Goku (Dragon Ball/Z/GT/NG/U)



Goku is the initial protagonist of the Dragon Ball metaseries. He is the adoptive grandson of Grandpa Gohan, the husband of Chi-Chi, the father of Gohan and Goten, the grandfather of Pan and Tentuks, and later great-great grandfatherGoku Jr. Despite being a Saiyan, Goku is a defender of Earth and informally leads the Z Fighters. Throughout his life, he trains hard and strives to be the greatest warrior possible, while at the same time using his amazing strength and skills to uphold peace. These qualities make him the perfect example of a hero, though not necessarily the perfect role model, due to his lack of education.

Appearance
Goku is the main character for most of the Dragon Ball series. He has spiky black hair that never changes throughout the franchise. He is most commonly seen wearing his trademark orange/red/golden gi over a dark blue undershirt. The gi has featured Master Roshi's, Kami's, and King Kai's kanji on its left side (over the heart). It is also featured on the back. After the Freiza Saga, no symbols appear and Goku's gi turns a darker orange. He wears dark blue wristbands, along with dark blue boots that are outfitted with yellow/beige laces. As a kid, he has a tail due to his Saiyan heritage and also wields the Power Pole.

At times, Goku has been seen wearing different clothing, such as a grey business suit and tie. Most notably, after training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and in the nine days before the Cell Games, he wears casual Earth clothing consisting of a orange-and-black long-sleeved jacket, a white undershirt, lime green pants, and brown boots.

From the Black Star Dragon Balls Saga of GT onwards, Goku wears a blue gi with ochre pants. He also has a white sash going over his waist and sports pink wristbands. He wears black shoes with white shin coverings. As a Super Saiyan 4, he completely loses his gi and his body is replaced with red-pink fur. His tail returns, although it changes from brown to the more reddish color. His trademark hairstyle is gone, making his hair longer and even more wild. His eyes change to golden-yellow and has lining around them. His wristbands and shin covers turn blue, while his sash changes to a stone blue color.

After departing with Shenron, Goku returns to his original look, complete with the dark blue undershirt. Later, when he re-appears under the influence of Lord Gohan, he has an outfit similar to the one he wore in much of GT, but it is all a darker blue, with a dark red undershirt. When he finally returns in Dragon Ball Universe, his appearance is again as it was for most of Dragon Ball Z.

Personality
Goku is known for his cheerful, energetic personality and his love of competition (specifically sport fighting and eating). He has remarkable intuition at seeing the good in others in spite of their actions, though his capacity for forgiving his enemies has occasionally been criticized as excessive; Goku, for the most part, only fights to win, and spares his enemies after defeating them only for them to attack him when his back is turned. His staggering power is simultaneously reined in and enhanced by his fierce loyalty and morality. He has a simple, practical view of the world and is somewhat naive to the world around him. Because of this, many characters incorrectly assume him to be somewhat stupid, although once he has a basic understanding of things, he learns very quickly. His most remarkable ability is his will to succeed, pushing himself beyond his limitations, and never giving up even when the odds are stacked against him.

During his childhood, a recurring gag in the series was that Goku was incapable of telling the difference between a man and a woman without physically touching them, which often got him into trouble. The most notable of these occurrences was when he first met Chi-Chi, where she pushed him off of the Flying Nimbus after he patted her genitals with his foot; and in the scene where he removed Bulma's panties while she slept and was horrified to discover that she had no testicles. He eventually outgrew this once old enough to understand the difference. In addition, during his youth, he seemed to not understand the concept of pornography, as when Bulma discovered her father's secret stash of porn magazines with Goku nearby, Goku thought the girls were too poor to afford clothes, causing Bulma to angrily tell him that they weren't poor. Goku is shown to suffer from severe trypanophobia, or the fear of medical needles. He showed his fear for them twice in Dragon Ball Z, and three times during Dragon Ball GT.

Even in combat, Goku is shown to not be invincible, as he has two major weaknesses. The first weakness is his tail; before he conditioned himself prior to the Tien Shinhan Saga, Goku lost all his power when someone grabbed his tail (a trait that all Saiyans share at birth). The second is his unfathomable appetite; not only does he eat at a rate that would be nearly impossible for a normal human, but if he does not get any food, he becomes too weak to do almost anything. This weakness was never overcome, and almost got him killed against several enemies, like Tambourine and Nuova Shenron. On the flipside, however, Goku's love for food has gotten him out of trouble several times; for example, in the Tournament Saga, when put to sleep by Jackie Chun, Bulma was able to save his match by screaming to him that dinner was ready, to which Goku immediately woke up to break the count.

Early Life
Kakarot (renamed Goku on Earth) was born sometime in Age 737 on Planet Vegeta, during a time of great turmoil. Following a Saiyan custom, Goku was sent as a baby to planet Earth, in order to destroy its inhabitants and clear the planet for its future sale. As Earth's inhabitants were thought to be weak, a baby Saiyan was seen as enough for the task, especially after transforming into a Great Ape by Earth's full moon. Goku's father, a low-class Saiyan warrior named Bardock, perished in his home planet's destruction shortly after Goku's departure, and his older brother Raditz was nowhere to be seen. It is unknown what happened to Goku's mother.

After crash-landing on Earth, Goku became the adopted grandson of an old man named Gohan, who found him in the woods and gave him his human name. At first, Goku was extremely violent and ill-tempered, not obeying Gohan at all, but one day he fell down a deep ravine and hit his head, suffering severe head trauma that sent him into a coma and very nearly killed him. After he woke up, he had lost all of his Saiyan aggression, becoming a kind and mild-mannered young boy. His Grandpa Gohan taught him martial arts and told him about such things as the city and people, as they lived in a very remote place in Mount Paozu, with no communication with other people.

Gohan one day discovered Goku's full moon transformation, and thus told him to never look at the full moon. However, one night Goku did, and he transformed into a Great Ape, causing him to unknowingly kill Gohan. After his grandpa's death, Goku stayed at his home, carrying out his daily life of survival. From a young age, Goku developed the impression that his birth parents abandoned him in the mountains as a baby, leaving him for Grandpa Gohan to discover.

Quest for the Dragon Balls
Goku is introduced in the Dragon Ball manga and anime at approximately 11 or 12 years of age (initially, he claims to be 14, but it is later clarified during the Tournament Saga that this is because Goku had trouble counting), as a young boy living in obscurity on Mount Paozu. Goku owns the Power Pole and the four-star Dragon Ball, inheritances from his grandfather.

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 is 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. Early the next morning, Goku meets Turtle, whom he decides to take back to the ocean, forcing Bulma to come along. There he meets his future master, the turtle hermit, Master Roshi, who 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.

Goku and Bulma end up in Aru Village, which is under rule by an evil shape shifter 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, but then Bulma awakens, causing Yamcha to flee due to of his fear of women, but later 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 meets the Ox-King. 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 Wave to put out the flames, unfortunately destroying the mountain as well. Much to Master Roshi's surprise, Goku is immediately able to imitate 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. Yamcha gives them a lift to Pilaf's Castle to get them back.

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 back to his normal form. The next morning, Oolong begins to speculate that Goku is not a human, raising the question of whether he is "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.

The 21st World Martial Arts Tournament
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. Their training begins after they finally return with a girl with a split personality named 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 (even he is surprised at his remarkable new power) and makes it to the main tournament.

In the tournament he is put up against 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 of the ring. Just before Goku is knocked out by Nam's attack, Goku dodges and kicks him out of the ring. In the final round, Goku battles with defending Champion Jackie Chun (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.

Battling the Red Ribbon Army
Goku is 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. Later, 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, but they 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 faces a variety of foes but easily takes them out in the end, so General White resorts to releasing Android 8. 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 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 the others, and they decide to spend the day in the theme park, where they were stalked by a thief hired by the Red Ribbon Army named Hasky, but they easily overcome her.

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 bearly 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 all the way to Gengoro Island, where they crash in a strange town named Penguin Village. While there Goku meets Arale Norimaki, but whilst 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. However Arale’s friends make him a new one.

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, but 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 doesn't 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.

For some reason Bulma's Dragon Radar cannot locate the last Dragon Ball, so 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. Goku, the team's last fighter, takes him out along with the fourth fighter, but is then put up against the fifth fighter, who seems very familiar to Goku and Roshi (who had joined the group as a spectator). Goku is able to win 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, who Goku easily defeats. With all the Dragon Balls in his power, Goku is able to call Shenron and revives Bora. After the wish is granted, Goku grabs the four-star ball before the others scatter.

Meeting Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu
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 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.. After three years are up, Goku begins his travel to Papaya Island but gets a little delayed.

By the time the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament starts, Goku is 15 years old (though he still looks like a preteen boy). Goku's strongest opponent is Tien Shinhan, a warrior trained by Master Roshi's nemesis, Master Shen - the Crane Hermit. Like Yamcha and Puar before them, Tien, along with his best friend Chiaotzu, will eventually side with Goku.

In the preliminaries, Goku is 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 paralysed 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.

The evil King Piccolo
Right after the conclusion of the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament, King Piccolo appears in scene. Krillin is killed by Tambourine, one of King Piccolo's mutated sons. Goku becomes angry, and chases after him through the skies, but still being fatigued from the tournament, Goku is defeated by Tambourine and his Flying Nimbus is destroyed. While trying to recover in the wilderness, Goku sees a giant fish and eats it, which belonged to a samurai named Yajirobe, who has a Dragon Ball. Cymbal, another one of Piccolo's sons, is sent to get the Dragon Ball, but is killed by Yajirobe with his sword. After sensing Cymbal's death, Piccolo orders Tambourine to find his killer, but Goku finally destroys him. King Piccolo feels this and arrives at Goku and Yajirobe's location and fights Goku. He swiftly defeats Goku with his Masenko attack, causing Goku's heart to stop for a short time. Piccolo then takes the Dragon Ball Yajirobe gave to Goku. Yajirobe takes Goku to Korin Tower to help him recover.

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 is 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, and then overpowers King Piccolo, even throwing him into the castle. King Piccolo eventually goes to full power, despite it shortening his life span, but still can't 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 leaves Goku at King Piccolo's mercy.

Goku ends 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 are gone forever, launches 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.

King Piccolo's reincarnation
Goku heads to Korin Tower, where Korin tells him about Kami's 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 asks 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 trains with Mr. Popo, enduring the toughest training of his life. During or after the training, Goku's tail is 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.

Goku returns three years later at the age of 18, to meet up with his friends and join the tournament and grown into a young man that no one recognizes. In the preliminaries, Goku is put up against King Chappa, who wants to avenge his loss from three years prior, but fails again. In the quarterfinals Goku is matched up against an unknown female fighter who seems to know who Goku is, and knows the fighting style that Master Roshi teaches. After Goku defeats her, she reveals 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 asks 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. Afterwards, 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. 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, concluding the original Dragon Ball series.

Dead Zone
Four years later, Garlic Jr. and his henchmen kidnap Goku’s young son Gohan in order to get the Dragon Ball he wears on his hat. Garlic Jr. uses this and the rest of the Dragon Balls to successfully wish for immortality. Goku, Kami, Piccolo and Krillin go to Garlic Jr.'s fortress in order to stop him. Goku and Piccolo team up for the first time, and are able to stop Garlic Jr. Thinking Garlic defeated, they start to fight with each other, in order to settle their old score. In the middle of their duel, Garlic Jr. comes back and opens a portal to the Dead Zone, trying to suck everybody in. Gohan gets angry at seeing Goku in danger, and, unconsciously taking out his power, he pushes Garlic Jr. into the Dead Zone, sealing him inside.

Alien Revelation
At the start of the Dragon Ball Z series, Goku is approximately 23 years of age, and is still living at Mount Paozu in a newly built house near his old house, with his wife Chi-Chi and their four year old son, Gohan, named after Goku's adoptive father, Grandpa Gohan. Goku drops by the Kame House with his son, to introduce him to Bulma, Master Roshi and Krillin. All seems to be well, but a new threat arrives from space; Raditz, Goku's older brother. Raditz reveals to Goku his Saiyan heritage, and informs him that he was originally sent to Earth to destroy the planet's inhabitants and prepare it to be sold, but had forgotten about it due to his head injury as a baby. When Goku refuses to carry out his forgotten mission, Raditz knocks him down and kidnaps Gohan, giving Goku an ultimatum: Raditz will kill Gohan unless Goku kills one hundred humans within the next twenty-four hours, and leaves them on the beach.

