Trunks hair color?!!!

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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by sangofe » Mon Jun 06, 2016 2:40 am

nicolas_3d wrote:Hi, i'm pretty sure this topic has already been debated before, but I can't find the post.
Why is Futur Trunks hair blue in the Dragon Ball Super? I went back to see old Dragon Ball Z screens and he has purple hair, and kid Trunks in Super also has purple hair...
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Cuz he's modern. Modern men colour their hair.

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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by Cipher » Mon Jun 06, 2016 3:10 am

kei17 wrote:Am I the only one who doesn't really care color scheme consistency? As seen in many color pages and covers in the original manga, Toriyama has a tendency to freely change color schemes according to the balance in each panel/page, which I think is part of the charm of his art. I like the bluish hair in DBZ movie 9 for the same reason, but I've never heard of any complaints about it.

I do care about the colors that are clearly stated in-universe, though.
You're not alone. I could not care less about this and will do my best to disrupt any serious attempt to discuss it as if it's a problem.

Vegeta's hair has always bounced between brown and pure black in the anime as well.

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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by TheQuazz » Mon Jun 06, 2016 8:24 am

Nah guys, he's obviously a SSJGSSJ2. Geez.

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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by AnimeMaakuo » Mon Jun 06, 2016 9:47 am

successoroffate wrote:I'm hoping it's a controlled Bluper form and not just a color fix.
Don't you guys get it?! He dyed his hair! But I like Goldeeper form better (spoiler alert).
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:08 am

I assume hair dye exists in his future? Maybe we wanted a change? Who are we to judge?

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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by successoroffate » Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:21 am

We are finding out soon enough anyway...here's another thing, there's a banpresto Trunks action figure with Blue Hair

http://www.amazon.com/Banpresto-Dragon- ... +banpresto
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by Ajay » Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:34 am

Much like others have said, it really does not bother me in the slightest. I'm guessing they either decided to honour Toriyama's mistake/recolour/whatever, or they liked it, and decided it freshened up the character's design. Gotta sell them toys, right?!

There's also a part of me that wonders whether Future Trunks will stick around, and whether our little Trunks might finally grow. Hair colour would certainly help set them apart for audiences. But hey, that's just my wishful thinking. I'm pretty sure growth doesn't exist in Super. Things only sag.

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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by TheGreatness25 » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:12 pm

People giving it a free pass too? Damn, people will forgive anything about this series. I really don't care (I guess), but I find it remarkable that they got young Trunks's hair right. It's just a strange thing.

I'm much more revolted by seeing Mai in there. Is it just that the laziness was too strong to create a new female character for Trunks to associate with? You know, maybe give her some character development of her own? Was it really that someone felt that Mai was so well developed already that they can just stick her in there? I mean, she's not well developed at all. She's a henchgirl who has always been a henchgirl, whose motivations are completely unclear because they were never explored, and she got turned little for some inexplicable reason, becoming an 8 (or whatever he was) year old's girlfriend, making her a mental pedophile... and that's her character development. If they dive deep into her character in this arc, then why not just create a new character with a fresh start? It would seem much less creepy. Again, if Mai was one of the few remaining humans and she teamed up with Trunks, then cool. But the fact that she had that thing with Trunks in Battle of Gods is really leaving a sour taste in my mouth. It wasn't funny or clever. It's funny from Trunks's perspective because he doesn't know who she is, but the fact that she actually goes with it is kind of gross. Scratch that, it's not "kind of" gross, it's full on disgusting.
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by VegettoEX » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:17 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:People giving it a free pass too? Damn, people will forgive anything about this series.
It's just... like... I don't care. It's hair color. Nothing about that affects my enjoyment (or non-enjoyment) in any meaningful way.

If it does for you, more power to you. I'm not personally passing judgement on it, because it's that so far off my radar.

For me, passing judgement on Trunks' hair color would be like passing judgement on... I dunno, the number of paperclips that come in a box. Or the length of the clip on this pen here.

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I'm not giving it a free pass because I'm not even judging it in the first place.
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by TheGreatness25 » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:21 pm

It doesn't bug me that much. I'm just saying that I feel like people are giving this series way too much slack. Imagine if one fine day, Vegeta's hair color reverted back to what it was in the first couple of appearances that he had in the anime. People made a big deal about his inconsistent color scheme to the point where Kai changed it and everyone threw babies in the air out of joy. Now, after having so many years put into Trunks, his hair color changes and nobody cares? It's a bit inconsistent from the fans' perspective. People criticize Super Saiyan 4 Goku because he had "pink fur," which isn't even anything more than personal preference because it's not like it was a different color than originally drawn, but people give this a free pass? It's not that I'm about to grab a pitchfork and about to start rioting by Toei's headquarters, I'm more surprised that the fans are so forgiving with Super when they've been unforgiving about these same issues in the past.

