In my humble opinion... Vegeta was a utter and upmost worst disaster, just waiting to happen! I hated his guts from very begining, and any "development" there actually is, is just downright ridiculous, at best!
Vegeta, as a character, was egotistical, prideful, spoiled and... well, in a lack of a better word, idiot, with both sosiopathic, and psycopathic traits, and who literaly liked to kill for funsies, and pleasure - considering this is a DBZ-universe, his actually considered somewhat a hero... kinda like Adolf Hitler was :D
Anyway... Funny thing about these kind of characters, is that... they...don't... change! EVER! Toryama clearly doesn't understand, that some people, just can't change, no matter how many fans they have, or how pretty/nutty female you give them, as to say to us, that "hey, look at that! Vegeta likes women, therefore, he's okay!" No! Characters like Vegeta, just don't work like that! Psycopaths don't work like that! They can't love, can't have friends, they can't feel remorse, they can't feel empathy, or sympathy, nor feel wrong from their actions... and neither should Vegeta! Wich he doesn't, as far as I see it. A man, who takes his pleasure from killing, should've never ever never had a stable life with a wife anf kids... unless we're talking some sort Joker-Harlequin- scenario, where Bulma was actually as bad, or even worse of a character, than Vegeta! Wich I think... she actually was, to marry a monster like this! Can you imagine Frieza, having a happy family life, just because some little thing called The Plot, just said so? I don't think so!
Now see, Piccolo took a whole different route on this department, because we actually got to see him wanting to change - not by any means done right either, but it's still there! He changed subtly. Vegeta because... for the sake of the plot, if not at all! It was like Toryama actually forgot, who Vegeta was, and made him into something else, that he really was. Vegeta should have staid villain, and pure evil, because then, he was atmost loyal to his own characteristics, and he actually had purpose of... some sort! Being a villain, who you wanted dead. Now, his a abomination of a joke of a sosiological stantards, and should never be taken nothing else, but a comical relief - a very, very tasteles joke.
The very idea of a mass-murdering psycopath, with a one-track- mind consisting nothing but power levels and "being the best", having a actual home, and family, is as sickening, and wrong to me, as human having a baby with a dog! |