Cell (What-If 13)

## Cell

"*You'll become part of me, Goku. An eternal limbo is a fitting punishment.*"
— Cell, What-If 13

**Cell** is a character introduced in What-If 13. This incarnation of Cell comes from the GT Era and trained in Hell alongside Frieza in order to have his revenge on Goku.

## Appearance

Cell is never shown in any form except his Golden Form. He retains the identical appearance of his Perfect Form, only coloured with a golden yellow color. He is very similar to his incarnations from What-If 5 and What-If 6.

## Personality

Cell is very proper and formal, yet sadistic and cruel to those he despises; such as Goku. He is also very calculating and preparing, understanding, and allowing Frieza to be the one to harm Goku the most; and even training to be able to fully absorb Goku, in order to fully get his revenge.

## Biography

### Before What-If 13

After his death at the hands of Gohan during the Cell Saga, Cell ends up in Hell. Here, he finds Frieza and, likely due to their shared hatred for Goku and his friends, they started to train together and did so for decades. This until Dr. Myuu was killed and sent to Hell, where he met and allied with Dr. Gero.
Together they build Hell Fighter 17, planning to open a gate between Hell and Earth by connecting him with the Android 17 back on Earth. Frieza and Cell came to know of this plan, prompting the two scientists to attract Goku in Hell by telling him to come challenge the two villains.

### What-If 13

Shortly after the two scientists leave Hell along with their creation and closing off the rift towards Earth, Goku senses a menacing energy. He notices a purple substance attached to a wall, who at a closer looks contains Cell in his Golden Form, hiding his Ki thanks to this weird substance.

Cell later intrudes during Frieza and Goku's fight, immediately attacking the Saiyan with a Death Beam, piercing his lungs. The lethally injured Goku falls to the ground, as Cell and his ally descends, explaining their plan: after weakening Goku, Cell would have absorbed him, forcing him into an eternal limbo while also preventing him to die and train in the afterlife.
As Goku struggles to even breath, Cell approaches him, and extends his tail, absorbing the Saiyan. Cell evolves further, claiming how his Golden Form together with the training he has been through prove more than enough to keep Goku in check, concluding how there's no escape for him.

## Abilities

* Power Scaling
* Transformations

This incarnation of Cell appears in the Power Scaling video, and is ranked as such:

### Golden Form

Cell achieved the Golden Form during his training in Hell with Frieza, thanks to him having the DNA of the tyrant. He shares this form with Frieza himself.
While in this state, he looks identical to his Perfect Form, with his body being coloured of golden yellow, while his chin and feet become purple.

### Super Saiyan 4

After absorbing an injured Goku, Cell achieves the Super Saiyan 4 transformation, gaining various traits from such form. His horns become more similar to the ones of his Imperfect Form, he also gains long black hair, that resemble the ones Super Saiyan 4 Goku has. His pupils become yellow, his eyes surrounded by a red trim. His torso becomes more human-like, being covered in a black fur up to his elbows. The yellow-coloured parts of his body also take an orange hue.

Due to the look of the transformation and Cell claiming that his Golden Form does help in keep Goku within himself, it is implied that this form is a combination of the Golden Form and the Super Saiyan 4 transformation.
## Trivia

* His appearance after absorbing Goku in the Power Scaling video slightly differs from the one seen in What-If 13: his tail is out, similarly to his Imperfect Form, and is coloured white and black, with black dots appearing all over the white portion of the tail. His horns are also identical to his Perfect Form's horns;
* Cell is tied with Goku Black for the villain with most appearances in the What-If Series, not counting cameos. However, unlike Black, each iteration of Cell is a different character.