Launch is the blond-brunette split-personality woman whose dual nature — a sweet, gentle blue-haired good girl and a machine-gun-toting blonde bandit — made her one of the most memorable characters of the original Dragon Ball series before her baffling disappearance from the main cast. A runaway fugitive with a price on her head, Launch's condition was involuntary: every time she sneezed, she switched between the timid, kind-hearted Blue Launch and the violent, gun-crazy Blonde Launch.Launch is the blond-brunette split-personality woman whose dual nature — a sweet, gentle blue-haired good girl and a machine-gun-toting blonde bandit — made her one of the most memorable characters of the original Dragon Ball series before her baffling disappearance from the main cast. A runaway fugitive with a price on her head, Launch's condition was involuntary: every time she sneezed, she switched between the timid, kind-hearted Blue Launch and the violent, gun-crazy Blonde Launch. Master Roshi and Krillin took her in as a live-in housekeeper (Roshi's motivations were predictably lecherous), and Launch became a fixture of Kame House during the original Dragon Ball and early Dragon Ball Z. The Blonde Launch, despite her criminal tendencies, was fiercely protective of Tien Shinhan, developing a genuine crush on the three-eyed warrior — a relationship that, tragically, never developed beyond her one-sided affection. Launch's disappearance from the series is a minor Dragon Ball legend: Akira Toriyama admitted he simply forgot she existed after the Saiyan Saga. In the manga, she is shown chasing Tien through the mountains during the Buu Saga's epilogue, confirming she survived and maintained her pursuit. In Dragon Ball Super, she makes only the briefest cameo, waving at the sky during the Spirit Bomb collection against Kid Buu. Launch's dual-personality gimmick allowed Toriyama to have two characters in one design slot: Goku and Krillin's domestic handler and Roshi's bane/blessing. The visual transformation from innocent blue-haired maiden to wild-eyed blonde criminal with an Uzi was a running gag that never got old. Launch represents the human characters who existed before the power scaling left them behind: not strong, not plot-essential, but brimming with personality and the kind of grounded, absurd humor that defined the original Dragon Ball before the fate of universes hung in the balance.... Read more
