Gohan

**Gohan** ( '**Son Gohan'**) is the elder son of the series' primary protagonist Goku and his wife Chi-Chi, the older brother of Goten, the husband of Videl and father to Pan. Gohan is the first hybrid (half-Earthling, half-Saiyan) to appear in the series. He is named after Goku's adoptive grandfather, Gohan.

Unlike his father, Gohan lacks a passion for fighting and prefers to do so only when the need to defend his loved ones arises.[5]Nevertheless, Gohan fights alongside the Z Fighters in the defense of Earth for much of his life. He eventually settles down with a family at the end of *Dragon Ball Z*, opting for the life of a scholar instead.[6]

## Appearance

Gohan's appearance changes drastically through *Dragon Ball Z*, due to the fact that the series starts out with him as a child and ends when he is fully grown, married, and with a child of his own. But Gohan's basic physical appearance pretty much stays the same through the course of the series. Gohan has black hair and black eyes. He has his father's facial features, and also has his mother's light peach complexion rather than his father's light tan.

When Gohan is first introduced, he wears a child's outfit with his family name, 'Son', written on the front and the Four-Star Dragon Ball attached to his hat, the same Dragon Ball in which Goku believed that his grandpa's spirit resided. Before he transforms into Great Ape and mostly appears in the ending theme of the anime, Gohan wears a white tank top and his green pants and black shoes from his child attire.
While training with Piccolo, he wears an outfit similar to Goku's original, with the 'Ma' symbol (魔) King Piccolo wore after he reverted to his human form from his Great Ape form and his tail was removed also by Piccolo until it grows back during his fight against Vegeta. After training with Piccolo, he has a mullet-type haircut and dons a similar attire to the Namek warrior which he continues to wear until the end of the Captain Ginyu Saga, after which he wears Battle Armor given to him by Vegeta. He would continue to wear clothing similar to Piccolo's for the majority of his childhood, but his hair trended closer to his father's wild self-cut style. During the Androids Saga, he now has long hair and retains the same outfit that he wore in the Saiyan Saga and the Frieza Saga, but now wears black kung-fu shoes and white shin guards instead of brown grass shoes. While training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, he begins wearing Saiyan training gear. After leaving the Time Chamber, he grows noticeably taller (roughly Krillin's height), and also quite muscularly developed for his age. He reverts to Piccolo's clothing for the Cell Games, with the addition of Piccolo's white cape and weighted shoulder pads. During this time his hair is spiky much like Goku's. Gohan's outfit in the movie *Bojack Unbound* which looks exactly like the one Goku wore in the Androids Saga and Majin Buu Saga.

As a young adult, he becomes similar in height to his father. His hair is much shorter and stands on end in a spiky formation, with a single bang hanging over the right side of his forehead. Having slacked off on his training, he is fairly thinner and his built has become noticeably leaner. He alternates between a school uniform, his Great Saiyaman costume, a blue gi similar to the Piccolo clothing (except larger in size), a replica of the gi his father Goku wore while he was alive. His obi, wrist bands and shin guards are red but in the movie *Broly: The Second Coming*, His shin guards are reverted to white. During the Buu Saga, he wears Kai clothing given to him by Kibito. In his fight against Super Buu and reuniting with his father and Vegeta after they defeated Kid Buu, Gohan wears an outfit identical to his father. At the party for the celebration of the defeat of Kid Buu, he wears a blue suit as part of his formal clothing.

As an adult in the end of *Dragon Ball Z*, Gohan's hair would be similar to how it was in the Buu Arc minus the bang which resembles Yamcha's hairstyle from the Androids Saga. In *Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods*, Gohan's wears glasses, a blue vest with a long white undershirt, and brown slacks with black shoes.

In *Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’*/*Dragon Ball Super*, having since retired from fighting completely and slacked off in his training, Gohan became very scrawny in built. His hair is also smoother and much flatter. Gohan tends to wear formal clothing as he studies to become a professor consisting of a grey collar shirt with a blue vest and red pants. On Frieza's arrival on Earth, he wears a green tracksuit because he forgot where his gi was. After he resumes training with Piccolo, Gohan slicks up his hair again to have spiky ends. By the time of the Tournament of Power, Gohan's training with Piccolo appears to have reconditioned his body, becoming almost as muscular as Goku. Also for the tournament, in the anime Gohan dons the same style gi he wore against Super Buu, while in the manga he dons a purple gi like Piccolo's. He also removes his glasses when fighting.

In *Dragon Ball GT*, he retains his hairstyle from the end of *Dragon Ball Z* with the only difference being it is a little longer and is usually seen dressed as like a professor or a businessman, in a suit and a tie. He also wears eyeglasses, even though he shows no sign of actually needing them, due to the fact that he does not need them to fight. It is possible, however, that these are reading glasses of some kind, as opposed to general corrective glasses. When facing Omega Shenron, Gohan wears a gi resembling that of the ones Goku used to wear throughout *Dragon Ball Z*.

In the Assault on the Hell Gate Saga, GT Gohan wears a *gi* identical to Piccolo's, though without the cape and turban.

After becoming a Time Patroller, Gohan's appearance is Gohan with his Ultimate Gohan-look, but with informal martial arts clothes almost identical to Xeno Trunks', most notably a black trench coat. He also wears glasses, like in his appearance in *Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’*.

## Personality

As a child, Gohan is a shy and studious intellectual child who lacks the Saiyan fighting spirit, so he had to utilize his incredible half-breed Saiyan potential and emotional reserves to protect those he loves, becoming one of the most powerful Z Fighters. As an adult, he achieves his dream career of becoming a great scholar.

