Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan

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Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan
Japanese box art
Directed by	Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Produced by	Chiaki Imada (Executive Producer) Yoshio Anzai (Shueisha)
Written by	Takao Koyama (screenplay) Akira Toriyama (story)
Starring	Masako Nozawa (Son Gokū / Son Gohan) Bin Shimada (Broly) Ryo Horikawa (Vegeta) Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo) Takeshi Kusao (Trunks) Mayumi Tanaka (Kuririn) Naoki Tatsuta (Oolong) Kohei Myauchi (Kamesennin) Hiromi Tsuru (Bulma) Naoko Watanabe (Chi Chi) Hiroko Emori (Bulma's Mom) Masaharu Satou (King Vegeta) Iemasa Kayumi (Paragus) Joji Yanami (North Kaio / Dr. Briefs / Narration)
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Release date(s)	March 6, 1993
Running time	70 minutes
Language	Japanese/ English

Burn Up!! A Close, Intense, Super-Fierce Battle (燃えつきろ！！熱戦・烈戦・超激戦, Moetsukiro!! Nessen • Ressen • Chō-Gekisen^?) is the eighth Dragon Ball Z movie. The original release date in Japan was on March 6th, 1993. FUNimation's title is Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan.

Due to the popularity of this movie, it spawned two sequels, The Dangerous Duo! Super-Warriors Can't Rest (Broly: Second Coming) and Super-Warrior Defeat!! I'm the One who'll Win (Bio-Broly).

Contents 1 Summary 1.1 Introduction 1.2 A New Planet Vegeta 1.3 Battling the Legendary Super Saiyan 2 Cast list

[edit] Summary

[edit] Introduction

While at a hanami picnic, during a painful singing session courtesy of Kuririn, a massive ship arrives. Out comes Paragus, one of the few surviving Saiyans. He invites Vegeta to rule a new Planet Vegeta. Vegeta initially refuses until Paragas appeals to Vegeta's ego by asking him to kill the Legendary Super Saiyan that has destroyed most of the southern galaxy.

Son Gohan, Trunks, Kuririn, Muten Rōshi and Oolong depart with Vegeta.

Kaiō-sama, also known as King Kai, had sensed the Legendary Super Saiyan in the galaxy so he sent Son Gokū to stop him. By the time Paragas had arrived, Gokū had already been searching for the Super Saiyan.

At first the group believes that Paragas has good intentions and honestly wants to create a new Planet Vegeta. Later on it is revealed that the planet is on a collision course with a large comet, Comet Kimori.

[edit] A New Planet Vegeta

Soon after Gohan, Trunks, Kuririn, Muten Roshi, Oolong, and Vegeta arrive, a report comes in that the Legendary Super Saiyan is attacking another planet. Vegeta takes Paragas's son, Broly and investigates.

While Vegeta and Broly are investigating the attack, Gohan, Trunks and Kuririn go out to investigate the new Planet Vegeta. They find a slave colony strip mining the planet to send energy to the palace. Gohan, Trunks and Kuririn quickly break up the slave labor going on at the colony. This is also when Gokū arrives on the planet to be punched by Kuririn. Paragas also first meets Gokū during these scene, and immediately identifies him as Bardock's son.

The first time that Broly sees Gokū he immediately recognizes him and gets extremely angry. Paragas barely stops him from attacking by using a mind-control device put on Broly when he was a teenager. Unfortunately for Paragas, Broly has found a way to circumvent the mind-control which the device has over him.

During this scene we are told, by Paragas, that Gokū and Broly were born on the same day. Broly was born with a fighting power of 10,000 while Gokū was born with power level of 2. This is quite unusual since a grown human male has a power level of 3. It is said that Gokū cried constantly, keeping Broly awake for days on end. From then on Broly would constantly hold a grudge against Gokū.

After Paragas reflects on the past, Broly attacks Gokū during the night. It is in this fight that we see Broly in his restrained Super Saiyan form. Towards the end of the fight Paragas reasserts control over Broly and forces him to stop attacking Gokū. He barely manages to do so, foreshadowing things to come.

