Saiga wrote:That's too different things. Plus, Gero actually monitored the battles so it doesn't mean that Cell knew the techniques just from having their cells... stuff like the Kamehameha can be used by practically everyone to boot. Like I said, I wouldn't find it too bad if he had the potential to keep up with their SS2 forms because he had a SS2 equivalent... but there's no "of course" about it, he could very well develop slower through training because he was only designed to gain power through other methods.
Hell, he has Gohan's cells yet he doesn't have the "dormant power awakened through rage" thing so I doubt cells have anything to do with that.
I'm not saying he can't improve at all. Just that I think it's bullshit to assume that he can make massive gains through training when there's nothing to indicate that he ever could.
It's not really enough indication. We don't know how Cell's biology works, and his "SS2" equivalent is more or less a mistake. For him to get some magical SS3 equivalent it'd take one hell of a fluke to unlock and I think it'd take more than just training because to get there.
Dragon Ball is a shonen series, there are no restrictions...
How he obtained his SS2 equivalent was definitely a fluke, I'll give you that, but absolutely nothing says he couldn't have obtained that power via another method given the time and need/desire/motivation. I mean, Cell has all the traits, abilities and techniques of the characters who were used in his creation, including the near death boosts. Even though Gero was creating him with the intention of making him the most powerful being in existence, I think it would be absurd to assume that the doctor or the computer would code him with such an imperfection as not being able to increase his power via training (at least in his perfect form) so that he can't make the same sort of gains almost every other character in the series displays the ability to make, especially when you consider who most of his DNA donors were: Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Freeza, Cold and "various other organisms"; like insects. (He doesn't have Gohan's cells in the original...nor Kuririn, Nappa or Tenshinhan.) That would be such a gigantic flaw in his supposedly perfect being...
Oh, and Cell defying logic and having techniques of the various character just from having their cells is pretty much stated directly in the series. Gero monitored the battles for a while, but then stopped and gave the project over to the computer. He didn't know about Super Saiyan because he didn't watch Goku defeat Freeza, yet Cell clearly displays the ability to use the Death Beam, so it wasn't something Gero himself programmed in. Add in the fact that Piccolo states that Cell's very first Kamehameha is pathetic because Goku's cells were harvested back when he was a lot weaker, well I don't think you need much more to see the connection.