Dragon Ball Super Confirmed the Fandom's Worst Fear With Bardock Retcon
Warning: Contains spoilers for Dragon Ball Super chapter #83
While Goku's father, Bardock, was received with enthusiasm by Dragon Ball Super fans since his 1990 debut, they were afraid that Bardock would be retconned from a ruthless antihero to a more likable character and, unfortunately, the latest chapter of Dragon Ball Super seems to confirm these fears.
Son Goku is a member of the alien Saiyan race, fearsome warriors who make a living by conquering other planets, slaughtering their population, and selling them for a profit. For a very long time, the Saiyan worked under Frieza, an evil galactic conqueror who commands a vast army. It is during the battle between Son Goku and Frieza on Planet Namek that Bardock makes his first, and only, appearance in the Dragon Ball manga, in a single panel where Frieza, looking at Goku, remembers the lone Saiyan who resisted him when he destroyed their planet. The character's backstory was later expanded in Bardock — The Father of Goku, a TV special aired during the Dragon Ball Z anime's first run on Fuji TV, and in a spin-off manga published in 2011. In his original movie appearance, Bardock is as cruel and ruthless as all other Saiyans, killing people with no thought or remorse. Bardock's relationship with his newborn son Goku is also extremely cold.
Related: What Dragon Ball Super Fans Are Missing About Bardock's Past
The manga spinoff Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock was the first one to show changes in the character, who demonstrates compassion towards other people, but they made sense because it is set after Bardock's supposed death at the hands of Frieza in The Father of Goku, when the Saiyan warrior had a change of heart through a psychic connection with future Goku. The
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