Why the present Androids aren't evil like their future counterparts?

[Let's Go Fearless!]

DId i missed something?

 

[sei'taer]

Timeline shenanigans

 

[Papasmurf]

Only explanation I can think of is that the timeline doohickery advanced Gero's technology and powered up the present androids allowed him to modify them nowhere near as painfully as the ones in the future, making them less evil

correct answer of course is that didn't think that far and doesn't like to think

 

[Evil Vegeta]

I tend to go with #17 saying Gero programmed them for world conquest in the OVA. Since Goku was already gone, the idea of Gero reprogramming them for that purpose makes sense.

 

[ahill1]

Future Cell's or Future Trunks arrival changed the things and probably one of these things was the Androids way of act.

 

[Future Warrior]

Plot reasons, the Z-Fighters know about the Cyborgs arrival and so they train and thus making the Artificial Humans more powerful at the cost of their wicked personality.

 

[Symbiote]

I think it's because they were so curious about #16 they held off destroying everything.

 

[withheldforprivacy]

Maybe they were as evil as Alternate Androids, but, like Vegeta, they eventually softened by fighting a common enemy with the Z fighters (Cell).

 

[Papasmurf]

They knew Cell for like an hour before he absorbed them (or 6 minutes going by Namek logic)

 

[withheldforprivacy]

Well, after Cell was defeated, the Androids were no longer the top dogs, so they couldn't do anything bad. Before that, i don't see why they
couldn't be as evil as the ones Trunks knew. Seventeen even declared he would kill Piccolo in their second fight.

 

[Papasmurf]

17 said he was going to let him live until he refused to talk though. Whereas the future androids killed them all even though Goku was already gone

 

[withheldforprivacy]

The first time i watched the series, i wondered why they didn't kill Z fighters in the first fight. In the end, i deduced it had something
to do with Sixteen's presence. Also, we don't know when exactly the Z fighters were killed in the original past.

 

[Papasmurf]

If I had to guess, it would be after everybody attacked them for killing :Krillin when he tried to molest 18

 

[Evil Vegeta]

The Present Androids were chill the entire time. #17 did mention possibly causing trouble to draw Goku out, but nothing ever came of it. The Future Androids just wanted to exterminate people for points.....

 

[Papasmurf]

Maybe in the future, Gero taught them to control their new powers playing Fallout. They then immediately copied what they saw (on him) and went on to repeat the process with everybody else

 

[Evil Vegeta]

You just gave me an idea. I'm gonna have a Future Android Fallout playthrough. No one will be safe.

 

[withheldforprivacy]

You just gave me an idea. I'm gonna have a Future Android Fallout playthrough. No one will be safe.

Send me the link when you do it.

 

[Animelover5487]

Who's to say they weren't? The androids only spared Vegeta and the other Z Fighters in their first fight as part of a game not because they were being merciful or the like. Afterward, #18 after seeing just how kindhearted Krillin was by refusing to kill her and trying to protect her from Cell began to soften up (like Picoclo with Gohan) and #17 really can't do anything with how weak he is compared to the Saiyans and even Piccolo by the end of the Cell Games.

 

[Evil Vegeta]

#17 telling Krillin to feed them senzu's before they die is as merciful as one can get. He didn't even care about fighting them again. All I recall him saying is they can challenge them in the future if they're up for it or something along those lines. Finding Goku was "the game", not fighting or sparing the others.

The most they did was peacefully take a van from those guys and #18 casually stopped the police car with her fist when they were being chased. The Future Androids would've killed all of them and counted it towards a score.

 

[withheldforprivacy]

Maybe Alternate Androids behaved differently because Goku was dead, so they had to play another game.