Potential of Future Gohan

[vegetaslegacy15]

In the series Gohan obviously had a lot of potential. But his future self, as in the one from the future timeline with the andrioids, never reached the same level of power as Cell Saga Gohan did. My question is could future Gohan have reached the same levels of power are Gohan did?

[CaBrPi]

There's no reason he couldn't have. Aside from, you know, being dead.

[Kaboom]

He had every bit as much potential as his "prime" timeline self. Unfortunately, he lacked the help and circumstances that his not-killed-by-Anroids counterpart ended up with. Everybody else strong in the world was dead, and even Super Saiyan Trunks was probably not nearly powerful enough to be a decent sparring partner for him yet, given that Gohan could evidently fend him off in his base form...

[Fox666]

The power Gohan gained in the main timeline is mostly because of the full-power Super Saiyan training of Goku. The Gohan from the future was "stuck" in that level of power the same way Vegeta was after he was defeated by no.18.

[DBZ Mick]

I'm sure he had the same potential as present Gohan. However due to Goku and company being dead and as Kaboom mentioned he just lacked the help and circumstances present Gohan had.

In Shin Budokai 2, he does become a SSJ2 and gets his power raised to 'Ultimate' status by the Older Kaioshin.

[Piccolo Daimao]

Well, I do wonder if future Gohan would've still been able to recieve power from rage like present Gohan, seeing as when Gohan became an adult, he didn't. Although that could be put down to his lack of training.

Either way, I do think that future Gohan has the same amount of potential as present Gohan. It's just that he didn't have the RoSaT, his friends, the torture of them and the death of an Android to boost him up the level of present Gohan.

[vegetaslegacy15]

Thanks guys!!!!
Well where do you think future Gohan was power wise? Like was at the same level as Vegeta and Goku during the fight with 19 and 20 or was he way below that?

[CaBrPi]

Thanks guys!!!!
Well where do you think future Gohan was power wise? Like was at the same level as Vegeta and Goku during the fight with 19 and 20 or was he way below that?

I don't think he'd even be that high, with no good sparring partners. He'd probably be around the same level of Trunks when he came back and demolished Freeza and King Cold.

[Piccolo Daimao]

Thanks guys!!!!
Well where do you think future Gohan was power wise? Like was at the same level as Vegeta and Goku during the fight with 19 and 20 or was he way below that?

Probably slightly weaker than future Trunks at his first appearance.

[Hitiro]

The thing you have to understand is they are two different timelines that diverged at a crucial point in time. Along with being different timelines you could say they are alternate universes. If you compare both of them then are major differences. For example, the androids are less evil, in Trunks timeline they were destroying everything like killing machines. In Goku's timeline they don't really do much destroying and even spare the Z warriors lives. Something that didn't happen in Trunks timeline. Then there's the fact that Goku is alive, due to Goku being alive Gohan was pushed to get SSJ at a very young age. A lot of Gohan's potential was shown when he was young, as Gohan grew up he became unable to tap into that strength that he had during the Cell Games. It probably didn't help that he neglected to train but the fact still remains that he turned into all the other characters of the series, being that they have nothing to tap into and have to bridge the gap in strength through sheer training(Until the Elder Kai enters the picture and releases his hidden potential of course).

[Bussani]

Well where do you think future Gohan was power wise? Like was at the same level as Vegeta and Goku during the fight with 19 and 20 or was he way below that?

Future Gohan seemed to claim that he wasn't even as strong as Goku had been when he died.

Chapter: TTS, P2.5
Context: Trunks commented on how Gohan’s gi made Bulma think of Goku.
Future Gohan: “I made it hoping it would make me as strong as dad was before he died… But I guess it’s not that easy.”

Goku was supposed to get his heart disease "soon" after returning from space in that timeline, so I suppose he didn't have the chance to get much stronger than he had been after Yardrat. I guess Future Gohan could have been around Goku's level from when he fought Freeza on Namek, if that?

[Super Saiyan Turlast x4]

I think Future Gohan is stronger than Super Saiyan Goku when he fought Freeza, but weaker than Trunks after he trained for 3 yrs to fight the Androids.

[Jackal puFF]

It seems if only he was patient and trained a bit longer with Trunks, they could have maybe killed the androids.

[CaBrPi]

It seems if only he was patient and trained a bit longer with Trunks, they could have maybe killed the androids.

No, I doubt that. But if they'd consulted Mr. Popo, they might've been able to use the ROSAT, and not get utterly demolished.

[Gogeta8001]

I'm really glad that he didn't have "potential". I liked Future Gohan because he actually trained to get his power unlike present Gohan who wen't through the whole "Mystic crap" to get his power.

The whole "hidden power" stuff got really, really stale after awhile.

Mystic Gohan just made Gohan very unlikable.

[NitroEX]

The thing you have to understand is they are two different timelines that diverged at a crucial point in time. Along with being different timelines you could say they are alternate universes.

Definitely. In Trunk's timeline Goku was the one who Killed Frieza on Earth instead of Trunks. I would have loved to have seen how that played out.

[Piccolo Daimao]

It seems if only he was patient and trained a bit longer with Trunks, they could have maybe killed the androids.

Like CaBrPi, I doubt that too. And I don't think it's in Gohan's personality to just stand there and do nothing (as in, not intervene) while the Androids destroyed Earth and killed innocents. Training may've been the best course of action, as the ends could justify the means (i.e. eventually be able to kill the Androids rather than get himself killed and leave more people to be killed without him to stop it), but besides, Gohan had a fallback plan: Trunks. It was probably a gamble, but he believed that Trunks could even surpass him in a few months.

Chapter: TTS, P2.1
Context: Base Gohan was sparring with Super Saiyan Trunks. With his one arm…
Future Gohan: “You’ve improved a lot, Trunks. You might even leave me in the dust in a few months.”

[In Brightest Day]

Was the fate of the Lookout ever confirmed in the future? If it wasn't ever touched, then why didn't Mr. Popo just fly down and say "uh, hey. I've got this place that can give you a years training in a day. If you could hurry up and use it that'd be great. Sincerely Popo."

[Super Saiyan Turlast x4]

We're never told anything about the lookout from the future, but I honestly think it was destroyed. I always had a feeling the Androids took out Karin in the future, so it's possible that they took out Popo while they were up there.

[In Brightest Day]

But how could they possibly know where the lookout was? I thought it was stated that Dr. Gero only spied on the Z-Fighters during their major battles.


Edit: Fully acknowledging that is somewhat going off-topic here.