Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11276487-20130713191715/@comment-16577613-20130715093832

I think he should have been the main hero in the whole Dragon Ball Z series(He was the main hero for some Sagas), so Dragon Ball could have been the story of Goku and Z the story of Gohan, though in Z since everyone died all the time, it was never really that clear who the main character was.