Baby Saiyans

[Turtle Marked Stone]

I was wondering when it comes to sending Saiyans off to other planets as babies (like newborns or 1 year olds): how do they expect him to conquer or work on conquering a planet? Obviously he can't get up and walk around so I'm assuming they rely on him turning into a Great Ape but what happens once the sun comes up? Does he just collapse where he is and sleep until night, rinse wash and repeat until he's grown? What do they do about food? As a 1 year old they can't exactly go hunting or climb trees for fruit. I'd be surprised if fighters weren't trying to stop the rampaging monster all through the night and once the sun came up they'd watch the Great Ape turn back into a baby and kill him. I'm assuming someone like Namu or Muten Roshi would have the ability to kill a newborn Goku and that's on Earth alone, a planet full of what Raditz considered to be weaklings. It just seems like the Saiyans didn't think this out very well.

Sorry if this is a silly question. I don't usually think this hard about Dragon Ball but it was an amusing thought that kept me busy while I was waiting for a bus.

[Fox666]

It might not necessarly mean to conquer the planet while they are still babies. Due to the supposed wild nature of the saiyans, they should be evil when they grow up.

Or you can see it as a hard-core form of the training of Gohan under Piccolo.

[Turtle Marked Stone]

Or you can see it as a hard-core form of the training of Gohan under Piccolo.

Yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense. Whelp, that was a short lived thought!

[laserkid]

As a amnesiac head injury sweetheart kid, Son Goku managed to kill his own grandfather by accidentally looking at the full moon.

When he later teamed with Bulma accidentally seeing the full moon managed to get him to destroy Pilaf's palace.

Later, during the Tenka-ichi Budokai he nearly destroyed the entire arena. These were involuntary actions.

Now imagine if he actually INTENDED to kill everyone, imagining how powerful he was as a youngster - it doesn't take much to imagine he'd suceed easily.

So any other normal Saiyajin infant would want to kill everyone around them and given that Goku was considered a LOW POWERED infant, I imagine it only goes up from there.

[Pokewhiz7]

I think they're expected to be found by someone and given food. Once they grow up, they naturally remember their mission and destroy the planet. Goku was violent when he first arrived, but after he fell on his head, he became nicer, thus causing him to forget his mission.

[Fox666]

Possible the saiyans also do this so that only the strongest saiyans survive...

[Wobbuffet]

I don't think they are supposed to remember their missions. They are babies, after all.

I think it's like throwing a lion inside a house. The lion don't know what it is supposed to do, but it will attack people in the house anyway.

[Gaffer Tape]

Well, that would be logical. But Raditz specifically talks about how Goku should remember his mission, so apparently Saiya-jin babies are somewhat cognizant, otherwise Raditz wouldn't have expected Goku to remember an objective he was given as a newborn.

[Fox666]

Does anyone have the exact line of Raditz?

[PatPat]

Saiya-jin babies are sent to planets depending on their power level when they're born. The lower class Saiya-jins get sent to the weaker planets while the stronger ones get sent to bigger stronger planets. I'm guessing it wouldn't be too much of a problem for a low class baby to take out a single weak planet while transformed in a single night.

On the other hand a Saiya-jin's most basic instincts are fighting and eating so even as a baby they could still probably manage to kill some weak animals and eat until they're strong enough to take over the planet.

[Eire]

I don't think they are supposed to remember their missions. They are babies, after all.

Vegeta was 5 years old child while everyone on Frieza spaceship talk to him as to adult. Ok, that's filler, etc... but why don't we admit that they have different nature? Our suspension of disbelief already bear men with tails turning into giant monkeys and being threaten by humanoid lizard why

[Piccolo Daimao]

As a amnesiac head injury sweetheart kid, Son Goku managed to kill his own grandfather by accidentally looking at the full moon.

When he later teamed with Bulma accidentally seeing the full moon managed to get him to destroy Pilaf's palace.

Later, during the Tenka-ichi Budokai he nearly destroyed the entire arena. These were involuntary actions.

Now imagine if he actually INTENDED to kill everyone, imagining how powerful he was as a youngster - it doesn't take much to imagine he'd suceed easily.

So any other normal Saiyajin infant would want to kill everyone around them and given that Goku was considered a LOW POWERED infant, I imagine it only goes up from there.

This. Not to mention Raditz mentioned that Goku was expected to destroy Earth over the course of a few years. Raditz expected Goku to remember his mission, so numerous full moons over a couple of years would be enough for Goku to literally go apeshit all over Earth and blow it up. Obviously, Goku would lose his mind and wouldn't know what hewas doing, but if he was there for years, then perhaps he was expected to just learn to control it, like Vegeta did. Sure, Kame-sennin or God could've just dropped down and killed the little bastard, but, to be honest, I don't think they really cared too much about it. For Goku in particular, he was just some low-class Saiyan born with a battle power of 2 and considered such trash that his low-class father called him pitiful and he was shipped off to a backwater planet which his also low-class Saiyan brother found pitiful. For Saiyans in general...maybe Freeza didn't care too much about some Saiyan getting killed by some strong alien dude either. He's still got a bunch more henchmen that he can use to conquer planets, and potentially make new henchmen out of new planets that he conquers too (with force, if they don't comply).