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The Bad Future where Future Trunks comes from. The fate of the world rests on Son Goku surviving long enough to deal with the impending attack from Dr Gero's creations.

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In General

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• After the End: Humanity was near wiped out, but that hasn't stopped the survivors from trying to thrive in what little is left.
• Alternate Timeline: To the main Dragon Ball timeline (although technically, it's the "original" timeline of events, with the one we follow during the Android Saga and beyond being a new timeline created by Future Trunks and Cell's arrival.
• Bad Future: Has suffered two apocalypses with humanity on the brink of extinction and later utter obliteration of everything.
• Cessation of Existence: Not only is everyone in the timeline killed, but erased from existence itself thanks to Future Zeno erasing the timeline to end the threat of Infinite Zamasu. Both Trunks and Mai ended up travelling back to a timeline before Shin is about to be killed by Dabura, both the only survivors of Zamasu's omnicide.
• Crapsack World: For the most, what is seen is the ruins of West City. It's even worse in Dragon Ball Super where the sky is darkened from all the destruction it has faced.
• Deader than Dead: Zeno's erasure of the timeline also included the afterlife, which means that every character from the timeline that has died, from Goku to Yajirobe, no longer exists in any shape or form.
• La Résistance: Even knowing they stand no chance, the remaining survivors refuse to give in to Goku Black and continue putting up a fight against Goku Black.

Heroes

Androids Saga

Future Trunks

See Dragon Ball: Future Trunks

Future Bulma

Future Bulma (未来のブルマ, Mirai no Buruma)

Voiced by (Japanese): Hiromi Tsuru
Voiced by (English): Tiffany Vollmer (Z, The History of Trunks), Monica Rial (Kai, Super) (Funimation dub); Maggie Blue O'Hara (Z) (Ocean dub); Sharon Mann (The History of Trunks) (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Rocío Garcel (current voice), Mónica Manjarrez (ep. 194 and The History of Trunks)

The future version of Bulma from Future Trunks timeline. She created Trunks's time machine.

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Besides tropes featured by Present Bulma, she features examples of:

• The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: All of Bulma's negative traits, such as her vanity, arrogance, selfishness, and temper tantrums completely disappear in the Bad Future, with her better nature cranked up, almost to the point of bordering an All-Loving Heroine and Big Good, despite Future Trunks claiming that she hadn't changed when Krillin asked him in the manga.
• Back for the Dead: Tragically, this fate befalls her in Dragon Ball Super. She is killed off by Goku Black in Episode 47, and since there are no Dragon Balls in her timeline, she is Killed Off for Real. Later, her very existence is erased after Future Zeno destroys the timeline.
• Big Good: She was the one who invented the Time Machine and came up with the plan to give Goku the heart virus medicine that ends up saving two timelines.
• Deader than Dead: After Future Zeno has destroyed the future timeline, everything was wiped out including the afterlife. That means her very soul was destroyed, erased from all existence..
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: This happens to her in the Super manga. Unlike the anime where we see her die from Goku Black letting the lab explode and keeping her in place inside of it, the manga just shows the building she is in being destroyed by one of Black's blasts. We don't actually see her die.
• Greater Need Than Mine: The entire reason she sends Trunks back in time is to alter the future so that it could be a peaceful one, even if she couldn't be a part of it.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: She's killed at the beginning of the Future Trunks arc of Super, but her influence is still there.
• Killed Off for Real: She is killed by Goku Black in his first on-screen appearance.
• Magitek: Before her death, she somehow created guns that can shoot ki.
• Nice Girl: The living hell created by Android 17 and 18, and later brought back by Goku Black, forced Bulma to finally cast off of her girlhood selfishness, maturing into a gentle, compassionate, nurturing and kind mother who is arguably more adorable than her teenage self ever was.
• Nicknaming the Enemy: A tragic example. She was the one who gave Goku Black his nickname because she couldn't stand associating him with the identity of her longtime friend.
• Older Than They Look: By the time of Dragon Ball Super, she looks to be in her 40s or 50s, but she's actually 62.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Has dabbled in medicine and managed to create the perfect cure for the heart virus despite the lack of test subjects.
• Sacrificial Lion: She is the first character killed at the start of the second Future Trunks arc to establish how much worse the future has become and the threat level of Goku Black.
• Silver Vixen: Although not played for fanservice in the least, Future Bulma exudes an aura of gentle dignity, warmth, compassion, love, and kindness that makes her the most beautiful and adorable incarnation of her character to-date in spite being in her early 60's. Her still loud, immature and selfish "peaceful world" counterpart, in comparison, aged visibly and poorly, looking a good 20 years older than Future Bulma in spite of being 17 years younger.
• Sole Surviving Scientist: She invented a time machine to send Future Trunks to the past and find a way to kill the androids. Sadly in Dragon Ball Super she was killed by Goku Black.

Future Son Gohan

Future Son Gohan/Sun Wufan (未来の孫悟飯, Mirai no Son Gohan)

Voiced by (Japanese): Masako Nozawa
Voiced by (English): Dameon Clarke (Z, The History of Trunks), Kyle Hebert (Video games from Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 onwards, Super) (Funimation dub); Brian Dobson (Z, flashbacks only) (Ocean dub); David Gasman (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Luis Alfonso Mendoza

The future counterpart of Gohan, from Future Trunks's timeline. He was Trunks's mentor.

