Spice

"You came here looking to fight us, but the battle has already been won. There's no one left to fight for, nobody wants your help. Can't you understand that? Just look. Look at your friends. Do they look like they're waiting for a knight in shining armor to come and rescue them?"
— "Battle in Kami's Lookout"

Spice (ガッシュ, Gasshu) is the leader of the Spice Boys, and is Garlic Jr.'s right-hand man during the Garlic Jr. Saga.

Biography

Dragon Ball Z

Garlic Jr. Saga

Main article: Garlic Jr. Saga

Spice is a formidable warrior in his own right. Being the strongest of the Spice Boys, he possesses frightening speed and ruthlessness, his speed even shocks Gohan. He has light blue skin, long pointy elf-like ears, and wears armor similar to that of Frieza's soldiers, but pink in color. He is modeled after Zarbon and shares similar traits. In addition, he bears a cape just as Zarbon does. During the Garlic Jr. Saga, he explains the presence of the Makyo Star and its origins. Spice knows of Piccolo and Gohan and their past, such as Piccolo's fascination with the dark side and the fact that Gohan managed to defeat Garlic Jr. He is also the only one of the Spice Boys who initially knows everything about the Makyo Star and the Black Water Mist.

His personality is calm, and as such he speaks with a calm, light-pitched, Australian accent. He is slightly cynical, proud, like fellow Spice Boys, and has an appetite for fighting. He is very intelligent and informative, having complete confidence in himself, and his lord, Garlic Jr., who has his complete devotion and respect. He is unique due to his being a demon with enchanter-like abilities, including the strange ability to grow his hair extremely long and strangle opponents, as well as using an energy web to trap opponents, and a freeze hold he uses by raising his palm. Spice offers positions as Garlic Jr.'s soldiers to Gohan, Krillin and Piccolo. During Krillin and Gohan's fight with Salt and Mustard, Spice and Vinegar stand by as spectators, while Spice makes cynical comments on the fight.

Super Spice (2) — Spice in his transformed state

After Mustard and Salt are killed by Gohan, he and Vinegar express anger and attempt a combination maneuver which is interrupted by Piccolo. He is impaled on a long spike during his fight with Gohan and presumed dead. However, like Garlic Jr. and Vinegar, he is completely healed of his fatal injuries and his power increases greatly when the Makyo Star is in Earth's orbit. As a result, he ultimately becomes much larger and more muscular, as well as more vicious and bloodthirsty. He again fights Gohan for a while as Vinegar simultaneously battles Krillin. He and Gohan seem evenly matched, even when he has progressed to his muscular form. Later, when Gohan is caught in the middle of Spice and Vinegar, he witnesses an injured Krillin falling, resulting in his anger exploding, and unleashing his latent power. He executes Spice and Vinegar at the same time with a powerful Double Masenko.

Power

Spice was able to able to give Gohan some trouble in their initial fight. When the Makyo Star approached Earth, Spice's powers increased many times over and upon using his Gigantification abilities, he was able to gain the upper hand against Gohan. However after Gohan became enraged after seeing Krillin get hurt, Gohan killed Spice with a single Masenko.

Spice's power level is 1,000,000 in Dragon Ball Z: The Anime Adventure Game.

Techniques and special abilities

Flight – The ability to fly with the use of ki.

GohanCaughtInHair — Spice using his special technique

Sugar Ignite – A double Full Power Energy Ball used as part of a combined attack with Vinegar's Vinegar Cannon during the battles on Kami's Lookout. Named in the arcade game Dragon Ball Heroes.
Hair Manipulation – Spice can grow his hair extremely long to attack and strangle the opponent.
Energy Web – A red energy web used in combination with the other Spice Boys to trap opponents. Very similar to the Psycho Thread used by Bojack's henchmen.
Half-Nelson^[1] – A hold he performed on Piccolo while his comrades were facing Gohan and Krillin on Kami's Lookout.

Transformations

Super Spice

Main article: Gigantification Spice takes a powered up form after being energized by the Makyo Star. His muscle mass and strength increase greatly, and his entire body also grows in size and height.

Video games

Dragon Ball Heroes

He is playable in Dragon Ball Heroes, like the other Spice Boys.

Voice actors

Japanese dub: Hikaru Midorikawa (originally) and Kappei Yamaguchi (onwards)
FUNimation dub: Bart Myer (originally) and J. Michael Tatum (onwards)
Latin American dub: Humberto Solórzano
Brazilian Portuguese dub: Afonso Amajones

Battles

Spice, Vinegar, Mustard, Salt, and Garlic Jr. vs. Kami
Spice, Vinegar, Mustard and Salt vs. Gohan
Spice, Vinegar, Mustard, Salt, Yamcha (Infected), Master Roshi (Infected), Chi-Chi (Infected) and Bulma (Infected) vs. Piccolo
Vinegar vs. Krillin
Spice and Vinegar vs. Gohan
Spice (Super Spice) vs. Gohan
Spice (Super Spice) and Vinegar (Super Vinegar) vs. Gohan

Trivia

Like Mustard and Salt, Spice and Vinegar have a cooperative attack consisting of energy orbs. However, the two were unable to launch the technique due to the intervention of Piccolo.
The shape of the spike that Gohan uses to impale Spice varies between the uncut and edited dubs. In the uncut dub, the spike appears longer and more serrate, while in the edited dub, the spike appears to be stubbier.
Spice's Japanese name, "Gasshu", is an anagram for the Japanese pronunciation of the word "sugar".

Gallery

References

↑ Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game, 2000

[1] Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game, 2000

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v · d · eSerpents

Leaders	Garlic • Garlic Jr.

Three Lords	Ginger • Nicky • Sansho

Four Monarchs	Mustard • Salt • Spice • Vinegar

Related articles	Black Water Mist • Dead Zone • Demon Clan • Garlic Castle • Giant Form (Serpent Demon Clan) (King of Destruction) • Garlic's Seal • Makyo Star (Dark Energy) • The Lookout