Dragon Ball Artwork Imagines Bardock's Super Saiyan 3 Form

Dragon Ball Artwork Imagines Bardock's Super Saiyan 3 Form

Dragon Ball Super: Broly movie, Goku's father Bardock has once again been thrust into the limelight, and the fandom has been loving it. Bardock got a fully retconned backstory in Broly that better syncs with the current continuity of the Dragon Ball Super, and made the Saiyan warrior look especially heroic in the process.

Dragon Ball Artwork Imagines Bardock's Super Saiyan 3 Form
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Bardock ultimately died defending Planet Vegeta for Freeza's extinction-level attack, but his death hasn't stopped fans from imagining where Bardock could show up, elsewhere in the franchise. Today we have a piece of Dragon Ball artwork to share - one that imagines what would have happened if Bardock had been around to see the Super Saiyan legend come to fruition.

This piece was a commissioned work drawn by artist Kagari-Ashua, who has gained a fair amount of acclaim within the Dragon Ball fandom for her impressive fan-art works. More than just fan art, Ashua traffics in fan-service pieces, which is clearly what a picture of Super Saiyan 3 Bardock is meant to be. In actual Dragon Ball continuity Bardock never lived to see the day when his son would break the Super Saiyan barrier - let alone reach the heights of Super Saiyan 3 .

At the same time though, Broly madewhich clear that Bardock was one of the few to actually believe in the Super Saiyan legend - or at least believe that it was real enough to inspire Freeza to try and wipe out all the Saiyans. If there was ever a chance that Bardock could be revived or survived in a different timeline.