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• Adaptational Badass:
  • In the manga story of Trunks's timeline, Gohan is killed by Android 17, who claimed not to have used even half of his power to beat Gohan the last time they fought. To compare :
    • In the anime adaptation of History of Trunks, Gohan is as strong if not stronger than the androids individually, but he is ultimately killed because 17 and 18 ganged up on him in a 2 vs. 1 fight (and Gohan having had one arm amputated probably didn't help).
    • In Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, both Androids fought him at half of their power. While this isn't as impressive as his anime self, this is more than we can say about than his canonical manga self. The circumstances of his death are also changed to give him more dignity. In the original special, he simply gets knocked down and perforated. In the game, he counters their beams with one last, desperate Kamehameha and even manages to briefly push the beam back, forcing the twins to go all out to finish him off.
  • Xenoverse 2 makes him stronger than he was in canon. Such as fighting along with your character, fighting against villains he would have no chance against (such as Goku Black and Zamasu), and a swarm of Jamnebas with his father at Super Saiyan Blue.
• Ambiguous Situation: It is never explained in any media why Gohan, who typically can reach astronomical levels of power even when not training for years, is so weak in this timeline. It may be given a Hand Wave that Gohan never learned how to train properly, but even then the nearly two decades of fighting should've at least given him far more power than he actually did. Made even stranger in the manga, where 17 alone kills him while claiming to not even have uses half of his power last time they fought, and after Trunks lost to Present 17 and 18, he says the Present counterparts are much stronger since he could put up a decent fight against Future 17 and 18, so this Gohan isn't even comparable to Goku once he became a Super Saiyan in Namek.
• An Arm and a Leg: His future self lost his left arm to the Androids.
• The Artifact: Some games have him use at least one Kamehame Hadoken with only one hand, even though in the games he usually has both arms. The only reason he uses a one-armed Kamehameha in the canon is that he literally lost one of his arms.
• Being Good Sucks: Future Gohan is a very good example of this. After witnessing his father and all of his friends die at the hands of the androids, Gohan went into hiding to train himself to become strong enough to challenge this new threat. He spent his entire adult life challenging the androids to no avail, watching as countless innocents died at the hands of the monstrous duo. His reward for all of his self-sacrifice was to lose his left arm, and in the next and final fight between him and his two nemeses, Gohan was completely outmatched and left for dead, with his face down on the ground of the wreckage of yet another city he failed to protect. And then a sad rain starts pouring over his battered, crippled corpse. It's amazing how Trunks didn't have his whole spirit sapped way at such a tragic sight.
• Big Brother Mentor: Is one to Future Trunks before his death.
• Bowdlerization: Due to odd censorship standards, Japanese-developed video games with Future Gohan feature him with two arms, even if they take place after he lost the arm and even though it's one of his most recognizable, defining traits compared to regular adult Gohan. This isn't the case with the American-developed games, such as Legacy of Goku 2 or Dragon Ball Z: Sagas, where he's missing it. Dragon Ball Legends, Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle and the third Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot DLC are the only Japanese games where he's missing his arm. Interestingly, in most games, he usually nonetheless is given a fighting style designed to only use one arm. Some enterprising modders have erased the arm and found that it looks completely seamless.
• Breakout Character: It's not as much as his student, but in spite of appearing only in The History of Trunks and flashbacks, he's gone on to make several appearances in the video games as a playable character, often having a completely distinct playstyle from the main timeline's adult Gohan.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He's killed by the androids using Beam Spam against him, which given both his expression and his yells, was an incredibly painful way to die.
• Deader than Dead: After Future Zeno has destroyed the future timeline, everything was wiped out, including the afterlife. That means his very soul was destroyed, erased from all existence.
• Death by Disfigurement: He dies not long after losing an arm.
• Death by Irony: His father destroyed the Red Ribbon Army at 13 years old, and Dr. Gero who was a scientist who worked for them, created the androids and Cell with the specific intention to kill him. Future Gohan would end up getting killed by the Future Androids made by the doctor who survived Goku's attack on the Red Ribbon Army.
• Extremity Extremist: Presumably as a nod to the fact that he lost an arm, in Xenoverse 2, a good majority of his combos are kick-based.
• Future Badass: Subverted. He's undeniably a badass capable of holding his own against one of the Androids with only one arm, however, he's still significantly weaker than his present-day self at 9 years old post-Hyperbolic Time Chamber and especially after he achieves Super Saiyan 2.
• Handicapped Badass: He loses an arm after fighting the androids.
• History Repeats: Like his father, Future Gohan suffers a brutally realistic Undignified Death lying down. His main timeline counterpart almost seems to repeat the same mistakes by losing the functionality of his arm and almost deciding to surrender in the fight against Cell, another of Dr. Gero's creations.
• Incompletely Trained: Unlike the main timeline Gohan, Goku and Piccolo's deaths cut short any real training Gohan would have received from them, and he was forced to just work with what little he already knew, effectively causing Future Trunks to suffer from this trope as well. As such he's surpassed by his main timeline self by a noticeable margin by the time he reached the same age.
• Killed Offscreen: What happens to him in the manga. Gohan arrives claiming he'll defeat the androids, 17 claims he didn't even use half of his power the last time they fought and he's shown attacking Gohan, then it cuts to Trunks waking up, not being able to sense Gohan's ki anymore, and later he finds Gohan's body.
• The Lost Lenore: Platonically to Future Trunks. Gohan was the most significant relationship that was even remotely close to Future Trunks's age in his life growing up, being both a friend and a mentor. Future Gohan's death forced Trunks to take up the mantle of being earth's hero in their timeline, and his memory of Gohan is one of Future Trunks's main driving motivators even into the events of Super. It's shown that despite it being years later and Future Trunks having become far stronger than Future Gohan ever had been in life, Gohan still means a lot to him.
• Master-Apprentice Chain: Because Goku died before he could train him, Future Gohan doesn't have Goku's master chain, unlike his present counterpart. He also trains Future Trunks since Goten doesn't exist in his timeline: Piccolo > Son Gohan > Future Trunks
• My Death Is Only The Beginning: Future Gohan to the Androids: "There is no end for me! NO END!"
• One-Armed Warrior: Even after losing an arm, he puts up one hell of a fight before his untimely demise.
• Sacrificial Lion: He is brutally killed by the androids during the last third of History of Trunks. His death gives Trunks the spark needed to become a Super Saiyan.
• Senseless Sacrifice: His death in the manga pretty much amounts to another tragic death that accomplished nothing and hadn't even made the androids work for their victory over him. The only thing that could be salvaged is that he didn't let Trunks die with him (not that he planned to die at all).
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: On top of the trauma and violence he endured in the Saiyan and Frieza Saga, this Gohan had to watch his father, mentor, and friends die (again, and for good this time), watch as the Androids raze the planet, and constantly lose to them despite becoming a Super Saiyan before finally dying like a dog in the ruins of yet another city he failed to protect. The only good thing that came out of his life is training and inspiring Future Trunks to become powerful enough to stop the Androids himself.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Having everyone he loved murdered in front of him by 17 and 18 at the age of 8 beats what little innocence is left that was shattered by the loss of his father clean out of Son Gohan. He no longer uses the "polite masculine" form of "Boku" to refer to himself (which his "peaceful universe" adult self still does by "Super"), instead of using the coarse-masculine "Ore" used by every other adult male warrior in the franchise. He takes a harsh, pragmatic, and unromantic view towards combat, which to him now is nothing less than literal warfare, and in cold ruthlessness is practically a taller and short-haired Vegeta in terms of fighting.
• Sole Survivor: Before he trained Trunks, Gohan was the only living Z-Fighter that wasn't murdered by the Androids, spending years fighting them and protecting the Earth as much as he could. When the Androids finally killed him, Trunks became the last one thanks to Gohan's training.
• The Stoic: A lot more serious than his main timeline counterpart. After over a decade of tragedy and pain, Gohan rarely cracks a smile and has a scowl almost permanently embedded on his face.
• Take Up My Sword: He pretty much passes his legacy of protecting the Earth onto Trunks with his passing. It also helps that his death helped Trunks unlock the Super Saiyan form for the first time, at least in the TV special. In the manga, Trunks was already a Super Saiyan before Gohan's death.
• Tough Love: He is harsh on Future Trunks when training him. He leaves him to almost drown and regularly beats him. He does this so Trunks will be ready to fight the androids and he's mimicking Piccolo's training regimen.
• Tragic Dream: As a child, Gohan wanted to be a scholar as he grew up, was forced to put on hold when he had to take on serious threats on Earth. Tragically, he never gets the chance to become a scholar like his main timeline self did as he spend the rest of his life fighting the Androids right until his death.
• Trauma Conga Line: Not only did he lose his dad to a heart virus, but he also had to watch his friends, Honorary Uncle, and mentor be murdered before his eyes. He then spends thirteen years fighting the androids, acting as the last hope for the world, and losing each time before he gets killed in the streets like a dog without avenging any of his comrades.
• Undignified Death: Holy crap, yes. There's nothing dignified about the Future Androids leaving his corpse to rot among the ruins of the latest city they trashed. The only good thing out of it was that at least he didn't die in vain in the anime. In the manga, however, he pretty much died for nothing.
• What You Are in the Dark: When faced with critical wounds, a missing arm, and only having one senzu bean to use on himself or the heavily damaged Trunks, he uses the bean on the latter, as he would never do such a selfish thing, even if he would have benefited from it more.

Future Z-Fighters

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• Dead Alternate Counterpart: All of them are dead by the time of the Android Saga in the main timeline.
• Posthumous Character: Future Piccolo's death in particular is the most significant, as he takes the Dragon Balls with him, making it impossible to resurrect him or anyone else killed by the Androids.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: They are all abruptly killed off by Future Android 17 and 18 after discovering Goku is already dead and that the Future Z-Fighters could offer some additional fun.
• The Worf Effect: All of them, especially the heavy-hitters like Vegeta and Piccolo, all are killed one-by-one by the Future Androids.

Future Son Goku

Future Son Goku (未み来らいの孫そん悟ご空くう Mirai no Son Gokū)

^{Click here to see his cameo in the Super manga}

Voiced by (Japanese): Masako Nozawa
Voiced by (English): Sean Schemmel (Funimation dub); David Gasman (AB Group/"Big Green" dub)

Goku's Future timeline counterpart, who unceremoniously died from his Heart Virus infection shortly after returning to Earth and killing Frieza for good. This left the rest of the Z-Fighters and the entire timeline in jeopardy when the Androids eventually surfaced.