Being only half-Saiyan, Gohan is unusual in his values and personality. These unique values and personality separate him from pure Saiyans; as powerful as he is, he does not like fighting much. However, when he is forced to fight, he shows special interest in protecting his family and friends. Like his father, Gohan has a truly pure and gentle heart, apart of having the typical Saiyan appetite and will eat anything.[2]

Though he claims he does not share the love of fighting Goku has, Gohan does indeed love martial arts and adventures. It is also clearly obvious that he enjoys his superhuman powers, and he greatly enjoys using them to be a superhero, though he dislikes receiving the fame and attention that comes with it and prefers to keep a low profile, which is why he created the Great Saiyaman persona, in order to keep his identity a secret. This is even more evident when he didn't acknowledge Cell's defeat at his hands to the public after Mr. Satan falsely took credibility for it. During the Zen Exhibition Match, he admitted that his Saiyan half was getting excited from the challenge shown by Toppo of Universe 11, demonstrating that even though he despises senseless violence, he actually does enjoy fighting as a sport. It is possible that he prefers not to fight due to the many gruesome and painful fights he experienced in the past, and because of these battles, Gohan has negative emotions associated with fighting.

However, even though he is naturally smart, humble and kind, Gohan himself has been a victim of his own power in the past, whenever Gohan gets a gigantic power boost, he becomes arrogant and cocky, essentially becoming drunk in his power, often aknowledging and even enjoying his superiority over his opponents, as he did when he first became a Super Saiyan 2 against Cell, and later in his life when he achieved his Ultimate form, and fought Super Buu. This fatal flaw of his warrior-personality might be an actual side-effect of his Saiyan-heritage, since Saiyans such as Vegeta, or Nappa, have been known to act similarly when drunk in their own power while fighting. This has lead him to the brink of defeat on several ocassions, and has later had to deal with the consecuences of his actions, such as the death of his father at the hands of Cell, or Super Buu absorbing him and endangering the entire universe in the process. However, thanks to Piccolo, Gohan works on overcoming this flaw of his, to not let his own superior power blind him in the battlefield ever again.

Besides concerning himself with his family (and his studies), Gohan has a strong attachment with his mentor: his father's former archrival Piccolo. After the death of Goku, Piccolo chose to train Gohan as he sensed the boy's potential power, which would be harnessed to help defend the Earth from the attack of the Saiyans. At first, the relationship with Piccolo is a frightening one, but after just one year, Piccolo admits his change because of the friendship he develops with Gohan and even sacrifices himself to save the boy. Because of this, Piccolo can be considered as a surrogate father for Gohan. Krillin also has influence on Gohan, as almost an uncle/nephew relationship, mainly because Krillin is Goku's closest friend. While Gohan does care about his mother, he like his father has a fear of her temper to the point in *Dragon Ball Super* he informs his mother that Goku planned to leave to train under Whis, stating that he had to tell her for his own safety, though fortunately Chi-Chi surprisingly calmed down after Goku left with Whis. However Gohan will defy his mother if it is important as he tells his mother off after she refuses to let him go to Namek to revive Piccolo using the Namekian Dragon Balls, due to feeling responsible for Piccolo's death at the hands of Nappa.

After the battle with Cell, Gohan gives up martial arts to focus on his studies and only resumed his training at the behest of his little brother Goten. Although he acknowledged he had fallen out of practice and lacked the fighting expertise of his father and Vegeta, Gohan gave all that he had as he fought Majin Buu and was eager to kill Buu for murdering his family and friends. In the years to come, he continued to train on-and-off while having a career and being a family man. He marries Videl, with whom he fell in love despite her being Mr. Satan's daughter, and has a daughter named Pan. Gohan proves to be a loving husband and doting father who takes delight in lavishing his daughter with attention and affection.

After witnessing the death of Piccolo, Videl and Pan at the hands of Frieza in the timeline erased by Whis' Temporal Do-Over, Gohan realizes that he must get much stronger in order to protect them. Because of this, he asks Piccolo to train him once again.[7] To which, by the time of the Tournament of Power, Gohan has become considerably more powerful than before, although it is unclear as to how much more powerful he has become as Piccolo has stated that Gohan's power is truly bottomless and that he can continue to further strengthen himself to new heights. However, despite reawakening his power, Piccolo points out his tendency to become arrogant and let his guard down could prove disastrous for Team Universe 7 during the tournament so Piccolo tries to discipline Gohan in order to break this dangerous habit. After witnessing his son's newfound power, fighting instincts and keeping in mind his keen intellect, Goku makes the decision to step aside from the role of Team Captain and appoints Gohan as the Captain of Team Universe 7 after their fight, stating Gohan's power is similar to his own and his intelligence makes him ideal for the role. Gohan has also expressed the desire to surpass his father by his own terms and methods, choosing to focus on empowering his natural and unamplified power rather than depend on any Super Saiyan transformations.

In *Dragon Ball Online*, it is shown that as a scholar Gohan became devoted to studying and researching the nature of *ki* and begins researching the martial arts of the past, organizing them in his book Groundbreaking Science in Age 804. The book became extremely popular and introduced the concept of *ki* to the general population of Earth sparking a renewed interest in the martial arts and fighting. One of the articles, "*Katchin Can Be Cut!*", had an immense influence on his brother and Trunks leading them study swordsmanship which allowed them to develop their natural potential via intense training and as adults Goten and Trunks founded the Kikoukenjutsu Sword School. The renewed interest in the martial arts also lead to the founding of the New Turtle School by Krillin and New Crane School by Tien Shinhan. As Goku and Vegeta had left Earth to settle their rivalry in Age 801 after Goku realized his death was imminent, it was left to the remaining Z Fighters Gohan, Goten, Pan, Trunks, Krillin, and Tien to defend the Earth after the remnants of the Frieza Force invaded Earth following the death of Gohan's father-in-law Mr. Satan whom the Guard troops that lead the army assumed had defeated Frieza. Like he had in the past, Gohan resorted to using his old alter-ego Great Saiyaman to defend the Earth and managed to convince Pan, Goten, Trunks, Krillin, and Tien to disguise themselves with Saiyaman-like suits as well to hide their identities while combating the Frieza Force, however their ki-based fighting style became a hot topic and global interest in ki escalated. As a result, Gohan in his role as a scholar and Z Fighter ended up sparking a martial arts revolution on Earth and secretly continued to defend Earth with his family and friends as he had done for most of his life.