Piccolo, who had been listening to Radtiz's speech while hiding behind the Kame House, asks Goku to help him fight this new being, so they join forces. But even with their combined strength, Raditz still holds the upper hand. With the help of Gohan unleashing his inner powers to attack Raditz and weaken him, Goku and Piccolo are able to come up with a plan to win.

Goku makes the ultimate sacrifice by holding Raditz in place so Piccolo can kill him with the powerful Special Beam Cannon, which manages to kill both Raditz and Goku. Just before he dies, however, Raditz informs Piccolo and Goku that two even more powerful Saiyans, Vegeta and Nappa are on their way to Earth, and will arrive in one year. With Krillin by his side, Goku dies, and Kami takes him to Other World where King Yemma tells Goku to take Snake Way to the planet of King Kai for additional training to defeat the Saiyans.

When Goku finally makes it to King Kai's planet, he is given challenges before he starts his training, including catching Bubbles, and smashing his pet cricket, Gregory, on the head with a heavy hammer. Due to the planet's higher gravity, Goku struggles with the challenges, but eventually completes them. After that, Goku masters several new techniques and increases his strength considerably. His friends on Earth manage to wish him back to life using the seven Dragon Balls, but, due to a miscalculation on King Kai's part (he forgot to take into account the time it would take to get back) he still must travel back down Snake Way, which King Kai estimates will take about two days at Goku's current power level in order to reach Earth and join the battle against the Saiyans, which was already underway and going badly for the Z Fighters.

With Tien, Chiaotzu and Yamcha already dead, Piccolo had sacrificed himself to save Gohan, which inadvertently killed Kami as well. Goku arrives on the scene, saving Gohan from Nappa's power, and powers up, surprising Vegeta with his new power. Much to everyone's surprise, Goku had become powerful enough to defeat Nappa without much difficulty. When Nappa goes to kill Krillin and Gohan, Goku breaks Nappa's back with the Kaio-ken Finish, but Vegeta is the one who kills him at the end. When Goku begins his battle with Vegeta, they seem even. Vegeta gains the upper hand with even the Kaio-ken times two not working. Goku, in a desperate attempt, powers up to Kaio-ken times three, and overpowers Vegeta, causing Vegeta to go in a rage and attempt to destroy the planet with a Galick Gun. Goku's Kaio-ken Kamehameha and Vegeta's Galick Gun blasts collide, and Goku beats Vegeta in the Beam Struggle by going Kaio-ken times four, however, causing his body great pain. When Vegeta returns, he transforms into a Great Ape using a Power Ball, and Goku realises he is the one who murdered his Grandfather, and apologies for it, hoping for forgiveness.

After a long battle, Vegeta is eventually defeated by Goku's Kaio-ken and Spirit bomb techniques, and the timely intervention of his remaining companions Krillin, Gohan and Yajirobe. However Goku had been brutally beaten to near death, with his legs getting crushed and broken by Vegeta in his Great Ape form. After the fight, Krillin attempts to take Vegeta's life using Yajirobe's katana, but is stopped by Goku, who convinces him to spare his life to give him a second chance at changing his evil ways and hopes to have a rematch one day.

Journey to Namek
After the battle with Vegeta, Goku is severely injured, and Korin is out of Senzu Beans, so Goku has to stay behind in Wukong Hospital with Chi-Chi while Gohan, Krillin and Bulma go to planet Namek to find the Namekian Dragon Balls in order to revive their fallen friends. After a few weeks, Korin grows a new batch of beans and sends Yajirobe to give one to Goku, which heals him completely. Goku then uses Dr. Brief's new spaceship, which he constructed from Goku's original Saiyan pod, to go to Namek.

During his trip to Namek, the artificial gravity machine in Goku's ship malfunctions, causing it to create 100x earth's gravity, nearly crushing Goku. When he is finally able to gain control of the machine, however, he decides to leave it on this high setting in order to train to fight Frieza. However King Kai advises him to steer clear of Frieza, claiming that he is the strongest being in the universe, and that Goku would stand no chance against his evil might.

Arriving on Namek, once again Goku enters a battle already in progress, this time saving Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta from the assault of Recoome, a member of Frieza's elite fighting squad, the Ginyu Force. Goku heals the three of them with Senzu Beans, and shows his new powers by defeating Recoome with one elbow to the stomach, and then takes on Burter and Jeice together. Goku then takes out Burter, but then faces off with the leader of the Force, Captain Ginyu. After a little sparring, Goku powers up in front of Ginyu, with his power level scaring Ginyu and Jeice, as it was much higher than theirs. Critically injuring himself, Captain Ginyu then swaps bodies with the more powerful Goku but is not able to fully control his new body and power. Vegeta takes this chance to battle him, seriously injuring Goku's body. Goku manages to get his body back after intercepting a beam sent by Captain Ginyu to swap bodies with Vegeta.

Goku's body, worn out and beaten, uses a Medical Machine inside Frieza's spaceship taking several hours to heal. When he emerges, once again it is to join a battle in progress, where Vegeta meets his doom against Frieza. The battle against Frieza is furious, as he seems to be invincible. Even Goku's most powerful attack, the Spirit Bomb, fails to kill Frieza. However, when Frieza kills Krillin and critically injures Piccolo (who had been resurrected and was transported to Namek to help), Goku, in anger, taps into his inner power reserves and transforms into a Super Saiyan. He eventually battles Frieza and dominates him. After a very long battle, Frieza uses the Homing Destructo Disk technique, creating two pink Destructo Disks and trying to lure them at Goku. With Goku warning him of the incoming disk, his body is then cut off by one Destructo Disk and looses his energy. The weak tyrant begs Goku to help him. Goku, believing that Frieza does not deserve to be forgiven or sparred, gives him some of his energy since he cannot find the feeling in his heart to leave Frieza to die on the soon-exploding Namek. Angry at losing, Frieza fires a powerful energy wave at Goku. Goku notices the blast and fires an Angry Kamehameha at Frieza, defeating him.

Goku then flys to Frieza's spaceship and presses buttons to try to cause the ship to fly, however it does not work and Frieza's spaceship falls into the lava. He quickly escapes Namek using one of the Ginyu Force space pods. The pod takes Goku to Planet Yardrat, which was going to be the Ginyu Force's next target. His friends, who were teleported to Earth by a wish made on the Namekian Dragon Balls, believe him to be dead. However, months later, when they attempt to revive Goku and Krillin by warping them to the check-in station, they learn that Goku is alive. When they decide to transport him back to Earth, he declines, stating that he'll return later. While on Yardrat, Goku learns a new technique called the Instant Transmission.

Super Saiyans and Androids
Two years later, at the age of 26, Goku returns to Earth where he is confronted by Trunks, the half-Saiyan son of Vegeta and Bulma from the future. The teenage Super Saiyan had just killed both Mecha-Frieza and his father King Cold a few moments before Goku's arrival. Trunks then tests Goku's strength in battle. Satisfied, Trunks gives Goku medicine for a heart virus that he will contract in one or two years, telling him to use it when he starts feeling the virus' effects. Future Trunks also warns him about two androids that will threaten the Earth in three years, in revenge for his defeat of the Red Ribbon Army. Goku, Gohan and Piccolo then spend the next three years training for this new threat. However, Future Trunk's visit somehow alters the onset of the virus, so it does not manifest during those three years (six months prior to the Androids arrival), and therefore Goku does not use the medicine.

Earth soon comes under attack just weeks before the Androids are due to arrive, but it turns out to not be Androids, but instead a mixture of fleeing Namekians and strange robots. Goku aids the Namekians, and then sensing that New Namek is in danger, travels his friends in order to help their Namekian friends. After getting there, they discover that Cooler (the brother of Frieza who had previously been overcome by the Z Warriors and Vegeta whilst Goku was in space) was saved by the Big Gete Star from his destruction, and is now back as a machine, leading an army of robots that have enslaved the Namekians. Goku tries to fight Meta-Cooler but he is no match for Cooler's new powers; the Cyclopian Guards manage to defeat and capture Goku's friends. Not even after turning Super Saiyan, and getting Vegeta's help as a new Super Saiyan too, are they able to stop Meta-Cooler; on the contrary, thousands of copies of Cooler appear, knock down and capture the two Saiyans. Cooler then tries to steal the Saiyan's energy to give more power to the Big Gete Star, but Goku and Vegeta are able to overload it by sending all of their energy at once. They thus destroy the Big Gete Star and the robot army, and Goku and Vegeta manage to blast the last remains of Cooler. On returning to Earth Vegeta promises to show Goku that he will prove he has surpassed him in the upcoming battle with the Androids; Goku keeps it to himself that Vegeta has become a Super Saiyan.

Three years later, two androids, Dr. Gero (as Android 20) and Android 19, appear and attack a city. The Z Fighters confront them but despite being a Super Saiyan, Goku is bested by Android 19 when he begins to drastically weaken from the heart disease he was warned of, which starts manifesting itself during the fight. However, Vegeta, saves Goku and takes over the battle. Yamcha takes Goku to Chi-Chi to get the medicine that will save his life from the killer virus. Meanwhile, Dr. Gero states he will unleash 17 and 18, and he flees from the battlefield. However, once Dr. Gero activates 17 and 18, they are revealed to be unruly and kill him, and activate another android, Android 16, as well, who was solely created to be Goku's assassin.

Combatting Cell and the Saiyan of Legend
While the Z Fighters try and fail to stop the androids, Piccolo (who had recently fused with Kami) discovers a new threat named Cell, a large biological lifeform created by Dr. Gero, made with DNA taken from Goku, his allies, and foes they fought in the past. Cell was designed to absorb Androids 17 and 18, in order to achieve a perfect state, kill Goku, and conquer the cosmos. Cell hunts down the androids and absorbs Android 17, transforming into his second stage. Meanwhile, Goku heals from his sickness and takes Gohan, Vegeta, and Future Trunks to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber at Kami's Lookout to obtain a year of training in one day under heavy gravity and incredibly volatile temperatures. Vegeta and Trunks go in first and, while Goku and Gohan enter the Chamber next, go to find and fight Cell. Goku realizes that half Saiyan hybrids like Trunks can turn Super Saiyan, so he trains Gohan intensely and helps him become a Super Saiyan. During this training, Goku notices that the potential Gohan has can easily surpass Goku's own powers, especially after Gohan managed during their training to transform into an unprecedented Super Saiyan level before losing consciousness during a training session, and that, if he is unable to kill Cell, Gohan will. Goku also unlocks the Ascended and Ultra Super Saiyan forms, but notes that the increase in mass leads to a severe loss of speed, making the forms useless.

After Goku and Gohan finish their training, Cell announces that he will be holding the Cell Games in ten more days, in order to give a chance to anyone who wants to challenge him. For ten days, Goku and Gohan stay on Earth to train and relax while maintaining their Super Saiyan form the entire time. Goku also uses this time to travel to New Namek to ask Dende to be the new guardian of Earth, as Piccolo had fused with Kami in an attempt to stop Cell, and the fusion had made the Dragon Balls useless. After Dende creates new Dragon Balls based on the old ones, Goku searches for those reactivated Dragon Balls in order to use them after they defeat Cell to correct everything Cell had put wrong. Also, most shockingly, another Saiyan returns to their midst and seeks for Vegeta.

Goku is with Gohan, but don’t initially leave with the others due to Chi-Chi, but later he is warned by King Kai about the appearance of the Legendary Super Saiyan. Goku teleports around the galaxy trying to focus on the Legendary Super Saiyan's ki, eventually arriving to New Planet Vegeta. There Goku met several of his friends, including Vegeta, who had been brought there by a Saiyan called Paragus who wanted Vegeta to be the king of a new Saiyan planet. However, they eventually discover that Paragus' son, Broly, is in fact the Legendary Super Saiyan. Broly breaks free of his father's control and attacks Goku and the Z Fighters, who are no match for him. It is revealed that an asteroid was approaching the planet, and that Paragus had tricked Vegeta to kill him, in order to avenge his grudge against Vegeta's father. All the beaten fighters give their energy to Goku, who is able to punch and defeat Broly. Goku escapes with his friends using Instant Transmission, just before the asteroid destroys the planet. Still Full-Power Super Saiyans, Goku and Gohan, along with the rest of the Z Warriors return to Earth to continue preparing for the Cell Games.

