Goku is undoubtedly one of Dragon Ball’s strongest characters. But what secrets is the Saiyan’s body hiding?

While he isn’t exactly known for being the smartest character in Dragon Ball, Goku more than makes up for that with his strength. Even by Saiyan standards, he’s seen as a mighty warrior. Time and time again, he’s proven that he is one of the most powerful mortals this side of the multiverse.

His body has taken its fair share of beatings over the years, though, from being squeezed by giant ape Vegeta to surviving heart disease to having a laser shot through his chest. Despite all of this, he still looks young and spry, and will probably continue fighting until his body fully gives out on him. With that in mind, here are five weird facts about Goku’s body you may or may not know.

Goku’s Growth Was Stunted

When we met Goku in the first episode of Dragon Ball, he was a tiny little squirt running around the woods. But did you know that he was actually considered short, even for his young age? At the start of the series, he was around 12 years old, much to our — and Bulma’s — surprise. Many people thought he was actually younger than 10. It wasn’t until he had a couple of growth spurts between the ages of 15 and 25 that he actually started looking his age. Of course, that never stopped him from taking on opponents much bigger than him.

Goku Doesn’t Age… For A While

Despite the series spanning well over 30 years, Goku doesn’t have a single wrinkle or gray hair, while other characters around him do show signs of aging. This is because Saiyans don’t show signs of aging until they reach about 80 years old. This fact could explain why he didn’t look like he’d hit puberty until a later age. It probably also helps that his body is regenerated numerous times throughout the series. If he keeps this up, he may end up looking young for much longer than the average Saiyan. Whatever the reason is, doctors hate him.

Goku Is Able To Withstand Intense Gravity

As we see multiple times in the series, Goku’s body is able to withstand extreme levels of gravity. The first time this becomes apparent, he’s training with King Kai after being killed in his fight with Raditz. This becomes a go-to training method for him and other characters, as it increases their strength and dexterity.

The only time he seems to be in real danger is when his ship malfunctions on the way to Namek with the machine set to 100 x Earth’s gravity. Even then, he decides to keep it at this level to prepare for his fight against Frieza. It’s also implied that he and Vegeta use the Gravity Machine at Capsule Corp. for sparring in the Galactic Patrol Prisoner saga, though it’s not clear at what level they train. Vegeta has been seen training at 500 x Earth’s gravity, but there have been hints that Goku too could withstand it with some further training. Nothing can keep these boys down — not even physics.

Goku’s Hairstyle May Be Genetic

It’s not hair gel that keeps Goku’s signature hairstyle up — it seems to be genetics. When Bardock is introduced, he also sports the particular spiky hair that Goku is known for. While Gohan didn’t inherit this particular gene, Goten was lucky enough to take after dear old Dad. We even see Goku Jr., one of his descendants, with it in Dragon Ball GT’s last episode, as well as in Dragon Ball GT: A Hero’s Legacy, though the character is not considered canon within Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball lore.

Even his mother Gine and older brother Raditz have matching hairstyles. This begs the question, do hairstyles signify which family a Saiyan comes from — sort of like a family crest? Or is it just one of those weird anime things?

Goku’s Biggest Bodily Weakness Is… Needles

For someone as powerful as Goku, the sight of a needle should be nothing. Yet, as soon as he lays eyes on one, he’s reduced to a blubbering mess of cowardice. While not included in the manga, the phobia adds a bit of relatability to his anime counterpart. It’s never explained why he’s so scared of them, but most fears aren’t rational. Let’s just hope none of Dragon Ball‘s villains find out about it.

