Lood (anime character)
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Lood (ルード, Rūdo; FUNimation "Lord Luud") is a Machine Mutant who the Lood Cult worships. He is actually the creation of the evil scientist Dr. Mu.
Biography
Dragon Ball GT
Lood started out as a large metal statue, Rūdo Zō (ルード 像, Rūdo Zō; Literally meaning "Lood Statue"), with a giant cauldron in front of it and a egg-timer shaped container to its left. Cardinal Mutchy Mutchy would command the cult to search for the Black Star Dragon Balls which would be able to fully power Lood. If they did not accomplish this, Lood would use an eye beam which would turn the failure into a doll.
This doll would be put in the cauldron, its life energy would then be transferred to Lood, which would power him up. The cult believed that if enough life energy was gathered, Lood would rise and kill all the non believers and give all his worshippers whatever they desired.
After Mutchy was defeated by Son Goku, Trunks Brief, and Son Pan, Dolltaki revealed himself. He was the leader of the Lood Cult, but in fact, he was just a boy raised by Mu and hired to see Lood to completion by tricking people into worshipping him.
Dolltaki used a special remote (disguised as a scepter) to awaken Lood, who absorbed all of his worshippers, which powered Lood up to two-thirds of his power. Dolltaki decided to awaken Lood to stop the intruders and that two thirds of Lood's power would be enough.
When Lood was transformed into his second state, Rūdo Robo (ルード ロボ, Rūdo Robo), he was like a large, mechanical doll. Although with much power, he was unable to use it to its full extent as Goku soon realized. He was still a powerful threat since nothing seemed to be able to damage him.
When Mu sees that Goku and Trunks were putting up a good fight with Lood (Pan had already been turned into a doll and was kept by Dolltaki), Mu ordered Dolltaki to use Pan as an offering to Lood. When Dolltaki refused, Dolltaki was turned into a doll and both his and Pan's energy was transferred to Lood.
Lood was able to achieve its full power, turning red and being able to shoot out a powerful mouth blast which dealt explosive damage. Goku and Trunks found that they were powerless against Lood and that they couldn't defeat him, well, not without help, at least.
We find out that that people absorbed by Lood are not killed, but just stored inside its body. Here, Pan forces Dolltaki to tell her the weakness of Lood. This is where we learn about Lood's past and creation. Apparently, Mu wanted to make a very powerful machine, so used one of his own nucleus cells to power it. He built all of Lood's networks from this one cell and it was Lood's only weakness.
There was another problem, however. This cell had to be hit from the inside and outside of Lood at the exact same time – which made it near impossible for Lood to be defeated. Fortunately, the Parapara Brothers, who had been absorbed earlier, had special microphones which they used to talk to Goku telepathically.
After a lot of effort, both Pan and Goku were able to fire a blast at the exact same time, hitting the cell and destroying Lood. This freed all of those who were trapped, but it also let Dolltaki escape. We later learn that Lood was not meant to be one of Mu's most powerful Machine Mutants, but was made to gather enough energy which would be transferred into Mu's favorite experiment, Baby.
Video games
Lood appeared in Dragon Ball GT: Transformation and Dragon Ball Heroes.
Voice actors
- Japanese dub: Tetsu Inada
