History Anime / DragonBallSuperBroly

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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Frieza plan for revenge and the Earth Dragon Balls failed because he purposely enraged Broly by killing his father Paragus. As a result, Goku and Vegeta uses him as a distraction while they focus on fusing as Gogeta, leading him to endure Broly's attack. Cheelai later uses the Dragon Balls to save Broly by wishing him back to where he called home. After encountering Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta following the fighg, Frieza decides to leave.]]

The Tournament of Power has passed, and Goku and Vegeta have returned to their ordinary lives. Unfortunately, their erstwhile ally Frieza has returned to his own life as well, and his soldiers have stolen Earth's Dragon Balls. This won't just be another Dragon Ball hunt, though: Frieza himself is coming to Earth to collect his prize, and he's bringing with him a secret weapon... in the form of a Saiyan. A Saiyan who was long stranded on a distant planet. A Saiyan who hides an apocalyptic and nighmarish power.

The Tournament of Power has passed, and Goku and Vegeta have returned to their ordinary lives. Unfortunately, their erstwhile ally Frieza has returned to his own life as well, and his soldiers have stolen Earth's Dragon Balls. This won't just be another Dragon Ball hunt, though: Frieza himself is coming to Earth to collect his prize, and he's bringing with him a secret weapon... in the form of a Saiyan. A Saiyan who was long stranded on a distant planet. A Saiyan who hides a nightmarish and apocalyptic power.

The Tournament of Power has passed, and Goku and Vegeta have returned to their ordinary lives. Unfortunately, their erstwhile ally Frieza has returned to his own life as well, and his soldiers have stolen Earth's Dragon Balls. This won't just be another Dragon Ball hunt, though: Frieza himself is coming to Earth to collect his prize, and he's bringing with him a secret weapon... in the form of a Saiyan. A Saiyan who was long stranded on a distant planet. A Saiyan who hides a terrifying and menacing power.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In contrast to his original counterpart, who traveled the universe with Paragus and destroyed many worlds and likely billions of sentient beings, this Broly has been stranded in exile most of his life on planetoid Vampa, and it's implied Cheelai and Lemo are the first sentient beings besides Paragus that Broly encounters since his exile. His Japanese VA revealed that this version of Broly is definitely not as "evil" as the original one. [[spoiler:After his rampage ends, he actually pulls a HeelFaceTurn and ends the film with a total sentient body-count of ''zero''. Goku even visits him afterwards and expresses compassion and admiration for his power, implying a DefeatMeansFriendship for future stories]].

The Tournament of Power has passed, and Goku and Vegeta have returned to their ordinary lives. Unfortunately, their erstwhile ally Frieza has returned to his own life as well, and his soldiers have stolen Earth's Dragon Balls. This won't just be another Dragon Ball hunt, though: Frieza himself is coming to Earth to collect his prize, and he's bringing with him a secret weapon... in the form of a Saiyan. A Saiyan who was long stranded on a distant planet. A Saiyan who hides a nightmarish and apocalyptic power.

The Tournament of Power has passed, and Goku and Vegeta have returned to their ordinary lives. Unfortunately, their erstwhile ally Frieza has returned to his own life as well, and his soldiers have stolen Earth's Dragon Balls. This won't just be another Dragon Ball hunt, though: Frieza himself is coming to Earth to collect his prize, and he's bringing with him a secret weapon... in the form of a Saiyan. A Saiyan who was long stranded on a distant planet. A Saiyan who hides a terrifying power.

** This is the first Super era story that adapts the events of ''Dragon Ball Minus'', discarding ''Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku''.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Lemo actually shows up in the movie much earlier than he initially appears. A younger more austere looking Lemo can be seen among the Frieza Force when they announce Frieza's ascension to the throne. He's even the one who gives Frieza the box of scouters. This of course means he lied to Cheelai when he said he only saw Frieza once from afar.

** Zigzagged in the case of Bardock. While the canon story removes Toei's depiction of his one-man charge into space, fighting his way through grunts to reach Frieza himself, Bardock here manages to desperately resist, and his blast actually manages to ''slow the Supernova down'' before it ultimately engulfs him.

A Saiyan named [[Anime/BrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan Broly]].

* UnstoppableRage: The hallmark that Broly's best known for, back in full force, and the primary reason he's even a "villain" of the feature. Once he gets that ball rolling, stopping it is a task nigh-impossible, and Broly's out to annihilate ''everything around him''. His Wrathful form, although still a very unhappy camper, was actually quite restrained in that he still had some vestige of self-control, but when that Super Saiyan transformation rolls in [[after his father's death,]] THAT IS IT. '''BROLY GOES COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL.'''

* UnstoppableRage: The hallmark that Broly's best known for, back in full force, and the primary reason he's even a "villain" of the feature. Once he gets that ball rolling, stopping it is a task nigh-impossible, and Broly's out to annihilate ''everything around him''. His Wrathful form, although still a very unhappy camper, was actually quite restrained in that he still had some vestige of self-control, but when that Super Saiyan transformation rolls in, '''HE COMPLETELY LOSES HIS MIND!'''

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: While still an awful person, Paragus is much less cruel than in [[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan the first Broly movie.]] Paragus only wants Vegeta dead as opposed to him enslaving a race of aliens and unleashing Broly on the South Galaxy like in his debut. In addition, Paragus intended on abandoning Broly and leaving him for dead when he could no longer control him, while here, he outright begs Frieza to save Broly when it looks like he's going to die against Goku. This goes further with DubPersonalityChange, with most dubs and even subs making him care for Broly with phrases like "My poor Broly", something he doesn't have in the source material (where he is more of a DirtyCoward).

