Vegeta is the prince of an extraterrestrial warrior race known as the Saiyans.
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47 Facts About Vegeta
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Vegeta is extremely arrogant, proud and hardworking; he constantly refers to his heritage and royal status throughout the series.
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Vegeta believed that he should be regarded as the strongest fighter in the Universe and becomes obsessed with surpassing Goku after losing his first battle with the Z fighters.
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Vegeta has been hailed as one of the most iconic characters not only in the Dragon Ball franchise, but in manga and anime history as a whole.
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Vegeta is often cited as one of the most popular examples of rival characters in the industry, due to his character arc and narrative throughout Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super.
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Vegeta stated that when he received a lot of fan mail telling him not to kill Vegeta, he purposely did just that.
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Later on Vegeta is forced to team up with Gohan, Goku, Piccolo, and Krillin so they can fight off the Ginyu Force and later Frieza.
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Vegeta kills most members of the Ginyu Force after they are weakened by Goku.
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Vegeta is unintentionally revived with a wish from the Dragon Balls from Earth.
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Three years later, Vegeta finally becomes a Super Saiyan and easily destroys Android 19, sent by Dr Gero to kill Goku.
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Vegeta's overconfidence leads him to allow Cell to absorb Android 18, upon which Cell achieves his third "perfect" form.
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Seven years later, Vegeta allows himself to be consumed by Babidi's evil power for his own desire to become powerful enough to fight and defeat Goku.
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Vegeta then goes on an indiscriminate killing spree to provoke Goku to fight him.
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Vegeta reluctantly combines bodies with Goku using the Potara earrings, to create the fused warrior Vegito, who completely overwhelms Buu with his strength.
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Goku and Vegeta manage to free their allies who have been absorbed by Buu, causing him to undergo a final transformation, which results in his return to his original Kid Boo form.
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When his daughter, Bulla, is born, Vegeta develops a strong attachment to her and becomes very protective over her wellbeing.
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Vegeta decides to enter in the Tournament of Power in order to protect his family.
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Vegeta resolves to go to Yardrat to train and obtain a means to stop Moro.
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Vegeta maintains the upper-hand, savagely beating the warlock until the tide turns against his favour when Moro absorbs one of his comrades to bolster his power, beating Vegeta into unconsciousness.
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When Moro starts absorbing the Earth's energy after having merged with it, a healed up Vegeta arrives just in time to aid Goku by not only fissioning the energy out of him to prevent him from hiding his weakpoint, but by personally gathering the necessary energy from the other Dragon Team members and Oob to send it to Goku for him to channel his Ultra Instinct form one more time and kill Moro for good.
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Vegeta is later split from Baby's body before Baby is destroyed.
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Vegeta has appeared in many video games related to the Dragon Ball franchise as both a playable character and boss.
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In several games, Vegeta is capable of transforming into a Super Saiyan 3, first introduced in Dragon Ball Z: Raging Blast.
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Vegeta has made several appearances in other manga, one of which is in Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball self-parody Neko Majin, where he battles the titular character.
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On September 15,2006, Vegeta made a guest appearance in a chapter of the Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Koen-mae Hashutsujo manga, Super Kochikame, entitled Kochira Namek-Sei Dragon Koen-mae Hashutsujo.
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Vegeta appears in the Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru manga in Chapter 178.
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Vegeta makes a single panel appearance in Toriyama's 2014 Dragon Ball Minus: The Departure of the Fated Child special.
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Vegeta is had an appearance in the newest Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Heroes.
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Vegeta has been the victim of parody: the Weekly Shonen Jump Gag Special 2005 issue released on November 12,2004, featured a Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo one-shot Dragon Ball parody manga.
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The song focuses of Vegeta cooking a special Okonomiyaki, and in Dragon Ball Kai: Song Collection he sings the song "Saiyan Blood", which he brags about how great he is.
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Vegeta has the ability to create and enhance attacks with the use of ki.
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Vegeta has the ability to use Buku-jutsu, which enables him to fly.
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Vegeta is known to give names for his various energy attacks.
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Vegeta later develops the Big Bang Attack and the Final Flash techniques, which are much more powerful than his older energy attacks.
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Vegeta is not known to have an official name for this attack, but it is occasionally called Rapid-Fire Energy Balls.
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Vegeta possesses several transformations that greatly enhance his abilities to varying degrees.
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Vegeta later achieved the immensely powerful Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan, "Super Saiyan Blue" for short, under Whis's tutelage.
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Vegeta has generally received praise by various reviewers from manga, anime and other media.
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Vegeta is a popular character in the series, placing fourth in the 1993 Dragon Ball character popularity poll voted on by Weekly Shonen Jump readers, and moved up to second in the 1995 one.
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Vegeta has appeared in the Anime Grand Prix poll taking high places in the category "best male character" in the 1991 poll and 1992 poll.
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Vegeta was placed twenty-first in IGN's 2009 top anime character of all-time list, calling him "the original unmitigated bastard" that preceded Light Yagami and Lelouch Lamperouge, and in the tenth spot in 2014.
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Vegeta started out as an alien punk with a sadistic streak and an inferiority complex, but over time he became one of Goku's friends, and every now and then, if he was feeling nice that day, he'd help save the world.
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Poll by Viz Media, editor responsible for the publication of the series in North America and Europe, confirms that Vegeta is the most popular character in Dragon Ball Super.
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