History Characters / DragonBallZAbridgedSonGoku

* AdaptationalBadass: Not that he wasn't already badass, but in his [[SignatureScene his iconic Beam Struggle with Vegeta]], whereas he has to go to [=Kaio-Ken*4=] in the series proper, here, he only needs to multiply the power by 2 1/2.

* BestServedCold: Goku asks Piccolo to stall Freeza for five minutes while he charges a Spirit Bomb using the exact same words Piccolo used on Goku when they fought Raditz. This pays Piccolo back for the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Goku suffered at the hands of Raditz while Piccolo charged his attack for five minutes. Goku even sings the same song to himself in his head that Piccolo did at the time.

* BestServedCold: Goku asks Piccolo to stall Freeza for five minutes while he charges a Spirit Bomb using the exact same words Piccolo used on Goku when they fought Raditz. This pays Piccolo back for the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Goku suffered at the hands of Raditz while Piccolo charged his attack for five minutes. Goku even hums the same song to himself that Piccolo did at the time.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: He is more stupid than Canon!Goku but you don't want to anger him.

* {{Troll}}: Has a habit of driving his opponents and occasionally his friends and family insane simply through his extreme obliviousness which is what makes it so funny. He isn't even aware that he's doing it.

* {{Trol}}: Has a habit of driving his opponents and occasionally his friends and family insane simply through his extreme obliviousness which is what makes it so funny. He isn't even aware that he's doing it.

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* AdaptationalDumbass: He is ''even more'' of an IdiotHero than he was in canon, except for rare instances where he gets a flash of brillianc

** Further proof is when he went Ultra Super Saiyan (the big, muscly, slow form); he was completely coherent and spoke in a way that would make [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Sheldon Cooper]] proud.

* AmazonChaser: His wife Chi-Chi is the strongest woman on the planet. She also has more stamina than him in bed which he takes as a challenge in episode 56 (he didn't understand it was in order to have a baby).
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[InvokedTrope Acknowledged In-universe]], due to Goku having sporadic cases of HyperAwareness, characters have a hard time telling when he's being a Air Head and when he's being TheGadfly.

'''Goku:''' Yeah, no it-[[{{Beat}} *beat*]] Well, if you had a wig...

* {{Asexuality}}: Goku's primary interests are fighting and eating. He did manage to conceive Gohan and later Goten with Chi-Chi, but both times she was the instigator. He admits in episode 56 that he ''does'' enjoy sex, but she is very much the active party in their relationship.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: He is easily bored by long conversations. He usually cuts the speaker off with a "Bored now" before doing something else.
* AssPull: In-universe. He admits during his fight with Broly that while outclassed he'll probably [[LampshadeHanging "pull something out of his butt"]].

--->'''(Super Saiyan) Goku:''' "I am the hope of the omniverse. I am the light bulb in the darkness. I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger. I am the alpha, and the Amiga. I am the terror, that FLAPS IN THE NIGHT! I, AM SON GOKU, AND I AM A SUPER- (''Freeza blasts Goku, before he instantly recovers'') ...Saiyan."

* BadLiar:
** He spilled the beans to Chi-Chi about him and Gohan going to find the androids instead of going on camping.
--->'''Gohan:''' Three years, dad. Three years. You almost got it.
** And, if it wasn't for Piccolo to stop him in time, he would have spilled the beans about there being more innocent people on the island to the androids.

** "YOU NEVER WASTE FIGGY PUDDING!" (Christmas Tree of Might)
** Also, "Nobody... rakes Christmas!" (Lord Slug)
** And in Episode 30, part 2: "That wasn't a pizza... THAT WASN'T A PIZZA AT ALL!"

** DON'T imply that you can have "too much bacon." He'll go Super Saiyan if you do.
* BestServedCold: Goku asks Piccolo to stall Freeza for five minutes while he can charges the spirit bomb... with the exact same choice of words Piccolo used a while back when they fought Raditz leading to Goku getting a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown while Piccolo was singing (Keep in mind for this, he was singing in his head). While Freeza was kicking the crap out of Piccolo, Goku was singing ''the same song.''
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Stupider than Canon!Goku though he may be, you don't want to anger him.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Nappa, Freeza, and Piccolo (see BestServedCold) learned the hard way that Goku's stupidity and innocence does ''not'' mean he won't mercilessly kick your ass or hold grudges against you.
* BigEater: No, scratch that--HUGE Eater. In fact, when he fights Freeza, he reverts to his basic instincts [[spoiler:and takes a bite out of Freeza]]. It even [[spoiler:saved his life when he used the Muffin Button to escape the exploding Namek]] and it also [[spoiler:killed him in Future Trunks' timeline (heart attack from eating too much bacon).]]

