While Gohan has a reputation of being one of the smartest characters in Dragon Ball (especially when compared to Goku who is a notorious airhead), that isn’t necessarily the case as the series proves Gohan seemingly inherited a great deal of Goku’s cluelessness.

The respective Dragon Ball debuts of Goku and Gohan couldn’t be more different, setting them apart in fans' minds for the rest of the series. When Goku was introduced in the first chapter of Dragon Ball, he was essentially a feral child, wandering through the woods alone, killing animals just to ensure he would get a meal that day. Gohan, on the other hand, actually broke the fourth wall and introduced himself to readers by looking directly at them and saying that his name was Gohan, and he wanted to be a scholar when he grew up. While Goku was a wild child, Gohan was an aspiring academic, and that status quo remained unchanged throughout most of the series–until Gohan proved that he wasn’t so different from his father after all.

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In Dragon Ball chapter 423 by Akira Toriyama, a sixteen-year-old Gohan is attending his first day of classes at a new high school, and he is determined to not let any of them know that he, essentially, has superpowers. At this point in Gohan’s life, he hasn’t engaged in a deadly battle since his father, Goku, died fighting Cell–and for the most part, he intended to keep it that way. However, in a truly hilarious sequence during Gohan’s gym class that day, he doesn’t do a very good job hiding his god-tier power–though if one were to ask him, he’d assuredly disagree.

Gohan Inherited Goku’s Level of Hilarious Cluelessness

DBZ: Gohan isn't smarter than Goku.

During Gohan’s gym class, he and his classmates were playing a game of baseball, and right from the start, it was clear Gohan had an edge over everyone else. For starters, Gohan jumped impossibly high to catch a ball that should have been a homerun, then he thinks to himself that using his abilities like that was risky, and if he did something like that again, someone might notice. Fun fact: everyone noticed immediately. Then, when it was Gohan’s turn to bat, he got pegged in the face by the pitcher. The pitcher did this on purpose in the hopes of injuring Gohan so he’d be out of the game (plus he’s just a generic bully), but much to his and the rest of the class’ shock, Gohan didn’t even flinch. After training with Piccolo to getting assaulted by Vegeta to tangling with Frieza and then finally taking on Cell, all practically before the age of ten, a baseball to the face–unless it was thrown by Lord Beerus–isn’t going to do much to Gohan. However, getting hit in the head like that would cause a potentially serious injury if Gohan were a normal person, like how he was pretending to be.

When Gohan gets to walk to first base since he was hit by the pitcher, he commends himself on how good he’s doing blending in, and how no one suspects that he’s basically a superhero. With how smart Gohan is constantly being presented, he really doesn’t seem all that bright in this chapter. In fact, his blatant naivete and imperceptiveness is incredibly reminiscent of Goku. Everything Gohan did in this chapter–from showing off his abilities to not being aware that he’s being hilariously conspicuous–seems like something Goku would do if he were in a similar situation based on all the evidence supporting his airheadedness throughout Dragon Ball–proving that Gohan was never actually smarter than Goku, just a bit more well-read.

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