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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#29577: Jan 21st 2018 at 8:59:22 PM

Infinite is big, but not that big.

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#29578: Jan 21st 2018 at 9:00:03 PM

Cell not having infinite energy is kinda the point Thebrawlbro was making.

If they wore him out by taking turns duking it out with him and using the Senzu to keep their stamina up, Cell would be Piccolo in this comparison, not 17.

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#29579: Jan 21st 2018 at 9:02:14 PM

Who stood a chance at wearing him out? The closest possible were Vegeta and Trunks, and maybe Piccolo, and not only had he beaten all of them recently, back to back to back, but the Cell Jrs he spawned easily showed how that could've gone. Plus, his fight with Goku showed he could make copies of himself if they did team up on him, even if he didn't use the Cell Jrs. The comparison to Piccolo/17 fails because those two were roughly even in power. Here, Cell was far above the Z fighters.

There's a reason Abridged Cell was so smug in his announcement at that point. He'd already completely punked the best post-HTC Trunks and Vegeta had to offer. Unless some combination of the above three managed to improve dramatically, and more than they already had, they meant nothing to him.

Gohan really was the only one. This is one of those occasions where Goku was right. At least partially.

[down]Quite. That was a mess up, though it worked out for everyone but 16 (we'll miss you, Brobot) in hindsight. Hopefully Fighter Z gives him a true return.
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edited 21st Jan '18 9:09:09 PM by wanderlustwarrior

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#29580: Jan 21st 2018 at 9:04:19 PM

Where he fucked up was not telling Gohan anything. He assumed that Gohan knew and and wanted to fight.

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Hobgoblin Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#29581: Jan 21st 2018 at 9:46:25 PM

Someone in the comments made a good point. Goku blows up Cell's top half, but he regenerates from that just fine. Later, Gohan punches him in the stomach and he throws up 18 completely whole. So where was she before that?

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#29582: Jan 21st 2018 at 9:54:33 PM

[up]The same place cell's nucleus went to.

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#29584: Jan 21st 2018 at 10:14:07 PM

[up][up][up]It's a railroaded story, so Karrot's choice to blow Cell's top off didn't really matter in the long run.

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#29585: Jan 21st 2018 at 10:56:55 PM

Why do you get every other character's name wrong but spell Cell right? Is this some kind of bugman racism?

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#29586: Jan 21st 2018 at 11:06:12 PM

There's an arbitrary limit to the amount of misnaming randomness can use...

It's easier for everyone if it doesn't get out of hand...and bugs are grossly numerous.

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#29587: Jan 21st 2018 at 11:12:29 PM

[up][up]But (s)he did get Mr. Perfect Cell's name wrong.

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#29588: Jan 21st 2018 at 11:14:00 PM

Oh posh, who uses the title Mister anymore?

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#29590: Jan 21st 2018 at 11:23:11 PM

Terry Sloan, Michael Holt, a certain 5th dimensional imp...

And a great load of characters outside of DC, but mostly those falling under a trope named for a black detective who doesn't put up with racism.

edited 21st Jan '18 11:25:04 PM by wanderlustwarrior

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#29591: Jan 22nd 2018 at 2:38:08 AM

Cell regenerates the Androids with him.

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#29592: Jan 22nd 2018 at 7:23:28 AM

Cell's use of the Multiform is more of Toei's continuity-breaking anime filler wankery. The Multiform Technique is a shitty technique that never shows up again in the manga after Goku beats it in the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai on account of how bad it sucks: it splits a person's power four ways, transforming one capable combatant into four garbage mooks.

Toei, however, fell in love with the technique and has characters break it out in like every fight. Even though it always fails. Always. Because it sucks.

During the Cell Games, Toei had Cell perform a "mastered" version of the technique that doesn't split his power at all, allowing four full-power Cells to come at Goku at once. And then he still punched them all out with little difficulty despite being well below Cell's capabilities, because even when it's "mastered", it still sucks and just gets your ass kicked by weaker adversaries no matter how much wanking about it not cutting your power you do.

You'll notice that he never does this again. Logically, if this was really a thing he could do, he would have answered Gohan's Father-Son Kamehameha with Cell's Four-Cell Quadrikamehameha. Being able to spawn clones of yourself that are just as powerful as you are is literally an free infinite power boost:

But he doesn't. Nobody does. Because it sucks, and the "mastered" version demonstrably sucks just as hard.

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#29593: Jan 22nd 2018 at 7:25:31 AM

Well, Tien breaks it out originally for a specific purpose: giving him more angles to shoot ki blasts from, and more eyes to see Goku's speed. But yeah, it's probably the weakest move in his arsenal.

edited 22nd Jan '18 7:25:48 AM by Sigilbreaker26

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#29594: Jan 22nd 2018 at 7:28:11 AM

I mean, that doesn't really make sense either because the ki blasts would be weaker and his reflexes should also be divided by four as well.

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#29595: Jan 22nd 2018 at 8:12:55 AM

Remember when Tien used the Dodonpa? Yeah, me neither.

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#29596: Jan 22nd 2018 at 9:37:22 AM

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edited 22nd Jan '18 9:38:43 AM by Enlong

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#29597: Jan 22nd 2018 at 5:53:55 PM

It seems like FighterZ has an involved story mode. And Yamcha is in it being Yamcha.

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#29598: Jan 22nd 2018 at 6:20:30 PM

as is Nappa.

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#29599: Jan 22nd 2018 at 6:27:59 PM

Oh damn, is Nappa actually getting some characterization?

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#29600: Jan 22nd 2018 at 7:17:57 PM

Wow, Cell's genre savy. We sure it's not the Abridged!Cell?


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