Trunks (Dragon Ball)

Trunks Briefs is a major character in the Dragon Ball series. He is the Saiyan/human hybrid son of Vegeta and Bulma and the older brother of Bulla. Like both Gohan and Goten, he is a Human-Saiyan hybrid.
He is voiced by the late Hiromi Tsuru as a baby and Takeshi Kusao in the Japanese version, Skip Stellrecht in the Animaze dub, Cathy Weseluck as a child and Alistair Abell as an adult in the Ocean Group dub, Stephanie Nadolny as a baby in DBZ, Laura Bailey as a child in the series and the game until Xenoverse 2, Eric Vale as an adult, Colleen Clinkenbeard as a baby in DBZ Kai and Alexis Tipton as a child in DBS in the various Funimation dubs, the late Jodie Forrest as a baby in the AB Groupe dub, Matthew Erickson in the Blue Water dub and Erica Mendez as a child in the Bang Zoom! dub.
For his future counterpart, go to this page.
==History==
===Dragon Ball Z===
====Early life====
Trunks was born to Vegeta and Bulma six months before the appearance of the Androids and Cell.
He is revealed to be an illegitimate child; after Bulma broke up with Yamcha, she and Vegeta began an affair that led to Trunks' conception.
After his birth, he was mainly cared for by his mother and maternal grandparents and his father periodically visited with him as everyone was preparing for the battle with the Androids. However, Vegeta paid little attention to his son and acted as if he didn't care for the baby, even though Bulma later said that Vegeta really does love Trunks and is protective of him.
During the Android and Cell conflicts, Trunks spent some time with his future counterpart, Future Trunks. After the battle ended, Vegeta and Bulma reconciled and got married, and began raising Trunks together. Trunks started spending more time with his father, who began training Trunks as soon as he learned to walk. Because of this, Vegeta and Trunks developed a close father-son bond; Trunks was proud to be his father's son and was more than eager to become stronger to make his father proud.
====World Martial Arts Tournament ====
Seven years after Cell was defeated, Trunks is 8-years-old and demonstrated great strength and power for his age, even more than Vegeta, Goku, and Gohan at that age. He spent a lot of time being trained by his father, but at one point, attained the ability to become a Super Saiyan. However Trunks did this without Vegeta’s knowledge and one day tried to train in the Gravity Room with his father, though it was a bit intense for him. The Saiyan prince suggested to Trunks that he take a break, but he just transformed into a Super Saiyan and leapt around easily, much to Vegeta’s shock. Although proud of his son, Vegeta promised Trunks to take him to the park if the boy managed to hit him once. Trunks did this but Vegeta unintentionally struck him in the face and asked Trunks if he was stronger than Goten, to which Trunks said he is only because he is older and Goten doesn't know how to fly yet.
The half-Saiyan competed in the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament along with many of the other Z-Fighters. However, Trunks was dismayed to learn he would only get to fight in the Junior Division rather than in the Adult Division.Trunks easily fought his way through the Junior Division, reaching the Grand Finals where he faced off against Goten. After a lengthy battle, it appeared the boys were equal in strength but at the end, Trunks wins after breaking the rule to not turn into Super Saiyans (even though Goten also broke the rule earlier). For winning the Junior Division, Trunks got the chance to face Mr. Satan, who, knowing how much power he had, asked him to just lightly punch him in the face. However for the half-Saiyan, even a light punch sent Mr. Satan flying out of the arena, letting Trunks win. But the audience just thought he’d lost on purpose to be nice to the boy. Afterwards Trunks and Goten competed in the adult division by diguising themselves as the fighter, Mighty Mask. They fought in a free for all match with the other contestants, including Android 18, and engaged in a lengthy battle with the android. Eventually 18 used the Destructo Disc technique to cut Trunks and Goten’s costume in half, revealing their deception and disqualifying them. Afraid of getting in trouble, the boys fled the area.
