Cell/Misc

==Video Game Appearances==
Cell has made an impact in many Dragon Ball Z video games, mostly as a boss.
*Dragon Ball Z: Atsumare! Gokū Wārudo
*Dragon Ball Z III: Ressen Jinzōningen
*Dragon Ball Z: Gekitō Tenkaichi Budōkai
*Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden
*Cult Jump
*Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2
*Dragon Ball Z 2: Super Battle
*Dragon Ball Z: Buyū Retsuden
*Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
*Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension
*Dragon Ball Z: Shin Butōden
*Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout
*Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors
*Dragon Ball Z: Collectible Card Game
*Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors
*Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu
*Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2
*Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai
*Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road
*Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
*Dragon Ball Z: The Legend
*Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout
*Dragon Ball Z: Collectible CD Picture Cards
*Dragon Ball Z: Budokai
*Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2
*Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II
*Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3
*Dragon Ball Z: Sagas
*Data Carddass Dragon Ball Z
*Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi
*Data Carddass Dragon Ball Z 2
*Super Dragon Ball Z
*Battle Stadium D.O.N
*Dragon Ball Z: Battle Taikan Kamehameha - Omee to Fusion
*Dragon Ball Z TV game
*Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu
*Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
*Dragon Ball Z: Bakuretsu Impact
*Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
*Dragon Ball Z: Scouter Battle Taikan Kamehameha - Ora to Omee to Scouter
*Dragon Ball Z: W Bakuretsu Impact
*Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World
*Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Battlers
*Dragon Ball: Raging Blast
*Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2
*Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team
*Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden
*Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle
*Dragon Ball Heroes
*Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
*Dragon Ball Z For Kinect
*Dragon Ball: Tap Battle
*Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z
*Dragon Ball Xenoverse
*Dragon Ball Discross
*Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden
*Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle
*Dragon Ball Fusions
*Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
*Dragon Ball FighterZ
*Dragon Ball Legends
*Jump Force
*Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission
*Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
*Dragon Ball: The Breakers
*Fortnite x Dragon Ball Super
*Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
*Dragon Ball Super Divers
In Budokai Tenkaichi 2, during the Fusion Reborn chapter, Cell teams up with Frieza to fight Gohan, despite Cell himself never actually appearing in the film the chapter was adapted from.
==Voice Actors==
*Japanese: Norio Wakamoto
*English:
**Animaze dub: Jonathan David Cook
**Ocean Group dubs: Dale Wilson
**Funimation dub: Dameon Clarke (most media), Christopher Sabat (Supersonic Warriors 2), Travis Willingham (video games from Raging Blast to Battle of Z), Jim Foronda (DBZ Kai: TFC)
**Blue Water dub: Ben Jeffery
*Spanish:
**Latin American Spanish dub: Ricardo Brust (DBZ, DBGT), Salvador Reyes (Kai)
**Castilian Spanish dub: Alejo de la Fuente (DBZ), Alberto de Luque (DBGT), Francisco José Rodríguez (Kai)
*Portuguese:
**Brazilian Portuguese dub: João Batista †(DBZ), Raul Schlosser (GT & Kai), Roberto Garcia (DBZ Kai: TFC)
**European Portuguese dub António Semedo
*French dub: Georges Lycan (DBZ), Thierry Mercier (DBGT), Julien Kramer (Kai)
*German dub: Stefan Gossler
*Italian dub: Enrico Bertorelli (DBZ, DBGT), Dario Oppido (DBS)
*Hungarian dub: Balázsi Gyula (DBZ), Katona Zoltán (DBGT)
*Catalan dub: Jaume Mallofré
*Hebrew dub: Giora Kenneth
*Thai dub: Kaiwan Wattanakrai
*Cantonese dub: Lu Kwok Kuan
*Basque dub: Jon Ander Alberdi
*Korean dub: Seok-Pil Choi
*Valencian dub: Felip Bau
*Tagalog dub: Robert Brilliantes
*Vietnamese dub: Hồ Chơn Nhơn
