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For the Trunks from the present see Chibi Trunks.

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Future Trunks, or Mirai no Trunks (Trunks of the Future, or just Trunks) is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball and the anime Dragon Ball Z. 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. Trunks' seiyū is Takeshi Kusao. In the English dub, he is voiced by Eric Vale.

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 the Dragon Ball Z anime.

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Future Trunks Timeline

Main article: Dragon Ball alternate timelines
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Trunks and Time Machine ("Hope!!")

Trunks is from an alternate future timeline, one in which the evil Android 17 and Android 18 have conquered the Earth and are using it as their playground, destroying what they wish.

By the time we are introduced to the pair of androids, over three fourths of the world's population has been eliminated by them during their spree of destruction. In this future, Gohan and Trunks are much weaker versions of themselves, having lived in relative peace until the androids' appearances, and without the training of the experienced Z-Fighters. Gohan is a fully grown adult, yet as a Super Saiyan, he is only slightly stronger than Goku was after his return to Earth following the events on Namek.

In this timeline, Goku dies of a heart disease before the androids arrive, leaving the Z-Fighters without one of their greatest heroes. Trunks' father Vegeta and all of the heroes of Earth are killed, with the androids easily outclassing them in power since they were built to be able to defeat Goku. Gohan becomes Trunks' mentor and trains him in everything he knows. He tries his best to teach Trunks how to become a Super Saiyan as well, necessary for him to compete against the androids' might. However, as there is virtually nothing left to protect anymore, Trunks simply cannot find the motivation to transform.

Gohan and teenage Trunks face the androids in battle where Trunks, in his inexperience, is cornered by Android #18. Gohan is forced to sacrifice himself to save Trunks, losing his arm in the process which only further demoralizes Trunks and causes his confidence to fall. Trunks tries repeatedly to attain Super Saiyan during training but still struggles with it, unlike his alternate-timeline self who attains it at a much younger age and with relative ease.

Later the pair are drawn into battle against the androids again, so Gohan knocks Trunks unconscious knowing that if he faces them again he will be killed. Gohan holds his own against the androids, being stronger than each individually but unable to compete with both of them and their infinite energy reserves. Gohan is defeated and killed leaving Trunks to find his body lying in the rain. Overcome with anger and grief, Trunks finally transforms into a Super Saiyan and spends the next few years training and growing, though he still is unable to completely overwhelm both androids.

After another close escape, Bulma reveals her time machine to Trunks with which she hopes he will use to return to the past and save Goku, hopefully altering the future.

In the future, Trunks did not know his father, Vegeta, at all, as he was only an infant at the time he was murdered by the androids. 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.

Having grown up in an age of apocalyptic terror, Future Trunks had to go through intense training that made him stronger than his infant-self in the main Dragon Ball Z timeline, who grows up living in an age of peace.

Cell

Cell from another alternate future time-line killed the Trunks of his time-line and traveled back to present DBZ time using that spaceship. It is this Cell who is the main villain of the Cell saga, and who absorbs the present versions of #17 and #18.

Buu?

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."

Another possible explanation for Babidi and Buu's absence could be due to the limited number of people still living on Earth after the androids' destructive activities, especially the lack of such incredibly powerful individuals as Goku and Vegeta. Since Babidi wouldn't have any way to release Buu on the Androids (Androids lack detectable ki), he probably just would not come to Earth.

Dragon Ball Z

Android Saga

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 completely destroyed and soon followed by his arrogant father King Cold. 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.

Trunks informs the Z-Fighters of the future where the androids appear and kill them all, inspiring the heroes to train their hardest for the next 3 years. However, inadvertently, Trunks revelation of the future alters it slightly.

When the androids eventually appear they face the Z-Fighters and Vegeta reveals his new Super Saiyan form. Trunks returns to the past to find Android #19 and Android #20, two androids he never saw in his time-line and realises that this time-line is now branching off considerably from his own. When Android #20 (In reality, Dr Gero) releases the real androids, #17 and #18, they rebel and kill their creator before releasing the previously unknown #16.

Because Trunks warned the heroes of the future and they trained to become stronger, the androids of this time-line have been made considerably stronger, able to even compete with Super Saiyan Vegeta and #16, who did not exist in Trunks time-line, is far stronger than either of the other androids. Vegeta tries to fight #18 but is no match, so Trunk's rushes to his father's aid but is beaten by #18 with ease and has his sword broken.

Eventually, Cell from another alternate time-line is revealed and he sets about absorbing the androids of the current time-line. Superior in strength to any of the fighters, the heroes go to train again, this time in the Room of Spirit and Time.

When Vegeta and Trunks train in the Room of Spirit and Time together Trunks surpasses Vegeta in power though he fails to see the reason why Vegeta stops increasing his maximum power at the time. However, throughout the year that was spent in the Time Chamber, Trunks realized Vegeta's real sense of Saiyan pride and thought it was best to hide his true power level out of fear of upsetting his father.

Trunks had managed to reach what is known as Ultra Super Saiyan, where the Saiyan is still Super Saiyan 1, but has greatly augmented their physical strength. The strength benefit in this form is offset by the decrease in speed. It is later revealed that Vegeta was almost as strong as Trunks and could have reached this same level of power, but decided against it due to the forms weakness, something Trunks failed to spot during their training. (Incidentally, Son Goku came to the same conclusion as Vegeta when he and Gohan were training in the Room of Spirit and Time, and hence stopped his training as well, but Gohan at first failed to spot the weakness.)

Cell Saga

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Trunks as an Ultra Super Saiyan

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 simply kept increasing his power, unaware that his speed was greatly decreasing. His body became too bulky and slow from the large quantity of muscle and this gave Cell the upper hand. Trunks quickly realized that he was too slow and gave up hope right before Cell's eyes. The battle hungry Cell however, was intrigued at how strong Trunks had become in such a short period of time and posed a challenge 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 before taking a position in the Room of Spirit and Time, again training for a whole year in one day.

