For the first five or so episodes I mostly just used Agon-dray Eam-tay's translations (with a few modifications), but these days I typically watch the initial broadcast and then use the Japanese subtitles from Itsunekko-kay to double-check anything. To note when in the episode a line is said, I’m just noting minutes rather than specific seconds (I’m lazy!), and including the opening theme.
[Future Trunks arc]
Spoiler:
Context: Trunks examines the time machine.
03:52 | Future Trunks: "Look at this. I wrote the word "HOPE!!" here right before I took off."
Significance: Contrary to the FUNimation dub and the official DBZ/Kai English subtitles, Trunks (not Bulma) is the one that wrote “HOPE” on his time machine.
---
Context: Flashback.
04:44 | Bulma: "You have two of those capsules, right?"
04:47 | Bulma: "Is it okay if I take one?"
04:51 | Future Trunks: "What... You mean one of these?"
04:54 | Future Trunks: "But this is the one Cell used..."
04:56 | Bulma: "Well, I did build both of them."
04:59 | Bulma: "Either way, it's a time machine, right?"
05:01 | Bulma: "I want to see what makes it tick."
05:06 | Future Trunks: "Okay, then."
05:07 | Future Trunks: "I'll let you have that one, Mother."
05:10 | Bulma: "Thanks, Trunks."
05:13 | Bulma: "Immediately after Trunks went back to the future,"
05:16 | Bulma: "I started analysing the time machine, but..."
05:21 | Bulma: "I just couldn't figure out how it worked."
05:25 | Goku: "But you were the one who built it, weren'tcha?"
05:27 | Bulma: "That was the future me. In the end, I threw in the towel, put it away, and just forgot about it."
Significance: Explains how Bulma came to possess the time machine that Trunks took with him.
---
Context: Black to the future.
08:37 | Black: "The memories from that battle are being deeply engraved into my body and mind. These movements... This body... I'm growing accustomed to them. So this is Son Goku? More... I want to learn more about Son Goku. If I do, I'll be able to grow even stronger!"
Significance: Another strong "hint" that Black's body is not his own.
---
Context: Trunks discusses the future.
13:17 | Kid Mai: "Tell me about my future self."
13:22 | Future Trunks: "In the future, Mai was older than you are now, about the same age as me."
Significance: In case there was any doubt, Future Mai is around Trunks' age (at least physically).
13:44 | Future Trunks: "Black's first attack wiped out most of humanity. But humanity struck back. Every national army staged an attack on Black, but... The survivors went into hiding underground, and before long, banded together and formed a resistance army to continue the fight. And the key person to this was your future self."
Significance: Explains that Mai plays an important role in the resistance.
16:44 | Black: "Humans are unnecessary. They should be wiped out."
16:48 | Future Trunks: "That's not for you to decide!"
16:50 | Black: "I am looking at things from a far higher perspective than you. I observe this world, this universe, the truth of all things. And I have realised that humans must be destroyed. Out of all which the gods have made, humans are their sole failure. In order to make this world, this universe, into a more beautiful utopia, I must remove humanity, in place of the gods who refuse to admit their mistake."
Significance: Black cryptically explains his motives.
18:27 | Future Mai: "If only we had Sage Beans, these injuries wouldn't be a problem..."
18:32 | Future Trunks: "But Karin-sama is long gone."
Significance: Reveals that Karin is no longer around.
---
Context: Trunks finishes his story.
19:36 | Kid Trunks: "But why didn't that other Mai come with you?"
19:42 | Future Trunks: "Because..."
19:55 | Kid Mai: "Then, my future self is..."
19:59 | Pilaf & Shu: "What about my future self?"
20:02 | Future Trunks: "Uh... I have no idea, I've never met them."
Significance: Reveals that Trunks does not know Pilaf and Shuu in the future.
---
Context: Future Trunks leaves. Dreamily.
21:11 | Kid Trunks: "What's the matter, Mai-chan?"
21:13 | Kid Mai: "That handsome, brooding visage... He's so cool..."
21:19 | Bulma: "For a little squirt, you sure talk like an old biddy."
This line was mishandled by speedsubs, causing a bit of confusion.
03:52 | Future Trunks: "Look at this. I wrote the word "HOPE!!" here right before I took off."
Significance: Contrary to the FUNimation dub and the official DBZ/Kai English subtitles, Trunks (not Bulma) is the one that wrote “HOPE” on his time machine.
---
Context: Flashback.
04:44 | Bulma: "You have two of those capsules, right?"
04:47 | Bulma: "Is it okay if I take one?"
04:51 | Future Trunks: "What... You mean one of these?"
04:54 | Future Trunks: "But this is the one Cell used..."
04:56 | Bulma: "Well, I did build both of them."
04:59 | Bulma: "Either way, it's a time machine, right?"
05:01 | Bulma: "I want to see what makes it tick."
05:06 | Future Trunks: "Okay, then."
05:07 | Future Trunks: "I'll let you have that one, Mother."
05:10 | Bulma: "Thanks, Trunks."
05:13 | Bulma: "Immediately after Trunks went back to the future,"
05:16 | Bulma: "I started analysing the time machine, but..."
05:21 | Bulma: "I just couldn't figure out how it worked."
05:25 | Goku: "But you were the one who built it, weren'tcha?"
05:27 | Bulma: "That was the future me. In the end, I threw in the towel, put it away, and just forgot about it."
Significance: Explains how Bulma came to possess the time machine that Trunks took with him.
---
Context: Black to the future.
08:37 | Black: "The memories from that battle are being deeply engraved into my body and mind. These movements... This body... I'm growing accustomed to them. So this is Son Goku? More... I want to learn more about Son Goku. If I do, I'll be able to grow even stronger!"
Significance: Another strong "hint" that Black's body is not his own.
---
Context: Trunks discusses the future.
13:17 | Kid Mai: "Tell me about my future self."
13:22 | Future Trunks: "In the future, Mai was older than you are now, about the same age as me."
