Bardock

バーダック

Bardock makes his debut in the television special, Bardock - The Father of Goku. Following the special's broadcast in Japan, he subsequently appeared in two manga panels by Akira Toriyama, who assisted in designing the character for Toei Doga's TV production. His name serves as a pun on "burdock" (バードック, bādokku?), a type of herb. While the Viz manga and FUNimation's English-subtitled Japanese anime both use "Burdock", FUNimation's English dub uses "Bardock", and certain Japanese merchandise even uses "Barduck".
The biological father of Raditz and Son Goku, Burdock is a Saiyan endowed with the gift of precognition. In several recurring visions, he witnesses the destruction of his home planet, Vegeta, at the hands of Freeza. After escaping certain death from Dodoria, he desperately attempts to alter his planet's grim future by confronting Freeza and his legion head-on. He ultimately fails to halt Freeza's attack on the planet and is killed in the process. Moments before his death, he receives a vision of his son facing the warlord. According to the anime special, observant doctors estimated Burdock's battle power at 10,000 while he was recovering from his last mission.
In the Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock manga, Bardock becomes a Super Saiyan for the first time, to help promote his character in the arcade game Dragon Ball Heroes, where he also goes Super Saiyan.

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First name:: Bardock
Other names:: Burdock

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Productions featuring this character

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Special

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Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock

Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock

TV Special

Main

Dragon Ball Z Special 1: Tatta Hitori no Saishuu Kessen

Dragon Ball Z: Bardock, The Father of Goku

Movie

Supporting

Dragon Ball Super: Broly

Dragon Ball Super: Broly

ONA

Supporting

Super Dragon Ball Heroes

TV

Supporting

Dragon Ball Kai

Dragon Ball Z Kai

Movie

Supporting

Dragon Ball Z Movie 05: Tobikkiri no Saikyou tai Saikyou

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

TV

Supporting

Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ball Z

Voice actors for this character

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Masako NozawaVoices: Japanese

Patrick BorgVoices: French

Sonny StraitVoices: English

Mario CastañedaVoices: Spanish

Wellington LimaVoices: Portuguese (BR)

Björn SchallaVoices: German

Antonio VillarVoices: Spanish

David GasmanVoices: English

Marco BalzarottiVoices: Italian

Luca BiaginiVoices: Italian

Avraham Meir VanunuVoices: Hebrew

Santiago FlorentínVoices: Spanish

Xianghai HaoVoices: Mandarin

Yeong Seon KimVoices: Korean

Octavio RojasVoices: Spanish

Pablo DomínguezVoices: Spanish

Klaus LochthoveVoices: German

Doug RandVoices: English

Angelo MaggiVoices: Italian

José Antonio GaviraVoices: Spanish

Henrique FeistVoices: Portuguese (BR)

Zheng Chang YuVoices: Mandarin

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