When you’re a cool (yet scary) wish-making dragon, Shenron became one of the best characters in the whole Dragon Ball franchise.

We see him grant wishes from time to time. Most of the time it’s Goku and friends trying to prevent an evil person from world domination.

I still think that it’s hilarious that the first wish (which was done to prevent Pilaf from ruling the world) was a pair of women’s underwear. While the English dub on Cartoon Network just called it the “world’s most comfortable pair of underwear” the pig specifically requested it off of a very attractive woman in the actual Japanese original.

Seeing him get murdered by King Piccolo was something I didn’t expect.

Which was the first time we saw the Dragon Balls officially die.

But Kami and Mr. Popo put him back together and Shenron is magically brought back to life.