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'''Giant Ape Goku voiced by:''' Shane Ray (Funimation dub) }}
 
Main hero of ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]''. Started off a rather extraordinary child with super strength, a tail and naivety of the outside world. [[Belated Backstory|Later]], though, it is revealed that he's a Saiyan, an alien race of warriors who hire themselves out as mercenaries to tyrants who destroy worlds. However, he is amongst the last four (well, [[Non-Serial Movie|eight]]) of his kind. Although originally sent to devastate Earth, he instead becomes the saviour of the world multiple times over.
 
* [[The Ace]]: Made abundantly clear since the early parts of [[DragonballDragon Ball]]. Learned a technique with a glance, which took 50 years to develop, Within a few years, his martial arts skill surpassed his master, and of course winning a Tenka'ichi Budokai before he turned 20. Then he found out ''why'' he's able to do all those things when it's revealed he's a [[Human Aliens|Saiyan]]. Even that doesn't fully make it a [[Justified Trope]], when he defeats members of his race considered to be elites, [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|defeats and/or kills seemingly invincible aliens and monsters]] and achieves virtually ''all'' the available Super Saiyan transformations. Not bad for someone considered a "low-class soldier".
* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: In Dragon Ball when training for the 22nd Budokai Tenkaichi.
* [[Achilles Heel]]: His tail is so sensitive to touch that grabbing it saps him of all his strength. He eventually manages to train himself out of that weakness, though.
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* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: See [[Parental Abandonment]] below.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Occasionally, it's usually to show that he's not as dumb as people think.
* [[Death Byby Irony]]: If you think about the first time he died was this. He was killed by the son of the last villain he killed in Dragon Ball, Demon King Piccolo, in a similar way –An attack to the stomach that hit so hard it came out the other side. It was used as the only way {{spoiler|to kill Raditz,}} but still.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Most of Goku's friends started out as anti-heroes or villains, then they met him in battle.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: On a regular basis.
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* [[Easily Forgiven]]: He does not hold grudges ''period''; once the fight is over, ''anyone'', even last-season's enemies, are affectionately embraced as friends if they can stop trying to kill him and his crew or take over the world long enough.
** Though, oddly enough, even if he absolutely forgives even demonic, universe-shattering monsters or interplanetary tyrants and mass-murderers, for some reason he has never once tried to reconnect with his biological family in the afterlife. He had to kill his brother Raditz to stop him from killing his young son, but Vegeta, Frieza, Cell and Buu all tried to kill him as well and he also refused to grudge against them. It seems borderline out-of-character for Goku to just ignore/forget about Raditz, Bardock and whoever his biological mother was when he had years to find them out and reconnect with them.
* [[Expy]]: of [[Journey to Thethe West|Sun Wukong The Monkey King]] from ''[[Journey to Thethe West]]'', with light dashes of [[Superman]].
* [[Fight Magnet]]: To the point he didn't want to be resurrected by the Dragon Balls to keep the world safe.
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: With Krillin, though Goku's side of it is more of a subversion. He generally got along just fine when they first met. It was Krillin that was initially hostile.
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*** Justified in the [[Human Aliens|Saiyans]], as they age at a much slower pace than average humans, and in that he spends a significant amount of his time being dead.
* [[Human Aliens]]
* [[Idiot Hero]]: While he's not necessarily unintelligent, he's poorly educated, [[Raised Byby Wolves|not well aware of social norms]], and completely ''lacks'' in common sense.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]
* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: With Tullece/Turles
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* [[Messianic Archetype]]
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Lots of shirtless and nude scenes. The fangirls thank you, Adult Goku!
* [[Moses in Thethe Bulrushes]]: Goku's origin is based on [[Superman]]'s origin and so, of course, involves this.
* [[My Hero Zero]]: The short-lived Harmony Gold dub from the 80s renamed him ''Zero'' for...some reason, and even worked his new name into their version of the opening theme song.