## Power

— Vegeta when seeing Gohan pummelling Frieza

As a child, Gohan is known to have within him a seemingly limitless dormant power, which at first only revealed itself when he experienced fierce rage, and when his rage ended, his power would drop dramatically. The earliest occurrence of this hidden power was when he almost crashed into a tree when his stroller was accidentally released, giving him enough power to plow a hole clean through the trunk to prevent him from being killed by flying into it as an infant.[8]As he got older, he trained hard and gained access to a large portion of his power, and it was not until he was a young adult that his power was fully awakened and he was able to use it all at his own will. He displays exceptional power at a very young age, even surpassing his father Goku by turning Super Saiyan 2 and saving the world from the evil Cell at only 9 years old (technically 10 due to the year spent inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber). Gohan is also the first known to ever achieve Super Saiyan 2. Despite not having trained consistently, Vegeta stated that Gohan's potential exceeded both Goku's and his own, even by the time of the Universe 6 Saga.[15]

Manga and Anime
As a child during the battle against Raditz, when angered, Gohan's power level raises to 710 and then further to 1,307, before falling to 1 after attacking Raditz. Gohan gets more powerful after training for the battle against the Saiyans with Piccolo he is the second strongest Z fighter during the encounter second only to Piccolo himself (stated by Vegeta upon arrival). His power level is 1,083 when confronting Nappa and Vegeta, and it rises up to 2,800 when using his Masenko on Nappa. When Kid Gohan has his potential unlocked by Guru, it is said to rise to a level comparable to Vegeta's at the time of the saiyans first arrival on earth (who had a power level of 18,000). On Namek, when his anger rises during his battles with the different forms of Frieza, he is able to knock the tyrant around several times and even cause him some damage.

Gohan's power grows even higher before and during the Androids/Cell Sagas, as he trains with his father and attains the Super Saiyan form. When watching the battle between Goku and Perfect Cell, Gohan does not understand everyone's awe at their power - as he is easily able to track them and believes that they must be holding back (though Goku was actually at full power). Piccolo and Vegeta are astounded at the power that Gohan possess when he reveals some of it. Gohan eventually attains Super Saiyan 2, at which point he becomes far stronger than any of the other Z Fighters and full power Perfect Cell - he displays this new power by effortlessly killing the Cell Jrs. with a single shot each. His speed has become colossal, easily exceeding the speed of Cell's. Vegeta states that Gohan isn't trying while fighting Cell. During his final beam struggle with Super Perfect Cell, Super Saiyan 2 Gohan loses half of his power due to having been damaged trying to save Vegeta, however even with just half his power Super Saiyan 2 Gohan is still able to defeat Cell in the beam struggle.

By the time of the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament, due to lack of training, Gohan is no longer as strong as he was during the Cell Games but is powerful enough to fight Dabura. It is later said by Dabura that he could easily defeat Gohan if he wanted to, though in turn if Gohan were to get angry and use his true power he would be able to defeat Dabura, as shown when he attacked Buu's cocoon. As a Super Saiyan 2 (with his anger allowing him to use his true power) he was also able hold off Majin Buu for a short time, but was defeated and almost killed. However, after training with the Z Sword, Shin believes that Super Saiyan 2 Gohan will be able to defeat Majin Buu, but Goku is not so sure that he could.

After the Z-Sword is broken, Gohan has his potential unlocked further by the Old Kai gaining the ability to surpass his limits. Trunks states that Ultimate Gohan is equal to Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks, though Goten states Ultimate Gohan is stronger and Trunks takes back what he said and states that Gohan is a little stronger than Gotenks. Gohan is able to defeat Super Buu in his regular state. He is however swiftly defeated when Super Buu absorbs Gotenks and Piccolo (though in the anime he manages to hold his own and is only worn down after some time by Majin Buu's superior combat skill and cunning).

In the God of Destruction Beerus Saga of *Dragon Ball Super*, Gohan's Potential Unleashed power was proven nowhere near enough to defeat Beerus, who nonchalantly knocked Gohan aside. By the Golden Frieza Saga, Gohan had slacked off from training for so long that he became unable to utilize his full potential, and found it challenging to even access his Super Saiyan form. Though it is stated by Tagoma that the level of power Gohan possess in his normal form is stronger than Piccolo. Ginyu takes Tagoma's body and is able to unlock his full power than - which is said by Gohan to be equal to Gohan's at the time when he was at his best, Ginyu goes on to claim that compared to him Gohan possess a very low power level. Gohan tries to access his full potential to take on Ginyu but finds that he cannot and thus compensates by transforming into a Super Saiyan, thanks to this tremendous power up he proves to be able to knock Ginyu down with two blows, though the captain gets up again soon after - undamaged by Gohan's attack - to try and continue the battle, only to be stopped by Frieza. Even in his Super Saiyan form, Gohan proved no match for first form Frieza, and was easily defeated by him without even getting out of his chair. However, when Gohan released a huge amount of power as a Super Saiyan due to Piccolo's death, it proved large enough that Goku could sense his *ki* from Beerus' planet.

In the Universe 6 Saga, while selecting members of Beerus' team for his competition with Champa, Vegeta suggests that they place Gohan in their team - as he possesses potential even higher than Goku and Vegeta themselves, and the rest of the Z Fighters - however Goku declines, saying all Gohan cares about is studying. However - in the anime - unknown to Goku, after Frieza's defeat, Gohan had been training with Piccolo, so that Gohan can get back into shape and Piccolo can get stronger. By the time of Tournament of Destroyers, the two had presumably been training for at least half a year, and Gohan and Piccolo had powered up greatly - with base Gohan equal to the newly empowered Piccolo, who proved strong enough to keep up with final form Frost during the tournament a few days later. When attempting to get Cabba to transform Vegeta tells him he should not have entered the tournament with such a low power level while Vegeta thought Gohan should enter suggesting he is stronger than Cabba who was in turn able to fight on par with base Vegeta.

During the "Future" Trunks Saga, Piccolo notes that Gohan has given up fighting and now leads a normal life. To which, when Future Trunks encounters Gohan he notes that he does not possess the overwhelming power he had during the Cell Games, stating that he could barely sense his power, implying that his pacifist-nature has allowed him to greatly suppress his power. During the baseball game between Universe 6 and Universe 7 Gohan participates in the game and manages to catch a godly *ki* enhanced baseball thrown from a full power Super Saiyan Blue Goku barehanded. The explosion was seen visible from space and leveled the majority of the field yet Gohan emerged from the heart of the explosion and rubble nearly unharmed and actually laughing about almost being vaporized. Impressed, Champa actually gives Gohan a rare compliment, calling him "pretty tough."

