Dragonball Z Research Paper

Now we have talked about the culture of Dragon Ball and even the author, now I am going to talk about how Dragonball can influence others. In order to do that, I’m going to step into the Dragonball Z franchise and use two of the main characters, Goku and Vegeta, their backstories and how they each inspire other people.I will also talk about how Dragonball Z influenced other forms of media such as the internet and other mangaka
First I am going to talk about Vegeta. Everyone has different worldviews and Vegeta’s was caused by being raised in a power hungry society, where one number can determine your life. After conquering a recent planet, the Saiyan society was assimilated into the Frieza empire with promises to be taken care of and can fight anyone in the galaxy, and thus were given scouters, a machine that can judge one’s external strength. But this was all just to control the saiyans, whom Frieza was afraid of. Frieza created a society where …show more content…
Before using his scouter, he was a proud and egotistical man, then after his defeat with Goku, he becomes humiliated and loses some of his pride. But there is no loss without gain, and Vegeta gains the newfound ability to look inside fighters to see their power, and he uses it to taunt Frieza’s army in Namek.Why is this important? It’s because it shows how vegeta surpassed his former oppressors. “The people that tried to keep him down through their own elitist mentalities were conquered by an even more elitist attitude and an even stronger sense of pride. The difference between them is that Vegeta began to rely on his own internal power, rather than the Scouter, and he actually used the psychology of the Scouter numbers against his opponents as if it were a weakness to exploit. Because that’s exactly what it was, and it’s the reason, along with Vegeta’s incredible fortitude, that he was able to win so many fights(Padula, Derek. Page