* [[Name's the Same]]: Son Gokuu is the Japanese pronunciation of Sun Wukong, [[Journey to Thethe West|The Monkey King]].
* [[Nice Guy]]: One of the nicest.
* [[No Nudity Taboo]]: ''Very much so'' as a little kid. [[Justified Trope|Then again, he pretty much grew up completely by himself.]]
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** Also a straight example himself, as he was sent into space as a baby. Shortly afterwards, his father Bardock was killed by Freeza when their planet was destroyed.
* [[Passing the Torch]]: Constantly trying to do this after the Cell saga. Realizing that he wouldn't always be around to protect the Earth, he tries to make Gohan his successor, though it doesn't pan out too well because Gohan doesn't have the same drive to become stronger like he does. In the Buu saga, he even deliberately passes up a chance to destroy the [[Big Bad]] so that Goten and Trunks would be the saviors of Earth, but eventually he realizes as they grow up that they don't have any interest in fighting, either, which is why he seeks a new successor in Uub.
* [[Public Domain Character]]: Son Goku from [[Journey to Thethe West]] is probably the most frequently used Public Domain Character in East Asia. In the West, there's massive [[Adaptation Displacement]] as the Dragon Ball version of Goku is much better known than the original.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Upon learning that his race's legacy of genocide was forced upon them by Freeza, he lets go of the shame of being belonging to a race of murderers and instead comes to embrace the pride of being a Saiyan Warrior:
{{quote| Goku: ([[Meaningful Funeral|Burying Vegeta]]) "I hated you, but I respect the pride with which you defended your race's honor... [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Now share some of that pride with me, for I am a Saiyan who grew up on Earth!!"]]}}
* [[Raised Byby Dudes]]: He was raised by an old hermit in the woods, which is frequently brought up when Chi-chi gets frustrated with him.
** [[Raised Byby Wolves]]: Technically out in the wilderness for an untold number of years after the old hermit died.
* [[The Runner Up Takes It All]]: Played straight during the first two Tenkaichi Budokai. He finally won in his [[Rule of Three|third try]].
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Subverted; Goku honestly hadn't meant to kill Grandpa Gohan. The poor guy simply had his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] activated by the full moon and went berserk, crushing Grandpa Gohan underfoot.
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* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Of everyone, Goku takes the most [[Clothing Damage]] in the series.
* [[Sleeves Are for Wimps]]: Even when he starts wearing weighted training clothes, the sleeves never come past his triceps.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Pronounced "Son Gokū" (with a long vowel "u"), but usually its spelled "Son Goku" (without any indication of a long vowel), while Toriyama himself writes it as "Son Gokuh". Bandai actually spells it "Son Gokou" in most of their toys and games in what seems to be an attempt to anglicize his name (think of the "cou" in "cougar"), but it only makes thing more confusing since "Gokou" can be mistaken for an entirely different Japanese name ("Gokō"). (Also, [[It Is Pronounced "Tro -PAY"|in one episode Pilaf reads a sign that says "Welcome back, Goku!", but mispronounces Goku's name as "Go-cow"]].)
** His Saiyan birthname is also subject to variations, with most English adaptations using "Kakarot". However, the fact that his fused form with Vegeta is called "Vegetto" (the spelling used by Bandai) and not "Vegerot" seems to suggest that "Kakarotto" is the preferred spelling. Funimation uses the spelling "Vegito", despite them using the Kakarot convention otherwise, while Viz actually changed it to "Vegerot", only to changed it back to Vegetto in later reprints (while oddly enough keeping the "Kakarot" spelling).
** The ''Dragon Ball Z Deformation'' figurine of the infant Goku actually spells his birthname as "Kacarrot", which is inconsistent with the way Bandai spells "Vegetto".
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** Well, her dad has lavender hair too.
* [[Adult Child]]: Her sense of priorities can be even ''more'' skewered than Goku's when it comes to preserving her rapidly fading youth and good looks.
