10 Secrets About Trunks in the Dragon Ball Saga

With a series as long and influential as Dragon Ball, each character is bound to attract fans to identify with them. Goku fans hate to see him lose the limelight, Vegeta fans long for the day when he can finally defeat a powerful villain or his fellow villain, and Gohan fans agonize over whether their favorite character remains a scholar or becomes a powerful warrior again. . While several characters have their fans, few of them have fans as hardcore as those of Trunks & Future. 🤨

Trunks is a mysterious young man with a tragic past. He carries a sword and fights for a better future. He is a fascinating character by nature. Being the son of the two most explosive characters in the series, Vegeta & Bulma , despite having a relatively gentle and polite behavior, certainly also helps him assert his identity.

With so much to say about this character, it's likely that you've missed some facts in your quest to learn more about him. So let's head to the time when Future Trunks was the most relevant character in the series and quickly discover 10 Secrets about Trunks in the Dragon Ball saga! 🗡️

10. WHY TRUNKS HAS A SWORD?

At the end of Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Dragon , the main character of the plot, Tapion , gives his sword to Trunks and states that he believes it has always been his. Perhaps referring to Future Trunks' sword, Tapion's sword closely resembles his own blade. This movie may explain why present-day Trunks has a sword in Dragon Ball GT , but it cannot be the exact origin of Future Trunks ' sword because it comes from a timeline where the Dragon Team died and where Androids reigned supreme. 🤖

Although it is unknown whether they met in Future Trunks ' timeline, in the end credits of Tapion's film, Future Trunks can be seen brandishing the sword after it was given to him. 'current Trunks by Tapion. Future Trunks says that the sword was given to him by someone close to him when he uses the crystal balls to repair it in the arcade mode of the video game Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai . 🕹

It is also said that Tapion did give his sword to Future Trunks in the video games Dragon Ball: Raging Blast and Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z , the latter mentioning that Tapion gave it to him after sealing the villain Hirudegarn to the interior. Future Trunks tells Son Gohan that he was the one who taught him the art of swordsmanship in Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 . 🎮

9. WHY DOES TRUNKS HAVE BLUE HAIR?

What exactly is wrong with Trunks' hair? In the Dragonball series and manga, Trunks and Bulma both had the same purple colored hair. Bulma was seen with blue hair for the anime adaptation, but Toei Animation (for unknown reasons) kept Trunks' hair purple. Toriyama then decided to design Trunks with blue hair for the anime adaptation, but Toei had changed his hair again to make it purple in his child version. 🟣

But for some reason, with his return to the Dragon Ball Super saga, Toei didn't change Toriyama's character designs for the arc. Toriyama therefore designed the look of Future Trunks while keeping his hair blue. 🔵

When the Goku Black arc started, Toriyama also drew Future Trunks with blue hair but, for some reason, Toei decided to keep this Trunks' hair blue. Although the change came about due to production mishaps, fans decided to come up with their own reason which seems just as possible. Characters would change their hair color as they age, so fans just speculated that old Trunks now has hair that looks a lot like his mother's. 👩‍👦

8. WHY DOESN'T TRUNKS HAVE A TAIL?

It might just be a question of genetics. Trunks and Goten's generation were different from Gohan's because they were able to transform into Super Saiyans more easily from a young age and were not born with tails. The mixture of human and Saiyan blood gives them special abilities.

Gohan for example, was born with a tail and had a hidden potential triggered by rage that eventually allowed him to transform into a Super Saiyan 2 . In DBGT , Gohan was able to control this energy and it made his SSJ2 form even stronger. Trunks fused with Goten allowed them to naturally control large amounts of power. This advantage allowed them to transform into SSJ. 🔥

They got used to it since they transformed early on and never reached the Super Saiyan 2 stage because they were particularly skilled as Super Saiyans, just like Gohan was in his SSJ2 form. Their ability to naturally control large amounts of power was also demonstrated when they shocked Piccolo by transforming into a Super Saiyan 3, when they were such young fused warriors. 🚀

