

After defeating Cell, they revived all his victims using Shenron. But Shenron
could not revive Goku, as he already revived once. Then, Goku contacted them
using King Kai's telepathy and asked them not to revive him.

The question is, would it have been possible to revive him somehow (at that
point of the story) if he were not against it?


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Could Goku have been revived if he really wanted, after dying fighting Cell?


Unlike the Dragon Balls on Earth, the Dragon Balls of Namek are not restricted
to reviving someone once. During the fight with Kid Buu, Goku and all the
people Buu killed on Earth as well as the planet itself were revived by having
the Namekians collect the Dragon Balls.

So yes, Goku could and was revived again by the Namekian Dragon Balls.


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  1. Goku brought Dende to earth before he died in the fight against Cell, so they got two wishes. So, they could have used the second wish to go to Namek, then use one wish there to revive Goku and Kaito and use another to go back to earth. 
  2. Goku could have communicated with the Namekians to ask them to revive him.
  3. Dende could have changed the Dragon Balls to make such wishes come true. Note that the Namekians made Porunga (Namekian Dragon) more powerful, so that he can revive multiple persons with one wish. 
  4. They could use the stupid-looking idea from Krillin and just turn back time multiple days so that Goku could train more and could even beat Cell, then he wouldn't die in the first place.

So yes, there would have been multiple ways to revive Goku at this time.


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Goku couldn't have been revived because there were no dragon balls and no one
knew were new namek was,and instant transmission was still limited by distance
so even if Goku wanted to be brought back to life there would still be no
possible way. Even if you include GT Goku was still brought back to life once
so the black star dragon balls could not have brought Goku back to life.


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