Joker216

When Cell absorbs his victims, what is he actually absorbing. I was watching the absorption technique and I know that he absorbs the energy of his victims but when he sucks them up their skin goes in too. He stabbed his victims and I just want to know if the skin deflation is a result of having no more energy or he really sucks the victims into his body?

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Darkprince410

I wrote a little thesis about this awhile ago, though you weren't a member at the time so you probably haven't read it, but while this is in no way official, I believe that he was simply absorbing their ki into him. However, as shown by both Bejiita and Tenshinhan, ki is essential for life, governing the function of every part of the body. When Seru absorbed someone's ki by puncturing them as he did with Pikkoro's arm as well as all the humans he absorbed, he drains their ki to the point that the cellular membranes of the body can no longer function, causing them to break down, reducing their bodies to the hyper-atrophied states witnessed.

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Arros

I find Dark prince410 post very logical. I also belive that Cell's body, contains something in it, or body is made of something, that allows it to break apart material so that it easier to ingest into his system, because if there isn't, all those human bones are just going to start poking out of Cell ribs, and what not. I also think that Cell can alter his body, although not as freely as Buu, to accomaniate his his disire victims, as in the Androids. Now Cell was much larger than 17, so I can see how 17 could fit inside Cell, it's when Cell absorbed Cyborg 18 in which I thought of it. Cell body which was big and bulky in his Stage 2, become much more define and thinner. Now if you look at Cell, you can tell that there is no way 17 and 18 can fit in it, unless one of them is just being crushed, which is why I think cell as some control of the inner parts of his body, allowing him to maybe sligtly expand his insides, to make room with the androids. I also like to point out something else, if we all remember Cell was blown in half by Goku FP Kamehameha. Now all that was left was the lower torso of Cell's body. Now I truly don't see how 17 or 18 could still survive this, unless 18 was stuffed down Cell leg. Which brings me to a point, I belive that once Cell abosrbs the androids, he can help them if they're hurt. If 18 is hurt, Cell regnerative powers might work on her. But this is all just pure oppinion.

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dragontigerviper

i've always thought that by absorbing thier bodies he was also absorbing thier ki. i just figured he used a digestive acid to break down the organs and bones then sucked them up.
as for how he obsorbs the androids. while they go into his body strait, i think that sometime during the transformation or even before while they are still being transfered though the tail, they are brought into a fetal position. also, due to cell's infastructure, he has no need for sexuall organs, this would give him more room in his hip area as well as his adomin to store the androids.
Now i beleive that the two androids were, 17 on top located near the chest and gut, and 18 located in the lower abdomin and hip. when cell was blown in half 17 was killed, but 18, safly stored below the blast area was safe from harm. when cell regenerated his cells remembered 17's power and refromed him with it. then when gohan punched cell in the stomach, he hit him so hard it knocked 18 out of the fetal position. with her out of her compacted state, it made him sick and he threw her up to get the pojections of 18's limbs from poking his other organs.

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JAIF

You do realize this topic is kinda sick, don't you XD.
Truth is, indeed, if they were in a fetal position, both androids could fit into Cell's body... as for the rest, they're just like... evaporated, digested.

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dragontigerviper

of course it's kinda sick, were talking about people getten eaten. be it by spider like digestion, or a full body suck up.
anyway, it has to be done with a full body liquification and not a plain old ki absobsion. If cell only absorbed Ki then piccolo's full body would have started to deflate, not just his arm.

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Vagrant Lustoid

I have to agree with DarkPrince's editorial about Cell, and I believe that just like Boo, he shrinks the androids to small sizes in little stasis pods. This allows him to harness their infinite energy generators more successfully I think, and wouldn't displace a huge amount of organs that would be required for an organic being of Cell's complexity to live.
I think that Cell drains his victims using a digestive, like a spider, that liquifies their interior, and then extracts their ki from their bio-soup. As for absorption? As I said, I think Cell encases his absorbed victims in membrane pods and shrinks them somehow, then uses the pods to bond on a cellular level with his Android victims.

That was probably the only thing I really disliked about Cell. The idea that his absorbed victims remain whole inside him. On the one hand we have the implausibility of their displacement of organs if they were full sized, then on the other hand we have the implausibility of them being able to be shrunk without magic like Boo used. It seems to me that total cellular integration would have been far more efficient. On the gripping hand though, if the Androids' infinite generators were mechanical implants, they wouldn't be regenerated when Cell was destroyed, stripping him of some of his power. For this reason, I believe the infinite generators were actually biomechanical, with the mechanical implants being what was used to raise the strength of the Androids so significantly from regular humans.
As for what may have happened to the Androids when Cell was destroyed? If, as I believe, they are shrunk in stasis pods, then I think that one was kept in each regenerative node. Android 17 in the upper, and 18 in the lower. Hence why when Cell was gut-punched he was forced to regurgitate Android 18. It makes sense that they'd be kept in the nodes, as Cell mentioned having retained the memories of their power in his regenerative core. It certainly wasn't Ki, given that the Androids have no ki to speak of.
Anyway, that was a long and rambling post about Cell's absorption technique...
What I wonder about is this... it's generally accepted by most that the infinite generators of the Androids are mechanical (except by me...), but that Cell uses cellular bonding to access them. I just wonder, if Cell were to disassemble Android 16, could he suck up just his generator and adapt his body to it? I consider it more likely that he can't, but his body seems very adaptive, so if he were to pull it into his body, do you think he could rig an adapted cellular link of his own to such a generator?