Gotenks is a recurring character in the Dragon Ball franchise. He is the combination of Son Goten and Trunks Brief, the two learned fusion in the attempt to defeat Majin Buu. But when Gotenks finally came alive after several failed attempts, he was much more cocky and arrogant than planned, and fought Buu before he was ready.
So the two boys went in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber to train, and fought Buu again there. But to be more dramatic Gotenks pretended to be weak, before transforming, which made Piccolo paranoid and he blew the door. Buu escaped by creating a tear in the universe. So Gotenks transformed into a Super Saiyan 3, and then created his own way out. After that he fought Buu, but eventually lost due to the time limit with the fusion. He came back once Gohan had saved the day, but only to be absorbed by Buu, and never seen in the show again aside from one other time. Gotenks has also showed in many video games, and numerous movies.
Personality[]
Gotenks was created specifically to defeat Majin Buu, and Piccolo outright declares him the warrior destined to do so... but sadly, Gotenks is an immature, egotistical fool who's far more concerned with showboating and looking cool and is virtually incapable of taking things seriously even when lives are at stake, which just keeps making the situation worse; in this order, he gets himself and Piccolo trapped in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, enables Buu to escape and eat all of his loved ones, and gets himself absorbed by Buu, allowing Buu to beat Gohan senseless.
As Fusions are composites of the strongest traits of the fusees, this explains Gotenks' flaws. His actions are typically decided by the strongest will, which is Trunks, but Trunks is arrogant and has a need to show off - which is likely due to feeling a pressure to live up to his father, Vegeta - and Goten is a follower, thus provided no resistance to the bad ideas planned by Trunks; Goten is also especially playful, thereby fails to appreciate the seriousness of battle.
Come Super, the rest of the Z-Fighters have yet to forget this and unanimously agree that Gotenks can't be trusted or relied upon for anything, especially not something as high-stakes as the Tournament of Power. In the end, Gotenks shows that his particular personality makes him very much not cut out for saving the day, and that trying to forcibly create an all-powerful savior will not always be successful.
Biography[]
When Goku returned from the afterlife with the knowledge of the Fusion Dance but no eligible partner to perform it with, Goten and Trunks were taught it, and their mothers came up with the combined name Gotenks. The result combines Goten's childishness with Trunks' brattiness to create one of the weirdest and goofiest fighters in the series, the kind who would come up with the Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack.
With Piccolo supervising, Gotenks battles Super Buu in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. No matter what Gotenks does, Buu manages to recover; he even explodes Buu, then he and Piccolo energy blast the gooey remains, however, the smoke cloud from it reconstitutes into Buu. In a desire for "drama," Gotenks - from a plan from Trunks - pretends that he is beaten, making claims that he has no tricks left. Piccolo is fooled, so destroys the only entrance into the Chamber, thus revealing the reason for the fight there: to trap Buu if he can't be destroyed.
Gotenks angrily chastises Piccolo for his lack of faith, noting that he *did* have a trick left, to which Piccolo understandably retorts with anger for the boy's pointless theatrics. Super Buu is confused about what happened, but Piccolo explains they are trapped forever; the distress of being trapped, plus no longer having candy, drives Buu to scream with strong emotions, which channels his energy in a way that rips a hole through reality. Buu escapes into the Lookout on Earth, but the tear seals before Gotenks and Piccolo can use it.
In the hour Super Buu is back in the Lookout, he massacres all of the Z survivors there, turning them into candy and chocolate, consuming them, resulting in their deaths. In the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, many hours have passed with Gotenks defusing and refusing, working with Piccolo in attempts to replicate Buu's escape, but to no avail. Gotenks finally reveals his ace, which is the transformation into Super Saiyan 3; he reaches this form, which provides the energy needed for his scream to penetrate the fabric of existence. Gotenks and Piccolo finally escape.
Gotenks is confused about why he can't sense anyone on the Lookout, to which Super Buu reveals he ate them; Gotenks is on the verge of tears, especially for his mother (Bulma, since Chi-Chi had earlier been turned into an egg and crushed). Piccolo manages to focus the boy, so Gotenks and Buu recommence combat; to Piccolo's chagrin, the Lookout is gradually and completely reduced to rubble. The fight goes to the surface of the Earth below, and when it seems like Gotenks is finally about to win, his Super Saiyan 3 wears off, shortly followed by the fusion ending; the power strain of Super Saiyan 3 resulted in the 30 minute fusion ending in only 5 minutes. While Goten and Trunks panic, Buu appears to be asleep.
