Master Roshi has been depicted as an elderly man since the first Dragon Ball anime, but the character never seems to age. While the Turtle Hermit has been a part of the series since the s, the real reason for his continued existence wasn't revealed until a episode of Dragon Ball Super.
In the world of Dragon Ball , Master Roshi is a female-obsessed old man who lives in a house on a tiny island with an anthropomorphic turtle. As a talented and wise martial artist, Master Roshi has imparted his skills onto Goku, Krillin , and Yamcha. Roshi is Goku's primary mentor in the original anime, and someone who occasionally offers advice to his former pupil in Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super.
What is perhaps his biggest contribution to the series is his creation of the " Kamehemeha " technique, which is easily the most recognizable move in the history of Dragon Ball. Master Roshi takes a nap before the arrival of Lord Slug and his henchmen on Earth and wakes up after they have been killed and the Earth saved. Blissfully unaware of what had transpired, Roshi wishes for some excitement.
Main article: Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge Master Roshi appears lounging on his chair outside Kame House, proceeding to tell Goku off for trying to practice the Kamehameha and getting his magazines wet, with Goku protesting that he hasn't even finished training yet. He then notes that Goku's gotten stronger since he returned from Planet Namek in the dub equivalent of this scene, Roshi was instead impressed at Goku's Kamehameha, with Goku saying he can split the waves even higher, and Roshi also indicating that beating Frieza changed Goku into becoming more open.
Master Roshi, alongside Krillin, Oolong, and a very reluctant Future Trunks, were about to see a swimsuit runway, only to grow tired of waiting and decide to peek into the dressing rooms, with all but Future Trunks following Roshi's lead.
He then regrouped with Goku, Gohan, and Chi-Chi at a restaurant, with their admitting that they got the dates wrong. He later aided in evacuating the civilians from an ambush from Android 14 and After the battles are over, he paid a visit to the hospital where Gohan, Goku, Future Trunks, and Krillin were present due to their injuries fighting both androids as well as Android On New Namek, Roshi encounters the Cyclopian Guards and Oolong panics, though Yajirobe tells him to be calm like Master Roshi, only for him to suggest they head home and leave things to Goku and the others.
Roshi tries to punch one of the Cyclopian Guards, but comically ends up injuring his hand. They are greeted by the Guide Robo who explains their energy will be used as fuel to power the Big Gete Star, horrifying them and they become imprisoned. Roshi and the others watch helplessly as Yajirobe is about to be chopped up when the Guide Robo overloads due Goku and Vegeta's Super Saiyan energy overloading the main core.
Roshi and the others then flee the self-destructing Big Gete Star. As they make their escape they encounter Vegeta, Goku, and Meta-Cooler core. After Cooler's defeat, Roshi and the others watch as Goku and Vegeta fall to the ground behind them.
Master Roshi attends a picnic along with the other Z Fighters and their family members barring Goku and Chi-Chi, who were at a parent teacher interview session for a school Chi-Chi planned to send Gohan to. He ended up becoming severely drunk, and thus was doing various fool tricks such as balancing a stick with dishes on them with his teeth in the dub, this was altered to state that he was going berserk because someone hid all of his girlie magazines.
He was also the only one besides Bikini who actually enjoyed Krillin's painful karaoke session, mostly due to his drunkeness. After the flight over to New Planet Vegeta , he started experiencing a hangover which was also amplified later on by Oolong smashing his head with a mallet in order to give him "medicine", although the Dub implied that his hangover was due to overstuffing on Tuna Sandwiches.
He also ate a feast prepared by Paragus for Goku, along with Goku and Oolong. He eventually attempts to demand that Paragus either let him and his friends leave New Planet Vegeta, or at the very least install a video and magazine store to liven up the place while Paragus was busy trying to regain control over Broly , despite Oolong's warning that Paragus is most likely not going to let him.
Eventually, Roshi ends up dreaming about meeting a pretty girl and is rubbing his head on Oolong's feet, eventually biting on it, and slept through Broly's attack on Goku. Master Roshi later tries to help Goku and the other Saiyans fight Broly by transforming into his maximum power form and attempts to use the MAX Power Kamehameha made more explicit in the Japanese dub where he says "Kamehame While facing Broly, Roshi calls him "Broccoli", revealing Broly's name is a pun on the word "broccoli".
After Paragus' spaceship was destroyed, he realizes he left his lunch on Paragus' spaceship. He eventually makes it off the planet when Piccolo arrives and lends them the Capsule Corporation spaceship he used to get to New Planet Vegeta.
However while there Roshi is more concerned with the young ladies around rather than the fighting, much to Oolong's annoyance. He climbs a flagpole to get a better view, spotting three young woman sitting nearby, after "scanning" them, he makes his approach much to their horror.
Later on he makes his way to Battle Island 2 to watch the finals though sleeps through the introductions, he awakens later though to see Krillin be defeated by Zangya. Roshi later visits the hospital to see his friends where they are tending their wounds following the battles with Bojack and his Galaxy Soldiers. Master Roshi appears with the others at Capsule Corporation when they are trying to figure out how to open Hoi 's Music Box containing Tapion.
