Vegeta is a prince of the planet Vegeta, and is the most powerful and feared of all the Saiyans. Cunning, ruthless, and cruel in battle, he enjoys toying with any helpless creature who opposes him. He comes to Earth with Nappa, another Saiyan, to conquer the planet. Vegeta and Nappa underestimate the earth fighters by thinking the mission will take only three days, when in fact, they never succeed. Vegeta gets so fed up with Nappa that he throws Nappa up in the air and sends him to the next dimension. Vegeta looses the battle on Earth, but escapes death because of Goku tells Krillen not to kill him with Yajirobe's sword.
Vegeta goes to a rejuvenation pod and gets better and heads for the Dragonballs and Freiza on the planet Namek. Vegeta goes to Namek in search of the Dragon Balls with the wish for immortality. Discovering he cannot defeat Frieza alone, he fights on the side of good with Gohan and Krillen, and then with Goku and Piccolo when they arrive.
When Vegeta sees he cannot match Freiza's power, he tells Krillen and Gohan to beat him up, so Dende, a local Namekian child who has the ability to heal,heals Vegeta to full strength. He then fights Freiza and gets the crap kicked out of him and he dies. But when Goku is almost dead, Vegeta comes to him in a sort of dream and tells him to defeat Freiza because the whole saiyan race is in the hands of the strongest fighter in the universe, Goku!
