Editing Bardock (Dragon Ball Z) (section)

==Trivia==

*Bardock's name, like all other Saiyan characters, is a pun on edible plant material, in this case, the burdock herb (this pun is more apparent in the ''Dragon Ball'' manga, where the character's name is literally spelled Burdock). Bardock's family are all named after root vegetables (burdock, onion, radish, and carrot). The word "burdock" transliterated into katakana is ''badokku'' (バードック, ''bādokku''), but the character's name is written as ''Badakku'' (バーダック, ''Bādakku''), changing the 'do' character to 'da'. This character change actually makes the kana sound more like "Bardock" to English speakers, making it difficult to accurately romanize the word to convey the pun. The word could be romanized as "Burdock", "Barduck", "Badack" or any combination of these syllables. While Viz's English publications of the manga use the spelling "Burdock", the Funimation dub of ''Bardock - The Father of Goku'' and the original Japanese version of ''Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock'' both spell his name "Bardock". "Bardock" is also how Frieza pronounces his name while speaking aloud during the Frieza Saga of Funimation's ''Dragon Ball Z'' English dub.
*In a chapter of the ''Dragon Ball'' manga, Raditz alludes to Bardock when commenting that Goku "look[s] just like [their] father".
*Bardock was the first anime original character to later be included in two panels of the manga.
*In a flashback during the Frieza Saga, it is implied that during Bardock's confrontation with Frieza, all of the men behind him were part of his army to defeat Frieza. However, in ''Bardock - The Father of Goku'', it is shown that those are all actually Frieza's men, and Bardock fought his way through them to get to Frieza.
*A commercial advertising ''Dragon Ball Z Kai'' on Nicktoons shows Bardock when he forms the blast about to attack Frieza. No blood is present, and Bardock's scar is missing from his face, this was to most likely censor ''Dragon Ball Z Kai'' because it was on a children's network.
*The way Bardock tries to warn the Saiyans about Frieza destroying them all in the 1990 TV special is similar to how Jor-El from ''Superman'' tries to inform his people of Krypton's destruction. Ironically, the 2014 ''Dragon Ball Minus'' manga further increases the similarities between Bardock and Jor-El.
*Sonny Strait gave Bardock three different voices; the first (in the original FUNimation airing) is somewhat high-pitched, almost similar to Krillin, the second (first appearing in 2000s until ''Raging Blast'') is standard baritone in vocal pitch (as with most common male voices), and starting from ''Dragon Ball Z Kai'', his voice exhibits a more virile and brazen disposition, sticking with his Japanese (aggressive) tone.
*In the ''Budokai Tenkaichi'' and ''Raging Blast'' series, if the player has Bardock fight Nappa, the latter will refer to Bardock as "garbage", owing to Bardock's status as a low-class warrior.