Future Android 17

Future Android 17 is the alternate timeline counterpart of Android 17.

He seen in Dragon Ball Z TV Special 2. Including in the two anime episodes "Ghosts from Tomorrow" and in the episode "Free the Future" of Dragon Ball Z. This version of Android 17 is much more cruel than the one seen in the main timeline, and is bent on doing nothing but destroying and killing people. He was once known as Future Lapis (未来のラピス), in which was actually his real name right before he became a cyborg.

Background

"This thunderstorm is a perfect backdrop for your demise".

— Future Android 17 talking to Future Son Gohan in The History of Trunks film (English Version)

His birthday is never mentioned at all. Six months after the death of Future Son Goku in the year of Age 766, Future Android 17 and Future Android 18 are released by Future Dr. Gero to kill Future Son Goku as part of his main plot for revenge. According to Super Perfect Cell's flashback, Future Android 17 and Future Android 18 are both wandering through Dr. Gero's Laboratory as Gero is working on his "ultimate android". Future Android 17 counters Future Dr. Gero by saying he is the ultimate android while standing right in front of him whereas Future Android 18 knocks over some glass. Dr. Gero attempts to use his small remote, but Android 17 decapitates him. As Gero's decapitated head says that his "ultimate android creation" will absorb them both, Future Android 18 just blasts Gero's head into pieces for good.

‎After he proceeds to kill the old doctor, Future Android 17 and his sister head off to Amenbo Island, where they begin their reign of mass destruction. Soon after, by coming to the defense of the inhabitants, the Z Fighters challenge the two ruthless killing machines. The androids then kill Future Piccolo, Future Vegeta, Future Yamcha, Future Tien, Future Kuririn, assumingly Future Yajirobe, and Future Chaozu as well.

Thirteen years later on, in Age 780, the androids still continue to cause great havoc across the Earth, by killing off more than half of the planet's population. During one instance, Future 17 and Future 18 attack Purple City and they proceed to cause a swath of destruction to it, including completely obliterating the then-recently restored art district. Future 17 murders a department store owner, resulting in Future 18 telling him off due to her actually wanting to spare him that time so she can come back to get more clothes. Eventually, Future 17 begins driving a hovercar recklessly throughout the city, running over various innocents in the process before being instructed to leave by his sister, ditching the car just as it was headed towards a gas station ensuring further mass destruction. The Androids' next attack is on an amusement park called Super World.

Future Son Gohan (one of the only surviving Z Fighters from thirteen years ago and now a Super Saiyan) and Future Trunks fly over to Super World to face the Androids, and Gohan instructs Trunks to stay out of the fight and proceeds to battle Android 17. Gohan (as a Super Saiyan) seemingly gains the upper hand, and Android 18 is forced to step in and help her brother in battle. Trunks rushes in only to be quickly defeated by Android 18. However, before she can deliver the finishing attack to Trunks, Android 18 is attacked by Gohan, who saves Trunks and attempts to hide in the ruins of the park. In an attempt to draw them out of hiding, the androids bomb the entire area. Gohan and Trunks remain hidden, but at the cost of Gohan's left arm, which is blown off in the bombing.

One day, the androids attack Pepper Town, a city close to where Gohan and Trunks are resting. Gohan ambushes the androids, and the battle begins. Despite his handicap, Gohan is able to fight off both of the androids for a short time. However, he is soon quickly overwhelmed, and is knocked down into the street. The androids then proceed to launch a barrage of energy blasts like machine guns from the sky, which kills Gohan. The two fly off afterwards, and Trunks awakes when his mentor's life force disappears. Trunks finds Gohan's corpse in a pool of bloody water. The loss of his only best friend causes his anger to explode, and he transforms into a Super Saiyan.

Three more years pass, now in Age 783, Future Trunks finds himself as the only warrior left capable of defeating the androids. One day in a fit of rage, Trunks decides to head off and attempt to defeat the androids who are attacking Bridgetown. However, upon his arrival, the androids quickly dominate him. They then begin to toy with the young warrior, by swatting and kicking him around effortlessly. To finish him off, Android 17 watches as Android 18 prepares a large energy blast in which she launches at Trunks. However, he survives, and later on uses a Time Machine to head off 20 years into the past to warn Son Goku and the others of the impending android threat.

