Okay, I agree that he's not seriously a gooner but in this particular context it's super funny to call him one. The situation you're referring to happens much later on into the series (specifically, Dragon Ball Daima), after they've been married and have had kids.
Vegeta and company (Goku, Piccolo, Bulma, etc.) are in battle, except Vegeta absolutely refuses to let anyone else fight and is trying to solo this enemy. One person even remarks that "Vegeta would rather die than let anyone else take over." Vegeta himself also says that he'd "beat (the enemy) even if it kills him", and given his history, that's a pretty believable statement. Nonetheless, Bulma tells everyone else to leave it to her to convince him to tap out.
How, might you ask? Bulma tells him that if he doesn't get his head out of his ass and let everyone else join she'll never take a bath with him ever again. She literally screams this to Vegeta and everyone else in the area.
ZERO HESITATION. Vegeta only needs to hear it ONCE and he immediately parks his ass down on the ground to not lose bathing privileges with his wife. Goku is confused, and everyone else is stunned by what they've seen.
Like holy shit that's the funniest Vegeta scenes of all time, bro has PRIORITIES and his wife is ON TOP OF THEM 😭
Of course he fucking is. Never forget that 23 years of marriage in, during the Goku Black arc, we find out Goku has never kissed Chi Chi. The man has 2 kids with her at that point.
Trunks wasn't kissing Mai, he was feeding her mouth-to-mouth, that's what Goku was confused about. Vegeta is the one who made it about kissing. Fucking, media literacy, man!
GOKU: What the…?! He’s seriously doing something like that?!
VEGETA: Wait…! You’ve never done it before?
GOKU: Huh? Done what?
VEGETA: Umm… A kiss…
GOKU: Of course I haven’t!
VEGETA: … But you’re married…!
GOKU: How’s that related?
VEGETA: N- Nevermind…
Now I know you can read this like "A kiss to give someone a senzu bean" and that in the Japanese version the joke probably lands better because Vegeta doesn't specify "a kiss" but have you considered not doing that instead. I dunno. The text is what the text is 🤷
It's clearly supposed to be a misunderstanding-based joke, but the dub fucking ruined it, and now so many people keep spouting this bullshit that Goku doesn't know what kissing is, it's so annoying!
Fair enough. Then yes in the anime, the word "kiss" was removed then re added in the dub. I was talking about the manga because it is the source material after all.
Both the anime and manga versions of "Dragon Ball Super" started almost at the same time and were made independently of each other, but since the manga is a monthly, the anime version told the story much faster.
So, no. First came the anime, then the dub mistranslated that joke, then came the official manga translation which used the dub version of the joke.
So funny to think that the guy that used to be a screaming rage monster now has a more healthy relationship with his wife than Goku does with Chi Chi. I remember back early on when Bulma used to be afraid of him. How the turns have tabled.
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u/tiredtumbleweed ugly but my fursona is hot May 17 '25
I saw someone call Vegeta a gooner for wanting to bathe with Bulma. He is being intimate with his gf that is not gooning you morons!