Dragon Ball Super officially created the strongest villain in anime history

The Dragon Ball franchise is home to some of the most powerful characters in anime history. Even before Dragon Ball Super introduced God Ki, multiversal-tier power scaling, and characters who can shake the entire universe just by fighting, starring at the end of DBZ was simply on a different strength compared to most shonen series. Now, Dragon Ball Super has set up the most powerful villain, not only in Dragon Ballbut possibly anime and manga history.

At the end of Granolah the Survivor Saga, Frieza made a surprise appearance for the first time since Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Much to everyone's shock, Frieza revealed a new transformation: his black form. Black Frieza remains the single most powerful and dangerous League of Death in the world Dragon Ball multiverse, and it is quite possible that he exceeds even the power levels of gods like Beerus. When Dragon Ball Super manga is finally coming out of hiatus, Goku and Vegeta will face the biggest threat in anime history.

Frieza trained for ten straight years to become overwhelmed and unstoppable

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F was originally marketed with the tagline “The worst wish in history”, referring to Frieza coming back to life. At the time, this seemed like a gross exaggeration considering how easily Goku and Vegeta deal with Frieza, but now that Frieza has returned to life again after the end of the Tournament of Power, it all makes sense. Frieza has more potential than almost any character in Dragon Ball franchise.

By simply training for four months, Frieza went from weaker than Super Saiyan Goku on Namek, to stronger than both Goku and Vegeta in their Super Saiyan Blue forms. Frieza is only a mortal, but he was able to train well enough to literally surpass the strongest Saiyans in existence, who now rival gods with their powers. The only reason Frieza lost is because he didn't bother to refine his golden form when he unlocked it.

Frieza is so strong that he can catch up with the Mastered Super Saiyan Blue Goku of Universe Survival Saga by simply taking Image Training. After being destroyed by Broly in Dragon Ball Super: BrolyFrieza leaves Unvierse 7 to explore the multiverse. In his travels, he finds a hyperbolic time chamber that he decides to spend an entire decade training inside. While in the Room of Spirit and Time, Frieza not only surpasses every mortal in the multiverse, he evolves his golden form into his Black Frieza transformation: easily the most overpowered form in the entire franchise.

Black Frieza is the strongest character in Dragon Ball Super right now

It really goes without saying, but Black Frieza is the most powerful character in Dragon Ball Super right now, possibly even stronger than the gods themselves. when Black Frieza makes his first appearance in Granolah the Survivor Saga, he kills Awakened Gas with one punch. At this point in the story, Awakened Gas was by far the strongest League of Death in Universe 7, surpassing legendary Super Saiyan Broly, who Goku believed to be even stronger than Beerus.

Black Frieza ultimately ends up defeating both True Ultra Instinct Goku and Ultra Ego Vegeta with one punch, only sparing them as he hadn't meant to kill them that day – but he easily could have if he wanted to. Based on Goku's comments and his feats, Black Frieza probably surpasses even Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta. There is no one in Dragon Ball universe, save Zeno, who can kill Black Frieza in his current state.

Dragon Ball's main characters don't stand a chance against Black Frieza

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As it stands, none of Dragon BallThe main characters currently have a chance against Black Frieza. While Goku and Vegeta have been training non-stop since being beaten by Black Frieza, there is nothing in it Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero to suggest that they have significantly outdone themselves since Granolah the Survivor Saa. Toyotarou has also confirmed that Legendary Super Saiyan Broly, Orange Piccolo, and Gohan Beast are all at the same power level as Black Frieza.

Beerus is currently the Z-Fighters' best chance to beat Black Frieza, but all signs point to Frieza being even more powerful than Universe 7's God of Destruction in his current form. Apparently, Dragon Ball isn't the kind of story where the villains win and someone has to be able to stop Black Frieza, but the heroes may have to resort to other methods like making Frieza Universe 7's next God of Destruction ratehr than stopping him outright. Black Frieza is just too strong. Never before has an anime had such an overwhelmingly powerful villain.

Release date

2015 – 2018

Network

Fuji TV

Showrunner

Tatsuya Nagamine

Directors

Ryota Nakamura, Masanori Sato, Kenichi Takeshita, Takao Iwai, Hideki Hiroshima, Masato Mitsuka, Kazuya Karasawa, Ayumu Ono, Takahiro Imamura, Tatsuya Nagamine, Kôjiro Kawasaki, Kouji Ogawa

Author

Ryu King, Hiroshi Yamaguchi

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  Masakazu Morita

  Whis (voice)

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  Masako Nozawa

  Son Goku/Goku Black/Son Gohan/Son Goten (voices)