Darth Macabre
Grey King of the Debb
Originally posted by Blue Dragon
The timeline always confuses me...I understand that in Trunks' timeline, he goes back to change the past & creates two different timelines, because he interfers with time.But how did Cell kill a weaker Trunks? I know he did though. He said just before going back in time, he killed him & took his time machine. Is it like that Doctor Who thing when the Doctor said, "Every idea & thought we make creates a parallel world." Is that Cell from a Parallel Earth?
The only world Cell traveled back to was Time Line (dimension) 1...The one we watched.
In time line 2 Cell was killed by Trunks because Trunks trained in time line 1 for his fight with Cell.
In time line 3 Trunks took the blue prints from Dr. Gero's lab and immediately left because there was no Cell for him to fight....So upon going to the future he shuts off the Androids and then gets his Time Machine stolen because he's massively weaker; due to him not training for Cell.....This Trunks creates the fourth time line or dimension; the one where Cell never appeared, Picollo killed the Androids, and everyone lived in peace until Buu came along.
Most of the rifts between the time lines are caused by Cell, not Trunks....It's Cell's travels that makes the more drasitc changes, not Trunks....Understand Cell's travels and you'll understand the whole time line confusion. Most people forget about the 4th and quite pivotal Time Line as well....The 4th is actually the one where everything happens that is supposed to happen.
Time Line 1: Trunks from Time Line 2 travels to this one, and Cell from Time Line 3 travels to this dimension as well.
Time Line 2: Trunks travels to Time Line 1 and kills his dimensions Cell and Androids by force.
Time Line 3: Trunks travels to Time Line 4 and gets the blue prints and shuts the Androids off. He's killed by this dimensions Cell, who then travels to Time Line 1.
Time Line 4: Trunks arrives and warns the Z fighters. He then comes back and gets the Blue Prints from Dr. Gero's lab after killing this dimensions Cell (who is a fetus or whatever it was) and travels back to his dimension (3) where he shuts down the Androids and is killed by Cell. Cell never appears, and the Z fighters live in peace after defeating the Androids.