Broly

Broly, also known as Broccoli, Broli and The Legendary Saiyan, is one of the main characters from the Dragon Ball series.
== Charactah Account ==
Broly was the Legendary Super Saiyan born in more than a thousand years. At birth, he had an unusually high level of strength for a Saiyan. Broly's exceptional gifts marked him as being the Legendary Super Saiyan. King Vegeta feared this and ordered for his execution. His father, Paragus, begged to spare his life. King Vegeta ended the argument by blasting him. As Broly's execution was carried out both he and his father were left to die. While Paragus barely survived the blast, Broly survived the attempted execution only to grow stronger. On that same day, Frieza acted on his own fear of the Super Saiyan legend and attacks Planet Vegeta. Amid the destruction, Broly encased himself and his father in a powerful shield of energy and escaped.
As great as Broly's power was, his emotional instability was greater. Fearing Broly's state of mind, Paragus had a scientist create a special control device to keep Broly controlled. Successful in controlling him, Paragus planned to have revenge on King Vegeta's son. When Broly encountered Son Goku, Broly became erratic though he was brought back under control by Paragus. Eventually, Broly overpowered the control device, and fully manifested his powers. No longer under the device's control, he unleashed his fury on Goku, Vegeta, Son Gohan, Future Trunks, and Piccolo, and defeated them all. The Z warriors eventually channeled their energy into Goku, who used the energy for one last powerful blow that seemingly killed Broly.
Broly survived and entered a Saiyan Space Pod, coincidentally landing on Earth. The crater caused by his landing filled up with water and froze over time, during which he fell into a deep sleep. During this time, Gohan grew up, Son Goten was born and Goku was in the Afterlife. In an adventure to collect the Dragon Balls, Goten, Trunks, and Gohan find themselves in the mountain range where Broly crashed. Broly awakens and Goten, Trunks, Videl, and Gohan became victims to his rampage. It was only after some spiritual help from Goku that they were able to send Broly straight into the sun.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Dragon Ball Super: Broly
* Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 8: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 10: Broly - Second Coming
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 11: Bio-Broly
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes
=== Manga ===
* Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission
* Dragon Ball Super
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Big Bang Mission!!!
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm Mission!
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!!
=== Video Games ===
* Dragon Ball FighterZ
* Dragon Ball Fusions
* Dragon Ball Heroes
* Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission
* Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butouden
* Dragon Ball Legends
* Dragon Ball Xenoverse
* Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z: Bakuretsu Impact
* Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
* Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury
* Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle
* Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Battlers
* Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden
* Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World
* Dragon Ball Z: Sagas
* Dragon Ball Z: Scouter Kamehame Wave Battle Sensation - Me and You and a Scouter
* Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai
* Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team
* Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
* Dragon Ball Z: W Bakuretsu Impact
* Dragon Ball: Raging Blast
* Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2
* Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission
== Trivia ==
* Broly's name is a pun on the vegetable broccoli, which is even referenced in Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan when a drunk Master Roshi calls him "Broccoli".
** This technically makes Broly the second Saiyan whose name is a pun on "broccoli", after Shorty (who in the Japanese version was named "Brocco").
* In the Other World Saga, an alternate-colored Broly appears in the crowd at the Other World Tournament.
* In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, Master Roshi mentions Broly during the Universe Survival Saga.
* In Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans, it is shown that Broly is from a separate dimension to the main one.
* Despite being potentially mentioned at the conclusion of Bio-Broly that he is a resident of Hell, Broly does not make an appearance in Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn or the Super 17 Saga of Dragon Ball GT, when the residents of Hell make their escape to Earth. He does, however, escape from Hell a few times in Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai and Dragon Ball Heroes.
* Broly and Cooler are the only movie villains to appear in more than one Dragon Ball Z film as the main villain.
* Besides flashbacks of his infancy, Broly is not seen with a tail despite Akira Toriyama's character design sheets depicting him as an adult with it, with Toriyama's notes leaving it ambiguous as to whether or not he retained it in adulthood due to him saying it's "alright whether or not he has a tail." However, as most adult Saiyans wrap their tails in a belt fashion, Broly may have done so and is covered by his sash. In Dragon Ball Xenoverse's "Legendary Super Saiyan Saga", Bardock destroyed Vegeta's Power Ball after transforming with it himself to prevent Broly from doing the same, a feat he performs in Dragon Ball Heroes, showing that Broly indeed retained his tail.