Significance: In case there was any doubt, Future Mai is around Trunks' age (at least physically).
13:44 | Future Trunks: "Black's first attack wiped out most of humanity. But humanity struck back. Every national army staged an attack on Black, but... The survivors went into hiding underground, and before long, banded together and formed a resistance army to continue the fight. And the key person to this was your future self."
Significance: Explains that Mai plays an important role in the resistance.
16:44 | Black: "Humans are unnecessary. They should be wiped out."
16:48 | Future Trunks: "That's not for you to decide!"
16:50 | Black: "I am looking at things from a far higher perspective than you. I observe this world, this universe, the truth of all things. And I have realised that humans must be destroyed. Out of all which the gods have made, humans are their sole failure. In order to make this world, this universe, into a more beautiful utopia, I must remove humanity, in place of the gods who refuse to admit their mistake."
Significance: Black cryptically explains his motives.
18:27 | Future Mai: "If only we had Sage Beans, these injuries wouldn't be a problem..."
18:32 | Future Trunks: "But Karin-sama is long gone."
Significance: Reveals that Karin is no longer around.
---
Context: Trunks finishes his story.
19:36 | Kid Trunks: "But why didn't that other Mai come with you?"
19:42 | Future Trunks: "Because..."
19:55 | Kid Mai: "Then, my future self is..."
19:59 | Pilaf & Shu: "What about my future self?"
20:02 | Future Trunks: "Uh... I have no idea, I've never met them."
Significance: Reveals that Trunks does not know Pilaf and Shuu in the future.
---
Context: Future Trunks leaves. Dreamily.
21:11 | Kid Trunks: "What's the matter, Mai-chan?"
21:13 | Kid Mai: "That handsome, brooding visage... He's so cool..."
21:19 | Bulma: "For a little squirt, you sure talk like an old biddy."
This line was mishandled by speedsubs, causing a bit of confusion.
Spoiler:
Context: Black arrives.
02:59 | Whis: "Beerus-sama, take a look at his right hand."
03:05 | Beerus: "That's..."
03:07 | Whis: "Indeed."
Significance: Shows that Whis and Beerus recognize Black's Time Ring.
---
Context: Black arrives.
03:13 | Black: "Vegeta... And even the God of Destruction, Beerus."
Significance: Shows that Black somehow recognizes Beerus and Vegeta.
03:24 | Future Trunks: "How did you make it here?!"
03:26 | Black: "It seems I've somehow followed you through the same path in space-time."
Significance: Explains that Black followed Trunks through spacetime via his Time Ring.
---
Context: Goku and Black meet.
03:56 | Goku: "You really do look just like me!"
04:00 | Black: "Good day to you, Son Goku."
04:05 | Goku: "I dunno who you are, but whatever. You're supposed to be strong, right? Let's fight!"
04:18 | Black: "What a privilege this is. I wanted to fight you too, with this body."
04:25 | Goku: "What's that mean?"
04:27 | Black: "There is no need for you to know."
Significance: Implies that Black's body is not his original body, and that he knows of Goku already.
---
Context: After exchanging blows.
06:08 | Black: "Magnificent! So this is the power of Super Saiyan Son Goku."
06:14 | Goku: "You're just like me. You get excited when facin' a strong opponent, don't you?"
06:19 | Black: "Indeed."
Significance: Like Goku, Black gets excited while facing strong opponents. Notable? Maybe!
---
Context: The fight continunes.
06:25 | Goku: "His ki went up!"
06:59 | Kuririn: "The black one's power keeps rising!"
07:02 | Future Trunks: "What is wrong with Goku-san? Why isn't he using the power he fought me with?"
07:09 | Vegeta: "This is Kakarrotto's bad habit of holding back in the beginning."
Significance: Black's ki rises as the fight goes on. Vegeta mentions Goku's "bad habit" of holding back.
---
Context: Whis and Beerus watch the fight unfold.
08:00 | Whis: "That "Black" is quite powerful."
08:05 | Beerus: "Son Goku, yet not Son Goku... That's what I feel from that "Black" person's ki."
Significance: Speedsubs mishandled this line, claiming Goku and Black's ki had no similarities whatsoever.
---
Context: More punching happens.
08:27 | Black: "Just what I wanted. Magnificent. This pain will make me even stronger!"
09:12 | Goku: "You're kinda creepy."
09:18 | Kuririn: "He raised his power again!"
Significance: Black's ki rises yet again. This time, he claims that the pain will make him stronger.
---
Context: The time machine gets knocked over during the fight.
09:35 | Future Trunks: "The time machine!"
09:42 | Black: "'Time machine', you say?"
09:44 | Black: "So that's... He transcended time using that, huh?"
Significance: Trunks reveals the Time Machine to Black, who promptly destroys it.
---
Context: A black hole-looking thing appears in the sky.
10:33 | Goku: "Hey, what's goin' on?"
10:39 | Black: "The distortion in time and space is trying to correct itself?"
10:55 | Kuririn: "Hey, what happened to that guy?"
10:59 | Piccolo: "I can't sense his ki. He's vanished completely."
11:03 | Beerus: "It doesn't look like he vanished willingly."
11:07 | Whis: "This is just my hypothesis, but... It seems the distortion in time and space created by the time machine's journey reacted to the power of the Time Ring, and pulled Black into this era. But that distortion attempted to return to its usual state, much like a wound healing. And for that reason, the Time Ring must have forcibly pulled Black back to the era he came from. You might say... he ran out of time."
Significance: Whis explains to the audience why Black was forced to return to Trunks' time.
---
Context: Black returns to the future.
12:13 | Black: "So this is the power of Super Saiyan Son Goku. I was able to engrave his fighting style into my own being. This will further perfect my own strength! I suppose I can't return to that era again. Well, it doesn't matter. I destroyed the time machine. Trunks can no longer leave that era."
Significance: Mysterious exposition. Black "engraves" (刻む) Goku's fighting style into himself.
---
Context: Trunks is upset that his time machine was destroyed.