I understand that Vegeta's color scheme was weird because it was within the same series; I get that. But isn't Super still considered the same series? It certainly is the same franchise. And it's really strange that kid Trunks still has lavender hair. So with age it turns blue? It's a freaking strange choice.
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by VegettoEX » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:23 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:People made a big deal about his inconsistent color scheme to the point where Kai changed it and everyone threw babies in the air out of joy.
I'd say it was more of a collective, "Oh hey, that was neat." Didn't see any babies in the air.
TheGreatness25 wrote:Now, after having so many years put into Trunks, his hair color changes and nobody cares?
Plenty of people care. Go pretty much anywhere else on the Internet!
TheGreatness25 wrote:People criticize Super Saiyan 4 Goku because he had "pink fur," which isn't even anything more than personal preference because it's not like it was a different color than originally drawn, but people give this a free pass?
Who is this theoretical person? Please don't make up arguments and apply them to someone unless you can specifically point to this actually happening.
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by MetaMoss » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:23 pm

VegettoEX wrote:
TheGreatness25 wrote:People giving it a free pass too? Damn, people will forgive anything about this series.
It's just... like... I don't care. It's hair color. Nothing about that affects my enjoyment (or non-enjoyment) in any meaningful way.

If it does for you, more power to you. I'm not personally passing judgement on it, because it's that so far off my radar.

For me, passing judgement on Trunks' hair color would be like passing judgement on... I dunno, the number of paperclips that come in a box. Or the length of the clip on this pen here.

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I don't care too much either, but I can see that's it's very frustrating for fans who appreciate consistency. Then again, this whole thing stems from how Bulma's hair was blue in the first chapter of the manga, but it was purple for the rest of the color chapters she appeared in, so maybe expecting consistency from Dragon Ball might be asking too much.
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by TheGreatness25 » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:27 pm

VegettoEX wrote:
TheGreatness25 wrote:People criticize Super Saiyan 4 Goku because he had "pink fur," which isn't even anything more than personal preference because it's not like it was a different color than originally drawn, but people give this a free pass?
Who is this theoretical person? Please don't make up arguments and apply them to someone unless you can specifically point to this actually happening.
Not sure if it's here, but I've seen that dropped plenty of times on different forums. A google search on "Super Saiyan 4 pink fur" will pop up some results including a Kanzenshuu post that goes on to say that the colors are ugly. I guess it's a personal preference, but still. No, Trunks's blue hair isn't ugly, but it is inconsistent.


And I obviously didn't literally mean that babies were in the air. Whatever, can't say anything right. Carry on.

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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by VegettoEX » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:28 pm

Of course I know you didn't literally mean that people were picking up their infant children and throwing them helplessly into the air. My point remains that I don't personally remember any amount of extended celebration over the correction, but rather a collective acknowledgement of a thing that happened.
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by successoroffate » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:29 pm

I wouldn't go as far as bugging/bothering me. It's just that the first thing that came to my mind was: "Wait...did he reach SSB?"
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by TheGreatness25 » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:31 pm

Alright, cool.

Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys the "Black Goku" arc.

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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by Beerus-sama » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:33 pm

SSJB hair color is lighter than this blue, I don't get how can people be confused... :eh:
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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by rereboy » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:36 pm

It was just hair color... until they started basing transformations in more than one color (gold/yellow, and now blue). Nowadays, hair color is actually significant so inconsistencies in that aren't really meaningless.

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Re: Trunks hair color?!!!

Post by TheGreatness25 » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:36 pm

Super Saiyan Blue (god I hate this term, right on up there with Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan) also causes their hair to stand. So if it were Trunks with spiky hair standing up with a blue color on it, then I'd say it's easily confused with Super Saiyan Blue (*cringe*). But I wasn't really confused at all by this. Besides, is Super Saiyan Blue (*gag*) going to be the new Super Saiyan where everyone and their mother can turn into it? I think it should be kept among a select few characters and there should be one transformation that's exclusive to Goku (and I don't mean an in-between one like Super Saiyan God that has been surpassed and will never be seen again).

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Post by successoroffate » Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:44 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:Super Saiyan Blue (god I hate this term, right on up there with Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan) also causes their hair to stand. So if it were Trunks with spiky hair standing up with a blue color on it, then I'd say it's easily confused with Super Saiyan Blue (*cringe*). But I wasn't really confused at all by this. Besides, is Super Saiyan Blue (*gag*) going to be the new Super Saiyan where everyone and their mother can turn into it? I think it should be kept among a select few characters and there should be one transformation that's exclusive to Goku (and I don't mean an in-between one like Super Saiyan God that has been surpassed and will never be seen again).
That's why I said earlier that if it's not a color fix, I'm thinking it's a controlled SSB...like a SSB Base form. In Super's intro, near the end, when Goku showcases the Blue form, you can see his hair goes Blue but it doesn't get spiky(I think).
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