Whose Character Progressed More? Piccolo or Vegeta?

[kriss-]

Thoughts?

 

[Southern Gothic]

Starting from which point? The entire series or a specific time period.

 

[Kyo]

Probably Vegeta. Vegeta went through many weird phases. He was evil, then he teamed up with the good guys because they had a common enemy in Freeza, then he chills with the good guys after that and it's kind of ambiguous what exactly he's up to since he seemingly still wants to kill Goku but is banging the likes of Bulma. I think at this point he's not sure what he wants to do so he's just going with the flow, he's still evil but he's also alone and depressed at being bested by Goku all the time. At this point he's still all about himself, but even he can't escape the need for some companionship. Skipping ahead, way later when he sees Trunks die it probably hits him all at once like, "...that's my son," and then his character progression is mostly finished with that realization.

I think the Boo arc did an awful job with Vegeta, turning him evil again the way he did, but regardless of my opinion, the Boo arc would be where the last few shreds of Vegeta's evil go away I guess.

Piccolo's development on the other hand was quite rapid. He trained Gohan to beat a common enemy, was treated as a friend by Gohan, and then the goodness in his heart prevailed since he was touched by this. I liked it, but that's all there was to it.

 

[Papasmurf]

Vegeta receives more development starting at the Freeza arc, while we basically only see Piccolo slowly become less and less of a jerk after he already stopped being evil when he died against Nappa. Vegeta takes this, although he's altogether not a very well written character due to the author using him as a plot device.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

Vegeta does have a huge progressed from Boo Arc to GT. He became so soft.

 

[DBZAOTA482]

Definitely Vegeta, but mainly cuz Piccolo's character arc only lasted for one arc and he stopped progressing after the Cell Saga while Vegeta's character arc is one spans throughout the entire Z storyline. Even to this day we still learn more and more things about Vegeta's character.