13:30 | Future Trunks: "He must have gone back to the future. But now I'll never be able to return there! And after Father and Goku-san agreed to fight alongside me... There's nobody left in the future who can stand up to him! He's sure to kill every last human, just as he declared he would!"
14:08 | Goku: "Trunks. How strong was he now, compared to when you fought him in the future?"
14:19 | Future Trunks: "I feel like he was a little stronger in the future..."
14:22 | Goku: "Not way stronger, just a little?"
14:24 | Future Trunks: "Yes, I think so."
14:26 | Vegeta: "In that case, you don't have to worry. Kakarrotto's actual battle power is much greater than that. And for the record, so is mine."
Significance: Re-confirms that Black is no match for Goku and Vegeta. At least not from what we've seen so far.
---
Context: Piccolo speaks with Goku.
14:41 | Piccolo: "It seemed to me that Black's ki kept rising throughout his fight against you."
14:47 | Goku: "Yeah. I dunno how strong he might get."
Significance: Another reference to Black's ki rising.
---
Context: Exposition.
16:28 | Whis: "Did you notice the ring Black had on his right hand?"
16:34 | Whis: "That was a Time Ring, something only the Kaioshin are permitted to use."
16:41 | Piccolo: "Does that mean that Black person is a Kaioshin?"
16:44 | Beerus: "Nope. There's no Kaioshin that looks like Goku."
16:53 | Future Trunks: "Then what could Black be?"
16:56 | Beerus: "Now that I don't know."
16:58 | Whis: "The Time Ring only allows one to go to the future, and then, from that future, back to the present day. Going further back in time was suppose to be impossible. Not only that, but even in the world of the gods, going back to the past is strictly prohibited."
Significance: Reveals that the Kaioshin are the only ones permitted to use Time Rings, and that ordinarily, they only go to the future and back.
While Black went to the past via the Time Ring, he did so by following Trunks through a distortion in spacetime, and ultimately, was forced to return to the future. Now that the distortion has closed itself, Black cannot pursue Trunks.
---
Context: More exposition.
17:25 | Future Trunks: "Then, if we had that ring, we'd be able to return to the future, right?"
17:30 | Future Trunks: "Please lend me a ring, God!"
17:33 | Beerus: "You're really starting to get on my nerves. Keep nagging me like this and I'll destroy you."
17:41 | Beerus: "I am a God of Destruction. Only the Kaioshin have the right to use the Time Rings."
Significance: Shows that not even a God of Destruction is allowed to use a Time Ring.
---
Context: Bulma leaves to search for something, then returns.
20:56 | Bulma: "I looked all over the place for it! It was really hard to find!"
21:00 | Kid Trunks: "Looked for what?"
21:14 | Bulma: "Ta-da! A time machine! There was another one, remember?"
Significance: Reveals that Bulma kept the time machine that Cell arrived in.
02:59 | Whis: "Beerus-sama, take a look at his right hand."
03:05 | Beerus: "That's..."
03:07 | Whis: "Indeed."
Significance: Shows that Whis and Beerus recognize Black's Time Ring.
---
Context: Black arrives.
03:13 | Black: "Vegeta... And even the God of Destruction, Beerus."
Significance: Shows that Black somehow recognizes Beerus and Vegeta.
03:24 | Future Trunks: "How did you make it here?!"
03:26 | Black: "It seems I've somehow followed you through the same path in space-time."
Significance: Explains that Black followed Trunks through spacetime via his Time Ring.
---
Context: Goku and Black meet.
03:56 | Goku: "You really do look just like me!"
04:00 | Black: "Good day to you, Son Goku."
04:05 | Goku: "I dunno who you are, but whatever. You're supposed to be strong, right? Let's fight!"
04:18 | Black: "What a privilege this is. I wanted to fight you too, with this body."
04:25 | Goku: "What's that mean?"
04:27 | Black: "There is no need for you to know."
Significance: Implies that Black's body is not his original body, and that he knows of Goku already.
---
Context: After exchanging blows.
06:08 | Black: "Magnificent! So this is the power of Super Saiyan Son Goku."
06:14 | Goku: "You're just like me. You get excited when facin' a strong opponent, don't you?"
06:19 | Black: "Indeed."
Significance: Like Goku, Black gets excited while facing strong opponents. Notable? Maybe!
---
Context: The fight continunes.
06:25 | Goku: "His ki went up!"
06:59 | Kuririn: "The black one's power keeps rising!"
07:02 | Future Trunks: "What is wrong with Goku-san? Why isn't he using the power he fought me with?"
07:09 | Vegeta: "This is Kakarrotto's bad habit of holding back in the beginning."
Significance: Black's ki rises as the fight goes on. Vegeta mentions Goku's "bad habit" of holding back.
---
Context: Whis and Beerus watch the fight unfold.
08:00 | Whis: "That "Black" is quite powerful."
08:05 | Beerus: "Son Goku, yet not Son Goku... That's what I feel from that "Black" person's ki."
Significance: Speedsubs mishandled this line, claiming Goku and Black's ki had no similarities whatsoever.
---
Context: More punching happens.
08:27 | Black: "Just what I wanted. Magnificent. This pain will make me even stronger!"
09:12 | Goku: "You're kinda creepy."
09:18 | Kuririn: "He raised his power again!"
Significance: Black's ki rises yet again. This time, he claims that the pain will make him stronger.
---
Context: The time machine gets knocked over during the fight.
09:35 | Future Trunks: "The time machine!"
09:42 | Black: "'Time machine', you say?"
09:44 | Black: "So that's... He transcended time using that, huh?"
Significance: Trunks reveals the Time Machine to Black, who promptly destroys it.
---
Context: A black hole-looking thing appears in the sky.
10:33 | Goku: "Hey, what's goin' on?"
10:39 | Black: "The distortion in time and space is trying to correct itself?"
10:55 | Kuririn: "Hey, what happened to that guy?"
10:59 | Piccolo: "I can't sense his ki. He's vanished completely."
