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Broly
Dragon Ball character
Broly in his base form (left) and Super Saiyan Full Power Form (right) in Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)
First appearanceDragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993) (original)
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018) (reworked)
Created byTakao Koyama (original)
Akira Toriyama (reworked)
Voiced byJapanese
Bin Shimada
English
Vic Mignogna (Funi, 2003-2019)
Johnny Yong Bosch (Funi, 2019-present)
Doug Rand (AB Groupe)
In-universe information
AliasThe Legendary Super Saiyan
SpeciesSaiyan
Family
  • Paragus (father)

Broly (ブロリー, Burorī) is a fictional character within the Dragon Ball series. Two versions of the character exist: the original Broly, a major villain who appeared in a trilogy of '90s Dragon Ball Z anime films, Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993), Broly – Second Coming (1994), and Bio-Broly (1994); along with a CGI animated film in 2017 called Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D at Super Tenkaichi Budokai, followed by a new version that debuted in the film Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018), and once again served as the primary antagonist and major anti-hero in the film.

Creation and design

The character of Broly was created by Takao Koyama, who was inspired to create a menacing and powerful Saiyan villain after watching Future Trunks transforming into his Super Saiyan grade 3 form during the Cell Games anime arc, and designed by Dragon Ball creator, Akira Toriyama.[1] Following the Saiyan race's usual naming trend, which is based on vegetables, Broly's name is a pun on broccoli, while his father Paragus is a pun on asparagus. Besides flashback scenes of Broly as an infant in the 1990's movies as well as Toriyama's design sheets of that version of the character, neither the original nor the reworked version of Broly is seen with a tail, which is considered to be a defining characteristic of a Saiyan character within the series.[2]

A female Saiyan character named Kale is depicted as the original version of Broly's mirror equivalent, primarily due to her "Berserk" form, which is very similar to Broly's Legendary Super Saiyan Form.[3] She appears in Dragon Ball Super during the Universe Survival Saga story arc.

Voice actors

Broly voice actors
Language Actor Notes Ref.
(Adult) Broly
Japanese Bin Shimada [4]
English Vic Mignogna Funimation dubs of all media until 2019
Johnny Yong Bosch Funimation dubs 2019–present
Douglas Rand AB Groupe dub of Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan
French Mark Lesser
German Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Hebrew Shay Zornitzer
Italian Mario Bombardieri Dynit dubs of Dragon Ball Z movies, Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Luca Sandri Merak Film S.r.l. dubs of Dragon Ball Z movies
Spanish Ricardo Brust
Young Broly
Japanese Hiroko Emori Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan [5]
Yukiko Morishita Super [4]
English Cynthia Cranz Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan [5]
Brina Palencia Super [4]
Jodi Forrest
Douglas Rand 		AB Groupe dub of Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan [5]

Powers and Abilities

Like other Saiyans in the series, his heritage has given him beyond superhuman strength, senses, durability, agility, speed, ki blasts and reflexes.</ref name=“Viz.com”>[6] In the Daizenshuu 6: Movies & TV (1995) guidebook, it is stated that Super Saiyan Broly's power surpasses that of Super Saiyan Goku and that in his "Legendary Super Saiyan" form Broly is an opponent with infinite power. According to Takao Koyama in a 2006 interview, Broly is the strongest and most powerful antagonist in the Dragon Ball Z series.[7] In a 2013 interview regarding the movie Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, where Goku faces the God of Destruction, Beerus, he stated that Broly is scarier than Beerus. Broly is as powerful if not more powerful than the Gods Of Destruction. It was stated that he could be possibly even stronger than Beerus. His power is multiverse level meaning he could destroy more than one universe with ease and endure multiverse attacks. His speed is also much faster than the speed of light making him one of the most dominant characters in the Dragon Ball Universe.</ref name=“Viz.com”>[8]

Appearances

Dragon Ball Z

Debuting in Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan Paragus lures Vegeta, Goku, and their companions to another planet, where Broly encounters Goku and goes into a rage, destroying the mind control device and becoming the unstoppable Legendary Super Saiyan. He effortlessly pummels Super Saiyan Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Trunks, and Piccolo before killing his father. Goku eventually defeats him, but Broly somehow manages to make his way into an escape pod.

