“Slug invades Earth via planet-castle, steals Dragon Balls, regains youth, and begins conquering the world.”
Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug
ドラゴンボールZ 超サイヤ人だ孫悟空
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Synopsis
Slug invades Earth via planet-castle, steals Dragon Balls, regains youth, and begins conquering the world.
Gohan Son and Piccolo are peacefully playing when they sense a powerful entity approaching Earth. It soon reaches everyone's ears that this entity is in fact a small planet on a deadly collision course with Earth. Gokuu Son and Kuririn attempt to change the small planet's path with a Kamehameha, but the attack fails and the two warriors are blown away. However, after coming very close to Earth's surface, the object changes direction on its own and explodes soon after. The small planet reveals itself to be a vehicle for what seems to be a castle. A large army emerges out of the structure and declares that the planet is now in possession of Slug, king of the universe. While defending the city against the invaders' attack, Gohan loses his Dragon Ball, allowing Slug to take it. After reading Bulma's mind and stealing her Dragon Radar, Slug commands his army to collect the wish-granting relics. With the Dragon Balls in his possession, he uses them to wish his youth back. Now young, wise, and very powerful, Slug commences world domination.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
What 11 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.61 · some divergence
3.8 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.2
↓ 0.64
Running avg · May 2010 → Nov 2025
- 7 “Ignore all these other reviews! I'm here to let you know that this movie is good! Obviously it has it's issues, but this is the first Dragon Ball Z movie to be enjoyable to watch. The first three...”
- 6 “This movie gave me such a MASSIVE headache… first of all, Goku goes false Super Saiyan inflicting some damage because in his base form couldn't do shit. After that Kaio said not even Frieza or a...”
- 4 “This is the EXACT SAME PLOT as Tree of Might, but with a Namekian instead of a Sayian this time. There's a lot more humor this time around, and the fights are better thanks to some really creative...”
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A Movie Production
Toei Animation.- Format 1 × 51′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 51m all episodes
- Aired Mar 1991 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-0813 catalog
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- Funimation Licensor