Miracles wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 5:00 pm
Vegeta sacrificed himself selfishly for those he loved [Trunks, Bulma].
All atonement is effectively selfish because it's done to make yourself feel better. It doesn't change the fact this was the peak of Vegeta's growth as a character. Piccolo says it himself in the scene. That it's the first time Vegeta is fighting for someone
other than himself. Fighing for others, fighting for his family, had never been something he'd ever considered before. Not until this moment when he finally acknowledges his own humanity.
Even against Kidd Buu, he made earth take responsibility for Goku, saving it time and time again.
Which kinda shows that Vegeta hopes the Earth will become better. That it won't just be passive and do nothing but let others do all the work to protect it. It's the same reason why Vegeta didn't want them to bring Gohan there, since Ult. Gohan would be stronger than Kid Buu.
Against Moro, Vegeta himself atoned for Namek and the entire universe. Which accounts for his cosmos tyranny. Along, with Condemning himself and his actions, which was built off of the repentance he showed earlier in the arc to the Namekians.
And why is the rest of the universe being thrown in
HERE as part of his atonement instead of his actual
sacrifice against Buu, whom we know has been responsible for destroying countless worlds and would continue to do so under Babidi's command, or even just on his own?
This is the point that's being missed. The fact there is no reason why he should feel a reason to atone for the Namekians and somehow everyone else he ever hurt just because of this incident with Moro. There isn't a reason for it and no narrative reason why he wouldn't continue seeking atonement for all the other worlds and people he harmed. They're not getting munched on by Moro. They're either dead or part of Freeza's empire.
There is no reason why this is where he atones when it's nowhere near as emotional or as meaningful as his fight against Buu. It doesn't even come close and it doesn't resonate emotionally with the audience. It's just fabricated and forced.
This shows Vegeta made a complete turnaround. He was straight garbage in Namek, Android, Cell and even all of Buu. He fought for his pride and surpassing Kakarot. Until he admits all of this in the end of Buu. This is where his journey begins towards the path. Buu is nothing more than a build up to this point. What Vegeta did back then was a start, this current act just completes him.
This arc doesn't complete him at all. It reset his character so he could do the same atonement shtick all over again, only have it mean even less to the audience with even less of an impact. It is a lazy contrivance.
The narrative behind Vegeta's visit to Yardrat was for a specific technique to overcome Moro's absorption. That plot point was fulfilled. Vegeta can't help that Moro planned ahead with 7-3. Escalating the story's power level even higher. Hence why Vegeta gets knocked back into base. I don't see any problems with Toyotaro's writing on this point.
Again, it's a contrivance. Vegeta had no way of knowing of the Yardratians would have such a technique. It's the definition of a forced separation from the group. This is something I've already explained before. They already had all of this training before. With Whis. Whis taught them to control and hold all their energy inside their bodies, to stop it from leaking out. It was the only way in which they could move in that godly dimension they were sent to with his staff.
This lesson would easily have been the point of the development of a technique to stop Moro from draining them. By controlling their own energy they could keep it from being pulled from them by Moro. Thus eliminating Moro's advantage. Whis had even already told Vegeta that he could improve immensely by just relaxing himself more. Because him being tense all the time and overthinking his strategies in a fight causes him to waste too much energy.
These are details that go completely ignored by Toyotaro who just has the same ideas imparted to Vegeta on Yardrat, even though he's already been taught these things by Whis.
Now if Vegeta's fight is unsatisfying to you, fine. However, I'm satiated. Vegeta did what he was suppose to do. Doesn't mean he can't do more either. We'll have to see.
His fight isn't just unsatisfying. It's pointless. It holds no weight. They bullshitted a new power for Moro, effectively just turning him into Majin Buu by 'absorbing' people to gain power boosts and abilities. Something that just opens up a whole host of plotholes. Since if he could always do such a thing, why didn't he use this ability against Daikaio/Buu when DaiBuu could negate his energy draining and resist his magic? That would've restored him significantly and made him nigh-unstoppable right then and there.
This whole arc has been overly dragged out and we can pretty much say it's being done so intentionally until Toei/Shueisha is ready to make an announcement about the next DBS movie. They need to keep fan interest going until they have something solid to show. Considering the last episode of the Anime aired in March of 2018 with the Broly movie airing in Japan that Dec and the rest of the world getting in 4-6weeks later, then we've been Dragonball Less for almost a year and a half. Nothing but the Heroes episodes (which are boring) and the Manga, which is less than interesting.
The Kakarot game seemed to do ok, but people got quickly bored of it. Especially with how they just shoved BoG and other DBS material in there. So here we are, waiting for a new continuation of the anime and/or the next movie, and all we really have is Toyotaro's manga. And having it drag itself through a rancid swamp in the hopes of keeping the fans placated until Shueisha can prep a trailer to appease the fans.
