Gohan Son

Gohan Son, also known as The Great Saiyaman, The Gold Fighter and The Golden Warrior, is one of the main characters from the Dragon Ball series.
== Charactah Account ==
Son of Goku and Chi-Chi, and a half-Saiyan. At first he was just a little crybaby with hidden strength but under the tutelage of Piccolo and his experiences in battle, he turns into quite an accomplished warrior. However, despite his potential and in noted contrast to most to the cast, he hates violence and would rather be a scholar than a fighter.
Since early childhood, seemingly stemming from his hybrid heritage, Gohan is known to have within him a seemingly limitless dormant power, which at first only revealed itself when he experienced extreme emotional stress, losing most of his cognitive thought in the processs and then his power would drop dramatically lower than before once calming down. The earliest occurrence of this hidden power was as an infant when he about to crash into a tree when his stroller was accidentally released, giving him enough power to plow a hole clean through the trunk. Even by normal Saiyan standards, Gohan's increase of might from fear or anger is exceptionally greater, able to compete against the strongest enemies.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Dragon Ball GT
* Dragon Ball Super
* Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
* Dragon Ball Z
* Dragon Ball Z Kai
* Dragon Ball Z Kai: Bring Peace to the Future! Goku's Spirit is Eternal
* Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 1: Dead Zone
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 2: The World's Strongest
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 3: The Tree of Might
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 4: Lord Slug
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 5: Cooler's Revenge
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 6: The Return of Cooler
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 7: Super Android 13!
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 8: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 9: Bojack Unbound
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 10: Broly - Second Coming
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 12: Fusion Reborn
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 13: Wrath of the Dragon
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 14: Battle of Gods
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 15: Resurrection 'F'
* Dragon Ball Z: Atsumare! Goku's World
* Dragon Ball Z: Looking Back at it All: The Dragon Ball Z Year-End Show!
* Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z: Summer Vacation Special
* Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks
* Dragon Ball: Yo! The Return of Son-Goku and Friends!!
* Orb Panic Adventure Returns!
* Orb Panic Adventure!
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes
=== Manga ===
* Dragon Ball
* Dragon Ball SD
* Dragon Ball Side Story: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha!
* Dragon Ball Super
* Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection of F
* Dragon Ball: Heya! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!
=== Video Games ===
* Anime Designer: Dragon Ball Z
* Battle Stadium D.O.N
* Data Carddass Dragon Ball Z 2
* Dragon Ball 3: Gokuden
* Dragon Ball Discross
* Dragon Ball FighterZ
* Dragon Ball Fusions
* Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout
* Dragon Ball Heroes
* Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butouden
* Dragon Ball Legends
* Dragon Ball Online
* Dragon Ball RPG: Shounen-hen
* Dragon Ball Super Card Game
* Dragon Ball Xenoverse
* Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
* Dragon Ball Z 2: Super Battle
* Dragon Ball Z 2 V
* Dragon Ball Z Butchigiri Match
* Dragon Ball Z For Kinect
* Dragon Ball Z II: Gekishin Freeza
* Dragon Ball Z III: Ressen Jinzouningen
* Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z Side Story: True Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans - Earth Saga
* Dragon Ball Z Side Story: True Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans - Space Saga
* Dragon Ball Z: Bakuretsu Impact
* Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
* Dragon Ball Z: Battle Taikan Kamehameha 2 - Ossu Omee Gokuu Tenkaichi Budoukai
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai HD Collection
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
* Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden
* Dragon Ball Z: Collectible CD Picture Cards
* Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle
* Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Battlers
* Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden
* Dragon Ball Z: Gekitou Tenkaichi Budoukai
* Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension
* Dragon Ball Z: Idainaru Son Goku Densetsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World
* Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
* Dragon Ball Z: Kyoushuu! Saiyan
* Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors
* Dragon Ball Z: Sagas
* Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai
* Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokuden: Kakusei-Hen
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokuden: Totsugeki-Hen
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors
* Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legend
* Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
* Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
* Dragon Ball Z: V.R.V.S.
* Dragon Ball Z: W Bakuretsu Impact
* Dragon Ball Z: XKeeperz
* Dragon Ball: Daimaou Fukkatsu
* Dragon Ball: Dragon Daihikyou
* Dragon Ball: Raging Blast
* Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2
* Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo
* Dragon Ball: Shenron no Nazo
* Dragon Ball: Tap Battle
* Dragon Ball: The Breakers
* Dragon Ball: Ultimate Swipe
* Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle
* Dragonradar Mobile
* Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden
* Famicom Jump II: Saikyou no Shichinin
* J-Stars Victory Vs
* Jump Force
* Jump Force: Deluxe Edition
* Jumpland
* Jumputi Heroes
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission
* Super Dragon Ball Z
== Trivia ==
* When Chapter 196 first ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump, Son Gohan was introduced as three years old. However, this would immediately be contradicted in Chapter 197, where Gohan reintroduces himself to the reader as four years old in the title page. While it is possible that Gohan's introduction as three is simply a mistake on the part of Akira Toriyama, this is unlikely, as in that same chapter, Gohan clearly holds up three fingers when proclaiming his age. His age is nonetheless changed to four in the Tankōbon release of Volume 17, and the anime followed suit, claiming that Gohan was four, and changed the scene so that he holds up four fingers instead.
