Cell

Cell is one of the main antagonists in the Dragon Ball Saga and is the main antagonist of the Android Saga as well as Imperfect Cell, Perfect Cell and Cell Game story arcs and is Gohan's Arch Enemy.

## Appearance

In his Imperfect form, unlike his larval form, Cell walks fully upright on two legs.

His facial features have not yet fully developed, and he still retains an orifice-like mouth, rather than traditional human-like features seen in later forms.

His face resembles that of the remote tracking device.

The two sections of his head shoot off in a V-shape resembling a boomerang-shape, rather than nearly straight upward, as in the next two forms.

Cell is later shown using the power he absorbed from his victims by having a golden aura with the appearance of wailing souls.

Cell has orange color parts near his abdominal area, the back of his head, and even near his groin area.

He has two wings which are both emerald green with black spots.

He has an emerald green and lime green mix all over his exoskeleton (including head, arms, legs, tail and hands) along with black spots. He has five fingers and three toes (just as similar as Frieza and King Cold).

He has a tail like Frieza and King Cold, but has a

   stinger included at the end of it and his tail comes out from the back not the pelvis.

He has black sections as well near his abdominal area, in the middle between the two sections on his head, and even the black part of the opposite side of his tail. He even has azure veins in both of his arms, legs, and even some in the joints in his upper body. His eyes are pink (blue in the manga colored pages) with thin reptilian-like slits.

In his Semi-Perfect form after absorbing Android 17, Cell's wings disappear, and he becomes much more humanoid, he also becomes quite a bit more muscular.

His exoskeleton is still emerald green and lime green with black spots from his previous form while the abdominal area and his section near his groin are still orange and his veins are still azure, but now has black plates on the arms and legs and the black spots on his hands are completely gone.

While the nose is not yet fully formed (as it is in the next stage), he now has an actual mouth.

The two jutting sections of his head now go straight into the air.

In this form, he is at his 2nd largest (next to his Power weighted form) with his height being one and a half times that of Vegeta.

His tail is longer and slightly thicker than before, and protrudes from his back, as well as becoming segmented orange and black instead of emerald green and black from his previous form.

His voice is deeper than his previous form.

The back of his head and the black section on his forehead are now formed together as a ball in between the two sections on his head.

His lips are now the color pink, and the black sections above his lips look like a mustache (except it is part of his skin).

He now has light blue eyes in this form (a direct result of absorbing Android 17).

He even has boot-like feet in this form and metal-like plates all around both of his ankles.

He has the same shape of ears as Frieza's, except that his have an orange line that goes down to the chin and to both sides of the ears.

His wings regress completely into his back.

In his self-destruction form, Semi-Perfect Cell bloats himself, his belly greatly expanding in size.

He also claimed that his bloated appearance was unstable, and that a single touch may set him off when dissuading Gohan from trying to stop him.

Cell becomes much more humanoid in his Perfect form after absorbing Android 18, complete with both a fully-formed nose and mouth.

His tail is retracted and now used for the creation of Cell Jrs, although it is shown in various media that he can still extend it from his back and absorb other people.

Along with his previous two forms, Cell can transform into a Super Saiyan though again only Cell's aura changes,

    though he can also utilize a Power Stressed state that is presumably his version of Super Saiyan Third Grade as his muscles bulk up to the point of reducing his speed even recognizing the drawback of doing so which he noted to Future Trunks only showing him his Power Stressed form to prove he could do the same, though he later made the same mistake when he used the form against Super Saiyan 2 Gohan in desperation.

He is also smaller than in his previous form, being roughly about Piccolo's height, although this still means he towers over characters like Goku and Vegeta.

His wings have grown back and now are shaded black.

His exoskeleton (including the abdominal area and arms) is no longer emerald green and lime green with black spots from the last two forms, but are now colored light-green with dark green spots and has black plates located on his shoulders and chest, and the plates on his ankles as well as the previously orange section near his groin are now shaded black.

