Lightning crackles. His hair spikes higher. He effortlessly destroys the Cell Juniors, then beats Perfect Cell so badly the villain vomits Android 18. Cell, humiliated, prepares to self-destruct and destroy Earth.

Goku makes the ultimate sacrifice. He teleports exploding Cell to King Kai’s planet, dying again. But Cell regenerates, now “Super Perfect Cell” — stronger than ever. He fires a solar-killing blast at Gohan. Vegeta, finally shedding his pride, distracts Cell. Gohan, with Goku’s voice guiding him from the afterlife, unleashes a that disintegrates Cell forever.

is chaos incarnate. He turns Babidi into cheese. He turns Dabura (the Demon King) into a cookie. He kills nearly everyone. Vegeta, realizing his mistake, sacrifices himself in a massive explosion — but Buu regenerates.

Peace returns. Years pass. Goku stays dead, training in Other World. Gohan grows into a teenage scholar. Vegeta has a son, Trunks. Then a warlock named arrives to revive the ancient, pure evil: Majin Buu — a pink, childlike, utterly insane creature who turns people into candy and eats them.