Trunks

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Trunks (特兰克斯)
Alias(es)	Future Trunks; Kid Trunks, distinguishing his future and present-day counterparts 315
Species/Race	Half-Saiyan, half-Earthling 204
Gender	Male
Parents	Vegeta and Emily 129 130
Age	Present-day Trunks is eight during the World Martial Arts Tournament 204
Affiliation	Earth's defenders; the Supreme Kai of his future timeline 149 317 357
Occupation/Role	Martial artist; future survivor and time traveler; Supreme Kai's apprentice in the future timeline 130 357
First Appearance	Introduced in the supplied account as the warrior who kills Frieza and King Cold 129

Power Progression

The present-day child and the visiting future warrior have separate development histories 315 316.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Super Saiyan — Future Trunks	130	Already possesses the transformation when he arrives from twenty years ahead. Demonstrates it while testing Goku with his sword.
Hyperbolic Time Chamber training — Future Trunks	149 153 174	Trains with Vegeta to pursue power beyond ordinary Super Saiyan. After the Cell conflict, confirms that his strength is sufficient to defeat his future's Androids easily; no specific new form is named in these passages.
Super Saiyan — present-day Trunks	194 195	Reveals the form during gravity training. It lets him move comfortably under pressure and impress Vegeta with his striking speed and strength.
Artificial Full Moon — present-day Trunks	236 238	Initially says he cannot perform Vegeta's technique; subsequently creates the moon needed for Vegeta's Great Ape transformation against Buu.
Fusion into Gotenks — present-day Trunks	269 272	Combines with Goten through the Fusion Dance. Their fused warrior fights Buu and is later absorbed.
Super Saiyan 2 — Future Trunks	314 318	Uses the form against Goku Black. Later explains that he originally awakened it when Babidi tortured the Supreme Kai during the battle against Dabura.
Enhanced Super Saiyan 2 — Future Trunks	317	Ten years of training allow him to overpower Goku's Super Saiyan 2 and raise his energy close to Goku's Super Saiyan 3 without transforming further.
Conscious use of healing — Future Trunks	357 359	Recognizes a previously unrecognized ability granted by his Supreme Kai apprenticeship and uses it to restore Vegeta.

Appearance

• Blue hair: Both the child and future counterparts have blue hair in their normal states 315.
• Capsule Corp clothing: The logo on Future Trunks's clothes helps Bulma recognize his connection to the company 129.
• Back-carried sword: Future Trunks carries a longsword on his back 357.
• Golden aura: His Super Saiyan transformations produce a golden aura 130 194 314.
• No tail: Present-day Trunks explicitly notes that he lacks a tail while comparing Goku's transformation with Vegeta's golden Great Ape 249.

Personality

Future Trunks favors preparation over pride. He urges Vegeta to destroy the Androids before activation or wait for Goku's recovery, and retrieves their blueprints rather than simply demolishing Dr. Gero's laboratory. Although frustrated by his father, he chooses to train alongside him because sparring offers faster progress than working alone 137 149.

His attachment to family shapes both his retreat and his willingness to fight. He escapes Goku Black because Emily told him to survive, but later refuses to abandon his home or let Vegeta die there. Vegeta initially condemns his escape as cowardice; Emily counters that Trunks fought to exhaustion and deserves rest 316 353.

Present-day Trunks is competitive and mischievous. He wants to surpass Goten, eagerly accepts an amusement-park challenge from Vegeta, and devises the plan to impersonate an adult tournament contestant. Goten's unexpected red-haired transformation leaves him visibly frustrated after their final match 194 195 205 207.

Abilities & Skills

Martial Arts and Swordsmanship

Trunks combines close combat with sword attacks, aerial movement, and energy techniques 130 314.

• Slices Frieza apart with his longsword and also kills King Cold 129 130.
• Tests Goku's reactions through controlled sword strikes; Goku blocks his subsequent attacks with one finger 130.
• Defeats fifteen-year-old Idasa with one move while only eight years old 204.
• Cannot break Cell's protective barrier with either a kick or a punch 157.
• Remains outmatched by Goku Black despite his Super Saiyan 2 power 314 317.

Ki Techniques

• Flight: Used for travel, pursuit, and catching injured allies before they fall 136 284 357.
• Masenko: Fires a concentrated blast that initially pushes Goku Black backward, although Black disperses it 314.
• Energy blasts: Helps destroy Dr. Gero's laboratory and uses an explosion to obscure his escape from Goku Black 149 314.
• Solar Flare: Uses blinding light against Goku Black and Zamasu to create openings 338 340.
• Artificial Full Moon: Present-day Trunks supplies the moon that enables Vegeta to transform during the Buu battle 238.

Fusion Dance

Present-day Trunks and Goten fuse into Gotenks 269 272.

• Their fusion eventually separates back into the two children 269.
• Buu absorbs Gotenks and adds the fused warrior's power to his own 272 273.

Supreme Kai Apprentice Healing

Future Trunks underwent a day-long ritual when the Supreme Kai recruited him to oppose Dabura. He only realizes during the Fused Zamasu battle that this apprenticeship also grants healing 357.

• Restores injuries and stamina, including Vegeta's after a severe beating 357 359.
• Concludes that unconscious healing helped Mai and Gowasu survive earlier injuries 357.
• Can restore only one fighter at Super Saiyan Blue or Super Saiyan 4 strength with his available healing capacity, forcing a choice between Goku and Vegeta 357.

Time-Travel Knowledge

Trunks operates Bulma's Time Machine rather than traveling through time through an innate ability 129.

