King Cold

In the Other World Saga (a filler saga to bridge the gap between the end of the Cell Games Saga and the start of the Buu Saga), we see Grand Kai send Pikkon to deal with the alliance of Cell, Frieza, King Cold and the Ginyu Force - minus Captain Ginyu as he's still alive - with Goku joining Pikkon as he's familiar with the villains.

Sure enough, the villains beat up most of the Ogres in an attempt to find a way to escape Hell, only for the heroes to defeat the group of foes before they're all locked up.

Question is, what if the villains had escaped Hell without Goku and Pikkon's interference?

= Would they still ultimately be stuck in the Other World until they're inevitably rounded up by the heroes again?

= Would they maybe escape into the Demon Realm (since that does extend into the Other World based on another filler episode) and possibly find a way into the Multiverse?

= Or, do you think they'd find a way back to the Living World - similar to how they did in Fusion Reborn when Janemba's reality altering power closed the Check-in Station and allowed the dead to escape?

Curious to see what you guys think.

In the Trunks Saga, it's established that King Cold found Frieza's mangled remains after Planet Namek exploded; Goku having escaped in a Ginyu Pod to Planet Yardrat as we know, where he goes on to learn Spirit Control and later Instant Transmission.

In any case, King Cold takes his son back to his planet and has him healed and fitted with various mechanical parts, with "Mecha-Frieza" telling him after regaining consciousness about the events on Namek and his battle with the "Super Saiyan" who had come from Earth.

In the original, King Cold suggested about going to Earth and just blowing up the planet from orbit, with Frieza refusing and wanting to make Goku suffer by directly murdering his friends and allies - which ultimately leads to their confrontation with Future Trunks and the two monarchs been slain.

- However, this time around Frieza takes his father's suggestion more seriously; having had different thoughts while been healed up by his scientists. As such, the two monarchs and an army of soldiers head in their Mothership towards Earth; King Kai warning Goku about this, who leaves Yardrat in the pod he arrived in and begins speeding towards Earth to try and stop whatever plan Frieza and his father have.

Down on Earth, the Z-Fighters and Vegeta sense the approach of the two and gather at the wasteland to await their arrival...but this time there is no landing. As the Mothership hovers over Earth, Frieza leaves the ship and unleashes an almighty Supernova against the Earth. Despite the attempts of the heroes to halt it, they fail - leading to their deaths and the destruction of Earth.

- With their mission done, Frieza and King Cold begin their return journey; Goku arriving to find nothing but rocks floating where Earth once was - having deciding not to simply instant transmission onto Frieza's Mothership as he'd be at a disadvantage in a battle.

As he prepares to follow Frieza and King Cold, however, he witnesses the arrival of Future Trunks' Time Machine; Future Trunks in turn been shocked to see Earth destroyed before King Kai helps facilitate telepathic communication between the two.

Question is, with Earth gone, how would the Trunks Saga and the rest of the Android/Cell Saga as a whole go with this change?

Curious to see what you guys think.

Feels like a redundant character to me, much like the rest of the Cold Clan. All he does is get one-shot by Trunks and also take away from Frieza's intimidation factor by giving him daddy issues.

What's your opinion on him?

1. King Piccolo

2. King Cold

3. King Vegeta

Im just wondering cus frost demons are bio mutents and can change shape and size. plus the fact that frieza survived bieng incenerated by goku and namek exploding. same for cooler he was shot into to the sun but somehow a piece of his head plus one eye wasnt destroyed and he was still alive.

Then in dragon ball super when frieza was revived in res F, the body parts were still moving and his eye was looking around and then they could just fuse frieza's parts together

During Cooler's Revenge, Cooler did admit to Goku that he probably would have killed Frieza himself sooner or later, while the what-if story Beautiful Treachery did have Zarbon tricking the two into fighting each other.

Well, what if Cooler's desire to kill Frieza did indeed happen sooner?

- Put simply, during Vegeta and Nappa's year-long trip to Earth (with Goku training on King Kai's planet at this time), Cooler calls Frieza to discuss a matter of great importance; maybe lying and using the "Super Saiyan" legend that Frieza was scared of to get his attention if Frieza brushes off his brother's request.

Once Frieza and Cooler meet up (Cooler having his Armored Squadron with him as Frieza will have Zarbon and Dodoria), Cooler transforms into his Fifth form before fighting his brother - not allowing Frieza any distance to transform himself and successfully killing his sibling.

