Frieza

"I doubt I need an introduction, but just in case, I am the mighty Frieza, and yes, all the horrible stories you've heard are true."

- Frieza in "Namek's Defense" Frieza (フリーザ 'Furīza') is the emperor of Universe 7, who controlled his own imperial army and is feared for his ruthlessness and power. He is the descendant of Chilled, the second son of King Cold, the younger brother of Cooler, and the father of Kuriza. Frieza is the catalyst antagonist of the entire franchise, as it is his actions that led to Goku arriving on Earth. He has made several comebacks since his fight with Goku on Namek, including multiple invasions of Earth. Recently, he has been chosen to represent Universe 7 as the tenth member of Team Universe 7 for the Tournament of Power as a replacement for Good Buu. This makes him the most recurring villain of the Dragon Ball series. After the events of the Tournament of Power, he is revived and recovers his title as Emperor of Universe 7.

Frieza is the main antagonist of the Namek, Frieza, Trunks, Gods of the Universe, and Golden Frieza Sagas. He is also the main antagonist of the Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku special and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ film. He later serves as a villainous protagonist in the Universe Survival Saga and secondary antagonist in the DBS : Broly Saga.

Appearance
According to Akira Toriyama, Frieza's design is an of what he thought monsters looked like in his childhood. According to the Daizenshuu, Frieza was also inspired by Toriyama's second editor, Yū Kondō. According to Daizenshuu 2, Toriyama was also inspired to create Frieza due to the events of the Japanese economic bubble that had occurred at the time he was writing the Saiyan Saga, with Frieza specifically being based on real estate speculators, which Toriyama claimed were "the worst sort of people".

Frieza is one of the villains in the series who possesses an entire range of transformations, each one being quite different than the others. It is implied by Vegeta and Frieza himself in the series that Frieza's fourth, most powerful form is actually his original form, with the other three being forms that suppress and conserve his enormous power. Frieza later confirms this while fighting the main protagonist, Goku. His forms seem to revolve around both western and Japanese concepts of demons.

According to an interview done by Shonen Jump with Toriyama, Frieza's final form was purposefully made to look small and less menacing: Toriyama wanted to go against the expectation that villains and monsters become bigger and meaner looking the stronger they are. In his first form, Frieza usually wears battle armor with a purple chest plate. When in his true natural form and also his golden form, Frieza wears his race's ultimate Bio Suit, the Z Fighting Suit. When in his Mecha form, his body is equipped with a permanent Cosmic Suit. In the Universe Survival Saga, he has a halo on his head due to being dead, although this is removed after the tournament due to Whis restoring his life for "good behavior".

A series of stamps promoting Dragon Ball Super showed "Ideal Boss Frieza", some depicting the tyrant wearing a black tuxedo with a white undershirt and a red tie. Frieza wears this outfit in the Society Survival Saga.

Personality
"Oh, to see the Dragon Balls turn to stone at the very moment your wish might have come true. Quite a pill to swallow, eh, Vegeta? Of course, even more so for myself. As a matter of fact, in all my years, I have never been so angry as I am now. How incredibly irritating not to have seen the writing on the wall... now you pay! You vile, filth-sucking maggots! You will rue the day you crossed my path! Prepare yourself to face oblivion!"

- Frieza to Vegeta, Gohan, Krillin, and Dende in "Frieza Closes In! Mighty Porunga, Grant Our Wish!" At his core, Frieza is an evil being who relishes in pain, death, destruction, fear, and power. Though unlike most primary antagonists, Frieza displays a civilized and refined demeanor, talking with a regal and eloquent nature. In the Japanese versions, he even utilizes the Keigo dialect, which utilizes extremely respectful and formal phraseology. He tends to handle most situations with a methodical approach. He commonly utilizes dark humor, making twisted jokes and tasteless mockery of his foes before killing them. Frieza is fully aware of his reputation for brutality, and makes no effort to deny it, but rather revels in it as evidenced by his introduction to the Namekians. Likewise, he has shown great anger at the idea of his cruel deeds being undone, such as the revival of all his previous victims from the Dragon Balls. Frieza can be best summed up as an intelligent, composed (for the most part), yet extremely sadistic and completely heartless sociopath. His final form's character biography in Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 states that Frieza has unparalleled cruelty. He has even been commonly referred to as "The most evil guy in Universe 7". In Cooler's Revenge, Goku, when condemning Cooler, noted that Frieza was "filled with hatred."

While Frieza himself never attempted to kill either his father or brother during his lifetime, and will work together with them to deal with threats to their family's reign (as shown in the Trunks Saga, Plan to Eradicate Super Saiyans, and Xenoverse 2), he has hardly any real love or attachment to them, and even scoffs at the notion of reviving his father when Sorbet suggested it in both Resurrection ‘F’ and Dragon Ball Super. This is further shown when Universe 9 Supreme Kai Ro asks why Frieza would willingly betray Universe 7, asking him about any memories or loved ones Frieza may have, Frieza only coldly dismisses him, saying he has no idea what he is talking about, causing Ro to label Frieza a psychopath when discussing the possibility of Frieza joining Team Universe 9 with Sidra. While he has no real love for his family, he is proud of his clan and respected his father during his lifetime, as he took his father's warning about never opposing either Beerus or Majin Buu seriously. While they can work together, Frieza and Cooler have a strong sibling rivalry, and it is implied that they would at some point have come into conflict over control of the universe were it not for Frieza's defeat on Namek. In Dragon Ball Super: Broly, he is shown to be mildly annoyed when his father affectionately pats him on the back when they are on Planet Vegeta, showing his general dislike for affection, even from his father.

Frieza is shown to be something of a perfectionist, expected nothing less from his soldiers as any failure in his eyes will be met with extreme punishment if not death. Even more, he has absolutely no qualms with slaughtering his own forces, no matter how loyal they were to him, simply just for being in his way, as seen from when he destroyed Planet Vegeta despite most of his men being within the trajectory, as well as his reason in the Japanese version for executing a soldier before deciding to personally deal with Future Trunks. In addition, in Resurrection 'F' , when executing Tagoma by shooting him out into space, he also made no attempt at activating the secondary window to save his forces from being sucked into the vacuum of space (with only Sorbet doing so). He also reacts violently to criticism or if his plans either fail or if his pride is abashed.

At his core, Frieza relishes glory, power, agony, dominance, control, and destruction, as he shows in his enjoyment of Planet Vegeta's annihilation, as well as his maniacal glee from destroying planets and making his enemies suffer before he kills them. He is noted as being one of the most sadistic, callous, brutal, selfish, short-tempered, despicable and megalomaniacal person without any sympathetic or redeeming traits. Even more, he has an outspoken disdain for such joyful environments. Due to these combining traits, Frieza is more of a malignant narcissist rather than just a psychopath. During his imprisonment in Hell, he found his constant company of stuffed animals, fairies, and angels joyfully and cheerfully danced with playing music to be absolute torture, which ultimately turned out to be a fitting eternal punishment for the evil tyrant. Frieza holds a very deeply cynical view of others, believing everyone is as selfish and untrustworthy as himself. Ironically, Frieza is outspoken against any and all forms of nobility, finding it such a nauseating concept. When Kikono states that the Frieza Force are criminals, Frieza retorts by saying that they merely overtake planets to sell them to those who need a new planet, and that it's simply business, demonstrating how he makes excuses for his malicious crimes and feels no responsibility for his actions.

Frieza's actions have greatly influenced Universe 7's perception of his race, as shown in Xenoverse when a heroic member of his race named Reso says his race being evil is a misconception. Future Zamasu notes in Xenoverse 2 that the Frieza Race is not well-liked, which again is likely due to Frieza and his family's evil actions. Frieza's amoral and selfish nature, even towards his own kind, could be seen when he met his Universe 6 counterpart, Frost. During their first meeting, they seemingly took a liking towards each other, as they both lived for conquest and destruction. Frieza even points out they several things in common; this leads to Frieza and Frost forming an alliance. Ultimately, however, once Frost outlived his usefulness, Frieza betrayed Frost and eliminated him from the tournament. By that time, Frieza openly views Frost as an amateur, presumably due to Frost's reliance on deception and sneak attacks. Frieza has been shown to have a strong influence over people, commonly corrupting them and bending them to his will over a long period of time. The two most notable examples of this corruption are Vegeta and Tagoma, who both drastically changed in demeanor due to Frieza.

Perhaps Frieza's most noteworthy trait is his enormous ego, matched only by his malice and power. Because of his high opinion of himself, he tends to react to any given situation quite evenly. Accordingly, Frieza is quite confident in his abilities, commonly referring to his foes as lower life-forms such as insects, and often cherishes the opportunity to mock them (e.g. not using his limbs in some fights). For much of his life, Frieza was viewed as among the most powerful beings in the universe. As a consequence, Frieza believes no force can challenge his authority. Owing to his arrogance, Frieza generally refrains from fighting his foes. Instead, he relies on his minions to deal with challengers, and only personally confronts his opponents when forced to do so; this is best shown during the events on Planet Namek and after his first revival. Overall, Frieza seems to simultaneously possess a superiority and inferiority-complex, as he can quickly be driven over the edge in anger when foes prove able to overpower, or even rival him. At the same time, Frieza possesses a competitive nature, enjoying a foe that can endure his power. As an example, he "congratulates" Goku for being able to hurt him in his true form.

Frieza arguably desires absolute control more than being viewed as the most powerful being in the universe; this may be illustrated by the events on Planet Namek, as by that time he already controlled around 70% of the universe. By time he fights in the Tournament of Power, he shows little fear around deities and angels. In fact, he slights Zeno, going so far as to address him simply as "Zeno" without the royal title "lord"; later in the said tournament, he even refers to the deities as "colorful brats". In said tournament, he was annoyed by how Zeno and his future counterpart so casually destroy entire universes, whilst vowing one day to overthrow both Zenos. This serves to show that even Frieza's genocidal nature and love of destruction has its limits; that perception is supported by the fact he tends to only destroy on a planetary scale, and usually resorts to such extreme measures only when he believes them to be necessary.

Given his ceaselessly opportunistic and unrepentantly malicious intentions, Frieza knew the Tournament of Power was the perfect chance to manipulate deities and use them to his advantage. When confronted by assassins hired by Sidra and Ro, he ignored Goku's pleas and slaughtered them. Further, Frieza offered his services to Universe 9 if they would revive him. The deities in attendance were disgusted by Frieza's lack of loyalty to his own universe. Ro noted Frieza's detached and destructive nature showed him to be even better-suited to serve as a God of Destruction than Sidra.

Despite his evil nature, Frieza can be quite gregarious towards people who treat him with reverence, such as the Ginyu Force, who worship Frieza and exhibit extreme loyalty towards him. In Xenoverse 2, both Beerus and Whis note Frieza's charisma. Frieza is perceived as a capable leader. In the Frieza's Spaceship rift, it is implied he has a unique leadership style, through which he allows his subordinates to fight amongst each other in an attempt to get in his good graces. However, Frieza has shown mercy towards some of his fighters them by giving them second chances; one example is when he allows Dodoria and Zarbon to live after they are defeated by the Future Warrior (who was working undercover at the time). However Frieza rarely shows mercy, and such mercy is generally a one time thing, as he admits he never gives them more chances. Frieza's leadership style favors the strong, and the in-fighting keeps his soldiers on their toes. Accordingly, his leadership effectively weeds out the weaker members and motivates his staff to become stronger in order to protect their positions, rank, and lives.

Following his crushing defeat on Namek, Frieza became obsessed with taking his revenge on Goku and his friends. Frieza's desire for vindication is so all-consuming that he is determined to exact revenge by destroying all his nemesis holds dear. Frieza also apparently suffered from a form of PTSD, as he sees hallucinations of Goku, which frightens him. The mere sight of Future Trunks in Super Saiyan form made Frieza noticeably shake in fear, struggling to recompose himself. However, by the time of his first revival, Frieza overcame his trauma, again firmly confident in his capacities. To that end, he smirked at Kale ascending to her Legendary Super Saiyan form (and in the manga even expressed complete confidence he could beat her).

For all his arrogance, Frieza does not totally disregard potential threats to his rule, to the point of paranoia. Frieza destroyed nearly the entire Saiyan race once even their low-level warriors showed strength comparable to his elite soldiers. The Saiyans' growing strength made him concerned about the possibility of a revolution, and added to his nagging fear of the Super Saiyan legend. Similarly, after his humbling defeat against Goku on Planet Namek, he willingly admits he cannot defeat certain foes, as shown by his refusal to fight Beerus or Majin Buu. Likewise, Frieza is willing to help others defeat common foes. For example, in the Tournament of Power, Frieza repeatedly aided Goku in his ultimate defeat of Jiren, a mortal warrior with power beyond a God of Destruction.

Following the defeat of Majin Buu, Frieza's unwavering desire for victory is tempered by a newfound sense of humility and patience; upon learning of Goku's victory over Majin Buu, Frieza puts his revenge on hold to begin training himself, despite his open disdain of such a "lowly" task. Frieza's drive for supremacy ultimately allowed him to reach vastly greater levels of power, leading him to unlock a new Ultimate Evolution. However, this discovery only serves to bolster Frieza's sense of confidence and blind drive for revenge. Rather than continuing his training to master his new form, Frieza immediately rushed to Earth. Though it's possible Frieza was convinced he could defeat Goku before his lack of mastery over his new form would become a factor, his impatience becomes his downfall. While Frieza's calculating nature leaves little room for failure, he nevertheless prepared contingency plans, such as destroying host planets to defeat his foe, or using his followers to conduct sneak attacks. Ultimately, however, his execution proves sloppy. Nevertheless, his tactical skills are noted to be brilliant by Vegeta in Dragon Ball Legends, after witnessing Frieza enact a plan to eliminate Frost without having to transform himself.

By the Tournament of Power, Frieza's long period of mental training seemed to have returned him to his previous composed and self-confident self from before his defeat on Planet Namek. Additionally, he corrected his previous mistake and refined his Golden Form to absolute mastery. At the same time, he was shown willing to temporarily put aside his rivalry with his sworn nemesis Goku to aid him in the Tournament of Power in exchange for his full-revival. Still, when revived by Fortuneteller Baba for a single day, Frieza and Goku greet each other by punching each other in the gut, showing that while they are technically allies, their animosity towards each other remains. Frieza proved to be just as devious and scheming as before, playing mind games with his new "allies" by giving the impression he intended to kill Goku instead of helping him. To that end, Frieza also made it clear he would not take orders from Goku.

During the Tournament of Power, Frieza developed a measure of respect for Goku. For example, he showed gratefulness for Goku's naïve nature, and fought by the Saiyan Warrior's side to take down Jiren, in such perfect synchronization and understanding of each-other's techniques that it was enough to shock Vegeta. Similarly, Frieza acknowledged Goku's might, and was seemingly unsurprised by Goku's ascension to his Ultra Instinct -Sign- state. At Goku's request, Frieza willingly donated energy to the Universe 7 Spirit Bomb, even as Vegeta proved unwilling. Frieza even saved Goku from Jiren by giving the Saiyan enough energy to return to his feet, as he realized Goku's Ultra Instinct was the best chance of beating Jiren. Frieza also used it as an excuse to square himself of his debt to Goku.

As previously stated, Frieza proved to be a surprisingly capable tag-team partner during the Tournament of Power. While teaming with Gohan, the two were able to follow each other's lead and come up with an effective battle strategy on several occasions to eliminate troublesome opponents, with Frieza even admitting to enjoy working with Gohan and openly admires and compliments Gohan's leadership skills on a few occasions. This respect also appears to have extended to several other members of Team Universe 7 as well. By the end of the Tournament of Power, despite still openly as evil and selfish as ever, Frieza has came to respect Goku and his allies, amazed at their capacity and willingly celebrated with them for a little bit as well after being revived by Whis. His growing admiration for the Z-Fighters is shown with the happy flick of his tail at Goku's declaration that he will take him down if he does go back to his evil ways; implying the motivation for his inevitable showdown with Goku may have grown from simple-hatred to the spirited joy of being able to fight a warrior who he can regard as his equal, admittedly viewing Goku as "a rare breed" of fighter. In Broly, he expresses some disappointment upon seeing Goku being easily defeated by Wrathful Broly, appearing to actually expect Goku to win and then fight Frieza himself.

