Cui

Cui is the smug, purple-skinned alien warrior who served alongside Vegeta in the Frieza Force and whose rivalry with the Saiyan prince defined his brief but memorable role in the Namek Saga. As an elite soldier in Frieza's Planet Trade Organization, Cui considered himself Vegeta's equal and took every opportunity to remind the prince that their power levels were comparable.Cui is the smug, purple-skinned alien warrior who served alongside Vegeta in the Frieza Force and whose rivalry with the Saiyan prince defined his brief but memorable role in the Namek Saga. As an elite soldier in Frieza's Planet Trade Organization, Cui considered himself Vegeta's equal and took every opportunity to remind the prince that their power levels were comparable. His most significant character trait was his grating, self-satisfied mockery of Vegeta's royalty and the destruction of Planet Vegeta, a topic he prodded with the casual cruelty of someone who had never faced Saiyan rage firsthand. When Frieza ordered Cui to eliminate Vegeta on Planet Namek, the purple alien eagerly accepted the mission, relishing the chance to finally prove his superiority over the prince he had always resented. What Cui failed to account for was the Zenkai boost: the Saiyan ability to grow stronger after recovering from near-fatal injuries. Vegeta, having barely survived his Earth battle, had transformed from an 18,000-power-level warrior into one whose strength dwarfed Cui's completely. The confrontation that Cui had imagined as his moment of triumph became his execution: Vegeta contemptuously swatted aside his attacks, intercepted his fleeing escape pod, and casually obliterated him with a single energy blast. Cui's death established Vegeta's post-Earth power and foreshadowed the Saiyan's ruthless campaign across Namek. Though his screen time was minimal, Cui's combination of arrogance and irrelevance perfectly set up Vegeta's emergence as a wildcard predator, and his name, derived from the fruit kiwi, continued Toriyama's tradition of produce-based nomenclature. ... Read more