We’ve watched Goku grow up from a tiny 12-year-old to a towering powerhouse over the span of Dragon Ball and its sequels, and yet there are still mysteries about how his and other Saiyans’ anatomy works. Between the various power-ups and the monster appetite, it’s unclear why they, of all other alien races, make such great fighters. And even among Saiyans, Goku is still a one-off.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes is continuing through the second season of its promotional anime series, and the next episode for the Big Bang Mission arc has revealed its synopsis. The Big Bang Mission arc has taken the fight against Fu to a new level when a stronger and beefed up version of the Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn villain Janemba was introduced. This meant that the Xeno versions of Goku and Vegeta had a tough fight on their hands that pushed the limits of their Super Saiyan 4 powers to a new stage.

The Big Bang Mission arc is really only beginning as the next episode of the series takes the fight to a couple of new foes. Episode 7 Super Dragon Ball Heroes’ Big Bang Mission arc is titled “Rampaging Terror! The Evil Aura Returns!” The synopsis for the new episode (as translated by @DBSChronicles on Twitter) teases the return of some foes we had seen teased at the beginning of the arc along with Gohan and Android 17’s return to the fight.

The synopsis begins as such, “Goku and co. invade the cracks of time where the universe tree grows. There, Gohan and 17, who were already brought there by Fu, fight their fated enemies, Bojack and Super 17. Thanks to Towa, the Time Patrollers disappear, leaving behind Goku and Vegeta to fight Fu.” These aren’t the only major returns, however, as like the title of the episode implies we’ll be seeing a much more prominent return.

The final piece of the synopsis teases the return of Evil Saiyan Cumber (who we had last seen fighting Golden Cooler in the first season of the promotional series), and more ominously, the return of his evil aura, “During the fierce fight, the evil aura of Cumber controlled by Fu attacks Goku and co. and causes therm to go berserk…”

The next episode of the Big Bang Mission arc is scheduled for a release sometime in September, but no concrete release date has been revealed as of this writing. What did you think of the newest Super Dragon Ball Heroes episode?

Excited to see what’s next for the Episode 7 of the season? What have you thought of the first few episodes of the Big Bang Mission season so far?

Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods was not only exciting because it was the first new Dragon Ball anime content in a long time, but that it opened up the franchise to godly new levels of power. Over the course of Dragon Ball Super we have seen Goku and Vegeta inch their way towards these godly new levels with Goku even breaking through at the end of the original anime series. But is it possible that the two of them have hit their power ceiling? Did Dragon Ball Super just limit how strong Goku and Vegeta can get? And if it did, is it a bad thing?

The fight against Planet Eater Moro has been a difficult one in that Goku and Vegeta have been dealt their most decisive loss in the series to date. Much like their fight against Fused Zamasu, the two of them have been defeated so soundly that it’s going to take divine intervention to save them. But the difference here is, Goku and Vegeta have trained to near god level abilities — yet could not quite get there.

The more the Dragon Ball franchise runs on, the stronger Goku and Vegeta have seemed. But the fight with Moro is just a cap on Dragon Ball Super’s bringing them back down to Earth. Although they do have all these fantastical new power ups at their disposal, it’s all essentially meaningless as both Goku and Vegeta continue to confront their limits with each fight. It’s always been this way as losing is built into a Saiyan’s blood, but it feels especially poignant with the loss to Moro.

Mastered Ultra Instinct currently seems like the strongest transformation in the Dragon Ball world, as even the Gods of Destruction honored its arrival with Goku, but Goku currently cannot reach it on his own. This could have been a fluke as Goku just reached it under the pressure of saving his universe, but if it’s not it has yet to be proved at the time of this writing. Even with his training with Merus, Goku could not magically do it through training like his reaching other forms in the past. It almost as if Vegeta realized too.

Instead of following Goku’s path in the no longer fruitful chase for power, Vegeta trained to use his current strength in creative ways. Vegeta chose to fight smarter, not harder, yet it still was not enough to defeat Moro despite how much stronger this training made him. So the major question being, is this really it for how strong they can become? Will Goku and Vegeta remain at this level and not potentially take on the entire multiverse?

