Why Cell was NEVER Perfect

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[@OptimalOptimus-en5sz]

The Cell Jrs. I believe came from King Piccolo's ability to spawn minions from himself.

[@psyxypher3881]

"Mistakes" was a recurring theme of the Cell Saga, and it's only fitting the arc villain is destroyed by his own.

[@jruler93]

He was the perfect mix of those whose cells made him, including a perfect mix of their flaws. His Vegeta, his Goku his Frieza; they all lead him to push Gohan until the boy snapped and killed perfectly flawed bio-mechanical android.

[@2l84me8]

A very well made summary. Perfect Cell was a great analogy of facing your greatest enemy but also having your biggest weaknesses to exploit. Every single ambition and mistake these characters made was also part of Cell as well.

[@nerdweebotrash3298]

Let’s all take a minute to realize Cell’s potential must have been otherworldly. Funny though that the inner egos clashed and caused his demise. Great video Scholar keep up the great work!

[@dodumichalcevski]

Imagine cell training for 1 year. Dude didnt train a single day.

[@nerdweebotrash3298]

@@dodumichalcevski makes Golden Frieza look like a chump. Let that man into the time chamber. Super Perfect Cell with time chamber trainer shits on The T.O.P.

[@justoneherofortheworld667]

Cell giving Gohan a gun and then pointing at his head, saying right here shoot here Gohan I dare you.

[@Shywhitefox]

I really like this, it is very well put together, thought out, and explained, but the one thing I think was Cell's greatest disadvantage was that he had a 'perfect' form, Like you said when he Gohan overpowered him and he came back from blowing up, he was desperate and weak, then got a massive power boost. Instead of spending 10 days standing around and doing nothing, he very easily could have tapped into the Frieza Cell's within him and grow way stronger, but due to having a 'perfect' form, a notion prebaked into him by Dr Gero, a weak human that was not even fully knowledgeable about what Goku and the others were capable of, Cell would probably never even consider training, or gaining more power, even with those cells within his body, and all power ups he got would solely be from near death Zenkai Boosts. If Cell ever got the thought to go beyond his previous notion of perfection, he would be unstoppable. It would be like Vegeta if he truly believed Super Saiyan was the true, ultimate form a Saiyan could take and never train again, and be in total denial if he was constantly getting his ass handed to him and seeing Goku go 5 Super Saiyan levels beyond him, only accidently getting stronger from near death experiences.

[@grasshopper-ln9us]

Favorite villian

[@ryanr20091]

Imperfect cell was a better written villain more intriguing very strategic crafty and as a kid was actually scared. Perfect cell was kind of boring elitist snobbish wasted alot of time made alot of mistakes and lost what made him interesting in the first place. Frieza was much better not even close in terms of character.

[@cellandbuuaremyfavoritedbz1542]

@@ryanr20091 Exactly

[@keno88]

This is all considering that Goku had “good” already in his DNA and didn’t have a lust to dominate or destroy like the other saiyans. Considering a big part of his personality seems to stem from his head injury from when he was a baby, the theory would rely on this altering his DNA … which would seem unlikely. Considering his lust for competition, I believe this and Vegeta’s desire to find stronger opponents to test themselves was the saving grace for cell not destroying everyone in an instant.

[@DavidPereiraLima123]

Maybe pure Kakarot would always be a fair sportsman. A head injury didn't take that away.

[@keno88]

@@DavidPereiraLima123 a competitor sure but not necessarily a hero or savior, Especially when the Saiyans were bred and raised to conquer planets.

[@TSAPsup]

I was going to say how awesome of a video topic this was, but so many other I have already, so I’ll just say thank you for making this lol. ❤️

[@norbertgarcia6184]

It was cell's freeza side that led to his downfall.

[@SRT_DRE]

Nope. His Saiyan side. Specifically Vegeta.

[@cellandbuuaremyfavoritedbz1542]

@@SRT_DRE Exactly if it were frizea's cell , cell would instantly kill vegeta and trunks right there , instead of announcing the cell games

[@treyd7607]

@cellandbuuaremyfavoritedbz1542 Nope, the tournament is more Goku, vegeta would play with him then finish him off.

