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Son Pan is a supporting character from the Dragon Ball franchise.
She is the only child of Human/Saiyan hybrid Son Gohan and the Human woman Videl, making her a quarter-blood Saiyan hybrid. Much like her grandfather Son Goku (and unlike her father and uncle Son Goten) Pan had a passion for the martial arts that was typical of a Saiyan. Even at a young age, Pan exhibited incredible potential that surpassed even that of her father's.
She regards the family of Bulma and Vegeta as a family as well and may sport a crush on Trunks. Her name derives from two traditions: Goku's family naming system, based on foods, and Videl's, based on mythological and religious tricksters. Like with Goten, Trunks and Bulla, it is unknown if she was born with a tail.
While her power level is formidable and should never be underestimated, she is also never shown to become a Super Saiyan. Akira Toriyama has said he struggled with what she would look like in that form, while fan speculation has placed Gohan's 'Mystic Saiyan' mode, which involved SSJ-like power without the physical transformation, as the cause for this. However, only a brief portion of her life is ever depicted in the series, and since her own descendants had this power, it remains possible she developed it later on.
She, along with her mother Videl, is voiced by Yūko Minaguchi in DBZ, DBGT and DBS and Shino Kakinuma in DBZ Kai in Japanese, while in the various Funimation English dubs, she is voiced by Susan Huber as a toddler in DBZ, Elise Baughman as a pre-teen and elderly woman in DBGT, Kate Bristol as a toddler in DBZ Kai, and Jeannie Tirado as a baby and child in DBS and DBZK.
Dragon Ball Z/Super[]
Powerful Legacy[]
Pan, who was conceived by the Saiyan/Human hybrid Son Gohan and his human wife Videl, hailed from two families made up of legendary fighters. Her father and paternal grandfather Son Goku belonged to the alien warrior race called the Saiyans and had protected Earth many times, and her maternal grandfather Mr. Satan was falsely considered the greatest martial artist in the world. While Videl was pregnant with Pan, the God of Destruction Lord Beerus threatened to destroy Earth.
The Saiyans that lived on Earth wanted to enact a ritual which would transform Goku into a "Super Saiyan God" capable of combating Beerus by passing the power of five Saiyans into another. As there was only four Saiyans available, Videl revealed her pregnancy and offered to partake in the ritual. Like they had hoped, the power of the unborn Pan and the other Saiyans passed into Goku and, although Beerus defeated him, he was able to fight the Destroyer on more equal footing as a Super Saiyan God.
Resurrection 'F' Saga[]
Pan was born in Age 779, a few months after Goku's battle with Lord Beerus, with her mother looking after her while her father is at work. Her maternal grandfather often spends time with her and wants her to be his successor, both her father and maternal grandfather want her to be a martial artist.
One day while Mr Satan is visiting Gohan's house to see Pan, he changes to his Great Saiyaman person and spars with Mr. Satan, while holding her. Pan is amused, Chi-Chi scolds them, wanting her granddaughter Pan to grow up "lady-like". Chi-Chi, Bulma and Videl later talk about Pan's upbringing. Videl concludes that Pan should grow up the way she would want to, she doesn't mind Pan becoming a martial artist because Videl states that's how she met Gohan.
She was later babysat by Piccolo as her parents were out, she is amused by him making funny faces and peek-a-boo. He continues to play with her until her parents had returned, and Videl gently holds her.
Pan was seen crying with Videl comforting her, shortly before Frieza uses his Earth Breaker attack to destroy the entire planet, killing Pan and Videl along with most of Earth's inhabitants. Fortunately, Whis uses his Temporal Do-Over technique, allowing Goku to kill the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the Universe" with a God Kamehameha. Afterwards, Gohan returns home and wants to become stronger in order to protect his family. Pan smiles, happy to see her father again.
Champa Saga[]
Pan travels along with everyone to the Nameless Planet, where Beerus and Champa's Martial Arts Competition is taking place. She watches the match as a spectator on her mother's lap. Videl covered her eyes when Vegeta gave Cabba a vicious beating.
Potaufeu Saga[]
Goku Black Saga[]
Gohan invites Future Trunks to his house to meet his family. Pan greets Trunks by squirting milk at his face and does the same with Gohan and Mr. Satan, she happily flies around with Gohan (as the Great Saiyaman) playfully chasing behind her. Later on, after Mr. Satan leaves Pan with Future Trunks, the young infant becomes a handful, and playfully trashes the living room, almost pulling on Trunks' sword in a tug-of-war like a manner, until Gohan stops her. While outside, Pan was seen playing in the sand while Gohan and Trunks conversed. Pan and her family bid farewell to Future Trunks.
Pan later fell seriously ill with an incurable illness and Gohan used the Dragon Balls to cure her. She was later kidnapped and had her life threatened by Barry Kahn. She was rescued by her mother and watches as her father fights him. Pan is also present at the Universe 6 vs. Universe 7 baseball game, where she is seen sitting on Videl's lap.
