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Why does Dende grow so differently from Piccolo Junior? Piccolo was already an look alike adult on his 3 years old age, while Dende as an 15 years old Namekian looks like a child.
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Why does Dende grow so differently from Piccolo Junior? Piccolo was already an look alike adult on his 3 years old age, while Dende as an 15 years old Namekian looks like a child.
There’s multiple possible reasons between them.
1) Piccolo is the reincarnation of Piccolo Daimao, and Daimao may have, in forming Piccolo’s egg, caused Piccolo’s maturation to accelerate so that he could seek vengeance against Goku all the sooner. We’ve seen that Daimao has some control over how his offspring turn out (such as intentionally making [Cymbol a dragon](https://i.imgur.com/dB7RfXG.jpg) to seek out the Dragon Balls), so controlling maturation rates may also be something he could manipulate.
2) Piccolo and Dende are of two different Namekian types. Dende is of the Dragon Clan, while Piccolo is of the fighting/warrior type, so their caste system may result in maturation being different. Since the fighting type Namekian is the protector caste of the species, it would make sense for them to need to reach maturation quickly.
What to be even more confused? He was bigger and looked older in the Buu Saga.
Dende didn’t drink his water
Because Toriyama wanted it to be this way and didn’t give it much thought.
Same reason Goten and Trunks still act and look like small children
Piccolo is a warrior namekian who grows to fighting age super fast. He’s just a year younger then Gohan tbh.
Meanwhile Dende is a healer type namekian, weaker but stronger in healing.
He likes to be smol
in DBZ Dende did grow from my memory so idk why not in Super
Kid Buu saga (which takes place BEFORE super) dende is tall! Then magically shrinks IN SUPER WHAT THE FUCK
Piccolo is the fighting clan while Dense is the Dragon Clan.
Dwarf dende
Maybe cause Piccolo is part of the Warrior clan which Dende is from the Dragon Clan?
Piccolo is a member of the warrior type of namekians who would evolve fatser then healers like Dende
Why is King Piccolo like the size of a bus but Piccolo is just like a big guy?
Dende was growing in the original manga; he was a bit taller in the Buu saga, and quite taller at End of Z.
So, basically he got stuck with unchanging design syndrome, like Goten and Trunks.
It’s even weirder when you realize that in the early Buu saga, he looked like a teenager, then halfway through the arc they just made him a kid again.
They are aging Dende in the upcoming movie.
Dende has the Namekian equivalent of dwarfism
Anyone remember when Dende was grown up at the start of the Buu Saga?
goten and kid trunks are older then teen gohan lol
Just wait till you realize dende ages backwards through out the buu saga
imo it’s probably due to the caste system as it would make sense for a warrior namek to need to grow significantly faster than a mage
Probably because they are two different types of namekian. Or because Toriyama forgot that Piccolo aged super fast and made Dende age “normally”.
They are from different Namekian clans.
I don’t know, ask Trunks and Goten.
Because he’s a Dragon-type namekian and and Piccolo is a Warrior-type
Cause Dende wants to clap the Gohan cheeks and to do that, he needs to look as innocent as possible ????
Lol he got the goten n kid trunks treatment
Funny enough, it’s toriyama. He had aged dende in the buu saga manga (even in the anime they did it) but then, they unaged him because Tori forgor
Well in the Buu saga, Dende looked like he was 12-15. Now he looks like a child again.
In conclusion. They stopped caring.
Piccolo grew up on Earth which has drinking water full of chlorine and hormones which made him hit puberty much sooner than usual, Dende grew up on purified Namekian water. /tinfoilhat
I heard that it’s cause Piccolo is a warrior namekian so he matures faster. I haven’t seen many people comment about this besides 1 person on here so I started to think if I remembered wrong lol I will admit tho that I can’t remember where I heard it so I could be wrong
I think you mean Super Kami Dende
Pure spite
A queen bee has a methyl chain of atoms attach to their DNA which changes DNA expression. Thus why the grow bigger.
The same thing in Namekians. There is a line of Namekians that is of royal blood. They live much longer to become the super old elder, so therefore they grow and mature much slower.
I made-that up, except the thing about queen bees is true. Just drawing a real life comparison of how something with the same general DNA (same species) can grow to be much different than others of the same species.
Genuinely think they just forget what size he’s meant to be. At the start of buu he was a teen size then bang he’s small again and has been since for some reason.
Dende is a Dragon Clan Namekian, Piccolo is a warrior. The two types may age differently.
I thought it was because Piccolo Jr is just Piccolo Daimao reincarnated. He had no need to be a child like that. It’s also why Piccolo Jr and Kami talk like brothers instead of like uncle and nephew.
Just wait another 100 years and Dende will be big and fat like Guru 🙂 “Naaaaaaaiiiillll”
Could just be as simple as genetics maybe Dende’s father was just really short and Piccolo seems to be just as tall as king Piccolo
A Yoshi needs to eat enough to grow, silly.
It’s likely a combination of the reincarnation and being a Warrior-class Namek [So would understandably grow quick to fight] rather than a Dragon-Class. [Who would likely remain children longer to learn more]
Piccolo is built different, literally, he’s a warrior type namekian so he is just built stronger and grows fastee
Perhaps it’s because piccolo is a warrior whilst dende is a guardian so they might have two different aging patterns
Because Dende smol, and Piccolo tol
Piccolo is a warrior type Dragon Clan Namekian, Dende is not.
I mean look at Krillin? He’s a full grown adult
Not all Namakians were warrior types. Some were built smaller or not battle ready. That’s what I chalked it up to considering how all the Namekians on their planet varied.
Piccolo is a warrior namek as well. Equate him to nail, not to dende
Dragon. Ball super has a hard time changing designs [see trunks]