[@user-zj1fp4vr4r]

It was actually vegeta's side

[@derrickpowell5751]

Frieza would have never given his opponents 10 days to get ready for him. Hate to say it, but it’s the Goku that did him in. Cell had already won. It was just too easy for him to take it.

[@doublehelix2167]

Cell should've came back in super instead of Frieza

[@Riftrender]

Freeza is much more iconic.

[@aster4jaden]

Maybe killing present day Cell was too soon.

[@thegreatacolyt1277]

Yes

[@nostalgianetwork1225]

Cell Max: Am I a joke to you?

[@aster4jaden]

@@nostalgianetwork1225 Cell Max was just a beast.

[@ifailatblackops1]

If cell had gohans cells he could’ve possibly tapped into that rage

[@rockk9753]

He does have Gohan's cells

[@ifailatblackops1]

@@rockk9753 Within the original manga, the list is Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Freeza, and Cold. He possesses none of Gohan's genetic material

[@ifailatblackops1]

@@rockk9753 even in the anime it was stated that between Goku and Vegeta, they already had plenty of genetic material from Saiyans, and thus there was no need for extra.

[@JohnQueSacc]

Part of his character is that his power is fundamentally limited

[@rockk9753]

@@ifailatblackops1 they said he had the world's greatest martial artists from the world tournament, and they also had Raditz, and Nappa's DNA, they only said that they could have gotten Trunk's DNA as well but they had enough on the Saiyans it didn't say specifically because of Goku and Vegeta only, at that point Gohan had taken out Raditz it's kind of implied Gohan's cells are also in there, also Yamcha and all the human Z fighters

[@Rojiace]

Poor Cell has the potential to go even further, instead we got Frieza...

[@yimwee2401]

Do you think cell absorbing 17 and 18 also altered his personality? Im not sure if anyone has ever talked about this before. Edit* to clarify I mean 17 and 18s personalities are also incorporated into his mental.

[@rockk9753]

It probably did, 17 and 18 were kind of aware of what was going on while they were inside cell because 17 recognized Goku's voice from when he was inside cell

[@mohibbaneaahlebyata.s7332]

Bro I Am waiting for Your Goku Vs Cell Explosion video

[@nivarnpaku8430]

Cell: I AM Perfect! After this video comes out Cell: Well am sorry I lied.

[@kingmasterlord]

i want to see him tap Golden Freeza form. Cell Dorado

[@ChakraOver9k]

Great analysis. You broke it down very well. Those saiyan cells clouded his judgements in so many ways. He definitely was a flawed design

[@demi-femme4821]

I always saw Cell as mostly being a mutant Freeza in terms of biology, where he was stuck in one of the power suppressions and so Gero's only course of action was to brute force the transformations by having Cell absorb 17 and 18. Now, whether Perfect Cell has reached his final form depends on if you see Imperfect Cell as being in his first form or second form.

[@LiorVolf]

He is just Cell and he is Cellnough 😊

[@matygoo1644]

What’s the song at the end called?

[@chad63]

its because cell didnt absorbed the 17&18 in his timeline.

[@supercoollink1228]

A question that I'm still wondering if cells head is what holds how he Regenerates Shouldn't he be dead when goku blew his head off???

[@unknowntraveler9576]

Freeza is arguably the worst for toying with their opponents, on namiake, he could have taken all the Z fighters out instantly, including goku before he got super sayan, but he only wanted to use 5% of his power because he was so assured that they couldn’t do anything major to him, he played a “watch me use no arms game with goku”, then when he comes back as mechanical freeza, king cold and freeza could have simply blown earth up from space, but they wanted the z fighters to know it was him who deletes them 😅

[@Darklg23]

Friezas and Vegetas arrogance fed in to his ego

[@phantomreaver85]

Not really how biology works. But then again we are talking about an "android" made from organic donor cells meaning he's actually a gene spliced hybrid so whatever. Hes about as much an android as I am a super saiyan lol.

[@shawn092182]

Yep, Cell looks nothing like my smartphone.

