Dr. Gero

Dr. Gero, also designated Android 20 after converting himself into a cyborg, is the vengeful mastermind of the Red Ribbon Army's most dangerous creations and the architect of the Android and Cell Sagas.Dr. Gero, also designated Android 20 after converting himself into a cyborg, is the vengeful mastermind of the Red Ribbon Army's most dangerous creations and the architect of the Android and Cell Sagas. Once the brilliant chief scientist of the Red Ribbon Army, Gero survived Goku's destruction of the organization as a child and dedicated decades to revenge, building a series of increasingly powerful androids engineered specifically to kill the Saiyan who ruined his life's work. His surveillance drones tracked Goku's development from the 21st Tournament through the Frieza Saga, gathering combat data that would inform the design of Androids 16 through 19. Gero's most horrific act was the kidnapping of two innocent human teenagers, Lapis and Lazuli, whom he forcibly remodeled into the biomechanical Androids 17 and 18. This cruelty would prove his undoing: upon activation, 17 immediately murdered his creator, crushing Gero's head underfoot with contemptuous ease. Gero's contingency plan, the bio-android Cell, was already growing in his basement laboratory, designed from the cells of every powerful warrior who had ever visited Earth. Even in death, Gero's legacy shaped the entire Android Saga and beyond: the Gamma androids and Cell Max in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero continued his work through his surviving grandson Dr. Hedo. Gero's character represents the dark culmination of human scientific ambition untethered from morality, and his self-conversion into Android 20, complete with energy-absorbing palms and an aged, white-bearded design, was a desperate grasp at immortality that failed to account for the monsters he himself had created. His hatred of Goku, sustained across decades, drove the creation of threats that ultimately threatened the entire universe. ... Read more