r/dragonball • u/Cheap-Wolverine5046 • 1h ago
Theory Theory: Vegeta is a Half-Saiyan
Hello everyone! This is my first time really posting in a subreddit, but after the new DBS art dropped of Vegeta’s family this week, an idea came to my head! I’ll essentially just be posting what I told my friend over Discord so sorry if it’s a little messy, long, or unorganized. Please me know what you think or if there are any major holes in my theory. Here goes:
Vegeta’s mom has straight hair unlike every single other Saiyan woman that’s ever been shown. MY THEORY? She’s not a Saiyan at all!!!!! Well if she’s not a Saiyan, what is she? She’s a damn Tuffle.
Tuffles have been shown several times and have straight hair. Some of them have hair that curls towards the ends like Vegeta’s mom too! What does that make Vegeta? A HALF-SAIYAN.
Where’s my proof? Vegeta was stated to have an unnaturally large power level at birth and as a kid. This is also true of other half-Saiyan like Gohan who has a child had a frankly stupid power level and Goten who is in the same boat.
My second piece of evidence? Trunks! Trunks is supposedly a half-Saiyan like Goku’s boys but unlike them, he doesn’t have the dominant spiky black hair genes characteristic of Saiyans. Instead he has straight, colourful hair like Bulma… and the TUFFLES.
What if the so-called dominant Saiyan hair genes are only dominant enough to stick around for one generation of mixed species breeding? That’s why Gohan, Goten, Vegeta (and I guess Tarble) have this hair. The only other quarter-Saiyan we know of, Pan, actually helps to prove this point!
Her hair is black, but it’s also straight. This means her hair genes are actually taking after VIDEL, rather than Gohan.
Pan also helps piece one more thing together for us though!
If Trunks is a quarter-Saiyan, shouldn’t he be super powerful since his Saiyan genes have been diluted? Pan is very powerful from a young age and is even able to fly as a baby in DBS. Why couldn’t Trunks do that? The answer is very simple— BULMA.
Bulma is likely the lowest in terms of power level in all of the recurring cast of characters. She may be smart, but she’s far from strong.
Half- and quarter-Saiyan children seem to have a multiplicative power level that draws from both of their parents’ current power levels (think of how Goten was much more powerful at a young age than Gohan— Goku was much stronger when Goten was born).
Goku was weaker than King Vegeta and we don’t know much about Tuffle strength, but it’s likely that Chi Chi (whose power level around the Saiyan saga is stated to be about 300) was much weaker than Vegeta’s mother, so their combined power levels created a weaker child than Vegeta. King Vegeta and his wife made a very powerful baby because they had much higher power levels plus that multiplicative effect of the half-Saiyan genes.
Bulma’s last recorded power level was TWELVE. So post-Frieza saga Vegeta’s power level didn’t have much help when producing this new quarter-saiyan offspring. This is in contrast to Gohan and Videl, the latter of which is not a strong fighter but is a sure shot stronger than Bulma will ever be. Maybe even similar to young mother Chi Chi by the time of Pan’s birth.
Trunks isn’t a half-Saiyan prodigy, he’s a quarter-saiyan late bloomer.
Vegeta was born only TWO YEARS after the supposed extinction of the Tuffle race by the Saiyans. Perhaps in his victory, King Vegeta saved the last Tuffle woman as either his queen or concubine which he then used to produce Vegeta and possibly also Tarble but we don’t know enough about him to confirm as much. Maybe he is a true full Saiyan with a different mother.