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Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge (1991)

★ 7.0 · 734 ratings on TMDB

Frieza is gone. Vengeance is coming.

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge poster★ 7.0

After defeating Frieza, Goku returns to Earth and goes on a camping trip with Gohan and Krillin. Everything is normal until Cooler - Frieza's brother - sends three henchmen after Goku. A long fight ensues between our heroes and Cooler, in which he transforms into the fourth stage of his evolution and has the edge in the fight... until Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan.

DirectorMitsuo Hashimoto
CastIchiro Nagai, Kohei Miyauchi, Masako Nozawa, Masato Hirano, Mayumi Tanaka, Naoki Tatsuta
GenresAction, Animation, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “galactic martial mythos”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, honor, transformation, family, war.

↷ aliensJPpowerhonortransformationfamilywar
Also inFilms about warConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms about familyFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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