Ginyu

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Ginyu
ギニュー (Ginyū)
Manga Anime
Name Pun	Cow's Milk
Manga Debut	Dragon Ball Chapter 272
Anime Debut	Dragon Ball Z Episode 58
Japanese VA	Hideyuki Hori (Z) Katsuyuki Konishi (Kai/Super)
Canadian VA	Richard Newman
Funimation VA	Dale Kelly (Z 1999) Brice Armstrong (Z 2005) R. Bruce Elliott (Kai)
Personal Data
Death	Age 779
Classification	Alien
Pronouns	Watashi (わたし) (with Freeza) Ore (オレ) (otherwise)
Occupation	Ginyu Special Force
Title	Captain
Notable Skills	Body Change

Ginyu is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. Ginyu makes his debut in Chapter 272, first published in the 1990 #21/22 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Biography

Early Life

When Ginyu first discovered his Body Change ability, he used it on the wealthiest child in his class. This made him very popular with the girls, but he lacked intelligence; because of this, he realized that men should compete for strength rather than money.

When I became aware of my Body Change ability, I swapped bodies with the richest kid in class!! I made myself popular with the girls by throwing money around, but it soon started to seem stupid. When all's said and done, a man should rely on his power!
— Ginyu

Ginyu rose to the rank of second in Freeza's army, with a battle power of one hundred and twenty thousand, by using Body Change whenever he encountered an opponent stronger than himself, with the exception of Freeza whom he serves out of genuine respect. For this reason, there are few people who are familiar with Ginyu's original form; one of them is Thouser, a henchman of Coola's with whom Ginyu competed for the top spot on the Coola Armored Corps.

Namek Arc

After Muri destroys the remaining scouters, and after Vegeta has has stolen Freeza's Dragon Balls and defeated Dodoria, Freeza orders the Ginyu Special Force to join him on Planet Namek and deliver new scouters; they should be able to arrive in five days. Zarbon questions whether such extreme measures are needed, but Freeza has had a premonition about a strong Saiyan giving him trouble. He believed it was about Vegeta at first, but now he is not so sure. When the Ginyu Special Force departs Planet Freeza, Kaiō senses that they are headed toward Planet Namek; he knows them by reputation and fears that each one of them could be stronger than Goku.

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After everyone living on Planet Namek was wished to Earth, Ginyu the frog seems to have taken up residence in Bulma's greenhouse.

Dragon Ball Super

When Ginyu the frog saw Freeza's spaceship arrive on Earth, he saw his opportunity come at last. Ginyu tricked Freeza's new second, Tagoma, into speaking the word "change". After securing Tagoma's body, Ginyu recounted his story to Freeza and demonstrated a new fighting pose. He was able to draw out Tagoma's full potential beyond what Tagoma himself had managed. Tenshinhan, the Turtle Hermit, Piccolo, and Gohan were easily dispatched, but after Gohan transformed into a Super Saiyan, Ginyu was outmatched. Once this became clear, Gohan declared the fight over, which prompted Freeza to interfere. Ginyu wished to continue fighting, but Freeza would not allow it. Ginyu prevented others from interfering as Freeza tortured Gohan; as he was about to deliver the killing blow, Goku and Vegeta arrived and Goku deflected the blast. Goku and Vegeta were surprised to learn that Ginyu had returned; Vegeta told Ginyu that if he had stayed a frog, he would not have had to die. Ginyu was then killed by Vegeta, making him the fifth and final member of the Ginyu Special Force to be killed by Vegeta.

Name and Pronouns

Ginyu's name comes from the Japanese word for cow's milk.

This is of course from gyūnyū (牛乳). I thought it'd be good to think of the names from things that you put in refrigerators, so I was able to complete the names for the Freeza-related characters without much difficulty.
— Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball Forever

The other members of the Ginyu Special Force are named after dairy products as well: Butta (バータ Bāta) from "butter" (バター batā), Reacoom (リクーム Rikūmu) from "cream" (クリーム kurīmu), Jheese (ジース Jīsu) from "cheese" (チーズ chīzu), and Gurd (グルド Gurudo) from "yogurt" (ヨーグルト yōguruto).

Ginyu uses the masculine first-person pronoun ore (オレ) to refer to himself unless he is speaking to Freeza, in which case he uses the more polite watashi (わたし).

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Notable Skills

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Performance

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Tidbits

Toyotarō's September 2018 drawing of Ginyu for his monthly "Special Project: Toyotarō Drew It!!" column

For the tenth entry in his "Special Project: Toyotarō Drew It!!" monthly column on the Dragon Ball Official Site, Toyotarō provided a drawing of and comment about Ginyu:

It's Captain Ginyu! Apparently he ended up in his current form after changing bodies a bunch of times, so it's fun to imagine what he might have originally looked like.
— Toyotarō

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