“ | I look down on existence from a much higher perspective than you do. I witness this world, this universe and the truth of all things. That yields deeper understanding. Wisdom. The realization that all mortals should be destroyed. The one and only mistake among all divine creations. That is what mortals are. And this mistake is egregious. To shape existence into the beautiful utopia it was always meant to be, the mistake must be corrected. I will purge all mortals from existence. In place of the gods who refuse to admit their failure! | „ |
~ Goku Black |
Summary[]
Goku Black (ゴクウブラック Gokū Burakku) is the main antagonist of the "Future" Trunks Saga of the Dragon Ball Super anime. His true identity is Zamasu (ザマス Zamasu), a former Supreme Kai apprentice serving the Supreme Kai of Universe 10, Gowasu. Zamasu stole the body of Son Goku and sought to destroy all mortals alongside Future Zamasu. He was given the name Black by Bulma when he initially referred to himself as Son Goku (孫悟空 Son Gokū).
Along with Future Zamasu, Goku Black is usually considered to be the worst antagonists of either the Dragon Ball Super anime or the manga, even worse than the likes of Gas and Cell Max. Fans usually have problems with his "insanely" increasing power, his character and how he impacted the story, his entire arc has nearly zero impact to the story of Dragon Ball Super and it is also usually considered to be the worst arc of Dragon Ball Super, or even of the entire Dragon Ball franchise even in comparsion to Super 17 Saga and Garlic Jr. Saga.
In the Dragon Ball VS, he was the main protagonist of its first chapters, in which he traveled to the "Dragon Ball GT" timeline and fought the Son Goku of the timeline.
Powers and Stats[]
Tier: 2-C, will eventually become 1-A | 1-A, far higher with transformations
Key: "Future" Trunks Arc | Dream Match
Name: Goku Black, Black, Son Goku, Zamasu
Origin: Dragon Ball VS
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Shinjin/Saiyan
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Acausality (Types 1, 3 & 4; Gods do not follow mortal logic. With Time Ring he is immune to changes in history. There should be infinity versions of Goku Black due to his time paradox)
- Limited Causality Manipulation (Gods do not follow the typical logic of causality, these beings have the capability to alter history in ways mortals can't. Effectively alter history despite the timelines solving time paradoxes by branching timeline into a new one to accommodate any changes in the past while still keeping the future unchanged)
- Paradox Existence (His origin is a complete paradox)
- Self-Sustenance (Type 1; normally stood in the outer-space)
- Saiyan Physiology
- Reactive Power Level (Being injured at all actually makes Black stronger. By copying Goku's fighting style, Goku Black can get massively stronger and unlock more abilities)
- Regeneration (Mid-Low; like Goku, he should be able to instantly recover the skin cells lost)
- Adaptation (Can adapt through 100 times Earth's gravity)
- Reactive Evolution (Should have the ability to resist abilities like Time-Skip)
- Precognition
- Resistance to Extrasensory Perception (Can only be sensed by Gods), Perception Manipulation (Should have Goku's ability to clear his mind), Illusion Creation (Should have Goku's ability to detecte and dispell the illusions with his mind's eye), Sleep Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Magma, Ice, Heat, Poison, Acid, Harsh Temperatures, Gravity, Electricity and Radiation (Should be able to absorbed over 17 million Blutz Waves to transform into a Great Ape without ill effects. Can fight in the outer-space where radiation levels are exceedingly high)
- Acausality (Types 1, 3 & 4; Gods do not follow mortal logic. With Time Ring he is immune to changes in history. There should be infinity versions of Goku Black due to his time paradox)
- Rage Power
- Master Martial Artist
- Non-Physical Interaction (Should be able to harm clones of Gohan, Gotenks, and Piccolo, who were illusions of Super Buu's memories. Like Goku, he should be able to interact with the abstract beings like Infinite Zamasu)
- Cosmic Awareness (Acknowledges everything that humanity has done in the Universe)
- Power Mimicry (Can copy Goku's fighting style)
- Electricity Manipulation (Should be like that of Goku, whose physical blows also cause electrical discharges when they hit his opponents. His sheer presence releases electric bolts in all directions. His aura can generate lightning bolts)
- Shockwave Generation
- Ki Manipulation
- God Ki Manipulation
- Damage Boost (Can increase the power of his attacks by concentrating his ki into a single point to do more damage)
- Paralysis Inducement (Can generate energy waves that paralyse his opponent)
