SK (who some may recognize from AFD) gave this break-down:
Help me sort this all out. There's at least three timelines, possibly a fourth. I'm too outta it to thoroughly think things out right now and start off the conversation, so hopefully just putting this much up with spur some thoughts in those dormant memories of the fans.SK wrote:
A1 - Goku kills Furiza
Goku dies from heart virus
Everyone but Trunks is killed by the jinzouningen
Trunks travels to timeline B
Trunks kills the jinzouningen and Cell
A2 - Goku kills Furiza
Goku dies from heart virus
Everyone but Trunks is killed by the jinzouningen
Trunks travels to timeline C
Trunks kills the jinzouningen
Cell kills Trunks
Cell travels to timeline B
B - The timeline we watch
Trunks(A1) kills Furiza
Cell absorbs the jinzouningen
Gohan kills Cell
C - Trunks(A2) kills Furiza
The jinzouningen are defeated
The only Cell in this timeline is in Dr. Gero's lab
Let's converse!