Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by MasenkoHA » Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:33 am

Trouser wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:37 am He's straight. He is meant to be with Mai no matter the timeline, as we all saw in Dragon Ball Super, both manga and anime.
While I agree with you that he's intended to be straight (because I'm not convinced Toriyama is aware of any sexuality other than straight or gay) being with a woman doesn’t negate him being bi or pan.

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by Koitsukai » Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:20 am

I took that scene as "I'm actually not interested in being a fucking perv like these two", not as "I'm not interested in spying on naked girls, therefore I must be gay"

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by OmegaRockman » Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:30 pm

Though I don't think the scene OP referenced really indicates anything either way in the original or the dub, I'd be perfectly okay with Trunks being bi or pan. If that's the read you get from him, have at it. I just don't think he's only into guys due to Mai, but Trunks being bi/pan is definitely possible.

Heck, now that this has me thinking, I wouldn't be surprised if Goku was also pan since he doesn't even really recognize gender as a concept as indicated by his struggling to tell the difference between guys and girls. We know from Super that Goku does experience sexual attraction of some sort from that conversation about his and Vegeta's wives, so combining that with Goku not really seeming to know or care much about gender tells me that his attraction to a person has zero to do with their gender presentation. Like, it's entirely possible that he might be into a guy or nonbinary person who has the same strong and outspoken personality as Chichi. Wouldn't surprise me one bit.
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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by super michael » Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:05 pm

In Future Trunks time line, he is the last surviving Saiyan. If Future Trunks doesn't have kids, then that would be the end of the Saiyans.
Plus Future Trunks has never shown any interest in guys, while in DBS he has shown a interest with Future Mai and Future Mai having a interest with Future Trunks.

The only time Future Trunks stared at a guy was at Vegeta, since he knew he was staring at his father, while Vegeta didn't know he was his son.

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by SorikaiWolf89 » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:34 am

Scientist Fu wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:44 am
SorikaiWolf89 wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:38 pm Haha yeah I guess that part wasn’t necessary after all 😅

Not gonna lie I DO have fangirl logic when I ship very close best friends together in anime or a pairing that I just wanna see together as a couple or have a one night stand or something (bc I’m kinda a pervert fujoshi like that sometimes)
but of course I know that guys in anime or otherwise don’t have to be secretly gay for each other to be best friends I’m just shipping the two of them specifically extra hard bc I think they would legit make a good couple as they are very compatible but that doesn’t mean that they ever will be a couple I just fantasize how they would be together

But that’s what fanfics are for that and fan art/doujinshi and if you wanna go even further down the rabbit hole : rule 34

Anyway that’s why “fan couples” exist bc fangirls and fanboys want to see shippings if characters that will otherwise never be an official canon couple or simply bc they just wanna see porn of their favorite characters or ones they are attracted to hence the internet phenomenon that is “waifus and husbandos”

I mean it’s not just with guys , people myself included ship together some female anime best friends with each other too
(I completely ship Soifon with Yoruichi from Bleach for example but that’s much more of a one sided crush) and of course shipping of heterosexual best friends is the most common
You can ship Trunks and Goten if you really want to, but the thread was not about shipping but Trunks' sexual orientation and officially there is nothing that says that Trunks is homosexual.
I know we got off topic there someone else brought up Goten x Trunks and that started a whole new chain reaction

And yeah it’s official that future Trunks is straight as there is pretty much no indication that says otherwise and the Super Android 13 movie that I quoted is technically not canon anyway so it’s all just speculation and theories

I don’t know maybe I secretly want him to be gay or at least bisexual as there are no known bisexual characters in the series also I’m just looking WAY too into it admittedly 😅

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by SorikaiWolf89 » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:43 am

Trouser wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:37 am He's straight. He is meant to be with Mai no matter the timeline, as we all saw in Dragon Ball Super, both manga and anime.
Well technically if you want to specific Super isn’t considered canon by Toriyama but I get your point as it does indeed prove that future Trunks is attracted to women as Toriyama most likely intended him to be anyway I’m assuming

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by Saiya6Cit » Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:58 pm

