The moment Goku become a super saiyan for the first time, he became one of the most badass superheroes in both japanese and american comics, dragonball z's badass got turned up a notch when he turned super saiyan all you kept hearing about during the saiyan saga were talks and rumors about a "super saiyan"................however when every other saiyan and their grandmother could become one, it lost all badass quality's. I also hated the super saiyan 2 3 and 4 forms. In my opinion goku should have been the ONLY saiyan capable of going super and that the basic super saiyan form is the ONLY form and that Goku trained it to be just as powerful as a super saiyan form 3 would be, that makes Goku much more awesome and also makes the super saiyan form that much more special, in which Goku rarely uses the form but only when he really needs to, so that everytime he changes, the audience would know this was going to be epic if the villain was actually strong enough to take on a super saiyan. Vegeta said it best "its like there is a sale on super saiyans" (or something like that). Goku would be the only super saiyan, HOWEVER, during the cell saga(in my opinion when the series should have ended) when Goku takes on cell in his super saiyan form and fails to do so. Gohan would face Cell in his regular form, in which point the audience would think If "Super saiyan Goku cant take cell on, theres no way Gohan can !!" then when Goku dies in front of Gohans eyes, much like how Goku turned super saiyan out of rage, Gohan turns super saiyan for the very first time, and now finally another super saiyan, if all of you can recall, ever since the saiyan saga there was talk of gohans "hidden power" and that he could possibly be stronger than goku, and now in the cell saga that hidden power reveals itself and Gohan has actually surpassed Goku.

Well what do you guys think do you agree with me and like my idea, please comment below and tell me your thoughts

Btw sorry of I misspelled saiyan

@Decoy Elite said:

I'm not going to comment on the idea(the show's been over for a while), but I will explain why everyone turned super sayain.

Escalating threat levels. You see it is common tradition in action shows to make sure that every threat is more powerful than the threat of the previous story arc. So when Goku beat Freeza as a super sayain, that basically meant whoever the next major threat was would need to be beyond super sayain in order to be a legitimate threat.

Now did they go overboard? Yes. Which is why Buu ending up being as crazy powerful as he was, which was honestly a bad thing in my book(because the story dragged like crazy due to this).

But you can't change the past so...*shrug*

True however making more super saiyans was not the answer they ruined the awesomeness of the super saiyan form, a better idea is well training, so that all the other non saiyans would have something to do, so that tien krillen yamchia and piccolo would actually have some use, escalating threat levels would also mean that goku would be challenged so that he can train his newly aquired super saiyan form and learn how to better utilize it

@SoA said:

akira toriyama wanted to the story to end when frieza was defeated on namek, and goku staying behind when it exploded. fans pushed for more and we got cell saga, fans wanted more we got buu saga, fans wanted more we got dbgt . fans stopped .

LOL I liked that last part. But it's actually all true...

Super Saiyan is a transformation that any Saiyan or 1/2 Saiyan can achieve. And with alot of training they will more than likely achieve it.

That's basically the answer.

@TheCrowbar: @TheCrowbar said:

Not all saiyans went Super. Pan is an example.

would you have been surprised if she did ?

Like has been said not all Saiyans went Super Sayian, Pan didn't,neither did Bulla and Tarble didn't either.

Although I can see your point as recently the Japanese Manga/anime Dragon Ball:Episodes of Bardock(released as a tie in to a new japanese video game, Dragon Ball Heroes)

I personally don't mind that there were a few more Super Saiyans, but I think Goku and Vegeta should've been the only ones to be SSJ2 or higher.

Actually, in the episode of Bardock, Bardock becomes the so called Legendary Super Sayian that was talked about in legends and myths throughout Sayian history (I dont want to be a spoiler so Im not gonna tell how this happens)

So my guess its a genetical potential that all Sayians and therefore saiyan/ *insert species* hybrids have, but you need a crazy ammount of training and will to do it. Most Sayians turned became Super on Earth, where the Sayian were completly different from the ones on Planet Vegeta

(my personal guess is that you need some kind of "humanity" if you want to activate it, and since Sayians were a ruthless warrior race, only the few sayian survivors who got to earth and gained a different perspective on emotions were able to do it - Goku, being raised as an human from the start did it first than Vegeta for instance, and their kids did it even sooner - Bardock only did it [[ again huge spoiler]]] after fighting Freeza in defense of Goku's life and spending some time with the Plant aliens and seeing the kid get beat up)

@Jorgevy said:

Actually, in the episode of Bardock, Bardock becomes the so called Legendary Super Sayian that was talked about in legends and myths throughout Sayian history (I dont want to be a spoiler so Im not gonna tell how this happens)

So my guess its a genetical potential that all Sayians and therefore saiyan/ *insert species* hybrids have, but you need a crazy ammount of training and will to do it. Most Sayians turned became Super on Earth, where the Sayian were completly different from the ones on Planet Vegeta

(my personal guess is that you need some kind of "humanity" if you want to activate it, and since Sayians were a ruthless warrior race, only the few sayian survivors who got to earth and gained a different perspective on emotions were able to do it - Goku, being raised as an human from the start did it first than Vegeta for instance, and their kids did it even sooner - Bardock only did it [[ again huge spoiler]]] after fighting Freeza in defense of Goku's life and spending some time with the Plant aliens and seeing the kid get beat up)

Bardock wasn't the Legendary Super Sayian. It never implied he was at least, he was sent into the past and becomes a Super Sayain. But as Vegeta said the Legendary Super Sayian was consumed by his own power and we don't precisely know what time period was sent back to(but know he destroyed the original sayian homeworld), unless it mentioned he was sent back 1,000 years into the past and just completely missed it. So considering it seemed Bardock was in control of his transformation, it seems illogical to assume him to be the Legendary Super Sayian.

But your right about it requiring an emotional trigger.

@nightwing91:

OH yeah totally forgot about what Vegeta said, the whole destroying planet thing, consuming itself.

But I still think that Bardock's travel might have something to do with the Super Sayian legend, although not directly

@Jorgevy: Possibly but due to the limited material from the manga and anime. We can't make that assumption without further evidence. The way I see it, it doesn't currently fit.

Yeah, when I first saw the show, I wondered about why is it that all the other saiyans have to become super when it was stated at the beginning of the show that Goku was the legendary super saiyan.  But after reading about how Akira Toriyama wanted the show to end at Goku defeating Frieza, that does make a lot of sense about why the other saiyans got power ups all of a sudden.  However, while I also think that Goku should be the only saiyan who can go super, I also think that Gohan could go super saiyan too since he is Goku's son and he would be able to inherit that aspect from Goku. I also didn't really mind Vegeta being super saiyan because it really helped developed his character much further.

@Aiden Cross said:

I liked Goku and Vegeta as supers. But I think Gohan should've fought cell in normal form and then gone Mystic instead of ssj2. Would've made more sense with him being a cross between human and saiyan. And little Goten and Trunks should never have been ssj in my opinion...

This!

Anybody knows something about Dragon Ball SSSS?

@Kesho_Ronin: Is it that considered a fan creation and therefore officially not cannon. a new character who came to their world from an arcade like kid chameleon.

@TheCrowbar: pan was establish as an earthling so no blond pan.