Kung-Fun

Kung-Fun
カンフーン (Kanfūn)
Anime
Name Pun	Kung-Fu
Anime Debut	Dragon Ball Z Movie 9
Personal Data
Classification	Tenka'ichi Budōkai Characters
Occupation	Martial Artist
Notable Skills	kenpō

Kung-Fun is a fictional character in the ninth Dragon Ball Z film, The Galaxy at the Brink!! The Super Incredible Guy. Kung-Fun is shown on monitors and in other similar visuals during the film, but is never directly shown participating.

Biography

Display of Tenka'ichi Dai Budō Taikai semi-finalists in Dragon Ball Z Movie 9

Kung-Fun is kenpō practitioner who makes it to the semi-finals at the Tenka'ichi Dai Budō Taikai, but is defeated off-screen by Dosukoi courtesy of his amazing utchari.

Name

Kung-Fun's name is likely a simple play on "kung-fu", adding a trailing ン (n) to カンフー (kanfū).

Performance

As Kung-Fun never directly appears on-screen and therefore has no speaking roles, no voice actor has portrayed him.

Notable Appearances

Kung-Fun appears exclusively in Dragon Ball Z Movie 9.

Production

Three additional fighters (Udō‎, Kung-Fun, and Dosukoi) profiled in the Dragon Ball Z Movie 9 "Anime Comics" release

Though Kung-Fun is never directly or fully shown in Dragon Ball Z Movie 9, complete artwork of the character does exist and is used in supplemental material, such as in the film's "Anime Comics" release, which also reiterates Kung-Fun's loss to Dosukoi courtesy of his utchari.

The kanji on Kung-Fun's outfit reads 功夫 or gōngfū in Chinese (meaning "kung-fu").

Tidbits

Through dialog rewrites, FUNimation's English dub of Dragon Ball Z Movie 9 effectively changes Kung-Fun into similar looking character, Tenlong (called "Sky Dragon" in their dub), a martial artist that Son Goku encountered many years earlier (filler material in the original Dragon Ball television series' 80th episode). There is no underlying basis necessitating or implying this change in any original source material.

Dialog to transcribe
— "Bojack Unbound" Narration (FUNimation, August 2004)