Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

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Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sat Nov 05, 2016 2:40 pm

It seems strange for such an aggressive and savage warrior race.
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Re: Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

Post by Hugo Boss » Sat Nov 05, 2016 3:02 pm

As far as I've read, monogamy is a quality of medium-high-QI-people while poligamy is in the opposite way. Since the Saiyans are ranked by power, it could be a matter of the stronger the Saiyan the more he is affined with monogamy. If you pick Vegeta for example, he seems quite smart in comparison with another Saiyans.
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Re: Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sat Nov 05, 2016 5:12 pm

Hugo Boss wrote:As far as I've read, monogamy is a quality of medium-high-QI-people while poligamy is in the opposite way. Since the Saiyans are ranked by power, it could be a matter of the stronger the Saiyan the more he is affined with monogamy. If you pick Vegeta for example, he seems quite smart in comparison with another Saiyans.
I just don't see faithfulness being a common trait in Saiyan males.
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Re: Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

Post by tasuxeda » Sun Nov 06, 2016 1:54 am

Gine had a gentle personality and wasn’t cut out as a warrior, being repeatedly saved from danger by Bardock. At that time, a special emotion was born between them. Normally, Saiyans don’t have much of a notion of romance or marriage, and apart from the royal family of Vegeta, they aren’t particular about blood-relationships. Being in among all that, I suppose you could say that the pair of Bardock and Gine were those rare Saiyans who were joined by a bond other than for the purpose of reproduction. Incidentally, Gine, who was not cut out as a warrior, would go on to work at the meat distribution center on Planet Vegeta.
Based on the above quote from Interview with Akira Toriyama - Saikyō Jump #3, 2014, I have to agree that Monogamy is out of character for saiyans.
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Re: Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

Post by Hugo Boss » Sun Nov 06, 2016 8:01 pm

TheUltimateNinja wrote:
Hugo Boss wrote:As far as I've read, monogamy is a quality of medium-high-QI-people while poligamy is in the opposite way. Since the Saiyans are ranked by power, it could be a matter of the stronger the Saiyan the more he is affined with monogamy. If you pick Vegeta for example, he seems quite smart in comparison with another Saiyans.
I just don't see faithfulness being a common trait in Saiyan males.
It isn't, since 99% of the Saiyans are low ranked. Vegeta and Goku are special cases. Actually, Goku doesn't care.
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Re: Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sun Nov 06, 2016 10:36 pm

Of course not. Goku probably eats other women's cooking all the time.
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dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.
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Re: Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

Post by DragonBallFoodie » Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:01 pm

I'd be interested in a DB harem made of different species. :lol:
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Re: Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

Post by swimtrunks » Tue Nov 08, 2016 1:37 pm

TheUltimateNinja wrote:
Hugo Boss wrote:As far as I've read, monogamy is a quality of medium-high-QI-people while poligamy is in the opposite way. Since the Saiyans are ranked by power, it could be a matter of the stronger the Saiyan the more he is affined with monogamy. If you pick Vegeta for example, he seems quite smart in comparison with another Saiyans.
I just don't see faithfulness being a common trait in Saiyan males.
Saiyans probably didn't care about sex in general because as you mentioned, they're a warrior race. Therefore fighting comes first. You're making it sound as if they would go around the galaxy humping anything with a pulse just because they're a savage warrior race. From what we've been shown, Saiyans would only pillage a planet. Not rape it's inhabitants. Even Goku is shown to not care at all for affection of any kind, only fighting.
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Re: Are Saiyans naturally monogamous?

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Wed Nov 09, 2016 10:26 am

swimtrunks wrote:
TheUltimateNinja wrote:
Hugo Boss wrote:As far as I've read, monogamy is a quality of medium-high-QI-people while poligamy is in the opposite way. Since the Saiyans are ranked by power, it could be a matter of the stronger the Saiyan the more he is affined with monogamy. If you pick Vegeta for example, he seems quite smart in comparison with another Saiyans.
I just don't see faithfulness being a common trait in Saiyan males.
Saiyans probably didn't care about sex in general because as you mentioned, they're a warrior race. Therefore fighting comes first. You're making it sound as if they would go around the galaxy humping anything with a pulse just because they're a savage warrior race. From what we've been shown, Saiyans would only pillage a planet. Not rape it's inhabitants. Even Goku is shown to not care at all for affection of any kind, only fighting.
They may do that for all we know, after all it's not like Toriyama could depict that sort of thing in a fairly kid friendly series.
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