While battling Watagash, Gohan was able to completely overwhelm him when he possessed a bank robber. When Watagash possessed Barry Kahn, Gohan was knocked out cold with one blow as he took a blow for Videl and Pan. When Gohan confronted Barry possessed Watagash later Gohan was able to effortlessly dominate him once again after he powered up more using he superior power and training. When Watagash powered up one more time becoming larger then a skyscraper Watagash was far faster the Gohan and was able to smack him around with ease and eventually blasted Gohan into orbit with a massive Eye Beam. After hearing Videl and Pan call out to him Gohan reminds himself he will never lose in front of Pan and Videl and powers up to Super Saiyan and flies back down as Watagash prepares another larger Eye Beam and fires it. Gohan responds with his own version of the Super Kamehameha; the Super Great Saiyaman Beam and effortlessly plows through the beam and nearly kills Watagash. Later, at the request of Chi-Chi and Goten, Gohan proved himself able to fight on par with his father in a sparing match in both base form and as Super Saiyans, the latter of which Gohan was able to land some solid blows.

Initially in the Universe Survival Saga, although rusty while Gohan fought Lavender, Goku calling it "perfect training for Gohan right now so he can regain his fighting senses." Even blind Gohan uses his sense of hearing and touch to detect Lavender and overwhelm him. After powering up to a Super Saiyan Gohan was able to use his *ki* as a radar and was able to keep track of Lavender by bouncing his *ki* of his aura off of him. Even while having poison rotting his body, Super Saiyan Gohan was able to match Lavender in combat, and his Kamehameha matched Lavender's own energy wave until Gohan succumbed to the poison, Gohan eventually managed to catch Lavender off-guard and piledrive him clean through the arena and still stand up afterwards, with Goku noting Gohan was still very strong. Later in the Universe Survival Saga, Piccolo is using what time they have until the tournament to retrain Gohan and reawaken warriors heart. While initially struggling to keep up with Piccolo even at Super Saiyan 2, Piccolo's guidance ultimately lets Gohan fully reawaken his true power and enter his Potential Unleashed state. Upon doing so, Gohan quickly overwhelms Piccolo without using a Super Saiyan form. To which, even against a swarm of clones, Gohan was able to easily defeat Piccolo's assault, although he still has a tendency to let his guard down, allowing weaker blasts to cause harm. After this, Piccolo believes that Gohan can still become far more powerful. Soon after, Piccolo acknowledged Gohan's training under him is complete to which Gohan tested his progress against his father. In base form he fought on par with base Goku and was able to easily handle Tien with no issues at all. Once using his non-fully powered Potential Unleashed state, he is able to fight Super Saiyan 2 Goku, though Goku initially had the upper hand, Gohan eventually began to overpower Goku. After going to his full power and asking his father to fight at full power, he briefly manage to fight with Super Saiyan Blue Goku (going to the point where Goku punching Gohan with considerable power in this state didn't even faze the latter), even taking a couple of his punches, with Gohan asking for more, making Goku unleash Kaio-Ken to appeal to his sons request in order to beat his son Gohan, which he promptly did with just a single hit, however after being hit by the Kaio-ken enhanced Goku, Gohan still barely remained conscious and was able to nearly land one more punch before he fell unconscious. The narrator at the beginning of the next episode stated that Gohan's power now rivaled Goku's. The manga however things are very different, as Gohan wasn't even chosen nor considered to be apart of the team and his place was taken by Vegeta. After Buu enters his yearly hibernation Gohan is chosen by Vegeta to replace Buu, stating that if Gohan can regain his fighting instincts in time he will be extremely useful. While Beerus protested having zero faith in Gohan, Vegeta remained steadfast having full faith in Gohan and holding his full potential in very high regard

During the Tournament of Power, rather than going off on his own, Gohan chose to remain with Piccolo, Krillin, Tien Shinhan and Master Roshi - they launched an assault that caused little to no damage against Lavender, Botamo, Comfrey, Shosa and Dercori. He effortlessly deflected Jium's Fire Breath. Base Gohan's punches did no damage to Botamo, however Gohan used this to his advantage as his punches lifted Botamo in the air. Gohan pushed Botamo to the edge, kicked him in the air, and knocked him out of the arena with a Kamehameha. Base Gohan was able to match Obuni in combat, however when Obuni used his secret technique of energy, Gohan was overwhelmed. Gohan decides to turn into his Potential Unleashed state and let himself be hit by Obuni in order to do a counter hit. Using this strategy, Potential Unleashed Gohan was able to once again match Obuni in combat. Gohan was able to outlast Obuni's energy reserves, and when Obuni ran out of energy, Gohan blasted him out of the arena with a Kamehameha. Although Whis stated Gohan would take damage from Obuni's attacks, at the end of the fight, Gohan is shown to be completely fine. Against Jimeze, base Gohan was overwhelmed by Jimeze' professional use of Instant Transmission, although Frieza notes that Gohan would have had no problem against the Yardat if he hadn't stubbornly refused to use Super Saiyan. Base Gohan was able to compete against Final Form Frieza, while previously, Super Saiyan Gohan was no match for First Form Frieza, showing Gohan's increase in power. In his Potential Unleashed state, Gohan was able to push back Final Form Frieza, and briefly hold his own against Golden Frieza. However, it is revealed that Frieza and Gohan were acting so Frost would let his guard down.

Against Saonel and Pirinia, Gohan was initially pushed back along with Piccolo but Gohan was able to quickly regain the edge and proved to be able to overwhelm both Saonel and Prinia in his base form by blocking Saonel's best attacks like his Ki Blade with his bare hands and his most powerful ki blast with his Masenko and proved strong enough in his base form to knee drop Prinia's arm off. After the two Universe 6 Namekians fully adjusted to their accumulated power from their entire race, while initially pressured by them, once Gohan entered his Potential Unleashed state, he was able to push back the duo, holding his ground long enough for Piccolo to aid him in eliminating the two foes with a Kamehameha.

