Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by GTX » Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:29 pm

How about future bra, oob or pan that is more of the better idea than future trunks.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by fadeddreams5 » Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:40 pm

If Bra is anything like she is in EoZ or GT, that character shouldn't exist.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by irreality » Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:55 pm

GTX wrote:How about future bra, oob or pan that is more of the better idea than future trunks.
None of those characters make any sense in that timeline since Gohan and Vegeta are dead in the future timeline, and Buu was never revived and killed.
If Bra is anything like she is in EoZ or GT, that character shouldn't exist.
What is wrong with Bra in EoZ? I don't recall her doing anything objectionable, or much of anything other than cheer people on.

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by FortuneSSJ » Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:56 pm

No. How about focusing in develop Present Trunks.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by Kuririn Fan » Tue Nov 10, 2015 3:44 am

He has no reason to return. It would be pure fan service if he does.

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by buutenks » Tue Nov 10, 2015 4:49 pm

super saiyan god trunks,then super saiyan blue trunks...nuff said ^^

edit;I'm sure trunks would have no problems in his time line if he did the saiyan ritual and got ssj blue form ^^.

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by Chuquita » Tue Nov 10, 2015 5:10 pm

When I first saw him leave for good waaaaay back when, I did want to see him come back, but now...now I'm ok with him staying where he is in his alternate timeline. We get so much Future Trunks through Xenoverse and before that DBO, so it doesn't feel like he's been gone gone to me, really.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by fadeddreams5 » Tue Nov 10, 2015 5:26 pm

irreality wrote:What is wrong with Bra in EoZ? I don't recall her doing anything objectionable, or much of anything other than cheer people on.
I don't like her design. She's a Bulma clone who looks older than Pan.

But that aside, she seemed to me a tad pointless in general. I just can't see them doing anything worthwhile with her personality.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by irreality » Tue Nov 10, 2015 10:16 pm

That's fair: I think both Bra and Pan look super cute in EoZ. I just need pan and bra to be cute, I think. I'm not a huge fan of little kids as main characters. As much as I think Trunks and Goten are adorable and like them as background characters, I find them really annoying whenever they take center stage.

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by DoomieDoomie911 » Tue Nov 10, 2015 11:06 pm

Just as Sandubadear said, while I really like the character and would love to see him appear again, his story is complete and he really shouldn't.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by shinmaru » Wed Nov 11, 2015 3:55 pm

Yes, I hope he does come back, ore at least show him in the Future.

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by Scott » Thu Nov 12, 2015 5:51 pm

Future Trunks is one of my favourite characters in the whole series, i would love to see him back again, but i don't trust TOEI or Akira Toriyama to do it right. With the way Super is going, they would probably mess it up.

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by LightBing » Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:38 pm

No, the character has completed it's cycle. It wouldn't add anything to the current series. Even a simple cameo would be bad, he's from a different timeline.

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by Soppa Saia People » Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:49 pm

no he had his time and his character is over.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:06 am

"Future Trunks doesn't need to return, his story is done, and it would have been just fan-service for him to return".

Isn't this the case for the whole franchise ever since the manga & DBZ ended?! GT, the Kanzenban & Full Color manga, the video-games, Kai, the new OVAs & movies, Super, everything so far was needless, and more & more keep coming and will still be needless. So with all that considered, I wouldn't have a problem to see Future Trunks back in Super, but I doubt he will return. His story is already continuing in video-games like XenoVerse & Heroes.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by LightBing » Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:22 am

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:"Future Trunks doesn't need to return, his story is done, and it would have been just fan-service for him to return".

Isn't this the case for the whole franchise ever since the manga & DBZ ended?! GT, the Kanzenban & Full Color manga, the video-games, Kai, the new OVAs & movies, Super, everything so far was needless, and more & more keep coming and will still be needless. So with all that considered, I wouldn't have a problem to see Future Trunks back in Super, but I doubt he will return. His story is already continuing in video-games like XenoVerse & Heroes.
Not really. Trunks had a clear purpose: save our timeline, hoping to find a way to save his own, which he did. There's no reason for him to return. Every new story, some more than others are just that, new stories. Bringing some former villains back is, in some cases, unnecessary stretching. But in general everything else is something new, with new consequences and impact for the characters.

Bringing Freeza back, for example is almost in the same category of Future Trunks. Although there's more to it, since it can be used to expand his Empire and open the Universe.

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by DoomieDoomie911 » Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:54 pm

This is similar to how they're bringing River Song back to Doctor Who this Christmas (something I really don't think they should do). I'm not trying to tread off-topic, I just thought it was an interesting similarity.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by Kuwabara » Sun Nov 15, 2015 8:13 pm

I would have been happy with Future Trunks returning had the Buu arc been handled differently, but Toriyama was determined to make it about Goku and Vegeta. After the Cell arc, all stories should have centered around Gohan and Trunks, either in their respective timelines or crossing over to work together. The conclusion to Future Trunks' arc as a character is perfect, and yet there was still potential for more. Gohan was Future Trunks' master in his timeline, and yet his interactions with the Gohan of the past aren't nearly as fleshed out. How cool would it have been for there to be a complete role reversal, Future Trunks acting as a master to Gohan in the main timeline?

Future Trunks has no place in current Dragon Ball stories that I can think of, that ship sailed long ago.
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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by yamu » Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:33 am

I don't know how much he can add to the overall story or his own characterization, but a cameo of some sorts would probably rock my world in the best way possible. Probably not to many relevant people for him to fight though.

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Re: Would you like Future Trunks to return in DBS?

Post by Travis Touchdown » Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:40 pm

I wouldn't mind Trunks visiting but only briefly and only as a member of Time Patrol.
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