Broly (What-If 9)

## Broly

"*Vegeta... and Kakarrot. The bloodbath begins with you...*"
— Broly, What-If 9

**Broly** is a character introduced in What-If 9. This incarnation of Broly survived the events of his second coming on Earth, being left to wander in space in hibernation for more than a decade. After the intervention of Goku Black with the timeline, Broly awakens, starting his third assault on Earth.

## Appearance

Broly appears identical to his canonical counterpart from the *Second Coming* Movie, with some small changes: he still wears a neckband and a pair of armbands, unlike his counterpart. He has a tail, initially hidden under his red sash.

## Biography

### Before What-If 9

During his assault on Earth, Broly faces Gohan, before being beaten by the Son Family, who launches him into the Sun. But, by sheer luck, the blast missed the Sun, leaving Broly to wander in space in hibernation for the next 16 years.

### What-If 9

After Baby Vegeta kills Goku, encouraged by Goku Black to not hold back, Broly awakens, furious than ever. He locates "Kakarot" Ki, immediately rushing to Earth, where he faces the newly allied Black and Baby.

Gaining a new Zenkai Boost from his permanence in space, Broly turns into Legendary Super Saiyan 3, dashing towards Black, ignoring Baby. Black laughs this off, transforming into a Super Saiyan and easily beating Broly into submission, before blasting the Legendary Super Saiyan. As he lays on the ground, bleeding, Broly's eyes rest on the moon and, after acquiring enough Blutz Waves, Broly transforms into a Legendary Golden Great Ape, who subsequently attacks Black and Baby.
After the moon is destroyed by Baby, Broly returns to his base form, swearing how the bloodbath will begin with "Kakarot" and "Vegeta".

Broly jumps back into battle, accessing his newly gained Legendary Super Saiyan 4 transformation, and immediately attacking Black and Baby, easily pummeling them. Broly's onslaught pushes the two allies to respectively transform into Super Saiyan Rosé and prepare a Revenge Death Ball. As Baby prepares the Ki sphere, Black distracts Broly, who easily overwhelms him.
Black activates the Kaio-ken on top of his Rosé form, managing to briefly regain control of the battle. After Broly walks through a Kamehameha launched by Black, the latter decides to use Super Saiyan God, combining it with his Super Saiyan Rosé form, swapping between the two in order to conserve his Ki, before being grabbed by Broly, who effortlessly decimates him. At last, Baby has gathered enough energy for the Death Ball and, after transforming into Tuffleized Super Saiyan 3, he launches it at the Legendary Super Saiyan. Broly launches Black away, counter-attacking the incoming Death Ball with a Ki sphere of his own, forcing a stalemate.
Seeing this, Black dashes towards Broly and blocks him, letting Baby's attack engulf Broly's Ki sphere. As the attack looms before the two Saiyans, Black teleports away, leaving the Legendary Super Saiyan to fend off the sphere. With one last combined attack from Black and Baby, the Death Ball explodes, engulfing Broly.

As Broly emerges from the explosion completely unscathed, shrinking down the Death Ball, he mocks the two allies, saying how he worried for nothing. Astonished by their foe enormous strength, Baby questions how he could have become so strong so quickly, with Black explaining how he gained a total of three Zenkais: the first after his return from space, the second after his defeat at the hands of Black and the third after powering down from the Legendary Golden Great Ape state. Black supposes he might be undergoing a fourth Zenkai, while also fearing a potential fifth Zenkai, that could bring Broly to achieve the "Super Saiyan 5" transformation.
Fearful of this, Black extracts the Potara Earrings and after explaining their usage to Baby, the two allies fuse.

The pressure generated by the fusion's power surprises Broly, who demands the fused entity's name. The fusion presents himself as Vegito as he slowly descends to the ground. The Legendary Super Saiyan dashes towards his new enemy, with him easily blocking each of Broly's attacks, before counter-attacking. The Legendary Super Saiyan, injured, angrily declares he'll wipe the floor with Vegito, before clashing with the fusion once again, ending with him being sent flying away. Vegito moves beside him, tauntingly reminding Broly he would have wiped the floor with him. The fusion then restarts his onslaught, effortlessly beating Broly. As the Legendary Super Saiyan grows furious, Vegito mocks him, concluding how he'll have the honor to die to him. Broly launches an Eraser Cannon, only for it being totally annihilated by Vegito's Final Kamehameha, which strikes Broly. Now amputated, Broly screams Kakarot's name, reaching for Vegito, who summons a Spirit Sword, stabbing Broly and then detonating a Ki explosion inside the Legendary Super Saiyan, ending him for good.

