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Assuming that his actual parents are dead, and King Cold is his subordinate (very nearly canon) and parental figure ("king" being a given name like King Vegeta is guessed to have on the [[Dragon Ball/Headscratchers/Headscratchers/DragonballGeneral|JustBugsMe]] page). [[Batman Can Breathe in Space|He can breathe in space]], he goes from a less bulky physique than most (but not all) beings of similar power, getting [[Batman: The Animated Series|more]] and [[Superman: The Animated Series|more]] bulky before [[Bishounen Line|dropping into]] a [[The Dark Knight|physique]] not extremely dissimilar from his original form but with a [[Sculpted Physique]] (literal to the trope for Frieza, literal to the title for Batman). His [[Superman|rival]] is a humanlike space alien who got sent to earth before its home planet was destroyed, became more powerful than any of his own species, met many others despite being [[Last of His Kind]], and [[Dragon Ball/Headscratchers/Headscratchers/DragonballGeneral|notably]] indulged in [[Super Dickery]]. His (back to Frieza/Batman) fighting style includes [[Batman Gambit|manipulating his opponents and allies based on how he thinks they think]], and while for most of Frieza's run he doesn't rely on tools, he does use his [[Up to Eleven|spaceships]] and [[Utility Belt|chair]] in his first form and eventually a mechanical contrivance to fight despite being incapacitated and very nearly killed by a much stronger opponent. The two most significant differences between Frieza and Batman are that Frieza merely ended up weak [[The Worf Effect|compared to the other fighters]], and Batman usually puts his skills on the side of justice instead of the side of making himself more money.

There's only been one saiyan recorded in the last 3000 years that wasn't in close contact with humans for years before his transformation, and that's Broly, who had a [[Slave Crown]] and a parent who made the normal Saiyan [[Training Fromfrom Hell]] look like [[Bowdlerization|Training From HFIL]]. Goku was raised by humans, and even needed his best friend being killed in cold blood before his eyes to snap and go Super Saiyan rage in his mid-twenties. The [[Authority Equals Asskicking|incredibly powerful Prince]] Vegeta was raised by the punk kid who enslaved and later destroyed his entire planet (and I ''mean'' "his", being Prince of All Saiyans), then got surpassed by some punk serf-class guy who lived most of his life on a backwards planet with almost nobody above [[Power Levels|level 5]], and spent a few years using mystical and technological training weights to push his rage at, probably, Goku being more powerful. This was when he was at ''least'' over thirty (unless I drastically overestimated his age), but he had exposure to humans for a much shorter time than Goku. Gohan, a half-human and raised (mostly) by humans, has emotion-based power boost, turned Super Saiyan when he was eleven and [[Unstoppable Rage|Super Saiyan 2]] when he was 12. Trunks and Goten were SS-capable by the age of ten, and while Goten had (almost definitely, I don't remember the timeline) been conceived after Goku was SS-capable, Trunks required [[Training Fromfrom Hell]] anyway- Goten just needed a human family. That included [[Tsundere|Chichi]] (as did Gohan, until he was five).<br />What have the Saiyans not had that the DBZ Saiyans and Half-Saiyans had in droves? Human associates. Huan associates that taught them (and other alien characters) to repress emotion until it bursts out of their ears like steam, have violent outbursts at any expression of their species' traditional pastimes (and then switch completely to ''encourage'' this in a younger sibling), let illogical sequences of thought and action slide as long as they sound okay, [[Moral Event Horizon|shoot dogs for fun and]] [[Berserk Button|lack of profit]], and (though this is usually the tipping point after years of buildup of the [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Human Bastardry]]) [[World of Cardboard Speech|watch their weak human friends die like flies]]. Saiyans just kill things for food, release of aggression, money and at least sometimes honor, which humans do all the time ''plus'' those other things. The only beings in the series that are worse than the average human mercenary (on a wider scale) are the [[Card-Carrying Villain|Card Carrying Villains]] that originate from Earth or [[Exclusively Evil|other dimensions]] anyway.<br />Therefore, [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|DBZ humans are the most evil,]] [[Straw Vulcan|loony]] [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|species in existence]] (at least on average, since some humans are only evil ''or'' loony), and ''bring out the worst'' in even ''Saiyans''.