Goku Is A Bad Father? True or False.

Is Goku a Bad Dad? Is Goku A GOOD Dad? We discuss Goku from Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super's parentage. Really, Is Goku a GOOD Father? We examine Goku and Gohan's relationship in the series, if Piccolo is Gohan's dad and DEBUNK a lot of fan mistakes. FATHER'S DAY SPECIAL!

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[shadowwolf]

I feel like DBZA has a hand in making people think hes a bad father and that Gohan hates him.

[jcfire]

I think Goku is actually a lot like most fathers. A man who wants the best for their family but sometimes the way they go about it might not be the best way

[GodzillaX]

Toriyamas writing genius is on full display with Gokus role as a father. He wrote Goku as an imperfect father since there's no such thing as a perfect father.

[JustSomeMexicanwithaMustache]

Everyone says that Piccolo is Gohan's dad, but thinking about Piccolo's age. I think he is more like Gohan's older brother.

[StareachValcin]

Goku may not be the best father, but he is not a bad father. He cares about both of his sons Gohan and Goten, and has even died for Gohan twice. Not to mention that Goku has saved Gohan's life multiple times, even more than Piccolo did. Even the dragonball super anime had Goku get a rage boost over Goku Black killing Chichi and Goten, even if they were from an alternate timeline. The typical response of a good father is getting angry over the death of their child. This is what even led to Vegeta being a better father to Trunks. The "giving Cell a senzu bean" moment is somewhat a sign of Goku's faith in Gohan, but his real failure as a father is not understanding that Gohan doesn't want to be a fighter like Goku. I see this as Goku making a mistake as a father, but Goku tried to make up for this mistake by trying to get a senzu bean so that he could get back into the fight and save Gohan, even though Goku himself was not strong enough to defeat Cell. I don't even think that Goku leaving at the end of Z is a sign of him being a bad father. Gohan is an adult with a child of his own, while Goten is almost an adult. At that point, Gohan and Goten didn't need Goku around as much. Even though Goku left with Uub, he planned to visit while training Uub, and was going to come back when he was finished. Overall, I think Goku is a better father than people give him credit for.

[JakeTylenol]

The biggest thing people point to is the way Goku handled Cell but even that was a proud Sayain dad moment.
When Vegeta fought Cell he knew Trunks could beat him, but he wanted that glory for himself.

Even before Goku fought Cell he knew for a fact Gohan could win and basically gave Cell a Senzu bean as a way of saying:”Tough luck buddy cus even at full strength your still getting your ass whooped by my boy”

And again, another thing people like bringing up is how Goku didn’t know Gohan hated fighting. But when would he have learned that? Every time he saw Gohan after he came back Gohan was constantly volunteering himself to save the day and get into these fights. He may not have been excited for the fight itself but he always wanted to help his friends save the world and protect them. The only reason Piccolo knew otherwise was because he saw Gohan build himself from the ground up as someone who hated fighting to someone who accepted it as something he had to do.

[LunarWingCloud]

I'm glad you tackled this topic because it was really getting out of hand. I don't at all believe Goku was a bad dad. I didn't even have a real father figure for most of my life, but Goku definitely cares about and loves his son and Gohan loves his dad too.

[teasipper]

Goku being a bad father is one of the worst jokes to ever be taken seriously and has done some unnecessary damage to the character of Goku in certain people's eyes so I'm really glad this video came out

[thestrongestman]

I think Goku was limited in the amount of times he could contact earth, I think Toriyama did that to make the reunion more heart warming, and the meeting between Goku and Goten more touching.

[mechajay]

Goku is not the perfect dad, he has his flaws. But he is not the terrible one the fandom has made him out to be for so long. The first thing we see of him as a dad is literally give his own life to save Gohan. He dies care about his sons. It's about time this gets put to rest.