At night, Master Roshi attends a barbecue with his friends at Capsule Corporation, but is knocked out by Bulma due to his behaviour. When Roshi finds out that there will be prizes at the party, he asks Bulma if any of them involve dirty movies. He continues to enjoy the rest of the party until the God of Destruction Beerus arrives and begins to cause a scene.
After taking down Buu, Roshi commands Piccolo, Tien Shinhan and Android 18 to take him on though their attempt is brief. He joins the others in watching Goku battle Beerus but is unable to keep up with the action due to the speed of the two warriors.
After the battles are over and the threat to Earth is no more, Roshi enjoys the rest of the celebrations. Master Roshi arrives with Krillin at the location of Frieza's Spaceship as a means of defence against his one thousand strong army while waiting for Goku and Vegeta to appear, and asks Gohan if he had kept up with his martial arts training.
After tallying up the number of soldiers, Roshi enters into his Max Power state to battle Frieza's forces. Despite his struggles, Roshi takes down many of the soldiers by himself using his trusty Kamehameha technique and alongside his friends prevails in the battle. When confronted against Frieza, Roshi asks if they could stand a chance against him if they all attacked him at once only to be told that he is in another league entirely.
When Frieza transforms into his final form, Roshi comically de-powers into his normal state and does a runner. Master Roshi is present for the remainder of events, watching as Earth is destroyed, brought back and Frieza is killed by Goku.
When they find a crystal ball, he confronts them as Jackie Chun. They defeat Jackie Chun and he leaves, finding them worthy. Jackie Chun returns to his island and changes back to normal, when his students arrive he reveals that the crystal ball they collected was a gift from Baba. Tien is the only one who is aware they had fought Roshi disguised as Jackie Chun having discovered Jackie Chun's true identity during the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament.
Main article: List of Power Levels. Master Roshi is among one of the strongest humans in history, and the strongest fighter of his generation. A legendary champion of the World Martial Arts Tournament , simply knowing that students of his were competing in the said tournament left all spectators in awe.
Despite his advanced age reducing his natural stamina and endurance while also reducing his peak performance, he makes up for it with super efficiency both physically and mentally, able to easily read his opponent's movements and battle tactics, allowing him to move with minimal needed effort.
His experience and intuition have honed his natural instincts to become fully aware of his surroundings to the point practically being able to move against threats automatically. A grandmaster of all martial arts and hand-to-hand combat styles, along with their respective techniques and skills, Roshi is an outstandingly versatile fighter and tactician, able to quickly see through an opponent's skills and effortlessly change his own methods to best suit the situation.
At the same time, he is deceptively strong for his frail-form, able to move at blazing speeds and move massive structures with his bare hands, all while at base power.
During his battle with Goku at the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament he still managed to barely beat his student even after having used up almost all of his energy to destroy the moon.
In the 22nd tournament, after getting serious and bulking up somewhat he was a match for Tien Shinhan. Once he outputs his absolute maximum might, he was capable of destroying the moon and it was believed by the likes of Yamcha and Krillin that he could kill Great Ape Goku with one Kamehameha.
Roshi notes that his perverted ways had held him back all these years, and that putting the energy he once used for them towards combat had greatly increased his power and skill. In the anime, he also stated that Goku and Krillin's battles had taught him to go beyond his limit. However, over the course of the Dragon Ball series, his power became outclassed by the newer generation of fighters.
His power also pales in comparison to King Piccolo and his offspring and he ends up dying after failing to seal King Piccolo with the Evil Containment Wave. At the beginning of Dragon Ball Z , he is quickly overshadowed by the Dragon Team , Saiyans , and villains that follow and is relegated to the role of a wise, yet perverted old martial arts master.
He would instead regularly advise his allies with sagely wisdom or occasionally aid them in their training as he aided Krillin in his three-year preparation for the androids and later taught Goku the Evil Containment Wave.
Despite his apparent retirement from active fighting and acknowledging his days as the strongest are long over, he still continues to train alone. In Dragon Ball Super , Master Roshi uses his full power form to combat of Frieza's soldiers with only minor difficulty. Master Roshi is, however, not able to keep up with Frieza's special elite warriors like Shisami and Tagoma.
Later in in the Universe Survival Saga , Master Roshi is chosen to fight in the Tournament of Power by Gohan, believing that his vast experience and gigantic bag of tricky attacks will be very useful during the tournament, which Goku agreed to. He was also able to briefly hold his own against Goku's base form but is easily defeated by Goku's Kamehameha after he put up no defense because he received no commands from Yurin.
Goku states that Roshi had been hiding his true power from everyone and is surprised that this is what Master Roshi can do when he isn't holding back. During the fight with Team Universe 4 , he showed his resourcefulness by facing off against three opponents consecutively. Against Caway , he easily repelled her energy weapons and ultimately terrified her into forfeiting albeit it was mostly from his perverted advances.
His knowledge in magical matters allowed him to easily defeat Dercori with the Evil Containment Wave, to which he was not affected by its consequences, showing his increase in power.
