Future Trunks

Future Trunks, also known as Trunks Brief, Trunks of the Future and Time Patrol Trunks, is one of the main characters from the Dragon Ball series.
== Charactah Account ==
Vegeta and Bulma's son from an apocalyptic alternate timeline. With his father and most of the Z-Fighters dead at the hands of two monstrous Androids, he was raised by his mother and trained by Future Gohan, growing to be polite, selfless, and ruthlessly dedicated to ending the mechanical menace. He comes to the main timeline to warn Goku and his friends of their fate and search for a way to save his own timeline.
Twelve years later, Trunks returns to the main timeline, this time to ask for help against a threat far more dire than the Androids ever were, one that has brought the human race to the brink of extinction.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Dragon Ball Super
* Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
* Dragon Ball Z
* Dragon Ball Z Kai
* Dragon Ball Z Kai: Bring Peace to the Future! Goku's Spirit is Eternal
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 7: Super Android 13!
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 8: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 9: Bojack Unbound
* Dragon Ball Z Movie 15: Resurrection 'F'
* Dragon Ball Z: Atsumare! Goku's World
* Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes
=== Manga ===
* Cross Epoch
* Dragon Ball
* Dragon Ball Super
* Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha!
* Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission!!
=== Video Games ===
* Battle Stadium D.O.N
* Data Carddass Dragon Ball Z 2
* Dragon Ball Discross
* Dragon Ball FighterZ
* Dragon Ball Fusions
* Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout
* Dragon Ball Heroes
* Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butouden
* Dragon Ball Legends
* Dragon Ball Online
* Dragon Ball Xenoverse
* Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
* Dragon Ball Z 2: Super Battle
* Dragon Ball Z For Kinect
* Dragon Ball Z III: Ressen Jinzouningen
* Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
* Dragon Ball Z Side Story: True Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans - Earth Saga
* Dragon Ball Z Side Story: True Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans - Space Saga
* Dragon Ball Z: Bakuretsu Impact
* Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
* Dragon Ball Z: Battle Taikan Kamehameha 2 - Ossu Omee Gokuu Tenkaichi Budoukai
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai HD Collection
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
* Dragon Ball Z: Buyuu Retsuden
* Dragon Ball Z: Collectible CD Picture Cards
* Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle
* Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Battlers
* Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden
* Dragon Ball Z: Gekitou Tenkaichi Budoukai
* Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Idainaru Son Goku Densetsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World
* Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
* Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors
* Dragon Ball Z: Sagas
* Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai
* Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden 3
* Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors
* Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2
* Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu
* Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II
* Dragon Ball Z: The Legend
* Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
* Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
* Dragon Ball Z: V.R.V.S.
* Dragon Ball Z: W Bakuretsu Impact
* Dragon Ball: Raging Blast
* Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2
* Dragon Ball: Tap Battle
* Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle
* Jump Force
* Jump Ultimate Stars
* Super Dragon Ball Z
== Trivia ==
* Like the rest of his family (apart from Vegeta), Trunks' name is a pun on an undergarment.
* Composer for the Funimation dub of the Dragon Ball Z, Bruce Faulconer, stated on his website that Future Trunks was his favorite Dragon Ball character. American voice actor Christopher Sabat has agreed, saying that apart from Vegeta, Trunks is his favorite character from the series. He has liked how his character is "lone survivor of the apocalypse, son of the most angry and the most headstrong characters." He additionally liked Future Trunks' fights, such as the one in which he easily killed Frieza and his father.
* Despite having been officially stated that Goku was the one who defeated Frieza and King Cold in Cell's and Future Trunks' timeline, Cell implies that Future Trunks was as responsible for Frieza and King Cold's defeat in his/Trunks' timeline as he was in the main timeline while telling Piccolo about his origins as well as the cells that were infused to him.
* Trunks and his father, Vegeta, were both killed by a Death Beam through the chest by a major supervillain. While Frieza used a normal death beam on Vegeta, Cell used a Full Power Death Beam on Trunks.
* In the Character Illustrations section of the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series, it is stated that Future Trunks obtained his sword from Tapion, although this is contradicted in every other official source which has discussed its origin. Not to mention, in Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and 3, if Trunks and Tapion fight, they clearly recognize each other, Trunks even says "Long time, no see."
* Future Trunks is referred to as Time Patrol Trunks in Dragon Ball Online and Xeno Trunks in Dragon Ball Heroes, while retaining his name Future Trunks in the Xenoverse series.
* Due to time travel, Future Trunks has multiple incarnations/counterparts in addition to his main timeline counterpart. It was the Future Trunks from Cell's Timeline who caused other timelines to be distorted.
** The Future Trunks from Cell's Timeline who was killed by Cell.
** Future Trunks from Dragon Ball Super who's timeline was devastated by Fused Zamasu and Erased by Future Zeno, forcing him and Future Mai to live in the future timeline created when Whis warned Future Beerus.
** Future Trunks who lives in the Future Timeline created by Whis' warning Future Beerus. Lives with his timeline's Future Mai. Sharing this timeline with their counterparts from the erased Future Timeline.