After ten days have passed, the Z Fighters head to the Cell Games. After the supposed strongest person on Earth, Mr. Satan, is easily defeated, Goku offers to be the first Z Fighter to fight Cell, believing that he is no match for the villain in order to truly test Cell's abilities. Goku finds himself almost equally matched but still at a disadvantage against a heavily suppressed Perfect Cell in every way, and cannot seem to gain the upper hand after many attempts. Even after trying the Instant Kamehameha (a combination of the Instant Transmission and Kamehameha), which destroys Perfect Cell's upper half, he watches in horror as the android regenerates easily, thanks to Piccolo's cells in his body. After getting tired and worn out, Goku decides to give up and leave the battle to Gohan, whom he is convinced has the hidden power necessary to defeat Cell. Gohan then powers up to a point where his energy eclipses even Goku's, and fights with Cell, but halfheartedly. After Gohan tells Cell that when he gets angry he gets much stronger, Cell starts to get curious and tries to force Gohan's inner powers out of him by making his children, the Cell Jrs, attack Gohan's friends and his father. All the Z fighters cannot beat the Cell Jrs, including Goku, who was worn out from his battle with Cell. After Android 16 attempted self destruct on Cell, he tried to convince Gohan that fighting is sometimes needed. When Cell destroys Android 16's head, this triggers a change in Gohan, forcing him to ascend to Super Saiyan 2, a form in which he greatly surpasses Perfect Cell, easily overcomes to the point of forcing him to regurgitate Android 18 because of the damage he has sustained.

When a beaten Cell tries to destroy the Earth as a last resort, Goku is forced to step in with his "Instant Transmission" technique when Cell is about to trigger his self-destruction. He teleports them both to King Kai's Planet, where he is killed by the explosion Cell caused, along with King Kai and his pets Bubbles and Gregory. However, Cell is able to reconstruct himself as Super Perfect Cell, a trick even Cell himself didn't know he had, and uses the recently learned Instant Transmission to go back to Earth. Goku then motivates Gohan from the Other World to help fuel Gohan's Kamehameha wave against the reconstructed Super Perfect Cell, which, after a lengthy beam lock, successfully obliterates him. After Cell's defeat, Goku insists that he should stay dead, even though they could resurrect him, because he has attracted too many problems to Earth, like Frieza and the Red Ribbon Androids. Goku decides it will be safer for Earth if he doesn't return, and Earth has Gohan to protect it if needed.

The Otherworld Tournament
While a dead Goku is hanging around with King Kai in the Other World, the Z Fighters enter a tournament on Earth, which was hijacked by the alien mercenary Bojack. He had been freed from his imprisonment when Cell made King Kai's planet explode, thanks to Goku. The Z Fighters are unable to defeat Bojack and his band, and when Bojack starts to bear-hug Gohan to death, Goku teleports to Earth using Instant Transmission (something somehow against the rules of the dead), which allows him to appear briefly and punch Bojack away. Goku also tells Gohan to protect the Earth and unleash all the anger and power he had in him. Goku then vanishes back to the Other World. Not sure if he really saw his father, Gohan is nevertheless encouraged enough to release his power and defeat Bojack.

Without a home, the dead Goku and King Kai then head to the Grand Kai's planet to go see the Grand Kai and enter the Other World Tournament. The winner would be trained personally by the mighty Grand Kai himself. When they arrive, they confront King Kai's rival, the West Kai, accompanied by his strongest fighter, Pikkon. Grand Kai instructs Pikkon to travel to Hell and stop Cell, Frieza, King Cold, and the Ginyu Force from causing havoc. Goku accompanies Pikkon to the fight and takes down the Ginyu Force, only to be astonished when Pikkon takes down Cell with ease, and proceeds to fell Frieza and King Cold with one blow. Upon his return to King Kai, Goku is welcomed by many of King Kai's powerful warriors, such as Olibu, who was once the hero of Earth. During the Tournament, Goku easily makes his way through the tournament by defeating Caterpy of the South Kai, Arqua of the East Kai, and Maraikoh of the West Kai. Goku then faces off with Pikkon in the finals. After a long fight, they are both disqualified on a technicality, but the Grand Kai allows them both to train under him. Over the next seven years, while Goku is training in Other World he achieves Super Saiyan 2 and Super Saiyan 3,the latter of which boosts his power even beyond his already-near-omnipotent Super Saiyan 2, but delivers an excruciating strain and immeasurable ki consumption.

A Day Back on Earth
Seven years later at the age of 36 (physically 28 due to death, both current and during the Saiyan Saga), Goku is given special permission to return to Earth for one day to participate in the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament, which he knows Gohan, Vegeta, Trunks, and his youngest son Goten, will be attending. Upon his return he meets his second child, Goten, who had been born after his death in the Cell Games, and Videl, Gohan's girlfriend from his high school who is the daughter of Mr. Satan, the fraud who received the credit for saving the world from Cell. Goku was going to be set up against Vegeta in the 6th match, finally being able to settle their rivalry, but had to be postponed because Videl was beaten badly by the supposed weakling Spopovich, who, along with Yamu, is controlled by the evil wizard Babidi. While Gohan is matched up against Kibito (the assistant of the Supreme Kai, who was in the tournament as well), Spopovich and Yamu both steal Gohan's Super Saiyan 2 energy and left the tournament while all the Z Fighters in the tournament ditched the tournament to follow them to Babidi.

The Supreme Kai and his assistant, Kibito, introduced themselves and informed the Z Fighters about the plans of Babidi who wishes to bring destruction and terror across the whole universe by bringing back his extremely evil monster puppet by the name of Majin Buu. The Z Warriors follow Spopovich to Babidi's ship where they are ambushed by Dabura, the powerful ruler of the Demon Realm, who kills Kibito and turns Krillin and Piccolo to stone. Goku, Gohan, Vegeta and the Supreme Kai enter Babidi's ship and they take turns defeating each of his minions on each room of the ship, their power leaving Supreme Kai in awe. Goku fights Yakon who absorbs his energy, but Goku kills him by overpowering and exploding him. While Gohan is against Dabura, Vegeta complains that he can do better. When Babidi hears that, he possesses Vegeta through the evil in his heart and turns him into Majin Vegeta making him evil once again. Goku and Vegeta are both transported to a deserted landscape for them to settle their battle, while Gohan and the Supreme Kai continue on to stop Babidi.

The ancient monster, Majin Buu
Goku and Majin Vegeta have an earth shattering battle which gives more than enough energy for Majin Buu's awakening, and, although are they perfectly matched, fighting each other at the Super Saiyan 2 level, Goku ends the fight when he senses that Majin Buu has been released and pleads with Vegeta to help him defeat Majin Buu. In a false show of agreement, Vegeta knocks Goku out from behind while he is getting a Senzu Bean out of a bag. Vegeta then eats the only Senzu Bean left and flies off to face Majin Buu alone.

Upon awakening, Goku could sense neither Vegeta nor Gohan anywhere and comes to the conclusion that they have been killed in the battle (when actually Gohan was narrowly saved by the badly injured Supreme Kai, and only Vegeta died in a vain attempt to try and eradicate Majin Buu). He heads to Kami's Lookout and is healed by Dende. After transporting everyone to the Lookout, he tells the bad news to them. With the little time he has left on Earth, with the help of Piccolo, he decides to teach Trunks and Goten the Fusion Dance, which he learned from Metamorans while in Other World, so they may form one immensely powerful being that might stand a chance against Majin Buu.

‎After finding out that the Dragon Radar is still in West City and Majin Buu is about to cause more destruction, Goku decides to distract him while allowing Trunks to head into West City and retrieve the Dragon Radar before it is destroyed along with everything else in West City by Majin Buu, otherwise they will never be able to find the Dragon Balls. Goku teleports to Majin Buu's location, and shows him and everyone (via Babidi's telepathy) the incredible power of the new Super Saiyan 3 form, whose energy could be sensed all the way to Supreme Kai's planet. Goku then engages in a fight with Majin Buu, whom he overpowers blow for blow. Amazingly, Majin Buu is still having a good time and enjoying the fight, even forcing Goku to narrowly deflect an imitated version of his own Kamehameha wave, which chips over a tenth of the Earth. He later states, that he probably could have won, but that he wanted to leave it in the hands of Gohan, Trunks, and Goten because he will not be there forever, and that they need to have a shot at saving the universe instead of a dead fighter. Unfortunately, the action of sustaining Super Saiyan 3 to briefly fight with Buu shortens Goku's time on Earth and he is forced to return to the Other World.

Once Goku has returned to Other World, he learns that his son, Gohan, is not dead, but in fact training with the Supreme Kai on the Kai Planet teleporting there only to just miss having his head removed by Gohan practicing with The Z Sword. Gohan has been training with the legendary Z Sword, and to test its strength, the Supreme Kai summons a block of the densest metal in the universe, Kachin, as testing material. Goku throws the cube at Gohan, expecting the Z Sword to slice the block in half. Instead the sword snaps in half and from it emerges Old Kai, who tells them that he will fully unlock Gohan's potential with a ritual.

With Buu suddenly forming a friendship with Mr Satan and deciding to not kill, those on the Supreme Kai’s Planet continue Gohan’s power-up without being sure of their next moves. Suddenly Janemba appeared and the barriers between dimensions were disrupted. Because Other World was no longer isolated from the physical plane, those who had died were able to walk amongst the living, but they were dispatched of again by the. Goku used Instant Transmission to go to King Yemma's check-in station with Pikkon and saw the first form of Janemba sitting on the station's roof. Eager to engage Janemba in battle, Goku gleefully left Pikkon behind to free Yemma (much to Pikkon's dismay). Goku was soon forced to use his Super Saiyan 3 form to combat Janemba's unique arsenal of techniques.

At Super Saiyan 3, Goku made quick work of Janemba, only to be outclassed when Janemba transformed into a smaller, fiercer demon. Vegeta soon arrived on the scene (no longer being confined to Hell due to the disruption in the dimensional barriers) and was persuaded by Goku to attempt the Fusion Dance. Their first attempt failed and produced a fat Veku. Due to sheer luck, they were able to survive against Janemba until the fusion expired. After regrouping, Goku and Vegeta were able to fuse properly while Pikkon distracted Janemba. Gogeta appeared as a Super Saiyan and destroyed Janemba with ease. Later, Goku and Vegeta are seen standing at the Blood Pond where Vegeta vanishes and goes back to Hell. Goku hopes that they can see each other again, but like in the series, Vegeta only tells him "we're never fusing again." Instead Goku returns to the Supreme Kai’s Planet.

Final Battle with Buu
Through a crystal globe, Goku watches the fight between Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks and Super Buu. After they defuse, Gohan (after having his hidden power released) arrives, effortlessly thrashing Buu with his newfound powers, but Super Buu escapes by self-destructing until Goten and Trunks can fuse again an hour later, and he then absorbs Gotenks and Piccolo, gaining the upper hand.

When Gohan fails due to Super Buu's stolen powers, Old Kai gives his life to Goku so that he may return to Earth to help Gohan. He is also given the Potara Earrings so that he can fuse with Gohan, creating an unmatched warrior that the Kai said would easily murder Buu without even the need to transform. He arrives, much to the surprise of Gohan and Super Buu, and tosses the earring to Gohan. Gohan misses for the grab, and Goku tells Gohan to hurry and find the earring. He stalls Super Buu, fighting as a Super Saiyan 3. After the fight, Gotenks defuses inside Super Buu, and his power drops a lot. Goku states that he is not much of a threat anymore, and realizes that they can beat Super Buu easily. However, Gohan is absorbed when Super Buu catches him off-guard. At this moment of despair, the newly resurrected Vegeta appears, and after Goku teleports there and convinces his stubborn rival, two of the most powerful remaining Saiyans fuse to become Vegito, the strongest fighter in the Dragon Ball Z series.

Vegito then easily thrashes Super Buu, even with Gohan absorbed. Super Buu tries every technique and attack he has got against the fused Saiyans, but Vegito manages to dodge by all of them without much trouble. After a lengthy fight, the mighty Vegito wins easily. However, supposedly due to Vegeta's arrogance in not simply finishing Buu off, Vegito is eventually absorbed by Super Buu, with a Saiyan Shield protecting him. However, it is later revealed that he chose to be absorbed on purpose because he wanted to rescue his friends and family before killing Super Buu.

