Red Ribbon Army Characters

Organization

Commander Red: Japanese VA: Kenji Utsumi; The short and temperamental leader of his namesake army, known notoriously as the most evil army in the world. Obsessed with his height, he wanted to use the Dragon Balls to become taller, but was killed by Assistant Black before he got the chance.

Assistant Black: Japanese VA: Masaharu Satō; He is the number two man of the Red Ribbon Army, and is Commander Red's assistant. However, after learning that Red's true ambition wasn't to conquer the world, he kills him. Even after taking control of the Red Ribbon Army, he is still no match for Goku physically and is ultimately killed when Goku punches through the Battle Jacket he was using.

Captain Silver: Japanese VA: Banjō Ginga; An officer of the Red Ribbon Army, he commands an expedition to find one of the Dragon Balls in a remote region. Goku arrives in the area, having used the Dragon Radar, and quickly finds the Dragon Ball. Silver steals it from Goku, but is defeated with a single punch to the gut from Goku, who takes the Dragon Ball back. Commander Red can't believe someone like Silver could be defeated by a mere kid, and has him executed.

General White: Japanese VA: Tesshō Genda; The Red Ribbon Army general in charge of Muscle Tower. In order to find the Dragon Ball located somewhere around Jingle Village, he took the village mayor hostage to force the villagers to search for the Dragon Ball. When Goku came to free the mayor, he used a handy trap door to drop him down into Buyon's lair, but Goku managed to defeat the monster. White then threatened to shoot the mayor, and used his Powered Gun to injure Goku. But before he could finish Goku off, No. 8 intervened and sent him flying off into the distance.

Sergeant Metallic: Japanese VA: Shin Aomori; As a powerful robot in the Red Ribbon Army, he is tasked by General White with protecting the third floor of Muscle Tower in Jingle Village. He faces off against Goku, and even after having his head blown off by a Kamehameha, he keeps fighting. However, he eventually loses when his battery runs out.

Sergeant Master Murasaki: Japanese VA: Takeshi Aono; Although he is a high-ranking member of the Red Ribbon Army, he is one of the world's most idiotic ninjas. He acts as the second-in-command at Muscle Tower and fights Goku on the tower's third floor, but is quickly outmatched. Even calling in his brothers as reinforcements doesn't help much, so he brings out his secret weapon, Artificial Human No. 8. Unfortunately, No. 8 turns out to be very kindhearted and doesn't listen to his commands. Murasaki then tries to blow No. 8 up for his insubordination, but Goku intervenes and knocks him out for good.

Murasaki's Siblings: Japanese VA: Takeshi Aono; Murasaki is actually one in a set of quintuplets, and he uses his four identical brothers to imitate the fabled ninja skill of splitting into multiple people. Each of his brothers holds a different weapon, but like Murasaki himself, none of them are a match for Goku.

Buyon: Japanese VA: Daisuke Matsubara (video games only); Buyon is the mysterious monster that lives on the fifth floor of Muscle Tower in Jingle Village. His elastic body makes him virtually immune to any of his victim's attacks. However, Goku realizes his one weakness is the extreme cold, and after freezing him, shatters Buyon into tiny pieces with a single kick.

General Blue: Japanese VA: Toshio Furukawa; Leader of the Blue Corps and a narcissistic homosexual, he is responsible for searching in the vicinity of Kame House for the Dragon Balls. He is eventually defeated by Arale Norimaki after crashing in Penguin Village with Goku. After returning to Red Ribbon Army headquarters, Commander Red has Tao Pai-pai execute him for failing his mission.

Dock: Japanese VA: Kōzō Shioya; A larger member of General Blue's Corps. He is put in charge of the assault on Kame House, but he and his men are quickly defeated by Kame-Sen'nin and Lunch.

Captain Yellow: Japanese VA: Daisuke Gōri; A tiger charged with finding the Dragon Ball located in the Karin Holy Land. This puts him on the bad side of the land's guardian, Bora, who kills all of his men. In a last-ditch effort to defeat Bora, Yellow takes his son Upa as a hostage, but Goku happens by at that moment and defeats him with a single punch.

Captain Violet: Japanese VA: Kazuko Sugiyama; A rare female member of the Red Ribbon Army, she has climbed the ranks to Captain. She uses Goku's Dragon Radar to quickly locate one of the Dragon Balls, and reports back to Red. Although she is barely seen in the manga, her role is greatly expanded upon in the anime.

General Copper: A general in the Red Ribbon Army, he was supposed to receive the stolen Dragon Radar after Captain Violet had finished using it to find the Five-Star Ball. Red was about to send Black to deliver the Dragon Radar to Copper, but then Goku attacked the Red Ribbon Headquarters, and so Copper is ultimately never seen.

Brown: An unseen member of the Red Ribbon Army who is presumably leader of the Brown Corps, and is merely mentioned in passing in the manga. When sending out his subordinates, Captain Silver notes that the Brown Corps had already found a Dragon Ball the day before them.

Tao Pai-pai: Japanese VA: Chikao Ōtsuka; The younger brother of Tsuru-Sen'nin, he is known globaly as the world's greatest assassin. After General Blue fails in retrieving Goku's Dragon Balls, Tao Pai-pai is hired by the Red Ribbon Army to do so himself, but first he executes Blue with his tongue. He then steals Goku's Dragon Balls, but is eventually defeated after Goku finishes his training with Karin. Years later at the 23rd Tenka'ichi Budōkai, Tao Pai-pai reappears as a cyborg, but is promptly defeated by an enraged Tenshinhan.