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Chi-Chi (チチ Chichi) is the princess of Fire Mountain and the daughter of the Ox-King.[14][15] She is the wife of Goku[16][17] and becomes the loving mother of Gohan and Goten. She was first introduced as a shy, sweet and fearful girl, but later, as she gets older, develops a very tomboyish, tough and fierce personality, which sometimes causes her to have angry outbursts seen several times throughout the series. Despite this, she has shown her love for Goku and their sons many times throughout the series.[18]
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Appearance[]
Chi-Chi's appearance as a child
Chi-Chi is a beautiful light-skinned, slender woman of average height with a curvaceous figure. She has long, straight black hair reaching mid-back with short square bangs, and black eyes.
As a child, Chi-Chi wore a blue bikini, pink gloves and boots, a green cape, and a pink helmet with an axe-like blade on the top of it which she used as a weapon. She maintained this look until the Piccolo Jr. Saga where she switched to a blue cheongsam with red pants, armbands, shoes, white socks, and a red sash. In this outfit, her hair was styled in a ponytail. Throughout her adulthood, Chi-Chi is mostly seen wearing Chinese dresses and Martial Arts uniforms.
In the first half of Dragon Ball Z, Chi-Chi primarily wore a purple dress with an orange cloth tied at the top and a yellow sash. Her hair was styled in a high bun with strands hanging down on the sides. She kept this hairstyle through the Androids Saga but switched to a purple uniform with pink sleeves and pants. In Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, after Goku and Gohan return home, she wears a light purple martial arts uniform with light blue sleeves, a blue sash, light purple pants, and blue martial arts shoes. In Bojack Unbound, Chi-Chi is seen in a pink cheongsam with a black sash, light blue pants, blue socks, and purple shoes. During the Buu Saga, she wears a yellow uniform with a purple cloth tied at the back, turquoise pants, blue martial arts shoes, and her hair in a bun, accessorized with pink Chinese earrings. At the celebration party for Kid Buu's defeat, Chi-Chi wears her hair in a bun with long strands framing her face, pink lipstick, a pink collared shirt, white pearl earrings and necklace, white pants, and black high heels. Chi-Chi is also noted to have a relatively small chest, with the Japanese version implying this as the reason Goku chose not to use her to bargain with Old Kai to unlock Gohan's potential, instead opting for Bulma.
In The Return of Son Goku and Friends!, before the party, Chi-Chi wears a yellow martial arts uniform with blue sleeves and white cuffs, a red cloth tied around her shoulders, a red sash with white pants, green earrings, and black martial arts shoes. At dinner, she changes into a more casual outfit, featuring a yellow cheongsam, a turquoise cloth around her shoulders, a light purple obi, white pants, and purple earrings. At the party, she dons a pink cheongsam with a small white jacket, white bracelets, and white dress shoes, while keeping her green earrings.
In Battles of Gods, she wears a red cheongsam with a crimson cloth tied around her shoulders, a red sash, crimson pants, light blue bracelets, white socks and red shoes with red lipstick.
In Dragon Ball Super, she wears her hair in the same hairstyle as in the Majin Buu Saga, with a yellow martial arts uniform with a purple sash, white long sleeves, a purple cloth around her shoulders, turquoise pants, blue martial arts shoes, green earrings, and red lipstick.
At the very end of Dragon Ball Z, after the 10-year time skip following Kid Buu's defeat, Chi-Chi appears in a red uniform with a purple cloth tied at the back, purple pants, and her hair in a ponytail before the tournament. During and after the tournament, she switches to a dark pink cheongsam with a black sash, dark yellow pants, white bracelets, and earrings.
In Dragon Ball GT, Chi-Chi's hair is shorter and styled differently. Her attire is a pink uniform with light green sleeves, a turquoise sash, violet pants, black shoes and gold Chinese earrings.