* In Xenoverse, Broly appears in Toki Toki City for a mission the Future Warrior can participate in. If the Warrior is a Majin, he'll remark how they look cute.
* Interestingly, in Xenoverse 2, Beerus is shown to be aware of who Broly is if the Future Warrior talks to Beerus in Conton City while training under Broly. Beerus will state he is surprised that Broly would be willing to train anyone given his personality.
* Oddly, despite Broly's hatred of Goku being immense enough that, at least by the time of Second Coming, he mistook Goten for Goku just from a similar physical appearance, he does not seem to mistake Turles for Goku in Xenoverse 2. However, it is implied that Broly mistook Goten for his father due to his similar scent, crying, and appearance combined with Broly's fragile mental state as he notes similarities in the scents of Goku's close relatives such as his eldest son, father, and brother in Xenoverse 2 (the latter to a much lesser extent, as unlike with Gohan and Bardock, he ended up confused by Raditz possessing Kakarot's scent due to his lacking much resemblance to him at all). He also mistakes the Masked Saiyan for Goku presumably due to his similar appearance, scent, and the mask that obscures Bardock's scarred face. He also recognizes GT Goku despite him being reduced to a child. Broly even says that Kakarot won't escape him by shrinking away and hiding from him, which GT Goku states sounds pretty hilarious to him.
* Broly is similar to the previous film antagonist Android 13, both have a hatred for Goku and seek to eliminate him above all others, they both transform into a huge muscular pupil-less form which proves near impossible for the other Z Fighters to put a dent in until Goku is supplied with energy and defeats them with one punch in the gut. The only notable difference is that Broly's hatred of Goku was personal, while Android 13 only hated Goku due to being programmed by Dr. Gero to have hatred of him post-humously. The other difference is how Android 13 died from Goku's punch while Broly lived from it.
* Broly is mentioned in the description on Kale's artwork, noting that she looks just like "that legendary Saiyan." Broly's popularity was the reason she was created.
** The Extra Pack 3 DLC from Xenoverse 2, lampshades their similarities in New Parallel Quest: "Catch Kefla If You Can as Kale's Potara fusion Kefla notes there is something familiar about Broly when she encounters him.
** Beat comments in Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission that Broly and Kale share similar ki.
* Due to his actions in World Mission, the SDBH game world Broly is responsible for Beat achieving his natural Super Saiyan form due to rage he felt over the perceived "death" of Note.
* Broly wearing a crown that forces him to suppress his unfathomable power during the first movie was similar to Sun Wukong, who when imprisoned wore a crown that causes him agony whenever Tripitaka chants the mantra of obedience. Ironically, his sworn nemesis Goku also shares the same character origins.
** On a similar note, Broly's attire in his original incarnation was based in part on how Sun Wukong appeared as "the Handsome Monkey King", and Broly's more bloodthirsty disposition resembled how Sun Wukong was originally characterized as resorting to violence and murder.
** In a further level of irony, one of the alternate character arcs had Broly and Paragus, after conquering the Earth, proceeding to protect it from various threats, including Cell and Majin Buu, which was similar to how Goku was originally slated to conquer Earth, only to end up thanks to his amnesia proceeding to protect it from various villainous forces such as the Red Ribbon Army and the Demon Clan.
* In some versions of the remastered release of his first appearance, Broly's voice was increased in pitch. However, for some unknown reason, his voice remained unaltered in the remastered version of his second appearance.
** In addition, his voice was depicted differently between the Japanese and English versions. The former had him sounding somewhat younger as well as closer to a teenager, while the latter had him sounding significantly older.
* Broly is five years younger than his Dragon Ball Super counterpart as Broly (DBS) was born in Age 732 while Broly (DBZ) was born in Age 737.
* Broly is among the tallest known Saiyan in the Dragon Ball franchise, towering at 239 cm (7'10") - 300 (9'10").
* According to Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Broly has a lonely existence that stemmed from his strength in contrast to Goku and Vegeta who believed in fighting for something or someone, as part of a theme on how power alone ultimately is nothing compared to love, family, and connections. Broly has the realization that strength is not only physical upon his defeat, to the extent that he even proceeded to question what his true role in existence was. Elements of this characterization may have been included in Xenoverse due to his interactions with Turles, namely their differing philosophies regarding battle.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Broly at Dragon Ball Wiki
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