Well i also started from DB and i saw that Goku was growing together with the Earthlings. He trained hard to gain his strenght. Piccolo Junior also trained hard to beat Goku. In DBZ everything was much easier, i think. Most of the fighters had artificial or "inherited" strenght. That's why i liked DB a bit more than DBZ.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
I actually think all the sayans/piccolo are a bit over rated. Maybe it's just cause I watched DB before DBZ, but all the humans in the show seem to have alot more growth. Plus everything vegeta is is just a mix of tien and yamcha.
Yeah, Krillian and Tien had a lot of growth, but Yamcha and chiaotzu were kind of ignored, even before the Saiyan saga.
Among the "Major powers", Piccolo went from Earths devil, to a grudging ally of the Z crew, to genuinely caring for Goku and his family like they were blood related. He probably had the most growth of any character in the series, and it was a believable change.
Compared to Vegeta suddenly deciding at the end of the Buu saga to give Goku his due, or Goku just being the unstoppable, cheery hero stereotype all the time.
Chiaotsu was always bland but even in Z yamcha had some moments.
What I don't get is during the android bit, vegeta straight up says he doesn't care about bulma or trunks. Doedn't bother to save them or even talk to trunks in the time chamber, but when cell shows up he gets genuinely pissed whe trunks getd hurt. What happened?
You know how Smog had all that treasure, never did anything with it or seemed to care about it, and still got pissed when Bilbo stole a piece?
That's how I see Geta looking at the Trunks death. He didn't want him, he didn't care about him, but as he was still his son... it's still an indirect attack against Vegeta. You can't "not" take an attack against your family personally.
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
Even if that family is "weakling half-breed"?
Pretty much everyones a weakling to the Prince of Saiyans. 😉
In his own mind, at least.
I don't know, you're right. Vegeta suddenly caring about Trunks didn't make sense. But they did spend a year together training.. Just because he's a bad father, doesn't mean he never accepted Trunks as his son (Which would explain why he didn't try and save Trunks before the year long training session.. He only just found out about him, and probably wasn't really registering him as family yet.)
Originally posted by NotAllThatEvil
I personaly contribute vegeta's entire family life to gohan. He just stays with bulma to train trunks after gohan proved how powerfull halfbloods were. When little trunks first turned super his immediate reaction was compare him to goten. He's just a realy intense soccer mom.
His reaction to Trunks beating Goten was priceless.