Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
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Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
So I doubt this needs much set up, but basically in Super, not only was Future Trunks' hair blue, Bulma specifically remembered it being that way.
I have a fanon proposition that can solve this.
Original Timeline: DBZ's Android/Cell Saga goes through as usual. However, Trunks' usage of time travel caused a fragmentation point and creates a whole bunch of temporal anomalies that the Supreme Kai of Time has to fix. Trunks pledges his service to the Time Patrol to help fix these problems he's caused or at least mitigate their effects.
However, in joining the Time Patrol, this Trunks has to be "taken out of time" by Supreme Kai of Time. Doing so would retroactively remove this iteration of Trunks from the timeline, meaning he'd never have gone back in time to begin with. This would create more paradoxes and fragmentations.
Solution: Supreme Kai of Time recognizes the noble Godly redemptive nature of Trunks and his necessity, and thus while removing Trunks from time and enlisting him in the Time Patrol, she needs to jam an alternate timeline into that fragmentation point to keep the whole universal function stable. Basically a temporal bandage. So, she finds a reality that's the closest equivalent to the one she pulled Trunks out of, one where a Future Trunks traveled back to defeat the Androids. The only major differences being hair colour and maybe the status of the Pilaf gang.
Thus, the timeline is kind of restored, but everyone's memories of that whole saga are kind of hazy and inconsistent. Blue Trunks remembers it in Sepia-tone, and Bulma remembers Trunks having blue hair, because it was this Trunks who overwrote the original Trunks' place.
Kid Trunks is still a biological product of the initial timeline and technically a different person to Future Trunks anyway on a slight genetic level, and so continues to exist with lavender hair.
Timelines are maintained in a shaky ramshackle way, like a car constantly having piecemeal repairs.
The knock on effects of Supreme Kai of Time's intervention result in the entirety of the alternate Dragon Ball Super and thus one of several rewritings of End of Z.
I have a fanon proposition that can solve this.
Original Timeline: DBZ's Android/Cell Saga goes through as usual. However, Trunks' usage of time travel caused a fragmentation point and creates a whole bunch of temporal anomalies that the Supreme Kai of Time has to fix. Trunks pledges his service to the Time Patrol to help fix these problems he's caused or at least mitigate their effects.
However, in joining the Time Patrol, this Trunks has to be "taken out of time" by Supreme Kai of Time. Doing so would retroactively remove this iteration of Trunks from the timeline, meaning he'd never have gone back in time to begin with. This would create more paradoxes and fragmentations.
Solution: Supreme Kai of Time recognizes the noble Godly redemptive nature of Trunks and his necessity, and thus while removing Trunks from time and enlisting him in the Time Patrol, she needs to jam an alternate timeline into that fragmentation point to keep the whole universal function stable. Basically a temporal bandage. So, she finds a reality that's the closest equivalent to the one she pulled Trunks out of, one where a Future Trunks traveled back to defeat the Androids. The only major differences being hair colour and maybe the status of the Pilaf gang.
Thus, the timeline is kind of restored, but everyone's memories of that whole saga are kind of hazy and inconsistent. Blue Trunks remembers it in Sepia-tone, and Bulma remembers Trunks having blue hair, because it was this Trunks who overwrote the original Trunks' place.
Kid Trunks is still a biological product of the initial timeline and technically a different person to Future Trunks anyway on a slight genetic level, and so continues to exist with lavender hair.
Timelines are maintained in a shaky ramshackle way, like a car constantly having piecemeal repairs.
The knock on effects of Supreme Kai of Time's intervention result in the entirety of the alternate Dragon Ball Super and thus one of several rewritings of End of Z.
Re: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
You are really overthinking it. it's just an overkill artistic liberity with trucks that kinda screws up with the lore.
this is not the first time this happens, bulma hair is purple in canon [as anyone who lurks in kanzenshuu can see from the front page] but toei changed her hair blue. so they probably thought: why not go the extra step!
this is not the first time this happens, bulma hair is purple in canon [as anyone who lurks in kanzenshuu can see from the front page] but toei changed her hair blue. so they probably thought: why not go the extra step!
