Bardock's Elite Activated: Unknown Deactivated: Age 737 Located: Planet Vegeta Leader: Bardock Main Members: Tora Fasha Borgos Shugesh Allies: Planet Trade Organization • Saiyan Army (group is a branch within) Conflicts: Kanassan war Invasion of Planet Meat Genocide of the Saiyans Presumably many more not seen

The Planet Elite Force (惑星のエリートの力, Wakusei no Erito no Chikara), also known as Bardock's Elite, is a crew of low-class Saiyan soldiers led by Bardock under the Saiyan Army. The platoon is comprised of Bardock, as well as four other soldiers: Tora, Fasha, Borgos, and Shugesh. Together, the five make a living by traveling to various planets where they decimate the defenses of these civilizations and prepare them for Frieza's planetary market under the Planet Trade Organization.

ConceptionEdit

All members of Bardock's team had some drastic changes in their appearances from Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru's original character design for the special Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku. Akira Toriyama drew the final draft of Bardock's team.

Their original names were Tomā　(トマー), Jagga (ジャッガ), Panpukin (パンプキン) and Kōn (コーン). Those names were changed for Tōma (トーマ), Toteppo (トテッポ), Panpūkin (パンプーキン), and Seripa (セリパ). Bardock, Toma (Tora in American dub) and Panbukin (Shugesh in the American dub) are the only three members of the team whose name was not completely changed from Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru's design.^[1]

OverviewEdit

After clearing a society on the Planet Kanassa, a weakened survivor emerges, and catching Bardock off-guard, instills the Saiyan with the ability of precognitive foresight. This survivor is then killed by Tora. Bardock is still out of commission when the other capable four soldiers are instructed to clear the civilization of Planet Meat.

Before long during their visit to the planet, the group encounters Dodoria (one of Frieza's most esteemed minions) and his elite who, by Frieza's orders, betray and make short work of the Saiyans. Bardock is later informed that his team has accepted an offer on Meat. Pursuing them, he discovers his ravaged comrades, and to some fortune finds that Tora is alive but in critical condition. Vowing to avenge the four, Bardock is suddenly assaulted by Dodoria's Elite. Although a low-class Saiyan, Bardock is able to dominate over the elite-class fighters until Dodoria launches a Super Mouth Blast, overpowering Bardock and leaving him for dead.

Bardock barely survives this attack and struggles to return to Planet Vegeta where he immediately begins spreading the word of danger, but his panic only leads bystanders to believe Bardock is overreacting after having finally met his match during a typical mission. Terrified, Bardock takes to the skies where Frieza's spaceship is orbiting, in a last resort effort to throttle Frieza's plan to eradicate the Saiyans.

Frieza steps out into the orbit of Planet Vegeta where he encounters Bardock, who insists that the Saiyans refuse to be continue being oppressed and commanded by the tyrant. When Bardock attempts to kill Frieza using a Final Spirit Cannon energy wave, Frieza retaliates with by laughing manically as he expands a charging Supernova. Within moments, the Supernova is set free from Frieza's fingertip and careens through numerous bystanding soldiers en route toward the Planet Vegeta; Bardock is among the first to be consumed by the ball of energy.

Other appearancesEdit

Members of the team appear in various flashbacks during the Frieza Saga in Dragon Ball Z. The team also makes a cameo appearance in the spin-off manga Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock, remembered by Bardock when he accepts to help the Plants in their battle against the space tyrant Chilled and later, in the pages added to the end of the third chapter in the April 2012 issue of V-Jump, when Bardock thinks back to his crew after defeating Chilled.

All members of Bardock's team are seen in the video game Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 whenever Bardock does his Spirit of Saiyans technique. The whole team is playable in Dragon Ball Heroes.

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Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru's original character design (Son Goku Densetsu) Tora, Fasha, Shugesh (Episode of Bardock flashback) Bardock, the leader of his elite Tora, second in command of Bardock's Elite Borgos, a member of Bardock's Elite Shugesh, a member of Bardock's Elite Fasha, the only female in Bardock's Elite The corpses of Fasha and Tora Fasha, Tora and Bardock during a brief cameo appearance in Dragon Ball Z Decimation of Bardock's friends (Episode of Bardock flashback) Tora and Fasha in Dragon Ball Heroes Fasha and Tora about to attack Add a photo to this galleryAdd a photo to this gallery

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