Against Universe 3's modified warriors, Potential Unleashed Gohan was able to fend off Bollarator, Koitsukai, and Panchia, gradually adapting to their attack patterns to quickly overwhelm them, forcing them to use their Plan X: merging into Koichiarator. Despite Goku and Vegeta's aid against this new merged foe, Gohan's sheer might was on par it, as neither was able to push back the other. Ultimately, with a timely distraction from Goku and Vegetea, Potential Unleashed Gohan was able to launch a Kamehameha able to overwhelm Koichiarator while also catching Paparoni in the blast.

In *Dragon Ball GT*, in the Black Star Dragon Ball Saga, Gohan is shown to feel confident that he would be helpful to Goku on a trip to recover the Dragon Balls. Despite the fact that he and his mother acknowledge there could be all sort of threats out in space, and that would be a reason why Pan should not go. Gohan's confidence in his power is pretty notable. Later, when Pan boasts that on Earth, she is the third strongest (After Goku & Trunks), Trunks corrects her by stating several people on Earth are stronger than him and that second would be giving him to much credit. Trunks notes Gohan as one of the people with strength surpassing his own. While Gohan is not shown fighting during this arc due to his presence on Earth, it's obvious the strength Gohan has always had still holds some precedence, even now.

During the Baby Saga, Baby learns from Goten's memories that Gohan is stronger than his younger brother. When Baby Goten confronts Gohan, baby continuously remarks on his desire to take Gohan's body due to his ability to handle Goten without transforming. In his base form is shown to have similar power to Super Saiyan Baby Goten, as when the two fight they both tire out at the same time and Gohan is able to resist Baby Goten's attacks without much damage. Gohan is noted for being able to hold his own while trying not to hurt Goten, and while Baby is trying to force Gohan to raise his power. Gohan only transforms after Baby forces a explosion of Goten's ki. Once Baby finally has control of Gohan's body, he remarks that the power Gohan's body has is incredible and believes it will be useful in him gaining Vegeta's body, to which Gohan's body was able to force Vegeta to fight seriously.

During the Super 17 Saga, he is able to hold his own in his base form against General Rilldo, who is remarked by Goku for having a ki greater than that of Majin Buu. Rilldo ultimately choses to metallize Gohan's limbs to take the advantage in the battle. After Uub kills Rilldo, Gohan is shown to not have retained any damage from the assault and jokingly remarks that he should retire if they're going to save him. When he attacks Super 17, everyone is shocked that his Kamehameha has no effect, showcasing the regard to which his power is held. Despite going Super Saiyan 2, he is unable to defeat Super 17.

In the Shadow Dragon Saga, Gohan is among the group who does not go to fight due to his power being inferior to Super Saiyan 4 Goku. Despite this however, Gohan suits up in his gi and goes to help his father against Syn Shenron. Though his intentions are only to help Goku recover his full power. Gohan manages to survive hits from Syn Shenron, and gives Goku the power to go beyond his limits as a Super Saiyan 4. Later, Uub offers to fuse with him, but Gohan declines and states that Uub would need to heal his arm before they could attempt fusion.

Films
Turles' scouter later reads Gohan's power level as 10,000 during the events of the movie *The Tree of Might*. When he has his tail held by Dore in *Cooler's Revenge*, Gohan's power level drops to 50.

In the Japanese version of *Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming*, Gohan, after noting that Broly became much stronger since their prior encounter, also notes with some annoyance "And here I was supposed to have powered up considerably since then", strongly implying that, at least within the context of that film, he continued to train and became much stronger than his Cell Games saga self.

In *Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods*, Potential Unleashed Gohan's power made him the only one (without a power-up) able to touch the God of Destruction Beerus, being able to get him into a full-nelson lock. Despite this, Beerus easily broke free and quickly defeated Gohan by smashing heads with Buu's and kicking the young Saiyan in the abdomen.

During *Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’*, Gohan proved powerful enough to defeat Frieza's soldiers that he had brought to Earth by the hundreds. Despite his power having dropped from lack of training, he is more powerful than Piccolo - being the strongest of the warriors who fought Frieza's army.[16] When he took on his Super Saiyan form he effortlessly defeated Shisami - who also possessed power greater than Piccolo - in one shot. Frieza himself states that base form Gohan alone would be more than enough to instantly beat all 1,000 men in the Frieza Force.

Statements by authors and guidebooks
Gohan's power level is 6,000 during the events of the movie *World's Strongest* according to *The Tree of Might*pamphlets.[17]

After his potential was unlocked by Grand Elder Guru, Gohan's power level rises to 14,000. After the battle against the Ginyu Force, by the time he, Vegeta, and Krillin begin fighting Frieza, Gohan's power level is 200,000.

Gohan's potential is greater than his father's and his power surpassed Perfect Cell's when he fought in the Cell Games, but his gentle heart stopped him from fully using it.[18]

*Daizenshuu 2* states that Gohan's dormant power is *bottomless* and also says that Gohan's potential growth is greater than his father Goku's due to being the son of a Saiyan and Earthling. It also states that after his potential was released by Old Kai, Gohan is still capable of becoming a Super Saiyan as shown in *Battle of Gods* and *Dragon Ball Super*, but even without utilizing the form he is stronger than Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks.

The data book *Dragon Ball: Extreme Battle Collection* refers to Gohan as having fantastic power surpassing even a Super Saiyan 3.[19] However, the Dragon Fist utilized by Super Saiyan 3 Goku possess superior power to Ultimate Gohan thanks to its massive *ki* amplification.

It is noted by the notes on Ultimate Gohan for the Universe Survival Saga that at the time of the Majin Buu conflict and *Battle of Gods*, Ultimate Gohan's power surpassed that of Super Saiyan 3 Goku.[20] A *V-Jump*article for the Universe Survival Saga noted that Gohan's potential is greater than Goku's.[21]

It is stated in the *Dragon Ball GT Perfect Files* that Gohan continued to train in the years following the Buu Saga and the end of *Dragon Ball Z* to *Dragon Ball GT*, suggesting he got stronger than he previously was.

Video games
In *Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury*, Goku states that had Gohan trained from the time he defeated Cell until the time when Buu appeared, his strength would have doubled.