DragonBallFoodie wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:18 am Isn't this technically worshipping the Monkey King?
Re: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
Over-complicated explanations to fill plotholes in shows?
That, my friend, is what fanon is all about!
That, my friend, is what fanon is all about!
Re: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
Fanon explanation is the manga is black and white and it was Blue all along for both Trunks's and Bulma.
Yamcha almost certainly did not cheat on Bulma:
He was afraid of Women, Bulma was the flirty one.
Yamcha wanted to get married (it was his gonna be his wish)
He suggested they settle down in the Trunks saga.
Alternate future Trunks is not a reliable source.
Toriyama wanted new SSJ Kids and not make new characters.
He was afraid of Women, Bulma was the flirty one.
Yamcha wanted to get married (it was his gonna be his wish)
He suggested they settle down in the Trunks saga.
Alternate future Trunks is not a reliable source.
Toriyama wanted new SSJ Kids and not make new characters.
Re: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
Or purple ... or green. And let's not forget that Trunks was the first SSG during the Cell saga.
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Re: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
Change of hair colour is something that happens naturally. Not much of a big deal, really. Granted changing from purple to blue is weird, but naturally having either colour is weird in itself. Just a funny genetical trait in the Briefs family.
I'm pretty sure Bulma has been drawn with purple hair before in one of the rare full or semi colored pages. Or maybe a volume/chapter cover.
Sounds like they only did half the extra step, since Present Trunks still has purple hair.
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It becomes a deal when they don't acknowledge said change, something like: "I dyed my hair blue. Did you guys like?", no. Some flashbacks show Z Trunks with blue hair and others are black and white for some strange reason.
They are outright telling their audience that Trunks always had blue hair. Not true.
They are outright telling their audience that Trunks always had blue hair. Not true.
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The real mistake was the DBZ anime not having Trunks and Bulma have the same hair colour in the first place. But yes it was very funny how young Trunks inexplicably has a different hair colour to his mother and his future self.
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And they'll be coloring Piccolo's arms and Kuririn's eyes differently in the new movie. This isn't anything new. Goku's Gi was colored differently from the 23rd Budokai to the Saiyan arc and in Z flashbacks to part 1, the Gi was using the Z colors.Grimlock wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:10 pm It becomes a deal when they don't acknowledge said change, something like: "I dyed my hair blue. Did you guys like?", no. Some flashbacks show Z Trunks with blue hair and others are black and white for some strange reason.
They are outright telling their audience that Trunks always had blue hair. Not true.
The only real issue is both Trunks having different hair colors, but hindsight is 20/20.
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to allude this more, they will be coloring the roundy spots on piccolo' arms with the correct manga colors. and finally bring back kuririn's his actual eyes back like OG DB rather than just dark spots.Yuji wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:24 pmAnd they'll be coloring Piccolo's arms and Kuririn's eyes differently in the new movie. This isn't anything new. Goku's Gi was colored differently from the 23rd Budokai to the Saiyan arc and in Z flashbacks to part 1, the Gi was using the Z colors.Grimlock wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:10 pm It becomes a deal when they don't acknowledge said change, something like: "I dyed my hair blue. Did you guys like?", no. Some flashbacks show Z Trunks with blue hair and others are black and white for some strange reason.
They are outright telling their audience that Trunks always had blue hair. Not true.
The only real issue is both Trunks having different hair colors, but hindsight is 20/20.
it's the other way around than toei deliberately changing manga colors to their suit or in the case of kuririn, almost his face design.
DragonBallFoodie wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:18 am Isn't this technically worshipping the Monkey King?