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• Back for the Dead: Seen again very briefly in a bonus Super manga chapter set during the Future timeline's Android saga before dying again. This time we actually see a glimpse of him with a halo in the Other World.
• The Chosen One: Subverted. In the main timeline, Beerus was looking for the legendary Super Saiyan God in his dreams, and Goku was able to attain godhood and its powers was the case of him being the Chosen One. Not so with Future Goku since he died three years after returning to Earth.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: It must have nothing but pain for poor Goku, seeing how the heart virus effectively crippled and tortured Goku for days until he would pass out from exhaustion.
• Deader than Dead: After Future Zeno has destroyed the future timeline, everything was wiped out, including the afterlife. That means his very soul was destroyed, erased from all existence.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: His death triggers a series of events that led the death of the Z-Fighters, and even Future Gohan's fate was sealed after reaching adulthood. It took Future Trunks going to the past to train to be able to surpass the Future Androids' current power.
• The Hero Dies: Son Goku, the strongest man on Earth, dies in bed. Without their Hope Bringer, the Z-Fighters are left at a significant disadvantage when the Androids surface, and they too are all killed one by one, with Gohan being the Sole Survivor.
• Killed Off for Real: Due to the rules of the Dragon Balls, Future Goku couldn't be revived because of two reasons. The first is that since his fight with Raditz, Piccolo killed him and he revived once already with the Earth Dragon Balls. The second is that he is ineligible for resurrection by both the Earth and Namekian Dragon Balls because Shenron and Porunga cannot revive anyone who died of natural causes, even if they somehow found New Planet Namek for the latter. Even with the revelation that the Supreme Kais exists, Old Kai wouldn't have been able to resurrect him or any of the Z-Fighters since the Z-Sword was destroyed by Future Dabura.
• Major Injury Underreaction: As we see in a bonus Super manga chapter illustrated by Toyotaro that's set in the past during the Androids' initial attack, Future Goku's only reaction to dying after passing to the Other World was a glib "Hi, I'm dead right now!" Makes sense, seeing as even in this timeline, it wasn't his first time.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Once he finished training on Yardrat, he planned to use the Instantaneous Movement on Frieza (and his father) as confirmed by main timeline Goku when he told Future Trunks. Given that all the Z-Fighters were still alive when he dies proved that he ended Frieza and his father after returning to Earth even if it took him three hours after Frieza's invasion on Earth and the Z-Fighters had to stall for enough time for his arrival. The fact that Trunks stated he changed the past by dealing with Frieza himself proves it was the case.
• Posthumous Character: Dies and remains dead before The History of Trunks begins, but his demise has huge ramifications.
• Undignified Death: Whereas his main timeline counterpart thankfully survived (at least until he didn't), Future Goku was not so lucky due to the lack of working medication and he painfully dies in his sleep from a viral infection. It's probably the absolute last kind of death a proud, powerful warrior like Goku would want. To make matters worse, even if his timeline's Dragon Balls weren't rendered inert by Future Piccolo's later death, he probably couldn't have been resurrected anyway since his was a natural death.

Future Trunks Saga

Future Mai

Future Mai (未来のマイ, Mirai no Mai)

Voiced by (Japanese): Eiko Yamada
Voiced by (English): Colleen Clinkenbeard
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Carola Vázquez

Mai from Future Trunks's timeline. She is one of the leaders of the armed humans who fight Goku Black with Trunks.

