for needing 17 to sacrifice himself and mocks his death as meaningless. After ringing out Hit, he doesn't even deem Goku worth fighting anymore, which absolutely infuriates Goku. When Jiren was young, his parents were killed by an "evil-doer." In the anime, when Goku meets him, his first action is to teleport behind Goku and to tell him to get lost, and when Liquiir speeds up the reconstruction of the arena, he doesn't even move a muscle as he has already sensed the blocks. This is made more explicit in the manga. he had been using the Pride Troopers all along to further his own goals and it is very heavily hinted that he wishes to use the Super Dragon Balls to bring back his dead friends and family. Gicchin respected Jiren, but would not appoint him as a successor, something Jiren resented, because Jiren couldn't work with others. Now Jiren has less than a minute to deal with three opponents. Even Toppo's pep talk is based on Jiren's, murder of his teacher, friends and family, plus the subsequent abandonment of the remaining students, Jiren became a jaded, who is not above mocking Toppo or using his fellow Pride Troopers as pawns for the sake of attaining more power, After being defeated by Goku, Frieza, and 17's teamwork, Jiren finally comes to realize what a jerk he's been. What is Jiren's Backstory? • Power Impact - Jiren's signature move, Jiren fires a red-orange ki blast in the form of a fireball. Later on, Vegeta managed to see through Jiren's moves and actually managed to land a blow on Jiren's mid-section. Jiren never gets knocked down and nearly eliminated by Ultra Instinct Goku like he does in the anime. Similarly, he only took Goku out after his Ultra Instinct form wore out. which was meant to reflect Jiren's original personality, the only thing in life that matters in the end is power, loses it, and attempts to kill all of Goku's friends, even managing to overpower Goku at several points and stalemate him, He then attacks the spectators in the stands just to spite Goku's belief, is a better source of power than being an, It's enough to throw him into a murderous frenzy. He gets even smugger after 17 seemingly dies, and decides torture Goku and Vegeta before eliminating them because he knows they are not a threat to him. He mocks Goku and Vegeta for being weaklings after, Instead of immediately knocking off Goku and Vegeta immediately, he decides to brutally beat them to show them their own weakness before they are erased to validate his ideal of personal strength. After learning his backstory, Jiren has become a foil to Vegeta. However, he is a hero and loved character in his Universe. Jiren's pursuit of justice manifests in a wish that would have, for its selfishness, left all the universes destroyed, despite his lifetime of selfless heroism. While most villains serve as Evil Counterparts to Goku, Jiren is a Shadow Archetype with a very similar upbringing but gone down a more darker path. Unsurprisingly, he makes it clear that he isn't fond of Goku during their first meeting. After tanking Vegeta's Final Flash, he takes the time to say it wasn't half-bad before blasting Vegeta. To Toppo. Though he. He pretends Vegeta's Final Flash knocked him out by laying face down in the dirt. Jiren is a character from Dragon Ball Series, he makes his debut on Dragon Ball Super as the main "antagonist" of Universe Survival Saga. Goku came along, and challenged that view. Each time, Jiren's the only survivor, In the anime, when Jiren finally loses his advantage and starts getting beaten by Goku, who is invoking, Episode 127 reveals that underneath the mask of, Toppo unleashing his full power as a God of Destruction and. Back to Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super, or to character index page. as Goku's best attacks can barely budge him off the ground. Subverted in the series proper. 1 Description 2 Intrude 3 Saitama 4 Jiren 5 Pre-Death Battle 6 Death Battle 7 Results 8 Next Time One Punch Man VS Dragon Ball Super! The first time is when he knocks out a rampaging Kale, but decides not to ring her out. He just straight-up beats him. Though Frieza managed to catch Jiren off guard with a kick to the head, he never stood a chance, even as Golden Frieza as Jiren halts his attack with one hand. He calls Toppo pathetic after he gets eliminated. being so entrenched in the past that he'd use the omnipotence of the Super Dragon Balls solely to bring back his master so he can say he's proud of him. This is what allows Goku to fight him still, as he is able to use his controlled state to counter Jiren. Upon releasing his full power, this barrier became more powerful to where it is able to shield Jiren from the likes of Goku's Kamehameha, Vegeta's Final Flash, and an energy beam from Android 17 simultaneously. Despite being able to eliminate him easily, he uses Vegeta as a living punching bag to the point where even Goku found it horrific to watch, and he was only eliminated after Jiren got bored. When Goku is charging the Spirit Bomb, he worries he might not have enough time to charge it against Jiren. Goku tells him that the secret to his strength is due to his. Although he also mentions that he wishes to have the power to bend time and space itself, so what he could mean is that he doesn't trust dragons to fulfill his wish for him, so he wishes to gain the power to do it himself. Just as he’s about to take out an exhausted Goku in 130, he openly calls him “proud warrior Son Goku” and admits he wishes it could end differently and that he would live on after erasure in his memory. Once unleashing the true force of his power, Jiren's body admits a red aura that takes on a texture similar to that of fire and an additional layer, appearing as if he is literally burning with a double aura. his wish would have been considered so selfish that it would leave the Zenos no choice but to destroy Universe 11, meaning he would have doomed his universe alongside the other 