History Characters / DragonBallVegetaTropesOToZ

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Before his sacrifice against Majin Buu, Vegeta, being somewhat aware that DeathEqualsRedemption in the ''Dragon Ball'' world, optimistically asks Piccolo whether or not he would see Goku in the Other World. Piccolo tells him point-blank that unlike Goku, Vegeta has spent most of his life being a selfish, evil {{Jerkass}}, and one selfless act will ''not'' make up for it; therefore, Vegeta is most likely going to Hell when he dies. And indeed, he does.
** Working your body past its limits all the time will actually hinder you in the long run, since your body does need proper rest to get stronger. Being over-stressed also slows your reaction time since you're always tense. These weaknesses are noted by Whis.

** By the end of the series he finally admits that he will never surpass Goku and pulls a real HeelFaceTurn, which is further showed in the ''Battle of Gods''.

** Also visible in the ''Wrath of the Dragon'' movie, Vegeta actually goes out of his way to protect innocent bystanders from Hildegarn's fire breath, which he even lampshades himself.

** Also in Universe 7 vs Universe 6, while he was a little angry at Cabba, he helps him to become a Super Saiyan.

** In his Majin state, Vegeta doesn't hesitate to slaughter crowds of civilians to provoke Goku into fighting him, but he ''does'' (with considerable difficulty) resist Babidi's command to attack the other Z-Fighters; it's only Goku he wants.

** Before he sacrifices himself to Buu, he gives a heart-to-heart speech to Trunks and then hugs him.

* StockShonenHero: Despite being one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for the StockShonenRival, Vegeta does possess some of the typical traits of a shonen hero; he is a HotBlooded {{Determinator}} who seeks to become the most powerful warrior in the universe.

* StoryBreakerPower: After training with Whis he gains the power of godhood and is able to fuse it with a regular Super Saiyan to become a Super Saiyan Blue. He is also within striking distance of Goku again after falling behind during the events of the Cell Saga and is one of the top fighters in the entire universe. If Goku and he worked together against Golden Frieza, they would have ended the threat without any problem.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: He has a terrible habit of doing this with ''every'' major ''Z'' villain and even the heroes:

** Although he knows that Frieza is extremely powerful, he provokes him to transform thinking that he won't become that much more powerful and is quickly proven wrong.

** He wanted to fight Androids 17 and 18 because Androids 19 and 20 were weak and boring, despite Trunks warning him several times that wasn't a good idea. [[CurbStompBattle Trunks is proven correct]].
** In the same saga, Vegeta let Cell become complete to have a better match. After Cell transforms, he dismisses Cell's final form as unimpressive. Cell then proceeds to beat the daylights out of him.
** Vegeta sees Kid Buu as something he could handle, calling him puny. It takes Gohan being killed (so he thinks) before he realizes that he was badly mistaken.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Vegeta is on the giving and receiving end of this.
** Despite having seen Goku thrash Nappa, Vegeta was completely caught off guard by how powerful Goku was when he fought him one-on-one.
** Cui, Dodoria and Zarbon were caught off guard by how powerful Vegeta could become after recovering from near fatal injuries.
** Unfortunately, Vegeta underestimated how powerful Frieza was and overestimated the power boosts his Zenkai would give him when facing the tyrant. This led to a him suffering a brutal CurbStompBattle at Frieza's hands.
** Androids 19 and 20 are initially unconcerned when Vegeta shows up to save Goku. Then the prince reveals his Super Saiyan form for the first time and proceeds to hand 19 his ass.
** High off his defeat of 19 and gaining his Super Saiyan form, Vegeta was quite confident he could vanquish the Androids with ease all by himself. Android 18 proved him wrong.
** He defeats Semi-Perfect Cell with ease but is surprised at just how much more powerful Cell is when he reaches his perfect form. To add insult to injury, Cell only became perfect because of Vegeta's help.
** When Pui Pui realizes he is outmatched against Vegeta, Babidi uses his magic to transport them to Pui Pui's home planet, which has 10x Earth's normal gravity -- Vegeta doesn't point out that ''his own homeworld'' had that level of gravity, but does point out, to Pui Pui's horror, that he's long been training in conditions which are ''hundreds of times'' Earth's gravity. Vegeta effortlessly blows the clown away without even needing to go Super Saiyan.

** In ''Battle of Gods'', Beerus slapping Bulma presses Vegeta's BerserkButton so hard that he goes positively [[IncrediblyLamePun ape-shit]] and attacks at full force, becoming the first fighter to actually land a solid hit on the God of Destruction. At the end of the movie, Goku freely admits that at that time, Vegeta's strength surpassed his own.

* TheWorfBarrage: Vegeta's BeamSpam is this in spades.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: In ''Super''. Vegeta during the Hit arc, quite surprisingly, not only tries to skimp his training with Whis and seems rather uninvested in seeing it to completion, he eventually skips out of it completely by giving Whis some BlatantLies. This is very odd, as it goes against his {{Determinator}} personality as someone who's willing to train until his body can't take it any more, and he has this attitude nowhere else in the series.

* YourSizeMayVary: Vegeta is significantly short compared to the other Z-Fighterz, being perhaps [=5'2''=] without his hair, but his size varies greatly from series to series, and even within ''Z'' itself, he sometimes looks to be a foot shorter than Goku, or just a few inches shorter. In fact, in End of Z, he's actually noticeably shorter than his wife. And in ''Super'' he is significantly taller than Bulma who is the same height.

** Vegeta kills Nappa after he fails to kill Goku, and does the same to a Saibaman for losing to Tien.

** After beating up Cell, Vegeta says that his son is almost as powerful as him. Given what a jerk he has been to Trunks up until this point, it is a high compliment.

** After Piccolo is denied a victory through dishonorable means, Vegeta tells Piccolo to forfeit the competition so he can have the opportunity to humiliate the guilty party with his own hands.