What Dragon Ball Super Fans Are Missing About Bardocks Past

What Dragon Ball Super Fans Are Missing About Bardock’s Past

Despite popular belief, the Dragon Ball Super manga is not making Bardock weaker and is actually staying true to Bardock: The Father of Goku.



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What Dragon Ball Super Fans Are Missing About Bardocks Past

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Dragon Ball Super chapter 77!

Some fans are saying that Dragon Ball Super is making Goku’s father Bardock weaker than he was originally portrayed – but that isn’t necessarily true. Dragon Ball first introduced fans to this now controversial character in the film Bardock: The Father of Goku as a true Saiyan who relished in serving Frieza. But Bardock underwent a massive change when one of his victims cursed him with foresight, causing him to go mad with images of planet Vegeta’s destruction as he rushed back home to save his newborn son, Kakarot.

Dragon Ball Super later retconned Bardock in the revamped Broly film. Bardock now suspects Frieza’s treachery on his own without getting cursed. Then along came the manga’s Granolah arc wherein the Namekian Monaito tells the titular Cerealian villain in chapter 77 about how the Saiyan Bardock saved both him and his mother even though he had been tasked with destroying all Cerealians. Many fans now believe that Bardock’s decision to rescue his enemies is weakening his character in comparison to how Dragon Ball Z initially portrayed him in his original film. But is that really the case?

Bardock: The Father of Goku established that the titular Saiyan loves his son enough to do anything to ensure his survival – even die fighting Frieza. The reason why he saves Granolah and his mother is because he sees Kakarot and Gine in them, a contrast the manga portrays through a flashback of when he first laid eyes on his son after missing his birth. Bardock is obviously filled with regret for his absence and seeing a mother cradling her son without the boy’s father there to protect them strikes a chord. Bardock has always loved his son, even more so than most Saiyans, so it’s understandable that his mind would find correlations between everyday life and his family back home, causing him to react more kindly than he normally would.

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It’s also crucial to point out how the revamped Broly film and the manga depict Bardock’s past interactions with enemies both before the birth of his son and when he’s not being faced with a scene that would remind him of Kakarot. They haven’t. In the movie, Bardock first appears flying home from a mission. So the majority of his interactions are with his family and own species. Viewers don’t get to see how he treats his enemies like in Bardock: The Father of Goku. Meanwhile, in chapter 77 of Dragon Ball Super, the only time the manga shows Bardock acting like a typical Saiyan is when he’s a Great Ape, and even then, his only real actions involve him eying Granolah’s mother and following her before he stumbles across her protecting Granolah in his regular form. In other words, mangaka Akira Toriyama is essentially giving readers a false impression of Bardock. He only appears overly kind and weak because that’s all he’s allowing fans to see. Bardock could very well be the same twisted Saiyan as his predecessor.

In fact, there’s ample proof that even Bardock is upset with how he’s treating his enemies, implying that he would have normally just killed them. After the sight of Granolah and his mother causes Bardock to remember his family on planet Vegeta, he expresses frustration mere moments before he hides their presence from a fellow Saiyan, a clear indication he’s unhappy with his decision. Akira Toriyama makes Bardock’s agitation even more apparent when Bardock asks himself if there’s something wrong with him after literally fighting against allies to protect them. Even though readers are presented with these clues that what he’s doing isn’t normal, the heroic actions of Bardock far outweigh – even erase – these two minor instances, leaving Dragon Ball Super fans with a Saiyan who they mistakeably believe is a weaker Saiyan.

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