7. The return of Goku's Ultra Instinct in their, Later, his focus on eliminating Goku and Vegeta allows 17 the chance to, during their climactic battle Goku breaks the hard truth to him about how he’s winning because of his friends’ belief in him. Goku relies on finding and utilizing those stronger than him while Jiren's past experiences and unmatched strength leave him dismissing the same thought. It's possible the game script was written before the personality change. Over time, Jiren became a skilled fighter and other students were drawn to train at his side for his cause. With it, he was able to fight back Goku's Universe 7's Spirit Bomb, block Hit's final assault, and even disperse Vegeta's Final Flash. The latter is particularly notable in the manga. Only taking Kale out of her Berserker Form as opposed to KO-ing her ended up hurting the Pride Troopers quite a bit. In the manga, Jiren's usage of this was strong enough to effortless repel Perfected Super Saiyan Blue Goku. He rants at Goku that friends are nothing to fight for when Goku tells him his reasons for why he battles. In fact, the two fight evenly (although Jiren isn't playing seriously at this point). His energy alone, just by existing, blocks base Goku's Kamehameha. After being revived by 17’s wish, he converses with Toppo about wanting to meet and battle Goku again and admits to his inability to trust people. When the division led by Kahseral decide to single out Kale and Caulifla (both were at a disadvantage at the time) after Android 18 took Tupper out, Kale ends up gaining a controlled Super Saiyan form, and the two proceed to take the entire division outside of Cocotte out (who is taken out by 18 not too long afterward). 0. Everyone else from Universe 7 has to dodge at least one. I won't go through that ever again!". As Belmod reveals, Jiren's master Gicchin never acknowledged him as an official successor before he was killed. That said, like the anime, beating UI Goku still costed him most of his power. And his confidence is hardly unjustified as two warriors from Universe 3 attempted to attack him only to be repelled by his energy wall. Once Goku starts to master Ultra Instinct on his third try, Jiren actually, It's minor, but he has a look of shock before, And although not to the same extent, he's also visibly surprised when. In the manga, his failure to stop his master Gicchin from dying haunts him to the present day, though unlike in the anime there's no indication he ever faced the demon responsible for his master's death directly or was present. Vermoud: "Jiren is a man who is completely devoted to justice. Breaking well beyond his previous limits, Jiren unleashed a newfound power so intense, the very release of it caused the top portion of his Pride Trooper uniform to be blasted off, and set his surroundings ablaze with fiery ki. Combined with his ability to survive the vacuum of space and his tremendous speed, Jiren's flight leaves any spaceship useless to travel from one planet to another. His first appearance has him on a planet, completely alone while merely meditating. Previous antagonists were all straight out evil, while Jiren is solidly a Hero Antagonist, and in the manga, arguably more heroic than the protagonists. Forums. That being said, he still views them as a means to an end, though he grows out of this mindset by the end of the arc. This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content. Devastated, Jiren vows to grow stronger and challenge the evil-doer again but the friends who survived the first attack refused to fight at his side. Whenever UI Goku and Jiren get into a, This is indicated both by his lack of a standing aura (the, he's actually more like Toppo personality-wise, but Jiren himself doesn't care and treats the Pride Troopers and Belmod like garbage anyway. Jiren is a tall humanoid with an extremely muscular and well-defined build. Shenron007. He knows that the Pride Troopers and even Belmod consider him a friend, but he treats them like pawns and is not hesitant to abandon them if it is necessary. He does the same in the manga with less trouble (Goku never really gains the edge there); Whis refers to his and Goku's fight as a "war of attrition" and Beerus openly wonders which one will run out of juice first. These are simply Jiren's normal punches when he is displaying a hint of his true power. when Toppo thanks Jiren for his efforts, despite losing, Jiren can't help but ask why he's thanking him, considering he treated them all like trash throughout the entire tournament. He lucks out in Goku's Ultra Instinct timing out just at that moment. Vegeta defeats Toppo, who was a good match for CSSB Goku, by. When he fights Ultra Instinct Goku with power only slightly exceeding his, he's able to maintain an advantage for most of the fight. Arguably becoming no better than the villain from his past. It isn't until Goku involuntarily activates Ultra Instinct does he, the assassin manages to trap Jiren in a Time Cage, keeping him frozen. The evil doer came back and killed Jiren's sensei, also a lot of his friend's. Menu. A manga-only example: he defeats the giant monster that was restraining Dyspo and Toppo with a single blow, then shrinks it and puts it into a capsule. Ultra Instinct Goku starts to push him back at full power he becomes increasingly irrational and hysterical as his beliefs are pushed to the limit until eventually he decides to try and massacre Goku’s friends and family in the spectator stands both out of spite and out of a deranged desire to prove his ideals are better than Goku’s. His power cannot be defeated by a God of Destruction, making him easily one of the strongest warriors in all the multiverse. The flashbacks shown during Belmod's explanation of his past reveal that Jiren simply trained hard all his life. To say nothing of nearly causing 17's death, even if it happened indirectly. Although he never openly acknowledges Goku or