* BloodKnight: Ironically, he's not ''that'' far removed from Canon!Goku or ''either'' version of Vegeta when you get right down to it. Must be the Saiyan blood. For example, he didn't care what Freeza was capable of, he just wanted to beat him up. Later on, Goku blatantly looks forward to fighting the Androids, as he feels he hasn't gotten a good fight since Freeza.

* BreakTheCutie: Spends episodes 38 and 39 screaming in pain from [[spoiler:his heart problems]].
* BrickJoke: Muffin button. Surprisingly enough, it ''saved'' his life as explained in episode 34.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: His idiocy is exaggerated beyond belief. He's still TheAce for the Z Fighters, and a constant [[BigDamnHeroes big damn hero.]]

** Tells Future Trunks this. Though he swears on Krillin's (but changed to Bulma's) life to keep Trunks' secret.

* CatchPhrase: "[[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Bored now.]]"

** At the start of the series he's more of a CloudCuckoolander with a more natural demeanor until after episode 11 he starts to become increasingly child-like to the point of becoming a KindheartedSimpleton.
** Seems to be in the making with regards to his relationship to Gohan. Before Episode 27, he has been a somewhat attentive father to Gohan. As of Episode 27, he makes conversation with Krillin, Piccolo, and Vegeta while he responds to Gohan's "Hey Dad!" with a disinterested "Hey".

** In episode 27, he unknowingly delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to ''Freeza''.
** In episode 34, when Goku finds out that Bulma is Trunks' mother, his first reaction is to be amazed at how old he's gotten in the year and a half since Goku assumes he must have been born. The impossibility of Trunks' existence never crosses his mind.

** In an alternate scene of episode 30, instead of a muffin, Freeza's ship instead spawns him a cookie, shouting a BigNo in the process.

* TheDreaded: In Dead Zone Abridged, when Garlic Jr meets Gohan and realizes he's Goku's son, Garlic Jr freaks out and yells at his minions to get the Dragon Balls quicker. Also dreaded by Freeza after being beaten on Namek.

** [[spoiler:After Piccolo's supposed death by Cell in episode 47, Gohan tries to fly to rescue him, only for Goku restrain him. When Gohan claims Piccolo would have let him go, Goku says Piccolo wouldn't, and he's ''smarter'' than Goku.]] This stops Gohan in his tracks.

** In episode 47, it takes him a very long time to remember he can teleport. When Gohan asks, Mr. Popo affirms that Goku's an idiot.

'''Gohan:''' D-Did you...? What just...?\\

** Not-so subtly implied between him and his wife Chi-Chi in ''Christmas Tree of Might''

--->'''Goku''' ([[InternalMonologue thinking]]): Oh, man! If Chi-Chi finds out about this, I might not get mouth present.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: As seen in episode 58 when the viewers booed at him, due to Jimmy Firecracker misconstruing Goku's words to make him sound like a [[DomesticAbuser abusive husband]]. It also doesn't help that Goku himself only adds more fuel to the fire by adding that after he beat her, they married, he put a kid in her, and she [[StayInTheKitchen stays in the kitchen]], which makes him come off as rather sexist.

* HypocriticalHumor: Goku tries to call Cell out on stealing other people's techniques, despite virtually all of Goku's own techniques being taken from others. The Z-Fighters pitch in to name who really invented each of the techniques that Goku lists off. Goku then asks King Kai if he learned the Kaio-ken on his own, to which King Kay points out his f**king name is in it.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Even more so than the original series. At times, Goku can be more demeaning to his friends than Vegeta, but he never does it in a mean spirited way.
-->'''Piccolo:''' I'll admit, that was pretty ballsy, but all you did was stall him! Now he's alone to hunt down Android 18, and we don't have anyone with the strength to stop him!\\

** While he's smarter as a Super Saiyan he trips over words a lot more than usual. And even before he goes super he says some odd thinsg like this little gem from when he intgroduces himself to Freeza.

* AManIsAlwaysEager: Subverted, he doesn't say no because he sees it as a challenge, which he refuses to back down from as usual ([[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex also it feels good]]). He ends up throwing the towel at the end of episode 56.

* MotivationalLie: Uses one on a transformed Gohan in season 1 to get Gohan to concentrate on Vegeta. He's also had them used on him a few times, notably when King Kai tells Goku he has to save Christmas during the Lord Slug movie. He also openly utilizes Gohan's Pavlovian trigger-word "Dodge" by using it to keep him in place for a "Super Saiyan" blast, threatening that it would be enough to kill him if he didn't, and openly admitting to Gohan after he turns Super Saiyan that it was actually only half strength and that "for a moment there", he thought Gohan was going to dodge.
* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler: Episode of Bardock Abridged was a story he was telling Gohan]].

