Cell doesn't need his core to regenerate

[DBZAOTA482]

Many people sight Cell regenerating after Goku oblirated his upper body as a plot-hole, but neglect the detail if Cell losing a lot of energy regenerating from Goku's attack.

He did not use any energy after he regenerated from blowing himself up... in fact, he got even stronger than before.

 

[Miss Scarlet]

When cell regenerates after blowing himself up the first thing he is shown to regenerate isn't exactly his head.

Spoiler

That's why i believe cell regenerating without his head isn't neccesarily a contradiction.

 

[ScottyFamalam]

It's a contradiction.

 

[ahill1]

Well tbh Cell did lose energy but did not later on... That may be seem as meaning those were different processes in terms of regeneration and Cell itself, but that Cell having cells of Saiyans, Piccolo and Freeza shoud allow him unique recovery and enhancement abilities beyond normal limits. Thus, his near-death experiences ignited the Saiyans cells for Zenkai while earlier on he wasn't near death or anything. His power up would come from the near death experience unlike before and not because the whole process was different in terms of regeneration, I'd say. What was different was Cell making use of the near death power up there which he wasn't when being shot the KMHMH... So his attributes in gaining power unlike before were different due to the Saiyans cells due to nearly dying, not the regeneration specifically to me.

 

[Yoshi]

Cell either has more than one core, or he can move his core inside his body.

 

[Father]

Popular theory in Japan is the moveable core.

 

[ScottyFamalam]

Cell either has more than one core, or he can move his core inside his body.

headcanon

 

[Papasmurf]

I go with a secondary core existing inside his lower body to avoid an obvious weakness of his head, and a connection between the two keeping the secondary core inert when his body is more intact.

 

[Warmmedown]

dbz threads don't need toriyama to regenerate

(RIP ごめいふくをおいのりします )

 

[Dagon]

Popular theory in Japan is the moveable core.

It's like in that show Heroes, after Sylar gets regeneration powers, he is able to move a part of his brain that would shut down his healing if stabbed there. Someone stabs him in the back of the head thinking they've killed him, but he gets up and explains what happened.

 

[最強のフュージョン]

Or we could just assume the Instant Kamehameha wasn't powerful enough to destroy his core. If Cell's own self-destruction won't destroy it, I think it's fair to say the Instant Kamehameha would also fail to destroy it.

 

[Papasmurf]

Or we could just assume the Instant Kamehameha wasn't powerful enough to destroy his core. If Cell's own self-destruction won't destroy it, I think it's fair to say the Instant Kamehameha would also fail to destroy it.

Cell said it was sheer, unexpected luck that the core remained intact though. Seems like it was a one in a hundred chance that core was unruptured by the explosion.

 

[最強のフュージョン]

Cell assumes it's luck, but frankly, how would it be untouched by the explosion exactly? It was caught straight in the middle of it. It survived it, it didn't avoid it.