Trunks

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Trunks (特兰克斯)
Alias(es)	Future Trunks; later chapters distinguish Gohan’s native-timeline Trunks from another Future Trunks 70 441.
Gender	Male
Species/Race	Saiyan descent; son of Vegeta 3 369.
Birth Year	Age 766 110.
Age	Twelve at the beginning; listed as eighteen in Age 784 3 110.
Affiliation	Capsule Corporation, Earth’s defenders, Universe Enforcement Team 30 187 441.
Occupation/Role	Martial artist, swordsman, defender of Earth; described as Capsule Corporation’s young heir 30 57 187.
Family	Bulma — mother; Vegeta — father; Bulla — younger sister; Bruce — son of the native-timeline Trunks 2 3 108 285 410.
Status	Active in later appearances. Gohan reports his death during the Jass crisis, but he subsequently appears alive; the supplied passages do not show his restoration 208 285 441.
First Appearance	Chapter 2, “Bulma and Trunks” 2.

Power Progression

Gohan’s Native-Timeline Trunks

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Super Saiyan	7	Already able to transform while training with Gohan in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber; his original awakening is not shown.
Sustained Super Saiyan training	8 10	Practices suppressing his aura and maintaining the transformation during ordinary activities to reduce its strain.
Near-perfect full-power Super Saiyan	19	No longer needs to remain transformed around the clock; shifts his emphasis toward strengthening his base form.
Regrown Saiyan tail	26 29	Dende uses healing to stimulate its return. The tail has grown back by the end of another six months of chamber training.
Great Ape	31	Transforms into a huge black-furred ape under the full moon.
Golden Great Ape	32	Tests the combined Great Ape and Super Saiyan transformation with Gohan; their experiments establish a 500-fold power increase.
Super Saiyan 2	57	Breaks through while fighting the resurrected Bojack, then destroys him with a Ki Blast.
Full-power Super Saiyan 2	70	Ranks as Earth’s third-strongest fighter at that point, behind Gohan and Goku; can overwhelmingly defeat Vegeta.
Super Saiyan 4	91	Overcomes his training bottleneck. His hair and body fur retain their purple coloring.
Super Saiyan 4 Limit Breaker / Limit Breakthrough	187	First documented use occurs against Jass. Adds god ki to Super Saiyan 4, allowing him to withstand an attack that overwhelms the ordinary form.
Super Saiyan 5	336	Reveals the form during his tournament fight with Black Gold Cooler. Its immense vitality immediately heals his injuries.

Alternate Trunks Introduced in Chapter 67

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Super Saiyan	67	Arrives in the past at seventeen after severe training following his mentor’s death. Defeats Frieza and King Cold.
First intermediate advancement of Super Saiyan 1	118	Achieves a bulkier, stronger transformation after two years of intensive training in Bulma’s new Gravity Room. Uses it to kill Androids 18 and 17.
Ultimate Trunks	118	Frees Old Kai by breaking the Z Sword and receives a full potential unlock, gaining power far beyond Super Saiyan 2.

Future Trunks of the Zamasu-Threatened Timeline

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Super Saiyan 2	262	Fury drives his breakthrough during the battle against Dabura; he kills Dabura and helps prevent Buu’s release.
Greatly strengthened Super Saiyan 2	367	His ki rivals Gohan’s when Gohan first achieved Super Saiyan 4, but remains insufficient against an evolved Destruction Beast.
Regrown tail and Great Ape	369	Gohan restores his purple-furred tail and creates an Artificial Moon. Trunks initially loses control before recovering his reason.
Super Saiyan 4	369	Learns the transformation in about ten minutes, then masters it through a week of instruction and sparring with Gohan.

Background / History

Trunks grows up on an Earth devastated by Androids 17 and 18. Vegeta and his maternal grandparents are dead, leaving him and Bulma dependent on each other. Gohan becomes his teacher and protector, giving him the last Senzu Bean after losing an arm and later knocking him unconscious to keep him out of another dangerous battle 2 348.

Believing Gohan has died, Trunks buries him after finding no detectable energy or heartbeat. Gohan’s survival overturns that tragedy in the novel’s central timeline. Trunks apologizes, and Gohan responds by encouraging him to train harder and share the responsibility of protecting Earth 2.

