Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z shouting 'IT'S OVER 9000!!!!' in the definitive source image from the anime series.

Over 9000

1997

Published March 10, 2026

" Over 9000" is a popular catchphrasebased on an awkwardly translated quote from the Japanesemanga animeseries Dragon Ball Zthat is typically used as an innumerable quantifier to describe a large n...

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Overview

" Over 9000" is a popular catchphrasebased on an awkwardly translated quote from the Japanesemanga animeseries Dragon Ball Zthat is typically used as an innumerable quantifier to describe a large number of something like " several", " lots", " butt loads" and even the metric " ass tonne".

Origin & Background

Creator
Dragon Ball Z meme

How It Spread

According to Kajetokun, the video was originally shared with his friends as an inside joke, but it was posted to 4chan's/b/(random) board by his friend Patrick shortly thereafter. In the following weeks of October 2006, YouTuber Kajetokun's video quickly drew attention from the fans of Dragon Ball, inspiring a series of remix video s on YouTube, variousimage macro sanddemotivational posterson 4chan, as well asparodysites dedicated to the phrase on YTMND. The first Urban Dictionaryentry for " over 9000" was submitted on November 21st, 2006, defined as: The phrase continued to take hold on YTMND and 4chan, where the number 9000 soon became adapted as a slang term to describe something or someone of impressive strength.