

The author also comments that all he really did was take Goku and give him the brutal edge of a warrior race, and dress him in the Battle Armor provided by Frieza's forces.

In Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru's original character design, Bardock had a longer scar, his hair was more spiked (similar to Vegeta's hair), his Battle Armor was a lighter shade of green, and it had three or four flaps at the waist and did not wear the long-legged jumpsuit he has in Akira Toriyama's final design for the 1990 TV special. His tail is also draped more loosely around his hips. He also has an additional thin scar running horizontally across his right bicep. The scar on his check is smoother and x shaped. In Dragon Ball Minus: The Departure of the Fated Child and Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Bardock wears beige Battle Armor with rectangular shoulder pads and his boots are white with beige tips instead of black with green tips and does not have the red shin guards. Later, Bardock adopts Tora's blood-soaked armband as a headband when he fights Team Dodoria on Planet Meat, which he retains when he attempts to kill Frieza. He wears a dark blue and green Battle Armor, dark blue combat pants, long red armbands with matching leg warmers, a green Scouter on his left eye, and black and green boots. Like most Universe 7 Saiyans, he has a long prehensile tail with brown fur which generally keeps secured around his waist akin to a belt. Arguably his most distinctive trait is the long thick, rough scar running down his left cheek. Unlike his younger son, he has a tanner skin tone, and his eyes are more defined and sterner, much like his elder son.


His hair also stands up in the front with five spikes and four in the back. His hair is unkempt with three bangs hanging to the right of his forehead and two hanging to the left. As noted by Raditz and Frieza, Bardock bears a striking resemblance to Goku: he is a tall man of muscular built with black hair.
