Deep Thought wrote:The only thing that goes on in that pea-brain sized noggin of his is "DEFEAT KAKARROT, TRAIN, NEED TO KILL KAKARROT BECAUSE THAT WILL SOLVE ALL OF MY INSECURITIES AND I WILL BE THE BEST!" Ugh, it makes me cringe, it really does. In the Freeza saga, that wasn't his only goal, but in the Freeza Saga, Vegeta was actually alright. I'll get into that later.
In the Freeza saga he couldn't care less about Goku. He was focused on defeating Freeza. He disliked Goku for being so close to his strength despite being a low class Saiyajin, but that's about it. His obsession with surpassing Goku didn't really kick in until Goku surpassed Freeza, I think, because that was really the moment that Vegeta realized Goku had surpassed him too. Before that, with kaioken, Goku had been able to scratch Vegeta. Then he went overboard and became an Oozaru. Even if he hadn't done that, he was still stronger than Goku already.
[quote[One of the problems that I have with Vegeta is that his role is uninspired. Piccolo already had the "Villain who wants revenge on Goku." The only thing is, Piccolo's reasons were much deeper than Vegeta's. Piccolo wanted to take revenge on Goku because his father died and it was his last dying wish then their would be an heir to destroy Goku. Vegeta wanted to kill Goku because he was butthurt over losing to him. That's basically it.[/quote]
As I said, it started out more like, "That low class Saiyajin became the legendary Super Saiyajin rather than Saiyajin royalty!?" Once he became a Super Saiyajin as well he was satisfied until Cell surpassed him. Then he was arguably more worried about getting stronger than Cell than anything else, until Gohan showed him that there was still something beyond the power of a Super Saiyajin.
Another thing that annoys me is that he is responsible for a lot of bad things. In the Freeza Saga, he cockily urges Freeza to transform. However, this is kind of minor and can be debated. However, in the Cell Saga, Vegeta let Cell turn Perfect. Pretty fucking unacceptable. However, the core of this shit pile lies in the Buu Saga. Vegeta HELPS Buu hatch, puts lives at risk, and sells his soul. Why? TO FIGHT GOKU! That's it. Not only that, but they might've fought anyway. However, Vegeta was too impatient to wait. Sounds like we're dealing with a brat that wants to go to the amusement park really badly to me.
Yep, he makes some pretty bad, selfish choices. But so does Goku, and Gohan to an extent.
Another thing that annoys me about Vegeta is his motivations, because they are untrue. Goku never even beat him in the Sayajin Saga. Vegeta beat him as soon as he transformed into an Oozaru.
Like I said above, he was angry at Goku, but more concerned about Freeza at that point. That was the whole reason he came to Earth in the first place. Oozaru was overkill, Goku had wrecked his body just doing a big enough kaioken to make Vegeta bleed a little. Vegeta would have won in the long run.
In short, Vegeta isn't perfect. He's an asshole really, obsessive, selfish. But hey, being an unlikable bastard doesn't necessarily make you a bad character.
