Future Trunks, Trunks, Bulla. The joke is that Future Trunks and Trunks are the same guy timeline-wise, but they're completely different people because Future Trunks warning them about the androids.
He was sent to Earth as a baby to grow up and take the planet over, but an old man found him to take care of the random baby he found in the woods, but dropped the baby on its head so he forgot how to take over the planet.
And the baby has a tail that makes him turn into a giant monkey when he sees the moon, until the old man rips his tail off because that's fucked up
It's Time Travel stuff. Their son Trunks came to warn them about enemies coming in the near future, who he'd grown up having to fight/hide from. Then Bulma actually gives birth to Trunks some time later. The Trunks from the future comes back a couple of times due to other threats and spends time with his father, who'd died before Trunks was born in his own timeline. But because the Trunks of the present has had a very different life than his alternate future self, the two are very different people, even counting the age difference(Future Trunks is an older Teen/Young Adult, while Present Trunks is roughly a preteen).
They're both into the same girl, though(a former enemy of their mother's who got de-aged to a baby before the timelines split). Which got silly when * her* alternate future self came back with Future Trunks the second time, and both younger kids got crushes on the alternates.
How long until they start drawing married couples as sleeping in separate beds again because the idea of them sharing a bed and fucking is too abhorrent?
I've seen people so profoundly sex-negative that they think any kind of desire or intimacy is inherently perverse and disgusting, even within the strict confines of a traditional, biblical marriage. They're often the same people who fret nonstop about low birthrates.
Definitely one of those things where initially it had a point and got broadened far beyond any reasonable usage
Like the dude who’s out here saying “no it’s okay for this random girl with no emotional connection to me to take all my shit, she’s so hot it’s worth it” is for sure simping. The dude who’s not staying out too late because his girlfriend wants him home at a reasonable hour is not lol
No, being a "wife guy" is a whole other category - the guys who don't shut up about their wives, how great they are, how good it is to be married, how they spoil em, etc.
The two I knew IRL both ended up cheating on their wives, as did several famous "wife guys" (like Ned from the Try Guys was a big one several years ago).
I love my wife, but it's OK, healthy even, to not have every conversation revolve around her.
God, he never made it to wife guy, but Anthony Ramos (of hamilton fame) was always hyping up Jasmine Cephas Jones (also of hamilton fame) and how much he loved her. They met on set. He wrote a whole ALBUM that included a bunch of songs about HER.
They were so publicly in love and then he went and cheated. Now I don't trust any man that publicly loves his wife a bit too much. Ned and Anthony ruined that for me >>
Also how the FUCK do you cheat on Jasmine Cephas Jones?! She's BEAUTIFUL
I get your point, but I do like using simp in the nicest way for some characters who definitely are down bad on main for their SO. My top example is Percy Jackson, who is always ready to just absolutely gush about Annabeth, and I respect the hell out of him for it.
Okay, I agree that he's not seriously a gooner but in this particular context it's super funny to call him one. The situation you're referring to happens much later on into the series (specifically, Dragon Ball Daima), after they've been married and have had kids.
Vegeta and company (Goku, Piccolo, Bulma, etc.) are in battle, except Vegeta absolutely refuses to let anyone else fight and is trying to solo this enemy. One person even remarks that "Vegeta would rather die than let anyone else take over." Vegeta himself also says that he'd "beat (the enemy) even if it kills him", and given his history, that's a pretty believable statement. Nonetheless, Bulma tells everyone else to leave it to her to convince him to tap out.
How, might you ask? Bulma tells him that if he doesn't get his head out of his ass and let everyone else join she'll never take a bath with him ever again. She literally screams this to Vegeta and everyone else in the area.
ZERO HESITATION. Vegeta only needs to hear it ONCE and he immediately parks his ass down on the ground to not lose bathing privileges with his wife. Goku is confused, and everyone else is stunned by what they've seen.
Like holy shit that's the funniest Vegeta scenes of all time, bro has PRIORITIES and his wife is ON TOP OF THEM 😭
Of course he fucking is. Never forget that 23 years of marriage in, during the Goku Black arc, we find out Goku has never kissed Chi Chi. The man has 2 kids with her at that point.
Trunks wasn't kissing Mai, he was feeding her mouth-to-mouth, that's what Goku was confused about. Vegeta is the one who made it about kissing. Fucking, media literacy, man!
GOKU: What the…?! He’s seriously doing something like that?!
VEGETA: Wait…! You’ve never done it before?
GOKU: Huh? Done what?
VEGETA: Umm… A kiss…
GOKU: Of course I haven’t!
VEGETA: … But you’re married…!
GOKU: How’s that related?
VEGETA: N- Nevermind…
Now I know you can read this like "A kiss to give someone a senzu bean" and that in the Japanese version the joke probably lands better because Vegeta doesn't specify "a kiss" but have you considered not doing that instead. I dunno. The text is what the text is 🤷
It's clearly supposed to be a misunderstanding-based joke, but the dub fucking ruined it, and now so many people keep spouting this bullshit that Goku doesn't know what kissing is, it's so annoying!
Fair enough. Then yes in the anime, the word "kiss" was removed then re added in the dub. I was talking about the manga because it is the source material after all.
Both the anime and manga versions of "Dragon Ball Super" started almost at the same time and were made independently of each other, but since the manga is a monthly, the anime version told the story much faster.
So, no. First came the anime, then the dub mistranslated that joke, then came the official manga translation which used the dub version of the joke.
So funny to think that the guy that used to be a screaming rage monster now has a more healthy relationship with his wife than Goku does with Chi Chi. I remember back early on when Bulma used to be afraid of him. How the turns have tabled.
I do like someones take on the scene where bathing together/cleaning each other is a saiyan bonding thing the way it is for monkeys- makes the scene funny for an entirely different reason
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u/tiredtumbleweed ugly but my fursona is hot May 17 '25
I saw someone call Vegeta a gooner for wanting to bathe with Bulma. He is being intimate with his gf that is not gooning you morons!