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[Dragon Ball Z] I'm not too familiar with the series, but if Vegeta wanted to be immortal and all powerful before Frieza, why didn't he just seek out the dragon balls in his free time when he was hanging out with the Z team and became a good-ish guy?
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Ummmm... He searched pretty hard for the Namekian Dragonballs. There was a pretty intense 3-way search going on at the time (Frieza's men, Z-Fighters, and him), and he managed to find a decent few of them.

When all the Dragonballs *were* assembled in one place, and Porunga was summoned, Vegeta showed up after 2 wishes were made, and *did* wish for immortality, but Guru died at that moment, so he wasn't given it.

Then Frieza showed up, and everything when to HFIL in a handbasket.

Later, when Guru was revived, the third wish was changed to "send everyone except Goku and Frieza from Namek to Earth."