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with]] In Dragon Ball, Bulma was attracted to Yamcha (then a bandit) due to a combination of both his roguish nature and [[Adorkable|hidden sensitive shy side]].
** Sometime during the timeskip, she goes for [[Omnicidal Maniac]] Vegeta.
** Some of her one off attractions include Handsome Oolong, General Blue, Lucifer (Movie Only), Pamput, and Zarbon.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: The anime [[Filler]] made her into this during the Freeza Saga..
* [[The Chick]]
* [[Commuting Onon a Bus]]: Remember when she was the ''CO-LEAD?'' Yeah, me neither. Though to be fair, her role is still pretty notable in the Namek, Android, and Cell sagas.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: To Goku and later to Gohan.
* [[Ditzy Genius]]
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* [[Hot Mom]]: [[It Runs in The Family|Must run in the family genes]].
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Vegeta, though Saiyans are [[Human Aliens]].
* [[Jerkass]]/[[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Never ''quite'' matured past her selfish teenage girl phase.
* [[Lost in Translation]]: The way Bulma calls Goku in Japanese, she mostly calls him ''Son'' (Son-kun), although that's his family name, she calls him that way to show how close and familiar she is with him while the rest of the cast calls him appropriately Goku; Bulma referring to Goku as Son in English would make many children scratch their heads in confusion, so it was completely dropped in the English localization, and curiously in some other countries as well.
** The English manga did keep this in some instances, though.
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** Hell, even Krillin is mentioned as explicitly being stronger than him in the very beginning when Bulma gets the Scouter working.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Looks about in his 70s-80s right? Try ''300+''.
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: His real name is never revealed throughout the series, only the titles Muten Roushi ("Martial Arts Heavenly Old Sage") and Kame Sen'nin ("Turtle Hermit").
* [[Rival]]/[[Rival Dojos]]: Tsuru Sen'nin and his Crane school.
* [[Secret Identity]]: Jackie Chun.
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* [[Sunglasses At Night]]: ''Rarely'' takes his shades off.
* [[Super Mode]]: His "Max Power" form, where he basically bulks up like [[The Hulk]].
* [[Team Dad]]: In the original [[DragonballDragon Ball]].
* [[Temporary Bulk Change]]: See [[Super Mode]] above.
* [[Tritagonist]]: For most of Dragon Ball.
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* [[Adaptational Badass]]: He fares either worse or better in the anime. Yamcha does more in anime only battles and situations, but sometimes he comes off better in the manga version of events(an example of this is Yamcha had no trouble holding down Great Ape Goku in the manga).
* [[Adorkable]]: Its even admitted [[In -Universe]].
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Oftentimes his aura will give him the appearance of a wolf even when he isn't using one of his Wolf Fang Techniques.
** [[Big Badass Wolf]]:
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* [[Centipede's Dilemma]]: Inverted with Yamcha. He thought he was cursed with the inability to talk to or even be around women, and for that reason, once he learned about the existence of the Dragon Balls, he decided to use them to wish away his fear of women. Much to his surprise, by the end of a long period of time where he was forced to be around Bulma, Yamcha learned that his fear of women was all in his head, and that it was only when he consciously invoked it on himself that he felt uncomfortable around women. Shortly afterwards, he and Bulma started dating.
* [[Clueless Chick Magnet]]: Yamcha's quite popular around women despite his shyness.
** [[Mistaken for Cheating]]: The above has resulted in this happening on several occasions in [[DragonballDragon Ball]].
* [[Cool Sword]]: Yamcha's scimitar in ''Dragon Ball''
* [[Commuting Onon a Bus]]: It's pretty easy to forget that he and Puar were among the first characters introduced into the story.
* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Same as Kuririn.
* [[Cannot Talk to Women]]: Used to be like this to such a degree that he couldn't even be a around women without freaking out. After a while of being around Bulma in the Pilaf Arc, particularly an incident where he picked her up to get her to safety, Yamcha mostly got over his phobia. Though he sometimes still does show some nervous around beautiful women.
