

So I am going through and rewatching Dragonball Z with my wife and noticed
something. When Goku is fighting Freiza as a SSJ, he gets sent into lava
during the process of King Kai's wish for bringing back everyone that "Frieza
and his henchmen killed".

**So my first question is:**

`Did Goku die in this moment?` Seems that the events went as follows:

  1. King Kai starts wish
  2. Goku goes into lava and dies.
  3. Goku is brought back to life from King Kai's wish
  4. Goku is much more powerful and full of energy (finally having the edge over Freiza vs before these events when it was a pretty much stalemate)

This makes me think that `yes Goku died` but then this reveals a plot hole as
the wish was made with the earth dragonballs which were stated many times to
not be able to revive someone already revived from them before. Well Goku was
revived for the Vegeta / Nappa arc already. Plot hole?

**Second question:**

After Namek blows up it is said by King Kai if someone were to be wished back
they would appear wherever they died and basically making it so Goku can't be
wished back since Namek is gone but later Vegeta states they can wish someone
back to the Earth's check-in station and then wished back to life.

So they do they following 3 wishes:

  1. Ask for Krillin to be wished to the Earth's check-in station
  2. Wish Krillin back to life. Seems to work based on rules.
  3. Wish Yamcha back to life. He doesn't have to be wished to the check-in station as well?

Is this because Yamcha was in a "safe place"? `Why did't they need two wishes
like they did with Krillin?`

FYI, even though I know many documented plot holes exist, and I could very
well be wrong with my logic above, I enjoy learning things that I may have
missed and having the discussion at least


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Did Goku actually die near end of Frieza saga? Plothole?


To answer your first question, _Goku never dies in the Frieza Saga_

This issue is mainly because of a few changes in the anime from the original
manga. In the manga basically, Freeza rushes Goku suddenly and knocks him into
the ocean(there is no lava) and during the interval of all this happening,
Shenron is called to grant the wishes and Goku meanwhile resurfaces and
resumes fighting Frieza. In the anime, they did make a few changes and I
believe it is only out of sheer coincidence Goku emerged out of the lava when
the wish was made. Plus this is technically filler and Goku never dies in the
Frieza Saga and even if he did, he cannot be revived as he was already revived
when he was killed during his fight with Raditz at the start of the Saiyan
saga.

With regard to your second question, Krillin died on Namek while Yamcha died
on earth.

So these aren't necessarily plot holes.


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