Why didn't Cell get his own movie?

[JohnnyCashKami]

Cell's one of my favorite Z villain-y characters whom has an adorable love-hate attitude, a formidable design per transformation and the whole thing about being the perfect being really suits him. It's really a shame that Freeza always gets to be everywhere and Cell was more or less forgotten.

This would also give TOEI a reason to bring back Wakamoto.

[jjgp1112]

Cell isn't nearly as popular in Japan as Frieza. Frieza is more or less the "face" of Dragon Ball villains, basically the Joker of Dragon Ball. And his actions are the central driving force of Dragon Ball's overall narrative too. Cell's just a weird bug dude.

Cell's popularity is more of a Western thing.

[RandomGuy96]

The popular character from the Cell arc was not Cell, but Trunks. Who did get his own arc, plus two movies and another half-arc for his kid self.

From DB Forever, Cell is the least popular of the four main 'Z' arc villains:

From Weekly Jump 1993 Issue No. 12, Cell was less popular than what seemed to be one-shot joke characters at the height of his own arc:

[Ssjcell]

Cell's one of my favorite Z villain-y characters whom has an adorable love-hate attitude, a formidable design per transformation and the whole thing about being the perfect being really suits him. It's really a shame that Freeza always gets to be everywhere and Cell was more or less forgotten.

This would also give TOEI a reason to bring back Wakamoto.

Clearly it's because cell had no allies , no one wanted to bring him back to life not the andriods , z squad, or the earthlings

[Green_Goblin]

They can resolve this with saying he was an artificial being who didn't had an actual soul (just like Androids 16 and 19) to cover up the fact he was the least favorite DBZ villain.

[mahakaishin1991]

Cell's one of my favorite Z villain-y characters whom has an adorable love-hate attitude, a formidable design per transformation and the whole thing about being the perfect being really suits him. It's really a shame that Freeza always gets to be everywhere and Cell was more or less forgotten.

This would also give TOEI a reason to bring back Wakamoto.

Clearly it's because cell had no allies , no one wanted to bring him back to life not the andriods , z squad, or the earthlings

Cell Jrs miss their Dad?

[mahakaishin1991]

They can resolve this with saying he was an artificial being who didn't had an actual soul (just like Androids 16 and 19) to cover up the fact he was the least favorite DBZ villain.

but 16 and 19 were machines, Cell was a living organism

[Green_Goblin]

They can resolve this with saying he was an artificial being who didn't had an actual soul (just like Androids 16 and 19) to cover up the fact he was the least favorite DBZ villain.

but 16 and 19 were machines, Cell was a living organism

Look at what I bolded. Resolve = excuse. It's Dragon Ball, they're not expecting kids to know that, and they don't keep on consistency.

[mahakaishin1991]

They can resolve this with saying he was an artificial being who didn't had an actual soul (just like Androids 16 and 19) to cover up the fact he was the least favorite DBZ villain.

but 16 and 19 were machines, Cell was a living organism

Look at what I bolded. Resolve = excuse. It's Dragon Ball, they're not expecting kids to know that, and they don't keep on consistency.

And maybe you should rewatch the series because Cell highlights he's biological in series. It gets into a messy area of including clones and other life forms as not having a soul. Heck, you'd risk having Piccolo as soulless since he's a spat out clone of the original demon king.

It would be very unlikely he is

[Green_Goblin]

but 16 and 19 were machines, Cell was a living organism

Look at what I bolded. Resolve = excuse. It's Dragon Ball, they're not expecting kids to know that, and they don't keep on consistency.

And maybe you should rewatch the series because Cell highlights he's biological in series. It gets into a messy area of including clones and other life forms as not having a soul. Heck, you'd risk having Piccolo as soulless since he's a spat out clone of the original demon king.

It would be very unlikely he is

Piccolo was made by BIOLOGICAL reproduction, NOT by amalgam splicing of various genomes. And as I said: it's the SUPER Era, they don't keep things highly sophisticated nor consistent, u know.

