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.
Are you denying Gero his luscious white locks?
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!I'll ask again: Are you denying Gero his luscious white locks?
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!What older people can't think they look good as they are? Sounding a bit ageist there unnoun.
edited 9th Feb '16 5:29:36 PM by LSBK
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
Honestly, this thread and the main thread are often interchangeable.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!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.
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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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.