That would be pretty funny actually.
Pilaf was also the first person to nearly kill Goku. I mean, there was really no way out of that box he put them in. That would have been the end of all of them.
One Strip! One Strip!Goku uses 100% of his brain for fighting.
The reasons he hates Pilaf is because Pilaf rendered that 100% power useless back when he caught him, so Goku considers him one of the series worst villains.
One Strip! One Strip!When pressed with Cell's impending, planet-destroying explosion, Goku opted to teleport Cell to King Kai's planet and kill all three of them, rather than teleport Cell there, and King Kai and himself back to Earth.
When pressed with Buu's explosion, Goku opted to save Mr. Satan and a dog rather than his own children. Vegeta specifically calls him on this and the reason Goku did so is never explained, as far as I remember.
edited 5th Jan '17 12:43:45 PM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!Pretty sure the implication is that he didn't have enough time. The anime, as the anime, obviously padded it out so that it no longer makes sense but I'm pretty sure it flows better in the manga, as scenes like that usually do. Can anyone confirm or deny.
Um, because they were right there and he couldn't just leave them to die? And Vegeta didn't try to get any of them so he really was in no position to play that card.
edited 5th Jan '17 12:46:38 PM by LSBK
While on the topic of that particular Instant Transmission: Cell's ability to learn how the Instant Transmission works after being taken for a trip is because he's part Saiyan, right? He picked it up the same way Goku learned the Kamehamaha after watching Roshi do it once and Vegeta picked up ki sensing just by learning it could be done, right?
You don't need to be a Saiyan to learn quickly. A lot of characters in Dragon Ball learn techniques quickly (including Krillin and Buu).
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In the Manga, Goku chooses to teleport Dende because of the Dragon Balls. Hercule just happened to be near Dende.
As for Cell, he kept harping on about he'd explode as soon as somebody touched him. It's pretty clear Goku had no time to teleport himself and Kai out.
I just took it as Pilaf arguably being the most harmless villain in the franchise, so of course Goku would hate him the most.
Well my first problem with that is that a manga is going panel to panel, and I'm obviously not looking at it, so I don't see how you can say "Goku only had 2 seconds."
But trusting that the panels are accurate, and that it did take two seconds the moment after Goku touched him for Cell to explode, and that Goku only did that after saying goodbye to everyone - didn't Goku outrun an explosion in the story arc prior, after getting smacked around and while plummeting towards Namek? Or was that an anime-only thing?
We even see Goku use Instant Transmission on Cell during their fight, and he looked way more pissed off at that point than he did during the finale.
That does raise the question why Vegeta, the guy without the ability to teleport, didn't pick them up first.
I guess that makes more sense.
edited 5th Jan '17 4:13:17 PM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!Goku makes both selfish decisions and suboptimal decisions at multiple points throughout the series, but the narrative doesn't really make much of a point out of him being dumb. It tends more to be about Goku being societally inept. He has the cultural mannerisms of a violent alien raised by wolves.
He's not stupid, he just has a worldview that is extremely different from that of common folk.
TFS's Goku is legitimately dumb AND societally inept. But he's still a brilliant fighter.
edited 5th Jan '17 4:58:31 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think there was a point where you could have made the argument that DBZ Abridged Goku has a level of hyperawareness that he is in an abridged series, and that his actions came of as reasonable given that level of understanding. (To give an example: asking for the muffin button in a spaceship seems stupid and illogical, but the muffin button actually worked and Goku is clearly better off for using it.)
That said, I think there's enough just straight up stupidity from Goku that such an explanation doesn't quite work.

About the Pilaf gag, here's how I see it working here : Pilaf is the first archvillain Goku ever faced. He was there before the Red Ribbon Army, before Tao Pai Pai, before the Crane School, before King Piccolo... He's the first person Goku met that was blatantly evil. Even if he was extremely incompetent in this role, he impressed his young mind in this manner, and so he still considers him as a great enemy. The same way you never got over that teacher that was CLEARLY after you when you were in grade school.
Edit : Shit. I hate it when I become a page-topper.
edited 4th Jan '17 2:03:35 PM by purplefishman