====Battle with Majin Buu ====
After finding out about the release of the monster Majin Buu from Videl, Trunks and Goten went to help fight him. They arrived at the battlefield right before Vegeta appeared to fight him and Trunks cheered for his father, but then got worried as he saw his father getting seriously injured as he failed to kill Buu. As Vegeta struggled against Buu, Trunks angrily interfered by kicking Buu away and tended his father with Goten's help. Realizing he must do whatever is necessary to protect the planet and his family, Vegeta decided to sacrifice himself. For the first time ever, Vegeta told Trunks he had never held him since he was a baby, leading him to hug his son and tell him how proud he is of him. Vegeta then knocked his son and Goten out and had Piccolo carry them away from the fight in order to get them to safety. Upon waking up at Kami's hideout, Trunks and Goten found out that Vegeta and Gohan were both dead. This devastated Trunks who angrily asked Goku why didn't he save his father but Goku only said he can't Buu alone and he believes the boys can do it. Goku then told the two boys about the Fusion Dance technique would let them fuse into one more powerful fighter that could match Majin Buu. However Babidi sent out a message to the people of Earth, telling them he was after Trunks, Goten, and Piccolo. He found out Trunks was from West City and planned to head there with Majin Buu to destroy the city. Since they needed the Dragon Radar to find the Dragon Balls to bring back everyone killed in the conflict, Trunks flew to West City to get it while Goku kept Buu occupied. Thanks to his Super Saiyan 3 transformation, which impressed Trunks greatly, he was able to buy the half-Saiyan the time he needed to find the Dragon Radar. However the fight had cost Goku energy, reducing the time he had on Earth, and he began teaching Trunks and Goten the Fusion Dance. But at their request, he showed them how to become a Super Saiyan 3 first, costing him even more time. Eventually Goku ran out of time and left the job of teaching Trunks and Goten the Fusion Dance to Piccolo.
After two failed attempts to fuse, Trunks and Goten successfully performed the Fusion Dance, becoming Gotenks. However Gotenks was far too arrogant and went to fight Majin Buu, but was beaten by the majin. After returning to the Lookout and defusing, Trunks and Goten fused as Super Saiyans and Super Saiyan Gotenks raced off to fight Majin Buu again. However since he spent too much time flying around the world, he defused back into Trunks and Goten before he could even face the majin. They flew back to the Lookout, where they took a nap, but as they were sleeping, Super Buu came into being and found the Lookout, now able to sense energy. After getting the majin to wait an hour, Piccolo had Krillin wake Trunks and Goten and take them to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, so they could get in some more training. But as they were walking there, Super Buu killed Chi-Chi, when she confronted him about (apparently) killing Gohan, much to Goten’s horror. Trunks managed to give him a pep talk to pump him up to fight Buu and they went into the Time Chamber to train. However Super Buu lost patience after a half hour and demanded to fight immediately so Piccolo took him on the longest route possible to the Time Chamber. But Buu eventually got wise to what he was doing and Piccolo telepathically contacted Trunks and Goten, telling them he and Buu would arrive in 1 minute, which would be six hours in the Time Chamber. Thus they should take time to rest in preparation for the fight with Buu and Trunks and Goten prepared to fuse. They taunted the majin at first, but before they could fuse, he punched Trunks in the face. The half-Saiyan scolded him for doing so and told him to wait, before fusing into Gotenks and taking on Super Buu. However he couldn’t beat the majin, even after blowing him to pieces with the Super Kamikaze Ghost Attack and vaporizing his pieces. After Gotenks pretended to be out of energy to make the fight more spectacular, Piccolo blew up the entrance of the Time Chamber, trapping Gotenks, Super Buu, and himself inside. However the majin, enraged and horrified at the prospect of being trapped without candy forever, let loose a powerful scream that tore open a dimensional hole. Super Buu escaped through it and though Gotenks and Piccolo tried, they couldn’t do the same. However the fusion revealed he could transform into a Super Saiyan 3 and managed to do what Super Buu did, allowing Gotenks and Piccolo to escape. After getting out, Gotenks managed to put up a better fight against the majin, but as he prepared to finish Buu off, he started losing power and ultimately defused. Trunks, Goten, and Piccolo seemed to be doomed at Super Buu’s hands until Gohan, now greatly empowered thanks to the Elder Kai, arrived and fought him. He proved easily able to take on the majin, angering him to the point that he used a self-destruction attack, but when he regenerated, he hid for an hour. Upon showing himself, Super Buu demanded to fight Trunks and Goten fused as Gotenks again and the two boys fused into Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks once more. However this was all a trick and absorbed Gotenks and Piccolo into himself, becoming far more powerful. After Goku and Vegeta were purposely absorbed as Vegito, they rescued Trunks, Goten, Piccolo, Gohan, and the good Majin Buu from Super Buu. However this made him change into his original form, Kid Buu, and Trunks, Goten, Piccolo, and Gohan were killed when he blew up the Earth with his Planet Burst. But Trunks and everyone else on Earth were brought back by the Namekian Dragon Balls to lend energy to Goku’s Spirit Bomb, which he used to destroy Kid Buu.
