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Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! (1992)

★ 6.9 · 608 ratings on TMDB

Three Androids. Three Saiyans. One Ultimate Battle.

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! poster★ 6.9

Dr. Gero's Androids #13, #14, and #15 are awakened by the laboratory computers and immediately head to the mall where Goku is shopping. After Goku, Trunks, and Vegeta defeat #14 and #15, #13 absorbs their inner computers and becomes a super being greater than the original three separately were. Now it is up to Goku to stop him.

DirectorDaisuke Nishio
CastHisao Egawa, Kazuyuki Sogabe, Kohei Miyauchi, Koji Yada, Masako Nozawa, Mayumi Tanaka
GenresAction, Animation, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “ki‑battle cosmos”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, revenge, technology, survival.

↷ aliensJPpowerrevengetechnologysurvival
Also inConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms about survivalFilms about technologyFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same subject, different mask

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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