History Characters / DragonBallZAbridgedMainCharacters

-->'''[[SharingABody Nail]]:''' Huh, I didn't know we could do that.\\

* {{Fauxreigner}}: Krillin looks like a Tibetan monk, but he picks a false surname of Sanchez when he is trying to collect on his own life insurance policy.

* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Mad Scientist's Beautiful Son]]: He is a {{Bishonen}} whom [[EvenTheGuysWantHim even the guys want]]. He is also the son of [[HotScientist Bulma]], who probably qualifies as a MadScientist at least in this version.

* PrecisionFStrike: One of the most underrated elements of this iteration of Trunks is that amidst all of the foul mouths such as Vegeta, Krillin, Cell, ...[[RunningGag Vegeta]], he rarely swears. And when he does, he uses light swears such as "damn" and "Hell". Episode 52 sees him break out "shit" remorsefully when he realizes Krillin's feelings for Android 18.
-->'''Krillin:''' ''[angry]'' AND BECAUSE OF THAT, [[spoiler:18 HAD TO DIE?!]]\\

--->'''Trunks:''' Looks like you [[IncrediblyLamePun dropped the ball, Freeza!]] ''[beat]'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Drropped. The. Ball.]] ''[beat]'' Drrrrrrrrropped the--"\\

* AdaptationalDumbass: In contrast to Piccolo's AdaptationalIntelligence, his HeroicSacrifice is a StupidSacrifice here, due to getting to Gohan ''long'' before the beam arrived and having time to lament his sacrifice, think about other options, ''choose'' another option, and then agree on the action.... all while standing there in place in front of the beam and ultimately dying an otherwise avoidable death.

* AdaptationalWimp: Downplayed in that it ultimately didn't matter much, but Piccolo is unable to go through an entire year in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber unlike Goku, Vegeta, Gohan and Trunks. Giving up in three days due to his hallucinations, which would translate to a couple of minutes outside.

** When he spin kicks [[spoiler:Cell]], simply because he'd always wanted to do so, Nail and Kami ask him not to do so again. He promptly does, and whiffs the second one, then doesn't try it again.

* ForgotICouldFly: When it comes to his ability to stretch his arms.

* TheSmartGuy: Has to be, with guys like Goku around.

* BrokenPedestal: Heavily implied towards Goku in ''[[DragonBallZAbridgedM8 The History of Trunks]]''.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: At the end of the Cell Saga, #18's attempt to "rock his world" turned into him rocking ''her'' world. [[spoiler:39 times, non-stop, for almost an entire day, reducing and utterly annihilating the Krillin Owned Count!]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Nick "Lanipator" Landis

* InsistentTerminology: A meta example. [[https://twitter.com/yugiohtas/status/1374895683514208261?s=20 KaiserNeko originally spelled his name]] "Kuririn" in the scripts as a joke, while all the dialogue had everyone say the name "Krillin". Lanipator requested he keep it though, because that made it easy to Ctrl+F his lines during recording sessions.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: The original Piccolo was a GeniusBruiser, ''but'' he tended to hold the IdiotBall a lot, or have his emotions blind his judgment. Abridged Piccolo is subtly portrayed as far smarter, partly because Kaiser Neko and Lanipator are self-admitted Piccolo fans.

->'''Voiced by:''' Scott "[=KaiserNeko=]" Frerichs

* AdaptationalWimp: In ''Cooler 2: The Return of Cooler's Revenge: The Reckoning''. In the original film, Krillin manages to defend himself very well from the robots, and only loses when he is overwhelmed by the numbers. In this version he is easily defeated.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Officially, he's known as ''Krillin'' (the English prounciation/spelling, provided by Funimation), though in the scripts, he's written as ''Kuririn'' (an approximation of the Japanese pronunciation, provided by the English manga and Funimation's subtitles).

* CrossdressingVoices: Averted with his younger self, who's been voiced by a woman in nearly every official dub for the series.

* InformedJudaism: His maternal grandmother was supposedly Jewish, though Chi-Chi was probably lying to increase the chances of him getting accepted into college.

* HollywoodToneDeaf: His rendition of "[[Music/{{Journey}} Don't Stop Believin']]" is so bad that it sounds like he's actively trying to sing as off-key as possible.