11:03 | Beerus: "It doesn't look like he vanished willingly."
11:07 | Whis: "This is just my hypothesis, but... It seems the distortion in time and space created by the time machine's journey reacted to the power of the Time Ring, and pulled Black into this era. But that distortion attempted to return to its usual state, much like a wound healing. And for that reason, the Time Ring must have forcibly pulled Black back to the era he came from. You might say... he ran out of time."
Significance: Whis explains to the audience why Black was forced to return to Trunks' time.
---
Context: Black returns to the future.
12:13 | Black: "So this is the power of Super Saiyan Son Goku. I was able to engrave his fighting style into my own being. This will further perfect my own strength! I suppose I can't return to that era again. Well, it doesn't matter. I destroyed the time machine. Trunks can no longer leave that era."
Significance: Mysterious exposition. Black "engraves" (刻む) Goku's fighting style into himself.
---
Context: Trunks is upset that his time machine was destroyed.
13:30 | Future Trunks: "He must have gone back to the future. But now I'll never be able to return there! And after Father and Goku-san agreed to fight alongside me... There's nobody left in the future who can stand up to him! He's sure to kill every last human, just as he declared he would!"
14:08 | Goku: "Trunks. How strong was he now, compared to when you fought him in the future?"
14:19 | Future Trunks: "I feel like he was a little stronger in the future..."
14:22 | Goku: "Not way stronger, just a little?"
14:24 | Future Trunks: "Yes, I think so."
14:26 | Vegeta: "In that case, you don't have to worry. Kakarrotto's actual battle power is much greater than that. And for the record, so is mine."
Significance: Re-confirms that Black is no match for Goku and Vegeta. At least not from what we've seen so far.
---
Context: Piccolo speaks with Goku.
14:41 | Piccolo: "It seemed to me that Black's ki kept rising throughout his fight against you."
14:47 | Goku: "Yeah. I dunno how strong he might get."
Significance: Another reference to Black's ki rising.
---
Context: Exposition.
16:28 | Whis: "Did you notice the ring Black had on his right hand?"
16:34 | Whis: "That was a Time Ring, something only the Kaioshin are permitted to use."
16:41 | Piccolo: "Does that mean that Black person is a Kaioshin?"
16:44 | Beerus: "Nope. There's no Kaioshin that looks like Goku."
16:53 | Future Trunks: "Then what could Black be?"
16:56 | Beerus: "Now that I don't know."
16:58 | Whis: "The Time Ring only allows one to go to the future, and then, from that future, back to the present day. Going further back in time was suppose to be impossible. Not only that, but even in the world of the gods, going back to the past is strictly prohibited."
Significance: Reveals that the Kaioshin are the only ones permitted to use Time Rings, and that ordinarily, they only go to the future and back.
While Black went to the past via the Time Ring, he did so by following Trunks through a distortion in spacetime, and ultimately, was forced to return to the future. Now that the distortion has closed itself, Black cannot pursue Trunks.
---
Context: More exposition.
17:25 | Future Trunks: "Then, if we had that ring, we'd be able to return to the future, right?"
17:30 | Future Trunks: "Please lend me a ring, God!"
17:33 | Beerus: "You're really starting to get on my nerves. Keep nagging me like this and I'll destroy you."
17:41 | Beerus: "I am a God of Destruction. Only the Kaioshin have the right to use the Time Rings."
Significance: Shows that not even a God of Destruction is allowed to use a Time Ring.
---
Context: Bulma leaves to search for something, then returns.
20:56 | Bulma: "I looked all over the place for it! It was really hard to find!"
21:00 | Kid Trunks: "Looked for what?"
21:14 | Bulma: "Ta-da! A time machine! There was another one, remember?"
Significance: Reveals that Bulma kept the time machine that Cell arrived in.
Spoiler:
Context: Pilaf, Shu, Mai and Trunks don't know who Future Trunks is.
04:56 | Pilaf: "He says you're his father and you're his mother, and they're both Trunks!"
04:58 | Pilaf: "Us kids don't have a clue what's going on!"
05:04 | Bulma: "Would you pipe down?!"
05:06 | Bulma: "Everything's fine, both of them are mine and Vegeta's child!"
05:11 | Bulma: "See, this kid here... is this kid, just from the future."
05:21 | Trunks: "So this guy's... Me from the future?!"
Significance: Reveals that Trunks was never told about Future Trunks.
---
Context: Whis speaks.
07:22 | Whis: "Manipulating time to travel between the past and future is a serious felony. Time is only supposed to flow in one, single direction. If you turn back time and change the past, even if you only, say, pick a single flower, it affects subsequent history. Cities and even entire cultures could be greatly altered, and ultimately, it might result in a planet being erased from the universe."
Significance: Whis' explanation of time travel. Reemphasizes that time travel is a crime.
---
Context: Whis continues.
07:53 | Bulma: "I understand how serious it can be, but..."
07:56 | Whis: "That is why casual time travel is strictly prohibited, even among the gods."
08:04 | Future Trunks: "The gods?"
08:05 | Kid Trunks: "These two are from the world of the gods."
08:09 | Beerus: "You most definitely deserve being destroyed for this."
08:13 | Future Trunks: "Destroyed?!"
08:24 | Future Trunks: "N-No! P-Please wait a moment, God!"
08:30 | Whis: "He is the god."
08:33 | Bulma: "And while he is a god, he's a God of Destruction."
08:36 | Whis: "I am nothing more than his attendant."
08:40 | Future Trunks: "Oh. I was certain that you were the god."
Significance: An interesting exchange where Whis' relation to Beerus is restated.
---
Context: Bulma examines/analyzes the time machine, but can't figure out how to make it work.
11:38 | Bulma: "If only I could look into my future self's mind!"
11:45 | Bulma: "What's this? This... This is..."
12:03 | Bulma: "This is my handwriting! It's my notebook!"
Significance: Bulma finds the notebook from Future Bulma inside the time machine.
