Manga, I assume? Since he never really goes SSJ2 in the anime.
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That was an ALTERNATE timeline, and therefore an ALTERNATE version of Dabra. And we know, for a fact, that all things are NOT created equal in future Trunks' timeline.
For starters, Androids #17 and #18 were FAR stronger in the mainstream timeline than they were in Trunks' timeline: https://i.imgur.com/lJeg8vC.jpg
Looking back at it now, can't think of a reason why Cell never used Kaioken, other than the writers forgetting it existed at that point. Initially, the consensus was that it became obsolete once someone reached SSJ level of power, but turns out it wasn't used by Goku anymore because it would've been too much strain on top of his SSJ forms, up until Blue at least where he got better ki control.
Okay, but Cell didn't really have that excuse for not ever using it, especially when he went for broke and used that power weighted form Trunks used at the expense of his speed, when he would've been better off using Kaioken despite the stamina risk. smh
SPC Kaioken on top of that would've been phenomenal at the time. I hate Dragon Ball's writing sometimes, not just with Super.
Only read it once when the scans leaked but I remember trunks only killed dabura once Shin interfered
And trunks used a ki shield for the spit something gohan didn't have
No reason to assume dabura was different or that 16 age 20 didn't exist, the zfighters expecting the androids made all that play out differently but besides all that unless gohan can one shot all 3 I don't see him pulling the majority, goku
Or vegeta? Yeah but gohan trash
Yeah, I'm with you there: writers did NOT want to start stacking power-multipliers at the time. After all, KK multipliers would have skyrocketed these characters into levels of power beyond what even SSJ transformations were capable of.
Hell, even if SPC were only able to use KK x4, it would have still put him on par with SSJ3-levels of power. Can you imagine him using KK x10... or better yet, KK x20..?
F*ck.Me.
As evident by the scans I posted, SSJ2 Trunks did NOT 'need' Shin to interfere. He was utterly destroying Dabra with minimal effort beforehand. Shin simply used his 'freeze' technique to minimize the energy expenditure on the field so that Trunks could one-shot Dabra in the very next frame, instead of prolonging the battle any further. Remember, they were trying to prevent Boo from hatching in that flashback scene, and the absorption of ambient energy(ala Babidi's Majin-minions) is what freed him. The longer their battle lasted, the more likely/imminent Boo's hatching became... And if Boo were released, future Trunks and his timeline were f*cked.
No need to make excuses, lol. Alternate timelines = alternate characters. Unless otherwise specified by the thread starter/OP, they are NOT interchangeable by any stretch of the imagination.
SPC being close to SSJ2 Gohan's level is a matter of opinion, tbh. Personally, I think Gohan was still substantially more powerful. /shrug
As for the others, it's like I said: they're not powerful enough to make a difference here, as they are both at/around Perfect Cell-level... A serious Gohan could likely two-shot each of them with physical attacks; or one-shot each of them with ki blasts.
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Lol. It goes without saying that Gohan dug extra deep when he released the final Kamehameha that killed SPC... That said, the fact that Gohan was still able to achieve power of that magnitude IS quite staggering, given how injured/weakened he was.
And it is also worth noting that Gohan had been intentionally holding back during the beam-lock beforehand, because he was worried about destroying the earth: https://i.imgur.com/th73tkv.jpg
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