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This thread's objective is to cover up some misconceptions about the Dragon Ball cosmology we currently have, will separate into numerical points for better organization
1 Trunks' Statement
For some reason we treat the statement trunks made about time travel in the OG manga as this:"Trunks cites that each action in a timeline creates a new timeline. He states that there's a timeline where Goku is alive and a timeline where he is dead, listing the endless possibilities."
when in context.....Trunks is not talking about that at all? here is the full conversation with the context, in panel 1 the characters are discussing what could they do to deal with the androids, in which Trunks suggests using the time machine to go further back in time to destroy them before they are activated, in panel 2 Gohan asks if that would help, in which Trunks remembers that, even if he went back in time, nothing would change as by that point he would be going into another timeline, in panel 3 Trunks explains that he traveled not to change his future, but because his mom Bulma wanted to at least create a future where the androids didn't dominated the Earth, which gives context to what Trunks said earlier about "many different futures are created over the smallest things" is talking about the different futures that can be created from different changes made with time travel, as that was the entire context of the entire conversation, this is also corroborated in Super, which brings me to my next point
2 Time Rings
for some reason we take the chamber where the time ring box was as if every cabinet in there had a time ring, thus countless timelines:"The full DB cosmology contains countless timelines."
well, that is wrong, severely so, first of, nothing indicates that all those cabinets have time rings of their own, nothing is ever stated about that room that even remotely indicates that only time rings are there, that is not even implied to be why they are there, when questioned where the time rings are Gowasu only says that he "stored it in a safe place" implying that they are only there simply because he choose to put them there
with that out of the way, the series directly goes against more time rings then the ones in that singular box, as we can see here, the entire context in which Beerus goes to check the time rings, they show the singular box containing 5 and say that these are "all of them(time rings) are there" aka only 5 times currently exist, each time ring represents an alternate timeline/world so if the verse with MWI where each possibility creates a new timeline/countless timeline exist and are constantly being created..........then obviously far more than 5 would exist, in fact, creating new timelines is implied to even be against the rules, here for full context, Gowasu explains to Zamasu that going to the past is forbidden because of the high risks it has, which he implies that are the alternate worlds created as that is what he immediately explains after talking about the "great risks" even calling the act of new worlds being created as "foolish"
in the manga similar is said about the creation of alternate timelines, with the addition of Gowasu's surprise reaction when he notices another time ring was created, which would be weird if countless alternate worlds are constantly created, likewise, it wouldn't make sense to check only a singular box if supposedly an endless amount of them exist with an endless amount of Time Rings
3 Whis' statement
Whis explains early on why changing the time and the past is prohibited, because time is supposed to only flow in one direction only, with only direct alterations making it go differently, aka from the examples of earlier, creating alternate timelines, thus not only is there no evidence for Cannon DB to run on MWI/Having countless timelines, but the series goes directly against it entirely, saying that creating alternate worlds at all is a crime and alternation of natural way of thingsConclusion
All alternate worlds we currently accept as cannon alternate worlds, such as the Toei Anime, all the movies, DBGT, etc, should now be considered non-cannon alternate worlds, aka not part of the cannon cosmology, and vice versa, the main cannon shouldn't be considered a cannon alternate timeline to them as well, since no time travel made in the main cannon could have created them and the number of Time Rings/Alternate world in super doesn't add up taking them into consideration, as such, cosmological elements currently shared because of it will now not be shared anymoreAgree: @Maverick_Zero_X @Damage3245 @Deagonx
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Neutral: @DarkDragonMedeus
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