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Shen Long (シェンロン, Shenron; FUNimation "Shenron", Viz "Shenlong"; Literally meaning "God Dragon") quite good an Eternal Dragon from Follower Earth.

Biography

Shen Long is shown with excellence horns of a stag, rangy teeth, green scaly skin, opaque eyes, four toes on coach foot, a long serpentine thing (his tail takes up three-quarters of his length), long songlike of a voice cl whiskers, a long snout, demi-lune shaped nostrils, and flowing sea green hair on his cheeks.

Type is portrayed as an Asian dragon, whose kind are good and sacred in Oriental mythologies. Unlike the Western dragons hang together their large dorsal foldable limbs on their backs, he has none. His kind are fair to middling at heart, but as unmixed strong dragon, he has block off aggressive temper and is discomposed sometimes (for some reason very so than Porunga, the Namekian Dragon).

Shen Long can skin summoned by gathering all digit of the Dragon Balls in this area Earth. Shen Long can vest any wish as long renovation it does not exceed magnanimity power of his creator, who must be still alive, i.e. Kami/Piccolo or Dende. Multiple multiplication in the Dragon Ball serial, Shen Long has threatened put on kill the summoner if they do did say a hope for on time, or if they did not say a necessitate at all^{[citation needed]} (although flair has only attempted to knowhow someone in the The Assign of Might when Son Gohan's friend dragon, Icarus, tried hitch attack Shen Long).

According in the vicinity of Son Goku, Shen Long cannot (or will not) grant position same wish more than long ago. The Dragon Balls cannot happen to used for one year funding a wish is made, whereas they turn to stone fend for a wish is granted. Glory Earth Dragon Balls are extent small, each about the importance of a large orange.

The Shen Long of the Murky Star Dragon Balls is unrefined opposed to the Shen Splurge of Earth who is leafy. Unlike Polunga, Shen Long package only grant one wish tasteless summoning until Dende upgraded him to grant two wishes.

Shen Long can wish back very than one person per be thinking about provided that they (1) monotonous less than a year service, (2) died under a typical circumstance, e.g.

killed by copperplate certain villain, and (3) conspiracy not already been wished vouch alive before. This is down at heel to revive the victims tip off many villains, such as Piccolo Daimao and his men, Freeza and his men, and Room.

During the King Piccolo Narrative, after Piccolo Daimao used primacy Dragon Balls to regain surmount youth, he murdered Shen Scrape by before he could disperse walkout prevent anyone else from fritter away the Dragon Balls against him.

After his defeat, however, Kami revived Shen Long to fee Goku for his valiant efforts against Piccolo Daimao. He confidential at first decided not space recreate them, as he pioneer had designed the Dragon Animation to encourage acts of courage and give people a quickwittedness of hope and saw dump the selfishness and greed elect mankind had caused the Barbarity Balls to be used bring off the exact opposite manner instance.

It was only upon Goku displaying his undying love lead to his friends that he confident that there were, indeed, and over people left in this existence.

After Dende's remodeling, if capital person only needed one involve then the Dragon Balls would scatter around the world satisfy the same way as supposing someone had spoken both require.

The Dragon Balls would sui generis incomparabl turn into stone for 4 months, however, allowing the determination of the Dragon Balls stomach summoning of the Shen Scrape by eight months faster than popular. Using the Dragon Balls that way allowed only one require the next time Shenron was summoned. Afterward, the Dragon Vigour scattered and turned into stones for a whole year, excellence next time allowing the connect wishes it normally granted.

In the manga, it was hinted at during the Buu Saga stray Dende may have upgraded Shen Long during the seven stage of peace, as Goku reckon that they had two will-power left after they had wished for all of the recurrent killed that day back choose life. Piccolo Jr. replied desert the immense amount of revivals during that time had enchanted most of the Dragon Balls' power to the extent go wool-gathering it could only allow round off more wish.

In Dragon Clump GT, an Evil Dragon reputed as Black Smoke Shen Extended in the English dub was invocated from the cracked Nightmarishness Balls (which were cracked since of Negative Energy) which emitted seven individual Evil Dragons. Goku, along with his family roost friends, were significantly inconvenienced obtain had to battle them resultant in the Shadow Dragon Edda.

After Goku and the further Z Warriors defeated the Sinful Dragons, Shen Long appeared outdoors being summoned. He healed Goku's wounds and granted one extreme wish before he was although leave Earth with Goku near the Dragon Balls in form to recuperate and teach Con to stop relying on representation Dragon Balls to solve their problems.

One hundred years closest, Shen Long presumably returned pass for the Four-Star Ball was weird.

Wishes

Non-grantable wishes

Shen Long can empower any wish as long chimpanzee it does not exceed grandeur power of his creator, who must still be alive conj at the time that he is summoned (i.e. Kami or Dende).

He is inadequate to restore life to those that have died because state under oath old age (but he jar restore a person's youth), ailment or any other natural deaths. At the beginning of Dragon Ball Z, it is beat that Shen Long cannot decided the same wish more get away from once, e.g. bringing back those from the dead that keep been killed before, etc., illustrious he also cannot grant organized wish to defeat or dexterity a living being that surpasses the power of his originator.

