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** Cell takes about four years to mature from his cicada stage into his Imperfect stage. And he had enough time, I'd say a few weeks, absorb a bunch of humans while searching the Androids before meeting his timeline's Trunks, who'd already defeated the androids and was heading back to the past for the second time. So taking all of that into account, it's likely Cell was already burrowed into the ground by the time he first went back to begin with.
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** A couple more reasons, Gero who knows jack about martial arts, and may have assumed that the energy absorbing ability was a win button that would let him defetat anyone easily. Also, had Gero and 19 been able to absorb enough energy from random civilians and members of Goku's clique, the energy absrobing model may have a higher power level than that of 17 and 18. Note that Cell did become stronger from absorbing people, so it's likely that Gero planned to absorb energy from that city they appeared in to raise their power levels.
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* Why does anyone believe Mr. Satan? Okay, if they buy that Cell doesn't have powers and just planted explosives to destroy the military, including aircraft...why not just attack him again, and this time watch out for explosives? And don't say it that was Earth's entire military that got blown up, Fiji has a bigger military than that. Why does anyone believe that crap while simultaneously believing a single unarmed martial artist can defeat Cell? And also, if Cell doesn't have superpowers, why does it matter so much? If Mr. Satan fails, the world isn't doomed, RIGHT?!?!?! But when he's pretending to have a stomach ache, they're like, "Oh noz, we're all gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!!!!!!!" Nothing about this makes sense.
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* Why does anyone believe Mr. Satan? Okay, if they buy that Cell doesn't have powers and just planted explosives to destroy the military, including aircraft...why not just attack him again, and this time watch out for explosives? And don't say it that was Earth's entire military that got blown up, Fiji has a bigger military than that. Why does anyone believe that crap while simultaneously believing a single unarmed martial artist can defeat Cell? And also, if Cell doesn't have superpowers, why does it matter so much? If Mr. Satan fails, the world isn't doomed, RIGHT?!?!?! But when he's pretending to have a stomach ache, they're like, "Oh noz, we're all gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!!!!!!!" Nothing about this makes sense.sense.
* Why does Cell mention Trunks killing Frieza and that Dr. Gero specifically decided not to take Trunks's cells for him? In Cell's timeline, which would be the original unaltered timeline, Trunks never appeared from the future, and it would have been Goku who killed Frieza and King Cold. This issue is even present in ''Kai'', which removed most of the plot holes.
* Why does Cell mention Trunks killing Frieza and that Dr. Gero specifically decided not to take Trunks's cells for him? In Cell's timeline, which would be the original unaltered timeline, Trunks never appeared from the future, and it would have been Goku who killed Frieza and King Cold. This issue is even present in ''Kai'', which removed most of the plot holes.
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** In the original series, Cell says "They could be hiding underwater but I doubt they're smart enough to try that".
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*** This is the most widely accepted theory and is currently stated as fact on the DBZ Wiki, but in that case, why wasn't 17 on Snakeway with Goku, King Kai, Bubbles, and Gregory? Cell's absence from this scene is how King Kai realized he was still alive, so if 17 was among those killed, he should have been on Snakeway as well. Having been human once he surely has a soul, and was definitely revived with the rest of Cell's victims where 16 presumably wasn't.
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*** 16's self destruct mechanism also leaves a bit of a plot hole. If the bomb is big enough to destroy the planet, then why was he willing to use it in the first place? Even if they meant that it had to be in the center of the planet to destroy the entire thing in its radius, that would still mean that at the surface, the blast would reach the core. At the very least the planet would be completely sterilized. Hell, a blast that big wouldn't be healthy for the planet even in high orbit. Plus, he doesn't want to kill anyone but Cell and there were a lot of people in the blast radius. Given that he wants to preserve all life, why he considered it an option is a mystery.
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*** Frieza did, but Goku and Gohan have never shown to use such a technique and presuming they would know how is farfetched. As for why Semi Perfect Cell had enough power to kill Goku, durability has never been consistent in Dragon Ball. It's just one of those things we have to accept happens,
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*** Frieza did, but Goku and Gohan have never shown to use such a technique and presuming they would know how is farfetched. As for why Semi Perfect Cell had enough power to kill Goku, durability has never been consistent in Dragon Ball. It's just one of those things we have to accept happens,happens.