*** It is implied in the Xenoverse series that this counterpart may have eventually been recruited by Chronoa to be her attendant and works to defend history as a member of the Time Patrol (otherwise known as Time Patrol Trunks) as his timeline still exists, however this was disproven in Xenoverse 2's 4th DLC Pack as Time Patrol Trunks has zero memory of encountering a 2nd version of himself. It's possible he never met the Future Trunks from Super.
** Future Trunks has a younger counterpart mentioned in Xenoverse 2 who exists in the altered future timeline created by Time Patrol Trunks which saves Future Gohan in Age 780.
*** It is also implied in Xenoverse 2 that Time Patrol Trunks has two alternate counterparts of his own, one being the Time Patrol Trunks who obeyed Chronoa and did not prevent Future Gohan from dying and the Time Patrol Trunks who prevented Future Gohan's death which may have created a new future timeline provided that Chronoa chose not to erase or fix said change.
** Xeno Trunks is the Xeno world incarnation of Time Patrol Trunks featured in the Dragon Ball Carddassseries and media related to Dragon Ball Heroes/Super Dragon Ball Heroes.
*** In Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Dark Demon Realm Mission!, Xeno Trunks' recruitment by Chronoais shown and he is revealed to have originated from the Xeno world incarnation of the Future Trunks timeline which never experienced the Project Zero Mortals conflict presumably due the history of the Xeno world main timeline playing out like the main timeline in Dragon Ball GT.
*** The Prison Planet Saga, Universal Conflict Saga, and Universe Creation Saga all confirm that Xeno Trunks and the Dragon Ball Super incarnation of Future Trunks are separate incarnations of Future Trunks from different versions of Future Trunks' timeline.
* In the film Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, Paragus refers to him as Prince Trunks though this was part of his ploy to convince Vegeta to lead his New Saiyan Empire. Though Future Trunks is only technically a Prince as his father (Future/Main timeline) never held the title of King due to the Genocide of the Saiyanswiping out the original Saiyan Empire, leaving Vegeta without a kingdom to rule over, hence the young Vegeta's line in Broly about never becoming King after being informed about Planet Vegeta's destruction.
* When Future Trunks is tagged out in Budokai Tenkaichi 2, he says "back to the future"; a reference to the time traveling film Back to the Future.
* Trunks is the second to last person to have his power level stated with the use of a scouter, being only 5 because he suppressed his true power to avoid detection and mislead Frieza and King Cold.
* Angelo's hair from Dragon Quest VIII strongly resembles Future Trunks' base form with shorter hair.
** Akira Toriyama was the art director for the Dragon Quest games, so it is highly possible he based his designs on Trunks.
* The Yu-Gi-Oh! card character Tyler the Great Warrior seems based on Future Trunks.
* Future Trunks has killed both villains that killed his father. He killed Frieza in the present timeline and the Androids in his own future timeline, who both killed Vegeta. Also, in killing Frieza he avenged the deaths of his paternal grandfather and the Saiyans killed by Frieza during the Genocide of the Saiyans, which is somewhat fitting considering his royal Saiyan heritage.
* According to the Databooks:
** Trunks' favorite food is convenience store bento.
** Trunks' favorite vehicle is the time machine.
* Trunks has altered the flow of time twice in his life, radically changing events and saving Goku on both occasions. The first is when he went back in time to save Goku from the heart virus and killing Frieza and King Cold as well, drastically altering the course of the future. The second time Trunks saved Goku, he wasn't aware he saved him when he retreated to the past to get help from Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan to fight Goku Black. Trunks unknowingly traveled back to a point to where Goku hasn't met Zamasu yet. Due to Trunks' interference, Beerus and Whis caught wind of Zamasu's evil heart and were able to stop him from carrying out his plans and saving Goku from what was supposed to be his death and the creation of Goku Black.
** Three times if one counts Time Patrol Trunks saving his mentor Future Gohan from dying in Age 780 in the Unknown History Saga of Xenoverse 2, though this timeline may have been fixed/erased depending on whether or not Chronoa chose to do so (as her final decision is left ambiguous).
* Trunks has fought with and defeated a version of every major villain from Dragon Ball Z. Upon arrival to the present timeline, he kills Mecha Frieza, along with his father. While in the present, he kills an unborn Present Cell with Krillin, and upon returning to his timeline after the Cell Games, he kills Future Cell. Roughly 7–9 years after this, Trunks fights and kills both Future Dabura and Future Babidi, effectively disabling Future Innocent Buu.
* As of the events of Xenoverse 2, Future Trunks is effectively responsible for killing King Cold and both of his sons, as he kills Cooler in Xenoverse 2 when he reprograms the Big Gete Star to self-destruct, which ends up killing Cooler in his Meta-Cooler Core form.