If this turns out to be the case, it would not be the worst thing. Not only would it fall back in line with canonical end of Dragon Ball Z (which this is still supposed to lead into apparently), but it would change the scope of the fights from here on out. The two Saiyans will have to find new ways to defeat their opponents and come face to face with their own mortality. This too, would bring us back to End of Z with Vegeta deciding to ease up on fighting and Goku starts training those who could surpass him.

What do you think? Will Goku and Vegeta still find a way to get stronger and defeat Moro? Will the loss here make them fight differently? Could this even be the final arc of the series?

Viz’s twelfth collected volume of the Dragon Ball Super manga will be released 02 March 2021, covering chapters 53-56 (as well as a two-page bonus chapter) a la its Japanese counterpart:

” The villain Moro has released vicious criminals from the Galactic Prison, and now they’re ravaging the galaxy in their search for planets with exceptional life energy! Meanwhile, back on Earth, members of the Bandit Brigade have shown up, including Seven-Three, who has the ability to copy other fighters’ powers. How will Piccolo and the others fare against this new threat without Goku around?”

Print editions retail for $9.99 MSRP. Digital editions of each will also be available at various retailers, including Amazon, Comixology, and direct from Viz.

The Dragon Ball Super “comicalization” began in June 2015, initially just ahead of the television series, and running both ahead and behind the series at various points. The manga runs monthly in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ sixty-second chapter coming last week in the magazine’s September 2020 issue. Illustrated by “Toyotarō” (in all likelihood, a second pen-name used by Dragon Ball AF fan manga author and illustrator “Toyble”), the Dragon Ball Super manga covered the Battle of Gods re-telling, skipped the Resurrection ‘F’ re-telling, and “charged ahead” to the Champa arc, “speeding up the excitement of the TV anime even more”. Though the television series has completed its run, the manga continues onward, entering its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner” arc. Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The next collected volume — the tenth — is due out this September (followed by the eleventh in December, and now the twelfth in March).

The Dragon Ball Super television series concluded in March 2018 with 131 total episodes. FUNimation owns the American distribution license for the series, with the English dub having wrapped its broadcast on Cartoon Network, and the home video release reaching its tenth and final box set back in January.

Dragon Ball Super Chapter 61 reveals a new upgrade for Moro, and now he’s stronger than ever.

Millions of years prior to even the original Dragon Ball series, the Grand Supreme Kai and South Supreme Kai united to take down Moro, a powerful wizard and energy-absorbing villain that posed a major threat to the universe. Grand Supreme Kai eventually defeated Moro, taking the villain into the custody of the Galactic Patrol. Moro remained in custody until the events of Dragon Ball Super. Shortly after his escape, the villain used the Namekian Dragon Balls to restore his original power and further boosted that by absorbing energy during a rampage across the universe. If that wasn’t enough, Dragon Ball Super Chapter 61 gives him another upgrade — and now he’s stronger than ever.

At the start of Dragon Ball Super Chapter 61, Moro faces off against Vegeta. At first, the villain has the advantage over the Saiyan Prince, and looks like he’ll win despite Vegeta’s latest power upgrade. This isn’t particularly surprising, as Moro was able to defeat Goku despite that Saiyan using the godly Ultra Instinct Sign transformation. However, things turn against Moro, as it’s revealed Vegeta learned a technique called Forced Spirit Fission on Planet Yardrat. This move separates Moro from all of the power he absorbed, and the villain eventually reverts back to his emaciated state from before when he used the Namekian Dragon Balls.

With Moro at his mercy, Vegeta gets permission from Jaco to finally put the powerful villain — who was previously unkillable — down for good. However, Moro has one more trick up his sleeve: Magic. The villain escapes back to his spaceship, where he kills Shimo-Rekka while Seven-Three watches on in horror. Still, Seven-Three — whose powerful copy ability allowed him to duplicate his master’s abilities during a battle with the Z-Fighters — doesn’t have to ruminate long on his ally’s death. Instead, Moro literally eats Seven-Three to absorb his powers.