---
Context: Conversation.
12:09 | Goku: "So what happened in the future?"
12:11 | Vegeta: "Was it Majin Boo?"
12:13 | Future Trunks: "No, Majin Boo's emergence was... It was an extremely difficult battle. However, I had received instructions from Kaioshin-sama. And so I somehow managed to defeat both Dabra and Bobbidi, and prevent Majin Boo from emerging. But then after that, an even more fearsome foe appeared."
Significance: Reveals that Dabra and Babidi appeared in Trunks' time. Notably, Trunks claims to have received "instructions" from Kaioshin, rather than simply "training".
---
Context: Trunks continues.
13:32 | Future Trunks: "He called himself "Son Goku"."
13:38 | Vegeta: "So you're saying this enemy calls himself "Son Goku" and looks just like him, right?"
13:43 | Future Trunks: "Yes, that's right. He wears black clothing, so we call him "Goku Black"."
13:52 | Goku: "For real?! That name's way cooler than mine!"
13:56 | Bulma: "That name's so cliché!"
14:00 | Future Trunks: "But, Mother... it was your future self who named him that."
14:06 | Bulma: "Well, I might have been the one to come up with it, but it wasn't really me."
14:12 | Future Trunks: "The day he appeared on Earth, he told us... that he would now proceed to exterminate all Earthlings in the name of justice. He also said he had already wiped out several planets and their inhabitants in this manner. I fought against him for a year. But now there are barely any humans left on the world's surface. Right before I came to this era, even Mother was..."
15:24 | Bulma: "Y-You mean I died?"
Significance: Explains that Black has "wiped out several planets" already, and that his current goal is to exterminate the people of Earth "in the name of justice". Reveals that Black refers to himself as Son Goku, and that "Goku Black" is a name attributed to him by Bulma.
---
Context: Goku and Trunks prepare to spar.
17:29 | Goku: "Trunks, let's do a bit of sparrin'!"
17:32 | Goku: "I wanna have some kinda reference for how strong this Black guy is."
17:36 | Future Trunks: "Understood."
17:47 | Goku: "Super Saiyan 2 right out of the gate, huh?"
Significance: Reveals that Future Trunks has learned Super Saiyan 2 in the future.
18:59 | Goku: "You ain't half bad!"
19:01 | Future Trunks: "No, even like this I was no match for him. Each time we fought, he powered up more and more."
Significance: Black's power increases each time he fights Trunks. This is touched on in the following episode as well.
19:10 | Goku: "In that case, try this on for size! Super Saiyan 3! Can you handle it?"
19:28 | Future Trunks: "A-Amazing! I can't believe you've further surpassed the Super Saiyan that surpassed Super Saiyan."
Significance: Shows that Trunks is unfamiliar with Super Saiyan 3. Since the Super Saiyan forms weren't given numbers until the Boo arc, Trunks refers to it in a rather convoluted way.
20:20 | Goku: "Awesome, Trunks! I'm impressed you improved so much all on your own."
20:26 | Future Trunks: "Thank you very much. But..."
20:28 | Goku: "Black is even stronger, huh?"
20:31 | Future Trunks: "He's on par... No, maybe even stronger than you."
Significance: Trunks claims that Black is stronger than a Super Saiyan 3 Goku. Maybe.
04:56 | Pilaf: "He says you're his father and you're his mother, and they're both Trunks!"
04:58 | Pilaf: "Us kids don't have a clue what's going on!"
05:04 | Bulma: "Would you pipe down?!"
05:06 | Bulma: "Everything's fine, both of them are mine and Vegeta's child!"
05:11 | Bulma: "See, this kid here... is this kid, just from the future."
05:21 | Trunks: "So this guy's... Me from the future?!"
Significance: Reveals that Trunks was never told about Future Trunks.
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Context: Whis speaks.
07:22 | Whis: "Manipulating time to travel between the past and future is a serious felony. Time is only supposed to flow in one, single direction. If you turn back time and change the past, even if you only, say, pick a single flower, it affects subsequent history. Cities and even entire cultures could be greatly altered, and ultimately, it might result in a planet being erased from the universe."
Significance: Whis' explanation of time travel. Reemphasizes that time travel is a crime.
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Context: Whis continues.
07:53 | Bulma: "I understand how serious it can be, but..."
07:56 | Whis: "That is why casual time travel is strictly prohibited, even among the gods."
08:04 | Future Trunks: "The gods?"
08:05 | Kid Trunks: "These two are from the world of the gods."
08:09 | Beerus: "You most definitely deserve being destroyed for this."
08:13 | Future Trunks: "Destroyed?!"
08:24 | Future Trunks: "N-No! P-Please wait a moment, God!"
08:30 | Whis: "He is the god."
08:33 | Bulma: "And while he is a god, he's a God of Destruction."
08:36 | Whis: "I am nothing more than his attendant."
08:40 | Future Trunks: "Oh. I was certain that you were the god."
Significance: An interesting exchange where Whis' relation to Beerus is restated.
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Context: Bulma examines/analyzes the time machine, but can't figure out how to make it work.
11:38 | Bulma: "If only I could look into my future self's mind!"
11:45 | Bulma: "What's this? This... This is..."
12:03 | Bulma: "This is my handwriting! It's my notebook!"
Significance: Bulma finds the notebook from Future Bulma inside the time machine.
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Context: Conversation.
12:09 | Goku: "So what happened in the future?"
12:11 | Vegeta: "Was it Majin Boo?"
12:13 | Future Trunks: "No, Majin Boo's emergence was... It was an extremely difficult battle. However, I had received instructions from Kaioshin-sama. And so I somehow managed to defeat both Dabra and Bobbidi, and prevent Majin Boo from emerging. But then after that, an even more fearsome foe appeared."
Significance: Reveals that Dabra and Babidi appeared in Trunks' time. Notably, Trunks claims to have received "instructions" from Kaioshin, rather than simply "training".
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Context: Trunks continues.
13:32 | Future Trunks: "He called himself "Son Goku"."
