Paragus

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This article is about the original incarnation of Paragus. For the new incarnation of the character from the main dimension, see Paragus (DBS). For other uses, see Paragus (disambiguation).

"Watch Vegeta, because massacres like this are rarely seen, even by Saiyan eyes."
— Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan

Paragus (パラガス, Paragasu) is the father of Broly. He appears as the secondary antagonist in Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan.

Appearance

Paragus is one of the few Saiyans shown to wear Battle Armor different to that of Frieza's employ; Paragus's armor vaguely resembles that of Goku's Yardrat outfit. The armor he wears frequently changes colors throughout various flashbacks. Also, in one case, it looks like he was not wearing any armor. He also wears a white collared cape that touches the ground and covers the right half of his body. Because of Broly's actions during his childhood, Paragus' left eye was injured and has a scar running from his left eyebrow to his cheek at the time of Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan.

Personality

Paragus is never seen fighting in the movies. Unlike the typical pure-blood Saiyan who enjoys the thrill of battle of any kind, Paragus is never seen battling nor does he condone his son's violent behavior. Paragus is a somewhat patient strategist, luring Vegeta to the doomed planet first before setting in motion any plans to kill him. He also has some attachment to his son as he begs King Vegeta for mercy for his baby son and, years later, he feels some regret for having to abandon his insane son on a doomed planet (although the Funimation dub tones this regret down by implying that he was abandoning him specifically because he could no longer control him). He is also a good actor able to conceal his true nature from others. However he is just as ruthless as most other Saiyans and willing to kill in cold blood or just for the fun of it.

Biography

Background

Broly (young) — Paragus attempts to restrain his dangerous son Broly

Prior to Planet Vegeta's destruction, Paragus had been a high ranking Saiyan warrior loyal to King Vegeta; his high social position is evidenced by him being allowed to talk directly to King Vegeta should the latter require his presence.^[4] When King Vegeta realizes the power of Paragus' son, Broly, he orders Broly to be executed. Paragus tries to plead with him, stating that Broly is only a child and can even grow into an extremely valuable ally for the King's son Vegeta, but his pleas fell on deaf ears and King Vegeta blasts him with his Execution Beam. Both Paragus and his son are then thrown out like garbage. Ironically, on the same day, Frieza destroys Planet Vegeta, and Broly uses a sphere of his own power to protect himself and Paragus, transporting them to another planet. Paragus apparently at least knew of Bardock, since he automatically recognizes Goku as Bardock's son, and it can be thought that Paragus was Bardock's superior according to the Supplemental Daizenshuu.^[4]

YoungParagus — Paragus attempting to place the controller crown onto his sleeping son

Paragus raises Broly, who grows up violent and destructive, killing and destroying everything in his path uncontrollably. Paragus lost whatever control he had over his son when Broly reached his teens, leading to an incident in which Broly gouged out his father's left eye with a single punch. After the incident, Paragus eventually has a scientist create a mind-control device capable of restraining, and controlling Broly's rage and power. In an attempt to place the controller crown onto his sleeping son, Paragus had to struggle when Broly woke up. With the device working perfectly, Paragus gains control of his son's immense power and plots to rule the universe.

Dragon Ball Z

Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan

Main article: Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan He comes up with a plan to get revenge on the Vegeta family by luring Prince Vegeta to a ruined planet, naming it New Planet Vegeta, in the way of the massive Comet Camori, which would destroy the planet and kill everyone on it in the process. Paragus chooses to use some desolate planet because he desires to use Earth as his base of operation, and can not risk damaging it in the process. As part of his plan to deceive the Saiyan prince, Paragus has Broly capture the Shamoian as slaves after devastating their home planet Shamo, forcing them to create a palace on the planet to make it look more convincing. Presumably, he also had Broly transform into his Super Saiyan form when attacking the planet in order to further sell the act.

Paragus kills one of his soldiers, Moah, when the latter says he is afraid after he discovered Paragus' plan to let Comet Camori destroy New Planet Vegeta. When Broly makes contact with Goku, the former starts to slip out of his father's control due to past trauma. With each successive control waning further, Paragus' fears come to full when his plan is exposed to Vegeta. Broly loses all restraints when he breaks the crown and goes berserk, attacking Goku and the others. Paragus changes his plans to have Broly attack the Dragon Team, but is horrified when Broly is not responding to the crown anymore, immediately prior to Broly's transformation into a Legendary Super Saiyan. With that, Paragus claims that his plans of ruling the universe with Broly has come to an end. After witnessing the Z Fighters' defeat at his now uncontrollable son, he attempts to escape the planet in his escape pod, while expressing regret in regards to having to abandon Broly to his fate. Unfortunately for him, Broly approaches just as the door closes, and after ignoring his father's desperate lie of preparing to seek shelter together, Broly kills him by crushing the pod and then throws it into the approaching comet. Just before dying, Paragus laments on the fate of a Saiyan being killed by his own child who, in all irony, once saved his life.

Broly - Second Coming

Main article: Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming While he didn’t appear in the movie itself, a flashback of Paragus being saved by Broly during Planet Vegeta’s destruction is shown at the start of the end credits of the film, and scenes from the fight between Goku and Broly on New Planet Vegeta were shown during the end credits as well.

