Goku

For other uses of this name, see Goku (disambiguation).

Goku

Goku is a male extraterrestrial anime and manga character who features in Dragon Ball.

History

Dragon Ball

Kakarot (Japanese: カカロット, Hepburn: Kakarotto) (737 - October 12, 761; November 3, 762 - May 26, 767; May 8, 774 - 790) was a male member of the Saiyan race born on Planet Vegeta to a third-rate warrior named Bardock and his wife Gine where he had an older brother named Raditz. He was born in an era when the Saiyans were subordinate to King Cold and his empire who was looking to pass control of the warrior race to his son Frieza. By this point, Goku was only 3 years old when the Saiyan race came to be considered a threat to Frieza and he decided to dispatch the Frieza Force with eliminating the species. Planet Vegeta itself was destroyed by Frieza himself but not before the young Kakarot was placed in a pod that was launched from the planet thus sparing him from the destruction. The pod was sent towards Earth where as a child he was tasked with duty of all young Saiyans which was to grow up and ravage the planet where it would be sold to a client. Landing on Earth, he was discovered by a human named Gohan where at first he was aggressive to him but came to knock his head causing Goku to forget his mission. As a result, he was taken in by Gohan who decided to raise the boy as his son who he named Son Goku (孫そん悟ご空くう Son Gokū). Around this time, he saw the Earth's full oon causing his transformation into an Oozaru where he went on a rampage in his youth until he reverted back. It was later discovered that his tail was responsible for allowing his transformation and it was amputated to prevent him from undergoing the metamorphosis into his more destructive form. Whilst growing up, he came to be placed under the tutelage of famed martial artist Master Roshi who was a close friend of Gohan.

After many adventures as a youngster, meeting friends like Bulma, Yamcha, Oolong, and Krillin, and battling villains such as Pilaf, the Red Ribbon Army, King Piccolo and his offspring, Goku eventually came of age.

At 12 years old, the young boy lived in obscurity on Mount Paozu. Goku owns the Power Pole and the four-star Dragon Ball, inheritances from his grandfather. One day, after doing his daily chores, Goku is hit by a car when on his way home after catching a Giant Fish. Having never seen a car before, he assumes it is a monster attacking him. When the driver shoots Goku with a gun, she becomes scared after seeing that it hardly does any damage and surrenders, revealing herself to be a Human girl, named Bulma. Goku states that he has never seen a girl before and that the only human he has seen in his life is his deceased grandfather. Goku takes Bulma to his house, where she ends up discovering his four-star Dragon Ball. However, Goku does not want Bulma touching it since it was precious to him, so Bulma decides to let Goku to join her on a quest to collect all seven Dragon Balls to summon the Dragon, not revealing to him that the Dragon Balls would be scattered across the Earth once they succeeded. Later that night, when camping in Bulma's Capsule House, Goku is introduced to various technology such as Television, lights and even a bath. Early the next morning, Goku is surprised when he learns a bit about the anatomy of women after he takes Bulma's underwear off while she is sleeping. Later that morning, Goku meets Turtle, whom he decides to take back to the ocean, forcing Bulma to come along. After defeating a Bear Thief who wants to eat the turtle, they make it to the beach, where he meets his future master, the turtle hermit, Master Roshi. When the turtle hermit meets them, he rewards Goku with a flying cloud called the Flying Nimbus, that only allows people of pure heart to ride it, with which Goku has no difficulty. Bulma also receives the three-star Dragon Ball out of this, in exchange for showing the old horn-dog her underwear. Three days later, Goku and Bulma end up in Aru Village, which is under control by an evil shapeshifter named Oolong, who kidnaps the villagers' daughters. After Goku fails to impersonate Pochawompa in an attempt to find the location of Oolong's hideout, he decides to face Oolong head on. After chasing him outside the village, Goku manages to capture him, forcing Oolong to give the villagers back their daughters. Afterward, they are rewarded the six star Dragon Ball and Oolong is forced to join Goku and Bulma on their quest. While crossing the Diablo Desert on their way to Fire Mountain, Goku fights a bandit named Yamcha, who is friends with a former classmate of Oolong, named Puar. Goku and Yamcha have a duel, and Yamcha is surprised when Goku brings out his Power Pole, learning that he is the grandson of the legendary martial artist, Gohan. After nearly losing to Yamcha's Wolf Fang Fist due to hunger, Bulma awakens, causing Yamcha to flee due to of his fear of women. Later that night, Goku and the others stay the night in Oolong's House-Wagon, where Goku tells Oolong about the Dragon Balls while Yamcha and Puar hide outside and listen, also learning of the mystical spheres. The next morning, Goku fights Yamcha again after he destroys the House-Wagon and attempts to rob them. Goku knocks out his opponent's tooth and Yamcha, in a false display of apology, gives them a car that secretly has a tracking device for him to follow them.

