Kanzenshuu

On the subject of 'in jokes', while re-watching some episodes I noticed that Red and Black were making the Great Sayiaman movie. Not seeing the original DB until this year, I had never noticed that before.

In fairness, my main question was about Vegeta. I was just curious if there was a reason there were insider references despite being pretty sure there wasn't.

A few questions...

Was Vegeta as popular in Japan as he seems here? I ask this because he seems like such an absolute jobber (excuse the wrestling-speak) in the movies. Outside of his debut in #6, it's pretty much all downhill. I understand his whining and moaning about being helpless in #8 was ...

It is an 80s wrestling sounding name. You can almost see him making puns on sending people to hell, and so forth.

On the other hand, the idea of someone having the surname "Satan" is possibly even more interesting. Send him to some of the more right-wing areas of the US, and sit back and watch the ...

I believe on the Uncut Dub where Ghoan first goes to High School, he refers to Mr. Satan as "Hercule Satan" a few times. That's just dub canon though, and the idea of "Mr. Satan" just being a wrestling gimmick is an interesting question.