He is one of the most sadistic characters in the series and often seeks to make his enemies suffer before killing them. Like many other antagonists in Dragon Ball, Freezer has a huge ego. He is ruthless towards his subordinates, who are sometimes incompetent or sometimes afraid of their master. He changes very quickly his mind about the men who surround him, even Dodoria and Zâbon who are faithful to him for more than twenty years, fall quickly in disgrace in his eyes.

Only Ginyu, among his henchmen, has a special treatment, probably because he is the most powerful being in the galaxy apart from him and his family.

To nuance, Freezer is not really a boaster and when he proposes to Nail to use only one hand, it is because of his superior capacities. Thus, he will be able to defeat Vegeta and Piccolo, while Son Goku will only be a shadow of his former self in the first part of the fight. But Freezer's pride will be put to the test when he faces a Super Saiyan for the first time in his life.

Freezer's other important attribute is that he is part of a race that hides its power in order to better control it. Thus he has several stages of transformation before revealing his initial form. This was quite singular among all the enemies of the manga until then. Moreover, his transformations mark important reversals of situations, Piccolo, like many, will pay the price. The author has fun in the construction of his manga, while Freezer always takes the upper hand once transformed, it is finally Goku who will come to the end by this same process.

Freezer covets eternal life, a wish that is reminiscent of Piccolo Daimaô, the first opponent of the manga to be particularly formidable. Freezer seems to be ready to do anything to achieve his goals. The story he tells to Mûri about the first 4 Dragon Balls is eloquent.

Through his cruelty, the manga becomes much harder on some chapters. We will not miss the merciless death of Mûri and Cargot under the helpless eyes of Son Gohan and Kuririn. Probably one of the most violent scenes of the manga.

However, an unexpected aspect will intervene, since once defeated by Son Goku, he will come to beg him to spare him. A surprising character trait, to which Gokû will remind him of the number of people he has killed. Here again, this behavior can evoke Piccolo Daimaô and his great cowardice to take Ten Shin Han as a hostage when he is cornered. Despite the hero's generosity, it is Freezer's pride that will finally get the better of him on planet Namek.

In Dragon Ball Super, Freezer comes back to take revenge on the earthlings, with his new powers, his fate and treatment will not be so different from what was done before. On the other hand, during the survival of the universe, Freezer is forced to help his former opponents to win the tournament. Thus the ex-tyrant is confronted with opponents more powerful than him (Toppo and Jiren). He will be of crucial help to Son Goku, while the scriptwriters make the audience wonder about a possible betrayal of the emperor.

Freezer is the only one among the main antagonists who cannot regenerate (although technically he managed to grow back his tail during one of his metamorphosis).

His fight against Son Goku is the longest of the second series with 19 episodes.

According to an interview of Shen Long Time, Freezer would be the author's resentment towards the Japanese real estate agents. This partly explains the tyrant's business (buying and selling planets). Note that Akira Toriyama specifies that he was inspired by his publisher at the time, namely Yū Kondō.

Skills and Competencies

Golden Freezer : This is the form that Freezer takes in Movie 15: Dragon Ball Z: The Resurrection of "F" and the Freezer Resurrection Saga. He managed to achieve it after his intensive 4-month training. By training, Freezer was able to increase his potential and thus acquire this new form capable of competing with a Super Saiyan Blue. He chose this color to match the golden hair of the Super Saiyan. Although this form surpasses the Super Saiyan Blue of Son Goku and Vegeta, Freezer quickly regresses to his final body, as it consumes a lot of energy and Freezer's stamina is not enough for him to maintain it any longer. Then he is quickly overtaken by Son Goku and Vegeta.

It should be noted that the above facts demonstrate Freezer's enormous inexperience in maintaining this form, Vegeta even ends up hypothesizing that Freezer headed to Earth faster than he discovered he could transform like this, explaining the absolute meddling that the tyrant did in this form. In this form, Freezer's aura becomes sparkling like that of a Super Saiyan God and burns like a yellow and red flame.

