"So, see I was thinking, see, maybe next time I'll try gathering fighters from all the universes, see...We'll do a tournament then, see. Sometime soon, see." |
Grand Zeno (全王 Zen’ō, lit. "King of All"), the Omni-King[1], is one of the kings of the 10 Universes, one of the two entities who stands above the entire multiverse, alongside his future counterpart, Future Zeno.
Appearance
Zeno is very short and small, with a rather large oval-shaped head. He primarily has sky blue skin, except for two sections from his ears to the middle of each eye on both sides of his head, which are purple. He has small round eyes, and small rounded grey "ears". His main attire is a magenta and yellow lined coat, with yellow pants and magenta shoes. He wears a black and white shirt underneath, with the kanji for "all" (全) on the front. He typically has a blank expression on his face.
Personality
Zeno can come off as childlike and innocent on many occasions. He can be swayed easily by a good fight, as seen from his interest in setting up a tournament after witnessing Goku's fight against Hit. He also took a liking to Goku, letting the Saiyan talk directly to him and shake his hand to the point of lifting the small deity off the ground. His interest in Goku led him to ask the Saiyan to become his friend, and to have Goku give him the nickname "Zen-chan." He prefers Goku to speak plainly, and is unappreciative (to the point of threatening) of those who attempt to speak in his place. It is possible that Zeno is lonely, as almost nobody knows of his existence, and those who do fear his power, proving a barrier to friendship, to add a little bit of loneliness, and the Great Priest only treated him as if he is royalty, blithely following his orders without question.
Zeno's childish behavior is later shown to act in careless, irresponsible, and amoral ways, having destroyed six of the eighteen universes after a bout of anger, and also destroying several planets in a game he played with his future self 202 times. In the manga version of the Universe Survival Saga, however, it is implied by Great Priest that the real reason why he destroyed the aforementioned six universes was simply to get rid of what he felt were too many universes. He apparently wished to decrease that number further for some time, with the Tournament of Power being the perfect opportunity to do so; this suggests that he has a sense of naivety to the extent of his duties. Even more, this indifference seems to extend to the gods themselves and even those he comes to see as friends, like Goku (although he did seem saddened when Goku was seemingly killed against Jiren and likewise delighted when he returned), seemingly rendering him a remorseless being to his peers, and was shown to not even be affected by Roh's horrified crying out of his name. He also shows some degree of sadism, as shortly after erasing Universe 9, he proceeded alongside his future counterpart to say "squish!" in a joking tone, as well as being heard laughing childishly while erasing the universe. Furthermore, he seems to be incapable to understand the horrible action of erasing trillions of life in a single universe, since he and his future counterpart wonder why everyone in the Tournament of Power stop fighting after witnessing the entire universe getting erased.
At the same time, Zeno is also shown to be flexible, tolerant, and even willing to go back on his word on occasion. For example, he accepted Bergamo's proposal to rescind universal destruction were he to win against Goku, despite his earlier decision. He condoned Toppo's challenge to Goku as an additional fourth match to be witnessed, despite the end of the Zen Exhibition Match.
He does not seem to have a problem with physical contact, even with strangers, as seen when he is unbothered by Goku's lively handshake. When his future counterpart gets hugged by Goku, he likewise seems unfazed.
His penchant for physical contact with Goku is likely a result of how surgical and formal people are around him, leaving him feeling somewhat starved for companionship. He appears to find Goku's informal and friendly demeanor to be refreshing after countless eons of being feared and skirted around by his subjects and attendants. He is also impressed and enamored with Goku for the Saiyan's friendship, and appreciates his unconventional approach to life. Case in point is Goku's suggestion to present Zeno to be friends with his future timeline counterpart, thereby giving the King of All a friend that is truly his peer and equal in every respect; that is, one who truly understands him.
Nevertheless, Goku is not the only one Zeno and Future Zeno seem to respect and admire, or, at the very least, find agreeable. Throughout the first match of the Zen Exhibition Match, they seem to take a liking to Buu's nature as well, since he is goofy, high-spirited, childish, and playful, much like the Kings of All. Due to this childish nature of his, and despite having everything under his whim, the Great Priest is usually the one who handles the more responsible matters the most, along with the one who controls a large portion of Zeno's authority himself, hereby making him somewhat of his grand vizier.
Biography
Background
At some point in time, Zeno destroyed 6 of the then-existing 18 universes. In the manga, Zeno held an All Universe Hide and Seek Tournament, but when Beerus hid and fell asleep for fifty years during the tournament, it had to be cancelled. Zeno, who was enjoying the event, became furious and had to be calmed down by the gods from the 11 universes.
