How was Raditz planning on taking Goku back, in a tiny spacepod that only fits one person?

[nickzambuto]

This just struck me today. I don't think I have seen it brought up before. Plot hole? Or should we assume Raditz could call another pod? He also wanted to take Gohan once he found out he existed.

[VegettoEX]

I assume that HE assumed both that Goku was still a normal evil Saiyan and that he had his own original space pod still kicking around from when he first landed as a baby (or otherwise had the technology to track down where it might be if he crawled/wandered away from it and didn’t know its location anymore). Not a particularly big deal/concern to me, really.

[Alruneia]

「一人用のポッドでか？」 (hitoriyou no poddo de ka?)
- Broly in a million memes (and in the original movie, of course)

I just assume Raditz could request a pod or two to be sent to Earth from some nearby-ish station or outpost or whatever if he needed to. Technically headcanon, I guess, but it's not exactly farfetched.

[Jord]

In the animé, we see Goku's pod. It needed sone repairs perhaps but I'm sure Raditz could perform those. His father was a brilliant scientist.

[MasenkoHA]

He came to earth assuming Goku already conquered the earth and wiped out the human race, of course he assumed Goku had access to the space pod he came in.

[Vhanos]

You know that episode when Piccolo destroyed the spaceship to stop Gohan in his ape form a second time? Was that Goku's spaceship when he came as a child? I know it's filler, but whatever.

[Jord]

You know that episode when Piccolo destroyed the spaceship to stop Gohan in his ape form a second time? Was that Goku's spaceship when he came as a child? I know it's filler, but whatever.

Goku's pod was used as a base for his Namek space ship.

[MasenkoHA]

You know that episode when Piccolo destroyed the spaceship to stop Gohan in his ape form a second time? Was that Goku's spaceship when he came as a child? I know it's filler, but whatever.

Yes it was. And because it happened in filler the anime ignored that to follow the manga