Paragus

Paragus is the father of Broly and a Saiyan officer whose life was destroyed by King Vegeta's paranoia, transforming a once-loyal military man into a bitter, manipulative patriarch consumed by revenge. When King Vegeta exiled the infant Broly to the desolate planet Vampa out of fear of the child's prodigious power, Paragus — a colonel in the Saiyan army — stole a ship and followed his son into exile.Paragus is the father of Broly and a Saiyan officer whose life was destroyed by King Vegeta's paranoia, transforming a once-loyal military man into a bitter, manipulative patriarch consumed by revenge. When King Vegeta exiled the infant Broly to the desolate planet Vampa out of fear of the child's prodigious power, Paragus — a colonel in the Saiyan army — stole a ship and followed his son into exile. Stranded on Vampa for over forty years, Paragus raised Broly in the harshest environment imaginable, training the boy's power while simultaneously suppressing it through the shock collar he forced Broly to wear. His love for his son, genuine at its root, was poisoned by decades of isolation, bitterness, and monomaniacal focus on avenging himself against King Vegeta through the king's surviving heir, Prince Vegeta. By the time Cheelai and Lemo discovered them, Paragus had become a hollow, manipulative shell of the father he once was: he viewed Broly not as a son to cherish, but as a weapon to wield. During the events of Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Paragus used Broly as his instrument of revenge against Vegeta and Earth, only to find that his control over his son was slipping as Broly's suppressed emotions and power began to overwhelm the shock collar's restraints. Frieza, ever the opportunist, murdered Paragus with a Death Beam through the heart, correctly calculating that the sight of his father's corpse would be the final trigger to unleash Broly's full, uncontrollable Legendary Super Saiyan rage. Paragus's death, while mourned by his son in a grief-stricken roar that shook the planet, was arguably the release Broly needed to begin healing from a lifetime of manipulation. Paragus represents the tragedy of love corrupted: he began as a father who risked everything to follow his son into exile, and ended as a monster who saw that son as nothing more than ammunition for his forty-year grudge. ... Read more