Battle Jacket
From Dragon Ball Encyclopedia, the ''Dragon Ball'' wiki
Battle Jackets (バトル ジャケット, Batoru Jaketto) are super-powered mech suits that ranking officers of the Red Ribbon Army use.
Contents
History[edit]
Dragon Ball[edit]
During the assault of Son Goku against Red Ribbon Army Headquarters, Staff Officer Black shot Commander Red in the head with his pistol and fought against Goku. Black then got into a Battle Jacket after he witnessed that Goku was too strong.
The fight continued outside and Black in the Battle Suit threw Goku onto the ground. He attempted to finish him off with a blast, but Goku quickly recovered and proved too nimble, and even had Black attack himself. Black then snaps and fires a rocket to destroy Goku, threatening even his soldiers and staff, but Goku kicks the rocket away. After realizing the boy is too powerful, Black tries to escape from Goku but the young warrior sufficed and double punched straight through the Battle Jacket, which explodes in midair.
Dragon Ball GT[edit]
In a style based on its appearance in the original Dragon Ball anime and manga (and not in the "redesigned" form that appear in the 10th anniversary special), the Battle Jacket has a brief appearance in Dragon Ball GT when Staff Officer Black and several other villains escape from Hell. When Black and the other Red Ribbon Army members attack Mr. Satan, Pan breaks through the Battle Jacket and destroys it.
Films[edit]
Dragon Ball: The Path to Power[edit]
Black's Battle Jacket was redesigned as a Giant Robot (巨大 ロボット, Kyodai Robotto) that could be controlled from within in Dragon Ball: The Path to Power.
As Goku fights his way into Red Ribbon Army Headquarters, Red and Black retreat to their last refuge. When Black hears about Red's true wish to become taller, Black shoots him and brings out the Red Ribbon Army's greatest weapon, the Battle Jacket. The robot's beam weapon destroys a huge swath of territory in its path, and nearly kills Goku, until Goku manages to knock it on its stomach and detonate the cannon. But the Battle Jacket isn't out yet though and Goku is eventually knocked out.
Artificial Human No. 8 shows up and puts everything he has into keeping the robot from killing the boy. Parts start to fly off of No. 8, and he lands in a crumpled heap next to Goku. When Goku sees the android dying, Goku finishes off Staff Officer Black and the Battle Jacket with a gigantic Kamehameha.
Video games[edit]
In Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo, one of Colonel Silver's soldiers, the Colonel Silver Workman, is fought twice while he is controlling a Battle Jacket. Black's Battle Jacket also appears and has a yellow/golden color instead of blue/purple. Black's Battle Jacket is also a boss in Famikon Janpu: Hero Retsuden, Dragon Ball 3: Gokū Den, Dragon Ball Z: Chō Gokū Den: Totsugeki Hen, Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure, and Dragon Ball: Origins 2.
After Black's defeat in sub-episode 6-5 of Origins 2, Bulma tells Goku that the Battle Jackets are still being used by someone in the Red Ribbon Army Headquarters. It is revealed that because there was a lack of soldiers in the Red Ribbon Army, Silver's soldiers kidnapped Monkeys in the forest they burnt and brainwashed and trained them as new recruits. Goku found the brainwashed Monkeys and one of them took the control of a Battle Jacket. After defeating the Monkey, Goku brought all of the kidnapped Monkeys back to their forest. Colonel Violet appears employed by Pilaf in sub-episode 8-6, Pilaf and Red Ribbon, of Origins 2 and leads him and his cohorts to the Red Ribbon Army Headquarters Control Room in order to find a surviving Battle Jacket. Violet finds the Battle Jacket's Capsule in Red's desk. Interestingly, in the anime series, the Pilaf Machines used by Pilaf and his gang after the Red Ribbon Army Saga somewhat resemble Battle Jackets.
A Battle Jacket is seen in the background of the Red Ribbon Army Headquarters battle stage in Dragon Ball Z 2: Super Battle.
If a character is knocked into one of the generators inside the Red Ribbon Army Headquarters in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2, a Battle Jacket will fly out from the ceiling and launch blasts that cause 400 points of damage.
Battle Jackets controlled by former Red Ribbon Army soldiers appear in Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans. Red Pants Army Battle Jackets also appear as enemies in Dragon Ball Online.
Techniques[edit]
- Flight – A special device inside the Battle Jacket allows it to fly.
- Blaster – An energy beam that fires from the right arm.
- Full Power Energy Wave – An energy wave that fires from the left arm's palm.
- Gigantic Beam – The Battle Jacket's beam weapon fires from the chest (similar to Doctor Uiro's Planet Geyser). Appears in The Path to Power.
- Rocket Launcher – There is a huge and powerful rocket launcher in the back cavity of the Battle Jacket.
- Rocket Storm – Hundred of small rockets fire from the chest in a machine gun-esque fashion (slightly similar to Super 17's Hell's Storm). Appears in The Path to Power.
