Is Goku A Prodigy?

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Inspired from Emmeth's thread about Raditz

Was he a prodigy who always knew how to push himself even further or was he just an ordinary Saiyan and was trained well by the great masters such as Roshi, Kami, King Kai and others?
 

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He is a fighting prodigy, but he wasn't necessarily born as one like Vegeta was.
 

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What Future Warrior said. He was a prodigy thanks to his experiences rather than genetics, with many commenting on his character being what allowed him to reach such heights (particularly in Vegeta's "You're Number One" speech). It's only in post-Z material that this idea started to be flipped on its head. The fact he only started to make major rises in battle power when facing powerful warriors unlike Vegeta being raised in luxury (seemingly never having been made to bleed prior to fighting Goku) and having a battle power that eclipsed Goku's at first says it all.
 

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Goku is a prodigy in the sense that he was a genius who can pick on things super quickly. He wasn't born with an insanely high power level or come from a special lineage.

He created his own legacy.
 

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Neither. He was just the one destined to fulfill an ancient alien prophecy.
 

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More like an autistic savant.
 
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