*Greek dub: Themis Psihogios (DBZ), Yiannis Papaioannou (DBZ eps. 142, 149, 152-153, 158-161, 170, 175, 177-180, 185-186), Stelios Kalathas (DBGT)
==Name Changes==
*Shallow - Speedy dub
*Komórczak- Polish dub
*Célula - Castilian Spanish dub, Galician dub, Valencian dub
*Cèl·lula - Catalan dub
==Battles==
;Pre-Imperfect Cell Saga
*Cell (Imperfect Form) vs. Future Trunks (Cell's timeline)
;Dragon Ball Z
*Cell (Imperfect Form) vs. Piccolo
*Cell (Imperfect Form) vs. Earth's Military 
*Cell (Imperfect Form) vs. Battle Ball Team 
*Cell (Imperfect Form) vs. Krillin 
*Cell (Imperfect Form) vs. Android 17
*Cell (Imperfect Form) vs. Piccolo
*Cell (Imperfect Form) vs. Android 16
*Cell (Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Android 16
*Cell (Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Tien Shinhan
*Cell (Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Vegeta (Super Saiyan Second Grade)
*Cell (Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Future Trunks (Super Saiyan/Super Saiyan Second Grade)
*Cell (Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Krillin, Android 16, and Android 18
*Cell (Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Future Trunks (Super Saiyan Second Grade) 
*Cell (Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Android 18
*Cell (Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Krillin
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Krillin and Future Trunks (Super Saiyan Second Grade)
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Vegeta (Super Saiyan Second Grade)
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Future Trunks (Super Saiyan Third Grade)
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Earth's Military
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Caroni 
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Piroshki 
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Mr. Satan
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Goku (Super Saiyan)
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Gohan (Super Saiyan)
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Android 16
*Cell (Perfect Form/Power-Weighted/Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Gohan (Super Saiyan 2)
*Cell (Semi-Perfect Form) vs. Gohan (Super Saiyan 2) 
*Cell (Super Perfect Form) vs. Vegeta (Super Saiyan/Super Saiyan Second Grade)In the manga, they were only Super Saiyan. However, the animators gave them grossly enlarged muscles in the anime, indicating that they might have been 2nd Grade Super Saiyan.
*Cell (Super Perfect Form) vs. Gohan (Super Saiyan 2)
*Cell (Super Perfect Form) vs. Gohan (Super Saiyan 2), Piccolo, Tien Shinhan, Yamcha, and Krillin 
*Cell (Super Perfect Form) vs. Gohan (Super Saiyan 2) and Vegeta (Super Saiyan)
*Cell (Perfect Form), Frieza (Final Form), and King Cold vs. Pikkon 
;Dragon Ball Super
;Anime
*Cell (Perfect Form) (illusion), Tambourine (illusion), King Piccolo (illusion), Vegeta (illusion), Nappa (illusion), Ginyu (illusion), Burter (illusion), Jeice (illusion), Recoome (illusion), Guldo (illusion), Frieza (Final Form) (illusion), Super Buu (illusion), Dabura (illusion), Raditz (illusion), Bulma (illusion), and Super Shenron (illusion) vs. Goku (Base/Super Saiyan/Super Saiyan 3/Super Saiyan Blue) and Krillin
;Manga
*Cell (Perfect Form), Frieza (Final Form), and Kid Buu vs. Goku (Super Saiyan) 
*Cell (Perfect Form) vs. Mr. Satan 
;Dragon Ball GT
*Cell (Super Perfect Form) and Frieza (Final Form) vs. Goku
;Super Dragon Ball Heroes
;Manga
*Cell (Perfect; Ghost Warrior), Turles (Ghost Warrior), Lord Slug (Ghost Warrior), Bojack (Ghost Warrior), and Kid Buu (Ghost Warrior) vs. Future Trunks (Super Saiyan) and Cooler (Fourth Transformation/Golden Cooler)
*Cell (Transcended) vs. Xeno Trunks (Super Saiyan God) and Future Warrior in Black (Super Saiyan)
;Anime
*Cell (Super Perform Form/Transcended), Android 13 (Super Android 13/Transcended), Bojack (Full Power/Transcended), and Lord Slug (Transcended) vs. Xeno Trunks (Base/Super Saiyan God) and Future Warrior in Black (Base/Super Saiyan)
*Cell (Transcended), Bojack (Transcended), Android 13 (Transcended), and Lord Slug (Transcended) vs. Xeno Trunks (Super Saiyan God), Xeno Goten, Xeno Pan, and Uub (Majuub)
==List of characters killed by Cell==
*Future Trunks (Cell's timeline) – Killed by Cell in another alternate timeline. Cell strangled him with his tail so he could steal his Time Machine.