In the story of the PSP game *Shin Budokai*, which is set two years after Kid Buu's defeat, Piccolo states that Gohan grew even stronger than he previously was the last time they met. In his base form, Gohan is implied to be far stronger than Androids arc Gohan in his base form, as he far surpasses his younger counterpart even when suppressing his power. Majin Vegeta, who has been possessed and further been empowered by an evil copy of himself, states that Gohan is "a monster with power beyond legend" upon encountering him. In *Dragon Ball Xenoverse*, Whis, a man with very high standards, deeply applauded Gohan's full power obtained from Old Kai's aid.

In the Assault on the Hell Gate Saga, Super Saiyan 4 Gohan is said to be extremely powerful, so much so that he has a hard time controlling his power. He is powerful enough that when he fired a Kamehameha in the direction of the Earth in order to defeat an enemy, it took the combined power of Super Saiyan 4 Goku and Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta firing their strongest beams to stop it.

## Abilities

**Great Ape**

This transformation occurs when a person with Saiyan heritage (and with a tail) looks directly at a full moon, or something that simulates its effects, such as a Saiyan Power Ball. The result is the waves from the moon stimulating a gland in their tails, enabling a seemingly unavoidable transformation. This is a complete genetic transformation, so it greatly affects Gohan's mental state. Because Gohan never had any proper training, Gohan loses all form of mental control, becoming a primal beast. However, during his fight against Vegeta, Goku's words were able to reach Gohan enough to regain some of his rational thought and focus on his real enemy. Gohan only transforms into this state three times throughout the series, twice while he was training with Piccolo, and one final time when fighting Vegeta, the final of which Gohan was able to regain some rational control of himself thanks to Goku's interventions.

He also transforms into this state the movie *Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might* when the main villain Turlescreates a Power Ball and forces Gohan to see it, transforming him into a Great Ape. Great Ape Gohan gains some rational control over this form when Icarus intervenes, and he eventually ends up specifically targeting Turles after the latter shot Icarus down. He later has his tail cut off by Goku, returning him to normal. Gohan is the only known Saiyan/Human hybrid to ever achieve this transformation, due to having been born with a Saiyan tail.

**Unlock Potential**

Unlock Potential, in truth, is not a form of Gohan but is simply an enhancement that he acquires during the Namek Saga. This term is only used in the *Budokai* games. Gohan acquired this when he visited Guru during his trip on Namek. Guru placed his hand on top of Gohan's head and using his own powers, released Gohan's latent potential. This, however, did not release *all* of Gohan's hidden power, since he was still only able to unleash his hidden power through fierce rage.

Gohan's abilities were enhanced along with the strength of his hidden power, and as a side effect, continuously grew alongside Krillin with each battle, as stated by Vegeta. The first time that he receives this power-up roughly multiplies his power tenfold, allowing him to access a power in around the mid-10,000s range, though with the subsequent battles against Recoome and Frieza, he grows many times stronger. During one bout of rage, he was even able to subdue Frieza's third form. According to FUNimation dub, after this power-up, Gohan was equal to Vegeta's strength when the latter appeared on Earth (before Gohan got stronger through battle).

**Super Saiyan**
Gohan became a Super Saiyan at nine years of age (if including the 10 and a half months spent in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber since he came out earlier by 3 hours; he was almost at the physical age of ten), during the intense training he endured with his father to help him ascend. Gohan was the youngest to appear as a Super Saiyan until the appearance of his brother, Goten, who accesses the state effortlessly at seven years old. In this state, Gohan was called the **Gold Fighter** by the residents of Satan City during the Great Saiyaman Saga. After Gohan has his potential unlocked by Old Kai, his Super Saiyan form became much stronger due to his base form having powered up.

Gohan mastered the Super Saiyan to such an extent that his power in this state matched Goku's power as a Super Saiyan above Saiyan beyond God. On one occasion, Gohan utilized his Super Saiyan form on top of his Potential Unleashed state,[22] he achieved this in *Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods* and it's saga equivalent in order to help his father achieve the Super Saiyan Godform. Gohan uses this form of Super Saiyan again during the return of Frieza to defeat Ginyu in Tagoma's body and uses the form's power to signal Goku although it was only equal to his old power. He retrained with Piccolo and regained his power and uses this form to fight and defeat Watagash. This form's full power was shown while he was sparring with Goku, where he was able to fight evenly with his dad who was also a Super Saiyan with the power of God. The power was showed off more during his battle with Lavender, even while blind Gohan is able to use the ki he gives off like a radar, allowing Gohan to fight and overwhelm Lavender in this state, even while dying and his body rotting from poison. When he fought Piccolo prior to the Tournament of Power, Piccolo was able to easily overcome Gohan in this form.

**Super Saiyan Full Power**
Gohan is one of the first people to display full mastery over the Super Saiyan. Gohan had learned to perfect the Super Saiyan form with his father, when his father suggested that they remain transformed for extended periods of time so that they could master Super Saiyan, including all the unwanted behavioral effects. This mastery of the Super Saiyan enables full control over the energy output and consumption, completely diminishing strain on the body. Gohan continues to use this form during the Buu Saga, particularly when training with Goten.
Due to a lack of training, by the time of Frieza's revenge Gohan had lost his Super Saiyan Fourth Grade form, with it having regressed back into Super Saiyan First Grade. But once Gohan returns to training with Piccolo and regains part of his lost power, he gets used to being a Super Saiyan again and uses it to defeat Watagash and match his father Goku's own Super Saiyan form in a sparring match.