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• Action Girl: While she is vastly outmatched by Goku Black and Future Zamasu in terms of raw power, Future Mai is not afraid to fight to protect the world. She tries to be a Science Hero, a purely technology-based hero, in a setting where that doesn't work, and she still doesn't care because she's got something to protect and she's darn well going to do it.
• Action Survivor: Future Mai is notably the only known character from the Earth who wasn't killed at any point (including those that were redone by Whis), having survived the genocides of the Androids and Goku Black and Future Zamasu. Unlike her present counterpart, there weren't any Buu or resurrected Freeza to show up in her timeline.
• All for Nothing: Despite all the pain and suffering Future Trunks and Mai were forced to endure under Goku Black and Future Zamasu, their efforts amounted to nothing after Fusion Zamasu murdered all the survivors and Future Zeno destroyed the entire timeline, including the afterlife, erasing everyone. The former was too much for her, and she's sent past the Despair Event Horizon.
• The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Present Mai is a lackey in a Goldfish Poop Gang intent on taking over the world. ^note Though later, she and Pilaf Gang seem to have stopped caring much about that, if at all. However, several years of living in a Bad Future has brought out Mai's more noble and selfless qualities. She leads a resistance against Goku Black and is willing to charge the Physical God with a rocket launcher if it means saving just one more life.
• Badass Normal: Has no issue trying to fight against Goku Black or Future Zamasu even if it might get her killed.
• Bait-and-Switch: She's introduced as a major character during the first episode of the Future Trunks arc, gets some moments of characterization, and is then seemingly killed by Goku Black, making it look like she's a Sacrificial Lamb. Turns out she lived and does indeed go on to play a major role in the arc.
• Being Good Sucks: She gets it almost as bad as Future Trunks in this regard. She went through almost the same trauma as Trunks and also lost her lifelong friends, Pilaf and Shu. She also fights Goku Black for over a year, knowing good and well that normal humans can't fight Physical Gods like him. She even willingly chooses to stay in the future and fight Black after Goku, Vegeta, and Future Trunks lose their first match against Black and Future Zamasu. This all comes to a head after the seemingly dead Fusion Zamasu returns, fuses with the multiverse, and murders everyone in it. This causes her to go past the Despair Event Horizon and shoot at the sky in despair before collapsing into tears. And that is before Future Zeno destroys the entire timeline, erasing everyone from existence. She gave her all to save the world and to keep hope, and it all amounted to nothing.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Her attempts to engage Goku Black have had little success, with the first time she was shown doing so she got blasted by him and survived through only a miracle.
• The Bus Came Back: The last time Mai got significant screen and print time was back in the early stages of the original Dragon Ball show and its accompanying manga arc. The Pilaf Gang were completely absent in Z and crop up very briefly in GT and Super, but always as cameos at best; Mai turning out to be a major character during the Goku Black arc, never mind being Future Trunks's Implied Love Interest, was incredibly unexpected.
• Despair Event Horizon: She goes past this point when he hears that Fusion Zamasu killed everyone on Earth. She can only fire at the sky, screaming in denial about what just happened.
• Determinator: She's an almost totally normal human trying to fight one of the greatest super-ki-powered freaks in all of Dragon Ball, armed with nothing more than technology (which is infamously low-effect in DB). This doesn't slow her down at all and she's going to do whatever it takes to beat Goku Black. Only at the end, when Fusion Zamasu utterly destroys her world, does she finally (and understandably) break.
• Disney Death: In two different flavors depending on the media.
  • In the Super anime, the shockwave from one of Black's ki blasts throws her several meters back through the air, and lands with a painful crunch.
  • In the manga, she falls off an elevated walkway after one of Black's ki blasts destroy it. She then gets buried under a huge pile of rubble.
• Everyone Can See It: Her and Future Trunks's attraction to each other is painfully obvious for the rest of the cast no matter how much they deny it. Not only were their past counterparts aware of it, even Goku could immediately tell there was something going on.
• Expy: Slap Sarah Connor and John Connor's roles and personalities into Mai's modernized design and you get Future Mai.
• Future Badass: Present-day Mai is a petty Harmless Villain. This one has faced Goku Black at least several times, saved Future Trunks’s life with a flash-bang grenade, and even when wounded after Black blasted her, continues to throw everything humanity has at him.
• Girls with Guns: Wields a shotgun that shoots Frickin' Laser Beams, is shown Dual Wielding pistols in the opening credits, and a post-blasted flashback shows the wounded Mai wielding a rocket launcher against Black.
• Heel–Face Turn: At an unknown point in the timeline, she turns from a Harmless Villain to an ally of Future Bulma and Future Trunks.
• Heroic BSoD: When she learns that all of the remaining survivors are dead because of Eldritch Abomination-Fusion Zamasu's attack. She screams in denial and unloads her shotgun into the sky.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Uses herself as a decoy so Future Trunks can escape. She survives.
• Implied Love Interest: The amount of Ship Tease she has with Trunks is massive. Hell, the way they give her a Senzu Bean is by Trunks giving it via mouth to mouth. It's to the point where Goku and Vegeta play Shipper on Deck for them.
• La Résistance: She's one of the leaders of the humans trying to take down Goku Black.
• Last of Her Kind: She is the last pure-blooded human from Future Trunks's timeline after Fusion Zamasu kills everyone.
• May–December Romance: She's Trunks’s Implied Love Interest and yet, while she doesn't look it due to having been previously de-aged via Shenron, she's technically old enough to be his grandma.
• The Mind Is The Plaything Of The Body: As with her present counterpart, being turned into a toddler and growing up naturally seems to have "reset" her mind in a sense, as she still has memories of her pre-wish life but considers herself the same age as Trunks for all intents and purposes.
• Not Quite Dead: Was thought to be dead after getting blasted by Goku Black, but is shown alive at the end of Episode 50.
• Older Than They Look: Despite looking like she's barely in her twenties, Future Mai is the same age as her main timeline counterpart, which means that she's older than even Bulma. While the anime doesn't go into the details on how her youth was restored, the Super manga reveals that the Pilaf Gang wished for youth from Shenron (literally turning them into toddlers)◊ mere moments before Piccolo Jr. was killed by the Androids, making it literally the last wish Shenron ever granted. Considering that she should be 29 going by the timeline, she still looks younger than she should even then.
• Sacrificial Lion: Subverted. Future Trunks thought she had died after Black blasted her, yet she somehow survived the encounter.
• Satellite Love Interest: She's only an Implied Love Interest, but a lot of her character and screen time revolves around Trunks in some way.
• Science Hero: More or less — she's a normal human and has to rely purely on technology, including some designed by Bulma herself, to try and compete with her freakishly superpowered enemy. It's not often very effective, but damn if that's going to stop her from trying.
• She's All Grown Up: Bulma's reaction upon meeting her is that Mai "grows up" to be really pretty.
• Shooting Superman: She tries to kill Goku Black with a sniper rifle, knowing full well that Black can easily smack around beings as powerful as Goku, Trunks, and Vegeta. Though she uses a special bullet given to her by Future Bulma, all it does is knock him down, which is still impressive all things considering.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: She wields a shotgun that can (somehow) fire Ki blasts. This, along with the sniper rifle firing Bulma's custom bullet she later wields, may be the most useful gun in the entire series.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Both Future Trunks and Mai gets one on Future Zamasu after trapping him in the Mafuba.
  Trunks: I said you'd pay Zamasu! And now you've been introduced to the true power of mortals!
  Future Zamasu: The power of mortals!? Is that a joke!? I'll show you what happens when worthless beings speak down to a god!
  Mai: How can we be worthless if we've got you trapped!? You have no idea what we can accomplish!
  Trunks: That's right! You underestimate mortals, you pay the price!
  Trunks/Mai: So say goodbye!!
• Sole Survivor: She, along with Trunks and Future Zeno, are the only survivors of the Future timeline.
• Trauma Conga Line: She has it almost as bad as Future Trunks. As far as we know, Pilaf and Shu are long dead, making her the lone survivor of the Pilaf Gang. She is also a survivor of the android massacre that lasted almost twenty years. Just when things were starting to look better after the death of the androids, Goku Black arrives and destroys the planet. For over a year, she resists him and tries to save as many people as possible, but is utterly helpless against such a monster and is forced to watch people die around her. And just when peace seems to be restored after Trunks sliced Fusion Zamasu in half, Fusion Zamasu returns, fuses with the multiverse, and murders everyone. By that point, Mai can only scream in denial as she shoots at the sky before collapsing into tears. Things only get worse after Future Zeno destroys the entire timeline to kill Fusion Zamasu, erasing everyone from existence. The only solace Whis can give is to create a new timeline for Future Trunks and her before Goku Black kills the Supreme Kais. Even then, it's not her world and there will be another version of Future Mai in it.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Alongside Future Shu and Future Pilaf, her wish to become young again using Future Shenron was this, as it rendered the Earth's Dragon Balls inert moments before Future Piccolo's death and hence, Future Kami's death, making them permanently out of the equation, making all deaths in the future timeline permanent and indirectly her fault.
• Younger Than They Look: Before she, Pilaf, and Shu were de-aged by Shenron, the Super manga depicted them as looking almost as old as their GT counterparts. Previously, Mai was assumed to be not much older than Bulma, who was in her mid-30s at the time.

Future Shin/Supreme Kai

Future East Supreme Kai (未来の東の界王神, Mirai no Higashi no Kaiōshin)

The Supreme Kai of Future Trunks timeline who tries to stop future Babidi from reviving Buu.

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• Adaptational Badass: From what little we hear from Future Trunks, the anime version of Future Supreme Kai wasn't that different from the present version. He was more successful in stopping Buu thanks to Future Trunks not fooling around like his father and Goku. In the manga version of Super, he fought with Future Trunks against Future Dabura, and not only that, he made Future Trunks into a Supreme Kai disciple, which allowed Future Trunks to gain healing powers (although he didn't know).
• Adaptation Expansion:
  • Only gets a passing mention in the anime, but he appears in person in the manga, where he trained Future Trunks in order to prepare him for Future Babidi's arrival and then subsequently passed away at the hands of Babidi and co. Which unfortunately, also made Goku Black choose to invade Future Trunks’s timeline, as Future Beerus also dies as a result of Future Shin's death.
  • From what little Future Trunks tells us in the anime, Future Shin's role was the same as his present counterpart, coming to Earth to warn about Majin Buu's revival. This is not the case with Future Shin in the manga, who made Trunks into a Supreme Kai disciple, which allowed him to gain healing powers.
• Can't Live Without You: His life is tied with Future Beerus. His death triggers Future Beerus' death. In the manga, it was caused by Future Dabura, which is why Goku Black chose this timeline to haunt. In the anime he was killed by Black with the other Gods in the timeline, already having chosen this timeline in which to enact his genocidal agenda.
• Deader than Dead: After Future Zeno has destroyed the future timeline, everything was wiped out, including the afterlife. That means his very soul was destroyed, erased from all existence. However, Whis creates a new timeline for Future Trunks and Mai. One where Shin is still alive, allowing the duo to warn the new Future Beerus about Zamasu and eliminate him before he proceeds with his Zero Mortals Plan.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the anime, he died during Goku Black's genocide of the Supreme Kais, while in the manga he dies far earlier when he sacrifices himself to stop Future Dabura in order to give Future Trunks a chance to destroy him and Future Babidi once and for all.
• The Ghost: In the anime, he is only mentioned by Future Trunks. Averted in the manga where he actually appears in person.
• Killed Off for Real: He gets killed by Future Dabura in the Super manga. In the anime, he is killed by Black along with the other gods in that timeline.
• Mentor Archetype: In the manga, he gives some training to Future Trunks in preparation for the fight against Future Babidi and Future Dabura.
• Obsolete Mentor: He trains Future Trunks with the Z-sword to fight Future Dabura and deputizes him as a Supreme Kai apprentice in the Super manga, but Future Trunks is of course stronger than he is at that point, especially after unlocking SS2. Despite that, his lessons do come in handy, particularly in the form of the Healing Hands he bestowed upon Future Trunks.
• Physical God: Much like his main timeline counterpart, he is a Supreme Kai, which is a literal God.
• Poor Communication Kills: In the manga, he makes Future Trunks into a Supreme Kai disciple which gives him the ability to heal. The problem is, he never tells Future Trunks this even after all the time he spent training him. If Future Trunks knew that he could heal, he could've saved countless lives from Goku Black and may have even saved him from Future Dabura.
• Posthumous Character: Is long dead by the time the Future Trunks saga takes place.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In the manga, Future Supreme Kai turned Future Trunks into a Supreme Kai disciple. Not only did he do the silly ritual to Future Trunks, but he also gave him healing powers, which in turn allows Goku to use his perfect Super Saiyan Blue form.

