As the centerpiece of the final arc of Dragon Ball Z, Majin Buu is one of the most interesting characters in the Dragon Ball universe. Though Majin Buu Saga is probably the weakest among the lot in the series, it did have some memorable moments. Throughout the years, the characterization of Buu has evolved from pink menace to comedic fodder. After finally splitting off into good and bad incarnations in the saga, the Fat Buu has since reformed into the side of good, often aiding our heroes as well as eating all of Hercule's food.

Thanks to the prevalence of Dragon Ball-related video games, the background and stories of the Majin race has been thoroughly explained in Dragon Ball Online, where Good Buu finally created a female mate for himself and had kids. In Dragon Ball Xenoverse, the Majin race is finally usable and can be heavily modified, both in color and in stature. Who knew there were so many subtypes of Majin?

With Dragon Ball Super in full-swing, we should put the character of Majin Buu back into the spotlight. Here are 20 crazy and mind-blowing factoids about the roly-poly character that you will want to know.

20 All The Colors Of The Rainbow

While the based color of Majin are typical pink, just like other pinkish entities such as Kirby and Jigglypuff, the Dragon Ball Xenoverse games allow gamers to actually choose the color of their Majin character. The colors vary from the traditional pink to red, blue, and even yellow. Of course, the extremely bad Evil Buu was shown in the animated series as gray. The Teapot Genie, who was featured in one of Toriyama's other series Dr. Slump as the basis for Majin Buu, was blue like the genie in Disney's Aladdin. As a purist, I prefer my fat characters being pink like bubble gum. It's weird how much of a difference the new colours make.

19 The Disney Connection

Like with the other characters in the Dragon Ball-universe, the characters named are based upon real-world items, including the Saiyans having vegetable-related names and individuals of Frieza's face being named after temperature, usually of the cold and frosty variety. Because of this, it makes Toriyama's naming habit quite an interesting and well-thought one. Majin Buu's name is correlated to the other two magical individuals, Bibidi and Babadi, the former controllers of Buu. Together, their names are derived from the song “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo,” the song sung by the Fairy Godmother in Disney's Cinderella. The terminology itself doesn't really have any true meaning. Sing it with me now...

18 Absorbing The Fat

Why exactly is the Majin Buu so fat when he debuts in Dragon Ball Z? Using his power of absorption, Majin Buu tends to adopt the physical traits of his “fused” victims. Due to the fact that Buu absorbed Grand Supreme Kai millions of years prior to the events of Dragon Ball Z, the debut form of Majin Buu resembles the portly physical stature of the permanently-absorbed Kai, as well as maintaining his purplish cape. The Fat Buu has the good-hearted nature of Grand Supreme Kai and his appetite for food. This Buu has maintained that trait throughout all of his onscreen and on-page appearances.

17 The Fusion Reborn

In Dragon Ball: Fusions, Majin Buu gets another fusion, which is much more fearsome than his fusion with Mr Satan (Hercule). An EX-Fusion of Kid Buu and Super Janemba forms Janembu. Janemba is the main antagonist of the film Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn. While looking rather comical in his base form, the Super form of Janemba is extremely powerful and dangerous. He is so powerful that only Gogeta, the fusion dance form of Vegeta and Goku, could defeat him. Janembu is extremely difficult to defeat in Dragon Ball: Fusions if he is able to utilize his Regen technique, where is can recuperate all of his health, prolonging the battle.

16 A World With No Buu

In Future Trunks timeline, Majin Buu does not awaken from his hibernation due to the fact that Trunks is able to effectively destroy both Dabura and Babidi with a giant blast before they could resurrect the monster. With no other entity to be unable to awaken the dormant Buu, it never exists in the Future Trunks timeline. Even with the battle between the Fused Zamasu and Super Saiyan Blue Vegito, which would probably be enough power to have him awaken, without any beings like Babidi or Dabura still alive to do the deed, Buu cannot be brought back to life. After the events of Dragon Ball Super, this universe is erased from existence by the Zen-oh of this timeline, meaning that there could never be even a chance that Majin Buu will ever exist again.

15 Infinite Possibilities

One of the most interesting aspects of the characters within the Dragon Ball universe are the copious amounts of transformations. Since the various evolution of Frieza and the Super Saiyan form in the first major arc of Dragon Ball Z, fans pretty much await the next great transformation in the series. An idea that is rarely touched upon is the transformation possibilities of Majin Buu, which is dependent on who he can consume. This pretty much makes his possible transformations infinite in number. Even without the hypothetical transformations, Buu still has more forms than Frieza and Cell during the canonical series. No small feat given how many forms all of these characters have in the saga.

