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Vegeta’s brief appearance in the debut Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero trailer suggests the antagonists’ motives in the upcoming anime film.
Toei Animation has provided the most extensive look of the upcoming anime film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero yet, unveiling a first look teaser trailer at New York Comic-Con 2021 that teased the all-new canonical story. In addition to showcasing the new animation style and fleeting introductions of new characters to the franchise, the trailer offered glimpses of several slight character redesigns, including Vegeta once again wearing his “Badman” shirt from Dragon Ball Z. With that sneak peek, along with other footage included in the teaser, the overall premise for Super Hero may have been quietly revealed.
A shadowy organization is seen reviewing pictures of several returning Dragon Ball characters, including Vegeta and Majin Buu. Of note, both images of Vegeta and Majin Buu cast both characters in a sinister light, with the two warriors seen sneering menacingly at the camera. Later in the teaser, Piccolo is seen being attacked while apparently meditating on top of a mountain overlooking his newly revealed home. These developments, coupled with the Z Fighters confronted by mysterious, caped new characters as their likely opponents for the film’s inevitably epic battles, could suggest that humanity has taken its own measures to take the Z Fighters down.
Vegeta, Majin Buu and Piccolo were each initially introduced as villains to the franchise before eventually taking their own respective redemptive turns and becoming valuable friends and allies over the course of DBZ. Vegeta’s “Badman” shirt was seen as Frieza and his equally evil father King Cold arrived on Earth to seek their revenge for Frieza’s humiliating defeat on Namek. At the time, Vegeta was still something of a morally ambiguous figure among the Z Fighters, working with them against common enemies but not yet someone to be trusted and embraced among the heroes who had just fought him in a grueling battle for the fate of Earth a little over three years prior.
Between the analysis of Vegeta and Majin Buu and the attack on Piccolo, the shadowy figures plotting their moves against the Z Fighters could have formed to eliminate the figures with more checkered pasts on the team, likely seeing Goku and the others as accomplices rather than bringing them to justice. Majin Buu’s inclusion is unusual, as the Dragon Balls were used to erase humanity’s memory of his evil deeds precisely so he would not be feared and persecuted after humanity was resurrected following the defeat of Kid Buu. However, this wholesale memory loss may have potentially worn off in the years since that climactic battle, while Vegeta and Piccolo have not undertaken similar measures to prevent humanity from recognizing them.
Goku and his friends may have long forgiven some of their most formidable foes for their undeniably evil deeds in the past, but it appears that some figures in the universe still want to see some form of justice executed against them. The two new fighters debuting in the film may be specifically hired to exercise their own form of hard-hitting street justice against the Z Fighters with complicated pasts. And with Vegeta once unafraid of publicly wearing a shirt proclaiming his moral shortcomings, the Saiyan Prince has certainly made himself a prominent target.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is currently in development, with a 2022 release date in Japan.
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