However, in the Survival of the Universe Saga, Freezer tells us that he learned to remain calm in the face of the torture he suffered in Hell, and as a result, he was able to refine his control of energy with mental training, which allowed him to master his Golden Freezer transformation, He can transform at will and stay in this form as long as he wants from this moment and became even more powerful than in his last fight against Son Gokû Super Sayan Blue and is now much more powerful than a Super Sayan Blue. The fact that he was able to master this form made him so powerful that he was even able to resist the Hakai of Cidra. In the portable video game Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle, this form is called "The Ultimate Terrible Evolution".

History

Although almost nothing is known about Freezer's childhood and early life, it is known that he is the second son of King Cold and a possible mother (who only exists implicitly) and the younger brother of Cooler, as well as the ancestor of Chilled. It is implied that King Cold "spoiled" him, as Cooler mentions in his first film. This is most likely the reason why Freezer is so narcissistic and self-confident. Despite this, there are hints that Cold (and possibly his mother) may have physically abused him, as he mentions to Goku that he is the second being to ever cause him physical pain in his true form (besides his "loving parents"). This explains why Freezer refused to bring his father back to life decades later, though he refused largely out of foolishness.

Cold also warned Freezer about the most dangerous opponent in the universe he would ever face, and that was Majin Buu.

Later, Freezer began to lead the Planet Trade Organization and probably killed billions of people and orchestrated countless genocides (although he didn't really lead it, as his father ordered most of the attacks). Freezer had a large number of henchmen at his disposal, the strongest of which were Zarbon, Dodoria and the Ginyu special forces. He also had other henchmen, such as Cui, Appule, Orlen, Kado, Ado, and many others. All served him out of fear/more power.

At some point before the series, Freezer had a child named Kuriza. However, her appearance is not canonical.

Freezer made the Saiyans work for him and sell him planets, killing all their inhabitants to conquer them. In return, Freezer provided them with the needs to satisfy their bloodlust. As the Saiyans began to grow stronger, Freezer feared that a Super Saiyan would rise up and destroy him. So he killed their king, King Vegeta, and destroyed their home planet, Planet Vegeta.

Only a few Saiyans were not caught in the explosion, including Vegeta, Nappa, Raditz and Goku (whose Saiyan name is Kakarot), the protagonist of the series. As well as many other Saiyans scattered throughout the universe.

When Raditz came to Earth and was defeated by Piccolo and Goku, he sent a message to Nappa and Vegeta about the Dragon Balls through his scout.

Freezer heard the message, so he and his henchmen, including Zarbon and Dodoria, went to Namek to retrieve the Dragon Balls so that he could wish for immortality

Freezer and his men killed the Namekians of five villages to obtain the Dragon Balls. However, in the fifth, the eldest, Moori, destroyed all of his men's scouts, preventing them from tracking down the Dragon Balls after Freezer broke his promise to spare his village in exchange for his information. The Dodoria got separated from them while chasing Krillin and Gohan, who intervened to save a young Namek named Dende from the Dodoria. The Dodoria never returned, as he was later attacked and killed by Vegeta.

Once he deduced that Dodoria was dead (and deeming him expendable anyway), Freezer returned to his ship with the five Dragon Balls they had found and left Zarbon and Appule to find the two remaining Dragon Balls. Zarbon met Vegeta and transformed into a monster to defeat him. But Vegeta had previously attacked a Namek village and hid his Dragon Ball. The village was discovered by Freezer's henchman Orlen, who was killed by Freezer for not finding the location of the Dragon Ball (he killed the only survivor). Freezer asked Zarbon to bring Vegeta to him and heal him so he could tell them where the Dragon Balls were.

An extremely angry Frieza arrived on the scene shortly after Gohan, Krillin and Dende summoned the eternal dragon Porunga and wished Piccolo back to life before teleporting him to Namek, and after Porunga disappeared because Guru died at that point. Freezer fought Vegeta and appeared on par with him (if not at a slight advantage, since Vegeta was out of breath and Freezer was not), so Vegeta suggested that he transform, since Zarbon told him about it.