In Broly, Frieza also reveals that he no longer seeks immortality, for his experience in Hell has made him fear the prospect of being left crippled and with no way out. This is interestingly enough, one of the few instances where Frieza actually learns from his previous experiences. Similarly, he ordered one of his men to find out how to make a wish with the Dragon Balls of Earth, presumably to avoid a failure similar to that of Planet Namek, acting as another instance of Frieza learning from his past experiences. A third instance can be seen at the end of the movie, where, after being defeated, Frieza decided to just retreat from Earth for the time being rather than risk being killed by Goku (or rather, a fusion of Goku and Vegeta). At the same time, Frieza is still filled with vanity. As revealed by Berryblue, Frieza is sensitive about the height of his True form to the point that Frieza Force soldiers have been executed in the past for daring to call Final Form Frieza short. To which, he appears to have a rather casual relationship with Berryblue, and even allows her to comment on his short stature without killing her. More to the former, Frieza's insecurity of his height led him to to steal the Earth's Dragon Balls to increase his height. At the same time, valuing how people perceive him, Frieza refuses to revert back his weaker yet taller forms to satisfy his vanity. Even more, he planned to make a wish for his True Form to only gain 5 centimetres, so as to create the illusion that he was still naturally growing while anymore would look unnatural.

Frieza also showed an interest in Broly's power and potential for growth using Paragus as a means to control him at first. However, once Paragus had outlived his usefulness and lost the remote to the Broly Control Mechanism, Frieza, reminded of how Krillin's death triggered Goku's Super Saiyan transformation, decided to use Paragus' death to trigger Broly's anger through tricking Broly by claiming Paragus was killed by a stray blast. However, his plan backfires as Super Saiyan Broly blindly attacks him after Goku and Vegeta fly by Frieza as they escape to Piccolo's location. Frieza responds angrily to Broly's attack and tries to fight back in his Golden Form, but is no match for Broly's might. After leaving Earth in defeat, Frieza having learned that the defectors Cheelai and Lemo have joined Broly on Vampa, decides not to hunt them down hoping that they might tame Broly whom Frieza hopes may one day serve under him, apparently recognizing the Legendary Super Saiyan's potential. This is in contrast to his past fear of Super Saiyans that lead him to exterminate most of them as he seeks to make Broly his subordinate.

Frieza's end goal is to eventually defeat the Omni-Kings and rule above even them.

Relationship with Frost
"Oh and though you probably already know this, there is one more bit of wisdom I would like to impart. And that is, you should never trust anyone ever."

- Frieza betraying "Frost in Frieza and Frost! A Mutual Malevolence?" Due to the fact that Frost and Frieza are universal counterparts, they have several similarities and are nearly identical in many ways. When they first met each other, both of them smiled, with Frieza pleasantly surprised that there was another Emperor. The two Emperors conversed in private and presumably got to know each other, as Frieza noted they had several things in common. When Frieza asked if Frost would like to work with him, Frost said he would be delighted to do so.

In reality, Frieza did not care about Frost at all. This was proven when Frieza tricks Frost by teaching him to enhance his strength, only to blast him out of the stage point-blank. Subsequently, Frieza reveals he thought of Frost as an amateur, rather than a teammate. Despite betraying Frost in the Tournament of Power, Frieza ultimately shows some measure of respect for Frost, commending his counterpart for getting rid of the troublesome Universe 9 fighters.

Background
Frieza's father is a mutant with an abnormally high power level. Because of this, Frieza also possesses the mutant traits, making him and his father King Cold the only ones among the Frieza Race who possess the striking level of power and cruelty shown in the series. Even among his family and the rest of his race, Frieza was a prodigy, whose natural growth in power required him to never undergo any real training and still ultimately became recognized as the most powerful warrior in the universe. It is said that from the moment Frieza was born he was more powerful and cruel than his father, Frieza's overwhelming power and genius for evil led to Cold wanting to hand control over the universe to Frieza immediately.

Thanks to his son's potential, Cold handed control over to him while he was still a child. He was introduced to the Saiyans - who were informed by Cold that Frieza was their new master.

At one point, King Cold told Frieza that there were only two entities in the universe whom Frieza should never cross: Majin Buu and Beerus the Destroyer. Frieza annexed the Saiyans into his Frieza Force, and heard of the legends of the Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan God. At some point in Frieza's past, he conquered at least 448 planets, taking control of 70% of Universe 7.

Frieza eventually met Beerus himself. The two got along fairly well as they both enjoyed destroying things. However one time Frieza got carried away and caused Beerus to get angry, Beerus fought Frieza and easily defeated the tyrant. Unbeknownst to Frieza, his arrogant attitude annoyed Beerus. He thought about destroying Frieza once he saved Beerus the trouble of destroying Planet Vegeta himself, though never went through with it. At some point, Frieza encountered the Galactic Patrol and when they engaged him in combat he easily defeated them, thus the patrol decided that they should avoid Frieza at all costs. Frieza had fought his parents in the past, and it had not been since these fights that he had ever had to dust himself off after a fight.

"Well, since the king saw fit to betray me, he died a traitor's death. But, his death wasn't nearly punishment enough. I say we carry out our contingency. If we don't, the primates may be galvanized by their beloved ruler's death into standing united against us. Not that it would do them any good."

- Frieza to Zarbon about exterminating the Saiyan race after King Vegeta's rebellion.

Frieza had many races under his thumb in his planetary trade, including the Saiyans. Gifted with natural fighting ability, strength and the ability to become stronger after every battle, Saiyans became powerful weapons in Frieza's subjugation of planets, though Frieza noted they were never entirely loyal to him due to their pride. However, these very abilities made them a liability to the paranoid Frieza, afraid that, if left unchecked, the Saiyans could either unite and overwhelm him, or one day provide a warrior to rival Frieza himself - such as a Super Saiyan or a Super Saiyan God. Due to this, and also due to a past meeting with the God of Destruction Beerus, who asked him to wipe out the Saiyans for him, he decided to wipe out the planet and its inhabitants despite his attendant saying that it would be a shame to waste such powerful warriors. He also ended up forcing King Vegeta into giving him his son, Vegeta, as part of their continued "cooperation", although King Vegeta secretly intended to betray Frieza before he could ever let him have his son. He also further taunted King Vegeta by implying that he didn't actually care if the latter was delayed in capturing Tazba before referring to the executed messenger as a "silly dope".

Jaco the Galactic Patrolman
Frieza calls for the Saiyans to return to Planet Vegeta. On his ship, he is told of the Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan God legends by Kikono, who doesn't think the legends could be true. Frieza, however, doesn't think they should be overlooked, so he plans to destroy Planet Vegeta in one month's time since most of the Saiyans will not arrive until then. He then tells his subordinate to tell the remaining Saiyans that the planet has been destroyed by a meteor so the Saiyans won't suspect him.

Between Jaco and Dragon Ball Z
In the manga, Frieza killed King Vegeta without having to transform into his second form. Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta after a month had passed, as he had planned. Bardock briefly attempted to resist Frieza as he was about to destroy Planet Vegeta, however Frieza wiped him, the planet and the rest of the Saiyans out with a Supernova.

"Well Well!! Now that, is beautiful!! See?! Look Dodoria, Zarbon, look at the fireworks!!  Aren't they splendid?!?!"

- Frieza relishing the destruction of Planet Vegeta

In the anime, on Frieza's arrival to Planet Vegeta's orbit, King Vegeta and his men attempt an uprising both to end Frieza's reign and to rescue Prince Vegeta, but it ended disastrously with the King and his soldiers being slaughtered by Frieza with only a single effortless punch as Zarbon and Dodoria watch. Frieza suspected that other Saiyans would attempt to emulate King Vegeta's approach and commit a full-scale uprising, a suspicion confirmed when he was confronted by a charging Bardock, lunging through the fields of Frieza's men in defiance of the tyrant, and even goes as far as to fire a Final Spirit Cannon at him after giving a heartfelt speech declaring that the Saiyan race is done working for Frieza.

The tyrant retaliated by laughing maniacally with delight as he prepared a Supernova to annihilate the planet. The attack consumes Bardock and some of his men as it buries itself deep beneath the planet's surface resulting in a massive explosion, eradicating nearly every Saiyan. After the planet's explosion, a story was fabricated to ensure the loyalty of the few remaining Saiyans Frieza had kept in his employ as a convenience: Vegeta, Raditz and Nappa. According to the story, a large meteor struck Planet Vegeta and destroyed it that very day. Another version of the story is that it was the benevolent guardian of Planet Vegeta, ashamed at the immorality of the Saiyans, who summoned meteors to impact and destroy the planet and the Saiyan race. Despite these stories, Frieza's destruction of the Saiyans is a rumor that Vegeta heard before the events of Dragon Ball Z, as shown in a flashback during the Frieza Saga (although this might be a form of retroactive continuity, as Vegeta seemed to be unaware of this until Dodoria's confession before his death).

At one point, Frieza destroyed an entire planet and the rebellious race who lived on it with a single gigantic energy ball that he fired from his index finger. Vegeta witnessed this event, which caused him to become scared of Frieza's power and put his plans to assassinate Frieza on a hiatus. At one point prior to the battle on Namek, Frieza witnessed a conflict between Vegeta and the Ginyu Force member Guldo unfolding and blasted Guldo away with a weak Energy Wave as he wished to speak with Vegeta. Frieza then ordered Vegeta to come with him to conquer a planet that Frieza had taken a liking too.

Bardock - The Father of Goku
"Haha! Oh my... this is stupendous! Wow! What a great show! Unbelievable! Look at that!"

- Frieza after obliterating Planet Vegeta.

Frieza mulls over the Saiyans' increasing power until Zarbon advises his master to eliminate Bardock and his team. He then has Dodoria and his soldiers take care of destroying the team. Beforehand, he also humors Vegeta's request for a challenging mission by having him do the most difficult mission with the incentive of him coming back alive. However, when seeing that Bardock's attack pod was en route to Vegeta, he forced Dodoria to be placed under house arrest within his quarters for the failure. He also appeared in a vision of Bardock's, where Goku tells Bardock that it's not too late to avoid becoming like Frieza (it should be noted that this dialogue was exclusive to the dub). Upon witnessing Bardock holding his own against his soldiers, Frieza, with barely contained fury, orders for Zarbon to prepare his hover pod to go into space, with a hesitant Zarbon ultimately complying when Frieza subtly threatens Zarbon for questioning his orders. In the end, Frieza is challenged by Bardock himself, who survived the onslaught and wants revenge for the death of his crew. Bardock fires a Riot Javelin at Frieza, who makes a Supernova and cancels out Bardock's attack. Frieza then sends the ball straight into the core of the Planet Vegeta, wiping out almost the entire Saiyan race and many of his own henchmen.

Cooler's Revenge
Frieza appears along with Bardock, as his brother Cooler watches as he destroys Planet Vegeta and kills Goku's father. He is also frequently mentioned throughout the events proper, mostly in relation to Cooler, as well as his defeat at the hands of Goku.

Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan
Although Frieza does not have a direct appearance, his destruction of Planet Vegeta is shown in a flashback by Paragus, and was also mentioned twice by him, both relating to his genocide. Ironically, the film revealed that King Vegeta's attempted execution of the titular antagonist Broly had been done for the exact same reason as why Planet Vegeta ended up destroyed by Frieza: to prevent the creation of the Legendary Super Saiyan. He also briefly appears in the opening segment, which showed his death at the hands of Future Trunks.

Fusion Reborn
"A common stranger knows my name? I see that my illustrious reputation precedes me."

- Frieza to Great Saiyaman before the latter reveals himself as Gohan

When Janemba appears, the dead all escape Hell and head toward Earth, under Frieza's command. Frieza confronts Gohan and Videl, and immediately recognizes Gohan as Goku's son. Deciding the boy should pay for his father's "sins", Frieza sends his army of villains (Zarbon, Jeice, Burter, Bojack, Zangya, Paragus, Recoome, Salza, etc.) to attack the couple, but Gohan flies through them all and silences him by punching Frieza in the stomach and blowing him away with an energy shot to the gut. His terrified minions quickly disperse.

Battle of Gods
In the summary at the beginning of the film Frieza - after accidentally having been cut in half - is shown attacking Super Saiyan Goku with his "Last Emperor" technique, only for Goku to defeat him with an Angry Kamehameha.

After Whis reveals Frieza's defeat when Beerus decides to destroy Frieza, Whis peers back in time to Frieza's fight with Goku on Namek, showing Beerus part of the fight between him and Super Saiyan Goku.

Resurrection ‘F’
"Don't tell me you're surprised! Of course, my vengeance must be satisfied!"

- Frieza talking about revenge to Sorbet after being revived.

After his death Frieza's spirit was kept imprisoned in Earth's Hell, with the Angels of Hell being the ones who were tasked with ensuring that he remained captive. During his time in Hell, Frieza's spirit retained the appearance of his Mecha Frieza state and was left trapped inside a cocoon. However, over fourteen years after Frieza's demise, his two elite soldiers Sorbet and Tagoma collect all of the Dragon Balls and resurrect him, and he is revived as he was just before his death, as Mecha Frieza and in pieces. Sorbet and Tagoma collect all of the pieces of Frieza and put the organic parts in a healing chamber, Frieza's body is regenerated and he reverts himself back into his first form.

As soon as Frieza's body is regenerated, he announces to his soldiers that he will not be satisfied until Goku and Trunks have both been killed. Tagoma then suggests to Frieza that he should just ignore Goku and the other Saiyans. Furiously, Frieza blasts Tagoma into outer space with a quick Ki blast. Sorbet then informs Frieza that Goku's power has surpassed that of even Majin Buu, which is far more than Frieza could have imagined. But due to him being a prodigy, Frieza believes that through four months of serious training, he will be able to reach a level of power high enough to wipe out the Saiyans in the blink of an eye.

During his new invasion of Earth, Frieza first appears in his first form with an army of one thousand soldiers. After landing on Earth, he fires a Death Beam at East City, completely destroying it. Afterward, Frieza fights against Goku using his fourth form, with Goku winning the fight until Frieza decides to utilize what appears to be a purple version of the Death Ball to clash with Goku's God Kamehameha. The two later transform into their final transformations: Goku goes Super Saiyan Blue, with Frieza transforming into his Ultimate Evolution state. Once in this form, he refers to himself as Golden Frieza.

They both fight on equal ground until Sorbet injures Goku when he is off guard with his Bad Ring Laser, allowing Frieza to defeat Goku. Then Vegeta steps up to fight Frieza. When Frieza shoots an energy wave at Krillin as he is giving Goku a Senzu Bean, Vegeta deflects it away, killing Sorbet. After being beat up by Vegeta, Frieza realizes he cannot defeat him, so he blows up the earth, killing Vegeta. However, Whis turns time back to before Frieza is about to blow up the earth, and Goku destroys Frieza with a Kamehameha, thus preventing Earth's destruction. The movie's end credits show Frieza back in Hell with the Angels of Hell, who start to laugh as they welcome him back.

Broly
Frieza sends his forces to steal the Dragon Balls from Capsule Corporation so he can become 5cm taller. When Kikono asked why 5cm, Frieza says anymore would be noticeable. Frieza also refuses to go to Earth himself until all seven Dragon Balls are located as despite his ki control gained from training in Hell, Frieza is unable to conceal his large ki signature which he notes the Dragon Team would be able to sense before his ship even entered Earth's atmosphere and that he sent weak soldiers to covertly steal the Dragon Radar from Bulma's lab. The soldier were successful at stealing the Radar and six Dragon Balls that Bulma had been collecting to make herself five years younger but Trunks informed his mother and father about the burglary and the soldiers were caught on video alerting Bulma, Vegeta, and Goku to the theft and Bulma decided to go after the last Dragon Ball on the Ice Continent which Bulma had held off on collecting due to the coldness of the region. Meanwhile Frieza's soldiers find the Saiyan survivors Broly and his Paragus stranded on Vampa and Frieza learns Paragus hates the House of Vegeta and wants revenge after King Vegeta III banished Broly to Vampa (in the same year Frieza took over command of King Cold's empire following his father's retirement) due to King Vegeta's jealousy over Broly's power level being higher than his eldest son Vegeta IV. Paragus also was given the Frieza Force's cover story that Planet Vegeta was destroyed by collision from a celestial object though did not mourn for its destruction as he had abandoned it years before in an attempt to rescue Broly from Vampa. As a result Frieza viewed the two Saiyan survivors as valuable soldiers, Broly due to his untapped potential and Paragus due to his hatred of Vegeta's family and ability to control Broly who was loyal to his father. Frieza made a deal with Paragus that he and Broly could take their revenge out on Vegeta but killing the Saiyan named Goku would be reserved for Frieza himself noting his own desire for revenge against the Saiyan who humiliated him.

Eventually his men located the final ball and the Frieza Force headed to Earth. However Goku and Vegeta attacked the soldiers' ship, though they were saved when Frieza announced his arrival with a Petite Supernova that created a hole in the clouds as his ship descended to the Ice Continent. Frieza, Broly, and Paragus exited the ship flanked by Frieza's Honor Guard. Frieza uses Telekinesis to retrieve the Dragon Balls for safe keeping while he and his new Saiyan subordinates deal with Goku and Vegeta. Vegeta cares little about how his father's exile of Broly lead to Paragus and Broly becoming stranded and notes it has nothing to do with him which is true as Vegeta was still an infant around the time and the decision was his father's not his. Vegeta however has no real sympathy for Paragus or Broly recognizing they want revenge on his whole family and are willing to side with the likes of Frieza to get it. Frieza notices Broly's anger flaring up after seeing Vegeta's dismissive attitude and hearing his father's desire for revenge, causing Frieza to have Paragus order Broly to attack Vegeta.