When Trunks emerges from his training he is powerful enough to compete in the games. Trunks unfortunately never gets the opportunity to kill Perfect Cell in this time-line and instead is forced to contend with Cell's smaller but incredibly powerful clones along with the other heroes. After Cell self-destructs out of fear of Super Saiyan 2 Gohan, he manages to resurrect himself and upon his reappearance impales Trunks through the chest with a powerful energy blast, killing him. This act causes a drastic change in Vegeta who becomes enraged that someone who cared about him has been critically hurt and reveals his affection for his son. Vegeta then gives everything he can give to try and kill Cell although he fails and is easily overwhelmed by Cell. Later when told how is father reacted to his death, Trunks is proud of his father.

Trunks remains dead until he is revived by Dende's new Shenlong (Shenron) at Kami's Tower after Perfect Cell is defeated.

Back to the future

After the celebrations, Vegeta acknowledges Trunks while Trunks says his goodbyes. Rather than traveling to the new peaceful future he made by assisting the Z Warriors against Cell and Gero, Trunks returns to his own time to extract revenge on the androids for murdering adult Gohan. After reuniting with his mother, Bulma, Trunks sees a news update on Androids 17 and 18, and he quickly powers up into ascended Super Saiyan. Meanwhile, the androids are about to kill another innocent man, when suddenly Trunks hurtles a very accurate energy attack which narrowly misses Android 17. The cocky androids foolishly underestimate Trunks and try to rush him. Trunks easily dodges all their attacks and punishes them duly, obliterating 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 home since everything now seems at peace with the Earth, except for one thing, Cell. The determined bio-android roams around in his weakest form looking for the now non-existent androids and comes across Trunks and Bulma saying their goodbyes near the Time Machine. As Trunks is about to leave, he senses Cell and sends his mother away. He turns towards Cell and begins to taunt him with his knowledge from the alternate past. He informs him 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 is still at the level of power when he initially went back in time and warned Goku. The fight begins and Cell is clearly outclassed as Trunks avoids every one of Cell's attacks. Trunks 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 realizes that he has no hope against the new Trunks, and prepares 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 called the "Heat Dome" which incinerates Cell. With the future finally at peace, viewers see Future Trunks for the last time in the series.

Episode Appearances

Trunks is a main character during the Cell Saga but does not appear during any other saga so he has relatively few appearances over the course of the series.

Dragon Ball Movies

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

Forms

  • Super Saiyan an ability that Trunks got during the Androids saga in his future
  • Ascended Super Saiyanan ability that Trunks got during the Time Chamber training with his father, Vegeta, and that used for the first time to fight against Cell to stop him from absorbing Android 18.
  • Ultra Super Saiyan an ability that Trunks got during the Time Chamber training with his father, Vegeta, and that used for the first time to fight against [[Cell], after Cell obtained his Perfect Form and had knocked Vegeta out. On the first three games in the Budokai series, this form is mistaken for that of Super Saiyan 2.

Special Abilities

  • Burning Attack a powerful blast Trunks uses by performing a series of rapid arm movements, then releasing energy from his hands, with his index and thumbs connecting.
  • Masenko used once against Broly. Presumably taught to him by Adult Gohan.

Trivia

  • Because 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 from his recollection). He is even (though very rarely) shown to be cocky, such as when he became an Ultra Super Saiyan.
  • Trunks possesses a moderate amount of attacks, most of which are (apparently) his own creations, but, unlike other characters, does not name his attacks. As such, names are created later for his attacks, such as "Burning Attack" for the blast he used to destroy Freeza's ship. In the Budokai series he has an attack called "Buster Cannon," which may have been created for the game, and another attack called "Finish Buster," which is similar to an attack he used against Vegeta when trying to stop Cell from reaching completion.
  • It should be noted that there is technically yet another Trunks. He was never seen except when Cell remembered killing him. This Trunks visited the Unseen Timeline, a slight variant of the "main" timeline, and came from Cell's Timeline, a slight variant of the original Trunks timeline. In this timeline, Cell had not yet gone back. As such, the latter half of the Cell Saga as we know it didn't occur. Trunks must have gotten a little stronger from helping dispose of 17 and 18, and was able to dispatch the weaker versions of the alternate future. However, without the events triggered by Cell, Trunks had no occasion to train in the Room of Spirit and Time and as a result was no match for Cell, even in his first form. Cell slew this Trunks and regressed into his larval form, travelling back 24 years. Thus in our main timeline Trunks was still in the past when he hatched, and was significantly stronger when he eventually returned.
  • Although he never learns to transform the Super Saiyan 2 in the anime, manga or movies he can transform to that state in the Dragonball Z Budokai 2 and 3 videogames. (Though this may be a mistranslation, as Trunks' second form in Budokai 1 was "Super Trunks")
  • Some people have seen the character of Chris Halliwell on Charmed, another future child and time traveller, as similar to Mirai Trunks.
  • Future Trunks reminds one of events within The Terminator. He can be viewed as similiar to John Connor, who fought against the Cyborgs. Time travelling was also done to stop the machines.
  • It is unknown how Mirai Trunks would react to meeting Chibi Trunks, however this occurs in Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3, and Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors. In Budokai 3 as well as in Shin Budokai Chibi Trunks states that it is "Just like having a brother" whereas in Legendary Super Warriors he does not even realize it is his future self, and the two have a sparring match.

Appearances in other media

Video games

  • Temple O' Trunks - More info on Future Trunks with timelines, images, other media and assorted links.
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