-->'''Mr. Popo:''' [After hearing Goku call the Hyperbolic Time Chamber the ''Hypertonic Lion Tamer''] That one was on ''purpose.''\\

** When him and Gohan accidentally trash the time chamber, he is horrified, because breaking Mr. Popo's stuff is against the rule.

** There's this little gem from episode 28:

** During Super Saiyan Goku's fight with Freeza: (Super Saiyan) Goku: "I'm going to break you... like a Kit-Kat bar."
** Parodied. After Vegeta literally disarms Cooler in ''Cooler 2'', Goku says to Cooler "[[IncrediblyLamePun Time to put him on ice]]", to which the latter sighs "Really?"

* RealMenEatMeat: Besides [[TrademarkFavoriteFood his Bacon]], one of the ''Super'' shorts has him ordering three separate pizzas - pepperoni, sausage and ham. When Whis suggests he just get a meat lover's, Goku explains that he wants to savour each individual animal.

* SelfInducedAllergicReaction: Goku appears to be allergic to grapes; consuming anything made with them makes him sweat purple. This is why he didn't want to take the grape flavoured medicine; Roshi says he can't handle grapes.

'''Goku:''' *getting increasingly angry* Gohan!? Where should you be right now!?\\

** In the same episode, Goku explains eating a Senzu bean will not work because he has a hole in his esophagus (after getting a hole blasted in his chest in his HeroicSacrifice to kill Raditz).

** He gets a noticeable increase in intelligence when he goes [[SuperMode Super Saiyan]]. He tells Gohan to take Piccolo and Bulma back to Earth to bring back everyone else, and allows Freeza to reach his maximum power so when he beats him in under five minutes, he'll be too "demormalized" to threaten anyone else (that and Freeza offered him pizza, which was the real reason).

'''Mr. Popo:''' [[DumbassHasAPoint He's right, you know.]]\\

** Episode 53 sees Goku give the exact reason why the muscle-boosted Super Saiyan is so impractical, completely with mathematical percentages. As Gohan struggles to process what just happened, Goku goes back to normal and apologizes for getting lost in thoughts of fighting.

* StealthHiBye: He can teleport as of the Androids and Cell Saga.

* SurroundedByIdiots: More CantCatchUp than idiots but he does slip that he doesn't trust his friends into saving the day. Especially in the "World's Strongest" movie.
-->'''Goku:''' (sighs as Gohan and Krillin are defeated) [[AllUpToYou kaioken]].

* TookALevelInKindness: At the same time, the android saga onwards also play up the fact Goku genuinely cares for [[SoProudOfYou Gohan]] and [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Chi-Chi]].

** Inverted with cookies. [[WordOfGod Word of MasakoX]] (in Goku's character) says he ''hates'' cookies [[InsaneTrollLogic because they impersonate muffins]].

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Inverted. He is ''even more'' of an IdiotHero than he was in canon, unless RuleOfFunny calls for this trope to be played straight.

* FunPersonified: No matter how dark the situation, Goku's arrival will lighten the tone up. This is particularly evident in the DarkerAndEdgier Cell Saga. Cue to Goku still in his coma about having a dream about being [[Manga/OnePiece Pirate Goku]] and a [[Anime/{{Naruto}} Ninja Goku]].

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In Return of Cooler, he says Vegeta is [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a really nice guy after you get to know him]] while he's clearly... not.
* HypocriticalHumor: Goku tries to call Cell out on stealing other people's techniques, despite virtually all of Goku's own techniques being taken from others. The Z-fighters pitch in to name who really invented each of the techniques that Goku lists off.

** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0rfTc8ehc TEKKEN 7 | Two Saiyans Play]]", not only does he constantly press Vegeta's buttons, he's openly aware that Vegeta hates him.\\
--->'''Goku:''' Guess ''I'm'' the King of all Saiyans!

* AchievementsInIgnorance:

-->'''Krillin''': Look, if you're asking me to tag in, I'm willing but-
-->'''Goku''': What? No! Catch more fish while I'm gone!
-->'''Krillin''': Ah, of course! Like that'd ever work...
-->'''Goku''': Yeah, no it-[[{{Beat}} *beat*]] Well, if you had a wig...

--->'''Goku''': Okay, I'm about done here. See ya tomorrow! Oh, and by the way, Cell... [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness You're gonna die.]] *teleports out*

-->'''Krillin''': Goku, what's your favorite food?!\\
'''Goku''': Favorite?\\
'''Krillin''': [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay He's HIM again!]]!

** Almost averted with telling Chichi about Gohan helping to fight the androids. He keeps her out of the loop for three years, but lets it slip at the last possible second.

