Question about Cell

[Last Son of Krypton]

I looked through the topics and I didn't find this question. How was Cell able to attain his super perfect form, or keep his perfect form for that matter, without Android 18 being a part of him after he self destructed? I don't remember it being explained in the show and I have never read the manga.

[VegettoEX]

I looked through the topics and I didn't find this question. How was Cell able to attain his super perfect form, or keep his perfect form for that matter, without Android 18 being a part of him after he self destructed? I don't remember it being explained in the show and I have never read the manga.

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[Eclipse]

I looked through the topics and I didn't find this question. How was Cell able to attain his super perfect form, or keep his perfect form for that matter, without Android 18 being a part of him after he self destructed? I don't remember it being explained in the show and I have never read the manga.

Didn't Cell, in the anime, say that his cells had absorbed the power and data from Android 18, and even though she was ripped from his body, those cells decided to kick in that data.

[t-bone135]

I looked through the topics and I didn't find this question. How was Cell able to attain his super perfect form, or keep his perfect form for that matter, without Android 18 being a part of him after he self destructed? I don't remember it being explained in the show and I have never read the manga.

Didn't Cell, in the anime, say that his cells had absorbed the power and data from Android 18, and even though she was ripped from his body, those cells decided to kick in that data.

That pretty much nails it on the head. Think of it this way: When Cell died, his single cell had to regenerate Cell. But the cell's had already commited Cell in his perfect form to "memory". So in essence, that was his new operating system and when Cell's newest one crashed all he needed to do was restart, and presto, new perfect Cell. Add a few Saiyan traits and there you have it.

[Kaboom]

Let's not forget the "power-boost-after-brush-with-death" thing he got from his Saiyan DNA (That "Z" word; I forget it).
That could have helped his being re-perfected in addition to his SSj2-esque power boost.

[t-bone135]

Let's not forget the
"power-boost-after-brush-with-death" thing he got from his Saiyan DNA (That "Z" word; I forget it).
That could have helped his being re-perfected in addition to his SSj2-esque power boost.

Add a few Saiyan traits and there you have it.

Yep, I got that covered already.

But your right, it was the Saiyajin cell's in Cell that gave him the ability to increase his power to the level of SSJ 2 and maybe even a little beyond. Being left with a single part of yourself seems about as close to death as it gets, so he got a pretty good kick in the pants when it was all said and done. And since Cell was already so close to being a SSJ 2 as it was, all it took was the push from those Saiyajin genes to get him over the top.

[WhatTheDarn]

But how did he learn Shunkan Idou? The only theory I've heard is that bits and pieces of Goku's body got mixed in with Cell when he was regenerating, which is pretty gross.

[t-bone135]

But how did he learn Shunkan Idou? The only theory I've heard is that bits and pieces of Goku's body got mixed in with Cell when he was regenerating, which is pretty gross.

All it says in the dub anyway is that he learned it because Goku used it against him, so his cells just sort of picked it up and assimilated it with his own abilities. I thought that one of Cell's cellular parts had the ability to learn an ability used against him almost instantly, but I'm not sure which if any. Can anyone confirm or deny that? Otherwise that's all I got.

[Conan the SSJ]

Daimao's subs say Cell acquired Instantaneous Movement through studying it when Goku was performing it, and apparently the experience when Goku teleported him to Kaio's was the final straw Cell needed. Japanese version of the anime, Cell never absorbed some of Goku's cells, like he supposedly did in the dub canon. Hell, I don't think that'd even make sense considering only one microscopic particle of Cell regenerated from following the explosion. Then again, the fact that Cell's core was in his head and survived Goku's Warp Kamehame-Ha makes absolutely no sense in the manga or anime.

[t-bone135]

Daimao's subs say Cell acquired Instantaneous Movement through studying it when Goku was performing it, and apparently the experience when Goku teleported him to Kaio's was the final straw Cell needed.

That's what I thought. The dub puts it that way pretty much as far as I recall. At least that's what I remember getting from it anyway.

[MultilangDBZ]

Apparently, recalling from the original anime, it was never explained as to how Cell learnt Goku's Shunkanido before/after blowing himself up. He simply said that he 'learnt' it thereafter.

[Duo]

Let's see...Cell was horribly outclassed to the point where Toriyama had to pull 3 things right out his rear end to make up for it.

Something that is getting me is why people aren't wondering where he also got #17's being from in order to be complete. I mean, I know he survived the Final Flash and Teleportation Kamehameha, but friggin self destruction?

Seems that Cells (I had redundancy) Cells just needed to mingle with the Cyborgs for a good bit and sort of make up for the lack of their infinite energy reactors on it's own, which probably came about for having them sit in him for 10 days.

Teleportation most definatly came from himself being teleported by Goku.

Rest is...me being too tired and shouldn't be posting cuz' I know I'll come back tomorrow and say "What the hell was I thinking?!" to this.