For as immortal as the scene of Gohan and Goku doing to combo Kamehameha to beat cell is, I feel like a lot of people forget that it wasn’t enough. Part of why I think a lot of people are confused as to why the crew forgave Vegeta so fast is that I think it gets lost in the emotion of that moment that Gohan was going to lose that fight. Goku’s love and aid wasn’t enough. Gohan’s raw power that Goku bet on may have been enough, but Gohan’s willingness to threaten the safety of his home wasn’t. What won was when everybody else cleared the blast radius, Vegeta didn’t. He distracted Cell with a piddly little blast, interrupted the focus, and created the opportunity for Gohan to overwhelm him.
Vegeta had no energy left, it wasn’t a ‘well only a saiyan had the power to-’ thing. Any of the Z-Fighters could’ve done it, but Vegeta’s the only one who did. I read Piccolo’s offer to help him afterward as an olive branch and thanks for that, because Piccolo also could’ve stayed and done it, but he took initiative to get everyone else clear of the blast and assumed Gohan had the victory. Vegeta’s determination to see Cell die with his own eyes saved Piccolo’s boy after his mistake had cost him his own. He stayed with Gohan, saw that Gohan was losing, and broke his own rules about battle intervention to make damn sure Cell wasn’t walking away from that fight.
Vegeta’s was inarguably the largest of the several fumbles that happened to allow Perfect Cell to exist, but he’s also the only one who never left Gohan to clean up the mess alone, even if the others only did it out of good faith in Gohan’s power. For all of his flaws and faults I think that choice told on him more than all of his peacocking had, and I think it’s why the crew was so quick to like him afterward.
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