As you know, Dragonball Z has been a great show since it began with Dragonball. Everything about it, especially the plot, drew the attention of many Anime fans as well as non-Anime fans. But if you have watched Dragonball Z for a long time (or even for a short time), as a fan you will have noticed that some of the pieces of the sagas left certain unexplained gaps. In the Raditz and Vegeta Saga, they stated that four Saiya-jin were left after the destruction of planet Vegeta: Goku, Raditz, Nappa, and Vegeta. Is that really true though? Keep on reading.

As I was saying it first began in the Vegeta saga when Vegeta himself confirmed that only four Saiya-jin survived the destruction of Planet Vegeta by Freezer. They don’t completely establish this though, for any Saiya-jin easily could have colonized on another world long before the destruction of Vegeta or even have escaped on a spacepod without anyone knowing, just as Goku did. But to really support this idea, I have to bring up the Dragonball Z movies.

In the third DBZ movie, "Earth’s Ultimate Deciding Battle", they present yet another antagonist to add to the giant list, Taurus (Terlus as they call him in America), another surviving Saiya-jin. Though they make certain that the audience knows that he is a Saiya-jin, they do not explain anything about his origin, including how he remained in existence and how he looks exactly like Goku. But let’s just say that Taurus is Goku’s twin brother, which if true, avoids using any type of lateral thinking. Suppose that Taurus was launched to another planet just as Goku was, then this event justifies my reasonable judgement. In contrast, there are many other possibilities to Taurus’s origin; therefore almost any other explanation is just as valid as mine is. Still, this is only one supporting detail to the main idea. If this isn’t enough, here’s another one.

Let me introduce yet another acknowledging idea that supports my theory, DBZ movie 5, "Breaking the Limits of the Strongest vs. Strongest". Now, if you’re a smart DBZ fan and know what movie 5 is about, you might ask, "how does this movie present any idea that there were more than four surviving Saiya-jin"? After all, doesn’t the beginning of the movie show the destruction of Planet Vegeta and confirm that no more than four survived? Although this is well thought out reasoning, there is also a contradiction to that. According to one of the first scenes, when Kooler is on a planet that he made into a lifeless desert, he says a line that interested me. And I quote, "I will go to Earth and destroy all the Saiya-jin that live on it, just as I did to this one". Despite any reasoning that he may have been talking about destroying living creatures on the planet where he was at or that this may have been an incorrect subtitle (which is most unlikely), there is yet another line that upholds my thinking. I quote again "This is the end of any Saiya-jin presence on this planet and in this galaxy". This quote gives a clue that any surviving Saiya-jin might have escaped to another galaxy or somehow avoided extinction. Yet, even this might not be enough for hardcore fans to swallow, so I will show one more component to my theory.

Now, I shall refer to the biggest piece of evidence I have, which is movie 8, "Bring your Spirit to the Max: the Dangerous Bloody Battle". (Just a personal note to movie collectors out there, this movie is one of my absolute favorites!). Anyway, I’ll skip the details and just summarize what this one is about. They explain that a baby Saiya-jin, Broli, born with a power level of 10,000 that is almost killed by King Vegeta, escapes the planet with his father (Paragus) just as it is exploding thanks to his incredible power. He later meets Goku once again and fights him, etc. Basically though, Broli and Paragus are living (later killed though) evidence that many Saiya-jin did survive Freezer’s wrath.

Of course though, If you are a DBZ freak just as I am, you should know by now that the movies are not a part of the actual DBZ story line and definitely do not fit into it, but rather are just made for the enjoyment of fans. And although I did present the movies as evidence, I am not saying that any of those characters actually exist. I only tell you about those things to prove that any Saiya-jin could have easily survived after Planet Vegeta’s Destruction.