Two days later, the gang ends up at Fire Mountain, where Goku ends up fighting the Ox-King after he attempts to kill Bulma and Oolong. After Goku summons the Flying Nimbus, the Ox-King stops fighting and tells Goku that the man who gave Goku that cloud is the same master that taught him. In an effort to douse the fire surrounding the Ox-King's castle at the top of the mountain, Goku is sent to retrieve the Bansho Fan from Master Roshi after picking up the Ox-King's daughter, Chi-Chi. When they arrive at Master Roshi's Island, he tells them that he accidentally threw the fan out and decides to come there himself and put out the flames. When they get back to Fire Mountain, Master Roshi uses a technique called the Kamehameha to put out the flames, unfortunately destroying the mountain as well. Much to Master Roshi's surprise, Goku immediately imitates the wave and makes one big enough to destroy their car. While Bulma and Oolong find the Dragon Ball in the rubble, Master Roshi asks that Goku trains with him after finishing his quest for the Dragon Balls. On their way to the last Dragon Ball, they take a break at a town which is ruled by a gang known as the Rabbit Mob. While there, Goku and Bulma get into trouble with the Rabbit Mob, but Goku defeats their leader, Monster Carrot with the help of Yamcha. When they get back on the road, they are attacked by a robot piloted by Shu, who steals five of their Dragon Balls. Luckily, though, Goku insists on keeping his four-star ball with him instead of with the rest of the Dragon Balls. Yamcha gives them a lift to Pilaf's Castle to get them back. However, once they arrive, they get locked in a room filled with sleeping gas, where Goku's four-star Dragon Ball was stolen. When they wake up, Emperor Pilaf summons Shenron and tries to use the wish to rule the world, but his plan is foiled when Oolong interferes and wishes for a pair of panties after getting out from a small hole made by Goku's Kamehameha. After trying to escape, the gang is placed into a special cell that will fry them when the sun comes out. Goku ends up looking at the full moon that night, causing him to turn into a Great Ape and destroy the cell along with the rest of Pilaf's castle. Seeing Goku out of control in the ape form, Yamcha grabs Goku's tail and has Puar turn into a pair of scissors to cut Goku's tail off, causing him to revert to his normal form. The next morning, Oolong begins to speculate that Goku is not a human, raising the question of whether he was 'some kinda space alien'. Declining the offer of his new friends to come with them to West City, Goku bids them goodbye to train with Roshi. While flying off on the Nimbus, Goku cheerfully says the world is an amazing place.

After finishing his quest for the Dragon Balls, Goku leaves Bulma and the others in order to train with Master Roshi. Roshi agrees to train Goku, but only if he finds him a pretty girl. After failing to bring him a decent girl, another wannabe student named Krillin arrives on the island, also wanting to train under Roshi, and assists Goku. After Goku fights off some Police officers, while Krillin cowers behind him, they finally return with a girl with a split personality named Launch. Satisfied with Launch, Roshi then brings Goku and Krillin to his special Training Island to train them. They are put through very strange training that seems like it has nothing to do with martial arts, such as milk delivering to increase stamina, construction work for strength, swimming away from killer sharks, dodging bee stings, all while wearing very heavy Turtle Shells. After the hard work, the two develop into two of the most powerful fighters on Earth. The huge boulder Roshi showed the boys much earlier they could not push, they can now push, much to Roshi's surprise. After eight months of training, Roshi brings them to Papaya Island to compete in the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament to test their training. Upon their arrival, Goku is reunited with his friends Bulma, Yamcha, Oolong and Puar. Goku gets through the elimination rounds easily without even trying and makes it to the main tournament. In the tournament, he is put up against a Gira named Giran in the quarterfinals. Goku struggles with the beast when he is trapped in Giran's Merry-Go-Round Gum, but his tail grows back causing him to break free and win the match, with Giran forfeiting from being scared of the young boy's power. In the semifinals he is put up against a warrior named Nam. Goku and Nam take the battle into the air, and each is almost knocked off the ring. Just before Goku is knocked out by Nam's Cross Arm Dive, Goku dodges and kicks him out of the ring. In the final round Goku battles with defending Champion Jackie Chun who was really Master Roshi in disguise. During the battle, Goku turns back into a Great Ape and starts destroying the stadium. Jackie Chun who cannot leave the arena because they are still fighting destroys the Moon to revert Goku to his normal form. The two continue their match, both losing their energy at a rapid rate. Goku ends up losing the match and learns that he should always continue to train because there are always people out there who are more powerful.