Haru and Maki

Haru (ハル) and Maki (マキ)

Maki (left) and Haru (right)

Voiced by (Japanese): Yukiyo Fujii and Wakana Kingyo
Voiced by (English): Micah Solusod and Apphia Yu
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Annie Rojas and Erika Ugalde

Two children who are among the survivors in Future Trunks and Mai's La Résistance.

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• Big Brother Worship: They seem to look up to Trunks as an older brother figure, and he likewise treats them like younger siblings.
• Children Are Innocent: They symbolize this. Future Trunks draws strength from his desire to protect them and keep them from harm.
• Deader than Dead: After Future Zeno destroyed the future timeline, everything was wiped out including the afterlife. That means their very souls were destroyed, erased from all existence. However, Whis creates a new timeline for Future Trunks and Mai. One where Goku Black never comes to Earth and they never died.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: They are killed with no fanfare by Fusion Zamasu after he fuses with the multiverse. They don't even get an onscreen death.
• Reused Character Design: Haru had the same design as Mamejiro, from one of Toriyama's older works.
• Hero-Worshipper: They have great respect for Future Trunks and Mai.
• Killed Off for Real: They, along with everyone in Future Trunks timeline, are destroyed when Fusion Zamasu becomes the multiverse and eradicates all life.
• Mauve Shirt: Despite their relatively short screen time, these two characters have a lot of character development thanks to their interaction with Future Trunks and Mai, and their unwavering faith in them. They, along with the rest of the planet, also helped Trunks form a Spirit Bomb that empowered him to sliced Fusion Zamasu in half. They are both unceremoniously killed by Fusion Zamasu after he fuses with the multiverse and their souls are destroyed soon afterward by Future Zeno after he wipes out the timeline.

Future Yajirobe

Future Yajirobe (未来のヤジロベー, Mirai no Yajirobe)

Voiced by (Japanese): Mayumi Tanaka
Voiced by (English): Mike McFarland
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Luis Daniel Ramírez

Yajirobe from Future Trunks’s timeline and one of the few survivors of the two apocalypses.

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• Back for the Dead: It was long since thought that Yajirobe was killed during the Future Androids massacre before it's revealed he survived. Sadly he doesn't last much longer after that and is killed during Fusion Zamasu's massacre before being wiped out from existence altogther by Future Zeno.
• Beard of Sorrow: Has one since Future Korin's death.
• Big Damn Heroes: Comes out of nowhere to save Goku and Future Trunks from Goku Black and Future Zamasu after Vegeta distracts them with his Final Flash.
• Cowardly Lion: He saves Goku and Future Trunks’s lives when they were about to be killed by Goku Black and Future Zamasu by dragging them away from the battlefield.
• Deader than Dead: After Future Zeno destroyed the future timeline, everything was wiped out including the afterlife. That means his very soul was destroyed, erased from all existence. However, Whis creates a new timeline for Future Trunks and Mai. One where Goku Black never comes to Earth and he never dies.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: He is killed with no fanfare by Fusion Zamasu after he fuses with the multiverse. He doesn't even get an onscreen death, which is jarring since he's a secondary character.
• Hypocritical Humor: Complains about Goku and Trunks being too heavy and says that they should lose some weight. Goku lampshades this, saying that he didn't want to hear that from him.
• I Thought You Were Dead: In Z, Future Trunks referred to him being one of the Z-Fighters who supposedly died in the future (he's even shown during Future Trunks's flashback getting blasted by the Androids). Though it turns out he survived and is shown alive and healthy, but with a Beard of Sorrow. Turns out, Future Korin gave him the last Senzu Bean after he was mortally wounded by the Androids.
• Killed Off for Real: Along with the future timeline once Zamasu releases his final form.
• Lovable Coward: He hides when there is trouble and only comes out for food.
• Sacrificial Lion: Despite his relatively short screen time, he saves Goku and Future Trunks from Goku Black and Future Zamasu after Vegeta distracts them with a Final Flash. He also leads the survivors to Bulma's hanger after Fusion Zamasu starts wrecking the Earth and he, along with the rest of the planet, helped Trunks form the Spirit Bomb that empowered him to sliced Fusion Zamasu in half. He is unceremoniously killed by Fusion Zamasu after he fuses with the multiverse and his soul is destroyed soon afterward by Future Zeno after he wipes out the timeline.

Villains

Androids Saga

Cell

See Dragon Ball: Cell.

Future Android 17 and Future Android 18 in General

Future Android 17 and Future Android 18

Two androids created by Dr. Gero to kill Goku. They end up being activated prematurely, then turn on their creator and destroy him. They're actually cyborgs, as it's stated a few times that they were originally human teenage runaways kidnapped and experimented on by the old man.

In the Future Timeline, they go on a rampage across the Earth, causing destruction and chaos. Even the Z-Fighters end up dead at their hands, leaving Future Trunks the only one capable of stopping them. For this reason, they are very much different than the ones who appeared in the main timeline, who, while initially wanting to kill Goku, only did so because of boredom, before soon abandoning those plans and becoming allies of the Z-Fighters. As such, these can be considered very different characters.

17's real name is Lapis and 18's is Lazuli as revealed by Word of God.

For information about their main timeline counterparts, see Dragon Ball: Androids 17 and 18.

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Besides tropes already featured by the main timeline Androids 17 and 18, the Future Androids 17 and 18 feature examples of:

