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" Sorry, I kinda lost my head there after I... lost my head."
— Freezer Burn

Guldo (グルド, Gurudo) is a short, green-skinned alien and is the smallest (and weakest) member of the Ginyu Force. Unlike his comrades, Guldo possesses some psychic abilities, including being able to stop time. His Japanese name is a pun of the word "yogurt".

Personality[]

In the anime[]

In the anime, Guldo displays a strong hatred towards Saiyans, especially Vegeta due to negative past conflicts between the two. He is also shown to act cowardly and desperate when things do not go his way, as shown when he had trouble taking on both Gohan and Krillin. He is also shown to have high confidence in his psychic abilities as he uses them in order to gain an advantage in battle and to trick his opponents.

In DragonBall Z Abridged[]

In DragonBall Z Abridged, Guldo's personality is the same as it was in the anime, as he is still confident in his time-stopping abilities, but bears a more bitter relationship with Vegeta due to the Saiyan Prince often mocking him and throwing dog treats at him.

Biography[]

Under Freeza's orders, Guldo and his teammates head to Namek and finds Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan along with all seven Dragon Balls. After Burter catches the Dragon Ball Vegeta tosses away, Guldo manages to steal the Dragon Ball Krillin tried (but failed miserably) to destroy by stopping time with his psychic powers. Guldo then plays Wheel of Death, hoping to get Vegeta, but instead gets Krillin and Gohan, much to his dismay.

Guldo tries to squash Krillin with a steamroller, but Krillin manages to lift it away with ease. Guldo then uses his powers to physically paralyze Krillin and Gohan's bodies, rendering both them helpless. Before he can finish them off, Guldo wonders why he can't fell his everything and realizes that he has been decapitated by Vegeta. As Guldo begins to imagine if he will dream once he dies, he gets hit in the head with a dog treat by Vegeta before the Saiyan Prince obliterates his head.

Guldo later arrives at King Kai's planet along with the other deceased Ginyu Force members (minus Captain Ginyu), with Guldo merely stating that King Kai is blue. He gets sent to Hell by King Kai single-handedly.

HFIL[]

Guldo, like the rest of his teammates, Freeza, Zarbon, Dodoria, King Cold and Cell was sent to Hell for his transgressions, specifically to HFIL (Home For Infinite Losers), a rehabilitation home for obscenely powerful villains (aka MCMs, "Morally Compromised Malefactors"). He is introduced along with the rest of the Ginyu Force playing beer pong (with Shasta). Due to their propensity for synchronized dancing, the lot of them perform a dance in celebration to their newest arrival, Cell, called the twerk-a-rena (to Cell's absolute horror).

Even in Hell Guldo's teammates continue to dismiss him blatantly, such as during the sharing circle when Guldo opens up about how he was decapitated by Vegeta in front of his friends, to which Jeice adds "and us", leaving Guldo visibly offended by the remark.

During Cell and Freeza's dodgeball match, Guldo is chosen for Freeza as his second teammate due to taking too long choosing his first pick of Dodoria. Guldo is shown to be a valuable asset to Freeza's team due to his natural ability to stop time, giving their team multiple advantageous opportunities by easily snatching the ball without no-one noticing. After accidentally outing Dodoria, in an angered tirade Freeza berates Guldo for being the weakest of his elite forces and openly insults him. In response, Guldo deliberately gets himself eliminated from the match by presenting himself as a target. Later Guldo is genuinely apologetic for his actions despite Freeza's harsh words. These fall on deaf ears as Freeza kicks him away in anger due to Cell riling him up earlier.

When the Ginyu Force introduce Captain Ginyu (in truth a frog inhabiting Ginyu's body) to Cell, believing their Captain had regressed as a coping mechanism due to some traumatic event on Namek, Guldo is the only one of the group to consider that Ginyu had simply body-swapped with a frog. Regardless of this, Guldo freely opens up to Ginyu about his lot in his afterlife, such as his frustrations of not being taken seriously and missing his wife.

Guldo is also the main element to the Ginyu Force's antics of playing pranks on Cell due to his hostility towards the team regarding Ginyu and his constant assaults on Cell. Indeed, Guldo, using his time stopping ability was responsible for sabotaging a chair Cell sat on during the next sharing circle, inconveniencing him in his own home by acts such as damaging the lock to his front door when Cell is taking out the recycling, taking the batteries out of his TV remote, unplugging the TV, rigging his couch with a balloon trap, and placing a bucket of paint over his door. Cell discovers these antics upon realizing someone, suspecting Freeza, had put glitter in his soap and sees Guldo setting up mousetraps in front of his bathroom door. Guldo avoids a retaliating Cell by stopping time.

After Cell abducts Frog Ginyu to force an apology from the Ginyu Force, after using his time stop ability to search Cell's house, they get into a fight in the cul-de-sac, being clearly no match for Cell even without chi. The two sides come to a destructive mutually assured destruction Mexican stand-off when Jeice claims Guldo to have planted bombs in Cell's house while looking for Ginyu, and Cell assuming his self-destruct form. This is stopped by Goz and Mez who scold the two parties for breaking curfew and reveal to the Ginyu Force that Captain Ginyu had indeed body-swapped with a frog, proving Guldo right.

After learning the truth about the status of their leader and rejoicing, thinking the real Ginyu was still alive and being all too ready to dismiss Frog Ginyu, Guldo finally stands up to his teammates, scolding them for their behavior and admitting having accepted Frog Ginyu as his friend regardless if he wasn't their Ginyu, just as much as he regards his teammates his friends despite their poor treatment of him. His teammates are touched by his words and come to reciprocate these sentiments, being happy to see Frog Ginyu when Super Kami Guru regurgitates him back out.

During the session of macaroni art overseen by King Cold to portray their greatest regrets, Guldo is horrified by the insinuation that Recoome may have had sex with his wife. During the following trust fall exercises he was poorly matched with Burter, being the tallest of the group versus Guldo being the shortest.

Abilities[]

Guldo has psychic abilities that he can use during combat. He can also freeze time briefly (when he holds his breath) to get something (like a Dragon Ball). He retains the latter ability even after losing his ki, implying it may be a psychic power, or magic.

Trivia[]

  • The rest of the Ginyu Force shows very little concern for him by not being surprised that he was killed so easily by Vegeta.
  • In the abridged series, Guldo was the one who told Vegeta that Freeza can transform as a failed attempt to make casual conversation. In the original manga, it was Zarbon who said so (the anime cut that dialogue yet still referenced it later on.).
  • His powers in Dragon Ball Z Abridged is a reference to the villain Dio Brando from the popular anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. There are many references to this:
    • Guldo stopping time psychically; Dio's psychic ability The World allows him to stop time.
    • His use of steamrollers, a reference to an iconic scene in which Dio tries to kill his nemesis Jotaro Kujo with a steamroller while he moves in stopped time.
    • Guldo exclaims "ZA WARUDO", the Japanese reading of his ability The World.
  • Guldo's inner monologue after being beheaded is a reference to the final scene of the 1999 academy-award winning film, American Beauty.
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