Future Androids 17 and 18 are the main antagonists of Dragon Ball Z OVA The Story of Future Trunks.

They are androids who were initially created by Dr. Gero with the sole purpose of killing Goku and conquering the world, but after seeing that Goku has died from his illness, they decide to kill their creator and go against his orders and instead slowly eradicate all of humanity for their sadistic amusement.

Their Evil Ranking[]

What Makes Them Close to Being Pure Evil?[]

• They killed Future Dr. Gero by decapitating and vaporizing his head simply because it bothered them to follow other people's orders. Even though Gero deserved it, it was still out of spite and not fully justified.
• After Future Goku's death, they mercilessly killed Future Krillin, Vegeta, Piccolo, Tenshinhan, Chiaotzu and Yamcha when they tried to stop them. Due to Future Piccolo's death, the Dragon Balls disappeared completely, so they could never revive all the people that the androids would later kill.
• They ruthlessly destroyed many cities and killed many innocent people in the most sadistic ways possible (with 17 on two different occasions even killing people against 18’s will).
• They brutally assassinated Future Gohan, one of the last remaining Z warriors, when he tried to stop them, scarring Future Trunks for life, which is arguably one of the darkest and most tragic moments in the franchise.
• They sadistically tortured Future Trunks and almost managed to kill him. In a huge twist of irony, this would prove to be their undoing.
• They tried to kill Future Trunks again once he returned to the future, only to be killed themselves.
• Although they did have a genuine tragedy (being regular teenagers kidnapped by Gero and forcefully turned into androids), they are FAR past it with their actions when they are slaughtering millions of innocent people in Trunks' timeline just for fun, who had nothing to do with it.
  • This is in contrast to their counterparts in the regular timeline who also were affected by these tragedies and killed Gero in revenge but dropped their villainy and turned over a new leaf, with both 17 and 18 starting their own loving families and 17 later saving the entire multiverse from Zeno during the Tournament of Power.
• Their final acts before being killed by Future Trunks is cornering a desperate old man who planned revenge upon them for killing his son (family in DBZ Kai dub), and would have killed him had Trunks not intervened. (In the Manga, 17 did kill the man.)
• In Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Future 18 attempt to kill Future Roshi, only for Future Trunks to rescue him. While Future 17 was impressed with Future Roshi standing up to them, even goes as far saying that "it was pretty cool" and lets them go, much to 18's annoyance, he makes it very clear that it's only because he's in a good mood after beating the final boss in the game, as well as stating that it's a one-time deal, saying that next time he sees them again, they're dead.
• Their actions were so catastrophic for Future Trunks' timeline that nothing has been the same since then, as they were never able to resurrect all those people they killed, and they would bring more consequences in the future with Cell, Majin Buu and Moro going on huge destructive rampages and killing countless people in the present timeline, with Buu even managing to destroy Earth and Future Zamasu and Goku Black destroying what little was left of the future timeline, which forced Future Trunks and Future Mai to move to another timeline.
  • This would also explain why Trunks was traumatized when he met present Android 18 for the first time and nearly attempted to kill her when he mistook her with the future counterpart, and he would've done so had Krillin not intervened.
  • Their actions also nearly caused their main timeline counterparts to be killed due to Future Trunks believing the main timeline versions were just as evil.
  • This, combined with Future Trunks' nature who doesn't give second chances, also led to their own deaths upon his return to the Future.
• Unlike their present counterparts, these versions of Androids 17 and 18 are absolutely uncomical and show zero remorse for any of their actions, to the point they're considered irredeemable.
• Despite the high heinous standards, the large amount of horrid deaths and destruction they caused as well as the huge personal impact they left on Future Trunks makes them stand out to be among some of the darkest and most vicious villains in the franchise.

What Prevents Them from Being Pure Evil?[]

• Despite being two sadistic maniacs, they have been shown to care for each other. They both help each other in battle and when Trunks killed 18, 17 was genuinely shocked and saddened by her death.
• The two suffer from moral agency issues due to Future Gero's altering/brainwashing them to hate humanity and believe they were purely killing machines, with them ending up believing their goal was to wipe out humanity as a likely unintended side effect of the reprogramming Gero did.
  • However, they do seem to enjoy the destruction and deaths they cause, so this is considered a minor prevention.
• 18 was willing to forgive the salesperson at the clothing store, and was upset with 17 when he destroyed it and killed the salesman, showing some compassion, though this is a minor prevention as she was less concerned about 17 killing him and more concerned about it making her look like a liar.
  • In the English Dub, she also gets upset when 17 killed a boy that she thought was "cute".

External Links[]

• Future Android 17 and Future Android 18 on the Villains Wiki
• Future Android 17 and Future Android 18 on the Dragon Ball Wiki
• Future Androids 17 & 18 on the Hate Sink Wiki

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