First AppearanceDragon Ball Z Chapter 446 / Dragon Ball Z Episode 220 (1993)
Power LevelNegligible physically (<100). Magical power: planet-scale barrier creation, possession, mind control, teleportation. Killed by Majin Buu.
Signature MovesMind Control (Majin Spell), Energy Barrier, Teleportation (Kai Kai variant), Dark Magic
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Babidi is the diminutive, malevolent alien wizard who awakened Majin Buu on Earth, continuing his father Bibidi's millennia-spanning campaign of universal conquest. Standing barely a meter tall with wrinkled grey skin, a pronounced cranial ridge, and eyes that glow with ancient malice, Babidi compensated for his physical fragility with devastating sorcery and a genius for psychological manipulation.Babidi is the diminutive, malevolent alien wizard who awakened Majin Buu on Earth, continuing his father Bibidi's millennia-spanning campaign of universal conquest. Standing barely a meter tall with wrinkled grey skin, a pronounced cranial ridge, and eyes that glow with ancient malice, Babidi compensated for his physical fragility with devastating sorcery and a genius for psychological manipulation. His magic could create unbreakable barriers, teleport across star systems, and most insidiously, possess and control beings by exploiting the evil in their hearts. His servant Dabura, the demon king of the Demon Realm, served as his most powerful enforcer. Babidi's manipulation of Vegeta, briefly turning the Saiyan prince back to the darkness by awakening his latent evil and branding him with the Majin mark, stands as one of the Buu Saga's most compelling character moments: Vegeta allowed himself to be controlled, believing that embracing his former cruelty would give him the edge to finally surpass Goku. Babidi's overconfidence proved his undoing. After failing to control Buu, who proved too chaotic and childish to command, Babidi was unceremoniously killed by the very creature he awakened: Buu, annoyed by the wizard's constant threats to seal him away again, decapitated him with a single casual punch. Babidi's character serves as a dark mirror to Kami and the Guardians: where they used magic to protect and guide, Bibidi and Babidi used the same cosmic forces to enslave and destroy. His mastery of psychological warfare made him dangerous in ways that pure power could not counter, as Vegeta's temporary fall demonstrated. Despite his brief reign, Babidi's actions set in motion the cataclysmic events that killed nearly every human on Earth and tested the Z-Fighters in ways no previous enemy had achieved.... Read more