Their search for Vegeta’s old gravity-training spaceship leads to a new approach to training. Extended sessions in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber turn Trunks from a child into a visibly older, stronger young fighter while very little time passes outside 3 8 10. After peace returns and the dead are brought back, he becomes noticeably more playful without losing his decisiveness against enemies 108.

Appearance

• Build: Handsome, relatively compact, and muscular despite looking slim in clothes; his early chamber training noticeably increases his height and size 8 10.
• Super Saiyan: Blond hair, blue-green eyes, and a blazing golden aura 7.
• Super Saiyan 4: Stands over six feet tall, with purple hair and grape-purple fur; remains less heavily built than Gohan in the same form 91.
• Limit Breakthrough: Rose-red hair and fur with a reddish-gold aura in his tournament appearance 335.
• Super Saiyan 5: Silver-white hair, fur, tail, and eyebrows, red eyes, and a golden aura 336 337.
• Chapter 67 counterpart: Purple-haired, sword carried on his back, and dressed in loose work clothes; looks colder and more mature than the Trunks Gohan knows 67.
• Enforcement Team counterpart: Receives a red martial arts uniform bearing a radiant-sun emblem and the number 9 370.

Personality

Trunks is affectionate, eager to learn, and deeply invested in Gohan’s approval. His guilt over burying Gohan is intense, while being entrusted with the search for Dr. Gero’s laboratory makes him proud that his teacher considers him capable of adult responsibility 2 11. His curiosity extends from his absent father to space travel, Dragon Ball limitations, and alternative transformation sequences 3 11 14 32.

As peace and family life return, he develops an openly teasing side. He jokes about Gohan’s attachment to his children, dotes on Bulla, and repeatedly insists that Goten call him “big brother” 70 108 298. He remains loyal to Vegeta, defending his father even while badly injured by Cooler 336.

In combat, Trunks combines blunt aggression with technical adaptability. He quickly dispatches weaker enemies but takes serious threats such as Bojack at full power 52. Against Jass, he recognizes that victory is unlikely and fights to buy time instead 187. His alternate counterparts share that protective resolve: one insists on personally avenging his mentor, while another postpones reviving Earth’s population to confront the wider Destruction Beast crisis first 69 370.

Abilities & Skills

Saiyan Transformations

Trunks develops beyond ordinary Super Saiyan through training, combat, and experimentation.

• Golden Great Ape: Offers a documented 500-fold increase, strong defenses, and relatively low energy consumption, but requires full-moon Blutz Waves 32.
• Super Saiyan 4: Wields Great Ape power in a humanoid body; it cannot receive an additional Great Ape transformation on top 369 397.
• Limit Breakthrough: Infuses Super Saiyan 4 with god ki 187.
• Super Saiyan 5: Restores his injuries upon transformation. When newly revealed, it gives him a speed advantage over Black Gold Cooler, although his strength and durability remain inferior 336 337.
• Tail vulnerability: An opponent grabbing an untrained tail can rob a Saiyan of strength; Gohan specifically warns the alternate Future Trunks to train his restored tail 369.

Swordsmanship

Trunks becomes a confident swordsman whose speed with a longsword is especially noted 57 108.

• Cuts a regenerative Golden Great Ape into dozens of pieces in Limit Breaker form 298.
• Uses a Ki Sword against Cooler, supplementing his physical weapon skills with energy construction 335.
• His swords are not indestructible: Jass breaks his physical blade, and Cooler breaks his Ki Sword 187 335.

Ki Attacks and Construction

Gohan teaches Trunks the Masenko, which he learns immediately and handles more proficiently than the Kamehameha 27.

• Uses Masenko in battles against Cooler and Cumber 337 397.
• Dispatches enemies with Ki Blasts and large energy attacks, including the resurrected Bojack 52 57.
• Applies Yardrat ki-construction knowledge to reproduce Cumber’s giant energy arms with even larger arms of his own 397.

Yardrat Techniques

Trunks’s technical repertoire allows him to counter threats that raw damage cannot solve.