Inside Buu, Vegito automatically separates into the two Saiyans due to the properties of Super Buu's digestive system. After traveling through Super Buu's body, Goku and Vegeta reach Super Buu's brain where they find Gohan, Trunks, Goten, and Piccolo, unconscious but still alive. After freeing them and having to fight Super Buu inside his own body, Vegeta decides to remove the unconscious Fat Buu from Super Buu, who undergoes another transformation. Goku and Vegeta then escape from Super Buu's body with the newly rescued Z Fighters. Super Buu then transformed back to his original form - Kid Buu.

Goku rescues Mr. Satan, his dog Bee, and Dende, but fails in saving Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo before the newly transformed Kid Buu destroys the Earth in an extreme show of power. Kibito Kai teleports in and saves Vegeta, Goku, Dende, and Mr. Satan by bringing them to the Sacred World of the Kais. After regenerating, Kid Buu sets out to find Goku and Vegeta by copying Kibito Kai's instantaneous movement.

When Kid Buu finds them, Vegeta and Goku have a Rock-Paper-Scissors match to see who fights first. Goku wins and fights Buu. He starts the fight as a Super Saiyan 2, but eventually transforms into Super Saiyan 3, fighting evenly with Kid Buu for a short time, taking the advantage often. However, Goku had failed to account for the strain that fighting in a living body would have on him, and soon becomes exhausted. He attempts to gather up his strength while Vegeta distracts Buu in his Super Saiyan 2 form (getting mercilessly beaten in the process), but his Super Saiyan 3 transformation drains him of his energy reserves and he soon loses the ability to maintain the form. At Vegeta's suggestion, Goku begins gathering energy for a Super Spirit Bomb that would employ all the available energies of the Earth and its occupants (he does this to have the Earth "save itself for once").

Using King Kai's telepathy, Vegeta speaks to the newly revived people of Earth and begs for everyone to donate power to Goku's Spirit Bomb, which they are hesitant to do. Everyone on New Namek and the Other World give energy for the Super Spirit Bomb and possibly many other planets as well, along with Goku's close friends. Meanwhile, Fat Majin Buu, while trying to hold off Kid Buu, falls in battle leaving a battered Vegeta to protect Goku while he forms the Super Spirit Bomb. Eventually, Mr. Satan finally convinces everyone on the newly regenerated Earth to give Goku all the energy he needs to destroy Kid Buu once and for all. With the contribution of power from Earth, Goku launches the Super Spirit Bomb. But as impossible as it seems, Kid Buu actually stops the Spirit Bomb and slowly begins to push it back at Goku. Vegeta realizes Goku used the rest of his power to gather and form the bomb and has nothing left to defeat Buu.

Using the last wish from the Namekian Dragon (the first two were spent restoring Earth to its normal condition and then reviving all those who died since Babidi's arrival except the evil ones), Dende wishes for Goku's full power to be restored. He powers up to Super Saiyan, and pushes the Super Spirit Bomb comes back to Kid Buu. Goku makes one last wish to himself, that Kid Buu be reborn as a good being so they can fight again one day. With the blessing of Earth's residents, Goku destroys Kid Buu.

Similar Story; Different Timeline
When Future Trunks is attacked much like Gohan was, in the future timeline, he calls on the Z Warriors to help him stop Majin Buu. He arrives only a matter of months after Kid Buu had been destroyed in the present timeline. Goku, along with Gohan, Goten, Present Trunks, Vegeta, Piccolo lead the onslaught against Future Babidi and Future Dabura, now aware of their respective powers and what is at stake. Being much stronger than they were against them the first time round, the Z Warriors have no problem in overcoming them, so to stall them and boost the power being fed to Future Majin Buu, Future Babidi has Goku and the others fight against clones of themselves.

However, they prove to be no match, but by the time they are overcome, Future Buu has been unleashed. Due to the higher power levels of the Z Warriors, Buu is released with a higher power level than his present counterpart, but isn’t too much of a threat until a fallout with Dabura turns him into Future Super Demon King Buu, who catches Goku off guard and knocks him out, and then overcomes Mystic Gohan.

Whilst the other Z Warriors chase Future Babidi to New Namek, Goku awakens and tries to search out Gohan in Future Other World, expecting a similar turn of events to before. In the next dimension, he finds Gohan and Future Pikkon combatting Future Janemba. He helps them overcome the beast, but Goku is uneasy, having overcome him before. He is soon introduced to his Future counterpart father, Bardock, and has an awkward, but later respectful, meeting with him. He also briefly meets his Future self despite his natural death, and his Future son Gohan, who undergoes the Old Kai’s power-up on Present Gohan’s request.

Vegeta seems to be overcome by Future Super Demon King Buu, so Goku teleports to New Namek to fight alongside him as Gogeta. In his Super Saiyan form, he had the upper hand against Future Super Demon King Buu, until Future Super Janemba and the returned-to-life Mystic Super-Saiyan Future Gohan arrived on the battle. Future Buu absorbs the former, becoming Future Janemba Buu, but Gogeta is able to defeat him after transforming to Super-Saiyan 2. With the Future timeline in peace once again and Future Gohan returned to life, Goku and the Z Warriors return home.

Buu’s Reincarnation
Six years later, Goku meets Buu’s reincarnation in the form of Uub, a small boy from a village who enters the World Tournament to earn some money for his people to afford water. After angering him to reveal his inner power, Goku apologises to Uub and the two quit the tournament, with Goku promising to attain the financial aid for his family and train him to become his successor. After saving Uub’s village and defeating an ominous crack in the world, Goku and Uub meet up with their friends at the unveiling of Mr. Satan’s new hotel. The ceremony is disrupted by the arrival of Vegeta’s brother, Tarble, and his enemies who chase them down. After Gotenks spars with them in the fused form of Aka, Goku quickly intervenes and dispatches of the opponent.

Goku then explains to Uub about why they try and keep their enormous power levels a secret, but the Z Warriors are again called to battle as Androids #13, #14 and #15 awaken and attack. Goku and the others fight #14 and #15, leaving Uub to battle #13. After #13 transforms, Goku attacks him head on, but is beaten. Eventually, #13 is defeated when Goku and the others lends Uub their energy.

Omadra’s Great Warriors
For the next two years, Goku continued training Uub. During this time, he reunites with his family infrequently and briefly, leaving Chi-Chi disheartened. When Bulma arranges that the Z Warriors and friends should all have a reunion, Chi-Chi demands that Goku will join her for the entire day or risk a divorce, something that she threatens will not only look bad on the two of them, but also Gohan’s burgeoning career. However, Goku is more than happy to agree – until a strange alien race arrives.

The race have their own Dragon Balls, but soon attempt to steal Earth’s. After Gohan, Piccolo, Dende and the alien race, the Muarians of Omadra, are sent by King Kai and the wizard Rodus to the abandoned planet Aruba, Goku assists them by teleporting the other Z Warriors there, but despite his concerns returns to Chi-Chi to spend the rest of the day together. His brief trip to Aruba left him covered in dangerous acid though, and as he tries to heal himself on Earth, Chi-Chi gets frustrated at him for his inability to have a normal day with her. Eventually, Chi-Chi grudgingly lets Goku depart, admitting that the arrival of aliens is not his fault – but warns him she isn’t going to let this drop.

As a Super Saiyan 3, Goku takes over the battle from Vegeta, and ends up killing Muar against his wishes, as the alien leader refused to accept a peaceful defeat. After his death, a strange light shoots off into the stars from his body, so after returning everyone home, Goku heads to King Kai to ask what had it was. King Kai then uncovers the history of the Muarians, their kingdom on the Planet Omadra and the strange exorcism Muar's grandfather underwent years ago. Learning that the blinding light was the soul of a parasite, Goku discovers it had been captured by the monster that Muar spoke of, Harks.

The other Z Warriors then notice the Dragon Balls are gone – completely out of the galaxy. After Old Kai reveals to them their whereabouts, Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Trunks, Gohan, Goten and Uub head across the stars to retrieve them, using a spaceship, but with Goku teleporting it along the way when possible. After encountering the theif and his master, they overpower him, and the two surrender, naming themselves as Mosiquo Kai and Rhagon, his servant.

Mosiquo Kai reveals he is alive due to a parasite’s soul residing within him – the other half of the soul in Muar. If these two parts of the soul were reunited in one body, Mosiquo Kai revealed, then a fearsomely powerful warrior would be revived. And for some reason, the shapeshifting monster Harks wanted to unleash the monster - which would mean killing Mosiquo Kai. Knowing that he was too weak to fight Harks, the Kai had intended to use the Dragon Balls to have the soul within him destroyed, even if it meant his own death - but instead, seeing the power of the Z Warriors, trains them in his methods as Harks approaches, believing that they could overcome the monster.

Due to Harks’ limitations, on arrival, he mistook Rhagon for the soul he wanted. Goku and the others bravely defend him after some training from Mosiquo Kai, but when a brainwashed and mutated Super-Saiyan 2 Yamcha fights Gohan and Piccolo, Goku and Vegeta are left fighting Harks.

Harks soon sees that he is seeking Mosiquo Kai, and kills Rhagon. He then uses the multi-form technique with magic enhancement, and Goku fights one off for a long time, until they refuse to form a stronger Harks. By this time, Goku had burned up all his energy as Super Saiyan 3, and proves to be the weak point in the defence – Harks gets past him, and unleashes the soul within Mosiquo Kai, leaving him dead.

The Z Warriors distract Harks long enough for the soul to escape, but Harks soon pursues it. He soon escapes them, and once Goku is recovered, they return to Earth to plan their next move. Entering the Pendulum Room, they learn of Harks’ past; how he was corrupted, allied with the beast and converted into a shape-shifting creature. Goku mysteriously disappears for a short while as the rest continue training, where he secretly summons Shenron to wish for "an opportunity to attain enough power to stop the evil they were facing would present itself". He then returns as they reunite with Yamcha, who has finished in the Time Chamber. They then try to find Harks before he can reunite the monster with its mind.

With his new incredible power, Super Saiyan 2 Yamcha is only just weaker than Goku's Super Saiyan 3 form.Having locked onto Harks, the Z Warriors seem to be overcoming him easily - before realising he has divided himself again. Reuniting, they discover that they are now on his old home world, and after stalling them for long enough Harks reveals that he had been working for a long time to restore himself to his original form - a goat-like Omadran, similar to Muar and his people. However, despite their combined strength, the Z Warriors are not able to get past Original Harks and destroy the chamber where the legendary monster is being re-assimilated in time.

Battle with MosiMuar
On his perfection, MosiMuar sends out a shockwave that literally strikes the entire universe. Quickly, MosiMuar displays tremendous power and defeats Yamcha. Sensing that they would be defeated, Goku orders Uub to return to Earth to set up a final defence there, if it came to it. South Kai unintentionally ends up resting the fate of the Universe on that battle whilst calling on Rodus the wizard - if MosiMuar is defeated, the wave will never have existed, but if he is victorious, the wave will be everlasting. Suddenly, Harks returns to the battlefield, and after their trip into the Pendulum Room, Vegeta realises that he intends to have MosiMuar assimilate with him, so he can become the most powerful. Despite their warnings, MosiMuar takes no notice and continues destroying Vegeta, whilst the rest of the Z Warriors try to stop Harks. But tired from battle, they prove unable to stop him from absorbing MosiMuar. Now calling himself Final Harks, the villain begins a relentless attack upon the Z Warriors.

Quickly, Goku is lent the energy of his friends and fights Final Harks, but it still isn't enough. At the same time, in Other World, Rodus reveals that the entropy wave hasn't been stopped, as MosiMuar's soul still resides in the mortal world, in the body of Harks. To the surprise of everyone, Goku reveals his last weapon, and transforms into a Legendary Super Saiyan whilst as a Super Saiyan 3. Naturally, Vegeta believes this is impossible, but Goku reveals his secret wish. In this case, the power was in the form of a one-off transformation into the level of a legend.

