It's Over 9000!
You might remember it as Over 9000 Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z power level scene
“It’s over nine thousand!”
2006·Early YouTube
A line shouted by a character in the English dub of Dragon Ball Z, used for any large number.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Over 9000 Vegeta
- Spread in
- 2006
- Format
- Phrase
- Taken from
- Dragon Ball Z, episode 21 of the first English dub, shown in the United States on 19 April 1997
- Performed by
- Brian Drummond, as Vegeta
- What it said
- “It’s over nine thousand!”
- Origin
- Origin not yet established
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
TimelineIn order
- Made
The dubbed episode is broadcast.1
- Posted
A remix video of the line by Weston Durant is posted to YouTube.1
- Picked up
4chan sets a filter that turns the digit 7 into “over 9000”.1
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asThat is the line in the original.
ActuallyIn Japanese the figure is eight thousand. The dub changed it, reportedly because nine thousand fitted the character’s mouth movements.1
Why it is here: copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.
No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
More from 2006You were there
ConnectedFollow it further
- Spread by 4chanPhenomenon · 2003
4chan made image macros of the line and, in 2007, a word filter that produced it.
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things