--> '''Piccolo:''' It's called SARCASM!\\

* TheGadfly: By the third season, it becomes a RunningGag of the other characters calling out some of Goku's display of stupidity as this.
--> '''Goku:''' We have to wait for Vegeta and Trunks to come out of the Hypertonic Lion Tamer.
--> '''Popo:''' That one was on purpose.
--> '''Goku:''' [[{{Troll}} Could've been]].
** In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0rfTc8ehc TEKKEN 7 | Two Saiyans Play]]", not only does he constantly press Vegeta's buttons, he's openly aware that Vegeta hates him.
-->'''Goku''': Guess ''I'm'' the King of all Saiyans!
-->'''Vegeta''': '''''[[BerserkButton DON'T YOU DARE BRING THAT INTO THIS!!]]'''''

--> '''Gohan:''' But why [can't you defeat perfect cell in the bulked up super saiyan form]? It's so strong!
--> '''Goku:''' Oh, yeah. In raw power, it can't be beat. But the amount of concentrated energy causes an extreme expansion in mass. The body can't compensate! And while you'll see a fifty percent power increase, you'll see a seventy-five percent decrease in speed and mobility! You'd never hit your opponent!
--> '''Gohan:''' D-Did you...? What just...?
--> '''Goku:''' Whoop! Sorry, was thinkin' about fightin'!

---> '''Goku''' ([[InternalMonologue thinking]]): Oh, man! If Chi-Chi finds out about this, I might not get mouth present.

--> '''Piccolo:''' I'll admit, that was pretty ballsy, but all you did was stall him! Now he's alone to hunt down Android 18, and we don't have anyone with the strength to stop him!\\

-->'''Goku:''' I'm Goku! I'm insane! From Earth!\\

'''Goku''': Could've been.

--->'''Goku''': Oh and uh, by the way, Cell? '''''You're gonna die.'''''

* PetTheDog: For as [[ParentalNeglect many,]] [[LackOfEmpathy many,]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive many]] faults as he has in this series, one of the redeeming aspects of his character is the fact that he's the one person in the cast (outside of possibly Cell) who consistently tries to be nice to [[TheChewToy Yamcha.]] Sure, he only started to doing it because he learned of what happened to Yamcha in the BadFuture, but the fact that only time he ever insults Yamcha is [[InnocentlyInsensitive by accident,]] it means a lot as evidenced by the fact that Yamcha is still around by the time the Androids finally do show up and Yamcha is actually concerned when Goku is suffering from his heart problems.
--> '''Goku:''' Wait, Yamcha?\\

--> '''Goku:''' Hey, Broly! SayMyName!

--> '''Whis:''' Wait, but they all have pig -

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Nappa, Freeza, and Piccolo (see BestServedCold) learned the hard that Goku's stupidity and innocence does ''not'' mean he won't mercilessly kick your ass or keep him from holding grudges against you.

-->(After hearing Goku call the Hyperbolic Time Chamber the ''Hypertonic Lion Tamer'') '''Mr. Popo:''' That one was on ''purpose.''\\

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Goku maybe a bigger idiot in this version, but he's an idiot that can kick your ass.

** [[spoiler:After Piccolo's supposed death by Cell in episode 47, Gohan tries to fly to rescue him, only for Goku restrain him. When Gohan claims Piccolo would have let him go, Goku says Piccolo wouldn't do that and that he's much smarter than him.]] This stops Gohan in his tracks.

* BestServedCold: Goku asks Piccolo to stall Freeza for five minutes while he can charges the spirit bomb... with the exact same choice of words Piccolo used a while back when they fought Raditz leading to Goku getting a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown while Piccolo was singing in his head. While Freeza was kicking the crap out of Piccolo, Goku was singing ''the same song.''

* ObliviousToLove: Sorta. He thinks Chi-Chi is just a lady who lives in his house - he might not understand what a wife ''is''. This might be a ShoutOut to the fact that when Goku originally proposed to Chi-Chi he thought marriage was a food. And was confused over what a "bride" was in the original series when she came back to cash in on the ChildhoodMarriagePromise.\\
[[{{Subversion}} That said]], Gohan exists and there are several implications throughout the series that (whenever he's around) he and Chi-Chi have a normal sex life. Episode 56 expands on this, claiming he views sex as a challenge not unlike fighting and [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex that it feels neat]].

* RealMenEatMeat: Besides [[Trademarks origins his Bacon]], one of the ''Super'' shorts has him ordering three separate pizzas - pepperoni, sausage and ham. When Whis suggests he just get a meat lover's, Goku explains that he wants to savour each individual animal.

'''Goku:''' Mr. Piccolo wouldn't! And he's smarter than me!\\

* WouldHurtAChild: Granted, he does want Gohan to becoming a Super Saiyan, and that is the purpose of training. But in ''Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan Abridged'', he apparently interrogated ''that monster Pilaf'' who at this point is a baby due to a wish of becoming younger.

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