* Why does anyone believe Mr. Satan? Okay, if they buy that Cell doesn't have powers and just planted explosives to destroy the military, including aircraft...why not just attack him again, and this time watch out for explosives? And don't say it that was Earth's entire military that got blown up, Fiji has a bigger military than that. Why does anyone believe that crap while simultaneously believing a single unarmed martial artist can defeat Cell? And also, if Cell doesn't have superpowers, why does it matter so much? If Mr. Satan fails, the world isn't doomed, RIGHT?!?!?! But when he's pretending to have a stomach ache, they're like, "Oh noz, we're all gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!!!!!!!" Nothing about this makes sense.
* Why does anyone believe Mr. Satan? Okay, if they buy that Cell doesn't have powers and just planted explosives to destroy the military, including aircraft...why not just attack him again, and this time watch out for explosives? And don't say it that was Earth's entire military that got blown up, Fiji has a bigger military than that. Why does anyone believe that crap while simultaneously believing a single unarmed martial artist can defeat Cell? And also, if Cell doesn't have superpowers, why does it matter so much? If Mr. Satan fails, the world isn't doomed, RIGHT?!?!?! But when he's pretending to have a stomach ache, they're like, "Oh noz, we're all gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!!!!!!!" Nothing about this makes sense.
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*** Dodoria was like ten times as powerful as Krillin and Gohan when they landed on Namek, yet he didn't instantly overtake them when chasing them down. His size did affect his speed. The point about huge muscles slowing them down is relative to themselves at normal size. Super Saiyan Second Grade and Third Grade aren't slow in absolute terms, but if Trunks in the latter stage could have moved fast enough to hit Cell (ignoring that Cell was sandbagging), he would have been MUCH faster in the ordinary Super Saiyan form, and since speed goes along with overall power, he would have been stronger than Cell as well, so going to a "higher" level would have been unnecessary. Third Grade simply doesn't allow a Saiyan to defeat an opponent they could not defeat as a Super Saiyan. Worse, it drains a lot of stamina.
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** Except we see at least one example of a fighter using a barrier around someone other than themselves. Frieza wrapped Goku in an energy barrier and kicked him around for a while. I doubt the Z-fighters couldn't pull off something similar. All Gohan would have to do is create a similar barrier around Cell and then let the barrier absorb the blast. Really, the blast shouldn't have been all that notable with Cell in his Semi-Perfect state. It shouldn't have been anywhere near powerful enough to kill Goku.
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** Except we see at least one example of a fighter using a barrier around someone other than themselves. Frieza wrapped Goku in an energy barrier and kicked him around for a while. I doubt the Z-fighters couldn't pull off something similar. All Gohan would have to do is create a similar barrier around Cell and then let the barrier absorb the blast. Really, the blast shouldn't have been all that notable with Cell in his Semi-Perfect state. It shouldn't have been anywhere near powerful enough to kill Goku.Goku.
*** Frieza did, but Goku and Gohan have never shown to use such a technique and presuming they would know how is farfetched. As for why Semi Perfect Cell had enough power to kill Goku, durability has never been consistent in Dragon Ball. It's just one of those things we have to accept happens,
*** Frieza did, but Goku and Gohan have never shown to use such a technique and presuming they would know how is farfetched. As for why Semi Perfect Cell had enough power to kill Goku, durability has never been consistent in Dragon Ball. It's just one of those things we have to accept happens,
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** Correct. Up to this point in Dragonball and after, the only time factors such one's size and bulk made any difference was when the fighters were of similar strength and thus speed. Aside from this one exception with Trunks, it's been consistently shown if you were stronger than someone, you were also faster than that person. It's definitely a case of the plot requiring Trunks to lose so that Cell wouldn't be defeated until Toriyama wrote him to be defeated. It would've been much more consistent to simply have Trunks and Cell at similar levels of power and thus speed then have Cell win due to greater skill and no stamina issues.
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** The only ki barriers we ever see them do up until that point is around their own bodies, so even if they could generate one that would survive the blast, only they would survive and everything else would be destroyed.
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** The only ki barriers we ever see them do up until that point is around their own bodies, so even if they could generate one that would survive the blast, only they would survive and everything else would be destroyed.destroyed.
** Except we see at least one example of a fighter using a barrier around someone other than themselves. Frieza wrapped Goku in an energy barrier and kicked him around for a while. I doubt the Z-fighters couldn't pull off something similar. All Gohan would have to do is create a similar barrier around Cell and then let the barrier absorb the blast. Really, the blast shouldn't have been all that notable with Cell in his Semi-Perfect state. It shouldn't have been anywhere near powerful enough to kill Goku.
