This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. It was released on and in North America on May 26, 1998, with an English dub, produced by in association with. Pioneer's dub used the original voice cast of the TV series. It was later remastered and released in a Double Feature set with Dead Zone on and DVD on May 27, 2008. The film was released to DVD again on November 1, 2011, in a remastered box set containing the first five Dragon Ball Z movies. Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest Running time 58 minutes Country Japan Language Japanese Box office ¥1. The Malaysian English dub was released to VCD in Malaysia, while AB Groupe's English dub aired on TV in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, as well as seeing a home release to VHS and DVD in some of the formerly mentioned countries. Both dubs use Toei's official English title rather than Funimation's title, and until recently, the voice cast of the AB Groupe dub version was unknown, but then it has been determined that they used voice actors who were involved in French TV shows like , while the Malaysian dub's cast remains unknown. The Toonami version was released in the Dragon Ball Z: Rock the Dragon Edition box set on August 13, 2013. While looking at the Dragon Radar, Oolong notices that all of the Dragon Balls are starting to be gathered together. Kochin summons Shenron and wishes for Dr. The ice begins to break away and a building emerges. Gohan and Oolong look on in disbelief, when they are suddenly attacked by Dr. Piccolo shows up to save Gohan, but is overcome by three mysterious fighters, while Gohan and Oolong escape. Kochin and his Biomen soon appear at Kame House, and request that Master Roshi come with them. He refuses and easily defeats the Biomen, but Dr. Kochin kidnaps Bulma to force Master Roshi to go back with him to the lab. Bulma discovers that Dr. Bulma informs them that Son Goku is now the strongest man in the world. Oolong informs Goku of the situation, and he heads out to find Bulma and Master Roshi. He arrives at Dr. Goku defeats Misokattsun by bursting through him with the Kaiō-Ken, but is then sealed up in ice by Ebifurya. Using the Kaiō-Ken, Goku breaks free from ice and defeats the two remaining bio-warriors. Wheelo, demanding he give Bulma back, but Dr. Piccolo, who has been brainwashed by Dr. Wheelo, appears and a battle between the two rivals commences. Gohan tries to stop Piccolo, but he simply swats Gohan away. Wheelo's brainwashing device on Piccolo. He begins to break his robot body free from the wall, subsequently knocking Dr. Kochin down an energy shaft, killing him. Everyone watches on in horror, including Krillin, who has freed Bulma. The true battle begins, and Dr. Wheelo seems to have the upper hand. Even the three-person Kamehameha of Goku, Master Roshi, and Krillin has no effect on him. Soon, Goku and Piccolo are the only ones left able to fight. Goku resorts to using a Kaiō-Ken powered Kamehameha, which merely knocks Dr. Goku begins to form a Spirit Bomb, but Dr. Wheelo interrupts him before he can throw it by shooting ki blasts at him. The others fly up to distract him so Goku can successfully throw the Spirit Bomb. Wheelo in Funimation's English dubs is a brilliant scientist who performed experiments in biotechnology. He is the primary antagonist of the movie The World's Strongest. Wheelo's ultimate goal was to modify the human race using his science. He was about to die before he could realize his goal, but Dr. Kochin, his faithful servant, saved his brain and turned him into a cyborg. Unfortunately for them, their fortress became stuck under ice with Wheelo inside. Kochin came through for his creator a second time fifty years later when he gathered the Dragon Balls and wished for Shenron to thaw the ice-enshrouded fortress. Freed from his frozen sleep, Dr. Wheelo became obsessed with finding the world's strongest man so that his own brain might be transplanted into it. He sent Kochin and Bio-Men to find this man, and at first they thought it was Master Roshi, but when Kishime, Misokatsun and Ebifurya his Bio-Warriors easily beat Roshi, Dr. Wheelo started to doubt they had the right person. He then went after Goku's body. Wheelo's further attempts to subdue Goku met with failure such as using a special device to make Piccolo fight Goku and Gohan , the enraged scientist decided to kill him and all his friends. When that also failed, Dr. Wheelo decided to just concentrate the energy contained within his laboratory's power core to fire a gigantic wave and destroy the entire world. Goku was able to form a Spirit Bomb and used it to overpower Dr. Wheelo's attack and destroy the robotic scientist for good. Wheelo also appears on the poster, but he is not featured in the movie. Wheelo Doug Rand as Dr. Wheelo Narrator Doc Harris Ed Marcus A fourth English version released exclusively in by features an unknown cast. The score for the 2006 English-language version was composed by. However, the remastered release contains an alternate audio track containing the English dialogue and Japanese background music.
