Dragon Ball Z: Ranking Goku's 10 Best Fights
5. Vegeta
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One of the greatest love-hate relationships in television history, the enemies-turned-friends-turned-enemies-turned-friends-again saga that is Goku and Vegeta began right here. It follows the events of the Raditz fight, with the latter signalling to his fellow Saiyan Vegeta to come to Earth in search of the Dragon Balls.
Their first was was hands down one of their finest and one of the most riveting of the entire series, not only introducing Vegeta as one of the most powerful characters in the DBZ universe, but also the history of the Saiyan race and Kakarot himself.
Once Nappa and the Z Warriors are out of the way, the two Saiyans battle it out with incredible ferocity. Vegeta goads and teases Goku at every turn as he tries to release Kakarot's anger and convince him to join the then-evil Vegeta, the same way Raditz had before him.
Vegeta creating a fake moon to turn himself into a Saiyan Great Ape turned the tide on the hapless Kakarot, as it looked more and more likely that Goku would receive the same fate he did when fighting his brother. Vegeta continued to crush his foe to the point of near-death, before Gohan came in with his own Great Ape transformation to save the day.
It was the perfect opening to arguably the greatest rivalry in animated history.