In the aftermath, Trunks and his mother reunited with his father, and they shared a happy family reunion. When Trunks saw Buu, he was ready to attack him until Vegeta calmed him down and told him that Buu meant no harm. Four years after the battle, when Trunks is 12-years-old, he becomes an older brother when his parents welcomed their second child, a girl named Bulla.
===Dragon Ball Super===
Trunks spends quality time with his parents, as Bulma orders Vegeta to join them in window and actual shopping, as well as getting ice cream.
Emperor Pilaf, Shu, and Mai gather the Dragon Balls to make a wish, however, Pilaf failed to consider the parameters of his wish when he wishes they were all younger, since it reverts them all to childhood. None of the Z Fighters recognise them as enemies since they hadn't faced Goku since he was a child himself, thus the trio are able to squat around Capsule Corp during the first appearance of the God of Destruction Beerus and his attendant Whis. 
Trunks sees Mai, and he instantly developed a crush, thus he invites her and her friends to stay at Capsule Corp as long as they need to, after he asked permission from Bulma, who likewise doesn't recall Pilaf as a villain that threatened her during her teenage years.
While Pilaf continued to plot world domination schemes, they are so unrealistic and impractical that he can't even begin them; thereby, he and his two minions merely become assistants for Bulma, whether it be cleaning, helping in the lab, and sometimes cooking - comedically, Pilaf believed that he is only biding his time for the next conquest, remaining in denial.
Future Trunks appeared in his time machine, but unconscious due to exhaustion and damage from a fight with Goku Black. Trunks is confused and scared to see someone that looked like him, which is made worse when Bulma addressed Future Trunks with his name. Pilaf suspects Future Trunks is a secret love child that Vegeta and Bulma had before getting married, whereas Shu believes he is an aged clone. Bulma eventually explains the backstory of Future Trunks, which causes tension as Beerus and Whis are present, and tampering with time is a taboo, even for gods.
Goku brings a Senzu bean to heal Future Trunks; the time traveler mistakes Goku for his villainous double, Goku Black, so attacked him, until the misunderstanding is corrected. With Future Trunks' health restored, Mai notices how handsome he is, thereby develops feelings for him, much to the chagrin and envy of the younger Trunks. Future Trunks' serious, mature, and compassionate nature increases Mai's adoration; when he realises she is the younger version of his best and closest friend, he stares at her intently, before realising it is impolite, so apologises, however, this simply makes Mai blush.
Trunks witnesses the appearance of Goku Black, who followed through the rupture in space-time caused by the time machine; Goku and Black battle briefly before the rupture dragged Black into it, but before he is dropped back to the future, he blows up the time machine, then vanishes as the crack in reality sealed shut.
Future Trunks is shocked when Bulma revealed she had another time machine, which was from the alternate timeline Cell they had faced. He helps the Pilaf gang clean the mossy machine, while Bulma studies a research book Future Bulma had filled with data and development on the creation and function of the time machine. Eventually the time machine is restored, so Future Trunks is accompanied by Goku and Vegeta as they go to fight Goku Black in the future.
Goku, Vegeta, and Future Trunks return from the future due to being defeated by Goku Black and Zamasu, so they can recover and regroup for subsequent attack. Trunks starts trying to impress Mai, also to compete with his older alternate timeline self, although she mostly doesn't notice due to her attention being on Future Trunks, and the couple times she does notice, she doesn't understand what Trunks was trying to do because of his awkward fumbling.