[edit] Battling the Legendary Super Saiyan

Eventually Gohan, Trunks and Kuririn bring the slaves they freed back to the palace, and they identify Broly as the one that attacked their planet. Broly walks towards Goku shouting, "Kakarot!" repeatedly. Broly goes into his restrained Super Saiyan form again while in the walk towards Goku. Vegeta transforms into his Super Saiyan form and attacks Broly but the attack has no effect. Then Paragus decides to reveal the entire story. Broly soon rages out of Paragus's control and becomes a monsterous behemoth of a Super Saiyan, his true and most powerful form. Vegeta, stunned by Broly's power, falls to the ground, eyes wide with fear.

Broly, raged beyond control, destroys the strip mines and the slaves' home planet. Broly goes after Goku and Gohan in a chase, destroying forests and slaves with a barrage of ki blasts. The chase stops and Goku says "No, you won't!" and turns Super Saiyan. Gohan follows suit and then Trunks comes to help and also transforms into his Super Saiyan form. This is when the action really starts. To make it short, the battle is Broly in his Legendary Super Saiyan form versus Goku, Gohan, and Trunks in their Super Saiyan forms. The battle gets intense, but remains completely one-sided. Then Piccolo shows up after Broly annihilates the boys and saves Gohan from a would-be-fatal attack. Piccolo then gets around to handing out everyone senzu beans. Not long after, the four warriors then dedice to gang up on a patient Broly, who stands on a thin cliff. In only a matter of scenes, all four of them become annihilated by Broly again; Goku continuously gets punched in the face, Trunks and Gohan are both brutally closelined, and Piccolo is kicked twice, and then blown meters away from a ki blast into a cliff. Recovering from the blast, Piccolo attempts to get Vegeta to fight. In shock, he refuses, and is abandoned by Piccolo. Meanwhile, Goku is having a hard time doing anything to Broly, except giving him a good time. Vegeta, rediscovers his inner Super Saiyan pride, transforms into a Super Saiyan once again, and joins the fight against Broly. His efforts, however, are futile as he is blown directly into a cliff and knocked unconscious. Broly later finds his father, Paragas, attempting to flee inside a Saiyan space pod, leaving his son to die in the explosion of the planet. Broly crushes the pod in return, and throws it directly at the comet.

Piccolo gets the idea for everyone to channel him their power so he can defeat Broly. One by one they comply, except Vegeta. While gathering energy, Goku suffers at the hands of Broly; he is blown across the landscape by ki blasts, closelines, and very powerful punches. Finally, on the brink of defeat, Gokū convinces Vegeta to help him. Gokū then uses all the power that the Z-Warriors gave him to power one punch, defeating Broly. After dispatching Broly, comet Kumoire destroys the planet. However, the Z-Warriors and remaining slaves manage to escape.

[edit] Cast list

Character Name	Voice Actor (Japanese)	Voice Actor (English)
Son Gokū	Masako Nozawa	Sean Schemmel Stephanie Nadolny (Baby)
Son Gohan	Masako Nozawa	Stephanie Nadolny
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Christopher Sabat
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Eric (Johnson) Vale
Vegeta	Ryo Horikawa	Christopher Sabat
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Tiffany Vollmer
Kame-Sen'nin	Kôhei Miyauchi	Mike McFarland
Chi-Chi	Naoko Watanabe	Cynthia Cranz
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Bradford Jackson
Bulma's Mother	Hiroko Emori	Cynthia Cranz
Dr. Brief	Joji Yanami	Chris Forbis
Moa	Yasuhiko Kawazu	Sean Teague
King Vegeta	Masaharu Satou	Christopher Sabat
Broly	Bin Shimada	Vic Mignogna Cynthia Cranz (Baby)
Paragus	Iemasa Kayumi	Dameon Clarke
North Kaio	Joji Yanami	Sean Schemmel
Narration	Joji Yanami	Kyle Hebert