Vegeta

Warning - spoilers follow

Family

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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