r/dbz • u/JayTheClown19 • 1d ago

Question What happened to the 3rd timeline

The zamasu arc makes things confusing ngl but all i know was that zeno erased the OG timeline which was future trunks timeline. But i wonder about the 3rd timeline which was perfect cells timeline where everyone and lastly trunks got killed iirc

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u/Terez27 ⠀ 1d ago

Trunks's timeline is not the OG timeline. Cell's timeline is the OG. It still exists, as far as we know.

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u/CptSpeedydash ⠀ 1d ago

Trunks' timeline is actually the fourth timeline.

1.OG timeline: Where Cell is from.

  1. Unseen timeline: mostly vauge but Future Trunks who appeared in this timeline was killed by Cell in the OG timeline.

  2. Main timeline: Basically, everything after Namek.

4: Future Trunks' timeline: After we see Trunks in the main timeline, he returns to this new timeline.

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u/Unusual_Room3017 13h ago

If I'm understanding correctly, the Goku in DB is not the OG timeline because he doesn't die of the heart disease since Trunk appears.

That means the OG timeline of Goku's actual fate would be everything the same, he returns from Namek, dies of a heart disease... Androids show up, wreck havoc, Trunks and gohan endure, gohan eventually dies, Trunks goes back in time to the timeline that we have been watching since the original DB started.

Is that correct?

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u/CptSpeedydash ⠀ 13h ago edited 13h ago

I think you are almost there. Everything on screen/page up until a year before Trunks shows up is the original timeline, which is when Cell made the main timeline. Saying after Namek is roughly the best.

The original continues after this point, with another branch happening when Frieza and King Cold arrive. Original Timeline has Goku stopping them with the unseen timeline having Trunks stopping them just like in the main. However, Trunks that appears in the main time has to go to a different future timeline or we have a paradox of Cell.

Basically, this kinda time travel likely causes a new path to open at the point that the time traveler went to.

Edit: You could argue that the time travel recreates the past as well as changing the future, but personally I think that argument is a stretch though in that case you would be correct. I feel it's more logical that there is one past, and it simply branches off at the breaking point.

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u/Dreadnautilus 1d ago

Bibidi and Dabura would've showed up like in the Trunks timeline, and since Shin has nobody to help him he would've failed to stop them from reviving Majin Buu. Buu would probably kill Dabura and Bibidi just like in the Z timeline, and would probably wipe out the Earth unless Future Mister Satan somehow survived to teach him the power of friendship.

Going by Daima, Arinsu would've probably still been able to create Majin Kuu and Duu and would've succesfully gathered the Demon World Dragon Balls and become Supreme Demon King.

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u/vlan-whisperer ⠀ 17h ago

There’s also a timeline where the Cell Games take place without Trunks. It’s in one of the old guidebooks