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Thebrawlbro Since: Aug, 2013
#24926: Feb 18th 2017 at 6:18:53 AM

He's got heat beams, and even if Cell could Instant Transmission, wouldn't help him if he doesn't know about Supermans weakness to red suns.

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#24927: Feb 18th 2017 at 6:21:46 AM

Cell doesn't know about Superman's weakness to a red sun and Superman doesn't know about Cell's vital nucleus. Between the two, however, Cell's vulnerability is easier to hit through trial and error than Superman's.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#24928: Feb 18th 2017 at 6:22:10 AM

[up][up][up] 4) Fail because Goku's IT takes longer than that to work.

5) Fail because Goku's IT needs a ki signature to teleport to

edited 18th Feb '17 6:22:19 AM by Saiga

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#24929: Feb 18th 2017 at 6:23:07 AM

Musing further, all Superman really has to do is see Cell regenerate from the nucleus after a particularly nasty hit. X-Ray vision to pinpoint and take it out. Match point to Superman.

edited 18th Feb '17 6:23:31 AM by TobiasDrake

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#24930: Feb 18th 2017 at 6:25:36 AM

Well, except for the example of Cell regenerating when his nucleus should have been destroyed.

But regenerating uses up energy, even for Cell. Superman can just beat him to pieces until he runs out of energy and dies.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#24931: Feb 18th 2017 at 6:29:23 AM

Yeah Namekians use Ki to regenerate limbs. They can't keep it up forever like Majin Buu.

WillDeRegio Since: Jan, 2015
#24932: Feb 18th 2017 at 6:51:09 AM

Dr. Gero was a Mad Scientist. Cell has knowledge of things Gero shouldn't have known about in Abridged. Cell is also green. Ergo, wild mass guessCell contains Kryptonite, just in case.wild mass guess

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#24933: Feb 18th 2017 at 7:22:40 AM

And yet, when Cell was beat so thoroughly that he threw up his perfect form, and then exploded, he somehow regenerated with more energy than he had ever had.

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OmegaRadiance Since: Jun, 2011
#24934: Feb 18th 2017 at 7:59:09 AM

Evil is a regenerating power source.

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#24935: Feb 18th 2017 at 8:31:36 AM

Unless they are trolling, this means no One Punch Man, altough according to the replies, Superman might be on the table.

Kaiser also mentioned that Saitama and OPM characters would be too hard to edit in.

EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#24936: Feb 18th 2017 at 8:34:51 AM

I enjoyed the Cell vs Kenshiro very much because it brought a unique dynamic and had Cell actually lose his cool for once.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#24937: Feb 18th 2017 at 9:39:12 AM

And yet, when Cell was beat so thoroughly that he threw up his perfect form, and then exploded, he somehow regenerated with more energy than he had ever had.

That's not really an "and yet" thing, we know what happened there.

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#24938: Feb 18th 2017 at 9:45:30 AM

I mean, we know he got a zenkai, but I don't think it's ever really explained why the zenkai automatically granted him his Perfect Form. Super Semi-Perfect Cell would have made more sense.

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#24939: Feb 18th 2017 at 9:48:48 AM

The Cyborgs were supposed to fuel his natural evolution.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#24940: Feb 18th 2017 at 9:49:23 AM

Yes, it is touched upon, his cells "remembered" him at his most powerful and so molded his body back into that form. If you're being technical about it, going back into Semi-Perfect form doesn't make much sense either since 17 was also killed in the explosion and no longer part of his body.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#24941: Feb 18th 2017 at 10:31:38 AM

The physics and biology of 17 and 18 being bonded to Cell (especially given Cell vomiting up 18 whole) is really vague. It's difficult to say when 17 died.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#24942: Feb 18th 2017 at 10:36:50 AM

We know he died during the explosion, there's really no reason to think otherwise. After Cell spit out 18 she was still alive.

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#24943: Feb 18th 2017 at 10:42:28 AM

Good. Saitama is not reconcilable with the concept of the Cell Games.

Not necessarily, though it would have to be something like "Saitama shows up to fight. Cell attacks, but it does nothing. Saitama has that confused/WTF expression he always has. Cell tries to do more, but it still does nothing. Saitama gets bored and gets ready to kill him in one punch. But, oh wait, today is a special sale at the supermarket! He runs off leaving Cell flabbergasted."

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#24944: Feb 18th 2017 at 10:48:03 AM

[up][up] If we assume he died because of loss of mass, then both 17 and 18 probably should've been dead when Goku blew up off Cell's upper half, or arguably even earlier when Vegeta Final Flash-ed him. 18 may have been whole when regurgitated, but she and 17 can't have been whole the entire time she was in Cell.

We don't actually know when 17 died. The general assumption is that he died when Gohan killed Cell, but that entire perspective on the story is unexplored in either the manga or the anime.

Speaking of which, I wonder if Abridged is going to have a gag around how badly the dub screwed up that situation at first.

edited 18th Feb '17 10:53:33 AM by KnownUnknown

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#24945: Feb 18th 2017 at 10:54:28 AM

The general assumption I've always seen is during his self-destruction. They even elaborate that he no longer requires the androids power to stay in his perfect form and his now even stronger than planned. But, I suppose you're right. Not that it really matters. The explanation for why Cell returned to his perfect form stands whether 17 is still "alive" or not.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#24946: Feb 18th 2017 at 10:55:51 AM

It's a shame that everyone - even Cell - kind of forgets about 17 from the point he's absorbed to the point where Krillin's wishes the bombs gone.

edited 18th Feb '17 10:56:49 AM by KnownUnknown

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#24947: Feb 18th 2017 at 11:03:06 AM

Doesn't stop at just that point. Android 17 basically f*cks off the face of the Earth never to be heard from again. We know he was revived by the wish to restore Cell's victims and I think he appears in the anime version of the "Everyone lend your power to defeat Majin Buu" scene, but that's it. Everything we know about him - becoming a park ranger, starting a family - came from interviews and shit.

I mean, GT brings him back but only in the most mean-spirited way imaginable.

edited 18th Feb '17 11:03:40 AM by TobiasDrake

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#24948: Feb 18th 2017 at 11:04:10 AM

He also showed up in the manga version as well, though he was just raising his hands alone at that point; then you have him coming back entirely for the new arc in Super.

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#24949: Feb 18th 2017 at 11:09:38 AM

Saitama is always late to the fight anyway. After Cell dies would be the most appropriate time to show up.

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#24950: Feb 18th 2017 at 11:16:20 AM

Speaking of which, I wonder if Abridged is going to have a gag around how badly the dub screwed up that situation at first.

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