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: He was the first handsome adult male in the cast.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Uses his powers to become a pro baseball player.
* [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome]]
* [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]]: His [[Signature Move]] the Roga Fufu Ken(Wolf Fang Hurricane Fist), translated as Wolf Fang Fist. Also his improved version Shin Roga Fufu Ken or Neo Wolf Fang Fist in english.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: According to Future Trunks, this is the reason Bulma eventually left him for Vegeta in that timeline. What's ironic is that Yamcha was initially extremely shy around girls at the start of the series and said he wanted to get married.
* [[Redemption Demotion]]: Yamcha generally remained useful in [[DragonballDragon Ball]] and in the first arc he and Puar actually saved everyone from Great Ape Goku. In "'Z'' Yamcha was really only useful for distracting villains or taking care of wounded characters.
* [[The Rival]]: The ''very'' first one. Back then, he teamed up with Goku to save Bulma from the Toninjinka.
* [[Roboteching]]: His Sokidan a.k.a. Spirit Ball.
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* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Yamcha's Spirit Ball is the first fully controllable ki attack shown in the series. While Yamcha was beaten handily by the powerful Shen in the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, he managed to show his combat smarts by, after failing to hit Shen with his Spirit Ball, he made the energy ball travel underground and erupt under Shen's chin, catching him off guard. Shen even complimented Yamcha on his skills after the battle.
** He was the second student of the Turtle school to master the kamehameha and surprised everyone by showing this in the 22nd Budokai.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Yamcha suffers from this as early as ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'', always losing in his first round in the three world tournaments he participates in to show how powerful Jackie Chun, Tien, and Hero/Shen/Kami are, despite his training.
* [[X Marks the Hero]]: After the three year timeskip at the end of [[DragonballDragon Ball]].
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Despite being an ordinary human, Yamcha looks about the same at 57 in [[Dragon Ball GT]].
 
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* [[Dork Knight]]
* [[Doting Parent]]: To his adorable little girl Marron.
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: King Piccolo Saga.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Having lost the Tenka'ichi Budokai thrice, been killed twice, and had incredibly nightmarish battles against the Saiyans, Ginyu Force, and Freeza, Krillin finally achieves his dream of landing a girlfriend by the start of the Buu arc.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Called Pachinko-Head by Yajirobe.
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* [[Moe Couplet]]: The fact that he can accept Android 18, thorny personality and all, further emphasizes what a sweet and nice fella he is.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Moreso as a grown up, not that he wasn't nice as a kid.
* [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome]]: Former [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Punny Name]]: His name is based on "kuri" (栗), which means "chestnut."
* [[The Rival]]: Hell, his introductory episode was even called "Goku's Rival", though the two went from rivals to best friends almost immediately.
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* [[Skintone Sclerae]]: While a staple of the early Toriyama style, he's the only major character to keep this trait. Interestingly, his earliest depiction didn't include them consistently.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: This is what keeps him in the game until the end of the Freeza arc.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Oh, let us count the ways... Krillin (Funimation), Kuririn (Viz, also the literal transliteration), Kulilin (wears hats with this on it in the manga), Klilyn (most Bandai toys and in some cel art by Toei)...
** Despite his name having been spelt as "Kulilin" in the manga, the name "Kuririn" involves a play on "kuri", the Japanese word for "chestnut" (this is joked about, with reference to his bald head, at one stage) - likely, "Kulilin" is the result of liberal transliteration of Japanese ("l" and "r" sounds are indistinct), and "Krillin" is supposed to be an adaptation that is better suited for the foreign palate.
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: This trope is probably the reason he never uses the [[Blinded Byby the Light|Solar Flare]] and the [[Deadly Disc|Destructo Disc]] together to defeat any of his opponents.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Along with Piccolo.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: He and Yajirobe are voiced by Mayumi Tanaka. (This is because Goku notes, in the manga, that they sound alike.)
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* [[Odd Friendship]]: Hints of it with Piccolo in the Cell arc.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Looks the same age in GT.
