Broly VS Archie Knuckles The Echidna

**Broly vs. Archie Knuckles The Echidna** is the 7th report of Death Battle X, pitting Broly from *Dragon Ball* against Archie Knuckles The Echidna from *Sonic the Hedgehog*. In a fight between two absurdly powered strong brawlers.

## Prelude

**Michael:** As primal as the ground we walk on, and the air we breathe, anger can keep us alive, or doom us forever. Kinda like today's two combatants, when it comes strength and power. These two brawlers really show it. Broly, the Legendary Super Saiyan from Dragon Ball. And Archie Knuckles the Echidna, the strongest of all the Knuckles from Sega's Archie Comics.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** I am the Fight Analysis and Conclusion Tolerance Software, or F.A.C.T.S. for short. I will be determining the victor with their research taken into account. For this battle, Knuckles will be drawn from only the comics, Broly on the other hand, while Broly has three different canon's: the thrre Dragon Ball Z movie films, the 2018 Dragon Ball Super movie, and the Dark Xenoverse version of Broly. And despite developing different personalities, these three Broly's are essentially the character in different situations. For this battle, the 2018 Dragon Ball Super version is are primary source here, but will also take the arsenals and equipment from the original and the xenoverse versions too, while also looking into the original and similar Saiyan's like Kale for more info.

**Michael:** With the rule in place, I'm Michael, and this, ladies and gentlemen, is Death Battle X!

## Broly

**Michael:** The Saiyans, a brutal alien race of interstellar conquerors. These famous warriors are defined by three things: their tenacity, their pride, and their rage, which fuels their world-destroying power. And no Saiyan can get even close to as pissed off, as Broly. Despite being of low birth, the infant Broly was considered a prodigy by Saiyan scientists, due to his impossibly high power level of 10,000.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** Enough to survive a planetary explosion, when compared to other Saiyan's.

**Michael:** Whether it be jealousy for his own son or genuine fear of Broly's potential, Vegeta - the king, not the prince - abandoned Broly to a hellish backwater planet to die, with only his father, Paragus as company. But on that very same day, the alien tyrant Frieza destroyed Vegeta! The planet, not the king. Well, I-I guess the king too. Ironically, after decades of isolation, Broly and Paragus were found by Frieza, and drafted into his army to eliminate the Saiyans on Earth: Son Goku and Vegeta. The prince, not the planet. Or the king. And thing is, Broly's not like the angry Saiyans. This guy's actually a gentle giant who would rather play with his big green alien dog than fight anybody.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** Paragus molded Broly into a deadly warrior whether he liked it or not. And like most Saiyans, Broly can harness Ki, or one's inner life force, as an energy to enhance his physicality.

**Michael:** Or fire it from his hands in the form of lasers! Broly's bread and butter is his Eraser Cannon, a green fastball that'll cross thousands of miles in seconds and vaporize planets. He can fire lasers from his mouth with his Gigantic Roar, shower the landscape with Blaster Meteor, but my favorite more is the Gigantic Omegastorm, which is sort of like a Kamehameha... but... green. But his most powerful technique though is a small Ki bolt that Broly can feed to rapidly grow in size and consume entire worlds, the Omega Blaster.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** Broly's arsenal isn't just about blow stuff up though. He can use Ki for flight, moving objects or opponents with telekinesis, and paralyze them leaving them emobile for a short while. And, despite being stuck in the space boonies all his life, he's an adaptable fighter who can match seasoned veterans.

**Michael:** Basically, he learns as he fights. And while most Saiyans get stronger every time they almost die, Broly's strength is tied to his emotions. AKA, the angrier he gets, the stronger he gets. These power boosts are so great, he can match transformations like the Super Saiyan without even needing to transform. But don't worry, he can do that too. His Wrath State roids him up and makes him as strong as a Saiyan Great Ape without all the fur, or the shedding.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** Much to Frieza's chagrin, though, Broly had never learned to unlock Super Saiyan, and could not compete with Goku and Vegeta's stronger forms.

**Michael;** Solution? Murder Broly's father to get him to transform.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** Despite the physical abuse he suffered at his father's hands, Paragus was still the only family Broly had, and losing that drove him over the edge. Although Broly didn't turn into a typical Super Saiyan. Broly's new form was actually a Super Saiyan C-Type. This is an unleashed version of the repressed Super Saiyan A-Type, which are both precursors of the B-Type....

**Michael:** Before FACTS gets too caught up in the Super Saiyan Type stuff, the Super Saiyan C-Type form has the perfect energy control and let him fight Frieza for over an hour.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** Exactly, Broly's power was so immense, it even made Goku of all people turn tail and run.

**Michael:** Goku was able to clash with the God Of Destruction, Lord Beerus, with enough force to potentially destroy all of Universe 7, while are own observable universe is about 93.016 billion light years in diameter, the Dragon Ball universe is sort of different, and a little bigger.

**Michael:** The shockwaves propagated by their attacks have to be proportionate in speed to the attack themselves, and therefore can be scaled to their strikes, ki blasts, and reaction speeds. Making the Dragon Ball Universe at least 9 times larger than our own. Based on this, the shockwaves from their clash propagated 240 quadrillion times faster than light.

**Michael:** And after that, Goku became that powerful in his base form! Imagine how much stronger he was at Super Saiyan Blue.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** Or when fused with Vegeta into the almighty Gogeta, a being many times more powerful than the sum of his parts. The exact power of fusion is unknown, but base form Gogeta performed noticeably better against Broly in than Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta together.

**Michael:** Broly got into a power measuring contest with a Super Saiyan squared, and shattered reality!

**F.A.C.T.S.:** And at the peak of his rage, he became the warrior of myth, destined to appear once every thousand years: the Legendary Super Saiyan.

**Michael:** As a Legendary Super Saiyan, Broly's power becomes so great that he needs to constantly let it out, or else he might self destruct. I guess you could say his power is *maximum*!

**F.A.C.T.S.:** He's easily among the strongest foes Goku's gone up against. That includes Jiren, who's capable of shaking an infinite void just by powering up, or Future Zamasu, who merged with the universe and affected alternate timelines.

**Michael:** In his original timeline, Broly survived his energy exploding out of him all at once, and in canon, he took dozens of attacks from Gogeta Blue without any visible damage after fighting for hours. And while in the new canon Broly has not shown the healing capabilities of his previous incarnation, he does possess a collection of Senzu Beans that can regenerate similarly fatal wounds.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** His power comes at a cost, though. In his berserker state, Broly is wide open against an opponent who's just as strong but far more skilled.

**Michael** And after takin' enough damage, his rage will hit its limits and his power will fizzle out quick. He can even get knocked into weaker forms.

**F.A.C.T.S.:** Broly did lose his fight with Gogeta fair and square, but with new friends at his side to support him, and a new rival to teach him to temper his fury, the lonely Saiyan outcast finally got what his father could never give him, a family.

**Michael:** Aww, but that means he has even more to lose, so watch out, cause this Super Saiyan's temper... is Legendary.