Tagoma

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Tagoma
タゴマ
Tagoma
Anime name	Tagoma
Debuts
Debut	Manga: "Resurrection ‘F’" (Chapter 1) Movie: Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ Anime: "I've Come Too! Training Begins on Beerus' Planet!"
Appears in
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Death Date(s)	Age 779
Professional Status
Occupation	Elite Soldier
Allegiance	Galactic Frieza Army Third Stellar Region army
Personal Status
Relatives	Shisami (comrade) Guarana (comrade) Sorbet (superior) Frieza (boss)

"Commander, wait! There's no time for that! The Saiyans know we're even here. We have to move quickly!" — Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’

Tagoma (タゴマ; Tagoma) is one of the elite soldiers working under Sorbet on behalf of Frieza in the Third Stellar Region army of the Galactic Frieza Army. His name is a pun on the Japanese word for "egg."

Overview

Appearance

Tagoma is a tall purple-grey humanoid alien. He wears a new type of Battle Armor colored black, green, and red. He also has black armbands around his wrists and has a visor-like scouter that covers both his eyes.

Personality

Tagoma is seen as a loyal member of Frieza's army. He is patient, analyzes the situation at hand, and has a higher power level than most of his subordinates. Although loyal to Frieza's army, he is shown being hesitant about Frieza, as he states to Sorbet that he doesn't understand why they need to revive Frieza in order to rebuild the empire. He is also a realist, as he tries to convince Frieza that the Saiyans are too powerful, and that he should just focus on rebuilding his empire, which causes his death in the film, and torture in the anime.

After training with Frieza, Tagoma starts to take on some of the traits of the tyrant, he becomes sadistic and less merciful. His normal facial expression changes from a dull serious look, to a dark evil look - laughing maliciously when about to face the Z Fighters. His uncaring nature is shown when Tagoma kills Shisami in a attempt to kill Gohan, and also when he intimidates Sorbet when the latter shouts at him - where's he had previously held Sorbet in high regard. Tagoma also starts to become arrogant and proud of his power, as he considers himself the perfect warrior to serve Frieza.

Biography

Pre-Dragon Ball

Tagoma recalled his first encounter with Frieza when he spoke to Dodoria and Captain Ginyu on an unknown planet.

Dragon Ball Z

Resurrection ‘F’

Main article: Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ Tagoma and his accomplice Sorbet are both elite soldiers in the Frieza Force, working under Frieza. Years after Frieza's death, the two come to Earth, collect the Dragon Balls and revive their master. He seems to be Sorbet's favorite henchman, as he cares about him and prefers him over the jealous Shisami, who seems to be on a hidden-competition with him.

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Tagoma with the Dragon Ball after going under the ocean.

Tagoma had served in the Third Stellar Region under his superior officer, Sorbet, for years. He's one of Sorbet's finest fighters, and is described by his superior to be a fighter on par with the late Zarbon and Dodoria. When the Frieza Force forces have been outmatched in putting down an uprising in Planet Frieza 448, Sorbet, who is now standing-in-leader of the Frieza Force, has decided that there is no escape. Sorbet decides to revive Frieza so he'll reorganize the empire, and calls Tagoma to join him on a two-person spaceship to Earth. During the operation to revive Frieza, Tagoma shares his concerns about it with Sorbet, emphasizing that Frieza was an evil dictator, who they may just be better off without, Sorbet agrees but says that with the Army's current achievements and weakened power they have no other choice.

Tagoma getting blasted into space by Frieza.

They scout the planet and sees that the Pilaf Gang is collecting the Dragon Balls. Tagoma and Sorbet quickly went to Earth before they find the seventh Dragon Ball. The final Dragon Ball to be retrieved is in the ocean and Tagoma was sent down to retrieve it. Tagoma, Sorbet, and Pilaf Gang go to the desert to summon Shenron to revive Frieza. After Shenron states that he couldn't revive Frieza due to him being cut into pieces, Tagoma suggests that they use the recovery chambers they have built before. On Sorbet's spaceship, Frieza is quickly revived and made whole. Tagoma was briefly reintroduced to Frieza who he forgot who his soldiers were. Frieza starts to describes his plan to avenge his fall at the Saiyans. Tagoma says that Frieza should just ignore the Super Saiyans and focus on the universe. As a result of angering the tyrant, he is blasted by Frieza into outer space, calling Sorbet to help him while Sorbet is torn apart by his demise and screams his name.

Dragon Ball Super

Battle of Gods Saga

Main article: Battle of Gods Saga

In the manga, on Planet Frieza 17, Tagoma informs Sorbet that the army's second strongest in the Frieza Force ship was blown by an unidentified force. After hearing this, Tagoma and Sorbet set off to find the Dragon Balls to resurrect Frieza.

Resurrection ‘F’ Saga

Main article: Resurrection ‘F’ Saga Tagoma and Sorbet travel down to Earth and to work with Pilaf, Mai, and Shu to use the Dragon Balls to resurrect Frieza and convinced Sorbet to retreat so that the Saiyans won't find and kill them on Earth. Back on Sorbet's spaceship, Tagoma doesn't seem that Frieza is useful at the current state they're in. Sorbets tells him repeatedly that Frieza is all powerful and could bring the end to their troubles. Tagoma and Sorbet use the regeneration machine to put Frieza back together. After Frieza has been regenerated, Tagoma suggests that Frieza should not go after the Saiyans, to which Frieza reacted by torturing him, firing several Death Beams through his limbs and leaving him sprawled out on the ground in pain. Frieza decides to train for four months in order to become strong enough to defeat Goku.

