I don't know if you think the name "Badak" is very familiar, I believe that for Dragon Ball fans is quite familiar, he is the father of Sun Wukong, but he has never officially appeared in the comics, even in "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is also a character living in memory, for this, many people are also full of curiosity about Badak, so how was this character born? Was it really created by Akira Toriyama?
Badak in the original book
In fact, in the original "Dragon Ball" comic, Akira Toriyama mentioned Badak, and there was also a specific name, when Frieza heard that Son Goku's real name was "Kakarot", even Frieza was surprised, plus seeing Sun Wukong's appearance, Frieza felt that Sun Wukong was very similar to a Saiyan he had destroyed in the past, that is, when he destroyed Vegeta Star, he resisted to the last Saiyan, here, it can be said that Akira Toriyama briefly talked about the background of Sun Wukong's life, At the very least, let people know who Sun Wukong's father is.
And also arranged a name for Sun Wukong's father, that is, Badak. And it is clearly pointed out that Sun Wukong's father was killed by Frieza, which actually makes the battle between Sun Wukong and Frieza more reasonable, and it can better reflect the personality charm of Sun Wukong when he later planned to release Frieza. It can be said that from the very beginning, Akira Toriyama opened the prototype of the character of Badak, but it should be noted that here is not portraying Badak, but in the character setting of the plump Sun Wukong, so Badak only appears as a background board.
This was actually mentioned when Latiz first came to Earth, because the story of Dragon Ball Z needs to have a reasonable reason to continue the story at the beginning, so it is reasonable to arrange an alien identity for Son Goku, and also to let Latiz find Sun Wukong, after all, the brothers have not met, how does Latiz know what Sun Wukong looks like? So there is such a paragraph, because Sun Wukong and his father look very similar, so Ratiz recognized it at a glance. Seeing this, it is clear that Badak is nothing more than a tool man, and Akira Toriyama has no intention of creating this character, but this background setting is a story mining, so it was seized by Toei and created a special chapter in 1990 to tell the story of Badak.
Interview with Akira Toriyama
On this point, this question was also answered in Akira Toriyama's question and answer, he said that Badak's first appearance was indeed in the special chapter "The Final Battle of Ichifu Dangguan", in fact, this special chapter was also involved in Akira Toriyama at that time, but because the past was too long, Akira Toriyama could not remember the details of the discussion of the creators at that time. However, Akira Toriyama said something very interesting, that is, how the character of Badak was designed, may only be supervised by the idea of the animators, which undoubtedly means that the creation of Badak's character has nothing to do with himself.
Moreover, Akira Toriyama also admitted that he liked this work very much, thinking that the description of Badak in this special chapter was very good, so later Bardak's story was added to the main biography by himself, and then the character of Badak was gradually enriched, and with the passage of time, the setting of the Saiyans was also revised and modified, and finally completely fixed in the theatrical version of "Dragon Ball Super: Broly", like Badak, Broly, who should have been Toei's original super popular characters, were all reborn in the main biography. And we have also made certain changes, because if we only compare, we will find that the role of Badak is more and more like Sun Wukong, not only in appearance, but also in action, and even much kinder than in the past.
And with the progress of the "Dragon Ball Super" comic, the character of Badak obviously has a more whitewashing tendency, the people who were originally saved by Bardak have now met Sun Wukong, it can be said that Badak's good deeds in that year also made Sun Wukong feel rewarded, and Sun Wukong finally knew what the name of his biological father was, although the part about whitewashing, fans are also disagreeing, but it is undeniable that the connection between this character and Sun Wukong is getting deeper and deeper. And all this is because Akira Toriyama wanted to arrange a tool man's unintentional move.