>>51238539I don't think he works very well as a self-insert.
He's very dumb, has little interest in women and was an alien species to his peers.
Vegeta on the other hand is very self-insertable.
The pressure to be successful, it's in his blood literally that he is the prince of Saiyans.
The pride of being part of a great culture, a culture you watched turn to ruin.
He's smart, has a clear goal and explanation for that goal and is continually shown up by incomprehensible factors like Goku living in an environment that made it more suitable to become Super Saiyan despite being weaker or damn human/saiyan hybrids having far more potential than his own race.
Even before his Z warrior arc, as a child I always related to him.
