Main characters Son Goku Goku is descended from an alien warrior race known as the Saiyans, who sent him, originally named Kakarot, to Earth to prepare it for conquest. In the first episode, Goku is transformed back into a child by an accidental wish made by the
Pilaf Gang using the Black Star Dragon Balls, setting in motion the events of the entire series. The Black Star Dragon Balls were then scattered around the whole universe in different planets after the wish making, and due to the lethal side effect of these Black Star Dragon Balls, the Earth was set to be destroyed in a year if the Balls were not collected within that period of time. Goku, his granddaughter
Pan, and the son of Vegeta, Trunks, travel the universe to search for the Black Star Dragon Balls and return them to Earth to prevent its destruction. After acquiring the Super Saiyan 4 transformation, Goku battles the evil Tuffle
Baby,
Super 17, and the evil Shadow Dragons. His final challenge is against
Omega Shenron, whom he destroys using the Super Ultra Spirit Bomb. Goku leaves with the original form of Shenron, but not before saying his goodbyes to his friends on Earth. He then appears 100 years later at the next World Martial Arts Tournament as an adult, where he watches a battle between Goku Jr., his descendant, and Vegeta Jr., Vegeta's descendant. An elderly Pan sees him, but he quickly departs. Goku is the main protagonist of
Dragon Ball GT and the overall protagonist of the
Dragon Ball franchise.
Pan is the granddaughter of Goku and Chi-Chi and daughter of Gohan and Videl, as such her ancestry comes from both humans and the extraterrestrials called the Saiyans. Pan appears as a young child in the final installments of the original manga and
Dragon Ball Z anime series and is featured as one of the protagonists of the
Dragon Ball GT anime series and its television special
''A Hero's Legacy. According to Dragon Ball GT'' producer Kōzō Morishita, Pan's role in the GT series was intended to be a strong but
constantly imperiled character who had to be rescued by Goku, essentially a “heroine who makes Goku a hero”. In Japanese media she is voiced by
Yūko Minaguchi. In the North American versions of
Dragon Ball GT, she is voiced by
Elise Baughman in the Funimation dub (who also voices her in
Dragon Ball Kai) and by
Caitlynne Medrek in the Blue Water dub. but does not take the job seriously. During his time on Imecka, Trunks battles with Ledgic, but he is defeated, who after which, Goku fights him. Trunks later encounters more powerful threats, such as Luud, and General Rilldo. He is then later briefly controlled by Baby during the Baby arc, but is able to free himself from control, but not before Baby implants a mind-control seed. Trunks travels through space with
Pan and a de-aged Goku in search of the Black Star Dragon Balls during the first half of the series, though his prominence in the series is reduced following the Baby arc. He also plays a very big part of giving energy to Goku to help him fight Omega Shenron.
Supporting characters Vegeta In the Baby arc, Vegeta is possessed by the Tuffle parasite Baby, who uses his body to fight Goku. Baby is later forced out of Vegeta's body by the Super Saiyan 4 Goku, who destroys him. In the Super 17 arc, Vegeta fights Super 17, but is defeated. In the Shadow Dragons arc, Vegeta transforms into a Super Saiyan 4 and fuses with Goku to become Gogeta, who splits before he can defeat Omega Shenron. After Goku defeats Omega Shenron and departs with the original Shenron, Vegeta advises Pan to hold on to Goku's clothes before flying away.
Giru is a character that first appears in the 3rd episode of
Dragon Ball GT. Originally known as T2006 or DB4649T2006RS, Giru is a Machine Mutant, fully mechanical beings with organic properties: they can mold, contort, and reshape themselves like organic lifeforms, absorb and integrate metallic and mechanical materials into their being, as well as restructure themselves. He is encountered by
Goku,
Pan and
Trunks on Imecka. Giru consumes their Dragon Radar for energy in an act of desperation for survival, inadvertently integrating the Dragon Radar's functionality into his software. Giru joins Goku's group and accompanies them to various planets in the galaxy on their quest to find the Black Star Dragon Balls. Giru would become good friends with Pan in the series; however, he is frequently the recipient of abuse, both verbal and physical, at the hands of Pan, which makes him somewhat fearful of her. Giru plays a pivotal role during the group's encounter with his creator
Doctor Myuu as well as the parasitic
Baby on the planet M-2, and aids them in their subsequent struggle against the villains. During the Shadow Dragons arc, Giru accompanies Goku and Pan to search for the seven Shadow Dragons using his built-in Dragon Radar functionality to track the creatures. He is voiced by
Shinobu Satouchi in Japanese media and by
Sonny Strait in the Funimation anime dub.
Uub , known as Uub in the English anime dub, is the human reincarnation of the evil
Majin Buu. In
Dragon Ball Z, after Buu was destroyed, Goku asked for him to be reincarnated as a good person, so they may battle again. Goku eventually senses Uub's hidden power and seeks him out ten years later, when Uub attends the tournament to gain money for his village. Goku ends up deciding to train him to be a future defender of Earth and as an opponent that he can battle. During the Baby arc he would merge with the , and become ("Majuub" in the English dub), a being powerful enough to face threats such as
Baby,
Super 17, and
Omega Shenron. After fusing with Buu, he experiences a slight alteration of his physical appearance and gains a massive boost in power as well as new abilities such as Buu's signature ability to turn enemies into candy. He is voiced by
Atsushi Kisaichi in Japanese, by Scott Roberts and Brendan Hunter in the English Blue Water dub, and by
Sean Teague in the Funimation dub.
