What happened in the 4th timeline?
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What happened in the 4th timeline?
There is a timeline where the Cell games start and Trunks is gone so what do you guys think happened there?
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That timeline has since been deleted from subsequent guidebooks IIRC(or did Chozenshuu keep it?).miguelnuva1 wrote:There is a timeline where the Cell games start and Trunks is gone so what do you guys think happened there?
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It's completely unsustainable and there would be no real beginning timeline.
How I view the timeline shenanigans:
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^The only Cell that should exist in the unseen timeline is the fetus in Gero lab's, but I have no doubt that Trunks would have destroyed him when he found 17's blueprints. There wouldn't have been a Future Cell in this timeline since this was the first, orginal timeline. The others all branch off from this one.
We can only infer that Trunks destroyed the Cyborgs with the remote in this timeline before returning to his own. Though, it makes you wonder if some of other events from the main timeline(Piccolo fusing with Kami, the saiyans going into the ROSAT, The Cyborgs taking their roadtrip & etc) played out since it took Bulma sometime to construct the remote. The major difference would be Cell's absence
We can only infer that Trunks destroyed the Cyborgs with the remote in this timeline before returning to his own. Though, it makes you wonder if some of other events from the main timeline(Piccolo fusing with Kami, the saiyans going into the ROSAT, The Cyborgs taking their roadtrip & etc) played out since it took Bulma sometime to construct the remote. The major difference would be Cell's absence
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Trying to make sense of it, I think Timeline 4 is the first timeline to where Trunksfrom timeline 2 goes to, kills Freeza and Cold, and then goes back to his own time. When he went back to Age 767, Timeline 4 branched into Timeline 1 and 4. In timeline 4, Trunks didn't appear a second time, but he did in Timeline 1. So the Cell Games happened, but Trunks wasn't there.
But that's just trying to make sense, because my opinion is the same as dbgtFO.
But that's just trying to make sense, because my opinion is the same as dbgtFO.
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Re: What happened in the 4th timeline?
Goddamn time travel. I thought I figured it out. Then the removed source confused me with their being another Cell Game without Trunks, and then dbgtFO you made it worst when you stated there were two Cells in the Apocalypse Timeline. And then your Altered Timeline 3 theory...what?
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Anyone thinks that DBZ Movie 7 (Super Android 13!) could be set in the 4th timeline? I think it could because: #17 and #18 where never seen or mention again in DBZ Movie 7. If the Z find the blueprints of the cyborgs in this timeline and use it to create a remote control, allowing them to destroy #16, #17 and #18 then they are likely dead before #13, #14 and #15 show up. Due to the time travel nature (time paradox), #13-#15 only exist in this timeline and not in the other timelines. If Cell games happen much later and Cell is still a larva at this rate then it can explain why there is no mention of Cell whatsoever in the movie.
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Re: What happened in the 4th timeline?
Movie 7 could happen in the timeline that the original Future Trunks went to, got the remote control, then went back to his time and was killed by Cell (who then created timeline 1 and 2).Hellspawn28 wrote:Anyone thinks that DBZ Movie 7 (Super Android 13!) could be set in the 4th timeline? I think it could because: #17 and #18 where never seen or mention again in DBZ Movie 7. If the Z find the blueprints of the cyborgs in this timeline and use it to create a remote control, allowing them to destroy #16, #17 and #18 then they are likely dead before #13, #14 and #15 show up. Due to the time travel nature (time paradox), #13-#15 only exist in this timeline and not in the other timelines. If Cell games happen much later and Cell is still a larva at this rate then it can explain why there is no mention of Cell whatsoever in the movie.
It's not Timeline 4, though, since according to Daiz7, the Cell Games happened in Age 767.
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Re: What happened in the 4th timeline?
There's a fan fiction-y theory that uses an infinite loop, in which:
a) Trunks is allowed to depart to the past and warn Goku, and the Z Fighters win. Meanwhile, Cell kills Trunks, the one who arrived, and goes back in time.
b) Cell arrives at the past and develops into Perfect Cell, but gets killed by Gohan. Trunks departs to his future and kills Cell, allowing his younger self to depart.
Trunks kills Cell because he was warned by the one who is about to kill him. In the end, there is one Cell who never departs, while Trunks dies by the hands of another.
a) Trunks is allowed to depart to the past and warn Goku, and the Z Fighters win. Meanwhile, Cell kills Trunks, the one who arrived, and goes back in time.
b) Cell arrives at the past and develops into Perfect Cell, but gets killed by Gohan. Trunks departs to his future and kills Cell, allowing his younger self to depart.
Trunks kills Cell because he was warned by the one who is about to kill him. In the end, there is one Cell who never departs, while Trunks dies by the hands of another.
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Yeah it's a clusterfuck and sorry for any confusion my theories might causeFoolsGil wrote:
Goddamn time travel. I thought I figured it out. Then the removed source confused me with their being another Cell Game without Trunks, and then dbgtFO you made it worst when you stated there were two Cells in the Apocalypse Timeline. And then your Altered Timeline 3 theory...what?
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I just tried to look at things logically(knowing full well that logic is pretty much thrown out the window) and realized it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me and so see this as my head-canon as that makes the most sense to me.
My problem is there has to be another timeline, where "Main" Future Trunks comes from, but going through the steps, there is no need for that timeline to exist in the first place, at least going by the conventional idea, that new timelines are split off the ones you come from.