As a runner up in the World Martial Arts Tournament, Goku was told by Master Roshi that he should go out and see the world, and Goku decides that he will use this opportunity to search of his grandfather's Four-Star Dragon Ball. At the beginning of his quest he helps save Nam's Village by accompanying him to Giran's Village in order to get the river flowing again. After completing this task, he decides to go skinny dipping in an oasis where he gets his Dragon Radar stolen by a homeless kid that sells it to an Antique Store in a nearby town. Once Goku gets there and gets his radar back, he confronts Emperor Pilaf, who is holding the four star Dragon Ball. After chasing Pilaf to his flying fortress, Goku receives the ball finding out that it is fake. While following the radar's signal he ends up meeting back up with Chi-Chi who had a wedding prepared for them. Goku and Chi-Chi quickly go together back to the Ox-King's Village to find that an organization called the Red Ribbon Army has attacked. Goku and Chi-Chi fight off the troops until they fled. Goku leaves Chi-Chi and the Ox-King in a hurry to go and chase them. He ends up in the Desert where he gets into Pilaf's flying fortress while the Red Ribbon Army was attacking it. After Pilaf's fortress is destroyed, Goku is caught in the explosion and wakes up in a forest where he meets a family of monkeys. After Goku finds the Dragon Ball, he battles Colonel Silver, who destroyed his Flying Nimbus. Goku easily defeats Silver, and knocks him out with his tail.

After seeing that the Dragon Ball he found was not his grandfather's Four-Star Ball, he has one of the army's auto pilot droids fly him to the next Dragon Ball. The plane crashes when the droid freezes, and Goku freezes, unable to move. He is then taken to Jingle Village by a girl named Suno. When he awakens, he hears that the Red Ribbon Army is there as well. Goku goes to their closest base known as Muscle Tower. Once he gets in he easily takes out three soldiers and then battles an android known as Major Metallitron. Goku wins the battle when Metallitron's batteries die and proceeds to the next floor where he fights the Ninja Murasaki. Goku easily defeats Murasaki and humiliates him, an example when Murasaki lands on Goku's Power Pole. Goku proves to be a difficult match for Murasaki and even his brothers, so he resorts to releasing Android 8.[70] Android 8 ends up befriending Goku instead of fighting him because he dislikes violence, allowing Goku to reach the top of Muscle Tower. General White, the commander of the tower resorts to having his pet monster Buyon eat them, but the creature gets frozen and destroyed. General White is defeated and Goku saves the Jingle Village Chief while obtaining another Dragon Ball that Android 8 was hiding from the army. Goku finds out from one of the village elders that his nimbus still works and decides to go to West City to have Bulma fix his Dragon Radar that broke. Goku arrives at Bulma's house, Capsule Corporation, and has her fix the radar. Bulma then decides to join Goku on his quest for his Dragon Ball using her new invention the Micro Band. While still in the city Goku meets back up with Yamcha, Oolong, and Puar. They decide to spend the day in the new theme park Dream Land, where they were stalked by a thief hired by the Red Ribbon Army, named Hasky. After being tricked by her she tries to get away with Goku's two Dragon Balls but he captures her and gets them back. Goku and Bulma travel to the site of the next Dragon Ball which was located at the bottom of the sea. Not having a submarine, Goku and Bulma obtain one from Master Roshi who has Krillin join them. Under the ocean, they find a Pirate Cave, where they are chased by the Red Ribbon Army's strongest operative, General Blue. Goku defeated a Pirate Robot and a giant octopus named Octopapa while Krillin and Bulma were being attacked by Blue. Goku arrives to save them, but Goku is stunned by General Blue's telekinesis. Goku was able to break free when a mouse scares Blue. While the cave began to collapse, Goku quickly grabbed the Dragon Ball and saved his mouse friend and barely escaped with Bulma and Krillin in an old submarine they found. When they arrived back at Kame House, General Blue arrives and uses his telekinesis to tie everybody up and steal the Dragon Balls along with putting a bomb on the island to kill them. Luckily, Launch returned and set Goku free to get rid of the bomb and chase Blue.