Fusion Reborn

Main article: Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn

Parugus in movie 12 — Paragus appears with other dead villains in *Fusion Reborn*

Paragus escaped from Hell after the barrier separating the dimensions vanished by the doing of Janemba. He was ironically ordered by Frieza to attack Gohan but Gohan one-punched Frieza, causing fear into the escaped enemies so they fled. Paragus was later sent back to Hell after Janemba was defeated by Gogeta.

Power

Movie

Paragus is not very strong compared to Goku, Vegeta, or his own son, Broly. During the time of the Genocide of the Saiyans, Paragus was nearly executed by King Vegeta via his Execution Beam, though he managed to survive the attack and likely gained a Zenkai from it. Paragus was later said to be stronger than a suppressed mind-controlled Broly, though it was most likely to mislead the Z-Fighters. Paragus was also superior in rank to Bardock prior to the destruction of the Saiyans, thus being a Saiyan from the mid-class level. While outfitting Broly with the crown, he also was shown to be able to pin Broly down long enough to outfit him with the crown before being knocked back by his mad son.

Techniques and Special Abilities

Flight – The ability to fly with the use of ki.
Ki Blast – The most basic form of energy wave. Used in Dragon Ball Heroes.
Dead Punisher – A short-range Ki Blast. Paragus used it to kill his servant Moah.

Equipment

Broly's Ring – A scientific craft designed to control Broly's power. Paragus wears the controller on his right hand, and it has a green glow to it, unless control wanes in which it glows red. In World Mission, the controller is named Upgraded Control Ring which also appears as Paragus' Ability 1. When a supporter, connect with an ally via Link Line to decrease that ally's CI (Charge Impact) speed & recover their STA. Additionally, effect increased if that ally is Broly. Ability is repeatable every round.
Paragus' spaceship - A gigantic spaceship for interstellar travel for mass amounts of people. It was destroyed by Broly when he was venting his rising ki with his Blaster Meteor.
Attack Ball - A singular seat space pod for interstellar travel. It, along with Paragus, were crushed by Broly.

Transformations

Great Ape

Main article: Great Ape While Paragus has never transformed into a Great Ape in the series, he has a tail and, by extension, the ability to turn into one when exposed to Blutz Waves from the moon or a Power Ball.

Video Game Appearances

H749 — Paragus card for *Dragon Ball Heroes*

Voice Actors

Japanese: Iemasa Kayumi † (Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan), Katsuhisa Hōki (Dragon Ball Heroes)
English:
- Funimation dub: Dameon Clarke
- AB Groupe dub: Paul Bandey
Latin American Spanish dub: Roberto Sen
Brazilian Portuguese dub: Ricardo Bressan
Catalan dub: Jordi Vila
French dub: Georges Lykan
Greek dub: Rafaello Georgitsis

List of Characters Killed by Paragus

Moah - Killed by Paragus' Dead Punisher.

Trivia

His name is a pun on the vegetable "asparagus."
Paragus apparently knows full well who Future Trunks is, although this seems to be a major plothole, as Trunks is never properly introduced by name to Paragus and is from the future, not the current time. A possible explanation is that spies informed Paragus that Vegeta had a son called Trunks, but did not mention his age, and so Paragus simply believed Future Trunks was Vegeta's son from the present.
- Alternatively he has been observing Vegeta, Future Trunks, and the Brief family remotely like the Frieza Force did to the Dragon Team after Frieza's death according to Sorbet in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’. This would also fit with his vendetta against the last remnants of the House of Vegeta as he is unable to get revenge on King Vegeta directly due to his death.
Paragus has similarities to Caulifla.
- They both try to control Broly and Kale.
- They both try to prevent Broly and Kale from becoming insane after witnessing their transformation into the Legendary Super Saiyan.
- Without Paragus and his devices, Broly goes completely insane just as Kale would lose control of her form without Caulifla.
Not surprisingly, Paragus shares many traits in common with his canon counterpart as both are Saiyans with a vendetta against the House of Vegeta for King Vegeta's treatment of their incarnation of Broly whom they control via a special device (Broly's Ring in his case, Broly Control Mechanism for his canon counterpart, though in his canon counterpart's case Broly maintained his free will and served his father out of unconditional love and loyalty with the control collar being used to punish and discipline him when he lost control), and both are killed by someone they are technically allied with (Broly in his case, Frieza in the case of his canon counterpart).
Paragus is one of several movie antagonists to kill one or more of their underlings, a trait he shares with Lord Slug, Bojack, and ironically his canon counterpart's killer Frieza (who kills several members of the Frieza Force in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ and Paragus in Dragon Ball Super: Broly).
- However in Frieza's case, his habit of killing his underlings had already been well established in both the anime and manga, with the best known example of this being the Genocide of the Saiyans (an event Paragus himself ironically survived thanks to his son, as shown in his flashback in Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan).
- Similar to Paragus plans to use Broly to create their own Saiyan Empire in Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, Frieza in Broly sought to use the Broly (DBS) to help him reestablish the Frieza Force's control over Universe 7, killing the Paragus (DBS) so Broly (DBS) could achieve Super Saiyan C-type (though similar to how the Legendary Super Saiyan form lead Broly to kill his father, the canon Broly ironically ended up attacking Frieza due to his inability to tell friend from foe in his Super Saiyan form as canon Broly was unaware of Frieza's role in his father's death).