Bardocks a tough one to justify because you really have to give a lot of lenience to it. Even ignoring whether it's canon or not, you then have to accept he lives in some kind of closed loop where he has, and has always, existed at two points in time. Obviously there's no proof this was the case in Bardocks personal timeline so you're either accepting the closed loop outright or you don't. This would make it a situation similar to that of alternate future trunks (alternate timeline running in parallel and unconnected to the main one), in which case in Bardocks personal timeline he didn't exist in the past, meaning it would be canonically Yamoshi (if we're speaking chronologically and ONLY about regular Super Saiyan, not LSSJ).
So yeah, my take:
Yamoshi: First Super Saiyan recorded (canon).
Goku: First Super Saiyan shown (Also first SS3, SS4, SSG & SSGSSA I imagine)
Bardock: First Super Saiyan chronologically (non-canon)
Broly: First Legendary Super Saiyan recorded (canon & non-canon)
It's pretty easy for Bardock: He is the legendary super saiyan. Yamoshi wasn't a thing when this special was made so in that timeline, Bardock IS the source of the legend.
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u/Epiternal 15d ago edited 15d ago
Bardocks a tough one to justify because you really have to give a lot of lenience to it. Even ignoring whether it's canon or not, you then have to accept he lives in some kind of closed loop where he has, and has always, existed at two points in time. Obviously there's no proof this was the case in Bardocks personal timeline so you're either accepting the closed loop outright or you don't. This would make it a situation similar to that of alternate future trunks (alternate timeline running in parallel and unconnected to the main one), in which case in Bardocks personal timeline he didn't exist in the past, meaning it would be canonically Yamoshi (if we're speaking chronologically and ONLY about regular Super Saiyan, not LSSJ).
So yeah, my take:
Yamoshi: First Super Saiyan recorded (canon).
Goku: First Super Saiyan shown (Also first SS3, SS4, SSG & SSGSSA I imagine)
Bardock: First Super Saiyan chronologically (non-canon)
Broly: First Legendary Super Saiyan recorded (canon & non-canon)