While new Super Saiyan transformation has become a transparent coin Dragon ball typically, there haven’t been many new Super Saiyans added to the core Z-Fighters pool in a while – though that’s not due to a lack of opportunity, as Dragon Ball really missed the perfect opportunity to introduce a brand new Super Saiyan. Super Saiyan in a way that would perfectly honor the first series.
The idea of a Saiyan becoming powerful enough to unlock the legendary form known as Super Saiyan was introduced practically at the very beginning of Dragon Ball Z, though fans won’t see the transformation in action until. when Goku unlocks it during his iconic battle with Frieza on Planet Namek. While Goku accumulated the power to achieve this transformation through intense training, he was unable to cross the limit until he felt a burst of rage when Frieza killed Krillin right in front of him. that. Since then, achieving Super Saiyans has become increasingly easier for the Saiyans, with Goten and Trunks unlocking their form as nothing when they were just kids, and new Saiyans like Cabba and DBS’s Caulifla can do just that by focusing on the ‘tingling’ of their body. backside. The lore of furious, furious Saiyan transformations has become something all Saiyans can do – but Dragon Ball GT may have brought it back to that primitive state while also giving the character well-deserved upgrade.
Dragon Ball GT could have turned Pan into a Super Saiyan in the most perfect way
In Dragon Ball GT episode 31 (written by Atsushi Maekawa, directed by Osamu Kasai, produced by Toei Animation), Pan is on the run after she, Trunks, and Goku return to Earth after their nearly yearlong journey. They cross the universe to hunt for the black star dragon balls. When they returned, the world was taken over by the evil Baby – and when Goku tried to fight him, Baby apparently killed the Saiyan hero. Meanwhile, Trunks has been assimilated into Baby’s hive mind along with practically everyone else on Earth, including Gohan, Videl, Goten, and the rest of the Z-Fighters. This means that Pan is essentially the last person left on Earth not to be taken over by Baby, and that’s not even the whole of this horrible situation. During their travels, Pan and the party pick up a small cyborg named Gill, who gradually becomes Pan’s best friend. In this episode, Pan finds Gill’s cyborg body lying on the ground because Gill was killed by Baby in the previous episode.
Not only did Pan watch her grandfather ‘die’ after returning to her home world only to find out that her entire family had been brainwashed by a deadly villain, but her best friend, who had many times saved her life, was also killed by that same person. same villain. Upon finding Gill’s cyborg body, Pan explodes in blinding rage and intense power – but she doesn’t become a Super Saiyan. The way this entire sequence of events plays out, Pan seems to be destined to experience the same horrific loss as Goku suffered in DBZ, with the discovery that Gill was the last straw to pull her out. the fog was shocked and replaced that feeling with unparalleled anger. . Plus, it’s not like she doesn’t have the power to do this transformation, as it’s been said multiple times throughout GT that Pan’s powers are comparable to modern-day Trunks – Trunks herself could become Super Saiyan before the age of ten.
Pan’s traumatic journey in Dragon Ball GT seemed to culminate when she became a Super Saiyan the same way Goku did in DBZ. No strange transformations, no ‘back pain’, just pure pure rage strong enough to push an already powerful Saiyan to the brink of becoming a Super Saiyan in a way that honors the series’ first transformation while adding a worthy new addition to the series Dragon ball lore–too bad GT completely missed its chance.
