The following contains spoilers for Dragon Ball Super Chapter 84, by Akira Toriyama, Toyotarou, Caleb Cook and Brandon Bovia, available now in English through Viz Media.

“Guy-who’s-as-strong-as-a-saibaman says what?” If only Team Four Star had known the full extent to which Raditz would further be made into a joke in Chapter 84 of the Dragon Ball Super manga. It’s no longer ambiguous whether Monaito actually made Bardock’s wish for his sons to "end up thriving,” and the confirmation that he did make the wish makes Raditz’s laughably short and incompetent tenure in Dragon Ball Z even more morbidly hilarious. If that was Raditz thriving from the power of a magical wish-granting dragon, one can only imagine how bad his life was supposed to be without Bardock’s wish.

To recap, Raditz’s introduction as DBZ’s first villain turned the series on its head when he revealed that he was Goku’s older space-brother of the nearly extinct Saiyan race, by whom Goku was sent to wipe out life on Earth so the planet could be sold. After landing a cheap shot on Goku and slapping Krillin through a house, Raditz snatched up his nephew and told his brother to bring him 100 corpses if he wanted to see Gohan again. From there, Raditz laid a fat beatdown on the Earth’s mightiest tag team before being crippled by Goku’s patented tail-grab technique. Hardly an impressive debut for DBZ’s first villain to be begging for his life in a fight he had been dominating before coming down with a severe case of the ouchies.

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Gohan headbutts Raditz in Dragon Ball Z

Despite having just high-fived a Kamehameha Wave out of existence, Raditz took a super-effective critical hit from Gohan’s Headbutt attack, causing him to be vulnerable to Goku’s ultimate, secret, last resort technique: a full-nelson. Too weak to break free and too Raditz-y to remember he could fly away, the villain simply stood there yelling as he was skewered like a space boar by Piccolo’s Special Beam Cannon. Considering how evil Raditz was, Goku was fairly “meh” about his own brother’s death. As it turned out, the only other (known) remaining Saiyans -- Vegeta and Nappa -- didn’t bat an eye at Raditz’s death either, even though it pushed their race closer to extinction.

One would think that Vegeta and Nappa would have come to Earth to avenge their fallen brother-in-arms, but it turned out that fans of the series weren’t the only ones who found Raditz to be laughable and useless. The two evil Saiyans had a batch of Saibamen who all had the same power level as Raditz, so his death didn’t mean anything to them because they found him annoying and could literally grow more of him -- with the added benefit that these didn't talk. The fact that Toriyama is still windmill-dunking on Raditz in the DBS manga -- when Raditz has been dead for ages both in-universe and in the real world -- has made Raditz slander into a bit of a running joke for the franchise.

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Anime Raditz Scouter

Bardock’s wish was specifically phrased to include both of his sons, but one of them has clearly “thrived” much more than the other. Goku has the power of gods and angels, has been brought back from death multiple times, has a loving family and has never experienced a single lasting consequence for his actions in his entire life. Raditz, on the other hand, was called Radish Boy by the only other Saiyans he knew after the destruction of Planet Vegeta, was weaker than a literal science experiment and didn’t think to fly away one time, and as a result, has been dead ever since. Perhaps Raditz was supposed to die in the explosion on Planet Vegeta and this was just the best Monaito’s dragon could do to delay his predestined doom?

This is only an observation drawn from context, as Chapter 84 did not mention Raditz by name when it confirmed that Bardock’s wish for his sons was granted. The idea that Raditz was magically thriving during his disastrously short life is as unintentionally hilarious as it is destructive for Goku’s legacy that everything he’s ever accomplished is the result of a wish on the Dragon Balls. It’s unclear whether Bardock went to Hell after his death like Raditz certainly did, but the proud father of two may question the effectiveness of Monaito’s Dragon Balls if he were ever to encounter one of his “thriving” sons in the underworld.