The Actual End to the 'Legendary Super Saiya-Jin' Argument

By Andy S.W

Some of you may have read editorials like this before (Even some with the same title), some of you may have not. The argument has pressed on for however long DBZ has been in America (all of it). Before, any editorial like this that you may have read would always boil down to being a "Son Gokou Vs. Broli" fight. I have always read these editorials and stood back quietly, yet irritated at the same time. By writing this editorial, I intend to end this multiple year-long running debate. And in a way that just about all of the DBZ fans can understand (note key words: "just about all").

First off, to be able to reason and come to a realistic and accurate answer to the question "Who is the true legendary Super Saiya-Jin?" one must look at the topic totally objectively. So the mindless Son Gokou fans and the mindless Broli fans can be ruled out for carrying a decent argument (note I'm not calling someone a fan of Son Gokou/Broli mindless, but rather am talking about the mindless people that are fans of said characters). Now, first let us list the people that have, through-out the course of DBZ (DB:GT is not included), made the leap into the Super Saiya-Jin state and above. These characters would be (including movies, not including fusion characters) Son Gokou, Son Gohan, Goten, Vegeta, Chibi and Mirai no Trunks, and Broli. Now before people used to bicker over what it takes to become a Super Saiya-Jin. Such things have been said that one would (besides BEING a Saiya-Jin) have to have a 'pure' heart, or a 'pure' soul. This can be ruled out of the Super Saiya-Jin equation since Vegeta, the Prince of the Saiya-Jins, was FAR from pure. Having ruthlessly killed hundreds upon thousands of people, both innocent and not, and cold-heartedly annihilated thousands of worlds. Now, people have also said that insane uncontrolled anger must be let lose, and though anger is a factor, insane uncontrolled anger is not. This can be ruled out since we know that when the main "good" characters turn Super Saiya-Jin they are neither insane, nor uncontrolled (in a manner of speaking). So let us establish what really is needed to become a Super Saiya-Jin having ruled out the unnecessary myths. One would obviously need to be a Saiya-Jin, as well as having a strong "Ki", and letting lose a passionate anger/rage that had not been let lose before, though not an insane anger.

All right, now that that part of the debate is over with, let's move onto the Super Saiya-Jin characters. First, Son Gokou. Let's apply the new requirements for Super Saiya-Jin to him. He is a Saiya-Jin, he has a strong "Ki", and when Kurillin was killed at the hands of Freezer on Namek a passionate rage over-took Son causing him to make the transformation into Super Saiya-Jin. That's it, he's the true legendary one! NO! He is not. Wouldn't it be logical that by calling him the true legendary Super Saiya-Jin that he would be that naturally? Of course. This factor I did not mention before because it was best brought into the discussion here. Son did not achieve his high power level naturally. I wouldn't exactly call training in a man-made gravity room natural. "Well now, if the true legendary Super Saiya-Jin needs to achieve it naturally, Broli must be it since he was naturally strong, and he meets the other criteria" you say? Broli can be ruled out of the competition for a very simple reason. He exists in the Dragon Ball Z movies. Not in the anime NOR the manga. In no way could he have existed anywhere in the main story line, so he is a myth in himself. Now then, with those two characters removed, let us move onto the rest. Vegeta, Son Gohan, Goten, Chibi Trunks, and Mirai no Trunks ALL are removed because they all do not meet one of the requirements. Vegeta, Son Gohan, and Mirai no Trunks do not meet it because all three did not reach the state of Super Saiya-Jin naturally. Vegeta trained in the gravity room even harder than Son Gokou. Son Gohan had had countless power increases due to being healed by the Senzu Beans so many times, as did Vegeta, and Son Gohan had to train in the Room of Spirit and Time (which has stronger gravity than natural) to reach Super Saiya-Jin. Mirai no Trunks as well was healed many times either instantly by the Senzu Beans, or in time in bed, which gave him power increases. The last two contestants, Goten and Chibi Trunks, can be argued over for many reasons. Mainly, they are not pure-bred Saiya-Jins to begin with, their very genetics are unnatural. They are far from natural Super Saiya-Jins. But in spite of their lack of meeting the requirements, Son Gokou, Son Gohan, Goten, Vegeta, Chibi and Mirai no Trunks ALL at least achieve the state of Super Saiya-Jin. So they ALL get there though not having met the requirements. So now that we have all gone over all of this information, I give to you the True Legendary Super Saiya-Jin. The True Legendary Super Saiya-Jin is..............(drum role).............No one! Simple logic dictates that this 'True Legendary Super Saiya-Jin' does not and can not exist simply because there are more than one Super Saiya-Jin. So for those of you that still don't understand, there is no True Legendary Super Saiya-Jin, I repeat, there is no True Legendary Super Saiya-Jin. And now the multiple year long argument is finished.

-Andy S.W. A.K.A. Majin Andy

P.S.-I do not care to argue with anyone on this, logic dictates us the answer. I will accept conversation with those that agree with me, however(heh heh).

P.P.S.-You cannot argue that Vegeta talks about what a Super Saiya-Jin is and what goes into making one since he himself had never been, seen, or met one before. So don't try it.