#i can probably be more articulate and expansive but im tired its late sorry

[indolentropy]

"THEY WERE BORN ON THE SAME DAY."

Always loved the idea of Broly being the non-canonical foil to Goku. Both ostracized from the Saiyan race and its culture, and patronized by their elites. Both the lost survivors of Planet Vegeta. Both encouraged to keep their true Saiyan nature hidden. Both suffered a traumatic injury that altered their psyche as a newborn. Both murdered their father in a fit. Both are the Legendary Super Saiyan. Both seem to (at least, at first) lack a tail. Both are based off of Sun Wukong.

But that's where similarities end.

Broly is dressed in jewelry and garb, imitating royalty that discarded him. Goku, on the other hand, dresses humbly in gi. Broly's the idealistic Saiyan, Goku is ironically the idealistic human. Broly was collared by his Saiyan father, Goku was sent away. Broly is selfish, Goku is selfless. Broly took joy in his patricide, Goku did not. Goku roars into his Saiyan form, but Broly literally explodes. Goku was sent away from Planet Vegeta, but Broly was ushered into himself with the decimation of the planet.

Z Broly is the anti-Goku. Broly is Goku if everything was wrong.