But despite the advantage, Final Harks was able to use his magic to drain Goku of energy to the point of near death, causing him to lose his Legendary Super Saiyan form permanently. However, returning valiantly, the renewed Uub spotted a weakness in Final Harks and was able to reverse the energy drain - onto himself. Armed with the energy of his friends and a Legendary Super Saiyan, Uub destroyed Final Harks once and for all.

Afterwards, Goku revealed they still had a second wish. At first, they tried to revive Mosiquo Kai and Rhagon, but they refused, determined to stay together and unsure of the consequences of the parasitic life Mosiquo Kai had led. Instead, a wish was made to Shenron to revive "those of the Muarians that are content and willing to live their lives in peace". And so many were restored ... but Muar himself was not one of them.

Asteroids and Illnesses
Goku and Uub now focus their training at Dende’s Lookout, but it is nearly wiped out by a meteor from another dimension that they struggle to deflect. When they investigate it with Dende, he gets infused with a strange power that is off the scale, nearly consuming his life-force. Unable to control it, Dende is stuck in agony as an impenetrable force-field is created around him, giving off so much energy that the world is threatened.

Being closest and first, Goku and Uub are severely weakened by the power Dende is giving off. Piccolo eventually manages to get close enough to Dende to help him, but all that happens is the power shifts onto him. However, he proves better at controlling it, and is able to expel it (with help from Pan) - but a strange offshoot strikes Yamcha.

Soon, Yamcha and Tien come down with an incurable virus, and after much investigation, Gohan concludes that it was caused by the same Mystic Power. It was discovered that Tien was the first person Yamcha came into contact with after being struck by the offshoot, thus infecting him too. Thinking they can create a remedy, Bulma and Gohan get to work, but are too late to save Tien. They do however manage to keep Yamcha in a state of limbo, but rather as a postponement rather than an actual cure. Goku and the others mourn Tien’s death, but are left even more shocked when, consumed with grief, Chiaotzu passes away in the aftermath of Tien's burial.

The Other Dragon Balls
Now at the age of 48 (physically 38), Goku has finished training Uub. Soon after, an accidental wish by Emperor Pilaf transforms Goku back into a child. This wish was made on the Black Star Dragon Balls. As a result, Goku must travel the galaxy and return them to Earth to prevent the planet from exploding from the negative energy created by the wish.

After leaving Earth in the spaceship designed by Bulma, a piece of the ship falls off and Goku, Trunks, and Pan are forced to crash land on the planet Imecka to get the parts needed to repair the ship. After finding the planet to be in economic ruin, they end up leaving a hotel without paying for it. On their way back to the ship Trunks drops the Dragon Radar and it is swallowed by a small robot named T-2006, nicknamed Giru, who says that he can't give the radar back to them because it is already integrated into his system.

Don Kee, leader on the planet, has their ship stolen. Goku notices the ship being dragged and tries to use Instant Transmission to teleport them to the ship, but after two failed attempts, he realizes that he can't use it with his small body. Goku and the others eventually retrieve the ship and escape but Trunks says they have to go back into town for more parts due to Pan's "reckless driving".

After learning more about the corruption on the planet, Goku blasts his way into Don Kee's throne-room. Don Kee sets his assistant, Ledgic, on the fighters. Ledgic says that he will fight Goku, but for his own satisfaction. After a short fight, Goku defeats Ledgic as a Super Saiyan and they take down Don Kee, forcing him to give everyone free rent and return their ships free of charge. With their ship repaired, they then land on an unnamed planet where everything is larger than life. Goku finds the Four Star Ball in the tooth of a giant and they go to the next planet.

On planet Gelbo, they find the Six-Star Dragon Ball and after exposing a fraud, the monster Zoonama, Goku then stops a huge volcano with a Kamehameha, saving the city and winning the Dragon Ball. Just as they are leaving the planet, Bon Para, one of the mysterious Para Brothers, arrives and takes the ball from Pan's hands using his telekinesis. In shock, the three Z Fighters just watch as he leaves.

Goku then jumps in the ship with Pan and Trunks and they chase after the Para Brothers' spaceship. The brothers trick them onto the asteroid, Beehay, inhabited by huge bloodthirsty worm-like creatures called Mouma. Pan is brought to Planet Luud, where she is captured and turned into a doll for the evil lord, Dolltaki. Goku shows up with Trunks and kills Cardinal Mutchy Mutchy, who reveals that he is actually two parts the body and the whip transforms into Mutchie and fights Goku. Trunks finishes Mutchie off with the Brave Cannon and saves Goku from his whip arms. Then Dolltaki turns everyone except for Goku, himself, Trunks, and Pan into dolls and feeds them to the machine deity, Luud. Dolltaki then awakens Luud who takes him and Pan inside of his body to gain their energy. While Luud fights Goku and Trunks, Pan forces Dolltaki to tell her the weakness of the seemingly invincible Luud. Dolltaki reveals that Goku must strike the outside of Luud's mechanical heart while Pan strikes the inside at the exact same time. After multiple tries, Goku finally succeeds and destroys Luud freeing all of the people including Pan who is turned back to normal. Goku then takes back his Dragon Ball and they leave the planet.

Revenge of the Tuffles
As our heroes arrive on the supposedly deserted planet M-2, they continue on their quest for the Black Star Dragon Balls. They find themselves caught in a trap by the planet's inhabitants, mutant robots, and that Giru was deceiving them all along. Pan manages to escape and later rescues Goku who does battle with the robotic group of commandos known as the Mega Canon Sigma Force and their leader General Rilldo. However, both he and Pan are captured again and taken to Dr. Myuu for studying. Giru has a change of heart though and manages to rescue the trio thanks to a clever plan by Trunks. It is then that we see Myuu's true creation, Baby, who breaks free from his containment after being revived, but stopped by Goku and the others. However, as a defeated and injured Dr. Myuu escapes, a piece of Baby's scattered remains jumps onto his skin, later busting out of Dr. Myuu and reforming into his original state. Baby, is in fact the last surviving Tuffle, the original inhabitants of Planet Vegeta (Planet Plant). Baby is a machine mutant who was created by Dr. Myuu; however, Baby states that he is Dr. Myuu's master, and that Dr. Myuu was designed to revive him.

Goku, Trunks, and Pan arrive on Earth to return the Black Star Dragon Balls, but soon discover that Baby has infected the population with mind-controlling eggs and chosen Vegeta as his new host. After a short fight with Baby, Goku discovers that he can not sustain Super Saiyan 3 while still being a child. After being pummeled by Baby Vegeta, Goku is weak and defenseless. During this fight, however, Goku learns of Baby's one weakness; he is sensitive to taunts, and easily angered. Meanwhile, Baby uses the Revenge Death Ball to finish off Goku, but Kibito Kai arrives just as the bomb strikes to save Goku and bring him to the Sacred World of the Kais.

There, Old Kai hatches a plan to "solve Goku's energy problem" by re-growing Goku's tail. Progress is slow at first, but Goku has an idea about how to accelerate the process. After a very painful procedure where the tail is pulled out by a pair of pliers, Goku returns to the Tuffle planet (where most of Earth's residents had migrated to) to confront Baby.

During the long and hard battle with Baby Vegeta, Goku is able to sustain his Super Saiyan 3 form, but is still unable to win. As he lies on the ground, defenseless, he gazes at Earth and realizes he has failed it. But instead of dying, looking at the Earth causes Goku to transform into the form of a Golden Great Ape. With Pan's help, Goku is able to regain control of himself and become a Super Saiyan 4.

Baby is no match against a Super Saiyan 4. In desperation, Bulma (who's under Baby's control) uses a Blutz Wave Generator that causes Baby Vegeta to transform into a Golden Great Ape. Although Goku outclasses Baby in terms of speed, he is slowly worn down by Baby's power. Just as Old Kai loses all hope of Goku succeeding, Supreme Kai removes Gohan, Goten, and Trunks from Baby's control using the Sacred Water from Kami's Lookout. After realizing that they cannot help by fighting the ape, they channel some of their energy to Goku. Goku eventually succeeds in defeating Baby Vegeta and leaves him defenseless. In desperation, Baby leaves Vegeta's body and tries to escape from Planet Tuffle, but Goku uses his Kamehameha attack to destroy Baby and blast his remains into the sun.

The End of Earth, Again
The hunt for the Black Star Dragon Balls was in vain as Baby had used them again. Attempting to re-gather them, Goku contacts the Kais. At the same time, Yamcha regains consciousness and the Z Warriors continue their attempts to find a cure - by heading into the next dimension. Old Kai reasons that Earth is beyond saving, so Vegeta comes up with a plan to have everyone on Earth moved to Planet Plant. But along the way, Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, Goten, Gohan and Majuub find themselves trapped in the eerie Land of Strength, battling against a species with a hunger for battle that even outstrips the Saiyans. Eventually, Trunks befriends them and they are able to escape the strange lands and are thrust back to Earth, finally with a remedy for Yamcha.

With the explosion of Earth now just around the corner, the Z Warriors undergo a massive shock as Cell returns - the Cell of their timeline. The attack from Krillin and Future Trunks nineteen years previously had in fact enhanced the mechanical creature, enabling him to reach a power level that threatened them all!

Cell in this form has a strange liking for metal, able to grow massively in power. Trunks and Yamcha fuse to form Yamunks, who overpowers Cell. However, to their surprise, it is revealed that in this timeline, Dr. Gero had calculated for such an extent of outcomes that he has devised other ways for this Cell to reach his perfect form. Taking DNA off of Piccolo, who had once battled #17 directly, he is able to reach his Semi-Perfect Form, and then his Perfect Form (after a time delay), but is still weaker than Super Saiyan Yamunks - until he defuses.

Quickly, Goku and Vegeta intervene, but Vegeta gets injured as Cell entraps him in fire - soon, he will burn to death. Exhausted but determined, Trunks frees his father, only to be killed by Cell, who unleashes a Death Bomb - however, it leaves him incredibly battle worn. This acts prompts Goten to reach the Super Saiyan 2 level, but Goku stops him from attacking Cell. However, this fight changes quickly as Cell takes the DNA of Super Saiyan 3 Goku, transforming into SaiyaCell, a form that equals Goku in power. As the battle rages on, SaiyaCell absorbs a golden gem, becoming Golden and even more powerful. Goku fight is lost as he is buffeted by failed attempts to re-achieve the Super Saiyan 4 form that he had utilised in the battle against Baby.

Gohan then finally unleashes his Mystic Super Saiyan form, but due to his long years without regular training, isn't able to keep up with SaiyaCell. Instead, Goten steps in, taking Gohan's power, and eventually destroys SaiyaCell. As Goku can't use Instant Transmission without turning Super Saiyan 4, he seeks to master the Golden Oozaru form once again, with Majuub going with him. They end up in a dimension they have never been in before, known as 'The Sixth World', but soon anger the spirits there by their presence. Even after Goku manages to control the Golden Oozaru form, he is unable to overcome the spirits. Eventually, managing to restore himself to the Super Saiyan 4 form, Goku and Majuub manage to escape.

Quickly, the Earth is evacuated and the population is moved to Planet Plant by ship or Instant Transmission. Needing enough energy to teleport off the Earth with the last Earthlings, Goku thinks it is the end - but Piccolo gives him the energy he needs, allowing him to leave - but going down with the planet, knowing that in his death the Black Star Dragon Balls will cease to exist.

Afterwards, Porunga has Earth restored, and life goes back to normal. Goku takes part in the Junior Division at the next World Tournament, but fails after Vegeta distracts him and he gets tickled out of the ring.

Old Foes and New Dragons
Trunks is attacked by a brainwashed #17, and a message is left to Goku - go to Hell, through the portal opening in the sky, or Earth will by overrun by Hell's escaping inhabitants. Goku accepts the challenge, only to face off with Frieza and Cell; he takes care of them with ease, but finds himself trapped in hell for good.

Back on Earth, the Z Warriors manage to take care of most of their old foes, but Dr. Myuu and Dr. Gero reveal they have been working together, creating a clone of #17 - Hell Fighter 17. As the two clones approach each other, #17 kills Krillin along the way. Once the two are united, Super 17 is formed, and outclasses all of the Z Warriors with ease.

Soon, it turns out that Super 17 responds to Dr. Myuu only, and has Dr. Gero killed. Piccolo attacks heaven so that King Yemma can move him into hell. There, he works with Dende on Earth to allow Goku to escape. Turning Super Saiyan 4, Goku teams up with a grieving #18, who helps identify Super 17's weak spot so he can be destroyed.

