Dragon Brawl Super has spent much of its time expanding both the cosmos and the mythology of the Dragon Brawl universe. As if eleven other universes each possessing their own Gods of Destruction, Angels and Supreme Kai weren't enough, the series decided to bring fourth dimension travel back into the mix for its most complex villain origin story yet. Goku Blackness'southward advent in Future Trunks'southward timeline is complicated, to say the least. The body-swapping, time-traveling, multiverse-hopping villain has probable made more a few viewers pause to grab a pencil and paper.

Dubbed "Goku Blackness" by Time to come Bulma because he looks like Goku, wears black and is evil, the true identity of this villain is eventually revealed to be Zamasu, the apprentice to the Supreme Kai of Universe 10. Only where did he come up from and why does he look like Goku? In society to comprehend the series of events that led to Future Trunks'south timeline being destroyed again, it's important to empathize Zamasu himself.

A Supreme Kai's responsibility to their assigned universe is to kickstart life, then simply notice its progress. Zamasu hails from Universe 10, where he studied to get the new Supreme Kai. Notwithstanding, Zamasu grows to despise the mortals he is tasked with watching over, seeing them every bit violent, selfish, ugly stains on the beauty of life. This hatred even warps into a hatred for the other gods, who allow the mortals to run rampant because they refuse to interfere. He eventually develops a plan, "Project Cipher Mortals," in which he will eradicate all mortals and gods from the entire multiverse.

Despite having an admittedly compelling origin story for a villain, Zamasu'southward journey from a disgruntled Kai into an evil clone of Goku required a tremendous amount of hoop-jumping. In the primary timeline, thanks to knowledge gained from Future Trunks'southward arrival, Beerus travels to Universe 10 and destroys Zamasu, thus sparing the series' main timeline from his plans. However, in an alternate future where Beerus does not Destroy Zamasu, the evil Kai apprentice kills his master and steals his Time Ring earlier traveling to Universe Half-dozen, home of the Super Dragon Balls.

In this new, alternate futurity, Zamasu uses the all-powerful Super Shenron to wish to swap bodies with that timeline'south Goku. As a Supreme Kai, he is severely limited in terms of combat forcefulness, explaining why he wanted Goku's Saiyan abilities, then that he may deport out his programme himself. Once Zamasu obtains Goku'southward torso and power, he promptly slaughters Gohan, Goten and Chi-Chi before using the stolen Fourth dimension Ring to travel to Future Trunks'south timeline. There, he joins the Zamasu of that time to enact Project Aught Mortals. It is hither that he becomes known every bit Goku Blackness, every bit Future Trunks and Bulma are unaware of his real identity.

All that said, information technology doesn't quite explain why Goku Black turns pink. Zamasu's wish transferred his being into Goku's torso, meaning he is at present technically a Kai and a Saiyan, with admission to all of Goku'due south Saiyan power. When mortals like Goku and Vegeta apply god power to become Super Saiyan, their hair turns blue. Still, Zamasu is a god, and then when he uses god power to go a Super Saiyan, his hair turns pink, or Rosé, every bit he calls information technology. Put simply, Super Saiyan Bluish and Super Saiyan Rosé are the same forms, the difference in colour just reflects whether the user is mortal or a god.

Dragon Ball has always been a fan of evil Gokus, similar the non-canon Turles or when Captain Ginyu likewise stole Goku's torso. Super showed impressive decision to making another evil Goku, folding in the expanded serial mythology as well as the render of Time to come Trunks for expert measure. Unfortunately, virtually of Goku Blackness's time in the series was spent explaining how he came to be in the first place. Zamasu's plan probably would have worked if he didn't have to spend so much time explaining it to anybody.

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