Doctor. wrote:
Doesn't Vegeta later on do the same thing, though?
That's just them concentrating their power, either for display or for being more effective in their attacks. If Goku had a scouter, their power level wouldn't change a bit.
What the Earthlings do is different. In one moment, they just have X power, and the rest is "stored", thus the scouter only picks up on the X power. But when they bring out what they had stored, the scouter suddenly picks up all of it. Thus, they change their power level.
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:
Yeah, he didn't try to desperately kill Goku, even though he was getting tired & weaker and Goku showed him mercy and left... and even after he got sliced in half by his own attack, and was given mercy & some energy for Goku to leave, he didn't waste it in a stupid attack...
That was Freeza breaking down after being bested for the first time in his life. He was freaking out and that's why he attacked Goku. In the heat of that moment, it is understandable why he just freaked out instead of being smarter. What is not understandable is Freeza, when not in the heat of the moment, taking weeks or months to get to Earth and taking significant precautions to face-off against Goku after being nearly killed by him, instead of just spending that time training and becoming Beerus level like he knew he could.
Like I said, Freeza being arrogant and all that is indeed in the manga, but that's not all of him the manga shows, and never to the idiotic level this movie portrays.
As much as I like Freeza, he was always a lazy & arrogant fool in the manga. Goku told him to train, yet he felt he was fine with his cybernetic power-up.
You have no idea if Freeza is stronger because he has robot parts now. It is never said why Freeza is stronger now. For all we know, he could have actually trained to increase his power to a level he thought would best Goku. You are just assuming that he didn't and extrapolating a conclusion based on that unconfirmed assumption.
Anyway, like I said, my point is not that he isn't arrogant and that he doesn't prefer to have others do his bidding than doing stuff himself. My point is that
that's not all he is, but he movie portrays him as only ever being just an arrogant, stupid, lazy fool.
Freeza is cautious, but he isn't 100% cautious.
And I never claimed he was 100% cautious. If he was, he would have left Goku alone and he would never challenge him. But just like he isn't simply an arrogant dictator that likes to have others do his bidding, he also isn't just a cautious planner. His personality embodies all of these elements together. The problem with the movie is that it makes his arrogance and lazy part completely overblown, portraying him to an idiotic level that was never in the manga, and reducing him to just arrogance and laziness, when he was more before.