Vegeta, who pursues the villain, is shocked by what happens and ends up getting knocked out by Moro in his new form. As the Z-Fighters look on from Earth, Goku remarks Moro is now even stronger than he was before. When the villain does finally touch back down on Earth, Moro has a new form, which is something of a fusion between himself and Seven-Three. The villain then reveals Seven-Three held a complete back-up of Moro and his abilities. Plus, by absorbing Seven-Three, Moro now has access to that henchman’s copy ability.

Thanks to this turn of events, Moro is deadlier than ever. While Vegeta’s Forced Spirit Fission may still be able to sap the villain’s power in some way, the Saiyan Prince is seemingly down for the count, so it’s unlikely he’ll be able to compete with Moro in earnest anytime soon. This is also a particularly bleak outcome for the Z-Fighters. Prior to Vegeta’s return, the group seemed destined to lose to Moro. Nothing has changed for them, and now they’re even more hopelessly outclassed. Still, Goku is one fighter who, when faced with a challenge, always finds a way to break past his limits, so it may just be that he accesses a higher form of Ultra Instinct to take down Moro. It may also be that the Angel Merus finally gives into his instincts and interferes in the battle, despite the fact such an action will violate his vow of neutrality and cost him his life.

Dragon Ball Super introduced the Super Saiyan Blue form. Could a Super Saiyan Blue go Super Saiyan 3? It’s possible. It would also be dangerous.

Dragon Ball Super introduced the concept of Super Saiyan Gods — a hyper-powerful new transformation that augmented a Super Saiyan. Unlike previous Super Saiyan transformations, Super Saiyan God forms were not simply the next form in a line of transformations, but stood alongside the other Super Saiyan forms. They’re similar to the Kaio-Ken technique, which could be compounded with the pre-existing Super Saiyan form.

This led to the Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form — otherwise known as Super Saiyan Blue. Super Saiyan God forms resembled the normal base Saiyan form, but Goku and Vegeta came to realize they could then harness their Super Saiyan forms while in Super Saiyan God form.

While Goku and Vegeta kept trying to push further beyond this form — as seen by both the Super Saiyan Blue Kaio-Ken form and Ultra Instinct form — fans have theorized that both Goku and Vegeta could push even further beyond: combine the Super Saiyan God form with Super Saiyan 3.

What Is Super Saiyan 3?

Super Saiyan transformations expend a great amount of ki. Radiant auras spray energy out in bursts strong enough to bust open planets. This is true for the Kaio-Ken as well, which multiplies an individual’s energy while putting a strain on the body. Part of Goku’s training as a Super Saiyan is to maintain the Super Saiyan form as a base form, allowing him to better access their abilities.

Transforming into a Super Saiyan 2 or 3 drains Goku of energy and strength. In the Buu Saga, Goku is only able to maintain the form for brief intervals of time, while Gotenks’ transformation into Super Saiyan 3 consumes so much energy it significantly shortens the length of the half-hour fusion.

From this information, it could be assumed that the different forms consume different levels of energy, but the reality is that all Super Saiyan forms are the same form, pushed to greater extremes. Because of this, Super Saiyan 1, 2, and 3 aren’t separate techniques, but the same technique, just with extra, channeled energy.

In a June 2014 interview in Saikyo Jump, Akira Toriyama confirmed that the Super Saiyan 3 is not in fact a separate form, but rather a hyped-up version of the Super Saiyan transformation. “Super Saiyan 2 and 3 are nothing more than powered-up variations of Super Saiyan. After the fight with Beerus, Goku realized that mastering his normal state and Super Saiyan would raise his level more and sap less strength, so I think he probably won’t become Super Saiyan 2 or 3 any more.”

In this sense, when Goku becomes Super Saiyan 3 in the Buu Saga during Dragon Ball Z and the whole planet starts shaking, the uncontrollable aura is a demonstration of Goku’s weakness, not power. It shows that Goku has incredible strength but very little control of that power.

