Bardock’s design is iconic at this time, mainly because he resembles like the spitting image of Goku, simply with a harder look. His hair is almost indistinguishable, and he has few scarring on his face, but other than the armor and the headband, he’s primarily just a scowling mirror-image of his grown son.
Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru originally designed the low-class warrior, and although he aimed to merely take Goku’s image and provide him a “brutal edge,” he still added a slight bit more variation than Toriyama’s final design, especially in his iconic hair.
The original plan behind Bardock was to make Goku and his father absolute enemies.
According to an articled uncovered by Kazenshuu, “Incidentally, in the original plan, we hear that there was also the idea that perhaps they could make Goku and his father antagonists.”
This idea may seem ridiculous given the route Bardock indeed took in the series as a loving character who finally lost his life at the hands of Freeza at least as how it is described in the Dragon Ball Z movie, Bardock: The Father of Goku.
The rest of the Saiyans and Bardock as a villain performs a lot of sense. Toriyama first presented the idea of Saiyans with Goku’s brother Raditz, who was Dragon Ball Z’s crucial first villain.
As the Saiyans are a primary aggressive, conquering type of race, it would make the reason that the original idea for each new Saiyan was that of an antagonist.
Shockingly, Bardock is defined much differently in the manga Dragon Ball Minus. He’s friendly and legitimately worries about his child, which is the polar opposite of his original character.
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