Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

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Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by keyz05 » Sat Jan 07, 2017 7:24 pm

Seeing how he's lost a lot of close ones in a matter of seconds, does anyone feel bad for all that he's been through?

Just a reminder, this post is made just after weeks after his character arc has finally come to an end.

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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by Merged Zamasu » Sat Jan 07, 2017 7:41 pm

keyz05 wrote:Seeing how he's lost a lot of close ones in a matter of seconds, does anyone feel bad for all that he's been through?

Just a reminder, this post is made just after weeks after his character arc has finally come to an end.
As a favourite of mine once said:

"So, Where will you go for help next? The past? The future? And thus you continue to rebel against the justice of the Gods! All because of your mortal weakness!"

Trunks was doomed to fall. He was frail, too weak to take matters into his own hands, and thus kept seeking the help of others. Do i feel sorry? A little. But was it obvious Trunks was going to lose? Absolutely. What chance did he stand against a God, when he almost lost to two Androids? The Future Mutlverse's fate was sealed when Goku died of heart virus.

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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by Gog » Sat Jan 07, 2017 7:42 pm

No, Trunks deserved it for all his ass pulls

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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by Grimlock » Sat Jan 07, 2017 7:53 pm

No, as he is meant to become a Time Patroller. As a Time Patroller, he can watch those whom he loves, from distance, but he can.

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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by kinisking » Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:03 am

Grimlock wrote:No, as he is meant to become a Time Patroller. As a Time Patroller, he can watch those whom he loves, from distance, but he can.
That's even sadder imo.
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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by Kanassa » Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:11 am

kinisking wrote:
Grimlock wrote:No, as he is meant to become a Time Patroller. As a Time Patroller, he can watch those whom he loves, from distance, but he can.
That's even sadder imo.
Even more, he gets to watch the ones he loves die and die again. And some occasions he has to make sure they meet that fate so he can feel even more responciable, then the Supreme Kai of TIme and Elder Kai can be dicks about it.
When Super apparently shoves Goku down our throats:

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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by Cipher » Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:49 am

At the beginning of the arc, I was very much in the boat of "Why do we have to put Trunks through this again? This is awful."

By the end, I thought he got a much more meaningful ending than simply going back to his future and defeating the androids, a background element in the arc he helped kick off. Trunks is the one character so far whose story has, I think, genuinely benefitted from the addition of Super. I know no one agrees with me on that, but oh well.

He seems destined, unfortunately, to be the sole character whose strength has to be evidenced by the decision to pursue selfless, imperfect solutions in the wake of irrevocable catastrophe, but this arc played up the importance of that far more than his original appearance, where his motivations eventually took a backseat. Luckily those played into this arc too -- in allowing for the events that lead to Black's creation, in Trunks' verbal defense against Black and Zamasu, and in the emotions behind his interactions with characters in the present, which factor heavily into the ending.

I never want to see Trunks again, because I really think that was an excellent ending for him. Very unexpectedly so.

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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by dbs fanboy » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:45 am

Yup. This guy used the power of asspull and still lost in the end :lol:
I really miss ma boy, Black :( :cry:


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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by Lord Beerus » Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:54 am

Totally.

Future Trunks' story began with tragedy and ended ultimately in tragedy. Any hope or peace that Future Trunks has in his world doesn't last for long, and in the end, he loses everything has to start a new life in a completely new timeline.

Shaggy Dog Story incarnate.

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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by Ki Breaker » Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:03 pm

Naah, he gets to shag two mais at once now
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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by Yomi » Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:06 pm

Ki Breaker wrote:Naah, he gets to shag two mais at once now
And the other trunks just dies or something?
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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by Ki Breaker » Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:06 pm

Yomi wrote:
Ki Breaker wrote:Naah, he gets to shag two mais at once now
And the other trunks just dies or something?
They take truns
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Re: Anyone feel sorry for Trunks?

Post by fadeddreams5 » Sun Jan 08, 2017 2:23 pm

No. Anyways, I'm positive Whis killed him and Mai off-screen.
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