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Vegeta is a
fictional character in the
animes
Dragon Ball Z and
Dragon Ball GT. He is a
Saiyan.
Ancestry
He is descended from Saiyan
Royalty, and was the Prince of
Planet Vegeta, before it was destroyed by
Frieza along with the entire Saiyan race bar six -
Goku, Vegeta,
Paragus,
Brolli,
Raditz and
Nappa. However, this is debated. If you are a follower of the DBZ
movies, then yes, Brolli and Paragus escaped. If you are a follower of
the anime, and do not accept the DBZ movies as part of the story, then
Brolli and Paragus do not exist. Most fans share the latter belief, as the
movies have many plotholes and do not seem to fit into the main timeline.
Wife and Children
Later in the anime Vegeta marries
Bulma Briefs (although whether a
wedding actually took place is debated, as we never see it happen in
the anime) and has two children, a son
Trunks and younger daughter
Bra.
Biography
Vegeta is introduced to DBZ aged twenty-five (or thereabouts - we will
take twenty-five as his age during the well-known episode "The End of
Vegeta"). At this time he is working as a mercenary for Frieza. He comes
to
Earth when he hears of seven magic stones known as
Dragonballs that will grant wishes - he wants to wish for immortality
so that he can defeat Frieza. He wants to defeat Frieza because Frieza
killed his father,
King Vegeta, blew up Planet Vegeta, kidnapped him, and destroyed
nearly the whole Saiyan race. While on Earth he kills his fighting partner
Nappa as a punishment for being too weak to defeat Goku. Vegeta calls Goku
'Kakarotto', as this is his Saiyan name.
Vegeta fights Goku and is defeated. Goku's friend
Krillin nearly kills Vegeta, but Goku intervenes, saying they have to
show Vegeta that they are "made of better stuff", because he (Goku) is
also a Saiyan. Vegeta escapes and goes to a hospital on one of the planets
conquered by Frieza.
Vegeta enters the anime again on
Planet Namek. He is, again, looking for the Dragonballs. During his
stay on the planet he meets up with Krillin and
Gohan and joins forces with them to keep Frieza from getting the
Dragonballs. Frieza wants to take over the
Universe. Eventually, after repeatedly and unsuccessfully sending his
henchman
Zarbon and his 'secret police' the
Ginyu Force (Ginyu,
Jeice,
Burter,
Guldo and
Recoome) after Vegeta, Frieza catches up with Vegeta. After a long
fight, Frieza kills Vegeta as Krillin, Gohan and Goku stand by in horror.
Vegeta dies slowly and painfully, pouring his heart and his past out to
Goku as the only other pure-blooded Saiyan left alive. Goku makes a moving
speech after Vegeta's death, and buries him.
Vegeta reappears when a wish is made on the Dragonballs to bring back
everyone killed on Namek. He is accidentally revived, and brought to
Earth, but not before he sees that Goku has transformed into the legendary
Super Saiyan warrior that Saiyan legend says will appear only every
three milleniums [sic as said by Vegeta] Meanwhile, Goku defeats Frieza
but lets him live, then goes off to train in space. Vegeta follows him in
a spaceship he steals from Bulma, in an attempt to find Goku and find out
from him how to become a Super Saiyan.
After a year, Vegeta returns to Earth. He hasn't found Goku, but he is
a Super Saiyan. However, we don't find that out yet. Soon, a boy appears
from the future in a
time machine, saying that Goku will soon reappear. Lo and behold, Goku
does just that - it transpires that he ended up on
Planet Yardrat and learned teleportation from the natives. The boy
(whose name is Trunks) says that his father is Vegeta, his mother is
Bulma, and he is a Super Saiyan. He kills Frieza and
King Kold (Frieza's father), gives Goku an antidote to the heart virus
that will soon strike him, and says that in three years some androids will
come and attack Earth.
Three years pass, and sure enough, Vegeta gets together with Bulma and
a baby named Trunks is born. Then the androids show up. They are
Android 19 and
Android 20. Goku fights #19 but has a heart attack during the battle.