[@phantomreaver85]

​​@@shawn092182well lame jokes aside, the point is an android is an artificial contruct meant to resemble a human being. Cell isn't mechanical, he isn't synthetic, he is literally a genetic hybrid created using donor cells.

[@phantomreaver85]

​​@@shawn092182 well very lame joke aside, point is an android is an artificial construct meant to resemble a humanoid. Cell isn't mechanical in any way and he's not synthetic. He is literally a genetic hybrid created using donor cells.

[@phantomreaver85]

well lame joke aside, point is an android is an artificial construct meant to resemble a humanoid. Cell isn't mechanical in any way and he's not synthetic. He is literally a genetic hybrid created using donor cells.

[@phantomreaver85]

well lame joke aside, point is an android is an artificial construct meant to resemble a humanoid. Cell isn't mechanical in any way and he's not synthetic. He is literally a genetic hybrid created using donor cells. Why this comment keeps getting deleted I have no idea.

[@cellandbuuaremyfavoritedbz1542]

Bro waiting for goku vs cell explosion

[@freashswagg1]

Goku doesn’t run his mouth like vegeta and them

[@shawn092182]

Unless if he's on Planet Namek

[@black2785]

Make you wonder if you can hit Buu hard enough all the people he absorbed that are still in a sack can be spat out

[@krodh9946]

While Gohan was blasting Cell with that walking one-armed Kamehameha, one final line could have been, "Remember Cell.....Nobody's perfect."😄

[@Arbron]

I like to think that Gohan effectively broke Cell's mind, and thus when he came back he was insane. He always planned to destroy the Earth when he was done with it, but it wasn't until his return that he decided to go full omnicide. And as much of a prick as he was before, he at least wasn't a random murderer. Everyone he killed, he killed for a reason. The English dub even has him say "killing the helpless quickly grows old."

[@dwightnorton3398]

Agreed 100

[@zombathinlostleghackercat5233]

It's because he had a cape.

[@dripster4424]

Cheesy HFJ impersonator account

[@SmallOneEyedKing]

Cell's Key weakness was his Arrogance.

[@artistanthony1007]

If there was a true creator that makes the life in their image, that individual would be perfect.

[@Hamdog884]

Dna doesnt contain memories…

[@DavidPereiraLima123]

They contain personalities, though. And his knowledge comes from Gero spy drones.

[@cellandbuuaremyfavoritedbz1542]

@@DavidPereiraLima123 exactly

[@SaiyanScholar]

Their cells literally gave him knowledge of the fighters including the NAMES of the moves. Yes... Names.

[@Hamdog884]

@@SaiyanScholaru said “ those dark memories from vegeta and piccolo could easily add to the 2/5ths of Cell”

[@SaiyanScholar]

Cell knows information from his own cells. He knew it was called a Kamehameha yet he's never seen one in action. So the 2/5ths still provide stored information just on a genetic level because Dr Gero is wild.

[@Ojutai]

I find you are definitely right that freeza and king cold were never interested in testing their power against stronger fighters as saiyans like to do but i do think that having to train and goku slowly rubbibing off on him over the years have affected freeza in a way where by super the spark and love for fighting has somewhat awakened within him. If updated dna samples were taken for like a Perfect-er Cell Ex+ Mk3.14 or whatever, hold the king cold he might not be so flawed this time around 😂

[@colinmorgan2511]

To bad we didn't get a bit Gogeta in the mix.

[@megasyxx]

Just change perfect with complete.......complete cell is most appropriate 😊

[@mpangamponga1514]

What basically saying is cell fumbled the bag. 😂😂😂

[@peterjmgamer1998]

Because cell like doesn't have frieza's black and white form, orange namekain and flssj4lb and beast combined 😐

[@peterjmgamer1998]

If he went all 4 combined. Even ultra gogeta or vegito wouldn't be able to stop him

[@JorgeF69]

It would have made sense for cell to come back and be absolutely busted rather than frieza since he had all the z fighters cells

[@bensoncheung2801]

💪💪💪

[@Sjono]

Ironically Cell not taking Hercule seriously and not killing him when he had the chance was what directly lead to his downfall

[@cellandbuuaremyfavoritedbz1542]

exactly if he killed satan early , gohan could not go ssj 2 and cell kills all z fighters

[@aster4jaden]

He's still Perfect to me.