Super Saiyan Blue IS Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan 3

Super Saiyan Blue is essentially the product of Goku determining a way to utilize the Super Saiyan technique while transformed as a Super Saiyan God — the pure mastery of the Super Saiyan form. As Toriyama implied, mastering his Super Saiyan state allows Goku to control the loss of ki that erupts from his body.

Super Saiyan Blue is a demonstration of Goku and Vegeta’s mastery of both separate techniques. This is why Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta will probably never pop up, because Vegeta has already mastered his Super Saiyan power and surpassed the limitations of Super Saiyan 3 without developing Goku’s unstable power-leaking weakness. Because Super Saiyan 3 is not a separate technique from the normal Super Saiyan technique, Super Saiyan Blue represents the power of Super Saiyan 3 without the power-leak and with extreme control over energy.

Could Goku push his power levels to its utter extreme, creating an unstable power-leaking form that resembles Super Saiyan 3 with blue hair? Possibly. However, consider that Super Saiyan God alone can almost ruptures holes in reality in Dragon Ball Super. If Goku were to lose control of his power as a Super Saiyan God as he does as a Super Saiyan 3, then it’s highly possible that, by virtue of existing in this form, reality itself could break down.

Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan 3 would represent Goku losing control of his power, not necessarily growing more powerful. He wouldn’t destroy his opposition, but rather the reality in which that opposition exists. Nothing in the universe would be able to stop him… because there would be no universe!

In the ongoing Dragon Ball super arc, Vegeta might be given the chance to surpass his longtime rival Goku, while saving the universe in the process.

Those who are familiar with the Dragon Ball franchise may be aware that Goku is the iconic protagonist of the series. As such, most of the arcs within the series ends with Goku showing up at the perfect time to save the day, typically unlocking a new Super Saiyan form in the process. However, in the most recent issues of the Dragon Ball Super manga, we find our usual protagonist on the wrong side at the hands of the new villain Moro, only to be saved by the long anti-hero Vegeta. Now having learned a mysterious new technique, Vegeta confidently stands against Moro, seemingly ready to end this threat for good.

Following the events of the recent movie Dragon Ball Super: Broly, the manga arc begins with Goku and Vegeta being recruited to stop a new villain known as Moro. However, upon confronting him, the two were shocked to discover that Moro possessed the ability to drain power and energy from other beings. This, in turn, made their powerful Super Saiyan Blue form all but useless when facing such a foe. In response, the two went their separate ways to train and find a means of stopping the power-hungry Moro.

While Moro continued to wreak havoc, Goku trained with the galactic patrolman know as Merus, an angel-like being who is immensely powerful. Throughout the story, Merus trains Goku so he can reach the mastered version of the godlike form known as Ultra Instinct, which debuted in the previous Tournament of Power arc. Unfortunately, he was only able to gain control of the Ultra Instinct Sign version, which is drastically less powerful than the mastered form. With no time left to spare, Goku was forced to fight Moro without completing his training.

Vegeta, on the other hand, decided to forgo the idea of unlocking Ultra Instinct in favor of learning a new technique on the planet Yadrat, where Goku learned the transportation technique known as Instant Transmission many arcs earlier. In doing so, Vegeta spent quite some time away from the action, similar to how Goku would do in most arcs. While Goku was fighting Moro in his Ultra Instinct Sign form, Vegeta remained on Yardrat in order to find a means of fighting Moro without transforming. Because of this, in the latest issue, we see the protagonist Goku being saved by Vegeta just in the nick of time, who seems more heroic than ever while maintaining his usual cocky attitude.

This is exciting to long-time fans of the franchise because the long-running status quo of Goku being the best might be shaken. This is refreshing because it was starting to seem like there hasn’t been anyone who could surpass or match Goku’s power for quite some time. With that in mind, this leaves the reader to wonder what technique Vegeta learned during his time on Yardrat. Considering all this, one could hope that arc follows through with this setup for Vegeta, who has deserved a victory like this since the Boo Saga.

