Most Violent Moment in the Series

[Fox666]

• Ma Junior transpassing Goku's chest with his mouth beam and breaking his legs
• The Makankosappo transpassing Goku and Raditz
• Vegeta blowing in pieces the Saibaiman
• The force of Nappa's punch actually cutting of Tenshinhan's arm
• Oozaru Vegeta smashing Goku's legs with his foot and squeezing his body in his hands
• Vegeta breaking the neck of an unconscious Batta
• Freeza impaling Kuririn with his horn
• Freeza torturing Vegeta and finally piercing his hearth with his beam
• Freeza being cut in half by his own attack
• Gohan destroying the Cell Jr.
• Babidi making Spopovitch head grow until it explode

[Piccolo Daimao]

Oh, I forgot to mention Dodoria breaking Muuri's neck.

[Ketchup_Revenge]

Videl getting beaten by Spopovich was just brutal, especially since she isn't super-powered like the rest of the gang.

Well, to be fair, neither was Spopavich. He was just a regular human beefed up by Babidi's spell. Although we really don't know how much stronger he was, I'm sure he was nowhere near as strong as the main cast. Regardless, that was a brutal beeting.

He still was way stronger than Videl because he had an aura when he flew, which no one's really seen to have one if they're below 1000. Videl's probably lucky if she makes 150.

[Cipher]

The last portion of Goku's fight with Piccolo at the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai.

I actually agree with this. The "Goku torture" scene toward the end is worse than anything in the movies. Piccolo's just playing dirty, ramming elbows and feet into Goku's chest wound, firing beams at his arms, breaking his knees, etc, etc. I think the fact that the series is relatively down-to-Earth at this point, coupled with the fact that it's a major step up from previous dire moments, makes this one really sickening. It's probably the closest I've come to feeling uncomfortable while watching Dragon Ball.

Also, the entirety of Dragon Ball Z Movie 4 deserves a mention. They just didn't give a fuck. Piccolo is pulling off ears, snapping arms and blowing off heads. One minion chokes on his own ki blast. Goku gives Slug another gruesome arm snap (followed by Slug's self-amputation). To top it all off, Slug gets the worst Genki Dama death of any villain, having a hole rammed through his chest, falling into his spaceship, and then being blown to bits (ouch). Some of the movies get pretty brutal, but this one is way out of left field.

[Piccolo Daimao]

Videl getting beaten by Spopovich was just brutal, especially since she isn't super-powered like the rest of the gang.

Well, to be fair, neither was Spopavich. He was just a regular human beefed up by Babidi's spell. Although we really don't know how much stronger he was, I'm sure he was nowhere near as strong as the main cast. Regardless, that was a brutal beeting.

He still was way stronger than Videl because he had an aura when he flew, which no one's really seen to have one if they're below 1000. Videl's probably lucky if she makes 150.

So Dende, Spopovich and Yamu were all at least 1,000?

[dbgtFO]

He still was way stronger than Videl because he had an aura when he flew, which no one's really seen to have one if they're below 1000. Videl's probably lucky if she makes 150.

We never really get to see characters early on in the series fly all out, so we can't know for sure what the minimum power level is for having a flight aura, if there is one. I do recall Roshi and Goku being drawn with auras, when they showcased great speeds though.

[InfernalVegito]

Either Freezer piercing Krillin and licking/tasting his pouring blood that also squirts all over Vegeta's face or Vegeta getting pierced through his shoulder and electrified by Super Yi Xing Long's gigantic spikes.

[KiddoCabbusses]

Also, the entirety of Dragon Ball Z Movie 4 deserves a mention. They just didn't give a fuck. Piccolo is pulling off ears, snapping arms and blowing off heads. One minion chokes on his own ki blast. Goku gives Slug another gruesome arm snap (followed by Slug's self-amputation). To top it all off, Slug gets the worst Genki Dama death of any villain, having a hole rammed through his chest, falling into his spaceship, and then being blown to bits (ouch). Some of the movies get pretty brutal, but this one is way out of left field.

