Who's the mother of Son Goku, Seripa?

[dbboxkaifan]

So if the father's Burdock, is there a possibility that Seripa's Son Goku's mother? Or is it some other unknown female Saiyan?

Mr. Toriyama didn't make this clear, ugh.

[Silver Sinspawn]

There is not a confirmed answer to that.

[Gaffer Tape]

I've always found this theory odd. There certainly isn't any information that exists to back this up. It seems fans think this solely because, well, she's the only female Saiya-jin with a speaking role. But it seems unlikely to me, given her dialogue in regards to Goku. Her dialogue makes it pretty clear she's referring to Bardock's son, not hers. Unless it is a part of Saiya-jin culture where the mother forfeits parenting rights to the father, something that's never so much as hinted at, it seems unlikely.

[Bussani]

Selypa was with Bardock nuking planets at the same time Goku was born, sooo...

[Gaffer Tape]

Oh, yeah, then there's that too... Seems pretty cut and dry.

[Fox666]

The answers is: it's irrelevant. It doesn't matter who was Goku's mother.

[Perfect]

The answers is: it's irrelevant. It doesn't matter who was Goku's mother.

Subjective from person to person.

[In Brightest Day]

The answers is: it's irrelevant. It doesn't matter who was Goku's mother.

That doesn't mean people aren't allowed to speculate. That's what forums are for.

[Darkprince410]

Relevant or not, questions like that are one of the main reasons this kind of forum is even around. We discuss, debate, sometimes argue about subjects that aren't already established fact. I mean, if you wanted, you could say that the topic about how Cell's regeneration works is irrelevant, because it clearly does work and knowing the details isn't necessary.

Back on topic though, as it was mentioned, Serlpa was with Bardock and the others on Kanassa the same day that Goku was born, and we see that she was with the others when they were ravaging the planet throughout that night, so there's no way that she could have given birth to him.

[Monkey D Goku]

Seripia is a possibility but I think it was someone else. Reason I think this is because the way Bardock looked at Tora and Serpia when they were dead is the kinda like a friendship type of way I mean I know Bardock is a Saiyan and all but I'm sure he would care about Serpia more if they were romantically involved. I don't think we will ever find out about Goku mom unless they come out with another Bardock special showing a woman holding Goku or something.

[Fox666]

I meant in the sense that the series never provided such information because it doesn't really matter. When Goku meet Raditz he threw away all of that Saiyan thing and called himself an Earthling.

[Perfect]

Lots of things don't matter, but there's people that like to discuss those things because they're interesting. If you don't like the topic, then don't post; simple.

[Monkey D Goku]

I meant in the sense that the series never provided such information because it doesn't really matter. When Goku meet Raditz he threw away all of that Saiyan thing and called himself an Earthling.

Didn't he want Vegeta's Saiyan pride on Namek.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Seripia is a possibility but I think it was someone else.

How? Its impossible unless Goku was born with Bardock and Selypa on Kanassa, which would negate Selypa telling Bardock to go back to Vegeta and see his son.

[Super Saiyan Turlast x4]

It's only possible if she knows how to teleport and ignore childbirth like it's nothing, and has no problem referring to her son as a child that doesn't belong to her. I refuse to believe the first option , and while Saiyans can sometimes be SOB's when it comes to their kids, I don't see the other option being likely, either. Selypa, you're not the mother!

[Chuquita]

She's unknown (much like Vegeta's mother) , but at least with Goku's mom, it's easier--though not 100% accurate--to paint a picture by just subtracting what physical aspects of Goku and Raditz don't match up with Bardock. She probably had long hair and blue-haired-Lunch or Chi-Chi style eyes (since I think that eye-style's the female version of what Toriyama uses for Goku). She could likely have been tall like Bardock since both their kids are tall.


Unless Raditz and Goku have different mothers, in which case that theory's clear out the window. >_>;;

[Eire]

While I can image pregnant Saiyan woman on battlefield I doubt that they were able to send Goku back so quickly and ignore him. Moreover, while Bardock seem to not care about child nobody asks her instead.

[Haji]

I meant in the sense that the series never provided such information because it doesn't really matter. When Goku meet Raditz he threw away all of that Saiyan thing and called himself an Earthling.

Didn't he want Vegeta's Saiyan pride on Namek.

I think when Vegeta told Goku about the Saiyan race and etc, at that time Son Goku accepted his Saiyan heritage, and was wanting Vegeta's strong pride of the Saiyan race.

[Gyt Kaliba]

Personally, I've always paired Seripa with Tora - that last image of their corpses together has always seemed really...symbolic to me, for some reason. I only consider it as my own personal fanon though, not something I'd fight to say was canon or anything.

As for Goku's mom herself, other than the name and somewhat iffy art in that part, I enjoyed the incarnation of her in DBM.

[Piccolo Daimao]

As others have said, it's definitely not Selypa because she was on Kanassa with Bardock and the others when Goku was born. They're just comrades. And I don't think Selypa and Toma were together either, because I don't see Saiyans as the kind of race to really have relationships. They're more like one-night standers; they just go to a bar or something, hook up with someone, have sex with them and that's it.

Because of this, I think that Goku's mother was just some random Saiyan woman who Toei apparently didn't think was important enough to include in the story. Also, DB's a male-centric series. That's why, in the special, there was only had one token female as part of a group that was relatively important to the plot. The most we know is that she presumably would've died with the rest of the Saiyans in Freeza's attack, if she hadn't died before, in childbirth, or if she'd returned to fighting and subsequently died (Saiyans are different to Earthlings), or something else. Sure, it would've been nice if she had a little cameo, but it's clear who and what their main focus was.

I think a common "fanon" name for her is "Taanipu".