First introduced in the originalDragon Ball, the Oozaru form native to all Saiyans was a destructive– about uncontrollable– course that turned them into bloodthirsty Great Apes at the sight of the total moon. It was also a source of pain for Goku, who subsequently in life discovered that he was the one who killed his grandfather while rampaging in this grade equally a kid.

While the Cracking Ape bears a few similarities to modernistic werewolf lore, it is only unique enough from its influence to stand up out amid the many, many other transformations shown in theDragon Ball serial, though not always because the form makes any sense.

10 Destroying The Moon

Piccolo destroys the moon to stop Gohan Dragon Ball Z

Role of the transformation procedure into a Great Ape course requires the subject field to look directly at a full moon, triggering the chemical reaction that begins the transformation process from the tail. While cut off the tail makes some sort of sense to revert a Bang-up Ape back to a regular Saiyan, destroying the moon, which has been done multiple times, also seems to do the trick despite the fact that the moon's involvement has already come and gone by that point. That'southward also not taking into account the global ramifications for the moon suddenly disappearing.

ix Blutz Waves

During the Saiyan arc, Vegeta stats that the primary catalyst for transforming into a Cracking Ape is blutz waves, rays of sunlight that alter certain properties every bit they reflect off of the moon's surface. At that place is no reason given as to why regular sunlight doesn't sometimes inadvertently trigger a transformation, since blutz waves are technically a class of sunlight. This is one case where trying to explicate something in too much detail raises more questions than actually answering them.

8 Differing States Of Control

Vegeta's Great Ape form in Dragon Ball Z

During Vegeta's assault on Earth, he states multiple times that there is a articulate divide between him and Goku, though almost of it is nonsense associated with his ego and high born status as an Elite Saiyan. Unlike Goku and Gohan, Vegeta was in full control of his Nifty Ape form, though at that place is no reason given every bit to why aside from Vegeta's ain inflated sense of himself.

Even when it is established that Goku and Gohan are more than powerful than Vegeta, likewise every bit existence capable of advancing far to a higher place his own power, neither of these protagonists have been able to control their Great Ape forms, even in the non-canonDragon Ball GT.

7 Vegeta's Armor

Ane of the most recognizable outfits in the Dragon Brawl series is the Saiyan armor, otherwise known as the armor of Frieza's ground forces. During Vegeta's assault on Earth, information technology was shown to be able to stretch to incredible sizes while withal retaining its shape in his Bang-up Ape grade, though later in the serial it also shows that it isn't as pliable every bit information technology once was, even groovy and breaking when hit with ki blasts.

6 Super Saiyan

After the events of the Saiyan arc, Vegeta becomes laser-focused on the idea of Super Saiyans, legendary warriors who tin make even the strongest of their race seem similar depression born cannon fodder in comparison. While pretty much every Super Saiyan course is based on the same kind of transformation, information technology begs the question as to why it is so radically different from the Swell Ape form. It as well doesn't make much sense that a race would have two very different forms of transformation biologically linked to their species with very different means of activating said transformations.

five Golden Slap-up Ape

Goku's Golden Great Ape form from Dragon Ball GT

The Aureate Great Ape, though not canon to the Dragon Balluniverse, has the signature gilt fur associated with the Super Saiyan transformation, as information technology is basically a Super Saiyan Great Ape– merely at that place is one big difference that doesn't make sense in context. Aside from the golden hair synonymous with a Super Saiyan, their eyes likewise plow bright blue equally opposed to their usual black colour. With a Golden Groovy Ape, their eyes stay the bright red that is a part of their normal Neat Ape forms, not changing color despite the added transformation.

four Rima oris Beams

Dragon ball Piccolo fires a ki blast from his mouth

For the nearly part, characters in Dragon Ball will use their hands to burn down ki blasts, as it allows for more accurate shots and greater control of their power. There are exceptions to this, with Piccolo's centre lasers being a prominent ane, only the oral cavity beams are i that come up a few times with villains of the series as well as the Nifty Ape forms.

In particular, Gohan was shown using them repeatedly during one of his Swell Ape rampages, even though he was barely able to command his ki in his base form at that point and had no control over his Great Ape form at all. This ways that either Gohan's Great Ape form has more control over ki than his base did, or the animators but thought it looked absurd.

three Cell

Perfect Cell Using Instant Transmission, Dragon Ball Z

As he is made of the Dna from many Saiyans, information technology stands to reason that Cell could have transformed into a Nifty Ape given the correct atmospheric condition, particularly since he has a tail. As he had intimate knowledge of the Dragon Teams' techniques, information technology is likely that Cell could have fabricated apply of this transformation during the Cell arc, every bit he was capable of using Piccolo's regeneration technique despite only having the cells from one Namekian. Though this is unlikely to happen given Cell's obsession with his perfect grade, it could have made for an interesting boxing with the Ascended Saiyan form of Gohan.

two Goku's Secret Transformations

Goku transforms into a Great Ape in Dragon Ball

Goku may have only been a child when he commencement transformed into a Slap-up Ape, which explains why grandfather Gohan never told him nigh it, but that doesn't explain why Bulma, Yamcha, Puar, and Oolong didn't tell him nigh information technology. By this bespeak, he was much older, though notwithstanding naive, and could have been able to sympathise what had happened. Instead, Goku doesn't discover out untilDragon Brawl Z, when he finally puts the pieces together and realizes that he was the one who killed his grandfather.

1 The Whole Transformation Process

Vegeta readies a Power Ball to transform in Dragon Ball Z Saiyan Saga

During the Saiyan arc, Vegeta explains that the transformation process involves a Saiyan absorbing blutz waves through their optics, which starts a chemical reaction in the tail and transforms them into a Peachy Ape. While this was designed to explicate how Saiyan physiology works, it ends up raising more questions than it actually answers, particularly when Vegeta's fake moon technique comes into play. He had just said that blutz waves were formed by sunlight reflecting off of the moon, then says that the same effect can exist achieved past a reaction in the upper atmosphere instead. And so at that place is the fact that Gohan had previously transformed when a hologram of the moon was projected into the night heaven while training with Piccolo, making the whole process nonsensical and inconsistent.

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