[sintzu]

DB is living off of nostalgia and past glory so I think it's only a matter of time before Cell finds his way back into the story. I don't think it'll be a movie cause I don't know if he's popular enough to justify it but he could be in a Super arc once it returns or get something major in heroes like what Cooler has now.

[TheBigBoy]

Those spots are a pain to draw, brother.

[Vijay]

I had similar doubt. But hey, look at it this way

Movie baddies have bout 30 mins screen-time outta 40-50 mins film & hardly utter even few lines

Cell however had whole mfkin Arc to develop his character, seizing up every moment towards acheiving his perfection while posing as mirroring counterpart against every opponent he's faced

1. Piccolo's sneaky intelligence & sly @ GingerTown showdown

2. Veggie's boastful & arrogant nature @ Super Veggie

3. Goku's confidence & love towards battle @ FPSSJ Goku

4. SSJ2 Kid Gohan's sadistical remarks driven by sickening ego @ climatic Kamehameha struggle

Its actually pretty damn neat in the series & I think TOEI would've reduced Cell into nother Super 13 in movies lol

Even now, after watchin RoF....it still dreads me to think TOEI may "accidentally" give us Diamond Cell

[Hellspawn28]

Cell's popularity is more of a Western thing.

Where's the proof for this?

[Lord Beerus]

Toriyama, or at least some of creative staff in Toei, don't see any storytelling or marketing mileage out of bringing Cell back to life and/or giving him his own story (again).

[JohnnyCashKami]

Toriyama, or at least some of creative staff in Toei, don't see any storytelling or marketing mileage out of bringing Cell back to life and/or giving him his own story (again).

But Freeza got that (imo) shitty ass movie and an arc in Super remade about it? TOEI and Toriyama are lacking creativity if that's the best they can come up with.

[CTAkuma]

Toriyama, or at least some of creative staff in Toei, don't see any storytelling or marketing mileage out of bringing Cell back to life and/or giving him his own story (again).

But Freeza got that (imo) shitty ass movie and an arc in Super remade about it? TOEI and Toriyama are lacking creativity if that's the best they can come up with.

And it would be creative if said movie involved Cell?

[sintzu]

Toriyama, or at least some of creative staff in Toei, don't see any storytelling or marketing mileage out of bringing Cell back to life and/or giving him his own story (again).

But Freeza got that (imo) shitty ass movie and an arc in Super remade about it? TOEI and Toriyama are lacking creativity if that's the best they can come up with.

Look at the bright side, at least we're not getting a Broly movie.

In terms of Freeza, he's the original story's most popular villain so he's going to sell and attract viewers regardless of the quality. It's a shame modern DB is a bit lacking when it comes to creativity but that's not completely its fault as fans are clearly happy with it based on the sales so you can't really blame the people behind it for making what sells.

[Apslup]

He doesn't really need a movie, I feel that his story arc was wrapped up quite nicely in the Cell Saga, along with the fact that there are other characters who are more popular than Cell who will bring in more money for Toei/Toriyama like Broly and Freeza.

Cell Jrs miss their Dad?

The Cell Jrs are all dead lol. Cell has no friends.

Cell's popularity is more of a Western thing.

Where's the proof for this?

Well, despite there being no concrete proof to the claim that Cell is popular in the West (E.G: Popularity Polls) I have met a lot of Western Dragon Ball Fans who do say that Cell is their favorite Villain (He is my favorite DB Villain), though Freeza is generally more popular among Western Fans along with Japanese Fans (especially among more causal fans of the franchise).

[JohnnyCashKami]

Toriyama, or at least some of creative staff in Toei, don't see any storytelling or marketing mileage out of bringing Cell back to life and/or giving him his own story (again).

But Freeza got that (imo) shitty ass movie and an arc in Super remade about it? TOEI and Toriyama are lacking creativity if that's the best they can come up with.

And it would be creative if said movie involved Cell?

Probably not. Modern Dragon Ball has been rather underwhelming in terms of stories, characters, music and quality arcs/movies.

Freeza's movie could have been so much better and I was really hoping it would've been.