Vegeta

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Vegeta (贝吉塔)
Alias(es)	Prince Vegeta; Saiyan Prince 4 37
Species/Race	Saiyan 5 6
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Formerly Frieza’s forces; later Goku’s group 8 13
Occupation/Role	Prince of the Saiyans; warrior 4 6
Family	Son of King Vegeta; his parallel-future counterpart is Trunks’s father 24 27
Status	Alive in the main timeline; parallel-future counterpart revived 34 50
First Appearance	Mentioned in Goku’s thoughts in Chapter 1; first appears directly in Chapter 4 1 4

Power Progression

Main Timeline

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Base power: 18,000	4	Raditz reports this as Vegeta’s power before his journey to Earth.
Great Ape	6	Transforms after finding the moon. Claims seven or eight times his peak power, with increased speed as well as strength.
Base power: 24,000	8 9	Revealed on Namek after recovering from his Earth defeat at a Frieza Force base. Zarbon confirms the reading with a newer Scouter.
Recovery-induced power increase	11 12	Nappa heals his near-fatal injuries from Zarbon with a Senzu Bean. His power increases, but no new figure is given.
Base power: 500,000	20	Reaches this level after six months of training and adapting to 100 times gravity.
Base power: 3.1 million	21	Adapts to 300 times gravity, meeting Goku’s stated minimum power requirement for Super Saiyan.
Super Saiyan	21	Succeeds after three attempts over three days under Goku’s instruction, alongside Wuzhen and Wuming.
Spirit Fruit enhancement	23	Receives ten Spirit Fruits. The chapter reports gains of about 300,000 battle power for almost everyone, a relatively modest improvement for Vegeta.
Base power: 10 million; Super Saiyan power: 500 million	23 25	Reaches these levels before fighting Cooler; initially conceals part of his transformed strength.
Kaioken ×100	23	Learns Kaioken from Nappa and can use a hundredfold multiplier.
Full Power Super Saiyan	35	Masters Super Saiyan 1 after six months of intensified training with weighted clothing.
Super Saiyan 2	35	Transforms after three attempts. Goku attributes his success to the extreme anger that Wuzhen and Wuming initially lack.
Full Power Super Saiyan 2	37	Masters the form during the following year, then begins preparing for Super Saiyan 3.
Super Saiyan 3	37	Learns the transformation shortly before the Androids appear.
Super Saiyan 4	50	Has recently achieved the form when he senses Goku’s advancement to Super Saiyan 5. His exact transformation method is not documented.

Parallel-Future Counterpart

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Super Saiyan 2	32	Demonstrates the form while dead on King Kai’s Planet. His additional twenty years of training explain the advancement, but he remains far weaker than Trunks’s Full Power Super Saiyan 2.

Background / History

Saiyan Prince and Service Under Frieza

Vegeta is King Vegeta’s son and retains a strong attachment to his royal status after Planet Vegeta’s destruction. He travels and fights across the universe with Raditz and Nappa while serving under Frieza, whose treatment of him becomes a lasting grievance 4 26 46.

Defeat on Earth

Goku deliberately provokes Vegeta through Raditz’s transmitting Scouter. Vegeta destroys a distant mountaintop in anger and immediately orders Nappa to accompany him to Earth 4.

On arrival, he condemns Raditz’s changed allegiance and refuses to believe that training could have made Piccolo stronger than him. When Nappa proposes retreat, Vegeta instead plans to use their Great Ape transformations to regain the advantage 5.

Piccolo counters Vegeta’s Big Bang Attack and scorches his battle suit. Vegeta transforms into a Great Ape and overwhelms Piccolo, but Goku easily evades him, strikes both his eyes, and cuts off his tail with a ki sword. Exhaustion and the loss of his transformation leave Vegeta at a power level of 13,000 6 7.

Goku spares him. Vegeta vows to surpass Goku, summons his spacecraft, and leaves Nappa behind as a supposedly worthless subordinate 7.

Namek and Joining Goku’s Group

After recovering at a Frieza Force base, Vegeta learns from Cui that Frieza is seeking Namek’s wish-granting orbs. He immediately departs for Namek against Frieza’s orders, with Cui pursuing him 8.

Vegeta kills Cui, then massacres a Namekian village to seize a Dragon Ball and hides it to obstruct Frieza’s collection. Zarbon’s transformed form subsequently overwhelms him; Vegeta survives by pretending to be dead 10 11.

