Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy

Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy
Cover for the English DVD release
Gokū Gaiden! Yūki no Akashi wa Sūshinchū (悟空外伝! 勇気の証しは四星球)
Anime television film
Directed by	Yoshihiro Ueda Hidehiko Kadota
Produced by	Kōzō Morishita Seiichi Hiruta Tōru Kawai
Written by	Atsushi Maekawa
Music by	Akihito Tokunaga
Studio	Toei Animation
Licensed by	NA Funimation
Original network	Fuji Television
Released	March 26, 1997
Runtime	46 minutes

Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy, known in Japan as Goku's Side Story! Si Xing Qiu is a Testament to Courage (Japanese: 悟空外伝! 勇気の証しは四星球, Hepburn: Gokū Gaiden! Yūki no Akashi wa Sūshinchū^?) is the only Dragon Ball GT television special, aired in Japan on March 26, 1997, between episodes 41 and 42. The events in this special are actually a prelude to events that take place at the very end of the last episode of the series. An English dub of the special was released on DVD by Funimation in the United States on November 16, 2004. A second English dub that features an unknown cast was produced by AB Groupe and aired on Toonami UK under the title Four-star Dragonball Is The Proof of Courage.

The special starts off with Baby's defeat at Super Saiyan 4 Goku's hands. The scene then advances 100 years into the future. All of the Z Fighters (Goku, Vegeta and their friends and families) have died of natural causes, except Pan, who is old. She has a grandson named Goku Jr., who resembles his great-great grandfather Goku but lacks the latter's courage and fighting spirit. Pan takes Goku Jr. to the cemetery to pay their respects to her grandfather. She then tries to get him to train, but he has no confidence and skills in anything. At school, he is bullied by Puck, a senior classmate, and his gang, who take his favorite pen. Pan is angry that Goku didn't fight back and is so carefree. This causes her blood pressure to rise and she faints, and is hospitalized.

Back home, Goku hopes his grandma won't die, but then remembers that he could retrieve a Dragon Ball to make Pan better again. The next morning, he sets out for the Dragon Ball and encounters Puck and his gang along the way. One of Puck's friends asks where Goku is headed, and he tells them Mount Paozu. Goku faces put-downs from the gang, telling him he can't go there because there are monsters of all sorts and that he is a coward. The continued put-downs eventually make him angry, and he tells them to get out of his way. He walks by the gang and proceeds down the road to Mount Paozu. After following the road for hours, he rests for a moment. A truck passes by, and the truck driver offers him a ride. Goku accepts the driver's offer. After driving for a while, the truck driver pulls over and tells Goku to relieve himself because the trip will be long. While Goku is doing his business, the driver empties his oversized book bag (which is full of food), and throws the bag onto Goku, and speeds off. Goku, surprised, shrugs it off and continues the long journey to Mount Paozu. He meets Puck yet again at a roadside grocery store, who tells him that he became bored and thought it was interesting if he went to Mount Paozu with him, admitting that it would be fun to see a big monster eat Goku.