Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-3581997-20160510204531

Dragon Ball Z. Vegita blows up planets, not just as a job, for fun. On his way to earth he comes upon a bug planet called Arlya. He and Nappa help overthrow the tyrant who is holding them there, the people cheer for them, say they are heroes to them and wish them well in whatever the quest is. Vegita gets to orbit and blows up the planet, pretty much just because. He would have also destroyed Krirren and Gohan at least 100 times if he wasn't focused on killing Freeza first. These dunder heads propose to trust him solely because he was powerful enough to fight Freeza. I like the series but their blind faith in his ability to turn over a new leaf seemed sorely misplaced and it always seemed like Vegita was being given a chance he did not deserve to me. He does eventually get better, but there is seemingly no reason for the change. One moment he is the sort of person who would blow up a planet just cause and the next he is an honor obssessed good hearted bastard. I saw him as a Draco in Leather Pants, long before I knew that a trope like that existed.

Death Stroke from Teen Titans actully does one of the very very few evil versions of this. He proposes to help his son Jericho. Long story - short: Jericho was dating Raven and the nasty in her head migrated into his when we went to possess her and help clear the monsters out of her head. Jericho goes nuts, eventually dies trying to make up for all the things his possessors are trying to make him do etc etc. Deathstroke, finds his son and brings him back to life so they can destroy the Titans together as father and son. Now even before Jericho was possessed he had no reason, at all to help Deathstroke. Slade Wilson was an absenty father, his wife was a no nonsense Nick Fury type who trained her son to kill his father from age 5 onward, even before she found out he had super powers. Even if Jericho wasn't possessed anymore, Deathstroke has absolutly no reason to trust him. In that case it turned out Jericho had gone crazy from being possessed for so long and proceeded to make Deathstroke kill himself, but this was not the first nor the last time Deathstoke tried to pull a Darth Vader and go "Join me Jericho, I am your Father!" Meanwhile by the way, he never does this with his other kid Rose. His blind trust in his son is based soley in the fact that he is his son.