Gohan

Template:DB Character Son Gohan, or simply Gohan in the English anime, is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama and the Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT anime series. He is a half-breed Saiyan.

Gohan has an unique personality which separates him from other Saiyans: he doesn't possess the desire of fighting. This doesn't mean Gohan is a coward or lazy; on the contrary, Gohan is willing to push to his limits and confront seemingly invincible enemies, but he needs reasons to do that - usually saving the Earth or his friends. He usually takes turns being the main character, with Goku.

Like his father, Son Goku, Gohan has a noble and gentle heart, and is deeply concerned with his family and friends. Besides his parents and his girlfriend/wife, Videl, Gohan is shown to have a strong attachment with his mentor, Piccolo, who saves his life many times during the Z Saga and the Dragonball Z movies. Piccolo's change of personality from evil to good is attributed to his friendship with Gohan.

As a fighter, Gohan is often mentioned to carry a large hidden potential, which is only completely released in the end of the Z series. Gohan may release this "hidden power" either by training or by becoming angry, much like a Saiyan becomes a Super Saiyan by becoming angry. Gohan is the strongest non-fusion character in the canonical manga series and the Dragon Ball Z anime adaptation.

Biography

Son Gohan is the first born son of Son Goku and Chi-Chi. He is named after Goku's adoptive Grandpa Gohan. Gohan is the first Saiyan/Human halfbreed.

Gohan's name is a homophone for gohan (御飯), the Japanese word for cooked rice which also refers to meals in general.

Saiyan Saga

Despite Goku's protests, Chi-Chi home-schooled Gohan to be a scholar until he was four, before Goku took him to Kame Island to introduce him to Muten-Rôshi (Master Roshi), Bulma and Kuririn. At this time he is shown as a shy but very smart boy who also has a tail like Goku once had. Goku's brother Raditz soon arrives looking for his brother Goku, and eventually kidnaps Gohan. Raditz discovers Gohan has an even higher power level than Son Goku after Gohan escaped from being trapped in Raditz's space pod. This increase in power was the result of Gohan's emotions.

During the battle between Goku, Raditz and Piccolo, Gohan got angry, broke free of the space pod, and delivered a devastating blow to Raditz, giving Goku and Piccolo time to kill Raditz, even though Goku died in the process.

After the battle with Raditz, Piccolo, having seen Gohan's power first hand, decides to take Gohan out training in the wilderness. He left Gohan alone in the wilderness to survive against dinosaurs and other dangers for the better part of a year, though during this time Piccolo watched Gohan carefully. The rest of the year, Piccolo taught Gohan how to fight, showing him no mercy. But soon Gohan's bright and cheerful nature made Piccolo protective over the young boy. When the time came for the Z Fighters to take on the remaining two Saiyans, Vegeta and Nappa, Gohan was able to control his fear, but at times his age caught up with him, making him frightened.

When Nappa fired a lethal energy blast at Gohan, Piccolo threw himself in front of Gohan and took the impact. Piccolo died as a result. Piccolo's self-sacrifice is symbolic of the grown relationship he has developed with Gohan. Gohan was deeply hurt by Piccolo's death and in turn fired his trademark 'Masen-Kô' blast at Nappa, which would have done heavy damage if it had not been blocked.

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Son Gohan, transformed into an Oozaru.

Later in the saga, after Vegeta turns into an Oozaru and injures Goku, Gohan himself transforms into the Oozaru form defeating Vegeta after landing on him after his tail is cut off.

Freeza Saga

Gohan chose to go to the planet Namek to gather the Namekian Dragonballs because when Piccolo died the Earth's dragon balls were turned to stone. They planned on using the wishes to bring back their lost friends who died fighting the two evil Saiyans. Gohan was on a personal mission to wish back Piccolo and went so far as to wear a copy of Piccolo's dōgi to honor him.

During the Namek Saga, Gohan proved to be a great warrior who might be one day stronger than his father.

After the Eternal Dragon Shenron refused the wish that Goku be brought back to life, Gohan was shocked, and once asked, The Dragon said he could not grant his wish because Goku was not dead at all, and everyone rejoiced. During the time of peace, while awaiting the arrival of his father, Gohan went back to his studies with Piccolo watching over him and his mother.

