Maybe they themselves weren't, but Goku knows how to modulate his power very, very well. He also pointed out that he fought Nappa with the amount of strength he needed to and not more. Goku likes a good fight, and if he must handicap himself to get it, he will.
It's entirely possible they cancelled out simply because their blasts were at a similar enough level that neither could push the other.
edited 19th May '15 7:20:40 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari![]()
This is basically the point I was trying to make earlier about Goku VS Vegeta and Gohan VS Cell being a struggle rather than a clash.
Oy shit, I finally understand how Cell could survive being just a pair of legs after Goku's kamehameha!
It's a combination of Namekian and Changeling traits!
We all know about the regeneration from Piccolo's cells, but I just remembered that Frieza can survive being sliced up and pulled apart. First time the slicing happened, his tail came off and it was still moving on it's own. Second time, he somehow survived being sliced in half. Third time was being sliced into chunks by Trunks, he was somehow alive right before being blown up to smithereens, as confirmed by ROF.
Those traits combined with some other weird biology is what kept Cell alive!
edited 20th May '15 1:54:25 AM by Rinsankajugin
Like a lizard, huh? Well, even more than a lizard. But still.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!Yeah, I realized that myself a while back.
The ability of Frieza's clan to survive being in pieces, combined with Namekian regeneration, combined with Saiyan Zenkai's make Cell pretty fucking terrifying.
Throw in the Infinite Energy generators, and he's an absolute beast.
All he needed was a way to scale back his ego. He could have gone into hiding and trained to increase his power even more instead of immediately going back to fight Gohan and destroy the Earth.
Considering Gohan slacks off on his training for 7 years, Cell would have rofl-stomped him when he came back.
One Strip! One Strip!I feel like he could have used Kaioken with Zenkai and regeneration to get infinitely stronger.
I sorta love that idea.
Of course, Piccolo with Kaioken would have been a force to be reckoned with. He's a lot stronger than Frieza was originally. And stronger than Super Saiyan Goku when he first fought Frieza. And stronger than the androids stronger than Vegeta, stronger than Super Saiyan Goku when he first fought Frieza.
So like. If Vegeta was 200,000,000 before he trained in time chamber, and Piccolo, 17 and 18 were 250,000,000 after Piccolo fused with Kami, then after Piccolo trained in the time chamber he'd have been more than that. I guess.
But anyway.
Double that would probably be pretty strong.
Stronger than 50 times <120,000,000 maybe.
edited 20th May '15 7:37:26 AM by unnoun
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Holy shit!
You're probably right. I mean, Goku eventually got strong enough to withstand higher levels of Kaiouken, but Cell's regenerative properties mean he could likely go even higher than Goku, and if it does start messing him up, he can regenerate to recover.
Though he probably can't regenerate as he fights. It's something that takes a few seconds even for him, but still.
He likely never thought of it for the same reason Goku stopped using Kaiouken after going Super Saiyan: he thought he didn't need it.
One Strip! One Strip!Amusingly,Cell would only need Kaioken times 4 to stomp/beat SSJ 2 Gohan.
It's a combination of Namekian and Changeling traits!
We all know about the regeneration from Piccolo's cells, but I just remembered that Frieza can survive being sliced up and pulled apart. First time the slicing happened, his tail came off and it was still moving on it's own. Second time, he somehow survived being sliced in half. Third time was being sliced into chunks by Trunks, he was somehow alive right before being blown up to smithereens, as confirmed by ROF.
Those traits combined with some other weird biology is what kept Cell alive!
Y'know, that's a really good explanation for Cell's ability to recover from such immense damage. Frieza's survivability with Piccolo's regen.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Visually, King Cold appears to be in Second Form. This implies that he, like Frieza, is limited his power and his actual power is much greater. Even if so, however, his Full Power is pretty firmly established to be lower than Frieza's.
I agree that his potential as a character was wasted. He was foreshadowed in the fight with Frieza, then he showed up alongside Mecha-Frieza - who they made a point of establishing is even more powerful than Frieza was and will thus provide even more of a threat - and then Toriyama went, "Meh, bored with this," dropped a bridge on both of them, and did something completely different instead.
edited 20th May '15 10:23:43 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

Beams cancelling out doesn't run counter to the series - that actually does happen. The very first time two attacks connected, they did that (Goku vs Roshi).