Dragon Ball: Are Saiyans Just Evil?
The popular Dragon Ball franchise has been around for nearly four decades — since Akira Toriyama blessed viewers with the Shonen Anime in 1986. The main protagonist is Goku, an extra-terrestrial hero with the powers of a Saiyan. The only one of his kind on Planet Earth, Goku meets other Saiyans for the first time many years later and is greatly disturbed by the sinister history of his native race. With Vegeta egging him on with a biased history lesson, Goku is left to consider that Saiyans could be inherently evil.
Much like the Amazonian worriers, the Saiyans are an alien race raised with the sole purpose of becoming skilled fighters. As Goku's brother Raditzput it, the Saiyans are "planet brokers" who travel across the Universe, conquering entire worlds at a time and killing all inhabitants, before bartering what remains on the galactic market. And who says war isn't profitable? Stemming from the Planet Sadala (aka Planet Planet), these mercenaries of destruction are trained within a gravity field 10x stronger than Earth's, granting Saiyans much higher endurance, strength, and speed than any human may possess. Saiyans with pure bloodlines also brandish monkey tales, linking them to their Great Ape ancestry and granting them the power to transform into colossal beasts.
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For Saiyans, training pretty much begins from birth, as each child's energy level is assessed and monitored to determine their future ranking. Those with an elevated level will be prepared for combat in the Saiyan Army, while the weaker children are destined to become engineers or are dispatched to enemy planets.
Known as 'infiltration babies,' these infants are sent off, alone, to
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