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We know that Dragon Ball has never been known for brilliant writing, but for you, who is the most notable character in terms of writing? Personally Future Trunks.
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Bacterian.
He is so awesome.
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Probably Piccolo
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Vegeta and Gohan.
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Definitely not Goten.
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Piccolo and Vegeta
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Picollo and Future Trunks
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Top3 of the best written characters in DBZ in my opinion consists of (random order): Piccolo, Vegeta, Future Trunks.
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Vegeta has the best character arcs and overall development, but I’m just in love with the idea of Beerus becoming that overpowered gag character.

So probably both, Vegeta and Lord Beerus.
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Karkov05 said:
We know that Dragon Ball has never been known for brilliant writing, but for you, who is the most notable character in terms of writing? Personally Future Trunks.

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Nov 24, 7:16 PM
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I agree with Vegeta
Nov 24, 8:39 PM
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Karkov05 said:
We know that Dragon Ball has never been known for brilliant writing, but for you, who is the most notable character in terms of writing? Personally Future Trunks.

I would say Piccolo in the entire DBZ saga (plus I love the interactions he has with Gohan), but Vegeta had a great development in the Buu saga.

The truth is that both are very good characters.
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ah this is tuff , Id say VEGETA , FUTURE TRUNKS , PICCOLO
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Master roshi is my favorite for being a cool funny pervert.
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My answer is Bardock easily
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glad the most popular answers are Future Trunks and Piccolo, those are my picks too
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Piccolo's character development is the best. From the evil menace he was in the original series to sacrificing himself for Gohan.
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Vegeta and Piccolo, both are the most developed characters, they always met new challenges and their personalities changed somehow with them.
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King piccolo or piccolo.
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I'd say Piccolo. He's the evil side of a nameless namekian who starts to reflect on himself when "raising" (more like observing Gohan rasing himself). He creates a bond with Gohan and through that bond he completely changes as a character.

Vegeta is the same as in him having a redemption story arc, but is isn't as well written as Piccolo. His redemption story kickstarts after he for absolutely no reason gets into a relationship with Bulma. Vegeta gets better story arcs later on (Moro arc) but initially his catharsis is what I'd call lazy writing.

So in that sense I'd say Piccolo is the best written db character.

Another shout would be Gohan. The plot essentially builds him up from episode one of dragon ball untill it culminates with the end of Cell saga. Gohan starting off as Pacificst who doesn't like fighting and simply wants to lead a normal life, is forced to understand that he will have to fight in order to protect what he holds dear. His strength being foreshadowed in every arc prior (his bursts of strength throughout Saiyan and Namekian saga finally bursting out when Gohan is enraged. Gohan was definitely being built to become the best dragon ball character, however buu saga happened. Toriyama changing his mind on Goku passing the baton to Gohan as the MC did kinda ruin his character because it literally made him go back on what he learned from the cell saga. (many ppl think Toriyama gave up on the idea on making Gohan the MC because of the fans, but they're wrong. Toriyama states in an interview that as much as he tried, he simply couldn't think of Gohan as the main character so he scratched that up and brought Goku back). Buu arc had so many inconsistencies in characters that made Cell saga kinda pointless in the end. At least he tried to fix Gohan with the super hero movie, by having him realize what the point of Cell saga was all along, so there's some hope at the end of the tunnel for Gohan after all.


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Piccolo. He starts life as the reborn demon spawn baddy, and grows into the master of his rival's son. His character arc is easily my favorite.
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that'll be Son Gohan
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i think gohan is the well written character in Dragon ball z. In the childhood time, he has to struggle with some powerful characters. even brutality beaten by enemies. But his character development is so smooth.
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Gohan, easily. The way Z used him in finding a replacement for "Kid" Goku in a larger than life story but with a unique personality plus building up to his potential all the way till Cell, hinting at it little by little. Its super satisfying to see the torch pass on.
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Vegeta if you’ve actually paid attention to how he started and pay attention to who he became when he sacrificed himself thinking he’d kill majin buu it’s hard to say that it isn’t vegeta
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Abdullah_9 said:
Picollo and Future Trunks

Future Trunks has way too many plot holes :(

I do love him though
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Definitely not Goten.
@Domukelis goten the most useless character.
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Karkov05 said:
We know that Dragon Ball has never been known for brilliant writing, but for you, who is the most notable character in terms of writing? Personally Future Trunks.

imo gohan but before super hero before top, him giving up fighting to be a scholar was great and I hate he went back to fighting alot of ppl say he was disappointing but I think they misunderstand gohan as a character
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I’d say either Vegeta, Piccolo or Gohan. Vegeta definitely has the best character development going from a villain to an antihero and then later a full on hero, similar to Piccolo. Gohan also gets way too much hate. Ever since the Saiyan saga, his life was suffering, not as much as Trunks but it was still bad, so I don’t blame him for becoming a scholar
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