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RealDealPanda

Do you guys think that present timeline Trunks and Goten will ever accomplish anything important or significant?

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It's established early on that unlike Gohan and Future Trunks, these two actually LIKE fighting.

Their potential should theoretically be ridiculous as the youngest super saiyans ever. Do you think Super will ever give them some focus or will they continue to be pushed aside like every other good character from Z to make room for Goku/Vegeta and all the earth 6 Saiyan bullshit?

Posted Feb 21, 2019, 7:01 AM UTC

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TheRealBlues•

Nope!

Have a nice day. :)

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Randymgreen•

No, they've made it clear DB is now the Goku and Vegeta wankfest, yet they also fucked up by showing that half saiyans have more potential than full ones.

So to have Goku and Vegeta ahead they will have to continue to contrive reasons to keep them out of the fight.

So Goten and Trunks will not be allowed to grow up because they wouldn't be able to use the “they are too immature” excuse.

And Gohan will continue to be useless even though it's morally irresponsible for him not to train given his potential.

I still like Super and modern DB but this is a glaring flaw.

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IMendicantBias•

Vegeta noted the second he arrived on earth a half sayian could be stronger when Nappa suggested breeding.

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Randymgreen•

Yes, I know that's my point. It's been a plot point since way back.

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blindoptimism99•

i get where you're coming from. i wish so many characters had more to do. i do think it's consistent with the end of z that goten and trunks aren't as interested in combat as their dads.

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HeroRRR•

This isn’t really ‘modern Dragon Ball’. At the end of the original Dragon Ball manga it was stated Goten and Trunks didn’t get much stronger since the Buu Saga since they slacked off.

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Randymgreen•

They are shown to be slackers after the time skip, but I don't recall it stating when they started slacking and any qualitative statement about how they are compared to their Buu arc selves.

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HeroRRR•

It was in the notes for the final chapter of the original manga. It more or less stated that Goten and Trunks weren't that much stronger from their Buu Saga selves because they slacked off.

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RoughHope•

Me and my boys have been talking about a spin-off series involving the two of them for years. Now is the right time to do it considering the renaissance of the franchise and the amount of exposure it gets in this technologically advanced world.

I know that it’ll never happen.

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u4004•

In the main series, probably never. But Boruto is proof that Shueisha is up for spinoff continuations, so maybe whenever Toriyama decides to stop Goku’s story, we’ll get a Goten and Trunks series.

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DoraMuda•

So, still never? Because Toei are willing to milk the Goku & Vegeta Show for as long as it makes money.

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u4004•

As I said, Boruto proves that if the main creator and Shueisha are willing to spinoff into next-gen, they will spinoff into next-gen. Toei wouldn’t even have a say.

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DoraMuda•

Yeah, but Naruto's a different beast to DB.

I feel like, if a Goten/Trunks spin-off was ever going to happen/if there was sufficient appetite for it over on the Japanese side of things, it would've been done by now (perhaps produced somewhere between GT and Super).

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u4004•

After the flop that was GT any new DB project was going to be conservative, and Goku and Vegeta are much safer. But after the ultra-successful Super they may well go with some spinoffs.

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HeroRRR•

Is Boruto really a good example? Results have been mixed from my understanding.

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cey24•

I wouldn't mind seeing a little side story about trunks and goten. I think they give the show that dorky humour when they are about. I'd love to see how they got up to on the island with merrin when everyone was fighting at the tournament

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Slashycent•

I mean adult Gotenks will go SS3-blue against rogue Zalama, assisting his brother SS4-blue Gohan who is still trying to cope with the fact that both Goku and Vegeta were wished out of the franchise by the Pilaf gang.

...yeah, no.

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francoiskumquat•

In Online they founded a sword school that focused on concentrating ki into swords, which is cool.

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Ardusk•

I think it's inevitable.

Dragon Ball Super may like to focus on Goku and Vegeta but it also likes to bring back other popular characters into the spotlight (even if only temporarily). If popular characters that seemed unlikely to return back in Z like Frieza (long dead), Future Trunks (different timeline), and 17 (forgotten) can be brought back to relevancy then i'm sure two extremely popular characters who were set to become main characters at one point will be brought back too.

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Cyantex•

In EOZ and GT, they seem to grow out of that.

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RealDealPandaOP•

GT is irrelevant.

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SSJRemuko•

Nope, don't think so.

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GetOnDota•

I really hope so

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Orannegsen•

Sadly i think not, maybe if we get to the point were they finally age up and arent chlidish anymore they might be more useful in fights and delicate situations.

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Diiviine_Wind•

As of now? I don't really see them having a significant role but that can all change when Super comes back.

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Skitterscamp•

Nope. Gag characters in a sense now

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TrueSaiyanGod•

Yeah

GROW UP

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Iknowyouknowalready2•

or will they continue to be pushed aside like every other good character from Z

No,because those 2 were never good characters,they will be useless like they have always been.

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