Dr. Goku is a comedy web animation series co-created by Rulo Barrera and Ral (creator of Negas) in 2009 based on characters from the Dragon Ball franchise. In this series, Goku chooses to retire from being a fighter in order to dedicate himself to being a doctor, his true passion in life, with help from Dr. Briefs he gets his title and gets a consulting room at the national hosital of Mexico, the INE; while at his consulting room he answers questions from fans and lives out some wacky adventures accompanied by a reformed Nappa. Vegeta follows suit by becoming a proctologist to keep up his rivalry with Goku.
The series initially was known as El Consultorio del Dr. GokuTranslation had a QnA format where Dr. Goku would simply answer questions from viewers through his computer while at the hospital but the series soon went into a different direction involving an overarching plot of Goku's adventures. After Negas left, the series was put on hiatus at the end of 2011 due to Negas voicing a majority of the cast with Rulo producing mostly episodic shorts in the series' place; until 2015 where to capitalize on the then-new anime series Dragon Ball Super, Dr. Goku was given a conitnuation and rebranded as Dr. Goku Super and involved the aftermath of the previous series' finale with Goku opening a clinic of his own and having to find his way around life, the series was released on Youtube in Rulo's official channel, Niño Guero Studios, in 2015.
The series is notable in Mexico for giving formerly sidelined character protagonism and has made an audience for itself and gained immense popularity to the point that Dr. Goku Super began to have various guest stars (primarily the Latin American Spanish dub actors in various minor roles) and collaborations with assorted comedians and online animators.
Tropes Applying to both series of Dr. Goku
- Adaptational Deviation: Starting off with Goku giving up fighting in favor of pursuing a professional career, things only deviate more and more from the Dragon Ball canon; primarily with Nappa and several other villains redeeming themselves and settling down for mundane lives and various canonical relationships being altered for better or worse.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Many characters who were perfectly nice or at least abrasive at worst in canon are outright jerkasses or much more selfish here.
- Adaptational Location Change: Instead of taking place in a fictional, Japan-inspired country; the Dr. Goku series takes place in a fictionalized Mexico.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Many antagonists in the series are still evil as in canon but have none of the terrible crimes and worst acts of their canon selves.
- Heel–Face Turn: Various villains such as Nappa, Cell, Frieza and even Super Buu have given up their evil destructive ways and are now at worst just selfish and inconsiderate in their worst days.
Tropes Applying to El Consultorio del Dr. Goku
- Downer Ending: Vegeta dies both as a result of Krillin selling him a car with faulty brakes and Dr. Goku screwing up the operation meant to save his life, resulting in Goku getting fired and with Chi-Chi having previously divorced him, he has nowhere to go as even King Kai won't take him in. The last shots we get is a lonely, old Dr. Goku waiting in a cave for questions like before.
- Put on a Bus: Piccolo leaves midway through the series, thus far he has yet to return or reappear even in Super.
Tropes Applying to Dr. Goku Super
- Arc Villain: One for each of the seasons:
- Season 1 has Dr. Gero, whose clinic serves as a competitor to Dr. Goku's and their feud leads to them trying to find a way to drive the other out of business.
- Season 2 has Jit, an assassin from a different universe who gets involved in the drug scheme of Nappa and Yamcha, seemingly posing a threat to their lives.
- Season 3 has Zamas and Goku Black, who upon arriving at the prison that Goku, Nappa, Yamcha, Puar and their allies are held in begin ruling it with an iron fist and threaten to kill the protagonists if they keep annoying them.
- Season 5 has Teo Gonzalez (Tao Pai Pai), who survived his duel with Jit and is looking to open up a new Crane Dojo after inheriting it from his brother, this time with him as the master and ends up into a conflict with Yamcha's Kame Kai Dojo.
- Season 6 has Androids 17 and 18, who gain ownership of the late Dr. Gero's inheritance and get corrupted by their greed into developing a scheme to gentrify New Namek and profit off the land while driving the natives into poverty for their benefit.
- Denser and Wackier: With longer runtimes and even more material to draw from, this sequel series has twice the insanity of the original, with even more outlandish plots happening in each following season.
- Red Herring: Season 2 briefly seems to set up Nabiki as potentially being the one that hired Jit to kill Karin as she remarks during the funeral that with Karin dead, there's nothing stopping Yamcha and Nappa from keeping up the "Ermitalina" drug business. It would turn out the true culprit was Dr. Goku, though he never intended to kill Karin and hired Jit to keep Beerus from destroying Earth since the God of Destruction wanted to get some Ermitalina himself.
- Story Arc: One per season, occasionally it may have some sub-arcs within it.
- Take That!: Episode 39 references the film Parasite (2019) during a nomination sequence but instead of depicting the film's poster, uses a photo of the Mexican congress.