Hopefully I illustrate my problem better here(lifted from one of my previous posts on the subject):
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Re: What happened in the 4th timeline?
This is what I believe as well, as time travel creates alternate timelines - one that the time traveller arrives in, and one that is unaffected by the time travel. This happens when both Cell and Trunks go back in time the first time.Sandubadear wrote:Trying to make sense of it, I think Timeline 4 is the first timeline to where Trunksfrom timeline 2 goes to, kills Freeza and Cold, and then goes back to his own time. When he went back to Age 767, Timeline 4 branched into Timeline 1 and 4. In timeline 4, Trunks didn't appear a second time, but he did in Timeline 1. So the Cell Games happened, but Trunks wasn't there.
But that's just trying to make sense, because my opinion is the same as dbgtFO.
Logically, the second trip Trunks makes should have also created a split. The timeline we see, and the timeline as it would have continued without Trunks arriving. Trunks' presence really isn't necessary for the events to lead to the Cell Games, so there you have the Cell Games timeline without Trunks.
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Re: What happened in the 4th timeline?
Honestly, I'm not sure what to think of timelines and canon nowadays. People on this forum claim there is no canon, and tend to split canon up into more and more branches than I care for, depending on whether it was manga, anime, written by Toriyama or not, etc. Whatever happened to the official timelines put out by Toriyama and Toei? There's one in the Battle of Gods guidebook everyone always ignores because it has GT events in it, and then you have the portion of the timeline established by the DBH site and manga. And then supposedly you have Ultimate Tenkaiichi, Xenoverse and Online, and Xenoverse seems to claim GT was created through Trunks' time travelling, but how on Earth does that even make any sense? Yes, I understand some timeline branches were created when Trunks came to defeat Frieza and Cell, but how would that even create the GT timeline- which then everything else would have followed? I'm just flat-out confused.
Somebody PLEASE explain to me how all this even makes any sense anymore- especially with Towa and Mira now being in Heroes- the Time Patrollers of Xenoverse and Online should have erased all records of their interferance and therefore it doesn't make sense to suddenly add them in with a new form that was never used in their actual games. All I ask is for a simple, clear and concise timeline that is not split into nonsensical branches that depend upon who wrote it or what form of media it was- just a timeline that explains HOW Trunks' time travel supposedly makes GT its own branch, and HOW Towa and Mira end up in Heroes. That's some confusing meta shit there.
Somebody PLEASE explain to me how all this even makes any sense anymore- especially with Towa and Mira now being in Heroes- the Time Patrollers of Xenoverse and Online should have erased all records of their interferance and therefore it doesn't make sense to suddenly add them in with a new form that was never used in their actual games. All I ask is for a simple, clear and concise timeline that is not split into nonsensical branches that depend upon who wrote it or what form of media it was- just a timeline that explains HOW Trunks' time travel supposedly makes GT its own branch, and HOW Towa and Mira end up in Heroes. That's some confusing meta shit there.
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Re: What happened in the 4th timeline?
If you change one thing then another timeline is made. In that other timeline, someone did something to create a another new timeline. Time Travel can work in strange ways.
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Re: What happened in the 4th timeline?
Daizenshuu's History 4 is a real headscratcher. Trunks would had to have left that timeline before Cell from timeline 3 appeared, which means Bulma and co. found a way to shut off the androids without knowledge of Cell or the lab.
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So in conclusion,there r 4 beerus and 4 whis and 4 champas and 4 vados.All from different time lines.
Well i guess even if cell had won and blew up the solar system,he would have gotten his butt kicked by beerus lol.
Well i guess even if cell had won and blew up the solar system,he would have gotten his butt kicked by beerus lol.
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Re: What happened in the 4th timeline?
Wait so... the Trunks that killed Mecha Frieza and King Cold in the main story, is the same one that got killed by Imperfect Cell? And so the Future Trunks that came back in the Androids Saga and participated in the Cell Games is a different Future Trunks?
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No... the Trunks killed by Cell went to another timeline that went similar to the main timeline, but there wasn't any time-travelling Cell there, so he got the remote control, went to his own time and killed the Androids, and then was killed by Cell.Angelus wrote:Wait so... the Trunks that killed Mecha Freeza and King Cold in the main story, is the same one that got killed by Imperfect Cell? And so the Future Trunks that came back in the Androids Saga and participated in the Cell Games is a different Future Trunks?
In my opinion, Timeline 4 is more like this:
The first timeline to where Trunksfrom timeline 2 goes to, kills Freeza and Cold, and then goes back to his own time. When he went back to Age 767, Timeline 4 branched into Timeline 1 and 4. In timeline 4, Trunks didn't appear a second time, but he did in Timeline 1. So the Cell Games happened, but Trunks wasn't there.
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Re: What happened in the 4th timeline?
I think I have an answer for there being a second Cell Games Timeline. Maybe the Trunks who gets killed by Imperfect Cell had only gone back in time once. Maybe he somehow got a hold of the Android blueprints in his own timeline after initially returning from killing Frieza, and was about to go back in time with the shutdown device to save Goku and the others from having to fight the Androids in the first place. Now seeing as he got killed by Cell before he could do this, things in that past would have played out similarly to the main story, except with the absence of Trunks. I'm guessing Vegeta would have insisted on training alone in the rosat, would have come out and done all the same things he does in the main story, and Cell would have told him about the Cell Games instead of Trunks. I think this works anyhow.