Why was Freeza written so inconsistently in Z?
>fears the Saiyans enough to destroy their whole planet despite them all being weaker than himself
>yet constantly toys around with Gohan, Piccolo, and the rest of the gang despite them steadily getting stronger and surpassing his first few forms in power
What's so hard to understand about him getting cocky because he had the upper hand
He wasn't cocky enough to stop himself from destroying the Saiyans, so why on Namek?
Because it's a cartoon for children and those details don't matter.
Instead the focus is on things like choreography, clothing, will this panel look better if I do this? will this villain look more badass if I do that? etc.
After having no real challenge in his whole life and finally getting one, Freeza starts becoming a fight nut.
Its why he lands on Earth intent on beating Goku, rather than just do what King Cold says and blow Earth up.
Read the manga
because an army who have potential and was once be feared in the past is more dangerous than bunch of chidren
I did. What exactly was I supposed to find in the manga that explains this?
>After having no real challenge in his whole life and finally getting one, Freeza starts becoming a fight nut
This exactly, remember the part where goku is no longer interested fighting to him and just told him to stop yet
Freeza still want to fight to the death and him reaching his 100%power he is show to be actually quite exciting to have a fight to the death where he could be kill.
Lol, remember the arc where Frieza makes a big deal out of practicing for the first time?
That's not inconsistency, you retard. That's just typical villain arrogance and sadism.
no
Because Toriyama is a hack who can’t write 4 shit obviously.
If Freeza was too arrogant to view the Z fighters as a possible threat, why was he able to view the Saiyans as one?
>yet constantly toys around with Gohan, Piccolo, and the rest of the gang despite them steadily getting stronger and surpassing his first few forms in power
Frieza's first form has a power level of 530,000. His final form had a power level of 120,000,000. That's a difference of 40,000 times. He had room to fuck around.
Frieza was spooked by the saiyan boogieman. The z fighters were just some chucklefucks who had stumbled into his path and Vegeta.
Because one is an entire planet full of people, where it only takes a single one of the hundreds or thousands of saiyans achieving the legend to potentially push his shit in. The other is 2 saiyans, one of which has been his bitch for decades, and the other a small child. There is no reason to believe either of them could become a super saiyan, especially since after Vegeta's constant boasting, he just gets BTFO by Frieza using like 2% of his total power. Then there's Goku, the first person to ever push him that far, and even then he was curbstomping him at 50% power.
>Frieza was spooked by the saiyan boogieman.
Why? Nobody on the planet at the time was anywhere close to his power.
Frieza was literally, literally a child at the time of planet vegeta's destruction.
The fuck are you talking about?
>getting rid of a problem before it starts
>toying around with people
>Keep in mind he wasn't scared of any individual saiyan.
He was scared of the Super Saiyan legend
Watch DBS Broly.
He used to play and bully the saiyans a lot but in constant alert of their power levels and legends. Also, saiyans were fucking stubborn. With the constantly rising of their power, Frieza decided to stop playing and cut the risk. On Namek, well, Frieza was fucking pissed and gonne sicko mode in order to revenge his loss.
No! Don't watch this garbage, user. Avoid Super at all cost! They can't use some retcon made decades later to justify
>entire army dead
>the balls are inert
>see firsthand the power boost saiyans get
>new people keep showing up forcing transformations
>new guy shows up and he's even stronger
>time to go 50%
>keep having fun
>get spiritbombed and almost die
>come back and take shots and kill his friends and laugh
>suddenly he's blonde and vegeta can be heard laughing from the aether
This is same show where Goku gave Cell a senzu bean. Rational thinking isn't something any of these characters are known for.
>With the constantly rising of their power, Frieza decided to stop playing and cut the risk
And if he were written consistently, he would've done the same on Namek.
He wasn't dealing with a thousand plus he was super thirsty of revenge and suffering. They were all on his range.
Wanting revenge doesn't excuse constantly letting the Z-Fighters one-up him. He killed the Saiyans before they became a threat, so why would he not kill the people who've been the closest to a threat he's ever experienced?
Laziness and he wasn't with an scouter too. After losing the Dragon Balls he stopped giving a shit to everything but revenge. Got pissed and cocky too, losing the complete control of the situation. Something that normally happens with anyone.
He didn't know Gohan was a Saiyan, the moment he figured it out he tried to kill him, Vegeta just saved his ass. Also it's not like he killed the Saiyans instantly, he kept them as slaves for years and only killed them when they outlived their usefulness, and even after killing their entire race he still kept Vegeta and friends as pets.
But what made Freeza fear the Saiyans enough to destroy most of them?
I think there was a fortuneteller that foretold that he'd die at the hands of a super saiyan or something
The Super Saiyan legend and the threat of a revolt, the only thing that could be considered an inconsistency on his character is that he spent an eternity fucking around with Goku even though he was miles stronger than any other Saiyan, and if he was so scared of the Super Saiyan legend he should've instantly destroyed Goku just in case. But the rest of the Z fighters were just irrelevant garbage to him.
>the only thing that could be considered an inconsistency on his character is that he spent an eternity fucking around with Goku even though he was miles stronger than any other Saiyan, and if he was so scared of the Super Saiyan legend he should've instantly destroyed Goku just in case.
Not really an inconsistency when you remember Freeza kept Vegeta around all his life despite him being the strongest Saiyan.
On one hand that is true, on the other hand, up until Namek Vegeta didn't even hold a candle to Frieza sitting on his chair, meanwhile Goku was strong enough to not get instantly vaporized by Frieza in his true form. Of course you could also rationalize it as him thinking that Goku was already the "super saiyan" and he just thought "this is it? lmaoing at your monkey life"
True, but it could also be rationalized that Freeza obviously didn't expect Goku to turn into the Super Saiyan legend during their fight, which Freeza assumed Goku wouldn't get out of alive. He fully intended to kill Goku before he was out of his sight for good, and fucked around with him only because he knew he currently wasn't a match for Freeza at even 50% of his power. He just didn't figure that Goku could turn into the Super Saiyan, at least not at the moment.