Personality

In contrast to his main present day timeline self, Future Android 17 alongside his future twin sister, Future Android 18 is extremely sociopathic, and cruel. Taking joy in killing and destruction. According to them, the two sibling androids' personalities is the direct result of Dr. Gero's attempts at programming them to hate humans as part of his bid to conquer the world.

He enjoys acting like a little kid but hates it (as stated in the English version) when his sister tries on clothes for 4 hours which he sees as being boring. He also doesn't like it when his clothes are rip. As his hates it when he sees his favorite shirt get rips all over.

In contrast to Android 17, who desires to live independently on his own, solo and carefree, without anyone ordering him around, contributing to his rebellious personality, Future 17 has always been around with and cared about absolutely nothing but his sister throughout his life, they were never separated since their activation, and are always seen together. They are known to be extremely unfair in combat, helping his sister when she becomes overwhelmed, and not letting their opponents heal or escape alive when incapacitated, wanting to kill them very quickly. When Future Trunks kills his sister in front of him, he is filled with both disbelief and fear, but his sorrow turned to hatred and vows to make him pay for his sister's death, but Trunks asks him if life is all about them, his fear left him wide open, allowing Trunks to bring the artificial abomination to justice with a single energy blast.

Future Android 17 also possess some former personality traits of his present counterpart, such as being a rebel-without-a-cause trait (only to a destructive degree) childish recklessness, and cockiness in battle. However, he, like his sister, are the same in most ways, aside from malevolent, they are also nonchalant, not swayed by anything that Future Gohan or Future Trunks says, all these traits make him the polar opposite of his present counterpart. It is implied that 17 and 18's hatred of humanity was programmed into them by Future Dr. Gero before his death at their hands which likely contributed to their sociopathic personalities as it essentially robbed them of their humanity, compassion, and empathy thus Future 17 and his sister are essentially victims of Future Dr. Gero's experiments. Largely thanks to his sociopathic and murderous nature, he was compared to a demon at least once. However, their hatred only extends to Future Dr. Gero (whom they refuse to serve and despise like their main timeline counterparts) and humanity as they are shown to accept Future Android 16 as a comrade in Xenoverse 2 due to him being a fellow Android, though Future 17 tries to convince Future 16 to forget about Future Dr. Gero's programming to kill Future Gohan and have fun though this is due to him preferring they take their time in dealing with Future Gohan rather than eliminating him quickly. Apparently, this programming to hate humanity was never implemented by Dr. Gero into their main timeline counterparts due to him moving on to Android 19and his own conversion into Android 20 as he only activated 17 and 18 in the main timeline out of desperation.

In Xenoverse 2, it is implied that he and his sister still retain their original programming to kill Future Goku though due to his death by a Heart Virus it was rendered redundant. Additionally in some time fragment timelines deal with Future Android 16being activated in the Future timeline whom the twins form a relationship with similar to that of their main timeline counterparts due to Future Android 16 being programmed to eliminate Future Gohan. In one of these time fragment timelines, the Earth Dragon Balls (due to game mechanics Namekian Dragon Ball models are used to represent the Future Earth Dragon Balls) have anomalously been restored even though Future Kami is still dead. Future 16 reveals they have been restored as his Power Radar can detect their energy signature allowing it to function as a rudimentary Dragon Radar, causing Future 17 to suggest they gather them in order to make a wish, forcing Future Trunks and the Time Patrol to intervene in the hopes of securing the restored Dragon Balls.

During the Infinite History Saga, they end up in the main timeline before the Cell Games and thanks to Fu's meddling end up teaming up with Android 13from a parallel version of the main timeline. Like with Future Android 16, they see Android 13 is a fellow Android and thus have no problem joining forces with him against Cell and Super Saiyan Full Power Goku. Due to Goku still being alive in the main timeline, the three Androids are determined to kill him to fulfill their original programming (which was to kill Goku, thus even killing Future Goku's main timeline counterpart technically applies). If the three are successful in killing Goku, Future 17 suggests to his sister that should explore the current timeline with their new companion Android 13 to find their own purpose now that they have fulfilled their directive to kill Goku.

