Dragon Ball: Super Hero, the best Piccolo movie, is now on Hulu

Sign in to your Polygon.com account Despite being a fan-favorite, Dragon Ball’s Piccolo has always taken a backseat to the franchise’s Saiyan characters.

Though instrumental in Dragon Ball Z bouts versus invading Saiyans and against Frieza on Namek, he didn’t get a 1v1 fight after the Cell Saga, taking on more of a mentor role in the next arc.

He ends up dying and going to Hell in Dragon Ball GT (which isn’t surprising — there’s a reason fans deride GT as standing for “Goku Time.”) And he goes out like a chump in Dragon Ball Super’s Tournament of Power.

I forgive all of that after Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, the 2022 3D CG film (a first for the franchise) that gave Piccolo his flowers.

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Unlike pretty much every Dragon Ball story ever, Super Hero mostly sidelines the series’ two main Saiyans, Goku and Vegeta, in favor of focusing on Piccolo as both a fighter and mentor.

Super Hero brings back the Red Ribbon Army from the early days of the franchise, the group that Goku decimated when he was just a kid.

They’ve created new androids, Gamma 1 and Gamma 2, who are meant to defeat Capsule Corp.

and the Z Warriors.

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In Red Ribbon’s eyes, Bulma and Capsule are being aided by aliens to eventually take over the world.

(As far as conspiracy theories go, it’s actually not too far off.) Piccolo survives a scrap with Gamma 2 early in the film, and then infiltrates the Red Ribbon Army’s hidden headquarters to learn more about its schemes.

The silly hijinks that defined early Dragon Ball return here.

Before the franchise was focused on colorful power-ups and world-destroying threats, it was a light-hearted adventure.

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That light-heartedness fuels the section of the film that finds Piccolo donning a Red Ribbon soldier disguise and waltzing right on through.

It’s very silly as no one really cares too much that one of their fellow soldiers is literally green ## Editor's Note This is an interesting development that could shape the future of gaming. Source: [Polygon](https://www.polygon.com/dragon-ball-super-super-hero-piccolo-streaming-hulu/)