Goku, Vegeta, and Future Trunks return from the second trip to the future, due to being defeated again. Future Trunks falls into depression due to frustration about his timeline being so close to permanent ruin, the guilt that Zamasu was "inspired" to use time travel with a Time Ring because of him, and finally due to feeling hopeless from lacking in belief in his own strength. While Pilaf and Shu plot to manipulate a romantic situation in a misguided but sincere attempt to help Mai progress a relationship, Mai herself watches Future Trunks struggle with melancholy, and pondering how she could help. Before any of the Pilaf gang can act, Trunks confronts Future Trunks, using blunt criticism and derision in the same vein as Vegeta; Mai is shocked at Trunks' attitude, but upon seeing Future Trunks regain his composure and confidence, she understands and appreciates what Trunks did.
Goku, Vegeta, and Future Trunks go back to the future, but once again are defeated, but only the two pure-blood Saiyans returned, since the hybrid was forced to stay in the future to fight off Goku Black and Zamasu. Goku, Vegeta, and Bulma - due to potential time machine repair and bringing supplies to the survivors - launch in the time machine. Trunks is worried about his parents, but cheers for them.
In the future, Merged Zamasu is destroyed by Future Trunks, however, his invincibility kept his soul in existence; his essence expands to encapsulate the entire universe of the future. Zamasu's demented visage appears through the space-time fissure in the present, much to the alarm of everyone at Capsule Corp. This darkness disappears when Future Zeno erases Infinite Zamasu and the entire future timeline.
Goku, Vegeta, Bulma, Future Trunks, and Future Mai return with the time machine. Mai and Future Mai are startled by seeing each other; Trunks, upon seeing the beauty of Future Mai, develops a crush on her, too. 
While the future timeline is gone, Whis travels to a point in time post-Androids (the evil versions) but before Zamasu commenced his Project Zero Mortals, thus informs the Future Beerus to destroy Zamasu to prevent the second apocalypse. The downside is that Future Trunks and Future Mai will have to live in their future, but it will be one in which they will have to live as duplicates to versions of themselves that already live there.
Future Trunks and Future Mai lift off in the time machine, while their present day friends and variants offer goodbyes and encouragement for them. Mai is sad that Future Trunks will be gone forever, though Pilaf tries to reassure her that she still has a version of Trunks to date, but she - in a rare display - hits him hard, as she expresses irritation that she is in mourning, so wants time to herself.
When Goku summons Shenron to resurrect King Kai, Gregory, and Bubbles, Trunks brings Goten so they can demand a wish, due to annoyance that they never get to have a wish. However, when Bulma helps them realise they don't know what they want to wish for, Trunks relents to forfeit his demand for a wish until he can think of one.
Trunks wants to join the Tournament of Power, however, the adults deem him and Goten too careless and immature to be among the participants. Thus, Trunks is relegated to being in the audience.
=== Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero ===
Trunks and Goten - now teens - along with Krillin and Android 18 are brought by Bulma to help Piccolo in his battle against Red Pharmaceuticals, which is a cover for the revived Red Ribbon Army, led by Commander Magenta, who is the son of the original Army's Commander Red.
As Piccolo and Gohan corrected the misunderstanding with Dr. Hedo, Gammas 1 and 2, the fight seemed over when the youths arrived. In a panic, Magenta commenced the activation of Cell Max, even though the Android hadn't completed its gestation. Dr. Hedo is able to kill Magenta with his cybernetic wasp, Hachymaru. but Magenta is able to trigger the awakening of Cell Max. Due to being incomplete, the creature's mind didn't develop, thus leaving it a beast of destructive instinct; also, while Cell Max hadn't reached the pinnacle of its power, it still vastly exceeded the power of the original creation, being a potential threat to even god level energies.
Trunks and Goten perform the fusion dance, however, lack of practice made Goten bend the wrong finger, thus the fusion creates a failed obese warrior, although still named Gotenks.
Learning that Cell Max's head has an intentional weak spot designed by Dr. Hedo for insurance, Gotenks tries to attack. Gotenks loses control of his momentum, but his speed and weight allow his head-on collision to crack Cell Max's skull. Gamma 2 uses his full speed attack to perform a kamikaze maneuver that severs one of Cell Max's arms, and reducing its strength. 
