Saturday Crush

The Saturday Crush is simple and brutal. Raditz raises his right hand overhead, gathers a crackling sphere of pink energy, and launches it at the target. No elaborate setup, no long charge time. It hits hard and it hits fast, which makes it a natural fit for a Saiyan warrior who relies on overwhelming power rather than finesse.

Raditz deploys the Saturday Crush during the very first major battle of Dragon Ball Z. As Piccolo charges his Special Beam Cannon in the background, Goku fires a Bending Kamehameha at Raditz from above. Raditz neutralizes the blast with his own ki and immediately counters with the Saturday Crush, striking Goku out of the sky and sending him crashing to the ground. The moment demonstrates Raditz's clear power advantage over both his brother and Piccolo, setting the desperate tone for the fight that ends with Goku's sacrifice.

Raditz has a curious naming theme for his techniques: Saturday Crush, Shining Friday, Vacation Delete. The "Saturday" in the name has no in-universe explanation; it is simply part of Raditz's day-of-the-week naming motif that various games have embraced and expanded upon.

In the Xenoverse series, the technique goes by "Saturday Crash" and gains a homing and paralyzing effect on impact, making it tactically useful despite Raditz's reputation as the franchise's first jobber villain. Raditz even serves as a trainer who teaches the technique to players, an amusing second career for a character who dies in his debut episode.