With much of Earth damaged by Hell's villains, the Dragon Balls are gathered to undo the damage. But instead, they crack, and a Black Smoke Shenron appears, scattering the balls. Old Kai and Kibito Kai reveal that the over-use of the Dragon Balls has caused lots of negative energy to build up, which has escaped in the form of 7 evil Shadow Dragons. Setting off with Giru, Goku and Pan destroy the Shadow Dragons as they find them, which leaves the restored Dragon Balls behind.

However, each Shadow Dragon is stronger than the last, and weakened by hunger, Goku takes on Nuova Shenron, Dragon of the Four-Star Ball. As the battle progresses, Goku is attacked by Nuova's brother, Eis Shenron, who demands they team up and blinds Goku. Nuova Shenron is noble and doesn't like an unfair fight, and refuses to help as Goku kills Eis Shenron. He even offers Goku an antidote so they can have a fair fight, but Syn Shenron, the seventh and strongest Shadow Dragon, arrives and kills Nuova.

Still blinded, Goku suffers against Syn Shenron, but soon the other Z Warriors arrive and restore his power. Quickly, he builds up an advantage over Super Saiyan 4 - but Syn Shenron then absorbs the other Dragon Balls, becoming the all-powerful Omega Shenron. Even when cured of blindness, Goku cannot overcome him. Instead, Vegeta arrives, and using the same Blutz Wave Generator that Baby did, Vegeta turns himself into a Super Saiyan 4 and performs the Fusion Dance with Goku.

As a Super Saiyan 4, Gogeta easily overcomes Omega Shenron, causing him to lose the Dragon Balls. However, before he can be destroyed, Gogeta defuses early due to the mass power of a Super Saiyan 4. Goku swallows the Four Star Ball to stop Syn Shenron re-absorbing it with the rest, but even with a reformed Nuova Shenron on their side they stand little chance. And even less of a chance when Goku tires so much he loses his Super Saiyan 4 form.

With little hope left, everyone jumps in - but the day is saved by Goku, who conjures a Universal Spirit Bomb to destroy Omega Shenron. Shenron then summons himself and reveals he will leave Earth for a hundred years to stop the negative energy building up again. Goku requests that Earth is healed of the damage by Super 17 and the Shadow Dragons, to which Shenron complies, but Goku must go with him to neutralise the negative power. Leaving Earth behind, Goku moves on to a new life.

Witch Siki and the Evil Clones
Goku (now a teenager), enfused with the power of Shenron, leaves for the stars, keen to continue exploring the dimensions. In a far galaxy, he encounters Witch Siki on the abandoned planet of Silboku. After being magically entranced, she seizes some of his flesh. She attempts to steal his love, but fails due to his pure heart. The next day, Goku recovers, and tries to leave, but is stopped by Siki, who raises an army out of the abandoned planet, but after a struggle Goku escapes.

Only a year later, Goku and Shenron part ways for a time, with Shenron keen to meet other dragons in Other World and Goku eager to train with Pikkon once again. Soon, shockwaves renervate across Other World as Kibito Kai is ruthlessly murdered on visiting the Grand Kai as part of a rare ceremony. The killers are revealed to be Silan and Kiboku, the sons of Goku and Witch Siki that she had magically created from his flesh.

At first, Goku was reluctant to battle them, unsure if they were evil, or simply being manipulated by Witch Siki (who was determined to gain revenge on Goku). Realising that unless stopped they would go on a killing spree, Goku fights the two of them on the Supreme Kai's planet, but due to Witch Siki's enhancements, he finds the battle tough. Deciding that they didn't have enough power to destroy Goku, Witch Siki forces her sons to fuse, forming Silboku, who greatly outclasses Goku even as a Super Saiyan 4. Knowing the battle is going badly, King Kai informs the Z Warriors on Earth, who were gathered to celebrate the birth of Goten and Valese's first son, Tentuks. After a long debate, King Kai manages to locate a Yadrat in the Other World, who is able to use his day back in the mortal world to teleport the Z Warriors to the battlefield.

With the battle still going badly, the warriors from the Land of Strength arrive in Other World, and convert a mass amount of energy out of the inhabitants in that dimension. They convert it into a corporeal body, known as The Strength of the Dead. At the battle, the Z Warriors are seriously outclassed, but they manage to wear Silboku down a little - whilst Trunks displays his Super Saiyan 3 form, having unlocked it after serious training, much like Goku did.

Fed up of being pestered, Silboku kills Witch Siki. Whilst the others take over the battle, Old Kai brings out Trunks' tail, and after he achieves the Super Saiyan 4 level, absorbs the power of the Strength of the Dead and obliterates Silboku.

Goku’s Successor
When Gohan having defeated Cell, Goku left Earth in his hands. When Goku met Uub, he decided his incredible power would be perfect to make him his successor. But when Goku left with Shenron, he left everyone else in the care of Vegeta. But now Trunks had become a Super Saiyan 4, and Goten had stopped SaiyaCell. Deciding that there was a need to establish the new leader of the Z Warriors in his departure, Goku had a tournament set up in Other World to see who would earn the title of Defendant of Earth.

Fighting initially in group stages, the tournament attracted a lot of attention from across Other World, but Goku insisted that although it was going to be a great spectacle, only residents of Earth could compete. Old friends, such as Tien, Piccolo, Chiaotzu and Yamcha appeared at the tournament, watching as Vegeta was left bottom of his group, unable to keep up with the power of his younger rivals.

Despite making it to the Semi-Finals, Gohan decided to resign, knowing that he wouldnt have the dedication for the role. So the final was Goten vs Trunks (who could both now become Super Saiyan 4’s). After a rematch, Trunks goes all out. As they weaken and tire, they both lose their Super Saiyan 4 forms ... but due to his ability to reach Super Saiyan 3, Trunks puts all his power into a final flurry of attacks that sees him victorious. Returning to Earth, the Z Warriors say their farewells to Goku and their other departed friends. With Trunks finding that he is now a father on his return to Earth, Goku sets off with Shenron once again.

Return of the Saiyans and the Muarian’s Revenge
Six years later, shock strikes the Earth as two old foes return. Attacking the Earth violently to attract the attention of the Z Warriors, Nappa and Raditz reveal their return to life. Shockingly, they face off against the Z Warriors and reveal that each of them can transform to the Super Saiyan 4 level.

Later, Nappa and Raditz explain their revival. They were wished back to life by some of the remaining Muarians, who had themselves been mercifully returned to life by the Z Warriors. Due to the terms of the wish they had made, only the peaceful Muarians had been restored - but there was a slight loophole. Some of the remaining Muarians were completely peaceful, yet incredibly vengeful for the loss of many of their family and friends who had not been revived - and of course, Muar himself. Instead, they had used their own Blue Dragon Balls to "resurrect an old enemy of Goku and his friends, and give them the power to crush and humiliate their foes on Earth". Thus, Nappa and Raditz were restored to life and given the ability to become true Super Saiyans - or, Super Saiyan 4. This had occurred four years previously (seven years after Muar had been defeated), and in that time the two warriors had been trained under Muarian scientists to get the most of their Zenkai powers to boost their base form power considerably. Of course, the two of them had already increased in strength a considerable amount over the years they had spent in the next dimensions.

Soon, Goku appears, having sensed the massive evil ki from dimensions away. On realising that it was Raditz, he decided that he would have to return to Earth one last time - as this was personal. Now Goku had grown up (again), he had the body of about a twenty-one year old. Soon, Goku gains the advantage as a Super Saiyan 4 due to his superior strength, attacking so powerfully that the entire battle falls through countless dimensions. To Goku's dismay, Nappa intercepts the battle and manages to drain an awful lot of energy out of Goku, before sharing that energy with Raditz. Now losing out (and facing off against their surroundings too as they battle across several dimensions), Vegeta steps in, despite being only a fifth of Goku's power at base level and severely outclassed by the Dark Saiyans.

After taking a beating, Goku can only watch on as Nappa decides to kidnap Vegeta, and with Raditz they escape the battle.Whilst trying to locate Vegeta, Goten suggests to the other Z Warriors that they attack the Muarians and wipe them out, as they clearly didn't deserve the second chance they gave them. Goku of course, dismisses this idea, knowing of the fate the Muarians suffered. Thankfully, as Vegeta becomes a Super Saiyan 5 (despite not being able to sustain it long due to his injuries from the torture) they are able to home in on his ki, and attack the underground base he was being held captive in on Omadra, the Muarian’s home planet.

Trunks leads the onslaught, and together the Z Warriors manage to hold the Dark Saiyans at bay for Vegeta to be rescued and for them all to be teleported away by Goku. Knowing that he was too old now to win the battle, Vegeta decides to train Trunks in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. With their enemies escaping them, Nappa and Raditz amuse themselves by going on a 'destructive tour' across the Universe. Acting quickly, the Z Warriors send Majuub to prevent them from destroying too much whilst Trunks is prepared. Eventually, after four hours in the Time Chamber (two months), Trunks benefits from his father's training and becomes a Super Saiyan 5.

Gathering their strength, Goku teleports the Z Warriors (himself, Vegeta, Goten, Trunks and Gohan) across to Majuub, where the lot of them ambush the Saiyans as they attack another civilisation. Trunks, as a Super Saiyan 5, has a heavy advantage over the Dark Saiyans, especially with Vegeta guiding him (as he knows their fighting styles). Soon though, the tables turn as they fuse to form Nappitz. This fusion was neither Potarra or Metamoran, but instead resembled the union of Hell Fighter 17 and Android #17. The new Nappitz reveals that the Muarians made further ... modifications to them.

Merely at a Super Saiyan 2, Nappitz was able to gain a slight advantage on Super Saiyan 5 Trunks. Trunks then fused with Goten. Gotenks was stronger than Nappitz at every level, and for a while the two fought it out, both as Super Saiyan 4's. Far too quickly though, Gotenks reverted to a normal Super Saiyan - his time was running out. Desperately, the Z Warriors gambled and had Majuub fuse with Gotenks via Potarra earrings. This fusion resulted in 'Gonksuub' - who quickly had the upper hand over Nappitz as only a Super Saiyan 2. However, all this added fusion had done was extend the time for Gotenks briefly - and when he defused inside Gonksuub, all three of them did.

Out of options, Goku intervened, and combined the Super Saiyan 4 with the Kaio-Ken x3. Although in this form he had great strength, he knew it was unsustainable and he would eventually lose. Instead, he urged Vegeta to perform the Kaio-Ken, so that his power would equal Goku's in his worn base state - and quickly they formed Gogeta. Due to the nature of Vegeta's Kaio-Ken power, they knew the fusion wouldn't last long, so powered up to Super Saiyan 4 and proceeded to dominate Nappitz - to the extent that a weakness was spotted in him, almost causing him to be divided.

Instead, Gogeta defused. Vegeta seemed defeated and Goku was far too tired. Despite that, he attempted to fight Nappitz as a Super Saiyan 4, but was resoundly beaten. Deciding that it was right, Vegeta swore his alliegance to Nappitz, asking him to help rediscover his pride. Lending his remaining energy to Nappitz (although it was a relatively small amount), he watched on as Goku was left unconscious. Enraged, a healed Trunks returned to the battle, attacking Nappitz, but was left shocked when he defused. It was only then that Vegeta revealed he had been bluffing - he had merely needed to get close enough to Nappitz rip out his tail - causing him to defuse.

Full of true Saiyan pride, Vegeta commanded Trunks to kill Nappa and Raditz. Easily, he does so. After recovering Goku, the Z Warriors wonder what they will do about the state of the Universe. Goku leaves and returns with Shenron, and it is agreed that he can repair the damage this one last time - but now, instead of Goku absorbing the Dragon Balls, they will absorb him. Saying their final goodbyes, Goku leaves once and for all - but mysteriously, the Dragon Balls return to Earth ... not turned to stone.

Part of the Greatest Villain
With Mr. Satan and Dende murdered, the Dragon Balls remain intact due to his reincarnation Dende Jr. Pan, Vepata and Tentuks head off into space to bring justice to the murderer, Radot, a cloned son of Raditz. Sensing their power levels but knowing they were too far away to be helped by normal means, Vegeta summons Shenron from the Dragon Balls at the lookout; not wanting a wish - just to ask if it is possible to reach them in time and save them.

