Frieza/Synopsis

Early Life
Freeza has a large number of henchmen at his disposal, the strongest of which are Zarbon, Dodoria, and Cui. He also has an elite army called the Ginyu Special Force, and more special forces - such as Abo and Kado.

At some point prior to the series, Freeza had a child named Kuriza.

Freeza got the Saiyans to work for him and sell planets to him, killing all their inhabitants to conquer them. When the Saiyans began getting stronger, Frieza feared that a Super Saiyan would rise up and destroy him, so he killed their king, King Vegeta, and destroyed their home planet, Planet Vegeta. Only a few Saiyans were not caught in the explosion, including Vegeta, Nappa, Raditz, and Son Goku (whose Saiyan name is Kakarot), the protagonist of the series.

Hunt for the Dragon Balls
When Raditz came to Earth and was defeated by Piccolo, he sent a message to Nappa and Vegeta about the Dragon Balls, via his scouter.

Freeza heard the message, so he and his henchmen, including Zarbon and Dodoria, went over to Namek to get the Dragon Balls so he could wish for immortality. Freeza and his men killed the Namekians of five villages to get the Dragon Balls. However, at the fifth, the elder, Moori, destroyed all his men's scouters, preventing them from tracking down the Dragon Balls. Dodoria became separated from them while chasing down Kuririn and Son Gohan, who intervened to save a Namek boy Dende from Dodoria. Dodoria never returned, as he was later attacked and killed by Vegeta.

Once he deduced that Dodoria was dead (and deeming him expendable anyways), Freeza headed back to his ship with his five Dragon Balls, leaving Zarbon and Appule to find the two remaining Dragon Balls. Zarbon ran into Vegeta and transformed into his monster form to defeat him, but Vegeta had previously attacked a Namek village and hidden its Dragon Ball. The village was discovered by Freeza's henchman Orlen, who was killed by Freeza for not finding out the location of the Dragon Ball (he killed the only survivor). Freeza instructed Zarbon to bring Vegeta to him and heal him to make him tell them where the Dragon Balls were.

Calling for the Ginyu Force
However, Vegeta killed Appule, broke out of Freeza's ship, and stole his five Dragon Balls. An enraged Freeza gave Zarbon one hour to find Vegeta or face execution. Though he transformed again, Zarbon was no match for Vegeta, who becomes stronger after each time he recovers from serious injuries. After Vegeta killed Zarbon and took the Dragon Ball that Kuririn got from Guru, the Great Elder, Freeza summoned the Ginyu Special Force. The Ginyu Force - Recoome, Burter, Jeice, Guldo, and Captain Ginyu - arrived on Namek, and Jeice brought Freeza scouters.

Vegeta joined forces with Kuririn and Gohan, however Ginyu took all seven Dragon Balls from them and brought them to Freeza. Freeza tried to summon the eternal dragon, but as he did not know the Namekian password to summon him, he was unsuccessful. So he headed toward Guru's house to get the password from him, leaving Ginyu and his henchmen behind to guard the Dragon Balls. He flew right by Dende, whom Guru asked to tell Kuririn and Gohan the password, but chose to ignore him for sake of time. He arrived at Guru's house where Nail, Namek's greatest warrior, told Freeza that if Guru dies, the Dragon Balls disappear.

Confronting Nail
To prevent Freeza to cause anymore harm, Nail challenged Freeza to a battle. However, Freeza easily beat him up, until the Namekian revealed that his plan was to distract Freeza so Dende could give the Z Warriors the password. Enraged, Freeza immediately headed back to his spaceship, and was shocked to discover on his scouter that all the Ginyu Force had been killed (except for Ginyu, who had accidentally switched bodies with a frog).

The Battles with Frieza
An extremely angry Freeza arrived at the scene shortly after Gohan, Kuririn, and Dende summoned the eternal dragon Porunga and wished Piccolo back to life before teleporting him to Namek, and after Porunga disappeared because Guru died at that moment. Freeza fought Vegeta and appeared evenly matched with him (if not at a slight advantage, seeing as how Vegeta was out of breath and Freeza was not), so Vegeta suggested that he transform, since Zarbon told him about it.

Freeza transformed into his second form (which has a fighting power of one million) and impaled Kuririn with his horn. This made Gohan angry, and he beat up Freeza. However, Freeza survived and attacked Gohan, until Kuririn was healed by Dende and cut off Freeza's tail with a Kienzan, then distracted him so Dende could heal Gohan. As Gohan, Kuririn, and Vegeta went for a head-on attack, Piccolo came. Before appearing to fight Freeza, Piccolo fused with a badly injured Nail to increase his power, and was evenly matched with Freeza.

This forced Freeza to reveal that he has two more forms and transformed into his third. He barraged Piccolo, but Gohan attacked him with a Masenko, using up all his power in the process. Freeza was incredibly angry at this point and decided that he would show them what he deemed to be the most terrifying thing in the universe, his final form.

