Broly is arguably one of the most beloved characters to come out of the dragon ball
franchise.
For a long time, this Saiyan was not considered to be canon in the Dragon Ball universe, despite
his extreme popularity amongst fans.
Luckily, the animated feature Dragon Ball Super Broly has rectified that, making the
character canon, and having Goku and Vegeta team up to take him on.
And the film has been a huge success!
So today, we’re diving into the history of the character with our list of the top
10 Broly Shocking Facts.
Also, heads up, there’s minor spoilers for the Dragon Ball Super Broly movie on this
list.
Now let’s get to it!
10 His Name Broly sure is an unique name.
How did creators Akira Toriyama and Takao Koyama come up with it?
Well, like all of the other full blooded Saiyan characters, his name is a vegetable pun.
Broly’s name is a pun based on the vegetable broccoli.
And his daddy dearest?
His name is a pun on asparagus, being Paragus.
This is consistent with the whole series; each character’s name is typically a pun
on various foods.
According to Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball, I quote, “The one in control
of the Saiyans and other villainous aliens is Frieza.
Strictly speaking, Freiza is freezer, but I envisioned a refrigerator when I named him.
So, I grouped the names according to foods that go inside it.
The Saiyans are vegetables, and the Ginyu Force are dairy productions, like that.
Many of the other characters throughout the series also names inspired by food puns.
9 Non-Canon Origin The first version of Broly, the non canon
version, was born on the same day as Goku.
They share a birthday.
The interesting thing about Broly though was that he was born with a power level of 10,000,
which exceeded most elite adult saiyans at the time.
King Vegeta saw the child as a threat and ordered him to be executed.
The child was stabbed by Saiyan troops and left to die, but his power allowed him to
survive his attempted assassination.
In addition to that, his power also helped him survive the destruction of the planet
by Frieza.
8 Planet Vegeta Broly is the reason that Frieza blew up Planet
Vegeta.
Well, sort of.
Frieza’s reasoning in destroying the planet and committing genocide was that he was afraid
of the Saiyans becoming too powerful to control.
But specifically, the biggest reason was because of the legend of the Legendary Super Saiyan;
a Saiyan so powerful that Freiza wouldn’t stand a chance against them.
7 He Hates Goku According to the non-canon origin story, the
reason why Broly is so mentally unstable is because when he was born, he was kept next
to baby Goku, who cried non stop.
The crying drove the baby mad, along with other traumatic events in his childhood.
His father, Paragus, managed to convince scientists on the planet prior to it’s destruction
to create a device that would help quell Broly’s destructive tendencies.
When Broly sees Goku for the first time in his first non canon film from 1993, Broly
the Legendary Super Saiyan, he recalls the attempt on his life, and goes into a rage,
which results in him destroying the control device and going Legendary Super Saiyan.
6 New Vegeta That first 1993 film features a new Saiyan
home planet called New Vegeta.
Broly’s father Paragus lures Goku and Vegeta there in order to get revenge for what Vegeta’s
father, King Vegeta, had done to his son.
This is where the first confrontation happens, with Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks and Piccolo
all engaging in the fight.
Broly, in his rage, kills his own father, and then gets knocked out by Goku, seemingly
dying.
But at the end of the film, he takes off in an escape pod and destroys New Vegeta for
good.
5 Bio Broly Broly would return in a third feature film,
the 11th Dragon Ball animated feature Bio-Broly, from 1994.
In the previous movie, Broly Second Coming, he’s blasted through the sun by Goku, Gohan
and Goten, which completely destroys him.
But in the third film, his blood samples are used to create a clone of him, and is mutated
with something called bio-liquid.
This changes him in a pretty drastic way, with his physical form not being totally set,
deforming him, with at one point his eyes turning red, and his golden hair being flattened
by brown Culture fluid.
It’s not just his physical appearance that differs, either.
This clone does not have the capacity for critical thought or coherent speech, and acts
more like a ravenous zombie thanks to Broly’s mental instability and extreme rage.
The clone also still hates Goku, of course, which shows that it has inherited some sort
of genetic memory.
He goes up against Goten, who he mistakes as Goku, along with Trunks, Krillin and Android
18, and eventually, his body was exposed to seawater which petrified him, allowing him
to blasted to bits with a Kamehameha, ultimately killing him off for good.
4 Canon Origin Now that we’ve talked about his non-canon
storylines, let’s dive into the details behind Broly’s recent canon inclusion, which
begins with his appearance in the critically acclaimed Dragon Ball Super Broly feature
film, rebooting his origin.
How is it different?
In the film, he’s an abnormally strong Saiyan who was exiled to a wasteland planet known
as Vampa.
King Vegeta had exiled him, jealous of his power.
Brody lives there for a handful of years with his father Paragus, up until they’re rescued
from the planet by members of the Frieza Force.
Paragus chooses to align with them and use Broly as a weapon to seek out revenge on King
Vegeta by going after Vegeta, just like in the original storyline.
Paragus is then murdered by Frieza as a means of triggering Broly, pushing him to become
a super Saiyan.
3 Legendary Super Saiyan The term legendary super Saiyan is something
you’ve probably heard a lot in relation to Broly.
That’s because he is one.
But in case you’re unclear of what exactly that entails, or how it’s different than
the super Saiyan forms that Goku and Vegeta and others have achieved, this is what it
means.
The Legendary Super Saiyan is a fabled transformation that appears in Saiyan history, previously
used by a Super Saiyan who appeared 1000 years ago.
Over the years, others have believed that forms like the Golden Great Ape was the legendary
super Saiyan form because it matched the description of the form in the Saiyan legends.
2 Kale While Broly is the center of the Dragon Ball
Super Broly film, he was never a part of the Dragon Ball Super anime.
Despite this, the character did influence another fighter who appears in the series;
Kale, who comes from Universe 6.
She’s a super Saiyan who mirrors Broly, since Universe 6 and Universe 7, the latter
being the universe in which Goku and Broly and the gang are from, are twin worlds of
sorts; characters and events are mirrored in those two universes but in a different
way.
Kale is the Universe 6 version of Broly, and can also attain Legendary Super Saiyan, or
rather, Berserker form.
In universe 6, the legendary super Saiyan is believed to be a demonic Saiyan that appears
once every 1000 years, whose power keeps on growing until the end up self destructing
from it.
1 The Manga Broly never appeared in the original Dragon
Ball manga, but he has appeared in the spin off manga, Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission,
in which he’s an antagonist who is a henchmen of Genome’s when the villain attempts to
get the Black Star Dragon Balls.
The spin off appeared in Weekly Shonen Jump.
Speaking of manga, Broly has officially made his canon debut in the Dragon Ball Super manga,
but not in the way that many of us hoped.
Instead, it appears that his manga debut is simply just a reference to the events of the
Dragon Ball Super Broly movie, stating that Goku and Vegeta have an even more powerful
threat on the horizon than the one they just took on.
The panel appears in Chapter 42 of the Dragon Ball Suoer manga.
There we have it friends!
What are your thoughts on Broly?
Do you love him or hate him?
And while we’re discussing opinions, if you’ve seen Dragon Ball Super Broly, what’s
your take on the controversy that’s emerged concerning the ending, and how Broly’s character
was treated concerning his mental instability?
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