• Alternate Self: They're the alternate selves of the main timeline Androids 17 and 18 who, for unknown reasons, were Ax-Crazy instead of just bored rebels and went on a killing spree on Earth.
• Ambiguous Situation: Trunks claims they're weaker than their Present timeline counterparts, and Future 17 and 18 are sadistics out to kill everyone in the planet, while Present 17 and 18 didn't care about killing even the Z-Fighters outside of Goku (Even then, only 17 had any real interest in it), and no reason is given for such differences.
• Anti-Climax: The threat of these androids gets quickly diminished, even compared to their present day counterparts, but especially in comparison to Cell. By the time the Trunks we know returns to his time, he's many, many times stronger than they are and defeats them without even breaking a sweat. That said, their defeat is extremely cathartic because you get to see done to them what they'd done to every other person in their time.
• Arch-Enemy: They serve as this to Future Trunks. They completely destroyed his world and killed most of his friends and family. Future Trunks had dedicated his entire life to bringing them down, which eventually led to traveling back in time as a last resort. However, they see him as just someone to toy with.
• Ax-Crazy: Compared to the stoic demeanor of the androids from the main timeline, they took great enjoyment from murder and wanton destruction. They were also far less mentally stable than their counterparts. One example of this is Android 18's reaction to being struck by Future Trunks once he returned to his timeline at the end of the Cell Saga. The main timeline's Android 18 did not lose her composure even when she was being hit by Vegeta or later on by Mighty Mask, and it took Cell (who was vastly more powerful than she was) absorbing her brother in front of her eyes to make her start to lose it, and even then she nevertheless managed to remain fairly rational given the circumstances. This 18, on the other hand, became very enraged and attacked Future Trunks while at the same time vocalizing all the hatred she felt for him.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: They work together as the main threats to Future Trunks's world.
• Body-Count Competition: Taken to a depraved extreme; they go on random mass murder sprees and keep score of how many people they kill.
  Future Android 17: [while running over humans in a stolen hovercar] Oh yeah! We're talking major points here!
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Future 17 and 18 have very high fighting potential and have seamless teamwork. According to Master Roshi in Kakarot, the two may be strong but they have no drive to improve themselves or their abilities. Like in the anime and manga, this leads to their deaths at the hands of Trunks, who trained tirelessly back in time with the Z-Fighters so that he could defeat them and Cell.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Unlike their main timeline counterparts, Future 17 and 18 are cruel and remorseless.
• Deader than Dead: After Future Zeno destroyed the future timeline, everything was wiped out including the afterlife. That means their very souls were destroyed, erased from all existence. However, both Trunks and Mai ended up traveling back to the time before Shin is about to be killed by Dabura, creating a timeline where Beerus still lives, which allowed him to pre-emptively deal with Zamasu. So, although they're still dead since the events of Android Saga still happen, their souls still exist.
• Defiant to the End: Both of them in the anime. When a more powerful Trunks returns, he easily decks Future 18 in face, avoiding her ki blasts, and tries to attack him, and still tries to fight him despite being leagues above her and 17. Then he ends the "fight" with a ki blast to her face. In the manga, she dies immediately. 17 tries to brace himself, but Trunks breaks his defense with a kick, and blasts him into oblivion in both versions.
• The Dreaded: In Trunks's timeline, they reduced the human populations to tens of thousands, and forced many of them underground.
• Evil Counterpart: To the Androids in the Main Timeline. The Androids in the future are more chaotic, sadistic, and bloodthirsty while the present Androids are more neutral even before their Heel–Face Turn and just looking for a good fight.
• Fantastic Racism: Future Androids 17 and 18 despise anyone who isn't them.
• Foil:
  • They are this to the homegrown Saiyans. Those two share their sadistic jerkass tendencies and, Eighteen's small dose of standards aside, complete disregard for life outside their own kind. However, the Saiyans lived in a controlled galactic empire that cultivated and harnessed this into a most efficient form of planet plundering. The future twins, on the other hand, got that way through little more than hatred both personal and programmed, their reach is limited to Earth, they leave a few people (and shreds of civilization) alive but slowly rotting in fear and suffering for over two decades, and let's face it—they are entirely out of control.
  • They're also this to their main timeline versions. While the latter merely create mayhem for their entertainment and have consciences, these ones are sociopaths whose idea of fun is mass murder. The twin androids are the only characters whose personalities are intrinsically different in the two timelines for unclear reasons (for Trunks, the differences are obviously due to how he was raised).
• Freudian Excuse: In the special, it's implied that their sociopathic tendencies were the direct result of Future Gero's plans for world domination, having apparently programmed them to have a hatred of humanity so he could then manipulate them into aiding him in conquering the planet. In comparison, their main timeline counterparts are much more mellow and become kindhearted people after Cell dies. Main timeline 17 and 18's dialogue suggests that it became much harder for them to feel emotion after becoming androids, which may explain why the Future versions were so desperate for thrills.
• Future Badass: Subverted. While undeniably powerful and dangerous, the Future Androids are in fact considerably weaker than their present counterparts. For comparison, Future 17 and 18 were about even with a Super Saiyan individually and only had the advantage against Future Gohan by working together, whereas Present 17 and 18 were strong enough to individually overpower a Super Saiyan with complete ease, thanks to Trunks (and Cell) affecting the timelines.
• Hero Killer: Future Androids 17 and 18 killed all the Z-Fighters of their timeline except for Future Trunks and Future Yajirobe.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: In the manga, they reveal to Gohan that they were both holding back by a lot whenever they engaged Gohan. His death comes from 17 actually fighting seriously for once.
• Irony: They enjoyed overwhelming, terrorizing, and killing humans. For decades. Trunks did the same thing to them before killing them when he returned to the future.
• Just Toying with Them: Fond of this. In The History of Trunks, they spend most of their "battle" with Trunks just mocking him and chasing him around once he figures out that he can't even scratch them.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Because of the nature of History of Trunks, the future androids are never made to pay for their crimes during it. When Trunks does try to avenge Gohan's death, he is nearly killed. It will be another three years after the special ends before the androids get their just desserts.
• Karmic Death: The Androids cruelly murdered Future Gohan, and then eventually get slaughtered by his protege, who gained the ability to turn Super Saiyan in the wake of his mentor's death. He even subjects them to exactly what they did to Future Gohan before they killed him, and what they've been doing to the rest of the world for 20 years: making them feel completely powerless, outmatched, and afraid before killing them.
• Mook Horror Show: The two future Androids are subjected to this by Future Trunks when he gets back. Future Trunks explicitly stated that he's dishing out to them exactly that they did to Future Gohan before they killed him (not to mention what they've done to pretty much everybody else for going on 20 years), making it poetic justice.
• Post-Final Boss: Future 17 and Future 18 serve as this for the Android Saga alongside Future Cell. Future Trunks gets an episode to himself to clean up the last loose ends in his timeline, starting with them.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Future 17 and Future 18 take type B of this to its darkest logical extreme, going on random mass murdering sprees over the course of 20 years and actually keeping score of the kills. That's not even going into them treating their repeated Curb Stomp Battles of Future Gohan and Trunks like a game, even remarking that they'd be throwing away "weeks worth of fun" by killing Trunks.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Once Future Trunks becomes stronger in the past and returns to his own time he pulls a Curb-Stomp Battle on the two of them while chewing them out on how much they've made the world suffer and killed all his friends, and now they feel just like how everyone else in the world does, completely powerless and afraid.
  Future Trunks: You hate the fact that you’re powerless to stop me, that you’re completely outmatched. Well imagine feeling the way you feel now all the time like the people of this planet do. Fools! How do you think my master Gohan felt when you ganged up on him in the rain and he had no way out? Well, now it’s your turn. I hope you enjoy it!
• Retcon: In the original manga, Trunks directly states that Androids 19 and 20 were the androids that terrorized his future and killed all the Z-Fighters, which is still kept in many translations. Later, owing to some unkind words about 19 and 20's designs from Toriyama's ex-editor, 19 and 20 were scrapped from the story while Androids 17 and 18 are shown to be the only androids active in the Future timeline. When 19 and 20 emerge in the present timeline, Trunks has no idea who they are. Most adaptations, including the original anime, gloss over this glaring plot hole by having Trunks not state the Future androids' designations and just say his world was wrecked by two androids, which the Z-Fighters assume to have been 19 and 20 until Future Trunks reappears.
• Sadist: They spent decades slowly torturing the people of Earth with running them over with cars, shooting them while they're running, and 18 promising to spare them only for 17 to kill them anyway (with 18 only briefly upset every time). That's not even getting started on how they treated beating Future Gohan and Trunks to near-death like it is a game.
• The Sociopath: Both of them are low-functioning examples, caring about nothing except causing suffering and destruction.
• Stupid Evil: They had multiple chances and opportunities to just kill Trunks, but chose to leave him alive out of sheer sadism (especially egregious, since it's explicitly how Saiyans get stronger). By them time they finally get serious about killing him, he has more than closed the gap between the three of them and murders them effortlessly. This is, however, justified. The previous victim of their sadistic antics, Gohan, never truly got close to overwhelming the androids until his very last battle, which had been the latest in a long series of losses, and they had no reason to believe Trunks would be any different. If it wasn't for the hybrid going back in time, he likely would've shared the same fate as his master.
• Teens Are Monsters: They ruthlessly murder people for their own pleasure and kill all the Z-Fighters leaving only Trunks the sole survivor.
• This Cannot Be!: Their reaction when Future Trunks returns to the past and beats them into the ground. Both androids are in absolute disbelief that the Saiyan who they effortlessly curb-stomped time and time again is now curb-stomping them instead.
• Unknown Rival: They genuinely don't seem to know who Trunks and Gohan are, and if they do with the latter on account of Dr. Gero's files they didn't care that much. Mostly just referring to him as "blondie" on account of Gohan usually being a super saiyan every time they fought.
• Victory Is Boring: Implied to be the reason why they dragged out their fights with Future Gohan as long as they did. In fact, when Trunks returns from the past and Future 18 decides to kill him to blow off steam, Future 17 gives her the okay, but also warns her they'll be throwing away "weeks worth of fun" if she does.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Because their current level could defeat a Super Saiyan and a Nail-fused Piccolo, they were the strongest beings on Earth, and no one, not even Future Gohan and Trunks could defeat them, and lack of Future Goku's guidance meant Trunks had to go to the past to get stronger. And since no one could be a threat to them, Future 17 and 18 didn't bother to train because they were above anyone's level. Trunks returning to the past and Came Back Strong meant he's now above their level, and gives them a very cathartic one-sided Curb-Stomp Battle. Had they trained, Trunks would had difficulty, but still defeat them thanks to his experiences in the past.
• Villains Out Shopping: In The History of Trunks, they take the time to enjoy a few rides in an amusement park in-between their rampage... also while killing everyone in the park and destroying it after they're over.

