MyVisionity wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:22 pm
jjgp1112 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:36 pm
Vegeta was a far bigger threat than Daimao - he literally tried to blow up the Earth in a temper tantrum and had Gohan's tail not grown back, everyone would have been dead.
Koitsukai wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:51 pm
I'm lost for words, Vegeta got Kami killed, the whole gang died, the DBs got turned into stone, they had to go to another planet for the first time... he even killed the guy that he came to Earth with.
That's all incidental or technical. Vegeta was never portrayed as being the big supervillain that Daimao and the others were. It's just the writing. He wasn't a legendary demon lord who unleashed Hell upon the Earth. He wasn't a galactic overlord and master of evil like Freeza, an unstoppable monster like Cell, or an ancient incarnation of death like Boo. Vegeta's character doesn't measure up to theirs in those respects, and the writing doesn't give his story that kind of scale or magnitude.
That's why it makes sense that Vegeta didn't meet the same fate as the others. He wasn't like them to begin with. And then afterwards he was put on the path to redemption, with the rest of DBZ featuring his journey.
Vegeta was an intergalactic space pirate who had presumably conquered an innumerable amount of worlds and was coming to Earth with the purpose of stealing the Dragon Balls and
killing everyone there. He was also the big bad of the entire race of people that Goku came from. No prior villain was bigger than him in scale or had a comparable rap sheet, and worse yet, it was all just an unremarkable job in Vegeta's eyes. Hell, even Daimao cared about his underlings, albeit in a narcissistic way, and Vegeta went and killed or disregarded his just to set him further apart in the evil scale.
The worst thing Piccolo Daimao did was plunge the Earth into terror for a few brief periods of time. For Vegeta, that terror was just another day at the office. Tuesday.
No matter how you try to spin at,
VEGETA WAS EVIL. He did evil things, he had evil desires, he enjoyed it, and killed trillions of people. Just because he had the ability to behave himself when he had no motive doesn't make him less evil - it just means he has better self control. High-functioning sociopaths have a sense of logic that allows them to dial it back and even cooperate with others if it's in their best interest. But being capable of killing innocent people so you can achieve a selfish goal (in this case, becoming immortal so he could take the Space Hitler crown) is fucking
evil, I don't how much clearer it needs to be made. He deserved the worst punishment.
Yamcha: Do you remember the spell to release him - do you know all the words?
Bulma: Of course! I'm not gonna pull a Frieza and screw it up!
Master Roshi: Bulma, I think Frieza failed because he wore too many clothes!
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