Released
in: Japan, America (The World's Strongest)
Japanese Release Date: 3/10/1990 Producer: Toei
Synopsis: Oolong has "borrowed" Buruma's Dragon
Radar, and discovers that someone is gathering the Dragon Balls.
He tells Gohan what's up, and they decide to go north into the
mountains. There they find a mysterious man named Dr. Kochin,
who has just summoned Shenron. He wishes for Dr. Wheelo and his
lab to break free of their icy prison. Gohan and Oolong are
ambushed by Wheelo's henchmen, and Piccolo steps in to save
them. He is captured by Wheelo's androids, but Son Gohan and his
pig companion escape. Dr. Kochin flies to the Kame house, and
kidnaps Buruma to force Kame-sennin to come with him. Wheelo
wishes to possess the body of the world's strongest body, as he
lost his in the accident that encased him in ice. Since Dr.
Wheelo was trapped in the ice for 50 years, he believes Kame is
the best fighter on Earth. To test the martial arts master,
Wheelo makes him fight the three androids. Kame-sennin actually
holds his ground for half a minute...then he is smacked around
and electrocuted. Goku learns of what happened, and flies to the
mountains to rescue his friends. He is confronted with a number
of tests, including a battle with the fat android named
Minkatsun. After puncturing the android, he is joined by his son
and Kuririn in battle. The two other androids, Kishime and
Ebifuraiya, prove to be a challenge at first. They both fall to
Goku's Kaio-ken technique. At this point, Dr. Wheelo reveals his
most powerful follower: Piccolo. Son Goku does battle with his
old enemy, infuriating Gohan. Dr. Kochin doesn't make things
better with his inflammatory comments and energy staff. In a
blind rage, Gohan shatters Piccolo's mind-controlling gold
veins, and does serious damage to the ship. Kuririn confronts
Dr. Kochin, who greets our bald hero with a heavy machine gun.
Kame-sennin leaps in and chops off Kochin's pesky weapon, saving
his student from a few painful wounds. Now with all his henchmen
disabled, Dr. Wheelo is forced to do battle himself. His metal
body is extremely powerful, and withstands a full-force Kame
Hame Ha from all the Z warriors. Wheelo loses an arm in the
battle, and decides that he'll just wipe out the Earth. Gohan,
Kuririn and Piccolo follow him up into space, and do battle
while Goku charges a Genki-dama. Goku eventually gets his attack
off just as Wheelo is launching his planet smashing attack, and
the villain is destroyed.