Gohan, enhanced by Elder Kai, arrives to challenge Super Buu. Goten sadly reveals the death of their mother, which enrages Gohan; Buu reveals that Gohan was the one he had sensed and wanted to fight all along. Buu and Gohan fight, which seems to be in the latter's advantage.
The fight pauses, Super Buu begins charging energy, to which Gohan realises is a suicide explosion, thus he, Piccolo, Goten and Trunks flee. Buu detonates, obliterating a vast area. Buu reconstitutes and hides; with the attack not being an attempt to kill Gohan, but to buy time, since the time before Goten and Trunks can fuse again had almost completed.
Super Buu reveals himself, noting that he wants to fight Gotenks again; Trunks enthusiastically accepts, and Goten agrees. After fusion, Buu springs his trap, as he had send lumps of flesh to slither around them, waiting; he captures Piccolo and Gotenks, absorbing them into his body, stealing the Namekian's intelligence and the hybrid-Saiyans' power.
Super Buu utterly dominates the fight now, beating Gohan into a bloody pulp. When Dende - who Popo had saved from the Lookout slaughter - tries to heal Gohan, Buu attacks him, but the attack is intercepted by Tien. Before Buu can attack him, Goku arrives, using a Destructo Disc to stop the pink monster.
Goku tries to give a Potara earring to the healed Gohan, but it is dropped, thus forcing Goku to fight Super Buu until the earring is found. Gohan finds it, however, Gotenks' fusion had worn out within Buu, thus the vast majority of his stolen power is cut to a point that Super Saiyan 3 Goku could beat him. However, Buu repeats the absorption trick, now absorbing Gohan.
Vegeta, restored to physical form by King Yemma, arrives on Earth; he tries to fight Super Buu alone, but is no match. Ultimately, Goku manages to convince Vegeta to fuse with him using the Potara earrings. This results in the almighty Vegito.
After a prolonged battle, during which Vegito beats down and repeatedly humiliates Super Buu, the Majin is cornered, so performs absorption again; however, Vegito had put up a barrier, thus wasn't absorbed, rather had simply shrunk down to navigate the innards of Buu to rescue his previous absorbed victims.
Piccolo, Goten, Trunks, and Gohan are freed from Super Buu's body; before leaving it, Vegeta detached the absorbed Good Buu. This detachment triggered a new mutation, causing the death of Super Buu as his mind is erased, while his body changes to Ultra Buu, an unexpectedly stronger but short-lived form, as his mutation ends in what was his original form, Kid Buu, who is vastly more powerful - as when he absorbed two Supreme Kais in the ancient past, their positive karma actually weakened him.
Goku and Vegeta are saved from Earth by Kibito Kai when Kid Buu unleashes a planet-killing Death Ball; the few remaining Earthling survivors, including Goten and Trunks, are killed.
Though, during the battle against Kid Buu, Vegeta organises Kibito Kai to use the Namekian Dragon Balls to restore the Earth and revive everyone innocent killed by Buu's rampage; Earth is restored, as is every innocent - or at least, not overtly evil - life is brought back, thus ready for the second part of Vegeta's plan, which was to gather energy from everyone on Earth to make a Spirit Bomb capable of destroying Buu. Goten and Trunks are among the Z-Fighters who try to recruit people to volunteer their energy; though, the remainder and bulk of energy is not gathered until Mr. Satan, through King Kai's telepathy, inspires all of Earth to give their energy. Goku uses the Spirit Bomb, and the last wish from Porunga to refill his stamina, to destroy Kid Buu.
Dragon Ball Super[]
A failed fusion of Gotenks tries to spar with Gohan but was easily defeated.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero[]
Goten and Trunks have grown due to becoming teenagers. They are among the few recruits Bulma could gather to help Piccolo and Gohan fight Red Pharmaceuticals - a cover for the resurgence of the Red Ribbon Army. Although, by the time the teenage hybrid-Saiyans, Android 18, and Krillin arrive to help, Gammas 1 and 2, and Dr. Hedo, had accepted that the Z-Fighters are not the bad guys, so the battles had stopped.
