The 30-Year-Old Secret Hidden in the Ginyu Force's Names

The Ginyu Force are the most feared elite squad in Frieza's empire - flamboyant, posing, planet-crushing super-warriors who nearly wiped out our heroes. And every single one of them is named after a dairy product. Captain Ginyu is milk (gyunyu). Recoome is cream. Burter is butter. Jeice is cheese. Guldo is yogurt. But it is far more than a pun: dairy is the perfect theme to deflate the most pompous villains in the series, undercutting their epic self-image with the humblest things in the fridge. This is the full squad roster - member by member - the decode of every dairy name, and why this ridiculous, secretly brilliant naming joke is one of Toriyama's funniest pieces of comedy craft.