Dragon Ball: What Happened to Launch?

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With it being such a long-running series, it's no surprise that not every character still commonly shows up in Dragon Ball. However, a fan-favorite from early on in the show suddenly disappearing is something that's hard not to notice. Launch, with her iconic split personalities that changed whenever she sneezed, was one of those characters.

Sadly, it seems that Dragon Ball's creator Akira Toriyama actually forgot about her accidentally while creating the series. «To tell you the truth, I totally forgot about her at one point,» he told Mandō Kobayashi in an interview. «And then I remembered her after a while and I had to think of a reason why she disappeared. So I made it seem as if she were running after Tien Shinhan.» Despite this lapse of memory, she has made many curious cameos and her influence on the series still is felt to this day.

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Launch has two extremely distinct personalities — Good Launch and Bad Launch. Good Launch has blue hair and is incredibly sweet and kind. She's so pure of heart that she can even ride the Flying Nimbus in the series. She's also a bit ditzy and somewhat clueless, always missing Master Roshi's attempts to try and be a bit too perverted towards her when she lives in the Kame House.

Bad Launch has blonde hair and is more likely to fire at people with her machine gun than make nice talk of any kind. She's a wanted criminal with a bounty of $2,000,000 and is seen committing robberies in her first appearance in the anime. While she later becomes far less arrogant and bullying in this form towards her friends as the series goes on, she's still always a powder keg ready to blow.

Launch was actually introduced to the series whenMaster Roshi sent Goku and