Tsukento wrote:But that's the thing. We have a proper conclusion to the *primary timeline*. Because of that, it's not a complete conclusion as you're left up in the air wondering if Trunks is really going to be alright and if things really do get better. Not only did Trunks get rid of #17 and #18, but time passes and it's revealed everyone's living in peace again and rebuilding everything. Cell shows up and Trunks does away with him, finally being at peace and being grateful that he got to meet everyone and avenge his friends and family, while ultimately saving the world.TonyTheTiger wrote:Agreed. The Trunks epilogue works as a conclusion to a story arc, not a conclusion to a series. It's weird to have everybody celebrate and say their farewells and then have a final episode where one of those guys just goes around tearing shit up.
It's not so much that Trunks is "tearing shit up" for the sake of it. He's putting an end to the terror the people in his time are suffering in. Hell, part of the reason he even came back to the past in the first place was in hopes of bringing Goku with him in order to stop the cyborgs in his time.
Future Trunks's role in the Z story was to warn the heroes in the present timeline about the Artificial Humans so they could be prepared for them and thus be ale to defeat them. In this ending he still plays that role. The epilogue in his own timeline is more or less a bonus, showing that because Trunks got to meet his father and also Goku that he was able to grow stronger and save the world like them. I like Future Trunks a lot and I'm not really bugged by that not being included in Kai, at least Kai as we have it now.