**Super Saiyan 2**
Gohan was the first and the youngest character in the series to reach Super Saiyan 2, achieving it at the age of 9. This occurred when his dormant power was fully awakened through his rage at Perfect Cell for hurting his friends and killing the peaceful Android 16 (though it was revealed in an anime-only flashback by Goku that Gohan actually achieved the transformed state while training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, but was too exhausted to maintain the form). While in this form, Gohan's hair stands straight up with the exception of one lock that hangs down, and he is surrounded by aura electricity all the times. One thing is quite noticeable when he in particular manifests this transformation: his nature is prone to complete change, giving him an almost sadistic sense of mind. This is completely opposite of his natural reluctance and innocence when he is not transformed. The most noted example of this happening is his desire to watch Perfect Cell suffer before he was going to kill him, while prior to ascending to Super Saiyan 2, he made it quite clear that he did not want to hurt or even fight Cell, let alone kill him.
In addition to his battle with Cell, Gohan uses this form to defeat Bojack in *Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound* and to fight Brolyin *Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming*. Seven years later, he uses it during the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament when Kibito asked him to demonstrate his Super Saiyan powers so that they may lure out Babidi's men; he instead makes the full jump to Super Saiyan 2, only to have Shin paralyze him so that his power may be drained (and subsequently returned, by Kibito) as to lure out Spopovich and Yamu, and lead them towards Babidi's spaceship. When Gohan makes a jump to Super Saiyan 2, his hair grows longer around the sides and a bit at the top, similar to regular Super Saiyan, with the exception that his hair stands up more, gets more spiky and he gains one hair bang instead of two. He also fights Majin Buu in this form, but loses and is nearly killed. But when Gohan fought Majin Buu he was weaker than when he fought Cell. After training with the Z Sword he grew much stronger as he was able to wield the sword perfectly in his base form not needing to transform raising his base power so that when he transforms into a Super Saiyan 1 or 2 his power would increase making him stronger. After training with the Z Sword, Shin believes Super Saiyan 2 Gohan can beat Majin Buu.

Prior to the start of the Tournament of Power Piccolo and Gohan are sparring, with Piccolo's intentions of re-awakening Gohan's true power. Gohan for a time fought at Super Saiyan 2 but was still no challenge for Piccolo, who managed to choke him to near death.

In *Dragon Ball Xenoverse*, Towa's dark magic awakens Gohan's Super Saiyan 2 power instead, thus making Gohan slowly start to become corrupted. This is most noticed by Gohan letting out an evil laugh after saying he has to make Cell suffer. Goku takes notice and even Trunks notices that Gohan's energy is different. Gohan returns to normal, after Towa and Mira are both driven off.

**Great Saiyaman**

The **Great Saiyaman** (グレートサイヤマン, *Gurēto Saiyaman*) is Gohan's transformation alter ego and an attempt to hide his true identity from his classmates when he attended school in Satan City. The Great Saiyaman was first born when Gohan transformed himself into a Super Saiyan in order to disguise himself as he fought some bank robbers on the morning on his first day to school. However, his classmates (and in particular, Videl) began to note strange similarities between himself and the mysterious "Gold Fighter" (as they described his Super Saiyan form). Concerned that his identity might be figured out, but wanting to protect the city from random crime, he approached Bulma and asked her if she could invent a device that could instantly change his appearance. With his new costume ready and easily accessible with the press of a button, he could now protect the city without his identity being easily discovered. When Gohan becomes a Super Saiyan as Great Saiyaman, he is referred to as "**Super Great Saiyaman**".

Despite the new disguise and protection of his identity being discovered, the Great Saiyaman identity still did not ensure Gohan's identity from being safe. Juggling between his school and superhero life proved to be difficult, and his classmates and teachers noticed that he was gone for a long period of time when he asked for bathroom breaks. Also, Videl proved to be a thorn in Gohan's side, as she was both reluctant to accept assistance from him and most importantly wanted to discover his true identity. At one time, the Great Saiyaman's true identity was in jeopardy of being discovered when he changed from being the Great Saiyaman to his normal form and noticed that his classmate Angela was standing in front of him during his change; however, he was saved when she revealed that she did not have her contact lenses on at that time and could not see anything, and that her big secret about Gohan was the fact that he wears teddy bear underwear. Gohan's luck ran out when Videl eventually discovered his true identity, agreeing to keep it a secretly only if he agreed to enter the World Martial Arts Tournament and to teach her how to fly, to which he reluctantly agreed. After the demise of Kid Buu, Gohan continued to fight crime as the Great Saiyaman alongside Videl, who now had the identity of the Great Saiyaman 2; nonetheless, he eventually retired from heroics to become a scholar.

All Great Saiyaman costume were made by Bulma. The costume initially consists of a green tunic, black tights, white gloves and boots similar to those used in Battle Armor uniform, a red cape, and an orange-and-black helmet with a visor. Because the rules of the World Martial Arts Tournament forbid any type of armor, Gohan swapped out the helmet in favor of a white bandana and sunglasses, similar to the hero of the 1960s TV show *Kaiketsu Harimao*. He maintained the sunglasses and bandana look for the Saiyaman identity after the defeat of Kid Buu, and subsequently abandoned the red cape.[23] The name "Saiyaman" is a reference to Gohan's Saiyan heritage. He thought up the name on the spot while confronting two youths who were speeding in a car, and was easily offended when they laughed at his name. Later, the name was frequently mistaken for others, such as the "Great Soyman" or the "Great Singing man", which further aggravated Gohan however over the years this issue has resolved itself as Great Saiyaman is now known world wide as a superhero. He was also noted for his comical poses (comparable to or even more ridiculous than the poses of the Ginyu Force) he would perform when introducing himself, and was generally written off as hilarious or weird. Nonetheless, he was still a respected hero within Satan City. While in this disguise, Gohan still uses his energy-based techniques. Recently Gohan has begun to use other attacks and transformations as well during his battles with Watagash. He adopted a orange finger beam he calls the Great Saiyaman Beam. He also begun to use his Super Saiyan form as well if situations called for it, opting to go with what the film director called it his "Super Great Saiyaman" form.

**Old Kai's Unlock Ability**
This power-up is when the full extent of his dormant capacities are released. It was achieved during the Fusion Saga and with this power Gohan is referred to as **Ultimate Gohan** (アルティメット悟飯; *Arutimetto Gohan*).[20][24] This power up was achieved by a special ceremony performed by Old Kai. Although technically this ability is not exclusive to Gohan alone as the ceremony can be used to unlock anyone's sleeping powers, his was unusual in the amount of time it took to unlock due to his amazing potential. Thanks to his potential unlock, his base form becomes much stronger - eclipsing that of Gotenks in equivalent forms - and thus his Super Saiyan form powers up as well, with his Super Saiyan form's appearance also altering slightly.

