You are buying a BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED VHS video, Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, which is known in Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Burn Up!! A Close, Intense, Super-Fierce Battle. This is the eighth Dragon Ball Z feature movie.
Dragon Ball Z, or DBZ to fans, is a popular Japanese anime & manga (animated show & comic).
The story begins with the arrival of Paragus, one of the few surviving Saiyans (an extraterrestrial warrior race), via a giant space ship. He invites Vegeta to rule a new planet named after him. Vegeta initially refuses, but Paragus appeals to Vegeta's ego, asking him to kill the Legendary Super Saiyan (the strongest being in the universe) who has completely destroyed the South Galaxy.
Intrigued by the offer, Vegeta leaves with Paragus, who is joined by Gohan (Goku's son), Krillin, Master Roshi and Oolong. Future Trunks (The Trunks character from an alternate future timeline) also comes along in an attempt to stop his father Vegeta (from an alternate timeline, his real father is considered to be Future Vegeta) from doing anything foolish.
The group wants to believe Paragus has good intentions and genuinely wants to create a new Planet Vegeta (although Future Trunks is suspicious, as is his nature, given the alternate future timeline he comes from), but it is later revealed that there is a slave colony strip mining the planet to send out energy to the palace and that the cities are in ruins, making the planet inhospitable.
While the slave colony is being broken up, a report comes in that the Legendary Super Saiyan is attacking another planet. Vegeta takes Paragus's son, Broly (making his debut here), and investigates while Goku teleports to a planet already ravaged by the Legendary Super Saiyan, and feels the echoes of the enormous power that was there. He then teleports to the new Planet Vegeta, where he finds Paragus and company, and also Goku (the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball series), who has just arrived after learning of the destruction of the South Galaxy by a Super Saiyan from King Kai, a deity and ruler of the North Galaxy (also Goku's final martial arts teacher, and later mentor). King Kai has asked that Goku stop him.
When Broly spots Goku, he immediately recognises him and gets very angry, powering up to engage in a stand-off with Goku when Paragus uses a mind control device he implanted in Broly when the latter was a teen. Paragus then reveals that Goku and Broly were born on the same day, but while Broly was born with an extreme fighting power, Goku had a much weaker power level. It is said that the two slept near one another, and that Goku cried constantly, keeping Broly awake for days, fueling his hatred of Goku.
As a teen, Broly's mental and emotional instability increased along with his power, making him very dangerous. After an incident that cost Paragus an eye, he creates a device for Broly designed to keep his vast power in check.
Meanwhile, during the night, Broly attacks Goku as a restrained Super Saiyan (a variant of Super Saiyan only used by Broly that considerably limits the power of the Super Saiyan).
Goku fights back, but despite Goku's best efforts, none of his attacks have any effect, so Goku flees. In order to stop the fight, Paragas reasserts his control over Broly. Goku finally recognises the power he felt before as Broly's, and realises that Broly is the Legendary Super Saiyan.
As Gohan, Future Trunks and Krillin bring the slaves they freed back to the palace, they identify Broly as the one that attacked their planet. It is then that Paragus reveals that the planet is about to be hit by the comet, and that he wants to re-establish Saiyan dominance across the universe, using Earth as their new homeworld.
Suddenly, Broly attacks Goku again, transforming into a restrained Super Saiyan. Vegeta then transforms into a Super Saiyan to attack Broly, who is unharmed and seemingly oblivious to Vegeta's attack. Vegeta then attacks Broly with a Big Bang Attack (an energy sphere attack using his hands) but the blast has no effect. Broly rages out of Paragus' control, transforming into his true and most powerful form, shattering Paragus' mind control device as Vegeta realises that Broly is the Legendary Super Saiyan.
Paragus then reveals that Vegeta's father, King Vegeta, viewed the infant Broly as a threat and ordered his execution. Paragus attempted to plead with the king for his son's life, stating that the acquired data could be wrong and Broly could grow up to be a great warrior and asset to the royal family. King Vegeta responded that while that was true, Broly could just as easily turn on them, so he decided to let father and son die together, striking Paragus with an energy blast and stabbing Broly with a dagger, throwing them both in a ditch to die. Shortly thereafter, when Frieza (one of the most significant villains in Dragon Ball Z and a galactic emperor of an unknown race) destroyed Planet Vegeta, Broly used his powers to surround himself and Paragus with a force field, allowing them to survive the explosion. From then on, Paragus plotted revenge on King Vegeta and his son.
Broly, raged beyond all control, attacks Goku full force, destroying the strip mines and the slaves' home planet in the process. Broly chases after Goku and Gohan, destroying forests and slaves with a barrage of energy blasts as he does. Goku, knowing he stands no chance de-powered, transforms into a Super Saiyan himself, with Gohan following suit. Future Trunks comes to their aid transforming into his Super Saiyan form as well.
As the battle rages on, Gohan, Goku and Trunks realise Broly's power is too much for them to defend against, as Broly defeats the three with his incredible power. Suddenly, Piccolo shows up, saving Gohan from a potentially fatal attack, handing everyone a senzu bean (a mystical rejuvenating bean). The four warriors gang up on Broly, who pummels them all again, while Piccolo attempts to persuade Vegeta to join the fight. Vegeta finally transforms into his Super Saiyan form again, and joins the fight. During the fight, Broly dscovers his father, Paragus, attempting to flee inside a Saiyan space pod, leaving his son to die in the explosion of the planet. Broly picks up the pod and crushes it, suffocating Paragus, and throws it directly at the comet where Paragus dies. During this momentary distraction, Piccolo tells everyone to channel their powers to Goku so he can defeat Broly. One by one they comply, except Vegeta, who refuses to help a lower-ranking Saiyan.
While gathering this energy, Goku is still being attacked by Broly. Finally, on the brink of death, Goku begs Vegeta to help him and Vegeta reluctantly does so. With their combined power, Goku is finally able to beat Broly with a single blow. Everyone then escapes from the planet via a Caspule Corp ship that Piccolo had used to reach them.
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