Broly is one of the villains More Dragon Ball Z Classics, a series that is considered one of the best animes in history, and that had, thanks to its films, a large number of non-canonical villains. Among these, we have the case of the aforementioned character, who managed to win the love of users despite not being considered part of the franchise’s history. Luckily for the fans of this aforementioned villain, thanks to the film Dragon Ball Super Brolyits existence became completely canonical, although not all users ended up liking it.
This was because, for various reasons that we will discuss later, his history and personality were completely changed, making him even seem like a completely different character. Next we will try to break down What were the reasons that led to this change?Although we already warn you that we do not have the absolute truth, and therefore this is simply our opinion.
A deeper backstory for Broly
Of course, Dragon Ball’s story has never turned out to be the deepest, and has never been asked to be, but the truth is that Broly’s story was too simple. This character’s hatred towards Goku came from the simple fact that our protagonist cried a lot at birth, and did not let him sleep because they had their cribs very close. This was the main reason why he ended up fighting Goku, as well as becoming a full-fledged villain for the franchise.
In the case of Dragon Ball Super it is completely different, and it is that he ends up fighting Goku and Vegeta because his father tells him to do it, after Frieza orders his father to do it. Even so, this is not the specific moment in which he loses his sanity, and it is that he does it once his father is killed by Frieza himself.
It may seem silly, mainly because neither of the two backstories are particularly deep, but the truth is that the one we met in the Dragon Ball Super film is more credibleas well as less ridiculous.
A personality derived from his past
When we talked about classic Broly’s personality, we did it keeping two things in mind. The first is that it appears that Goku’s cries caused him to have some kind of trauma, which has followed him throughout his life. On the other hand, the second, and most important, is the fact that his father has always subdued him, and therefore he has, to a certain extent, some hatred towards his father figure.
In Super, although his father’s control has not disappeared, his feelings towards his father are completely different. This, time before the planet Vegeta ended up destroyed, he decided to abandon everything to go in search of his son, who had been banished by the king of the Saiyans due to his power. This not only showed us viewers that Broly’s father has affection for his son (unlike what it seems in the villain’s original movies), but it could also be the first piece that forged the relationship between these two characters.
For this, Broly follows his father’s instructions (in addition to the necklace he wears), and for this reason he ends up losing control when he sees him already dead, but the most important thing we can say is that for this reason he has a much kinder personality than we saw in his first appearances.
In this way there can be synergy with the protagonists
The original Broly was just a villain. A “bad bad guy” who seeks to kill Goku and the rest of the universe simply because he couldn’t sleep properly when he was a baby. Under these conditions, it was clear that he was not going to be able to have any synergy with the protagonists, as if other villains of the franchise such as Frieza or the original Boo had later.
Probably the writers of the film, together with Akira Toriyama, thought that making this change would open the doors to see more of Brolyand especially to see him interacting with the protagonists (beyond the fights, of course), as we could see in the movie Dragon Ball Super Super Hero.
You may like it more or less Broly’s new personality and storybut the truth is that this change paints a good future for the franchise, with a character who, depending on his state of mind, can go from ally to enemy without any problem, becoming one of the most important threats to this world. .
