Goku Black (Dragon Ball Super)

## Summary

**Zamasu** was once the Supreme Kai apprentice under Gowasu of Universe 10, who developed a loathing for mortals as he witnessed their actions across the universe, leading him to embark on a crusade against mortals after stealing the body of Son Goku using the Super Dragon Balls.

## Powers, stats and information(Source: VS Battle Wiki)

**Tier:** **3-A (Base), 3-A (Super Saiyan Rose), 3-A (Super Saiyan Rose+Sickle of Sorrow)**

**Name/Alias:** Zamasu,Zamas, Goku Black, Black, Rosé.

**Origin:** Dragon Ball Super (Dragon Ball series)

**Age:** Unknown

**Gender:** Male

**Classification:** God

**Attack Potency:** **Universe level** (Held his own against Super Saiyan 2 Goku) | **Universe level** (Casually stomped Future Trunks and fought with Super Saiyan 2 Goku) | **Universe level** (Effortlessly toyed with Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta) | **Universe level** (Vastly stronger than his base form, and grew even more powerful after being defeated by Vegeta)

**Speed:** **Massively FTL+** | **Massively FTL+** | **Massively FTL+** (Can outpace Vegeta without even trying) | **Massively FTL+** (Greatly swifter than before)

**Striking Strength:** **Universal** | **Universal** | **Universal** (Easily knocked Vegeta to the floor and penetrated his chest) | **Universal**

**Durability:** **Universe level** | **Universe level** | **Universe level** (Laughed off a massive barrage of hits from an enraged Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta) | **Universe level**

**Stamina:** Very High

**Range:** Standard melee range, Extended melee range with God Split Cut, Universal with ki blasts and attacks, Low Multiversal with Kai Kai (He can teleport to other universes)

**Standard Equipment:** A Time Ring and Potara Earring

**Intelligence:** Even before he stole Goku's body, the Kai known as Zamasu was an abnormally skilled and powerful fighting prodigy who could put up a fight against Goku. After stealing his body and beginning his crusade against mortals, Zamasu, now known as Black, rapidly began to grow in skill. After a single fight with Goku, he was able to accurately replicate his style, and he is able to quickly adapt to new circumstances in combat, learning to even make use of the explosive power some Saiyans gained from their rage.

## Skills

**Ki:** The fighting power and life force of a martial artist, a tangible energy derived from the user's vigor, courage, and mind. It can be used in a number of ways, such as to surpass the limits of one's body to greatly increase in strength, and it can be fired as blasts of energy or used to create defensive barriers. A fighting prodigy, Black was once the strongest Kai to ever live, a race that already possessed immense power, and his power only grew once he stole Goku's body and gained access to his Saiyan physiology, turning him into an extremely dangerous opponent. Due to his divine nature, he has godly ki and cannot be sensed by mortal beings as a result.

