Why did Pan join Goku to fight the Shadow Dragons?

[cesarcoronel07]

So I have almost every Dragon Ball, Z, Gt season and I was watching GT the other day and I always had this question, why did Pan join Goku to fight the Shadow Dragons? Doesn't she know Goku could turn SSJ4 so he wouldn't really need her help, I don't see the point of her going. Does she think she's on par with SSJ4 Goku? Why didn't Goku take Gohan and the others instead? I've also heard that Pan is stronger than Trunks, Goten, and Gohan maybe that's why Goku let Pan join him instead of the others?

[TheMightyOzaru]

Cuz she's Pan. If you've been watching GT, you should know her character by now.

[cesarcoronel07]

Cuz she's Pan. If you've been watching GT, you should know her character by now.

I guess you got a point, she has her mother's confidence

[KentalSSJ6]

Even if Goku could turn SSJ4, she still knows her grandpa is facing a very real threat and wants to help and protect him. Yeah it backfires sometimes but she has good intentions. She loves her grandpa and doesent want to see him get hurt.

[cesarcoronel07]

Even if Goku could turn SSJ4, she still knows her grandpa is facing a very real threat and wants to help and protect him. Yeah it backfires sometimes but she has good intentions. She loves her grandpa and doesent want to see him get hurt.

Very true man, there's people that hate her because she acts tough and in the end she ends up crying, but I don't hate her

[TheGmGoken]

Since this is in GF part of the website I don't have to be In-universe I guess.

Pan was a main character in GT. In fact she was the only person NOT named Goku to be a main character. So of course they will have two main characters go along with each other. Even thought they're stronger fighters that could help. Even though some of the Dragons......wasn't that strong.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Pan was a main character in GT. In fact she was the only person NOT named Goku to be a main character.

You forgot Trunks & Gill.

[TheGmGoken]

Pan was a main character in GT. In fact she was the only person NOT named Goku to be a main character.

You forgot Trunks & Gill.

Trunks was a main character for like 1 arc. Then he faded into the shadows. They only used Trunks because they needed a "smart" character to make logic on how to work a ship. I could only imagine how the series would have went had it just been Goku and Pan. Gill is apart of Pan(Not in literal terms). So he's an exception

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Not really, he was (along with Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, and Oob) relevant in the next 3 arcs as well, he didn't fade away.

[TheGmGoken]

Not really, he was (along with Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, and Oob) relevant in the next 3 arcs as well, he didn't fade away.

Yes he kinda did. He was put into the J.O.B. Squad until Goku gets there. Just like everyone else was. He was a minor character just like everyone else. TO make it seem better. He became a support character like everyone else.

[Jackal puFF]

She was just moral support for Goku.

[TheAldella]

Um....Loli fanservice. I don't know.

[NitroEX]

Probably because they just wanted Pan in everything to fill some prerequisite of having an annoying girl sidekick. I mean what wasn't she involved in?

[Blade]

For me the big question is 'why didn't anyone else join the fight earlier?'

The GT writers appear to have had a complete inability to write for anyone other than Goku, and it seems that even the merest thought of juggling the extended character roster of the protagonists seemed to give them a real headache. Having Pan tag along with Goku was, in my eyes, merely just a limp attempt to make her seem relevant - with the only alternatives in their limited imaginations being to either kill her off (as they did Piccolo) or give her a place in the collective 'One-Hit-KO' group along with Trunks, Goten, Gohan and Vegeta.

I mean, really, to label the role of the other protagonists in GT as 'support cast' is to commit a disservice to the term.

[Professor Gohan]

She was with him in combat the entire time from the beginning to that point in the series. She's bored and likes to have fun as well as how much she deeply cares for her Grampa Goku. It was really in-character for her to do so. She's never been one to sit around and sense the battles out with the others.

[Li'l Lemmy]

Basically this. If the idea was to give Goku another character to exchange dialogue and react to situations with, then Pan was utilized responsibly. It was absolutely in character for her to invite herself along.


~Da Lemmy

[FoolsGil]

Because GT is an awful series?

No that's too rude. It's because she is a writer's pet and not even Goku's own protegee can be written to take out a dragon or too.

[Strife1]

Why did Goku have to fight all of the Shadow Dragons alone? Why didn't the other 198319083901 Z fighters team up and have epic battles rather than repetitive fight scenes with Goku and the enemy.

[Gyt Kaliba]

I've always seen it as an attempt to do more with her character, and wondered if maybe someone on the staff did like her quite a bit or something. I mean, GT is definitely 'Goku Time', but if you try and figure out who probably does the most besides him...it probably is Pan. She gets involved in every story arc just about (even if it's just to be smacked away), and the things she does don't really seem to be fodder to show how 'awesome' Goku is. Stuff like Gohan and Vegeta getting one-shotted, or even Vegeta gaining SS4, was all just to make Goku stronger so he could steal the focus again. With Pan, it was different than that at least.

[Bierhoff]

Because she's strong and stubborn. And sneaky.