Garlic Jr. Saga

[Anime Only] After Garlic Jr. escaped from the Dead Zone and enslaved most of humanity with the Black Water Mist, Gohan, who was unaffected due to hiding in a cave, must travel to the lookout point to do battle with him and his henchmen, the Spice Boys, along side Krillen and Piccolo. While outmatched at first, Gohan eventually manages to overcome them and sends Garlic Jr. back to the Dead Zone by blowing up the Makyo Star that was powering Garlic Jr. This would be the first time Gohan had saved the world without his father.

Cell Saga

At the age of 6, Son Gohan trained with Piccolo and Goku (who had recently returned to Earth) for three years to fight Android 18 and Android 17, which Mirai Trunks had warned them about. He spent a further year with his father in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, where he spent some quality time with his father whom he was rarely with, spending a whole year in a day's time.

At the age of 10 (11 if you include the time spent in the Room, something that seems to be ignored in the manga) he emerged from the room as a Super Saiyan. At the Cell Games, to everyone's surprise Goku gave up after fighting Cell and chose Gohan to take his place. It was revealed that Gohan had a special power locked up inside him that came when he got really angry.

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Gohan as a Super Saiyan 2

These fits of power were very rare during his life, the first time being when his power spiked to over 1,000 and he flew out of the ship in which he was locked, blowing it to bits, and flying into devastatingly headbutting Raditz. Later, during his training with Piccolo, Piccolo threw him at a mountain. Gohan fired an energy blast clear through the mountain; finally, after Freeza nearly killed Kuririn, Gohan went into a rage and managed to damage Freeza, who was in his second form at the time.

After a short fight Gohan told Cell that he did not want to fight in fear of killing Cell since his anger could make him uncontrollable. However, Cell wanted to see how powerful Gohan could become and believed that he could surely beat Gohan, tried by all means to make Gohan get angry. He first tortured Gohan and then released seven Cell Juniors to kill Goku, Vegeta, Trunks and his friends. When they were about to be killed, and Cell had crushed the peace loving Android 16's head, Gohan's emotions finally exploded and he became the first to transform into Super Saiyan 2. He moved at lightning speed and destroyed all Cell Juniors, each in one hit. Cell boosted his own power up to maximum, but Gohan struck two heavy hits into Cell's stomach and jaw, seriously injuring him. Cell began to know the feeling of fear when Gohan ducked, blocked and redirected his attacks using bare hands. In desperation, Cell flew up high and conjured a full energy kamehameha, threatening that if Gohan did not take it would destroy the Earth. However Gohan countered the attack with an even more powerful kamehameha, destroying Cell's left arm, wings and legs. Goku warned Gohan to finish Cell, but Gohan wanted to let Cell suffer more. After a few more hits Cell spat out Android 18 and devolved. As a last resort Cell prepared to self destruct, in order to blow up Earth. Goku used Instant Transmission to transport Cell away from Earth, to King Kai's planet, sacrificing himself in the process.

Cell, who was not destroyed in the explosion, quickly regenerated from a single cell and in doing so his Saiyan genes caused him to become much stronger, in effect pushing his power to Super Saiyan 2 levels. Having absorbed Goku's teleportation technique in the final seconds before his explosion, Cell headed right back to earth to destroy Gohan and the remaining Z-Warriors. Cell critically wounded Trunks in one shot and then also Vegeta, who tried to avenge his son's death with a stream of Ki blasts. Cell then attempted to kill Vegeta by firing a massive attack at him. Gohan blocked it at the last minute but lost the use of his left arm. The young half-Saiyan felt his end was near.

Wishing to end the conflict once and for all Cell prepared to use a massive kamehameha. Gohan, nearly in shock from his fathers death and his wounds began to despair and saw no hope for victory. Just then Goku began to talk to his son from the afterlife encouraging him to fight. With his fathers urging Gohan prepared a single-handed Kamehameha of his own.

During the Kamehameha duel between the two, Cell had the upper hand for most of the time and his kamehameha hemisphere slowly engulfed Gohan's for several times. With Goku's encouragement that he still had not released his full power, Gohan managed to push his kamehameha hemisphere back to the even line. For fear that Gohan would lose, Piccolo, Yamcha, Tenshinhan and Kuririn flew behind Cell and attack him, hoping to give Gohan a hand. Since their power was little, Cell used his own Ki to blow them away. Just when Cell was about to use his full power to end the duel, Gohan took advantage of a critical distraction created by Vegeta and in one of the most visual awe inspiring moments in the entire series, digs deep inside and unleashed all his power at once totally obliterating Cell forever.