* **Black Power Ball:** One of Black's signature attacks, an energy sphere with a black core that detonates with devastating force upon coming into contact with an opponent. He can fire an overwhelming barrage of these spheres as opposed to just one, or convert the spheres into energy beams. As a Super Saiyan Rosé, he can use the more powerful **Divine Retribution** variant, which can similarly be converted into an energy wave or be used as a slicing blade.
* **Holy Light Grenade:** A more powerful energy sphere created by teaming up with Future Zamasu, with the two pooling their energy to create an immense sphere of ki.
* **God Split Cut:** Zamasu's signature attack, and one of the techniques most used by Black, a blade of energy that he forms around his hand to use as a slicing weapon. In his Super Saiyan Rosé form, Black can exercise such control over this blade as to shape it into various other weapons, essentially creating weapons from his own ki.
* **Sickle of Sorrow:** A scythe made from Black's own ki, his most powerful weapon, which he can use to slice through space and time to open a rift from which mysterious clones of Black flood, each capable of reforming after dissipating. The rift can inhibit attempts to teleport and can spawn more clones if Black wishes.
* **Black Kamehameha:** Black is shown to be able to use a black-colored version of the Kamehameha.
* **Instant Transmission:** A teleportation technique that Goku learned between the Frieza and Cell Sagas on the planet Yardrat, which allows him to lock onto the ki signatures of others and teleport to their locations, and one of the techniques he inherited from Goku. Its use takes some concentration, which is aided by Black putting his index and middle fingers to his forehead, and he needs a ki signature to teleport to, otherwise, he cannot perform the technique. It can be used to teleport others as well, as long as they are in physical contact with Black.
* **Kai Kai:** As a Kai, Zamasu can teleport across universes to reach specific locations or people, superior to Instant Transmission in that he does not need a ki signature to lock onto to utilize this technique. As a result, Black can even teleport outside of the universe.
* **Kiai:** The ability to project an invisible burst of force with ki, which Black can perform with his hands and even with a glare.
* **Magic:** As a Kai, Zamasu - and thus Goku Black - should have some knowledge of magic.
* **Magic Materialization:** Black can create objects, often out of thin air, and utilize these objects as weapons in combat.
* **Saiyan Physiology:** The physiology of a Saiyan, an aggressive warrior race of conquerors. Saiyans have the natural ability to control ki and to fly. In addition, while his lifespan is comparable to that of a human, Black will remain at his peak strength for much longer. One of the most powerful abilities of a Saiyan is their ability to grow stronger and stronger through combat, allowing Black to constantly push his own limits during a fight and rise to higher and higher peaks in power - for Black, this ability is especially potent, allowing him to rapidly and constantly improve over the course of a fight, as he takes injuries. This ability grants a substantial boost in power when Black is badly injured, allowing him to reach a whole new level of power once he recovers.
* **Spirit Bomb** - Goku Black's attack in Super Dragon Ball Heroes, however the Spirt Bomb created by him has a dark reddish color.
* **Kaioken** - Unused voice lines in *Xenoverse 2* indicate that Goku Black can use the Kaio-ken in his base form.
* **Telekinesis** - Like Shin and Future Zamasu, Black is able to utilize telekinesis to hold down his foes. Black uses this against Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta but it didn't work on him, and later against Future Trunks in the manga.
* **Invisible Eye Blast** – The ability to shoot an invisible blast of *ki* out of his eyes. Used against Future Mai in the manga.
* **Energy Shield** - In the manga, Black is shown using this to defend against Super Saiyan Vegeta's *ki* blast attack.
* **Flight** - The ability to take flight through the manipulation of *ki*.

## Form

* **Super Saiyan**
* **Super Saiyan Rose**

## Trivia

* Goku Black's name uses katakana for "Goku" (ゴクウ) rather than the kanji for "Son Goku" (悟空).
* At first, Black refers to himself with the formal pronoun *Watashi* (私), similar to Zamasu. Upon ascending to his Super Saiyan Rosé form, however, he adopts the more masculine, assertive pronoun *ore* (俺). Finally, after fusing with Zamasu to become Fused Zamasu, the merged entity refers to himself with either the self-appreciating phrase *Kono Zamasu* (このザマス, "this Zamasu") or the highly formal, poetic pronoun *ware* (我).
* While in the anime, Black fought against Goku on many occasions, in the manga they never fought.
* In the manga, Zamasu learns about Goku by watching him fight in the Tournament of Destroyers on GodTube and only encounters Goku after he steals his body.
* Goku Black has similarities to that of *Dio Brando / DIO* from the *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* franchise. Both have an ambition to make the world a utopia/heaven, both had stolen a main character's body (In Black's case being Goku, and DIO's case being Jonathan Joestar), they are shown to have a large God complex and view others as below them, and slowly become more megalomaniac as their character arcs progress.
* Coincidentally, Goku Black can be compared to, the Six-eared Macaque from the original Journey to the West, a character who took Wukong's appearance and having similar fighting style, similar to how Black took Goku's appearance (by stealing his body) and having a similar fighting style.