

Dragon Ball has Raditz, Son Goku's long lost older brother and the Starter Villain of the Dragon Ball Z anime series (and its corresponding part in the manga), who reveals Goku his true origins and that he's actually an alien.The now adult Cyber Blue manages to ambush and kill Weiser a few chapters later, remarking that Fatso's knowledge let him know there is an entire Government Conspiracy out there that needs to be adressed to make any real change on Tinos.

He then executes Blue, and a distraught Fatso fuses himself into the boy to birth the ultimate life form.

Particularly in the first productions of many comic and manga authors, one is encouraged to finish his story as soon as possible in case it proves to be unpopular, so the publishers can have an easier time cutting the losses. This phenomenon occurs in many retrospectively popular works, which like all fiction must compete in a market that does not give second chances. only that by the final pages of the first issue (or at the end of the first story arc), having served his purpose of making the hero the way he is today, he is unceremoniously disposed of, and almost invariably never mentioned henceforth. One would think that a villain of such importance to the very mythos of the story would continue to be a source of character motivation and story importance. Driving the hero to train him/herself into the very definition of a perfect warrior/detective/vigilante/wizard/whatever you will, this scumbag made the hero who s/he is today. You've seen it a dozen times since Batman in the 1930s:Ī villain traumatizes the hero in the opening pages of a comic book's first issue, possibly scarring him physically.
