How old is Future Trunks?

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by Avok » Sun Jul 10, 2016 5:15 pm

Marco Polo wrote:Trunks looked like Vegeta with different hair when he killed Future Cell (which was a full three years after he went back to his timeline after the present Cell games).

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I would like him to look like this now. :(

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by Shinomori » Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:31 pm

Marco Polo wrote:Trunks looked like Vegeta with different hair when he killed Future Cell (which was a full three years after he went back to his timeline after the present Cell games).

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This should be how Trunks look in the series. In Super, he's supposed to be 31, but he looks like he's still a teenager. In those manga scans, he looks like a grown man.

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by Marco Polo » Sat Jul 23, 2016 10:10 pm

soduh2 wrote:
Marco Polo wrote:
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Goku's age is part of the reason why I don't like the Dragon Ball Online ending for his story. If saiyans don't start to age until they are 80, he technically has 14 or so years of being in his prime after Vegeta. When you consider Whis has offered the god of destruction position to him in the past, there might be more to the saiyan lifespan than meets the eye.
I don't see how this is an issue. Vegeta started ageing, and Goku and he decided to have one final battle before Vegeta became fully past his prime. Goku having about an extra 14 years of prime is irrelevant since they both decided they would die in that one final battle.
I don't see Goku deciding to die. It's possible for him to die inadvertently, but he has reason to live after Vegeta reaches the end of his prime. With Beerus and Whis being so "unreachable" in strength (thus giving Goku a goal) and the other Universes, why would Goku decide to die for one battle against Vegeta?

GT had a better ending for Goku imo.
Maybe using SSJ3 while alive actually shortened Goku's lifespan? :shock:

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by SSJ Human » Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:42 am

I'm guessing somewhere in his 30s.

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by MCDaveG » Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:32 am

Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys, what if! :D
You don't age biologically in ROSAT??

It's just pure fan speculation.
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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by ArchedThunder » Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:43 am

MCDaveG wrote:Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys, what if! :D
You don't age biologically in ROSAT??

It's just pure fan speculation.
Gohan did.

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by Grimlock » Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:41 am

MCDaveG wrote:Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys, what if! :D
You don't age biologically in ROSAT??

It's just pure fan speculation.
One way or another, ROSAT doesn't/shouldn't count, as it doesn't alter the year the person was born, Gohan was born in AGE 757 plus seventeen equals Buu saga (AGE 774), but in the manga it is said he's sixteen (which leads us to think Buu saga occurs before Gohan's birthday). If the manga counted ROSAT, Gohan wouldn't be the age he is said to be.
Okay, maybe it's cool to note it, but I don't think it's relevant.

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by TheDevilsCorpse » Sun Jul 24, 2016 3:26 pm

As I've previously mentioned, whether said characters care about counting that time to their age one thing, but the RoSaT clearly counts towards their physical age in-universe the same way being dead stalls the process. Time passes and more than a few characters have grown in terms of both height and hair.

If need be, chalk it up to Toriyama making another mistake. He already goofed on Goten's age around there, too, since being 7 before the tournament means he should have been born before the Artificial Humans attacked in their respective arc.
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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by Gig » Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:32 pm

Excuse me, someone said Goku did not age while dead... are you really sure about this? For Goku and the other Z fighters, they did the exception of leaving them with their bodies in the afterlife (when Chichi died, she was a floating soul instead, right?), so they could train with Kaioh and return on Earth stronger than before when wished back. MAYBE a body which can be trained to become stronger may also age?

PS [OT] What would have happened to Jaozi if he self-exploded while training against Piccolo on Kaoh planet?

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by dbgtFO » Mon Jul 25, 2016 6:04 am

Gig wrote:Excuse me, someone said Goku did not age while dead... are you really sure about this? For Goku and the other Z fighters, they did the exception of leaving them with their bodies in the afterlife (when Chichi died, she was a floating soul instead, right?), so they could train with Kaioh and return on Earth stronger than before when wished back. MAYBE a body which can be trained to become stronger may also age?
They can get stronger, but their dead bodies in the afterlife don't need to eat, drink or sleep, so it's likely they wouldn't age either.
PS [OT] What would have happened to Jaozi if he self-exploded while training against Piccolo on Kaoh planet?
in the anime, nothing happened, when Piccolo killed him in filler. This is also mentioned in the Afterlife Tournament filler.
In the manga and anime later on, it's established, when dead Vegeta is about to fight Pure Buu, that dying while dead, means you'd stop existing.

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by Mazingerdestro » Mon Jul 25, 2016 11:08 am

Marco Polo wrote:Trunks looked like Vegeta with different hair when he killed Future Cell (which was a full three years after he went back to his timeline after the present Cell games).

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Damn these shots are weird. He looks too old for Super's standards.
Nowadays he looks 17 again

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Re: How old is Future Trunks?

Post by SSJ Human » Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:33 pm

Now I'm starting to get confused thanks to the ROSAT.

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