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by nhienphan2808 » Wed Oct 27, 2021 7:29 am
Goku is able to adapt and change himself according to the battle and the comrades surrounding him, but i wouldnt say it's a skill. It's something he just do without thinking or practicing. Ultimately he needs a sense of heroic purpose for him to be the reluctant hero, and make a story, and his comrade provide him that. Without them, he's technically boringly simple, and the "idiot" you see in a large part of Super. He's not a guy that change like Vegeta or Piccolo, he change depending on what the story had to offer him.
In DB as a kid, it's Grandpa Gohan and his memories, so kid Goku was more grounded, more brutal, and arguably more mature, with a sense of friendship and connection. In Z it's mainly Vegeta and his obsession with power and also the same race as him , so Goku's true nature of battle loving was brought out more. To be clear, he was always battle loving, it's Grandpa Gohan that grounded ithis nature, tamed it and enriched it as the same time. With Vegeta, someone like him, he's ALL battle. In the Cell Saga there was Trunks and his sense of duty and danger, so Goku became this serious, calculating hero because of that. He's not that, it's budding hero Gohan and too serious Trunks and the stakes in Cell Saga. He still messed that up big time with the senzu thing and reason for staying dead.
The later part of Buu Saga after Vegeta's death was lackluster is simply that, there's no Vegeta. Goku tries to solve problems but he had never been an effective leader, he simply needs Vegeta to wrap the arc up. Similarly The problem with Super anime is not Goku himself, it's that it failed to find Goku a driving force in Vegeta or a new character, except Frieza in the very last episodes. Goku in Super is plain simple bare bone battle obsessed Goku, who means well but can escalate problems to disasterous areas, and without conflicts or tension or purpose.
ShadowWolf87 wrote:Freeza beat Goku, beat Vegeta, and destroyed the Earth. Even if no one else knows it, who does? Goku.
Who gets told it's his fault for being so careless? Goku.
Who has to live with that similar to how he wanted to make Freeza live with the fact he'd been beaten by what he considered trash, and have to live with that shame? Goku.
Freeza got the perfect revenge.