Talk:Mission Complete Trunks (Kid) & Goten (Kid) & Marron/@comment-35332922-20180929111541/@comment-24874732-20190608231706

Allow me to repeat exactly what I just said, since you weren't listening.

''14-year-old Trunks doesn't look as old as 14-year-old Trunks does! He doesn't look nearly as old as 16-year-old Gohan does. He doesn't even look as old as 11-year-old Gohan does! Goku may have looked like he was 10 when he was 15, but no half-Saiyan has aged the same way a full-Saiyan does. ''

Now, let me say it again piece-by-piece.

14-year-old Trunks does not look as old as 14-year-old Trunks does. You cannot possibly somehow justify a genetic reason why a character would age differently than themselves. Trunks at 14 will be physically as aged as Trunks at 14 because they are both the same person at the same age. This shouldn't require explanation.

Gohan is half-Saiyan, just like Trunks is. "Saiyan genetics" isn't an excuse when there is another half-Saiyan that is introduced at about the same age as Trunks and Goten are, then proceeds to physically age more over about 3 years (including the Hyperbolic Time Chamber) than Trunks and Goten do over 6 years. You can't even say it's something to do with royal genetics vs low-class genetics because Goten and Gohan are full-blooded brothers, which means at least Goten should be aging at the same rate as Gohan did.

Goku is 15 when he kills King Piccolo. I just mentioned that. Full-Saiyan and half-Saiyan aren't even REMOTELY comparable when it comes to aging. In the Piccolo Saga, Goku is 15. In the Buu Saga, Gohan is 16. This should disprove the "It's a Saiyan thing." completely. It's a full-Saiyan thing, not a half-Saiyan thing. Full stop.

Also, Marron is pure-human. She hasn't changed at all from the time she was 3 to the time she was 9. If you can put a 3-year-old next to a 9-year-old and tell which one is which, then you should realize this isn't right.

It's not a Saiyan thing. Trunks should age the same way that Trunks did. This is not a point that should need to be defended because it is a tautology. We have already seen a half-Saiyan age from the beginning of Z to the end of Z. He matured like a human. Unless you want to say that Gohan was the one that aged incorrectly, then there's no arguing this point. Half-Saiyans canonically mature like humans, end of story. Trunks's, Goten's, and Marron's appearances in Battle of Gods were an oversight, likely because nobody thought about the fact that there was a 4-year timeskip from the death of Kid Buu to Beerus's arrival on Earth. It was a mistake and nothing more, but it didn't get corrected in Revival 'F', nor when Super was made.