13:38 | Vegeta: "So you're saying this enemy calls himself "Son Goku" and looks just like him, right?"
13:43 | Future Trunks: "Yes, that's right. He wears black clothing, so we call him "Goku Black"."
13:52 | Goku: "For real?! That name's way cooler than mine!"
13:56 | Bulma: "That name's so cliché!"
14:00 | Future Trunks: "But, Mother... it was your future self who named him that."
14:06 | Bulma: "Well, I might have been the one to come up with it, but it wasn't really me."
14:12 | Future Trunks: "The day he appeared on Earth, he told us... that he would now proceed to exterminate all Earthlings in the name of justice. He also said he had already wiped out several planets and their inhabitants in this manner. I fought against him for a year. But now there are barely any humans left on the world's surface. Right before I came to this era, even Mother was..."
15:24 | Bulma: "Y-You mean I died?"
Significance: Explains that Black has "wiped out several planets" already, and that his current goal is to exterminate the people of Earth "in the name of justice". Reveals that Black refers to himself as Son Goku, and that "Goku Black" is a name attributed to him by Bulma.
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Context: Goku and Trunks prepare to spar.
17:29 | Goku: "Trunks, let's do a bit of sparrin'!"
17:32 | Goku: "I wanna have some kinda reference for how strong this Black guy is."
17:36 | Future Trunks: "Understood."
17:47 | Goku: "Super Saiyan 2 right out of the gate, huh?"
Significance: Reveals that Future Trunks has learned Super Saiyan 2 in the future.
18:59 | Goku: "You ain't half bad!"
19:01 | Future Trunks: "No, even like this I was no match for him. Each time we fought, he powered up more and more."
Significance: Black's power increases each time he fights Trunks. This is touched on in the following episode as well.
19:10 | Goku: "In that case, try this on for size! Super Saiyan 3! Can you handle it?"
19:28 | Future Trunks: "A-Amazing! I can't believe you've further surpassed the Super Saiyan that surpassed Super Saiyan."
Significance: Shows that Trunks is unfamiliar with Super Saiyan 3. Since the Super Saiyan forms weren't given numbers until the Boo arc, Trunks refers to it in a rather convoluted way.
20:20 | Goku: "Awesome, Trunks! I'm impressed you improved so much all on your own."
20:26 | Future Trunks: "Thank you very much. But..."
20:28 | Goku: "Black is even stronger, huh?"
20:31 | Future Trunks: "He's on par... No, maybe even stronger than you."
Significance: Trunks claims that Black is stronger than a Super Saiyan 3 Goku. Maybe.
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Context: Black attacks.
04:13 | Trunks: "The building is still standing. I doubt he knows about the time machine. If I'm lucky, I might be able to activate it..."
Significance: This, along with Black's later reaction shows he isn't aware of the time machine.
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Context: Black corners Trunks.
04:31 | Black: "You intend to fight me? Even knowing you cannot win, you still won't back down. Saiyans amuse me. Death is the ultimate blessing for foolish humans."
Significance: Black continues to refer to Trunks as a "Saiyan", implying that he doesn't consider himself a Saiyan and, for some reason, disdains them.
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Context: Trunks attempts to flee.
06:35 | Trunks: "Masenko!"
Significance: Shows that Trunks was taught the Masenko at some point, presumably by Future Gohan.
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Context: In school, Trunsk struggles with math. Pilaf gives an explanation.
09:31 | Pilaf: "In this case, assume you have 1000 zeny, and want to buy a tea cup that usually costs 900 zeny... Now, "times 0.5" means that it's 50% off."
Significance: Not overly-important, but a certain group wrote "5% off" instead of "50% off", rendering Pilaf's math lesson incorrect.
Not knowing how to use 割 is how "Beerus only used 1% of his power" got started back in the Battle of Gods arc.
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Context: Trunks' time machine appears, and Bulma is called to take a look.
12:58 | Bulma: ""HOPE!!""
13:00 | Trunks: "You know something, Mum?"
13:01 | Bulma: "The unconscious person inside..."
13:04 | Bulma: "Is he a young man with blue hair?"
13:09 | Trunks: "Yeah, he is."
13:11 | Bulma: "This is bad!"
Significance: Bulma asks if the man inside of the time machine has blue hair, despite Future Trunks having purple hair in Dragon Ball Z and in the flashbacks last episode.
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Context: Trunks, Pilaf, Mai and Shu try to figure out who the mystery man is.
13:41 | Mai: "You're brothers?! Yeah, he looks like you! You're two peas in a pod!"
13:51 | Trunks: "No way..."
16:31 | Trunks: "W-Who's this guy?"
Significance: Shows that Trunks was never told about Future Trunks.
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Context: Bulma frantically tries to contact Whis to get in touch with Vegeta.
14:19 | Bulma: "Whis-san! Whis-san! Whis-san! Geez, hurry and answer already!"
14:43 | Whis: "Oh? It seems my communicator is already coming in handy."
15:00 | Bulma: "Hurry and get me Vegeta!"
15:02 | Goku: "What is it, Bulma?"
15:03 | Bulma: "Thank goodness! Son-kun is there too?!"
15:07 | Beerus: "We didn't give you that thing so you could shoot the breeze!"
Significance: Shows that Bulma was given a communicator to be able to easily contact Whis and Beerus from Earth.
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Context: Next episode preview.
Herms' Twitter | Goku: Has something else happened? Huh?! Some guy who looks just like me is rampaging in the future?! Is he stronger than I am now?
Dragon Team | Goku: Did somethin' else happen? There's a guy who looks just like me goin' on a rampage in the future? And he's even stronger than I am now?
Significance: DragonTeam's line is more of a personal interpretation, and implies a greater degree of certainty than the original Japanese. That being said, this line can be read both ways.
04:13 | Trunks: "The building is still standing. I doubt he knows about the time machine. If I'm lucky, I might be able to activate it..."
Significance: This, along with Black's later reaction shows he isn't aware of the time machine.
