YMMV / The Fall of Lord Frieza

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Queen Cold really as kind as we are led to believe or, since we only see her goodness in relation to the rest of the Cold clan, is she harsher than what some would give her credit for? Are her ideas of using diplomacy and being empathetic towards the subjects in order to keep their loyalty and respect a proof that she's nice... or pragmatic?
• Complete Monster:
  • King Cold proves to be far worse than he is in canon. The tyrannical head of the Planet Trade Organization, King Cold becomes furious when he finds his wife attempting to convince Frieza not to follow in his footsteps. As a result, he brutally beat her before vaporizing her body, lying to Frieza and Cooler that she died of illness. He then intentionally molded Frieza and Cooler into becoming the cruel tyrants they grew up to be, repeatedly beating them in the process. Upon finding out about Frieza's defeat at the hands of Goku, King Cold is angered at the blow to his family's pride, and attempts to destroy Earth out of spite alongside Cooler. When he escapes from hell, King Cold decides to wipe out all other races in the galaxy before being stopped by a redeemed Frieza. When Frieza challenges King Cold, Cold attempts to kill Frieza without remorse.
  • General Kanchapp is a traitorous general within the Planet Trade Organization. Wishing to take over the empire, Kanchapp convinces most of the army to aid him in a rebellion against the Cold family, falsely promising them the liberation of their races while intending to be just as cruel a tyrant as Cold and his sons were. When he finds out about the life-sapping Tree of Might, Kanchapp murders a group of space pirates for the tree, intending to have it spread across the galaxy, knowing that this will wipe out life on countless planets. Kanchapp eventually leads an assault on Frieza's home planet, Arcos, with the intent of killing Frieza and all those who remain loyal to him. During Kanchapp's fight with Frieza, he kills several of his own men before destroying Arcos right in front of Frieza just to hurt him. Even when defeated, Kanchapp mocks Frieza before dying by saying that Frieza lost everything important to him.
• Crack Pairing: Frieza and Zangya.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Inyon has quite a few fans among reviewers and seems to be the most popular OC in the story.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In this story, Frieza genuinely cares about his family and actually cries when King Cold is killed. In Dragon Ball Super, Frieza shows that he didn't care for his father, leaving him to rot in Hell as opposed to wishing him back to life.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • So, after suffering a humiliating defeat, Frieza decides to train in order to improve himself before returning to Earth to challenge Goku once more and prove that he's the strongest... Wait a minute! That sounds vaguely familiar...
  • During the fight against Beerus, Gouza uses the Kaioken to power himself up, allowing himself to become Beerus's equal. In Super, Goku learns to combine Super Sayian Blue with Kaioken, abeit not becoming Beerus's equal.
• Jerkass Woobie: Dr. Raichi (the original, not the AI). He was a kind, optimistic grandfather with a brilliant mind who believed that the Saiyans would see reason and end the war peacefully. As the war continues, we are shown his degrading mental state, as he loses everything he cares about and becoming obsessed with leaving behind some kind of revenge.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: In canon, Frieza and Zangya never met, and may not have been aware of one another's existence.

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