Yep. You read that right. “Goku Betrays Vegeta.” So here’s the set-up. During the course of Dragonball Z, we are shown a deep rivalry between the Prince of the Saiyans (Vegeta) and the bottom class Saiyan fool (Goku). Originally enemies, they eventually found themselves to be allies in facing shared enemies. During the events of Cell’s World Tournament, Goku was killed saving the Earth from being blown up by the Self-Destructing Cell (Cell, by the way, is some kind of bug-man android). After Goku’s death, the series skips ahead about 7 years and there’s a new (friendly) World Tournament being held and because Goku is special, he was given 24 hours to go hang out with his family and participate in the tournament. Vegeta, having now become apart of Goku’s circle of friends was privy to this information and looked forward to crushing him in hand-to-hand combat… Also, before I continue, I know how stupid the universe of Dragonball sounds to people who don’t care for it, but just stick with me, ok?

So eventually, the tournament is crashed by magically enhanced warriors, one of which is named Spopovich, which was original translated as Supopo Bitchi (which always made me laugh). Spopovich is unrelated to the betrayal, I just like his name. Back on point, all of the Super Fighters forfeit the tournament to go handle the situation. At some point in time, this dude named Dabura noticed that Vegeta really wanted to fight Goku, so he told the bad wizard, Babidi, to magically enhance Vegeta so that could use his energy to release Majin Buu from his magic prison thing. Thus, the rematch of the century was finally here. Goku vs Majin Vegeta. The following battle was awesome in both manga and anime form. But the only thing that’s important about the betrayal is that both Goku and Vegeta were fighting at the peak of Super Saiyan abilities, Super Saiyan Level 2… Or so Vegeta thought.

Eventually, the fight expended enough energy to release Majin Buu. Vegeta got in a cheap shot on Goku and knocked him out so that he could take on Buu by himself. His plan amounted to exploding. Then he exploded. Majin Buu was fine, and Vegeta was dead. Then Goku woke up, turned into a Super Saiyan Level 3 and battled Majin Buu above some city’s skyline. Eventually Goku stops fighting, knowing that he could’ve defeated Buu, but he wanted the kids to have a shot at saving the world. BIG MISTAKE.

Flashing forward a bit, Everyone is either killed or eaten/absorbed by Buu except for Gohan (Goku’s eldest son). Meanwhile Goku is back hanging out in the afterlife because his 24 hours expired shortly after he stopped fighting. Anyway, since things are really bad, the Super God trades his life for Goku’s so that he can go and use these earrings with Gohan to fuse and become the strongest thing ever. But Goku is too late and Buu absorbs Gohan. Then BAM. Vegeta’s back. So Goku’s like, “Vegeta, put this earring on so we can become one really strong dude and be stuck together forever,” and Vegeta’s all like, “F you guy, I saw you turn into a Super Saiyan Level 3, you were holding out on me.”

BETRAYAL!

That’s it. Thanks for reading.

-Fleet

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