Raditz and Nappa find him, and Nappa heals him with a Senzu Bean. Vegeta tries to reclaim their obedience, but both reject his authority. Confronted with their growth and Goku’s vastly greater strength, he abandons his Dragon Ball search and accompanies them to rescue Namekians—the same people he had recently slaughtered 12.

He asks Goku how to become a Super Saiyan and accepts an invitation to train with the group, while insisting that he will not become anyone’s subordinate. During the confrontation with Frieza, Goku blocks laser attacks aimed at him, and Vegeta later witnesses Goku’s Super Saiyan transformation firsthand 12 13 18.

Cooler’s Defeat and Trunks’s Arrival

When King Cold and Cooler come to avenge Frieza, Vegeta claims the fight for himself. He deliberately prolongs his battle with Cooler to repay the humiliation he suffered under Frieza, then reveals his concealed strength when Cooler uses his ultimate form 23 24 25.

Cooler launches a huge blast and threatens Earth if Vegeta dodges. Vegeta counters with Big Bang Attack, forces the blast back, and sends Cooler into space, killing him. Meanwhile, Trunks prevents King Cold from attacking Vegeta from behind and kills him 26.

Goku subsequently reveals that Trunks is Vegeta and Bulma’s son from a parallel future. Although Vegeta dismisses romance as an obstacle to training, he asks Goku to train his future counterpart when Goku leaves to help Trunks’s world 27.

Android Conflict and Continued Training

Vegeta follows Goku’s individualized training plans and advances through the higher Super Saiyan forms. His progress does not eliminate his frustration: Goku’s Super Saiyan 4 and Piccolo’s fusion with Kami widen the gap he had hoped to close 35 37.

He considers Android 19 beneath his attention and persuades Goku to let Dr. Gero awaken Androids 17 and 18. After Android 17 challenges the group, Goku assigns Vegeta to fight him 38 39.

Vegeta eventually prepares to finish Android 17 with Final Flash, but Goku deflects it and argues that this timeline’s androids are not inherently evil. Vegeta reluctantly accepts the decision 42.

Later, Raditz and Nappa challenge his belief that relationships hinder strength, using Goku’s family life as evidence. Vegeta begins considering an Earth woman as a partner, though his princely pride makes him unwilling to settle indiscriminately 46.

By the time Goku reaches Super Saiyan 5, Vegeta has achieved Super Saiyan 4. He also confronts Shin and Kibito when they arrive uninvited and openly assess the fighters’ strength 50.

Parallel-Future Vegeta

In Trunks’s world, Vegeta dies during the android devastation and initially goes to Hell. The local Goku asks King Kai to bring him to King Kai’s Planet, where he continues training with the other fallen fighters 27 31.

After Trunks defeats the androids, Vegeta underestimates his son’s new strength and challenges him. Trunks reproaches him for leaving Earth’s struggle to Gohan and himself even after the dead fighters had become stronger than the androids. Vegeta recognizes the criticism but conceals his remorse behind anger 31 32.

Vegeta and the local Goku attack together, yet Trunks defeats them while using only about seventy percent of his strength. Following his revival, Vegeta offers Bulma a rare, sincere thanks for her years of effort and becomes visibly embarrassed when she teases him about caring 32 34.

Appearance

• Black hair in his normal state 24.
• Battle armor/battle suit, including the shoulder scorched by Piccolo’s Special Beam Cannon 6 8.
• Saiyan tail during the Earth battle; Goku severs it to end his Great Ape transformation 6.
• Great Ape form exceeding ten meters in height 6.
• Golden hair, green eyes, and a blazing golden aura as a Super Saiyan 24.

Personality

Vegeta treats his royal birth as proof that he should surpass other Saiyans, particularly the low-class warrior Kakarot. He repeatedly refers to himself as “this prince,” reacts fiercely to mockery, and initially assumes that weaker-born fighters cannot overtake him through training 5 6 12 46.

His early ruthlessness extends to abandoning Nappa and murdering Namekians for a Dragon Ball. Nevertheless, he can recognize an unfavorable situation: he retreats when Goku spares him, survives Zarbon through deception, and eventually seeks instruction from the rival he resents 7 11 12.

Cooperation does not erase his competitiveness. He accepts Goku’s guidance without wanting subordinate status, enjoys displaying concealed strength, and becomes discouraged when Goku and Piccolo advance beyond him. His changing attitude toward family shows that he can reconsider deeply held beliefs when confronted with evidence 13 25 37 46.

