Son Goku

Player Info:
Username/Handle: Tetra
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Character Info:
Character Name: Son Goku
Canon: Dragonball
Character Age: 14
History: link
Personality: As a baby, Goku had the luck to be adopted as the grandson of Son Gohan, an old martial arts master that found Goku abandoned high up in the mountains. While Goku was initially as vicious and uncontrollable in temperament as any young Saiyan, Goku's misbehavior eventually got him into a serious accident, during which time he sustained a head injury so severe it wiped his memories clean. After Gohan nursed him back to health, Goku's personality changed completely, and he began a new life as a sweet-tempered, kind, and dutiful child who greatly respected his grandfather and loved nature and training in the martial arts.

After Gohan died, Goku provided a simple existence for himself in the home they had once shared, chopping firewood, gathering food, and conversing with an old trinket that he took to speaking to as if it were Gohan himself. It was only when a teenaged girl named Bulma showed up to retrieve the trinket (which turned out to be an extremely powerful magical artifact) that Goku was finally introduced to the outside world and all the new experiences and dangers in it. Lured by tales of adventure and strong opponents, Goku eagerly agreed to accompany Bulma on her quest to summon the ancient dragon Shenlong, who legend held would grant his summoner any one wish they desired. Goku's adventures during Dragonball subsequently introduced him to many new concepts, cars and television (which he originally believed were a form of witchcraft) and girls (whom he had trouble distinguishing from male characters).

Due to his isolated upbringing, Goku tends to be somewhat naive and trusting, often unable to see through fairly blatant lies. This affords him the ability to make many friends, as Goku's sunny, optimistic nature and general inability to hold a grudge eventually wins over many initially antagonistic characters, including Bulma (who is originally just using Goku as an unwitting, unpaid bodyguard) and the violent Ox-King (who it turns out was a pal of his grandfather's). On the other hand, it also tends to leave him open to being taken advantage of, as he tends to assume that everyone who talks to him is telling the truth -- even obviously lying, man-eating pterodactyls who want to carry off his friend. While Goku becomes slightly cannier as the series goes on, he remains an overall trusting individual, believing in redemption even for villains who seem irredeemable. Often, Goku is right: Oolong and Yamcha, characters he meets early in the series, become staunch friends. On the other hand, Goku can also be very, very wrong, as his willingness to believe his older brother Raditz's promises to reform lead directly to Goku's death in Dragonball Z.

Disciplined and strong-willed, Goku loves nothing more than a good fight and training to become a stronger martial artist. And though one might not expect it from his usual good-natured demeanor, Goku is a pragmatic, swift opponent who has no qualms about giving someone a good poke in the eye if it means an opening for a solid punch. He does not, however, seem particularly interested in engaging those significantly weaker than himself -- partially because he believes it's wrong to pick on weaklings, and probably also because they wouldn't offer much of a challenge anyway. Give him a hulking behemoth to cut down to size, on the other hand, and Goku delights in leaping about as if at play before bringing the battle to a decisive end.
Chosen Position: Ranger
Powers: Goku is one of the last surviving members of the Saiyans, an aggressive, warlike alien race similar in appearance to human beings. As a result, he has an immense amount of martial arts potential, as well as a superhuman constitution. Being shot with a gun at close range, for example, does little except make him fighting mad, and attempting to split his head open with an axe results in a shattered axe. In fact, Goku's strength, stamina, speed, and other physical attributes are all well above ordinary human limits: he can take down opponents ten times his size, destroy a car with a single blow, and even land on the flat of a sword after dodging its owner's swordstroke.

Goku's training with his adopted grandfather, Son Gohan, helped him hone his skills to the point where he became capable of defeating countless older and more experienced martial artists, and Goku is even able to mimic a powerful life-energy emission technique called the Kamehameha after seeing it performed a single time (in contrast, it took the technique's creator, Master Roshi, a good fifty years of practice to pull off properly).

When in need of a quick mode of transportation, Goku can call upon the Kinto'un, a magical flying cloud that will ferry its owner to wherever they want to go (but will only allow the pure-hearted to ride it). His Nyoi-bo, a gift from his grandfather, is a rod of immense strength, which he can extend at will. While the extent to which the Nyoi-bo can stretch is unknown, Goku uses it at one point to reach the Earth's moon.

Goku's signature technique is the Kamehameha, a move that relies on concentrating the user's life energy in their hands and releasing it all at once in a destructive energy beam. In Dragonball, Master Roshi uses the Kamehameha to destroy an entire mountain, although Goku's version is performed on a smaller scale.

Like any Saiyan, Goku possesses a prehensile tail, which can be used to grasp objects freely. Interestingly, it is apparently extremely sensitive, and pulling or squeezing it with force will cause Goku to temporarily lose his strength and even collapse. His tail is prone to growing back, even when cut off -- a slight problem, considering that it also causes him to change forms whenever he looks at a full moon. At such times, Goku transforms into an immense, powerful, uncontrollably violent ape-like beast capable of crushing castles with ease. His transformation can be reversed by waiting until the moon disappears or by cutting off his tail.

Abilities: Goku is a skilled martial artist, quick to learn new techniques. He is also one of the few individuals pure-hearted enough to ride the Kinto'un.

Ranger Form (if applicable):
Power Morpher: A belt buckle.
Ranger Uniform: An orange uniform with black/white accents, and an ape-themed helmet.
Ranger Personal Weapon: If he could use the Nyoi-bo as his weapon, that'd be great.
Ranger Zord: A giant robotic ape; basically a robot version of Goku's Great Ape form.

Sample:
Third person: link, 2