Future Android 17

Future Android 17 (未来の人造人間17号, Mirai no Jinzou Ningen Juunana-Gou) / Future Lapis (未来の人ラピス, Mirai no Rapisu)

Voiced by (Japanese): Shigeru Nakahara
Voiced by (English): Chuck Huber (Funimation dub); Ted Cole (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Doug Rand (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Genaro Vásquez (Z, History of Trunks), Enrique Mederos (Z, episode 194), Rolando de la Fuente (Kai)

"Dr. Gero created us for the purpose of world domination, but that doesn't really matter to us. Not at all."

The alternate timeline counterpart of Android 17 who is crueler than the one seen in the main timeline, and is bent on doing nothing but destroying and killing.

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Besides tropes already featured by the main timeline Android 17, Future Android 17 features examples of:

• Blood Knight: Zig Zagged. Future Android 17 enjoys killing more than fighting. Of the two he's much more interested in getting a high body count of their rampages.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Future 17 reacts with a mix of horror and anger when Future Trunks returns and easily kills Future 18 right before his very eyes. He doesn't even run away — if anything, he's even more determined to kill him despite how outclassed he is.
• Jerkass: Both Androids of the future are callous, selfish bastards, but Future Android 17's antics even manage to upset Future Android 18. For example, Future Android 18 decided to spare the life of a shop owner because he was nice to her, but even after hearing that, Future Android 17 killed the shop owner by blowing up his store. Later, Future Android 18 is shown to be very upset because Future Android 17 killed a boy she thought was "cute".^note Though this can also be a case of Adaptational Nice Guy, as this comes from the English dub; in the original Japanese and other dubs, she is angry about losing a video game. Future Android 18 even says that Future Android 17 goes out of his way to destroy everything she likes. Future Android 17 also appears to be considerably more bloodthirsty than Future Android 18, as while Future Android 18 will eventually grow bored of all the destruction the two of them are always causing, Future Android 17 can't seem to have enough of it.
• Moral Myopia: He furiously calls Trunks out after the latter kills Future 18, despite the fact that both Future 17 and Future 18 had spent twenty years rampaging across the Earth killing whomever and whenever they wanted For the Evulz. Trunks even calls him out on it before killing him too.
  Future Trunks: You think this life is all about you, don't you? What about the others? The ones that you two killed?!
• Villain Respect: In Kakarot, Future 17 was impressed by Master Roshi's courage to stand up against them if it meant letting Trunks go. This combined with him being in a good mood was enough to spare Master Roshi and Trunks that one time.
• Villainous Valour: When Android 18 is killed by Trunks and 17 himself is clearly overpowered by him, he does not back down and willing to fight Trunks for killing his sister.

Future Android 18

Future Android 18 (未来の人造人間18号, Mirai no Jinzou Ningen Juuhachi-Gou) / Future Lazuli (未来の人ラズリ, Mirai no Razuri)

Voiced by (Japanese): Miki Itō
Voiced by (English): Meredith McCoy (Z), Colleen Clinkenbeard (Kai) (Funimation dub); Farrell Spence (Ocean/Blue Water dub); Sharon Mann (AB Groupe/"Big Green" dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Cristina Camargo (Z, History of Trunks), Jocelyn Robles (Kai)

"Whenever we see humans, it angers us. We hate you humans."

The alternate timeline counterpart of Android 18 who is far crueler than the one seen in the main timeline, and is bent on doing nothing more but destroying, killing, and sometimes clothes shopping.

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Besides tropes already featured by the main timeline Android 18, Future Android 18 features examples of:

• Berserk Button: As Future Trunks found out the hard way, Future Android 18 does not react well to having her hair cut - it doesn't grow back.
• Dark Action Girl: Future 18 is a strong fighter and, along with her brother, killed nearly all of the Z Fighters.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Although heavily implied to be a ruthless android who treats killing humans as some sort of game, it is implied that she hated Future Android 17's decision to murder a boy that she thought was "cute".^note Though this can also be a case of Adaptational Nice Guy, as this comes from the English dub; in the original Japanese and other dubs, she is angry about losing a video game. Also, she scolds him for killing a clothing salesperson she had spared, saying it made her look dishonest.
• Nobody Touches the Hair: One thing she doesn't share with her present-day counterpart (whom later cuts her hair shorter by End of Z). You cut it in any way, and you're dead.
• Not So Stoic: While she's already way more livid than her main timeline counterpart, Future 18 starts freaking out when Future Trunks reappears and starts to show how outclassed they are.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Future 18 hates when 17 spends all day killing humans and destroying buildings, not because of moral objections (excluding ones that she spares) but because if he doesn't take it easy, they'll run out of humans to kill that much sooner.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Future Android 18 asks Future Trunks if he'd "really hit a lady" while fighting him, but it's obvious she's just mocking him.

Future Cell

Future Cell (未来のセル, Mirai no Seru)

Voiced by (Japanese): Norio Wakamoto
Voiced by (English): Dameon Clarke (Funimation dub); Dale Wilson (Ocean dub)
Voiced by (Latin American Spanish): Ricardo Brust (Z), Salvador Reyes (Kai)

The alternate timeline counterpart of Cell from Future Trunks's timeline. He ends up being destroyed by Future Trunks.

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Besides tropes featured by Cell, Future Cell features examples of:

• Adaptational Badass: In the Xenoverse games he is able to absorb the future Androids and achieves his perfect form like Cell.
• Deader than Dead: After Future Zeno destroyed the future timeline, everything was wiped out including the afterlife. That meant his very soul was destroyed, erased from all of existence. However, both Trunks and Mai ended up traveling back to the time before Shin is about to be killed by Dabura, one where Beerus still lives that allowed him to preemptively deal with Zamasu.
• Didn't See That Coming: He is caught flatfooted by the fact Future Trunks killed Future 17 and 18.
• Informed Attribute: He claims to be stronger than the androids ("You couldn't even defeat the androids, much less myself!") and to have all sorts of techniques, which would match the profile of the "main" Cell; unlike his alternate self though, he never gets a chance to prove it, as Future Trunks kills him in one shot. Considering the Cell who manages to hunt down and easily defeats and absorb 17 and 18 in the main timeline, there could be some truth to it.
• Irony: Despite being created to kill Goku, both Cell and Future Cell had the least personal relationship with him out of all the main villains in the series. This is even more ironic for Future Cell, as although the Cell who appeared in the main timeline at least did fight Goku and indirectly did manage to carry out his mission to kill Goku, Future Cell never even met Goku, who had already died of the heart virus.
• Post-Final Boss: Future Cell serves as this for the Android Saga alongside Future Androids 17 and 18, but he's leagues behind his primary self and he only exists for Trunks to show off how far he's come and clean up some loose ends.
• Walking Spoiler: Unlike the other Future characters, that fact there was a Future Cell is a big plot twist not revealed until the very end of the Android saga. He wasn't even hinted at until Future Trunks put two and two together after killing the Future Androids 17 and 18 and realized that there must be a Future Cell too since each timeline had its own version of Cell (the main timeline has Present Cell, Future Trunks's timeline has Future Cell, and Cell's timeline has the Cell who was the Big Bad of the Cell Saga). Of course the twist isn't much of a secret anymore.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: Averted; Future Trunks kills Future Androids 17 and 18 before Future Cell could absorb them. From then on, he's pretty much screwed.