• Instant Transmission: Teleports between targets, rescues Piccolo, and attacks from unexpected angles 52 189 335.
• Forced Spirit Fission: Separates absorbed energies from a regenerative Golden Great Ape, weakening it until it collapses 299.
• Duplicates: Creates another fighting body to attack Cooler from multiple directions; Black Gold Cooler destroys one clone 335 336.
• Size manipulation: Grows enormous and attacks Cooler with giant fists 335.
• Purification Technique: Removes the rage-inducing effects of Cumber’s evil ki, preserving his self-control 397.

Earth Martial Arts Techniques

• Evil Containment Wave: Learns it from Master Roshi and later nearly forces Cooler out of the arena. Cooler escapes through superior power 133 337.
• Solar Flare: Blinds Cooler to interrupt his pursuit 337.

Enforcement Team Training

The Zamasu-timeline Future Trunks receives organizational knowledge and divine techniques directly from Gohan upon recruitment 370.

• Learns to operate the team’s spaceship and detector quickly 370.
• Reports killing 87 Destruction Beasts in one day: 83 low-level and four intermediate-level 443.
• Is instructed to retreat from enemies beyond his ability and respond immediately to team summons 370.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Hero’s Sword: The native-timeline Trunks’s named weapon; Gohan considers it superior to the sword North Kai later provides him 57.
• Battle Suits: Flexible suits withstand the Great Ape transformation during early experiments. The alternate Future Trunks also values them for their comfort and memories of training with Vegeta 32 368.
• Time Machine: Bulma’s invention used by alternate Trunks versions to travel into the past, deliver Goku’s heart medicine, and obtain help or supplies 67 68 278 282.
• Z Sword: The Chapter 67 counterpart draws and breaks it, freeing Old Kai and obtaining his potential unlock 118.
• Communication Orb: Given to the Zamasu-timeline Future Trunks by Gohan; crushing it summons Gohan when the Destruction Beast crisis becomes unmanageable 282 366.
• Enforcement Team Capsule: Contains a spaceship capable of crossing universes and timelines, a Destruction Beast detector, Senzu Beans, supplies, and spare Battle Suits 370.

Relationships

• Son Gohan — Teacher, protector, and chosen older brother. Trunks openly describes him as both “my big brother and my teacher”; alternate versions also receive his guidance and protection 30 69 282 369.
• Bulma — Mother and principal technological supporter. Repairs training equipment, builds the Time Machine, and constructs a Gravity Room for the Chapter 67 counterpart 3 58 118.
• Vegeta — Father. Trunks initially longs to understand him and is nervous about meeting him in Other World; later rescues him from Dabura and defends his reputation against Cooler 3 58 74 336.
• Bulla — Younger sister whom he openly dotes on; carries her on his shoulders and plays with her as a baby 108 185.
• Bruce — Son of the native-timeline Trunks. His encouragement helps Trunks rise after Cooler’s brutal attacks 285 336.
• Mai — Romantic interest and companion. Alternate Trunks stories show them settling into peaceful life or promising to rebuild together; her death during the Destruction Beast attack devastates the later Future Trunks 58 118 282 366.
• Goten — Younger friend whom Trunks repeatedly tries to persuade to call him “Big Brother Trunks” 70 298.
• Dende — Helps stimulate the native Trunks’s tail regrowth. The Chapter 67 counterpart brings Dende to Earth as its guardian and becomes his close companion 26 118.
• Master Roshi — Teaches him the Evil Containment Wave 133.
• Cooler — Tournament rival. Trunks’s inventive tactics force Cooler to escalate, and Cooler acknowledges him as a worthy opponent 335 337.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Restoring Gohan’s Future

Arc	Trunks’s involvement
Gohan’s recovery	Apologizes for burying his apparently dead mentor and resumes training with him 2.
Training and the Androids	Helps recover Vegeta’s spaceship, trains in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and participates in the path that ends the Android threat 3 8 69.
Cell precautions	Accepts the mission to find and destroy Dr. Gero’s research facility, with Bulma assisting 11 14.
Bojack’s first attack	Kills the wounded Zangya and Gokua while Gohan fights Bojack 28.
Return of the dead	Kills the Ginyu Force and Nappa, fights the revived Bojack, and achieves Super Saiyan 2 52 57.
Babidi and Dabura	Deflects an attack aimed at the spectators, rescues Vegeta, and supplies a Senzu Bean while respecting his father’s demand to continue fighting 73 74.
Planet Vampa	Accompanies Gohan to investigate surviving Saiyans and fights Broly using Super Saiyan forms 108 110 111 112.

