Dragon Ball’s Weakest Villain Killed All The Strongest Heroes (In … – Screen Rant

Fans of Dragon Ball have long been fascinated by Future Trunks' dystopian timeline, where every hero except the blue-haired Saiyan was killed, including Goku and Vegeta. One bonus comic released for Dragon Ball Super showed exactly how the unfortunate chain of events came to be and, while most of the destruction happened at the hands of the androids, that terrible future hinges entirely on the actions of one minor villain: Pilaf.

In a brief bonus chapter, Dragon Ball Super pays a visit to Future Trunks' timeline, at a point when he was still a baby and the battle with Androids 17 and 18 raged on. Goku has already died of the heart virus, and Gohan and Bulma are desperately searching for the dragon balls to get some kind of help in the fight. They stumble across the first villains of the franchise, Pilaf, Mai, and Shu, who are summoning Shenron. Despite Shu's warning, Pilaf wishes to be younger, causing his entire group to be returned to babies. Shortly thereafter, Piccolo (who has fused with Kami) is killed in battle, and the dragon balls are rendered inert, ruining any hope of using them to deal with the androids or resurrect the fallen warriors.

By robbing Bulma and Gohan of a wish that was desperately needed, the stage was set for the eventual demise of the rest of the Z-Fighters, leaving only Bulma and Trunks to grow old into the future. Wishing Goku back wasn't an option, since he died a "natural" death, but there were a number of other possible options, from unlocking a warrior's latent potential (as Piccolo wishes for in the Super Hero arc) to disabling the androids in some way. They could've even wished for something like immortality for Piccolo to prevent the dragon balls from being deactivated. With the dragon balls, Gohan and Bulma would've had some options, but without them, the world's fate was effectively sealed.

This short chapter was mostly created to explain a few things, though. The Mai of Future Trunks' timeline is roughly the same age as the Saiyan, and now we know how: she was de-aged to a baby when Trunks was still a baby. This indeed fixes a weird pothole, as the two end up falling in love. Gohan also seems to have been the only survivor of the fight with the Androids because he left to go with Bulma, thus putting him in a position to train young Trunks into the warrior he will one day become. It also suggests that Zamasu had to pillage Goku's grave in order to acquire his body and become Goku Black, a rather disturbing thought to say the least.

Despite the purpose and style of this bonus chapter being quite lighthearted, Pilaf's wasted wish dramatically lowered the odds of the Androids being defeated, thus giving rise to the darkest timeline in the entire series. Pilaf has mostly gotten by through being a relatively minor nuisance, but on this occasion, his presence was a far bigger problem. It just goes to show that even the weakest villains can't be ignored, as in Future Trunks' dark timeline his foolish actions resulted in the death of almost every Dragon Ball hero.

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