Future Trunks

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Trunks
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Japanese トランクス
Romaji Torankusu
Anime Name Trunks
Manga Name Trunks
Alternate Name(s) Mirai no Trunks
Mirai Trunks
Future Trunks
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First Appearance Issue #330
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Race Human-Saiyan
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Future Trunks, or Mirai no Trunks (Trunks of the Future, but really just Trunks) is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z, and the anime Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. He is the Human-Saiyan hybrid son of Vegeta and Bulma from the future. "Mirai" Trunks is a name invented by Dragon Ball fans to distinguish the Trunks from the future from the much younger Trunks from the present.

For the Trunks from the present see Chibi Trunks.

This is the first Trunks that the readers and/or viewers ever see in the Dragon Ball manga (the section he is in is titled Dragon Ball Z in North America) and/or the Dragon Ball Z anime.

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Mirai Trunks timeline

Image:Tr time machine.jpgMirai Trunks is from an alternate future timeline, where the evil Android 17 and Android 18 are using the Earth as a playground, destroying what they wish (which basically counts as everything, as the world is considered nothing more than a pile of trash to them in their careless perspective), and shaping the world as they see fit, due to being the strongest beings at the time. In this alternate future, Vegeta died in the fight against the Androids, along with all of the Z Fighters apart from Son Gohan, who is Trunks' first mentor and martial arts teacher, but is eventually killed by the immoral, dynamic duo, which is what, in the anime, ignites Trunks's ascension to Super Saiyan.

Son Goku (Goku in American version) died before the Androids arrived on the scene, due to a heart disease.

Trunks did not know his father at all, as he was only an infant at the time, and so when he finally meets his father in the past, he is seen to be constantly trying to impress him. This is often mixed with disgust and horror towards his father's uncaring attitude towards those around him, especially when Vegeta refused to save Bulma and Baby Trunks when Dr. Gero blew up the capsule plane.

Due to the fact that Mirai Trunks grew up in an age of apocalyptic terror, he had to go through intense training that made him stronger than his alternate self, living in an age of peace, was at that age, even though "Chibi" Trunks had a greater natural power level.

When asked by DBZ fans "What happened to Babidi and Buu in Trunks timeline?" Akira Toriyama clearly commented "I didn't think that far ahead of the series. I didn't even know if the series would have gone on. The Cell Games was supposed to be the last saga, but the fans wanted more, so i just went on with it. If I had known that the series would have continued, I would have just kept him in the present timeline, since 3/4 of the worlds population was annihilated in his timeline."

'see more about Mirai Trunks' and others Dragonball Z timelines here'.

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Androids- Perfect Cell Sagas

Trunks travels back in time in order to warn Son Goku about the Android threat in the future, as well as to deliver medication that will heal the heart virus Goku will get. However, upon arrival he is greeted by the Mecha-Freeza with his father King Cold. They had come to Earth in order to seek revenge upon Son Goku's loved ones. Trunks, then seventeen-years-old, did not look like much of a threat to Freeza, and he freely told him so. Freeza was then given three opportunities to kill Trunks, but Trunks was able to block and dodge the attacks with ease. Trunks then performs what he calls his Burning Attack, which is followed up by his sword. Freeza, cut in half, was once again in more than one place at the same time. Trunks later finds out, to his chagrin, that he interfered with the timeline unnecessarily. Son Goku, although miles away in space, was prepared to step in using his Instant Transmission technique when Trunks showed up.

When they train in the Room of Spirit and Time together Trunks surpasses Vegeta in power, due to being a Halfbreed Saiyan. Throughout the year that was spent in the Time Chamber, Trunks realised Vegeta's real sense of Saiyan pride. With this knowledge in mind, Trunks hid his true power level to spare what pride Vegeta had left. Trunks had managed to reach what is known as Ultra Super Saiyan, where the Saiyan is still Super Saiyan 1, but has seriously bulked up. The strength benefit in this form is offset by the decrease in speed. It is later revealed that Vegeta could indeed have reached this same level of power, but decided against it due to the forms weakness, something Trunks obviously ceased to spot during their training.