Frieza watches Broly fights Vegeta and asks Paragus if this is Broly's first real fight. Paragus says he has fought Broly a number of times but Frieza laughs at him and says that would be a no compared to Vegeta then. As the battle progresses, Frieza learns Broly can't turn into a Super Saiyan and kills Paragus to help him by framing Vegeta.

Frieza is then forced to fight Broly when Goku and Vegeta fly past him. He transforms into his Golden form but is still no match for Broly's power, receiving a one-sided beating during the hour he fought him. Left in terror of Broly's unprecedented might, Frieza nevertheless maliciously grins at Broly's level of strength. When Gogeta appears, Frieza is left confused as to who the heck he is and is left shocked when he reveals he is a fusion of Goku and Vegeta and watches with absolute awe as Gogeta's power proves to be substantially greater than his and Broly's, easily overpowering Broly repeatedly and would have killed him were it not for Frieza's soldiers turning on him to use the Dragon Balls to whisk Broly away. Frieza attempts to kill them but is stopped by Gogeta. Knowing he is vastly outclassed by his foe, Frieza leaves. Three days later, Frieza believes that if Broly can control his power he would be a great asset to the Frieza Force and trusts his henchmen who betrayed him to tame Broly. Frieza says that Goku and Vegeta are becoming a formidable team and by himself, he can't beat them especially since they're now able to do fusion, so now he needs a partner to win.

Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
When the Z Fighters arrive at West City in order to shut down the final Destron Gas Machine, it is discovered that the Frieza, Cooler, Slug, and Turles - revived as Ghost Warriors - are its guardians, after a talk with the Z Fighters the two teams fight. After Turles and Slug are defeated, Frieza and Cooler attack the Z Fighters together, only to also be taken down. The four then attempt to fight the Z Fighters again but are defeated once more until the Destron Gas takes effect, at which point Ghost Frieza and the other Ghost Warriors prepare to finish the Z Fighters of with finger beams, though before they can Bulma appears and shuts down the machine, removing all of the Destron Gas. The Z Fighters then return to full power and Ghost Warrior Frieza and his allies are easily dealt with, however, before they are finished off, Frieza destroys Bunbuku Island killing all of its inhabitants, including Mr. Satan. As the Ghost Warriors disintegrate into Ghost Frieza, Ghost Frieza yells out that the Saiyans should not underestimate their grudge before vanishing.

Later, after the Z Fighters crash on Planet Kuhn, Frieza is brought back again by Hatchiyack, having made a deal with Raichi he is powered up into Psycho Frieza, and sent to stop the Z Fighters from gaining the ring they need to repair their ship. Frieza locates the ring in the planet's ruins before the Z Fighters can and prepares to destroy it. The Z Fighters arrive and engage Frieza in a battle, eventually defeating him again.

Frieza briefly appears after this, with his grudge energy being the second last to enter Hatchiyack.

The Real 4-D
Frieza is the main villain of this film. After being summoned by a hooded figure via Shenron, and then having increases his power exponentially in a short period of time, he is seen causing havoc in west city. Goku challenges the tyrant, but is ultimately outclassed. He then turns into a Super Saiyan, where he puts up a better fight, but is eventually defeated and left grievously injured on the ground. Super Saiyan Vegeta, Krillin, and Piccolo arrive to help, (with Frieza being angered at Vegeta being a Super Saiyan) and Goku gathers enough energy to form a massive Spirit Bomb to kill Frieza.

In this short film, Frieza is stated to have a Power level of 5,300,000,000 (10,000x his first form on Namek).

Nekomajin
In the Nekomajin chapter "Neko Majin Z 3", published in August 2003 (Monthly Shōnen Jump, 2003, #9), Frieza is mentioned by Vegeta. Nekomajin takes place at some point after Age 784.

Frieza is ruling his empire, apparently more peacefully than before. Noticing that his son Kuriza, and one of his commanders Onio, have been away on Earth for too long, Frieza contacts Vegeta and asks him to bring them back to him. Though angry that Frieza is wasting his time, Vegeta agrees and heads off to tell the two that Frieza wants them to come back.

Shin Budokai
Frieza appears as one of the primary antagonists of Shin Budokai. He appears as the leader of a group of villains (composed of himself, Cooler, and Cell) who were able to leave Hell thanks to Janemba. Immediately after being resurrected, Frieza is confronted by Gohan, who transforms into a Super Saiyan. Final form Frieza is able to tire out Gohan without having to use his full power and decides to leave, revealing that, while in Hell, he has learned how to lower his power without having to use lower forms. Frieza sends Cell and Cooler to search for the Dragon Balls, and then he confronts Goku. Frieza and Goku fight, but Frieza is eventually defeated when Goku immobilizes him with a Pressure Point Attack and then does one of two things: blasts him with a Super Kamehameha, sending to Hell again, or leaves him immobilized.

After returning to Earth as fast as possible, he is met by the newly arrived Future Trunks along with kid Trunks, Goten, and Pikkon. Frieza engages in battle with them, though it was only a distraction as Frieza steals their Dragon Ball and Dragon Radar. Frieza then heads off to look for the Dragon Balls, defeating Krillin along the way.

Later, he tracks down Android 18, trying to take her Dragon Ball. She tells him that Broly stole the Dragon Balls, Frieza fights the Legendary Super Saiyan and is at first defeated, but eventually succeeds and kills Broly. Frieza finds that Broly did not have the Dragon Balls and then goes on and collects a Dragon Ball. Towards the games finale, Android 18 arrives at where Frieza is with a Dragon Ball and he reveals his new plan; he is going to kidnap Android 18, destroy the planet, and then take 18 with him to planet Namek to steal their Dragon Balls. Frieza then powers himself up using evil energy, making him far stronger than anyone on the planet. Frieza becomes so strong that Android 18 states that even if she put all of her energy into one attack, it would not even scratch Frieza. However, Krillin arrives just as Frieza is about to destroy the planet and leave with 18. Krillin and Android 18's love and positive feelings for each other, along with the energy from the Spirit Bomb that Goku gave to Krillin, counter the evil energy that Frieza had built up, greatly weakening Frieza. Krillin (with some of the Spirit Bomb power) and Android 18 then go all out and manage to defeat Frieza, sending him to Hell once again.

It is implied that upon arriving in Hell, Frieza may have been transformed into Janemba due to the evil energy he absorbed, or that Janemba took the energy from Frieza. However, upon Janemba's defeat Frieza would have been returned to normal.

Dragon Ball Online
In Dragon Ball Online, Frieza attacks Namek like in the manga, he goes through the conflict unaware that the Time Breakers have begun interfering and taking control of his soldiers. Like in the manga, Frieza transforms multiple times, fights the Z Fighters and defeats them until Goku arrives, at which point the two prepare to fight.

In Age 1000, Frieza's Army remnants have become a part of the Time Breakers alliance, their primary goal being to resurrect Frieza once more, which they can achieve by obtaining some of his remains, so they search around the area he was killed for some. Eventually they travel to the past and collect several of Frieza's remains in order to revive him. One of the pieces they collect is 2nd Frieza's severed tail which Krillin cut off with his Destructo Disc during the Battle on Planet Namek. At one point a Time Breaker Frieza Soldier takes a bite out of said tail, causing them to mutate making the soldier larger and stronger.

Xenoverse
During the opening prologue in Age 767, 100% Full Power Frieza's battle with Super Saiyan Goku on Dying Namek is shown and Goku defeats Frieza. However history is altered Frieza empowered by Dark Magic granting him the power of Villainous Mode gets back up which shocks Goku, though he transforms back into his Super Saiyan form and continues to fight against Dark Frieza. In the altered history that is shown, SSJ Goku is forced to use a Spirit Bomb to combat Dark Frieza, though it is unclear if he was able to defeat Dark Frieza with it or not. Due to this and other history changes during the Cell Games in Age 767 and the battle with Kid Buu in Age 774, Chronoa and Xeno Trunks realize that history is changing, causing Xeno Trunks to use Toki Toki City's Dragon Balls to summon Shenron and makes a wish to summon a warrior capable of defending all of history, resulting in the Future Warrior being summoned to Toki Toki City and being recruited by Trunks as a member of the Time Patrol.
 * Prologue

In another altered timeline of the Battle on Namek in Age 767, Frieza's battle with the Z Fighters on Namek turns out differently due to Time Breaker interference though Frieza being empowered by Dark Magic. While Goku is inside the healing chamber, Dark Frieza kills both Vegeta and Krillin, and then kills Gohan before Goku can arrive and save him. Frieza then faces off against the still injured Goku, who left the healing chamber far too early for him to be able to fight.
 * Frieza Saga

When the Future Warrior travels back to stop this change from coming to pass, they arrive and helps the Z Fighters fight against Dark Frieza (1st form). Under the influence of Towa's Dark Magic, instead of transforming into his 2nd form, Dark Frieza transforms right into his Final Form, altering the timeline. However Piccolo arrives in time to assist the Future Warrior in combating Dark Frieza, while Vegeta has Krillin injure him so he can be healed by Dende and receive Saiyan Power in the hope that it will make him a Super Saiyan. With his new power Vegeta joins the battle with Dark Frieza but is defeated as he was in the original timeline, however he and the Future Warrior manage to by enough time for Goku to arrive and allowing the dying Vegeta to inform him of Frieza's role in the Genocide of the Saiyans and the destruction of Planet Vegeta before dies from his injures restoring that part of the timeline. Together with the Future Warrior, Goku fights Dark Frieza though Frieza proves to be too strong and Goku is forced to resort to the Spirit Bomb to defeat Frieza like in the original timeline. Instead of Piccolo, Future Warrior distracts Dark Frieza long enough for Goku to prepare and hit him with a Large Spirit Bomb it appears as though Dark Frieza has been killed.

However, Dark Frieza survives the assault like he did in the original history and is given a dark power up, he then chokes the Future Warrior, shoots a Death Beam through Piccolo's chest, and blows up Krillin with his Death Psycho Bomb, causing Goku to become a Super Saiyan. Dark Frieza attacks Goku with his Killer Ball technique, but Goku dodges it. Unfortunately, one of the stray blasts Goku had dodged ends up heading right towards Gohan and Piccolo, however the Future Warrior manages shield them with their body, and then joins Goku fight against Dark Frieza. Eventually Frieza becomes desperate and fires his Destroy The Planet! at Namek's core to destroy the planet though like in the original history he holds back out of fear he will be caught in the explosion, allowing Namek to survive though will eventually explode. As a result, SSJ Goku and the Future Warrior survive and continue to fight against Villainous Mode Dark Frieza at 100% Power on Dying Namek. Eventually the combined power of Future Warrior and Super Saiyan Goku is enough to defeat Dark Frieza, who loses the dark power up and returns to regular Frieza. Goku thanks the Warrior for their assistance but asks them to leave Frieza defeat up to him. Since the timeline had been fixed, the Future Warrior then leaves Goku and Frieza to their battle, as Porunga is summoned and Frieza speeds of towards him, with Goku giving chase. Chronoa and Xeno Trunks later reveal to the Future Warrior that Goku ends up defeating Frieza in the corrected timeline thus the original timeline is restored.

In Age 850, Frieza (1st form) appears in Toki Toki City after the Future Warrior has completed Captain Ginyu's training and became the sixth official member of the Ginyu Force. Having heard about the Warrior from Ginyu, Frieza decides to scout the Warrior for the Frieza Force, and beings training the Warrior as their new Master. Upon completing their training under Frieza, Frieza makes the Future Warrior a member of Frieza's Honor Guard.


 * Demon God Demigra Saga

In the finale of Xenoverse, Démigra uses the Dragon Balls in Age 778 and revives Frieza, Cell, and Kid Buu and sends them to attack West City on Earth, putting each of them into the full Villainous Mode. The Future Warrior travels back in order to stop them, he fights all three of them and manages to defeat the team of villains.

Xenoverse 2
In the opening animated Time Patroller recruitment video, Mecha Frieza getting cut in two by Future Trunks is briefly shown when Chronoa is telling perspective Time Patrollers to avoid altering history like Future Trunks did.
 * Prologue

In the opening Prologue of Xenoverse 2, a scroll containing the events of the Genocide of the Saiyans in Age 737 is shown. Frieza observes Planet Vegeta from within his spaceship and notes it will be the last time he gazes on the planet, before spotting Bardock who desperately fights to avert his planet's fate. While fighting Frieza's soldiers, Bardock is momentarily distracted by a vision of his son Kakarot confronting 1st Frieza on Namek. After the vision ends Bardock frees himself from the soldier's holding on to him and demands Frieza show himself. Frieza appears in his hoverchair and Bardock hears Frieza state, "So the legendary Super Saiyan has finally shown up." which is the result of another one of Bardock's visions causing the scene to shift, to Age 779 during Frieza's revenge. As a result, Frieza appears to Bardock to morph into Golden Frieza as a result of Bardock's vision. Bardock is shocked by Frieza's sudden change, before noticing his son as a Super Saiyan Blue and witnesses SSGSS Goku clashing with Golden Frieza before his vision ends with the explosion produced by Goku and Frieza's clash. After this final vision, Bardock determined to change the future, creates a Riot Javelin which he throws at Frieza. However Frieza creates a Supernova which consumes the blast which Bardock and Planet Vegeta are caught in leading to the planet's destruction. The scene then shifts back to the scroll which unravels before being stop by Turles foot, leading to him Lord Slug, Mira, and Towa being shown, along with the mysterious Masked Saiyan.

Like in Xenoverse, Frieza is fought in the main story during the Battle on Planet Namek in Age 762. He is first seen alongside Zarbon and Dodoria during the attack on Moori's village right after Krillin and Gohan rescue Dende. Due to Towa's Dark Magic, Frieza tells both Dodoria and Zarbon to go after them, allowing Zarbon to prevent Krillin and the others from escaping when Krillin blinds Dodoria with the Solar Flare. Fortunately the Time Patrol sends the second Future Warrior to help by time for Krillin to escape.
 * Ruckus on Planet Namek Saga

Eventually the Warrior discovers that Lord Slug and Turles are working with Towa and Mira, causing them to interfere with the Battle on Planet Namek in an attempt to steal the Namekian Dragon Balls for themselves. During Frieza's battle with Nail he is powered up by Towa and the Warrior is sent to aid him in buying time for Dende and the others. However while they are distracted by Dark Frieza, Turles and Slug steal the Namekian Dragon Balls during this time and the Warrior is forced to leave after Nail informs Frieza he was only buying time, causing Frieza to rush off. The Warrior manages to stop Turles and Slug by traveling further into the past by traveling back to the Time Nest and using the Time Scroll again, and manages to defeat them with the help of Xeno Trunks. They then return to aid the others against the enraged Frieza. Vegeta is killed like in the original timeline and Goku arrives though is eventually forced to use the Spirit Bomb, though it fails to kill Frieza. Frieza wounds Piccolo and kills Krillin, causing Goku to transform into Super Saiyan, though this time Goku takes Killer Ball attack head on instead of dodging and thus the Future Warrior is not forced to protect them as their predecessor did in Xenoverse. The Warrior joins Super Saiyan Goku in fight Frieza who uses Destroy the Planet! to destroy Namek but holds back saving Goku and his allies as he had in the original history. However, as Goku mentions Frieza holding back, Cooler appears and admonishes his brother for his weakness, to the shock of Frieza, Goku, and the Future Warrior. Frieza inquires why his brother is there and Cooler reveals Towa had aided him in traveling through time to prevent his brother's humiliating defeat at the hands of Goku. As a result, the two brothers team up to kill Goku and the Future Warrior, before powering up to their full power, 100% for Frieza and Cooler takes on his Fourth Transformation. However Cooler is defeated by the Warrior causing him to fall into what is left of Namek's molten core, and Goku is left to compete his fight with Frieza alone as Dende uses the Namekian Dragon Balls to transport everyone one except Goku and Frieza to Earth like in the original timeline. For defeating Cooler and Frieza, Chronoa awards the Future Warrior with a Flying License which serves as proof of their status as an elite Time Patroller, allowing them to legally use Flight in Conton City.
 * The Galactic Emperor Saga

