Well, the thing about Cell that does make sense is that he was an abandoned project that the computer kept building after Gero gave up on it. Gero recognized the amount of time it would take to complete and went, "F*ck that noise, I want to murder Son Goku NOW!" This explains why it takes so long for him to awaken - a decade and a half after Gero has unveiled his androids means that either Goku will already be dead and there will be no reason for Cell to exist, or 17 and 18 will already have been destroyed and Cell can never achieve Perfection. It makes no sense to plan for that, but as a dumbf*ck computer doing what it was told to do instead of what its creator wanted it to do, the logic works out fine.
But it still doesn't answer the question of why Perfection would even be a thing he needs to achieve at all. If he's absorbing the mechanical components of 17 and 18, why not build those into him? If he's absorbing the organic components, Cell's unique physiology means you can build those into him too.
But I digress. I don't want to embark on another "Why the Cell Saga sucks Oozaru Balls" rant. Super Android 13 was awesome and hilarious and TFS did a fantastic job with it.
edited 2nd Nov '15 12:52:01 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I don't think 13 was racist, was he?
Also, is it just me, or does he sound exactly like the Engineer from TF 2?
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone elseI think we all reached the conclusion that Gero is a massive idiot.
But if we need to come up with an explanation...maybe the point is 17 and 18 have to be alive and functional for Cell to properly use their parts. It makes sense. While he flat-out killed the humans he absorbed, 17 and 18 were still alive in Cell until he spat out one and self-destructed, killing the other.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!The thing is, Cell was still not done by the time Android Saga came around, and Gero was long dead by the time he was finally finished. There was never a point where Gero had both Cell and the Androids. But Gero, obviously, already had 13, 14 and 15 at hands at one time. Why not combine them then?
Maybe Lapis and Lazuli have a super special DNA and whatever that made them both super suited for being cyborgs as well as being part of Cell? That way Gero could either have his Androids 17 and 18 or a built in Perfect Cell. As you said, Gero was in a hurry so he chose the quicker option.
(of course, the real answer is that DBZ is not particularly well planned and the movies even less so, but that cuts all of the fun)
I don't know about most of them, but #8 is living happy after ever in some arctic village. If I am not mistaken, he had a cameo in the Buu saga climax and everything ((trying to) give his ki to Goku).
edited 2nd Nov '15 5:04:07 PM by Heatth
Chris Sabat was in the first Bardock special, as the Saiyans who were sending Goku to Earth, and they were mispronouncing Earth as "Ee-arth".
He also did a country cover of "Cat Loves Food" in one of the Season 3 episodes.
Appule (the guy who couldn't handle Raspberry Schnapps) was voiced by Mike La Brie, aka Vegetto EX, aka one of the guys who founded Kanzenshuu.com. I think it's a sort of Kanzenshuu in-joke that he's a big Appule fan.
I'm sure Saiga knows the full story.
And now I'm realising I know way too much about this internet parody.
edited 2nd Nov '15 5:17:32 PM by LOLypop1224
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!

Few things in Dragon Ball were planned in advance, but the Android Saga is something special in that regard due to the changes made in an attempt to appease a friend of Toriyama's that didn't particularly like anything in it.
Oddly enough, the end result causes 13, 14, and 15 to make perfect sense, in a way; the additions of 16, 17, 18, and Cell to the story effectively reduce Dr. Gero's character to blind gibberish, so why not have three more defective Androids waiting in the wings? It makes about as much sense as converting himself into the weakest model of Android he's ever designed.
Same reason he didn't just build 17 and 18's necessary components into Cell so that he could awaken in his Perfect Form. Dr. Gero's character makes no sense.
That is, however, a good point about their powers. The characters have not even entered the Room of Spirit and Time yet, evidenced by Gohan's appearance and lack of Super Saiyan abilities as well as Trunks not having traded out his jacket and sword for a Saiyan battle suit and longer hair - the look he continues to wear until the Cell Games. As a consequence of dealing with pre-Cell battle powers, these androids are sorely underwhelming.
17 and 18 are powerful enough to make short work of the Super Saiyans, but once Goku, Trunks, and Vegeta transformed here, they made short work of their adversaries. 13, 14, and 15 seem to be roughly on par with 19 and 20.
edited 2nd Nov '15 12:46:33 PM by TobiasDrake
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