batistabus wrote:On the topic of Vegeta "caring" about Planet Vegeta:
Freeza destroying the planet was an insult to Vegeta and his pride. Whether or not he cared about the physical space itself or the people who inhabited it, that was what upset him the most.
Anyway, doesn't Vegeta's dying speech where he begs Goku to defeat Freeza pretty much put the lie to the idea that he doesn't actually care about his people or home planet, regardless of his earlier claims not to? In the Bardock special he seems unmoved when he gets the news that his planet and race are gone, but there he's only told it was due to a meteor impact, a natural disaster where nobody's to blame. He might have had a very different reaction if he had been told then that Freeza was the true culprit.
Heck, even if we go with the idea that Vegeta has no emotional investment in his planet, it'd still be perfectly logical for him to not want to team up with the guy who blew it up. I mean, he's a Saiyan, so why should he want to go back to working for the guy who killed all the other Saiyans? That's obviously not going to end well.
(Oh yeah, remember the meteor impact? We're told categorically that Planet Vegeta was wiped up by some meteor, and then a year or so later Toriyama switches it around so that actually Freeza's to blame. He covers pretty well with the whole "the meteor impact was just a cover story" idea, but still, why are fans surprised when random dialogue from the new movie doesn't gel 100% with random dialogue from material made 20+ years ago?)