** Except we see at least one example of a fighter using a barrier around someone other than themselves. Frieza wrapped Goku in an energy barrier and kicked him around for a while. I doubt the Z-fighters couldn't pull off something similar. All Gohan would have to do is create a similar barrier around Cell and then let the barrier absorb the blast. Really, the blast shouldn't have been all that notable with Cell in his Semi-Perfect state. It shouldn't have been anywhere near powerful enough to kill Goku.
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* How did Cell's self destruct manage to kill Goku? Goku was in Otherworld, not on some planet he could've suffocated from being destroyed. HFIL, how did the self destruct even pose a threat? Cell was in his semi-perfect or 2nd form, half the Z-fighters would've been able to effortlessly beat Cell in that state. Either Goku and especially Gohan would've been able to simply put up a Ki barrier around Cell to absorb the blast.
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** The only ki barriers we ever see them do up until that point is around their own bodies, so even if they could generate one that would survive the blast, only they would survive and everything else would be destroyed.
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*** Gohan didn't need to be written as "gung-ho," just interested in training and fighting of his own accord. Gohan didn't have to spend every day in a gravity chamber at 400 times Earth's gravity or anything, he just needed to be motivated enough to be prepared to fight. The Cell Games not to mention everything he's gone through since Raditz showed up gave Gohan's character every reason possible to evolve into if not wanting to fight being willing to take some time to be prepared to. In fact, the whole reason Gohan is angry enough to become Super Saiyan in the first place was because of self-hatred over his own repeated inability to actually defend the people he's cared about over the years. Gohan had plenty of room in his character to develop into something worthy of being the main character since he was introduced. Toriyama simply didn't want Gohan to be the main character despite many opportunities to grow Gohan into one throughout the character's history. The result was the viewers didn't want Gohan to be the main character and thus wanted Goku so that's what Toriyama gave them.
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**** Which opens up another whole can of worms. Why did Dabura and Babidi attack so much later in Future Trunks' timeline? They attacked his Earth when he's an adult, while the attack happened in the "main" timeline when Present Trunks was just a child.
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*** But was anyone really ''trying'' to figure out Trunks' "identity"? He's a heroic young Saiyan from the future, apparently Future Bulma sent him back in time, there we go. They were more worried about the whole "all of you died in my future" message he'd given them, and without the benefit of hindsight, Trunks could've come from anywhere: yet another long-lost Saiyan who'd arrived on Earth, Future Bulma's attempt to artificially concieve or clone a Saiyan using Goku or Gohan's DNA, a younger child that Goku and Chi Chi had before he died (Goten didn't exist yet, so Trunks could've been Gohan's younger brother as far as they knew - remember, kids in real life don't always look like their parents, and who knows how YouGottaHaveBlueHair genetics works), and so on. For what it's worth, a lot of non-spoiled fans at the time were surprised, and they had a better perspective on the mystery than the characters themselves.
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*** But was anyone really ''trying'' to figure out Trunks' "identity"? He's a heroic young Saiyan from the future, apparently Future Bulma sent him back in time, there we go. They were more worried about the whole "all of you died in my future" message he'd given them, and without the benefit of hindsight, Trunks could've come from anywhere: yet another long-lost Saiyan who'd arrived on Earth, Future Bulma's attempt to artificially concieve or clone a Saiyan using Goku or Gohan's DNA, a younger child that Goku and Chi Chi had before he died (Goten didn't exist yet, so Trunks could've been Gohan's younger brother as far as they knew - remember, kids in real life don't always look like their parents, and who knows how YouGottaHaveBlueHair genetics works), works in this series), and so on. For what it's worth, a lot of non-spoiled fans at the time were surprised, and they had a better perspective on the mystery than the characters themselves.
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*** Rewriting Gohan to be particularly gung-ho about fighting would've been difficult to pull off without flatly contradicting his characterization up until that point. No one can accuse Toriyama of being an overly attentive writer, but he already had an idea of what Gohan's personality was, and it wasn't "less mischievous Goku who does all the things that Goku does." The silly, light-hearted antics Gohan gets up to in the Buu saga is most likely what Toriyama felt most comfortable with in the first place; he didn't just want Gohan as a protagonist, he wanted to get back to his roots as a gag author. Retooling the Buu Saga in a more fighting-oriented direction, in his mind, probably required bringing Goku back for consistency's sake. Note that the "Ultimate Gohan" power-up doesn't last very long when it happens, which is a strong indicator that Toriyama didn't care to see Gohan in a fighting role except in small doses. Even Super Saiyan 2 Gohan, as beloved as he is, doesn't show up until the very end of the Cell arc, and he's not the one to polish off Cell; the kind, gentle Gohan is, with Goku's help. It's safe to say Toriyama never believed in Gohan's "badass" potential to anywhere near the extent that fans do.