Dragon Ball Super
Universe 6 Saga
Main article: Universe 6 Saga
Zeno and his attendants in the Tournament held by the Gods of Destruction
Zeno watches the Tournament of Destroyers from a distance away of the Nameless Planet. After the tournament concludes, Champa is angry that his team lost and prepares to destroy them while Beerus desperately warns Goku that he can't beat Champa yet. However, Zeno and his attendants arrive on the Nameless Planet in the ring, which prevents Beerus and Champa from doing so, as he along with Beerus are completely mortified and shocked by Zeno's presence. He states that his reason for visiting was out of concern that Beerus and Champa were shirking their duties as Gods of Destruction. Asking how Beerus and Champa were doing in their jobs, Whis informs him that Beerus focuses more on sleeping and consuming food, and Vados notes that Champa completely obsesses over food and all of the sweets that result in him being fat, and whatever food Vados serves Champa, he says it is awful.
Zeno shaking hands with Goku
Goku attempts to meet Zeno, but Zeno's attendants shield the king from him. Zeno allows Goku to speak to him, and even shakes hands with Goku after a long pause when the latter offers his hand. After shaking hands with Goku, Zeno returns home via his attendants.
"Future" Trunks Saga
Main article: "Future" Trunks Saga
Zeno on his throne
While Beerus and Whis are at their temple, Beerus is waiting for his food when a call comes through. Beerus answers it, telling the caller to call another time, yet is immediately shocked and terrified to see his caller is Zeno, and repenting his tone, immediately bows to him, accidentally breaking his table with his head in the process, and asks him how his day has been, thanking him for taking the time out of his schedule to call him.
Zeno playing with Goku
As he was told, Beerus orders Whis to take Goku to Zeno's place together with Shin. Zeno happily greets Goku and asks him to be his friend, since everyone else was too afraid of his power to effectively socialize with. When Goku seemed to hesitate, Shin desperately interrupts, saying Goku would be happy to oblige, but Zeno orders him to be silent and allows Goku to answer for himself. Agreeing to be his friend, Goku tells Zeno to just call him by his name and, in return, Goku will call him "Zen-chan," to the shock of those present. Then, Zeno gives Goku a button. If Goku presses it, the Omni-King will come right to him.
Zeno (right) meets his alternate future timeline counterpart (left).
After Fused Zamasu and the future timeline's world are destroyed and erased, Goku and Future Trunks return using Cell's Time Machine. There they find an empty cyan void with Future Zeno floating in the emptiness. They decide to take that timeline's Zeno to the present so that he and his present timeline counterpart can be friends.
After arriving at Present Zeno's palace, Zeno rushes to see but is met with surprise at his future counterpart. At Goku's suggestion, the two decide to play with both being happy to have finally found a friend.
Universe Survival Saga
Main article: Universe Survival Saga Some time after the defeat of Zamasu, Zeno and his future counterpart are visited by Goku, who reminds the former of the tournament promised to the Saiyan after the conclusion of the previous tournament. The Zenos agree to hold the event, much to Goku's delight. The prize for the winner are the Super Dragon Balls, much like the contest between Champa and Beerus before. However, the Tournament of Power has a dire rule: all of the universes defeated in it are to be erased by the ruling duo.
Before the Tournament of Power is held, however, Future Zeno requests his present counterpart host a preliminary tournament to raise his expectations for the upcoming all-universe event. Their servant, the Great Priest, willing obliges and has both Universe 7 and Universe 9 gather three warriors each to compete in the contest. The former universe picks Buu, Gohan, and Goku to compete, while the latter selects the Trio De Dangers, a fearsome trio of lupine siblings: Basil, Lavender, and Bergamo.
Above an arena materialized specifically for the matches, on the World of Void, all of the gods, the Supreme Kais, Gods of Destruction and Angels, as well as the Zenos and their attendants gather to spectate the matches, with the rules being laid out soon thereafter.
The fights are then determined, with Buu fighting Basil, Gohan fighting Lavender, and Goku fighting Bergamo, and they then watch the first clash, between Basil and Majin Buu, with the latter coming out as the victor. They then watch the next match between Gohan and Lavender with the battle ending in a draw after both collapsed. The two versions of Zeno are shown amazed by the fights even allowing any underhanded moves to go since they will determine the rules for the actual tournament. Their decision is enforced by the Great Priest who glares at an agitated Beerus to settle him down.