[xolilenxumalo]

Goku landing on planet yardrat was a necessary accident, because he got to learn a technique with which he was able to save the world numerously, but also he would have died of a heart disease had he not landed there. I feel like most of the things he did [even in his own judgement] were entirely necessary

[cameronjr]

There was one episode when Goku punched Gohan to prevent him from getting killed. It’s from the Cell saga.

[Gaming_Hub_UK]

I just finished watching and this was a very good and important video and Im glad people now have a much needed explanation of this highly "debated" topic.
I too find it crazy at times that people think Goku is a bad father because the majority who think that way know nothing of his character's journey in Dragon Ball; a significant influence on Goku's character is his Grandfather, from whom he inherited his kindness from and learned his foundations as a martial artist. 

And along the way, we see Goku as a fundamental Good person who also likes to train and fights for self-improvement or to avenge his fallen friends. 

This upbringing made Gohan the well-spoken man he is, along with Chi Chi, who let him find his interests which led him to a path as a scholar. 

Goku always believed in his son and knew he had alot of potential which is why when the idea of training in the room of spirit and time came he clearly states that he will train as hard as he can, fight cell and if that doesnt work hed give up because this was the time he started planning on getting Gohan to train and be his trump card incase his hypothetical scynario came to fruition which is why he had his confidence on Gohan in the cell games where everyone at that point looked at Gohan as a whimp so to speak and knew he couldn't get it done for example Gohan's cowardly ness against Nappa while Piccolo and Kurirn performed their combo attack which Gohan failed to finish and Vegeta was there and later on in the frieza saga he was less of a whimp and was much stromger but his power wasnt enough and now cell at his perfect form who was way ahead of even Goku was something everyone looked at as a very stupid idea to send a kid to fight someone they themselves couldn't beat let alone Goku who trained WITH Gohan. 

But Goku didn't care, and when he gave Cell the Senzu, he was showing his sort of good sportsmen ship to Cell and gave him a Senzu so that he'd not have an excuse later on.

Unfortunately, people will never want to understand why Goku did what he did when laying the groundwork for his comrades and the audience to see why he had this confidence level in Gohan. As a martial artist, this was his big debut fighting a villain at their peak from start to finish without anyone's aid like Goku did when fighting Frieza. 

The only difference here is that back as a kid, when Goku trained under Roshi, he explained the concepts of Budō and why as a Taoist martial artist, one must train for self-improvement, not to show off and to finish off a great evil with one mighty blow instead of making them suffer. Goku perfectly executed this, but Gohan got arrogant and saw his father get caught up in the crossfire.

[TheRabbitRonin]

I don't think he is. You can clearly tell he loves his family. He just does things different do to how he grew up/lived in the wild with and without Grandpa Gohan. One other thing I see Piccolo as more of an older brother since hes not much older than him.

[Ricochet]

For Yardrat, an argument could be made that he wanted to learn IT because has nearly been too late to save Gohan twice at thay point and wanted to learn something to ensure he wouldn't be late for future fights

[Ikingsnell]

And you know what’s always been on my mind…How can you call someone a bad father after DYING to save his son. I know I know he died for others too but still lol

[Avatar_Ken]

Krillin has honestly spent almost as much time with Gohan as Piccolo, and yet you never see anyone say Krillin is Gohan's real dad😅

[jrdb]

hes not a great father in terms of the traditional parent role but he encourages his kids, are fine with there life choices, spends quality time( yes even training is especially for sayains good bonding) whenever hes around, has and will sacrifice himself for them, and most important i think is gohan and goten and even pan in gt look up and want to be like him in a lot of ways so is goku the best dad? no is a he a good though? absolutely

[chanceneck]

Oh, hot topic question.

Well, I think we have to take everything into consideration that happened in the Room Of Spirit And Time. During the Cell arc.
I think, that period showed most and best of what a loving and caring father Goku is at least for Gohan....

[hipten]

The reason I feel like people don’t bring up the Goku not checking up on his family in the 7 years he was dead is because the people that say Goku is a bad father have only watched DBZA, looked at memes or just watched clips. They don’t know the actual story.