Hit as such (the closest to this is him saying Saiyans are "interesting"), he does admit that they are the only guys in the tournament he believes he would be required for and, after beating them, goes right back to meditating. That said, Jiren's raw power is such that even if he, In an interesting play on the trope, Jiren's victory over Hit actually qualifies as one for Jiren. Abandoned by his friends after the death of his family at the hands of an evil entity, Jiren trusts in only his absolute strength to guide him to victory and not the strength of friends or family, believing strength alone to be his salvation from failing to protect those he cared about. Being unable to let go of the past. he realizes just how powerful Final Flash is before he gets hit by it. Downplayed in that Jiren is both highly trained and very powerful, but the story makes a point that his fighting style is fairly basic when you really analyze it. He had Jiren join the Pride Troopers, a preexisting organization, to fix this issue. the one thing he actually desires is the full approval of his former master, Gicchin, who was killed by a monster. Vegeta's fight against him didn't make him react at all, but once Vegeta proclaimed that he will get the wish, Jiren was visibly pissed and decided to strike back. His master and friends; ooh, power can take that away from him too. After years of training with his master and others, the same monster reappeared, though Jiren believed he and the friends he made would stood a chance, most of them, including his master were killed. Jiren vs Cumber Oren And Zamasu Full Fight English Sub - Super Dragon Ball Hero Episode 9 English Sub. In the Manga, when Hit has him locked in a Time Lag, he lets Hit knock him close enough to the edge just to speed up his attack and turn the tables on him. He would later acknowledge Goku as a "proud warrior" for being able to best in him power, and vows to never forget him even after he ceases to exist. Toppo rejects this, pointing out how Jiren fought for everyone in the end and now they’re true comrades who together will face down Universe 7 again and win. and even in the same tier as actual Gods of Destruction, maybe even stronger, the incomplete Ultra Instinct twice, once from their battle and again against Kefla, matching Goku's third usage of it after he overcomes his initial surprise, even overcoming the very same finishing move Goku used on Kefla. In the manga, he compliments 17's bravery when he self-destructs, and comments that he was pained to see him die. He later does so for Goku and Hit. Being cornered by Goku reminded him of his previous failure in the past, and caused him to go berserk and awaken his hidden power. 1. breaks even with him thanks to his perfected Ultra Instinct state, he starts to have trouble even comprehending how Goku is able to keep fighting. but Goku was able to reach Ultra Instinct just before Jiren hit the finishing blow. He also doesn't consider the Pride Troopers or Belmod as friends and treats them like tools, despite them obviously caring about him. A pretty subtle one, but Jiren is overprotective of his chance for a wish from the Super Dragon Balls. In the anime, he doesn't really care about his Pride Troopers teammates, he's cold and aloof, and has made more than one scathing remark about Android 17's, when an unnamed evil entity kills not only his parents, but his master and comrades. Abandoned by his friends after the death of his family at the hands of an evil entity, Jiren trusts in only his absolute strength to guide him to victory and not the strength of friends or family, believing strength alone to be his salvation from failing to protect those he cared about. If he is defeated, Universe 11 goes down with him. Once 17 revives the defeated universes, he expresses a desire to fight Goku again, He's possibly stronger than the Gods of Destruction, but went. His Ultimate Skill in Xenoverse 2. He is said by Top to be the strongest member of Team Universe 11. In both the anime and manga, all of Goku's attacks up to Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-Ken do nothing to him. He used this attack to stop Kale's rampage and several times throughout the Tournament of Power. He isn’t evil, and Goku and the gang could use his tremendous power to stop future villains. Jiren’s response to his worldview being questioned is to. Both lost their families at a young age and were left alone until they gained friends and started training under a master, both strive to get stronger and are heroes and the, Jiren's friends gathered around him because of his strength, but he considers them impersonal associates, at best; since Jiren is, Ultimately, Jiren and Goku's personal contradictions stand in direct contrast to one another, especially in the manga where Jiren is more heroic. And no matter how evil a villain he's up against, his absurd conviction is … Jiren was never evil. Both have strong feelings towards justice and they're both the, His brutal and completely unnecessary beating of Vegeta and Goku was just because he wanted to crush their spirits. His fight with Frieza. Jiren, on the other hand, was actually a celebrated hero in Universe 11, and just happened to be playing for a different team. His assault on the stands is a culmination of this. He participates in the Tournament of Power for the purpose of obtaining a wish from the Super Dragon Balls. In the anime specifically, he also fights Jiren solo for a while and lasts a decent bit, with Jiren being forced to take the offensive. towards Toppo. Toppo abandoned his ideals of justice and peace to become a God of Destruction, facing no other alternatives. • Vacuum Survival - In the manga, Jiren is able to survive in the vacuum of space as he proved able to travel through the vastness of space from one planet to another, finding it the quickest way to continue his duties. 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