Broly is the legendary Saiyan of overwhelming, untamed power in the Dragon Ball Super manga — and, unusually, a character the manga mostly keeps at the edge of the frame. His rampage against Goku and Vegeta happened in the Dragon Ball Super: Broly film, which the manga recaps only in passing; his real manga role comes later, in the Super Hero arc, where he trains on Beerus’s planet to master the rage that once controlled him.
Role in the manga
Broly serves as a living benchmark: the raw power that Goku and Vegeta once needed fusion to survive, now sparring beside them as an ally. Within the Super Hero arc he represents the next problem the Saiyans must solve — not defeating a monster, but teaching one control. He also matters strategically: Frieza once tried to weaponise him, and Frieza’s return as Black Frieza means Broly’s strength, and his safety, are part of the universe’s new balance. Training him on Beerus‘s planet keeps both Broly and Earth out of danger while he learns.
His story
Born with extraordinary power, Broly was exiled as an infant to the desolate planet Vampa by a fearful King Vegeta, and raised there in isolation by his father Paragus. Decades later the two were found by Frieza’s forces; manipulated by Frieza, Broly was unleashed on Earth, where his escalating fury pushed Goku and Vegeta to fuse into Gogeta before the fight could be stopped. Broly survived, returned to Vampa with his new friends Cheelai and Lemo, and was left in peace — events the manga summarises briefly rather than retelling, since they belong to the film. It is worth noting what Broly himself wants from that peace: nothing. He has no ambition, no grudge and no interest in testing himself against the universe — left alone, he would simply live quietly, which is exactly why his friends are determined to protect that quiet.
His quiet life on Vampa was never entirely safe. Frieza had already found Broly once and used him as a weapon, and with the emperor at large — stronger than ever — Goku judged that Broly needed both protection and training. That reasoning shapes everything the manga does with him: he is not dragged into the plot as a new threat, but sheltered as a friend whose power makes him a target.
The manga picks Broly up properly during the Super Hero storyline. Goku brings him to Beerus’s planet, where the god’s world can withstand his power and where he can train without endangering anyone. There Broly spars with Goku and Vegeta, and the sessions reveal his central struggle: the moment a fight excites him, his strength surges toward the berserk state that once made him unstoppable and mindless. After Gohan arrives with his new Beast form, the training becomes a full round of matches between the four Saiyans — and Broly, for the first time, begins holding his transformed power without losing himself, trading blows in control rather than in a rampage.
It is a quiet arc for a character defined by noise, and deliberately so: the Broly who ends the Super Hero storyline is not yet a polished fighter, but he is no longer a natural disaster waiting to happen. He returns to Vampa with Cheelai and Lemo, an ally the heroes can call on — and one Frieza cannot so easily use again.
Powers and abilities
Broly’s gift is growth without ceiling: in battle his power rises continuously, adapting to and overtaking opponents who were moments earlier far stronger. His full-power state — the green-haired form of legend — multiplies that strength enormously but historically came with total loss of reason, making him as dangerous to bystanders as to enemies. Even in his base and wrathful states he possesses immense durability and energy output, enough to trade blows with god-level Saiyans. What he lacks is everything learned: technique, control, and experience. The Beerus-planet training targets exactly that gap, and his late-arc sparring shows the first results — sustained transformed power under conscious direction, the combination that could eventually make him the mightiest Saiyan of all.
Key chapters
- Chapter 102 — “Son Goku vs. Son Gohan”: Broly joins the sparring on Beerus’s planet as the Saiyans test their forms.
- Chapter 103 — “A Legacy Toward the Future”: the training matches conclude, with Broly fighting in growing control.
Broly’s earlier film story is recapped only briefly in the manga itself; follow the manga’s ongoing story from the chapter index or read officially on VIZ.
Manga vs anime and movie
Broly’s big story belongs to the 2018 film Dragon Ball Super: Broly, not to the manga or the television anime. The manga treats the film as established history — it references the battle and its outcome in brief recap form when the Super Hero arc begins, then skips ahead to Broly’s training. Readers who want Broly’s origin and the Gogeta fight need the movie; readers who want what Broly does next need the manga’s Super Hero chapters.