Personality[]
As a child, Chi-Chi was very shy and sweet. She often thought about who she would marry. Despite being the daughter of the Ox-King, known for his fearsome reputation, Chi-Chi is portrayed as his complete opposite, as she was shown to be of pure heart by being able to ride the Flying Nimbus. In battle, she is often frightened and defeats her opponents while crying.
An example of one of Chi-Chi's comically ridiculous fits of rage
When she became an adult, especially after marrying Goku and having her son Gohan. She is often depicted as nagging, temperamental, overprotective, tough and well-meaning, with a feisty and tomboyish personality, similar to the stereotypical overbearing shōnen mother. Although Chi-Chi is often seen yelling at Goku over fighting, and Gohan over his schoolwork, it cannot be disputed that she loves Goku and her family very much. This is shown at the end of the Buu Saga, when she is brought to tears and hugs Goku over the thought of finally getting to live as a family of four. She worries about Goku the most when he develops a Heart Virus, caring for him and crying by his bedside. When she found out that Goku is all better, she jumps out of Kame House and runs to Goku and gives him a hug, to which Goku responds by swinging her around. She usually cries when she finds out Goku is injured or dead, or when he's home safe, clearly showing love for her husband. Even though Chi-Chi disapproved of Goku preferring Gohan learning to fight than being socialized, she nevertheless showed herself to be easily angered when her husband and her son got disrespected due to this, as in the English dub she kicked out Mr. Shu without hesitation for insulting Goku despite him being Gohan's private tutor. In the Japanese version, she instead kicks him out due to his extremely abusive actions towards Gohan, such as openly whipping him in front of her and openly declaring that Gohan was a monkey with no potential. Although Chi-Chi is insistent to Goku that Gohan's studies are more important than anything in the world, she, along with the rest of the characters around them, goes into shock when Goku actually agrees with her in "Memories of Gohan". She even goes as far as checking his temperature to make sure he was feeling well. Similarly, in Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, she worries about Goku when he insists Gohan finish his homework only to learn that Goku wanted Gohan to finish it so they could go camping. This suggests that despite her often nagging him to think or do something besides fighting with their son, she actually prefers her husband the way he is.
She is notable by emphasizing on Gohan's "academic achievement" rather than his fighting ability, as she was hesitant for Gohan to repeat Goku's habits of getting into danger, and she also did not want Gohan to grow up without proper education as Goku had. Therefore, she often becomes frustrated when Goku decides to take Gohan to fights, so much that often Chi-Chi is willing to go to battle herself to defend her son, though she's always restrained by some of the other characters to keep her from getting herself killed; nonetheless, it is often implied that Chi-Chi is proud of Gohan whenever he does fight but refuses to admit it save for when he participated in the World Martial Arts Tournament and Intergalactic World Tournament in Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound. In some cases, her insistence that Gohan study can also impact her common sense, as evidenced by her trying to prevent Gohan from aiding Goku when the latter was being attacked by a pair of assassins in order for him to finish his studies, causing Gohan to sternly ask her which between his studies or Goku's life mattered more, shocking her enough to let him go fight them in Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!. This was also hinted at in the manga for the Namek Saga, where she was not too concerned about Gohan fighting for his life on Namek outside of whether he's studying (in contrast to the anime adaptation where she panics at Gohan being alone on Namek and attempts to get Dr. Brief to create a spacecraft for her to go there and rescue her son). However, by the Androids Saga, Chi-Chi apparently grows more accepting of Gohan fighting, as she allows him to train because of the androids and attend the Cell Games, even though she did not want him to participate. Henceforth, she taught Goten martial arts apparently out of a desire to prevent him from being incapable of defending himself whenever needed,[19] just like her father did with her and showed extreme strictness on it equaling how she was with Gohan about his education. Chi-Chi also allowed Gohan (and Goten) to participate in the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament, although part of the reason she allowed this was because she was excited to see Goku again for the first time in seven years and because winning the tournament or even being the runner-up would allow Gohan to obtain enough money to pay for his college tuitions.