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Context: Black corners Trunks.
04:31 | Black: "You intend to fight me? Even knowing you cannot win, you still won't back down. Saiyans amuse me. Death is the ultimate blessing for foolish humans."
Significance: Black continues to refer to Trunks as a "Saiyan", implying that he doesn't consider himself a Saiyan and, for some reason, disdains them.
---
Context: Trunks attempts to flee.
06:35 | Trunks: "Masenko!"
Significance: Shows that Trunks was taught the Masenko at some point, presumably by Future Gohan.
---
Context: In school, Trunsk struggles with math. Pilaf gives an explanation.
09:31 | Pilaf: "In this case, assume you have 1000 zeny, and want to buy a tea cup that usually costs 900 zeny... Now, "times 0.5" means that it's 50% off."
Significance: Not overly-important, but a certain group wrote "5% off" instead of "50% off", rendering Pilaf's math lesson incorrect.
Not knowing how to use 割 is how "Beerus only used 1% of his power" got started back in the Battle of Gods arc.
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Context: Trunks' time machine appears, and Bulma is called to take a look.
12:58 | Bulma: ""HOPE!!""
13:00 | Trunks: "You know something, Mum?"
13:01 | Bulma: "The unconscious person inside..."
13:04 | Bulma: "Is he a young man with blue hair?"
13:09 | Trunks: "Yeah, he is."
13:11 | Bulma: "This is bad!"
Significance: Bulma asks if the man inside of the time machine has blue hair, despite Future Trunks having purple hair in Dragon Ball Z and in the flashbacks last episode.
---
Context: Trunks, Pilaf, Mai and Shu try to figure out who the mystery man is.
13:41 | Mai: "You're brothers?! Yeah, he looks like you! You're two peas in a pod!"
13:51 | Trunks: "No way..."
16:31 | Trunks: "W-Who's this guy?"
Significance: Shows that Trunks was never told about Future Trunks.
---
Context: Bulma frantically tries to contact Whis to get in touch with Vegeta.
14:19 | Bulma: "Whis-san! Whis-san! Whis-san! Geez, hurry and answer already!"
14:43 | Whis: "Oh? It seems my communicator is already coming in handy."
15:00 | Bulma: "Hurry and get me Vegeta!"
15:02 | Goku: "What is it, Bulma?"
15:03 | Bulma: "Thank goodness! Son-kun is there too?!"
15:07 | Beerus: "We didn't give you that thing so you could shoot the breeze!"
Significance: Shows that Bulma was given a communicator to be able to easily contact Whis and Beerus from Earth.
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Context: Next episode preview.
Herms' Twitter | Goku: Has something else happened? Huh?! Some guy who looks just like me is rampaging in the future?! Is he stronger than I am now?
Dragon Team | Goku: Did somethin' else happen? There's a guy who looks just like me goin' on a rampage in the future? And he's even stronger than I am now?
Significance: DragonTeam's line is more of a personal interpretation, and implies a greater degree of certainty than the original Japanese. That being said, this line can be read both ways.
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Context: Future Trunks returns to his mother, who hands him fuel.
03:18 | Trunks: "Mother!"
03:23 | Bulma: "Trunks! Thank goodness. You look well."
03:31 | Trunks: "Yes. You haven't changed either, Mother."
03:37 | Bulma: "This is enough for a one-way trip."
03:40 | Trunks: "This is all there is? After an entire year?!"
03:43 | Bulma: "Don't look so upset. A one-way trip is all we need."
03:47 | Trunks: "Still, this means we can't come back."
03:51 | Bulma: "There is a way. It's a bit of a gamble, though."
Significance: From the dialog, we can discern that around a year has passed since Bulma and Trunks last saw each other. In all that time, Bulma has only managed to produce a year's worth of fuel, enough to fit in a canister.
While Bulma insists that there's a way for Trunks to return to his timeline, she never elaborates. Despite not knowing what she means, Trunks later decides to trust her.
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Context: Black ambushes Trunks and Bulma.
05:17 | Trunks: "Mother!"
05:34 | Trunks: "The equipment..."
Significance: This is notable for two reasons.
First, Black being able to sense Trunks' ki was apparently an unexpected development:
11:56 | Trunks: "Black, that bastard..."
11:58 | Trunks: "He can read my ki now."
Second, Trunks didn't sense Black's approach, which happens again later in the episode, shortly before another attack:
18:35 | Mai: "Do you sense Black's ki?"
18:37 | Trunks: "No. Let's go."
Mai's question above implies that Trunks is normally capable of sensing Black.
Since Black recently learned to sense Trunks' ki, it's possible that he also learned to mask his own.
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Context: Goku, Goten, Chichi and Piccolo overlook Goku's lettuce farm.
07:05 | Goten: "Amazing, Dad!"
07:07 | Chichi: "I'll say! You've grown 'em well."
07:11 | Goku: "I wanted to feed you guys somethin' yummy, so I worked real hard!"
Significance: Since this episode was Black's highly anticipated debut, the lettuce Goku grew might be a subtle reference to Tullece from DBZ Movie 3, another Goku doppelganger who derives his name from the vegetable. (レタス/retasu, ターレス/Taaresu)
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Context: Goku and Piccolo race to harvest lettuce.
Goku claims it will be good training, but Piccolo is skeptical at first.
08:41 | Piccolo: "This is effective!"
08:43 | Piccolo: "My legs, back, shoulders, arms... I can feel them all working in unison!"
08:48 | Goku: "Nice goin', Piccolo! This'll be a close match!"
08:51 | Piccolo: "I never knew you could train like this."
Significance: Shows that at the end of the day, the old fashioned way is still effective.
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Context: Vegeta trains with Whis, failing to land a single blow.
09:42 | Whis: "What is the matter? Doesn't look like you'll land a hit today, either..."
Significance: Some groups mistranslated this line to imply that Vegeta is usually able to strike Whis in training, when the exact opposite is said.