Returning in Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming, he crash-lands on Earth and becomes frozen over by a lake of water until the cries of Goku's son Goten awakens him. Broly fights a long battle against Goten, Trunks, and a Super Saiyan 2 Gohan before a triple combined Kamehameha wave from Goku, Gohan, and Goten defeats him by blasting him through the sun.

Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly, blood samples make their way into the hands of an industrialist, who creates a clone of the original Broly. The clone eventually wakes up and becomes mixed with bio-liquid, mutating him into a creature known as "Bio-Broly" (バイオブロリー, Baio Burorī). He fought Goten, Trunks, Android 18, and Krillin and is eventually defeated by a combined Kamehameha attack after his body is exposed to seawater and becomes petrified as a result. The ending was originally meant to set up a fourth movie featuring Broly but was reworked into Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn with Janemba as the main villain.[9]

"Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D at Super Tenkaichi Budokai"

Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D at Super Tenkaichi Budokai (ドラゴンボールZ ザ・リアル4-D at 超天下一武道会 Doragon Bōru Zetto Za Riaru Fō-Dī atto Sūpā Tenkaichi Budōkai, lit. "Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D at the Super Number One Under Heaven Martial Arts Gathering") is an interactive 4-D cinematic theme attraction at Universal Studios Japan, and the successor to Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D. The film starts as an OVA before transitioning to CGI 3D models. The story takes place during a martial arts tournament, where the Legendary Super Saiyan (Broly) returns with a new God form (God Broly). He can overpower a Super Saiyan Blue Goku and knock out cold a Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta. With the audience's help, Goku can perform a unique God fusion and blasts God Broly away with his God Kamehameha.

Dragon Ball Super: Broly

A new version of Broly reworked into a quiet and slightly naïve Saiyan with a penchant for exploding in rage, debuts in the 2018 film, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which tells the story of Goku, Vegeta, and Frieza encountering the exiled Saiyan for the first time.[10][9][11] Broly's rebooted storyline portrays him as an abnormally powerful Saiyan who is exiled to the wasteland planet Vampa by King Vegeta out of fear and jealousy of his power. Broly is portrayed as a quiet, more rough character with a great amount of naivety from living on a desolate world. Aside from being reserved, he displays personality traits deemed rare in Saiyans, such as compassion, valuing friendship, and not wanting to fight for the sake of it. Although near the end of the film that might not be the case anymore, Despite his innate Naivety, Broly has trouble controlling his power whenever angered, exerted, or provoked to a certain point; when he loses control, Broly becomes a destructive and mindless berserker with little to no sanity who can't distinguish friend from foe. He is also emotionally scarred by his father Paragus disciplining him via shock collar, but Broly remains completely loyal to his father despite his abusive upbringing. Broly spends the next four decades living in exile with Paragus being raised as a weapon of revenge against King Vegeta until they are rescued by the Frieza Force soldiers, Cheelai and Lemo, who quickly befriend Broly. Recruited by Frieza and going to Earth, Paragus unleashes Broly upon Vegeta to get revenge. Broly quickly adapts and holds his own against Vegeta and Goku but gradually loses control of his mind and rage. Then Frieza kills Paragus to provoke Broly into becoming a powerful Legendary Super Saiyan. In this form, he defeats Goku and Vegeta in their Super Saiyan Blue forms, forcing them to retreat and fuse into Gogeta, leaving Frieza at Broly's mercy for an hour. Ultimately, Gogeta easily defeats Broly, but Cheelai and Lemo manage to use the Dragon Balls to transport Broly back to Vampa before Gogeta can finish him off. Cheelai and Lemo settle down with the reverted Broly but are visited by Goku, who brings the group supplies and offers to teach Broly how to control his power, befriending him and sparking a friendly rivalry between them.

In other media

Broly debuted in the video game Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden 2 (1993).[12] Since then, Broly has frequently been included in several Dragon Ball Z-related video games, along with fellow movie and characters such as Bardock, Cooler, and Omega Shenron. In Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 (2005), Broly is the subject of three side stories: one that deals with what would have happened if Broly and Paragus succeeded in destroying the Z-Fighters; another, Broly being placed under the control of Dr. Gero; the third, Broly arriving during the Majin Buu Saga and bonding with Mr. Satan. In Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (2008), he has his own story mode entry alongside Bardock, which is a loose adaptation of his debut film's narrative. Both his original and Super incarnations appear as playable characters via downloadable content in the video game Dragon Ball FighterZ (2018).