In Kakarot, while he still hates humanity is slightly more merciful than his sister when it comes to their enemies though this is mainly due to him viewing them more as playthings and realizes they'll lose them if they kill them. Additionally he can also be more merciful when in a good mood as shown during The Warrior of Hope Episode 1 Sub Story: "Master Roshi's Discernment", during which Future Trunks is overwhelmed by Future 18 while protecting Future Master Roshi who had foolishly attempted to try and convince Future 18 to stop killing (in addition to more lecherous motives), though Future 17 arrives in a good mood just after defeating a boss in a video game. Impressed by Future Master Roshi's courage in defending the teenage Future Trunks and due to being in a good mood due to his recent video game victory, Future 17 convinces his sister to let the two of them go just this once. However, both he and 18 point out this is a onetime deal. After the two Androids leave, Future Master Roshi notes to Future Trunks that both Androids are pure evil and thus reasoning with either of them is pointless.

Appearance

Similar to his main present day timeline self, Future Android 17 has shoulder length black hair, eyebrows and thin blue eyes. He has two gold hoop earrings. He wears an orange bandana around his neck. He wears a short-sleeve black shirt with the Red Ribbon Army's logo with a long-sleeve white shirt underneath. He wears a belt to hold up his blue jeans, in which have a tear just above his left knee, with another belt just below the first with a gun holster and a pouch. He completes his attire with green socks and blue and white shoes.

Abilities

Dbztrunks-014 — Future 17 battle Futue Gohan.

Future Trunks states to the Z Fighters that the androids he knows in his time, while much stronger than him, are not nearly as strong as the ones released in the main timeline. It is safe to assume that power wise, the future androids are not too much weaker, as they are still strong enough to kill a Super Saiyan. However, Son Gohan is seemingly able to overtake each of them separately, but when they team up together, he becomes quickly overwhelmed (important to note that in the original manga and the History of Trunks storyline in Budokai Tenkaichi 2, #17 states that he did not even use half of his power to fight Gohan, but this is removed in the anime). The androids of the main timeline are seen being able to easily overtake a single Super Saiyan separately, as seen when Android 18 defeats Vegeta and knocks out Trunks with one hit, something the androids of the future could not do to Trunks.

Accel Dance

A technique where Future Android 17, and his twin sister Future Android 18 double team with a combo of punches and kicks, ending with a barrage of energy attacks. They succeeded to kill Gohan with this attack in the movie.

Android Barrier

A technique where energy is thrust out from the body in the form of a barrier with great force. The barrier can be used to both defend against oncoming projectiles and to expand and damage its surroundings, although only the former appears in Dragon Ball Z.

Energy Attack

The most basic form of energy wave used by androids.

Endgame

A powerful physical technique. He used this technique to kill Dr. Gero.

Finger Beam

A barrage of narrow rays emitted from the index finger of its user, similar in execution to the Death Beam, which Future Android 17 and his sister use in The History of Trunks special.

Flight

The ability to fly without the use of ki.

Flip Cyclone

Future Android 17 flips backwards while dodging enemy attacks, and attacks the opponent with a forward kick. Used in his first on-screen fight with Future Gohan. Named in Dragon Ball Z Battle of Z.

Full Power Energy Ball

Android 17 creates two energy spheres in his hands and fires them one by one. Used in his second fight with Future Gohan.

Non stop Violence

Android 17 and Android 18, back to back, fire the Photon Flash and Power Blitz simultaneously.

Photon Flash=

A technique Future Android 17 uses against Future Trunks in The History of Trunks special. It is a yellow energy wave that is emitted from the hand of its user. In Budokai Tenkaichi 1 and 2, it was named Full Power Energy Wave.

Power Blitz

A strong energy wave fired from the palm of his hand. It can be launched as a single energy wave, concentrated into a ball of ki or volleyed in a rapid barrage of energy waves called the Accel Shot. This is the signature finishing move for Androids 18 and 17 in the Budokai video game series.

Android Barrier

Future 17's Blast 1 in the Budokai Tenkaichi series.

Super Electric Strike

Future 17's Ultimate Skill in Dragon Ball Xenoverse.

Side Bridge

One of Future 17's Super Skills in Xenoverse.

Smile Charge

One of Future 17's Super Skills in Xenoverse.

Freedom Kick

One of Future 17's Super Skills in Xenoverse.

Rage Saucer

A Rush attack used by Future Android 17 while under of Villainous Mode in Xenoverse.