Goku ends up chasing General Blue to Gengoro Island, where he crashes in a strange town named Penguin Village. While there Goku meets Arale Norimaki and the Gatchans who try to help Goku look for General Blue and the Dragon Balls. Arale introduces Goku to Taro and Akane who seemed interested in his flying nimbus. Goku searched through Penguin Village and asked many of the residents if they have seen General Blue. Arale takes Goku to her house to have Senbei fix his radar. While at the Norimaki house, General Blue shows up to steal Senbei's plane and fights Goku again. While using his telekinesis again on Goku, Arale surprises Goku by easily defeating him and headbutts General Blue far away. While Goku got his Dragon Balls back, he got his Dragon Radar stolen by Blue. Senbei's son, Turbo uses his powers to create him a new one with parts from Senbei's plane so he can continue his quest. Goku's next location was the Sacred Land of Korin where he defeats Captain Yellow and finally retrieves his four star Dragon Ball. There, he meets two of the lands natives, a powerful warrior named Bora and his son Upa. Seeing that their best soldiers had failed against Goku, the Red Ribbon Army turned to the world's deadliest assassin, Mercenary Tao, to kill him. Tao arrives to Goku's location and murders Bora with ease. Goku then attacks him. Goku loses against Tao in the battle against his Dodon Ray but survived because the four star ball in his shirt blocked the full force of the blast. While Tao decides to stay in a town for a couple of days, Goku decides to climb Korin Tower to get the Sacred Water of Korin. When he gets to the top, it takes Goku three days to snatch it from him. Goku drinks the water, yet does not feel any different, which Korin explained was not that the water made him stronger, but the training to try and get to it made him stronger. When Tao returns, Goku comes back and defeats him in battle by kicking one of Tao's grenades back at him, thrown after he pretended to give up. Feeling sad for Upa who lost his father to Tao, Goku decides that he will defeat the entire Red Ribbon Army and gather the Dragon Balls to bring his father back to life. Goku travels to the main Red Ribbon Army Headquarters to defeat them. While Goku is taking out several of the soldiers, Staff Officer Black kills Commander Red after learning that he just wants to be tall and not achieve world domination. Goku fights Black who uses a battle robot, Goku kills him defeating the entire army and gathering six of the Dragon Balls. When Goku leaves the base he sees all of his friends just outside of it ready to help him, but Goku tells them he already defeated them, greatly surprising everyone.

After Goku's victory against the Red Ribbon Army, he was still missing one more Dragon Ball to revive Bora, but for some reason, Bulma's Dragon Radar cannot locate it. Roshi tells Goku about his older sister Baba who can find anything. Goku sets out to Fortuneteller Baba's Palace with Yamcha, Krillin, Upa and Puar. Baba turns out to not be so generous, forcing them to fight her five strongest warriors to get their request. The first two warriors are taken care of by Goku's friends, but Yamcha is defeated by the third warrior, Bandages the Mummy.[85] Goku, the team's last fighter, takes him out along with the fourth fighter, Spike the Devil Man in Devil's Toilet. After that, Goku is put up against the fifth fighter, who seems very familiar to Goku and Roshi. The mysterious fighter ruthlessly whips Goku around by his tail until it simply rips off. Goku then wins the fight, and the fifth fighter is revealed to be his Grandpa Gohan, who was brought back from the Other World for a day. Baba reveals the Dragon Ball to be in a case Emperor Pilaf has. Goku confronts Pilaf in his new robot fused with Shu and Mai's robots and easily defeats them. With all the Dragon Balls in his power, Goku calls Shenron and revives Bora. After the wish is granted, Goku grabs the four-star ball before the others scatter. Goku prepares for the next World Martial Arts Tournament by going out into the world and training himself by the request of Master Roshi. Goku ends up meeting a girl named Chao and saves her village from two bandits known as Terror and Plague. He later stumbles into a city where he meets Chin Taiken, the master of the Chin-Star School and defeats Sky Dragon, the master of the Panther-Fang School for the title of Master of Martial Arts. Goku goes to Demon Land and saves Princess Misa from Shula with the help of Gola and Melee. Goku later chases after a monster named InoShikaCho that he later finds out is working with two martial artists named Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu in scamming villages. Goku saves InoShikaCho when Tien and Chiaotzu betray him and with the help of Tanmen, he convinces everyone that he is good. After three years are up, Goku begins his travel to Papaya Island but gets a little delayed when his new friend Konkichi gets into trouble with a gang.

At 15 years old, he came to be a participant at the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament. During this time, he came to fight numerous opponents with the strongest being Tien Shinhan a warrior trained by Master Roshi's nemesis, Master Shen - the Crane Hermit. Like Yamcha, Puar and Oolong before them, Tien, along with his best friend Chiaotzu, will eventually side with Goku. In the preliminaries, Goku was set up against a champion from a previous World Tournament, King Chappa. Goku easily defeats him, and then goes on to defeat Pamput, a famous movie star, in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals Goku is set up against his best friend Krillin, and defeats him after a fierce battle. Goku moves on to fight Tien and his Crane School style in the final round. Midway during the match, Goku is repeatedly paralyzed and pinned down by Chiaotzu and his Telekinesis technique, at the orders of Master Shen. After Goku is freed from Chiaotzu's Telekinesis, the match continues as normal until Tien decides to use the Tri-Beam attack to destroy the stage. In mid-air, Goku knocks out Tien by using a Kamehameha to swiftly propel himself into Tien's stomach. Falling at the same rate, Goku hits the ground first after crashing into a van, leaving Tien as the Tournament winner.

