Um, have you actually seen anyone actually talk up Broly who actually like his original portrayal? They talk about his power, his potential, & whatever else that are the more "cool" aspects of his characterization. However, where Broly turns into a bad character is his more weaker aspects, like the fact that as a few-day-old baby, he can do all these superhuman things, even though he's a BABY, or the fact that he's mentally unhinged because Goku cried next to him, which caused HIM to cry, cause, y'know, that's not normal for babies to start crying if another one near them does or anything, & the Saiyans watching over then in that nursery made fun of them because it seems they don't understand how babies work. THEN he devolves into a single word, Goku's birth name, & just becomes a mindless brute hellbent on killing him, then his kids in his next 2 movies. Yeah, who'd NOT want to keep THOSE elements which devalue him as a character?Cetra wrote:I mentioned erasure because of elementary parts of well liked traits of Broly being erased and that is absolutely problematic for re-introducing Broly or for what its worth any character or idea that is because of its popular aspects used again.Hulk10 wrote:I never said it was erasure.Cetra wrote:
No, the point was to introduce a culmination of ideas (= Broly) that was evaluated as profitable (= making money off of popularity). The reboot went too far by writing too heavily over that what resulted in that popularity thus the point was missed.
I repeat, Reboot is not supposed to be erasure.
Like, you're seriously telling us that giving Broly more of a personality & a better backstory to go with his potential isn't a welcome thing to do, especially since that character's more infamous than not nowadays? Ok, dude.
Broly's not really evil. He's a whiny Saiyan brat who can't get over the fact that he cried when Goku did & was made fun of by older Saiyans (which he shouldn't remember since he's only a few days old & babies' brains are still forming at that time, mind you). He literally throws a temper tantrum because he's irrationally mad at Goku for something neither of them could control. If anything, he SHOULD be mad at the Saiyans who made fun of him, but they're dead, so Goku's the only other person. Hell, I'd even accept him being mad at Vegeta since his father stabbed him in the chest (to which he somehow survived & healed impossibly quickly, so apparently he's also Wolverine, which I'm done trying to make people understand my frustration with THAT illogic), but nope! Gotta have the main villain of a Z movie be mad at Goku to drive the conflict. It was cliched by the time the first movie originally came out & it's even moreso nowadays.nickzambuto wrote:His merciless evil might be part of the reason people like him. He had some deadly lines in the first movie.ABED wrote:Why do you think Broly is popular? As far as I can tell, it's because he has a cool design and is a wrecking machine. I haven't seen the movie, but the design is still pretty good and given that he's taking on Saiyans with god ki, it's safe to say he's really strong. So what's been gotten rid of that you believe made Broly popular?
"You Kakarot. I choose you to be the first of my victims."
And I've noticed that every Broly fan loves the moment when he confronted the small aliens and blew up their planet in front of them.
To quote Vegeta from Broly Abridged, "[He's] motivated by a crying infant! He is literally a giant f*cking baby!"
Yeah, some antagonist evil villain. I'd rather have Nero from Star Trek '09. "Spock! Spock!!!!!!!"