In comparison to modern Western sensibilities, the massively popular Dragon Ball franchise has a complicated relationship in regards to its depiction of female characters, especially the ones that have appeared prominently throughout all the various manga, anime and video game series. This is largely due to cultural differences with the franchise's native Japan and the time period in which it first debuted over thirty years ago.
Despite this, there are plenty of fan-favorite female characters in the franchise, with several marrying main characters, including Chi-Chi, Bulma and Videl; each married to Saiyan heroes and starting a family of their own with them. While vastly different in personality and their overall role in the franchise, there are several odd tropes that each of these three female characters share, further linking them beyond their choice in martial artist spouses and the subsequent families they would begin to raise themselves.
Check out the video below to see a quick overview between all three female characters, their roles in the Dragon Ball franchise and what commonalities they share from their first appearances to their evolution across the various anime series over the years.
From childhood links to the franchise's protagonists to each playing their own vital role in aiding Goku and the Z Fighters in their various adventures, Chi-Chi, Bulma and Videl have each grown into prominent characters in their own respective right. And addition to being their own characters and loving spouses to Goku, Vegeta and Gohan, respectively, each of the women have given the Saiyan race its new future on Earth, as the mothers of a new generation of Super Saiyan warriors, blending the best in humanity and the Saiyan races in one of the franchise's most enduring messages of all: Evolution.
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