Later Frieza is revived in Age 779, though Towa interferes causing Cooler to be revived using the Dragon Balls second wish. Cooler is later transformed into Metal Cooler and it is implied he trained with his brother aiding him in unlocking his Golden Form making much stronger. The Warrior aids the Z Fighters in holding off Frieza's dark magic enhanced army and fights the tyrant once more in order to buy time for Goku and Vegeta to arrive. Eventually Goku and Vegeta appear. Super Saiyan Blue Goku and the Future Warrior fight Frieza together but Whis who had arrived with Beerus for the food promised by Bulma, notes the presence of Metal Cooler who reveals himself and reveals how he was revived. Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta and the Warrior step up to face him while Goku continues fighting Frieza. However Beerus is contacted by Chronoa who states that Mira and Towa are attacking the Time Nest and requests their assistance despite the fact the role Whis plays in Frieza's defeat. As a result, when Frieza resorts to his Earth Breaker, Goku and all those saved by Whis are killed by the Earth's destruction, save for the Future Warrior who is pulled out just in time by Xeno Trunks. The Warrior learns that Towa hacked the Time Patrol's communication systems and pretended to be Chronoa to lure Whis and Beerus away altering the events of Age 779. Beerus is outraged by her blasphemous deception of him and is convinced by Chronoa to aid the Time Patrol in fixing it. Whis aids the Warrior with Temporal Do-Over allowing them to stop Frieza's Earth Breaker with a Ki Blast and Vegeta swears they will not allow him to pull the same move twice. This causes Golden Frieza and Metal Cooler to power up to their Supervillain forms, however they are defeated by the combined might of the two Super Saiyan Blues and the Future Warrior. Goku thanks the Warrior after the fight and promises to repay them, leading to him aiding the Future Warrior in the final battle with Mira in his final form.
 * The Emperor's Return Saga

Having learned that Bardock is the Masked Saiyan, Xeno Trunks and the Future Warrior investigate Age 737 to learn more. They witnesses 1st Form Frieza use his Supernova to destroy Planet Vegeta like he did in the prologue. However it is revealed that Towa and Mira used a Wormhole to save Bardock from being killed. Xeno Trunks and the Future Warrior observe this and follow the Time Breaker's past selves to Earth in Age ???, where they are confronted by Masked Saiyan and Towa's present self. During the fight, it is implied that after being saved by the wormhole, Bardock escaped into the distant past presumably resulting in his encounter with Frieza's ancestor Chilled and his transformation into a Super Saiyan, leading to Chilled's death and creating a time paradox that leads to Chilled passing on knowledge of the Super Saiyans to his descendants. It is also implied that Towa and Mira captured at some point after this, as the SSJ Bardock's battle with Chilled is mentioned to be considered an official part of history as Frieza Race Time Patroller Jierra was sent back in time to ensure Chilled survived his injuries long enough to pass on the knowledge of the Super Saiyans to his descendants.
 * The Masked Saiyan Saga

Before the main story of Xenoverse 2, the Demon Scientist Towa tricks Navel into taking one of the Distorted Time Eggs she created in an failed attempt to replicate Tokitoki's Egg artificially, onto Frieza's Spaceship in a timeline when Frieza was still in power. This creates a massive time rift around Frieza's Spaceship that appears in Conton City and is contained in a Time Miniature by Chronoa who finds that the rifts are large and stable. She sends several Time Patrollers to investigate the cause by having them go undercover under the pretense of joining Frieza's army. The Frieza Race Future Warrior is one of those Time Patrollers and is seen investigating the rift in the prologue where he watches Ginyu drilling some low ranking soldiers and Frieza walks by commenting on his army's growing strength while noting the lack of skilled fighters and decides he must do something himself to change that. The warrior is later called off to tend to a critical mission given by Chronoa. Later they are asked to visit the various large time rifts including Frieza's Spaceship.
 * Frieza's Spaceship Rift

After bringing an item to Appule, they are let inside the ship where they can join Frieza's army to investigate without coming into contact with Frieza. The warrior passes Frieza's test. From here on they are forced to choose between two factions lead by Zarbon and Dodoria who are vying for Frieza's favor. Frieza encourages this in-fighting as it will weed out the weaker members. Frieza watches the warrior's growth as they end up challenging the leader of the rival faction alongside the leader of the faction they choose, though the rival leader is spared and Frieza decides to give them a second chance by demoting them somewhat. Eventually, the warrior grows tired of the leader of the faction, challenges, and defeats them, causing the leader to submit to their former underling. Frieza and Captain Ginyu are both impressed causing Ginyu to offer them a chance to join the Ginyu Force and they pass becoming a member of the Elite Mercenary group. However the Warrior eventually challenges and defeats the entire Ginyu Force, catching the attention of both Cooler and Frieza, forcing the Warrior to make a choose between the two brother's factions.

Eventually the brother faction the Warrior chose confronts the rival faction which is defeated forcing the other brother to submit. If Frieza is chosen the Warrior becomes Frieza's top henchman and retains his status as Emperor of Universe 7 within the rift's timeline. If Cooler is selected he usurpers the title of Emperor of Universe 7 and gains control of the Frieza's faction which he places under the Warrior's command. Afterwards either brother realizes that the other will train to grow stronger and thus asks the warrior to be their sparing partner. If they serve Frieza, they help him unlock his Golden Form, while if they serve Cooler they help him unlock his Metal Cooler form. If the Warrior is a Frieza Clansmen, they will seek to claim the throne of Emperor of Universe 7 from either Golden Frieza or Metal Cooler depending on their faction resulting in them defeating them and becoming recognizes as Emperor of Universe 7 by both brothers though they plan regain control and defeat them. Wanting to prove their superiority, they both help the Warrior obtain their Golden Form in order to defeat them at their best. After obtaining the form both brothers are stratified that at least the honor of the Frieza Clan is secured as one of them is the current ruler of the Universe, though they both still plan to defeat the Warrior someday. The Warrior eventually obtains the Distorted Time Egg from Navel which is given to Chronoa.


 * Frieza's Siege

In the events of the first free update DLC, in Age 852 Frieza and his army invades Conton City after his spaceship travels through a wormhole. It is strongly implied that the ship comes from the Frieza's Spaceship anomaly's timeline as various Frieza force members make references to the Warrior being a member and their selected factions. Ultimately the Future Warrior and other Time Patrols manage to fight off Frieza, his army, the Ginyu Force, his brother, and the Metal Cooler Corps.


 * Infinite History Saga

During the Infinite History Saga as part of the Extra Pack 2 DLC, the Future Warrior can select Frieza as his partner allowing join the Future Warrior in taking part in the game's new story. It is revealed that during her infiltration of the Time Nest, Towa secretly altered the scroll for Age 774, preventing her brother Dabura's death at the hands of Majin Buu before covering it up. As a result Dabura the King of the Demon Realm is restored only to lose his sister when she died in Age ???, causing him to seek revenge on the Time Patrol whom he blames for his sister's death. He begins collecting damage energy to empower himself and his artificially created nephew Fu who is the genetic offspring of Towa and Mira.

Dragon Ball 30th Anniversary Special Manga
Akira Toriyama (depicted as Robotoriyama) meets Goku and Vegeta on Planet Namek and tells them it is the 30th anniversary of Dragon Ball, Goku is not very impressed since they were not actually running for 30 years straight, annoying Toriyama who tells them he should be thankful he made them famous. Vegeta retorts that he should be the one thanking them, as it was thanks to them Dragon Ball lasted so long. Toriyama bites back that Vegeta was originally meant to die and that it was only thanks to Toriyama that he lived, while Vegeta says that it was actually because Toriyama was too scared to kill off a character as popular as him. Frieza shows up, in his first form and with a halo, and is annoyed that Toriyama had him killed off on Namek. Flustered, Toriyama says that thanks to that Frieza became the best villain character ever and that's why he brought him back for Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, though Frieza is annoyed that Toriyama apparently forgot how to draw him.

Dragon Ball Fusions
In the main story, Tekka's Team is asked by the Ginyu Force to break down the barrier over Frieza's Spaceship as they believe someone important to them is trapped in there. However Tekka's Team finds no one inside and reports back to the Ginyu Force who relieved to know the truth thank them by teaching them Five-Way Fusion which causes Goten and Trunks to teach them the Fusion Dance. Ziku detects a powerful energy coming from a time hole near the Spaceship and travel their with the Ginyu Force to open it. From the rift they created the cocooned Frieza emerges from Earth's Hell from the period after his failed revenge in Age 779. Frieza is freed of his cocoon and noticing Kid Goku, Goten, and Kid Trunks he orders the Ginyu Force to kill them despite Ginyu revealing that they were the ones that freed him. Jeice and Guldo fuse into Gulce while Recoome and Burter fuse into Recurter. Ginyu offers to fuse with Frieza but he refuses and leaves the defeat of Tekka's Team to the fused Ginyu Force members and Captain Ginyu, however they were defeated.

Frieza and the Ginyu Force abandon their Spaceship and flee. Trunks decides to have his mom turn Frieza's Spaceship into a mobile base for the team. The Ginyu Force teach their master the Five-Way Fusion technique and after Tekka's Team defeat Perfect Cell, he teams up with Cell to take revenge on them and Adult Goku. They convince Tekka's rival Pinich to let them join his team for the Timespace Tournament. At the Tournament, Tekka's Team is surprised to discover Frieza and Cell on Pinich's team. As the fight drags on, Frieza and Cell convince Pinich, Wanta, and Paprika to perform Ultra Fusion which results in the creation of the Ultimate Ultra Fusion, Ultra Pinich. However Frieza and Cell gain control of the fusion and attempt to kill everyone including Super Saiyan Blue Goku using a Death Ball and almost succeed but Whis rewinds time and Beerus stops the Death Ball forcing Ultra Pinich to flee. Tekka's Team and Goku convince Beerus to let them save Pinich, Wanta, and Paprika as they are innocent and were manipulated by Frieza and Cell.

They eventually track down Ultra Pinich and defeat him, forcing him to use a Power Ball to transform into a Golden Great Ape which he had been saving to confront Beerus. However, as Great Ape Pinich takes damage Pinich gains control over the fusion due to Pinich's Saiyan nature being awakened by his transformation. Absorbing a Super Spirit Bomb created by everyone at the tournament, the Ultra Fusion of Tekka's Team to become stronger than Beerus, allow them to defeat Great Ape Pinich who falls through a rift that causes him to defuse. Tekka follows after them and reunites with Pinich. Angered by being thwarted, Cell and Frieza perform EX-Fusion to create Cellza. Tekka and Pinich perform EX-Fusion as well, and defeat Cellza with True RA Pinich Punch.

After defeating the Legendary Champion, Tekka's Team can find a rift near a destroyed section of The Lookout that leads to Sub-Event: "The Return of F" in which they encounter Frieza from another timeline. Frieza transforms into Golden Frieza and fights Tekka's Team. Defeating him completes the sub-event and makes Frieza and Golden Frieza scoutable allowing both to be recruited by KOing either of them with a Zenkai Attack in battle.

In addition to Cellza, Frieza can perform EX-Fusion with his brother Cooler to create Coolieza, or with Captain Ginyu to create Ginyuza.

FighterZ
Frieza is the main protagonist of the Enemy Warrior Arc, where he is the fighter summoned by Android 21 to house the player's soul as part of an experiment; he is one of the many fighters revived by Android 21 via the Namekian Dragon Balls. As a result, Frieza himself is stripped of his own free will as his body becomes unmovable when the soul disagrees, which sparks an outrage, however Android 16 assures Frieza that his true self will surface the longer he fights with the soul linked to him.

After finding and recruiting Nappa, Captain Ginyu and the rest of the Ginyu Force (who had also been revived by the Dragon Balls), Frieza decides to set out on a quest to find the person responsible for not only implanting a soul in his body, but suppressing his and the other fighters' power by emitting long-range, ki-suppressing waves. During this quest he constantly takes his frustration out on the soul with verbal tirades, but eventually comes to terms that the soul inside his body is actually a capable fighter. It is also revealed that Frieza's DNA was among those whose cells were combined by Dr. Gero's Supercomputer to form the genetic makeup of Android 21 who was created from the Earthling mother of Dr. Gero's deceased son with was used as the template for Android 16.

He eventually encounters the revived Cell (for the first time as their encounter in filler never occurred) who explains Android 21 had tried to control Cell with an artificial soul but he bent it to his will. Though Frieza's underlings dislike his arrogant attitude and lack of respect, Frieza accepts Cell's offer of an alliance to take down Android 21 who is the de facto leader of the Red Ribbon Army after Dr. Gero's death as Cell has no interest in it or its goals. Their team up causes Android 21 to send a artificial soul linked Android 18 to deal with them while they are still weak. Android 21 reveals herself and she notes that she does not dismiss the idea of universal conquest though it is not her main goal which is to consume and absorb them and the Z Fighters using the clones as simply appetizers to satisfy her hunger until as is ready for the main course. However Android 18 is defeated, though Android 21 notices Goku and Krillin approaching and plays the victim claiming Android 18 was injured protecting her from the villains which the two Z Fighters readily believe as Krillin angrily steps up to avenge his wife alongside Goku. However after the battle they notice Android 21 has gotten away. The villains inform the Z Fighters they had been played and Android 21 is enemy to them both. Goku suggests they put aside their differences for the time being and mentions Bulma has invented a machine that blocks the waves which intrigues Frieza and Cell. They end up assisting the Z Fighters in protecting Bulma's ship with contains the device from 21's clones.

Frieza is left without much of a choice in the matter but to join forces with them as the soul convinces Frieza it is necessary to defeat Android 21 forcing Frieza to agree lest he wants to be stuck as a statue, though both Frieza and Cell note it is a temporary truce. While the concept of having to work with Goku disgusts him greatly, he is willing to fight for a mutual cause, even having a few laughs at the expense of fighters like Gotenks and Yamcha.

Eventually Android 21 sends Android 16 to eliminate Frieza, his henchman, Cell, and the Z Fighters though in reality she is aware he has been secretly working to thwart her as he was the one who used the soul linking system without her approval. Frieza and Cell have no qualms about destroying Android 16, though Krillin is reluctant as he sees 16 as a friend, though hopes he will give up before he is destroyed. Android 16 is defeated, though Android 21 shows up and reveals her true form which is very Majin like in overall appearance while having a tail like Frieza's (presumably influenced by Frieza and his father's cells as she has Perfect Cell's genetic makeup), pointy Namekian like ears, and white hair (presumably influenced by her Earthling and Saiyan cells) making her a new type of Bio-Android designed to succeed Cell who the computer viewed as a failure for his defeat and the destruction of Present Cell. She reveals she sent Android 16 to die for his betrayal and proceeds to attack but suddenly she weakens causing Cell and Frieza to attempt to kill her, though Android 16 oddly shields her. However Android 21 cruelly reveals she faked her weakness knowing Android 16 would shield her all her to destroy him herself which she does killing him showing she has inherited Frieza's sadism and cruelty. However Android 21 states she is not ready to feed on them just yet and leaves.

Realizing the clones are the only thing keeping Android 21's hunger in check as well as depriving her of them will prevent her from becoming stronger than she is, Frieza convinces his henchman and allies that eliminating them should be their top priority as it will be the best way to lure her out in addition to being a fitting way to punishing her for creating clones of him. His plan worked as Android 21 was outraged when she noticed the number of clones was depleting rapidly and realizes Frieza is likely the one behind it. Her outrage combined with her growing hunger causes Android 21 to lose her composer and seek out her enemies take revenge and consume them.

Frieza would lead their combined forces against Android 21 in a volcanic region resembling the remains of Planet Namek (in other Arcs, the battle instead takes place on the Sacred World of the Kai). However Android 21 proves to be too powerful despite their combined efforts so they employ a risky plan involving cranking Bulma's machine to maximum output. However the machine leaves everyone but Frieza, Cell, and Goku powerless, though restores enough of Frieza, Cell, and Goku's strength that they are able to destroy Android 21 together with a combined energy attack. However true to their word, Frieza and Cell decide to end their truce with the Z Fighters as their power is restored with Android 21's death, though Cell decides to remain allied with Frieza as they share a common enemy in the Z Fighters, while Nappa wants to take revenge on Goku and Vegeta, and the Ginyu Force are simply happy to follow Frieza order as it allows them to make up for their past defeat on Namek. However the outcome of this battle is not shown, thus it is unknown if the revived Frieza Force and Cell defeated their enemies or if they all sent to Earth's Hell after being killed again.

World Mission
In "An Unthinkable Appearance", an anomaly occurs in Age 764 of the SDBH game world resulting in Future Trunks being a no show when Mecha Frieza and King Cold invade Earth in the main timeline.
 * Chapter 2, Sub Chapter 3 - "An Unthinkable Appearance"

Beat and Note of the Time Patrol's Dragon Ball Heroes team step up to confront Mecha Frieza and King Cold after defeating an anomalous Dodoria and Zarbon who claim to have been sent by Frieza to invade Earth in search of its Dragon Balls.
 * 2-Star Normal Mission - "We're Just Fine!"

