@TheDevilsCorpse
He's a non-speaking toddler. He wasn't in on the plan! Whether or not Goku starts rampaging is totally irrelevant to whether or not he was sent there to wreak havoc. He very obviously wasn't sent there for that purpose.
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:If Gine had misunderstood Bardock, Bardock would have corrected her. Instead, when she told him "Why do we have to do it now? Being an infiltration baby can be very dangerous!", Bardock replied "It's for Kakarotto's safety", he didn't say "No no no, you got it wrong".
Him saying it's for his safety IS him correcting her! As in, he says he wants a pod. She gives the reason she thinks he wants the pod. He corrects her by saying the reason he wants the pod is for his safety. Admittedly, we're working from a translation, and the wording is rather vague. But from the context of the story, it's obvious that he's going there for his safety, not to destroy it for sale.
Goku loses control when he turns into an Oozaru, of course Bardock would warn him about it. Oozaru is for emergencies.
I'm sorry, but I'm totally lost here. What does any of that even mean? What does it matter if he loses control? It puts him into a form that makes him more resilient and, therefore, less easy to kill. You say it's for emergencies as if he'd run out of it if he uses it too much. And it can't be saved "for emergencies" because he has no control over when it happens. If some powerful foe attacks him at any point other than when a full moon happens, he can't use that "emergency power," and it's therefore totally useless. I still have no idea why Bardock told him not to look at the moon because it makes no sense unless Bardock, for some reason, really, really didn't want him to kill anyone, but even I don't think that's the case. But if his goal was for Goku to "kill all humans," looking at the moon would be the
first thing he'd want him to do.
Their priority was to save his life. They probably didn't care about if Goku would destroy the Earth or not, but they had a reason to send him to Earth, and also an excuse for Raditz. Plus, they weren't sure that Freeza would do something, it could have turned out to be a mistake from Bardock's side.
The last sentence is the first thing I could possibly accept to make any sense. But you saying that is pretty much admitting exactly what I'm complaining about: that going to earth for that reason is a ruse. It's a sham. It's not the primary reason they're sending him there but at most a convenient excuse, so even if it makes sense and avoids a plot hole, it still changes the reason why Goku was sent to earth to a much less interesting and less ironic reason. But, still, why would they need an excuse for Raditz? Why would they want an excuse for Raditz? "Oh, no, son. It's much better you be blissfully unaware the guy you're working for committed genocide against our entire race and probably wants you dead too. That will keep you safe." I mean, for all they knew, Raditz had heard the call and was on his way back to his imminent death too and needed to be warned more than Goku did. The only reason he didn't was because Vegeta said, "Piss off, I'm not doing it."
Personally, I didn't find it either good or bad, it was exactly what I expected: an extra. And I'm not defending it, you are just wrong. And what exactly is so absurd about it?
I never said you were defending it. I was questioning why
I was defending it. And, no, I'm sorry. You telling me I'm wrong is not a very strong argument and is actually just rude. I've already spent all of this post and the last post explaining to the best of my ability everything that I think is absurd and why that is. You can either accept my opinions or not.
EDIT: Oooh, ooh. I can't believe I didn't think of this until now, and I haven't seen anyone else mention this either. Not only does Dragon Ball Minus undo the irony of Raditz's revelation: that the person sent there to destroy earth and its inhabitants became its greatest champion due to a simple twist of fate, it also undoes the wonderful poignancy in his conversation with Vegeta later on in the Saiyan arc. When they first confront each other, Vegeta makes fun of Goku for being a lowest class warrior. That trash like him was sent away because that was all they were good for. And Goku counters that by saying that if that meant he ended up on earth and becoming who he was, then the joke was on Vegeta, because Goku had learned that it doesn't matter what you're born as, but what you do with it. And that idea is the crux of Goku's and Vegeta's relationship for the ENTIRE REST OF THE SERIES! All of that is completely null and void now, because he wasn't sent away because he was trash. He was sent away because his parents loved him oh-so-very much! Goku didn't become the man he was that day
in spite of what his biological race thought of him; he became the man he was that day
because of what his parents thought of him.
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It's surprising the amount of hate this is generating. 
