Dragon Ball Trolls Fans With Super's Controversial Broly Film Change
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Dragon Ball Super chapter 82!
In what is clearly one of Dragon Ball Super's most pivotal moments, Goku just recalled a memory of his father Bardock for the first time in his life, and it turns out to be one of the most controversial scenes from the revamped Broly film. Mangaka Akira Toriyama, it seems, is trolling his critics.
In chapter 82 of the manga, an audio file of Bardock's voice in the deceased Saiyan's scouter triggers Goku into remembering the pivotal scene from Dragon Ball Super's Broly movie when Bardock and his wife Gine peer into the space pod they put their infant son Goku in (then known as Kakarot) just moments before it was set to blast off Planet Vegeta towards Earth. Bardock had been under the impression that Frieza might be planning to do something terrible to the Saiyans and convinced Gine to send Kakarot off planet to protect him in case his fears were justified.
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For some diehard fans of the Saiyan's first origin story in the Bardock: The Father of Goku movie, this retcon in particular is especially slanderous. Bardock was originally quite indifferent to his son throughout the majority of the first one-shot. In fact, when Bardock returns to Planet Vegeta, spurred on by his violent run-in with Frieza's henchman Dodoria and by foreboding visions of his world's destruction, the Saiyan attempts to convince his comrades to go off-planet but to no avail. When he later stumbles across his son, Bardock not only articulates disgust at Kakarot's low power level, but he leaves the boy there rather than attempting to save him like he did just moments earlier with his fellow warriors.
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