DanielSSJ wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 12:23 pm
I like to assume that it had something to do with Goku being in the afterlife. We know from this arc that performing SS3 with a living body is significantly more taxing than it is for someone who is dead, so it stands to reason that the same would hold true when it comes to attaining the form in the first place.
The problem is that Goku made it clear that he didn't want Boo to be awakened, and he was going all out, and he went SS2 against Vegeta, then when Vegeta goes SS2 as well, Goku looks surprised and a bit annoyed at it, which gives the impression Goku wasn't interested in a fair fair and was willing to overwhelm Vegeta, then he uses SS3 against Boo just to distract him for a minute?
His excuse later on is that he was saving it just in case, but that's stupid because Vegeta becoming possessed was the worst possible situation at the moment, so he really shouldn't have held back, that situation just can't work with in-universe logic.
As for Vegeta's stuff, honestly, DB is a world where characters easily forgive each other, Piccolo and Vegeta are the standout examples, since Piccolo killed Krillin and Chiaotzu, overthrew the government, was planning to kill everyone on the planet, almost killed Tien and Goku, tried to kill Goku again in 23rd tournament, kidnapped Gohan, abandoned him in the middle of nowhere, forced him to train, forced him to fight, and nobody holds it against Piccolo for doing all of those horrible things, Gohan himself keeps saying that Piccolo isn't that bad, when Piccolo was nothing but an abusive, violent asshole as far as we've seen before he sacrifices himself.
After the sacrifice, Piccolo melows out and is actually helpful, and after a while, Tien even basically says "Oh yeah, Piccolo was evil", completely forgetting somehow that Piccolo almost killed him, and had killed Chiaotzu.
Of course, Vegeta was worse than Piccolo and was the groups evil member for the longest, and mostly only got in the way in Cell and Boo sagas, but again, DB is a world where characters get easily forgiven by the main characters if the character actually mean it, so, I don't see why it's so problematic for Vegeta to get forgiven when the writing itself is dumb enough to have that as a pattern, it's a dumb world working under dumb values, doing thing Goku's way is usually the best possible outcome, even if common sense says "That should get all of them killed but the plot armor is too strong", so yeah, as dumb as it is for a genocider like Vegeta to get forgiven, uh, that's how that world works, and fact they have someone like Beerus hanging around now, who tried to kill the planet for the dumbest reasons and might still be an active genocider... Yeah, again, dumb world lol.