After the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament, King Piccolo appeared in the scene. Goku accidentally left his belongings behind and when Krillin went to pick them up at the area he was killed by Tambourine who was one of King Piccolo's mutated sons. Goku becomes angry, and chased after him through the skies, but still being fatigued from the tournament, Goku was defeated by Tambourine and his Flying Nimbus was destroyed. While trying to recover in the wilderness, Goku saw a giant fish and ate it when he learnt that it belonged to a samurai named Yajirobe who has a Dragon Ball. Later on, another one of King Piccolo's sons named Cymbal was sent to get the Dragon Ball but was killed by Yajirobe with his sword. After sensing Cymbal's death, Piccolo ordered Tambourine to find his killer. Upon seeing Tambourine again, Goku finally destroyed him in their fight with King Piccolo feeling his sons death. He then travelled to Goku and Yajirobe's location leading to a battle with the former. Goku knocked his foe down a couple of times but it was then revealed that Piccolo was holding back on his power. Upon unleashing it, he swiftly defeated Goku with his Masenko attack, causing Goku's heart to stop for a short time. Piccolo then took the Dragon Ball that Yajirobe had given to Goku. Yajirobe then took Goku to Korin Tower in order to help him recover from his wounds. Meanwhile, Tien, Master Roshi, and Chiaotzu try to stop King Piccolo from gathering the Dragon Balls, but fail and the latter two die in the attempt. King Piccolo calls Shenron and wishes for his youth to be restored, giving him the power he once had. King Piccolo then destroys Shenron, and goes on to King Furry's palace, in an attempt to rule the world

Once Goku was healed, he heads out on a quest to find the Ultra Divine Water, a sacred liquid that unleashes the drinker's hidden powers if they have any, or kills them. Goku drinks the water and survives, then heads off to King Furry's castle where he finds King Piccolo's newest son, Drum assaulting Tien Shinhan. Goku steps in and defeats Drum, knocking his eyeballs out with one kick, and challenges King Piccolo to a battle. Goku overpowered King Piccolo, even throwing him into the castle. King Piccolo eventually goes to full power, despite it shortening his lifespan, but still can not defeat Goku. King Piccolo fires his signature attack, the Explosive Demon Wave, at Goku, but Tien saves him by flying into the sky, but Goku's leg is broken. Towards the end of the fight, King Piccolo uses Tien as a hostage, attempting to force Goku to surrender. Goku nearly resumes the fight despite the fact that Tien will die, thinking he could revive Tien with the Dragon Balls, until King Piccolo tells him he had destroyed Shenron. This left Goku at King Piccolo's mercy where he ended up with a broken arm and two broken legs as a result of Piccolo's onslaught. As King Piccolo takes to the skies for his final attack, Goku, full of rage over the fact that Krillin and Master Roshi were gone forever, launched himself at King Piccolo with the one arm he had left, punching a hole through his chest and killing him. Moments before King Piccolo's death, however, he manages to spit out an egg far off in the distance that contains his final son and reincarnation, Piccolo Jr. to avenge his death and spread evil across the planet.

After Goku defeats King Piccolo, he goes to Korin Tower, where Korin tells him about the Lookout, and that Kami, being the one that created the Dragon Balls, may be able to revive Shenron. At Kami's Lookout Goku overcomes Mr. Popo's challenge of speed, and Kami, the Guardian of Earth, brings the Dragon Balls back by giving new life to Shenron. Using the Dragon Balls, Krillin, Chiaotzu and Master Roshi are resurrected. In return, Kami asked Goku to train with him and Mr. Popo for the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament to defeat Piccolo Jr., who wants revenge on Goku for killing his father. Goku's training consists of defeating Mr. Popo, who proves to be stronger than King Piccolo and for Goku to face a doll version of himself as a way of conquering his own self. With deep meditation, being still like a rock, but faster than lightning, Goku endures the toughest training of his life. During or after the training, Goku's tail was permanently taken off for the third and final time by Kami, who then makes a wish to the Eternal Dragon for the return of the moon. At some point during this training, Goku trained in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, but was unable to last more than a month in it due to the intensity. Three years later, he came to meet up with his friends and join the tournament and grown into a young man that no one recognizes. In the preliminaries, Goku was put up against King Chappa, who wanted to avenge his loss from three years prior but once again failed and was defeated. In the quarterfinals, Goku was matched up against an unknown female fighter who seemed to know who Goku was and knew the fighting style that Master Roshi taught. After Goku defeated her, she revealed herself to be Chi-Chi, whom Goku had unknowingly promised to marry years before thinking marriage was a type of food. Before leaving the ring, Goku asked for her hand in marriage.

