History Characters / DragonBallBroly

* WouldHitAGirl: He had no problem attacking Videl in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing Broly – Second Coming]]''.

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[[spoiler:*** Ironically, when he first met Gohan in the Super Hero arc in the manga, Broly became astounded of how he was able to channel his anger, lampshaded by Goku and Vegeta of [NotSoDifferentRemark their similarities when it comes to using rage as power.]] ]]

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* TameHisAnger: By the time of ''Super Hero'', [[spoiler: Broly has been training with Goku and Vegeta to unleash his strength without losing control of himself and has already made some progress, now being capable of tapping into a portion of his Wrathful state's power and calming himself back down at will, despite previously needing a vicious electric shock to return from that point back to lucidity.]]

** Much of the purpose behind his training in ''Super Hero'' (which is expanded upon further in the manga) is to teach Broly how to unleash his power while retaining control of himself. [[spoiler: Eventually, after watching base Goku and Vegeta duke it out, then fighting Vegeta one-on-one and finally witnessing the battle between MUI Goku and Beast Gohan, he manages to pick up on this enough to put it into practice in his own match against Gohan, unleashing his normal Super Saiyan form against the latter's Beast transformation and managing to remain lucid for the rest of the fight.]]

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: PlayedWith. While Broly is portrayed as a complete psychopath from his youth, he is one of the very few ''Dragon Ball'' antagonists with a shown backstory, which paint him as something of a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds by [[BloodKnight Saiyans]] standards, even if a little flat. ''However'', this is later played painfully straight in all sequels stories to his debut film, where his irrational hatred for Goku is the only reason for him to appear as an antagonist, like ''Second Coming'' and ''Broly God'', turning him into a FlatCharacter with as much personality as Janemba or Kid Buu, who are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s.

* IncompletelyTrained: Broly is a skilled warrior who has been trained his whole life by his elite Saiyan father, at least in theory. In practice, Frieza notes that sparring sessions between the two are useless because the vast difference in power means Broly has never needed to improve his skills. Even his talent for quick improvement doesn't help in this regard; while his power level increases, his fighting style never progresses beyond flailing his arms and firing energy everywhere. [[spoiler:Goku hopes to fix this in the end by training and sparring with Broly. However, the the time of ''Super Hero'', Goku states that Broly is near impossible to train due to his fast growth and inability to hold back.]]

** Played straight with ''Super'' Broly. While he's far from completely unskilled he still lacks a refined fighting style since he lived on a Frontier Planet without any sentient beings his whole life. Not that this matters since he's stronger, faster and more durable than Goku and Vegeta along with lacking the stamina problems Frieza and Kale had. However, this comes back to bite him when [[spoiler: Gogeta enters the fray, as although they’re breaking even for the most part as Super Saiyans, Gogeta manages to overpower Broly on several occasions simply by fighting competently rather than spamming energy blasts or flailing about. By the time Gogeta goes Blue and Broly breaks out Full Power form, his fighting ability has degenerated to simply alternating between bum-rushing his target and tossing energy waves at them in the hopes that he can hit him.]]

* SuperToughness: One of Broly's greatest attributes is that he is incredibly durable so much so that whenever he keeps getting hit or beat down he always manages to get back up to fight again and even [[NoSell tanks]] many blows from both Goku and Vegeta, even to a slight extent of Gogeta. His tough skin has also allowed him to fight through volcanic lava with Goku without obtaining any damage whatsoever.

* WorldsStrongestMan: He is technically the most powerful mortal in Universe 7 greatly eclipsing Goku, Vegeta and Frieza and having managed to defeat all of them. Goku thinks he's likely stronger than ''Beerus''. Promotional materials also state he's the strongest foe Goku and company had faced up until that point, meaning he might be even stronger than ''Jiren'', which would make him the most powerful mortal in the multiverse, though it isn't entirely clear. And to note: this is all without ever getting much in the way of ''actual'' training.

** His unique "Wrathful" form, which pays homage to the Super Saiyan 4 transformation from GT. [[note]] Both forms use the power of the Oozaru, both increase the user's height and muscle mass, both have spiky jet-black hair, and both have golden glowing eyes. [[/note]] According to Paragus, it's Broly tapping into the power of an Oozaru in his base form, but as a drawback, it's just as hard to control as the Oozaru form. In exchange for Broly's decreasing sanity, his power spikes so much that he's able to overpower both God Goku and God Vegeta, manhandling the former through grapples.

** In VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai 3 he's stronger than his movie counterpart. In Second Coming he was only above Gohan in power, and Vegeta's abscence from the movie can even mean he's weaker than SS2 Vegeta, while in Budokai 3, he can be fought in a different path from Buu saga where he's the alternative final boss from it in Goku's and Vegeta's story mode, so he's around [=SS3=] Goku's level, and in his own story mode he can even win against Goku.

** Movie 10 Broly is stated in the guidebooks to have powered up massively from his near-death experience in movie 8, bringing him up to the level of relevance for the early Buu arc. Still, what ultimately beats him is a rusty [=SS2=] Gohan, SS Goten, and base Trunks, who blast through his barrier with a Kamehameha and put a giant hole in his chest ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane SS Goku might have been there too]]), killing him. Even before that, [=SS2=] Gohan was able to hold his own and even put the hurt on Broly before the [=LSS=] got the upper hand, something that was all but ''impossible'' for Z Fighters to do in movie 8 before Goku's CombinedEnergyAttack. Vegeta was even stronger than Gohan at that time, and [[DeusExitMachina had he been there]], the four of them probably would have just been able to team up and kill Broly immediately without an hour's worth of fighting. %% This is further reinforced in the main series, where Piccolo and Vegeta both explicitly state that even if Gohan, Vegeta, Goten, Trunks, Piccolo, and Kaioshin all teamed up on Fat Buu, with help from Vegeta's Majin power-up and a revived [=SS2 Goku=], it wouldn't have made a bit of difference.

* TookALevelInDumbass: Broly was never a particularly undefeated individual in terms of intelligence, Broly did manage to be cohesive and voice his sadistic pleasures, even claiming to be the devil along with giving VillainRespect to his opponents. Unfortunately, due to heavy {{Flanderzation}} in his second appearance, Broly is reduced to an aggressive, near incomprehensible brute that can only say the word "Kakarot" and mistakes Goten for the actual Goku, and he only gets even dumber in his subsequent appearances.

** Movie 10 Broly is stated in the guidebooks to have powered up massively from his near-death experience in movie 8, bringing him up to the level of relevance for the early Buu arc. Still, what ultimately beats him is a rusty [=SS2=] Gohan, SS Goten, and base Trunks, who blast through his barrier with a Kamehameha and put a giant hole in his chest ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane SS Goku might have been there too]]), killing him. Vegeta was even stronger than Gohan at that time, and [[DeusExitMachina had he been there]], the four of them probably would have just been able to team up and kill Broly immediately without an hour's worth of fighting. %% This is further reinforced in the main series, where Piccolo and Vegeta both explicitly state that even if Gohan, Vegeta, Goten, Trunks, Piccolo, and Kaioshin all teamed up on Fat Buu, with help from Vegeta's Majin power-up and a revived [=SS2 Goku=], it wouldn't have made a bit of difference.