Although Broly never appears in the original manga, he appears as a frequent antagonist in the spin-off manga, Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission (2012), written by Toyotarō in Weekly Shōnen Jump and published by Shueisha, where he acts as the henchman to Genome in the latter's plan to retrieve the Black Star Dragon Balls. His battle with Goku and Vegeta in Dragon Ball Super: Broly is teased in a panel that follows the conclusion of the Universal Tournament arc for Dragon Ball Super.

Reception

Broly's cosplay on Dragon Ball Super panel at San Diego Comic-Con International, 2018.

Broly is considered to be one of the most popular villains within the Dragon Ball series, with a cult following.[9] He placed second by fan vote in a poll of Dragon Ball antagonists published by the March 2018 issue of V Jump.[13] Chris Carle from IGN ranked Broly as tenth on IGN's list of Top 13 Dragon Ball Z Characters.[14] In a 2016 list of the best Dragon Ball Z fights, the fight between Broly and Goku and others in the first movie was ranked as seventh; and the fight against Goten, Gohan and Goku in the second movie, as sixth.[15] On the character's popularity, Will Harrison from Polygon drew parallels between Broly and Boba Fett from Star Wars.[16] Shawn Saris, also from IGN, states that one of the characteristics that makes Broly memorable is his frightening size as well as brutal behavior during fights.[10]

The Dragon Ball Super character Kale has received particular attention from critics as well as Dragon Ball fandom due to her similarities to the original version of Broly.[17][18][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ DRAGON BALL 大全集 6: MOVIES & TV SPECIALS (in Japanese). Shueisha. 1995. pp. 212–216. ISBN 4-08-782756-9.
  2. ^ Jemima Sebastian (November 17, 2020). "Dragon Ball: arte conceptual demuestra que Broly originalmente era mucho más poderoso" (in Spanish). IGN. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Ryan Gilliam (January 14, 2019). "7 things to know before you see Dragon Ball Super: Broly". Polygon. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Broly Voice - Dragon Ball franchise". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  5. ^ a b c https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Dragon-Ball/Broly-Baby/
  6. ^ Toriyama, Akira (1990). Dragon Ball. Vol. 20. Viz Media. ISBN 1-56931-933-2.
  7. ^ "Dragonbook: Dragon Box The Movies - Theatrical Story Q&A". Kanzenshuu. 14 April 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Noppo no Zakkan - Takao Koyama: "I saw Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods!!"". Kanzenshuu. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  9. ^ a b c Brian Barnett (31 October 2018). "The History of Broly". IGN. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  10. ^ a b Shawn Saris (24 July 2018). "Dragon Ball Super: Broly Movie Trailer Hints at a Major Change in Broly's Backstory". IGN. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  11. ^ Outlaw, Kofi (12 July 2018). "Dragon Ball: Why Making Broly Canon Is So Important". ComicBook. Retrieved 9 November 2018. ...none of these films was considered official canon because Broly never appeared in Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama's manga series... However, with Akira Toriyama handling the story and characters of Dragon Ball Super: Broly, that's all about to change.
  12. ^ "Rumor Guide: Video Games". Kanzenshuu. Taiketsu was certainly the first American-made game to feature Broli as a playable character, but hardly the first-ever game to feature him at all. Back in 1993 (nearly a decade before Taiketsu), Super Butōden 2 was released for the Super Famicom (SNES) in Japan, and debuted a couple characters that Americans would not see in either anime or especially video game form for nearly another decade.
  13. ^ Akio Iyoku, ed. (January 20, 2018). "V Jump 2018 March issue". V Jump (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Shueisha (集英社).
  14. ^ Chris Carle (3 August 2015). "Top 13 Dragon Ball Z Characters". IGN. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  15. ^ Shawn Saris (11 March 2016). "13 Best Dragon Ball Z Fights". IGN. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  16. ^ Will Harrison (December 12, 2018). "The Legend of Broly: Why Dragon Ball's version of Boba Fett is its most beloved character". Polygon. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
  17. ^ Peters, Megan (5 June 2017). "Broly Who: Internet Reacts To Dragon Ball's New Legendary Super Saiyan". ComicBook. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  18. ^ Peters, Megan (31 October 2017). "Did 'Dragon Ball Super' Just Compare Kale to Broly?". ComicBook. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
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