In the semi-finals, Goku is put up against Tien Shinhan to settle the score from the last tournament. Goku and Tien seem to be even, until Goku removes his weighted clothing and becomes much faster, winning the match and leaving him against Piccolo Jr. in the final round. Before the fight started, Piccolo had trapped Kami inside a bottle with the Evil Containment Wave technique and ate the bottle, putting Goku at a stalemate; if he kills Piccolo, Kami will die too. The fight goes on for a while, but when the word spreads that Piccolo Jr. is the son of King Piccolo, the crowd flees. Goku encourages Piccolo Jr. to transform into his Giant form, tricking him to fly into his mouth to retrieve the bottle Kami was in. Afterward, the stage is destroyed as they go into full battle. Goku seems to be doing quite well against Piccolo, using the Meteor Combination rush, seemingly knocking him out, but Piccolo blasts a hole in Goku's shoulder, seriously handicapping him. Piccolo then makes sure Goku has no arms or legs to use, saying he will not make the same mistake his father did, letting Goku have one free arm to kill him with in the end. As Goku is about to die, he discovers how to fly and uses that energy to avoid one of Piccolo's attacks. He then finishes Piccolo off with the last amount of energy he has left with a full force headbutt to the chest giving Piccolo a ring out, thus giving Goku his first and only Tournament win. After Goku is declared victor, he gives Piccolo Jr. a Senzu Bean to keep Kami alive and give himself a good rival. After Goku defeats Piccolo Jr., he travels with Chi-Chi to the Ox-King's Village to prepare for their wedding. But fire erupts at the castle, trapping the Ox-King inside the flames. Goku and Chi-Chi travel to find the Bancho Fan that Master Roshi once threw away in order to put out the fire. When they find it, they are forced to fight Annin, a guardian of the border between the living world and the Other World. Goku defeats Annin and returns with the fan, which successfully extinguishes the fire. Goku and Chi-Chi get married.

He married a human woman named Chi-Chi, daughter of the Ox King. The two had a son, Gohan, born in May of 757 (obviously named in honor of his adoptive grandfather).

Dragon Ball Z

As an adult, he took his son Gohan with him to introduce him to his friends on Master Roshi's island. Whilst there, they were visited by a powerful warrior named Raditz who revealed that he was in reality Goku's brother. Raditz further explained that Goku and himself were members of a race of warriors called the Saiyan's who conquered other worlds that were then sold to their employers. He had come to the planet in order to take Kakarot with him but found Goku refused to do so leading to Raditz kidnapping Gohan. To stop him, Goku and Piccolo had to work together in fighting the powerful warrior where he died so that the Namekian could kill their mutual enemy. This saw Goku enter into the Other World but an exception was made for him whereby he would train under King Kai in order to prepare him to fight more Saiyans that were heading to Earth. Meanwhile, his friends had trained under Kami so that they could help in the battle where they were to keep their enemy occupied long enough for Goku to arrive. With his training complete, he was returned to life and made his way to confront the Saiyans where he found that many of his comrades had died against the warriors Vegeta and Nappa. The latter of these two opponents was responsible for killing Piccolo which caused Kami to pass away due to their shared connection with this leaving the Dragon Balls insert. Entering into the fight, Goku proved to be easily capable of defeating Nappa whose loss led to Vegeta killing him. Prince Vegeta then offered Goku a place under him where they could conquer worlds together but Kakarot refused the Saiyan.

Then, he travelled to the planet Namek, to battle the evil Frieza and his warriors. Goku succeeded in defeating four of Frieza's elite Ginyu Force- Recoome, Jeice, Burter, and Captain Ginyu- before facing Frieza himself. He defeated the immensely powerful villain, raising his power level to unheard-of heights and proving himself to be one of the fabled Super Saiyans.

In the destruction of Namek which was brought about by Frieza, Goku escaped in one of the Ginyu Force's ships. He learned the Instant Transmission technique from the inhabitants of the planet Yardrat, then returned home. It was when Goku returned that he met Trunks, a time traveller from a dark time, 20 years in the future, who turned out to be the son of Vegeta and Bulma. Trunks warned him of two menaces- a pair of evil androids- that would threaten the world, and that Goku himself would die of a heart virus that he contracted on Yardrat. To prevent that, Trunks gave Goku a medicine.

