How did Bardock go back in time in Episode of Bardock?

[DoomieDoomie911]

I don't think it's ever been explained. I mean it just doesn't seem right for someone to go back in time from a giant blast.

[hleV]

I've always assumed that this has something to do with the abilities that alien passed to him. Maybe Bardock not only can see the future but go back in time as well.

[DoomieDoomie911]

I've always assumed that this has something to do with the abilities that alien passed to him. Maybe Bardock not only can see the future but go back in time as well.

Wow! I never would have thought of that. I guess that's the best explanation.

[Gaffer Tape]

I honestly can't see any answer more plausible than simply, "The power of plot."

Either that or Bardock died and was sent to hell, and his hell was believing in an illusion that he was surrounded and worshipped by a bunch of bobble-headed plant people for all eternity.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

As I've said many, many times before: who knows. Does it really matter? It's Dragon Ball, crazier stuff has happened. I think It's mre logical that Bardock get's sent into the past from an exploding planet than Buu/Gotenks being able to rip holes between dimensions by yelling.

If you need a an explanation, just go with the idea of Freeza's blast reacts perfectly with the planet's explosion, creating a hole/rip/tear in time-space that Bardock falls into or something. His Kanassian gained abilities are never referenced in the new special, so I don't know if it's worth thinking they had anything to do with it...

[Kaboom]

His Kanassian gained abilities are never referenced in the new special, so I don't know if it's worth thinking they had anything to do with it...

Come to think of it, that is something the new special kind of dropped the ball on, isn't it? He was having visions of the future right up to his death in the original, and there really isn't any given reason why they would stop...

[Dorexx]

I think these are things made to seem mysterious and out for interpretation on purpose, like Goku leaving with Shenlong or Goku returning to defeat Broli in DBZ Movie 10. This was probably done because the author didn't care to write something too complicated and with too much effort. If it was intended to be a dimensional/time travel thing, then Ooishi would've payed at least some more attention to details. In other words, Bardock's armor was clearly destroyed in the boom, so he shouldn't have it after, but he had even the bloody-bandana.

So who knows for sure? Maybe it did happen like that. Maybe it was a dream. Maybe the whole confrontation with Freeza in space was one of his visions and he went to the past before it, explaining the armor.

Maybe Miira accidentally dropped him in the past while transporting him across time.

[DarkPrince_92]

Frieza's blast was sooo powerfullll that it reversed time on the recipient. Makes perfect sense.

[Herms]

Turns out, whenever anybody gets wiped out by a ki attack, they're actually just sent back through time. Nappa, Cell, Pui-Pui, etc have been farting around in the distant past all along.

[the_abberration]

I don't think it's ever been explained. I mean it just doesn't seem right for someone to go back in time from a giant blast.

But there was this one time though

After seeing that episode, It reminded me of that story arc. I chalked it up to whatever was done to Bardock to give him those abilities, may have altered his genetic makeup slightly (in order for it to work for him).

Similar to how brutes waves allows him to transform into Oozaru, his body was able to absorb the explosion to vault through time (as a unforeseen side affect).

That is if those two instances were related in some way.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

then Ooishi would've payed at least some more attention to details.

Eh? Big assumption on your part. I don't think she would have paid more attention to anything regardless of what the intended explanation was. There are plenty of details she got wrong in her manga. She screwed up designs for Bardock's team, he doesn't seem to have his Kanassian powers, he lacks his damage from his fight with Dodoria at the very beginning, etc. These are things just from the original special, not even problems her own plot creates.

[Bussani]

"The shockwave created a subspace fracture" just seemed like the obvious explanation to me. Fluke of nature, one a million chance of it happening.

Take that, subspace!

[Gaffer Tape]

And Piccolo's clothes beam somehow got caught in the rift as well?

[hleV]

GT made Goku regrow/change clothes between transformations. EOB is just another non-Toriyama-made DB media which doesn't seem to be following any logic.

Or time travelling fixes one's clothes.

[Bussani]

Yeah, the clothes returned to their state from a previous frame in time...or something.

[Makaioshin]

His clothes were never really damaged, they were sent back in time slowly.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

The explosion of the planet ripped space & time, and with Bardock so close to the explosion, there you have it.
Also, in the manga, Bardock wasn't hit by Freeza's attack, and his clothes were not damaged. Which would mean that Dodoria knocked him out differently in the manga, without damaging the clothes.

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[Blackstripe]

Turns out, whenever anybody gets wiped out by a ki attack, they're actually just sent back through time. Nappa, Cell, Pui-Pui, etc have been farting around in the distant past all along.

You mean almost like being sent to...

ANOTHER DIMENSION?!?!?!

[DoomieDoomie911]

GT made Goku regrow/change clothes between transformations.

That's because of censorship. They can't have a naked man running around in a kid's anime.

[DoomieDoomie911]

I think I'll just go with the theory that Freeza's blast opened some kind of "black-hole" in space, resulting in time-travel.