Why do Trunks have no tail?

Think about it this way; Gohan, Goten, and Trunks are each half-saiyan, half-human. They each have one fully Saiyan parent, with the genes for a tail, and one fully human parent, with no tail genes. So they've got a 50/50 chance of having or not having a tail.
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How come Goten and Trunks dont have tails?

Akira Toriyama when asked why Goten and Trunks don't have tails, he stated that tails are a recessive trait. Which basically means that when it comes to hybrid saiyans, the chances of them having a tail is low. Gohan is simply a very rare case.
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Does Trunks ever have a tail?

Goku had one. Vegeta had one. Also Bardock had a tail. Gohan is a half saiyan and had a tail but Trunks, Goten, and Bulla had no tails but were also half saiyan.
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Why did Gohan have a tail but not Goten?

Obviously half breeds can have a tail like Gohan, but Trunks and Goten didn't. Chi Chi and Bulma had them removed at birth to prevent an Oozaru crisis. In other words, Akira forgot about them. Basically this.
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Why did Bulla not have a tail?

The official answer is: Toriyama didn't like drawing them, so he permanently got rid of them.
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Why do Goten and Trunks NOT have tails? THE REAL ANSWER!



Is Trunks a half Saiyan?

Dragon Ball: 5 Reasons Future Trunks Is The Best Half Saiyan (& 5 Why It's Gohan) Their half-Saiyan status hasn't held either of them back, but, between Future Trunks and Gohan which is Dragon Ball's best hybrid hero? After the fall of Planet Vegeta, only a few Saiyans remain in the universe.
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Are all Saiyans born with tails?

Of course, Dragon Ball fans would go on to learn that every Saiyan in Universe 7 is born with a tail. The appendage is a took which Saiyans use their entire lives, and it even allows them to tap into their Great Ape power on full moons.
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Do Saiyan tails grow back?

A Saiyan's tail has an 8% chance of growing back, though it will not grow back if they have surpassed the power of their Great Ape form in their normal state. Goku uses the Super Saiyan transformation while at the same time possessing a tail in Dragon Ball GT, but sometimes his tail does not change color to gold.
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Are half Saiyans stronger?

Yes, without a doubt half blood Saiyans are stronger than full blood Saiyans because even Goku had to admit that Gohan was stronger than him and Vegeta in Dragon Ball Super.
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How was Goku's tail removed?

The first time Goku lost his tail on the Dragon Ball anime is when he transformed into a Great Ape during a full moon (long story). The tail is the cause of this transformation, so Puar shapeshifts into a giant pair of scissors and snips it off during a battle, returning him to his regular form.
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Does Broly have a tail?

Yeah, Toriyama's original sketches for Broly depicted him with a tail, but included a note that it was fine whether or not he actually had a tail in the final version.
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Can Bulla go Super Saiyan?

As far as technicalities are concerned, yes. She's half Saiyan, and we've seen all the other 1/2 Saiyans (Gohan, Goten, Trunks) go Super Saiyan, so it follows she can too.
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Who cut Gohan's tail?

1 Son Gohan: Cut Off By Vegeta

With the intensity of the battle against Vegeta pushing everyone to their limits, Gohan's tail suddenly regrows after his personal fight with the Elite Saiyan. Gohan gazes up at the artificial moon Vegeta created and begins to wreak havoc.
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Does Gohan still have a tail?

After a certain age for Saiyans, they're tail doesn't grow back after being removed. Gohan's stopped growing back after a while. Goku's did too but he had Kami permanently remove it in exchange for earth getting its moon back. Vegeta's doesn't grow back because he's already fully matured and what not.
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How do you get Super Saiyan 4?

The only way a Saiyan can attain Super Saiyan 4 is if they have a high enough power level and become a Golden Great Ape (or Broly's variant) and regain conscious control over the form.
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Can Saiyans go Super Saiyan with a tail?

ALL the saiyans in universe 6 are tail-less, having officially evolved past the need for them, and Cabba manages to go Super Saiyan in a fight against Vegeta. Now for that discussion about possible outliers. Bardock. The only pure-blooded saiyan with a tail we ever see going super saiyan.
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Are Saiyans monkeys?

Sayains are space monkeys. Saiyans are non-human aliens, so to suggest any common ancestry with any species on Earth is unjustifiable. Even if they were human, a human with a tail would still not be a monkey or ape.
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Why didn't Goku get his tail back?

It is thought that the bodies of Saiyans, who are a fighting species, decided that their tails are unnecessary appendages. If you want the out of universe answer to your question, then Toriyama disliked drawing tails. He would always try to find scenarios in the series to not include the tail.
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Why does Goku use Nimbus when he can fly?

Goku obtains the Nimbus from Master Roshi as compensation for saving Turtle. It served Goku and his sons well throughout Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, by acting as a way for them to fly around at high speeds without using up any energy.
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Why does Turles look exactly like Goku?

In the film itself, Turles says that he looks like Goku because they are low-class and because the low-class don't have many distinct physical looks. Turles wears gray and black Battle Armor.
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Do half Saiyans get tails?

Gohan must've gotten lucky with his tail, as he's the only half-saiyan on Earth with a tail. We know as a fact that pure-blooded saiyans (from Universe 7 that is) are always born with tails, so that biology must get a bit messed up when a saiyan has a child with a human.
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Why is Goku a monkey?

Originally in the series, the Great Ape was a transformation for Goku, this character being a parody of a monkey-king, Sun Wukong, from the novel Journey to the West; despite this, many Chinese cultural adaptations of the novel did not involve the original Wukong having access to a giant transformation whatsoever, ...
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Why do Saiyans turn into apes?

Whenever a Saiyan is exposed to the Blutz Waves of a full moon, or is able to use the Power Ball technique, the Blutz Waves are stored in their tail, allowing them to transform into the Great Ape state. In this form, they grow to about the size of a large skyscraper.
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