* TookALevelInKindness: Frieza from his last appearance. Despite still being the heinous monster he is, now isn't as much of a BadBoss as before, even allowing his troops to leave the battle to not be caught in the fire. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain This backfires with Cheelai and Lemo]] [[spoiler: using the Dragon Balls to wish Broly back to his home planet, but even then he decides to leave them be on Vampa after Gogeta stops him]].

* UnskilledButStrong: The key depiction of this version of Broly. He grew up on a DeathWorld and was trained by his father so he knows how to fight, but has never faced an opponent one-on-one who could match him in raw power. As such despite being incredibly powerful, Vegeta and Goku handily keep him at bay individually. But the longer he fought the quicker he learned, and progressively unlocked even deeper power reserves and transformations until he was challenging both Goku and Vegeta together at their peak level.

* UnstoppableRage: The hallmark that Broly's best known for, back in full force, and the primary reason he's even a "villain" of the feature. Once he gets that ball rolling, stopping it is a task nigh-impossible, and Broly's out to annihilate ''everything around him''. His Wrathful form, although still a very unhappy camper, was actually quite restrained in that he still had some vestige of self-control, but when that Super Saiyan transformation rolls in, '''he goes completely and utterly off the chain.'''

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "My name is Son Goku, or you can call me...''Kakarot''."]]

* DigitalDestruction: Funimation's North American home media release has a green tint due to their footage being damaged during post-production.

* SecondaryColorNemesis: The Frieza Force returns, with new member Cheelai being a green-skinned lady wearing purple and white clothes, and Broly, who appears to be a member of the Force, ditching his original white pants and red clothes for purple pants, wearing some green fur on his waist, and his unique green Super Saiyan transformation.

** This itself may be a nod to Saiyans in general, or at least gifted ones. Goku is recognized as a genius fighter for his ability to learn the basics of techniques almost the moment he sees them (he learned the Kamehameha, for instance, after only seeing Master Roshi use it once, albeit much weaker at first); Vegeta learned to read Ki after just one confrontation with earthlings, without any training despite no prior knowledge that it'd even existed; Future Trunks managed to learn the Evil Containment Wave within a few minutes just after seeing it done, if possibly with rage helping him out there. Broly, being a "mutant" Saiyan, likely takes this quality UpToEleven.

* KarmaHoudini: Played with. Despite being the main BigBad, [[spoiler:responsible for killing Broly's father]], and causing who knows how many tragedies, [[spoiler:Gogeta lets Frieza go scot-free with his evil-doings. [[DownplayedTrope That said]], it could be argued that Frieza paid up earlier in [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown getting mollywhopped]] by ''[[TheBerserker Broly]]'' [[UnstoppableRage without pause]] for an ''[[UpToEleven entire hour]]''.]]

* AbsenteeActor: Barring a short appearance in a flashback, this is the first movie set during Krillin's lifetime that he does not appear in. Gohan has no appearance whatsoever.

* ForWantOfANail: Bardock grimly notes to Gine that they can't escape Planet Vegeta with their son lest they be detected escaping with scouters. Had they only known of energy concealment they'd have been able to safely escape with their son.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Paragus' end. As he sees Goku and Broly fight, Paragus realizes that King Vegeta was right, Broly's power is too much to control and he is a danger to the universe. And his grudge is going to cost him his son, as Broly's loss of sense means he will die against Goku. Frieza however recalls Goku turning Super Saiyan at the sight of Krillin's death and kills Paragus, lies about the death being from a stray energy blast, causes Broly to turn Super Saiyan.]]

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: This seems to be Frieza's motivation at the end of the movie [[spoiler:for why he wants to recruit Broly and decides to leave him, Cheelai and Lemo alone for now. At this point Frieza has figured out that, no matter how he improves, Goku and Vegeta will eventually get stronger and beat him. As such he wants a Super Saiyan of his own to eventually use to kill his Arch Enemies. However, he knows that he still lacks the strength to effectively corral Broly, so he plans on getting in a few more years of training anyway first.]]

** [[spoiler: When Gogeta appears, Whis comments about Goku and Vegeta actually being able to work together, something he'd be trying to convince them to do.]]

* AdultFear:
** When King Vegeta exiles Broly to Planetoid Vampa, Paragus immediately boards a ship to find his son.
** The potential threat of Planet Vegeta being destroyed forces Bardock to convince Gine to send baby Kakarot to Earth.

The Tournament of Power has passed, and Goku and Vegeta have returned to their ordinary lives. Unfortunately, their erstwhile ally Frieza has returned to his own life as well, and his soldiers have stolen Earth's Dragon Balls. This won't just be another Dragon Ball hunt, though: Frieza himself is coming to Earth to collect his prize, and he's bringing with him a secret weapon... in the form of a Saiyan. A Saiyan who was long abandoned by the galaxy. A Saiyan who hides a terrifying power.

With the Tournament of Power behind them, Universe 7 has returned to a time of seeming peace. Having awakened to the fact that other Universes possess stronger fighters, Goku and Vegeta continue to train to fight stronger opponents in the future. However, the two of them run into a powerful new threat to their Universe: a Saiyan more powerful than anything they have ever fought. That Saiyan, is named Broly.