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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#18026: Feb 9th 2016 at 10:26:34 AM

Funny thing when Cell says that is that 16 and 19 are, in fact, Androids. And 8 sorta both is and isn't because I think it's mentioned he's partially made from corpses? And 17, 18 and 20 keep the numbering scheme.

Technically, if you go by the way Abridged!Cell calls 17 and 18 "cyborgs" it would have gone Androids 1-16, then Cyborg 1, then Cyborg 2, then Android 19, then Cyborg 3.

I think technically the Japanese word means "Artificial Human" and doesn't distinguish between artificially made machines that resemble humans and humans that have been modified with cybernetic parts.

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#18027: Feb 9th 2016 at 10:33:50 AM

The best part of that is when Cell himself falls victim to the naming confusion.

  • CELL: (trying to drink 16) Gah, what are you made of, pure metal?!
  • ANDROID 16: Affirmative. I am Android 16.
  • CELL: Oh! Errors have been made.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#18028: Feb 9th 2016 at 11:13:43 AM

Even Gero does it.

TRUNKS: "Seriously, what is that?"
PICCOLO: "That's the android."
TRUNKS: "No it's not."
PICCOLO: "Yes it is."
TRUNKS: "No, it's not!"
DR. GERO: "Yes I am."
TRUNKS: "You stay out of this!"

Cell is a lot more anal about the name than Gero is.

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#18029: Feb 9th 2016 at 11:17:38 AM

Of course Cell would be more anal, when his mouth and crotch are made of the same material.

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#18030: Feb 9th 2016 at 11:20:40 AM

I love the painful sucking sound effect when Cell is trying to drink 16.

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#18031: Feb 9th 2016 at 3:35:38 PM

Though I do like how he only ever calls 19 "19". Calling him Android 19 would be a little disingenuous, since he isn't the 19th android.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#18032: Feb 9th 2016 at 4:36:09 PM

...I dunno why he made himself look old.

The pain thing makes sense, but.

The body itself was entirely mechanical and could look like whatever he wanted it to.

edited 9th Feb '16 4:36:32 PM by unnoun

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#18033: Feb 9th 2016 at 4:48:40 PM

Maybe he thought he looked distinguished.

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#18034: Feb 9th 2016 at 4:53:27 PM

Are you denying Gero his luscious white locks?

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#18035: Feb 9th 2016 at 4:54:56 PM

Maybe he wanted to look like himself.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#18036: Feb 9th 2016 at 4:56:00 PM

He could have picked a younger version of himself!

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#18037: Feb 9th 2016 at 5:02:22 PM

I'll ask again: Are you denying Gero his luscious white locks?

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#18040: Feb 9th 2016 at 5:35:18 PM

But anyway, Gero had a terrible terrible track record with his androids. Besides, 19, Cell, and himself I think they were all deemed failures and most of them were scraped.

It'd be interesting to see what they were like.

...How did we get on this in the abridged thread? I might take that to the main one.

edited 9th Feb '16 5:36:34 PM by LSBK

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#18041: Feb 9th 2016 at 5:35:55 PM

Honestly, this thread and the main thread are often interchangeable.

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#18042: Feb 9th 2016 at 6:01:28 PM

Since questions about the abridged series can often only be answered with questions about the official series. This means that we can often interchange without actually getting off topic.

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#18044: Feb 9th 2016 at 6:21:14 PM

Already linked.

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#18045: Feb 9th 2016 at 6:26:51 PM

Yeah, that was...huh.

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#18046: Feb 10th 2016 at 2:59:30 AM

It's possible it is correct and just never mentioned in the official materials. You may think it is unlikely because it would probably have been mentioned if it was true but not being mentioned does not necessarily rule it out.

This is such a slim possibility it's just silly to defend it. You'd have to assume that the guidebooks are wrong, because otherwise the following naming scheme they adopted makes no sense:

Surname followed by first-name for anyone in the Son family

First-name only for anyone without a surname, but also for Bulma despite having a surname

Surname only for Dr Brief, as the only example of this

Then follow this up by making absolutely no mention of it whatsoever.

It's like assuming that Yamcha is actually his last name: you can't be proven wrong, but you have no defense for it.

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#18047: Feb 10th 2016 at 5:13:20 AM

Basically, Occam's Razor.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#18048: Feb 10th 2016 at 6:11:17 AM

You'd have to assume that the guidebooks are wrong

Done. tongue

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#18049: Feb 10th 2016 at 6:28:30 AM

Sign me up for ignoring the borderline nonsensical guidebooks.

So, something just occurred to me... if Vegeta managed to get his wish of Immortality on Namek, he would've been screwed. The first time he almost made the wish, Ginyu was there. That's got to be the single worst matchup for an immortal Vegata out there, since he'd be able to bodyswap and just take his immortal body.

But say he won, or got the wish at the time the kids actually summoned the dragon... he's against Frieza. Who is also an awful matchup for an immortal Vegeta. He's got his tail, so he has a natural means of restraining Vegeta. He's got his guided Destructo-Disks so he can just lop of Vegeta's arms at his leisure. And he can survive in space, so he can just nuke the planet. Vegeta's immortal, but not invulnerable, so I'd imagine without air he'd still pass out or... something.

Also, I wonder if zenkai can still apply if he is incapable of ever being near death. Logically getting the snot beaten out of him should still work, but I wonder. Immortality happens so infrequently it's hard to tell how it works.

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Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#18050: Feb 10th 2016 at 7:18:49 AM

You'd have to assume that the guidebooks are wrong

No, you just have to assume the guidebooks don't include absolutely everything, which is very easy.


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