Abilities & Skills

Ki Combat and Flight

• Uses ki to fly and fight in midair 5 6.
• Can destroy a distant mountaintop with an energy ball 4.
• Conceals part of his power, then sharply increases his output during combat 25.
• Senses other fighters’ energy, including Nappa’s growth and Goku’s later transformation 12 50.

Big Bang Attack

• Counters Cooler’s enormous energy blast and kills him by forcing it back into space 26.
• Kills Cui after surviving his attempted ambush 10.
• Can be overcome by a stronger counterattack, as demonstrated by Piccolo’s Special Beam Cannon 6.

Final Flash

• Charges the technique as a finishing attack against Android 17 42.
• Goku intercepts it and slaps it into the sky before it reaches its target 42.

Great Ape Transformation

• Requires looking at the moon during the documented Earth battle 6.
• Increases both speed and strength; Vegeta remains able to speak and fight deliberately 6.
• Ends immediately when Goku cuts off his tail 6.

Super Saiyan Transformations

• Achieves Super Saiyan through gravity training and Goku’s instruction 21.
• Super Saiyan multiplies base power fiftyfold; Super Saiyan 2 doubles that transformed power 12 28.
• Progresses through Full Power Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 2, Full Power Super Saiyan 2, Super Saiyan 3, and Super Saiyan 4 35 37 50.

Kaioken

• Learns the technique from Nappa and reaches Kaioken ×100 23.
• The technique increases strength, speed, and power 13.
• No higher personal multiplier is documented for Vegeta in the provided chapters.

Saiyan Recovery Trait

• Gains power after Nappa heals his near-fatal injuries with a Senzu Bean 12.
• The increase is insufficient to restore his former dominance over Raditz and Nappa 12.

Equipment / Items

• Scouter — receives Goku’s transmitted challenge; later takes another from a Frieza Force medic before departing for Namek 4 8.
• Spherical spacecraft and remote — used to travel to Earth and summoned remotely after his defeat 4 7.
• Battle armor — worn in combat and replaced after recovery at the Frieza Force base 6 8.
• Gravity Rooms — central to his training after joining Goku’s group 20 21.
• Adjustable weighted clothing — a gift from Goku obtained through Shenron, capable of adding up to 300 times Earth’s gravity 35.
• Senzu Bean — supplied by Nappa to heal Zarbon’s injuries 12.
• Spirit Fruits — receives ten from Goku as a power supplement 23.

Relationships

• King Vegeta — father; Vegeta’s royal identity remains central to his self-image 24 46.
• Goku / Kakarot / Son Goku — rival, eventual ally, and trainer. Goku defeats and spares him, teaches him transformation methods, and repeatedly restrains his aggression 7 12 21 35 42.
• Raditz — former subordinate who rejects his command and joins Goku. Their later relationship includes cooperation, rivalry, and frequent teasing 5 12 26.
• Nappa — former subordinate abandoned on Earth. Nappa later saves him, rejects renewed servitude, and teaches him Kaioken 7 12 23.
• Piccolo — former opponent and competitive ally. Piccolo defeats his Big Bang Attack, and his later growth contributes to Vegeta’s frustration 6 34 37.
• Frieza — former overlord whose humiliating treatment fuels Vegeta’s rebellion and desire for revenge 8 26.
• Trunks — son of Vegeta’s parallel-future counterpart. Saves main-timeline Vegeta from King Cold’s ambush; later surpasses and defeats his own father 26 27 32.
• Future Bulma — Trunks’s mother and future Vegeta’s partner. After revival, he thanks her for sustaining their world through the android catastrophe 24 34.
• Android 17 / Lapis — opponent whom Vegeta intends to kill before Goku intervenes and welcomes him into the group 39 42.

Notable Quotes

“Damn you, Kakarot! Just you wait! One day I'll surpass you, and you'll regret this!” 7

“You old bastard! Fortunes change. Don't look down on a prince just because he's fallen on hard times. I'm not the trash I used to be!” 24

“Fine. You're stronger, so you call the shots.” 42

Trivia

• By the confrontation with Cooler, Vegeta ranks fifth among the main group, behind Goku, Piccolo, Wuzhen, and Wuming 23 26.
• Main-timeline Vegeta remains unmarried when Trunks asks about him; Bulma is Goku’s wife in this world, not Vegeta’s 24 42.
• Goku’s Chapter 1 joke about “Super Saiyan Green” occurs in his thoughts about pursuing Bulma; it is not a transformation Vegeta attains 1.