*Earthlings – Thousands of people are killed when Cell blows up inhabited islands in search of Android 18 and many others were killed through absorption. He annihilated a quarter of a city when making his global broadcast about the Cell Games. He also killed many military soldiers in his first battle with Piccolo, and during the ten-day waiting period of the Cell Games. Though, they were later revived with the Dragon Balls.
*Richest man in Gingertown – Killed through absorption in front of Piccolo. He was revived with the Dragon Balls.
*ZTV reporter – Killed by Perfect Cell's ki blast.
*Android 16 – Body destroyed by Cell using a Ki blast, but his head was still functioning. 16 was utterly destroyed when Cell stomped on and crushed his head while 16 was speaking to Gohan, telling him to fight Cell, inducing Gohan's Super Saiyan 2 transformation. Android 16 may have been "revived" with the Dragon Balls, but he was never seen afterwards.
*Android 17 - Died while still inside of Cell when he self-destructed, after Goku teleported him to King Kai's planet.
*Goku – Killed when Cell self-destructed, after Goku teleported him to King Kai's planet. He was later revived when Elder Kai gave him his life 7 years later.
*King Kai – Killed when Cell self-destructed, after Goku teleported him to King Kai's planet.
*Bubbles – Killed when Cell self-destructed, after Goku teleported him to King Kai's planet.
*Gregory – Killed when Cell self-destructed, after Goku teleported him to King Kai's planet.
*Future Trunks – Killed by Cell with a Full Power Death Beam through the chest. He was later revived with the Dragon Balls.
;Other Dragon Ball Stories
*Dr. Gero – Killed by Perfect Cell after Gero returns and attempts to gain Cell's assistance in Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors.Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors, 2004
;Assists
*Gohan - Killed by Dark Cell and two Dark Cell Juniors with the Father-Son Perfect Kamehameha in an altered timeline of Age 767 in Xenoverse. However, this timeline was erased by the Future Warrior travelling back in time to correct it so the original history could be restored.
*Android 21 - Killed by Super Perfect Cell, Frieza, and SSJ Goku's combined energy attack in the Enemy Warrior Arc of Dragon Ball FighterZ.
==Trivia==
;General
*Cell was named after the English word for "cell" because he absorbs Earthlings and transforms."Dragon Ball Q&A" section, Dragon Ball Full Color Androids Saga volume 4, 2014 Insects served as the model for Cell's design. Besides his design, the way in which he hatches from an egg and sheds his skin as he grows was also based on insects. Thus Cell very much resembles an insect in both in appearances and in the way he goes through different stages of metamorphosis.
*The series author Akira Toriyama mentions in an interview that drawing Cell's design is hard. He says that picture-wise, the spots on his body were really tough; it was very tedious to draw them every time.
*All four forms of Cell had some sort of characteristic of the Z Fighters who challenge him in his personality. Imperfect Cell is sneaky and calculating like Piccolo, Semi-Perfect Cell is vain and arrogant like Vegeta, Perfect Cell was laid back and only wanted to fight powerful opponents like Goku, and Super Perfect Cell is hotheaded and cocky like Super Saiyan 2 Gohan.
*Cell repeats two fatal mistakes that are made by another Z Fighter fighting him: First, Cell tricks Vegeta into letting him become complete so he could see his true power; later, Cell attempts to unlock Gohan's hidden potential as well, eventually resulting in his death. Like Future Trunks, Cell powers up to his maximum and beefs up, which makes him stronger but slows him down so that he cannot land a single hit on Gohan. This leads to him being kicked in the stomach and regurgitating Android 18, reverting him to his Semi-Perfect form.