History of Trunks

In Future Trunks's alternate timeline, Goku has died from his viral heart disease. Android 17 and Android 18 have turned Earth into their playground. Piccolo, Vegeta, Kuririn, and the rest of the Z Team have been killed fighting the Androids. Gohan, the only survivor has grown up after 15 years and continues to fight the androids simultaneously during those years. Trunks wanting to help, joins Gohan in the fight against the androids and wants to become a Super Saiyan. Gohan and Trunks fight the androids until a fight ends up with Gohan's arm being blown off. Learning of another attack, Gohan and Trunks continue their Super Saiyan training and are about to fight the androids again. Gohan knocks Trunks unconscious so Trunks wouldn't be hurt in the fight. Gohan fights the androids in a violent storm at night and is murdered by both of them by a double ki blast. Trunks, awakened, finds Gohan's dead body and becomes so angry, he becomes a Super Saiyan. A few years later, Trunks travels to the past to warn Goku about the androids and give him the heart disease vaccine, changing events that would lead to the apocalyptic world he knows as home. He later sees Gohan defeat Cell at the Cell Games and remembers the good man Gohan was to him in his timeline. When Trunks returns to his own timeline, he defeats his version of the Androids, and then he defeats his version of Cell. Whether or not things return to normal after that is unknown.

Buu Saga

Seven years later when Gohan is 17, he has a little brother named Son Goten. Chi-Chi decides Gohan needs to go to high school to finish his education. On his first day, he turns Super Saiyan (in order to conceal his identity) to stop a robbery, and by the time he arrives at Orange Star High tales of the "Gold Fighter" have already spread. In class he meets another crime-fighter and the most popular girl in school, Videl. She is the daughter of Mr. Satan, who got rich and famous for stealing Gohan's credit over the defeat of Cell.

Videl is highly suspicious of Gohan and spies on him to see if he's the Gold Fighter. Videl confronts Gohan several times to voice her suspicions but Gohan nervously denies them. Son Gohan decides to use a disguise when fighting crime and goes to Bulma to make him a costume. He becomes the Great Saiyaman to hide his identity so that the media will not bother his family. In the anime, the adventures of Gohan/Great Saiyaman and Videl finding out his identity were all fillers to keep the manga ahead.

But while helping Videl stop a pair of thieves, he accidentally gives away his identity to Videl, who then blackmails Gohan to compete against her in the newly revived Tenka'ichi Budôkai in exchange for her silence. She deduces Gohan to be the son of Son Goku, the champion before her father, and thinks it would be a perfect matchup. Gohan, having no experience with kids his own age, especially girls, is helpless against the confident Videl. She also makes him promise to teach her to fly.

When Son Gohan tells all his friends about the tournament, they decide to compete so he'll have some real competition. Son Goku, listening in from the Other World, contacts them and tells them he'll come too, using his one-day pass to the human world.

When Videl shows up at the Son home to learn, Son Gohan learns that she has no knowledge of ki, since Mr. Satan believes it to be just a trick. Son Gohan then has to start her training from scratch, though she picks it up pretty quickly. In a humorous moment, Son Gohan suggests she cut her hair, at which Videl blushes, asking him if he is attracted to short hair on girls. Being the innocent guy that he is, Gohan explains that short hair is much more convenient for flight and combat, at which she becomes angered and leaves (despite which she appears the next day with cut hair).

Videl, like the rest of the world, believes her father is the strongest fighter on Earth and he laid down a rule she was not allowed to date anyone unless they were stronger than him. During his training of Videl as well as his brother Goten, Videl learns more about Gohan and grows closer to him. Goten lets it slip that their dad is coming back from the dead to compete, but Videl brushes it off, assuming they mean that Son Goku divorced their mom. She empathizes, since her Dad's like that himself.

At the contest Kuririn teased Gohan about Videl being his girlfriend, and Sharpner - a friend of theirs, was jealous and vowed to find out who Saiyaman was.

After the events of Majin Buu being brought back to life by Babidi and Dabura, Gohan is beaten severely and knocked out after he tries to defend Supreme Kai by using a Kamehameha and fleeing with the kai to get away. Kibito (Supreme Kai's bodyguard and friend) finds Supreme Kai and is told that Gohan is Earth's last hope against Buu. They bring Gohan to the world of the Supreme Kai and tell him that he must unlock the Z sword from a stone and master the use of it in order to defeat Buu.

