User blog comment:ThatScrewyDuck/PE Proposal: Babidi/@comment-4751060-20191109034734/@comment-39032584-20191109040355

For what it's worth, those weren't genuine moments of mercy; he's a low functioning sociopath, so he simply left the bakery employee hanging on top of a top building and threatened that mom to kill her instead of doing so on random whims. Besides, like everyone else, they would have eventually been killed by Buu when he got around to destroying the rest of the population like he was planning on doing, particularly if Piccolo, Goten and Trunks didn't show themselves.