Every fan of Dragon Ball knows that Goku isn’t the best father or husband as he is way more interested in fighting than he is with spending time with his family, which may explain the disconnect between him and his son, Goten. One Dragon Ball storyline proves Goten is the exact opposite of his father in the funniest possible way.
Goten is the youngest son of Goku and Chi-Chi who made his first appearance in Dragon Ball chapter 424 by Akira Toriyama. Throughout his time in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Super, Goten is depicted as a young child who is best friends with Vegeta and Bulma’s son, Trunks and isn’t afraid to dive head-first into battle. One of the most ambitious fights Goten ever finds himself in is when he and Trunks fuse to become Gotenks, who decides to take on the God of Destruction, Lord Beerus, despite the fact that Beerus is a literal god who is way more powerful than Goten or Trunks could ever hope to be. While this example makes it seem as though Goten and Goku actually have a lot in common in terms of jumping into a fight regardless of their chances of victory, the adult version of Goten proves he couldn’t be more different from his father.
In Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm Mission! chapter 11 by Yoshitaka Nagayama, heroes from across the Dragon Ball multiverse are pulled into a mystical war between the Time Patrol and the Dark Empire. One of the fighters who gets pulled into this conflict by the leader of the Time Patrol, Chronoa,is Goten as an adult, and while he was happy to join the fight, it is fair to say his head is not fully in the game. When Chronoa tells the rest of the team that Goten is joining them, she says that he is “such a flirt.”
The fact that Goten is thinking about flirting with a woman he’s just met when he is tasked with fighting in an interdimensional war against literal demons proves that he is the exact opposite of Goku. Goku regularly ignores his wife just to train with Vegeta or Whis, so even when he isn’t being called to action, the idea of being intimate with someone or even slightly leaning towards physical attraction in any way is usually the last thing from his mind.
Goku isn’t even comfortable with people kissing, and has admitted to Vegeta that he has never kissed someone because it is “too gross” which completely takes Vegeta aback since Goku has a wife and two children. All in all, Goku has shown absolutely no interest in anything to do with 𝑠e𝑥ual attraction especially in the face of an epic battle whereas Goten flirts with someone he just met while being recruited to fight for the survival of the Dragon Ball multiverse–proving Goten is the exact opposite of Goku.
