Pan (Dragon Ball)

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Pan

Japanese	パン
Romaji	Pan
Anime Name	Pan
Manga Name	Pan
Alternate Name(s)	Son Pan
First Appearance	Chapter #518 (DBZ Chapter #324) DBZ Episode #289
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Race	Human-Saiyan
Family Son Gohan (Father) Videl (Mother) Son Goku (Paternal Grandfather) Raditz (Paternal Great Uncle) Mr. Satan (Maternal Grandfather) Chi-Chi (Paternal Grandmother) Son Goten (Paternal Uncle) Son Goku Jr. (Grandson) Ox King (Great Grandfather) Burdock (Great Grandfather)
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Pan (パン), or more properly Son Pan, is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Dragon Ball Z, as well as Dragon Ball GT. She is a Human-Saiyan quarterbreed.
She is voiced by Elise Baughman in the FUNimation dub.

1 Biography
2 Family tree
3 Video games
4 Notes and references

[edit] Biography

A young Pan eating an ice cream in Dragon Ball Z.

Pan is the daughter of Videl and Son Gohan, which also means that she is the granddaughter of both Son Goku and Mr. Satan. In her infancy she spent a lot of time with Goku, so she trained a lot. When she was 4 years old she was already regularly flying around the world, and attempting to beat her best times. Pan is also good friends with Vegeta and Bulma's daughter Bra. When Goku leaves at the end of the Dragon Ball Z series, to train Uub, he also leaves behind the very impressionable Pan who develops anger towards Goku for failing to keep his promise to visit his family and friends.

From the closing scenes of the Dragon Ball Z anime, she is fighting Goten and appears to be victorious as Trunks holds her hand up in victory. However, this wasn't an official match, as indicated by the "Canceled" sign (translated on the FUNimation DVD's Japanese version) above the outside of the arena and the concept that the crowd was departing. It was basically just Goten and Pan playing around in a pretend fight, with the latter surprising her Uncle.

During Dragon Ball GT, Pan goes into outer space with Goku and Trunks in order to find the Black Star Dragonballs. This was not intentional, Goten was supposed to take her place, but she hit the launch button on the space ship before he had boarded. She develops quite an attitude, and gets into a lot of trouble on different planets. Giru, the helpful little robot who travels with them, tries to protect Pan, but usually ends up getting yelled at by Pan. However, deep down Pan really has feelings for the little bot.

Pan, 100 years after the end of DBGT

The very last part of the series' timeline shows Pan as an old lady with a grandson called Goku Junior.

It should be noted that Pan's name comes from the Pan of Roman (as well as others) mythology. That means that, at first glance, she appears to have been named after her mother Videl rather than her father Gohan. However, closer inspection reveals a double-pun on behalf of author Akira Toriyama, in that Pan is also the Japanese and Spanish word for bread,^[1] continuing her father's food-based name as well as her mother's god-religion-based name.