On his way to becoming the anti-hero of Dragon Ball Z, Vegeta had some problems. We’ve listed here two of those sad moments to remind you how low he once was.

When he was still evil, Vegeta can have some pretty horrible moments. He will use dirty tricks to win fights, kill his enemies mercilessly, and even blow up planets that bother him. It’s more than likely that he was doing all of this well before his debut in Dragon Ball Z. However, there are some particularly brutal cases that show the cruelty that the Prince of the Saiyans had.

One of Vegeta’s worst moments in Dragon Ball Z was massacring a village of Nameks. Another moment that could be even worse was when he fired into a crowd of people in the stadium of the 25th Martial Arts Tournament twice. Those two moments are undoubtedly where Vegeta’s evil nature was most vile, but one can’t help but wonder which situation was worse. Determining this will require a very in-depth look in the context of each case, whether the problem has been fixed, and what Vegeta has done to make up for it.

First, look at what happened in Namek. In his personal quest to find the Dragon Balls of the planet Namek, Vegeta located a small village of Nameks. Vegeta coerced them to give up his Sphere, but it didn’t work out as he had planned, it was then that Vegeta started massacring each of them. It’s important to remember that this was when Vegeta was still an absolute antagonist; all of this was done with Vegeta smiling.

As bad as on Namek, on Earth it could have been even worse. After letting Babidi bring out his inner evil, which had been dormant for years at the time, Vegeta did whatever it took to get his long-awaited fight against Goku. First, he fired a burst of energy directly at his former enemy; when Goku was unable to block the attack, the energy went through him and went straight into a crowd of people. It then destroyed several buildings and everything else that stood in its way before it exploded, likely killing even more civilians along the way. And then Vegeta fired another burst of energy directly into the crowd with no chance of Goku blocking it. In addition to all the wanton destruction, this was a total and deliberate relapse of all of Vegeta’s progress as a character up to this point.

To determine which is worse, you need to consider what was done to fix the problem. Unfortunately, Vegeta’s murder in the Namek village was never undone. A wish was made to bring back all of Frieza’s victims, but Vegeta’s victims remained dead. Even worse, the planet they were on exploded, so even if they were brought back, they would simply come back in the vacuum of space. Thus, Vegeta’s sin against the Namek race remains a permanent stain on his honor.

The deaths on Earth are not so bad, as they were all undone with the help of the Dragon Balls. In this case, a wish was made to bring all who died that day back to life (except the very bad at heart). This not only covered Vegeta’s victims, but several other people unrelated to the incident, such as Kibito. While killing all these people was absolutely horrible, it’s not necessarily something Vegeta has to live with.

Whether the Prince of the Saiyans has to live with these deaths or not, he has gone out of his way to spy on them. In the Dragon Ball Super manga, he showed remorse for killing the Namek villagers and made it his personal goal to prevent Moro from committing the same terror on them. He wasn’t personally successful on that front, but he was instrumental in beating him in the end.

He made up for the suffering he caused on Earth by helping to save them from Majin Boo. He even sacrificed himself knowing that he would not receive any special treatment in the afterlife. This atonement was really one more way to protect his friends and family, but it was an atonement, anyway.

Between the two acts, Vegeta killing on Earth may be worse than killing on Namek. While Vegeta was on Namek, he still didn’t have any personal growth; The cold-blooded warrior life was all he knew. On Earth, however, he really had something to lose; Even after living on the planet for years and starting a family, he still felt the need to reverse his malicious impulses and inflict them on those who never did anything to him.

That’s to say nothing about what Vegeta had to gain by killing in any scenario. With the Nameks, it was their Dragon Ball. With the Earthlings, it was to incite Goku. None of these reasons justify murder, but one is definitely worse than the other.

To this day, these two transgressions remain Vegeta’s lowest moments on screen. Both involve him taking the lives of innocent people with a sadistic smile on his face. Each of them has been compensated in one way or another, but we will never be able to forget.

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