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* It's one thing to say Goku is a bad father, but to say Vegeta was a better one? Come on. He could care less about either of his sons (present and Future) until the Future one was killed by Cell. Not to mention while they were training in the hyperbolic time chamber Trunks said that they didn't train together. A guy who was willing to let an infant die is a better father than a guy who told his experienced 11-year-old son with a hidden potential (and was the youngest person at the time to reach Super Saiyan AND master it) to fight?
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* It's one thing to say Goku is a bad father, but to say Vegeta was a better one? Come on. He could couldn't care less about either of his sons (present and Future) until the Future one was killed by Cell. Not to mention while they were training in the hyperbolic time chamber Trunks said that they didn't train together. A guy who was willing to let an infant die is a better father than a guy who told his experienced 11-year-old son with a hidden potential (and was the youngest person at the time to reach Super Saiyan AND master it) to fight?
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** It could also be that regenerating from his core or nucleus or whatever dub explanation you prefer left Cell with a few screws loose. Most of his brain did happen to get obliterated and then regenerated.
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** It makes sense that Cell's cells could "remember" his perfect form. In order for him to be able to regenerate at all his cells would need to know what his body is supposed to be, otherwise he'd just become a ball of cancer effectively. Cell's cells keeping knowledge of his perfect form would be a holdover of this bodily function.
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*** It's circular logic. The truth is Gohan was unsuited for being the main character because Toriyama specifically wrote him to be unsuited for being the main character. Toriyama could've easily written Gohan to be more interested in fighting and growing stronger after the Cell Games and said Cell Games would've given him plenty of motivation to do so. It's not like he couldn't spare a few hours a day to train at the least. The truth was Toriyama really didn't want to keep writing Dragonball at that point and so just mindlessly catered to the fans by giving them Goku regardless of what he actually wanted.
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*** Most likely Goku didn't bring the medicine with him when it became time to fight the androids because Goku hadn't been showing symptoms for 3 years. Remember that Goku was supposed to have caught the heart virus and died long before the androids showed up. They probably figured that Goku catching the virus wasn't going to happen by the day when 19 and 20 actually showed up and so didn't bother to bring the medicine along.
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*** Keep in mind that Cell has Frieza's DNA in him, and Frieza was able to do things when transforming like growing to at least twice his size, changing the shape of his head and growing horns. Frieza's body is capable of somehow shrinking and storing entire parts of himself into himself in ways that in real life would be physically impossible. I expect Gero's computer co-opted this function to not only allow Cell to transform but store both androids inside himself.
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* So folks rightfully question why Gero didn't want to use 16, or why he didn't give himself as powerful of a synthetic body as 16, or why he didn't make himself an infinite energy cyborg like 17 and 18...but why make 19 so much weaker than 16? He finally had what he wanted: a synthetic fighter that was obedient to him. But he made him weaker than the previous 3 entries. He couldn't make 19 similar to 17 and 18, but there's no reason he couldn't have modeled 19 after 16.
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* So folks rightfully question why Gero didn't want to use 16, or why he didn't give himself as powerful of a synthetic body as 16, or why he didn't make himself an infinite energy cyborg like 17 and 18...but why make 19 so much weaker than 16? He finally had what he wanted: a synthetic fighter that was obedient to him. But he made him weaker than the previous 3 entries. He couldn't make 19 similar to 17 and 18, but there's no reason he couldn't have modeled 19 after 16.16.
* How did Cell's self destruct manage to kill Goku? Goku was in Otherworld, not on some planet he could've suffocated from being destroyed. HFIL, how did the self destruct even pose a threat? Cell was in his semi-perfect or 2nd form, half the Z-fighters would've been able to effortlessly beat Cell in that state. Either Goku and especially Gohan would've been able to simply put up a Ki barrier around Cell to absorb the blast.
* How did Cell's self destruct manage to kill Goku? Goku was in Otherworld, not on some planet he could've suffocated from being destroyed. HFIL, how did the self destruct even pose a threat? Cell was in his semi-perfect or 2nd form, half the Z-fighters would've been able to effortlessly beat Cell in that state. Either Goku and especially Gohan would've been able to simply put up a Ki barrier around Cell to absorb the blast.
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** Because he was in his Perfect form. He no longer had need of his tail, and his facial structure was humanoid enough for him to eat it with his mouth.mouth.