Major antagonists Doctor Myuu is a recurring character that first appears in the 13th episode of
Dragon Ball GT. A brilliant but mad Machine Mutant scientist, he is assisted by his enforcer and intends to gather the Black Star Dragon Balls to complete what appears to be his ultimate creation, Baby. His plans are eventually foiled by Goku, Pan, and Trunks after they arrive on the planet M-2 and defeat most of his minions. Myuu escapes and evades Goku and his companions after Baby's apparent defeat, only to be killed when Baby suddenly emerges from his body. It is then revealed that Baby was the one who created and programmed Dr. Myuu, and not the other way around. He later joins forces with
Doctor Gero while in Hell to create a duplicate of
Android 17 using Myuu's machine mutant technology, who then manipulates the original Android 17 into converging their power together to open a rift between Earth and Hell, enabling him and his co-creators to escape. Android 17 and his Hell Fighter duplicate eventually fuse to become Super 17, who subsequently turns on and kills both Gero and Myuu. He is voiced by
Kazuyuki Sogabe in Japanese media and
Duncan Brannan in the Funimation anime dub.
Baby is a character who first appears in the 22nd episode of
Dragon Ball GT. He is a parasitic
alien created by combining the DNA of the king of the with a cybernetic body. Baby desires to exterminate all of the Saiyans to avenge the extinction of his people and the loss of their homeworld to the Saiyans. Baby is first reactivated from a sleep state by
Doctor Myuu. He attempts to fight Goku, Trunks, and Pan, but is easily defeated. To boost his power, Baby infects various people with his DNA and begins gathering energy from them. After a second defeat at the hands of the three Saiyans, Baby infects Trunks and travels to Earth with his unsuspecting host. On Earth, he battles Goten and Gohan, infects them both, and eventually infects Vegeta to make him his primary host. Goku, Trunks, and Pan return to Earth to find the entire population is now under Baby's control. Baby defeats Goku, and uses the Black Star Dragon Balls to restore the planet Tuffle and transport the Earth population to it. During this time, Baby evolves into an even more powerful form and defeats and eats Uub after his chocolate beam is reflected back. Goku returns for a rematch, but is swiftly defeated. This causes Goku to transform into a Golden Great Ape and then into a Super Saiyan 4. Baby then has Bulma, also under his control, fire a radiation beam at him from her Blutz Wave Generator which enables him to transform into a Golden Great Ape as well. After a lengthy battle, Goku emerges victorious with the help of Uub, who weakens Baby from inside him, and Trunks, Gohan, and Goten, who were freed from Baby's control by Kibito Kai. Baby is forced to abandon Vegeta and attempts to escape in a spaceship, vowing to return to destroy the Saiyans. However, Goku blasts the spaceship with a
10x Kamehameha attack, sending it into the sun and obliterating Baby. The character made his manga debut in the first chapter of
Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission in October 2012. Baby is voiced by
Yusuke Numata in Japanese media and by
Mike McFarland in the Funimation anime dub.
Super 17 In the "Super 17" arc,
Doctor Gero and
Doctor Myuu create a machine mutant copy of Android 17 by the name of Hell Fighter 17, who is capable of mentally controlling Red Ribbon Androids like 17 and 18. Android 17 is compelled into fusing with his machine mutant replica and become the villainous Super 17. Super 17 is capable of absorbing an opponent's incoming attacks, but he is unable to move and absorb energy at the same time. Sometime after Goku kills Super 17 using the
Super Dragon Fist while the latter is distracted by 18, the original Android 17 is eventually revived with the purified Dragon Balls during the series finale. He is voiced by
Shigeru Nakahara in Japanese media and
Chuck Huber in the Funimation anime dub.
Shadow Dragons The Shadow Dragons, known as in the original Japanese, are a group of evil beings born from the evil energy caused by overuse of the Dragon Balls in
Dragon Ball GT. They are named after the One-Star through Seven-Star Dragon Balls; , , , , , , and . In the English dubs, their names are changed to Syn Shenron, Haze Shenron, Eis Shenron, Nuova Shenron, Rage Shenron, Oceanus Shenron, and Naturon Shenron respectively. When attempting to undo the damage caused by
Super 17, a cigar-smoking , named Black Smoke Shenron in the Funimation dub, is summoned from the Dragon Balls instead of the regular Shenron. He is a dragon who is formed from all the negative energy accumulated from the selfish wishes granted throughout the series using the Dragon Balls. Summoned from the same Earth Dragon Balls, he splits into seven Evil Dragons who each take the form of a tainted Dragon Ball, spreading out all over the world and proceeding to cause chaos, causing the heroes to defeat each one. Goku, Pan, and Giru manage to defeat the other dragons before encountering Eis and Nuova Shenron. Being much more honorable than his brethren, Nuova helps Goku and turns on Eis. Syn Shenron, the most powerful of the Shadow Dragons, kills Nuova before absorbing both his Dragon Ball and the others as well to increase his power and become Omega Shenron, in Japanese, with access to all of the abilities of his brethren. After a long battle, he is killed by Goku's Super
Genki-Dama, and the Dragon Balls are purified. The Shadow Dragons make their manga debut in the Jaaku Missions Saga of
Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission. When confronted by the Dragon Ball Heroes, Black Smoke Shenron creates Shadow GT Goku (シャドウ悟空, Shadō Gokū) to combat them. Shadow GT Goku is a replication of GT Goku created by Black Smoke Shenron as his primary method of fighting.
Daisuke Gōri voices Black Smoke Shenron in Japanese, and Christopher Sabat voices him in the Funimation dub. Syn/Omega Shenron is voiced by
Hidekatsu Shibata in Japanese. Bob Carter and
Christopher R. Sabat respectively voice Syn Shenron and Omega Shenron in the Funimation dub, while Victor Atelevich voices them both in the Blue Water dub. == Production ==