Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Remake Redraws Vegeta's Fight, and Fans Are Split

A side-by-side comparison video of Vegeta's awakened fight against Beerus -- the original broadcast footage against Dragon Ball Super's 2026 Beerus arc remake -- has Japanese fans arguing over how strong this version of Vegeta actually is.

The clip's 142-comment section topped out with a 233-like comment arguing that if Vegeta fought Beerus better this time than Goku once did, it means this form now surpasses Goku's own Super Saiyan 3. From there the thread split into a power-level debate (several pointed to a new purple-tinted aura as foreshadowing for something bigger) and a style debate over the redesign itself, with some fans missing a beloved animation quirk from the original that didn't make the remake's cut.

Both camps agreed on one thing by the end, even if neither side would admit it directly.

A side-by-side comparison video making the rounds this week lines up Vegeta's awakened fight against Beerus from the original broadcast against the redrawn version airing as part of Dragon Ball Super's 2026 Beerus arc remake. The clip itself is just footage, no narration, but the 142-comment section underneath turned it into a real argument -- split between readers debating how strong this version of Vegeta actually is, and readers arguing about what the redesign gained and lost along the way.

One detail everybody noticed first: during Vegeta's power spike, the aura flashes purple instead of the usual Super Saiyan blue. Commenters immediately connected it to the franchise's running idea of fighters awakening power through raw emotion rather than technique, and a few read it as a deliberate setup for something bigger down the line. From there the thread moved straight into ranking: if this remade fight shows Vegeta holding his own better than he did against the exact same opponent the first time around, several readers argued that puts this version above Goku's own Super Saiyan 3 -- and even above Vegeta's own prior best.

The animation choices split the room just as hard. One camp preferred the new choreography outright, pointing to a smarter counter-attack exchange that replaced an earlier, more sentimental beat from the original. The other camp missed exactly what got cut: a goofy spinning animation quirk from the original version, affectionately nicknamed "Rolling Vegeta" by fans, that's nowhere to be found in the redraw. For some, losing that unintentional comedy is exactly what makes the new cut feel less like Dragon Ball, even while admitting the visuals themselves are sharper.

Not every comment read the redesign as a loss, though. A few pushed back that this remake was never meant to be a showcase on its own -- it exists to set up the upcoming Galactic Patrol arc, so holding back here is the point.

By the end, nobody in the thread had settled which cut actually "is" Dragon Ball -- the slicker, more serious redraw, or the rougher original with its accidental charm. What both camps kept agreeing on, without meaning to, was that Vegeta just quietly stole the whole scene.