The most savage killTrunkshas pulled off in theDragon Ballcanon is easily his death penalty of Frieza – unfortunately , as undeniably badass as it was , it secretly helped create the scary villain of theDragon Ball Zera : Cell .

trunk made his debut inDragon Ballchapter 331 by Akira Toriyama . In that chapter , Trunks faces off against Frieza who traveled to Earth after his devastating personnel casualty to Goku in an seek to take his payback upon the Saiyan and upon his world . However , the mysterious metre - traveling Saiyan warrior who would afterwards be revealed as Trunks was not survive to let that happen . With seemingly little effort , Trunks powered up to Super Saiyan , dashed above and behind Frieza , then came down upon him with a unmarried slice of his steel – cutting the villain in half before chopping him up into little pieces and then obliterating those slice with a powerful ki blast . Trunks reduces Frieza to a useless pile of ashes – though obviously , those remnants of his DNA actually did have some use after all .

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InDragon Ballchapter 363 by Akira Toriyama , Piccolo is facing off against the villainous mobile phone who was run out the life military unit from every civilian in a nearby city when Piccolo found him – a truly horrific sight that concede Cell the title of most terrific villain inDBZ.Piccolo had just rejoined with Kami – Earth ’s God , from whom Piccolo originated – and in doing so became one of the strongest attack aircraft on the planet . However , Cell directly shows that he is not to be mess up with as he does something he should not have been able to do : the Kamehameha Wave .

While the reveal that Cell was able to useGoku ’s most brawny and iconic attackwas disgraceful , it was nothing compared to what he tell Piccolo a few moments after shooting him with the sinewy blast . According to Cell , Goku had a bantam robot come after him around all his life , pull in samples from him , his friend , and his enemy during every stop consonant along his expansive journeying – with the only exception being Goku ’s clock time on Planet Namek . This robot then uploaded those samples into the supercomputer that was produce Cell , granting Cell each one of those immensely powerful abilities . So , when Frieza came to Earth and was killed by Trunks , Trunks essentially hand the automaton a whole slew of Frieza ’s DNA just laying in a voltaic pile of ash tree quick for it to pull together and upload into Cell , making Cell way more powerful than he would have been without Frieza ’s desoxyribonucleic acid .

regrettably , Cell have a hold of Frieza ’s DNA was inevitable the second the baddie touched down on Earth since the robot was everywhere the Z Fighters were . However , there was one root that was made unsufferable byTrunks ’ interference in the clip flow : let Frieza win . If Frieza had done what he came there to do and pass over out the population of the Earth , Cell would never have risen and the creation of the scariestDBZvillain would have been completely neutralized . While that is n’t much of a answer since the Earth would have been obliterated , the fact stay that Cell would have been obliterated along with it – meaningTrunks ' most barbarous kill , while justifiable and necessary , still facilitate makeDragon Ball ’s scariest villain , Cell , so terrifyingly powerful .

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