Against Ganos , his tactical prowess enabled him to effortlessly dodge and deflect all of the younger enemy's initial attacks despite the fact that Ganos was faster and stronger than him - with Ganos even noting that if he could just land one blow Roshi would be defeated until he grew strong enough to overwhelm Roshi and bash him around. Despite this, he showed noticeable resilience, repeatedly getting back up. Once using his max power and then proceeding to go beyond his limits, he was able to defeat the injured Ganos and blast him out the ring with a Life Force MAX Power Kamehameha.
Roshi's performance earned him repeated praise from Beerus , the God of Destruction of Universe 7. While Master Roshi is no match for Final Form Frost though mostly using most of his stamina from his previous battles and dropping his guard from the sneak attack of Frost, he was still able to briefly knock him back when he went into his Max Power state and caught him by surprise.
Master Roshi was able to survive using the Evil Containment Wave twice in a row, however he was heavily exhausted. Overall, because of the exhaustion from using the Evil Containment Wave and being tortured by Frost, Master Roshi had to eliminate himself as he was unable to fight anymore, as he would have only stood in the way of his teammates. In the manga, despite being noted to have much weaker raw power than any other fighter, he still became one of the final fighters participating.
He believed he would be able to hold out against Frost on his own, presumably using his Ultra Instinct-like ability, using this ability he was able to decisively outmaneuver and eliminate Kahseral , the general of the Pride Troopers. Afterwards, despite seeing the beyond-Destroyer might of Jiren calmly overwhelm both Perfected Super Saiyan Blue Goku and the greatly improved Hit , Roshi openly voiced his disappointment in Goku's general performance.
To which, he decided to teach Goku again through action, single-handedly facing the titanic Pride Trooper to show the true essence of martial arts. Pointing out Goku foolish over-reliance on raw power, Roshi demonstrated true efficiency by using his vast experience and seamless skill against Jiren. Through this, despite the incalculable difference in raw power, Roshi adapted to the flow of the battle to effortlessly anticipate and evade all of Jiren's attacks.
Roshi's performance left his foe and all spectators in awe. Even more, the seemingly automatic nature behind it made Beerus believe Roshi was using Ultra Instinct. Whis noted that it was only similar, but nonetheless complimented Roshi's understanding of free moving, noting that it made Roshi currently the closet person to mastering Ultra Instinct, even if not aware of it.
Ultimately, Jiren managed to strike Roshi, which alone was enough to eliminate him. Despite this, Roshi's words and actions resonated with Goku, letting Goku get past his subconscious doubt and careless mentality to unlock Ultra Instinct Sign. Wheelo and Dr. Kochin who believed he was still the Earth's strongest fighter and thus a candidate to transfer Wheelo's mind into. However Dr. Wheelo eventually chooses to target Goku, upon learning Master Roshi was no longer the world's strongest fighter.
The film marks one of the few times Roshi fights seriously and shows a glimpse of Roshi's hidden power, defeating four bio-men without exerting much effort. Against Dr. Kochin's three strongest bio-men, Roshi was able to fend off their unified assault with little effort. It was only from being surprised by Misokatsun 's super elastic body bouncing Roshi's Kamehameha back at him that the trio was able to catch Roshi off guard and defeat him. However these soldiers were largely unimpressive to Frieza, viewing them as pitiful compared to his previous soldiers.
Master Roshi's power level is while not fighting, [2] and when getting serious. In his normal state, he seems old and fragile usually walking with a cane, not doing much battle, but he is able to perform incredible superhuman acts that most ordinary people cannot accomplish, such as his ability to effortlessly catch bullets from a machine gun with his bare hands at close range.
In the Vegeta Saga , he is seen having a power level of , compared to the average human's power level of 5. Upon getting serious, Roshi is much more muscular than at his normal level of power, but the muscles are not as large as that of his max power. Roshi is first shown buffed up and uses this while exercising in the episode " Korin Tower ", and later again when Roshi fought Tien in this form at the 22nd World Tournament, noticing that it would take more strength to beat him.
His power level is when in this state. Main article: Max Power. Master Roshi can also increase his energy and achieve his final stage. In this state, his appearance changes dramatically, with an enormous increase in muscle mass and likewise height nearly equal in height to Piccolo. In this state, he can perform many ki attacks at their maximum potential most noticeably the enhanced MAX Power Kamehameha. The full power of this stage is unknown, but he was able to destroy the moon with a "Maximum Power" Kamehameha and it was believed by Krillin and Yamcha that he could kill Great Ape Goku with the attack.
Roshi rarely uses this form because of the decrease in stamina. During the Garlic Jr. In this state the evil desires, he would normally suppress take control driving him mad to the point of being willing to kill his own friends for it. He also becomes a devoted follower of Garlic Jr.
Due to his years of training, he is one of the strongest fighters known to have been corrupted by the mist making him more dangerous than the other infected Earthlings like Yamcha, Bulma, and Chi-Chi. Main articles: Jiang Shi and Max Power. Roshi Makes an appearance in the crossover manga Cross Epoch , where he is partnered with the equally perverted Sanji.
They are a pair of police officers who prefer attending Shenron's tea party and meeting pretty girls rather than doing their job.
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