- Flight
- Weapon Creation (Can create Ki Blade)
- Explosion Manipulation
- Sound Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation and Portal Creation (Can create dimensional rifts and destroy space-time and pocket dimensions with his energy)
- Magic
- Creation
- Limited Power Nullification (Should be able to nullify energy attacks like what Goku did to Vegeta's ki blast)
- Extrasensory Perception (Can sense the Ki of living beings, and even that of Gods)
- Weapon Mastery (He has showed mastery over the blade that he created)
- Telekinesis
- Teleportation
- Dimensional Travel
- Fusionism by using the Potara Earrings
- Time Travel and Beyond-Dimensional Travel with Time Ring (Can travel many alternate timelines with it)
All previous abilities but massively enhanced, plus:
- Transformation (Can transform into Super Saiyan 1-3 and even Super Saiyan Rosé, increasing his capabilities drastically)
- Light Manipulation (His Super Saiyan forms can generate light in pitch-black condition)
- Immortality (Type 1. Individuals who have reached the level of Super Saiyans become immortal)
- Greater Non-Physical Interaction (Should be able to harm Ghost Warriors)
- Greater Weapon Creation (Can create an energy scythe which cuts through time-space continuum and create a portal connecting to an alternate reality, which can be either the past or the future. The rift also block Ki Sensing technique) and greater Creation (Portals created by his scythe create multiple clones of himself, which regenerate even after getting reduced to gas. As long as the space-time rift exists the clones will keep being created and regenerating)
- Fire Manipulation (His punches shound be able to generate fire)
- Resistance to Durability Negation (Tanked Goku’s Dragon Fist) and Time Manipulation (Far stronger than Jiren, whose power is supposed to be “beyond time”, allowing him to be immune to Hit’s time techniques)
Attack Potency: Multi-Universe level (While not going all-out, he could fought evenly with Super Saiyan 2 Goku, whose much weaker form generated enough energy to blow the entire Universe 7 up. Causally beat Trunks up and was implied by Trunks that his power was around the same level as Super Saiyan 3 Goku. Should scale above Infinite Zamasu, who fused with an entire timeline containing enough space for 18 Universes and yet unable to kill base Goku, Vegeta and Super Saiyan Trunks), will eventually become Outerverse level (Gets massively stronger each time he gets hurt. After his fight with Goku, he was eventually strong enough to fight GT Goku) | Outerverse level, far higher with transformations (Super Saiyan multiplies his Power Level by 500. Super Saiyan 2 multiplies his Super Saiyan's Power Level by 2. Super Saiyan 3 multiplies his Super Saiyan 2's Power Level by 4. As a Super Saiyan 2, he managed to outmatch Super Saiyan 2 GT Goku, scales to his own durability. As a Super Saiyan Rosé, he causally outmatch Super Saiyan 4 Goku. Fights equally with Super Saiyan 4 Goku who absorbed his God Ki. Scales to his own durability)
Speed: Infinite (While holding back, he could keep up with Super Saiyan 2 Goku, whose much weaker form can generate shockwaves that can travel across Universe 7, which is infinite in size. Stomped Trunks), will eventually become Irrelevant (Outclass GT Goku) | Irrelevant (As a Super Saiyan 2, he kept up with Super Saiyan 3 GT Goku. When he transformed into a Super Saiyan Rosé, he overwhelmed Super Saiyan 4 Goku and eventually kept up with his strongest form)
Lifting Strength: Class Y (Managed to move Super Dragon Balls, which are balls with the size of large planets), will eventually become Irrelevant | Irrelevant
Striking Strength: Multi-Universal, will eventually become Outerversal | Outerversal, far higher with transformations
Durability: Multi-Universe level, will eventually become Outerverse level | Outerverse level, far higher with transformations (As a Super Saiyan 2, he took multiple hits from Super Saiyan 3 GT Goku. As a Super Saiyan 3, he took multiple attacks from Super Saiyan 4 Goku and survived Goku’s 10x Kamehameha. As a Super Saiyan Rosé, he tanked Goku’s Dragon Fist which was supposed to go through everything)
Stamina: Superhuman (Endured multiple attacks from Goku without any signs of exhaustion, also took Goku’s Dragon Fist which can go through everything and was still not seriously physcially broken)
Range: Standard Melee Range, Multi-Universal with energy-based and teleportation techniques. Irrelevant with Time Rings (Traveled multiple timelines with them) | Standard Melee Range, Multi-Universal with teleportation techniques. Irrelevant with energy-based techniques and Time Rings
Standard Equipment: Time Rings and Potara Earring.
