Goku vs. Goku vs. Goku vs......... Goku!

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In general, overall, which version of Goku do you like best and which do you like the least?

DB, Z, GT, or Super?

Rank them if you want, just include fav and least fav at least.

Z Goku would be my favorite despite his few retarded flaws, especially letting Freeza live and later retarded shit in the Buu arc.

My least favorite would definitely be GT Goku... He was somehow more annoying and stupid as a kid in GT than how he was in original DB. DB Kid Goku would be my second fav.

Super Goku is fucking retarded too, and I dislike his antics in it almost as bad as GT.... Almost!
 

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Young Goku from DragonBall, especially from the beginning to the end of the Red-Ribbon-Army Saga where there was more comedy and fun. Saiyan/Freeza Saga Goku too. Seemed like he actually grew-up, instead of regressing.

Boo Saga Goku I don't like and DragonBall Super Goku I don't like that much either. Prefer Gohan all the way in DragonBall Super.
 

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Yeah, for the most part Kid Goku was my favorite. His ignorance of the outside world and his outgoing/endearing personality puts him higher than someone who would risk the entire planet's life to have a good fight/the next generation to take over.
 

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Super / Z
DB
GT

It's interesting that my view of Goku has a perfect correlation with my view of the series'
 

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Goku from early DB or from Z would be my favorite.
 

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Z Goku was alright before sending out his 10 year old son to fight against someone he healed with a Senzu
 

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DB Goku where he didn't let villains get away with killing his friends. The other three are all on the same tier of faggotry.
 

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Nothing can beat Goku from Freeza Arc, both he and Vegeta peaked their characters from that arc.
 

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Looks like Goku will never live it down for his mistakes here, so much that I'm surprised that nobody brought up his parenting skills :)

1)Anyways, I still prefer Goku (Z). A flawless hero wouldn't be interesting. Despite the fact that most of his character development happened in DB, Goku still change in Z, although it's subtle. In Frieza arc, he made up in his mind that not everyone can be redeemed like Piccolo and had to be killed. Although it's obvious on how he looked at Frieza's direction after blasting him away that he thought it was a shame that he was rotten to core, because he'd rather have him as rivals/sparring partners. He uses strategy in his fights more often and gains a an overall better understanding of the world around him. Akira Toriyama seemed to make of him a deconstruction of the "Ace" and the "Hope Bringer" archetypes.

In Android arc, Akira Toriyama seemed to make him a deconstruction of the hope bringer.

2)Kid Goku is a close second due to being the one Goku that evolves the most. Goku (Z) do evolves, but the changes are so subtle that they're almost impossible to notice. His apparent stupidity was mostly justified by being ignorant on how the world works, as Goku never had a proper parental figure (which might also explains why Goku isn't the best father either).

3)GT Goku and Super (manga) are more or less the same as Goku (Z) with few differencies.

4)As for Super! Goku (Anime)...his stupidity and immaturity put Goku (DB) to shame ! Nice move, :toei
 

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DB Kid Goku is my second fav too! That mortal kid was funny and adorable unlike that GT garbage version of him.
 

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If I were to rank them:

Z Goku - while getting progressively less caring and more prone to ridiculously risk-taking behavior later in Z, he at least makes the transition from a young man to a mentor character fairly well, not to mention his pure of heart schtick has less holes than his kid version. I'd still argue he degenerated as a character after the Freeza arc, as if that heart virus took away half of what was human in him :alex2

He also gets some points for accepting his Saiyan heritage despite nasty run-ins with the other survivors and letting go of his desire to hog all the fights so the more promising younger generation can take charge, which is still handled terribly but at least it's something.

DB Galu (pre-23rd) - Overrated and lacking in justification for his morally shady behavior, particularly slaughtering people upon the simple mention of them being Red Ribbon. I'd still argue that his Piccolo Daimao arc self had better moments and sucked less as a character compared to his RRA self, but he still made such a rapid transition from the merciless fighter that openly announced he'd kill Daimao no matter what and popped Drum's head without hesitation, to the merciful Z self seen from Piccolo Jr. onwards that it was awful writing. Roshi also pretends he's always been like that too, although he at least has the excuse that he was never really educated and that all of his victims were technically villains.

GT/Super Galu - both regressions of a flawed but mature character by the end of the manga. I have no clue why Toei would have Goku behaving once again like a 12 year old that can't count to 20 when he's really over 50 just because his body was deaged, and this still makes it laughable how he becomes the Dub!Goku like Superman character when he's in a serious fight. Super!Goku, more of the same, except seemingly even dumber for no other reason than stereotypical writing (which I'm pretty sure Toriyama was at least partly to blame for when you consider that he's an idiot in the manga as well).

At the very least, he at least fights smarter considering he managed to pull that KKx10 shit which no one had once thought of whereas GT!Galu was literally able to sense ki from S17 and still fed him most of his energy for no fucking reason, holds back in base form for over half the fight and pulls a massive genkidama without even really needing to convince ppl etc.
 

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Don't really like Goku's character, but if I were to rank it throughout the series, I'd say Z ~ DB >> GT > Super
 

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For me,

Favourite = Dragon Ball (Part 1) Goku
Least favourite = Dragon Ball Super Goku
 

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