Vegeta As A Gun/Vegeta As A Bomb world is like Incredible . For my own personal interests. Everybody has different fighting styles based on their training and other abilities obviously and this is a very fun part of the story! Like “oh hey cool (x) used (y), that’s (z)’s move” is always nice. But Vegeta was very specifically trained to be A Weapon
In this way that nobody else really… was. And in a way that nobody really emulates except Gotenks, a little. Vegeta is a capable martial artist but like. He can DESTROY PLANETS FROM ORBIT and could have destroyed Earth. I think he probably relied a lot on the whole giant ape thing for like Melee at that point. like. wouldn’t you. if you could make a fake moon and just do it whenever you felt you needed to. you’d be a tiny but relatively sturdy gunbomb and then you’d have an unstoppable* tank mode. You don’t neglect your Base Form but you also don’t… plan around using it exclusively. Y’know. Goku would have died permanently if Yajirobe weren’t watching from the shadows with a sword. because he was. fighting a carefully groomed weapon of mass destruction. A person who has been dropped on planets alone to kill literally everyone for the past twenty years of his life as one of the only surviving members of his dead species. Serving your childhood through early adulthood as a weapon for the interplanetary warlord who blew up your planet and then lied to you about having done that. “Oh what a shame well it’s a good thing you’re still alive because you reeeeally are remarkable. Aren’t you? :)” #justvegetathings
You become his favorite reusable powerful explosive device. You become his Favorite Gun (i will make the Favorite Gun post eventually this is. the precursor. to the Favorite Gun post) but really a number of your climactic Moments in the story are self-destructions. It’s funny, you can sort of… follow his development using The Times He Expends As Much Energy As He Possibly Can to Destroy Everything Around Him as benchmarks.
(ravoress screenie ^)
And I mean the Majin influence on his body is sort of “harnessed” by him to a degree, but also like. He is visibly strained by the possession. I think it’s reasonable to say that it pushes him over a sort of edge and that he couldn’t Survive this very familiar Way of Releasing Energy because… there was a little too much, y’know? I don’t think he killed himself accidentally though, I think he knew what would happen, and I think he felt it was the only way to Take Responsibility for what he’d done to allow this to come to pass in service of his own selfish desires. What else could he do but give everything he has and more to try and put an end to the creature that’s already killed most of the planet? To finish what he started if you believe he allowed himself to be controlled (and I do)
It’s a very “lose the battle, win the war” impulse, but it’s what allowed him to keep his body in the afterlife and return to Earth. It’s a neat little bow out of the thread of his figurative And Literal self-destructive tendencies throughout the narrative. like yes it was For Nothing, in the short term. But it didn’t mean nothing. It’s part of transforming into something that he is only just Beginning to understand - a being that protects instead of destroys! He’s starting to want to Build Up instead of Tear Down you know. It’s natural that the end of a life of destruction comes as a real destruction of the self
It’s neat that within the text Android 18 has an explosive device removed from her body but that Vegeta can’t have his removed. It’s all of him.
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RIP Akira Toriyama (1955 - 2024)
You were an absolute legend and you bestowed upon the world one of Earth's greatest heroes. A private dude who crafted colorful worlds with even more memorable characters. Now just make sure you don't fall off Snake Way!
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Is it just me or Zenoverse Goku and Vegeta give me the vibe of an old married couple in their 50 years of marriage, settled down and very comfortable with closeness
While Goku and Vegeta in current timeline are just
- A CHAOTIC MESS
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