Broly
Broly is an extraterrestrial manga and anime character who features in Dragon Ball.
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Biography
Broly (Japanese: ブロリー, Hepburn: Burorī) was a male Saiyan born on Planet Vegeta as the son of Paragus in the Age 732. The child was born as one of the rare Legendary Super Saiyans that were a myth regarded by his people that were said to emerge every thousand years. Due to his fathers position, he was placed within the same nursery capsule chamber that contained the monarch's own son namely Prince Vegeta IV. At the time, the Saiyans operated as interstellar mercenaries on behalf of the warlord Frieza where they devastated worlds and sold them for a profit with them resenting his control over them. The technicians operating the nursery came to be surprised to see that Broly manifested a natural untapped potential that would make him a powerful warrior. One day, the King was visiting his sons nursery capsule when he was offended at the idea of a lower class warrior occupying the same chamber as his offspring who was one of the elite. During this time, he came to learn that the young Broly had an enormous power level that far outstripped his own offspring. Thus, King Vegeta was jealous at his own son being considered weaker than a commoner. As a result, he endeavoured to eliminate the child by sending him in an attack pod and sent to Planet Vampa. The destination was an isolated world of no value and desolate conditions with King Vegeta sending the boy there for the purpose of dying. King Vegeta dispatched the pod first before arranging a meeting with Colonel Paragus who grew angry at his monarch sending Broly away under the premise that he was a danger to the cosmos with his natural power. Upon landing on Vampa, the young Broly had to contend against the various savage predators that inhabited the world where he managed to kill them due to his great power level even at a young age. During his stay on the planet, he encountered a giant creature that he named Ba. Broly would constantly spar with Ba by dodging its attacks until he ended up befriending it through these constant interactions. Unfortunately, Paragus saw this development as a damage and hindrance to Broly's growth and shot the beast, severing its ear in the process. This event made Ba leave and never trust Broly again. He would wear the severed ear as a green pelt similar to a sash to serve as a memento that he would always be together with Ba. At some point later, whilst eating he briefly noticed a shooting star passing by.
When a Vampa Beetle approached Paragus, Cheelai, and Lemo, Broly was called by his father to deal with it and did so swiftly. He and his father were then recruited to the Frieza Force and wore new clothing. Due to Cheelai and Lemo getting assaulted, Broly gets into a fight with Daigen before being subdued by Paragus via his collar. Broly then went with Cheelai and Lemo to the living quarters to eat snacks and told them the story of his pelt. When Frieza's Spaceship landed on Earth, Broly exited the ship and was ordered by his father to attack Vegeta. They traded blows with Vegeta completely at ease in his winter jacket for a few moments, until feeling pressured enough to rip it off.
Broly and Vegeta's battle continued with Broly slowly growing to eclipse Vegeta's power in his base form. After a few minutes, however, Vegeta became annoyed at Broly's continually growing power and transformed into a Super Saiyan. Broly, shocked at Vegeta's new appearance, attacked again but was initially beaten back. However, after a minute or two of battle, Broly gained enough power to keep up with Vegeta as a Super Saiyan. Vegeta then transformed again into a Super Saiyan God. This new level of power was enough to entirely overwhelm Broly, and eventually, Vegeta fired a large energy blast at him, intending to end his life. Scared, Broly struggles to maintain control of his dangerous Great Ape power, but an energy blast knocked Broly into the ocean, where instead of dying, his Great Ape power unleashed, entering his Wrathful form, incidentally creating a giant maelstrom in the process. Both Goku and Vegeta expressed their surprise at this sudden and dramatic increase in Broly's power and realized that the battle was going to be more challenging than they had initially thought. Broly then fired a Gigantic Breath blast directly at a surprised Goku, who barely dodged it. The blast collided with the tops of several mountains, instantly obliterating the portions of the landscape where it struck and detonating high in the sky. Goku worriedly speculated on what might have happened if a blast that size had hit the ground and Vegeta, now genuinely concerned, charged Broly and punched him directly in the nose. However, Broly took the attack without so much as blinking and retaliated to devastating effect. As the battle continued, Frieza delightedly asked Paragus how Broly's power had increased so drastically. In reply, Paragus recounted that Broly had learned to tap into the power of his Great Ape form without transforming during his stay on Vampa. However, he also noted that Broly wasn't able to control himself and that he was now essentially berserk. In the meantime, the newly empowered Broly had turned the tables on Vegeta and was now overwhelming the Saiyan Prince. Broly punched him through several mountains, and though Vegeta managed to avoid being visibly harmed, it was clear that his Super Saiyan God form was no match for Broly.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He felt it was not right for people to say bad things about his father.
