Dragon Ball FighterZ' roster is always expanding, with new characters being introduced relatively frequently. The most recent addition is Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, a powerful fighter whose status as a non-canon GT character means his true strength is hard to measure. While most fans have been absolutely loving his unique design and playstyle, many noticed that it makes an age old FighterZ problem even worse. The game is notorious for including numerous variations of Dragon Ball's main protagonist Goku as separate fighters, and this new inclusion only makes that problem worse. After Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, there are almost too many Gokus on the roster to count.
In many Dragon Ball games, there might only be one playable character for Goku that is able to unlock various forms as players progress. In these cases, Base Goku, Super Saiyan Goku, Super Saiyan Blue Goku, and other forms would all be one character with several transformations. Dragon Ball FighterZ takes a different approach though, making all of these various forms completely separate characters with unique moves and capabilities. While this is nice because it provides more options for players, it means that there are more Goku characters than any other in the game.
Dragon Ball FighterZ - True Goku Characters
The first category of Gokus are True Goku characters. These are fighters that are actually Goku himself, albeit in one of many different forms or time periods. This long list includes Base Goku, Super Saiyan Goku, Super Saiyan Blue Goku, Kid Goku (GT), and Ultra Instinct Goku. Astute fans will notice that this covers Goku throughout every period of his life, including non-canon entries like Dragon Ball: GT. This does of course skip over the original Dragon Ball's incarnation of Kid Goku, as there isn't much of that content covered in Dragon Ball FighterZ.
Surprisingly, the only forms of Goku's that aren't represented in this list are Super Saiyan 2 and Super Saiyan God. Base Goku is capable of using Kaioken, and Super Saiyan Goku can transform into Super Saiyan 3. Likewise, Super Saiyan Blue Goku can use Super Saiyan Blue Kaioken, and Kid Goku (GT) is capable of transforming into his Super Saiyan 4 form briefly. Despite this, most fans would probably prefer having other, non-Goku characters introduced in further DLC instead of Super Saiyan 2 or Super Saiyan God versions of him. As strange as it is to have so many incarnations of the same character, they do all play differently from one another.
Dragon Ball FighterZ - Goku Clones
The next subset of characters that could be considered are the Goku clone characters. Most notably, this includes Goku Black, a villain that used the power of the Dragon Balls to steal Goku's body. Aside from his clothing, Goku Black's appearance is identical to that of all the other Gokus, and he is able to access his Super Saiyan Rose form. This Goku has the aid of Zamasu, an alternate version of himself from a different timeline when in battle.
The other character that could be considered a Goku clone is Bardock, who is in fact Goku's father. Although these two are actually different characters, their appearances are virtually identical. Bardock is capable of going Super Saiyan under the right circumstances, but beyond that the two are very different fighters. This makes sense given that Goku was trained by Master Roshi on Earth whereas Bardock would have learned to fight in the traditional Saiyan manner. It still doesn't help Dragon Ball FighterZ that they look almost the same, as many simply refer to Bardock as yet another Goku clone.
Dragon Ball FighterZ - Goku Fusions
Goku fusions are characters that don't look like Goku per se, but they are by definition 50% Goku. This is any fusion character that is made when Goku fuses with another, and there are a surprisingly high number of them in the game. The first of these characters is Vegito Blue, the result of Goku and Vegeta fusing with the Potara Earrings. Later, Dragon Ball FighterZ introduced the other fusion between Goku and Vegeta, Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta. This is the result of the two Saiyans using the Metamoran Fusion Dance to fuse instead.
The latest DLC character is Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. This is theoretically the exact same character as Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta, but it is from the non-canon Dragon Ball: GT. Since Goku and Vegeta never learned the Super Saiyan God transformations in that story, they instead rely on Super Saiyan 4. Finally, one other character can technically be considered a Goku fusion, even though they don't look anything like Goku. Fused Zamasu is the fusion of Zamasu and Goku Black via the Potara Earrings, meaning this character is also 50% Goku depending on how players look at it.
Dragon Ball FighterZ - Goku and Vegeta
By all accounts, that is 11 out of 43 characters that are all Goku in one way or another. More than a quarter of the roster of the game is just various forms of Goku, and the statistic gets even worse when considering Vegeta as well. Aside from all of the aforementioned fusions that include Vegeta, there are also four other characters that are variations of the Saiyan Prince. This includes Base Vegeta, Super Saiyan Vegeta, Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta, and Super Baby 2. Counting these fighters, Goku and Vegeta count for more than a third of all playable characters in Dragon Ball FighterZ.
These characters are beloved, so it isn't necessarily a problem that there are so many versions of them, but fans would be forgiven for wanting to see some other characters get represented. For a while now, players have been asking for characters like Omega Shenron from Dragon Ball: GT or Top from Dragon Ball Super. It would also be very interesting to see Future Mai represented as a playable character in a similar way to how Videl was included. Instead of calling in Gohan as an assist, Future Mai could rely on Future Trunks. At the moment, it doesn't seem as though there will be any more Goku characters added, but that could always change in the future.
Dragon Ball FighterZ is available now on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.