Instead, on being unleashed, despite the warnings, Shenron manages to pull himself entirely out of the Dragon Balls - followed by Goku, and then Omega Shenron. A shocked Vegeta and Popo watch on as the three beings fuse into one, greating a shockwave that throws Vegeta and Popo off of the tower. The being descends towards them, revealing himself as Omeshenku, the ultimate deity of destruction. As Vegeta had summoned Shenron to ask about Vepata and his companions, Omeshenku decides that he shall head over to them now.

Soon, the greatest battle yet unfolds across the universe, as the Z Warriors fight against Omeshenku, who later transforms into Super Omeshenku. In personality, he is essentially Omega Shenron all over again, with none of Goku’s pure soul shining through at all. His abilities do present themselves in his incredible strength though, and later, his ability to transform into Super Omeshenku, somewhat echoing the Super Saiyan transformations. In the battle, Gohan is infused with the power of the united Kai’s, but after his fusion with Trunks, he explodes mysteriously. Later, news comes through that Vegeta had died back on Earth due to a bad combination of illnesses and un-healable injuries. Super Omeshenku absorbs the power of Gohan’s explosion, becoming even more powerful, but Trunks manages to destroy him eventually as a Super Saiyan 5, with the combined power of all the others. In the end, they had tried to save Goku, but couldn’t work out how it was possible.

Under the Sway of Lord Gohan
Nine years later, Earth is now under the control of the Time Thief, using Future Gohan as a host and referring to itself as ‘Lord Gohan’. The remaining Z Warriors change history by saving Vegeta, having his youth restored and return him to their time. Trunks is active, but currently dead as Goku was when Buu was unleashed. On arriving in the apocalyptic future, the others wonder about Vegeta who starts seeing ghosts of Goku that no-one else can.

But Vegeta pulls himself together and is led to Old Kai by Trunks, who begins his power up. During this, he undergoes a nightmare during the day in which the soul of Goku, stolen from hell, is brainwashed and made to fight for Lord Gohan as a Super Saiyan 5. Horrifyingly, Old Kai confirms that this is not merely a nightmare - but in fact a vision; Lord Gohan had spent the last year examining how to open a portal to the immortal worlds where he could not only enslave the souls of the powerful, but also unlock the power to become immortal himself without use of the Dragon Balls.

Roshi contacts Old Kai through Dende Jr., warning Trunks, Radot and Goten that Lord Gohan is on the attack again. With permission from King Yemma, Trunks returns to Earth with the others and as Gotenks, they become a Super Saiyan 5 and battle Lord Gohan. However, he soon reveals his Mystic Super Saiyan 5 form and overpowers them, but toys with Gotenks until he defuses. Instead of killing them, he sets his newest recruit upon them: Dark Goku, an emotionless reincarnation of Goku's soul (that was previously trapped in hell as part of Omeshenku). Completely subservient to Lord Gohan's will, this Goku acted roboticly, and attacked the Z Warriors when commanded. But before he could seriously damage any of them, Vegeta arrived on the battlefield, fully powered up.

However, Dark Goku's base power was nearly double that of Vegeta's. The two sparred, raising their states periodically, until they fought as Super Saiyan 4's. After it was clear that Dark Goku had the upper hand, Vegeta reverted to his base form and unlocked his Mystic Power - before going beyond that, as first Future Gohan and later Present Gohan had done, becoming Mystic Super Saiyan, which was stronger than Dark Goku's Super Saiyan 4.

Lord Gohan then revealed that he had used his powers to tap into the maximum Saiyan potential - due to his growing powers he was able to grant Goku the ability to reach the final Saiyan level - Super Saiyan 5. It seemed like Goku had the upper hand, but then Vegeta turned the tables once more by going Mystic Super Saiyan 5 and greatly outclassing his opponent. Instead, seeing how Saiyan transformations multiply base power, Lord Gohan had Dark Goku take almost all the energy Dark Majuub had to give and then return to a Super Saiyan 5 form, now stronger once again.

With Dark Goku burning up his energy quickly, Vegeta had an idea to rescue the soul of Goku. He believed it needed clearing with a pure soul - and so held Dark Goku down long enough to force a Potarra Earring on him, with himself wearing the other - and once again Vegito was formed. However, with Vegeta's soul pure and Goku's pure evil, a battle waged on inside him as he struggled to understand himself and his purpose, leaving him inactive for a while. Furiously, Lord Gohan took back control of the battle, but was stalled by Goten, Trunks and Radot, until Vegito returned to the battle, assured that the forces of good were strong within him.

Vegito then took on Lord Gohan, as first a Super Saiyan and then a Super Saiyan 2. He was massively overpowering Gohan, who then used another one of his developing powers to absorb the power of every single connected soul in the Other World - that is, the strength of every Earthling and Saiyan that had ever lived. The negative effects of this power were tremendous though - but rather than be burdened with them himself, Lord Gohan pushed them onto Dark Majuub, who was left cursed. With his power now boosted tenfold, Gohan seemed to have an advantage, until Vegito transformed into a Super Saiyan 5, where he was able to hold a slight edge over Gohan.

Suddenly, Gohan reveals his true plan - to gain the power of all the Z Warriors' oldest foes and become truely invincible. He rips open the dimensions, and at first the Z Warriors think they are facing off against ghosts, but soon they realise their old foes are being unleashed once more, stronger than ever. Many of the weaker ones are overcome easily, but Cell, Freiza and Baby reveal what they have been working on all these years trapped in hell - they unite to become Baby Cellza, an incredible warrior, although still not much compared to the powers currently at battle. Vegito splits as soon as the dimensions are opened, and this isn't explained at first. Meanwhilst, Lord Gohan uses the power of Time between the dimensions to power himself up even further to intimidating heights. However, one villain that Lord Gohan hadn't intended to encounter was Super Omeshenku, who also escapes and returns to Earth. With strength four times that of Baby Cellza, he launches himself at the combined enemy and after a fierce battle, absorbs the three villains in one, causing him to reach a power level that tops even Lord Gohan's Mystic 'Time-Power' form. Super Omeshenku then states his intention to absorb Lord Gohan as well, who is horrified and powers up to Mystic 'Time Power' Super Saiyan 5. With Vegeta injured after the split of Vegito, the Z Warriors can only watch on as Super Omeshenku and Lord Gohan battle across the Earth. It seems that Lord Gohan has the advantage, but Super Omeshenku uses Goku's multi-form technique to surround him, and begins absorbing him. Trunks then realises that Goku vanished because his soul had returned to the reformed Omeshenku.

Lord Gohan breaks free eventually, and in an attempt to stop Omeshenku from destroying the universe, he echoes Vegeta's final atonement, trying to wipe his foe out. In the aftermath though, it is realised that Omeshenku simply absorbed the entire attack, practically doubling his already seemingly-invincible power. It looks like it's going to be the end, so Vegeta resorts to a final plan. He has all of the remaining male warriors fuse to become a super-powered hero. The combined warrior simply refers to himself as 'Saiyan'.

Pan collapses unconscious, having struggled to stall Super Omeshenku. The new warrior takes to the battlefield and slowly but continuously raises his power, eventually overpowering Omeshenku vastly. Despite being worn to half his power, Omeshenku still boasts that he is the ultimate warrior - with the power of Shenron, Goku, the seven Shadow Dragons, Gohan, the Mystic Power-Up, the life-force of every Human and the power of Time, the Time Thief, Guru's Potential Unlocking powers, Baby, Frieza and Cell (and therefore many other warriors) all within him. He uses a paralyzing attack on Saiyan, and pounds him - just as the fusions within Saiyan split, and he defuses.

In the fallout, Goten is left crippled and Vegeta unlocks the ‘Double Mystic’ transformation, but even combining that with Super Saiyan 5 doesn’t seem to be enough. Super Omeshenku then fires up his Silver Bomb attack, ready to finish Vegeta once and for all. Trunks is tragically killed whilst already dead, and his soul disintegrating into complete nothingness. Furious, Vegeta attacks Omeshenku with everything he has. Finally, with the combined power of everyone else, Vegeta honours his old rival Goku and destroys Super Omeshenku with a terrifyingly powerful Super Kamehameha. The world is battered and destroyed, and its inhabitants are still infected and warring with themselves ... but the pressing danger is gone.

Old Kai is contacted by Baba and soon the dimensions start returning to how they were. An echo of Goku is held in place for a little while, but Trunks cannot be recovered at all. As Goku announces how proud of Vegeta he is, Vegeta's power breaks and he returns to his aged form. With Goten crippled and the others recovering, Goku's echo and Vegeta set off across the Earth, hunting down the Sacred Water. After fighting off corrupted humans, they eventually recover it and are able to spread it across the world due to their Super Saiyan powers. When that is done, Goku announces that he can hold on no more, sparing enough time to say goodbye to Goten, Tentuks, Pan and Videl before dissolving for good, along with the last of Omeshenku. Before his final disappearance, Videl pleads with him to find Gohan, but his last, quiet words are simply "I don't know how."

Heroic Return
Nine more years have passed on Earth, with the Z Warriors almost completely disbanding and slowly reforming once again, with Pan being inspired by the youngster Parsen, a human who greatly resembled Goku in many aspects. After he defeated and allied with Collifor, the son of Tarble, and recovered Vegeta, Radot and Goten from various parts of the universe, he is infused with Saiyan DNA like Yamcha once was. After several victories, things turn dark when the howling between dimensions is opened and Kallaka is unleashed upon the universe. In the battle Vepata and a highly corrupted Tentuks are killed. When Bulla and Pan fuse to take on Kallaka, Vegeta escapes, determined to find Goku after all these years and return him to the battle. In the end, it takes a wish from another Dragon to restore Goku’s soul without the side-effects of Omeshenku, but it requires Vegeta to be patient and have the soul of Goku reconfigured from his mind, something which Vegeta struggles with as he senses Pan’s death. Eventually, the Dragon Galundra completes the slow process of restoring Goku, who, to Vegeta’s shock, brings Shenron back with him.

The two then head to the battlefield, but to everyone’s surprise, Goku cannot surpass Super Saiyan 4 despite his incredible base power. Instead, to overcome Kallaka, he fuses with Vegeta once again. As a Super Saiyan, Gogeta wore down Kallaka enough before he defused, so that Goku could finish him off with the power of Shenron and a Roaring Dragon Fist Attack. Whilst everyone celebrates, Goku reveals that although Shenron aided them in battle, he still cannot grant wishes – and so Trunks, Gohan, Majuub, Tentuks, Pan and Vepata are still lost to them. However, with the series ending on a cliffhanger, Goku reveals that he knows of ways to restore them.

A hundred years after the first defeat Omega Shenron, as seen in GT, Goku Jr. wants to cure his grandmother Pan with the Four-Star Dragon Ball. When he found the Dragon Ball, nothing happens and he gets angry and upset. Goku appears and explains how to use the Dragon Balls, that all seven are needed to get your wish. Then a helicopter with Pan and Puck appears and Goku disappears again.

When Goku disappears, he tells Goku Jr. that it was his courage and bravery that caused his grandmother Pan and his friend Puck to be alive and safe. After that, Goku tells Goku Jr. to keep and treasure the Four Star Dragon Ball as a memory of him and tells him that he is proud of him and wishes him good luck for his future and a farewell to his great-great-grandson.

Sometime afterwards, as an aged Pan watches the World Martial Arts Tournament, she catches a glimpse of a familiar face in the stands: her grandfather, Goku (now grown up once again, and without his tail). When she tries to follow him, however, he disappears. Goku is then seen flying into the air, grabbing onto his Power Pole, calling for the Flying Nimbus and finally flies off into the distance while yelling, "Till we meet again guys!"

Kamehameha
Goku's signature move throughout the series. Goku first learns the move after witnessing Master Roshi use it to save the Ox-King and Chi-Chi's castle from an inferno (but only ends up destroying it, along with a nearby mountain). Throughout the remainder of Dragon Ball, Goku continues to master the Kamehameha and uses it in nearly every battle during Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball NG and even in his brief appearances in Dragon Ball Universe.

