Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by SaiyanZ » Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:20 pm

Honestly, all of them lmao. I LOVE shirtless Goku though, no homo :lol:. My friend once made this doodle of shirtless SSJ3 Goku with the angel wings that he sometimes is depicted in (that one screenshot with King Kai)...looked beast as hell. Against Frieza, Cooler....too cool. His standard one is iconic, never gets old even when has just the blue undershirt when fighting Frieza and firing the Spirit Bomb at Kid Buu. His EoS uniform is also nice, as well as his GT one
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Cursed Lemon » Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:45 pm

This is probably my favorite DBZ picture that I've seen.

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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Insertclevername » Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:03 pm

:shock:

Is that fan art or official!? I've never seen that artwork before. It's awesome!
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by omegalucas » Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:10 pm

Insertclevername wrote::shock:

Is that fan art or official!? I've never seen that artwork before. It's awesome!
Dunno if it's official but it is based on the trailer for Movie 13.
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Insertclevername » Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:14 pm

I wonder if there's a higher resolution picture of that...I kinda want to make some avatars with it. :P

It's actually not that bad as is.
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by SSJJezter » Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:50 pm

Cursed Lemon wrote:This is probably my favorite DBZ picture that I've seen.

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Can someone make this so I can use it as my avatar? Been looking for something worthy, although it won't look as impressive being smaller. Anyway, would be much appreciated, love that pic!

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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by DoomieDoomie911 » Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:00 pm

Child Goku is definitely my favorite Goku. He's cute, innocent, and, most of the time unintentionally, very funny. :lol:
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Post by soulnova » Wed Apr 24, 2013 5:26 pm

Cursed Lemon wrote:This is probably my favorite DBZ picture that I've seen.

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Oh wow, it's been... wow, about 14/15 years since I saw that picture.

My parents used to own a misc poster stand and we sold plenty of DB posters. Not "official" of course... It was in Mexico. :roll:

Anyway, thanks to that small "family business" I had my walls covered in all kinds of anime posters. Mostly DB, but I also had Sailor Moon, Ranma and Magic Knight Rayearth posters. That picture above... I remembered it clearly because when I asked my father for it he told me: "Nope, you have enough posters". And it drove me crazy because I didn't want to give up the ones that I had. Then, it got sold right away.
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Fizzer » Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:03 pm

I really like Goku during his battle with Freeza, both base and Super Saiyan. That will always be the true Goku for me.

Chichi from the 23rd Tenkaichi Boudukai, Vegeta from the Saiyan arc, Ultimate Gohan and Yamucha from the Pilaf arc are other appearances of characters that I'm particularly fond of.

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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Cursed Lemon » Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:29 pm

soulnova wrote: Oh wow, it's been... wow, about 14/15 years since I saw that picture.
I know! :lol:
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by IIMaxII » Wed Apr 24, 2013 10:56 pm

Goku at 2:04. Sorry I could not find a suitable pic.

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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Avenged » Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:02 pm

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Probably Teen Goku.
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Gokuden » Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:18 am

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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Insertclevername » Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:20 am

The image isn't working for me :/
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by sonikku956 » Thu Apr 25, 2013 1:31 am

Young Teen (that's what I call him, because he is 15 years old) Goku all the way up until the Freeza Saga. Especially when he reaches puberty at 18. He actually looks his height, which is somewhere between 5'7 and 5'9. Does Super Saiyan make you taller or something?

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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by WesMan23 » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:56 pm

sonikku956 wrote:Young Teen (that's what I call him, because he is 15 years old) Goku all the way up until the Freeza Saga. Especially when he reaches puberty at 18. He actually looks his height, which is somewhere between 5'7 and 5'9. Does Super Saiyan make you taller or something?
If hair counts towards height, then yeah, for Goku at least would. :lol: But I don't think that it truly has an effect on height. It may make him appear taller, but I think that's more due to the fact that he is far more imposing, and much more dangerous as a SSJ in the beginning.
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by MisguidedGhost » Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:29 pm

I always liked Goku at the end of the series the best, when he sheds his classic colors and gi and becomes his own master.

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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Metalwario64 » Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:24 am

MisguidedGhost wrote:I always liked Goku at the end of the series the best, when he sheds his classic colors and gi and becomes his own master.
That's definitely my favorite Goku outfit. It's such a damn shame that it's used only briefly at the end of the series, and GT even alters it with worse colors (though they're still decent). I wish it had been his entire Boo-arc attire. :cry:

I suppose I never fully answered this thread's topic, so I'll post my favorite appearance of Goku himself:

Perhaps it is tied with the quality of the animation, which I find was best from the Daimao-arc through the Freeza-arc, but I think Goku looks the best throughout those episodes. I like kid Goku alright, but I always thought the older Goku's looked cooler, so my favorite appearance for Goku is from the 23rd tournament through the Freeza-arc.

Teen Goku looks awesome, and often has an intense, yet youthful look. Saiyan arc Goku has undergone noticeable aging, and looks firmer and more intense than ever, but still clearly the same Goku we all love. In the Freeza-arc, the style is getting more angular, and I like how he looks with his orange gi top torn off. He also gets some really cool looking battle damage in that fight was well, from when he has half a shirt (which I always compared with a caveman when I was a kid :P), to no shirt at all and a completely torn off right pant-leg.

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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Saiga » Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:39 pm

I don't know about his appearance throughout the arc. Namek arc is probably my favourite, I suppose.

But for my favourite panel, I definitely know the one. After he uses the Kaio-ken x3 against Vegeta, the panel where he has that glint in his eye right before attacking. It's so awesome.
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Re: Which version of Goku's appearance is your favorite?

Post by Insertclevername » Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:00 am

We should make other threads like this about more characters. I feel Gokuu's too easy since he usually is doing something cool.
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