Favorite dragon ball villains

[Toxin45]

This about your favorite dragon ball villains from all series
Mine are king piccolo,Frieza,cooler,broly,shadow dragons,baby,cell,buu,and goku black/Zamasu.
What are your favorite villains?

[sintzu]

Freeza

Black

Cell

King Piccolo

Baby

Majin Buu

[Grimlock]

Janemba, Mira and Towa. For their interesting and unique lore, design and techniques.

Honorable mentions: Goku Black (he doesn't get to be a favorite but I like him a lot) and Fu (not a villain yet but if he becomes one eventually, he'll be ascend to be a favorite).

[theTUN]

Frieza, all of Zamasu's various incarnations, Nappa, Saiyan Saga Vegeta, Piccolo Jr. and Beerus if you can count him as a villain.

[PsionicWarrior]

I like almost all but I guess my top 3 would be Buu, Freeza and Zamasu lol

[Forte224]

I have to go with Freeza, in his Namek arc incarnation anyway. He was so brutal, in control and full of himself. He didn't even fly or walk much on his own, he just used that hover pod. Everything was done for him, but when it came time for him to step in he dominated.

And it was these very things that caused him to be so prideful that led to his downfall. Very interesting villain that consistently cared about himself and no one else. His later Trunks/filler/movie/Super incarnations dampened the character down, but it doesn't affect me when I rewatch the Namek portions at all.

The ToP redeemed him a little for me. But, he wasn't a villain there really.

[Michsi]

King Piccolo and Freeza for me, though Freeza has suffered a couple of blows to his status ever since the Namek arc.

[ABED]

Piccolo Daimao because of the sense of dread the pervades that entire arc.
Piccolo because the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai fight between him and Goku is still my favorite one on one fight in all of DB.
Freeza for the reasons people here have mentioned.
Vegeta for not only his development, but that final fight in the Saiyan arc is brilliant and showcases how tough he is. Too often toughness is shown by the villain tanking an attack. Vegeta thrashes the heroes, but he also takes one hell of an ass kicking. He's beat to crap and exhausted and still keeps going. It's an amazing show of resilience that's so fun to watch.

[TheBigBoy]

Freeza for being well...Freeza.

Vegeta for being such an incredibly tough bastard. He really loses that quality from the Freeza arc on.

Raditz for opening up the world in the series. He's also a pretty good example of a villain who is both a real physical threat and a cowardly chickenshit, which you don't see a ton of in the Dragonball.

Zamasu for being a true delusional psycho.

I also think Pilaf is actually really funny, though he's never really a threat.

[Spider-Man]

1-Goku Black

2-Frieza

3-Vegeta

4-Imperfect and Perfect Cell

5-Cooler

Honorable mention would be: Kid Buu, Fat Buu, Towa and Mira.

[TrunksTrevelyan0064]

The first ones that come to mind are Freeza and Piccolo Daimaô, probably because they were scary. First-form Cell, too. I love the horror-movie vibe around his first appearance. Sadly that goes away once the mystery is explained. Maybe it would've been better if Cell couldn't talk, at least in his first form?

During the early Namek arc, when Gohan and Kuririn are paralyzed with fear upon sensing Freeza's power, you really get the sense that Freeza is utterly untouchable, that Gohan & co. are dead if they make just one wrong move.

Piccolo Daimaô is scary because not only does his arc involve the deaths of a whole bunch of martial artists, including several that we know and love, but he also straight up kills Shenlong. I don't think anybody saw that coming. Piccolo takes away the one and only chance (that we know of at that point) of seeing Kuririn, Roshi and the others come back to life. It's really, really bleak, especially in contrast to the gag-filled arcs that came before.

Tao Pai-Pai is another fantastic villain, flyin' on poles and assassinatin' dudes, plus he's the first opponent against whom Goku had no chance (in their first encounter, anyway).

I also like Dabra and the Ginyu squad a lot. I feel like they had a lot of potential as characters, but their development got cut short by their untimely deaths.

[BrolyKale]

1) Broly and Zamasu
2) Mira/Towa
3) Demigra
4) Freezer
5) Li Shenron

and that's pretty much it for now.

[sunsetshimmer]

-Baby
-Buu
-Shadow Dragons
-King Piccolo
-Broly

[DestructoDisc]

Zamasu, Freeza, Vegeta and Nappa

[A21Fan]

King Piccolo

(Dr. Gero)

Perfect Cell

Super Buu w/ absorptions

Goku Black

(Omega Shenron)

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And of course i like 21 a lot but i dont consider her to be a "real" villain.

[Lord Beerus]

- Freeza: Megalomania at its finest. His recent run in the Universal Survival arc breathed some wonderful new life into him.

- Zamasu/Goku Black: A wonderfully fleshed out and the first case of Dragon Ball providing a "hero to villain" type of narrative.

- Cell: Had a great horror movie aura about his initially before becoming a somewhat stock generic doomsday villain. But just enough charisma and ever evolving characterisation to make him stand out

- Majin/Super/Kid Boo: A wonderfully whimsical villain that managed to perfectly find the right balance of comedy and horror to not upset or imbalance the tone of the Majin Boo arc

- Baby: A shockingly well developed and integrated antagonist based on previous lore from Toei

[SupremeKai25]

My favourite Dragon Ball villain would obviously have to be Fused Zamasu. I fell in love with this character as soon as I saw him for the first time back in November 2016. I adore his personality, his "God" complex, his narcissism, his cruelty and vaingloriousness and, of course, his insanity. Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion, given the fact that he appeared in only two episodes in total, but I genuinely believe that he was wonderfully-written, and his descent into madness was really well done! Perhaps the thing I adore the most about this character is his design. I think that the Saiyan hair looks awesome on a Kai, and the long protruding bang over the right side of his face, which represents Future Zamasu's mohawk, was a very nice touch.

I am extremely biased, even when it comes to Zamasu, and I vastly preferred the "Halo" Fused Zamasu over his Grotesque form. Not that I disliked the latter, mind you, it's just that the initial version of Fused Zamasu that appeared in episode 65 was handsome, sublime, splendid, fabolous and, obviously, divine. A shame that he was ultimately twisted and corrupted, but it was necessary to symbolize the inner turmoil that was taking place inside his body and his own flawed ideals of justice and righteousness that had driven him mad.

Perfect. That's how you write a compelling and convincing villain.

[Yuli Ban]

If only he had a better writing team behind him; otherwise, Zamasu hands down. He's one of the only villains in the series that can actually dredge some level of sympathy and he has a proper arc. Like I said, if more competent writers had the wheel, well for one Dragon Ball would probably be a lot different but also Zamasu's entire motivations would have been more understandable and coherent.
My problem with Zamasu is that he basically sees one species of mortal retain violence over the course of a mere thousand years and then gets threatened when one particular mortal proves to be as strong as he is and uses that to decide to exterminate all life without much prodding or real reflection, nor does he ever get a second opinion (other than his own).
Even with all these enormous deficiencies, I still say he's the best villain.

In terms of most intimidating, undoubtedly it's Freeza. I actually still get chills when watching or reading through the series and seeing just how terrifyingly hopeless the fight against him on Namek was. It was a situation where literally everything failed and a near-deus ex machina was needed to actually overcome him, and even then he still survived.

[Vijay]

Broly

Kid Boo

Super Janemba

Cell

Frieza

Super Boo

Young Piccolo Daimou

[DiegoBrando]

Raditz, Frieza and King Piccolo are my favourites. I also really like Tenshinhan as a bad guy, altough I wouldn't call him a villain exactly.