14 Trouble With Words

With the consumption of each victim, Majin Buu appears to gain the physical attributes and the cognition in his enhanced forms. Because the Fat Buu has some of the personality of Grand Supreme Kai in his makeup, he is able to speak in a very childish method, usually uttering words rather than a complete sentence. When he absorbs other entities such as Gohan and Piccolo, he is able to even communicate quite well. His purest form of Kid Buu, which has no outside influence, cannot communicate and can only give off aggressive grunts. Thus, his linguistic traits correlate to the amount of intelligence he can absorb. A small tid bit, but interesting (and telling!) nontheless. Buu is such a cool character.

13 Enter Miss Buu

Though it is assumed that there is really only one gender of Buus, it is explained in Dragon Ball-related video games that there are females to the race. Getting her start in Dragon Ball Online, Miss Buu was formed out of Majin Buu's fascination with Bob & Margaret, an adult book in Mr. Satan's collection. Like with his purging of Evil Buu in Dragon Ball Z, Buu creates a female mate for himself through the usage of his own flesh. Thus, the idea of females of the Majin race was born. Want to know how babies are made among the Majin race? Stay tuned for that little factoid, coming up later in this article. It's not as simple as a sentence ... there's a lot to unpack.

12 The Most Powerful Human

Featured in Dragon Ball GT, Good Buu and the reincarnated form of Kid Buu named Uub eventually fused permanently to form Majuub or Super Uub. This super-powered form of Uub granted the human the Majin ability to manipulate matter, such as turning creatures into chocolate, but permanently eliminated Buu's ability of body manipulation or regeneration, one of the most powerful powers of Majin Buu. Being that Uub is the most powerful pure human on Earth, his fused form probably the most powerful hybrid-human in the Dragon Ball franchise, perhaps surpassing even Goku and Vegeta's offspring and Krillin. Well, maybe that last one wasn't so hard to surpass.

11 Super Test Of Strength

After being recruited to take part in a tournament between Universe 6 and 7, Majin Buu fell asleep while taking a written exam, disqualifying him from the tournament. In the manga, Buu actually fails the exam by spelling his name wrong. Indeed, he is not the sharpest tool in the shed. In order to survive universe elimination, Buu is recruited, once again, as part of the team. During a match with Universe 9, Majin Buu fights Basil, a wolf-looking creature from that universe. Because his best friend Mr. Satan (Hercule) was nearly killed by an attack by Basil, Buu promptly overpowers him and wins the match. For an evil being, Buu sure is cute — his relationship with Mr. Satan never gets old.

10 The Majin Cameos

Like with other characters created by Akira Toriyama, they often make cameo appearances and have series crossovers. One of these situations happened when Arale from Dr. Slump and Goku from the original Dragon Ball ended up meeting. Majin Buu also follows Toriyama's crossover formula. Buu makes a cameo appearance in the 1997 version of the Dr. Slump anime, where Arale puts an issue of the Dragon Ball manga into Slump's Reality Machine, a device that can actually turn inanimate objects to life. This results in Majin Buu and Goku making a cameo in their black-and-white comic incarnations. He also appears in Nekomajin, another one of Toriyama's comics, where he meets Neko Majin Z's friend and ends up fighting Usagi Majin. He actually reads this manga in his appearance in Dragon Ball Super.

9 Video Game Debut

As a staple in Dragon Ball-related video games, Majin Buu's first gaming appearance was in Dragon Ball Z: Super Butoden 3, published by Bandai in 1994 for the Super Nintendo/Super Famicom. The game is based entirely on the Majin Buu Saga, thus all of the available characters are directly from that story arc, aside from Super Saiyan Future Trunks who is a secret unlockable character. Unlike its previous release, Super Butoden 3 lacked an actual story mode, usually a guaranteed inclusion in most Dragon Ball games. In lieu of the story mode, the game features a tournament mode, where a trophy was the ultimate prize for finishing the mode.

8 The Voices Of Buu

All of Majin Buu's various forms and transformations are voiced by one person in Japan, Kozo Shioya. Shioya, who has been active since 1979, lending his voice-acting talents to such series as Mobile Suit Gundam, Slayers, One Piece, and Ranma ½, as well as several Tokusatsu series. His younger brother, Yoku, is also a voice actor. In the English dub, more specifically the Funimation version, Majin Buu is voiced by two actors, Josh Martin and Justin Cook. Martin voices Fat and Kid Buu, while Cook voices the more-eloquent Evil and Super Buu. Unlike the dubbed version, Shioya's acting of Buu doesn't deviate as drastically as his English counterparts.

