Goku survived a planetary explosion in an early saga, at the point he's at, it's hard to imagine he couldn't survive

Yet Vegeta died to one in the new movie.

[spoiler]He blew himself up purposely[/spoiler]

I'm talking about Revival of F, where he died when the Earth exploded.

It's because of frieza, plus we were talking about Goku not Vegeta. The power of the explosion was from Golden Frieza in a lower state, Akira Toriyama said after a character goes through a transformation and de transforms there is still power from the form because it is not all the way gone. Evidence for that is when beerus fought goku in battle of the gods, he was fighting him head to head in a lower form after he transformed, that is also why he can become Super Saiyan Blue (Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan)

[quote]It's because of frieza, ------ Who killed him by blowing up Earth. ------ plus we were talking about Goku not Vegeta. ------ Who was surpassed by Vegeta in BOG. As of now the power gap is to small to matter. ------ The power of the explosion was from Golden Frieza in a lower state, Akira Toriyama said after a character goes through a transformation and de transforms there is still power from the form because it is not all the way gone. ------ I doesn't matter what form he was in, Vegeta died to a Death Star level explosion. ------ Evidence for that is when beerus fought goku in battle of the gods, he was fighting him head to head in a lower form after he transformed, that is also why he can become Super Saiyan Blue (Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan)[/quote] ------ That doesn't apply to Frieza.

Akira Toriyama said, the power transfer applies to ALL transformations, and last I checked golden Frieza is a transformation.