"Dragon Ball" is probably the only most influential anime and manga in the past 50 years. It is the property that shapes the entire genre of combat struggles, turning Goku into the protagonist of the archetypical anime, popularizing time jumps/power transformations and more. And yet, The classic "dragon ball" is even better than its reputation suggests.

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If you're in a coma for the last 40 years, Dragon Ball follows a young boy named Son Goku, who goes to adventures around the world (and beyond) in search of magical balls with a dragon that can give any wish. Of course, the series quickly becomes a superhero show, with Gokok developing into Superman's allegory, which fights against the wicked foreign invasions and even literal gods.

For children from the 1980s and 90s, Dragon Ball, and even more "Dragon Ball Z", was the biggest thing on the planet when they grow. Seeing Goku goes Super Sayan for the first time remains one of the important and influential moments in the history of animation (just ask Vulture), while the death of the warrior It has become such a major part of pop culture that stands for even to this day -today.

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Death is generally a large part of the "Dragon Ball" franchise. From the moment Krinin - an audience watching the original "Dragon Ball" show, grew up as one of the biggest and most powerful characters in the series - was killed by one of Piccolo's chickens, the audience began to get used to seeing their favorite characters, and then dying again and again and again. Indeed, everyone seems to die and return to life in a "dragon ball", whether they are a villain or even a protagonist.

Also, despite being the most powerful being in the universe, Goku had his fair share in deaths. So if you are down to rethink the most shocking and most painful moments in the "Dragon Ball" franchise, here is every time Goku dies.

Goku died three times in the main canon "Dragon Ball". The first two times were heroically as you expected. For the beginners, Goku was sacrificing in the fight against Raditz - his brother, as well as a pione of the Galactic conqueror of Fryesa - by clinging to Sayan's warrior and leaving Piccolo to hit both with his special beam of cannons. It was a desperate solution to get rid of what, at that time, was the biggest threat that planet Earth saw - the one that eventually led to the enemies Gokok and Piccolo that referred to fighting the stranger.

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Of course, Raditz's death has led to even greater dangers, including vegetation, and then the freak itself. However, Goku's initial death was a shocking moment that changed anime forever. After all, this is the usual theory of fans who is no longer afraid of death in anticipation of his first experience with it, eventually resulting in his ability to turn Super Sayan.

Goku's second death was also a heroic victim. When it fights with the cell, the Android super-attack activates a move of self-destruction that will destroy the planet. Goku then decided to use his teleporting ability to take the cell to another world, where Goku was killed by the blast. Of course, the cell somehow survives the blast. Meanwhile, the spirit of Goku travels from the other world back to the country of the living to help his much stronger Gohan When making father-son Camehahamaha for the destruction of the cell. However, after the battle, Goku decided to remain dead than to be revived by the dragon balls.

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Finally, in "Dragon Ball Super", Goku dies once again in probably his most ridiculous death. We know that Goku wants to fight. He loves so much, in fact, he quickly leaves his family just to fight with some accident to be a little time. In Dragon Ball Super, Goku literally hired the killer hit to kill him just to fight him. Hit actually succeeds, hitting Goku with a deadly stroke. Apart from that death, it only lasts a few seconds after Goku shoots a kilo right before he died, which somehow revives his heart.

Contrary to her simple premise, The "Dragon Ball" franchise has a pretty complicated continuityComplete with non -canon shows, they have alternative timelines and universes and much more. Because of this, there are at least two more deaths of Goku that occur outside the main continuity - and they are quite different from its main demolitions.

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First, there is the emotionally devastating death of Goku in the timeframe of future trees. When we first meet the stems (the son of the son of Vegeta and Bulma), he explains that in his time schedule, Goku only dies of heart failure. That's it. There is no big battle, no super power deity that brings an unstoppable blow. Only an ordinary person dying for natural reasons. It is a frivolous death and the biggest shock to Goku fans throughout the franchise.

In the future small signals of the "Dragon Ball Super", we still get another death of Goku, though the one that is quite surprising and frivolous. It turns out that the fog, the supreme caddy of a different universe, is furious that an ordinary mortal can fight the true gods, so he takes control of Goku's body and uses it to kill the whole family. Then, once pleased, it destroys Goku's body.

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Goku has died many times, but at least we know that he always (eventually) returns to fight another day.