Dragon Ball Super Finally Confirms the True Nature of Gohan's Beast Form (2024)

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Dragon Ball Super Finally Confirms the True Nature of Gohan's Beast Form? ›

Gohan's "Beast Mode" is confirmed to come from his natural talent and is not a form of Super Saiyan

Son Gohan Beast is a transformation achieved by Son Gohan. It is unlocked by immense rage, and was achieved when against Cell Max where the Saiyan-half saw his teacher under threat. Neither a Super Saiyan form or divine technique, the form is regarded as a singular talent all on Son Gohan's own.

Gohan reaches his ultimate transformation in chapter 99 of Dragon Ball Super, finally making the Saiyan's peak form from the movie fully manga canon. The concept of Ultimate Gohan actually foreshadows Gohan's mindset during the Tournament of Power.

SUMMARY. A theory states that Gohan Beast is simply Gohan Ultimate mixed with Trunks Rage. This fusion gives Gohan an extreme power-up along with the stability to keep it up without drag. Gohan Beast could be the final power-up of Gohan to help him overtake Goku.

Orange Piccolo's speech to motivate Gohan in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. Beast (, ビースト, Bīsuto) is a transformation utilized by Gohan. It was given its name by Piccolo.

Gohan Beast Overcomes Ultra Instinct

While Goku initially gains the upper hand after entering Ultra Instinct, Gohan, seemingly through the use of raw ki, manages to increase his speed and strength to such an extent that he is able to overpower Ultra Instinct's dodging capability.

Ultimate Gohan is treated like a colossal power boost, but it clearly pales in comparison to Beerus' strength. Beerus' phenomenal strength is rarely under interrogation. However, the God of Destruction does have some notable weaknesses that have held him back and might be the key to his defeat.

Old Kai didn't give him anything, just pumped up something Gohan hasn't reached quite yet, very different from God Ki, and plus, no one would sense it if it was, not even Piccolo. And Beast Gohan is not even a godly form, just an evolved successor of Potential Unleashed. It is powerful, but not God ki related.

While non-canon, those movies showed Broly absolutely dominating every one-on-one battle he engaged in, including one against Gohan. In Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming, Gohan gets utterly destroyed by Broly in their one-on-one fight.

Since the start of Super, though, Vegeta has been stronger than Gohan throughout the entire series.

Is Beast Gohan stronger than Jiren? ›

Jiren was a massive antagonist in the franchise, serving as a huge wall for Goku to overcome, but is also fair to say that at the moment, Beast Gohan is significantly stronger than Jiren.

Black Freeza beats Gohan Beast with ease. Frieza is stronger because his arc as Black Frieza hasn't been told yet. When and if he is introduced as a threat again then he will be on top of the pile because that's how stories are written. Black Freeza is stronger because plot demands it.

At the conclusion of his fight with Goku, Vegeta and Future Trunks, Zamasu ended up fusing with the entire universe, and the only way left to destroy him was for Zeno to erase that entire timeline. While fused Zamasu may very well be indestructible, he'd be no match in combat with Gohan Beast.

Cell Games Saga (DBZ)

As Goku tells Cell after conceding his defeat, the next fighter is "even stronger than I am". Of course, that next fighter was none other than Gohan.

Akira Toriyama, the late creator of the Dragon Ball franchise, may have intended Gohan's Beast Form to be the human equivalent of a Super Saiyan.

In chapter #103, after Gohan hit Goku so hard that he knocked him out of Ultra Instinct, Whis remarked that Gohan was using neither Super Saiyan nor a Divine technique, but “a singular talent, all his own.” That means that Gohan's Beast form is officially an extension of Gohan's personal talent as opposed to his Saiyan ...

The unique ritual involving Old Kai unlocked Gohan's dormant potential, leading to a game-changing power-up against Super Buu. Gohan's "Ultimate" form symbolizes his growth as a character, blending his human and Saiyan heritage, culminating in the powerful "Beast" form.