Carrying on an old theme of mine (moving the timeline placement of a movie into an active anime saga to see how it alters the timeline) and treating the events of Cooler's Revenge as a canon event in this hypothetical timeline, we're now moving onto the events of The Return of Cooler - which chronologically takes place after Dende has become Earth's Guardian but before the Cell Games.
- In the original film, Cooler (or more specifically Meta-Cooler Core) attacks New Namek with the Big Gete Star - which produces his army of Cyclopian Guards to capture the Namekians and later an army of thousands/millions of Meta-Cooler clones, depending on the sub/dub.
As expected, Goku and several of the Z-Fighters show up to help after Dende notices his people in trouble - with Goku and Vegeta doing the main fight against a single Meta-Cooler before been brought down and captured by the "Meta-Cooler Legion".
Cooler intends to use their power to create an army of Metal Super Saiyans to conquer the galaxy, only for the pair to overpower the Big Gete Star and destroy Meta-Cooler Core before escaping; Piccolo helping free the captured Z-Fighters and other Namekians before the Big Gete Star explodes.
- However, for this situation, Meta-Cooler Core is bringing the battle directly to Earth instead - which honestly makes more sense as it is the place where he was defeated (and his brother and father killed); unleashing his army of Cyclopian Guards to capture the Earthling populaces and creating his Meta-Cooler Legion to deal with the stronger threats.
- Question is, with it taking place on Earth this time and with Future Trunks and the other Z-Fighters helping in the defense of the planet - along with Perfect Cell possibly getting involved if Meta-Cooler finds him and takes note of Cell containing his father and brother's DNA; at worst becoming extremely angry at someone stealing his family's genetics and at best seeing Cell as a proxy to take out his years of frustration at his father and brother on before trying to eliminate the bug man - how do you think it may alter the timeline?
Curious to see what you guys think.