Everyone thinks he is a goner as #19 begins to strangle him, but Vegeta
comes out of nowhere and attacks #19, saving Goku who is airlifted away by
Yamcha. Vegeta turns Super Saiyan (amazing Gohan and the others who
are watching) and destroys Android 19. Then three more androids,
Android 16,
Android 17 and
Android 18 appear. They easily defeat Vegeta,
Piccolo,
Tien and the other fighters, then head off to look for Goku in order
to destroy him - their mission in life. Trunks gives everyone
senzu, then Vegeta spends three days stood on a cliff, thinking about
his defeat. He decides that there must be a level beyond Super Saiyan, and
resolves to reach it. Meanwhile, Android 17 kills
Android 20, who is actually
Dr Gero - the androids' creator - so that he cannot use the
de-activator he built to shut down the androids.
Then an android called
Cell shows up from the future. He says he needs to absorb the androids
#17 and #18 to become perfect. Vegeta allows him to do this, so that he
will be a challenge for Vegeta to fight, and Cell becomes perfect. Vegeta
and Trunks fight Cell but are defeated. Cell proposes a tournament so that
he can have some fun before destroying Earth.
At the tournament, the weak human fighter
Hercule Satan and his trainees attack first but are easily defeated.
Then Goku attacks. He fights Cell for a while but it is clear that Cell's
stronger. Goku retreats and sends 11-year-old Gohan out to fight. Gohan is
afraid until Android 16 (who is now allied with Goku) is killed - when
this happens, Gohan transforms beyond Super Saiyan into
Super Saiyan 2. After being pounded for a bit Cell spits out Android
18. No longer perfect, he begins to self destruct as a last resort. Goku
teleports him to
King Kai's planet, and is killed in the explosion. Cell regenerates
and returns to Earth, where he is defeated by Gohan's
Kamehameha attack when Vegeta distracts him - this allows Gohan's beam
to finally overcome Cell's.
Seven years pass and a World
Martial Arts Tournament comes along. Goku is allowed to come back to
Earth for 24 hours so he can fight in it. He meets his son
Goten (who was born after Goku was killed) and the tournament starts.
Soon,
Shin and
Kibito appear and tell Goku (et al) that a wizard named
Babidi is about to unleash a fat, evil monster named
Buu on the world, and they must help stop him. Buu needs energy from
fighters so he can be freed from the shell he is trapped inside.
Goku prepares to go with Shin but Vegeta is enraged - he was scheduled
to fight Goku, and thinks Goku is trying to wriggle out of it. He joins
Goku, Gohan,
Videl (Gohan's girlfriend), Piccolo and Krillin and they follow Shin
to Babidi's ship. Piccolo and Krillin are turned to stone statues by
Dabura, one of Babidi's henchmen. Videl returns to the tournament,
advised that it might be too dangerous for her as she is an inexperienced
fighter. Goku, Gohan, Vegeta and Shin enter Babidi's ship.
They fight their way down the levels, encountering a different
Majin (Babidi's fighters) at each level - Vegeta defeats
Pui-Pui and Goku defeats
Yakon, then Gohan begins to fight Dabura. Dabura retreats, saying that
there is a different fighter who is more powerful. They are confused -
Shin says that Dabura is the most powerful Majin. Then Vegeta begins
acting strangely - he clutches his head as if in pain and says that
something is attacking him, though only Goku, Gohan and Shin are in the
room. Shin realises that Babidi is trying to take over Vegeta's mind and
make him a Majin, and shouts that Vegeta must fight it and "be innocent
and pure". Once Shin informs them of the situation, Goku and Gohan also
begin trying to help Vegeta, encouraging him to fight off Babidi.