Zeno and Future Zeno watching Goku and Toppo's battle in the Exhibition Match.
Before the final exhibition match, Bergamo pleads to Zeno to relinquish the destruction of the Universes if one team loses. Though they state they have made their decision, they would allow it if Bergamo wins in his battle against Goku. During Goku's battle with Bergamo, Future Zeno is surprised by the power of Super Saiyan Blue as his counterpart explains it to him. The two are amazed when Goku enters Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-ken and defeats Bergamo easily upholding the decision to destroy the losing universes. After the battle ends, Toppo of Universe 11 challenges Goku as the two Zenos are surprised but allow the match between the two fighters. They are amazed by the battle and are eager with anticipation as the fighters prepare to go all out but Great Priest ends the match to their disappointment until they hear the fighters need to conserve their power for the actual tournament.
When the Tournament of Power arena was completed in the World of Void, Zeno and Future Zeno looked in awe and decided to play and massage on the arena. Thanking the Grand Priest, Zeno gave him a piece of candy, much to the Priest's delight. During the tournament, both Zenos watch in amazement at the battle. They also possess GodPads, tablet devices, which they use to keep track of which warriors have been eliminated.
After Goku and Vegeta finish off Team Universe 9, Zeno and Future Zeno make good on their word and erased all of Universe 9 with the exception of Mojito.
When the combatants of the remaining universes stopped fighting, shocked by the erasure of Universe 9, the Zen-Ohs were puzzled as to why they had stopped fighting.
After all of Team Universe 10 is defeated, Zeno and Future Zeno erased all of Universe 10 with the exception of Cus.
Later on, when Frieza had eliminated Frost, Zeno erased the latter as he was preparing to fire a Chaos Beam at Frieza from the sidelines. He did so declaring that such an action was against the rules and threatened Team Universe 6 that he'd erase Universe 6 entirely if they do it again.
Power
Zeno, alongside Future Zeno, is one of the two most powerful characters in the entire Dragon Ball franchise.
While the true capabilities of Zeno are unknown, as Beerus notes he does not fight, Zeno possesses enigmatic and unimaginable power far beyond comprehension. Champa stated at one point that Zeno is "a god among gods". His power is so great that his mere presence would casually terrify all other Deities and cause them to immediately bow before him out of fear and respect.
Whis states that nobody in this world is greater than Zeno, as the King of All has the power to instantly wipe out anything (or everything) in the blink of an eye without any effort, including individual people, planets, galaxies, and even universes. If he so wished, he could erase all existence, which Future Zeno did during "Future" Trunks Saga.
His power was such that he could even effortlessly erase people who had been granted immortality via the Super Dragon Balls, as demonstrated by his future self with Infinite Zamasu in both the manga and anime.
Zeno is the most significant people in existence, and holds complete authority over everything, although the Great Priest holds and handles much of the more mature authority and responsibilities, due to Zeno's childish demeanor, thereby making him his grand vizier of sorts. His only equal in power is his future counterpart, Future Zeno, and his authority is halved with him since his arrival for the first time in history.
According to Whis, there were originally 18 universes before Zeno destroyed 6 of them when he was in an "unpleasant mood". Even when Goku Black and Future Zamasu killed all the other gods of Future Trunks' timeline, Shin—with no hesitation—assures that Zeno is still alive, noting that no matter what, the Omni-King cannot be undone, with Whis making a similar claim when Goku brought cabbages to his and Beerus' world. This was later proven with his future counterpart, where the latter was still alive, despite wiping the future. Additionally in the manga, the Infinite Zamasus are shown to be terrified of Zeno like all other deities.
Beerus states that if Zeno felt like it, he could wipe out all 12 universes in an instant, as his future counterpart did exactly so.
It seems however, that Zeno does not possess senses as good as Angels, as he was incapable of keeping track of the fight between the Gods Of Destruction in the manga nor can he observe Dyspo's great speed, requiring slow motion function in his GodPad, while Vados was in fact capable of keeping up with Dyspo's speed. Nonetheless, he does have very high senses, as he quickly sensed Frost's intent of blasting Frieza from the stands and erased him well before Frost could ready the attack without being notified by the Great Priest.
In the manga, both Zenos were completely unaffected by Rumsshi's roar which faints Supreme Kais and paralyzes Gods of Destruction.
Techniques
- Flight - The ability to take flight; either by ki or magic.