- With Frieza dead, Zarbon and Dodoria quickly swear loyalty to Cooler to save their skins, with Cooler later informing his father of what he has done (not telling him about the Fifth form so as to keep that as a surprise in case King Cold seeks revenge) and that he will be ruling the Empire from now on.

With Cooler now in charge, how do you think Dragon Ball Z would change?

Curious to see what you guys think.

- In the Trunks Saga, after King Cold recovered Frieza's mangled remains and had him reconstructed as Mecha-Frieza, the two would set off for Earth in order to get revenge; planning to eliminate Goku and his allies for what they did to Frieza on Namek and then either conquer Earth or just blow it up.

As we saw, however, things didn't go according to plan as the pair instead encountered Future Trunks after their arrival - who proceeded to wipe out the Frieza Force soldiers, slice Mecha-Frieza apart before burning his remains to a crisp and finally blast King Cold and their Mothership to oblivion.

Cooler and his Armored Squadron - believing Goku to be responsible - would later journey to Earth to kill Goku themselves for staining their family honor; this leading to the events of Cooler's Revenge.

- However, in this situation when Cooler learns of what happened regarding his brother, he decides to take the initiative; declaring to his father that he and his Armored squadron will be joining them on their journey to Earth as - despite hating Frieza and even wanting to kill his younger brother himself - "no one stains their family honor". As such, Cooler, Salza, Dore and Neiz this time join King Cold, Mecha-Frieza and their battalion of Frieza Soldiers on their journey to Earth.

With the additional aid of an elite trio and a powerful family member (himself with an additional transformation of his own), how do you think the events of the Trunks Saga would go in this scenario?

Would Future Trunks alone be able to take on the extra forces on his own, or - like in Future Trunks' Timeline - would Goku have to teleport in to assist?

Curious to see what you guys think.

- For this hypothetical scenario, we rewind back to the Trunks Saga after Future Trunks has just slain most of the Frieza Soldiers present and then turned into a Super Saiyan.

This time, however, Goku - rather than waiting to see what would happen while traveling back home - uses Instant Transmission to reach Earth quickly after locking onto Frieza's energy; surprised to see another Super Saiyan and with both now dealing with Mecha Frieza, which ends with Future Trunks still cutting him down to size before turning him to ash.

- Angered at his son's death but seeing an opportunity, Cold asks if the Saiyans wish to join his side as the rulers of the galaxy - an offer both Goku and Trunks refuse.

Instead, Goku wants to fight King Cold and tells the gargantuan monarch to go full power like Frieza did; something Cold initially refuses to do as he thinks Trunk's sword is the only reason they beat his son - with Trunks (at Goku's request) putting his sword to one side as they battle Cold.

- Quickly realizing that they weren't reliant on just the sword, Cold indeed goes to his Final Form and eventually powers up to 100%; angered that his superiority is been challenged.

For Goku, this was part of the plan - reasoning that Frieza never trained to use his 100% form and burned through his energy quickly due to his own hubris and lack of training, with Cold soon in the same situation but worse off as he's against two Super Saiyans at full power rather than one.

- Eventually, Cold is left battered, bloodied and beaten on the ground as he reverts back to his Second Form; horrified that his strongest form wasn't enough as he begs for mercy while offering the two Saiyans dominance over multiple planets and promising to change his ways.

Trunks is more than happy to kill the old Emperor as he doesn't buy his pleas, but Goku tells him not to - remarking that he has turned enemies into allies before and he wants to see if Cold could be swayed to change now that he's been humbled in combat; informing a reluctant Trunks that if Cold doesn't change, then Goku will seek him out and finish him off.

- Choosing to trust Goku despite his own judgement, Trunks relents; Goku telling Cold to leave and make good on "turning over a new leaf", or Goku will seek him out and destroy him.

Agreeing to this, Cold crawls onto his ship - not even having the energy to blow up the planet - and weakly sets the controls to return home; his Mothership flying away from Earth while Goku receives an earful of complaints from his allies about letting King Cold leave alive, with Trunks eventually informing them as to why he's there and giving Goku the Heart Medicine before recovering his sword and traveling back to his timeline.

So, do you think Goku's decision to offer King Cold an olive branch would have a positive effect on the story going forward, or would this be a case of Goku's mercy to an enemy coming back to bite him in the rear?

Curious to see what you guys think.