Why didn't he just continuously self-destruct and regenerate using his saiyan powers to indefinitely increase his power...

He never trained, just like Frieza, so his true potential would always be out of reach.

That's what I don't get. Going by DBS logic they now know Frieza's race has crazy mad potential. They know Cell is the best combo of Frost Demon, Saiyan and Namekian DNA. When he died he was near SSJ2 level and probably got Zenkai after it before being thrown into Hell. Fuck Frieza, they should have tossed Cell into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for a year or two to prepare for the tournament. *Boom* ready-made Jiren crusher. Just have to really hope he doesn't to decide to kill all your asses afterwards.

To be fair, the whole frieza didn't train excuse was made up during resurrection F.

It fit with his character though

That's what I'm saying, though. By the time of the tournament they would already know what kind of crazy gains are possible for someone sharing Frieza and Cold's DNA. Throw him in the chamber with the promise of a chance to test his perfect against that of other universes and dangle a possible resurrection.

Are you asking why they didn't bring him back for the tournament? The answer is simply literally because he was too much work for the animators.

The animators said he was too hard to draw because of all the spots on his body. That's it, for real.

>draw one episode with regular perfect cell
>come up with some plot shit where he goes even further beyond perfect
>have that version of him easy to draw

they could have just done it this way.

Not really. If anything it's kind of a lie since Frieza originally said he had to use multiple forms to try and limit his power. Kind of implying that he did sort of train.

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Wow, no wonder animation quality dropped so hard in Super. Lazy cunts.

The name's Cell. In Cell.

How bout you leave Cell out of that shitshow and leave him untainted. They had a pseudo comeback for him in a throwaway episode (as a mirage) and it sucked.

I always thought the fact that he was able to regenerate after self dustructing was basically a fluke. Like nine times out of ten he would have died so it be too risky to try it again.

They already blew their load with Hit. He's just cell without the hat, no spots, and easy to draw costume with easy round contours. Roundness is easy to cheat in animation, hard edges are not.

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>He's just cell without the hat
neck yourself

Spotty cell is too much work for, but they also said cell moved on from hell and reincarnated. Truly the perfect being.

>but they also said cell moved on from hell and reincarnated
What? When? Awful if true. Fuck Super so much man. It's GT levels of canon as far as I'm concerned.

Not necessarily true. It’s based on almost dying, that’s it. That’s why Vegeta has Krillin put a hole in his chest so Dende could heal him and get the boost.

No. That didn't work.

agree, it's more of a helmet

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>Weaker than Piccolo before doing it
>Stronger than Piccolo after doing it
It worked, it just didn't help at all.

I think it's just a theory, based on something king Kai said about not sensing cell in the afterlife

Toriyama.

They forgot about Zenkai boost after Namek, they remembered it exists during Zamasu ark only to forget about it again for the universe ark.

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Lel

Short, real answer? Freeza is the real MVP as far as the japanese fanbase goes.

They don't like Cell as much in Japan. That's why we also got a Broly movie, because the fucker has always been super popular there.

Animators particularly hate Cell too.

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Then remember it again for Broly

>Short, real answer?
No, that's not the real answer friezashitter. He is more popular but the real answer was already given. It's not like they can't have both.

Only Frieza is smart enough to remember things that happened back in the Namek saga by that point.

Too many hard hits to Gokus and Vegetas heads.

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Hence the self destruct part.
Dragon Ball was pure awesomeness till the end of the sayiajin saga.
Then it had serious ups and downs.

WAIT. I have something to say to you. I am going to say it.

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because he didn't get an opportunity to

Dont say the N word.

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don't mix supershart with Z

I don't know, ask your Mexican relatives.

If his self destruct gave him a zenkai in the first place (It did, despite this breaking established rules) that means his next self destruct would be more powerful, therefor pushing him further. So the cycle could continue.

>Ningen creating artificial Ningen

Zamasu would hate Androids like noting else.

Listen closely. NI

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Too bad nobody competent thought to have 18 come along and make that happen

For some reason zekai boost doesnt' work if it's you the one provoking it. That's why Vegeta asked Krillin to shoot him instead of doing it himself.

That's also why Goku doesn't get super stronk after abusing kaio ken everytime