#He's so sMART and Goku's so DUMB that's why they're great FOILS TOEI | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

shannonsketches · 7 months ago

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One of my favorite differences in the DBZ manga that makes Vegebul make More Sense To Me, is that because Vegeta never left Earth, he was living at Capsule Corp for over two years before Bulma got pregnant (assuming Trunks is like 3-6mos old when we see him as a baby), but she said she 'wouldn't live with that jerk' afterward, which implies (to me) that he'd been a chill enough housemate up until the pregnancy, which tracks with his generally private and professional behavior as a Lord in the Freeza Force (in the manga).

I like to think it became a compounding factor in learning that he was slated to be killed in a year, and led to him being uncharacteristically overzealous and performative (and so opposed to Trunks getting close to him) in the android saga as opposed to how strategic and cautious he was with serious threats in the Freeza saga.

I am also always thinking about how Something Happened between him losing to Cell and re-entering the time chamber in the manga, because he was back living at Capsule Corp and staying near Trunks and Bulma when the Cell Games were announced.

#Something was definitely Bulma not getting laid for over a year and Vegeta not getting laid for over 2 because of time chamber shenanigans #You can just taste the Good Shit in the conversation from that first night back 🤌 Anyway #Every day I think about how Freeza assumed Vegeta was always going to be his biggest threat -- not just for his power but for his cunning #Every day I think about how that can still be true and how after the Freeza arc Toei traded that cunning for boisterous arrogance #even though that was literally only happening in the android saga and not NEARLY as much as they wrote it #Vegeta being Quiet and Smart is ALSO a reason Vegebul makes a lot more sense if you've read the manga #He's probably the only one in that group who never needs her to translate science talk and the bar is low but boy can he can hop over it #Thinking about how he sat there and explained the science of the Great Ape transformation to Goku and WHY he could create a false moon #Thinking about how Vegeta knows what to do how to do it AND can explain to someone WHY it works #and knowing Bulma would hear a bad boy fighter talk Science and throw her underwear at him at terminal velocity #Every day I think about how Vegeta is constantly flirting with the trickster trope but you'd never know that from watching the anime #He's so sMART and Goku's so DUMB that's why they're great FOILS TOEI #Like Goku's not Stupid but he IS dumb he is a dumb puppy and we love him #I see a lot of Geets fans say they miss how he was in the Freeza arc but he's like that A LOT in Super (just on the good guy team)#His breakdown is over he knows who he is again he's confident he's whole he's fucking Out Here in Super PLEASE read the manga

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