History Characters / DragonBallBroly

** The ''Super'' version of Broly was exiled by by King Vegeta, manipulated by his father to be used as a weapon and lived on Vampa with only one type of food to eat for 40 years. In fact, the only reason he qualifies as a villain is because he is forced to be one.

* PsychopathicManchild: [[EvilCounterpart To contrast]] Goku's [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass childhish but lovable personality]], Broly is portrayed as the complete opposite: a ruthless psychopath that loves to destroy and inflict pain in others, and his motivation to his acts is nothing but a ''childish tantrum''. While he's transforming into the Legendary Super Saiyan, his screams sound like a crying child.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Broly, Brolly or Broli? The official English subtitles of the ''Z'' movies use Broli to fit the "broccoli" origin, but most other English and non-English localizations, the Japanese poster of ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', and the Japanese and English versions of ''VideoGame/{{Dragon Ball FighterZ}}'' use Broly.

* PureIsNotGood: It's stated you have to be pure of heart in order to become a Super Saiyan. Broly is pure: ''pure destruction''.

* PureIsNotGood: Is stated you have to be pure of heart in order to become a Super Saiyan. Broly is pure: ''pure destruction''.

** And of course, his Super Saiyan Full Power transformation. He's ''massive'', expanding so rapidly his armor shatters, his hair gains its signature green tint, and, like the Super Saiyan form, lacks sclerae. [[spoiler: These return when he regains his senses]]. This form is Broly at his strongest, overwhelming even Super Saiyan [[spoiler:Gogeta, forcing the fused warrior to turn Blue, in order to regain and keep the advantage.]]

** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', Broly likewise is pretty respectful of his father, even telling Cheelai and Lemo that "is not nice to speak bad about his father". In Latin America, he is defensive of his father, and in a somber tone tells them to not speak bad about Paragus.

** In a series known for warriors screaming from the top of their lungs, the original Broly is possibly the most known of them all, due to his constant screaming. While voicing him as required, his English voice actor really doesn't like when people ask him to do the voice at events, due to the effort damaging his vocal cords.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Broly, Brolly or Broli? The official English subtitles of the ''Z'' movies use Broli to fit the "broccoli" origin, but most other English and non-English localisations, the Japanese poster of ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', and the Japanese and English versions of ''VideoGame/{{Dragon Ball FighterZ}}'' use Broly.

* OmnicidalManiac: Even more so than all but one DBZ villain, which speaks volumes. Broly is nothing but a beast of destruction, bringing the Saiyans BloodKnight instincts to the next level.

* ManlyTears: One of his little moments in the short background role played in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero''; [[spoiler:Broly, along with Lemo, sheds tears at witnessing the closure of Goku and Vegeta's sparring match at the end of the movie; once again showing that despite Broly's unique gentle nature for a pure blooded Sayan, he can appreciate combat at some friendly level]].

* DefeatEqualsFriendship: [[spoiler:He's a bit more than happy to do some friendly sparring with Goku once the latter comes by to deliver some supplies on good terms.]]

** Severely downplayed in absolute terms, because in terms of raw power, this Broly far outstrips his original counterpart, but he lacks a few abilities the original had which includes the ability to fly through space without any harm which the original could do as a baby, fighting skills and [[spoiler:originally]] the Super Saiyan transformation.

A clone of Broly

* FreudianExcuse: The eighth movie heavily implies that, besides Kakarot's crying, one of the biggest reasons for the way he is is because of life-threatening events related to Broly's birth. King Vegeta was so scared of his abnormal power that he tried to execute him as a child. He survived, only to watch as Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta (according to ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai Shin Budokai]]'', this is what made him so unhinged in general). Later on in life, his father placed him under the control of a slave crown, initially out of fear of his power, but afterwards, he was used to destroy even more planets than before against his own will, which probably factored more hate into his father.

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* SuperStrength: Broly is comparable to ComicBook/TheHulk as his strength rises the more pissed off he gets, at one point Broly brutally overpowers Goku in PhysicalGod form [[https://www.db-z.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Broly-Goku-contre-la-glace-GIF.gif with pure physical strength]], by the end of the movie he and [[TwoBeingsOneBody Gogeta]] are able to ''shatter dimensions with their fists''.

* BerserkButton: Anything resembling Goku. Or, as he likes to put it: "KAKAROT~!". In particular, the root of his contempt towards him: Goku's crying as a newborn. Thinking of Goku's crying when they were both 1-day old incensed him out of Paragus' mind control, and hearing Goten's whining being so similar to newborn Goku's angered him out of a seven year [[HumanPopsicle iceberg-coma]].

* ArchEnemy: Goku, or rather "KAKAROT~!" There is nothing Broly hates or obsesses over as much as Kakarot. He will try to destroy this Saiyan on sight due to deeply ingrained trauma from hearing the newborn Goku cry.

->''"Me, a monster? No. I am a devil!"''

* CatchPhrase: "KAKAROT!"

* PetTheDog: If Broly has ever shown something resembling niceness, is saving Paragus from death when being a baby, and not killing him at any point before getting the slave crown. However, he still took away his eye. He averts this in the ''Xenoverse'' games, where along with Zamasu, he will never treat you with anything but disdain and see you more as a plaything.

* AdaptedOut: As ubiquitous as Broly is in extraneous material, Bio-Broly doesn't get the same luxury. His film was the only ''Z'' movie at the time that didn't get a recreation in ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi Tenkaichi 3]]'', which pulled from every era of Dragon Ball to make its roster, and the only times he appears outside of his movie are games like ''Heroes'' and ''Dokkan Battle'', which feature similarly large casts and less assets required to add characters.

* AchillesHeel: Broly is ''incredibly'' powerful, but his heart is comparatively weak due to being stabbed as a baby, and when overexerted or heavily damaged, it goes off with the force of bomb.

* 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, spoiler: 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.]]

* OmnicidalManiac: Even more so than all but one DBZ villain, which speaks volumes. Broly is nothing but a beast of destruction, bringing the Saiyans BloodKnight instincts UpToEleven.

* PainfulTransformation: Apparently, the PowerIncontinence of his Wrathful Form means that as well as being overwhelmingly pissed off, he’s in near-constant, excruciating pain the entire time. When he transforms into his Super Saiyan form however, the sheer amount of mental agony as his psyche is torn apart by the absolute mental upheaval made all the more worse by his already tenuous state of mind makes this seem ''[[UpToEleven numb]]'' in comparison.

* MonkeyKingLite: Broly, like [[TheHero our main hero]] Goku, is also partially based on ''the'' Son Goku of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''. This is alluded to by two facts; (1) Broly's massive sadism and pure violence is a nod to Sun Wukong's more unsavory traits in the original novel (mainly how he resorts to violence and murder wantonly), and (2) he is restrained by a golden headband that reinforces obedience through pain, much like how the golden headband[=/=]fillet that imprisoned the eponymous Monkey King causes him mindless agony whenever Tripitaka chants the mantra of obedience. These allusions makes sense considering Broly ''is'' after all Goku's EvilCounterpart.

* MythologyGag: Broly, like [[TheHero our main hero]] Goku, is also partially based on ''the'' Son Goku of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''. This is alluded to by the fact he is restrained by a golden headband that reinforces obedience through pain, much like how the headband that imprisoned the eponymous Monkey King causes him mindless agony whenever Tripitaka chants the mantra of obedience. This gag makes sense considering Broly ''is'' after all Goku's EvilCounterpart.