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There are actually two versions of Trunks.
The one that will mostly be developped here is the one of the LEFT
on the picture: his full name is Mirai
No Chu-Senshi Torankusu.
Trunks is a very interesting character from the Dragon Ball Z show.
He first appears as a young adult at the end of Freeza's saga and blows
the guy away in a blink of an eye while Goku needed endless and boring
episods to do so. But it's not because of *that* that he is interesting.
His whole story can be put totally aside of the usual DBZ plot.
Trunks has been born from Vegeta and Bulma. This couple may be
surprising at first sight, but hey! A few months after his birth, Goku developed a deadly heart desease, the WILLS. It is a desease he contracted previously on the Yadratt planet. He died shortly after that. Two years passed, and two cyborgs very powerful appeard. They were programed to terminate Goku, but as he was already dead, they went on a big planetary genocide. During that war, most of the Dragon Crew, Piccolo, Krilin, Vegeta, Yanucha and Ten-shin Han were killed by the machines. (yes, it sounds like Terminator). Bulma and Trunks managed more or less to survive for several years. Without a father to look upon, Trunks was growing old as a normal human with very few knowledge of his fight capacity. But as his mother was always talking to him about the past and how his father and the others were fighting to defend the Earth, Trunks wanted to learn how to fight in order to destroy the cyborgs that were making of his world a doom. Bulma, since the death of all her friends, decided to create a chronoporting,
a machine that could travel in the past, in order to change the story-line.
A few week passes, and another attack of the cyborgs happens. This time, Gohan knocks down Trunks to keep him safe. Trunks is the only hope for the Earth, but he's not ready to fight the cyborgs yet (hmm... a little bit Star Wars and Mortal Kombat here... ;p ). Gohan faces the cyborgs alone and dies. When Trunks wakes up and searches after his mentor, he finds his body laying in the mud of the ruins of the city that was just attacked. The shock makes him loose control and he turns SSJ for the first time. This was in fact the shock he needed. Three years of conflicts passes. The chronoporting is almost ready, but Trunks hears about a new massacre provoked by the cyborgs not very far from him. His mother tries to make him stay at their hiding place. If he dies now, there is no hope. Trunks, feeling confident in his own strength, prefers trying to rescue the people in the present and flies right into the place where the cyborgs are. Twenty minutes later, the cyborgs leaves him for dead. He's brought back to the hospital where he stays in the coma for 5 days. When he wakes up, he realizes that he will probably never be able to defeat the cyborgs in the traditional way, and accept to go into the past to change the events that lead to that war. That decision will change his life forever. His mother gives him the medecine that will cure Goku's desease. She
believes that if Goku is still alive when the war will start, he'll be
able to defeat the cyborgs. Trunks, as for him, has another purpose by
going into the past: He wants to meet the father he never knew.
And this is how we first see him in the TV show: he appears as a young
adult, turns Freeza into barbecue-meat and annouces to a mesmerized Dragon
Team the arrival of Goku three hours later. He'll reveal to Goku the events
of the future and gives him the medecine that will perhaps change the course
of events. He then teleports himself three years in the future to be there
when the war begins.
Unfortunately, his own actions in the past won't change his future. He just created a new storyline where the changes can be seen, while the storyline where he comes from remains unchanged. His presence in the past also provokes the arrival of an organic cyborg (a bioroid named Cell), who was stuck into the future and had killed Trunks to steal his chronoporting and come back in the past. For Cell, this already happened, but not for Trunks. In fact, Cell killed Trunks because he needed to merge with the cyborgs 17 and 18 to turn into his perfect form, and... in the future... Trunks had killed the cyborgs! Trunks knows then that one day he'll go back to the future and will destroy the cyborgs, but that a bioroid will then kill him and steal his chronoporting to come back in the past. The presence of Cell in the past, anyway, pushes Trunks, Goku, Vegeta and the others, to train harder than what the would have done if Cell hadn't appeared. So, Trunks is confident: when he'll meet Cell in the future, *he* will kill the bioroid, and not the contrary. But Cell has other plans: he wants to become perfect (and manages to do so by absorbing the cyborgs), but also, wants to prevent Trunks from returning in the future to destroy the cyborgs. He learned from Trunks that each time someone travels in the time, a new future is created. Therefore, Cell thinks that if he kills Trunks before he returns in the future, the (no perfect) bioroid he is in that future will be able to absorb the cyborgs and won't have to go in the past to do so... (okay? everybody still follows?
