Super Saiyan God

**Super Saiyan God** (サイヤゴッド, *Sūpā Saiya-jin Goddo*) is a divine transformation unique to the Saiyan race. Despite the name, it is not related to the Super Saiyan form and exists as an entirely separate line of transformations.

Super Saiyan God is a transformation that is achieved through a ritual that involves several pure-hearted Saiyans pooling their powers together into a single recipient who acts as the "Host." The first to do so was Yamoshi, who was also believed to be the very first Super Saiyan.

When a Super Saiyan God becomes a Super Saiyan, they are able to achieve a power known as Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. In a mortal Saiyan, this takes the form of Super Saiyan Blue. In a purely divine Saiyan who has the rank of a Deity proper, this heightened hybrid form is Super Saiyan Rosé.

## Legend

Like the original Super Saiyan transformation, the Super Saiyan God originated as a tale told in Saiyan mythology about the god of the Saiyan race. According to myth, a Super Saiyan God once appeared on Planet Sadala in response to the growth of the evil Saiyans, but ultimately failed to achieve victory before he lost the form due to its limited window of time to maintain the transformation. The Namekians were aware of the Super Saiyan God and wrote of the method to achieve the form in their book of legends. Following the destruction of Planet Sadala, the Super Saiyan God legend fell into obscurity with very few surviving members of the Saiyan race even being aware of its existence, leaving the knowledge of this transformation lost to the Saiyan people.

Despite this, Frieza ,who had conscripted the Saiyans into his army, became paranoid over the possibility of truth behind the legend due to the constantly growing power of the Saiyan race. After receiving informal permission from the God of Destruction Beerus, Frieza finally decided to annihilate the Saiyan race by destroying Planet Vegeta, thus apparently sparking the end of the legend of the Super Saiyan God.

But years later, the God of Destruction, Lord Beerus would spark the rebirth of the Super Saiyan God in a surviving member of the Saiyan race who escaped his people's genocide, hoping that a rival worthy of him would be born. And the knowledge of the Super Saiyan God became known to the Saiyan race once more.

## Overview

### Concept & Creation

According to interviews with the *Battle of Gods* character designer, Tadayoshi Yamamuro, the original concept for Super Saiyan God, had the form being more muscular, wearing a cape, and with a hairstyle in-between Super Saiyan 3 and Super Saiyan 4. The series' original author, Akira Toriyama, came up with a picture of Super Saiyan God that was completely different than Yamamuro's own initial muscular, cloaked and probably golden haired design. They went back and forth like this a bit before settling on the final design, and Toriyama was insistent on the form not being too different from Goku's regular appearance, specifically not being really muscular.

## The Super Saiyan God Form

The "Super Saiyan God" is the legend among legends of the warrior race, the Saiyans. The power of six good-hearted Saiyans must be infused for one of them to achieve this legendary form.

In this form, the user's hair turns a shade of red andretains its natural style but becomes more refined (losing any stray hairs). The Saiyan's eyes become more detailed, and the irises become red (appearing as more relaxed even in battle until sufficiently angered). The overall body structure appears to become younger and thinner in frame and build, though this is not typically the case in younger Saiyans who are still at the peak of their vitality and physical prime. The aura of the Super Saiyan God resembles a raging fire.

A Saiyan becomes cool-headed when in this form.

### The Ritual

The ritual needed in order to achieve the Super Saiyan God transformation requires five righteous Saiyans to perform and a sixth Saiyan to act as the host and channel the ritual and *ki* into, each as Super Saiyan. But the ritual instructions are easy to misinterpret as only requiring five Saiyans, which is why it failed the first time Goku attempted it, although it did temporarily increase Goku's power. Six righteous Saiyans hold hands in a circle and transfer their *ki* into the Saiyan who is becoming the Saiyan God. In addition, it not the energy that these Saiyans pour into another that sparks the transformation—simply channeling their *ki* into another Saiyan will not result in the creation of a "god." Instead, it requires their 'heart', fitting with the need for 'righteous' Saiyans. After this process, a blue fiery aura will appear throughout the circle, signifying the ritual is working. The Saiyan who is becoming the Super Saiyan God will ascend and transform into the actual form.