In mastering it, Gohan accidentally breaks the sword, unlocking Elder Kai from the Z Sword which he had been sealed in. Elder Kai tells Gohan that the only way he can defeat Buu is if he awakens his sleeping power. After a 20 hour ritual that Elder Kai performs, Gohan's hidden potential is unlocked, granting him incredible strength, and making the use of the Super Saiyan form unnecessary.

Gohan is taken back to Earth by Kibito, and he flies at super speed to save Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks (Goten and Trunks fused) and a discouraged Piccolo from Super Buu. He seemingly easily defeats Buu at first, then learns Buu was testing him and knew he was coming, Buu then flees for a while. Buu later returns and taunts Goten and Trunks to fuse, Gohan with his guard down agrees to it and Gotenks is formed again. Buu quickly absorbs Gotenks and Piccolo with some of his amorphous body, gaining a huge amount of power. The new Super Buu easily overpowers Gohan.

Gohan is beaten severely and is taunted with Buu's mind games and his use of Gotenks's and Piccolo's attacks. Mr. Satan, his dog, and Dende watch from afar. Buu is ready to launch an attack toward a wounded and exhausted Gohan until Tien comes out of nowhere and stops the attack with his Kikoho. Tien fights Buu and is beaten. Buu then charges an attack that can destroy the Earth. At this time, Goku appears with his instant transmission, with life given him by the Elder Kai and bearing the Potara earrings for a new style of fusion, willing to fuse with Gohan.

Goku launches a Kienzan-like attack at Buu, slicing him in half. Goku throws one earring to Gohan who misses it and goes looking for it. Goku quickly turns into a Super Saiyan 3 and fights Buu, stalling for time. When Gohan finds the earring, Goku tells him there is no need to fuse because Buu's absorption of Gotenks was over (because Gotenks as well as any fusion done with the fusion dance lasts for only 30 minutes). Buu was weak once again but used his other separated limb from a distance and absorbs Gohan from behind. Goku is left with only one choice finding a person to fuse with until he senses a newly brought back Vegeta from afar.

After Gohan is released from Buu and subsequently killed when the Earth was destroyed, he is then brought back to life with the Dragonballs. He gives his energy to Goku's Genki Dama during the climax of the final battle with Kid Buu.

Finally, a few years later, Gohan and Videl are married and have a child, Pan. According to the manga, when Pan was 4, it's alleged that Gohan became a scholar.

Dragonball GT

Gohan works for Bulma's company as a researcher and like his brother and Trunks, he rarely trains. As a result, he is fairly weak compared to how he was in DBZ but he still packs quite a punch; he is said to be weaker than Vegeta but stronger than Goten. While on DBZ Gohan many times switched roles with Goku as the series' main character, on DBGT Gohan is just one of the series' numerous minor characters, whose actions have little or no impact on the events of the series. In Dragon Ball GT, the Mystic powerup, that would have made Gohan stronger than Goku as a child, is believed by many fans to be "lost" for reasons unexplained. There is no evidence that he actually lost the powerup, just that he became weaker (most likely as a result of not training for years, as he did after fighting Cell).

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Dragon Ball Movies

Son Gohan appears in the folowing Dragon Ball Movies and Specials:

• Dead Zone
• The World's Strongest
• The Tree of Might
• Lord Slug
• Cooler's Revenge
• Return of Cooler
• Super Android 13!
• Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan
• Bojack Unbound
• Broly: The Second Coming
• Fusion Reborn
• Wrath of the Dragon
• The History of Trunks
• Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans

Special Abilities

Bukuu Jutsu

The power of flight. It literally means "lighter than air skill". Most warriors in the Dragon Ball universe can do this.

Bakurikimaha

Exploding Powerful Demon Wave. The Bakurikimaha is a very powerful blast shot from one hand, with the other arm supporting the one that is firing the attack. During the battle against Freeza on Namek, Gohan uses this technique when he comes to help Piccolo after Freeza transforms into his second form. As Piccolo is the creator of this technique, it is likely he taught it to Gohan. Called Destructive Wave in English releases.

Masenko

Devil Blast. Gohan's first and most used attack. Its origins are from Piccolo (hence the Ma or demon beginning of the word) who presumably taught the attack to Gohan while training together in the wilderness, although this is never shown. He holds his hands crossed with the palms facing forward above his head, creating a yellow-colored energy ball. Then he throws his hands forward and fires the beam, with the beam's pattern almost similar to the Kamehameha.

