Japanese Names: Jinzōningen Jū San (人造人間13号)Name Pun: N/AFUNimation Name: Android 13Silver Shenron Name: Jinzoningen #13Other Names: #13, Fusion Android 13, Super Android 13 Race: AndroidHeight: N/AWeight: N/ABirth Year: N/ADeath Year: Age 767Hobbies: N/A
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First Appears: DBZ Movie 7
Appearances: DBZ
Seiyuu: Kazuyuki Sogabe (movie), Moriya Endo (Sparking!)
Voice Actor: Chuck Huber
Presumably the most powerful of the three movie-only androids, Jinzoningen #13 looks like your average semi-truck driver and hits about as hard as your average semi-truck.
Jinzoningen #13 is completed by Dr. Gero's self-aware supercomputer later than Jinzoningen #14 and #15, who by this time are already taking up arms against Goku and Mirai Trunks. Upon his arrival on the scene, #13 confronts Goku, leaving Mirai Trunks and Vegeta to struggle against #14 and #15, shortly after which Piccolo intervenes to assist Goku, as well. Ultimately, androids #14 and #15 are defeated following Trunks and Vegeta's transformations to Super Saiyan, however even their deaths are fail-safe in Gero's plan, as #13 pauses to absorb components from #14 and #15, resulting in his fusion into Super Jinzoningen #13.
Vegeta is the first to attack the newly transformed super android, only to be quickly brought to his knees by Jinzoningen #13's amazing new strength. Goku, Future Trunks and Piccolo's attempts are also foiled with little effort on #13's part. Becoming desperate to stop the android threat before he grows out of control, Goku is forced to prepare his ultimate weapon, the Genki Dama, whilst Vegeta, Piccolo, Gohan and Trunks distract Jinzoningen #13. The Spirit Bomb's effectiveness is amplified when Goku makes a transformation to Super Saiyan during the process of gathering energy. Kuririn states that only a calm-hearted person can sustain a Genki Dama, and when Goku transforms into his Super Saiyan form, his body absorbs the Genki Dama's immense energy. When Jinzoningen #13 lunges at Goku, one punch from Goku sends the super android into the depths of the Spirit Bomb, where he is disintegrated by its ki.
His specialty technique is the SS Deadly Bomber, an energy bullet which pursues his opponent anywhere. Its destructive power is said to be great enough to blow away half the Earth.
In some note, Jinzoningen #13 was created for the sole purpose of destroying Goku. In the original Japanese version of the film, his serious demeanor regarding this task is demonstrated in Jinzoningen #13's personality, while in the FUNimation's domestic dub, his attitude is essentially that of a stereotypical "redneck" (which his character design also appears to have been modeled after). In the dub, he scarcely refers to Goku by name, preferring instead to call him by such titles as "city boy," "son" or "boy."
In addition, the English dub provides a further glimpse into Jinzoningen #13's psyche and to a small extent, humanity, when he lectures Trunks about how people have misused their free-will to create more sufferings like war, segregation and hatred; the original Japanese version and Chinese dub feature completely different dialogue from the character during this sequence. Also in FUNimation Entertainment's dub, Dr. Gero's computer directly relays information to him, which is something only subtly hinted at in the original Japanese version of the film.
In the second note, Jinzoningen #17 asserts during the Androids Saga of Dragon Ball Z that Dr. Gero destroyed the first fifteen androids he designed. However, this disturbs the canonicity of both the mainstream series (as Jinzoningen #8 makes cameo appearances throughout both Z and Dragon Ball GT) and Super Android 13!, which features #13, #14 and #15 as its lead villains. The movie indicates that Dr. Gero was murdered by #17 and #18 prior to personally completing #13 through #15 (leaving an underground supercomputer to finish the models posthumously).