Freezer transformed into his second form (which had a combat power of over 1,000,000, his previous form had one of 530,000) and impaled Krillin with his horn. This angered Gohan and he violently attacked and blew up Freezer. However, Freezer survived and attacked Gohan, until Krillin was healed by Dende and cut off Freezer's tail with a disc of destruction, then distracted him so that Dende could heal Gohan. As Gohan, Krillin and Vegeta launched a frontal attack, P

This forced Freezer to reveal that he had two other forms and transformed into his third. This strengthened Freezer considerably and he easily overtook Piccolo. He then barraged and tortured the Namekian, but Gohan attacked him with a Masenko, using all his power in the process. Freezer was then incredibly angry and decided to show them what he considered the most terrifying thing in the universe: his true form.

Freezer then transformed into his fourth form, which is more powerful than his previous suppression forms combined. However, he saw Dende heal Piccolo, so after completing his transformation, he killed Dende with a death ray to prevent him from healing anyone who would enlist the group again. Vegeta, who had previously been injured by Krillin and healed by Dende (in order to become stronger, and perhaps transform into a Super Saiyan) fought Freezer, but simply could not hit him. Even the one attack he managed, an energy blast powerful enough to blow up an entire planet, didn't hurt him.

Freezer waited patiently for the Saiyan to fully realize the hopelessness of the situation and lose his will to fight. He then attacked Vegeta, slowly beating him to death, until Goku arrived, who had fully recovered from his injuries from the fight with Ginyu. Freezer, attacks the newcomer only for Goku to surprise him by deflecting all his death rays.

Freezer then kills Vegeta with a death ray in the chest, for no other reason than to shut him up about Goku being a Super Saiyan and how he would destroy Freezer. This disgusts Goku who blames Freezer for killing Vegeta when he couldn't even move. He then vows to avenge not only Vegeta, but also all the people that Freezer and his men killed.

Goku then fought Freezer in an epic battle that lasted nineteen episodes (the longest battle in anime history).

At one point, Freezer said he would fight Goku without using his hands, but he was forced to break the deal, as Goku took advantage after biting Freezer's tail (to prevent him from choking). Freezer attacked by throwing rocks and pieces of dirt at Goku, and trapping him in a ball of energy that would explode if it hit anything but Freezer. However, his only weakness was that he could not sense the Ki of other beings. This weakness almost made him lose the fight several times.

Goku and Freezer were evenly matched, until Freezer reached 50% of his maximum power and began to beat and torture the Saiyan in a vicious and ruthless manner. Goku tried Kaio-ken x20 and briefly regained the advantage, but Freezer survived virtually untouched except for a few burns on his hand and continued his attack against Goku. With no other options, Goku gathered energy from Namek and the planets around him to form a "spirit bomb" (the most powerful technique he had at the time).

Once Freezer realized the danger he was in, he tried to kill Goku to stop him, but Piccolo attacked Freezer as a diversion. Freezer was about to destroy the Namekian, but when Goku's Spirit Bomb was complete (with enough energy to make it a Large Spirit Bomb), he threw the huge Ki ball at Freezer. Freezer fought hard against it, but it was useless and exploded with Freezer underneath, seemingly killing him.

However, the Large Spirit Bomb failed to destroy Freezer and he resumed his fight with Goku. He revealed himself to be alive and fired a Death Beam with Goku as the target. Piccolo then jumped in front of the death ray Ki and was mortally wounded (in the manga, Freezer intentionally shoots Piccolo, with the intention to make Goku suffer) .

Freezer then proceeded to violently assassinate Krillin in front of Goku and Gohan (he even made a bad joke afterwards, showing his cruel and deranged sense of humor). He then threatens to do the same to Gohan. The savage murder of his lifelong best friend infuriated Goku beyond belief, arousing his extreme hatred for Freezer, and finally becoming the one thing Freezer tried so hard to exterminate: a Super Saiyan.

Goku sternly ordered Gohan to take Piccolo to Bulma's boat and faced Freezer. Goku brutally tortured and defeated Freezer, having a complete advantage over him even at 50% of his power. In anger, fear and desperation, Fireza drops a death bomb into the heart of Namek, severely injuring the planet and causing its slow decay and death over the next ten episodes.

Freezer intended to destroy the planet outright