* The name "Gohan" is a homophone for gohan (御飯), the Japanese word for "cooked rice" which also refers to meals in general, which continues Akira Toriyama's food naming pun diagram. In Mandarin, the reading of 悟飯 is a homophone for 午飯 (wǔfàn), meaning "lunch". As a result, in a similar vein to his father's name, Gohan's name in pinyin/Mandarin is read as "Sun Wufan", which in both Chinese and Japanese literally mean "Grandson Awakened to Rice/Perceiving Rice".
* Gohan's hobbies are reading, fishing, and research.
* Gohan will eat anything.
* Gohan's favorite vehicle is a house wagon.
* Gohan has killed every member of the Spice Boys.
* In the Funimation dub, Gohan was originally intended to be named either Einstein or Archimedes by Chi-Chi. Alternatively, some of Ox-King's name suggestions included "Ox-King Jr.", "Ox-Monkey", "Big Ox", "Oxford", "Ox in the Box", "Ox-Man" and "Johnny Oxseed".
** In the Japanese version, Ox-King's name ideas include "Gyumataro", "Gyumahiko", "Doctor Gyuma", "Gyumanosuke", "Gyumashin", "Gyumantohihi", and "Gyumasuki".
* Gohan's tail is cut off four times in the anime (twice by Piccolo, once by Vegeta, and once by Goku) before it stops growing back. Piccolo removing it for the second time (along with the transformation that accompanied it) was anime-only filler where the space pod Goku flew in, which was in the mountains before being found by a nearby Grandpa Gohan, appears in the middle of a desert. This is considered to be one of the biggest plot holes in Toei's anime series by fans.
* Consecutively, Gohan has stayed transformed the longest as a Super Saiyan/Super Saiyan 2, clocking up a total of 29 episodes. Gohan is also the character who goes through the most character design and costume changes.
* In the anime during the Cell Saga, Gohan has a dream about Cell killing Chi-Chi and Piccolo inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber; However, he previously stated to his father that he did not know what Cell looked like when Goku asked him to imagine Cell killing all his friends so he can achieve Super Saiyan form for the first time.
* In the English version of Dr. Slump, there is a reference to Gohan's alter ego superhero, Great Saiyaman, in the chapter "Here Comes Arale!" The movie which Senbei Norimaki and Aoi Kimidori see and which was originally titled "Nekotoraman vs. Nekotora-7" (a reference to Ultraman and Ultra Seven) in the Japanese version, and is renamed "Tigerman versus Saiyaman" in the English translation.
* In volume 1 of the Dragon Ball Z manga, Piccolo refers to Raditz as "Raggedy Saiyaman". Saiyaman is what Gohan calls his superhero self.
* Gohan is the only partial Saiyan to be seen with a tail. Akira Toriyama stated that tails on a hybrid Saiyan is a recessive trait.
** However, Toriyama recently revealed in an interview that he decided to get rid of Saiyan tails as he couldn't figure out how Saiyans would dress themselves with the tails on and these minutia annoyed him to no end. Thus this is presumably one of the reasons why Saiyan hybrids born after Gohan and the pure blood Saiyans of Universe 6, lack tails entirely.
* In both manga (Chapter 426) and anime (Episode 205), Gohan was talking to the audience (breaking the fourth wall) about Krillin letting his hair grow out after the Cell Games.
* Gohan is the first hybrid Saiyan to appear in the series.
** He and his counterpart Xeno Gohan are also the only hybrid Saiyan to transform into a Super Saiyan 4 in the franchise.
*** However originally the developers for Dragon Ball Heroes intended to have Xeno Trunks acquire Super Saiyan 4, however the idea was scrapped in favor of giving Xeno Trunks Super Saiyan Godas they couldn't decide on what color Super Saiyan 4 Xeno Trunks' hair (lavender vs black) would be, while the red hair of Super Saiyan God was far easier to implement.
* Like his father, wife, and father-in-law, Gohan is a Martial Arts Champion as he is the true winner of the Cell Games. However unlike them he has never won a tournament officially (as Mr. Satan officially took credit for Gohan's defeat of Cell). Goku won the 23rd World Tournament, while Mr. Satan won the 24th World Tournament after the Cell Games (which is implied to have been won legitimately) as well as countless others (albeit rigged), and Videl is was the first Junior World Champion which she won at the 24th World Tournament which was the first World Tournament to feature a Junior Division.
* In Xenoverse 2, Teen Gohan has special dialog with Bojack where you can hear Adult Gohan's voice instead of Teen Gohan's.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Gohan at Dragon Ball Wiki
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