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Guy doesn't know about character development, enemies to lovers or falling in love:
I'm not saying Vegeta and Bulma were in love (although I personally hc that they had feelings for each other), but to claim that this Vegeta couldn't possibly fall in love with Bulma in two years - giving time for Trunks to be born - is ridiculous.
Especially considering that he stays at Capsule Corp. after the Cell Games.
It's like saying Bulma couldn't possibly go from being terrified of Vegeta to calling him cute and inviting him into her home only days? hours? later. Except that's exactly what happens in canon.
People evolve and Vegeta has plenty of time to do that.
Besides, do we really think Bulma would have anything to do with him if he was a stupid asshole all the time?
Haters are so weird lol "this quiet insecure man is totally gonna--"
Yes.
He did.
That is, in fact, what canon text means.
As for how any of us were able to clock that he's insecure without him looking directly at the screen and saying "hey folks, I cover up my inadequacies brought on by my own standards for myself by being aggressive and hurting people", well...probably because most of us are adults that read frequently and don't need things spoon fed to us.
People will say Vegeta had the greatest character development in canon but then turn around and go "BUT THIS MAN SLAUGHTERED MILLIONS AND FELL IN LOVE?? LOL IMPOSSIBLE."
Okay...I'm going to blow some minds here...bad or evil people feel love and affection too. Sorry, love isn't an emotion that is reserved just for the pure-hearted do-gooders, and it doesn't present in the Hallmark movie manner for everybody (especially not depending on the culture).
I'd say what's more insecure is projecting your insecurities about the idea of even someone like Vegeta being capable of finding someone who loves him even for who he was and is and helping him with growing and changing for the better.
Also way to bury the lede and somehow CONVENIENTLY leave out that Bulma's response was to basically scream back at him rather than cower away or take him seriously.
That's definitely not being dishonest at all just to be a hater. People really act like Bulma has no mind of her own or spine whatsoever.
Okay, so I finally got around to watching Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero the other day, brought to you by the same people who came up with the name Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan.
Bulma's shameless, confident vanity continues to reinforce why she's the best character in Dragon Ball.
I need everyone to understand that this might actually be the funniest moment in the whole franchise. It's silly on its surface, but it's also steeped in Dragon Ball history. You can feel Piccolo dying inside, and there's a reason for that that goes much deeper than third-party embarrassment over Bulma's shallownness.
Bulma's cosmic butt-lift is a continuation of a gag from Broly (the good version). In that film, it was established that Bulma routinely uses the Dragon Balls to knock a few years off her age, for the sake of vanity. This was contrasted against Frieza's desire to use the Dragon Balls to add a couple inches to his height, for the sake of vanity.
Both of which are resurrections of the gag from the Red Ribbon Army arc, where Commander Red brought militant warlord violence to all corners of the world to claim the Dragon Balls for himself... so he could make himself taller. Using limitless cosmic power for petty and shallow reasons is a funny joke that Toriyama's fond of.
But this isn't just about the shallowness. It's about Piccolo. Or, more specifically, the other half of Piccolo that is Kami-sama. Dragon Ball is steeped in religious and mythological imagery, primarily Buddhist. A fantasy spin on it with a lot of fictional elements added, but there is a lot of genuine Japanese spirituality in there. Which is why God Almighty is now walking around as one half of Piccolo, with a substitute God ruling from his Temple in Heaven in his place.
During his reign, God gifted the Dragon Balls to mankind so that they would have a cosmic miracle they could turn to in times of great need. Shenron was meant as a great gesture of benevolence; The difficulty in summoning him is to serve as a particularly grueling trial, one that only the most determined and most worthy could fulfill.
However, that didn't exactly go to plan. Rather than a source of hope for the world, the Dragon Balls became objects of lust for its greediest and most corrupt. Near-limitless reality-shaping power to grant any miracle one could ask for, wasted on petty ambitions and selfish desires. God regretted ever making this cursed things.
When Piccolo killed Shenron and destroyed the Dragon Balls, God's response was basically, "Good riddance." The Dragon Balls were a mistake he could now take back. He had no intention of ever remaking them.
But then Goku defeated Piccolo. Goku ascended into Heaven to implore God to return the Dragon Balls to earth. Goku's pure innocence, his kindness, and his strength of character convinced God that there was good in the Dragon Balls. That they were worth remaking and returning to the mortal world below.
And now. Here he stands.
With this woman. The woman who utterly trivialized his great heavenly trial by inventing a handheld radar that beep-beeps all of the Dragon Balls' locations for you, allowing them to be easily collected in the span of a weekend excursion.
Watching her call upon his great reality-shaping miracle, so that she can get a butt-lift and slightly longer eyelashes.
While strongly insinuating that she does this every time the Dragon Balls regenerate. This is the legacy of his cosmic miracle.
Bulma is the greatest heretic in the history of fiction. That is why Piccolo is dying inside. This joke killed me. Almost as hard as Piccolo visibly wants to kill Bulma right now.
Minor dumbass remark that really doesn't matter it just bewilders me the dub made this change but: it's not that she knocks years off her age, she makes herself look five years younger, so basically once in a while she does a reset on her looks, not her age itself.
But yeah Bulma being a chaotic gremlin engaging in all the selfish nonsense she wants is such a mood, especially better if she's like "well fuck you guys I offered an out for the androids thing but nooooo you wanted to fight so I'm paying it back FOR-E-VER."
In a scenario in tragic tarblenolah fashion, Granolah ages but Tarble passes away before him so now he has the memories to go through thanks to Oatmeal and the dreams about him (sad sad..)