End of 'Z' Saga[]
An older Pan appears briefly in the last few episodes of Dragon Ball Z. She is only 4 years old at the time. Since 10 years have passed since the defeat of Kid Buu, it seems she was born 6 years after that. She is shown to be utterly devoted to three things: her grandfather, eating and training, and at this time, she wore a miniature version of Goku's Turtle School Gi. Perhaps as a sign of maturity and perhaps as a sign of surrender to the realities of her Saiyan family, Chi-Chi no longer even tries to restrain her as she did Gohan.
Movies[]
Battle of the Gods[]
It is revealed that when Videl is pregnant with Pan, Dende is the first to find out when he was healing her after Gohan accidentally shot her. Dende was about to tell the others, but Videl told him not to as she wanted it to be surprised. After a failed attempt in making Goku a Super Saiyan God and finding out they need a sixth Saiyan, Videl tells them that she can help as she is pregnant with a baby that has Saiyan blood. Everyone is happy with the news, especially Gohan. After that, Videl and Pan help Goku become a Super Saiyan God.
Resurrection F[]
Pan is seen briefly at the start of the movie, being babysat by Piccolo. After Gohan and Videl come home, Gohan tries to get Piccolo to hold his daughter, but he refuses.
Super Hero[]
Pan was undertaking martial arts training under the guidance of Piccolo, like he had done for her father, although with a far gentler hand; she expressed a desire to learn how to fly, but he said it was too soon, though eventually she will be appear to voluntarily fly again, as she had only done it by instinct as a baby. Piccolo sends Pan home, saying that will continue training later.
After Piccolo faked his death in a fight against a mysterious new android, Gamma 2, he pursued the android to discover a secret base under the umbrella of Red Pharmaceuticals, which was really a cover for the Red Ribbon Army resurgent, under Commander Magenta, the son of the Army's original leader, Red. Piccolo infiltrated the base disguised as one of the soldiers, where upon he learned that Gamma 2 wasn't the only new android, as there was also Gamma 1; most alarming, their creator, Dr. Hedo - grandson of the late Dr. Gero - had been commissioned by Magenta to recreate Cell, but a far more powerful version called Cell Max.
While Cell Max was still gestating, Magenta decided to target his enemies now, that is, the Z Fighters; he opted that they would target the "weakest link," which they believed to be Pan, and ordered his men to kidnap her for the purpose as unnerving and provoking Gohan - the destroyer of Cell. Piccolo managed to convince Magenta to send him too, due to knowing the location of Pan's school and home.
Piccolo and another soldier arrived at Pan's school; the soldier approached Pan, pretending to have been sent by her mother, but she is so suspicious that she punched him in the gut, which made him pass out. Despite Piccolo being disguised, Pan recognised him by sensing his energy; her teacher was also reassured due to Piccolo frequently being relied upon to pick up Pan. Piccolo revealed his plan to force Gohan into achieving his lost strength by continuing the kidnapping of Pan, even though he would ensure she'd be in no actual danger. Pan thought that sounded fun, so agreed. In the flying vehicle, Piccolo hand cuffed Pan to a rail, thus when the Red Ribbon regained consciousness, he was fooled into thinking the kidnapping was a success despite him being knocked out by the target.
In the Red Ribbon Army base, Pan attempted to eat some of the Commander's cookies, but his right-hand, Carmine, took them out of reach, while chastising her due to cookies not being hostages. To show Gohan his daughter was captured, the Red Ribbon Army soldier recorded a video of her, unaware that her distress and pleas for help were merely directions from Piccolo in order to rouse Gohan out of his weakened stupor.
Piccolo and the soldier fly to Gohan and Videl's house, although only the former is home; the soldier tried to coax Gohan out, but he refused, with a tangential problem being he didn't sense Piccolo's energy, thus to his mentor's frustration, Gohan had become completely rusty. However, when the soldier showed the video of Pan, Gohan leapt out of the house and was so enraged that he achieved Super Saiyan state for the first time in years - which made a crater that caused the nearby wing of the house fall into a slump - and then Gohan demanded to be taken to Pan, which the terrified soldier agreed to do.
Back at the base, the angered Gohan jumped from the destroyed ship into the giant courtyard of the Red Ribbon Army, and yelled for the return of Pan, to the amusement of Commander Magenta. When still disguised, Piccolo picked up Pan and told her to pretend to be scared; when Pan cried out for "help," Piccolo threatened to hurt her, which surprisingly upset the Gammas, although more crucially enraged Gohan who was able to ascend to his Mystic state again, which he hadn't done since before Pan was even born.
Piccolo removed his disguise to the surprise of Gohan; despite the kidnapping being revealed as partially faked, Gohan was able to maintain his Mystic transformation due to muscle memory. Piccolo and Gohan fight each of the Gammas, however, during the battle, the truth about the Red Ribbon Army was made clear to them; the androids were under the impression that Magenta was leading a heroic resistance against the villainous Z-Fighters, but due to his willingness to kidnap children and multiple other nefarious habits, the androids realised the Army were the world-conquering threat, thus they defected from it, as did Dr. Hedo.
