10 Most Memorable Transformations In Dragon Ball Z
4. Future Trunks - Super Saiyan
Father dead. Mentor dead. World in ruins.
Future Trunks' despair at his hopeless situation, all alone against the two psychotic cyborgs that took everything from him causes him to finally snap. He becomes a legendary Super Saiyan.
The destroyed buildings, the rain, his anguish. All of these things make for a moving transformation that give us insight into Future Trunks as a character that feels utterly powerless.
There's not a transformation quite as depressing in all of Dragon Ball, the power came too late for Trunks to protect those he loved, to save Gohan.
When something is so hard to achieve and only at great personal cost, it makes it all the more important. Unlike Goku did with Krillin, Trunks couldn't just wish back Gohan with Dragon Balls. Death was the end all and be all.
That cool kid that demolished Frieza and King Cold is nowhere to be seen, just a broken little boy. It makes his victory over the Androids & Imperfect Cell all the more powerful, he has finally become strong enough to protect his world, his timeline, his mother.