He also retains the boot-like feet and the straight jutting sections of his head with the ball-like section between the two sections from his previous form.

His skin is now white all in his face, neck and hands, he now has purple lines in both sides of his cheeks, similar to Frieza in his first three forms, and the orange line across his ears and chin is now changed into a yellow color.

His eyes are now pink, and his blue veins are now purple (in the manga colored pages, they are blue).

In his Power Stressed form his muscles become over engorged though when he uses it against Adam he utilizes a larger and heavier Power Weighted form which bulks him up even more while increasing his size presumably due to the influence of his Namekian cells.

In his Super Perfect state, Cell's appearance is identical to his Perfect form.

Nonetheless, his power increases exponentially.

His aura crackles with surges of blue electricity, much like a Super Saiyan 2 as his Super Perfect Form is Cell in Super Saiyan 2 form.

## Personality

Cell's personality has differed between his various forms.

At first, the only thing driving him was his desire to attain his perfect form, curious to see its limits, and was very thoughtful, cautious, sneaky, arrogant, cruel, traitorous, manipulative, and calculating, not going after the Androids, since he knew he could not beat them.

After attaining his Semi-Perfect form, Cell became much more brash, impatient, obstreperous, destructive, and cunning, as he relied less on strategy, using brute force.

However, he still shows some cunning when he plays with Vegeta's love for having a good fight and uses it to make Vegeta back down so that he can absorb #18.

He was also narcissistic, as he views himself as attractive in this form.

Upon becoming Perfect, his personality became a combination of the people whose cells he possessed.

Cell had Piccolo's coolness, knowledge, and cunning, Vegeta's confidence and pride, Goku's laid-back attitude and love of fighting, and Freeza's conceitedness, polite mannerisms, and sadism.

He is unique and exceptional in that he has no desire for conquest, immortality, or power and instead seeks only entertainment and to test the limits of his perfection, well as prove it to the universe, by destroying it, not caring if it would need up killing himself as well.

This makes him an even more reckless and eviler version of Adam as he doesn't even show basic compassion.

Cell is actually quite advantageous, knowledgeable, and intelligent, as he compliments his opponents abilities.

Later, he wanted only to unleash annihilation upon the universe and on anything he considered imperfect or, to put it bluntly, anything besides himself.

In all forms, he retains Freeza's sadism: while created evil, he is still fully conscious of the morality (or lack thereof) of his actions and commits them because he wants to.

His stated reason for wanting to destroy humanity is simply to see the looks of terror on their faces before they die.
When returned with his perfect form again but with more powerful saiyan cells, Cell is loyal to his creator, Dr. Gero and gives his debt to his creator for his design. This shows that despite being purely evil, Cell has some respect for his creator.

After his death, he gets along well with Frieza in hell; even teaming up with him to kill Adam when he arived in hell.

He also retains his sadism as shown when he tried to kill one of the orges by throwing him on a pit of spikes.

Overall, despite being an Android, Cell is a sadist well aware of the difference between right and wrong.

He willingly strayed away from his programming, so he could start tormenting all life that wasn't his own.

At best, he sees everyone as his cosmic playthings, at worst a vessel to become Perfect.

## Powers, Skills & Abilities

Cell possesses superhuman natural abilities and the ability to manipulate energy in the form of blasts and flight.

He has only one unique ability of his own, absorption, though how he does this differs depending on what he is absorbing.

For the normal people he absorbed in his Imperfect form, Cell impales them with his tail and absorbs their whole body, leaving only their clothes behind.

For Androids 17 and 18 and Adam in GT, he absorbs them by widening the opening of his stinger and simply swallowing them whole.

Cell has the signature techniques of all of the people whose cells composed him, including the Kamehameha wave, Death Saucer, and Death Beam.

He also inherited Piccolo's regenerative powers, but far more powerful, to the point where he could regenerate from only one cell and Frieza and King Cold's ability to survive in space.