Chi-Chi has a somewhat negative opinion of Super Saiyans as she seems to associate the transformation with delinquency due to its hair color. This is shown when she first saw Gohan in his Super Saiyan Full Power form shortly before the Cell Games and mistakenly assumed that Gohan and Goku had dyed their hair (which is considered a sign of delinquency in Japanese culture), unaware that it was a result of the transformation. Though she comes to understand that it's a Saiyan transformation, she retains her initial negative opinion of the Super Saiyan form as she reacted negatively when Goten transformed while they were sparring.
She is shown to have developed a friendship with Bulma, especially after Bulma's marriage to Vegeta, as Bulma understands the struggle of both being married to a Saiyan and raising half-Saiyan children. However, despite their friendship, the two have been known to argue especially when their children compete in tournaments as shown in Bojack Unbound and the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament.
Though she loves Goku, she is often frustrated by his tendency to focus most of his time on martial arts training instead of contributing to their family financially. In fact, it is implied that for most of her marriage, Chi-Chi relied on her father's wealth to support her and Goku. Her frustration over their financial situation is understandable given that Goku is naively ignorant when it comes to money. Considering she grew up with her father's wealth, she may be frustrated by the fact that her husband is unable to provide the same for her and their children and implied to be somewhat envious of Bulma's wealth and quickly changed her opinion of Videl when she learned Videl lived in a mansion with 50 rooms, to the point she keenly asks Gohan if he was going to marry her.
In Dragon Ball Super, she forces Goku to work on their family's radish farm as a way for them to earn money after telling him that her father became poor due to a fire on Fire Mountain burying his treasure. However, after Mr. Satan gives Goku the 100 million Zeni peace prize, she allows Goku to go train on King Kai's Planet without a second thought. However she later forbids him from going to King Kai's to train, as their family had spent and saved the 100 million Zeni, and are once again broke (which turns out to be a lie by Chi-Chi in order to get him, to no avail, to work instead of train all the time), forcing him to go back to farming to support them, which shows she will let Goku train as long as their family is well off financially. In addition to their family's radish farm, in the Dr. Slump crossover episode Chi-Chi forces Goku to take a job as a security guard at the World Invention Conference after Mr. Satan had offered him the job.
With the birth of her granddaughter Pan, Chi-Chi becomes adamant that Pan is raised as a gentle girly-girl with a normal life so that she will not end up as another "battle-loving idiot". She also wants Goku to be a good grandfather and not just fight all the time; going as far as furiously hunting him down to forbid him from leaving with Whis to train under him, attempting to scare him into submitting to her. Surprisingly, however, she does not get mad after Goku blatantly disobeys her and leaves with Whis to go train, apparently accepting that Goku means well.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Weekly Shōnen Jump 1986 Issue No. 37
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Dragon Ball: Super Exciting Guide, 2009
- ↑ Dragon Ball chapter 488, "Return to the Room of Spirit and Time"
- ↑ Dragon Ball Z episode 257, "Time Struggle"
- ↑ Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, 2015
- ↑ Dragon Ball Super episode 27, "The Earth Explodes?! A Decisive Kamehameha!"
- ↑ Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy, 1997
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Daizenshuu 7, 1996
- ↑ Dragon Ball: The Return of Son Goku and Friends!, 2008
- ↑ Dragon Ball Minus: The Departure of the Fated Child, 2014
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, 2019
- ↑ Dragon Ball Online, 2010
- ↑ Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, 2020
- ↑ Dragon Ball chapter 12, "In Search of Kame-Sen'nin"
- ↑ Dragon Ball episode 7, "The Ox King on Fire Mountain"
- ↑ Dragon Ball chapter 171, "Goku Gets Married!"
- ↑ Dragon Ball episode 153, "The End, The Beginning"
- ↑ Weekly Shōnen Jump, issue #37, 1986
- ↑ Dragon Ball Z episode 206, "The Newest Super Saiyan"
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