In conjunction with a recent Dragon Ball-acquired power up, Orange Piccolo uses his classic gigantification form to properly restrain Cell Max. Gohan achieves a new higher power level with his Beast Form; he uses a Special Beam Cannon to head shot Cell Max, which kills the monster and triggers a self-destruction. The surviving heroes escape, avoiding damage from the blast zone.
When Bulma realises she could use Dr. Hedo's bio-tech genius for beauty treatment, Gotenks leaks that she already uses the Dragon Balls to maintain her youth; Gotenks defuses into Goten and Trunks, with Bulma angrily demanding which one of them gave away her secret.
====10 Years Later====
After ten years had passed, Trunks is 18-years-old and was forced by his father to compete in the World Martial Arts Tournament or else his allowance would be cut off. During the tournament, Trunks revealed to Goten that he had a girlfriend who was watching him from the audience. When Goku realized that one of the competitors, Uub, was Kid Buu’s good reincarnation, he left to train the boy, wishing Trunks and the others good-bye.
===Dragon Ball GT===
At age 23 (28 in the dub version), Trunks has become the CEO of Capsule Corp, but he dislikes the job and prefers to sneak away, but is often caught by his father. After the Black Star Dragon Balls are scattered across the universe the Earth will blow up in a year as a consequence, Vegeta forced Trunks to travel across the universe with Goku and Goten (who was replaced by Pan before the mission began). After a year, Trunks and the group returned to Earth to find everyone possessed by Baby, and Trunks becomes one of his victims due to an earlier battle with Baby, who attempted to take over Trunks' body. Trunks and a few others are later brought back to their senses and Trunks discovers that Baby has taken over his father's body. After Goku defeats Baby, Trunks and the rest of the Z warriors evacuate the planet before it explodes and use the Namekian Dragon Balls to restore it back. Several months later, Trunks is attacked by Android 17 and left unconscious. After waking up he learns that all the past enemies the characters fought are released from Hell and Trunks takes part in the battles to eliminate the enemies. He, Vegeta, Gohan, and Goten fight against Super Android 17, but is overpowered and left badly injured until Goku and Android 18 defeat 17. Vegeta carries his injured son and assures him the battle is over.
Trunks would later join everyone in the fight against the Dark Dragons. He, Goten, and Gohan would fight Omega Shenron in order to buy time for their fathers to perform the Fusion Dance and fight Omega. When it was believed Goku was killed, Vegeta ordered Trunks to get everyone to safety and fight Omega in his place in case he doesn't survive. While Trunks gets his mother, sister, and friends away from the battlefield, he goes back with Goten and Gohan to help his father but is easily defeated. He would later lend his energy to Goku to from a giant Spirit Bomb to destroy Omega. After Goku's departure and Pan wonders if the Dragon Balls will return, Trunks tells her they must learn to solve their problems without relying on them and they will come back once everyone proves that. 100 years later, Trunks' descendant, Vegeta Jr., makes his debut while competing against Goku Jr. in a tournament.
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==Trivia==
*His Japanese Voice Actor, Takeshi Kusao is best known for voicing as Dororo from Sgt. Frog, Kiriha Aonuma, Ballistamon, Greymon from Digimon Xros Wars and Jō Kido from Digimon Adventure:.
* His Future/adult Voice Actor Eric Vale is best known as the voice of Sanji from the One Piece series.
* His original English voice actress, Laura Bailey, is best known for her roles as Marvel's Natasha Romanoff, Emily in Glitter Force, Maka Albarn from Soul Eater, Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket series, Tokine Yukimura from Kekkaishi, Anko Mitarashi, Kurotsuchi & Kushina Uzumaki from Naruto Shippuden, Blaze the Cat from Sonic the Hedgehog series, Tier Harribel, Hiyori Sarugaki (episodes 206+), Mashiro Kuna from Bleach, Beastmon from Digimon Fusion and Xing Huo from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle.
* His child self's current English actress is Alexis Tipton, who took over for Laura as the voice of Blazblue's Platinum the Trinity. She also voiced Anya Hepburn in Soul Eater NOT, Merle in Vision of Escaflowne, and Mei Hatsume in My Hero Academia.
* While non-canon in Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon, the deuteragonist Tapion gifts his sword to Trunks, thus a different origin than his Future counterpart, who gained it from his mother.
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