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Personality

Gohan is a shy and studious intellectual child. As a child, he lacks the Saiyan fighting spirit. He must

utilize his incredible half-breed Saiyan potential and emotional reserves to protect those he loves,

becoming one of the most powerful Z Fighters. As an adult, he achieves his dream career of becoming a

great scholar.

Gohan, being only half-Saiyan, is unusual in his values and personality. These unique values and

personality separate him from pure Saiyans; as powerful as he is, he does not like fighting much.

However, when he is forced to fight, he shows special interest in protecting his family and friends. Like his

father, Goku, Gohan has a pure and gentle heart. Also like his father, he has the typical Saiyan appetite.

Besides concerning himself with his family (and his studies), Gohan has a strong attachment with his

mentor: his father's former archrival named Piccolo. After the death of Goku, Piccolo chose to train Gohan

as he sensed the boy's potential power, which would be harnessed to help defend the Earth from the

attack of the Saiyans. At first, the relationship with Piccolo is a frightening one, but after just one year,

Piccolo admits his change because of the friendship he develops with Gohan and even sacrifices himself

to save the boy. Because of this, Piccolo can be considered as a surrogate father for Gohan. Krillin alsohas influence on Gohan, as almost an uncle/nephew relationship, mainly because Krillin is Goku's closest

friend. Though he claims he does not share the love of fighting Goku has, Gohan does indeed

love martial arts and adventure. It is also clearly obvious he greatly enjoys being a hero.

Hidden power

Kid Gohan powering up against Raditz

As a child, Gohan is known to have within him a seemingly limitless dormant power, which at first only

revealed itself when he experienced fierce rage, and when his rage ended, his power would drop

dramatically. The earliest occurrence of this hidden power was when he almost crashed into a tree when

his stroller was accidentally released, giving him enough power to plow a hole clean through the trunk to

prevent him from being killed by flying into it as an infant.

Gohan unleashes his hidden power 

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As he got older, he trained hard and gained access to a large portion of his power, and it was not until he

was a young adult that his power was fully awakened and he was able to use it all at his own will. He

displays exceptional power at a very young age, even surpassing his father Goku by turning into Super

Saiyan 2 form and saving the world from the evil Cell at only eleven years old (he is 9 years old in the

manga as it states that Gohan is 16 years old after the 7 years of peace following the Cell Games, though

he is most likely around the physical age of 10 due to the time spent nearly a year inside theHyperbolic

Time Chamber). Gohan is the first and the youngest to ever achieve Super Saiyan 2. He is also the only

unfused half saiyan to ever reach this level.

Appearance

Most of Gohan's appearances throughout the series

Gohan's appearance changes drastically through Dragon Ball Z , due to the fact that the series starts out

with him as a child and ends when he is fully grown, married, and with a child of his own. But Gohan's

basic physical appearance pretty much stays the same through the course of the series. Gohan has black

hair and black eyes, he also has his mother's light peach complexion, rather than his father's light tan.

Gohan also is quite muscularly developed for his age. As an adult, he looks slightly taller than Goku, but

he is also a little bit thinner.

When Gohan is first introduced, he wears a child's outfit with his family name, 'Son', written on the front

and the Four-Star Dragon Ball attached to his hat, the same Dragon Ball in which Goku believed that his

grandpa's spirit resided.

Gohan as a child

While training with Piccolo, he wears an outfit similar to Goku's original, with the 'Ma' symbol (魔) King

Piccolo wore. After training with Piccolo, he has a mullet-type haircut and dons a similar attire to the

Namek warrior which he continues to wear until the end of the Captain Ginyu Saga, after which he

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wears Battle Armor given to him by Vegeta. He would continue to wear clothing similar to Piccolo's for the

majority of his childhood, but his hair trended closer to his father's wild self-cut style. While training in the

Hyperbolic Time Chamber, he begins wearing Saiyan training gear, but again reverts to Piccolo's clothing

for the Cell Games. 

Gohan as a teen

As a teenager, he alternates between a school uniform, his Great Saiyaman costume, a blue gi similar to

the Piccolo clothing (except larger in size), a replica of the gi his father Goku wore while he was alive, and

during the Buu Saga, he wears Kai clothing given to him byKibito. His hair is much shorter and stands on

end in a spiky formation.

As an adult in the end of Dragon Ball Z and in Dragon Ball GT , Gohan's hair would be similar to how it

was in the Buu Arc minus the bang. In GT , he is usually seen dressed as like a professor or a

businessman, in a suit and a tie. He also wears eyeglasses, even though he shows no sign of actually

needing them, due to the fact that he does not need them to fight. It is possible, however, that these are

reading glasses of some kind, as opposed to general corrective glasses. When facing Omega Shenron, 

Gohan wears a gi resembling that of the ones Goku used to wear.

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Biography 

Early life

Gohan as a baby

Gohan was born in May of Age 757, about a year after Goku and Chi-Chi married following the

conclusion of the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament. As a newborn, he went on for a time without a

name until Goku's grandfather's name was mentioned, which Gohan liked. His early childhood was a

pampered one, unlike his father's. His life was relatively well-balanced with a loving family and a nicehome. Gohan was well-adjusted and intelligent, but unlike his father as a child, he lacked any affection for

fighting and was easily scared at a level that most normal children would be. Goku gave Gohan the four

star Dragon Balland put it into a hat for him to honor his grandpa. Once, Goku and Chi-Chi were walking

through a meadow with Gohan on a stroller, but the stroller was accidentally released, causing them to

chase after it. Gohan was then sent flying out of the stroller, but his latent powers' brief awakening not

only allowed him to survive crashing into a tree, but also plowing a hole through the trunk, amazing Goku

at the hidden power of Gohan.

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