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Context: Whis, Beerus, Goku and Vegeta discuss the King of All.
13:38 | Whis: "You see, the King of All is the single most important person in existence."
13:43 | Whis: "None stand above him."
13:46 | Goku: "Does that mean he's the strongest?"
13:56 | Beerus: "The King of All doesn't fight, but he is the strongest. By an insane margin."
14:04 | Whis: "I believe Beerus-sama mentioned this back at the tournament too, but the King of All can wipe out anything in the blink of an eye. Naturally this includes evil-doers... Planets... Galaxies... Even universes. If he felt like it, our entire world would be no more."
Significance: Reiterates the extent of the King of All's power.
This was briefly touched on at the end of Beerus and Champa's tournament.
14:27 | Vegeta: "Has that ever happened? Has he wiped out entire worlds before?!"
14:31 | Whis: "Oh, yes. Previously, there were eighteen universes..."
14:36 | Vegeta: "So that means six universes..."
14:39 | Whis: "...offended him, if ever so slightly, and went up in smoke."
Significance: Reveals that there were previously 18 universes, before 6 of them were destroyed by the King of All.
---
Context: Trunks and Mai prepare to leave.
17:24 | Mai: "First we'll head for West City. Then we'll go back 17 years."
Significance: The amount of time that Trunks travels back.
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Context: After seemingly killing Mai, Black appears.
21:31 | Black: "Finally. Today is the day that your life comes to an end..."
21:40 | Black: "...Saiyan."
Significance: A curious thing for not-Goku to say.
Implies that Black has a grudge against the Saiyan race.
03:18 | Trunks: "Mother!"
03:23 | Bulma: "Trunks! Thank goodness. You look well."
03:31 | Trunks: "Yes. You haven't changed either, Mother."
03:37 | Bulma: "This is enough for a one-way trip."
03:40 | Trunks: "This is all there is? After an entire year?!"
03:43 | Bulma: "Don't look so upset. A one-way trip is all we need."
03:47 | Trunks: "Still, this means we can't come back."
03:51 | Bulma: "There is a way. It's a bit of a gamble, though."
Significance: From the dialog, we can discern that around a year has passed since Bulma and Trunks last saw each other. In all that time, Bulma has only managed to produce a year's worth of fuel, enough to fit in a canister.
While Bulma insists that there's a way for Trunks to return to his timeline, she never elaborates. Despite not knowing what she means, Trunks later decides to trust her.
---
Context: Black ambushes Trunks and Bulma.
05:17 | Trunks: "Mother!"
05:34 | Trunks: "The equipment..."
Significance: This is notable for two reasons.
First, Black being able to sense Trunks' ki was apparently an unexpected development:
11:56 | Trunks: "Black, that bastard..."
11:58 | Trunks: "He can read my ki now."
Second, Trunks didn't sense Black's approach, which happens again later in the episode, shortly before another attack:
18:35 | Mai: "Do you sense Black's ki?"
18:37 | Trunks: "No. Let's go."
Mai's question above implies that Trunks is normally capable of sensing Black.
Since Black recently learned to sense Trunks' ki, it's possible that he also learned to mask his own.
---
Context: Goku, Goten, Chichi and Piccolo overlook Goku's lettuce farm.
07:05 | Goten: "Amazing, Dad!"
07:07 | Chichi: "I'll say! You've grown 'em well."
07:11 | Goku: "I wanted to feed you guys somethin' yummy, so I worked real hard!"
Significance: Since this episode was Black's highly anticipated debut, the lettuce Goku grew might be a subtle reference to Tullece from DBZ Movie 3, another Goku doppelganger who derives his name from the vegetable. (レタス/retasu, ターレス/Taaresu)
---
Context: Goku and Piccolo race to harvest lettuce.
Goku claims it will be good training, but Piccolo is skeptical at first.
08:41 | Piccolo: "This is effective!"
08:43 | Piccolo: "My legs, back, shoulders, arms... I can feel them all working in unison!"
08:48 | Goku: "Nice goin', Piccolo! This'll be a close match!"
08:51 | Piccolo: "I never knew you could train like this."
Significance: Shows that at the end of the day, the old fashioned way is still effective.
---
Context: Vegeta trains with Whis, failing to land a single blow.
09:42 | Whis: "What is the matter? Doesn't look like you'll land a hit today, either..."
Significance: Some groups mistranslated this line to imply that Vegeta is usually able to strike Whis in training, when the exact opposite is said.
---
Context: Whis, Beerus, Goku and Vegeta discuss the King of All.
13:38 | Whis: "You see, the King of All is the single most important person in existence."
13:43 | Whis: "None stand above him."
13:46 | Goku: "Does that mean he's the strongest?"
13:56 | Beerus: "The King of All doesn't fight, but he is the strongest. By an insane margin."
14:04 | Whis: "I believe Beerus-sama mentioned this back at the tournament too, but the King of All can wipe out anything in the blink of an eye. Naturally this includes evil-doers... Planets... Galaxies... Even universes. If he felt like it, our entire world would be no more."
Significance: Reiterates the extent of the King of All's power.
This was briefly touched on at the end of Beerus and Champa's tournament.
14:27 | Vegeta: "Has that ever happened? Has he wiped out entire worlds before?!"
14:31 | Whis: "Oh, yes. Previously, there were eighteen universes..."
14:36 | Vegeta: "So that means six universes..."
14:39 | Whis: "...offended him, if ever so slightly, and went up in smoke."
Significance: Reveals that there were previously 18 universes, before 6 of them were destroyed by the King of All.
---
Context: Trunks and Mai prepare to leave.
17:24 | Mai: "First we'll head for West City. Then we'll go back 17 years."
Significance: The amount of time that Trunks travels back.
---
Context: After seemingly killing Mai, Black appears.
21:31 | Black: "Finally. Today is the day that your life comes to an end..."
21:40 | Black: "...Saiyan."
Significance: A curious thing for not-Goku to say.
Implies that Black has a grudge against the Saiyan race.
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