Sunday 1 September 2013

Goku The Redeemer

The entire dragon ball storyline is built around the the wonderful process of redemption and self sacrifice. Many of the Z warriors started off as self centered people who could care less about other people. Example Bulma started off as a spoiled rich kid who wanted to get her hands on the dragon balls in order to make a selfish wish. Yamcha was a desert bandit who stole cars and anything else he could get his greedy hands on. Tien started out as a self centered mercenary who wouldn't think twice about hurting someone if it meant getting his own way. Piccolo started off as a globalist who wanted to take over the world and enslave the human race. Vegeta brings the word mercenary to a whole new level as he destroyed anyone who stood in the way of his diabolical master Frieza. Mr Satan started off as a proud wrestler who stole the credit from Gohan by claiming he saved the world. Android 18 was as proud as could be and got her kicks out of trying to track down Goku. As we can clearly see most of the z fighters started off on a bad note, that is until the love of Goku began to rub off on them and slowly transform them into heroes. This process did not occur overnight it took several years to totally transform them into true super heroes.


Buu Meets The Blind Boy

Many people probably forget the scene where Majin Buu meets a blind boy named Tommy who is walking alone high up in the mountains. This was the first time that Majin Buu ever tried to help someone and even formed a friendship. The show doesn't go into much detail about the identity of the boy but a few things strike me as miraculous when you take the time to think about it. For starters Tommy is not dressed like a modern day boy in fact he is dressed up like he was from the bible times. His garb included a robe, sandals, walking stick, and a small sackcloth shoulder bag used to carry food. To be honest he looks like he came straight out of one of those picture bibles that young children read. The whole encounter started off with Majin Buu flying high over a mountain range when he spots a boy walking on the path below and flies down to investigate. Buu was puzzled why the boy introduced himself instead of running away. Tommy said that he didn't know who Buu was and that he couldn't see because he is a blind kid. Then Buu heals his eyes and expects Tommy to run away when he sees him but to his surprise the boy is thanking him for restoring his sight. Tommy is the first person who ever showed Majin Buu kindness then Buu responds by giving him a carton of milk and abruptly flies off. I don't know about you but i think its possible that that little boy was actually Son Goku appearing in a different form in order to test Majin Buu. 


Buu Meets Mr Satan and Bee

Later on in the story Mr Satan arrives on the scene sporting a bag of wacky slapstick gadgets that made you wonder if he might have followed Wiley Coyote down to the local ACME Corporation. I just had to say it! Joking aside Mr Satan arrives on the scene and uses a bunch of Wiley Coyote style tricks in the hopes of defeating Majin Buu and to no surprise he fails every time. Fortunately for him Buu thought it was a game and even began to grow fond of Mr Satan. The cunning Wrestler then tricks Majin Buu into posing for a photo, having him lie on his belly while he strikes a champion style pose, and then pretends to be Majin Buu's friend while plotting to use a super explosive to try and kill Majin Buu, Majin Buu returns with a hurt puppy, showing signs of good in him. This causes Mr. Satan to stop trying to kill Buu and instead try to find out why he murders people. Buu tells him that he just does it because Bibidi and Babidi told him to destroy. Mr. Satan tells him that killing people is actually wrong, which surprisingly shocks Buu, who then promises never to do any harm again. Mr. Satan and Majin Buu then form a true friendship, and name the puppy Bee. Mr Satan begins to feel really bad for taking the photo and promptly takes it out of his bag in order to tear it up. This is the first time that Mr Satan decided that it was better to be honest than to deceive people through trickery. To make a long story short a deranged gunman shot Bee and Mr Satan. Buu was able to heal them but the pain of losing his best friend is so great that he struggles to control his anger. He finally has to expel all the evil inside of him in order to keep control. The evil leaves Buu in the form of a giant cloud that turns into a hideous gray monster. A battle soon ensues between the two Buus, the Evil Buu dominates over the Good Buu. Good Buu is ultimately turned into chocolate and absorbed by the evil Buu. Super Buu was born and no matter how hard the saiyans tried they were powerless to stop this evil menace who regenerated from even the most severe attacks. Seen as this article is about redemption i am going to skip through the hours of fight scenes to the very end where Kid Buu destroys the earth, when just in the nick of time the Supreme Kai arrives on the scene to save Goku and Vegeta from certain death. It is on the sacred world of the Kais that Vegeta finally confesses that Son Goku is better than him and then proceeds to put all of his faith in him. Vegeta then tells Goku that he is the only one who can defeat Buu and then works out an elaborate plan to distract the villain well Goku forms the spirit bomb. When Goku finally dropped the spirit bomb upon his opponent he said something very unusual and informative at the same time. 

Goku: (to Kid Buu) Maybe you'll come back someday as...as a better person, I hope. I'd like that. Perhaps we'll have a little one on one. Adios i will be waiting for you Majin Buu. 

That said Goku finally defeated his adversary Majin Buu once and for all. Buu was unable to regenerate from Goku's Spirit Bomb since it annihilated every atom in his body. But this was not the end of the story no not by a long shot. You see Majin Buu was a fallen angel who had been trapped inside a ball for millions of years and for that reason he missed his chance to redeem himself through the miraculous process known as incarnation. But despite all that the Lord Goku gave him one last chance to redeem himself as a human being known as Uub.

Goku trains Uub how to fight.

You may be wondering what the heck is incarnation? If you are don't worry not too many people have ever heard of it before so i will try to explain this wonderful process as best i can. You see many eons ago God's only begotten Son Goku created a group of heavenly beings called the sons of God or you might better know them as angelic beings aka angels. 

Psalm 104:4 "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire"

That one verse alone confirms these children of God were gifted with incredible super saiyan powers beyond our wildest dreams and their number one goal was to please their beloved Lord Goku. Then an angelic being called Syn Shenron became jealous of Goku and thought that he should be worshiped instead. This was the beginning of the angelic war in heaven as the Angelic beings decided whom they were going to serve. Eventually one third of the angels decided that they would rather worship Syn instead of Goku. This lead to an all out battle of good versus evil that still rages to this very day.