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Goku was a terrible father and husband. Yeah, he loved them, but he'd just up and abandon them at the drop of a hat if there was fighting or training that could be done. Didn't even care about being dead until there was a good fight to be had. His character flaw was definitely his love of a battle challenge above almost anything else.
On giving it some thought now that I'm older, I realise that Goku is a terrible father, husband, friend and person with absolutely no consistent ideology or even heroic drive - because he's a fucking golden retriever in a human body who chases fights instead of a ball
To be the greatest shonen "train to be the best" warrior in pop culture history, he had to be nothing but a shonen "train to be the best" warrior in his goals. Kind of fucked up. It'd be like being the ultimate parkour expert that only did parkour at the expense of everything and everyone else, nonstop.
I wanna be the very best like no one ever was