7 The Unplanned Saga

According to several sources, Akira Toriyama assumed that the end of Dragon Ball Z would be at the conclusion of the Cell Saga. With Goku dead, Future Trunks returning home, and Gohan taking the mantle of the world's most powerful hero, it does seem to wrap the story into a peaceful and satisfying conclusion. Since the Dragon Ball franchise ended up being monumentally successful, the addition of the Majin Buu Saga was indeed something that was unplanned by Toriyama; thus, probably explaining why the arc was the weakest of the bunch. With Dragon Ball GT being a sequel totally outside of Toriyama's scope, it is a refreshing change of pace to have his involvement in the Dragon Ball Super series.

6 Super Buu Stronger

While there has been a lot of speculation over which form of Majin Buu is the strongest in Dragon Ball Z, the most popular answer is that Super Buu is more powerful than his pure evil Kid Buu form, the final enemy in the entire DBZ series. Though Kid Buu is an engine of pure destruction due to it not having any traits or personalities of his fused victims, the Super Buu form with Gotenks, Piccolo, and Gohan absorbed is probably the most powerful Buu of the series. This evidence is proven in the game Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2, where his profile states that Super Buu (Gohan absorbed) is indeed the strongest.

5 Majin Satan

Hypothetical fusions are some of the more enjoyable fan-speculated topics. Thanks to Dragon Ball: Fusions, some of these hypothetical characters became a reality, at least a reality within the scope of that particular game. Video games have been a great vehicle in elaborating upon the basis laid by the mainline series. Since the good Majin Buu is best friends and housemates with Mr. Satan (Hercule), their fusion form is pretty much a no-brainer inclusion in the game. Named Majin Satan, this fusion maintains all of Fat Buu's roly-poly body with Mr. Satan's hair, both hair-wise and facial-wise. Hands-down one of the silliest characters to exist, ever.

4 Ratopa The Supreme Kai

Thanks to Dragon Ball-related video games, the stories, and backgrounds of the Majins, more specifically Majin Buus, are expanded upon, leading to some interesting and complicated factoids. Revealed in Dragon Ball: Fusions, the Majin known as Ratopa served as a Supreme Kai, being the only one from the race to do so. Not much is known about Ratopa other than the fact that he eventually quit his duties as Supreme Kai. It is probably to due the stresses of the job and the idea that most Majin Buus spend their time eating. Other than this lone screen, Ratopa doesn't play a huge role in the game or in any other Dragon Ball-related fiction.

3 The P90X Buu

After absorbing Grand Supreme Kai millions of years ago and going into hibernation, the good Majin Buu goes through some drastic weight loss in Dragon Ball Super, the sequel series to Dragon Ball Z. After defeating Basil and being named a member of Universe 7 Team in the Universe Survival Saga, Majin Buu is seen training at Kami's Lookout and looking uncharacteristically slimmed down. This Buu spars with Goku and wins the bout, but unfortunately, he falls into hibernation and will likely sleep through the tournament. Thus, Goku ask to resurrect Frieza from the afterlife, once again, in order to fill the roster spot, much to the chagrin of all of the heroes. Can't keep a good Buu down!

2 Frank Ocean's Buu

Being as influential around the globe as American-created superhero franchises, Dragon Ball is often referred to in various forms of popular culture including in the Frank Ocean song named “Pink Matter,” a track off of the artist's “Channel Orange” album which also features Andre 3000 from Outkast. In the song, the portly character is mentioned on this particular line: “That soft pink matter, cotton candy Majin Buu.” Though it is probably wise not to speculate the actual meaning of this song, his inclusion in this Ocean track further proves the lasting popularity of the character. And come on, the reference is too good not to make — he NEEDED a throwaway line.

1 Majin Dumplings

Maybe you have heard of the idiom “Clip Off The Old Block”. This next factoid about Majin Buu definitely takes that to heart. After Majin Buu created a female mate for himself in the Dragon Ball Online video game, he also creates a mating technique in order to birth offspring. Both Majin Buu and Miss Buu tears off pieces from their body and mixed them together and created Majin dumplings. Through the usage of the Love-Love Beam technique onto these little pieces, the dumplings turn into baby Majin; thus, developing an entire backstory for their entire race in subsequent games. Yes, you read this correctly. Majin dumplings.