The duo manage to defeat Mecha Frieza and King Cold, but suddenly Frieza's Spaceship appears owned by an anomalous Frieza from a timeline where he hadn't confronted Goku whom had sent Dodoria and Zarbon to Earth. The anomalous Frieza and Mecha Frieza recognize each other as counterparts and the anomalous Frieza decides to assist Mecha Frieza in taking revenge on Goku upon learning of what the Super Saiyan had done to his counterpart. Froze and Kagyu return to the game world to backup Beat and Note. The anomalous Frieza, his Ginyu Force, Mecha Frieza, and King Cold confront Beat, Note, Froze, and/or Kagyu in a three-on-three team battle. The battle ends with Jeice, Burter, and Guldo being killed.
 * 2-Star Normal Mission - "Worst Case Scenario"

The anomalous Frieza commends the Heroes for their effort in killing most of the Ginyu Force, though still futile in the face of the power of himself, his Cyborg counterpart, and counterpart's father with even Great Saiyaman 3 agreeing they are too much for his team to handle. As King Cold and Mecha Frieza prepare to annihilate the Heroes, they are interrupted by Goku, fresh from his training on Yardrat and the Z Warriors consisting of Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, and Krillin.
 * 4-Star Boss Mission - "Joining Forces"

However Mecha Frieza is pleased to see that the Super Saiyan finally decided to drop in and his counterpart quickly deduces that he is the "Goku" Mecha Frieza had spoken of. Goku is surprised there are two Friezas and wonders what is going on, though Vegeta says he doesn't know, nor care as his only desire is to repay Frieza back blood for blood. Mecha Frieza and Frieza are surprised Vegeta is alive, though conclude it is the work of the Dragon Balls which the anomalous Frieza is determined to obtain after dealing with Goku, though Goku refuses to let that happen. Mecha Frieza boosts he's gotten strongwr and Beat says he's telling the truth having just fought him. Goku says he'll be extra careful and thanks them for holding them off, though Beat says they didn't do much besides getting thrown around, however Goku says they'd have been totally fine and to believe in himself a little as they were butting heads with the baddest guy in the universe. Great Saiyaman 3 tells his team to work with Goku and the Z Warriors confident they can defeat the Frieza Force higher-ups.

The Heroes and Z Warriors manage to kill Mecha Frieza and King Cold. Vegeta tells the Heroes to step aside as he wants the satisfaction of putting an end to the weakened Frieza. Goku however tells Vegeta to wait as he tries to convince Frieza to promise to mend his evil ways they'll let him go to live on his own planet in peace. Frieza unfamiliar with Goku's personality is taken aback that he would show him mercy. Froze who respects Frieza despite his evil suggests he take their offer.
 * "An Unthinkable Appearance" - Epilogue 1

However Frieza tells the Frieza Clan Hero to be silent, declaring himself the strongest being in all of space and that they should all be dead, slain by him, before trying to kill Froze for daring to suggest he accept Goku's mercy. Realizing Frieza won't back down, Goku and Beat both attack Frieza with their Kamehamehas simultaneously resulting in the Ancestor-Descendant Kamehameha.

The attack hits Frieza who swears this isn't the last they have seen of him and he'll be back for vengeance. With the anomaly fixed, the game world reverts back to the original history with game world Future Trunks slaying Mecha Frieza and King Cold.

In the extra dimensional space within the Age 764 anomaly, Beat and Note manage to defeat Mecha Frieza and King Cold. However an extra anomaly, causes Kuriza to appear in his Spaceship along with his subordinates Avo and Cado. Kuriza joins his father and grandfather in confronting the Heroes with Avo and Cado backing them up.
 * 2-Star Normal Mission - "The Son Appears!"

However he is unable to prevent Mecha Frieza and King Cold from being fatally injured by Beat and Note, though Kuriza and his henchmen are saved by the intervention of the Cooler Force who admonishes his father and brother for being a disgrace to their clan before they die.
 * 2-Star Normal Mission - "The Greatest Power in the Universe"

After the Heroes slay Cooler's Armored Squadron, Kuriza insists to join his uncle in paying them back for killing his father and to restore his own honor which Cooler permits. Cooler transforms into Golden Cooler, while Kuriza transforms into his Final Form, and while Avo & Cado fuse into Aka.
 * 4-Star Boss Mission - "The Power of Brotherhood"

However the three of them are also slain by Beat and Note. However the pair are left totally exhausted afterwards forcing them to request that Great Saiyaman 3 send in Froze and Kagyu to help them get back to the real world. This fixes the extra anomaly, causing it to revert back to the original timeline.
 * "An Unthinkable Appearance" - Epilogue 2

What-if scenarios
Frieza appears briefly in the first chapter of the manga Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock, seen destroying Planet Vegeta.
 * Episode of Bardock

In Frieza's scenario in Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors, Frieza's life is the same as in the main series up until his final battle with Goku: Frieza manages to defeat Super Saiyan Goku and escapes Namek with Captain Ginyu just before it explodes. After returning to Planet Frieza, Frieza upgrades himself with cybernetic armor, and he and Ginyu go to hunt down Vegeta and Gohan. Frieza defeats and kills Super Saiyan Vegeta, and then heads to Capsule Corporation where the Z Fighters and their allies are trying to revive Goku. Krillin tries to stop Frieza but is defeated after running out of Senzu Beans, though he buys enough time for Goku to be revived. Goku confronts Frieza and requests West City not to be involved in their fight, but Frieza destroys the city against Goku's will. Gohan arrives and he and his father transform into Super Saiyans but, even with their combined power, they are defeated and killed by Frieza. While Frieza heads to his ship to relax, Ginyu takes the Dragon Radar and heads to find the Dragon Balls for Frieza. However, Dr. Gero sends Android 18 assisted by Android 17 and Android 16 to kill Frieza, but Frieza defeats them. Frieza then meets Ginyu, who has collected four of the Dragon Balls, and the two head to Gero's base, the location of the last three Dragon Balls. When Ginyu goes inside to get the Dragon Balls, he is attacked by Gero and has his energy taken. Frieza is confronted by Gero, but tells the doctor that he will not destroy him if he accepts to work for him. Gero briefly thinks about it but then refuses and attacks. Frieza defeats Gero and wishes for an immortal body, stripping him of his cybernetic upgrades and also causing him to no longer have to power up to 100%, making him identical in appearance to his regular Final form. After he fused with Kami, Piccolo quickly heads to fight the now immortal Frieza but is also defeated. Frieza kills off mankind and makes Earth the center of his empire under the name of Planet Frieza No. 80. Twenty years later, Present Cell awakens in his Perfect form thanks to adjustments by Gero before his death. After being told who he is, Cell attacks and destroys Frieza's castle and new elite force. Frieza appears and confronts Present Cell, and the two have a brief discussion before engaging in one last battle. Frieza defeats Present Cell, who reveals that he can regenerate as much as he wants. Frieza realizes that he can kill Present Cell only by destroying all of his cells and hits him with a Death Ball, destroying him and the Earth. Frieza then leaves and conquers every planet in the universe without opposition.
 * Supersonic Warriors

In Ginyu's scenario in Supersonic Warriors, Ginyu manages to defeat almost all of the Z Fighters and the Androids. In the finale, Ginyu and Frieza defeat Gohan and Piccolo, and successfully collect all seven of Earth's Dragon Balls. Happily, Frieza tells Ginyu that he can have the first wish and Frieza will take the others. Ginyu's wish resurrects the Ginyu Force and then Shenron disappears. The shocked Frieza is told by the injured Piccolo that the Earth's Dragon Balls only grant one wish. In a rage, Frieza kills Piccolo and then attacks the Ginyu Force out of anger at them having their wish granted. Ginyu manages to calm Frieza down but, still angry, Frieza destroys the Earth. Ginyu and Frieza then return to Planet Frieza and resume their normal lives.

In Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2, there is a what-if scenario where Frieza arrives on Planet Namek in his Final Form and decides to take care of any problems himself. He kills Vegeta and then fights and defeats Super Saiyan Goku, but is caught in Planet Namek's explosion. Frieza is found by King Cold and rebuilt as Mecha Frieza, he then heads to Earth, fights and is defeated by Future Trunks, but he and his army escape in their spaceship. Frieza returns when the world has been decimated by the Androids and uses his new power to kill Future Trunks and Goku. Frieza then takes their Dragon Balls and becomes the Immortal King of the Universe.

Another scenario in Supersonic Warriors 2 has Cooler sent by King Cold to assist Frieza on Namek. After several failed assassination attempts, Frieza goes to fight Cooler and his squad. After killing them, he claims the Big Gete Star as his own and uses it to help him rule the universe.

In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, in a two part what-if saga, "Raging Frieza" and "The True Ruler", Frieza becomes enraged when finding out his goal of wishing for eternal life with the Namekian Dragon Balls will not happen (as he does in the main timeline). Instead of fighting Vegeta, he first defeats Gohan. When Piccolo arrives, he fights Frieza but is defeated. Frieza then powers up to his final form and kills Vegeta with the Death Beam. When arriving and finding most of his friends killed, Goku's rage builds up and he transforms into a Super Saiyan. Frieza goes to his 100% full power and eventually kills Goku. He then sees Porunga and wishes for eternal life. After becoming immortal, Frieza proceeds to destroy Namek and then heads to Earth in order to blow it up.
 * Budokai

In Frieza's arcade mode in Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road, Frieza enters into the World Martial Arts Tournament. After he defeats all of his opponents, he tells the World Tournament Announcer that he is the ruler of the universe and that he is going to sell the planet, but the announcer believes that he is joking. Frieza threatens the announcer, but then decides not to bother and instead celebrates his victory in peace.

In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi, in the what-if saga "The Cosmic Emperor", Frieza manages to defeat Super Saiyan Goku, but is still unable to take gain eternal youth. Frieza eventually confronts Cooler and manages to defeat him. Then, Frieza goes on to take complete control of the universe, even killing Future Trunks, with Cooler as his elite right-hand man.
 * Budokai Tenkaichi series

In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, in the what-if saga "Beautiful Treachery", Zarbon learns about the wishing powers of the Dragon Balls and betrays Frieza: Zarbon informs Cooler in order to use him as a distraction against Frieza. Frieza and Cooler's forces go to war against each other, with Frieza (in his first form) and Cooler fighting each other head on. Frieza eventually senses Porunga's summoning and ceases fighting Cooler to check. Frieza proceeds to battle Zarbon and Goku before leaving to fight Cooler again. Frieza and Cooler begin fighting at maximum power, and end up destroying Namek.

Two what-if stories include Frieza in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3: "Galaxy Battle" and "Unexpected Help". "Galaxy Battle" is the third story Kibito Kai shows to Goku: Frieza did not plan on killing the Saiyans until around Age 762, and the Saiyans attack Frieza. After the Saiyans defeat most of his forces and King Vegeta defeats King Cold, Frieza in his first form personally arrives and defeats Bardock, before slaughtering both King Vegeta and Prince Vegeta. Bardock remains and uses up all of his energy to kill Frieza, but dies in the process. "Unexpected Help" is the final world that Kibito Kai shows to Goku: when Mecha Frieza and King Cold arrive on Earth and prepare to terrorize its people, they are confronted by Spike the Devil Man. Mecha Frieza fights Spike and is immune to all of the Devilman's attacks until Spike uses his Devilmite Beam, killing the tyrant due to the evil in his heart. Frieza's remaining soldiers and father follow soon after.

Frieza appears in several what-if scenarios in Battle of Z.
 * Battle of Z

If Frieza is used in the scenario "Revolting Soldiers", Frieza's army of 150 Frieza Soldiers will claim that they believe that Frieza will wipe them out like he did the Saiyans. Frieza tells them that this claim is ridiculous but proceeds to wipe out all 150 of them anyway due to their treachery.

Frieza also appears in the scenario "Spirit Bomb", in which he manages to finally get his wish to become invincible and immortal (also gaining the ability to create clones of himself). Frieza's clones battle Goku, Krillin, Gohan, and Piccolo while Frieza watches from atop a mountain. Upon the defeat of the clones, Frieza himself comes down and begins to dominate the Z Fighters in battle until Goku gathers energy from all over the universe into a Universal Spirit Bomb and blasts Frieza down into Namek's core.

Power
Frieza is one of the most powerful mortal warriors in Universe 7 and the multiverse as a whole. He was born a mutant with abnormally great power in comparison to the rest of his race. Even though the rest of his family are strong, Frieza has always been in a completely different league. The intensity of Frieza's power even at his weakest can effortlessly destroy entire planets. Upon hearing that Frieza was defeated, the God of Destruction Beerus was shocked that this was possible (by anyone besides himself). He is also recognized as a prodigy of such innate talent and natural growth that he became known as the most powerful warrior in the universe with no real training or proper fighting style. Even more, his mutant genes seem to let him grow in strength in a far shorter period of time than most. After training for the first time in his life; with only four months of training, he shattered his previous limitations and quickly adjusted to his newfound power, developing a state on the level of gods, a feat all the more impressive considering he did so with virtually no help.
 * Manga and Anime

In his First Form, Frieza killed King Vegeta with a single blow, and fatally pummeled Nail with a single hand. Once at his maximum power of 530,000, First Form Frieza was able to fend off the combined efforts of Vegeta, Gohan and Krillin despite their considerable growth in respective power. In his Second Form, Frieza calmly handled the trio with little effort and claimed his power level to be over 1,000,000. Only against Piccolo (recently trained by King Kai and merged with Nail) did Frieza fight seriously. Once outmatched, Frieza used his Third Form, quickly dominating Piccolo with a torturous onslaught and managed to repel Gohan's massive rage-charged blast. Frieza claims it would be easy for him to defeat Krillin, Gohan, Vegeta, and Piccolo in his Third Form, but transforms into his Final Form to fill them with fear.

In his Final Form, Frieza's suppressed power of a mere 1% was more than a match for the four fighters, they couldn't see his movements (except for Vegeta, who received a Saiyan Power boost) and proceeded to torture and kill Vegeta. Frieza met his first true challenge in Goku and fought on par with him despite his tremendous Saiyan Power increase. Once utilizing 50% of his full power, Frieza quickly dominated Goku, even overpowering his Kaio-ken x10, noting that even a third of his full power would easily handle Goku. Against Goku's Kaio-ken x20 assault, 50% was enough to disperse Goku's Kamehameha with a single hand, only sustaining minor burns. Frieza survived a Large Spirit Bomb, though it damaged his left eye and severed part of his tail. Once Goku obtained Super Saiyan, Frieza utilizes 100%, holding his own for a while against Goku, landing some blows, but he is ultimately outclassed.

One year after his defeat on Namek, he was restored with cybernetic parts that made him much stronger than before and Frieza is certain he could defeat Super Saiyan Goku. Iin the anime, King Kai notes that Frieza's Supernova is ten times stronger than the Death Ball he used to destroy Namek. Still, he was easily killed by Super Saiyan Future Trunks.

In Dragon Ball Super, after being revived and organically reconstituted, Frieza trains for four months. After unlocking much of his latent potential, Frieza's power increased dramatically, as Gohan openly felt that his full power could not defeat First Form Frieza. Frieza easily defeated Super Saiyan Gohan and killed Piccolo with a single shot. Merely powering-up into Final Form disintegrated nearly all his 1,000 soldiers. In this form, Frieza is strong enough to fight on par with Goku (who had reached the level of gods). Krillin and Gohan note that they could not see either Goku or Frieza's movements (while they had previously seen Super Saiyan God Goku and suppressed Beerus' movements). Against Goku's Super Saiyan Blue, Frieza transforms into Golden Frieza and although the two initially seem on par with each other, Frieza soon proves to be stronger. At full power, Frieza says he could probably kill Super Saiyan Blue Goku in an instant if he was serious. However, Frieza tires rapidly, having not adjusted to his new form, until eventually his blows become ineffective. Upon returning to his normal form, despite his exhaustion, Frieza instantly destroyed the Earth.

In the Universe Survival Saga, despite being immobilized for over a year since entering hell, Frieza's control of his ki grew through constant image training. This newfound refined control let Frieza use the form for extended periods of time with virtually no strain. In the anime, this growth let him remain unaffected by the Energy of Destruction and ultimately take control of it. At this point, Ro noted that Frieza was more of a God of Destruction than Sidra and doubted that the latter could destroy Frieza. Later, Golden Frieza and Super Saiyan Blue Goku were both knocked out with a simultaneously blow to each other, with Whis noting that the two were equal in power. In the manga, Goku and Frieza battle each other ending with both equally beaten up. Based on this fight, Goku is unsure of who would win between Vegeta and Frieza. However, Frieza acknowledges that he is still weaker than Beerus.