Renzoku Kikou Dan

Continuous Energy Bullets. A combination of many small ki blasts fired at a very rapid rate, which causes a machinegun like effect. Useful for quick and widespread damage, but is very draining on ones energy level. Almost any fighter in Dragon Ball Z can perform this attack.

Kamehameha

Turtle Destruction Wave. After training with Goku in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Gohan masters this attack, along with the Super Saiyan levels. He holds his hands near one of his sides (usually right), creating a shiny, blue energy ball. Then he throws his palms forward to fire the beam. As Super Saiyan 2 the Kamehameha is much more lethal, as shown in Movie 9, where Gohan used that Kamehameha to deliver the deadly blow to Bojack. His variation is the Father-Son Kamehameha, where Gohan as Super Saiyan 2 tries to fend off Cell, while Goku, from the Other World, gives him the support. A similar version occurred in Movie 10, where Gohan tries to fend off Brolly. Son Goten shortly arrives to help his brother, however it still wasn't enough... until the Dragonballs overheard Goten's plead for help, and allowed Goku to step in to help his sons.

Chou Kamehameha

An upgraded version of the standard Kamehameha, but much more powerful. The hand movements to perform the attack is the same as the standard Kamehameha, however the charging time takes longer due to more ki energy being put into it. Seeing as how Goku was the inventor of the upgraded version, it is likely Gohan learned it from his father. In the Dragon Ball Z Budokai games on the PS2 and PSP, it is placed as Gohan's Ultimate Move.

Father-Son Kamehameha

Gohan uses this attack only once during the entire series. When Gohan uses his Kamehameha to counter Perfect Cell's own, he is helped spiritually by Goku. This attack helps Gohan overpower and defeat Cell with a little help from Vegeta. The name was coined by the videogame, but was not mentioned as a separate attack in the anime. This is also call the "Family Kamehameha" in the game Dragonball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2.

Zanzoken

After-image fist. An ablity to move extremely fast over short distances, it leaves an after image behind.

Mystic

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Adult Mystic Gohan.

During the Buu Saga, Gohan breaks the mighty Z sword (also known as the Zet Sword), releasing Rou Dai Kaioshin. He then awakens Gohan's sleeping power by performing a lengthy ritual. The unleashing of this sleeping power is known as "Mystic Form" by fans. The Mystic power-up unlocks a fighter's full potential, taking the base form to its peak. When Rou Dai Kaioshin asks him to do that "Super Saiyan thing", Gohan immediately transforms into his Mystic state.

Mystic didn't change the appearance of Gohan much at all. His bangs moved, and he had a stern face, with an erratic white aura when powering up. Gohan can't assume Super Saiyan form while in Mystic form, though this form is at least equal to Super Saiyan 3, likely stronger. However this form can be upheld for a longer period of time without the loss of energy, unlike the Super Saiyan forms.

The Mystic form also seems to affect Gohan's mind. He loses the gentleness on his aura, and becomes an aggressive warrior much like a true Saiyan. This change is subtle, however - Gohan certainly doesn't become "evil" in Mystic form.

In the canonical manga, Gohan's Mystic form remains permanent, but in the non-canonical Dragon Ball GT anime series, he is shown to have lost his Mystic form. Dragon Ball GT never explained why Gohan's superior mystic form was replaced by his Super Saiyan forms instead, although there are many theories. Dragon Ball GT makes numerous other errors and oversights, so Gohan's "loss" of the Mystic form can be ignored due to the non-canonical nature of the third series.

In the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai games, this form is referred to as "Elder Kai Ability Unlock" and in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi Gohan as a Mystic is called "Ultimate Gohan". Neither of these terms is used in either the anime or the manga.

Transformations

The following is a list of all form Gohan through out the series was able to achieve:

• Oozaru
• Super Saiyan
• Full Power Super Saiyan
• Super Saiyan 2
• Mystic (There is debate on whether this change is a transformation or a powerup)

Great Saiyaman

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The champion of justice, the Great Saiyaman!

Great Saiyaman is Son Gohan's alter ego.

Great Saiyaman made his first appearance when Gohan went to high school, after turning to a Super Saiyan to stop bank robbers. Gohan turns into Great Saiyaman by a watch that Bulma made him. Great Saiyaman was to some a mockery of the Ginyu Force, mostly because he would do pointless and silly poses. Later Videl finds out that Gohan is the Great Saiyaman, then soon becomes his 'sidekick' as the Great Saiyawoman (Great Saiyaman Two in the Japanese original).