[@LiorVolf]

He is just Cell, and he is cellnough

[@cellandbuuaremyfavoritedbz1542]

same here , you can't tell cell that he's not perfect

[@XeroAnarian]

2:32 lol why would you use one of the bad animation frames?

[@Sjono]

On the other hand Present Trunks and Future Trunks show that having the same genes doesn’t necessarily make you the same person

[@DoctorFuzworth]

Wait so gokus cells had head damage too??

[@AlexDKong]

Summary he was perfect in body but not of mind

[@UndisputedKingNate]

Looking at the downfall of cell all the dna 🧬 cells of all the other fighters all those personalities cell achieved his perfect form when absorbed Androids 17&18 but the biggest downfall of cell was the fact he that fully did not understand all the weakness that he had of the other fighters and at was his Ultimate Downfall

[@StarkOberon4]

If only had Frieza cells he would kill Vegeta and Trunks? Im sorry but Frieza enjoyed games as much as Cell. He toyed with goku for hours, even sugesting games like no arm fighting.

[@rockk9753]

Cell did kill Trunks, and he does have Freeza's cells

[@Bakuru]

True, but it's not the same thing. Freeza was being cruel in that moment. He wanted to torture Goku. Cell was being honorable. He wanted to give the Z Fighters a chance to match him. This is more so because he wanted to test his strength due to his saiyan cells influencing him, but point still stands

[@DADRB0B55]

I have been asking myself this very question for the past few days & was cell ever truly “perfect” ?? The strive for “perfection” is a a bottomless well, the idea that he was already perfect is contradicted with in his very own biology off limitless potential. Perfect Cell isn’t programmed with a task like other Androids, so he has to find his own short sighted goals which lack ambition outside of beating Goku who was weaker than 17/18 when they first meet.

[@baseupp12]

Vegeta at the time when Cell got his DNA from him wasnt a good guy yet, was he a bit more tame and relaxed yeah but he wasnt like Piccolo someone who was at this time pretty much a good guy Vegeta wasnt yet.

[@lovesgibson]

The question is, did Gohan require Vegeta’s help to beat Cell in the kamehameha battle?

[@connormckenna4161]

What if cell trained like frieza in resurrection F ?

[@winterburden]

Cell was *always* perfect 😤

[@ssjrose3simon]

A current perfect cell would be too op since hed have the dna of every fighter since the buu saga all the way to the moro arc he would literally be unstoppable to mortals at least maybe even majority of the gods. It makes sense why the super hero movie had imperfect cell max rather than perfect cell max.

[@sirsir9665]

All of Doctor Gero's Androids failed because they had too much personality and behavior issues.

[@sdndkjd]

First is me.

[@King_Zahndo3612]

Buddy thought he was first 💀🙏🏽

[@kelvinw18]

I guess I’m 3rd. Lol

[@Heero-oz4zp]

I find it interesting that some androids have souls and some don't. like Cell went to hell meaning he had a soul even though he was artificial, but 16 doesn't? 19 and 20 are in hell in GT. so they have souls? it's weird. would 17 and 18 or even 21 be considered to have souls?

[@Lynn.-_-.]

17 and 18 were originally human so...

[@Abi_Briskcast]

Cells npd didn't change at all

[@cellandbuuaremyfavoritedbz1542]

it feels like cell's thinking and personality change him in each form

[@topitavi]

I think cell would've been stronger if he was from the same timeline because timelies had differences

[@shawn092182]

Too bad Cell didn't have the cells from the greatest hero of all, The People's Champ, Mr. Satan. If he had, then Cell would've had Mr. Satan's survival trait. He was the only hero who never got killed by the series's villains.