7. HOW OLD IS TRUNKS?

• Age of Trunks in Dragon Ball Super

Future Trunks during the DBS series would have already lived a total of 796 years, which means that he would be chronologically 30 years old, but due to his passage in the hyperbolic time chamber back in the DBZ series, he would be biologically 32 years old. ⏲

• Old Trunks in Dragon Ball Z

Goten and Trunks were 7 and 8 years old respectively in the Buu saga. In DBZ: Battle of Gods , they must be 1 year older at most so 8 and 9 years old, then in the film DBZ: The Resurrection of 'F' which doesn't happen that long later, they are also 1 year older . 🕒

Gohan is older than Trunks as a child but Future Trunks is much older than him... We can assume that around ten years have passed in "our" timeline, while ten years would have passed in the timeline time of the future, since these are the same trunks that returned in the android saga. 🕙

• Old Trunks in the Goku Black arc

Since Trunks was born at age 766 and spent over 2 years in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber , he is biologically 32 years old, but only 30 years have passed in his timeline, since his birth. 🧓 You can order your Funko Pop Trunks of the Future Figurine right here if you are a fan of this character!

6. TRUNKS IS A DEMI-GOD

By far the most significant change that the Super Saiyan Ikari /Rage form makes to Future Trunks is the fact that it transforms him into a true demigod . If you had to give Dragon Ball Super a main theme, it would have to be "the tangibility of divinity." From the Battle of the Gods until the end of the Universe Survival arc, Goku and Vegeta spend the entire series harnessing divine power in an attempt to surpass their limits and rival the divine in battle. We see this shift to divine power when they transition to the Super Saiyan Blue stage. More specifically, the blue aura signifies a mix between Saiyan Ki and God Ki. Future Trunks has a blue aura in the Super Saiyan Rage form. Coincidence? 🧐

It is important to mention that despite his blue aura, Future Trunks is only a demigod as he continues to leak regular, golden Super Saiyan Ki. It is obvious, however, that he did not harness God's Ki properly, but harnessed it just enough to gain some of the benefits of Super Saiyan Blue . Remarkably, Super Saiyan Ikari is the only case in the entire series of a character who only becomes half-divine. 🦅

5. ARE TRUNKS AND MAI A COUPLE?

There is no obvious indication that Trunks married Mai after the Black Goku saga but looking at the various clues that show their relationship goes deeper than just friends like Trunks kissing Mai for him give a senzu bean. This is also the case when Goku tells Trunks that they would look good together. All this may indicate that they will continue to live their romance or that they will start a family. 👨‍👩‍👦

4. HOW OLD IS MAY COMPARED TO TRUNKS?

Mai is much older than Trunks. When they first meet, he is 12 and she is 41 chronologically, but she appears as a child because she wishes she was young again thanks to the Dragon Balls.

3. DOES TRUNKS HAVE CHILDREN?

Vegeta and Bulma therefore had two children who are Trunks and Bra, both also playing their role in the Dragon Ball series. On the other hand, we do not yet know if Trunks will in turn start a family with his potential partner Mai. 👰

2. IS TRUNKS STRONGER THAN VEGETA?

The only time Trunks was shown to be stronger than Vegeta was when Frieza and King Cold came to Earth and when he used the Super Saiyan Second Grade form. Vegeta told semi-perfect Cell that Trunks wasn't as strong as him, but he was pretty close. Trunks thought he was only stronger because he found a new form.

During the battle against Cell, Vegeta is the stronger of the two, and even states this during Trunks' introduction in the Cell saga. Vegeta was more experienced and knew better than to waste time using Grade 3 for anything other than powering his Final Flash. The difference between the two at this point in the story isn't huge, but they are very close. Overall, Vegeta is more powerful until Trunks trains and when he returns in the future.

1. IS TRUNKS STRONGER THAN GOTEN?

Trunks is stronger because of his age. He has a full year more training than Goten, and we've all seen what a Saiyan can accomplish in the span of a single year. Plus, Trunks' training is much better since Vegeta trains him and he probably has to train every day due to his father's strictness.

You now know Trunks' craziest secrets in the Dragon Ball saga ! We hope we were able to answer all your questions, don't hesitate to leave us a comment below if you have any new questions left unanswered.