Android 15

Android 15
Japanese Name	人造人間15号
Rom Name	Jinzōningen Jū Go
Anime Name	Android 15
Manga Name	N/A
Alternate Names	15
Debut	Super Android 13! (July 1992)
Appears in	Super Android 13!
Race	Android
Family	Dr. Gero (creator)

Android 15 (人造人間15号, Jinzōningen Jū Go) is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball franchise. He makes his debut (and ultimately, his only appearance) in the 1992 film Super Android 13!. Dr. Gero's fifteenth creation, Android 15 was designed to serve Gero's vendetta against Goku, who overthrew the Red Ribbon Army as a child.

Android 17 asserts during the Androids Saga of Dragon Ball Z that Dr. Gero destroyed the first fifteen androids he designed, however this disturbs the canonicity of both the mainstream series (as Android 8 makes cameo appearances throughout both Z and Dragon Ball GT) and Super Android 13!, which features androids 13, 14 and 15 as its lead villains and provides an original explanation that Dr. Gero was murdered by androids 17 and 18 prior to personally completing 13 through 15 (leaving an underground supercomputer to finish the models posthumously).

Biography

Android 15 is completed by Dr. Gero's self-aware supercomputer alongside Android 14. The two set out for Orange Star City where they devastatingly assault a restaurant where Goku's family is in the midst of dining, in an effort to kill Goku. After rescuing bystanders in the restaurant's vicinity, a short battle between the androids and Goku and Future Trunks ensues; the fighters soon after take their combat to an isolated glacial area, where they are followed by Gohan and Krillin.

While 15 and 14 are taking up arms against Goku and Future Trunks, a third android arrives on the scene: Android 13, who was completed by Dr. Gero's supercomputer later than androids 15 and 14. Upon his arrival on the scene, 13 confronts Goku, leaving Trunks and Vegeta to struggle against 15 and 14, shortly after which Piccolo intervenes to assist Goku, as well. Ultimately, Android 15 is destroyed by Vegeta following Vegeta's transformation to Super Saiyan, in sync with the destruction of Android 14 by a Super Saiyan Trunks, however even their deaths are fail-safe in Gero's plan, as 13 pauses to absorb components from 15 and 14, resulting in his fusion into Super Android 13.

Special abilities

• Flight, the ability to fly without the use of ki.

Voice actors

• Japanese dub: Toshio Kobayashi
• Funimation dub: Phillip Wilburn

Trivia

• Android 15 can be seen drinking what is presumably alcohol out of a small flask several times throughout Super Android 13!.
• Android 15 is one of few android models not to have blue eyes, the others being being androids 8 and 14, as well as Cell.

From Dragon Ball Wiki, a Wikia wiki.