How tall is King Cold?

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How tall is King Cold?

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:25 am

We all know he's a huge guy, but just how huge is he? His size is pretty inconsistent, but when he first appears he's around ~3x taller than Frieza who's around 4'8" or so, so could King Cold be 14 feet tall?

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Re: How tall is King Cold?

Post by Big Green The Yoshi » Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:40 am

All DBZ character sizes are inconsistent, aren't they? Either way, he's at least portrayed as a giant.

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Re: How tall is King Cold?

Post by dragonball0900 » Fri Dec 23, 2016 11:41 am

I guess his true size is the one shown later. Since I believe his first size was very huge.

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Re: How tall is King Cold?

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Fri Dec 23, 2016 11:51 am

dragonball0900 wrote:I guess his true size is the one shown later. Since I believe his first size was very huge.
But sometimes he's depicted as barely taller than Trunks which is just plain wrong, I think he should be at least 10 feet tall.

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Re: How tall is King Cold?

Post by Pantalones » Fri Dec 23, 2016 12:34 pm

I would guess that King Cold is probably at least as big as Freeza's second form based on his appearance and general "bigger-than-Freeza"-ness. Freeza in 2nd form seemed to be around Piccolo's height (in the 7' range) or a little bigger. So somewhere in the 7-8ish feet range, possibly even bigger?

But yeah, height is not very consistent in Dragonball -- big characters are sometimes depicted as MASSIVELY bigger than their official heights would indicate, small characters are depicted as super-midgets (check out officially-5'00" Krillin next to officially-5'04" Vegeta... or Vegeta next to Goku, they're officially only a few inches apart but sometimes Goku looks a FOOT taller and sometimes they look almost the exact same height!), Vegeta and Bulma trade places on the "who's taller" chart every now and then, and so on.

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Re: How tall is King Cold?

Post by RandomGuy96 » Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:24 pm

This cover puts him around 10 feet, a bit over twice Freeza'so height. I assume the covers are the most accurate depictions of scale, especially when they're meant to show off height comparisons like this. Which happens repeatedly in the Android arc.
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Re: How tall is King Cold?

Post by Draconic » Wed Dec 28, 2016 12:51 pm

As tall as the plot needs him to be :lol:
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Re: How tall is King Cold?

Post by Ki Breaker » Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:25 pm

Tall enough..
That's the only answer which makes sense anyway
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