User blog comment:KidVegeta/Canonicity/@comment-3097771-20101130082822/@comment-3097771-20101130093823

It does matter, because you are ignoring several key facts. TAke Super Saiyan 3 for instance. Goku says, himself, that he hasn't had much time to practice it. And it takes him a long time to transform at first. As time goes on, you'll note that he can transform much more quickly. The same thing goes with Super Saiyan 1. He just didn't have time to transform, before Cooler's attack. The bird dying wasn't the only way he could have transformed, it just made him abandon his preconcieved ideas about when to use it, and as his anger surged, he transformed. Of course, since you have yet to disprove a single thing I've said, I'm unsure what else you can say. -KidVegeta