Intelligence: Even before he stole Goku's body, the Kai known as Zamasu was an abnormally skilled and powerful fighting prodigy who could put up a fight against Goku. After stealing his body and beginning his crusade against mortals, Zamasu, now known as Black, rapidly began to grow in skill. After a single fight with Goku, he was able to accurately replicate his style, and he is able to quickly adapt to new circumstances in combat, learning to even make use of the explosive power some Saiyans gained from their rage.
Weaknesses: None notable.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
The fighting power and life force of a martial artist, a tangible energy derived from the user's vigor, courage, and mind. It can be used in a number of ways, such as to surpass the limits of one's body to greatly increase in strength, and it can be fired as blasts of energy or used to create defensive barriers. A fighting prodigy, Black was once the strongest Kai to ever live, a race that already possessed immense power, and his power only grew once he stole Goku's body and gained access to his Saiyan physiology, turning him into an extremely dangerous opponent. Due to his divine nature, he has godly ki and cannot be sensed by mortal beings as a result.
- Black Power Ball: One of Black's signature attacks, an energy sphere with a black core that detonates with devastating force upon coming into contact with an opponent. He can fire an overwhelming barrage of these spheres as opposed to just one, or convert the spheres into energy beams. As a Super Saiyan Rosé, he can use the more powerful variant, which can similarly be converted into an energy wave or be used as a slicing blade.
- God Split Cut: Zamasu's signature attack, and one of the techniques most used by Black, a blade of energy that he forms around his hand to use as a slicing weapon. In his Super Saiyan Rosé form, Black can exercise such control over this blade as to shape it into various other weapons, essentially creating weapons from his own ki.
- Sickle of Sorrow: A scythe made from Black's own ki, his most powerful weapon, which he can use to slice through space and time to open a rift from which mysterious clones of Black flood, each capable of reforming after dissipating. The rift can inhibit attempts to teleport and can spawn more clones if Black wishes.
- Black Kamehameha: Goku Black’s version of Goku's famous signature technique. In his Super Saiyan Rosé form, it is coloured pink by his immense power.
- Kiai: The ability to project an invisible burst of force with ki, which Black can perform with his hands and even with a glare.
A teleportation technique that Goku learned between the Frieza and Cell Sagas on the planet Yardrat, which allows him to lock onto the ki signatures of others and teleport to their locations, and one of the techniques he inherited from Goku. Its use takes some concentration, which is aided by Black putting his index and middle fingers to his forehead, and he needs a ki signature to teleport to, otherwise, he cannot perform the technique. It can be used to teleport others as well, as long as they are in physical contact with Black.
As a Supreme Kai, Zamasu can teleport across universes to reach specific locations or people, superior to Instant Transmission in that he does not need a ki signature to lock onto to utilize this technique. As a result, Black can even teleport outside of the universe.
Black can create objects, often out of thin air, and utilize these objects as weapons in combat.
The physiology of a Saiyan, an aggressive warrior race of conquerors. Saiyans have the natural ability to control ki and to fly. In addition, while his lifespan is comparable to that of a human, Black will remain at his peak strength for much longer. One of the most powerful abilities of a Saiyan is their ability to grow stronger and stronger through combat, allowing Black to constantly push his own limits during a fight and rise to higher and higher peaks in power - for Black, this ability is especially potent, allowing him to rapidly and constantly improve over the course of a fight, as he takes injuries. This ability grants a substantial boost in power when Black is badly injured, allowing him to reach a whole new level of power once he recovers.
- Super Saiyan Rosé: Goku Black’s ultimate transformation, he was able to unlock the transformation after getting beaten up by Super Saiyan 4 Goku. The form allows him to draw the full potential of Son Goku’s body, powering it up to very limit. It can be interpreted as the equivalent of the Super Saiyan 4 transformation, or something like that.
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