Powers and abilities
As a Saiyan, his heritage gave him superhuman strength, senses, durability, agility, speed, ki blasts and reflexes. He possessed the Saiyan power genetic trait that continually let him to recover faster and increased in performance against adversity either by healing from great injuries or enduring great struggle in battle. In Broly's case, this trait was considerably more advanced compared to normal Saiyans where Vegeta noted that Broly was showing such sudden development as he continued to fight and was getting stronger after ascending into his Super Saiyan form.
From infancy, he demonstrated an exceptionally and immense potential. Analysis revealed that he far surpassed even the likes of Prince Vegeta's scores which led to his placement in the incubation chamber of the Saiyan elite. At birth, his power level was already at 10,000 and growing with each passing day. Goku believed that Broly was probably even stronger than Beerus the God of Destruction.
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Gigantic Buster (ギガンティックバスター Gigantikku Basutā) :
- Gigantic Hammer (ギガンティックハンマー Gigantikku Hanmā)
- Eraser Cannon (イレイザーキャノン Ireizā Kyanon) :
- Eraser Blow (イレイザーブロウ Ireizā Burō) :
- Blaster Meteor (ブラスターメテオ Burasutā Meteo) :
- Planet Crusher (プラネットクラッシャー Puranettokurasshā)
Notes
- Broly was created by Takao Koyama where he made his first non-canonical appearance in Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993)
- The character was reworked by Akira Toriyama and made canon with him debuting in Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018).
- According to the Daizenshuu 6: Movies & TV (1995) guidebook, it was stated that Super Saiyan Broly's power surpassesed that of Super Saiyan Goku and that in his Legendary Super Saiyan form Broly was an opponent with infinite power.
- In 2006, an interview with Takao Koyama led to him stating that Broly was the strongest and most powerful antagonist in the Dragon Ball Z series.
Alternate Versions
- In Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, made his first appearance in the non-canon film. He was the son of Paragus where he was born as the Legendary Super Saiyan who from birth had a power level of 10,000. Whilst at the nursery, one of the fellow Saiyan children next to him was the young Kakarot who was perpetually crying. Kakarot's bawling tormented brawling and triggered the Saiyan's obsessive need to destroy anything that frightened them thus leading to Broly developing a pathological hatred towards the other child. In the time afterwards, King Vegeta came to learn of Broly's natural power level and feared him to be a threat and ordered the child to be executed whilst he himself confronted Lord Frieza. However, his father Paragus saved his son when their world was destroyed by Frieza but Broly's power managed to save himself along with his father. Thus, the pair were among the only survivors of their world as they departed to wander the universe. In the years that followed, Broly's unnatural power level grew and he became more psychotic with a near split-personality as he became a destructive monster. During one of his berserker rages, he destroyed one of his fathers eyes leading to Paragus using a control device to better maintain his hold over his son who was used as a pawn for his goals. Thus, Paragus used his son for several years as a weapon to conquer worlds in order to rule them as part of his agenda. Eventually, Paragus learnt of Earth and sought to conquer it where he found out that Kakarot along with Prince Vegeta resided on that world. Thus, he orchestrated an extravagant plan to lure the Z Warriors to Planet Shamo where upon meeting Kakarot, Borly went into his berserker rage as he succumbed to his madness as well as hatred over the child that tormented him in his childhood which caused him to shatter the control device his father used on him. Thus freed, he began a rampage, attacking Goku and his friends in his fully-powered Legendary Super Saiyan form. After killing his father (who tried to escape), casually destroying the planet Shamo, and beating Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, Gohan, and Piccolo within an inch of their lives, Broly was finally defeated when the other Z Warriors gave their power to Goku. The super-energized Super Saiyan was able to apparently destroy Broly, but in actuality, he went into a sort of comatose state, healing and increasing in power.
- In Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming, seven years later, Broly landed on Earth, and battled an older Gohan. Despite having achieved the Super Saiyan 2 level, Gohan was no match for Broly. It took a triple Kamehameha from Gohan, Goten, and a temporarily resurrected Goku to defeat the Legendary Super Saiyan, apparently once and for all.
- In Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly, it was shown that from the dead remains of Broly that the scientist Dr. Collie created a clone called Bio-Broly.
In other media
Films
Video games
- In Dragon Ball FighterZ, the original iteration of Broly was introduced through DLC content as a playable character in the fighting video game.
Appearances
- Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan:
- Dragon Ball Super: Broly:
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