Goku for me. Vegeta was a good character, buy I HATED him in the Cell Saga, and he was pretty generic in the Saiyan Saga. Heck, I even prefer Nappa to SSaga Vegeta, to be quite honest.
Goku's always been a good character, up until the Buu Saga, which is where I feel that they made him too much of an unintentional dick.
Oddly enough, Buu Saga Vegeta was my favorite version of Vegeta.
^ I blame Akira trying to get Goku to pass on his cape to his sons, for that reason he had that I can't remember.
Having the chance to beat Cell, but instead healing him and passing it to Gohan - Sure it got him to SS2, but resulted in himself, 16, Bubbles Kai and his planted being destroyed..
Same as letting Goten and Trunks face Buu - Caused many people death by candy, the majority being beamed to death and the whole [scratch]population[/scratch] Earth being destroyed save for 3 people and a dog. And a few other worlds iirc.
His heart was in the right place.. just almost caused the death of all life >___>
Goku is only "generic" because of how relentlessly copied he has been by subsequent Shonen writers. Both Naruto and Luffy take after Goku (Ichigo on the other hand takes more from Yusuke Urameshi from Yu Yu Hakusho).
Anyway, Vegeta is my favorite.
Originally posted by Q99
Having less total size, Vegeta would have a higher surface-area-to-volume ratio, allowing him to dissipate heat faster.
... I admit it, I sort of loled.
Gokus like kratos. One person facing odds caught between them. He could've been the worst villan. But his personality. Somehow became unbreakable after that. Making jokes with frieza and even sparing his life or offering anyway after his best friend was killed. I love vegetables but goku helped fill DB/z which was incredible to me anyway
For me Goku is cooler, because when it comes to fighting, he becomes really smart guy. I like how he has this "charm" that makes his rivals unintentionaly admire him. I also like how he knows his limits, but he allways ends up geting over them. I like his quote that he said in, i think, lord slug movie: "Sometimes you know something is impossible, but you still have to do it".
As for vegeta, i like him as a character, but what i don't like is his egocentricity. He allways brags about how he is "strongest in the universe" and all..It took him a lot of time to realise that he's not the strongest. I think if he wouldn't be like that, he could become far stronger than he was.
Vegeta is much cooler than Goku.
The bravado that Vegeta has and arrogance is unmatched and that's what makes him so cool.
Even when the odds are stacked against him and there is no way for him to win he still fights on and makes it look so cool.
Look at the fight between him and Kid Buu. He was getting his ass kicked,beaten to a pulp yet he fought on and was even taunting him.
How much cooler can you be?
He is much cooler than the corny Goku.