Kochin • Dr. Wheelo • Pirate robot | |
| Related articles | Dr. Flappe • Dr. Gero's androids • Hell Fighter 17 • Red Ribbon Army • Senbei Norimaki • Super 17 • Pilaf Machine | |
| Machine Mutants | |||
| Machine Mutant characters | Baby • Bizu • Commander Nezi • Dr. Myu • General Rilldo • Giru • Luud • Sigma Force Cannon • Mutchie • Natt • Ribet | ||
| Related articles | Dr. Raichi • Dr. Gero • Hell Fighter 17 • Super 17 | ||
