If Saiyans existed in Real Life...

[Flame Dragon]

How do you think they would look like in real life?


Do you think they would have body hair?
I know they appear completely devoid of body hair in the manga/anime, but i just shrugged it off as an artistic decision because it would not appeal to everybody (especially children!).

Personally i picture them as a badass mix between vikings and monkeys. Something similiar to the Nords of Skyrim.
Big, bulky, hairy with a tail.


I feel like it makes the most sense since i think when they turn Oozaru their body hair just grows in lenght. I don't think it just appears from nowhere.
Also probably they look shiny in SSJ because their body hair gets lighter. Maybe it turns red with SSJ4.

Do you agree?
What other features do you think a real life incarnation would possess? If an actually good live action movie would be made, how they should look?

[Fizzer]

Well, according to the series they wouldn't necessarily be big (Goku is 5'9" and Vegeta is 5'5", but then there's Nappa), but I imagine they would be on the particularly hairy side for humans, yeah. They have thick dark hair and dark eyes but a skin tone that seems to be East-Asain at the very darkest. They're naturally more muscular with less body fat than humans (even as babies, I'd imagine).

I think their muscle tissue and structure would be quite different, under inspection, to allow for their incredible speed and strength. Their bones have a different composition and their sensory organs are different.

In a live action movie they should be made distinct from humans by having (in addition to the tail) very dark hair that would usually be associated with darker skin-tones, yes being white, and also having grey irises.

[Polyphase Avatron]

Well, in "real life", if aliens existed they wouldn't look like anything close to humans...

[Patrick]

Well, according to the series they wouldn't necessarily be big (Goku is 5'9" and Vegeta is 5'5", but then there's Nappa), but I imagine they would be on the particularly hairy side for humans, yeah. They have thick dark hair and dark eyes but a skin tone that seems to be East-Asain at the very darkest. They're naturally more muscular with less body fat than humans (even as babies, I'd imagine).

Raditz and King Vegeta are both rather tall, although for the most part yeah, they'd be average. Nappa seems a little lighter in skin tone, though.

(Also, Vegeta is 5'4.5")

I think their muscle tissue and structure would be quite different, under inspection, to allow for their incredible speed and strength. Their bones have a different composition and their sensory organs are different.

Probably so, I'd also imagine we could pinpoint the gene that allows for Zenkais(something like that, right?). Then, we'll have super humans!

[RocktheDragon]

I was actually thinking of this question the other day and I do agree that they would probably have to have a fair amount of body hair on them, especially since they seem to be descended from some kind of ape. A real life incarnation might also have some bushier eyebrows and possess traits of extreme anger and annoyance.

[Hellspawn28]

I can see them having a East-Asain look to them. What would a Oozaru look like in real life? I imagine they would look similar to baboons. I guess Oozaru are around 40 - 50 meters in high which makes them much bigger then a Argentinosaurus (the largest Dinosaur) and the Argentinosaurus is estimated to be around 30 meters. I don't think a real life primate could grow that big and can actually support it's weight.

[Rocketman]

They'd be crushed into a fine paste by Planet Vegeta's gravity.

[crisis]

One could argue the Saiyan culture was inspired by Ancient Sparta.

[dario03]

Well, in "real life", if aliens existed they wouldn't look like anything close to humans...

How do you know that? Couple of different theories on the universe or the Multiverse have it as being infinite which means there could possibly be aliens out there that look similar to us (or actually there would almost have to be). But even if it isn't infinite they could possibly be, especially if you get into a intelligent design by gods or older alien civilizations.

[Hellspawn28]

Well, in "real life", if aliens existed they wouldn't look like anything close to humans...

Not start a big debate or anything, but I don't think Humans are the only race in the universe have a similar generic structure. It would be funny if AT in his next interview states that Saiyans are humans and that humans have been taught space travel over 10,000 years ago to travel to Planet Vegeta .

[RandomGuy96]

Well, in "real life", if aliens existed they wouldn't look like anything close to humans...

Not start a big debate or anything, but I don't think Humans are the only race in the universe have a similar generic structure. It would be funny if AT in his next interview states that Saiyans are humans and that humans have been taught space travel over 10,000 years ago to travel to Planet Vegeta .

Saiyans are humans. Saiyans are called humans in the manga (then again, so are Namekians...) and they can produce fertile offspring with humans.

