Goten is Goku and Chi-Chi's second son, Gohan's younger brother and Trunks’ boyfriend by the end of Z. He has yet to make an major appearance other than small cameos.
Appearance[]
Goten's appearance as a child is a spitting image of Goku's childhood look, including messy, unkempt hair, same eye color, lighter-pale complexion and a playful face.
Personality[]
As a child, Goten is a fun-loving and kind-hearted person like his father. However, thanks to his mother's structured upbringing, he tends to show more common sense and proper manners than his father did as a child (even in some cases as an adult). While still being forced to study hard like his older brother by their mother, having mellowed out following Goku's death, Chi-Chi allowed Goten to have more freedom to explore his own interests than Gohan did growing up; Chi-Chi even took it upon herself to train Goten in the martial arts. This allowed him to develop love for play-fighting and bug catching.
Biography[]
DragonShortZ[]
Birth[]
In the second episode of DragonShortZ “Midwife Crisis”, Chi-Chi was at home and in labor, and Gohan, being only ten years old, called some people to help him. The people present for the birth were Piccolo, Yamcha, Vegeta and Bulma. After the baby was born, Chi-Chi decided to name him Goten, and Gohan points out he looks like “a little dad”, referring to Goten looking exactly like Goku. It’s revealed that while in the otherworld, Goku had watched the birth through a crystal ball. With this, it is established that Goten’s birthday is December 25 Age 767. In episode two’s deleted scene “Bearly There”, it’s revealed that Goten’s tail was removed by Piccolo.
Buu Bits[]
Goten makes most of his appearances in Buu Bits. He appeared in the first Buu Bit, “First Day of School”, watching Gohan take off on the Flying Nimbus for his first day of high school. After Gohan leaves, Goten asks when he can go to school, and Chi-Chi replies he can go to school when his father comes home.
The next Buu Bit he appears in “Turtle Turtle Wave”, takes place during the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament when Goten is facing off against Trunks in the Junior Division. Trunks attacks Goten with his Double Buster and Goten dodges. Goten gets excited when Trunks confirms that they can use “pew pews” and charges up his Kamehameha Wave, but mispronounces it and says “Kamekameha”. He fires it at Trunks, who dodges and is confused that it worked even though Goten said it wrong, wondering aloud what’s the point of announcing the attack name, and Gohan says it’s because it sounded cool.
In “Vegeta’s Sacrifice”, after Vegeta hugged Trunks he knocks out both Trunks and Goten and tells Piccolo to take them away before sacrificing himself in an attempt to kill Majin Buu.
Appearing in “Super Saiyan 3”, when Goku was facing off against Majin Buu, powering up to Super Saiyan 3, Goten, now on The Lookout, reacting to the sound of his father powering up asks “Do you hear that?”, to which Piccolo replies with “I feel that” and Krillin says “I taste that”.
In “Purple Hair and Pronouns”, Goten and Trunks finally master the fusion technique, and after Videl inquires as to what their name is, Gotenks initially struggles to figure out whether or not he wants to be called “Trunkten” or “Gotenks” but he ultimately decides to go with Gotenks because it sounds better. When Videl, Krillin and Piccolo start questioning Gotenks’ pronouns, and whether they would be referred to as he/him or they/them, Gotenks says to refer to him as I’m/him because he was going to “bust up Buu”, and he flies off to find Majin Buu.
In “Who Ya Gonna Call?” Goten and Trunks are fused together as Gotenks, back on The Lookout in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber fighting Majin Buu, they decide to use the Super Ghost Kamikaze attack, but end up producing ghost Nappa. When asking Nappa how he ended up there, Nappa says that he was having a stroke in his trailer earlier and it didn’t end well. Gotenks offers his condolences, and Nappa says that it was his fault and he shouldn’t have made the extra notch in his belt. Then Gotenks says he doesn’t get it, Nappa says to ask Trunks’ dad, but Gotenks comments that Vegeta is dead until ghost Vegeta pops up, asking what he’s doing there much to Nappa’s delight.
In “Left Buuhind”, after being absorbed by Buu along with Trunks and Piccolo, Goten pleads to Gohan to save him.
In “A Super Reunion”, ten years after Buu’s defeat, Goten is 16 and had just finished a training session with his father when Bulma, Vegeta and Trunks arrived. When everyone is recounting the last ten years after Buu’s defeat, Goten comments that he stopped looking exactly like his dad.
By the end of Z, when Goten and Trunks are teenagers, they start dating. [1]
References in Abridged[]
Although he hasn't appeared in the series yet there are a few occasions he is referenced:
- In the fight with a 100% Freeza, Goku is kicked in the groin, Goku shouts out "Ow, my Gotens!"
- When Freeza Planet 419 is shown with a re-populated species, They shout out various major points in the series, among these are: "Goten and Trunks become a guy!!!", also referencing Trunks and Goten's fusion into Gotenks.
- After healing from the heart virus, Chi-Chi asks for another kid, to which Goku only says: "Hm, mhm, 'kay bye!". Chi-Chi says that "it wasn't a no~" with glee.
- Goten is erased from existence after Goku gets punched in the nuts by Super Android 13. He was most likely brought back when Goku ate a few Senzu Beans to "heal [his] nuts up good," to Chi-Chi's relief and pleasure.
- In the 55th episode, Chi-Chi, either turned on by her husband's recent boldness in defying her rule, or seeing this as an opportunity to get knocked up again, or the world's apparent upcoming end as a sign to have one final bang with him, forcibly had nice, hardcore sex with Goku.
- In episode 56 Chi-Chi repeatedly forced Goku to have sex with her the entire week until she became pregnant. She only let Goku have a break after the pregnancy test confirmed she was pregnant.
- Goku also states that Chi-Chi wants Goku to "Go for Ten" referring to Goten's name (keep in mind that in the original Japanese version, his name is a pun on heaven).
- In a small video that KaiserNeko posted on Twitter revealed that Trunks and Goten are dating by the end of Z. [2]