2009-03-18, 02:24 AM
For all of DBZ's "educational/moral" posturing, they have a murderous genocidal bad guy as one of the good guys.
Vegeta on his way to earth blew up a planet full of sentient life. And he killed a lot of other people. I can't really see how Vegeta was any better than Frieza; the difference is that Frieza killed an "important" planet, that is, one filled with sayajins, and Vegeta killed a planet full of "nobodies." But then, in the history of genocides, all exterminated populations are portrayed as "nobodies" before the genocide actually occurs.
In a story that represents a less than fuucked up moral system, a character such as Vegeta usually ends up with his head on a pike. I am sorry, I found the moral education of the DBZ cartoon series a bit hard to take seriously with those little facts in the background.
Vegeta on his way to earth blew up a planet full of sentient life. And he killed a lot of other people. I can't really see how Vegeta was any better than Frieza; the difference is that Frieza killed an "important" planet, that is, one filled with sayajins, and Vegeta killed a planet full of "nobodies." But then, in the history of genocides, all exterminated populations are portrayed as "nobodies" before the genocide actually occurs.
In a story that represents a less than fuucked up moral system, a character such as Vegeta usually ends up with his head on a pike. I am sorry, I found the moral education of the DBZ cartoon series a bit hard to take seriously with those little facts in the background.