[Fizzer]

It's possible that in the Dragon Earth's society "human" is a broader term, like "person", as there are monsters and animal-people on Earth. People might then see some creature that speaks and has human-like-or-greater intelligence and refer to it as "human".

If Saiyans, Namekians, Freeza's soldiers and so on evolved independently of humans from different sparks of life then their appearance is a scientific error, but it's one that almost everything makes and is forgivable. Their appearances and the Saiyans' sexual compatability with humans could be explained by saying they all branched off from humanity a very long time ago, but I hope it just never gets brought up. It would probably be better to say that they all share a common ancestor on a doesn't planet and primates are from space or something.

[crisis]

If you follow UFO lore, there actually does indeed exist a race of "Human" entities in the cosmos, we call them the Nordics. Very controversial subject, but there's been reports from abductees that have encountered tall, pale white humans in blue jumpsuits (youtube "Travis Walton," for example). Many say it's impossible, but as history always proves, truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npCZ3W7Qtz4

Tell me, from watching this short clip, do you get the impression that this woman is just flat-out lying? I'll leave it up to you to come to your own conclusions.

[FortuneSSJ]

...I would be one!

[dbboxkaifan]

Seeing how aliens are usually none other than humans with superpowers I imagine that Saiyans wouldn't be any different but with a list of pros and cons:

Pros:
+ Ability to fly
+ Shoot out beams from their hands
+ Spiky hair
+ The more they fight they stronger they get
+ Evolved forms (human evolution is still yet to make a step forward)
+ They care for their brothers and take revenge (all 'cept Nappa )

Cons:
- Turning to apes just makes them clueless and destroy everything around them
- Unable to settle down for a family and have a daily job
- Not very intelligent (maybe it's Goku's fault that he gave me this impression)

But the pros outweigh the cons so it's no biggie.

[Patrick]

Cons:
- Unable to settle down for a family and have a daily job
- Not very intelligent (maybe it's Goku's fault that he gave me this impression)

But the pros outweigh the cons so it's no biggie.

I think Vegeta would go against both of these at the very least. He's intelligent, it's just that his pride usually gets in the way. With that said, he could probably hold a job, he just never had a reason to since Bulma's family is rich as all hell.

As you mentioned, Goku on the other hand...

[KentalSSJ6]

If they existed, we'd be dead.

If WE were Saiyans, well..guess i'd take abit of a superhero route, or find fellow Saiyans and train as much as possibly could.

[Fizzer]

I'm not so sure we'd be dead, as the military of Dragon Earth seems to be far, far inferior to what any powerful nation on real earth has. We have nukes, and I'm assuming Earth in the Dragon World doesn't or they'd have nuked Cell. I think we might have weapons that can damage Saiyans.

[KentalSSJ6]

I'm not so sure we'd be dead, as the military of Dragon Earth seems to be far, far inferior to what any powerful nation on real earth has. We have nukes, and I'm assuming Earth in the Dragon World doesn't or they'd have nuked Cell. I think we might have weapons that can damage Saiyans.

Vegeta tanked his own Galick Gun followed by a Kaio-Ken X4 Kamehameha from Goku who's power level was 32,000 upon activating it. 300 or so is enough to destroy a moon. Not only that, but he tanked a Spirit Bomb shortly after.

We got nothing that can hurt Vegeta. Maybe if every single explosive on this planet detonated on him, but there goes the planet as well. If Saiyans existed, we would be thoroughly screwed.

[Fizzer]

I'm not so sure we'd be dead, as the military of Dragon Earth seems to be far, far inferior to what any powerful nation on real earth has. We have nukes, and I'm assuming Earth in the Dragon World doesn't or they'd have nuked Cell. I think we might have weapons that can damage Saiyans.

Vegeta tanked his own Galick Gun followed by a Kaio-Ken X4 Kamehameha from Goku who's power level was 32,000 upon activating it. 300 or so is enough to destroy a moon. Not only that, but he tanked a Spirit Bomb shortly after.

We got nothing that can hurt Vegeta. Maybe if every single explosive on this planet detonated on him, but there goes the planet as well. If Saiyans existed, we would be thoroughly screwed.

Yeah, guess you're right. I just found it conceptually hard to imagine someone surviving a fusion bomb explosion, but that's nothing compared to what Vegeta's survived already.