Throughout the entireness ofDragon Ball , Gokuand the Z - Fighters have had to deal with a embarrassment of increasingly deathly enemy – though after kill one of the deadly of them all , Goku comes to the inexorable conclusion that he isDragon Ball ’s capital villain .

Goku was introduced in the first chapter ofDragon Ball , and throughout that original run , he proved to be the greatest hero Earth had ever seen . Every unsound guy wire – from a low - degree crime boss to a centuries - old entity originally believed to be a literal monster – was taken down by Goku . It was n’t untilDragon Ball Zthat Goku stopped simply respond to pre - existing villains , and start to have a bridge player in their macrocosm – and that trend steady increased until it came to its natural termination .

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InDragon Ballchapter 418 by Akira Toriyama , the Z - Fighters are celebrating asGohan had just vote out Cell , though the price they paid was great . Before Gohan delivered the killing reverse , Goku sacrifice his living to deliver the world from an explosion create by Cell that would have veil the planet . Now that Cell is go , the Z - Fighters are chew over on that sacrifice as well as on the fact that Goku is seemingly blend forever . However , just as they are coming to grips with that Brobdingnagian loss , every one of them hears Goku ’s vocalisation in their heads as he is communicating with them from the afterlife by using the telepathic top executive King Kai temporarily offered him . Goku tells his Friend and family that he is okay with being dead – and while the reasonableness he yield is shocking , after some mentation , it actually makes a lot of sense .

Dragon Ball’s Earth is a Safer Place Without Goku

Goku evidence everyone from beyond the grave that the world is good off without him , and he ’s absolutely ripe . While that title would not be accurate in the originalDragon Ballas Goku prevented the reality from being taken over by villains more than once , Dragon Ball Zshows that his existence on Earth only brought worry to the major planet . If it was n’t for Goku , Raditz would n’t have invade Earth , and by wing , neither would Vegeta and Nappa . If Vegeta and Nappa did n’t come to Earth , Frieza would have never heard about the Dragon Balls meaning he would n’t have been a threat to the Z - Fighters . If Frieza was never in the picture , then Cell would n’t have collected his DNA to become as strong and sadistic as he was . Not only that , but Cell was literally create by Dr. Gero because of Goku , make believe Goku inadvertently creditworthy for his own demise .

basically , every Saga within theDragon Ball Zeraof the franchise would have been avoided if it were n’t for Goku , and upon his end , Goku finally realize it – proving that evenGokuknows that he , indirectly or otherwise , isDragon Ball ’s greatest villain .

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Goku is Dragon Ball’s greatest villain.

Goku is Dragon Ball’s greatest villain.