Three years passed, and two androids did appear, and Goku did nearly die- but the medicine saved him. However, these two androids- Android 19 and Android 20- were not the true threat, but a result of an altered history caused by Trunks' appearance in the past. The true androids- Android 17 and Android 18- surfaced later, along with a new third, Android 16. The evil Cell appeared around the same time, who absorbed the two androids known to Trunks and ascended to great power. Goku recovered and underwent training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber along with Gohan in order to go beyond the level of Super Saiyan. Goku failed to go beyond, but became more powerful nonetheless, able to remain as a Super Saiyan all the time.

Goku battled Cell, but stopped to pass the battle on to Gohan, who he knew was capable of defeating the monster where he could not. Gohan failed to finish Cell when he had the chance. Thus, Goku was slain once more in a massive explosion, when he teleported a self-destructing Cell to King Kai's planet.

Goku spent time training in the Other World, becoming the only non-fused Saiyan to attain the level of Super Saiyan 3. Meanwhile, Goku and Chi-Chi's second son, Son Goten, was born in May 767. Goku was later resurrected by the Old Kai, at the cost of the Kai's life, so that he could battle the evil Majin Buu, fusing with Vegeta to form Vegeto as part of the battle. Goku eventually destroyed Buu, and years later, trained his reincarnation Uub.

Dragon Ball Super

Four years after Kid Buu's defeat, Goku began to work as a farmer in order to gain money to support his family as her Chi-Chi's wishes. This was despite the fact that Goku simply wanted to train and fight in order to battle a potential foe that could be stronger than Kid Buu.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Goku was a male Saiyan who was noted for looking almost exactly like his biological father, He ha a similar spiky black hairstyle along with dark-colored eyes though these were softer and more kinder than Bardock whilst he had a lighter-pale skin complexion. His birth name given to him by his parents was Kakarot but on Earth his adoptive father named him Goku.

As an infant, he showed intense hostility and dedicated to carrying out his mission which was the eradication of all sentient life on Planet Earth. When found by Grandpa Gohan, Goku was shown as being an unruly savage who was very aggressive. This was until he banged his head where he seemingly lost that aggressive instinct and changed to being a more passive and timid child where he quickly took a liking to Grandpa Gohan.

He was well-noted for his love of any food even by Saiyan standards.

Goku was said to be pure of heart with him possessing no negative feelings or thoughts.

Even when he learnt he was a Saiyan, he came to consider the Earth to be his home.

He claimed to be a man of courtesy and strength. It was noted even by Frieza that despite his provocations and prior actions that Goku could not find itself in him to kill Goku. To him, it was unusual to find such a trait in a Saiyan and in them having such a strong moral center.

According to him, he did not think he was saving the world when he fought some of his enemies. In fact, he went into every conflict for the battle itself with his mind fixating on beating down the strongest in order to become stronger. Goku admitted that this was a recurring mistake on his part and thought perhaps this stemmed from his Saiyan nature. He said that he was too stubborn to stand down when facing the prospect of combating a strong enemy. Later though, he could not bear the thought of the blood of everyone on his hands because he could not resist an enemy.

Kakarot was noted for being the son of a low-ranking Saiyan warrior named Bardock and his wife named Gine. He later came to learn that he had an older brother by the name of Raditz.

On Earth, he was raised by Gohan who came to be an adoptive father to the infant and named him Goku. For much of his life, he only knew his grandfather Gohan until his death whereupon the first human he had ever met was Bulma.

After marrying Chi-Chi, she came to be pregnant with their first child who was a son that they named Son Gohan. Years later, she gave birth to their second son who was named Goten.

Powers and abilities

Born a Saiyan, he was considered a low ranking warrior though all members of his race had the natural ability to harness their ki and channel it into a variety of forms. As a result of his Saiyan Power, he had the genetic attribute to grow stronger through battle and surviving fights.

It was known that he had the capacity to quickly learn new techniques at a remarkable speed. Master Roshi had commented on Goku learning the Kamehameha in a day when it took him originally 50 years to master.

On Namek, Goku by the time of his fight with Frieza had his power leaps to 3,000,000 thanks to Saiyan Power. Thus, he was regarded as among the strongest mortal warriors where even deities had remarked that he stood as the most powerful and fittest warrior in Universe 7.