Freeza then transformed into his fourth form, however he witnessed Dende healing Piccolo, so after finishing his transformation, he killed Dende with a Death Beam to prevent him from healing anyone again. Vegeta, who had previously been injured by Kuririn and healed by Dende (as his plan to become stronger, and maybe turn into a Super Saiyan) fought Freeza, but was simply unable to hit him. Freeza patiently waited until the Saiyan had fully realized the hopelessness of the situation and lost his will to fight. He then attacked Vegeta, slowly beating him to death, until Goku arrived, having fully recovered from his injuries from the fight with Ginyu. Freeza then killed Vegeta with a Death Beam through the chest, for no reason other than to shut him up about Goku being a Super Saiyan and how he would destroy Freeza.

Final battle with the Super Saiyan
Goku fought Freeza in an epic battle that took 19 episodes. At one point, Freeza said he would fight Goku without using his hands, but was forced to break the deal, as Goku gained the advantage after biting Freeza's tail (to prevent him from choking him). Freeza attacked by throwing rocks and chunks of land at Goku, and trapping him in an energy ball that would explode if it touched anything except Freeza. However, his one weakness was that he could not sense energy signals, and could not hit Goku unless he could see him.

Goku and Freeza were evenly matched, until Freeza powered up to 50% of his maximum and beat up Goku. Goku tried Kaio-ken x20 and briefly regained the advantage, but Freeza survived, virtually untouched, and continued pounding Goku. With no other option, Goku gathered energy from Namek and the planets around it to form a Genki Dama. Once Freeza realized the danger he was in, he tried to kill Goku to stop him, but Piccolo attacked Freeza as a distraction. Freeza was about to destroy the Namekian, but when Goku's Genki Dama was complete, he fired it at Freeza. Freeza used all his might to fight off the powerful Genki Dama, but the projectile damaged him in the progress.

Freeza somehow survived, however, though a portion of his tail was missing. He shot a Death Beam at Goku, but Piccolo took the hit and was seriously wounded. Freeza killed Kuririn afterwards, angering Goku so much that he transformed into a Super Saiyan. Ironically, Freeza had created the very thing he had so long feared and gone to such great lengths to eliminate. In this form, Goku gained the advantage over Freeza, so the extraterrestrial tyrant shot a Death Ball at the planetary core of Namek, which would inevitably cause it to explode. Frieza estimated five minutes, but five hours was more accurate (it took 10 episodes to blow up). Later, Freeza powered up to 100% of his maximum. Against the wishes of Kaio, Goku let Freeza reach his maximum so he would be sure that Freeza was beaten at his best and would never come back to haunt them.

Freeza managed to briefly regain his advantage over Goku. Eventually, the two went on a crash course, with Goku shooting a Kamehameha wave and Freeza charging at him with red energy. Though Goku appeared to be winning at first, Freeza jumped out of the Kamehameha wave and pounded Goku into the ground, knocking him into the lava. Gohan then returned to fight Freeza. Meanwhile, Mr. Popo collected the Earth's Dragon Balls and Kaio told Kami to tell him to wish back everyone killed by Freeza and his henchmen back to life. Kuririn was unable to be resurrected, as he had already been wished back once, but Vegeta, Dende, Guru, and all the Namekians did.

Gohan used his hidden powers to gain the advantage over Freeza. As Freeza powered up again, Goku reemerged from the lava, having survived Freeza's attack. While fighting Freeza, Goku telepathically overheard Kaio's plan to use Porunga's last wish to teleport everyone on Namek to Earth except Freeza, and elected to stay behind to finish Freeza off. Guru told Dende to make the wish, however Freeza saw Porunga and got there first and started screaming for immortality. However, he did not know that one must speak the Namekian language to make a wish to Porunga, so when Dende made his wish, Porunga granted it and not Freeza's wish. Everyone on Namek was teleported to Earth except Goku and Freeza, who continued their battle.

Freeza's strength decreased with every blow and Goku beat him up. At one point, he decided to spare the evil tyrant's life, knowing that Freeza could not win, because his 100% full power put tremendous stress on his body. However, Freeza attacked Goku with his Tsuibi Kienzan (a homing energy circle razor), unwilling to accept defeat, so Goku resumed the fight with him. During the fight, Freeza overlooked a Kienzan razor that was coming up behind him (in an attempt to chase after Goku) and chopped him in half, cutting his left arm off as well. Goku decided to leave Freeza to die on Namek, but Freeza begged him for his life, so Goku reluctantly gave him some of his own energy so that he could escape. Still unwilling to accept defeat, Freeza shot an energy blast at Goku as he attempted to leave. An extremely enraged Goku shot his own energy blast at Freeza and stopped him, ending the battle.

Return and first death
However, Freeza survived the attack (though Kaio believed him to be dead), and was caught in Namek's explosion (which Goku escaped), but survived it as well (though a huge chunk was missing from his head). His father, the wicked giant King Cold, found him drifting through space, barely alive, and had him made into a cyborg, even stronger than before. The minute he reawakened, he told his father to take him to Earth so he could blow it up as revenge on Goku.