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Trunks is the second Saiyan to take on Perfect Cell with the intention of destroying him. Although Trunks' power was enough to deal significant damage to Cell, Trunks was too bulky and slow, and this gave Cell the upper hand. Trunks quickly realised that he was too slow and gave up hope right before Cell's eyes. The battle hungry Bio Android, however, was intrigued at how strong Trunks had become in such a short period of time and posed a challege to the strongest fighters on Earth (Z Fighters, Vegeta and Android 16) to train as much as they could over a period of nine days. Then at the end of these nine days all the fighters of Earth will compete in the Cell Games. Trunks then left the battlefield and spread the word about the Cell Games, and then when he reaches Kami's Lookout (the Shinden in Japanese) he declares a position in the "Hyperbolic Time Chamber" and trains for a whole year in one day.

When Trunks emerges from his training he is powerful enough to compete in the games and although he wouldn't be able to take on Cell alone, he is definitely strong enough to return to his time and destroy Android 17 and Android 18. With nothing to lose Trunks left with all the fighters of Earth to where Cell awaits. Trunks never gets the opportunity to kill Perfect Cell and during the fight between Son Gohan and the Bio Android, Trunks is impaled through the chest with a powerful energy blast and dies.

Trunks remains dead until he is revived by Dende's new Shenlong (Shenron) at Kami's Tower well after Perfect Cell is dead. After the celebrations Trunks says his goodbyes and returns to the future (instead of travelling to the new peaceful future he made by assisting the Z Warriors against Cell and Gero, Trunks prefers to return to his own timeline in order to extract revenge on the Androids for murdering Adult Gohan). After reuniting with his mother, Bulma, Trunks sees a News update on Android 17 and Android 18 and quickly powers up. Meanwhile the Androids are about to kill another innocent man, when all of a sudden Trunks hurtles a very accurate energy attack, narrowly missing Android 17. The cocky Androids foolishly underestimate Trunks and try to rush him. Trunks easily dodges all their attacks and punishes them duly, when he obliterates Android 18 in a point blank energy blast. Android 17 looks on in disbelief and his feelings soon turn to hatred when the outpowered Android charges Trunks again, but he too is terminated with ease.

The completely unscathed Trunks returns to his home and everything seems at peace with the Earth except for one thing, Cell. The determined Bio Android in his weakest form, still roaming around for the now non-existent Androids, comes across Trunks and Bulma saying their goodbyes before the Time Machine. Trunks is about to leave when he senses Cell and sends Bulma away, Trunks then turns toward Cell and begins to taunt him with his knowledge from the alternate past. Trunks informs Cell that he has killed the Androids from the current time, and that the Androids of the alternate past have been destroyed as well, so all of his hopes for Perfection are crushed.

The weak and cocky Cell approaches the Half-Saiyan under the false impression that Trunks was still at the level of power when he initially went back in time and warned Goku. The fight then begins and Cell is clearly outclassed as Trunks avoids Cell's every attack. Trunks then takes action by grabbing Cell's tail and swinging him around in a circle, building up momentum, and then hurtling him high into the air. Cell then realises that he has no hope against the new Trunks, and begins to prepare a Kamehameha large enough to destroy the planet, knowing all too well that he could survive in space. Cell begins the formalities of the attack but is interrupted when Trunks abruptly unleashes a massive destructive wave of energy which incinerates Cell. With the future finally at peace, this is the last appearance of Future Trunks, except his non canon appearances in movies 7, 8 and 9.

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Dragon Ball Movies

Future Trunks appears in the folowing Dragon Ball Movies and Specials:

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Trivia

  • Due to the fact that he comes from the future and believes he knows what is going to happen, Trunks is usually shown thinking that only some things will matter and others probably won't (although he's usually right in the long term). This is shown in, at first, his resistance to do anything unless Goku is present. Other things, such as his surprise that Piccolo's fusion would make a difference, also show this. As such, he is usually surprised at events (on a different layer than the fact that history was different than he knew). He is even (though very rarely) shown to be cocky, such as when he became a Ultra Super Saiyan.
  • It should be noted that there is technically a second Mirai Trunks. He was never seen except when Cell remembered killing him. This Mirai Trunks visited the Unseen Timeline, a slight variant of the "main" timeline, and came from Cell's Timeline, a slight variant of the original Mirai Trunks timeline.es:Trunks

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