* In Dragon Ball Fusions in Ziku-kan Quest: "Darkness Cometh", it is shown that Pan thinks more highly of Future Trunks than his main timeline counterpart (which includes Kid Trunks and his adult self from the GT Timeline) and she even passingly refers to him as the "Cool" Trunks.
* In Dragon Ball Fusions, Future Trunks is the first Saiyan/Human hybrid to attain a divine Saiyan form (Super Saiyan Blue). However his acquisition of Super Saiyan Blue is only mentioned in passing as he is only depicted in his God-like Saiyan state, after he is said to have obtained it through training with Tekka's Team against Vegito Blue.
* Interestingly, in Xenoverse 2 DLC Pack 4, the Future Trunks in Dragon Ball Super is referred to by Chronoa as a different version of Trunks. Time Patrol Trunks is stated to be the very same Future Trunks who was present during the Android and Cell saga. The Future Trunks of Dragon Ball Super is stated to have gone through the same events as Time Patrol Trunks but was never recruited to the Time Patrol. That would make Trunks, in addition to already possessing numerous incarnations of himself throughout all the timelines, having four very different versions of himself. The original Future Trunks who lost his life from Cell, Future Trunks who exists during the Cell Saga who became Trunks: Xeno, his present timeline counterpart, and the Super version, also from the Cell Saga, who was never recruited by the Time Patrol. Time Patrol Trunks also didn't know that Android 18 was married to Krillin and had a child, thus thinking that she is still evil, until being informed by Chronoa.
* Future Trunks from Super is a lot more powerful compared to his other counterparts who only possessed the basic Super Saiyan. Unlike his other counterparts, he unfortunately lost the lives of his family and the people he knew due to Goku Black and Future Zamasu. In order to end the Project Zero Mortals, Future Zeno erased the entire timeline. This would mean he lost the existence of his family and the people, except Future Mai, in his own biological timeline.
* Future Trunks holds the rank of "Commander" by Earth's Resistance in his timeline, and Time Patrol Trunks is referred to as both Captain and Commander of the Time Patrol in the Xenoverse series.
* Despite his close attachment to Future Gohan, Future Trunks does not seem particularly concerned with his his present timeline counterpart. For example, when Gohan was beaten senseless by Perfect Cell, Future Trunks does not frantically rush to his aid, only watching the younger version of his mentor suffer at Cell's hands.
* When Future Trunks foretells of the Androids in the manga, he mentions them as Nos. 19 and 20. Because of Akira Toriyama's editor expressing dissatisfaction when they appeared, Toriyama created Androids 17 and 18 to be the androids Future Trunks foretold of, thus creating a plot hole. The plot hole is fixed in the anime, where Future Trunks doesn't mention them by name.
* Future Trunks is the only character that met and fought against all 3 of Cell's forms.
* The red bandanna Future Trunks wears around his neck in Dragon Ball Super resembles the one Bulma wore in Resurrection ‘F’ and Dragon Ball Super.
* Future Trunks has various hairstyles throughout the series. A bowl cut, long hair with ponytail, and long hair. Thus he has three different Super Saiyan hairstyles.
* In Kakarot, it is revealed by the Despondent Man during the Sub Story: "Android Admirer", that the identity of the warrior who defeated Future Androids 17 & 18 (as Future Cells existence is unheard of by the general population of Earth due to him being eliminated by Future Trunks as soon as he attempts to steal the Time Machine) is unknown to the general populous as he refers to Future 18's killer as the mysterious warrior. Due to his infatuation with Future 18, the Despondent Man expresses anger when talking about the mysterious warrior unaware that he is Future Trunks. Fortunately he never learns that Future Trunks is responsible and thanks to Future Oolong disguising himself as Future 18, they are able to trick the suicidal man that Future 18 faked her death and plans to travel the world alone, which along with Future Oolong messing up Future 18's facial features convinces the man to not take his own life.
** However it is shown that knowledge of Future Trunks' role in the Androids' (Future 17, Future 18, & Future Cell) defeat is known to the Future Z Fighters and their remaining supporters such as Future Chi-Chi and Future Ox-King.
*** It is unknown if Future Trunks' role was revealed to Earth's general population after the release of Future Bulma's book the Legend of Dragon Ball (as Future Trunks has little reason to hide it given that the Brief family are already well-known for running the Capsule Corporation thus could easily handle the notoriety & fame) or in the aftermath of Project Zero Mortals (though its possible rank-and-file members of Earth's Resistance are aware of Future Trunks' role in their defeat given his power and abilities).
* Upon first meeting Future Shin and Future Kibito in Kakarot, Future Trunks is briefly worried that they might be more Red Ribbon Androids he didn't know about after Future Shin refers to him by name and shows awareness of his ability to use Flight. This shows that Future Trunks remains vigilante of the possibility that more Androids may appear in his timeline either created by Future Dr. Gero's Supercomputer following the failure of Future Cell and/or older models that may be activated one day to wreck havok.
* In a Tweet, Bandai Namco claimed Future Trunks' birthday was November 21st.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Future Trunks at Dragon Ball Wiki
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