Panicked about his plans falling apart, Magenta retreated to a contingency plan, although Carmine was stopped by Pan, who beat him unconscious quickly. Bulma arrived in her aircraft with the available support she could muster, which were Trunks, Goten, Krillin, and Android 18; although she both disappointed and relieved that the threat seemed to be over.
Despite Dr. Hedo's efforts, Magenta was able to activate Cell Max before he died; the organic android was still incomplete, and lacked a sentient mind, yet it was still far more powerful than any of the present fighters. While Pan was left with Krillin and Bulma, the other warriors went to fight Cell Max, even though Goten and Trunks unwisely fused while being out of practice, thereby became a portly Gotenks.
Dr. Hedo explained that there was a fatal flaw he intentionally put into Cell Max, which was the creature's head being a weak point that if ruptured would kill it. During the battle, Cell Max unleashed energy blasts in every direction that were consuming the landscape; Pan fled from the path of destruction, which almost caught up with her, until she relearned how to fly, being able to aptly avoid the explosions.
Fat Gotenks managed to crash his head into Cell Max's skull, which caused it to crack, but still unbroken; Gamma 2 launched a suicide attack that managed to dismember one of the beast's arms, yet it still remained a catastrophic danger. Cell Max appeared to kill Piccolo, which triggered a new transformation within Gothan, who ascended into Beast Mode; Piccolo was revealed to be alive, but Gohan was able to maintain Beast Mode, as he had once ably done for Super Saiyan 2.
With Piccolo restraining Cell Max, Gohan fired a Special Beam Cannon that dispelled the android's death ball, and pierced through its head. The fighters and onlookers flee, as Cell Max's self-destruction was triggered, until it was destroyed in a giant explosion; the blast radius was massive, but the heroes were able to avoid it.
Pan happily flew to Gohan, though was startled by his intimidating Beast Mode, thereby he returned to his base form before hugging her again. Piccolo commended Gohan, but chastised him for falling out of shape before, as any new threat could arrive, and Goku and Vegeta may not be around to save them; Gohan agreed with mild shame, though Pan comfortingly patted his head.
Dragon Ball GT[]
Black Star Dragon Balls Saga[]
In the first saga, Pan, Goku and Trunks go into outer space to collect the Black Star Dragon Balls in order to make sure that the Earth doesn't explode. The trio gets into many adventures and even meet a miniature robot named Giru, who Pan befriends.
Baby Saga[]
In the second saga, Pan, Trunks and Goku land on a planet ruled by robots. There they find a machine mutant known as Baby. They think they've killed him after Goku and Trunks blast him, but unknown to them, Baby manages to survive. The trio goes back to Earth where Baby infects the entire planet, including Gohan, Videl, Chi-Chi, Goten, Trunks, Bulla, Bulma and Vegeta, the latter of whom has been transformed by Baby into his permanent host. Only Mr. Satan, Good Buu and Uub manage to escape Baby's clutches. After Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan 4, Pan, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Mr. Satan and Majuub (a fusion of Good Buu and Uub) help him defeat Baby and turn Vegeta back to normal.
Super 17 Saga[]
In the third saga, Pan helps the Z-Fighters fight Super 17, but is ultimately defeated by the android. After Goku and Android 18 kill Super 17, the entire group attempts to summon Shenron, but Evil Shenron appears and summons the Shadow Dragons to destroy Earth.
Shadow Dragon Saga[]
In the final saga, Pan, along with Bulma, Gohan, Videl, Goten, Trunks, Chi-Chi, Majuub and Mr. Satan, help Goku and Vegeta defeat Omega Shenron. After Goku leaves with Shenron, Vegeta tells Pan to take care of Goku's clothes as they may be the only thing left to remember him by. She becomes the grandmother of Goku Jr. 100 years later.
Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy[]
100 years later, Pan, now 114 years old, trains her grandson, Goku Jr., into making him the strongest warrior on the galaxy just like his great-great-grandfather Goku.
Powers & Abilities[]
- Ki Manipulation
- Energy Manipulation
- Flight: Like many ki practitioners, Pan was able to manipulate her ki to allow her to fly completely unaided. She mastered the power of flight at an exceptionally young age, as she was already capable of flying at high speeds as a baby. In fact, Pan learned how to float before she could walk. By the time she was four years old, Pan was able to fly around the circumference of the Earth in the span of a morning.
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Strength
Trivia[]
- Pan is the only main female character of Dragon Ball GT.
- Pan is one of the few female characters that Master Roshi doesn't try to flirt with, most likely because Pan is only a little girl.
- In Future Trunks' timeline, Pan was never born because her parents never met, her father, Gohan, was killed by the Androids, and her mother, Videl, died of unknown reasons.
- While she is 3/4th human, Pan takes after her Saiyan side.
- It's also possible her Saiyan aging works in reverse, where she ages like a human until she gets to be elderly. Paying in mind Saiyans age in spursts after a set amount of years.
- Pan is the only main character (besides Goku) who is still alive by the time Dragon Ball GT's epilogue takes place.
External Links[]
- Pan on the Dragon Ball Wiki
- Pan on the VS Battles Wiki
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