Since the beginning Dragon ball franchise, the Dragon Balls themselves have always been a beacon of hope for goku and Z-Fighters – a promise that no matter how bad things get, the Dragon Balls are there to help them get back to normal. Tragically, that sentiment is turned upside down when the Dragon Balls are suddenly no longer a hopeful light at the end of a dark tunnel, but instead become fearsome villains themselves.
The classic Dragon Ball opens with Bulma – a girl who has built a device to locate the Earth’s Dragon Balls (Dragon Radar) – encountering Goku in the forest during her quest, as Goku already possesses. Four-star Dragon Ball. After they met, Goku agreed to join Bulma to find the other six Dragon Balls, thereby starting one of the most beloved series in history. Sure, the Dragon Balls play a less important role as the franchise evolves into more high-stakes storylines, but they’re always present in every arc. At the end of the day, the Dragon Balls are always the Z-Fighters’ trump card whenever things go south – mostly to undo any damage that happens in a particular Saga, including the Mass murder and destruction of the planet. Consistently, the Dragon Balls are used for good causes and save lives on a cosmic scale, repopulating entire planets, and even recreating the destroyed planets themselves. – that is why the fact that there is so much evil built up within them all the time is so disturbing.
Goku’s ultimate villains are the Dragon Balls
In Dragon Ball GT episode #48 (written by Toshinobu Ooi, directed by Osamu Kasai, produced by Toei Animation), the Z-Fighters have just defeated Super 17 and the remnants of the Machine Mutant that threatens Earth, and they seek to undo the damage done by the villains with the Dragon Balls like they have done so many times before. This time, however, they noticed something different about the Dragon Balls: they were cracked. But, without thinking about it, the Z-Fighters still managed to summon Shenron and grant their wish – but the Dragon that appeared was not the one they had ever seen. This Dragon is crass and vulgar, and its existence stems from the enormous level of negative energy that has accumulated in the Dragon Balls with every previous wish granted through them. Not only that, this ‘Shenron’ unleashed seven Dark Dragons on Earth, each born from a different wish and each representing a different Dragon Ball.
This turning point is extremely grim, as it basically says that all the good the Dragon Balls have done over the years has been marred by corruption, and led to the creation of a threat. threatens to destroy the world. When the dragon balls were used to wish Goku to come back to life to stop the evil Saiyans and save the world, an evil dragon was born just to wait for the last dragon balls to crack and release it. . The same thing happens when Upa wishes his father would come back to life, or even when Oolong wished for a pair of women’s panties just to make sure Pilaf couldn’t use them to take over the world. Every wish gives life to something terrible, which serves as a wonderful but tragic reminder that everything has consequences, even seemingly ‘good’ things like Seven Dragon Ball.
The Dragon Balls become more evil with each wish
Although the Dragon Balls have also been used for evil purposes in the past – like when King Piccolo used them to become young and strong again – they are mainly used to save lives. live, sometimes on a large scale. But, because of those life-saving desires, the Earth is on the verge of being destroyed by the very magic that has saved it many times – proving that the greatest villains goku have faced in Dragon ball history is the Dragon Balls themselves, as they masquerade as the last allies for decades before revealing the true, sinister cost of their magic.