*This incarnation of Cell kills an incarnation of Future Trunks twice: first in his Imperfect form when he steals Future Trunks' Time Machine and second in his Super Perfect form when he kills Future Trunks during the Cell Games. Ironically, the latter Future Trunks also kills Cell twice: first alongside Krillin while Present Cell is in his larval form and second in his own time while Future Cell is in his Imperfect Form.
*In the Budokai series, even if Cell has reached his Semi-Perfect, Perfect, and Super Perfect forms, whenever he receives a powerful hit and screams in pain, he sounds just like Imperfect Cell. This is due to the fact that Cell's forms were each given their own distinct voice in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z; in the Japanese version, Norio Wakamoto uses his natural speaking voice for all of Cell's forms, meaning that the Budokai development team had programmed the games to fit his voice rather than Dameon Clarke's (similarly to how adult Goku still retains some of kid Goku's sound clips in the English version of the games). This mistake continued on into the Budokai Tenkaichi series as well, as take-damage voice cuts were never recorded for those forms.
*In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, Cell's what-if "Cellin" form, shares a similar appearance and identical moveset with the nonplayable Cell Jr.: consisting only of Kamehameha, Ultimate Attack, Machine Gun Attack, and Cybernetic Shooter; but with the voice of Cell in his Imperfect form. This implies that Cellin may be a modified version of the Cell Jr. character model made playable for the game's what-if scenario.
*In all of Cell's 'adult' forms, there is one area of his body that never changes, the black diamond area in the center of his chest, which is similar to Frieza's.
*Considering how Cell can transform back into his larval form at will, Cell's immortality claim could be true when considering the , a sea creature that reverts to younger stages of its life to reset its lifespan.
*In the Dragon Ball Super anime, it is revealed that Bulma kept the Capsule containing Cell's Time Machine for research purposes, which later proves vital for the Z Fighters during the "Future" Trunks Saga after Goku Black destroys Future Trunks' Time Machine. Using her Future counterpart's notes, Bulma is able to re-purpose Cell's Time Machine into a replacement for Future Trunks' original Time Machine, allowing Future Trunks, Goku, and Vegeta to travel to the future in order to stop the evil Black. This is quite ironic as Cell's Time Machine originally belonged to Future Trunks' deceased counterpart from Cell's timeline.
*Cell's introduction was the result of a long debate between Akira Toriyama and his former editor Kazuhiko Torishima over the appeal of the villains that Toriyama was using for the Androids Saga. Toriyama had already created Androids 17 and 18 to replace Dr. Gero and 19, who Torishima described as "an old man and a China doll", only for Torishima to deride 17 and 18 as "a couple of brats". This led to the creation of Cell, who Torishima finally approved of.
*Of all three of Dragon Ball Z's main antagonists, Cell has the lowest body count. His kill count consists of only thousands of unnamed humans (and virtually all of them off-camera). Meanwhile, Frieza and Majin Buu have killed whole planets' populations on-camera.
*Calasmos - who was designed by Toriyama - from resembles Cell.
*Dragon Ball Online defines Cell's headpiece in his Semi-Perfect and Perfect forms as a Namekian trait,Dragon Ball Online, 2010 which would likely make it a recessive trait obtained from Piccolo's cells.
*Cell's design is similar to the character Jiora from one of Toriyama's earlier works Saving Soldier Cashman.
*Owing to his creation via genetic recombination, it is heavily implied in at least the anime that Cell genetically recombines his DNA to allow him to utilize moves that were used by any one of his templates, as when Cell was preparing to use the Kamehameha on Piccolo during their fight in Gingertown, Vegeta while training in the rocky area suddenly turns towards Gingertown and says "Kakarot?" in a confused tone, as well as Gohan making a similar confused inquiry after looking out the window only to still find his dad comatose from recovering via the heart virus nearby.
;Imperfect
*His mouth in this form resembles that of an Arlian, except that his mouth opens when he talks.
*The first core form of Lavos from resembles Cell in his Imperfect Form. Ironically, the characters from this game were designed by Akira Toriyama.
*In Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans, the enemies Sandman, Yorgan, and Failed Experiment are slightly modified and recolored versions of Imperfect Cell.
