Even more awkward, their next wish to Shenron was to erase everyone's memory of Majin Buu. This was done to avoid complications with Buu sticking around and hanging out with Mr. Satan.
Which means that for anyone who knew an evil person, not only did that person abruptly die, they don't even know why. All the evil people on the planet Earth just spontaneously died for no reason one day.
edited 31st Aug '15 9:58:51 AM by TobiasDrake
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Somewhere in the afterlife, Light Yagami is throwing a shit-fit over not getting to it first.
Two guesses why he's in the afterlife, and the first doesn't count.
.....Thought: the bad people that weren't brought back were probably not affected by the brainwipe. That's gotta suck.
edited 31st Aug '15 10:07:12 AM by Watchtower
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edited 31st Aug '15 11:02:05 AM by TobiasDrake
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I guess Porunga is just a super big fan of the Death Equals Redemption trope. Or he thought it'd be funny to reward Vegeta his life right in the middle of fighting a god-killing abomination that would almost certainly take it back from him five seconds later.
edited 31st Aug '15 11:34:13 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.To be fair to Vegeta, he had to allow himself to be possessed by an evil being in order to become evil enough to fight Goku (which is what he thought he needed).
He'd spent 7 years losing his bad guy edge, and then while technically possessed to be as evil as he used to be, he still sacrificed his life to try and save everyone and make up for what he did before.
He then made a wish under the assumption that he'd still be dead because he included himself in the wish to keep the most evil people dead.
I mean, Piccolo said he'd go to hell for all the people he killed, and he did, but it seemed he'd changed just enough to not fall under the terms of his own wish, and it's entirely possible Porunga knew that when he let him come back, and probably knew it before Vegeta himself realized it.
Of course since being alive again meant he was much more vulnerable to Buu, it actually worked against it. It still worked in his favour, but being dead would have been better in that case.
One Strip! One Strip!While their primary objective is world domination, their method of choice is pretty non-violent. They'll harm people in their way, but don't go out of their way to cause harm. They've never killed anybody that we know of, but not for lack of trying. The worst thing they've ever done was reviving Piccolo Daimao, and that was explicitly a case of being bumbling idiots who bit off more than they could chew.
Thinking about it, I think I would describe them as morally Neutral.
And even that's only in the dub, due to Westerners not really being able to grasp non-Christian afterlife concepts.
In the manga, there is even less dispute between Piccolo's assumption and Porunga's wish. In the manga, the reason Vegeta will never see Goku again is because Goku keeping his body is a rare and special circumstance for awesome people, and Vegeta doesn't qualify. Vegeta's soul will be purified and then reincarnated as is standard procedure.
Both Piccolo and Porunga can be right. It's not hard to see how Vegeta isn't good enough to qualify for keeping his body, but also isn't evil enough for Porunga to leave him dead.
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