“Dragon Ball”, the series was composed more than 30 years ago but is still the most popular series in the world, the most admired and always on the list of manga to watch. Therefore, the characters in the story became famous all over the place and were well known. And If Songoku is the role model of a great hero who is endowed by the author best, from pure innocence, kindness, kindness to possessing terrible power to defeat all evil forces to protect Earth, Vegeta is the exact opposite. Vegeta is like a mirror reflecting on another personality of Goku but “more people”, And being human, everyone will have feelings of hate, hatred, greed, and envy towards others to strive to constantly improve ourselves.

Vegeta is cold, arrogant and extravagant. His pride and self-esteem are the most prominent in his personality. At first, he was a bad person, but later he argued badly, fighting for justice to protect his relatives. He loved his family especially Bulma but he did not confess to the outside.
From a man who has all his hands, the love of his parents, the noble prince status, the king’s dream, but overnight, Vegeta suddenly loses everything when his age is too small. This pain is who knows for him, Vegeta doesn’t even have time to nibble on that pain, you compress it in your heart and you live by the will of vengeance. “It will take more games with the brain to stop me. You may have invaded my soul and body … But there is one thing the Saiyan always holds: BEING HAPPY!”-The famous speech of Vegeta make us admire his personality

Vegeta thinks that other people hurt him, they trampling, even making his life dark, he must take revenge, must make them suffer the same feeling of badness, this will making him feel gloating and comforted. But is it really like that? Or it is hatred for Frieza that causes the real nature of Vegeta to be corrupted.
Vegeta’s heart is filled with hatred, the idea of ​​revenge is the only thing that exists to turn him into a cruel man, even though he is in the cruel army of Frieza, he doesn’t hesitate planetary books of other species like what Frieza did with his home planet.
People want to prove themselves from a young age, want to be better and become great in many people’s eyes. But life does not give you everything you want, sometimes you have to go through a painful loss to be able to grow up and get what you want, Vegeta is the same. Being an arrogant person, always upholding himself and hard to accept defeat but life made him fall face down when he just walked into life.
Almost 20 years as a “slave” for Frieza, whom he only wants to kill, does not understand how Vegeta goes through. Most importantly, Vegeta still does not lose the pride of the Saiyan homeland, the pride of the Saiyan race, he always sets himself to be higher than others, considers self-esteem to be life and does not want to receive help from anyone.
This personality of Vegeta is very much like a child who just wants to assert himself, wanting to prove himself to the whole galaxy knowing he is strong. Then, Vegeta meets Goku – the enemy of his life. He wanted to win against Kakarot but never did, he wanted to become stronger so he wouldn’t fall behind, he wasn’t a weak person or easily accepted as a loser.

Until he stays on Earth and lives with the Z warriors, that Vegeta’s life turns to another brighter page, he no longer has to live a life of obeying another people and he has become more mature. Vegeta no longer wants to kill or conquer the universe, his goal is to overcome Goku. Above all, Vegeta has a place to belong, has a family to protect, children to take care of, a wife to love. Vegeta no longer has to shoulder everything alone, the loner is no longer alone, he realizes the value of friendship, family affection and he appreciates what he has.
Vegeta’s cutest point is that when he works well, he is afraid of being seen by Songoku or others. He lives without noticing how others judge, just if he feels himself.
From an evil person, Vegeta has transformed to become an honest person. Thereby, we understand that people, no matter how bad they are, can become good people by being tolerated by society and accepting them.

Many people will probably say that Vegeta’s life and the process of perfecting himself is not a complicated story, on the contrary, it is easy to understand, sensitive and easy to share. Because when I think about Vegeta, one of us once saw his shadow in him, isn’t it?

Please cap your hat to Prince Saiyan Vegeta, for all he has done.