How Dragon Ball Super solved his Broly problem

I am quite late converted to the religion of Dragon Ball . It did not happen on the limited number of channels that my family had developed, and when I finally had access to it, I was too busy saying things like, "Excuse me, but I'm only looking ] psychological animes as the independent series you probably have not heard of, Death Note . "But late 2017, when I bought the first three volumes of the manga on a whim, I was carried away by Dragon Ball his illustrations, his inspiring stories and his awesome scenes of people hitting each other. And while I devoured that, I watched the shows. And after consuming that as a greedy creature that survives only by Kamehamaha's drawings, I headed for the movies.

And that is in the movies that I found Broly. And I really wanted to love Broly, with "wanted" to be the key element of this statement.

You see, though Broly can be compared more easily to western comic book characters like Doomsday or Bane, characters who are generally ready to bow when they beat our heroes to Dead, I find Broly's best pop culture counterpart to be the current WWE superstar, Brock Lesnar. If you have not seen Brock Lesnar, he looks like someone who has been trying to build a steak dump truck and he is unjustly strong and agile. However, as we learned with the previous three Broly movies and some parts of Brock Lesnar's recent career at WWE, it's really easy to get sick of both.

You see, both are built around the idea "You could have powerful bad guys, but no one is as strong as this guy." Often, in television series, there is a kind of escalation of power throughout history. Vegeta is stronger than Raditz, Frieza is stronger than Vegeta, Cell is stronger than Frieza, etc. That's the same thing in wrbadlin: the champion gets challengers who pose new kinds of threats, whether they're more powerful than him, smarter or endowed with music to more bumpin theme. However, Broly and Brock Lesnar seem to jump the line up to the front. They become the final fight against the bosses as soon as they show up.

And if you can put them in good stories, they are very good characters to have on hand. As in 2003, when the wrestling Olympic gold medalist, Kurt Angle returned from a neck injury and faced Brock in a series of clbadic matches. Brock is younger, fresher, stronger and more vicious, but when the chips are down, no one can beat Kurt Angle. However, will the Angle injury worsen again, or will Brock be too arrogant? It's a nice simple story. And up to Dragon Ball Super: Broly Broly had never had a really great and simple story.

Do not get me wrong: Broly's movie trio of 1993 and 1994 is not bad. It's just that the Broly character does not really have a heart in them. He is just fat and pissed off, which makes him much less interesting than the sadistic megalomaniac Frieza or the sociopathic pallet cell. But in this film Dragon Ball Super we find a Broly exiled for being so powerful as a child, someone whose only real touch is his avenging father. It's a giant and sturdy puppy. It's already better than being a monstrous psychopath. We expect Broly to be a monstrous psychopath. Making it relatively peaceful with the ability to unleash this wild and ridiculous force when it becomes emotional is a little more interesting.

Fighting in Dragon Ball Super: Broly also work for the character because he is a good fighter and not just a powerful one. I think it would be very easy to make him fight in the manner of a Marvel Juggernaut, where his attraction lies mainly in the fact that no matter how hard you hit him, it will not hurt him. probably not. It's hard to hurt Broly too, but forcing him to face Goku and be subtle gives his action sequences lasting power. You want to see him fight again and again, because he is not a Saiyan.

Which brings me to the end, where (SPOILERS) Goku finds Broly and talks about wanting to fight him again and teach him to use his power better. Broly's other films ended with the decisive explosion of "YAY, we spent it in the sun." And it's a great way to send a heartless demon, but not someone like Broly from this movie. Dragon Ball Super: Broly is the first time the character is treated with care or empathy. It's not supposed to be just a boss fight and is now part of the Dragon Ball Universe .

When you write a character "Now, this guy is stronger than everyone else" like Broly or Brock Lesnar or Bane or another mountain of muscles whose name begins with a "B", you have to treat them like a true. character you want to use, and not just as an obstacle to overcome for your main hero. Because if not, what's the point? Anyway, someone stronger will arrive. 19659002 19659002 Daniel Dockery is a writer and editor for Crunchyroll. He has a Twitter account for all his opinions on One Piece.