transformations/Forms History

Super Saiyan God

Other names:Sūpā Saiya-jin Goddo,超スーパーサイヤ人じんゴッド,God Mode,
Super Saiyajin God,Super Saiyan Red,
Saiyan Red,Saiyan God,SSG,SSJG,
Legendary Super Saiyan God,
Legendary Saiyan,Red-haired Saiyan form,God of Saiyans

Inventor:Yamoshi
Users:Super Saiyan God,Goku/Goku (Goku Black's timeline)/Unnumbered Goku,Vegeta,Xeno Trunks,Future Warrior,Dragon Ball Heroes avatars,
Shallot,Giblet,Shallet
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Oc users:Brockton Lincoln,queen Alicia,monkey king,legenan,king vinus,future Majin Vegeta,bill Henderson,Goku prime

Information:is a Saiyan transformation that grants the user godly ki,providing them with a power boost beyond Super Saiyan 3 and its predecessors. It is initially obtained through a ritual involving six righteous Saiyans or special divine training.|Trained users can further combine this form with the first Super Saiyan transformation, attaining the more powerful Super Saiyan Blue or Super Saiyan Rosé form (depending on the user's status and ki).

According to interviews with the Battle of Gods character designer, Tadayoshi Yamamuro,the original concept for Super Saiyan God,had the form being more muscular wearing a cape and with a hairstyle in-between Super Saiyan 3 and Super Saiyan 4. The series' original author,Akira Toriyama,came up with a picture of Super Saiyan God that was completely different than Yamamuro's own initial muscular,cloaked and probably golden haired design. They went back and forth like this a bit before settling on the final design, and Toriyama was insistent on the form not being too different from Goku's regular appearance, specifically not being really muscular.

The "Super Saiyan God" is the legend among legends of the warrior race, the Saiyans. The power of six good- hearted Saiyans must be infused for one of them to achieve this legendary form. As Shenron explains to the Dragon Team and company,a Super Saiyan God once appeared on Planet Vegeta to stop the evil Saiyans but he failed because of the form's time limit. The Namekians were aware of the Super Saiyan God and wrote of the method to achieve the form in their book of legends. When in this form the Saiyan's general appearance has only slight differences:the most notable change is the slight pink skin tone (similar to the usage of Fury) and hair that is a shade of red.

In this form Goku possesses magenta- red hair (identical to his fur as a Super Saiyan 4) while Vegeta possesses crimson red hair. The hair retains its natural style but becomes more refined (losing any stray hairs). The Saiyan's eyes become more detailed and the irises become red (appearing as more relaxed even in battle until sufficiently angered). The overall body structure appears to become younger and thinner in frame and build,though this is not the case for the Future Warrior and Shallot,as their musculature stays the same in their Super Saiyan God forms. The aura of the Super Saiyan God resembles a raging fire.

A Saiyan becomes cool-headed when in this form.| the ritual is needed in order to achieve the Super Saiyan God transformation. It requires five righteous Saiyans to perform and a sixth Saiyan to channel the ritual and ki into, each as Super Saiyan. But the ritual instructions are easy to misinterpret as only requiring five Saiyans,which is why it failed the first time Goku attempted it,although it did temporarily increase Goku's power. Six righteous Saiyans hold hands in a circle and transfer their ki into the Saiyan who is becoming the Saiyan God. After this process,a blue fiery aura will appear throughout the circle,signifying the ritual is working. The Saiyan who is becoming the Super Saiyan God will ascend and transform into the actual form.

to perform the ritual the six righteous Saiyans gather in a circle, all holding hands in the process. The selected Saiyan to ascend will have the two Saiyans next to the target place their palms on the user's back, while the user faces away from the group. Next instead of concentrating their ki into the body,they must "pour their heart" (inner light in the dub) into them. Blue aura appears around the group,shrouding each individual in the ritual. If done correctly a yellow flame-like beam emitting from the group - in the dub Beerus states it to be "divine energy" - shoots up into the sky and golden colored clouds start to emerge. They began to spread across the blue sky,eventually covering it completely after a few minutes. The sea changes into a golden hue as well,becoming violent and forming huge whirlpools. At this point the user begins to experience a significant amount of pain. A blue aura starts to appear from one of the Saiyans,eventually transferring it into the Saiyan who is about to become god through the other five Saiyans. After this another beam shoots up from the one who absorbed the blue aura,which causes some of the clouds to dissipate and leave an enormous hole. The weather rapidly changes over and over in a matter of seconds,changing from rain to hail to a thunderstorm to clear during which a few days appear to pass to snow and clear again. The user rises up and becomes a pinkish-red silhouette of themselves. Next the user becomes a shadowy figure,before emitting a huge light and appearing again in their natural form. The end result is the user's ascension into the Super Saiyan God form.