Frieza doesn’t destroy because he’s angry. Doesn’t destroy because he has a plan or a goal or a reason that makes sense if you squint hard enough. He destroys out of spite with a polite voice and zero remorse and that’s what makes him different from every villain that came after him. And then Goku still tried to save his life on Namek after everything. After Krillin. After the planet. After all of it. That one moment tells you more about both of them than any transformation ever could. This quiz is not about how powerful Frieza is. It’s about whether you actually understand why he works as a villain in a way nobody else in this franchise has ever fully replicated.

Cell is the villain who studied everything Frieza represented and built on it.