Grimlock wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 7:23 pm
kemuri07 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:41 pmAs opposed to pulling out "Super Saiyan Rage" out of his but for..."reasons."
Conversely, Trunks pulled out of his butt a power-up that Super Saiyan 2 never even hinted to have. I think people overlook this only because it's not outright a new transformation that gives him a new look, but it makes just as much sense as Super Saiyan Rage itself.
That power-up put him on the same level as Goku in his Super Saiyan 3 form. Trunks did train for eleven years, yes, but whatever his training was, it couldn't even be near/comparable to everything Goku went through ever since they last met (this ties to what I said just a few pages back: no one (Toriyama included) cares about power level).
Trunks overdeveloped SSJ2 works because there is precedent for maximizing forms beyond their initial potential. We've seen it with both SSJ and SSB with their "Mastered" variants which yield several times more power than the initial versions.
In the manga, Trunks' growth in comparison to Goku's makes a lot more sense due to the manga omitting the Saiyan Beyond God base forms. Due to Trunks' own experiences, I can definitely see him training even harder than Goku and Vegeta, due to him being the literal savior of his future. At the very least, he'd train as hard as them.
Perhaps his training with Supreme Kai and his own ingenuity led him to gain more strength in SSJ2 than Goku along with Goku losing interest in the form for SSJ3, SSG, and all the SSB variants, not to mention Omen and UI. Goku has his plate full with forms while Trunks only needs to focus on one.
In short, I see Trunks possessing something of a FPSSJ2 while Goku's many numerous forms have led to him losing his desire to focus all his efforts on perfecting SSJ2 which Trunks apparently has or is close to.
Same can be said with all the mortal forms vs god forms. Trunks just has less forms to focus on so he can more easily master the ones that he has. Kinda like a kid with one videogame vs a kid with ten. The kid with the one cartridge will likely be a complete beast at that Tetris cart, while the other kid is no where as good at it due to having Zelda, Mario, Metroid, and Dragon Quest to to occupy his time.
Big fan of the characters of Dragon Ball, all of them, especially formerly prominent sub-characters. -__-