DBZGTKOSDH wrote:If it was the same thing Vegeta did, I think it would have been mentioned. Also, before Trunks powered up, he was said to be slightly stronger than SS2 Goku, and then he powered up to SS3 Goku's level. Back in BoG, Vegeta was at most as strong as Goku, perhaps slightly weaker, and then powered up at a level beyond SS3 Goku. Doesn't look lime the same thing to me. And if Vegeta could go SS3 back then, why wouldn't he get a rage boost in this form? Nothing says that he wouldn't.
As for how Trunks got so strong, he is a Saiyan Halfling, he is a greater prodigy than Goku & Vegeta. He was far weaker than base Future Gohan in his SS form when he was 14, and he reached his level after 3 years of training alone with no special means. Present Trunks had mastered Super Saiyan & surpassed Artificial Human #18, and perhaps even Piccolo, when he was 8 years old just by sparring with Goten for years. While he was growing at the same rate as Vegeta & stayed behind Goku when they entered inside the RoSaT, this was probably because he focused on SSG2 & SSG3 in his first day, and he hadn't fully mastered SS in his second day, plus maybe the way he trained wasn't effective anymore, and after he returned to the future he came up with more effective training methods to get stronger. For example, Future Gohan was obviously doing something wrong for him to be so weak compared to Goku before he died when he was such a greater prodigy.
It sure is treated as very similar to Vegeta's boost when it comes to the manga given how Toyotaro draws it and how it makes Trunks conveniently on almost equal footing to Goku the same way Vegeta's boosted SS2 did for him.
As for the Saiyan-halfling thing, he's nothing compared to any of the other ones, even his present self is vastly more powerful than him in the Boo Saga without anything approaching real training while Future Trunks spent his entire life barely getting past Namek era Goku. There's also the fact Trunks has nothing but himself and possibly a gravity machine to train with the same way his father did for a decade, meaning that there's no reason for this shittier Trunks, who was the weakest Super Saiyan in the Cell Games, to become many times more powerful than all the other base Saiyan's thus far.
It makes considerably more sense for Trunks' SS2 to have gotten extra juice thanks to mastery/improvements than that if you ask me.
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