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Son Goku [nb 20] is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama.He is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Gokū in Japan and the Monkey King in the West), a main character of the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with influences from the Hong Kong action cinema of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee.
In desperation, Goku uses the Spirit Bomb from energy collected from his teammates. Jiren manages to overcome the Spirit Bomb, but Goku emerges in a new transformation, Ultra Instinct. In this new state, Goku is able to fight Jiren more effectively and surprise him for a few moments before the forms gives out, allowing Jiren to defeat him again ...
Goku attains a new technique known as Ultra Instinct, allowing him to fight unconsciously and with very precise moves. [11] The tournament ends with Goku and Frieza eliminating Jiren along with themselves, leaving Android 17 as the winner for Universe 7. He is awarded one wish from the Super Dragon Balls, and restores the erased universes.
This training eventually culminates in Vegeta acquiring a form that he labels Ultra Ego (我儘わがままの極意ごくい, Wagamama no Goku'i, lit. "Secret of self-indulgence"), elevating him to be as powerful as Goku's completed Ultra Instinct. [50] [97] The Ultra Ego state allows Vegeta to become more powerful as he takes more damage.
Leaving only Universes 7 and 11 left. With Goku still unable to phase Jiren, Kame-Sennin gives him one last lesson when he dodges Jiren's attacks himself until the old martial arts master is eliminated. This allows Goku to reach Ultra Instinct, the ultimate technique that allows one to dodge attacks subconsciously, although it only lasts a moment.
Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is to destroying itself.
Crunchyroll's servers crashing due to a Dragon Ball episode's airing was reported as having occurred before, when Goku first attained the Ultra Instinct transformation in Super. Japanese television ratings also surged following a dip in Episode 16, with Daima reaching the top three on Fuji TV .
Goku later names his first son Gohan in his grandfather's honor. In the anime, he later appears as an assistant to Annin (アンニン), the ruler of the "magical furnace". He is voiced by Osamu Saka in the Japanese version of the original series, Kinpei Azusa in Bardock: The Father of Goku, and Shigeru Chiba in Dragon Ball Kai.