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Key Takeaways

• Bardock, Goku's father, was the first person to resemble Goku with an X-shaped scar on his cheek.
• Turles' appearance as Goku is just a coincidence, not that they are related.
• Goten is Goku's second son who looks like him, but his appearance changes as he grows up, unlike Goku.

Goku's face is not the only thing that is known Dragon Ballbut in all anime in general. Therefore, it can be very confusing when people who look like them start showing up in places that don't look like them. It could be a character from Goku's family, a body-stealing villain, or a random person like him. Allies and villains seem to want to resemble Akira Toriyama's golden boy.

This list includes characters from the original Dragon Ball series since Greatand will also include non-canon Dragon Ball Z movie and GT. There are other technical timelines of Gokus from games and other media, as well as other versions of Goku's form, but this article will not include them at this time.

A newborn like Goku

Bardock: Goku's father

Bardock belongs to Goku, or rather, the Saiyan father of Kakarot, who died when Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta. Now technically, you could say that Bardock isn't imitating Goku, and if anything, it's the opposite, since Bardock was obviously born before Goku. However, Toriyama didn't intend to give Goku an alien heritage in the early days. Dragon Ball series. Bardock's concept and appearance came a long time after Goku, and the only reason why Bardock looked that way was because of Goku's looks.

One way to identify paternity is that Bardock has an X on his left cheek. It is not known what exactly gave him this scar; The Saiyans fought almost every day, so it could have been anything. Another way to tell them apart is their clothing, with Bardock wearing the classic Saiyan Battle Armor and sometimes seen with a scouter. Another distinguishing feature is his red head which is soaked in the blood of his friend Tora, who fell on Dodoria.

Is Turles' look completely coincidental?

Not as famous as Bardock and even canon in the main series, Turles is a Saiyan who left Frieza's army, allowing him to survive the destruction of Planet Vegeta. He found the Tree of Power, which required the life force of the entire planet to produce a seed that made whoever ate it super strong. He traveled to Earth in hopes of cultivating the Power Tree there but was confronted by someone who looked like him, the Saiyan Kakarot. The main difference between the two is that Turles hairstyle has “devil horns” where the spiky part of his hair curls up slightly, and the black Saiyan Battle Armor he has.

Turles has nothing to do with Goku, though it's an old problem with the V-Jump and its location Tree of Might the movie wrongly says they are brothers. What makes Turles similar to Goku is that lower class Saiyans are all raised the same way, and many of them grow up to look the same. But of course not all low-class Saiyans look like Goku, and not all Goku-lookalikes are low-class fighters. In reality, the next Goku lookalike would have given Namek Saga Frieza a run for his money even at a young age.

Goten is Goku's second son

First appearing near the beginning of the Buu Saga, Goku's second son and Gohan's younger brother, Goten, is the spitting image of his father. Not only do they look alike, but Goten also wears the same orange gi that Goku always wears, except Goten's gi has no markings on the chest and back. . However, viewers will no longer be confused when Goten grows up, as his appearance changes when he appears at the end of the episode. Dragon Ball Zwhose hairstyle looks more like Yamcha's than Goku's. In Dragon Ball GTGoten looks similar to Gohan but has long, wavy hair. This makes Goten unique because he is the only one who looks like Goku who changes form when he reaches puberty.

“Hey, I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chi-Chi!” – Goku in his first meeting with Goten

Goku Jr. is a descendant of Goku

The second non-canon character to appear on this list is Goku's offspring 100 years after the events. Dragon Ball GTGoku Jr. Aside from being a descendant of Goku, not much is known about Goku Jr. the series. Like Goten, he looks exactly like young Goku, but instead of an orange gi, Goku Jr. has the clothes that Goku wears for the most part GT with a red headband.

People like Goku because they stole his body

Ginyu is a Frieza Force Elite who switched bodies with Goku

During the Namek Saga, Frieza realized that he needed reinforcements to help him collect the Dragon Balls and achieve immortality; and so he called his ultimate team, the Ginyu Force. The leader of the team, Ginyu, had the unique power to switch bodies to whatever he wanted, and when he saw the fighting strength of a Saiyan from Earth, he decided to switch bodies with him. Since this is literally Ginyu in Goku's body, there is almost no way to physically distinguish him from regular Goku. The only difference is that Ginyu in Goku's body wears a scouter because he doesn't have the ability to detect ki signatures.

Goku Black is a Supreme Kai Trainer Turned Evil

Zamasu, the next in line to be the Supreme Kai of Universe 10, viewed humans as a plague on many lands and must be cleansed. Ironically, he meets Goku, a mortal who has the power to follow him, and sometimes even surpass gods, including him. Wanting Goku's powers for himself to help him achieve his goal of exterminating all life on Earth, Zamasu collected the Super Dragon Balls and wished to transform bodies with them. While in Goku's body, Zamasu earned the name of Goku Black due to the change in his costume, which, as you can imagine, was mostly black.

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