Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack

The Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack is the most Gotenks technique imaginable: childish, absurd, and devastatingly effective. The user expels Kamikaze Ghosts from their mouth (yes, by burping), and each ghost is a semi-transparent duplicate of the creator's head mounted on a small ghostly body. These ghosts are not mindless projectiles. They have personalities, can talk, follow orders, and even make their own decisions. They are also extremely touch-sensitive. The instant anything makes physical contact with a ghost, it detonates in a massive explosion.

This touch sensitivity is both the technique's greatest strength and its most hilarious weakness. In one memorable incident, two ghosts high-fived each other and both exploded before reaching their target. Each ghost's explosive power scales with the user's power level, meaning a Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks produces significantly more dangerous ghosts than his base form.

Gotenks debuts the technique against Super Buu, releasing ten ghosts in what becomes the Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack 10 Ghost Finish. The ghosts swarm Super Buu and detonate in rapid succession, dealing real damage to the seemingly indestructible Majin. Later, Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks creates a Balloon Flash Bomber, a giant energy balloon that breaks apart into fourteen individual ghosts for an even more devastating assault.

Buu Steals the Show

After absorbing Gotenks and Piccolo, Super Buu gains the ability to use the technique himself. His version is arguably scarier, because his ghosts can fire Kamehameha and Masenko blasts before detonating. In Fusion Reborn, Gotenks takes the concept to its absolute extreme with the Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack 100 Ghost Finish, unleashing an army of one hundred ghosts to wipe out the Dictator and his undead soldiers attacking Satan City.

The Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack perfectly encapsulates what makes Gotenks such a unique character. He is the fusion of two kids who inherited their fathers' fighting genius but filtered it through the creativity and recklessness of youth. No adult warrior would ever think to burp out explosive ghost clones of themselves, and that is exactly why the technique works. Opponents simply have no frame of reference for dealing with self-aware, conversational explosives that can chase them down independently.

The technique has become a staple in Dragon Ball video games, particularly the Xenoverse and Budokai Tenkaichi series, where the 5 Ghost Finish version serves as Gotenks' Ultimate Skill. Its popularity speaks to how well it captures the spirit of the Buu Saga: a conflict where the most powerful beings in the universe are defeated not by raw strength but by unpredictability and sheer creative nonsense.