WhileVegetamay be one of the greatest heroes in theDragon Balluniverse today , there was a sentence when he was a vile villain of the highest order – and his worst crime of all was committed against his married woman and son .

Vegeta was introduce inDragon Ballchapter 204 by Akira Toriyama when he and a team of Saiyans descend upon the Earth in an attempt to inhibit it and kill every living thing on the face of the planet . Vegeta was the drawing card of the last stay Saiyans in cosmos , and while he and the rest of the Saiyans under him worked for Lord Frieza , Vegeta was driven to put his Saiyan strength to the test and vote down the evil emperor moth who had claimed ownership over his life . In that effort , Vegeta give a telephone number of heinousness , including killing an intact settlement of innocent Namekians for a single Dragon Ball and kill most of the Z Fighters on Earth for that very same reason – and that ’s just to name a few .

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InDragon Ballchapter 347 by Akira Toriyama , Vegeta had just decimated Android 19 and was hunt down Android 20 aka Dr. Gero after 20 ran by from the fight following the death of 19 . When Vegeta find him , a individual plane was flying overhead hold Bulma and her new-sprung baby , Trunks , who was also the boy of Vegeta – and Dr. Gero used that to his advantage . Counting on the Z Fighters ’ larger-than-life nature , 20 scoot down the planing machine and aviate forth in a flash immediately following the pandemonium he had just ensued . Rather than induce any effort whatsoever to save his son and wife , Vegeta took off after Dr. Gero as he was hellbent on killing him , because doing so – in Vegeta ’s judgement – would confirm his Saiyan superiority .

While it could have been argued that Vegeta was just missionary work - focused and went after the greater immorality in an effort to write the world , that disputation is totally put to bed after he explicitly states that he does n’t handle whether Bulma and Trunks live or die . When Future shorts , who connect the fight a bit later , watched the inaction of his Father-God , he became enraged that Vegeta would permit those closest to him to die without lifting a finger . What ’s worse , is thatVegeta at this point was a Super Saiyan , which meant he had the strength and speed to deliver Bulma and Trunks and then go after Dr. Gero without losing any ground . Essentially , Vegeta could have saved them like it was nothing , he just did n’t want to .

Vegeta has done some fearful things in his yesteryear , but committing acts of evil while in the avail of an intergalactic tyrant is a far outcry from watching his folk pass away in front of him and not caring in the thin . It is one thing to be a world conqueror or to pop alien in pursuit of eonian sprightliness , but to let masses so close to him die needlessly is truly malevolent , especially when it would have been unbelievably easy to salvage them – proving thatVegeta ’s bad offense inDragon Ballwas against his wife and son .

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Vegeta’s worst crime was against Bulma and Trunks.

Vegeta’s worst crime was against Bulma and Trunks.