Freeza and King Cold arrived on Earth. Gohan, Kuririn (who was wished back with the Namek Dragon Balls), Piccolo, Vegeta, Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and Chaozu went out to attempt to face him, even though they knew that he would defeat them easily. However, before Freeza could start his vengeance, Trunks appeared from the future. He killed all of Freeza's henchmen, but Freeza was not in the least bit intimidated - until Trunks transformed into a Super Saiyan. After two failed attempts at destroying him, Freeza shot a giant Supernova energy ball at Planet Earth to blow it up. But Trunks caught it with one hand, so Freeza blew up the Supernova. Trunks was thought to be dead, but he escaped the explosion without so much as a scratch, and shot a Burning Attack at Freeza and King Cold. They dodged it, and then Trunks chopped Freeza vertically in half with his sword. He then sliced him to pieces and finished him off with an energy wave, reducing him to nothing more than dust and finally killing him at last. Trunks then killed King Cold just as easily.

Many years later, just before heading to Earth, the God of Destruction Beerus questioned his attendant Whis on the status of Freeza, with Whis explaining Freeza's defeats and death, and showing Beerus the fight between 50% Power Freeza and Super Saiyan Goku.

The Resurrection of Freeza
Works to both movie and Dragon Ball Super 

For years after his defeat and death at the hands of the Super Saiyans, Freeza remained in Hell. Stripped of his powers and trapped in a coccoon dangling from a tree in a lush flower field, under a bright sun, surrounded with cherubic angels and stuffed animal singing joyfully and having a great time. The worst possible torture for such a sadistic, genocidal murderer. He would come to describe it as a nightmare like no other.

However, over a decade after his supposed final defeat, his minion Sorbet, who was running his army in his place, decided that it was time for them to revive Freeza. Sorbet and Tagoma went to Earth and obtained the Dragon Balls, wishing Freeza back to life.

Freeza returned to life in his cut-up mecha state and was immediately taken back to the ship to be placed in a rejuvenation chamber. The new chamber fully healed Freeza to his previous non-cybernetic state. After a discussion with his soldiers, resulting in the deaths of several who questioned him, including Tagoma. Freeza announced that he would have his revenge, and to do so would train for four months in order to increase his power to a level on par with the Super Saiyan Gods and Gods of Destruction - which he believed himself capable of thanks to being a prodigy.

The tyrant was correct, and upon his arrival to Earth with 1,000 warriors, his mere first form was noted as being in a completely different league altogether from even the likes of Super Namek Piccolo and Super Saiyan Gohan. After his army fails to defeat the Z Warriors he wipes them all out with a Death Cannon.

Goku and Vegeta then arrive, and Freeza and Goku begin fighting, with Frieza going straight to his newly mastered final form, and Goku using his Saiyan beyond God form (his base form, but with the power of Super Saiyan God). Goku has a clear advantage and manages to avoid being damaged at all by Freeza, even when the tyrant attacks with his Golden Death Ball. The two then both reveal that they have been holding back. Goku reveals his Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form, and Freeza counters by revaling his Ultimate Evolution: Golden Freeza, the two then begin fighting again.

As the fight goes on, Golden Freeza is clearly shown to be dominating the fight - without even bothering to use his full power or fight seriously, as he easily smacks around Goku, injuring the Saiyan greatly while not even getting a single scratch to his own frame. He proves his superiority by increasing his power and releasing an energy cutter beam which, despite not even hitting Goku, has enough power in its aftershock to knock him off his feet and damage him. Freeza, Goku, and Vegeta then stop for a brief talk, with Goku revealing that he has noticed that Freeza's power is dropping rapidly. Freeza angrily realizes that this is true and begins to fight seriously, however, Goku begins using evasive tactics to cause Freeza to waste his energy.

Eventually, Golden Freeza's power drops so much so that he is unable to damage Goku with his hits. At this point, Goku easily knocks him down with a God Kamehameha wave. However, while Goku has his guard down, Freeza signals Sorbet who shoots Goku in the heart with a surprise shot, grievously wounding him. After torturing Goku, Freeza asks Vegeta to be the one to kill Goku and in exchange, Freeza will make him supreme commander of his army, Vegeta declines and has Kuririn give Goku a Senzu bean, also killing Sorbet by reflecting an attack that was aimed at Kuririn at him. Vegeta then reveals that he too possess a Super Saiyan God SS form and easily defeats his severely drained former master.

Freeza, his energy gone, reverts to his final form, however as Vegeta is about to finish him off, Freeza detonates the planet entirety of Earth, killing Vegeta and every one else on the planet. The only survivors are those that Beerus and Whis saved with an energy shield. Whis tells Goku that he is willing to rewind time so that Goku can defeat Freeza like he should have when he had the chance. Goku obliges and they go back to just as Freeza is about to detonate the planet, Super Saiyan God SS Goku leaps out and hits Freeza with a God Kamehameha wave, saving the Earth.

Freeza is sent back in Hell, and to his horror is welcomed back by the angels. He screams in agony and starts sobbing pathetically at the prospect of his well-deserved, and thoroughly satisfying punishment.