Future Trunks Saga

Goku Black

See Dragon Ball: Goku Black

Future Babidi and Future Dabura

Future Babidi (未来のバビディ, Mirai no Babidi) and Future Dabura (未来のダーブラ, Mirai no Dābura)

Future Dabura voiced by (Japanese): Ryūzaburō Ōtomo
Future Dabura voiced by (English): Rick Robertson

As in the main timeline, these two eventually arrived on the planet to revive Majin Buu. It doesn't end well for them.

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• Adaptational Badass: Future Dabura in the Super manga is far more impressive than his anime counterpart. Not only did he kill Kibito and the Shin of the future, but he also killed Future Old Kai by turning the Z-Sword to stone and then shattering it, which indirectly killed Future Beerus since his life is linked with the Supreme Kais. Future Trunks only won because Future Shin used the last of his strength to hold Future Dabura down so Future Trunks could kill him.
• Anti-Climax: While Future Dabura is a tough opponent, he ends up being defeated a lot faster than his main timeline counterpart and was unsuccessful in reviving Majin Buu. Not so much in the manga where Future Dabura has four successful kills, although two were indirect.
• Deader than Dead: After Future Zeno destroyed the future timeline, everything was wiped out including the afterlife. That means their very souls were destroyed, erased from all existence. However, both Future Trunks and Future Mai ended up traveling back to the time before Future Shin is about to be killed by Future Dabura. One where Future Beerus still lives that allowed him to preemptively deal with Zamasu. So, although they're still dead, since the events of the Future Majin Buu arc still happens, their souls still exist.
• Hero Killer: In the manga, Future Dabura kills Future Kibito, Future Shin, and indirectly kills Future Old Kai by shattering the Z-Sword, which then indirectly kills Future Beerus since all the Supreme Kais in U7 are dead, making him one of the most successful villains in the series.
• Killed Offscreen: All we see of Future Pui Pui and Future Yakon in the manga is their corpses. If they were there in the anime timeline, this trope applies there too.
• Point of Divergence: Facing Future Trunks rather than the present day Z-Fighters really didn't do them any good. Although, in the manga, Future Dabura did more overall damage since he literally killed all the upper gods in U7.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In the manga, if it wasn't for them, the Future Trunks Saga would not have happened in the way it did. Future Dabura killing Future Shin caused Future Beerus to also perish (since their lives are linked), which then, in turn, was what led to Goku Black to invade the timeline since he was only doing so for timelines without a God of Destruction.
• Super Spit: Anything Future Dabura spits on turns to stone. He used this to break the Z-Sword, killing Future Old Kai in the Super manga.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the Super manga, Future Dabura kills all the Supreme Kais during his battle with Future Trunks to revive Majin Buu, which also kills Future Beerus since the Gods of Creation and the Gods of Destruction are linked. Goku Black was watching the battle and decides to invade the timeline since Future Beerus was dead. This eventually leads to the destruction of the entire timeline, including Future Dabura's own Demon Realm. Oops.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed off in minutes upon their very brief flashback appearance. This is Subverted in the manga where a good portion of Chapter 16 shows the Future Dabura vs. Future Trunks fight in detail.
• The Worf Effect: To show off just how much more potent Future Trunks has gotten, he fights and beats Future Dabura, who gave trouble to a rusty present Gohan in the main timeline. Though it should be noted that Future Trunks states he had a lot of trouble with Future Dabura, so ironically Future Dabura was more of a threat than he was in the main timeline. In the manga, however, he kills Future Kibito, Future Shin, and Future Old Kai indirectly by breaking the Z-Sword, and Future Trunks only beat him because Future Shin bound him, giving Future Trunks the opening to finish him off.

Future Zamasu

See Dragon Ball: Zamasu

Other

Future Zeno

Future Zeno (未来の全王, Mirai no Zen'ō)

"All of existence, go away!"

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• And Then What?: After he blows up the Future Trunks timeline, he just floats there, evidently having literally no idea what to do now.
• Destructive Savior: Finishes off Fusion Zamasu's final form by utterly destroying the entire timeline he is in.
• Divine Intervention: Is summoned by Goku when all things seem lost against the Eldritch Abomination that Zamasu became, who is threatening to become the universe and break into other timelines. Zeno quickly obliterates Fusion Zamasu from existence.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Played With since it depends on which version:
  • Very much subverted in the anime. He was fully justified in his choice to destroy the multiverse of Future Trunks' timeline, as Infinite Zamasu already infected it and was starting to spread into different timelines, along with already killing the population of Future Earth other than Future Trunks and Future Mai.
  • In the manga though, Infinite Zamasu was just a ton of overpowered Fusion Zamasu clones who could potentially time travel thanks to a time machine they had found but had yet to use. All of them were freaking out upon seeing Future Zeno and as opposed to just destroying the army, Zeno proceeds to destroy the entire timeline to take out a planetary threat (at the current scale) at worst. Admittedly, the Zamasus do have Kai teleportation and could escape to anywhere, but it seems unlikely Zeno thought that far ahead.
• The Gods Must Be Lazy: One have to wonder how he didn't know about Zamasu and Black's activities. They ran amok for years and killed his gods without him knowing a thing until Goku summoned him. If Zeno did his job, Trunks' timeline would have been spared. Though one wonders how the others such as the Grand Minister didn't know as well...
• Godzilla Threshold: After Fusion Zamasu corrupts the multiverse after losing his physical body, Goku finds the Zeno button in his pocket while searching for a Senzu. He presses it and Future Zeno arrives, who then single-handedly eliminates Fusion Zamasu and the entire timeline.
• Mercy Kill: After being summoned and told what happened with Infinite Zamasu (who'd become a multiverse spanning Eldritch Abomination capable of breaking through timelines), he destroys the Zamasu assimilated multiverse to put an end to him once and for all.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: The moment he realizes what Infinite Zamasu has done and that he's responsible, he powers up and one shots him in an instant. No warning him to stop it or "you'll be wiped out" speeches. Zamasu was there, and then he wasn't. End of story.
• One-Hit Kill: Has one trumping Beerus' by a landslide. He can destroy anything, up to including the multiverse. Even being immortal won't save you, as he effortlessly annihilates Infinite Zamasu and the entire timeline his malevolent influence had infected in one shot.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Gives one before one shotting Infinite Zamasu, who's merged with the multiverse and become a reality spanning Eldritch Abomination who was threatening to break through into other timelines.
  Future Zeno: All of existence, go away!
• Running Gag:
  • Future Zeno tends to repeat most of what his present counterpart says, only doubled.
  • Any time the two raise an arm, Future Zeno will raise the left one, glance at his counterpart doing the opposite, then switch accordingly.
• Sole Survivor: He along with Future Trunks and Mai are the only survivors of the future timeline.
• Summon Bigger Fish: Goku presses the button Present Zeno gave him and summons Future Zeno to destroy Infinite Zamasu, who'd essentially become a reality spanning Eldritch Abomination at that point. Future Zeno one shots him.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Infinite Zamasu assimilated the entire multiverse, so Zen-o destroys the multiverse along with Zamasu with it.
• Tranquil Fury: His expressions changes little to none, but his mood is telling when he realizes what Infinite Zamasu has been doing. He is not happy with what has been done to his multiverse.
• Trapped in the Past: Albeit voluntarily. Having destroyed the entire multiverse of the future timeline to stop Infinite Zamasu, Goku offers to take Future Zeno to back the present where he can meet his present counterpart. Future Zeno becomes friends with his present self and is happily residing in the present time.

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