He came to learn a number of techniques that included the:

• Rock, Scissors 'N' Paper (ジャン拳 Jan Ken) :
• Kamehameha (かめはめ波は Kamehameha) : the Kamehameha was a technique taught to the members of the Turtle School by Master Roshi whereby the user cupped their hands in order to draw to their side. One there, the hands concentrated ki between their cupped hands after which they thrust them forward to fire a streaming powerful beam of energy. The move became a signature ability of Goku who used it as his most powerful beam attack against an enemy.
• Kaio-Ken (界かい王おう拳けん Kaiōken, lit. "Realm King Fist") : the Kaio-Ken was a technique taught to Goku by King Kai which allowed the user to multiply the bearer's ki for a 'heartbeat'. Thus, it increased their power and sped allowing them to deal greater damage to an opponent that was stronger than them. However, a problem with the technique was that it took a heavy toll on the users body making them vulnerable to an enemy's attacks. When in use, Goku's aura turned a crimson colour and it required a degree of ki control in order to handle it properly.
• Spirit Bomb (元げん気き玉だま Genki-dama, lit. "Energy Sphere") : the Spirit Bomb was a powerful attack taught to Goku by King Kai whereby the user was able to gather large quantities of energy from living beings around the user. This energy took the form of sparkling glittering wisps where it appeared in a blue and/or white in color.
• Dragon Fist (龍拳 Ryūken) : the Dragon Fist
• Super God Shock Flash (超神閃撃 Chōjin Sengeki, lit. Super God Flash Attack) :
• Instant Transmission (瞬しゅん間かん移い動どう Shunkan Idō, lit. "Instantaneous Movement") : a teleportation technique that was taught to Goku on Planet Yardat after his battle with Frieza. It allowed the user to travel across long distanes in an instant.

Like all Saiyans, he was born with a tail and the ability to transform into a Great Ape (大おお猿ざる Ōzaru, lit. "Great Monkey") if there was a full moon in the sky. In his case, the transformation resulted in him losing control of his mind where he became a beastial feral being driven by his instincts. Not only did he possess great physical strength but also was capable of firing powerful energy blasts from his mouth. It was expected that even as an infant that this form was capable of devastating a planet.

A further transformation he came to learn was that of the Super Saiyan God (超スーパーサイヤ人じんゴッド Sūpā Saiya-jin Goddo) where he gained god ki as a result. In this state, he gained height and muscle with his hair going blonde as it stood in a standing position whilst also generating a yellow aura around himself.

Goku came to combine the god form with that of a Super Saiyan with this state being known as Super Saiyan Blue (超サイヤ人ブルー Sūpā Saiya-jin Burū).

From Whis, Goku came to learn Autonomous Ultra Instinct (身み勝がっ手ての極ごく意い Migatte no Goku'i, lit. "Secret of selfishness") that was a very rare and highly advanced mental state.

In Other World, he came to learn of the Fusion (フュージョン Fyūjon) technique that allowed two beings to merge into a single more powerful form. For Goku, this was achieved through the Fusion Dance (フュージョン Fyūjon) that had to be performed exactly with a partner in order for them to fuse. Even the smallest misstep would lead to a failure in the technique and any fused form being even weaker than their normal state. The technique was shown to only allowed the fused being to remain in this state for a short period of time before they separated into their individual forms again. A more stable version of the fusion could be achieved by both parties wearing the Potara (ポタラ Potara) earrings worn by the Supreme Kai's.

Notes

• Goku was created by Akira Toriyama where he featured in the setting of Dragon Ball universe.
• In an early dub of Dragon Ball Movie #3: Mystical Adventure, his name was changed to "Zero."

Alternate Versions

• In Dragon Ball GT, Goku appeared in the alternate universe continuity set many years after the defeat of Majin Buu. Due to a misspoken wish on the Black Star Dragon Balls from his first foe, Pilaf, Goku was reverted to the age of a child. He went into space with Trunks and his granddaughter Pan to retrieve those Dragon Balls and save Earth from destruction. Following this, Goku fought Baby, Super 17, and the Evil Shenrons. During his battle with Baby, Goku ascended to the mighty level of Super Saiyan 4. Finally, at the age of 48, Goku's battles ended when he left with Earth's Eternal Dragon Shenron.

In other media

Films

• In Dragonball Evolution, Goku appeared in the setting of the 2009 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Justin Chatwin.

Video games

• In Dragon Ball Fighterz, Goku appeared as a playable character in the setting of the fighting video game where he was voiced by Japanese actress Masako Nozawa and by English actor Sean Schemmel in the dub.
• In Jump Force, Goku appeared as a playable character in the setting of the crossover fighting video game where he was voiced by Japanese actress Masako Nozawa.

Appearances

• Dragon Ball:
• Dragon Ball Z:
• Dragon Ball GT:
• Dragon Ball Super:

Links

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External Links

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