During the Tournament of Power, Final Form Frieza eliminated several fighters. In the anime, Frieza easily defeated the likes of Catopesra, Napapa, Murichim (Universe 10's presumed ace fighter) and Jimizu, as well as causing Roselle to purposefully ring out to avoid Frieza's torture and eliminating Frost in his 100% Power form with a single ki blast, although Frost had his guard down. In an attempt to defeat Frieza, Cabba turned Super Saiyan 2 and attacked with a Galick Cannon; however, it was revealed Frieza had taken no damage and had transformed into Golden Frieza. At this point, Cabba was no match for the tyrant and knocked him out of the arena with a ki blast.

When Goku began struggling against the team assault of Super Saiyan 2 Caulifla and Super Saiyan 2 Kale, despite their combined massive might and perfectly synchronized combos, Frieza saw them simply as entertainment, and when Super Saiyan 2 Caulifla prepared a Crush Cannon to fire at Frieza, Frieza opted to stay in his final form and prepared a Death Ball to clash with Caulifla - however, Goku insisted to finish the fight himself.

Against Agnilasa, the combined machine went after Frieza over Super Saiyan God Goku due to believing him to be weaker. Together with the remaining members of Team Universe 7, Frieza engaged in a beam struggle with Agnilasa as Golden Frieza but still were almost overwhelmed. It was only when Android 17 damaged Agnilasa's energy reactor that Frieza and his teammates were able to knock Agnilasa out of the arena.

In the manga, Final Form Frieza easily caught Lavender and Basil off guard to eliminate them. Frieza overwhelms base Caulifla and despite becoming a Super Saiyan, Frieza overpowers her by simply hurling stone slabs at her. After Caulifla catches Frieza off-guard, the tyrant uses his Golden form and easily makes sport of her, even with help from base Kale and Super Saiyan Cabba. When Kale transforms into a Legendary Super Saiyan, Frieza lets his guard down and is beaten down senselessly - believing it is an ordinary Super Saiyan form which he can easily handle. However despite this he insists to Goku that he would be more than enough to handle Kale once he got serious.

In the anime, Frieza was able to match Dyspo in combat and keep up with his speed. Once he transformed into Golden Frieza, Frieza was able to easily overpower Dyspo, with Khai noting that Frieza is faster than Dyspo. However, once Dyspo activated his Super Maximum Light Speed Mode, his speed is formidable enough that he pushes Frieza to the edge of the stage. However after working with Gohan, the two are able to find a way to eliminate him.

While Top is in a beam struggle with Android 17, Frieza sneaks behind him and attacks him with a barrage of Death Beams. The Death Beams injure Top, however, once Top assumes his Destroyer Form, Frieza is pummeled and barely saved from elimination thanks to Android 17's quick thinking. Frieza recovers quickly and manages to briefly paralyze Top with his psychic powers and proceeds to use a number of different attacks, yet unfortunately, they are ineffective, and Top proceeds to break free from the paralysis. Frieza is then hit by an attack from Jiren, yet he remained conscious and later attacked the mighty Pride Trooper but even after becoming Golden Frieza, he was easily defeated by Jiren.

After Jiren is weakened from fighting Ultra Instinct Goku, the exhausted Golden Frieza was able to initially fight evenly with the foe and gained an advantage using his psychic powers. Jiren however, gets a second wind thanks to Top and soon turns the tables of the fight. Working alongside Goku, he and Frieza showed remarkable synergy together, able to fight on par with Jiren. With the additional help from Android 17, the arch-enemies were able to push Jiren on the defensive, ultimately allowing Goku and Frieza's finisher to eliminate the foe by dragging him down with them.

In the manga, Frieza was able to easily overwhelm the exhausted Top. After Jiren powered up and easily defeated Vegeta's evolved Super Saiyan Blue, Golden Frieza was confident that even without using his full power he could buy enough time against Jiren to win. However in the end he proved to be outmatched and required Android 17's assistance.

In the Super 17 Saga of Dragon Ball GT, Frieza and Cell are stated to have powered up after training in Hell for many years, and confidently challenge Goku, even after having witnessed him fight an opponent such as Kid Buu. It should also be noted that he and Cell were tasked with dealing with Goku, implying they are more powerful than the villains up to that point who occupied Hell who instead went to Earth, including foes like General Rilldo. Ultimately however, Goku is able to outmaneuver them with his child form's base power.

In the Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans OVAs, Ghost Frieza is able to put a fight against Super Saiyan Future Trunks and Super Saiyan Vegeta, thanks to the power boost he got from Dr. Raichi. In Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, Final Form Frieza appears as the leader of the villains who have escaped Hell; however, base form Gohan defeated Frieza in one blow.
 * Films

In Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D, his power level is greatly augmented to 5,300,000,000 in his true form. He was able to dominate base form Goku, and when he transformed into a Super Saiyan, Frieza, still in his final form easily overwhelmed Goku without a scratch, leaving him barely able to move following their Kamehameha vs. Death Ball clash. When Super Saiyan Vegeta, Piccolo, and Krillin joined the battle, he was able to easily blast them away, only to be killed when Goku created a massive Spirit Bomb.

"Holy crap! That's incredible! Just what kind of training did he do?!"

- Goku amazed by Frieza's power when entering his fourth form on Earth

In Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, upon being revived and regenerated into his fully organic first form, Frieza notes that his power is rusty due to years trapped in Earth's Hell. After training for four months, his power easily surpasses the Z Fighters in his first form and was able to place Gohan into a near-death state with a single blow. Once unleashing the full power of his true form he was capable of fighting Goku in his God-like Saiyan state, but is inevitably outclassed. He also speculated that four months of training could have him reach a power level of 1.3 million, although it was unclear whether that was referring to his overall power level (which had been 120 million during the events of the Namek Saga) or specifically to the power level in his first form.

As Golden Frieza, the tyrant outclasses both Goku and Vegeta in their Super Saiyan Blue forms, even using his full power, being so strong that one of his suppressed attacks was able to knock Goku back without actually hitting him. Even after Golden Frieza's power and stamina dropped dramatically, due to not having adjusted to his new form, he still fought on par with Goku - though Goku could now damage him - until finally Frieza's power dropped enough that he unfazed Goku even with a direct energy punch to the face. After Frieza regresses to his Final Form, he still retained enough power to near-instantly destroy Earth. Even more, as revealed by Whis, Frieza was able to survive the explosion.

In Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Frieza has grown more powerful. Vegeta even feared that Frieza may train and come back one day with a power stronger than his golden state. Against Super Saiyan Broly, in his final form, Frieza was beaten instantly. Frieza was confident in fighting Super Saiyan Broly as Golden Frieza and his resulting transformation forced Broly backwards. However, Golden Frieza's power was still inferior to Broly's newly gained power, while he was on the losing side the whole fight, in the novel it was stated that the punches that Frieza landed were able to stagger Broly, and full power blows were able to force Broly to dodge. Frieza managed to survive Broly's wrath for an entire hour.

It is said that from the moment he was born, Frieza was already more powerful than King Cold.
 * Statements by authors and guidebooks

In his true form on Namek, Frieza has a power level of 120,000,000 at 100% of full power according to Daizenshuu 7 and several video games. The World of Dragon Ball Z states that Goku and Frieza were equal but the power output of 100% drained Frieza rapidly, which lead to his defeat. The movie pamphlet for Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might states that Frieza has a power level of 85,000 in his first form. Daizenshuu 2 states that Frieza's dormant power in his final form is "immeasurable". At the same time, Akira Toriyama stated in Dragon Ball Volume ‘F’ that even Frieza is no match for Beerus, no matter what he does. The website for Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ states that after his training Frieza is "infinitely stronger" than he was on Namek.

An advertisement for Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D has Frieza state that his power level in The Real 4-D is 5,300,000,000.

The January 2017 V-Jump article on the rivals appearing in Dragon Ball Super noted that Golden Frieza's strength surpasses Super Saiyan Blue, it also ranks Golden Frieza as an 8/12 on the danger scale.

Prior to Goku achieving Ultra Instinct Sign, Frieza and Goku were tied for the No. 1 spot on Team Universe 7 in terms of power.

By the time of Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Frieza has grown in power in his quest to reach the top - but is still not as strong as Beerus.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 describes 100% Power Frieza and Super Saiyan Goku as being equal in speed and strength during their final battle on Namek.
 * Video Games

In the Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, Ghost Frieza and Ghost Cooler together are able to hold their own against the Z Fighters, but are ultimately defeated. When Ghost Frieza is later fought again on Planet Kuhn, he has further powered-up into Psycho Frieza and is able to hold his own against the entire Z Fighter team at their strongest, but is still defeated in the end.

In the story of Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, (which takes place two years after Buu's defeat) Frieza is able to tire out Super Saiyan Gohan using his Fourth Form only in his base power, Piccolo and Gohan also reference him as being more powerful than Super Buu. Frieza at full power defeats Legendary Super Saiyan Broly behind the scenes (Legendary Super Saiyan Broly was later shown to give Super Saiyan 3 Goku trouble, meaning that at full power Frieza had seemingly equalled Super Saiyan 3 Goku in power), and is shown to be stronger than Super Gotenks (with Pikkon also referencing him to be stronger than Cooler, Cell, and the aforementioned Broly). Later on in the story, Frieza absorbs large quantities of evil energy, making him far stronger than anyone else on the planet. He uses his evil energy in order to vastly power himself up, giving himself unlimited energy; when this happens, he briefly reclaims his title of strongest in the universe until he loses power due to a large excess of positive energy built up by Krillin and Android 18.

In Dragon Ball Xenoverse, during the Frieza Saga, Frieza is given a dark power up by the Time Breakers. At 100% power in Fourth Form he is strong enough to fight both the Future Warrior and Super Saiyan Goku at the same time, and even then, in the end Super Saiyan Goku needs to utilize a second Spirit Bomb during their battle. When Frieza returns possessed by Demon God Demigra (four years after the battle with Buu), he - together with the powered-up Cell and Buu - are able to briefly hold their own against the Future Warrior and Goku (who possesses unmastered god power), however they are beaten.

In Xenoverse 2, during the Resurrection 'F' Saga, Elder Kai tells Xeno Trunks that he'll be sorry if he thinks that he can defeat him again with a single swing of a blade. Later 1st Form Frieza is powered up by Towa's dark magic and can take on the 2nd Future Warrior. He powers up into his Golden Form, and with the sudden appearance of Meta Cooler, together they were able to hold their own against Goku, Vegeta (both of whom were in their Super Saiyan Blue forms), and the 2nd Future Warrior simultaneously. In their rematch after the Future Warrior stops Frieza from blowing up the Earth, Golden Frieza and Meta Cooler further power-up into their Supervillain forms and combat them a second time, however the two brothers were defeated again (this time for good).

Golden Frieza is said to have unmatched power in promo material for Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2. In the opening for Ultimate Mission 5, Golden Frieza is shown deflecting a ki blast from Jiren.

In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Frieza's power hasn't improved much from his last resurrection. With his power (along with everyone else's) being suppressed by Dr. Gero's suppression waves while still capable of handling the likes of Cell and competing against Goku and Vegeta, Frieza however on his own was slaughtered by Android 21.

Abilities

 * -|Techniques=


 * Death Beam

The Death Beam is a piercing beam of energy fired from the finger, it is Frieza's signature and most heavily used technique. If the technique is not able to pierce a target it instead creates a huge city sized explosion. To perform the technique, the user extends his right arm and fires a small, thin, very fast and concentrated laser-like beam of ki from his index finger, which barrels down and pierces through the opponent. The user is able to fire the attack very quickly, while maintaining precise aim. The technique has a faster but weaker variant, and a larger and more powerful rapid fire variant. After perfecting ki control, Frieza develop seeking Death Beams that would go on even after piercing a target and seek out more targets.


 * Death Ball

The Death Ball is Frieza's ultimate attack and is usually used as a last resort in battle or as a planet destroying method. The technique is normally a ball of energy charged on the finger and then thrown at the target, though after his revival Frieza displays a more powerful version charged with his whole hand.


 * Death Cannon

The Death Cannon is Frieza's primary Full Power Energy Wave technique. It is a high powered blast of energy and has different variants depending on the form Frieza is utilizing. A version of it that uses up most of Frieza's energy is a last resort technique of the tyrant.


 * Nova Strike

An attack where Frieza wraps himself in energy and flies straight at his foe to tackle them. Used against Goku on Namek, and also to eliminate Jiren during the Tournament of Power.


 * Death Saucer

After witnessing Krillin's Destructo Disc, Frieza quickly created his own upgraded version named the Death Saucer. This technique is the same as the Destructo Disc, however it is much faster and it homes in on its target, following them even if it initially misses. Frieza can also manually control the Death Saucers.

While most beings in the Dragon Ball franchise usually transform to increase their power, Frieza's power is naturally so great that his base/original form struggles to properly control it, and so Frieza developed series of physical transformations to instead limit his actual strength. He originally had four forms, with his fourth being his true form and first three designed to restrict and conceal his power from his enemies. Frieza says even upon transforming to his second form has a hard time controlling himself due to the immensity of his current strength. That would suggest that the second and third forms are mere physical augmentations that allow Frieza to build enough strength to revert to his true form. This also serves to torment his opponents by giving them a false sense of hope. Transforming to a new form appears to fully rejuvenate him and even repair any damage sustained in previous forms. His fourth form even appears to regenerate any previously lost anatomy as his severed tail in his Second Form was completely restored once entering his Fourth Form.
 * -|Transformations=

Years after he was killed by Future Trunks, through a 4-month period of intense training, Frieza became able to instantly transform from his first form straight to his true form. To which, he obtained proper control of his true form's power, allowing him to access it unhindered. He also attained a new transformation which greatly increased his power instead.


 * First Form

In his First Form, Frieza is at his shortest, child-like in statue and likewise youthful face. He has a large chestnut-shaped skull with two straight horns that protrude at near 45 degree angles. He also has a tail with a spiked end, which is relatively thick in width, as well as having three talon-like possible toes for feet.

When Frieza was a child his first form appeared different, being much pinker, lacking lines on his arms and legs and not possessing shoulder pads.

In his First Form he has purple sections on his head, shoulders, and abdomen. He has pink parts with lines appear on his arms, legs, and cheeks as well as his lilac skin on his face, feet, and hands. He has wristbands and ankle bands with brown sections with lines on the front. He also has a white natural armor covering his chest and shoulders. He has red eye pupils and large dark red lips. He wears a standard armor of his army, consisting of a purple body suit with yellow shoulder guards. He also appears to wear black shorts. He also occasionally wears a red scouter.


 * Second Form

His Second Form is similar in appearance to his father, King Cold. It overall appears as more-mature version to the First Form. In it, he grows to reaching height towering over Piccolo and his muscle mass grows equally larger sporting a bulkier and more-defined built. His face also has a more angled jaw-line and sharper nose while his horns grow longer and curve sharply upwards into near right angles. His voice grows noticeably deeper, further giving the illusion of being more mature. His armor cannot contain his form and shatters, leaving his body fully exposed.

In Dragon Ball Super: Broly, when Frieza reveals he plans to use the Earth Dragon Balls to increase his height, Kikono points out he can make himself taller by reverting to his Second Form which is revealed to be Frieza's tallest form, though Frieza angrily rejects the suggestion, reveals he wishes to be 5cm taller in his True and Golden forms.


 * Third Form

Frieza's Third Form is the most brutish and imposing of them all, with an extremely elongated skull. His facial features contort and change, with his nose melding into his mouth to form a crude beak. His original horns recede and are now white in color, erupting in pairs along the length of his head. Two pairs of spikes grow out of his back and curve upward, and the armor on his shoulders fling themselves outward like shoulder pads. He stands upright with a slight hunch, giving a more feral demeanor to him. Frieza stated that no one had ever seen this form before. It's unknown what the exact increase of power in this form is, but he is able to completely dominate the Nail-merged Piccolo, who previously overwhelmed Frieza's second form. In the original Funimation dub, Frieza's voice becomes a synchronized duo of his first and second forms' respective voices. This effect was removed in the remastered version, making this form sound like his second form.

This form is also referred to as Super Frieza (超フリーザ). It is the form that Frieza was born in, thus being his "true" or "base" form. This is the form that allows him to reach his full potential. Drastically differing from his previous transformations, in his Fourth Form, Frieza instead regresses, with his former form cracking and shattering like a shell, becoming a sleek and only somewhat taller than his first form and his voice becoming higher-pitched again. He overall appears as a white lizard-like, almost harmless-looking creature; his horns and spikes disappear and his physique becomes streamlined. His skin becomes pure, solid-white with purple sections on his head, shoulders, forearms, abdomen and shins with the lines on his cheeks remained intact. His arms, legs, cheeks, and tail is longer and white the lilac skin on his face, neck, hands, and feet. At only a mere 1% of this form's true power, he is noted to dwarf the power shown from his previous forms.
 * Final Form

Because of his initial difficulty controlling his true power, Frieza's body is strained when unleashing too much power. As such, he would normally refrain from using this form, and even then would rely on only a small fraction of his true power. Once unleashing his true power, he proved able to hold his own against Super Saiyan Goku for a period. By the time of his second invasion of Earth, Frieza trained for four months to draw out an extraordinary amount of his latent potential. In addition to vastly increasing in power compared to his fight on Planet Namek and gaining complete control of his final form capacities, he can with no apparent problems maintain this form for as long as he desires and even access the full force of this form power for extended periods just as calmly. Even more, his mastery allows him to access this form immediately. This mastered state of Frieza's Final Form has been referred to as Full Power.

