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| “ | This is our chance, my son! ATTACK! | „ |
| ~ Paragus |
Paragus is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Frieza) of the 2018 anime film Dragon Ball Super: Broly. He is based off the character of Paragus from the Dragon Ball Z movie Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, whom Akira Toriyama decided to induct into Super.
He is the father of Broly, who was banished from the Saiyan Army and forced to live on a desolate planet by King Vegeta, out of fear of Broly's power. After being rescued by Frieza, Paragus forms an alliance with him to exact revenge on the late king's son, Vegeta IV, using Broly as a weapon.
He was voiced by Katsuhisa Hōki in Japanese and Dameon Clarke (who also voiced Cell) in English.
History[]
Past[]
Paragus was originally a trusted military lieutenant of King Vegeta. However, after his son Broly was born with a power level of 10,000, greater than King Vegeta's own son Prince Vegeta, King Vegeta, jealous of his strength, ordered the execution of Broly. Furious, Paragus betrayed King Vegeta and rescued his son, stealing a ship to escape to a frontier planet, beyond the realm of influence of the Saiyan King.
Paragus would raise and train Broly on the desolate planet, however, he would be controlling and unintentionally cruel for the sake of helping his son reach his potential; when the boy befriended a native fauna, a massive creature he called Baa, Paragus forced him to shoot the beast, to cut away the "weakness" of a sentimental connection - albeit Broly kept the creature's large ear that he shot off, wearing it like a robe, which Paragus allowed in spite his lesson about sentimentality causing weakness.
Despite his hatred for King Vegeta, Paragus began fear he was right about Broly's extremely dangerous potential, so one day he constructed a crude shock collar, which when activated by remote would cause sufficient pain to paralyse his son.
Later on, Paragus and an adult Broly were discovered by a squad of Frieza Force soldiers and recruited into the Frieza Force.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly[]
Paragus and his son were found by a platoon of Frieza's soldiers, who brought them to Frieza to be recruited.
Paragus felt no sorrow about learning of Planet Vegeta's destruction, even though the majority of his species went with it; which was largely due to his lingering grudge with the late king. After hearing of King Vegeta's son survival, Paragus decided to go with Frieza to Earth to take revenge via his son Broly.
However, Paragus would consistently be shocked at Vegeta and Goku's immense power, startled at Vegeta's Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan God transformations and expressing hopelessness at seeing Super Saiyan Blue Goku matching Broly in his Wrath State.
As his son continued to match the powers of god level strength, Paragus started to think that King Vegeta might have been right about Broly being a threat to the universe. He was later executed by Frieza via Death Beam, whom lied about it being done by Goku and Vegeta, in order to trigger Broly's Legendary Super Saiyan transformation. Paragus' corpse was then vaporized by Broly's following attack.
Quotes[]
| “ | Truthfully, I do not mourn them. | „ |
| ~ Paragus's response to Frieza revealing the "meteor" destroyed Planet Vegeta and his race |
| “ | King Vegeta was right... Broly is too dangerous. We're all doomed. | „ |
| ~ Paragus having an emotional breakdown and his last words |
Trivia[]
- His young self has the same appearance he has on the movie Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan.
- Since Saiyans remain in their adult prime up until surprisingly old ages, his severe noticeable ageing indicates that either he passed his prime in the 30-40 years he spent in exile or the living conditions on the frontier planet were so difficult that they caused premature ageing - considering that both he and Broly were really tanned (thereby displaying the planet's strong sunlight) and covered with scars, then the latter is as plausible as reaching an elderly age.
- The color of his suit looks similar to that of Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story franchise.
- Like his original version, Paragus' name follows the Saiyan trend of being a vegetable pun, in his case a reference to "asparagus."
- Original Paragus used a remote to control his son through a crown he had built by an alien scientist; whereas this version constructed a shock collar himself, which didn't dominate Broly's personality like the original, rather it *encouraged* obedience through pain.
- While he had a dysfunctional relationship with his son, like the original version, he actually seemed to hold genuine affection for him; Paragus forced Broly to cease contact with Baa out of belief it was beneath him to befriend an animal, and created the shock collar to prevent Broly falling into a rampage that could have killed him and the planet itself (ergo, killing Broly too), thus was a blunt and sometimes aggressive yet well-intended parent. While original Paragus attempted to abandon Broly, only to be killed by him, the new version remained on the sidelines, falling into shock over the overwhelming power of the fighters. This Paragus had at least somewhat positive connection with Broly, as instead of a traumatic memory of hatred, it was anger and despair over his father's death that triggered Broly's transformation into his Legendary Super Saiyan state.