* So folks rightfully question why Gero didn't want to use 16, or why he didn't give himself as powerful of a synthetic body as 16, or why he didn't make himself an infinite energy cyborg like 17 and 18...but why make 19 so much weaker than 16? He finally had what he wanted: a synthetic fighter that was obedient to him. But he made him weaker than the previous 3 entries. He couldn't make 19 similar to 17 and 18, but there's no reason he couldn't have modeled 19 after 16.
* So folks rightfully question why Gero didn't want to use 16, or why he didn't give himself as powerful of a synthetic body as 16, or why he didn't make himself an infinite energy cyborg like 17 and 18...but why make 19 so much weaker than 16? He finally had what he wanted: a synthetic fighter that was obedient to him. But he made him weaker than the previous 3 entries. He couldn't make 19 similar to 17 and 18, but there's no reason he couldn't have modeled 19 after 16.
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*** Couldn't Kaio just tell them the location of New Namek in reaction to the death of his "Star Pupil"?
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** ''"His body remembered it"'' is rather common in this franchise, to the point it's not even a particularly egregious HandWave. Goku somehow "remembering" the power of Super Saiyan God (written much later, but still) even after powering down from it is another example.
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*** Huge power levels often catch someone's attention even if they're not searching for them, and their powers were phenomenal at the time. It had already been established with 19 and 20 that they weren't using (sense-able) ki, so whatever kind of alternative energy Dr Gero invented for the absorption models is most likely being used in 17 and 18 as well.
*** Though that [[DiggingYourselfDeeper opens up another question]] - if the androids run on artificial energy, why can 19 and 20 process and increase their power by absorbing ''actual'' ki? Unless by design they are able to utilize both, like with a car's electric starter motor and petrol engine.
*** Though that [[DiggingYourselfDeeper opens up another question]] - if the androids run on artificial energy, why can 19 and 20 process and increase their power by absorbing ''actual'' ki? Unless by design they are able to utilize both, like with a car's electric starter motor and petrol engine.
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** You'd think he'd have concealed a backup somewhere. Those are basic precautions to take when your attack dogs are not only capable of extinguishing you in a second, but ''you know this and are wary of it happening.'' Then again, TooDumbToLive is a running theme with guys like Dr Gero, and Babidi picks up that torch and carries it with flying colors.
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*** It's been said before that Cell is truly a MagnificentBastard in his imperfect and semi-perfect forms, and upon reaching perfection he goes full Vegeta instead. That's the problem with attaining what you believe to be your final goal. You had something important to work toward, requiring equal parts power and brains. [[AndThenWhat What]] [[LonelyAtTheTop now]]?
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*** The one that sticks out there is Goku's "he's not guilty yet" reasoning. Is he forgetting that ''this guy worked for the Red Ribbon Army'', and they could easily justify going after him on that alone? Plus, no one said they had to ''kill'' him. They didn't know he was an android at this time, so a simple arrest would suffice.
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** The military (and firearms in general) have always been an afterthought in this franchise, and furthermore, how much of them do we actually see in the manga? At the very least, the military going after Buu (following his CurbStompBattle with Gotenks) is filler.
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** You could make an entire page just based on the inconsistency of collateral damage in this franchise. At this point even a ''tiny'' stray blast should be destroying the Earth.
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** Android 16 and the unit combined would have to weigh... let's just say ''a whole damn lot'' to give Android 18 any kind of trouble. Goku could handle 100 times gravity at its peak on the way to a power level of 90,000, and Android 18 is several thousand times stronger than that. As said, it's RuleOfDrama.
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** His mother probably told him stories about how his father was an amazing man - strong, stubborn, and refused to give in no matter the stakes - all traits Trunks would value given the world he grew up in. Plus, even if she added parts about him also being an asshole, Trunks could have chalked that up to ''"eh, my parents had problems, all relationships do, but I can't judge him on that, I wasn't there."''
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** Is it ever established that Dr Gero wanted to destroy the world? Sure, (Super) Perfect Cell claims that to be his true purpose, but that's just his assumption and he's already LaughingMad by that time. He always planned to destroy the Earth, and obtaining Instant Transmission opened up the possibility of visiting other planets, so to any OmnicidalManiac that was an easy 2 + 2. But Dr Gero '''A)''' had nothing to gain by destroying the world, '''B)''' didn't have the computer drilling that purpose into his mind from larval state (at which point it wouldn't have been a "realization"), and '''C)''' had no way of anticipating that Cell would obtain a means to travel between planets besides the ''very'' slow way.
