General rule of thumb: Never get bigger in a Japanese work or one inspired by one. It is not an advantage. No matter how much physical strength you may gain from it, you will get f*cking wrecked.
That immediately made me think of Resident Evil 5. Wesker spends the entire game, like his previous appearances, being an unstoppable, untouchable murderhouse that dodges bullets and Flash Steps around the field like nobody's business. In order to defeat him, protagonist Chris Redfield deliberately doses him into mutating into a larger, more powerful form - because doing so slows him down to manageable speeds.
edited 17th Feb '17 8:49:24 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Gen fights bobobo. The fight is nearly impenetrably silly and involves Bobobo pulling a bunch of minions and sight gags out of his Afro (perhaps including Yami Yugi, who gets rebuffed again when he tries to summon the executive producer). It ends strangely and ambiguously, and Cell is left wondering what happened.
And then he muses that pulling minions out of his body would be a useful trick to have up his sleeve.
I have a message from another time...Kenshiro it is!
Edit: Also, ewwwwwwwwwww...
edited 17th Feb '17 2:06:03 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Kenshiro is kinda freaking invincible eh?Can't help but notice some favoritism , cough.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Well, we were all wondering who'd get one up on him, and now we have our answer.
I'm legitimately surprised that worked though. We have a precedence for situations where if the body is too weird, pressure points won't work (Mr Heart and his Kev Lard body, so I'd figure Cell's Made of Iron body would, by comparison be the same.
Still, funny as hell though.
Pretty sure Ken just made use of one of the most powerful rules in fiction.
edited 17th Feb '17 2:30:29 PM by HandsomeRob
One Strip! One Strip!Does that stop it from being funny?
No. No it does not.
Plus, for someone of his level, the fact that Kenshiro did anything at all to Cell is still impressive. He's far above anything Ken has fought in his own series, so it's pretty cool, and extremely hilarious.
Sure, we all know Cell is gonna turn him into paste eventually, but seeing someone get one up on him (before Gohan goes on to completely wreck him) is still pretty awesome.
One Strip! One Strip!

Saitama's later fight against Garou is also an interesting approach (major webcomic spoilers): basically, despite being physically stronger than everyone else in the setting at the time, Garou is Weak, but Skilled compared to Saitama, and he only makes it as far as he does due to his martial arts mastery allowing him to dodge Saitama's attacks before they happen by reading his body language. Later on in the fight, Garou transforms into progressively more powerful and monstrous forms out of frustration, but, despite getting stronger, these forms only make Garou do worse against Saitama because he loses the skill advantage in his blind, feral rage, and the gap between them is so incomprehensibly large that no increase on Garou's part even came close to closing it.
edited 17th Feb '17 8:42:03 AM by PushoverMediaCritic