Is Future Trunks pure of heart?

[Angelus]

The Nameless Namekian, Kami was pure of heart... but through witnessing the horrors of humans (wars and whatnot), he developed an evil-side which eventually was cast out from himself and turned into King Piccolo.

Future Trunks has only ever known a chaotic world. He has seen enough horrors of the future timeline. From the Androids, the death of Gohan, Babidi and his minions, the death of Eastern Kaioshin, the death of his mother, the trauma of thinking that Mai died, Black terrorizing the future, everyone on Earth killed by a bodiless Merged Zamasu, and the wiping out of his future timeline's universe. That's excluding anything he experienced in the main timeline: unable to stop Cell's slaughter on so many towns, hopelessness that he lost his will to fight and told initial Perfect Cell to just end his life, etc.

Future Trunks has seen more suffering and horrors than the Nameless Namekian ever did. Question, is he still pure of heart? Present Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Goku has not experienced, let alone seen such horrors that Future Trunks did. Not on the same level at all.

Vegeta was evil and probably massacred many alien civilizations. Not only has he seen horrors, but committed them too. It's been decades since then though, and he's now happy with a family on Earth. It took decades but he's now pure of heart. Future Trunks did not have such a long time of happiness, a break from the hell hole that is the future timeline.

Given that analogy that a peaceful Namekian grew evil in his heart through watching the horrors of humanity, would have Future Trunks have grown that evil in his heart as well? His whole life was a hell hole

[DBZAOTA482]

Future Trunks had positive influence from Gohan and Bulma (the former of which is pure) so I doubt he would slip into the dark side. Is he pure of heart? I dunno, but he's never shown malicious or evil traits.

[Souheil21]

Well, he is a good person, but if we use the same logic as Kami, then he's probably not pure of heart.

[RedRibbonSoldier#42]

He's a pretty upstanding guy, and could probably pass the SSJG ritual. Dunno about the Nimbus test.

[Angelus]

Yeah but Gohan died when he was around 13. He has had so much anger and resentment for the future androids up until he was 20 years old.

[Lord Beerus]

I personally think so. He never kills unless he has a damn good reason. On to of that he is very polite, patient, straightforward, humble and honest with everyone he meets.

[Freeza9000]

I don't think Future Trunks was ever shown to have developed an evil trait to his character. The best term may be "hatred" (mainly towards evil) because he did develop a strong disdain for the Artificial Humans that massacred a good amount of people in cities and for Black/Zamasu as he literally turned a reconstructing Earth to a living dystopia. Even if Trunks gets extremely pissed to all hell, he still maintains a very heroic and caring side to his character with a strong will/determination to protect his loved ones and his world. Instead of Trunks being a cynical person, his interactions with other characters and civilians is shown to be quite humble and warmhearted even if he did grew up in a world of hell as he still maintains hope. He'll also try to stop threats from escalating any further.

Him being pure of heart can also somewhat justify the whole controversial Genki Dama scene against Zamasu. Although Trunks didn't intentionally form the Genki Dama, his strong will and passion about how he has helped saved numerous lives and how those people he tried to save helped him and what it means to be a mortal unintentionally triggered a Genki Dama. I honestly think there's a lot of people are somewhat overlooking the meaning of the scene and ranting about how it's nonsensical. Which I have to admit it kinda was, but I do think that it was his strong will to protect, survive, and cherish that was the unintentional impetus behind the whole Genki Dama stuff. (Though I will have to admit that it kinda came out of nowhere and I wished it was foreshadowed a bit more. Plus, I do think that this also have something to do with Whis's advice about letting the each part of the body react independently without the mind telling you to do it.)

[floofychan333]

Future Trunks never showed any signs of evil, and in fact stayed at lawful good throughout his entire timeline. I'm sure he's pure of heart.

[The gr]

Future trunks is pure of heart he has a strong sense of justice and and he never committed evil or selfish deeds

[Gog]

I'm biased against Future Trunks, he has committed two evil deed. Killing off Freeza and King Cold two opponents weaker than him. Not a pure of heart decision

[Kanassa]

Depends how you interpret 'Pure of Heart', for me I would say he isn't pure. He's a good caring and kind person, but he has too much emotional weight on his shoulder that 'taint' his heart, while he is efficient in the ways that he doesn't fuck around with his opponents and aims to kill them as quickly as possible, it's not exactly a pure hearted thing to do. And while I don't see Gog's example as evil, I do agree that it ain't an example of purity in the heart.

[Nejishiki]

Dragon World's standards for purity bears likeness to its older definitions. It's not reflective of modern expectations. Future Goku did not become impure due to killing invaders. His motivations, & Future Trunks by extension, were morally sound without a hint of "taint". Archaic beliefs (& most of our own laws, for that matter) do not place all forms of killing under the same umbrella of dishonor & that's an important distinction to consider. Furthermore, possessing human qualities is not a mark against purity because that's a tad unreasonable. Future Trunks' "emotional weight" in context to his specific issues & how he decides to handle his daily problems are what portray him as a "wholesome" man.

[Shad73]

I personally believe purity in society is a myth; purity as we've seen it is aligned solely with strong morality when contrasting that with someone else's view of the world (i.e. Zamasu), we are shown that his morality is exactly the same as ours. Let's think of Zamasu as being akin to a grizzly bear. His need to kill humans isn't guided by our understanding of morals because our understanding of morals allows a certain slackening of virtue at least somewhere. If morality were absolute then our ability to handle the exception would surely crush it. Trunks' need to rationalize killing Zamasu to defend the ones he loves is an example of Darwinian altruism for one's own species and while we do accept Dragon Ball characters' personas as connoting the good and bad, there's sometimes an in between (Vegeta, Piccolo, etc.).