Big Deano
Super Freak
To me, DBS Trunks fits DBZ Trunks character and personality perfectly; he still is a bada$$ is Super, he just wasnt strong enough to compete with a character who not only stole Gokus body, but also stole a version of it AFTER Goku had learned of god ki, so of course Trunks was never going to be close to that level.
Trunks never even contemplated that ssj2 was possible, do you really think he would have attempted to reach even higher levels? Once the androids were done his attention had to turn to rebuilding the future, he didnt have the time to train, especially due to the timeline, where he didnt have much time to reach ssj2 for Babdis attack then Goku blacks shortly after. Trunks story in DBS doesnt take place that long after we see him in DBZ, a few years at best, so its a miracle he even reached ssj2 in that time.
While I do agree that some of Trunks arc in Super was wasted and convoluted, such as his blue hair (which was actually Toriyama forcing a retcon to fix something Toei messed up years ago) and the plot later in the arc, all in all it was a great arc.
Super is and always will be fanservice, plain and simple. Take it how you want, but this far they have done alot of things fans have wanted for a long time (trunks return, evil Goku, Vegito returning, and Broly and Gogeta being made canon), and I would much rather have new dragonball content even if its not as great as DBZ was than not have any content at all and have dragonball fade back into obscurity. Super revived dragonball, and like it or not we should all be grateful for that.
