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==Plot summary==
{{See also|List of Dragon Ball characters{{!}}List of ''Dragon Ball'' characters}}
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[[Goku|Son Goku]], a monkey-tailed boy, and [[Bulma]], a teenage girl, travel to find the seven Dragon Balls, which summon the dragon [[Shenlong (Dragon Ball)|Shenlong]] to grant the user one wish. Their journey leads to the desert bandit [[Yamcha]], who later becomes an ally; [[Chi-Chi (Dragon Ball)|Chi-Chi]], whom Goku unknowingly agrees to marry; and [[Pilaf (Dragon Ball)|Pilaf]], an impish man who seeks the Dragon Balls to fulfill his desire to rule the world. Goku undergoes rigorous training regimes under the martial arts master [[Kame-Sen'nin]] to fight in the {{Nihongo|''Tenkaichi Budōkai''|天下一武道会||lit. "Strongest Under the Heavens Martial Arts Tournament"}}. He becomes friends with a monk named [[Kuririn]], his training partner and initial rival. After the tournament, Goku searches for the Dragon Ball his grandfather left him and almost single-handedly defeats the [[Red Ribbon Army]] and their hired assassin, [[Taopaipai]]. Goku then reunites with his friends to defeat the fortune teller [[Baba Uranai]]'s fighters and use her to find the last Dragon Ball in order to revive a friend killed by Taopaipai.

Three years later at the ''Tenkaichi Budōkai'', Goku and his allies oppose Kame-Sen'nin's rival and Taopaipai's brother, Tsuru-Sen'nin, and his students [[Tenshinhan]] and [[Chaozu]]. Kuririn is killed after the tournament; Goku tracks down the murderer's leader, [[Piccolo Daimao]], but is defeated. The samurai [[Yajirobe]] takes Goku to the hermit [[Karin (Dragon Ball)|Karin]], who heals him and gives him a power boost. Meanwhile, Piccolo defeats and kills Kame-Sen'nin and Chaozu before using the Dragon Balls to regain his youth and destroy Shenlong. Goku then kills Piccolo Daimao, who, before dying, spawns his son/reincarnation [[Piccolo (Dragon Ball)|Piccolo]]. Karin then directs Goku to [[Kami (Dragon Ball)|Kami]], the original creator of the Dragon Balls and Piccolo Daimao's other half, to restore Shenlong and revive his slain friends. Goku trains under Kami for the next three years, once again reuniting with his friends at the ''Tenkaichi Budōkai''. There, he defeats Piccolo, whose life he spares as it would also kill Kami. Goku leaves with Chi-Chi to keep his promise to marry her.

Five years later, Goku is a young adult and father to a son, [[Gohan (Dragon Ball)|Gohan]]. A man named [[Raditz]] arrives on Earth, identifies Goku as his younger brother Kakarrot, and reveals to him that they are members of a nearly extinct extraterrestrial race called the {{Nihongo|Saiyans|サイヤ人|Saiya-jin}}, who sent Goku to conquer Earth for them; however, Goku had suffered a [[Traumatic brain injury|severe head injury]] as an infant and lost all memories of his mission. Goku refuses to continue the mission, and sides with Piccolo to kill Raditz at the cost of his own life. In the afterlife, Goku trains under the [[North Kaiō]] until he is revived by the Dragon Balls to save the Earth from the invading [[Nappa (Dragon Ball)|Nappa]] and [[Vegeta]]. In the battle, Yamcha, Chaozu, Tenshinhan, and Piccolo are killed, and the Dragon Balls cease to exist. Kuririn and the galactic tyrant [[Freeza]] learn of another set of Dragon Balls on the planet {{Nihongo|Namek|ナメック星|Namekku-sei}}, Piccolo's homeworld. Bulma, Gohan, and Kuririn search for them to revive their friends and restore Earth's Dragon Balls. Their goal leads to several battles with Freeza's minions and Vegeta, the latter standing alongside the heroes to fight the [[Ginyu Force]], a team of mercenaries. The long battle with Freeza ends when Goku transforms into a legendary {{Nihongo|Super Saiyan|超サイヤ人|Sūpā Saiya-jin}} and defeats him. Barely surviving, Freeza recovers and goes to Earth to take his revenge on Goku; however, he is killed by a Super Saiyan from the future named [[Trunks (Dragon Ball)|Trunks]].

Three years later, a group of {{Nihongo|[[Android (robot)|Androids]]|人造人間|Jinzōningen|lit. "Artificial Humans"}} created by a member of the former Red Ribbon Army, [[Doctor Gero]], appears, seeking revenge against Goku. During this time, an evil life form called [[Cell (Dragon Ball)|Cell]] also emerges and, after absorbing two of the Androids to achieve his "perfect form", holds his own fighting tournament to challenge the protagonists. After Goku sacrifices his own life to no avail, Gohan avenges his father by killing Cell. Seven years later Goku, briefly revived for one day, and his allies are drawn into a fight against [[Majin Boo]]. After many battles, including the destruction and re-creation of the Earth, a resurrected Goku destroys Boo with a ''Genki-Dama'' (a sphere of pure energy drawn from all intelligent beings on Earth) and wishes for him to be reincarnated as a "good person". Ten years later, at the ''Tenkaichi Budōkai'', Goku meets Boo's human reincarnation, [[Oob (Dragon Ball)|Oob]]. After testing his powers, Goku departs with Oob to train him to be the Earth's new guardian.