While it requires Saiyans with a 'righteous' and good heart to complete the ritual, the Saiyans do not need to be pure-blooded - Saiyan hybrids or even females pregnant with a Saiyan hybrid offspring are acceptable as components to the ritual's success. If a pregnant female Earthling takes part in the ritual, their hair will change color and cause them to briefly take on Super Saiyan-like form despite not being Saiyans themselves (presumably this form is the result of them being pregnant with a Saiyan child and/or a side effect of them taking part in the ritual).

It has been seen that in some rare instances where a Saiyan trains with a powerful enough Deity who possesses knowledge of the Super Saiyan God, the Saiyan in question can reach the form seemingly without the need for the ritual.

## Usage & Power

Super Saiyan God was once believed to be a "being who surpassed everything." The power of this form is great enough to allow users to compete with non-fully powered Gods of Destruction. When the form was recovered after being lost for centuries when the God of Destruction Beerus sought a Super Saiyan God as his rival, his clash with Son Goku in the Super Saiyan God state sent rippling shockwaves throughout the universe when their fists clashed, with the belief that it would only take 3 strikes of their fists colliding to destroy the entire universe. It is confirmed that the Super Saiyan God form possesses a far superior dimension of power compared to the regular Super Saiyan form.

This powerful form, however, has drawbacks: it requires some time for the user to fully tap into its power and it drains the user's energy reserves fairly quickly. Super Saiyan God also has a short time limit, to which it will seamlessly disappear. However, even after the time limit will run out, there is a rare chance that some Saiyans can experience a phenomenon where their actual power does not decrease, allowing them to continue fighting with the same level of power in Super Saiyan God-like level in their base and Super Saiyan forms. Some gods speculated that from this is because a Saiyan's experience and adapting to the feel of Super Saiyan God, their body is instinctively able to imprint on it, allowing them to subconsciously access its power to an extent, seemingly negating the power drain.

Saiyans who train with a powerful enough Deity who possesses knowledge of the Super Saiyan God can tap into this form at will, with no known instance of it being hindered by the time limit associated with the ritual.

## Variations & Advanced Levels

* Super Saiyan - In some rare cases, a Saiyan whose body runs the duration of the time limit of the Super Saiyan God transformation can internalize the power of the divine form, allowing them to maintain the same level of power without needing to transform into a Super Saiyan God.
* God-Like Saiyan - The result of training or innate natural talent that enables a Saiyan to utilize the power and *Godly Ki* of a Super Saiyan God without actually having to ascend beyond their base form.

### Hybrid Forms

* Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan - A hybrid Super Saiyan form which is the result of a Saiyan combining the power of Super Saiyan God with the standard Super Saiyan form. The color of the resulting form differs depending on whether the user is mortal who was granted *God Ki* through training or a ritual, or is an actual deity from rank and status when obtaining the form.
	+ Super Saiyan Blue - The result of a mortal Saiyan mastering the power of Super Saiyan God and then transforming further into a Super Saiyan, resulting in a new transformation combining these two forms. The form possesses incredible raw power, but without training and long-time experience in the form, the transformation has severe stamina drain, especially with repeated use without resting intervals.
		- Perfected Super Saiyan Blue - An enhanced variant form in which the user seals the overflowing power of the Super Saiyan Blue form inside themselves, allowing them to constantly utilize the form's full power. Doing so not only increases raw power but also minimizes the stamina drain of the form to near nonexistent points. Its only drawback in this stage is the extremely high focus and concentration it takes to maintain this perfect control of ones' energy.
	+ Super Saiyan Rosé - A Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form that can only possibly be obtained by Saiyans who are actual deities before and not mortals who obtained *God Ki.* The transformations alternate coloration in contrast to Super Saiyan Blue is due to its user being an actual god with natural Godly *Ki* when they obtained the form. This form possesses superior advantages to its mortal counterpart, passively having a naturally greater degree of *Ki* control that enables its user to perform without the severe and impairing stamina drain. Because of this, Super Saiyan Rosé can evolve in ways that Super Saiyan Blue cannot.
		- Super Saiyan Rosé 2 - An enhanced form of Super Saiyan Rosé at Super Saiyan 2 state.
		- Super Saiyan Rosé 3 - An enhanced form of Super Saiyan Rosé at Super Saiyan 3 state.
		- Super Saiyan Rosé Full Power - An enhanced form of Super Saiyan Rosé beyond the Super Saiyan Rosé 3 state.