- Erase - The ability to destroy anything with one or two balls of blue magical energy. This includes immortal beings and entire universes, since it eliminates every single trace of any entity, both material and immaterial. This power is the strongest and most deadliest technique in the series.
- Magic Materialization - For Goku to easily contact or summon Zeno, the King of All was able to produce a handy button on his palm in an instant.
- Yacchaina Fist - Emulating Rozie, Zeno and Future Zeno utilize the attack on each other when playing.
Video games
Zeno makes his debut appearance as a playable/support-type character in Super Dragon Ball Heroes, being introduced in the first mission of the original series.
Voice actors
- Japanese: Satomi Kōrogi
- FUNimation dub: Sarah Wiedenheft
- Bang Zoom! dub: TBA
- French dub: Brigitte Lecordier
- European Portuguese dub: Rui de Sá
- Brazilian Portuguese dub: Mariana Zink
- Latin American dub: Desireé González
- Italian dub: Sabrina Bonfitto
- Spanish dub: Mercedes Hoyos
List of characters killed by Zeno
- Universes 13-18 - Erased them when Zeno's mood was a bit spoiled.
- Universe 9 - Erased by Future Zeno and Zeno due to Team Universe 9 losing in the Tournament of Power.
- All Mortals - Erased by Future Zeno and Zeno due to erasing the universe.
- Bergamo - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Lavender - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Basil - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Hyssop - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Oregano - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Sorrel - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Chappil - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Comfrey - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Roselle - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Hop - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Sidra - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno due to their team losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Roh - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno due to their team losing in the Tournament of Power.
- All Mortals - Erased by Future Zeno and Zeno due to erasing the universe.
- Universe 10 - Erased by Future Zeno and Zeno due to Team Universe 10 losing in the Tournament of Power.
- All Mortals - Erased by Future Zeno and Zeno due to erasing the universe.
- Murichim - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Lilibeu - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Napapa - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Jium - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Methiop - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Murisam - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Jirasen - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Obuni - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Jilcol - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Rubalt - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno for losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Rumsshi - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno due to their team losing in the Tournament of Power.
- Gowasu - Erased by Zeno and Future Zeno due to their team losing in the Tournament of Power.
- All Mortals - Erased by Future Zeno and Zeno due to erasing the universe.
- Frost - Erased by Zeno for trying to cheat after being eliminated in the Tournament of Power.
Trivia
- The symbol on his shirt may be a word play on his overall name, since the word "king" (王, ō) is also contained in the word "all" (全, zen)
- In Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, there is a pose referred to as "Zen-Oh Jump" which appears to be the pose Zeno makes in the Yoka Yoka Dance ending theme.
- When Goku first met Future Zeno, he named the Omni-King in a respective manner (Zen-Oh Sama) at the same time that he was friends with the Zeno of the present, conversely referring to the Omni-King in a friendly manner (Zen-chan).
- It looks like Zeno is right-handed while his future counterpart is left-handed, which is shown many times when they do something together.
- Zeno and his future counterpart have wiped out a different number of Universes each. Before the divergence of the main timeline and Future Trunks' timeline, both had wiped out 6 of the original 18 Universes. The Future Zeno went on to wipe out the remaining 12 following their corruption by Infinite Zamasu before being brought back to the main timeline. As of the Tournament of Power, Zeno has now wiped out 8 total Universes, while Future Zeno has wiped out 20, which includes the Universe's 9 and 10 that he jointly erased with Zeno on top of the 18 from his own timeline.
- Zeno has the second highest body count in the franchise next to his future counterpart.
Gallery
 Zeno  Zeno appears at the Tournament of Destroyers  Zeno speaking  The Gods of Destruction and the Kais bowing to Zeno  Close-up of Zeno's face  Zeno with a happy face  Zeno contacts Whis and Beerus  Zeno with his attendants in his palace  Zeno tells Shin to be silent  Zeno gives Goku a button to call him  Goku waving goodbye  Goku introducing Zeno to Future Zeno .jpg "Survival Arc Oppening (1).jpg (124 KB)") Zeno, Future Zeno and Great Priest in Survival Arc opening  Zeno Play With Future Zeno  Zeno and Future Zeno watching Goku and Toppo's battle  The two Zenos visit the arena of the Tournament of Power  Zeno and Future Zeno resting before the Tournament of Power begins  Zeno and Future Zeno watching the Tournament of Power.  Zeno and Future Zeno erase Universe 9  |
References
- ↑ Zeno English dub. twitter (November 11, 2017).