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*** If you want to be very generous to what is most likely just a PlotHole, it ''could'' be argued that Cell's prior knowledge of his design was outdated, and limited to his imperfect form. After all, he didn't seem to know exactly how powerful his perfect form was going to be, and was outright surprised at surviving his own self-destruction, crediting Dr Gero's brilliant design. Maybe in his lesser forms he had to settle for Piccolo-style regeneration, but his supercharged perfect body could support something more advanced? Piccolo's regeneration requires his head, while Frieza's tenacity allows him to survive even when his head ''is in pieces.'' Take the best of both worlds, coupled with the androids providing him with a pair of [[PerpetualMotionMachine limitless energy generators]] - you get FromASingleCell.
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*** If you want to be very generous to what is most likely just a PlotHole, it ''could'' be argued that Cell's prior knowledge of his design was outdated, and limited to his imperfect form. After all, he He didn't seem to know exactly how powerful his perfect form was going to would be, and was outright surprised at nor did he anticipate surviving his own self-destruction, crediting Dr Gero's brilliant design. Maybe in his lesser forms he had to settle for Piccolo-style regeneration, but his supercharged perfect body could support something more advanced? self-destruction. Piccolo's regeneration requires his head, while Frieza's tenacity allows him to survive even when his head ''is in pieces.'' Take the best of both worlds, coupled with the androids providing him with a pair of [[PerpetualMotionMachine limitless energy generators]] - you get an evolved body that can regenerate FromASingleCell.
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*** If you want to be very generous to what is most likely just a PlotHole, it ''could'' be argued that Cell's prior knowledge of his design was outdated, and limited to his imperfect form. After all, he didn't seem to know exactly how powerful his perfect form was going to be, and was outright surprised at surviving his own self-destruction, crediting Dr Gero's brilliant design. Maybe in his lesser forms he had to settle for Piccolo-style regeneration, but his supercharged perfect body could support something more advanced? Piccolo's regeneration requires his head, while Frieza's tenacity allows him to survive even when his head ''is in pieces.'' Take the best of both worlds, coupled with the androids providing him with a pair of [[PerpetualMotionMachine limitless energy generators]] - you get FromASingleCell.
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*** Vegeta deliberately allowed Krillin to mortally wound him, ''knowing'' a Dende-style heal was right around the corner. That's definitely a safety net. Unless you want to get into FridgeBrilliance territory and assume that it ''wouldn't'' have worked had Dende not initially refused, (i.e. letting Vegeta briefly think he ''was'' going to die), triggering whatever OhCrap mechanism is required for a zenkai.
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*** The real question there is why Trunks had the machine set to that date in the first place. As I recall, Cell specifically says he ''didn't change any of the settings'', he just pressed the button and hoped for the best. Why did Trunks have the machine set to 1 year before Frieza even landed?
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*** This AdaptationInducedPlotHole (well, more like FridgeLogic) could also be applied to the Buu saga. People are out shopping and living their daily lives despite Majin Buu's rampage being all over the news, and they're ''still'' out there when Super Buu finishes off the stragglers with his Human Extinction Attack.
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* It's a minor point but when Goku comes back to Earth in his spaceship after Trunks killed Freeza he '''A:''' says he knew what was happening, and would have used his new teleport technique to come back to earth immediately if he hadn't been sure Trunks could have handled it. '''B:''' explains his teleport technique as being able to move at the speed of light, quoting the actual speed (at least in the dub, don't know about the original) '''C:''' says he came back from training on a planet millions of lightyears away. As in, it would take millions of years to reach this planet at the speed of light, but his ship did it in a year or so. But even though the ship didn't make it to earth before Freeza did, he could've teleported and arrived in time. Calling ArtisticLicenseAstronomy seems a bit redundant at this point.
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* It's a minor point but when Goku comes back to Earth in his spaceship after Trunks killed Freeza he '''A:''' says he knew what was happening, and would have used his new teleport technique to come back to earth immediately if he hadn't been sure Trunks could have handled it. '''B:''' explains his teleport technique as being able to move at the speed of light, quoting the actual speed (at least in the dub, don't know about the original) '''C:''' says he came back from training on a planet millions of lightyears away. As in, it would take millions of years to reach this planet at the speed of light, but his ship did it in a year or so. But even though the ship didn't make it to earth before Freeza did, he could've teleported and arrived in time. Calling ArtisticLicenseAstronomy ArtisticLicenseSpace seems a bit redundant at this point.