* [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome]]: Though Tenshinhan does lose importance later on, it's still arguable that he's the strongest earthling in the series whose power is entirely his own (thus excluding the cybernetically enhanced Androids and magically enhanced Uub). Of all the human characters, Tenshinhan has won the most battles, having defeated Yamcha, Goku, Tao Pai Pai, and Jeice and Burter (in the anime filler). That's not too bad considering he's a human.
** The issue of Krillin vs. Tien as the strongest human is one of DBZ's biggest [[Base Breaker|Base Breakers]] and continues to rage.
** Ten also suffers the most [[Badass|awesome]] death amongst the Worf characters, and manages to ''keep Cell at bay in his second Imperfect form'' and this was all after losing an arm seconds into the fight.
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* [[Redemption Demotion]]: When he was first introduced as an antagonist, his powers were as great as Goku's. After he became one of the good characters, he was surpassed by Goku and, as the series developed, his powers were thoroughly outclassed by the saiyans, Piccolo and most enemies.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]/[[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Tenshinhan mostly fights topless.
* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: One of the only people with this ability.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Don't forget Tien Shinhan/Tenshinhan...
* [[Sphere of Destruction]]: His Kikouhou/Tri-Beam, though its actually more of a square.
* [[Supporting Leader]]: During the King Piccolo Saga.
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A Namekian (a race of green skinned aliens), though at the start this wasn't really known; he was the son of the self-proclaimed Demon King Piccolo, who Goku defeated in the original series. After being spat out as an egg and hatched. Piccolo tried to carry on his father's work but was defeated by Goku and allowed to live. As the series rolls into the Z saga, his evil exterior softens due to training Son Gohan, and eventually becoming a second father to the kind-hearted little boy during Goku's frequent deaths. The one-time Demon King eventually becomes one of Goku's most trusted allies, and incredibly popular amongst the fanbase.
 
* [[Alien Blood]]: Piccolo's blood was originally red in [[DragonballDragon Ball]] and early episodes of DBZ (it was turned [[Black Blood|green]] in early episodes of the original dub), but after he was established as an alien, he is shown to have purple blood, like his fellow Nameks.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type III
* [[The Atoner]]: Of a sort. He never expresses regret over his past actions, but definitely works off his bad karma.
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* [[Odd Friendship]]: Hints of it with Tien in the Cell arc.
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Even when Gohan becomes ''far'' more powerful than he will ever be, Piccolo would still lay his life down to protect the boy.
* [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome]]: But not so much that he loses plot importance. When he [[Can't Catch Up]] after the Cell arc, he switches roles to [[The Mentor]] for the younger heroes.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Not even '''Freeza''' could withstand his wrath when he tried to murder Son Gohan.
** Not just Freeza- Piccolo took on '''[[The Juggernaut|Broly]]''' to save Gohan. [[Awesome Moments|He put up a pretty damn good fight too.]]
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** Technically speaking, he is a mind that is hundreds of years old inside of a much younger body.
* [[Theme Naming]]: After a musical instrument which he (his dad) and his siblings are all named after.
* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: [[Rule of Three|Three times.]] Once after [[Licked Byby the Dog|training Gohan,]] once after [[Fusion Dance|merging with]] [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Nail]], and once after [[Fusion Dance|reuniting with]] [[God Job|Kami]].
* [[Tritagonist]]: Saiyan Saga. He and Vegeta trade the position throughout the Freeza and Cell arcs.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Towards Goku (well, technically, its revenge towards Goku having killed him, as he is the reincarnation of his father, King Piccolo).
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* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]
* [[Large Ham]]: THE GREAT SAIYAAAMAAAN!
* [[Licked Byby the Dog]]: Leading us to...
* [[Martial Pacifist]]: Has the potential to be the strongest person in the universe; ''hates'' watching people get hurt.
* [[The Messiah]]: Like father, like son.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Despite his attempts to be a [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] father, threatening or hurting his children and wife can easily send him into an [[Unstoppable Rage]].