* BadassBookworm: Taken UpToEleven from the original franchise. He keeps pulling out literary trivia and uses long words for a lot of situations; even through pure rage. [[LampshadeHanging Cell even calls him "the world's strongest bookworm."]] (Condescendingly, but still accurate.)

* TheDogBitesBack: He ''finally'' [[spoiler:stands up to himself against [[AbusiveParents Vegeta]] in Episode 51 and blows him over the horizon, as Vegeta attacks him to stop him from killing Cell. This was also the trigger point of Vegeta's PapaWolf tendencies towards Trunks, and was ''much'' less abusive than him.]]

* DynamicCharacter: He starts out much more naive than in the original franchise. Flash forward to the Season 2 Finale, when he casually threatens to ''drop [[ItsAllAboutMe Bulma]] to her death'' if she doesn't quit [[{{Wangst}} wangsting]].

* AdaptationalDyeJob: In ''The World's Strongest,'' his skin is blue for most of the movie. [[FridgeBrilliance He states outright that it's too cold for him as a Namekian whose body is mostly water. Hence why he's turned blue.]] In the original he was still green.

* AdultFear: He started to see Gohan as his own son and is way more worried for his safety than Goku.
-->'''Piccolo:''' What's amazing about watching your own eleven year old son get murdered?

** While Trunks becomes somewhat better trained during his time with Vegeta in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, he still retains this status due to not realizing how useless the bulky Super Saiyan Grade 3 form is until Perfect Cell spells it out to him after he gives Trunks some pity hits.

* ParentalIssues: Of course, it wouldn't be Future Trunks without them.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: As much as he denies it, his focus on pride makes him a lot more like Vegeta than he thinks. [[spoiler:His PreAssKickingOneLiner before his CurbStompBattle against Future Cell is curbed straight from his dad and even has similar enunciation.]]

* FridgeLogic: In-universe. After Android 14 [[BladeCatch Blade Catches]] Trunks' sword, Trunks wonders why he even brings the sword, then realizes he was shopping before the attack.

** Becomes HilariousinHindsight when ''Super'' reveals that he carries it around for comfort.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Frequently lampshaded, and the former TropeNamer. He's stronger than [[TheArtifact Yamcha]], the Saibamen, and [[StarterVillain Raditz]] but he can't compete with the other protagonists. Though he finally gets one moment to show just how dangerous he is from a regular human's perspective in WebAnimation/DragonShortZ when, in response to a lecherous waiter hitting on Eighteen and insulting her for rejecting/threatening him, Krillin's reaction is to break the table in half. With one hand.

* BrickJoke: In the Frieza Saga, he pretended to be a "space duck" to throw off some soldiers. Later, Android 16 mistakes him for a duck.

* MadeOfIron: ''Seriously''. LovableCoward or not, he can survive even the most grievous injury from the BigBad of the saga. Including [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice getting ran through the gut by Frieza]] or [[NeckSnap his neck getting snapped by Cell kicking him]]. Trunks even points out that if Krillin had Saiyan genes, he would be unstoppable given how often he takes damage.

* GuileHero: Piccolo has his moments. He often targets other people's egos in order to get them to do what he wants. He's so good at it that he causes Frieza to forget about a potentially lethal attack buildup for ''five minutes.'' In fact, he's so good, it even works when the other party ''acknowledges he's doing it.''

* BookDumb: Has a minor moment of this when he asks how Frieza's name could be pronounced "Free-za" if it has an 'i' in it, even though 'ie' forming a long 'e' sound is far from uncommon.[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke Of course, this is just Team Four Star's way of riffing on Funimation's official spelling (Frieza) versus a more direct transliteration (Freeza)]].[[/note]]

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: He's one of the few characters who genuinely likes and gets along with [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Vegeta]], despite acknowledging his anger issues and past conflicts with him. In canon, Krillin hated Vegeta possibly even moreso than the other Z-Fighters, to the point of admitting that he wouldn't care at all if Cell killed him, whereas in the same scene in Abridged, he's sincerely trying to get him to safety after his lopsided bout with Cell.