Since his second death and revival by Whis following the Tournament of Power, Frieza remains in his True Form when not using his Golden Form, having stopped using his lower forms as his newfound mastery of ki control thanks to his Image Training in Earth's Hell means he really no longer requires said forms for power suppression.

In Broly, Frieza reveals he plans to use the Earth Dragon Balls to wish to make his True Form 5cm taller (which would also effect his True Golden Frieza form) as anymore would be too noticable as he wants others to think it was the result of natural growth.


 * 100% Full Power

Originally, to access his full power, his body becomes noticeably affected by it. Once charging himself to at least 85% strength, the strain of containing this untamed and immense power causes his muscle mass to greatly increase. At 100%, his body becomes broader and his built engorged compared to his previously sleek frame. This also causes his body to grow noticeably taller, nearly equal to Goku in height. With his power pushed to the absolute limit, giving him strength and durability far greater than normal, he was able to fight nearly on par with Super Saiyan Goku during their final confrontation on Planet Namek. Despite his hulking frame in this state, he shows no apparent decrease in his endurance, speed, or agility. However, due to the strain on his body, he cannot maintain the maximum capacity of it for long, slowly weakening.

During the Tournament of Power, Frieza showed that even after massively increasing the might of his Final Form and fully mastering it, Frieza can still charge and focus his energy into pure might by bulking up his muscles if he wishes, further increasing his power well-beyond his normal limits. He is shown able to instantly obtain this state and to do so with no visible exhaustion or strain from doing so. This implies his control of this state has been refined to reduce the rate of stamina decline. However, he notes that it will still only be useful for a short period and best used early in the fight due to the strain still depleting his stamina faster than in his normal state.

Frieza's 100% Power form is a temporary power-up in Supersonic Warriors that can be used by Frieza in any of his states: Final form (LV1), Mecha form (LV2), and Immortal Final form (LV3). In its sequel, Supersonic Warriors 2, Frieza can use his full power through the technique named 100% Activation which, like in the previous game, does not increase his muscles but instead gives him a white and purple aura. In the story mode of Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, Frieza can control his 100% power form while in Hell, being able to use this state without the risk of losing any stamina, making him able to stay in the form for as long as he wishes.


 * Mecha Frieza

Mecha Frieza (メカフリーザ), also referred to as Powered-Up Form in the manga, is Frieza rebuilt with cybernetic enhancements by scientists after what remained of the still-living Frieza was salvaged after being physically ruined while caught in Planet Namek's explosion. The whole of the lower half of his body, entire left arm, and right side of his face was replaced with scarring and metal accouterments covering what little was left of his organic self. These enhancements allowed him to exceed the limits imposed by his fully organic form, though by how much or in what way is unknown. It also was capable of generating bio-electricity, as red electrical bolts were seen emanating from him upon arrival at Earth. In the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z Kai, this form has a slight mechanical sound to his voice. Despite being outfitted with cybernetics, he is still susceptible to ki-sense unlike the Red Ribbon Army-created cyborgs/androids. In the anime it is said by King Kai that Mecha Frieza's Supernova is ten times stronger than the Death Ball Frieza used to destroy Namek.

Upon Future Trunks killing him, lacking a physical body, Frieza's spirit remains with the appearance of Mecha Frieza during his time in Hell until his resurrection in Resurrection ‘F’. Upon his revival, he is still Mecha Frieza (in pieces), however he is soon regenerated, regaining his full organic body.

In Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors, Frieza obtains a cybernetic suit of armor that he places over his injuries after defeating Goku and which is his level two state in the game; while wearing the armor his appearance is identical to Mecha Frieza's but he is strong enough to defeat the Super Saiyans and Red Ribbon Androids. In Dragon Ball Z 2 V, when Frieza is in his alternate Cooler costume, Mecha Frieza is replaced with Meta-Cooler.


 * Golden Frieza

During his training for a rematch against Goku, Frieza obtained this Ultimate Evolution, becoming Golden Frieza. Frieza implied that he deliberately developed the form to take on its appearance. While similar in appearance to his base form, his skin turns dark purple, gains pronounced eye ridges, and is encased in a biological armor covering all but his face, hands, and feet. It is glimmering gold in color but with a darker covering his arms and midsection down. He retains his purple plates but loses the ones on his shoulders and the ones on his forearms and shins become oval-shaped. He also grows noticeably taller and likewise gains a similar increase in muscle mass. His aura also becomes a blaze of fire-like orange.

Unlike his first three forms, this one increases his power beyond his Final Form. The increase in power is so great that Vegeta was initially too fearful to face him, with his power being massively superior to Super Saiyan Blue Goku even while holding back in an attempt to torture Goku. The form gained open acknowledgement by even God of Destruction Beerus and his attendant Whis from Frieza's tremendous growth in power, and in the anime Goku notes that if Frieza were to fight seriously he could potentially kill Goku in an instant.

Originally, despite the immense increase of power, Frieza's lack of preparation due to impatiently wanting revenge originally left the form incomplete and with a crippling flaw. After only a few minutes of usage, the intense energy this form generates burns through Frieza's to draining him of large amounts of stamina, affecting his performance in battle before ultimately reverting to his fourth form. In the anime, Frieza also displays the ability to hold back and control his power to an extent, allowing him to last somewhat longer.

Later, acknowledging that the key flaw of his Golden form was an extreme disadvantage, Frieza spent his time trapped in Hell continuing his training through constant image training; he endured the constant annoyances he was subjected to and learned to completely refine his energy control despite being bound the entire time, focusing endlessly on his goal of killing Goku and how he would do it. This ultimately allowed him to master the Golden Frieza transformation and proportionately further increasing his power. In the anime he dubbed his mastered state the "True Golden Frieza". With his newfound mastery of energy manipulation, he boasts that he could maintain steadiness able to leave water unstirred while simultaneously able to unleash his power with the highest intensity. His refined control can launch beams from each finger and able to precisely control their different paths to essentially follow a target. His control reached such a level in this form that he could resist an unrefined attack from disintegrating energy of a Destroyer and even overpower it and control it as his own, although with some difficulty. By the time of Broly, Frieza was able to fight as Golden Frieza for an hour.


 * Rage Mode Golden Frieza

Rage Golden Frieza is an empowered state of Golden Frieza. This form is a result of Golden Frieza becoming extremely angry and instinctually channeling that emotional energy into further raw might, drastically increasing his power. In this state Golden Frieza's eyes become bloodshot, and the veins on his skin bulge out - signifying his anger and power increase. As a result of the power up his body also begins to glow and the golden armor he possesses gains a greater shine.

However, this power boost will only last long enough to be of any use provided he still has enough natural stamina. This was seen in Resurrection ‘F’ as Frieza briefly powers up in anger when he is overpowered by Goku's, roaring in anger and glowing brightly as he powers up - causing the sea to rise, only for him to quickly afterwards collapses to his hands and knees.

Frieza's hypothetical final form, is a form imagined by Krillin when Frieza announces he will transform into his actual fourth form in the manga and anime series. The form also appears as a technique for Frieza and other characters in the Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game. Overall, it appears similar to his third form with two additional horns near the front, razor-sharp jaws, and a long purple tongue. Also, in the manga, the form's shoulders are sharpened.
 * Hypothetical Final Form

Full Armor Mecha Frieza appears in Super Dragon Ball Z, this form is a stronger version of Mecha Frieza (called Cyborg Frieza in-game): this form has a rocket launcher mounted on his shoulder, the ammunition for which are stored behind his other shoulder, he has a belt of explosives around his waist, and his tail is upgraded with additional armor and sharp blades.
 * Full Armor Mecha Frieza


 * Ghost Warrior forms

In Dragon Ball Z Gaiden: Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku Frieza is given an altered form as a Ghost Warrior: Psycho Frieza.


 * Majin Frieza

Frieza appears in this form in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2. Frieza's power increases greatly in this form, to the point of being able to fight Super Saiyan 2 Goku. In the story mode, he and Cell are revived and turned into Majins by Babidi. However, they are once again beaten by Goku and the other Z Fighters. When Majin Buu kills Babidi, Frieza and Cell turn back to their old selves and do not remember anything of being controlled by Babidi. After that, they are beaten and absorbed by Super Buu, and sent back to Hell when Super Buu is defeated. Majin Frieza is also a starter character in Dragon Ball Z 2 V. His appearance while under Babidi's control also differs in that he bears the Majin mark on his forehead.


 * Frieza (Evil Energy absorbed)

In Shin Budokai, Frieza absorbs and begins generating evil energy in order to power himself up. The presence of evil energy inside him causes him to start to become Janemba, and bulks up his muscles to the size that they are usually at when he is using his Full Power. Frieza attempts to destroy the planet, but is beaten by Krillin and Android 18 after their positive energy weaken him, and he is sent to Hell. While in Hell, it is implied that Frieza may have been fully transformed into Janemba by the evil energy he generated.


 * Fourth Transformation

In Cooler's ending of the New World Tournament in Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road, Frieza achieves the Fourth Transformation at some point after his match with Cooler, though he is not shown in the form on-screen: after Frieza congratulates Cooler on winning the tournament, Cooler decides that he and Frieza will destroy the Saiyans with their power and he wants to have another battle with his brother to show the universe their family's true power. The two then transform (though only Cooler is shown), and attack Goku and Vegeta.

In Dragon Ball Fusions, the resulting fusion of Frieza and Final Form Cooler: Coolieza, has the appearance of Frieza in Cooler's fourth transformation. In Dragon Ball FighterZ final form Cooler has a Frieza alternate coloration.


 * Villanous Mode

During the finale of Xenoverse Demigra resurrects Frieza and possess him, while possessed Frieza uses his 100% Full Power, his body turns purplish, his eyes go pure red, and he gains the two black lines that go from the bottom of his eyes to the bottom of his head.


 * Xeno-Evolution

In Xenoverse 2, Frieza shaves off some of his life to achieve a greater level of power to further transform into a merger of his Golden Frieza state and the Supervillain state. In this form his skin once golden bio-suit becomes platinum in color, his eyes glow dark pink and he gains the Time Breaker's broken infinity on his forehead.

Frieza's power increases massively when he takes on this form, as despite having already been drained of most of his energy and power from fighting as Golden Frieza previously, his transformation into this form puts him at a level where he is capable of fighting against Goku and Vegeta in their Super Saiyan Blue forms - despite having already lost most of his power. Due to the circumstances, it is unknown what the true strength of Frieza in this form is (although it's believed that he's far stronger than the regular Ultimate Evolution).

Frieza achieves this form during the Dark Demon Realm Saga by Xeno-Evolving.


 * Fused with Dark Dragon Ball

In the Dragon Ball Super Card Game, Frieza can transform into Xeno Frieza by merging with the One-Star Dark Dragon Ball.


 * Pure Gold Frieza

Pure Gold Frieza is a merchandise-only joke form that is the result of Frieza "over-training" causing him to gain an Ultimate Evolution-like state that is pure gold in appearance.

Frieza attains this form at some point during Dragon Ball GT as shown during the Dragon Ball GT live show. Frieza uses this form and easily defeats Trunks, however Frieza and Cell are actually looking for Goku, so Pan and Trunks fool them into thinking Goku is coming and while they are distracted they flee. Frieza and Cell then head to search for Goku.
 * Powered Up Form


 * -|Fusions=
 * Ultimate Ultra Fusion

The strongest fused warrior, resulting from Frieza and Cell manipulating Pinich into performing Five-Way Fusion with them, along with his teammates Wanta and Piprika. Frieza and Cell are the ones who retains control of the fusion and use it to kill Goku and destroy the planet, however their plans are thwarted by Whis who rewinds time, and then Beerus, who reflects his attack away. Ultimate Ultra Fusion then fights Tekka's team in both his Super Saiyan and Golden Great Ape forms, but is defeated.


 * Cellza

After the defeat of Ultimate Ultra Fusion, Frieza and Cell use EX-Fusion to fuse into Cellza as a last resort against Tekka and Pinich, however the two also use EX-Fusion and manage to defeat Cellza in the final battle.


 * Coolieza

In Dragon Ball Fusions, Frieza is able to use EX-Fusion with his brother Cooler to create Coolieza, Coolieza takes on the appearance of Frieza in Cooler's Final Form transformation.


 * Ginyuza

In Dragon Ball Fusions Frieza is able to use EX-Fusion with Captain Ginyu to create Ginyuza, this take on the appearance of Captain Ginyu with white skin and purple horns. His description reveals that Frieza didn't want to fuse with Ginyu but Ginyu ultimately got to fulfill his dream of fusing with Frieza.


 * -|Equipment=
 * Frieza's Spaceship

The large ship designed by Kikono and utilized by Frieza and his men for interplanetary travel. Frieza has had three ships over the course of his life with his first ship being the one he used during the Genocide of the Saiyans up until it was destroyed during the Battle on Planet Namek when Namek exploded. The second originally belonged to Sorbet and was used during Frieza's Revenge though in the anime after Goku kills Frieza, Jaco confiscates it and delivers it to the Galactic Patrol. After his second revival, Frieza acquires he current spaceship which appears in Broly.


 * Frieza's Hover Pod

A floating, egg-shaped vehicle used by Frieza as a means of transportation. Even though he is extraordinarily powerful and perfectly capable of walking and flying, Frieza (in his first form) seems to prefer using the hover pod as a means of getting around, even inside his own spaceship. The reason for this is unknown, although it is possible he sees it as a status symbol.

After his second resurrection by Whis, Frieza is shown to occasionally ride inside his hover pod while in his True Form such as when he announces his return in the Dragon Ball Super anime and in Broly.


 * Scouter

For most of his life, Frieza lacked the ability to naturally sense ki and relied heavily on Scouters to detect ki. Frieza wears a scouter just before attacking Planet Vegeta and takes it off in order to fire his Eye Lasers at King Vegeta's brigade. Frieza's scouter on Namek was a newer model of the same color that was personally given to him by the Ginyu Force. Frieza uses this scouter to find Guru's home. When Frieza personally fights Nail, his scouter measures the lone Namekian's power level (42,000), which somewhat impresses the emperor. After having severely beaten up Nail, Frieza uses his scouter to contact the Ginyu Force, only to find out they are all defeated. While fighting against Vegeta, Gohan, Krillin and Dende, Frieza uses his scouter to measure Vegeta's power, ending the conflict when Frieza's scouter blows up due to Vegeta's power now rivaling his own, apparently, much to Frieza's disbelief. Frieza's newer model appears under the name New Model Scouter (Red) in the Xenoverse series.


 * King Cold's Spaceship

A large spaceship owned by his father King Cold, which Frieza uses when he first visits Planet Vegeta with his father in Broly. The ship later recovers Frieza after his battle on Planet Namek and is used by Mecha Frieza and King Cold to invade Earth. However it is destroyed during their fatal conflict with Future Trunks.


 * Rocket Launcher

A weapon which can launch missiles, grenades, as well as mines. It is mounted on Cyborg Frieza's right shoulder in Super Dragon Ball Z, with his left shoulder holding the ammunitions.

Cyborg Frieza fires an explosive from the cybernetic part on his shoulder. Used in Super Dragon Ball Z.
 * Crack Bomb


 * Grenades

Cyborg Frieza utilizes power grenades which he keeps attached to his waist in Super Dragon Ball Z.


 * Metamo-Ring

A device invented by Bulma and produced by the Capsule Corporation in the Timespace Rift that allows two people wearing one to fuse for as long as they wish and can defuse at will by removing the single Metamo-Ring created when the two Metamo-Rings fuse along with the two fusee.


 * Fruit of the Tree of Might

The divine fruit of the Tree of Might that requires the energy of an entire planet to produce and can increase the power of anyone that consumes it though is normally reserved for deities. In Dragon Ball Legends, Frieza acquires some fruit during his conflict with Turles.


 * Big Gete Star

In Supersonic Warriors 2, Frieza and his father take control of the Big Gete Star and its technology after eliminating Frieza's traitorous brother in one of Frieza's What-if scenarios.