*In Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Imperfect Cell notices similarities between himself and Android 13 when confronting him even wondering if 13 is one of his early prototypes. However, Android 13 wonders if a monster like Cell can even be an Android.
;Semi-Perfect
*Though his Semi-Perfect form is in between his Imperfect and Perfect/Super Perfect forms, the latter three of which all have wings, his Semi-Perfect form does not possess wings.
*Semi-Perfect Cell was introduced after Akira Toriyama's editor at the time, Yū Kondō, expressed dissatisfaction at Imperfect Cell's insectoid appearance; this led Toriyama to give Cell the ability to transform, and with it, the inception of Semi-Perfect Cell.
*Semi-Perfect Cell is Akira Toriyama's favorite Android; he had actually planned on having him play a more active role but was forced to bring him into his Perfect form earlier than anticipated after Yū Kondō complained that the Semi-Perfect form looked too silly.
*Surprisingly enough, Semi-Perfect Cell is the inspiration of the meme "Shoop da Whoop," due to a furious scream of outrage he utters upon his defeat by Vegeta in his Super Saiyan Second Grade form during the closing scenes of "Hour of Temptation".
;Semi-Perfect and Perfect
*In Dragon Ball Online, some Namekians are shown to have their heads shaped like Cell's head in his Semi-Perfect, Perfect, and Super Perfect forms. This indicates that Cell's head shape (and by extension other Cell-type Bio-Androids like Genome and the Cell Juniors) in these forms may be influenced by his Namekian cells.
;Perfect
*In the manga and Japanese version of the anime, there was a plot hole with regards to how Cell is able to regenerate. According to Cell, an organ inside his head allows him to regenerate, so long as that organ is not destroyed. Goku had previously destroyed Cell's entire upper body, head included, which should have prevented the evil Android from regenerating. This plot hole is not present in the Funimation dub of the anime, where Cell states that "every cell in his body has a life of its own", and that one survived, which allowed him to regenerate. This inconsistency is explained in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, where Cell reveals that he lied about the location of his core.
**In Xenoverse 2, the plot description for "Father to Son - The Last Kamehameha" states that "a small amount of Cell's DNA survived" when referring to how Cell survived his self-destruction.
*Another potential contradiction is that Cell receives Saiyan Power after his Unforgivable! self-destruction, though during the Frieza Saga Vegeta stated in both the manga and anime that one cannot receive Saiyan Power if the wound is self-inflicted. However, it should be noted that Cell is an artificially created partial Saiyan life form meaning he may not have the same limitations as pure Saiyans or even partial Saiyans like Gohan and Trunks. It is possible that Dr. Gero's Supercomputer may have augmented Cell's genetic abilities such as Saiyan Power to remove such limitations or was the result of his unique combination of genetic abilities.
**Cell's Saiyan Power is not the only time Vegeta's statement about Saiyan Power has seemingly been contradicted, as Goku receives a Saiyan Power after eating a Senzu Bean after injuring himself with a Bending Kamehameha during his Gravity Training while on his way to Namek in both the manga and anime. However, it is likely that in Goku's case he received a Saiyan Power due to the extreme nature of the training putting him at near death and not injuries he received from his own attack.
*It is not known whether or not Perfect Cell retains the ability to absorb other beings. Different Dragon Ball media disagree on the subject; some (including Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, and Xenoverse 2​​​​​​) imply that he can, while others, such as Dragon Ball FighterZ, claim that he lost the ability.
*In Xenoverse, if the Time Patroller speaks to Cell when he is a mentor, Cell will occasionally say "I want to travel time freely like you. No matter what period I go, I will always be the strongest. My time machine can't be used anymore. What a pity".
*In Dragon Ball Z 2: Super Battle, if Cell is defeated in Goku's story mode, Cell is given a Senzu bean in which Cell says he will come back and have his revenge. 7 years later, Cell is seen in a group photo with the rest of the Z Fighters.
*During his battle with Super Saiyan Third Grade Future Trunks in "Ghosts from Tomorrow", Cell states that Dr. Gero's Supercomputer did not add Trunks' cells to Cell after Future Trunks had killed Mecha Frieza as the computer had already collected enough Saiyan DNA.
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