Kaio-ken
Goku learns this technique after his death against Raditz while training under King Kai. He uses this attack numerous times throughout early Dragon Ball Z up until his ascension to a Super Saiyan, and a few times afterwards, such as in the second battle with Raditz.

Spirit Bomb
Arguably Goku's most powerful technique, taught to him by King Kai during his training for the upcoming battle against Vegeta and Nappa. Goku uses the Spirit Bomb numerous times, most notably against Frieza and Kid Buu, and later Omega Shenron.

Instant Transmission
Goku learns this technique on the Planet Yardrat after his battle with Frieza. This technique allows him to teleport to any location so long as he can find an energy source to home onto. He uses this technique frequently throughout the series, one of his most valuable abilities.

Dragon Fist
Goku uses this technique on Hirudegarn to finish him off in the 13th Movie. He also uses this in GT against Super Android 17 as well as Eis Shenron and Omega Shenron before the latter regenerated. On his return to the universe in Dragon Ball Universe, he combines his power with Shenron’s and destroys Kallaka with an advanced version, the Roaring Dragon Fist.

Great Ape
Like all Saiyans, Goku can transform into a Great Ape (Oozaru) when he sees the full moon while he possesses his tail, though every time it wasn't at will. Because this tail was removed permanently by Kami when restoring the moon, this transformation was never taken by Goku again, making it his least used Saiyan transformation.

Super Saiyan
Goku uses his new power to defeat Frieza, the antagonist of the series at the time. Frieza had destroyed the Saiyans out of his fear of their growing power, and the idea of a possible "Super Saiyan". As a result of defeating Frieza, Goku avenges the Saiyan race, and the death of his best friend Krillin. Here his base power is doubled (although the first time, it sky-rocketed a hundred-fold due to his inability to control the transformation) and his hair turns golden, standing on end, whilst his eyes turn bluey-green.

Ascended Super Saiyan
In the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Goku is able to achieve this form alongside the further extreme of the form known as Ultra Super Saiyan. His appearance remains similar, but his hair gets slightly longer and his muscle mass increases noticeably. However, although this new powerup would not take as much of a heavy hit on his speed as the successor would, he decides that staying transformed like this demands far too much ki to be spent, and so decides that the regular Super Saiyan form is the best suited for combat. As a result of this and the new discovery of the most powerful Super Saiyan state at the time, Super Saiyan 2, this form is never used by Goku again, and Vegeta and Trunks soon follow.

Ultra Super Saiyan
Like the Ascended Super Saiyan form, Goku achieves this form in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber while training with Gohan. Although apparently stronger than Cell in this state, Goku told Gohan he could not defeat him because Cell was much faster, because "all the power in the world would do no good if you can't even hit the guy." In this state Goku’s hair becomes wilder and his muscle mass expands comprehensively. This form is never used after its inital unlocking along with Ascended Super Saiyan, as a result.

Full-Power Super Saiyan
After realizing the weaknesses inherent to the higher grades of Super Saiyan, Goku concluded that mastery over the basic Super Saiyan form would be more advantageous and went on to improve his endurance in that form, thus achieving this state. At this level, less ki is consumed, but his appearance is the same as an ordinary Super Saiyan.

Super Saiyan 2
Although it is unknown when exactly Goku achieved this state of Super Saiyan, it is assumed Goku achieved this transformation in the Other World where he could put unlimited energy into his transformation. It was first seen when fighting Majin Vegeta's own Super Saiyan 2 form in their epic battle during the Majin Buu saga. Goku later transforms into this state before showing the Super Saiyan 3 transformation to Majin Buu and Babidi, and after that often bypasses the transformation to the next level, though he does use it from time to time.

When Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan 2 he has some noticable changes, such as his hair growing longer and becoming even more spiker, making his hair more defined than his other previous Super Saiyan forms, along with disappearing hair strands surrounding the forehead which are exclusive to this form. He also gains electricity in his aura surrounding his body, and his aura grows markedly larger and more vibrant.

Super Saiyan 3
Goku achieved this level in Other World as he could put unlimited energy into his transformation. Goku is first seen using this transformation against Majin Buu during the Majin Buu Saga. Once in this form, Goku was able to easily overpower Majin Buu in his first form and stood up to Kid Buu for fair amount of time. However, the transformation is extremely draining in terms of energy, as it cut Goku's time left on Earth from hours to a stated thirty minutes after performing the transformation for a short time. When attempting to gather enough ki to defeat Kid Buu during their final battle, he was unable to sustain it as he had not taken into account the strain overcoming his living body, and soon reverted back to his base state. Altogether, these heavy disadvantages make it impractical to use the transformation out of the afterlife. After sufficient training, Goku is seen much more comfortable using it when battling Muar, Harks and MosiMuar. In this form, his eyebrows disappear, giving him a sinister look, and his hair increases in length a lot, falling down his back to his waist.

Kid (GT)
Emperor Pilaf wishes Goku back into a child in the beginning of Dragon Ball GT. In this form, it is harder for Goku to maintain more powerful forms, such as Super Saiyan 3. While a child he was able to get his tail back, with the help of Old Kai, which not only allowed for easier access to the third Super Saiyan form, but eventually permitted him to transform into Golden Great Ape and Super Saiyan 4, in which he is an adult once again.

Super Saiyan (Kid)
After being wished into his childhood form, Goku can still transform into a Super Saiyan. However, he is unable to maintain the form for as long as he can in his adult body (in much the same way that he lost the ability to perform the Instant Transmission technique when being downsized), though for far longer than his Super Saiyan 3 form.

Super Saiyan 3 (Kid)
After being wished back into his childhood form, Goku is still able to transform into a Super Saiyan 3. However, he is only able to maintain the form for a few minutes, even with the Saiyan Tail assisting him in conserving his energy reserves. This form is not enough to defeat Baby Vegeta, so Goku is forced to recruit help from Old Kai, which leads to his Golden Great Ape transformation.When Goku struggles to reattain his Super Saiyan 4 form during the battle with SaiyaCell, this form is the strongest available to him.

Golden Great Ape
Goku achieved this form in Dragon Ball GT after Old Kai helped Goku to grow back his tail which allowed him to once again transform into a Great Ape. When he looked at the earth in the Baby Saga, its sufficient substitute Blutz waves allowed him to take this form, a combination of the Super Saiyan state and the classic Great Ape transformation. Upon regaining control, he later transformed into Super Saiyan 4, his strongest form yet.

Super Saiyan 4
This form is achieved by Goku after achieving the Golden Great Ape state and being calmed down by Pan. The overwhelming power of this transformation is apparently great enough to overcome the Black Star Dragon Balls' power making Goku's transformation into a child by Red Shenron. The spell is only dispersed during the transformation, however. In addition to him being turned back into an adult temporarily, Goku's overall appearance changes yet again. His tail is easily visible, the hair is longer than when in his normal state (not nearly as long as a Super Saiyan 3, though), his eyes become lined, his eye color is now golden yellow, and red fur covers almost all of his body from head to toe. His clothes change from his childhood garb, leaving him only dressed below the waist (excluding his armbands). He struggles to re-attain this form after the fight with Baby, but soon masters it. This is Goku’s strongest form in his normal state.

Dark Goku/Super Saiyan 5 Dark Goku
Later in Dragon Ball NG, when Lord Gohan manages to have control over all of the souls in hell, he manages to pull Goku’s soul back to the living plain, completely brainwashing him. In this form, he looks much as he did before he became part of Omeshenku (physically looking about 21), but his eyes are slightly red, and lined. His actions are robotic and he follows orders from Lord Gohan without hesitation. As Dark Goku, he can access all forms of Saiyan transformation, even up to Super Saiyan 5, due to Lord Gohan’s intense powers. As a Super Saiyan 5, he has a similar appearance to a Super Saiyan 4, but with golden hair and fur. However, even as a Super Saiyan 5, his eyes remain slightly red.

Vegito
Vegito is the product of a Potara Fusion between Vegeta and Goku with unrivaled power. In his first appearance, Vegito is the most powerful being in Dragon Ball Z and is created as a desperate plan by Old Kai to stop the powerful Super Buu. His Super Saiyan state alone berthed enough in battle that he single-handedly pummeled Buu blithely without even needing to use his fists or any effort. It was obvious he had the physical power to maintain such feats, but he only appeared for a short time before his strategy to deliberately be absorbed into Buu's body (whilst keeping a barrier on to avoid being assimilated into his being) resulted in his diffusion, after which Vegeta crushed his earring, vowing to never fuse with Goku again regardless of the circumstances. Goku follows suit reluctantly, and as a result, despite Old Kai's offer for the two to merge into Vegito again and take care of Kid Buu in a flash, the two decide to fight alone.

He later returns in the climactic battle of Dragon Ball NG. Dark Goku is brainwashed and under Lord Gohan’s control, and Vegeta and the other Z Warriors are aware that if he was freed, his soul would return to hell as part of Omeshenku. Without any other option, Vegeta attempts to cleanse and save his soul by diluting it with his own – by Potarra Fusion. Vegito returns, but due to being half pure evil and half pure good, he has an internal battle and is at first unable to fight. When he finally recovers, Vegeta’s good soul had won, and he battles Lord Gohan at base, Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 2, Suepr Saiyan 4 and Super Saiyan 5 levels. Due to Vegeta and Goku both having a tail this time around, he also has a tail. This fusion later breaks when Omeshenku’s soul is released from hell, meaning that Goku would return to him. The result was that Vegito defused, and Goku vanished as Super Omeshenku returned.

Goku's relaxation, and Vegeta's strategic mind enabled Vegito to be quite an intelligent fighter without being overcome by arrogance as Vegeta alone would be but possessing the ruthlessness to kill that Goku would lack. In addition, Vegito also possesses the immense power and speed of both Goku and Vegeta amplified to great degrees, as well as the tactics and skill of both. He is very similar to Gogeta, who is another fusion of Goku and Vegeta.

Gogeta
Gogeta is one of the most powerful characters introduced in the series. Like Vegito, Gogeta was an act of desperation, though this one was to stop the powerful demon Janemba. Gogeta annihilated Janemba with hardly any effort, disposing of the demon in seconds. Due to the fusion here not being permanent, Gogeta reappears more in the series than Vegito, once Vegeta gets to grips with performing the Fusion Dance. When the Z Warriors are called forward to battle Buu and Janemba in Future Trunks’ timeline, Gogeta ends up destroying the combined enemy as a Super Saiyan 2. Later, he returns in Dragon Ball GT when Vegeta artificially becomes a Super Saiyan 4, and fuses with Goku to take on Omega Shenron. In this scenario, the fusion only lasted 10 minutes rather than the expected 30 due to the incredible power of Gogeta. He is called upon in Dragon Ball NG, when Goku and Vegeta battle against the fused Dark Saiyan Nappitz. In this battle, he fights as a Super Saiyan and a Super Saiyan 4, but again, doesn’t defeat Nappitz before his fusion runs out. Lastly, he appears for a final time in the climax of Dragon Ball Universe, where after being restored to the universe by Vegeta, Goku suggests they fuse to destroy Kallaka. Due to his incredible strength, Gogeta is stronger than Kallaka here as a Super Saiyan, when Kallaka had been toppling Super Saiyan 5’s.

Omeshenku
Omeshenku is the fusion of Shenron, Goku and Omega Shenron that was unleashed when the Dragon Balls were activated one time too many. After the Dark Saiyan attack, Shenron had agreed to restore the universe one more time, but this time, Goku would become part of the Dragon Balls rather than them becoming part of him. However, they did not turn to stone, and so they were regathered. When Pan was away from Earth, battling Radot, Vegeta summoned Shenron, not intending to create any more negative energy by casting a wish, but merely asking for information. However, on being summoned, Shenron wholly left the Dragon Balls alongside Goku and Omega Shenron, and the three fused in a manner that echoed the Namekian Fusion – Omega Shenron became the host body, but with green tints and the eyes of a Super Saiyan Goku. In this form, Goku seemed to have no influence other than through his power – Omeshenku was pure evil and followed the mind of Omega Shenron. He proved to be a foe that the Z Warriors had to overcome twice, having been unleashed from hell another time and absorbing the combined powers of Cell, Frieza and Baby. Due to the magic of Shenron, Omeshenku could gradually but continually increase his power level. Also, due to Goku’s powers, he could undergo a transformation that boosted his power, much like a Super Saiyan.