What would make Goku cry?

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What would make Goku cry?

Post by songohan619 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 2:50 pm

What do you think would make Goku cry?
I think having Krillin, Gohan, Goten, Vegeta or Chichi die, without having the possibility to revive them with the Dragon Balls, would make him cry.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by TheGmGoken » Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:05 pm

He cried when Krillin died, seeing Grandpa Gohan, and probably when Gohan (old), died. Goku hasn't cried in DBZ...I doubt anything can make him cry. Maybe Vegeta dying or Goku losing the desire to fight.

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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by fadeddreams5 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:13 pm

An empty fridge.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:14 pm

Option A: Have Gohan, Chi-Chi, and Goten massacred before him.

Option B: Eat all his food.

Option C: Divorce.

Option D: Have Gohan or Kuririn call him a retarded, good-for-nothing monkey.

Option E: Shit in his weighted shoes.

Option F: Chi-Chi cheats on him with Piccolo or Yamcha.

Which do you think would make him cry?
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by Doctor. » Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:16 pm

TheGmGoken wrote:Goku losing the desire to fight.
This would be close to impossible but I can see him crying if one day he feels fighting is boring.

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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by MarCas92 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:35 pm

Goku isn't a very complex character. The answer here is an obvious one: Needles.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by TheGmGoken » Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:54 pm

Doctor. wrote:
TheGmGoken wrote:Goku losing the desire to fight.
This would be close to impossible but I can see him crying if one day he feels fighting is boring.
A villain wishing for Goku to lose the ability to fight. Goku would cry on the spot

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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by Mystic Tien » Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:55 pm

TheGmGoken wrote:
Doctor. wrote:
TheGmGoken wrote:Goku losing the desire to fight.
This would be close to impossible but I can see him crying if one day he feels fighting is boring.
A villain wishing for Goku to lose the ability to fight. Goku would cry on the spot
Or a villain wishing for all food to disappear from Earth.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:58 pm

TheGmGoken wrote:
Doctor. wrote:
TheGmGoken wrote:Goku losing the desire to fight.
This would be close to impossible but I can see him crying if one day he feels fighting is boring.
A villain wishing for Goku to lose the ability to fight. Goku would cry on the spot
Or have them make Goku weak like Happosai did Ranma. He'd be balling like a baby.
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by Lord Beerus » Mon Apr 06, 2015 5:54 pm

Witnessing both sets of Dragon Balls being destroyed and then his family being slaughtered right before him would definitely drive Goku to tears.

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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by Chuquita » Mon Apr 06, 2015 6:44 pm

Depending on how dark you wanna go...

Lighter:
A 100% completion - a confirmation that there is literally no one left who could provide a challenge for him. He'd probably start to slowly crack like how I interpreted his boredom in the 08' special (where he resorts to messing with Vegeta to keep himself entertained). There'd be tears eventually.

Or if you want to get dark:
A major spinal injury like in the first battle against Vegeta. He ends up like he did in that hospital, quadriplegic, with no senzu left to heal him, that'll do it.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by Dyno » Mon Apr 06, 2015 6:46 pm

Android 8's death.

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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by Cetra » Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:03 pm

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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:16 pm

Maybe catching Vegeta and ChiChi doing it? Then again I do not think Goku would understand the situation properly.

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Post by TheGmGoken » Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:21 pm

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Maybe catching Vegeta and ChiChi doing it? Then again I do not think Goku would understand the situation properly.
Why would Goku care. He might even stay in the room and train. Hell as naive as Goku is. He might see Vegeta sweat and think "Wow Vegeta and Chi Chi are really training hard. I guess that's a good method". Thus he joins in. He might even take Vegeta. "Vegeta! You got a hole too! Just like Chi Chi".

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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by Chuquita » Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:38 pm

The house would be gone. Vegeta'd destroy it in a panicked frenzy.

Vegeta's so awkward and tsundere around Gokû outside of the context of battle, if Gokû taking Vegeta's hand is enough to "fluster" him, he'd completely flip out over anything even accidentally intimate.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by fadeddreams5 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:24 pm

Realistically, the only thing I can see make adult Goku cry is something incredibly dark like him being permanently paralyzed from neck down, and noticing how his friends and family rarely visit him because he never took the time to see them in the past.

It would certainly teach him a lesson.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by Lord Beerus » Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:55 pm

fadeddreams5 wrote:Realistically, the only thing I can see make adult Goku cry is something incredibly dark like him being permanently paralyzed from neck down, and noticing how his friends and family rarely visit him because he never took the time to see them in the past.

It would certainly teach him a lesson.
That would be insanely cruel. Most of the time in Z Goku was either dead, stuck on another planet or training in preparation to save the world. The only time he ever really thoughtlessly left his family on a whim was at the end of the series when the world was safe and all of his family were grown up and well off.

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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by GokuRules987 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:12 pm

Nothing can make goku cry, he doesnt have human emotions, The only thing you could manage to do is piss Goku off.
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Re: What would make Goku cry?

Post by GokuRules987 » Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:16 pm

Lord Beerus wrote:Witnessing both sets of Dragon Balls being destroyed and then his family being slaughtered right before him would definitely drive Goku to tears.
Most likely it would drive him Super Saiyan 20 with him loosing control of his body and busting a universe out of existence.
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