Cell organizes a tournament during which he manages to kill Trunks before
being killed by Gohan. Trunks is nevertheless resurrected and returns in
his future. There he destroys easily first the cyborgs, then Cell, three
years later.
)The war is finally over.
Trunks' relations with his father. As mentionned earlier, Trunks' main purpose by coming into the past was to meet the father he never knew. Unfortunately for him, his father is Vegeta, prince of the Saiya-jins, who considers that "showing feelings" is a proof of weakness. Before he discovers that Trunks is his son from the future, Vegeta considers him as a rival because Trunks could reach SSJ level before him (and "he's supposed to be the strongest warrior in the universe!") When Vegeta discovers the truth about Trunks, he is in a way proud that his son is so strong, but will never show it. On the other hand, he hates the fact that his son is not a bad-ass like him, and doesn't like the fight like him. Trunks is more carefull. He'll not go "straight forward" into a fight if he feels that his opponent is too strong for him. As he's been raised by his mother who was always praising Goku, Trunks always advices to "wait for Goku before going into the fight". This enrages Vegeta as Goku is his long-time rival. Therefore, Vegeta spends his time either ignoring Trunks, or beating him up. A first improvement in their relation will happen when they'll be forced to enter the Room Of Spirit And Time (ROSAT) together for a year to train themselves in order to become stronger. Whatever happened in there, we have very few information. Some flash-backs will show that the relation between the father and the son was the same as before, but when they came out of the R.O.S.A.T., it was clear they were sharing a secret. During the fight that followed against Cell (level 2), Vegeta mentionned to the bioroid that Trunks was almost his equal; something he'd never have done before. It was clear there than Vegeta was proud of his son, but that it was still very hard to make him admit that. In fact, Trunks was stronger than his father, but knowing how his father was proud, he never dared showing it. When his father faced Cell - level3 (perfect Cell). Trunks waited for his father to loose consciousness before revealing his true strength, even if it was not enough to beat Cell. When Trunks declares forfeit against Cell, Vegeta (a dozen of miles away) feels that the Ki-level of his son dropped and turns mad against Cell, swearing he'll kill him (Cell, not Trunks!). When he and Krilin arrives where Cell and Trunks had fought, they discover that Trunks is alive. Vegeta acts as if he didn't care but never stops to observes his son while this one explains about the tournament Cell wants to organize. This announces the second big improvement in the relation between Vegeta and Trunks. During the tournament, Cell attacks Trunks off-guards and kills him. When Vegeta realizes that his son is dead, he turns beserk and attacks Cell senselessly. He looses, but prooved he loved his son... in his way... The third big improvement in their relation happens when Trunks is resurrected and is ready to leave the Team to go back to the future. Vegeta goodbyes him with a hand sign. People would perhaps find this very few, but from someone like Vegeta, risking to be seen by others while manifesting an emotion other than rage or disdain towards someone is really surprising. Trunks knows then that he has prooved to be worthy of his father. :) Following the events of the movie "Bojack", we know that Trunks came back from the future during the three years that occured betwen his destruction of the cyborgs and his final fight against Cell. There he participated a tournament where he, Gohan and Krilin had to face warriors from outer space. This is where - if people still had any doubts - it is clear that Vegeta cares about Trunks. Vegeta first refused to participate the tournament, saying the opponents were not worthy, but when Trunks, Gohan and Krilin are sent into the "matrix" (;p), Trunks faces and beats his opponent before being beaten up by the big boss (Bojack). Vegeta feels his son's ki disappearing. He goes directly into the battle, but it takes him some time to reach the battlezone. During that time, Trunks recovered, participated to new fights, got tied in a virtual net and almost impaled with an ice pike. Vegeta interfers in time and saves his son's life before telling him to go in a safer place. So, if THAT is not a PROOF of
his love for his son...! |
He heritated the characteritics of both his parents: a saiya-jin
strength and the beauty and intelligence of his mother. (the
perfect man! 