Dragon Ball GT (1997 live show)
Frieza and Cell (with new forms) appear as the final villains of the live GT show, Frieza easily defeats Trunks as Cell watches on. However the two are actually looking for Goku, so Pan and Trunks trick them into thinking Goku is coming so that they can flee. Frieza and Cell then resume their search for Goku.

Kyutai Panic Adventure!
Frieza appears when the tourists reach the Fuji TV orb section. He blasts the orb and throws it into the ocean. Goku, Krillin, and Gohan appear and lift the orb but Frieza attempts to destroy it with a Death Beam. Goku blocks the attack and then transforms into a Super Saiyan to battle Max Power Frieza.

Kochikame
Frieza makes some appearances in other mangas that are made for special events, like a special chapter made for the 30th anniversary of KochiKame. Frieza is waiting with Appule on Namek for the three other Dragon Balls to be found, when Kankichi Ryotsu comes and says that Frieza cannot park his spaceship there. Frieza uses a Death Beam to kill Kankichi but, to their surprise, he is still alive. Kankichi yells that they have to pay the fine and Frieza attacks with an energy wave, which also fails to hurt Kankichi. When Kankichi Ryotsu pulls a Rocket Launcher out of the air, Appule says that there is no doubt and that Kankichi Ryotsu is a gag manga character. Frieza says he does not care because he is the strongest being in the universe and he fires blasts at Kankichi until he is tired. When even this fails Kankichi Ryutsu, Frieza leaves in his spaceship with Appule, and says that nothing happened.

In J-Stars Victory Vs, a special intro occurs between them that references this moment, where Frieza immediately recognizes Kankichi and will not him off easy. Kankichi himself on the other hand rebukes the emperor and merely brings back up the topic of Frieza still needing to pay the fine (and owing Kankichi sushi).

Other
Frieza has made numerous appearances in other media. He has appeared in Japanese commercials, notably for the video game Super Gokuden: Kakusei-Hen.

On March 25, 2006, on Fuji TV, Frieza and Goku appeared in the segment IQ Mirror Mistake 7 (ＩＱミラーまちがい７, Aikyuu Miraa Machigai Nana) in the game show IQ Supplement (ＩＱサプリ). In this segment, 7 mistakes can be found throughout a short animation made specifically for the show. In the scene, Frieza has gathered all seven Dragon Balls and is about to summon forth the Namekian dragon, when Goku suddenly appears. Goku vows to stop him, but Frieza has other plans. Frieza rapidly transforms to his final form, while Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan. The two fly across the face of Namek, exchanging blows with neither backing down. Frieza prepares and fires a "Destroy The Planet!" Death Ball at Goku, but the Saiyan counters it with a Super Kamehameha. The two waves collide, but the Super Kamehameha is too much for Frieza to handle. On April 7, 2007, IQ Mirror Mistake 7 was re-aired during Fuji TV's historical special Nippon Ijin Taishō · Saikyō no Ijin wa Dare? (日本偉人大賞・最強の偉人は誰？; lit. "Japan's Great Awards - Who is the Strongest Hero?"), which also featured a special segment in which Goku and the World Tournament Announcer appear. IQ Mirror Mistake 7 was also shown by Ryūsei Nakao (Frieza's Japanese voice) at Animazement 2008.

The Japanese nu metal/punk band Maximum the Hormone released 「F」 as part of an A-side of a music single on July 9, 2008. The entirety of the song references Frieza and his character's arc, with the single itself rising as high as number two on the Oricon music chart. Akira Toriyama later credited the song for inspiring both the concept and title of the film Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’. As a result, the song was featured in both a promotional trailer and in the film itself as an insert song.

A commercial for "Kirin Mets Grape Frieza" depicts Frieza entering his various transformation states barring his Ultimate Evolution state.

In the manga Black Cat, the character Sven Vollfied is often seen using his cell phone. At the top of the phone's wrist strap is a miniature-sized badge of Frieza's head. A caricature of Frieza mixed with grays was parodied as a mech pilot in an episode of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi. The anime ''Yakitate!! Japan'' featured a spoof re-enactment of the fight between Goku and Frieza, with a character clad in a refrigerator representing the latter. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable features a "Stand" character named "Red Hot Chili Pepper", whose design is confirmed by author Hirohiko Araki to be based on Frieza's final form. The Cartoon Network staple Codename: Kids Next Door had a parody of their own of the climactic fight and the Frieza character, with the Delightful Children From Down the Lane portraying him as a multi-headed monstrosity.

Live-action movies
Frieza will appear in the live-action Gintama 2.

Video Game Appearances
All games are listed in chronological order of release.

Reception

 * His voice as done by Linda Young in the English Funimation dub has been criticized; with that and various features in his character design like his dark colored lips, this has led to some gender confusion with new fans.
 * Frieza was mentioned as one of the "most beloved characters" in an article by GamePro. Also on pages D1 and D3 of The Ledger's December 8, 1999 paper, he is one of the reasons that DBZ was listed as a violent show for children back then stating, "In one recent episode, beads of sweat form on the brow of a character named Vegeta, as he is nearly strangled to death by an evil foe named Frieza. In another, Frieza uses the horns on his head to impale a good guy named Krillin through the chest." As well as opinions on his appearance: "Little Gohan is abruptly in the icy metallic grip of one of his arch-nemeses, Frieza, a silvery androgynous giant who looks like a cross between the monster in Alien and Batman's Mr. Freeze."
 * Additionally, Frieza is on the "Top Ten Anime Villains" of all time by watchmojo.com and is ranked as #1 on the list.
 * He was also in a "List of the Top 11 Anime Villains" made by That Dude in The Suede (an affiliate of That Guy with the Glasses) in which Frieza is ranked #6.
 * A Spanish thrash metal band named Crisix has made a song called "Frieza The Tyrant", from the album Rise...Then Rest. The song is an homage to "the most evil villain in Dragon Ball", as described by the band, and lyrics are about the darkness of Frieza's nature and the end of his empire. The song's introduction is a remix of "Genkidama", from Dragon Ball Z's Japanese original soundtrack.
 * A Japanese nu metal band named Maximum the Hormone even dedicated a song to Frieza, titled "F". The titular reference to Frieza's name as simply "F" would later inspire Akira Toriyama in his choice to title the upcoming 2015 movie involving Frieza's resurrection, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’.
 * The song "F" also appeared in promotional trailer and as an insert song for the Resurrection ‘F’ film itself.

List of characters killed by Frieza

 * Four Saiyan Army Snipers - When Frieza tried out the scouters for the first time after being promoted by his father King Cold to ruling the Saiyans, he noticed several Saiyans were ready to assassinate him so he killed each of them with Death Beams in the towers they were hiding in.
 * King Vegeta – Killed by Frieza with a single punch in the anime.
 * King Vegeta's Elite Soldiers – Killed by Frieza using his Eye Lasers in the anime.
 * Bardock – Bardock was apparently killed when Frieza threw his Supernova at Planet Vegeta to blow it up. Several media released after Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku show that Bardock was sent to another time instead of dying.
 * Frieza Soldiers – Killed by the Supernova that Frieza uses when he decides to destroy Planet Vegeta, as they were in the way.
 * Saiyans – When Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta, most of the entire Saiyan race was killed. Casualties included Bardock, King Vegeta and his majordomo, Gine, Leek, Nion, Moroko, Taro.
 * Frost – Killed in a video game only by pre-Battle of Namek Frieza during the Tournament of Time, sending Frost back to his proper time with no memories of the tournament.
 * Namekians – Killed many during the war on Namek. They were later revived with the Dragon Balls.
 * Cargo – Killed by Frieza with an energy blast over Moori's shoulder in the manga. He was later revived with the Dragon Balls with the rest of the Namekians.
 * Orlen – Killed in the anime only. He returned to Frieza after discovering the hidden village Vegeta attacked, but as he had not found out where Vegeta had hidden the Dragon Ball, Frieza killed him with his Eye Laser, threatening to do the same to Zarbon if he did not find Vegeta and make him talk.
 * Namole – Killed in the anime only. While Namole timidly delivered the news that the Ginyu Force were arriving soon, Frieza kills him for showing fear in his presence.
 * Dende – Frieza saw that Dende had the power to heal, so he killed him with a Death Beam to eliminate this threat. He was later revived with the Dragon Balls.
 * Vegeta – Frieza mercilessly beat him up, and then when Goku came and Vegeta talked about Frieza being beaten by a Saiyan, Frieza killed the Saiyan Prince with a Death Beam through the chest just to shut him up. Before dying, he told Goku to destroy Frieza, but was later revived with the Dragon Balls. When the timeline is altered in Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Frieza kills Vegeta before Goku even arrives.
 * Krillin – Frieza lifted him into the air using telekinesis and blew him up when he clenched his fist, inducing Goku's first Super Saiyan transformation. He was later revived with the Namekian Dragon Balls. When the timeline is altered in Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Frieza kills Krillin before Goku even arrives.
 * Unnamed Captain – Killed by Frieza, who pierced him with his hand from behind after he retreated from Future Trunks.
 * Tagoma – Killed in the movie only by Frieza when he says that Frieza should just forget about Goku and the others.
 * North City Civilians – Upon beginning his invasion of Earth, Frieza destroys North City with a Death Beam, killing all of the civilians. Though, they are revived later by Bulma (movie only).
 * Gohan – Put into a clinically dead state by Frieza when he punched him so hard his heart stopped. He was revived when Piccolo restarted his heart with a kiai.
 * Piccolo – Killed in the anime only by Frieza when he stepped in front of a Death Beam meant for Gohan. He was later revived with the Dragon Balls (anime only ).
 * Frieza Force – In the movie all of the soldiers are killed by Frieza after they were defeated by the Dragon Team. In the anime, Frieza kills all of the soldiers simply by transforming into his final form, the resulting power surge killing them all.
 * Everyone on Earth - Frieza destroys Earth during his fight with Vegeta, killing everyone on the planet, except for Whis, Beerus, Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Master Roshi, Bulma, and Jaco. Whis utilized his time manipulation powers to rewind time so that Goku could stop Frieza from destroying Earth, thus preventing their deaths.
 * In the story of Xenoverse 2, this also includes Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Krillin, Tien, Roshi, Bulma and Jaco, as time is altered so that Frieza successfully kills everyone on Earth (other than Beerus and Whis who had been tricked by Towa into traveling to the Time Nest in Age 852 and the Future Warrior who was saved at the last minute by Xeno Trunks). However these events are undone by Whis' Temporal Do-Over and the Future Warrior manages to stop Frieza's Earth Breaker with an energy blast, forcing Golden Frieza and the Metal Cooler to take on their Supervillain forms).
 * Universe 9's Assassins and their leader - All of them were killed by Frieza with his barrage of Grand Death Beams.
 * Paragus - Frieza shot him in the heart with a Death Beam to trigger Broly's Super Saiyan transformation.

Trivia

 * In-universe his name has been shown to be spelled as Freeza.
 * His name is a rephrase of "freezer."
 * Frieza is the first character to survive a full-power Spirit Bomb, the 2nd being Jiren.
 * Frieza's English dub voice actor, Chris Ayres, is the brother of Frost's English dub voice actor, Greg Ayres.
 * In an interview with Akira Toriyama, he revealed that Frieza is a combination of all his worst fears and childhood nightmares.
 * Frieza is the final villain in the Dragon Ball manga to have a desire for the Dragon Balls.
 * Frieza has a merchandise only joke form called "Pure Gold Frieza" which is based on Golden Frieza. It is stated by Frieza that this form is the result of him "overtraining" - causing him to gain an Ultimate Evolution-like state that is pure gold in appearance.
 * An error in the Funimation dub had Frieza (in his first form) saying he was 530,000 times stronger than Nail, who had a power level of 42,000. This meant that Frieza's power level was 22,260,000,000. In the original Japanese dub, Frieza states he has a power level of 530,000 and he later states this in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z Kai as well.
 * Frieza's third form somewhat resembles a Xenomorph from the Alien film series, particularly in skull structure and his dorsal spines (in addition, Cooler's final form vaguely resembles a Predator).
 * The fight between Goku and Frieza was the longest in the Dragon Ball Z anime, at 19 episodes. It is also considered to be the longest recorded fight in an anime, clocking in at roughly 3.5 hours of screentime.
 * Frieza has his tail cut off four times. The first time is when he was in his second form, when Krillin chops it off with a Destructo Disc, though it seems to regenerate when he enters his final form. The second is when he is hit by Goku's Spirit Bomb, as part of it is unable to withstand the blast and thus comes off. The third is when he is cut in half by his own attack, the energy disks slice off his body in half, along with one arm and his tail. The fourth is from slamming Jiren into the arena with his Nova Strike.
 * In addition, Frieza is chopped in half twice during his lifetime. The first is when he is chopped horizontally in two by his own energy disk. The second is when Future Trunks slices him vertically in half, seconds before chopping him to pieces and completely destroying him. In Dragon Ball GT, Frieza is chopped in half a third time while fighting Goku in Hell and using Krillin's Destructo Disc technique against him, which Goku turns back on him.
 * In Dragon Ball SD, Roshi has a Freezer brand fridge.
 * Frieza is the second villain to be defeated by Goku and return as a cyborg. The first is Mercenary Tao. Interestingly, both characters suffered grave injuries resulting in receiving cybernetics because of dirty attacks towards Goku (i.e. begging for mercy, and then attacking Goku when his guard was let down), and both were given cybernetics by a relative of theirs. They were also both defeated very quickly after reappearing by someone other than Goku. But unlike Tao, Frieza is no longer a cyborg.
 * Frieza had inspired many other villains in the Shonen genre, notably Orochimaru from the Naruto series. During the first Naruto series animation run, Masashi Kishimoto remarked that he hoped Orochimaru would get a voice actor just like Frieza's.
 * Frieza is the second character to make Goku shake in fear, the first being Raditz, and the third being Hit.
 * Of all four of the main villains in Dragon Ball Z, Frieza has the largest on-screen body count: he murdered numerous Saiyans, Namekians, committed several atrocities with an innumerable casualty count, and has murdered many characters recognized as individuals on-camera.
 * Frieza is the second villain to yell "Damn you Goku!" as his last words, with the first being Dr. Wheelo. Coincidentally, both villains also ended up obliterated by a significantly powerful ki attack shortly afterward (Wheelo by a Spirit Bomb, and Frieza by the God Kamehameha), and both even made a reference to Hell immediately beforehand (in Wheelo's case, as an expletive when demanding to know what Goku was about to do, and in Frieza's case, telling Vegeta and everyone else to go there without him in reference to his attempt at destroying Earth before Goku intervened).
 * Of all the main Dragon Ball villains featured in media, Frieza is the most prominent "true" villain that appeared as a major character in more than one mainstream Dragon Ball media (anime or manga (that excluded related merchandising)), this includes appearances in the Dragon Ball Super anime, as the main antagonist of its second saga, then later appearing as a member of Team Universe 7, for the Universe Survival Saga,
 * He can be considered the main antagonist of the Dragon Ball Franchise and Goku's arch-enemy due to being the most recurring villain of the series.
 * His appearance in Dragon Ball GT might not count, along with Cell, as they made very short appearances in Hell as minor villains and were outsmarted by Goku.
 * He is also the only major villain to appear in more than one film (TV/Theatrical), the most prominent and significant one being in Resurrection ‘F’.
 * Majin Buu (any incarnations) also does not count, as the Good Buu may have appeared in other series than DBZ, like Dragon Ball Super, he is merely a purely good entity fissioned from and is completely separate from the true, pure evil version killed in his only anime appearance, Kid Buu.
 * Additionally, Frieza is one of the most referenced villains in the series, as seen many times when the characters constantly use Frieza as a measuring stick for the power of other characters. Such instances are when describing Android 17 and 18 and Imperfect Cell, as well as during Goku's fight with Uub when the Saiyan states that he hadn't been so forced back in a battle since Frieza. Beerus also displayed visible shock when he heard of Frieza's defeat, indicating the profound impact he's had on the series.
 * Frieza's wish of becoming taller is almost identical to Commander Red's; it is also probable that he developed a Napoleonic complex, feeling inferior and less respected to most people due to his height, which is why he killed any soldier who ever commented on it. Lemo even warned Cheelai to watch her tongue when she mentions hearing that Frieza was short.
 * In the Greek dub of Dragon Ball Z (except for episodes 78-87), Dragon Ball GT, the movies and Bardock - The Father of Goku, Frieza is a woman. In Dragon Ball Super, Frieza is a man.
 * Frieza can be considered a foil to Goku (which is very fitting). Goku was born extremely weak and had to train to get stronger, is naturally peaceful and often shows enemies mercy, and even rejected his violent Saiyans ways of conquest. Frieza on the other hand was born extraordinarily powerful and never required much effort in training for extra strength, rarely shows mercy, and took over 70% of Universe 7.
 * Frieza's Ghost Warrior is the only one of the Ghost Warriors in the OVA to not have originated in a movie.

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