SorikaiWolf89 wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:33 pm
Saiya6Cit wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:51 am I only watched the android 13 movie a couple of times when I was like 15 years old, so excuseme but I don't recall that specific moment.
I’ve only just recently rewatched it for the first time in like at least 10 years myself so when I finally rewatched it as an adult those lines made me curious as I didn’t remember them

It’s at the VERY beginning in like the first 2-3 minutes the lines I’m referring to
I just checked on it in my latino version, it says:

Krillin: "You guys are acting like a couple of crazy dudes, don't you see Trunks is here?"
Trunks blushes and says: "There is no problem with me"
Krillin says: "Shame on you, don't you see you are corrupting a youngman's mind?"

So no homosexuality there he just says he is OK with roshi and Uulong being pervs in public.

Hope it helped.

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by ZodaEX » Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:45 am

Judging by the way Future Trunks styles his hair, I don't see how he couldn't be gay.

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by SorikaiWolf89 » Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:07 am

Saiya6Cit wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:58 pm
SorikaiWolf89 wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:33 pm
Saiya6Cit wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:51 am I only watched the android 13 movie a couple of times when I was like 15 years old, so excuseme but I don't recall that specific moment.
I’ve only just recently rewatched it for the first time in like at least 10 years myself so when I finally rewatched it as an adult those lines made me curious as I didn’t remember them

It’s at the VERY beginning in like the first 2-3 minutes the lines I’m referring to
I just checked on it in my latino version, it says:

Krillin: "You guys are acting like a couple of crazy dudes, don't you see Trunks is here?"
Trunks blushes and says: "There is no problem with me"
Krillin says: "Shame on you, don't you see you are corrupting a youngman's mind?"

So no homosexuality there he just says he is OK with roshi and Uulong being pervs in public.

Hope it helped.

Yeah that makes the most sense I suppose with Trunks being indifferent yet embarrassed about their behavior at the same time
And yes that does answer my question
Although the Latino dub isn’t the “official” translation the lines have pretty much the same meaning as the English dub and the original Japanese lines

Sorry for the month late reply by the way

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by SorikaiWolf89 » Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:21 am

ZodaEX wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:45 am Judging by the way Future Trunks styles his hair, I don't see how he couldn't be gay.
That bob cut hair style was actually very popular all throughout the 90s and early 2000s mostly on “pretty boy” guys and kids/teenagers with some girls/women adopting it too which of course was also styled on mostly bishonen type characters in anime and manga as well at the time

Kid Gohan had that hairstyle on Namek and later Bulma had it after the 7 year timeskip and kept it basically for the remainder of the series
Both of them obviously aren’t gay bc of their hairstyle
Well in Gohan’s case it was forced on him by his mom but the point still stands Gohan ends up with Videl and Bulma with Vegeta proving they aren’t gay or lesbian

What’s wrong with Trunks liking to have neatly styled hair ? A lot of girls and women find that hair style to be quite sexy actually hence why it was was so popular probably

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by damn » Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:29 am

Koitsukai wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:20 am I took that scene as "I'm actually not interested in being a fucking perv like these two", not as "I'm not interested in spying on naked girls, therefore I must be gay"
Pretty much this.

Trunks is a very stereotypical "handsome"(Kakoii)-type character from the 80s and 90s.
His type is the cool gentleman you see in Shoujo manga that's popular with the girls. He's meant to appeal to girls so having him be a pervert would go against that and would make him look lame. And by girls I mean normal girls in real life and not Fujoshi-fangirls.

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by Pride9000!!! » Tue Sep 06, 2022 4:30 am

I really don't understand why people obsessed over the stuff (what someone sexuality). As most people just simply don't care and it's not really relevant to the story. It's an anime/cartoons made in Japan in the 80s/90s for kids. Now if this was an American cartoon made today that would be part of the story.

But let me engage with the idea. Narratively as many people pointed out there is no real hint of him being gay, bisexual, asexual (maybe...). It's not that deep, it's a shonen anime where people punch other people.

This isn't future trunks but it is Z in the future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYqnMsqx_PY I mean he seems pretty creeped out.