Gohan activates this ability in a similar fashion to the Super Saiyan transformation and subtle differences are present, including more pronounced facial features including sterner eyes, and a large, white aura. Due to the lack of training in the five years that followed, Gohan had difficulty accessing his full power during the invasion of Galactic Frieza Army, despite his efforts. But even in his base form, Gohan demonstrated that he possessed even greater power than Piccolo and rivaling Tagoma thanks to the potential unlock. When transforming into a Super Saiyan, he effortlessly defeats Shisami (in *Resurrection ‘F’*) and Ginyu with Tagoma's body (in the Golden Frieza Saga), though he could only maintain the form for a short period of time. Pushing his power to maximum as a Super Saiyan proved great enough for Goku to sense him from Beerus' planet, but this quickly overexerted his body and left him in a near-death state. Gohan still retained the power levels he had the last time he charged his potential, by the time of his battle with Lavender,[20][24] and after this battle trained with Piccolo - demonstrating his Super Saiyan 2 form for the first time since his potential unlock - in order to regain his Potential Unleashed state.

**Potential Unleashed**

Thanks to Old Kai's Unlock Ability, Gohan is capable of pushing his power past his normal levels via his Potential Unleashed state. This state looks virtually identically to the base level of his Ultimate state, with the addition of a lock of hair hanging down over his forehead. He is also known as **Mightiest Warrior**[25] and **Strongest Warrior**[26] in this state.

Initially, Gohan is much stronger than the likes of Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks and Super Buu (Piccolo absorbed) and was able to put up an even fight against Super Buu (Gotenks absorbed). However, by the time Friezaresurfaced, he had lost the ability to access his full potential from lack of training and had to transform into a Super Saiyan to access a fraction of his true power. Eventually Gohan regained full mastery of this form and grows even stronger than ever through training with Piccolo in anticipation of the Tournament of Power, enough that Goku tests him by fighting as a Super Saiyan 2 and even further as a Super Saiyan Blue but was actually pushed back and only defeated Gohan once he further amplified his power via Kaio-Ken.

When Gohan used his Potential Unleashed form against Goku, Goku questioned why he did not utilize Super Saiyan on top of it, to which Gohan responded by stating that he was aiming for an ultimate form different from his father's.

Gohan no longer possesses his "Ultimate Gohan" states in *Dragon Ball GT*.[27]

**Potential Unleashed Super Saiyan**

While rarely doing so, Gohan can utilize his Super Saiyan forms on top of his Potential Unleashed state. In the original release of *Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods* Gohan transformed into Potential Unleashed Super Saiyan 2 to fight Beerus. Later, in both versions for *Battle of Gods*, Gohan transformed into Potential Unleashed Super Saiyan in order to help his father Goku reach the Super Saiyan God state.[28]

**Infected**

During the events of *Dragon Ball GT*, Gohan is possessed by Baby (while under Baby's control he is named **Baby Gohan**), and then later by a regular Tuffle parasite.

This state of Gohan makes its debut for the first time as a playable character in *Dragon Ball Heroes*, as both base and Super Saiyan forms.

**Brainwashed**

In Dragon Ball Heroes GDM7, a brain washed Great Ape Gohan was introduced. Great Ape Gohan is featured with purple aura as well as red eyes.

**Possessed by Janemba**

In the PSP game *Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai*, after travelling into the future, Teen Gohan is consumed by blind rage when taunted by Cell about the mistakes that he made and tainted by Janemba's influence, he transforms into a Super Saiyan 2 and gains a power boost enough to easily destroy Super Perfect Cell (who had previously beaten Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks - though he was messing around - thanks to a Zenkai boost). Like anyone else who is overtaken by evil energy, Gohan starts to transform into Janemba and begins to forget his friends and family, however he is freed from Janemba's influence by Goku, who manages to snap him out of his blind rage.

**Super Saiyan 3**

Gohan attains this form in the arcade game *Dragon Ball Heroes*, introduced in the fourth mission of the God Mission series (GDM4). Like his future counterpart, his Super Saiyan 3 form also possesses two hair bangs instead of just one unlike his father. He is also seen using Piccolo's outfit, including his cape, exactly the one he wore during the Cell Games except in a bigger size. In this form, he also attains a new technique called Hyper Masenko Wave, which is a stronger version of the Masenko technique.

This transformation is a result of what would've happened if Gohan continued to train under Piccolo in the years following the Cell Games.[29]

**Villainous Mode**

During the finale of *Dragon Ball Xenoverse*, Demigra possess and transforms Ultimate Gohan into the full Villainous Mode, forcing him to fight the Future Warrior and Goku.

**Super Saiyan 4**
Gohan achieves this form in the arcade game *Dragon Ball Heroes* since the fifth mission of the God Mission series (GDM5). In this form, Gohan's hair grows identically to Goku's and Vegeta's and he has his bang back (although in the same position he has during the "Ultimate" state). Red fur appears covering the upper part of his body and he wears died purple pants with Piccolo's shoes. He also gains a new technique called Ultimate Soaring Dragon Strike, which he punches the opponent and then he launches an uppercut with an image of a dragon hitting the opponent very fast. In this state Gohan's power is overwhelming to the point where Gohan actually loses control of himself at times and can't properly control the power. A full power Kamehameha (which are purple colored in this state) from Gohan requires the full power of Goku's x10 Kamehameha and Vegeta's Final Shine Attack to overpower and not destroy the Earth.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Gohan trains the Turtles with everything he had learned so far. He dislikes Shredder and the Foot Clan because of their cruel actions.

## 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 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".
* Gohan's hobbies are reading, fishing, and research.[39]
* Gohan will eat anything.[39]
* Gohan's favorite vehicle is a house wagon.[39]
* 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.[8]
* 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. Although, this is likely because Toriyama stated that he simply forgot Saiyans had tails by the time another hybrid Saiyan was born.
	+ 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.[40]
* 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 transform into a Super Saiyan 4 in the franchise.
* 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 *Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2* Teen Gohan has special dialog with Bojack where you can hear Adult Gohan's voice instead of Teen Gohan's.