Trunks (Japanese: トランクス Hepburn: Torankusu) is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. He makes his debut in chapter #331 The Young Boy of Mystery (謎の少年 Nazo no Shōnen), first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on July 15, 1991, as an unknown young man who has traveled back in time to warn of a deadly enemy. Trunks is later revealed to be the half-Saiyan half-Human son of Vegeta and Bulma.



Trunks' most prominent physical features come from his maternal side, as he inherits Bulma's blue eyes and lavender-colored hair which is mostly shown in the undercut style. As he is not full-blooded Saiyan, his hair grows and is worn in an over-the-shoulders style for a period. He inherits his skin tone and facial features from his father, with Bulma, Kuririn, and Goku pointing out Trunks' resemblance to Vegeta on several occasions. Trunks can transform into a Super Saiyan which causes his hair to spike on end and takes on a golden color and his eyes a certain turquoise or green color.

When the character is first introduced he wears a steel blue cropped jacket with a Capsule Corporation, his grandfather's company, patch on its upper left sleeve, over a black tank top and dark gray baggy pants and wears yellow tanker boots. During the Cell Games he wears Saiyan battle armor identical to his father's that was made by his mother. The present incarnation wears a dark green gi with matching orange belt and wrist bands and wears the same yellow tanker boots. Trunks' first depicted form has been referred to as "Future Trunks" (未来のトランクス Mirai no Torankusu, "Trunks of the Future") in media in order to distinguish it from the character's present-timeline incarnation, where he is a child. However, in Dragon Ball Super, Future Trunks' design was different from his appearance in the manga, wearing an outfit similar to when he traveled to the past, which is a periwinkle colored jacket with the Capsule Corporation logo on the left sleeve (albeit without the logo's name), a red scarf, black baggy pants, and olive green boots, the jacket and pants appear to have two small rips on the left ends, his hair is now blue, like his mother's and is now messier, and lacks the two thin bangs he initially appeared in, to distinguish him from his present-timeline counterpart, and he also gains a new sword.



Trunks possesses several abilities including superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, and energy blasts, which can be utilized by the use of ki. Some of his signature attacks are the Burning Attack (バーニングアタック Bāningu Atakku) and the Super Buster Cannon (スーパーバスターキャノン Sūpā Basutā Kyanon). Trunks is also known for his use of a longsword that he keeps in a scabbard mounted across his back.

His main means of conveyance is a technique called Bukū-jutsu (舞空術, "Air Dance Technique") which gives him the ability of flight. However, Trunks does not rely on this technique as his only conveyance as he can also be seen piloting various crafts manufactured by his family's company, including the time machine which allowed him to visit Goku in the past.

Both incarnations of Trunks have access to the Super Saiyan transformation, although their achievement of this form differs between incarnation. Future Trunks achieved this in his early teens, while present Trunks would be shown to have the ability at the age of eight. Unlike his present time counterpart, Future Trunks obtains two additional grades of Super Saiyan during his training with Vegeta in the Room of Spirit and Time. Unfortunately, these forms would greatly increase his ki consumption and greatly decrease his speed at the cost of additional strength, resulting in Future Trunks abandoning these grades after his initial fight with Cell. Upon his return to the past, Trunks is able to attain Super Saiyan 2 and can also use his father's techniques, such as the Galick Gun and Final Flash, learned presumably from Vegeta himself, and later when Black and Zamasu blames him for his constant time traveling which however, fueled Trunks' rage, transforms into a new form previously unknown, but was named Super Saiyan Rage (超サイヤ人怒り Sūpā Saiya-jin Ikari), which gives him enough power to fight both Black and Zamasu.

Trunks is able to temporarily fuse with Goten to become the powerful being named Gotenks (ゴテンクス? Gotenkusu) through a technique called Fusion, which was taught to them by
Goku. Gotenks is able to use a variety of attacks that he gives humorous names to, such as Galactic Donut (ギャラクティカドーナツ Gyarakutuka Dōnatsu) and his signature Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack (スーパーゴーストカミカゼアタック Sūpā Gōsuto Kamikaze Atakku). They can also achieve Super Saiyan 3 with ease, a feat that was very difficult for Goku to achieve and maintain.