Broly Character Highlight

Broly is a fan favorite for many, although he appears little in the Dragon Ball series aside from the movies and games.  The first Broly movie is considered one of the better Dragon Ball movies by the wide fan-base.  He is a character with an interesting story.

As a baby Broly already had the incredible power level of 10,000, far beyond the power of many adult saiyans.  He and baby Goku (Kakarot) were side by side as infants after being born, and Goku's constant crying drove baby Broly insane, causing a long-term grudge against him.

Under the order of King Vegeta, Broly and Broly's father, Paragus, were sentenced to death because of the fear of Broly's power.

Baby Broly was stabbed through the chest, and he and his father were left to die.

When planet Vegeta was destroyed by Freiza, Broly used his immense power to shield himself and his father to save them from the destruction.

As Broly grew he became more and more uncontrollable, even blinding one of his father's eyes.

In order to keep Broly under restraint, his father used a mind control device to restrain him.  Thus is the story of Broly's origin.

Movies:

Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan

Broly: Second Coming

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Broly's forms/transformations:

Base Form

Super Saiyan/Controlled Super Saiyan

(When controlled by the device placed on him by his father, Paragus, Broly's base super saiyan form has a different hair color than his regular transformation.)

Legendary Super Saiyan

(This transformation is both bulked up, and fast, with white eyes and a greenish color tone to his hair color.)

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Legendary Super Saiyan 3

(This transformation only makes a video game appearance.  It is by far more powerful than regular Super Saiyan 3)

Golden Oozaru Broly

(This transformation appears in the "Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission" manga)

Super Saiyan 4

(This transformation appears in the "Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Missions" manga.)

Dark Broly

(This is dark Super Saiyan 4 Broly with the "Time Breaker Mask" appearing in Dragon Ball Heroes.)

Super Saiyan Red Original Concept

(fan rendering of what Super Saiyan Red may have originally looked like)

Super Saiyan Red, one of the transformations introduced by Dragon Ball Super, is a subject of some controversy. For one: the design is far from being impressive as most people will tell you, very disappointing. On the most part it is just a color swap of his base form, but the thing that is interesting is, the design that is used was not the original design for this transformation.

The original concept of Super Saiyan Red was supposed to have been more muscular with Goku wearing a cloak and having a hairstyle somewhere in between Super Saiyan 3 and Super Saiyan 4. Wow, that sounds cool! The final transformation design kept Goku's hair magenta red which is the same as his fur-color in Super Saiyan 4, while Vegeta hair is crimson red hair. The original ties being between Super Saiyan 3 and Super Saiyan 4 suggests that it may have originally been intended as an "in between" transformation between Super Saiyan 3 and 4.

I would have loved to have seen Super Saiyan Red's original concept art, because what we got in the series is not that impressive visually. The design choice could have been due to budget, or simply laziness, because it has been stated that transformations like Super Saiyan 3 take more work and time to animate. Another controversy is that Super Saiyan Red, as called by Goten, is more popularly known as Super Saiyan Goddo(super saiyan god). As Dragon Ball Super progresses the series makes it clear that Goku is not a god, and his transformation does little good against some of the most powerful beings in the universe. The more powerful transformation, Super Saiyan Blue, is most often called "Super Saiyan Blue," although it was originally called, "super saiyan god super saiyan," a ridiculous name. Super Saiyan Red and Super Saiyan Blue have grown to be the more accurate terms to describe these two new transformations.