Did you enjoy the Cell Games?

[Pyro]

I think the buildup to the Cell Games was fantastic and really set the tone that the planet/universe truly could be in danger from this calculating new enemy. It felt this way more than any time in the Boo arc once Boo had actually been freed.

However, the only really good bits of the actual Games were Goku and Cell's fight, and Gohan beating Cell into submission. The rest wasn't that entertaining, particularly Gohan's fight with Cell, which was barely a fight to begin with.

 

[Papasmurf]

Gohan beating Cell down had lost a lot of its novelty after Cell transformed twice when he was at a disadvantage too

 

[Alin]

I thought it was solid. No complaints.

 

[Void]

That creates more plot holes, e.g. why didn't the tail that #16 ripped off regenerate into another Cell.

I guess you could argue that his regenerative powers weren't as good before he was Perfect.

 

[p123]

The Cell Game is by far the single most epic portion of the series. Not only do we get the awesome Goku vs Cell fight. But we see Gohan finally come around and get that insane anger under his will and bahhh god it's horrifying. He beats Cell down in his arrogance he lets the opportunity to finish pass him by, SACRIFICE By Jesus fucking christ aka Goku the SAVIOR to save the day but it's not enough. Epic Vegeta Rage moment, heartfelt emotions from Vegeta which is always gold, and drama, you think there's no way they can win, and boom Gohan goes full rage and unleashed epic blast battle. Nothing is better than epic blast battles. You fools, this is the cream of the crop.

 

[Victorious]

The Cell Game is by far the single most epic portion of the series. Not only do we get the awesome Goku vs Cell fight. But we see Gohan finally come around and get that insane anger under his will and bahhh god it's horrifying. He beats Cell down in his arrogance he lets the opportunity to finish pass him by, SACRIFICE By Jesus fucking christ aka Goku the SAVIOR to save the day but it's not enough. Epic Vegeta Rage moment, heartfelt emotions from Vegeta which is always gold, and drama, you think there's no way they can win, and boom Gohan goes full rage and unleashed epic blast battle. Nothing is better than epic blast battles. You fools, this is the cream of the crop.

You prefer The Cell Games > The battle with Freeza? I do as well..but it's very close IMO. There was a lot of emotion with Vegeta dying and the whole Legendary Super Saiyan stuff too and the Saiyan backstory really brought out the roots in Goku. The Goku vs Freeza fight was great, but perhaps dragged on a little too much.

IMO those are the two most epic 20 or so episode segments in the entire series. But yeah i agree..and always have since a kid.... I'll take the Father and Son Mano E Mano clash with Cell's Perfect form above anything. The speed and skill of the Goku vs Cell fight, and then Gohan's turmoil and basically becoming a man. Plus Cell's humiliation but his wicked ass return as SPC...and of course Gohan's final triump. Yeah.

 

[Victorious]

That Goku vs Cell fight was so dope.

 

[Pyro]

That Goku vs Cell fight was so dope.

Nothing beats this moment from that fight though.

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[ahill1]

Gohan beating Cell down had lost a lot of its novelty after Cell transformed twice when he was at a disadvantage too

Yeah, but this has happened before too in the Freeza saga, where Freeza was at a disadvantage against Piccolo and had to transform to his 3rd form. Not to mention being kicked around the block in some situations like when Gohan went enranged vs 2nd form Freeza. SSJ Goku's beatdown on Freeza lost a little effect due to this.

 

[ahill1]

There was a lot of emotion with Vegeta dying and the whole Legendary

Yeah, but I feel Vegeta's emotional death moment was kind ruined when he was revived in the fricking same day.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Gohan beating Cell down had lost a lot of its novelty after Cell transformed twice when he was at a disadvantage too

Yeah, but this has happened before too in the Freeza saga, where Freeza was at a disadvantage against Piccolo and had to transform to his 3rd form. Not to mention being kicked around the block in some situations like when Gohan went enranged vs 2nd form Freeza. SSJ Goku's beatdown on Freeza lost a little effect due to this.

Freeza was never in any real danger, though since he always had a transformation up his sleeve. And even when he did get one-upped, it wasn't that bad of a beating (Piccolo vs 2nd Form Freeza), in-fact that was more or less an even fight.

Cell had to find and depend on the androids to transform. Vegeta even let him absorb #18 to transform after stomping him.

 

[Papasmurf]

Gohan's assault didn't do any real damage to Freeza and Freeza always had his 4th form up his sleeve so it's not quite the same. Super Boo absorbing Gotenks and Gohan after being backed to a corner is far more equitable

 

[Keedounan]

Gohan beating Cell down had lost a lot of its novelty after Cell transformed twice when he was at a disadvantage too

Yeah, but this has happened before too in the Freeza saga, where Freeza was at a disadvantage against Piccolo and had to transform to his 3rd form. Not to mention being kicked around the block in some situations like when Gohan went enranged vs 2nd form Freeza. SSJ Goku's beatdown on Freeza lost a little effect due to this.

Before SSJ Goku, the heroes were never able to take a significant advantage over Freeza.
* The latter first transformed only because Vegeta asked him to do so.
* Then, his fight against Piccolo was a slobberknocker. Then, Freeza decided to end this fight by transforming.
* Afterwards, he transformed again for the heck of it.

When you take into account the fact that...:

* The Z-Fighters were only able to go so far (the best they did was giving him a good fight in his weaker forms) because Freeza was toying with them, as he could have simply used his final form to kill them with 1 % of his power.
* That even after using his final form, he was still holding back.
* That the Kaioken x20 and the Genki Dama didn't worked

...then, Freeza seemed pretty much invincible. So on the contrary, I think that Goku's fight against Freeza was pretty effective.

 

[ahill1]

Yeah, fair enough.

Piccolo had an advantage against Freeza like said by Vegeta and probably had a noticeable advantage after taking off his weights, but nothing of extreme.

Maybe Freeza's situation isn't quite comparable to the Cell's one, but I didn't feel Freeza was such an invincible guy either and didn't feel too "wow" by SSJ Goku beating his 50% since I already watched Freeza being overpowered, even if that wasn't in quite the same fashion as SSJ Goku's beatdown.

 

[ahill1]

I don't feel Cell's beatdown by Gohan's hands lost TOO MUCH of its novelty due to the final form Cell being the most idealized one, with Cell's insistance that he had to absorb both androids to become the invincible warrior and only then he would be definitely the most powerful before the cosmos (kind of like the SSJ was pretty much stressed out to be the true thing in the Freeza saga, and Goku being beated to a pulp didn't make the legendary warrior any less amazing).

Maybe the Freeza comparison wasn't good, but I kind of feel both Freeza's and Cell's beatdown had the same effect as far as a "effect thing" goes. Freeza's final form was introducced for the first time when he was already about to transform into his 3rd form, while like I said Cell's final form was already something stated to be the "true terror" and the "perfect warrior" since his first meet with post Kami fusion Piccolo.

That's just my opinion though

 

[p123]

Cell Game is more impressive in many ways. So many beautifully executed plot twists. That's the highlight of Dragonball.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

Yeah like Cell went from dangerous monster into a Villain Goku version who loves to fight. 2 :toei

 

[theallpowerfulpuipui]

Cell games are sweet, elitist revisionists are :faggots

 

[p123]

Considering the guy literally has Goku and Vegeta's blood flowing through his veins, I don't see why that isn't anything but logical.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

But he was different from his other forms.