## Cameo

* Broly appears in What-If 12, in his Legendary Super Saiyan 4 transformation, during the "Boss selection screen" section;
* Broly appears in What-If 13, in his Legendary Super Saiyan 4 transformation, during the "transformations graph" and when Frieza (What-If 13) comments on Saiyans' nature;
* Broly appears in What-If 14, in his Legendary Super Saiyan transformation, in the post-credit scene, where he is enclosed in a barrier as he wanders in space.

## Abilities

* Power Scaling
* Transformations

This incarnation of Broly appears in the Power Scaling video, and is ranked as such:

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### Legendary Super Saiyan

A form genetically unique to Broly, as he is a Saiyan mutant. He uses this form during his second coming on Earth, and remained in it ever since being thrown in space.
In this state, Broly's body grows massive, his hair turn completely green and his eyes white.

### Legendary Super Saiyan 2

Gained after surviving his permanence in space for 16 years, courtesy of a Zenkai, he doesn't make use of it in his battle against Black and Baby. He briefly uses this form before transforming into Legendary Super Saiyan 4.
In this state, Broly appears nearly identical to Legendary Super Saiyan, with his hair being slightly sharper and being surrounded by bursts of electricity.

### Legendary Super Saiyan 3

Achieved after obtaining a large Zenkai due to his hybernation in space, Broly uses this form after returning to Earth for the second time, in order to battle "Kakarot". Super Saiyan Goku Black easily beats down Broly in this state, declaring his power as a child's play. It appears once again before Broly reaches the Legendary Super Saiyan 4 state.
In this state, Broly appears nearly identical to his Legendary Super Saiyan form, with his hair becoming extremely longer and surrounded by more bursts of electricity.

### Legendary Golden Great Ape

Broly achieved this form after being beaten by Black. Laying on the ground, he looked at the moon, and after absorbing enough Blutz Waves, he turned into a Golden Great Ape, attacking "Kakarot" and "Vegeta", before the moon is quickly destroyed, forcing him to power down.

### Legendary Super Saiyan 4

Due to coincidentally meeting the requirements to access the Super Saiyan 4 transformation, Broly achieves this form after powering down to his base form from his Golden Great Ape state. With this transformation, combined with his increasing power and three Zenkais, he easily outclasses both Black and Baby, who needed to fuse into Baby Vegito Black in order to have a chance to beat him.
As a Legendary Super Saiyan 4, Broly's body looks identical to his Legendary Super Saiyan form, with some traits derived from the Super Saiyan 4 transformation, such as the red fur which covers his whole body minus the torso, long and wild hair, the latter colored black, a red trim surrounding his white eyes and a red tail.

### Legendary Super Saiyan 5

A form that Black theorized Broly could have assumed if he underwent a fifth Zenkai. Black believes that his power would have been vast enough that not even Baby Vegito Black would have been capable of defeating him.
In this state, Broly's resembles the Legendary Super Saiyan 4 transformation, with the fur, tail and hair being colored of a grayish white.
## Trivia

* There are some differences in future cameos of the Legendary Super Saiyan, Legendary Super Saiyan 3 and Legendary Golden Great Ape forms:
	+ In the Power Scaling video, Broly has a green-coloured tail in the first two forms. His Legendary Golden Great Ape form is entirely coloured green.
	+ In What-If 13, the Legendary Golden Great Ape state appears radically different to its original appearance: it is coloured of a dull green color, vaguely resembling gold, and it is adorned in Broly's clothes.
* Broly's transformation into a Golden Great Ape ironically resembles Goku's. Both had them laying on the ground, defeated;
* Broly's Super Saiyan 5 transformation greatly resembles the fan-made concept of the namesake transformation, which would have appeared in the fan-made sequel of Dragon Ball GT, "Dragon Ball AF";
* Broly is one of the few characters to beat all his opponents in the animation, and yet still be defeated.