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by Naughty Kinto Un » Fri Jan 04, 2013 6:23 pm
Wait. Wait.
About Birisu leaving the destruction work in the hands of Freeza while he sleeps, assuming the destruction of whole planets is the object:
Does this mean that Freeza eliminated planets on a regular basis? Sure, Freeza did wipe out entire populations, and it's conceivable he let a planet or two be razed to nothing thanks to environmentally negligent business practices, and, of course, he obliterated planets like Vegeta for pragmatic reasons, like if they posed a threat to his dominion. But I'd have to believe that the latter two explanations were rare occurrences and that habitually destroying whole planets would be extremely unprofitable and unsavory to Freeza as an intergalactic real estate developer. Livable planets are Freeza's bread and butter. Considering the size of his operation, they're goldmines. As a successful businessman, would Freeza be crazy or dumb enough to be constantly throwing away money like that? Except when he was being pummeled to the dust by a monkey-butt Super Saiya-jin, Freeza always struck me as a shrewd, level-headed businessman villain. Eliminating planets left and right seems out-of-character for Freeza.
Unless Freeza was acting under Birisu's direct orders. But Freeza didn't seem to be aware of anyone stronger than him except his father and, later on, Goku. And if Freeza was aware of Birisu, I can't picture him accepting Birisu as his superior. Instead I picture him getting killed trying to stubbornly prove otherwise.
Unless maybe Freeza absolutely reveres Birisu as a deity, so fanatically worships him on a spiritual level, that his usually narrow conceits are eclipsed here. That would be interesting to see Freeza genuinely humbled by someone he considers larger than himself. More interesting if Birisu's a god Freeza's family worships, partly shaping the destructive monster Freeza was.
Or maybe, returning to the notion that he cannot accept Birisu's supremacy, Freeza was biding his time while he served under the God of Destruction. Maybe, in fact, Freeza's doomed search for immortality directly ties in with his trying to find a way to escape Birisu's hold over him. Sort of mirroring Vegeta's own situation with Freeza.
Yeah, yeah. I know I'm over-thinking all of this, working on flimsy assumptions based on scant information. For all I know, it has nothing to do with the total destruction of planets -- I just have that stuck in my head. And I strongly doubt the filmmakers will go into that much depth with Freeza and Birisu's relationship. But, y'know, it's fun to fanwan--er, speculate.
Still...
*Crosses fingers for religious fanatic Freeza*
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