Goku (What-If 18)

## Goku

"*Exciting, Vegeta. I better be real careful or I'm out cold.*"
— Goku, What-If 18

**Goku** is a character introduced in What-If 18 to battle Vegeta.

This incarnation of Goku originates from the Super era, particularly after the events of Granolah the Survivor Saga and presumably during the events of the *Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero* film. He, along with his rival, Vegeta aim to strengthen and hone their respective techniques, Ultra Instinct and Ultra Ego in preparation to beat the looming threat, Black Frieza.

## Appearance

This incarnation of Goku dons a variant of his Gi that lacks the orange overshirt and instead He wears his blue undershirt as his top, however retaining his blue sash-style obi, baggy orange pants, blue wristbands and blue boots with a red border and yellow laces from his usual look of his Gi.

## Personality

This incarnation of Goku's personality draws similarity to his *Super* manga counterpart's.

## Biography

### What-If 18

#### Prior Background

Shown in a flashback sequence taking place during the events of the Majin Buu Saga, This incarnation of Goku has also battled Majin Vegeta in his Super Saiyan 2 transformation.

This incarnation of Goku has experienced the events of the Granolah the Survivor Saga prior to the events of this What-If, as He and Vegeta train in preparation to defeat Black Frieza.

#### Ultra Instinct Goku VS Ultra Ego Vegeta

Training in Beerus' Planet were Goku and Vegeta, honing their respective techniques - Ultra Instinct and Ultra Ego with their respective masters, Whis and Beerus. A fuss would start with Vegeta misaiming one of his Hakais to Goku and Whis' direction, with Goku evading the blast. He would exclaim out loudly to Vegeta's direction to watch where's firing these things with Vegeta stating that Of course, Goku would dodge it. Whis would appear before Goku, telling him to prevent making such a fuss about accidents and commending him for doing a great job honning his Ultra Instinct to a high degree. This is proven by Whis stating that Goku could even use it without being alerted and that is body is beginning to move on it's own at all times.

Whis would then whisper to Goku that this would be a good chance to see how Goku himself fares against Vegeta. for both have honing their respective techniques alot since their return from the conflict in Planet Cereal. Goku would tell Whis that It is a great idea and went with Whis' recommendation. Goku uses Instant Transmission to appear between Vegeta and Beerus' training, interrupting their sparring by catching Vegeta's punch, Goku briefly assumed Ultra Instinct Sign whilst doing so. Vegeta also briefly took on the Ultra Ego Omen state, asking Goku about his sudden appearance and stating if He'd want to die so badly. with Beerus behind Goku, backing up Vegeta's sentence and reprimanding him for interrupting his training with Vegeta. Goku apologizes for interfering and states his intentions to Beerus and Vegeta, with Goku placing his bets that Whis' teachings will win him against Vegeta. with Beerus yelling to Goku as if He's implying that his teachings are inferior to Whis'.

Goku and Vegeta would stance and prepare for their incoming bout with their masters judging and spectating their battle. Whis would state to begin at their best forms, with Vegeta stating to Goku to prepare for what's coming. Both Goku and Vegeta would take on their respective transformations, Perfected Ultra Instinct and Ultra Ego. After finishing displaying their respective transformations, Goku tells Vegeta that He doesn't need a flashy introduction to display Perfected Ultra Instinct, in-which Goku would open both his eyes, sending a wave of air that slightly made Vegeta taken back. Vegeta grinned in response to Goku's sentence and makes the first move, the two's bout at the beginning would make them seem even against each other, with Goku soon amplifying his body's defensive capabilities as Vegeta's punch to Goku's chest broke his shoulder in an instant. His shoulder goes limp from the impact on Goku's chest, with Vegeta merely laughing out loud an stating He can go cut loose as much as He wants with his rival. Their battle would soon continue onwards, with them remaining to be evenly matched with each other.

As their even battle continued, Goku would attempt pushing Vegeta's sphere-like attack using his Soaring Fist technique in-which worked on pushing it away, Vegeta would fire finger beams at Goku with Goku attempting to escape Vegeta's attack with his Instant Transmission technique in which Vegeta mimicked and counteracted the technique, preventing Goku from escaping and left him feeling shocked. Their battle would continue shortly, with Goku evading most of Vegeta's incoming *Ki* attacks and used his own *Ki* to create a whip-like lasso that held Vegeta in-place, He pulled him to his direction as He lands a blow to Vegeta's face, sending him tumbling across the ground. Goku lands in the ground and states that Vegeta won't last much long against him and implies that his fighting style is too predictable, This statement would infuriate the Prince and continued to do battle with Goku akin to their previous bout in the Majin Buu Saga, landing similar blows to each other like back then - beat for beat, punch for punch. Vegeta tells Goku that He may have been one step ahead when They shared the same road, but tells him that They do not share the same path to strength anymore and further tells him that under Babidi's spell had introduced to him the mindset to Ultra Ego. with the two continuing their bout shortly after, but this time Vegeta had started to gain the upper hand and dominate against Goku in the battle, with Goku trying his best to catch up to Vegeta's sudden dominance over their fight with binding techniques.

