sei'taer said:
There are only 3 relevant time lines in the series. The main time line, trunks' timeline, and cell's timeline. The way timelines seem to split makes infinite timelines a possibility, but those are the only 3 worth caring about.
If there is a loop that is happening, which I'm not sure anymore.
But there's also a time-line we don't know anything about in which Trunks takes the remote and leaves that time-line (& then later gets killed by Cell in the original time-line).
Could Cell have woken-up in that time-line? I mean the time-machine was set to a year before Freeza coming to earth, so either-way if Cell was there, he showed-up before Trunks even warned them.
If Cell did wake-up I assume all 3 Super-Saiyans either defeated him together or Piccolo fused with Kami to defeat him.