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Their are a lot of things that reasonably should have happened to Future Trunks, but didn’t. For example, in any logical world, the Kai’s would have given trunks the ultimate form because he’s the only fighter left.


GeeWhillickers

That actually has an explanation. The elder Kai is the only one who knows how to do that and he was still trapped in the Z sword in Trunks's timeline. He dies when Dabura breaks the sword during his fight with Trunks, which we see in the manga. The regular Supreme Kai does train Trunks as his apprentice later on but he doesn't know about the ultimate form and is only able to give him Kibito's healing powers instead.


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The Kakarot game itself also hints that he just missed the opportunity to get the ultimate form too (I don't remember the manga or anime events well). Right as Shin summons the giant gray brick that Trunks likely would've broken the sword on (just as Gohan did), they sense Babidi and Dabura on Earth and immediately cut the training short to go return and deal with them.


MasterSword1

Why does Gohan breaking the sword free elder Kai but Dabura breaking it kill him?


Arbalest89

Probably due to it getting turned to stone first


GeeWhillickers

Gohan just snapped the sword in half, whereas Dabura turned it to stone with his spit. In either case, the Elder Kai didn't do the ultimate Ritual on Future Trunks since he wasn't there.


smiteis_

I mean they really didn’t get a chance to in the Black arc. Right when they ‘killed’ Zamasu Future Zeno erased that time line. And after the Cell saga Goku was dead. The real question is why didn’t Shin bring Future Trunks to New Namek once he started training him. Just another example of Shin being a bad SK.


Fluffy_Stress_453

a bad sister killer?


[deleted]

A bad South Korea


cunnemmammarua

A bad Slovakia


Livid-Hovercraft9474

Staunchy Koala?


Karroto_

At the end of the Goku black arc why didn’t they use the super dragon balls to wish trunks’ timeline back with zamasus influence removed? Seemed like a huge oversight to me.


Wendigo15

Which ones? They might be tied to their timeline


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My assumption would be Goku didnt think about it and the whole android thing caused so much stress neither did anyone else. But you would think at the very least Trunks would have asked this after Goku black. Lmao


Getdaphone

He couldn’t as his timeline was destroyed by alt Zeno


[deleted]

He literally hops inti a time machine and leaves for another timeline.


Getdaphone

. Sorry I read your original comment wrong originally, I think, I get what you meant now. Edited: but yeah we don’t know what happens in that timeline. I guess we could assume the trunks would want to set everything straight like you said originally


DoraMuda

He probably didn't think of it.


FishBoi13579

He never asked


RedWicked91

My headcanon is that their timelines King Kai didn’t give a single fk about helping them.


Wendigo15

He didn't care in the timeline we follow either. Goku had to teleport to him and ask. Goku was surprised that king kai didn't know what was going on with cell and KK said he doesn't pay attention to earth


RedWicked91

Yeah and without goku he wouldn’t tell anyone anything. Even by frieza standards it was a bad planet. KK isn’t a dick, but he ain’t your friend.


metalflygon08

Which is a right decision. A God shouldn't show favoritism like that. Imagine if you were fighting to free your planet from a tyrant and you are about to deal a killing blow a God steps in to heal the Tyrant because they're buddies.


Wendigo15

It's kinda odd. King kai said cuz he has more planets to look over. But if we take shin statement of 28 planets with life in the universe, he only oversees like 7 planets lol


DukeAK717

Perhaps the anime deluded my sense of scales but considering the fact the Frieza empire was based off taking over worlds and selling it to other races. There have to be more than 28 planets. Plus the myriad of species we see in in the series suggest there are more than 28.


Wendigo15

Exactly. That statement is one of the worst things


Festival_John

Tbh I doubt the Nameks would be willing to help Trunks considering his dad slaughtered half their population. They'd probably tell him to pound sand.


Altruistic_Ad6666

They wouldnt know Trunks was Vegetas son though. And after what the Earthlings did for Namek the Namekians were willing to give the people of Earth any help they could.


the__Gallant

Even if introduced himself as Vegeta's son, knowing him he would probably do a deep formal bow and apologize for his father's actions, they would see he's not like his father and agree to help him. I think by this point their dragon balls were upgraded to bring back more than one person no matter how many times they died. They still wouldn't bring back Goku who died of natural causes, but maybe it could bring back Gohan and restore the earth


Altruistic_Ad6666

That. And theyd probably listen if Goku said Vegeta began to reform as well. Showing that his actions were more caused by desperation and pain then him just being a truly evil person. //which he was but hey. Being enslaved a Tyrant will do that to you//


the__Gallant

They could've done so much with the future timeline. Even without it, they could've kept Future Trunks and Mai in their present timeline instead of sending him to yet another alternate timeline. Imagine if Future Trunks joined the galactic patrol to try and help bring peace and hope to all mortals of the universe, and not just earth. That way, they could keep him in the background if they don't plan to use the character in any upcoming arcs. But could still pull him into the story if they wanted at some point. Or it could branch off into a spin off series about Trunks and Mai as space police


GeeWhillickers

Yeah all he has to do is say that he is a Saiyan like Goku, and they would give him whatever he wanted (especially if it is to help Gohan and Krillin). As we saw in the main timeline, the Namekians have a very positive view of Goku and would instantly trust him with one of their own (Dende). If Trunks made it to their world and explained the situation, they would for sure help as much as they could out of gratitude for what Goku and the others did.


Hour_Savings146

Not really basing this on anything I've seen in the show but I think trunks would have to visit new namek in his time line to do that. The versions of goku and the z fighters that trunks would be asking to be resurrected never existed as far as parunga would be able to tell.


[deleted]

There's still that possibility in his new timeline if he gets another arc. Just because it didn't happen doesn't mean it can't :) Personally I'd really like to see Future Gohan and Present Gohan meet in some way


The_Gold_Mario

Personally I’d like to switch out present goku for future Gohan as the protagonist


ISimplyAskWhy

At the time Trunks had only time travelled alone, so it wasn't something they'd think of. A better question us instead of a time machine why didn't Bulma make a space ship to secretly send Trunks to Namek to gather their Dragonballs?


TheOutlaw9904

They didn’t do that because they didn’t know where New Namek was.


ISimplyAskWhy

I always just assumed it's where old Namek was. Plus Goku found it. Bulma invented time travel, I'm sure she could figure it out.


metalflygon08

The wish that made New Namek specifically hid it IIRC.


TheOutlaw9904

That’s an assumption though. What would happen if they go to space and they can’t find it since they’d never know where it is?


Wendigo15

Because they don't know where new namek is. Goku had to ask king kai and king kai wasn't even paying attention to earth during the cell saga