What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

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What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by rweasp » Thu Mar 26, 2026 12:17 am

Dragon Ball is well known for its screaming in the anime, but which ones stand out to you the most (from any version)?

There's so many to choose from on the JP side, but I think I'll give it to Wakamoto as Perfect Cell, especially the very first one in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI1TSEh4CKc

The amount of raw power he puts into it is just incredible.

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by The Dark Knight » Thu Mar 26, 2026 2:05 am

Goku going Ssj3 for the first time in pretty much any language. Toei and the various dubbing companies did a great job demonstrating that it was a power far beyond anything we had seen up to that point.

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by Yellow Flower King » Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:32 am

Gohan SSJ2 in Latin America. My favorite part is that Laura Torres adds a little "Sub-scream" before she launches the main one. Like "Ah! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by TheBigBoy » Thu Mar 26, 2026 7:29 am

Honestly? That really cool high pitched demonic scream Scott McNeil would sometimes do as Piccolo. Sounds awesome and otherworldly.

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by Kenji » Thu Mar 26, 2026 10:30 am

Absolutely any from Masako Nozawa.

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by TheRed259 » Thu Mar 26, 2026 11:38 am

Almost everything below comes from a similar topic I created about 2 years ago.

- Goku's scream (Mario Castañeda) from the Latin American dub of episode 127 of Dragon Ball Z and episode 5 of Dragon Ball Super.
https://youtu.be/gudwxQI7zyc?t=61
https://youtu.be/eL6yJASrsr8?t=9

- Vegeta's scream (René García) from the Latin American dub of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and Dragon Ball Daima.
https://youtu.be/7vGjaoeMFGM?t=62
https://youtu.be/GzMvXtwNKoU?t=104
https://youtu.be/qdN_lPZQvMg?t=40

- Gohan's scream (Luis Manuel Ávila) from the Latin American dub of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.
https://youtu.be/sBF54gmd1yQ?t=35

- Vegeta's scream (Eric Legrand) from the French dub of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods.
https://youtu.be/WvUZaHGAtcY?t=47

- The beginning of Vegeta's screams (Yiannis Papaioannou) from the Greek dub of episode 228 of Dragon Ball Z.
https://youtu.be/ISSCMsU9dT4?t=13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3eXROKwXw

- Vegeta's scream (Gianluca Iacono) from the Italian dub of episode 7 of Dragon Ball Super.
https://youtu.be/hesiDXQuUP4?t=136

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by JulieYBM » Thu Mar 26, 2026 11:45 am

Wakamoto in his prime had the best screams. The scream as Cell powers up to fight Gohan for real in Dragon Ball Z Episode #186 is so fucking good.

The screams to get #18's attention while she is hiding are also out-of-thids-world. He's just screaming for an entire episode!! Entire sentences!!
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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by rweasp » Thu Mar 26, 2026 11:05 pm

TheRed259 wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 11:38 am Almost everything below comes from a similar topic I created about 2 years ago.

- Goku's scream (Mario Castañeda) from the Latin American dub of episode 127 of Dragon Ball Z and episode 5 of Dragon Ball Super.
https://youtu.be/gudwxQI7zyc?t=61
https://youtu.be/eL6yJASrsr8?t=9

- Vegeta's scream (René García) from the Latin American dub of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and Dragon Ball Daima.
https://youtu.be/7vGjaoeMFGM?t=62
https://youtu.be/GzMvXtwNKoU?t=104
https://youtu.be/qdN_lPZQvMg?t=40

- Gohan's scream (Luis Manuel Ávila) from the Latin American dub of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.
https://youtu.be/sBF54gmd1yQ?t=35

- Vegeta's scream (Eric Legrand) from the French dub of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods.
https://youtu.be/WvUZaHGAtcY?t=47

- The beginning of Vegeta's screams (Yiannis Papaioannou) from the Greek dub of episode 228 of Dragon Ball Z.
https://youtu.be/ISSCMsU9dT4?t=13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3eXROKwXw

- Vegeta's scream (Gianluca Iacono) from the Italian dub of episode 7 of Dragon Ball Super.
https://youtu.be/hesiDXQuUP4?t=136
Its been a while since I watched clips of the Latin American version, but yeah these are great. Very jealous that SA got such a great dub of the anime.

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by Yellow Flower King » Thu Mar 26, 2026 11:14 pm

Not just South America, North America and Central America too. Mexico is in North America.

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by rweasp » Thu Mar 26, 2026 11:22 pm

All true.

Another I'm fond of is Kelamis' famous Kaioken scream from Movie 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM_eFZBAEnE

The Nozawa parallels are obvious and probably the closest we ever had an English Goku sounding like Nozawa's Goku. Kelamis was in general an underrated Goku, in my opinion. His performances in the Pioneer dubs of Movies 1-3 are great.

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by Dark Vegeta-Sama » Fri Mar 27, 2026 5:45 am

It would be hard to argue that anyone else even comes close to matching the level of intensity of Brian Drummond's Vegeta screams, especially in the season 2/early Namek era.

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by MasenkoHA » Fri Mar 27, 2026 8:33 am

Scott Mcneil’s metal af scream at the beginning of the Ocean dub of Dead Zone

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Re: What is your favorite scream in the franchise?

Post by Yuji » Fri Mar 27, 2026 9:01 am

Criminal that Nozawa in Gohan's SS2 isn't atop everyone's list.

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