• Understands that saving another timeline does not automatically repair his own future 149.
• Preserves the machine's established settings because he fears altering them could prevent him from reaching the same parallel world 312.
• Knows that its fuel is Cyan No. 15 Electro-fluid 316.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Longsword — His signature weapon against Frieza, Goku, and Goku Black; Black briefly takes it and threatens to kill him with it 130 314.
• Time Machine — Built by future Bulma. Enables his initial twenty-year journey and later travel seventeen years into the past; its fuel supply can limit travel to a single direction 129 312.
• Heart-disease medicine — Brings treatment for the viral illness that killed Goku in his future 130.
• Z Sword — Draws and trains with it under the future Supreme Kai. Dabura's spit petrifies the blade, which is discarded and shatters 317 318.
• Rifle — Carries one while preparing to escape Goku Black, despite doubting its usefulness against him 312.
• Masked contestant's costume — Stolen by present-day Trunks and Goten to enter the adult tournament together, with Trunks sitting on Goten's shoulders 207.

Relationships

• Vegeta — Father and training partner. Initially resents his future son's caution and superior transformation, but attacks Cell in fury when Trunks is killed. Later orders Trunks to protect Mai and escape if necessary 130 137 174 330.
• Emily — Mother, who raised Future Trunks after Vegeta's death. Her death and instruction to survive drive his escape from Goku Black; her memory later strengthens his resolve to protect Vegeta 316 353.
• Bulma — Addressed as “Aunt Bulma”; builds his Time Machine and receives the Android blueprints he retrieves 129 149.
• Son Goku — Trusted ally and sparring partner. Trunks initially views his survival as the future's best hope; Goku later accompanies him against Goku Black 130 328.
• Son Goten — Present-day Trunks's friend, rival, tournament accomplice, and fusion partner 191 205 207 269.
• Son Gohan — Reassures Future Trunks after Cell describes killing an alternate version of him. Present-day Trunks greets him affectionately as “Big Brother Gohan” 147 188.
• Mai — Future Trunks's close companion. They share food, plan their escape, and repeatedly risk themselves for each other; Vegeta privately regards her as his daughter-in-law 312 314 329 330.
• Supreme Kai / Shin — The future Supreme Kai trains and initiates Trunks, then dies helping him stop Dabura. The present-day Shin later rescues him and explains his healing ability 318 341 357.
• Luo Tian — A powerful figure absent from Trunks's future. Trunks is puzzled by Goku's certainty that Luo Tian's presence will prevent the predicted catastrophe 130.
• Goku Black and Zamasu — Enemies responsible for devastating his future and repeatedly threatening him, his family, and Mai 316 338 340 353.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arrival and the Android Warning

Future Trunks arrives from twenty years ahead, kills Frieza and King Cold, and reveals that he is Vegeta and Emily's son. He warns that Dr. Gero's Androids will appear near South City three years later, on May 12 at approximately 10:00 a.m. In his era, he is the only warrior left, while Goku has died of a viral heart disease 129 130.

After testing Goku's strength and supplying medicine, Trunks departs, leaving the group to prepare. His later return brings a reunion with Emily and a disagreement with Vegeta over whether to confront the Androids directly 131 136 137.

Cell and Training with Vegeta

Cell reveals that he murdered a Trunks from another timeline and stole that version's Time Machine. The visiting Trunks subsequently helps Krillin destroy the developing Cell in Dr. Gero's laboratory, retrieves Android blueprints, and trains with Vegeta in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber 145 147 149 153.

During the confrontation with Cell, Trunks fails to penetrate the barrier protecting Cell's transformation. He is later killed during the conflict but is alive again afterward; learning that Vegeta furiously attacked Cell over his death reassures him of his father's affection. He returns to his future and recounts these events to Emily and Bulma 157 174 176.

Present-Day Childhood and Majin Buu

The younger Trunks trains with Vegeta and reveals that he can already become a Super Saiyan. At the tournament, he reaches the junior final but loses when Goten unexpectedly assumes a red-haired divine form. The pair then steal an adult contestant's costume to continue competing 194 204 205 207.

During the Buu crisis, Trunks helps enable Vegeta's Great Ape transformation, retrieves the Dragon Radar while Goku occupies Buu, and fights alongside Goten as Gotenks. Buu eventually absorbs their fusion 238 249 251 272 273.

Future Supreme Kai Apprenticeship

In the future, Trunks trains under the Supreme Kai and draws the Z Sword. When Dabura overwhelms them, Babidi's torture of the Supreme Kai triggers Trunks's Super Saiyan 2 breakthrough. With Dabura immobilized by the Supreme Kai's binding spell, Trunks kills him using his remaining energy. Trunks also defeats Babidi, preventing Buu's awakening, but the Supreme Kai dies from exhaustion 316 317 318.

Goku Black and the Fight for His Future

After Goku Black devastates Earth and kills Emily, Trunks and Mai plan to escape to the parallel world where his family survives. Black gravely injures Mai and defeats Trunks, who escapes alone in the Time Machine. On awakening in the past, Trunks mistakes Goku for Black and attacks him before recognizing his error 312 314 315 316.

Trunks returns with Goku and Vegeta and reunites with Mai after she receives a Senzu Bean. When Black and the immortal Zamasu prove too dangerous, Trunks volunteers to stay behind while Goku returns to learn the Evil Containment Wave. Gowasu and Shin subsequently rescue Trunks and Mai from a lethal attack 328 329 338 340 341.

Against Fused Zamasu, Trunks insists that defending his home cannot remain solely his allies' responsibility. Recognizing his apprentice healing ability gives him a practical way to contribute despite the power gap: he catches and restores Vegeta, risking his own life in the process 353 357 359.

Notable Quotes

“I could, and the future of that timeline would be saved, but it would have absolutely no effect on our own era.” 149

“I don't want to see Mom so sad anymore. For Mom's sake! I can't let Dad die here! Absolutely not!” 353