- Name: Trunks
- Japanese Pronunciation: Torankusu
- Ethnicity: 1/2 Saiyajin, 1/2 Human
- Origin of name: trunks (Japanese word for Boxers)
- Father: Vegeta
- Mother: Bulma
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Son of Bulma and Vegeta. There are essentially two different
Trunks, one coming from a grim and chaotic future and one that was born
in to a comfortable home in a comparatively more peaceful time.
Teenage Trunks from the future (mirai), age 17, arrives
just when Freezer and King Cold have come to earth in order to wreak
revenge on Goku. However, the connivance of these sub-temperature villains
is foiled by Trunks, who hacks Freezer to pieces and finishes off his
dad too. Minutes later, Goku's ship from Yardalat Planet touches down,
and Trunks has a little pow-wow with the Saiyajin hero.
Trunks convinces Goku of a disastrous future when Goku
has died of heart disease and evil Androids are running amuck. He informs
Goku of where the Androids will come and, fortunately for Goku, gives
him medicine from the future that will remedy the presently incurable
disease.
Trunks later comes back to check up on Goku, only to
discover that he (Trunks) has inadvertently changed the past (as he
knew it). New androids appear (#19, #20, and #16) and the ones he is
worried about, #17 and #18, turn out to be harmless.
However, a great menace appears, a biologically-created
creature named Cell. (The story gets somewhat complicated here.) Trunks
stays on to battle Cell, and returns to the future satisfied, after
Cell is defeated by Gohan. Back to the future (sorry), Trunks, now much
stronger after training with Goku in the past, easily defeats the evil
androids and future Cell, restoring peace in his time. Trunks from the
future is pensive, battle-hardened, and weary of the destruction and
violence of the future.
The other Trunks is chibi Trunks, who is best friends
with Goten. This Trunks, age 8, takes things for granted, having lived
comfortably as part of the Capsule Corp. empire and knowing no hardships
that future Trunks experienced.
Definitely more rambunctious than future Trunks, chibi
Trunks is full of wild antics, such as knocking out a fighter, taking
his costume and, along with Goten, pretending to be him in order to
participate in the adult division of the Tenkaichi Budoukai. Trunks,
just like his best friend, mastered Supersaiyajin naturally. Trunks
can fuse with Goten to become Gotenks.