Originally Posted by
Lucavi
I thought that timeline (the Trunks death by cell) was still with the Z fighters dead, just with Bulma making a shutdown switch for the androids that brought peace. Cell didn't have any androids to absorb since they had been shut down (never said destroyed, so does he need to absorb a functioning android or just their components???), so he killed Trunks and rolled out to get him some live bait. The Z fighters were still dead in that timeline, but it never said whether or not Trunks was a Super Sayian, because no fights were shown and in the short filler reference, he was pretty much sniped before ever turning super.