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Upon introspeecetion, I didn't like that Goku spared Freiza. Goku was clearly told by Vegeta that Freiza's a genocidal space tyrant responsible for annihilating the Saiyans, Goku believed Vegeta, but spared Frieza anyway. Because Frieza put up a good fight or was pathetically groveling.
Also the Saiyans inhibiting Bulma from finding Gero & The Androids/Cell before they were supposed to show up. The TeamFourStar joke about Piccolo being more of a father to Gohan rings really true.
For me though:
Attack on Titan, but during Season 1/2.
Eren's "kill or be killed" mantra was a red flag. Then the government being controlled by a secret leader/conspiracy stuff. Whole series was a fascist dog siren.
It's mostly the former. One of goku's only character traits is that he wants to fight strong people. It literally doesn't matter how evil they are or what they do while he isn't looking. As long as they can potentially come back and give him a good fight later, he'll do everything he can to avoid killing them. Which doesn't even make sense considering in this universe literally no one ever truly dies. Even dead people can keep training and come back later to give him another fight. But that's his logic. Weaker than me? You can't do anything terrible to me and my friends anyway so why kill? Stronger than me? That's fun, so why kill?
If, like Vegeta, they eventually become domesticated and stop doing evil shit, all the better. But if not, oh well.
It's also contradictory to some extent, too. When Cell kills him, he decides to stay dead so that people will stop coming to earth looking to fight him and endangering his friends. And then he only comes back because he realizes that doesn't actually keep earth safe. But then we get to Super and he's just threatening every living thing in several universes with complete annihilation in order to have a better fight.
Goku was a terrible father and husband. Yeah, he loved them, but he'd just up and abandon them at the drop of a hat if there was fighting or training that could be done. Didn't even care about being dead until there was a good fight to be had. His character flaw was definitely his love of a battle challenge above almost anything else.
On giving it some thought now that I'm older, I realise that Goku is a terrible father, husband, friend and person with absolutely no consistent ideology or even heroic drive - because he's a fucking golden retriever in a human body who chases fights instead of a ball
To be the greatest shonen "train to be the best" warrior in pop culture history, he had to be nothing but a shonen "train to be the best" warrior in his goals. Kind of fucked up. It'd be like being the ultimate parkour expert that only did parkour at the expense of everything and everyone else, nonstop.
I wanna be the very best like no one ever was
I thought of it as war communism shit, and was hoping that since it wasn't depicting women in the usual cringe anime way that it would be good
got real fucking shit towards the end
I really do think though that fascists really don't know how to make fascist art, because it conflicts so hard with the reality of our world that it ends up just critiquing themselves.