In a panic, Commander Magenta attempts to activate Cell Max; Hedo fatally poisons Magenta with his cyber-wasp Hachymaru, but the son of Red manages to press the button that begins the final stage of Cell Max's awakening. Hedo rushes out of the lab to warn everyone, but is overtaken by Cell Max; the new android lacks the intelligence of the original Cell, but its power - while incomplete - immensely surpasses the original.
Goten and Trunks attempt fusion for the power boost, however, due to falling out of practice, since they hadn't fused in years, Goten bends a finger incorrectly, resulting in a failed, obese fusion, though still called Gotenks.
Despite his weakness, Gotenks' weight is such that when he collides with the top of Cell Max's head, it cracks the skull, weakening it. After Gamma 2's sacrificial assault, and Orange Piccolo's restraining of Cell Max, Gohan - with a massive power boost in his new Beast form - fires a Special Beam Cannon, which easily penetrates the cracked skull of the giant android. This kills Cell Max, triggering a powerful self-destruction that everyone is able to avoid.
So, ironically, a failed fusion of Gotenks is more helpful against the major threat than Gotenks was in DBZ, as well as both Goten and Trunks throughout the entirety of Super (although, Trunks did have a small but important impact in providing a pep talk to Future Trunks).
Trunks and Goten are trying to perfect their fusion technique.
Non-Canon Films[]
Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn[]
Due to a demon created from millennia of evil, Janemba, the rules of reality are corrupted, thus the world of living is flooded by the world of the dead. Goten and Trunks easily overpower the armies of the Dictator (Adolf Hitler), however, the undead continue to rise. In Hell, Goku and Vegeta finally fuse to make Gogeta, who purifies Janemba out of existence, thus restores the boundaries of mortality. Sensing their dads fuse, Goten and Trunks perform the Fusion Dance to become Gotenks; the fused warrior creates countless Kamikaze Ghosts that completely eradicate the undead armies, which now remain dead.
Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon[]
The ancient demonic kaiju, Hirudegarn is restored and unleashed upon the city. Goten and Trunks form Gotenks, who launches rapid-fire barrage of energy blasts, which significantly damages Hirudegarn, however, this simply causes the monster to shed its skin like a cocoon, revealing a more powerful winged form that easily defeats Gotenks, ending the fusion due to running out of energy.
Tapion uses his enchanted ocarina to seal Hirudegarn within his body; he gives his sword to Trunks, asking that the boy kill him to also destroy the monster. However, Trunks' reluctance makes him hesitate too long, so Hirudegarn escapes back to full-size in the city. Trunks does use the sword, however, to cut off the beast's energy-absorbing tail, causing it intense pain and weakening it overall; while he attempts a second attack, Super Saiyan 3 Goku tells him to stay back as only he has the strength to defeat the monster. Goku uses Super Dragon Fist to ensnare Hirudegarn, with the detonation vaporising it.
Powers and abilities[]
- Ki Blasts - The most basic Ki attack.
- Flight - The ability to fly.
- Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack - User belches ghosts out of their mouth and use them to attack. The ghosts eerily have sapience. Ghosts explode on contact.
- Continuous Die Die Missile - A rapid-fire barrage of energy blasts
- Wolf Fang Fist - A melee attack where the user attacks the opponent with a combination of scratching and punches.
- Magnum Finger - A fingerbeam blast from the video game Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z.
- Galactic Donut - A ring of yellow energy that encompasses an opponent, becoming tighter until they are bisected or break the ring
- Charging Ultra Buu Buu Ball - After trapping Buu within a sphere of energy, it alters to look like a volleyball; Gotenks has Piccolo serve the ball to him, which he spikes, rocketing it to the ground, resulting in a huge explosion from the momentum and energy.
- Super Saiyan 1, 2, and 3 - A form where your strength multiplies by 50x and the user's hair colour turns blonde. This form can only be achieved by Saiyans.
- Talent Mimicry - Almost any attack or power up (such as Super Saiyan 3) can be recreated by Gotenks if it was witnessed by either fusee or fusion himself. Though, he can't imitate abilities exclusive to species, such as Namekian or Buu limb extension and regeneration.
Gallery[]
Theme Songs[]
Gotenks Is Born Theme
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