After a short while screaming in pain and rage, Vegeta collapses to the
floor. Gohan shouts at Goku to talk to him - Goku approaches Vegeta
cautiously, saying that they will help him get back to normal, but Shin
warns him that it is too late. Vegeta gets up and we see that he has an M
branded onto his forehead - the mark of the Majin. Babidi orders Vegeta to
destroy Goku, Gohan and Shin, but Vegeta refuses. He says he will only
fight Goku. Vegeta is doing something that no Majin has ever done before:
he is fighting back against the mind control. Obediently, Babidi
transports the three fighters and Shin back to the World Martial Arts
Tournament, which has just finished.
Vegeta blows up part of the spectator stands to convince Goku to fight
him. Goku eventually agrees. They go to a secluded mountain area, and
fight. Throughout the battle, Babidi is drawing off the energy spent by
Goku and Vegeta and using it to try and revive the sleeping Buu.
Eventually, Goku calls a halt to the fight, as he senses Buu's
ki
and knows he has been released. When Goku turns his back to get out the
last senzu bean and split it between them, Vegeta attacks and knocks him
out. Vegeta takes the senzu bean and goes to fight Buu by himself: he
feels that he owes Goku for the Cell Games incident, as it was his fault
Cell absorbed #18. Vegeta wants to repay his debt by saving Earth by
himself.
Vegeta fights Buu, but cannot win. In the end, Vegeta uses a
self-destruct technique and destroys himself in a last-ditch attempt to
destroy Buu in the explosion. Unfortunately, Buu survives.
Vegeta is given the chance of another shot at Buu by
King Yemma, ruler of the Underworld, and returns to Earth. He finds
Goku (now brought fully back to life, thanks to one of Shin's ancestors)
who tells him that everyone has been killed or absorbed by Buu. Goku asks
Vegeta to put on one of the Portara earrings so that they can permanently
fuse their bodies and minds together and fight as one. After a little bit
of emotional blackmail (Goku mentions the fact that Bulma has been killed,
which inspires Vegeta to avenge his love even if it means being stuck with
Goku) Vegeta agrees, and they fuse into a new being,
Vejitto.
Vejitto fights Buu, who has now taken on a new, tougher form: Super
Buu. However, Vejitto realises that he cannot destroy Buu because his
friends and family have been absorbed into Buu's body. Vejitto allows Buu
to absorb him, and finds himself inside Buu. The strange circumstances
cause the fusion to separate and Goku and Vegeta find themselves in their
own bodies. Not entirely, though: they are still telepathically linked.
Goku and Vegeta fight their way through Buu's body to the brain, where
they find not only Gohan, Goten, Trunks and Piccolo but also the original
fat form of Buu! They deduce from reading the fat Buu's mind that at some
time in the past, Buu split into his good and evil sides. The evil side
absorbed the good side, the fat Buu.
Goku and Vegeta fight a "thought-form" of Super Buu inside the brain,
and get badly beaten up. Buu is about to destroy Goku when Vegeta
distracts him by threatening to tear Fat Buu out of the pod he is trapped
inside. Vegeta does so, then Goku and Vegeta escape. They take their sons,
Piccolo and Fat Buu with them. Once outside, they see that Buu's form is
changing again. He morphs into a childlike version of himself, Kid Buu,
but is far more powerful than before since the removal of the good Fat Buu
who prevented him from doing all the evil he wanted to.
Kid Buu blows up Earth. Shin (who has fused with Kibito) rescues Goku
and Vegeta. They fly to try and reach their sons, but Goku makes a detour
and picks up Hercule Satan, the young Namekian healer
Dende and Hercule's pet Labrador puppy Bee. There is no time to save
Gohan, Goten, Trunks or Piccolo and Shin teleports Goku and Vegeta to the
sacred
Planet of the Kais. Vegeta gets very angry at his son's needless death
and blames Goku. They watch through a crystal ball and see that Kid Buu is
destroying planet after planet. They decide it can't go on, and power up
to entice him to come to the sacred planet to fight them.
After playing a quick game of
Jan Ken Pon to decide it, Goku gets to fight first. He fights Kid Buu
for a long time as a SSJ3, but starts quickly losing power and eventually
collapses.
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