Jass Crisis

Jass targets Trunks as the Saiyan who defeated Granolah. Trunks uses Limit Breaker but is overwhelmed, suffers a broken sword and severe chest injury, and falls from the sky 187 188. He later rescues Piccolo with Instant Transmission and returns to the battle using ki supplied by other fighters 189.

Gohan subsequently states that Jass killed Trunks, Piccolo, Buu, and Seven-Three. Trunks is alive in later chapters, although the supplied excerpts do not depict his return 208 285.

Laboratory Monster and Tournament

• Regenerative Golden Great Ape: Takes over from Piccolo, repeatedly destroys the creature, then identifies its mixed ki and defeats it through Forced Spirit Fission 298 299.
• Tournament planning: Requests invitations for powerful fighters such as Jiren and Toppo; reluctantly accepts Bruce’s entry after Bulma lowers the Junior Division’s minimum age 285.
• Tournament matches: Faces Milag, then battles Cooler with Limit Breakthrough, Yardrat techniques, and eventually Super Saiyan 5 320 335 336.
• Cooler duel: Uses speed, the Evil Containment Wave, and Solar Flare to offset Black Gold Cooler’s greater strength and defenses. The provided account ends before the match result 337.

Alternate Timeline: The Trunks Guided in the Past

The seventeen-year-old Trunks introduced in Chapter 67 comes from a future where Gohan truly died in Age 778. After killing Frieza and King Cold, he gives Goku heart medicine and meets the surviving Gohan from another timeline. He asks for guidance but insists on defeating his own Androids himself 67 68 69.

His side story follows the results of that advice: gravity training enables him to kill the Androids and Cell, while breaking the Z Sword brings Old Kai’s potential unlock. He stops Babidi before Buu is released, restores Earth’s guardian and Dragon Balls, and eventually settles down with Mai. A visit to Other World gives him closure: the Z Fighters decline resurrection, and Vegeta has already been reincarnated 118.

Alternate Timeline: Zamasu and the Destruction Beasts

• Buu prevented: Achieves Super Saiyan 2 and kills Dabura, but the conflict costs his world its Supreme Kais and Beerus 262.
• Zamasu crisis: Seeks Goku and Vegeta’s help, refuses to abandon his timeline, and survives the multiplying Zamasu army until Gohan destroys it 262 274 275 278.
• Return home: Declines Shin’s offer of discipleship to rebuild his future with Mai; receives Gohan’s emergency signaling device 282.
• Destruction Beast catastrophe: Calls Gohan after being overwhelmed and losing Mai. Following rescue and training, masters Super Saiyan 4 366 367 369.
• Universe Enforcement Team: Becomes member number nine, choosing to hunt the beasts before reviving Earth’s population 370.
• Prison Planet investigation: Reports strange chained planets, accompanies Gohan, and fights Time Patrol Goku before later returning to his own timeline 441 443 444 451.
• Timeline overlap: His devastated Earth begins overlapping with Gohan’s timeline during a wider cosmic upheaval 458.

Cumber Encounter

A later Trunks fights Cumber in Universe 9, countering evil ki with purification and giant ki hands with his own constructions. He uses full-power Limit Breakthrough but cannot stack Great Ape power onto Super Saiyan 4 396 397. He later reports that a black-robed figure rescued Cumber just as he was about to finish him off 399.

Notable Quotes

“He’s my big brother and my teacher. He’s done so much for me.” 30

“This is my timeline... I can’t leave this bastard here and run away with my tail between my legs.” 274

“I’d be better off following you, dealing with the root of the problem, and then reviving everyone.” 370

Trivia

• After watching Gohan’s rapid improvement following his burial, the young Trunks jokingly wonders whether being buried might make him stronger too 7.
• Copies Gohan’s thoughtful chin-rubbing gesture while searching for a way to stop the regenerative Golden Great Ape 299.
• Reveals Super Saiyan 5 before deciding on its name; Cooler identifies it from having seen Gohan use the form 336.
• Both Gohan’s native Trunks and the later alternate Future Trunks choose the Super Saiyan 4 route; Gohan notices the parallel when teaching the latter 368.
• Native-timeline Trunks and alternate Future Trunks appear together as separate Universe Enforcement Team members 441.