Tagoma mercilessly blasts Gohan and Shisami

Tagoma was selected to be Frieza's training partner by Sorbet. Tagoma would get beaten, until being on the verge of death. He would use the regeneration machine to recover and continue training with Frieza every day. Tagoma's and Frieza's power significantly increased doing this. After four months of training, Tagoma arrived on Earth with Frieza and the rest of his army.

When Frieza and his forces arrived on Earth several soldiers face the Z Fighters and are defeated, in response Sorbet sends Shisami who fights Gohan and attempts to crush him in a bear hug, in an attempt to wipe out the enemy's strongest warrior Tagoma fired a ki blast that killed Shisami and critically injured Gohan (who was soon revived by Piccolo's kiai to the chest and a Senzu Bean). Despite being scolded by Sorbet, he intimidated his commanding officer and explained his recent coldness and personality change. Tagoma then made a deal with Frieza saying that if he killed the resistance, Frieza would allow him to become commander and Frieza agreed, also stating that he would give him a planet of his choosing.

Tagoma then proceeds to approach the Z Fighters, and powers up to face them. He manages to easily overwhelm the warriors in combat, however, Captain Ginyu - who had earlier arrived at the battlefield - changed bodies with Tagoma.

Power

Anime

Tagoma is said by Sorbet to be on the level of Zarbon and Dodoria. After training with Frieza for four months, Tagoma becomes considerably stronger. This power-up results in him becoming far stronger than the entire Ginyu Force as noted by Sorbet, easily placing him as the strongest soldier in Frieza's army. He was powerful enough to kill Shisami and critically injure Gohan, both in a single shot. He then proceeds to face off against and decimate Gohan, Piccolo, Master Roshi, and Krillin until his body is stolen by Captain Ginyu.

Movie

Tagoma possesses a power level comparable to that of Zarbon and Dodoria in their prime. Tagoma is easily defeated in a single blast from Frieza in his first form (before his training), whose power level at the time is 530,000.

Techniques and special abilities

• Flight - The ability to fly using ki.
• Ki Blast - The most basic form of energy wave. Tagoma uses a ki blast to kill Shisami and an attempt to kill Gohan, but critically injures him.
• Bad Lancer - His super attack in the arcade game Dragon Ball Heroes. Tagoma creates a lance out of his own ki and strikes the opponent with it.
• Tagoma Shot - A powerful Energy Sphere. It is Tagoma's super attack in Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle.

Video game appearances

Tagoma card for Dragon Ball Heroes

Tagoma makes his first debut in a video-game and as a playable character in Dragon Ball Heroes, since the first mission of the God Mission series (GDM1). He is also playable in Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle.

List of characters killed by Tagoma

• Shisami - In the anime, when Shisami holds Gohan in a Bear Hug, Tagoma attacks both of them, resulting in Shisami's death.

Voice actors

• Japanese dub: Kazuya Nakai
• FUNimation dub: Micah Solusod
• Latin America dub: Ricardo Tejedo
• Brazilian Portuguese dub: Fábio Azevedo

Battles

Dragon Ball Super

• Tagoma vs. Gohan, Master Roshi, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, and Piccolo

Trivia

• While in the manga his scouter doesn't get broken by the newly revived Frieza's power level, in the movie and anime it does happen, and Tagoma spends the last moments of his life scouter-less.

Tagoma's starting design in the storyboards

• In an interview, the author Akira Toriyama says that there are also dual-eye types of Scouters. Tagoma is the first character to display the new version of it.
• Tagoma's original design by Yamamuro in the storyboards was much different from his finalised design by Akira Toriyama, as he appeared to be a humanoid characters.
  • The original Tagoma character appears as a soldier in Frieza's army in the manga Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ - Special One Shot, separate from the finalized Tagoma. He is defeated by Master Roshi's MAX Power Kamehameha.

The original design Tagoma among Frieza's army

Tagoma is defeated by Gohan in the original storyboards for the movie

• In the original storyboard for Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, Tagoma was to survive being blown out of the ship by Frieza thanks to being rescued, and would later go on to fight against Piccolo and be defeated by Gohan during Frieza's revenge, this was significantly altered by the time the film was finalized - with Tagoma being killed and Shisami taking his role during the battle, however a similar scenario is placed in the anime adaption, as Tagoma survives Frieza attacking him and partakes in Frieza's revenge.

Gallery

Tagoma succesfully finds the last dragon ball hidden in the deep ocean Tagoma artwork DXRD Caption of Sorbet's Elites exposed to Guarana's Force death on Planet Frieza No. 17 (Dragon Ball Super Manga chapter 4 finale).png Tagoma charges his Tagoma Shot in Dokkan Battle Tagoma in the GDM1 trailer Tagoma staring down Sorbet

See also

• Tagoma (Collectibles)