That's true, but that doesn't mean King Cold was able to transform, just that Freeza has a form that looks like his father. The only member of said species other than Freeza (who was consistently refered to as a mutant) shown to be able to transform was Cooler. No other member (and we have seen more of them in recent years) was shown to be able.
Visually, Kind Cold heavily resembles Frieza's second form. Given the nature of their transformations, this implies a few different things.
- Frieza transforms down instead of up, using transformation as a power inhibitor. His natural state, and the implied natural state of his species as a consequence, is his Final Form. This suggests that King Cold has the ability to transform into a Final Form too, and what we see of him is only a fraction of his power.
- Frieza uses the transformations as a power inhibitor because he can't control his full strength - as we see for ourselves, his full power bleeds energy like a sieve. His First Form is the form he's comfortable casually walking around in, requiring three layers of power lock. King Cold walks around in Second Form, under only two layers of power lock, implying a much lower and less uncontrollable maximum for his power.
On top of that, we have both Cold and Frieza acknowledging Cold's inferiority. The closest thing to an impressive feat from Cold that we have is that he was able to get dust on Frieza at least once.
King Cold is unmistakably the inferior of the two, even if you apply the Fridge Logic of his resemblance to Frieza's Second Form.
edited 24th Jul '15 10:10:47 AM by TobiasDrake
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Why would Freeza's race have breasts? What would a reptilian race have need of mammaries?
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Well he's sure as shit not Mammalian.
edited 24th Jul '15 8:13:55 PM by SonOfSharknado
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Who said King Cold was able to transform, anyway?