Dragon Ball Z (Anime)

Anime Filler

"You, you killed her. Kid, that was one mistake you won't live to regret!!!".

— Future Android 17 angrily talking to Future Trunks about 18 in "Free the Future" (English Version)

Trunks finally returns to his own time after the defeat of Super Perfect Cell in the main timeline, and with his training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, he knows that he has more than enough power to finally kill the androids. While the androids are attacking Parsley City, Android 17 ends up murdering a boy that Future Android 18 thought was cute, causing her to become very upset at 17 and not talk to him, and later attempts to kill an old man, the boy's father, after the latter tries to shoot 17 in order to avenge his son. In the Japanese version as well as the Japanese version of DBZ Kai, Including the manga, the source of 18's anger is because she lost at a video game.

Before he can kill the man Future Trunks arrives declaring that he is going to cause their end. Android 17 insists on just playing with Trunks instead of killing him, but Android 18 furiously attacks him, only to prove no match for his new found power. Android 17 soon joins the fight, and the two attempt to attack the mighty Super Saiyan. Trunks effortlessly dodges and blocks both of their hits, and eventually singles out Android 18, who he obliterates with a powerful attack. Android 17 remains paralyzed by fear and in disbelief, and asks Trunks how he became so strong without importing that his sister had just been exploded. Then, Android 17 is knocked down and blown up by Trunks with a powerful energy blast.

Dragon Ball Super (Anime)

In a flashback in the "Bonus Story" chapter of the Dragon Ball Super manga, Future Androids 17 and 18 are shown fighting the Z Fighters.

Future Trunks Saga

Future Android 17 and his sister appear in Future Trunks' retelling of how he destroyed the Androids in a flashback to Trunks. Both their souls were destroyed when Future Zeno erased the timeline to kill Zamasu. However, due to Whis warning Future Beerus and Future Whis of the threat posed by Future Zamasu and Future Beerus' death due to the death of Future Shin during the future timeline's Majin Buu conflict, a new Future Timeline is created in which their souls continue to exist though they remain dead as they had already been killed by Future Trunks at that point.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes (Anime)

Supreme Kai of Time Saga

An incarnation of Future Android 17 appears as one of the competitors in the Super Space-Time Tournament, along with Androids 13, 14, 15, 18, and 19 as Team 7. In the manga, the version of Android 17 present on Team 7 during the Super Space-Time Tournament appeared to be an incarnation of Future Android 17. Team 7's Androids 17 and 18 teamed up to battle Goku, even managing to push him to Super Saiyan Blue, however they were defeated when Xeno Goku came to assist his counterpart. As a result of his team failing to advance to the second round of the tournament, Future Android 17 and his space-time were erased.

Video Games

Future Android 17 appears in the following video games:

Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle
Dragon Ball Z Kakarot
Dragon Ball Z Legendary Super Warriors
Dragon Ball Z The Legacy of Goku II
Dragon Ball Z Sagas
Dragon Ball Z Supersonic Warriors 2
Dragon Ball Legends
Dragon Ball Xenoverse
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission

Quotes

One Point for every human I hit!
Your just a party pooper that's all
You should've used the stairs you know

Relationships

Future Android 18

He loves his sister and was very angry when Trunks killed her.

Knownable Relatives

Future Dr. Gero (Creator/dead)
Future Android 18 (Older Sister/dead)
Android 17 (Alternate Timeline Counterpart)

Trivia

Future Android 17's first cameos in "Mystery Revealed" during Future Trunks' warning about the Androids, initially depicted him as a white ghostlike monstrous looking Android with red eyes along with another Android appearing the same but a later cameo in this episode depicted him as a large muscular blue Android with red eyes as he kills Gero by crushing his body with a punch. The second cameo is later shown again in "Double Trouble for Goku".
During his first fight with Super Saiyan Trunks, in the Funimation dub, Future Android 17 mocks Trunks (with his sword) by saying "I see your point", which is ironic as the same is said by Imperfect Cell shortly before he absorbs his present timeline counterpart.
When Android 17 fights Future Trunks and Future Gohan in most video games, he has special dialogs with them, but no matter which outfit he wears, he says things that his future self says to them, as if the player is Future 17 himself, however, it's because of their similarities in appearance between the two, and Future 17 is referred to as simply "Android 17" rather than adding "Future" to differentiate him from his present self.