As far as trunks (super) him and mai are a couple. Whether the romance is written good or bad is up for debate (oftentimes we see these unlikely relationships in real life and fiction) So yeah I think he is straight.

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by Pride9000!!! » Tue Sep 06, 2022 4:36 am

jjgp1112 wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:13 pm
SorikaiWolf89 wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:00 pm (I don’t need to be a male to know that peeing right next to another male is kinda gay and they were pretty darn close to each other too SO close you think their streams would cross)

I don't think you needed to say you're not a guy for this section of the post to indicate that you've never been a 7-12 year old boy

In fact, this whole post reeks of the "Guys can't be close friends unless they're secretly gay for each other" fangirl logic.
This is absolutely true, I mean you can't show any more guy friends in movies, or that's considered romance between them and not just a good friendship. Examples of this is Rocky 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYvJrlgVaRE Top Gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okyLAKclleo somehow people today want to go there even though the scene is showing them just being great friends.

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by JulieYBM » Tue Sep 06, 2022 8:32 am

damn wrote: Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:29 am
Koitsukai wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:20 am I took that scene as "I'm actually not interested in being a fucking perv like these two", not as "I'm not interested in spying on naked girls, therefore I must be gay"
Pretty much this.

Trunks is a very stereotypical "handsome"(Kakoii)-type character from the 80s and 90s.
His type is the cool gentleman you see in Shoujo manga that's popular with the girls. He's meant to appeal to girls so having him be a pervert would go against that and would make him look lame. And by girls I mean normal girls in real life and not Fujoshi-fangirls.
Girls in real life are fujoshi.
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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by Inkei9001 » Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:31 am

Not the ones worth dating let alone wife material ones. being an unwashed drain on society isn't attractive

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by TheGreatness25 » Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:45 am

I took the line to mean, "I do like looking at this stuff too... even if I'm not being overly obvious about it."

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by JulieYBM » Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:53 am

Inkei9001 wrote: Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:31 am Not the ones worth dating let alone wife material ones. being an unwashed drain on society isn't attractive
Plenty of fujoshi date or get married, to say nothing of have jobs. Like, fujoshi aren't the only ones who read BL. Fudanshi and fujin exist.

You've bought far too much into silly stereotypes about fujoshi and your words are frankly really misogynistic.
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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by DiloVortexx » Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:47 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote: Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:45 am I took the line to mean, "I do like looking at this stuff too... even if I'm not being overly obvious about it."
i mean hey if future trunks got some kinky preferences out there thats hella valid of them i mean who wouldnt think of some out there shit when you live in a timeline as fucked as his yknow? (ofc not counting aspec ppl who arent aegosexual)

this thread sure is something btw ajsfjhfjhs
anyways yea i headcanon/view trunks in general as pansexual bc your honour i am self projecting onto the pretty boy who gives me transmasc enby vibes ♥ cuz they dont mind women in canon (albeit i Do Not Like trumai/trunks x mai for Multiple Reasons) and i mean that line could also have an implication that he likes men too if you wish for it to tho :oops:
and then well theres the whole deal w/ eoz and gt goten and trunks and how quite queercoded they are...

so yea even if the intention is "this dude is straight" sorry bud this guys always given me super queer vibes,,,
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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by Peach » Wed Sep 07, 2022 9:40 am

Trunks liked Mai and envisioned having a family with him and her visiting Bulma.

But the circumstances of his world. Rebuilding and threat after threat, made it impossible to pursue those feelings.

If we ever see him again, maybe him and Mai could have gotten married?

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Re: Future Trunks’ Sexual Orientation

Post by Peach » Wed Sep 07, 2022 9:45 am

MasenkoHA wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:33 am
Trouser wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 6:37 am He's straight. He is meant to be with Mai no matter the timeline, as we all saw in Dragon Ball Super, both manga and anime.
While I agree with you that he's intended to be straight (because I'm not convinced Toriyama is aware of any sexuality other than straight or gay) being with a woman doesn’t negate him being bi or pan.
Unless indicated otherwise, I usually don't assume bi, pan, ace, etc. It's possible and if that's your head canon, great. If your interpretation truly helps you enjoy the character more or helps you have fun, nothing wrong with that.

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