* [[The Berserker]]
* [[Big Bad]]: Of the Saiyan/Vegeta Saga. Though, it could be argued that as he was still under Freeza, and fans argue that the Saiyans' arrival was part of the Freeza arc, he was more of a [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda]].
* [[Blood Knight]]: Takes this Saiyan trait to extremes to the point he allows Cell to become Perfect Cell in hopes of getting a greater battle from Cell.
** And boy, did he ever. Of course, being Vegeta, he didn't expect to be handily beaten while Cell was holding back most of his power the entire time.
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* [[Byronic Hero]]
* [[Changed My Mind, Kid]]: During Gohan's [[Beam-O-War]] against Cell, Vegeta wouldn't help the Z Fighters in trying to aid Gohan because he didn't think they could do anything. Then at the last minute, {{spoiler|Vegeta shoots a powerful beam strong enough to distract Cell and allow Gohan to win the battle.}}
* [[Character Development]]: Goes from being a massive arrogant [[Jerkass]] of villain at the start of ''Z'' to an honorable warrior and close friend at the very end. [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|He's still kind of a prick though]].
** Accepting that Goku is better than him at the end of ''Z'' is without a doubt the biggest step in that direction.
* [[Child Soldiers|Child Soldier]]
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* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Makes a point of always calling Goku by his Saiyan name Kakarot, because he believes that Goku should take pride in his Saiyan heritage. The times he's ever spoken the name "Goku" can be counted on one hand.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Bulma.
* [[Jerkass]] --> [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Ends up becoming the latter in the last saga.
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: His Galick Gun and Final Flash.
* [[Large Ham]]: His ham level is '''[[Up to Eleven|OVER 9000!!!]]'''
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*** Even in ''GT'' (where if your name isn't Goku or [[Bratty Half-Pint|Pan]], you're automatically doomed to get [[Demoted to Extra]]), he was close to Goku in his Super Saiyan 4 state.
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death|Redemption Equals]] [[Heroic Sacrifice]] (against Majin Buu)}}
* [[Redemption in Thethe Rain]]: He actually subverts it when he ''[[Screaming Warrior|SCREAMS]]'' the rain clouds away.
* [[Retired Monster]]: At the end of the Freeza arc, he's put his mass-murdering ways behind him to focus on surpassing Goku. He doesn't really pull a [[Heel Face Turn]] until the Buu arc.
* [[The Rival]]: Goku's biggest one.
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* [[Warrior Prince]]: The ultimate Anime-example.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Well, he seems to ''try'' to be a standoffish father to (main timeline) Trunks, but his son never takes him seriously.
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: After first losing his tail Vegeta points out that it dosn't matter since it'll grow back again soon. Then it's never mentioned again.
* [[The White Prince]]: While he was spoiled rotten by the standards of Saiyan culture (and pissed off by exactly how much), he nevertheless was trained at a very early age how to handle himself on the battlefield.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: It doesn't come up very often, but he dislikes 'squirmy things': watch his reaction to meeting a family of giant worms inside Buu's body. "Kakarot, I think I'm going to puke."
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'''Trunks Briefs (トランクス ブリーフ; ''Torankusu Buriifu'')'''
{{quote| '''Voiced by:''' [[Takeshi Kusao]] (Japanese)<br />
'''Kid Trunks voiced by:''' [[Cathy Weseluck (Creator)|Cathy Weseluck]] (Ocean dub), [[Laura Bailey]] (Funimation dub)<br />
'''Adult Trunks voiced by:''' Allistair Abell (Ocean dub), [[Eric Vale]] (Funimation dub)<br />
'''Baby Trunks voiced by:''' Stephanie Nadolny (Funimation dub) }}
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* [[Future Me Scares Me|Past Me Scares Me]]
* [[Purple Is Powerful]]
* [[Put Onon a Bus|Put On A Bus To The Future]]: He returned to his alternate future timeline.