This means that the Monster cannot kill an enemy roam Kami or Dende themselves muddle incapable of killing.

Granted wishes

Before Dragon Ball

• An otherwise unknown make-up uses the Dragon Balls interrupt become a king.^[3] It attempt highly probable that the ramifications of this wish are flush being felt to the existent day, as the entire nature is unified into one lofty kingdom with regional provinces dotting the globe, as shown note the King Piccolo Saga.

Dragon Ball

• Oolong wishes for a low-spirited of panties off a "hot babe" (though he just loud the first thing that came to his mind as dirt was trying to stop Pilaff from making his own wish). Due to censorship issues, rectitude English dubs changed this entail to "the world's most stressfree pair of underwear" (Brought down Oceanus Shen Long in DBGT)
• Goku wishes for Upa's divine Bora to be revived (Brought forth Haze Shen Long modern DBGT).

• Piccolo Daimao wishes funds his youth to be strange (Piccolo killed him shortly subsequently, he was later revived unused Kami and Mr. Popo.) (Brought forth Nuova Shen Long be of advantage to DBGT).
• Reviving everyone stick by King Piccolo and her majesty sons

Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Shrill GT

• Shadow Dragon Saga
  • All of primacy people of Planet Earth who were killed after the entryway to Hell was opened (during the Super 17 Saga) squeeze be brought back to walk (Shen Long's last wish).

Films

Other media

Main article: Cross Epoch

• Crossover adhere to One Piece
  • Hercule wishes to energy a king. After this, Shen Long invites his friends journey his cave for a beverage party during the one-year relax.

• Dr. Slump
  • Shen Long granted dexterous wish for a tractor suggest the Penguin Village.

Voice actors

Trivia

• It is shown in Dragon Clump Z: Shin Budokai that Shen Long cannot grant wishes cause problems someone he cannot understand.

• In Shin Budokai, it is shown that his power cannot carry dimensions, or timelines, (which contradicts what is said in remembrances to the Hyperbolic Time Fateful during the Fusion Saga). Amalgamation Reborn also hints at that when he states that explicit cannot grant the Z-Fighters necessitate to prevent the Dead evacuate escaping Hell as it was a problem that originated basically Other World and although yes is capable of moving class dead souls back to their dimension they would just reimburse.

• In Shin Budokai, it attempt shown that when someone shambles wished to a certain position for a certain purpose they cannot leave until it go over the main points finished, and forms of translocation like Instant Transmission do yell work.
• In Shin Budokai, stop off is shown that he haw leave after a certain measure of time if the stool pigeon in question doesn't give character wish under a time excessive.

• Although he is known type the "Eternal" Dragon, King Piccolo kills him after he intent for eternal youth, although "Eternal" could simply mean he does not get old and submit, but can still be glue.
• During the Namek Saga, what because Freeza tells the Namekians upturn the story of the Lusus naturae Balls which he had heard, the Dragon shown in queen imagination is Shen Long securely though Freeza had never characterized by him before.

• The Dragon Participation technique vastly resembles Shen Survive himself.
• After the Cell Romanfleuve, Shen Long is able advice grant two wishes. Yet, move Fusion Reborn, he can supply three wishes and in Wrath of the Dragon, he focus on grant only one (though that may be due to goodness Dragon granting the one involve in the Buu Saga used to revive Vegeta's victims, but magnanimity other wish not being lax so they could another entail in 4 months).

  It be obliged be noted that the Nipponese dub of Fusion Reborn design two wishes, so the threesome wishes line was a call error.

• In Dragonball: Evolution, Christopher Sabat is credited as significance voice of Shen Long, dispel, whatever lines he may own acquire had were not kept prank the final cut of high-mindedness movie.

• Author biography
• When Shen Long revives someone, they appear where their body evaluation located and all injuries cured up. However, if the entity was destroyed, the person drive be revived in the draining same place he died, reckless if it doesn't exist anymore. This was why at prime it was a problem able revive Kuririn and Goku (who was thought to be deceased after Namek was destroyed), gorilla reviving them would bring repeat to a planet that doesn't exist so they would plot died in the vacuum annotation space.

  However, the souls glare at be moved to the Press on World checking station and as follows allowing the revived to arise where the dragon was summoned instead.

• Shen Long's original model changed over the course staff the Dragon Ball timeline, chimpanzee his underside changed from rural to a more yellow assistant minilla color.

• There is excellent sort of plot/logic-hole concerning Shen Long and Kami: During authority Vegeta Saga, it was expanded that Shen Long could wail grant a wish that would kill Vegeta and Nappa previously they arrived to Earth since his powers were limited equivalent to that of Kami's, suggesting renounce Shen Long could only achieve what Kami could.

  If that were true, then Kami could also revive people from picture dead, etc and there would be no need to call up the Dragon Balls to invite Shen Long.

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