Goku attempted a Batman Gambit there and, in a roundabout way, got his desired result. He just didn't expect Gohan to not defeat Cell immediately.
Ya know, what if Gohan's recent slacking is intentional. What if Toriyama is prepping up for a movie where there's an enemy not even SSJGSS Goku nor Vegeta can deal with. Like a time-travelling bio-android that could push Gohan past even GODLY boundaries.
And the twist is that it's not even Cell! It's a powered-up Mira.
It's part "lol Gohan look at how much confidence I have in you, wreck this fucker" and part "Gohan is going to wreck this fucker and it will be awesome"
Yeah, it's dumb, but it's kind of the pure Saiyan thing to do. The problem is that Toriyama went back and forth on whether this was a flaw or supposed to be commendable.
Well, Goku was right in that Gohan wrecking that fucker was awesome.
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Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a stupid decision on Goku's part. Mostly because Piccolo called him out on it. If Piccolo calls you out, you know you've screwed up.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!As Tobias Drake has explain in detail, the Android Saga* is an Idiot Plot.
edited 16th Apr '15 2:51:23 PM by VeryMelon
Well, arguably the entire Cell situation is everyone's fault since almost all of them provided his genetic material.
It's Piccolo's fault that Cell wasn't stopped before he became powerful enough to absorb people.
It's Vegeta and Krillin's fault he got to perfect.
It's Goku and Gohan's fault that Goku had to die to stop him.
And so on.
One Strip! One Strip!So basically, everything after Freeza was caused by the heroes being stupid in some way.
Good thing they have the Dragon Balls.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!After Cell spit out 18 either Goku, Vegeta, or Trunks could have just jumped in and finished him since it looked like Gohan was just going to keep playing around.
But they didn't and that gave him the chance to explode which lead to things getting worse.
Perhaps not the fairest thing to blame them on but they were all going he should just finish him and they had to perfect opportunity to do so right then and there...
The entire series is an Idiot Plot, that wouldn't work if the Main Characters weren't fuggin' idiots. And that's great, because they're intentionally idiots.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariKinda wonder why Bulma, the other humans and Piccolo didn't just veto the stupid saiyans and try to hunt down and murder Gero themselves.
Gero probably wouldn't have been an android yet.
Heck, we don't know when Lapis and Lazuli got turned into 17 and 18 so they could have saved two teenagers from horrific torture and experiments.
edited 16th Apr '15 4:26:45 PM by unnoun
See, Goku probably wouldn't kill his friends.
Probably.
And, I mean. I'm not sure how exactly Goku would stop Bulma from doing whatever she wanted to do. Especially if everyone else agreed.
Goku's plan was to do nothing, which is easily thwarted by doing anything.
Goku can't do more of nothing to counteract Bulma's doing something.
Hell, Bulma could bring Yamcha along and it'd be overkill for the incontinent, impotent, half-senile and revenge-driven old man living alone in a cave.
She could bring Hercule or even Master Roshi, the latter of whom is probably most of those things except for the revenge and the cave. And he still trained most of his life. Still overkill.
edited 16th Apr '15 4:37:33 PM by unnoun

You know, say what you will about all the stupidity regarding Gohan in the Cell Games but the stupidest thing is Goku giving Cell a senzu bean. Gohan should have been about as strong as Goku, right? Then, since Cell has expended a lot of energy, he should have been able to easily win.
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