On the note of the movies, some of the more violent scenes I can recall from them include;
From Movie 3: Turles/Tullece/whatever-name-he's-going-by-this-localization blasting Goku in the back repeatedly after having stomped his head to the floor. This scene isn't so violent in the bloody or gore-ish sense so much as it is how it focuses on Goku's pain for an extended period of time. One of the first "Goku Torture" movie scenes, this one is notable for how long it drags out and how Goku's screaming in pain much of the time.
From Movie 5: Piccolo dispatches Neiz by reflecting his own attack back at him - in a way where his body is visibly charred worse than overcooked hamburger. What little screentime we see of Neiz's corpse barely resembles how he originally looked! If Neiz was a human or even a fairly popular character, this kind of thing probably wouldn't have flied.
From Movie 6: Goku's struggling through the wires Cooler throttled onto him. This is on of the bloodiest moments in the movies, which is unusual since most of the other "violent" moments are mostly rendered bloodlessly.
Movie 11: Any scene where the bio-liquid explicitly or implicitly kills someone. This movie also has a pretty high body count, too.
Movie 12: Janemba cutting Goku up with that sword he generated. Not only does it drag out as long as the "Goku torture" scene in movie 3, but there a few various bloody parts, and to give further impact to the scene, you see Goku drop from Super Saiyan 3 to base form. On top of that, it's an unusually dire scene considering how the rest of the movie has a goofier, lighter-hearted theme.. heck, it's followed up on by Fat Gogeta being pummeled by Janemba, which is -played for laughs-.

[Attitudefan]

Vegeta destroying Goku when he is in his Oozaru form. It always bothered me, how Goku screams and Vegeta laughs, ending the scene (or episode, I can't remember) with Goku be squeezed by Vegeta. It always bothered me. I hated it and hated Vegeta :/

Same goes for Ma Jr torturing Goku. It is just brutal!

Last that stands out for me is the slaughtering of Nameks by Dodoria. Rubs me the wrong way.

[Jackal puFF]

• Ma Junior transpassing Goku's chest with his mouth beam and breaking his legs
• The Makankosappo transpassing Goku and Raditz
• Vegeta blowing in pieces the Saibaiman
• The force of Nappa's punch actually cutting off Tenshinhan's arm
• Oozaru Vegeta smashing Goku's legs with his foot and squeezing his body in his hands
• Vegeta breaking the neck of an unconscious Batta
• Freeza impaling Kuririn with his horn
• Freeza torturing Vegeta and finally piercing his hearth with his beam
• Freeza being cut in half by his own attack
• Gohan destroying the Cell Jr.
• Babidi making Spopovitch head grow until it explode

I like this list! Going to add more
•Majin Buu making a human explode by going inside him and expand
•Trunks getting uppercut-ed right on the chin by Broly
•Android 16 ripping off Cell's tail
•Tien breaking Yamcha's leg right after he won.

[Patient-mental]

[roidrage]

1. Piccolo Sr. blowing rocks at Goku. Not very violent in and of itself, but he said he would crush Tenshinhan's head if he flinched, and one of those rocks hit Goku in the knee, IIRC.
2. Kuririn getting impaled by second-form Freeza. Stunned me when I saw it in the Japanese version.
3. Babidi's death in the manga. You can still see the blood spurting out from his headless corpse before Buu destroys it.

[kaialone]

3. Babidi's death in the manga. You can still see the blood spurting out from his headless corpse before Buu destroys it.

If his blood was still spurting it mens that he was still alive Oh god...

[Kaboom]

Here's a noteworthy but easy to miss one from the Majin Boo arc.

[kaialone]

Here's a noteworthy but easy to miss one from the Majin Boo arc.

I remember reading trough the manga with my sister and I was like "Oh look this woman has a really short body and really long arms", "sis, she is missing her lower body", "Oh"

[Great Saiyaman I]

The Boo arc, for what's considered the silliest Z arc, has a lot of violent moments like that. IE the sniper shooting the old people for fun.

[jjgp1112]

The last portion of Goku's fight with Piccolo at the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with this.

[SSJ2Engels]

3. Babidi's death in the manga. You can still see the blood spurting out from his headless corpse before Buu destroys it.

The scene in the anime is pretty gruesome too, but it isn't as well-know, probably because it was rarely shown on TV that way, I believe.

[Travis Touchdown]

I'm inclined to say Frieza tearing off Nail's arm. Nappa put some effort into punching Tien's arm off, #17 appeared to put some effort into kicking Gero's head off, and you really see that throughout the series. Characters put some serious effort into their punch/kick, or some heavy ki-charging before blasting body parts off.

But Frieza... he stands up straight and effortlessly tears Nail's arm off, and he does it with a smile. As Nail withers in pain, Frieza continues to stand there calm as ever.

[cRookie_Monster]

First thing that came to mind for me was Krillin getting impaled by Frieza.

You don't see individual deaths, but Frieza blowing up planet Vegeta and Buu killing everyone on Earth are pretty violent moments. More violence is implied there then all the other scenes put together really.

I honestly haven't seen some of the disturbing scenes people are discussing. I saw a lot of flashbacks of the Piccolo\Goku fight and it looked pretty bad, but I never watched the actual episodes.