Re: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
Only in super, the cover pages of the Manga has him blue'd up.GreatSaiyaman123 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 6:57 pm Change of hair colour is something that happens naturally. Not much of a big deal, really. Granted changing from purple to blue is weird, but naturally having either colour is weird in itself. Just a funny genetical trait in the Briefs family.
Sounds like they only did half the extra step, since Present Trunks still has purple hair.
Ironically you think it might have made sense to do lavendar if SSblue was a thing.
Yamcha almost certainly did not cheat on Bulma:
He was afraid of Women, Bulma was the flirty one.
Yamcha wanted to get married (it was his gonna be his wish)
He suggested they settle down in the Trunks saga.
Alternate future Trunks is not a reliable source.
Toriyama wanted new SSJ Kids and not make new characters.
He was afraid of Women, Bulma was the flirty one.
Yamcha wanted to get married (it was his gonna be his wish)
He suggested they settle down in the Trunks saga.
Alternate future Trunks is not a reliable source.
Toriyama wanted new SSJ Kids and not make new characters.
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I have to wonder the reasoning behind that decision. It's such a random one. Surely they aren't thinking about "to bring the movie closer to the manga continuity by using manga colors", right?
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Fans who take Dragon Ball very seriously probably won't like this, but Toriyama being the creator of Dragon Ball is actually in-universe canon, the characters secretly know who he is, and since he forgot Trunks hair color when making his concept art for Super, everyone just went along with it because you don't argue with the boss.
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Finally, a sensible conclusionUpFromTheSkies wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:08 am Fans who take Dragon Ball very seriously probably won't like this, but Toriyama being the creator of Dragon Ball is actually in-universe canon, the characters secretly know who he is, and since he forgot Trunks hair color when making his concept art for Super, everyone just went along with it because you don't argue with the boss.
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Re: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
Looks like Trunks' hair does change color as he ages.
That headcanon is looking more true after today. Or it's like many of you said, it's just closer to Toriyama's vision of the manga.
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Trunks hair changing to blue once he gets to his teenage years would be a neat idea (especially if they were ever to acknowledge it), if only it didn't conflict with Dragon Ball Online. Trunks still sports his purple hair in there, and it would be hard to explain such difference.
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It's blue because he's supposed to have his mother's hair color and the anime Bulma is blue. That's how I see it. Considering Toriyama's design sheets since Battle of Gods too.
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I'm curious to see how the anime handles it. If its also blue in that (whenever that comes back) then it's due to him aging in that particular universe. In the manga for Super, I believe it's always blue, but the movie continuity is weird.mute_proxy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 6:43 am It's blue because he's supposed to have his mother's hair color and the anime Bulma is blue. That's how I see it. Considering Toriyama's design sheets since Battle of Gods too.
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Re: Potential fanon explanation for Blue Haired Trunks and why Bulma remembers his hair that way.
The problem is Dragon Ball Super Superheroes takes place before EOZ, how does it make sense for Trunks hair to turn blue by aging, when in EOZ who is older has purple hair.
Why does Trunks need to have the same hair like Bulma? None of Vegeta son and daughter has his hair color.
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The hair colour changing as he grows up sounds fantastic, much better than "oh I dyed my hair while training with the Z-sword".
That happens to many people in real life, it happened to me, although I didn't go from purple to blue. For some reason, it happened sooner for Present Trunks, maybe we can chalk that up to the presence of S-cells since he was 8.
GT Trunks gets the short end of the stick, though. But who knows, maybe in a few years DBS Trunks's hair will be purple again, like in DBO?
Also, if Bulma had purple hair at the beginning, and then green and now blue-ish... it applies to her as well.
That happens to many people in real life, it happened to me, although I didn't go from purple to blue. For some reason, it happened sooner for Present Trunks, maybe we can chalk that up to the presence of S-cells since he was 8.
GT Trunks gets the short end of the stick, though. But who knows, maybe in a few years DBS Trunks's hair will be purple again, like in DBO?
Also, if Bulma had purple hair at the beginning, and then green and now blue-ish... it applies to her as well.