* {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Upon returning home, Trunks proceeds hunt down 17 and 18 and destroys them in a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] that doubles as a [[Reason You Suck Speech]]. He then waits for Cell and also takes him out with haste finally securing peace for his timeline.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]: He was this to show that not only was [[He's Back|Cell BACK]], he was ''Super Perfect'' and that anyone could bite it with Goku already being dead.}}
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Trunks was definitely this at the beginning of the Android Saga when he met the Z Fighters with smiles after defeating Freeza and King Cold. They had no idea where he was from or the fact he's a [[Hurting Hero]] who arrived to prevent their deaths.
* [[Tell Me About My Father]]: Bulma's kindly-meant whitewashing of Vegeta's personality paid off with some unexpected dividends later on.
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: To be fair, Freeza had come back from near death before and [[It's the Only Way Toto Be Sure|it was the only way to be sure]].
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Wasn't badass enough at first to take on the androids of his timeline but then spent time training in the Room of Spirit and Time (Hyperbolic Time Chamber).
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: 20 years of fleeing for your life from two homicidal androids has left Future Trunks emotionally scarred and serious.
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* [[Generation Xerox]]: Mentions he grew his hair specifically because he was sick of looking identical to his dad.
** [[Hereditary Hairstyle]]: Got it from Goku.
** When first introduced, he looked almost ''exactly'' like Goku did back at the start of ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'', minus tail.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: [[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad|His father's a Saiyan, his mother's a human]].
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With main timeline Trunks.
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* [[Nice Guy]]
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: The sensitive part, with Trunks.
* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: For Gohan/Videl before they started dating. Goten asks her to be his big sister.
* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]
* [[Talking to Himself]]: See Son Goku's Entry.
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* [[Portmanteau|Portmanteau Name]]: In its Japanese spelling, it combines the first two syllables of Vegeta and the last two syllables of Kakarotto.
* [[Showy Invincible Hero]]: And he's well aware of it! "No, really! That was an awesome attack! I could have been killed! *[[Beat Panel|beat]]* Well, maybe I am exaggerating a little bit. I could have at least gotten a bruise or maybe a small scratch..."
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: "Vegetto" (Bandai's spelling) or "Vegito" (Funimation's spelling)? Neither one makes sense in most English adaptations, since his name is a portmanteau of Vegeta's name with Goku's Saiyan name, which is commonly romanized as "Kakarot" instead of the literal "Kakarotto". Viz attempted to reconcile this by changing his name to Vegerot in the English manga, but then they changed it back to Vegetto in the Viz Big reprint (although, one has to wonder why they didn't went with the more obvious "Vegetot").
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: The strongest character to ever show up. This does not include GT.
* [[Voice of the Legion]]
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* [[The Chick]]: In GT.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: In GT.
* [[Dressing Asas the Enemy]]: In GT.
* [[Fingerless Gloves]]: her clothing style.
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]
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* [[Nice Hat]]: {{spoiler|As an old lady}} at the end of GT
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Much to her chagrin.
* [[Talking to Himself|Talking To Herself]]: Shares the voice actress of her mother, [[Yuko Minaguchi]]. Both roles are [[Playing Against Type]], since Mrs. Minaguchi more than often voices soft-spoken girls like [[Sailor Moon|Hotaru]], [[X 1999|Princess Hinoto]] and [[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Nadeshiko Amamiya-Kinomoto]].
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: She already possesed tremendous strength and the ability to fly by the time she was four years old.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Pan-chan is Akira Toriyama's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in theme names. The obvious facet is that "pan" is a Portuguese loan word for "bread," punning off her dad's name, which means rice (and if you want, you can stretch the pun: Chi-Chi can mean "milk" or "breast milk."). Pan is also a satyr in Greek mythology whose imagery was borrowed for the Christian devil. Her mother's name is an anagram of "devil," and her maternal grandfather is Mr. Satan! Pan could also be a reference to the Pan Pipes in honor of Piccolo.
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