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What Happend?
Topic Started: Dec 23 2007, 01:38 AM (541 Views)
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Ok I know this is random but did anyone else notice that up through the cell saga it seemed like they were setting up gohan to become the main hero? I mean if you look at it all the way from the saiyin saga to the cell saga gohans roles kept getting bigger and bigger. In the Majin Buu saga he had a desent size role but nothing to serious. then in gt he basically did nothing! My question is how would the series have been different if goku had stayed dead and gohan took over the lead role?
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I think Akira probably did want to have a break from Goku for a while, and replace him with Gohan as the lead character. Gohan had a lot of potential, he is a great character and all of his adventures in school and when he became Super Saiyaman were fun to watch and very entertaining. However, I don't think Gohan could ever be the main hero, he just doesn't have the character of a true warrior. I mean, I know he is a great warrior, but Gohan always said himself that what he really wanted to be was a good scientist and not an unstoppable warrior like his father.

It was refreshing to have Gohan with a main role during the first part of the Buu saga, but Goku needed to come back and be the big hero again. That just made sense, that's how DBZ shines.

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If you ask me, they should have given Vegeta a main hero role.
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Dragonball Z was meant to have Gohan as the main character, however, it was hard because many people had fallen in love with Goku's personna throughout the Dragonball series. Therefore, the series shifted to Goku being the main character.

I think that the Cell saga was a way of giving Gohan that originality that Akira had originally planned. He had always had that power, which people often questioned. I believe it was perfect timing for Gohan to unleash it against an evil such as Cell.
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yeah they did ,
they started it by Gohan going into the time chamber, Akira made Piccolo and the rest look at Gohan as something bigger than Goku,
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Dragonball Z was meant to have Gohan as the main character, however, it was hard because many people had fallen in love with Goku's personna throughout the Dragonball series. Therefore, the series shifted to Goku being the main character.

Erm...no. Why would Toriyama write Dragonball with Goku as the main character who the readers really know hardly anything about. Then for him to write DBZ, introducing the revelation that Goku is an alien...do you really think he'd reveal something like that if he intended for his SON to be the main hero?

Gohan has never been the main hero of any of the story. He's been a sort of secret weapon to unleash in a time of true desperation.

To answer the OP's question: Toriyama wanted to end DBZ after the Frieza Saga (Goku would either remain dead or return to Earth, Vegeta & Piccolo would remain dead, Krillin would be wished back), but Toei threw him a load of money to continue with the manga so they could continue with the anime. He wrote it right the way up to the end of the Cell Games with a very similar ending to what he had in mind (Goku would remain dead, the world would be at peace). However, the same thing happened again, and Toriyama was forced to iron out into the Buu Saga. This is actually a fact. Don't ask me for the link or anything, I read this years ago. So I can't give you any proof, but if you don't believe this then...well...I dont care :p
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Dec 23 2007, 09:26 PM
To answer the OP's question: Toriyama wanted to end DBZ after the Frieza Saga (Goku would either remain dead or return to Earth, Vegeta & Piccolo would remain dead, Krillin would be wished back),

In a way. I like that. To me that would have made a MUCH better ending than Kakarot abandoning his entire family and team just to train some kid he could have trained in his back yard, on top of his family accepting it in the first place.

Not to mention the fact that Kakarot, ORIGINALLY killed Frieza and ORIGINALLY blew up with planet Namek is kinda like a slap in the face. He promised Vegeta and the Saiyan spirits (That talked to him in the anime) that he would destroy as in kill Frieza, (Well, they requested it anyway) not simply defeat him and let him go on his marry little way. Another thing is, Kakarot doesn't even know how to operate the Saiyan space pod. Oh yeah wait! He just started pressing away and out of pure luck the pod just happend to take him safely to another planet.

And how Vegeta acted when he was brought back to life was also like a slap in the face. He died as "a good guy" if you will, he cried his eyes out in front of everyone and lowered himself to begging, he even told Kakarot his life basically. For him to come back and act the way he did disrespecting Kakarot after what he was doing on Namek for not just him but for his race, made it look like Vegeta never spilled out his soul to Kakarot at all. It's like, what was all that crying for if you were still a villain?

Oh my, I think I complain too much and I totally went off topic, so sorry. This would make one hell of a topic though.
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