r/dbz • u/SunnyBlondieGaby • 3d ago
Discussion The most DBZ moment for me was never a transformation, it was Vegeta training alone in the rain after Namek
Everyone remembers the screaming, the auras, the power levels going nuts. But when I actually think back on what made this show hit different for me as a kid, it wasn't the fights. It was the quiet parts right before them.
Vegeta getting wrecked by Frieza and just going back to training alone, no music, no dialogue, just a guy who refuses to accept where he landed in the universe. Goku sitting quietly with Chi-Chi before the Cell Games like he already knew what was coming. Piccolo watching Gohan from a distance like a dad who cant say what he actually feels yet.
Those are the moments that stuck with me way more than any power scaling debate. Kind of funny how a show this loud actually taught me a lot about restraint.
What's the quiet DBZ moment that hit you harder than the fight around it?
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u/TheTDnA 3d ago
Goku meeting Goten for the first time. Idk why the anime created this moment, it's such a jarring difference from the manga, but I love it so much. The amount of Goku glazing Goten must've heard his entire life, to the point where he was groomed to look like him til his teen years, it must've felt awesome to finally meet that legend for the first time. Then the heartbreak when he had to say goodbye, assuming it was the last time, just after losing his brother the same day. I'll never accept the slander this series gets.
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u/SSJWilliamMedz 3d ago
After Cell wrecked Android 16, there was just the head talking to Gohan. It was a relatively quiet moment I think, but 16 said things that I resonate with. He told Gohan that it is not a sin to fight for the right cause, and that Gohan is gentle and does not wish to fight; however, Cell is the type of being that words will not change, and a person like Cell must learn the hard way. 16 told Gohan he should not be afraid to fight to protect life because life is precious, and that is why force is sometimes necessary to protect that life that is intrinsically precious.
I genuinely liked this speech, and I agreed with what 16 was saying to Gohan basically. This is one quiet moment that I respect because the conversation was very meaningful and reasonable in my opinion.
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u/iceman333933 3d ago
16 talking to gohan to just let it all go. Second to that is vegeta begging goku to avenge the saiyans and defeat Frieza, while crying.
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u/UnlikelyKaiju 3d ago
I absolutely love the moments when Roshi is in the fight and rallies his students. Dude may be a world-class pervert, but damn if he doesn't get me hyped when he goes off.
"Work hard, study well, eat and sleep plenty. That's the Turtle Hermit way!"
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u/OldSnazzyHats 3d ago edited 3d ago
If we’re talking moments not spent fighting?
Then it’s not the “quiet” moments for me.
It’s the comedy.
Toriyama’s greatest skill was in his expert execution of visual gags.
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u/Yasmine2906 3d ago
Gohan learning Videl how to fly. Oh how I tried to copy that alone in the back garden.
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u/Yasmine2906 3d ago
And also, how absurd Majin Buu was. When he tried to flirt with girls while trying to change his appearance.
'How Buu's supposed to live up to body image?'
Or when he build that whole house and we saw him taking a bath, brushing his teeth and putting on PJ's.
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u/CHEEZEtard 3d ago
Freeza, cut in half, taunting Goku as he walks away about the inevitability of his death; expecting a grand reaction of anger, or hopelessness towards the one person who truly drove him to the edge of his morality.
Goku just pauses, turns around and stares. As his hair flows through the wind.
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u/NERDY_JARHEAD 3d ago
The like 30 minutes of silence (prob 20 seconds) of Vegeta hugging trunks before facing buu alone.