Dragon Ball Z TV Special 2

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Defiance in the Face of Despair!! The Remaining Super Warriors – Gohan and Trunks
Japanese English
絶望への反抗！！ 残された超戦士・悟飯とトランクス Zetsubou e no Hankō!! Nokosareta Chō-Senshi · Gohan to Torankusu
Air Date	24 February 1993 (Fuji TV)
Opening	CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA
Ending	The Blue Wind's Hope
Episode Data
Chapters	Trunks the Story –A Lone Warrior–
TV Rating	23.6%
Format	4:3 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Hiroshi Toda
Art	Hiroshi Washizaki
Animation	Minoru Maeda
Director	Yoshihiro Ueda
FUNimation-Ocean English Dub
Title	The History of Trunks
FUNimation English Dub
Title	The History of Trunks

"Defiance in the Face of Despair!! The Remaining Super Warriors – Gohan and Trunks" is the second TV Special of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Z. The TV Special first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 24 February 1993, receiving a ratings share of 23.6%. The episode was written by Hiroshi Toda and directed by Yoshihiro Ueda.

Synopsis

Everyone has gathered at Son Goku's house, mourning the condition of his heart disease. By time his son, Son Gohan, arrives, Goku has passed away. Shortly thereafter, a pair of devilish Artifical Humans appear and begin a rampage of death and destruction. The Z Warriors step in, but are mercilessly killed, leaving Son Gohan as the sole survivor and plunging the Earth into the depths of despair. Thirteen years have passed and Trunks is now a teenager. He has been diligently training under his mentor, Gohan, in hopes of defeating the evil Artificial Humans. Bulma has also been building a time machine with the purpose of rewriting history. Gohan is eventually killed while confronting the Artificial Humans, and upon finding his body, Trunks' rage unleashes his Super Saiyan power. Even with his newfound powers he is still no match for the Artificial Humans, and is badly beaten. Having recovered, Trunks agrees to travel back to the past with the hope that with Goku's help he can defeat the Artificial Humans once and for all. This is the history of the lonesome warrior, Trunks.

Summary

Prologue

In an alternate timeline, Son Gohan races back to his family home. All of Son Goku's friends are already gathered there: Vegeta, Piccolo, Chaotzu, Tenshinhan, Kuririn, Son Goku, Yamcha, Yajirobe, Bulma, Baby Trunks, Oolong, and Pu'erh. Chi-Chi, her father, and Turtle Hermit wait by Goku's bed. Everyone is relieved that Gohan made it. Gohan rushes into his father's room, but it is too late. Son Goku is dead.

Six months later, Artificial Humans 17 and 18 emerge and attack a city on a southern island. Goku's friends scramble to fight off the attack, but they are quickly killed: first Piccolo, then Super Saiyan Vegeta, Tenshinhan, Yamcha, and Kuririn. The world is plunged into chaos.

Part A

Thirteen years later, a Peppertown appears surprisingly normal with people going about their lives. A little girl runs by with a balloon. Suddenly, an explosion rocks the area and 17 and 18 attack. They seem bored and give the townspeople ten seconds to flee. Once ten seconds are over, the city is leveled. A reporter from CQV observes the attack, reminding his listeners that they have already destroyed Earth's military. There is nothing to protect the world from their attacks.

Summary

In an alternate timeline, Son Goku dies of a heart disease while his friends and family (including a newborn baby Trunks) look on helplessly. Six months later, a pair of artificial humans created by the Red Ribbon Army scientist Doctor Gero begin wrecking havoc on the world. These two, No. 17 and No. 18, have unmatched power and easily kill Vegeta, Piccolo, and the other Z Warriors, leaving only Son Gohan.

Thirteen years later, the artificial humans are still sadistically killing humans and destroying cities. Trunks, now a young boy, sets off to fight them and meets Gohan, who has been the only one opposing the artificial humans all these years. Gohan begins training Trunks, and though he makes great progress, he still can't manage to become a Super Saiyan. When the artificial humans attack an amusement park, Gohan rushes off to fight them, and Trunks insists on tagging along. In the ensuing battle, Gohan loses an arm and Trunks is severely wounded. Gohan chooses to use the only senzu remaining to heal Trunks, leaving himself permanently without an arm. Time passes and the two continue to train. One day the artificial humans attack another city. Trunks wants to come with Gohan again and says that he's gotten much stronger, but Gohan knocks him unconscious and goes off to confront the artificial humans on his own. Gohan manages to put up a good fight, but the pair eventually overwhelm him. When Trunks wakes up, he searches for Gohan in the ruined city and finds him lying dead in the street. Overcome by rage and sorrow, he finally transforms into a Super Saiyan.

Three years later, Trunks is now a young man, and has obtained his iconic sword. His mother Bulma has at last completed work on a time machine that Trunks can use to go into the past, where he can study the artificial humans and prevent Goku's death. This way they can hopefully create an alternate timeline where things don't turn out so bad, and maybe discover a way of defeating the artificial humans in their own timeline. Trunks personally doesn't think they need the time machine; he's confident that he can now defeat the artificial humans on his own. At that moment, news comes that the artificial humans are on another rampage, and Trunks rushes off to defeat them once and for all. But he fares little better than Gohan did, and barely manages to escape alive. As he recovers in the hospital, he apologizes to Bulma and agrees to go to the past. She instructs him on how to give Goku medicine for his heart disease. If only he hadn't died, Bulma thinks, the world wouldn't have ended up like this.

Having fully recovered, Trunks sets off for the past, little realizing the adventures that await him there...

Cast

The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese broadcast. Additional characters/cast members not originally credited, or with speaking roles exclusive to a specific dubbing, have been included at the bottom of the table.

Character	Cast
	Japanese	English (FUNimation)
Son Gohan	Masako Nozawa	Daemon Clarke (Adult) Stephanie Nadolny (Young)
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Eric Vale
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Tiffany Vollmer
No. 17	Shigeru Nakahara	Chuck Huber
No. 18	Miki Itō	Meredith McCoy
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Chi-Chi	Naoko Watanabe	Cynthia Cranz
Gyūmaō	Daisuke Gōri	Mark Britten (Original) Kyle Hebert (Remastered)
Vegeta	Ryo Horikawa	Christopher Sabat
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Brad Jackson
Kame-Sen'nin	Kōhei Miyauchi	Mike McFarland
Announcer	Shinobu Satōch	Unknown
Shoekeeper	Shin'ichirō Ōta	Unknown
Woman	Naomi Nagasawa	Unknown
Clerk	Kazushige Tanaka	Unknown
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Kyle Hebert

Items

• Capsule 80 Submarine

Settings

The events of this story take place entirely in Trunks's Timeline, the alternate history that Future Trunks lived through.

• Approximately December Age 766
  • Son Goku's house on Mount Paozu.
• May 12 Age 767
  • A southern island where Artificial Humans 17 and 18 first emerge.
  • Kame House
• Age 780
  • Peppertown
  • Kame House & a nearby Capsule 80 Submarine

Tidbits

• Trunks's Timeline takes place 13 years after the arrival of the Artificial Humans, but much of the world is still intact and people go about their lives. There is peace enough that they can still develop new medications. It appears as if the Artificial Humans are taking their time and not causing widespread destruction, instead just ensuring that all humans live in fear of them.

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Z TV Special 2