YMMV / Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming

• Ass Pull:
  • The fact that Broly survived his battle with Goku, where we can see that his body clearly exploded after receiving Goku's miracle punch, which just now apparently just left him with a few scars on his body.
  • While his survival was already implausible (as Broly doesn't have regeneration like Cell or Majin Buu later on) it gets worse as an extremely injured Broly somehow had the time to find a working saiyan spaceship and escape from New Planet Vegeta before it was destroyed by Comet Camori and find some place to rest and heal entirely offscreen.
• Audience-Coloring Adaptation: This film largely shaped the fandom's perception of Broly - while his debut film showed him with a rather meager backstory, he had lines of dialogue, and Broly himself never said he wanted to kill Goku because of his crying, which lead to at least one fan interpreting his actions as a result of his Saiyan instincts. However, this film made it explicitly clear that it was Goku crying that caused Broly to want to kill him due to Goten's crying waking him up, and Broly only saying "Kakarot!" throughout the film. The fact that most video game adaptations that portray Broly^note prior to his reinterpretation, anyways use this film as the basis for how they portray him don't help either.
• Awesome Music: I.O.N's music just hands down makes the film. They can't be found on iTunes but are associated constantly in playlist's on YouTube for this movie. However, Ignored gets special mention for the epic music behind the beam struggle.
  • The orchestral score of the Japanese version is top notch as well. It's some of the most haunting music in the entire franchise.
• Funny Moments: After being knocked out in his fight with Broly, Gohan is, as is the case in most movies, saved by the timely arrival of Piccolo. When he regains consciousness and begins to give his thanks, Piccolo turns around - to reveal Krillin in Piccolo's cape and turban, making a comment that he always wanted to try this.
• Mandela Effect: A weird one has cropped up in that people have reported remembering there being a fourth character present in the family Kame-Hame-Ha. Why this seems to be the case is mostly unknown, as the only other Son family member at the time would be Chi-Chi, who doesn't even know the technique, much less fight in the series proper. Some have stated there being a third child of Goku being present, even though that's impossible. (Goku's only kids at that point are Gohan and Goten.) The closest to a fourth character would be Trunks, who although he helped against Broly during the Kame-Hame-Ha by throwing a energy blast to him, he didn't participate directly in it.
• Narm: The fact that the film more or less confirmed Broly's motive to be Kakarot's crying can make it hard to take Broly seriously as a character.
• Never Live It Down: This is the movie that turned Broly into the flat brute who can only say "Kakarot!", and ruined what little interesting trait the character had with many in the Dragon Ball fandom.
• Sequelitis: Pretty much everyone agrees that this film is not nearly as good as the first Broly movie due to the Lighter and Softer approach with Trunks and Goten as protagonists and Broly losing his sanity (and what little personality he had). In their countdown of the Dragon Ball movies, Team Four Star declared it to be one of the worst movies in the franchise with no plot whatsoever.
• Signature Scene: The final beam clash between Broly and the Son Family, nicely called The Family Kamehameha by the many videogames, is the scene everyone remembers from this movie.
• Stock Footage Failure: When Broly transforms into the Legendary Super Saiyan, the animators used the transformation scene from the first movie. If observed closely, his crown and armbands are seen breaking off and disintegrating, when they were already destroyed in the first movie and never seen otherwise during this movie.