[@windows98alpha35]

TMW DB fans realize Perfect Cell was just the name and wasn’t meant to be taken literally. Lol

[@Haliflux1111]

its because he had a forced idea of Perfection instead of training to become perfect

[@apollosungod2819]

Hey dude... a huge SPOILERS... Cell is a MONSTER... and once he reached the "Perfect" Cell form, he became a Perfect MONSTER and once he was able to resurrect himself from a single surviving CELL in the after life realm, he became SUPER Perfect MONSTER... and once he figured out or learned how to do instant transmission... haha! Cell's purpose is to be a MONSTER... he does not have a structure like Freezer, the Saiyans or even Dr Gero... in fact not even like Artificial Humans 17 and 18... because Cell even in his Super Perfect final form is really a MONSTER... he does things that a monster would do, he EATS or CONSUMES... how did you miss that... he does that to the humanoid beings on the planet, that makes him no different than True Buu or the Ancient Buu or "Kid" Buu... he is a MONSTER and the only reason he doesn't one shot destroy the Solar System is because Dr Gero programmed a game mindset to fight and best and play with Goku until he kills him... Basically if Cell were to have won especially after becoming Super Perfect Cell, he would just kill Gohan, then torture kill the rest and then just blow up the Solar System or not... but he would still have to consume humans... otherwise there might have been a free will after he killed Goku and he would have gone through the galaxy looking for powerful oppoents to play a game of kill.... and eat.

[@beatsmithx1090]

There's no vegeta dna in cell though. Vegeta wasn't on earth when cell was created

[@azuredream9032]

When vegeta first arrived to earth that's how gero small tracking robot obtained his cells.

[@beatsmithx1090]

@@azuredream9032 you're right. I just remembered that cell has both king colds and friezas DNA, which means cell was created after freiza and king cold had been destroyed by trunks. Vegeta had already become an earthling by then. But wait. I just figured out a contradiction on the show while typing this. The androids and Dr Gero didn't know about super saiyan transformation and were shocked when they saw Goku transform. If they don't know super saiyan that means they're not supposed to know anything from namek, which is where they launched suoer saiyan. Meaning they shouldn't know about freiza and king cold. If the androids learned about freiza and King cold when they arrived on earth, then they should know about trunks and his super saiyan transformation. But the androids never knew anything about that. Also, I just thought of another one. Lol. Trunks came from the future that wasn't saved by anyone from the future. Which means in trunks timeline, just like on the main time line, freiza and king cold must have arrived on earth but there was no trunks from the future to destroy them. If there's no powerful trunks from the future to save them, shouldn't that mean freiza and cold destroyed the earth?

[@Lynn.-_-.]

@@beatsmithx1090 maybe the current cell doesn't have freeza or king colds dna. the cell we see is from the future. btw Goku knows instant transmission so he could just get there after everyone was defeated.

[@King_Zahndo3612]

First?

[@jon2769]

Totally first

[@enma8441]

This makes no sense 😂

[@maridiancrest243]

I like how you arnt an arrogant and pretencious in your videos like some dbz youtbers cough cough @LSMMIKE

[@williamcase426]

CELL IS PERFECT. Wtf are you on

[@JohnWiku]

He became Super Perfect 😂😂

[@mr.morningstar_333]

Cell wasn't perfect because he didn't have Jesus Christ of Nazareth not playing either love u God repent and come to Jesus Christ of Nazareth before it's too late

[@ROCKYPLAYA]

What's up with the srrow on the thumbnail for? It makes no sense.

[@SaiyanScholar]

It's pointing at Cell. What's up?

[@ROCKYPLAYA]

@@SaiyanScholar No problem really, just curious because you put the circle in the chest area and I was confused.

[@SaiyanScholar]

Helps algorithm and clicks haha

[@fantasymangacomicvisionary5688]

Disagree because if Cell only had Frieza and Frieza Dad mentality, then he wouldn't have the mentality to become better than Prefect. Which is Frieza and his Dad weakness. Cells was Perfect at Base Mode, but his Saiyan Cells made him want to ascend pass Perfect.

[@duckwickvonballs3391]

Hey... Who's to say there won't be a _Flawless Cell_ somewhere in the future?