2009-03-18, 02:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 2009-03-18, 03:08 AM by IllegallySane.)
Quantact Wrote: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.
I'm surprised you forgot... Piccolo and Majin Buu (Uub). They were murderous beings too, but they became good. How is that any different from other anime/manga where a bad guy becomes a good guy?
Digimon: Ken Ichijouji enslaved pretty much the entire Digital World, yet became a major help after becoming good.
Magneto: Villian/Anti-hero/Hero
Chrono Trigger: Magus, who tried summoning Lavos and who waged war against the Kingdom of Guardia killed Frog's best friend and countless soldiers who tried to go against him, yet you can recruit him to your side later on.
Gurenn Lagann: Viral. Now I've mentioned too much.
Hell, even the JOKER, in another time and/or universe, was a hero known as Red Hood.
Megatron at one point, worked with Optimus Prime to destroy a greater evil: Unicron.
Silver Surfer: Served a being who eats planets as meals, but reforms his ways and leaves Galactus. Sure he didn't annihilate planets, but he contributed to the genocide of all living beings on that planet by finding them for Galactus so he can replenish his power.
We can even go as far as for characters like Wolverine. He fought and killed many villains/anti-heroes and enemies. Did he kill? Yes. Therefore, we can see him as a murderous killer if we look at it from the enemy's eyes. BUT, in our eyes, we see him as a hero. Which is it then?