Goku would lock Vegeta in a binding technique but to no avail, with Vegeta utilizing "Precise Evasion" to break out of Goku's binding technique, stating that while binding techniques work for Goku, It does not for Vegeta himself. with Vegeta beating Goku aside and Goku firing a Kamehameha to his direction, Vegeta destroys his blast with Goku resorting to using his Perfected Ultra Instinct Giant Avatar state to gain the upper hand over Vegeta. Vegeta would be not surprised by this and states that his usage of a Ki Avatar is nothing to him and takes on the Ultra Ego Giant Avatar state in response from his recent visit to Planet Yardrat to refine his *Ki* usage. They would combat each other with their respective Giant Avatar states with Vegeta gaining the upper hand once again and de-powering Goku from his Giant Avatar state.

Goku would revert back to his Ultra Instinct Sign state and generates a Spirit Bomb, with Vegeta speculating that He's planning to power himself up by absorbing the Spirit Bomb He generated into his Ultra Instinct Sign transformation. Essentially "Sacrificing a bit of Instinct to get even Greater Power, and have his emotions benefit him." Vegeta would commend Goku from coming up this spectacular idea and lets him absorb the Spirit Bomb anyway, taking on the Spirit Bomb Ultra Instinct state.

Goku would beat Vegeta senseless in this newfound state, establishing dominance over him in this fight, landing fatal blows across Vegeta's body. However, this display of dominance was short-lived and is revealed to be all part of Vegeta's plan. with Vegeta re-establishing his dominance over Goku and beating him until He was losing his Spirit Bomb Ultra Instinct state and forced him to revert back to his Perfected Ultra Instinct state. Goku leads a final charge to Vegeta with Vegeta evading and countering with a fatal punch of his own, sending him brutally to the ground and creating a large crater in the process. Goku struggled to stand and even struggled to maintain his Perfected Ultra Instinct state, telling himself to not waste stamina than He doesn't have for much longer. He would revert back to his Ultra Instinct Sign state and noticed a bright blue glow above the sky, It was the same Spirit Bomb He had generated earlier, It is revealed that It has been extracted by Vegeta's Forced Spirit Fission technique and used it again in reverse to amass it again. Vegeta tells Goku that It is a safety measure in-case Goku would ever pull miracles like He'd always do. Vegeta would then send the amassed Spirit Bomb to Goku's direction, with Goku struggling to even push it back. Vegeta would shift the technique into a Dirty Fireworks technique and defeat Goku there once and for all.

Goku would lay down, defeated. However, Vegeta telling Goku that He has not dealt the final blow yet and tells him to get up like He always does. Goku would struggle to stand and even muster the strength to utilize Perfected Ultra Instinct to dodge any fatal blows. Goku glances at Vegeta, feeling fear akin and likens facing Vegeta like He's facing Lord Beerus. Vegeta would then begin brutally beating down Goku, and tells him that It's time to destroy him for good. Beerus would speculate that Vegeta may have succumbed to his Ego but all is revealed to be a fake-out, with Vegeta helping Goku up as Goku would tell his rival that He did change, and soon passing out to the ground, defeated by Vegeta.

## Abilities

* Power Scaling
* Transformations

This incarnation of Goku has not appeared in a ranking video as of late.

### Super Saiyan 2

Shown in a flashback sequence taking place in the Majin Buu Saga, Goku is seen taking on the Super Saiyan 2 form battling Majin Vegeta.

His appearance in this transformation is identical to his canonical counterpart.

### Ultra Instinct Sign

Goku briefly assumes Ultra Instinct Sign to catch Ultra Ego Omen Vegeta's punch. He soon takes on this form again once Vegeta had absorbed his Spirit Bomb absorbed power.

His appearance in this transformation is identical to his canonical counterpart, however lacks the usual flaming blue aura overtaking the user's body like in the usual transformation.

### Perfected Ultra Instinct

Goku takes on the Perfected Ultra Instinct transformation for majority of his battle against Ultra Ego Vegeta to see if Whis or Beerus' teachings are superior.

His appearance in this transformation is identical to his canonical counterpart.

### Perfected Ultra Instinct (Giant Avatar)

Goku briefly assumes the Giant Avatar state of Perfected Ultra Instinct in an effort to gain the upper hand against Vegeta whom takes on the Giant Avatar state of Ultra Ego as response.

His appearance in this gigantic avatar state is identical to his canonical counterpart.

### Spirit Bomb Ultra Instinct

In a last-ditch effort to best Ultra Ego Vegeta, Goku generates a Spirit Bomb and absorbs it's power in-conjunction with his Ultra Instinct Sign transformation.

In this form, He appears identical to his appearance in Ultra Instinct Sign but his appearance is pre-dominantly overtaken by a bright blue highlight with his pupils disappearing completely.
## Trivia

* He is the first incarnation of Goku shown to utilize Perfected Ultra Instinct in a What-If.