Thanks Dragon Ball Heroes and plenty of non-canon stories, almost every popular Saiyan has turned Super Saiyan at one point or another – but multiverse shenanigans aside, there are a number of surprising Saiyans who never unlocked a form in canon, or even a spin-off. Between Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Superand Dragon Ball GTit's kind of shocking which characters the franchise decided to skip giving forms.
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As of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, Ultra Instinct Goku is weaker than his rival, his son, and even the other main villain of the series.
At the end of the Majin Buu Saga, the transformation turns into a “Super Saiyan Bargain Sale” to quote Vegeta. Even Goten and Kid Trunks can turn Super Saiyan with minimal training, despite never going through the great stresses their fathers did to achieve their forms. Throw in S-cells from Dragon Ball Superand Super Saiyan becomes even less special. The irony is that it's only more special for the few Saiyans who never got the chance to turn SSJ.
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Paragus is barely stronger than Nappa in Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Because the Nappa only has a 4,000-inch power level Dragon Ball Zthis technically makes the Paragus stronger with its power level of 4,400 inches Dragon Ball Super: Broly. It's possible that Paragus was even stronger in his prime, as his son Broly was born with a staggering power level of 10,000 and eventually became strong enough to nearly defeat Super Saiyan God Goku in his base form.
Either way, Paragus himself doesn't have the potential or raw power that Broly has. Until then Dragon Ball Super: BrolyParagus is a tired old man trying to keep his son under control. The closest he gets to Super Saiyan is when Frieza kills him to force Broly to transform while fighting Goku and Vegeta near the climax of the movie.
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Bardock was never strong enough to turn Super Saiyan in Dragon Ball's Canon
While Bardock turned Super Saiyan in a non-canon (and frankly terrible) The Bardock episodethe real Bardock of the two Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super he just never had the potential to turn Super Saiyan. Saiyans from Bardock's time rarely, if ever, underwent Zenkai enhancements. They either stopped all their battles or died in the process.
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IN Dragon Ball Superthe only major Zenkai boost Bardock experiences is during his fight with Gas, where he unlocks a new state very similar to Ultra Instinct. Unfortunately, Bardock receives this boost shortly before he returns to Planet Vegeta, sends Goku to Earth, and is then killed in a rebellion against Frieza.
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King Vegeta was defeated by his own son when Vegeta was a child
King Vegeta may be the ruler of Planet Vegeta, but he's hardly the strongest saiyan in existence. According to Vegeta during the Frieza saga, Vegeta surpassed his own father when he was a boy. Since Vegeta's power level is 18000 at the start Dragon Ball Zit's safe to say King Vegeta was in the low five figure range and never stronger.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly doubles down on this idea by having King Vegeta react in shock when the explorers take little Broly's power level to 10,000. Like Bardock, King Vegeta never had the potential to turn Super Saiyan. Vegeta wasn't even a fighter himself, primarily sticking to politics while letting the lower class Saiyans and his son's royal guard do the heavy lifting. In all context, Frieza is effortlessly killed by King Vegeta during the destruction of Planet Vegeta.
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Turles' power level of 300,000 made him even stronger than Goku on Namek (Pre-Frieza Saga)
Turles is a non-canon villain Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might and one of the few Saiyans in the entire series to never get a Super Saiyan form in side material such as Dragon Ball Heroes. Instead, Turles almost always gets his own unique transformations rooted in the Tree of Might's Fruit. Fruit of the Tree of Might has the power to increase the consumer's Power Level to absurd proportions.
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IN Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of MightEating one fruit is enough to raise Turles Power Level from 19,000 (barely stronger than Vegeta in the Saiyan Saga) to a whopping 300,000 (barely weaker than Frieza at the start of the Namek Saga). If Turles continued to eat the Fruit of the Tree of Might, his power level would skyrocket into the millions, surpassing not only Final Form Frieza, but even Super Saiyan Goku. No wonder Turles never needed the Super Saiyan form.
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Pan is the strongest saiyan in history who never turned into a super saiyan
If there is a Pan in something Dragon Ball Super has in common with Mr. z Dragon Ball GTit's that not a single character has ever gone Super Saiyan. Despite being the single strongest female Saiyan v Dragon Ball history, Pan is far from unlocking his first transformation. Dragon Ball GT infamously refused to give Pan a Super Saiyan form because the writers wanted to use her as a damsel in distress for Goku to save.
This is especially confusing given that Pan has several moments in it DBGT where turning Super Saiyan would make perfect sense. From Dragon Ball Super: Super HeroPan is the character with the most potential in the series, aside from Uuba. Once Dragon Ball Super comes back and goes through the Peaceful World saga, Toyotarou needs to fix Dragon Ball GT's mistake and ended up having Pan turn Super Saiyan.
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Akira Toriyama
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Dragon Ball
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Dragon Ball DAIMA
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Dragon Ball DAIMA
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February 26, 1986
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