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From a meta perspective, that's fair. But I think the narrative should be criticized for that.
I believe if the manga had continued past the Boo arc Toriyama would have used Goten and Trunks more. I think the aversion to using them is due to the later decision to focus really hard on Goku and Vegeta, as well as Super's new focus on nostalgia and old characters. The latter definitely wasn't present in the original run, but the former might've been inevitable after the decision to switch back to Goku as protagonist.
The odds of that are far lower than with the humans.
At his very worst, Gotenks achieves nothing of value. That is guaranteed to happen with the humans
Edited by Saiga on Oct 15th 2018 at 11:32:19 PM
Present Trunks has the potential to be stronger than Future Trunks considering he achieved Super Saiyan at the age of 8, whereas Future him didn't pull it off until much later despite having far more need of it.
We're never gonna see that potential.
One Strip! One Strip!Oh right. I forgot that age 8 is just when he first reveals he can go Super Saiyan to his dad.
Hmm...how young could he have been?
One Strip! One Strip!The only reason Buu didn't kill Gotenks 5 times over when they were messing around is that he's just as dumb as they are. That makes for a hilarious fight, but also makes it a bad idea to bring them to a tournament against people fighting for survival.
I'm pretty sure that's not how math works.
I would have loved if in Super there was an episode where Present Trunks invites Future Trunks to hang out with his friends. Goten, Marron, the Pilaf Gang, you name it.
It would really be interesting to see how an alternate version of him is close friend with people that never were born in his timeline
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Seeing how killing wasn't allowed, that actually doesn't factor in at all, though.
Like, you can say "they've acted irresponsibly in the past" but you could say that about half the people on the team, at least, easily. Many of those same people were still on the team simply because their power made up for it.
There's really no compelling in-story reason to say that Roshi and Tien should have been chosen over Trunks and Goten. Which leaves us with the real reason: nostalgia.
Which I still find strange, I'd figure there would be more appeal in actually demonstrating growth for the people who have their whole lives ahead of them, rather than giving spotlight to someone whose time has already come and gone.
Edited by LSBK on Oct 15th 2018 at 10:13:05 AM
I love Future Trunks
Should have done more with his visit with Gohan and fuck, seconding not meeting Goten being a waste
Goku Black arc may be tedious and melodramatic in all the wrong ways but that scene where Gohan is brought by Piccolo to say good bye and Future Trunks sees his version of Gohan for a second and breaks down in tears
Got me in my goddamn heart
Everyone always says that Trunks not meeting Goten was a waste but I can't imagine a scenario where he meets Goten and his reaction is anything more than "Goku had another kid? Neat."
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Well, that sort of happened with 18.
I don't know why he was scared after seeing her because the last time Trunks saw 18 she was awkwardly "flirting" with Krillin. What, did he think she went and became a Park Ranger too?
Real talk, seeing 18 might have kicked in some form of PTSD. He has had enough of Android for an entire lifetime.
Edited by fasoman1996 on Oct 15th 2018 at 12:41:07 PM
Uni catIt is explicitly how Super Saiyan 3 interacts with fusion. You use SS 3, you got 5 minutes left, thems the rules.
Also, again, the fact that Boo might've killed Gotenks in those 25 minutes doesn't make him a worse choice than the people Boo killed in a span of seconds.
Like I said: the worst case scenario for Gotenks is no worse than the guaranteed result of using the humans.
I don't think Gotenks would've been much help in the tournament, and the humans did end up being useful. Krillin saved one of his teammates from ring-out and defeated two opponents. Roshi took out two fighters from U4 who would've been a pain in the ass for the rest of his team, one of whom was U4's team captain and had the ability to constantly grow stronger with time. Tenshinhan helped defeat an opponent who was pinning down Gohan and Piccolo.
That's because Super completely suspended logic to give moments to the humours. We're talking about a hypothetical, in-universe perspective ie. one that actually makes sense.
No opponent that could be taken out by the humans would even be relevant for the other characters by the original work's logic.
Besides, the anime is only one continuity of Super.

Roshi probably just has more ki than he did with King Piccolo.
Anyway.
I can imagine Gotenks showboating himself out of bounds or not paying attention to the rules easier than I can a lot of other characters.
Gotenks literally pretended to have no chance and be losing because it'd be more dramatic that way.
Say what you like about the humans, they don't usually job on purpose.