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6/14/2025, 3:28:08 AM
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Don't waste your time trying to reason Vegeta's character in his introduction at the Sayan Saga, he was very much a completely different character that Toriyama conceptualized as a full villain, with no intention of joining the main cast.
Vegeta's personality in his debut was overly sadistic, who not once talked about his Sayan race as something he felt loss for, he just wanted to kill everyone Raditz failed to; it was Nappa of all people who suggests to Vegeta they just breed their race back to existence. Take note of how Vegeta just smirks and remains still while Nappa and the Saibaman do all the work, like a general who won't move a finger when he still has personal to do the work, until Vegeta finally is fed up with Nappa being destroyed by Goku that he kills him while the guy is asking for help.
Those traits are pretty much a concept for Frieza's character within Sayan Saga Vegeta; Toriyama transfered Vegeta's worst parts in his debut to Frieza later on, while finally giving Vegeta his unrelenting pride and sentiment of loss over his fallen Sayan race, to immediately gather sympathy among the readers on Namek so his pragmatic alliance with Krillin and Gohan feels less unnatural.
>Vegeta was a nasty guy at first in the serialization, and I had thought about bringing an end to [his story] as just a villain, but as I was writing, I felt that his villainous sort of warped straightforwardness was unexpectedly interesting. I couldn’t imagine that a guy with this kind of hairstyle would become popular, and yet he’d get more votes than Goku in favorite-character polls, and even I consciously began to actively have him appear. - Akira Toriyama × Shōko Nakagawa Interview
>https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/official-battle-gods-website-toriyama-x-nakagawa-interview/
Anonymous Wed 26 Mar 2025 00:21:16 No.277425492 ViewReport
Don't waste your time trying to reason Vegeta's character in his introduction at the Sayan Saga, he was very much a completely different character that Toriyama conceptualized as a full villain, with no intention of joining the main cast.
Vegeta's personality in his debut was overly sadistic, who not once talked about his Sayan race as something he felt loss for, he just wanted to kill everyone Raditz failed to; it was Nappa of all people who suggests to Vegeta they just breed their race back to existence. Take note of how Vegeta just smirks and remains still while Nappa and the Saibaman do all the work, like a general who won't move a finger when he still has personal to do the work, until Vegeta finally is fed up with Nappa being destroyed by Goku that he kills him while the guy is asking for help.
Those traits are pretty much a concept for Frieza's character within Sayan Saga Vegeta; Toriyama transfered Vegeta's worst parts in his debut to Frieza later on, while finally giving Vegeta his unrelenting pride and sentiment of loss over his fallen Sayan race, to immediately gather sympathy among the readers on Namek so his pragmatic alliance with Krillin and Gohan feels less unnatural.
>Vegeta was a nasty guy at first in the serialization, and I had thought about bringing an end to [his story] as just a villain, but as I was writing, I felt that his villainous sort of warped straightforwardness was unexpectedly interesting. I couldn’t imagine that a guy with this kind of hairstyle would become popular, and yet he’d get more votes than Goku in favorite-character polls, and even I consciously began to actively have him appear. - Akira Toriyama × Shōko Nakagawa Interview
>https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/official-battle-gods-website-toriyama-x-nakagawa-interview/
Anonymous Wed 26 Mar 2025 00:21:16 No.277425492 ViewReport
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