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In the Saiyan Saga (don't recall which episode, but I believe it was when he
was with Nappa on another planet), Vegeta mentions that Saiyans who were born
from humans and Saiyans are more powerful than pureborn Saiyans. This makes
sense when you see moments of Gohan surpassing Goku in power level when he
gets angry, such as when he fights with Garlic Jr. or Raditz.

Later, we see him being a teenager and surpassing Goku definitely by becoming
SSJ2 first, but we don't see anything of this sort with Trunks. Trunks
apparently surpasses Vegeta in a fight with Cell, but then we know Vegeta
wasn't using the buff form because it makes you slow. And Gohan surpasses
Trunks even more when he's 10 and Trunks is chronologically 19 or more (2
years in the time chamber). Later, Gohan doesn't train and Goku surpasses him,
but then again when his hidden power is released he becomes the strongest
character for a while again.

Gohan doesn't train much, but if he does he becomes the strongest. Why doesn't
Trunks have this "hidden" power, or is able to surpass Vegeta when he gets
enraged or after a hard training, as Gohan does with Goku? Trunks is also a
descendant of a human and a Saiyan, so shouldn't he be much more powerful than
what he is?

Edit: Now things have changed with the new Dragon Ball Super episodes where

> Trunks can surpass Gohan, Vegeta and Goku in power when he gets angry, and
> it seems to have as much hidden power as Gohan. He also, when enraged, gets
> a new transformation no other Saiyan has obtained before.


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Why is Trunks not as powerful as Gohan when they are both human-Saiyan hybrids?


When you say Trunks, I'm assuming you are talking about Future Trunks.
However, the answer really boils down to training. In the Android Saga, Future
Trunks mentions that Androids 18 and 19 are much stronger than the ones in his
timeline. Future Trunks never got the training of Goku, everyone was already
dead, and training was virtually impossible, though he did get a little in.
Potential for great strength, then achieving great strength are two different
things. Had Trunks went through gravity training like Gohan and the Saiyans,
he WOULD have been MUCH stronger. As it is, present Trunks only does gravity
training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and only for a little bit.

Another point to see is that present Trunks (kid version) is stronger than
Frieza when Goku first fought him. His Super Saiyan form is already equal to
if not stronger than Goku's power against Frieza in that fight, so he IS super
strong. Everyone else is just that much stronger. This is the reason he never
caught up to Gohan/Goku/Vegeta—they already achieved his strength (much later
on), and KEPT GOING. If he had grown up fighting/training only, he would be
one of the top fighters.


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