

If Gowasu can really travel to future at any point of time, why didn't he
foresee Zamasu turning rogue in the first place?. He could have foreseen this
even at the time of choosing Zamasu as his apprentice?


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Why Gowasu didn't foresee that Zamasu will turn rogue?


**NOTE: My answer is now complete. Thank you for your patience while I edit.**

To answer your question, there are a lot of context clues given through the
dialogue in each episode. I will point these out then list my answer below.

# **What we know**

### Firstly

When Beerus found out that Bulma built a time machine, he mentioned that time
travel or tampering with the future is highly forbidden even for gods, and
that he should destroy her right now for committing such a great offense.

This proves that gods have knowledge of time travel and have rules in-place
for protecting continuity of the timeline. Also, he never scolds Whis for
using time manipulation twice (once against Freeza and once to save Gowasu in
the present), also proving that angels do not follow the same protocol as gods
and humans.

### Secondly

Gowasu takes Zamasu to a distant planet to observe a human-like species in
development. He scolds him for killing a human once they went a few thousand
years into the future because Zamasu committed an action that could have
changed how that entire species would develop.

This proves that gods are forbidden to travel unless certain circumstances
arise, but are also expressly forbidden from interacting with things in the
future or past.

### Lastly

Zamasu and Black both state in the battle with Trunks (the specific battle was
the one where he transformed into a hybrid of SSB and SS2) that it is because
of Trunks's actions during the Cell/Android saga of jumping back and forth
through time that really helped them come to the conclusion that humans need
to be destroyed.

## My Answer

With those 3 key pieces of evidence, it is very apparent that gods can time
travel and they can do so at will, but they MUST exercise a great deal of
discretion and restraint when doing so and should only do it under certain
circumstances.

Gowasu could have looked into the future to predict his death, betrayal and
all of that, but if he did he would have arbitrarily taken actions to protect
himself and changed the timeline which was forbidden. Now maybe he knew that
and maybe he didn't.

However, Gowasu has stated that the role of a Kai (God) is to observe. So I
highly doubt he would ever look into the future. His whole reason for even
using the time ring the one time that he did was to prove a point to his
student.

So in short, yes, Gowasu could have gone ahead and prevented Black's
existence. But if he did, it would do 3 things:

  * Contradict his character
  * Ruin Black's existence
  * Make the current story arc ( _which I find very entertaining_ ) disappear entirely.


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