Upon hisDragon Balldebut , Cell immediately proves to be the scariest villain that has appeared in the franchise up until that point even if he was n’t initially the most knock-down – yetGokumanaged to make the villain even more terrific after Goku died seek to stop him .

Cell is a bio - mechanical man created by the former Red Ribbon Army scientist Dr. Gero . During his artificial gestation period , Cell was given samples of DNA by a lilliputian automaton ( also created by Gero ) that had collected those samples from Goku along with closely everyone Goku ever came into physical contact with throughout his life , including Vegeta , Piccolo , and even Frieza . When Cell was ultimately ‘ bear ’ , he already manage the baron of some of the strongest warriors in the cosmos – though he was nowhere near his peak . Dr. Gero also create two other Androids , 17 and 18 , and their purpose was to act as additional power supply to Cell . Once Cell absorbed 17 and 18 , he became Perfect Cell and was nearly unstoppable – and even then , Cell was n’t done develop .

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InDragon Ballchapter 414 by Akira Toriyama , the Z - Fighters are spin around after Goku sacrificed his life-time to stop Cell from detonating and taking the total Planet Earth with him . When Cell concentrated all his power within his body and set himself to blow , Goku used Instant Transmission to teleport himself and Cell to King Kai ’s world , where Cell burst forth and killed Goku , King Kai , and Bubbles as a resolution . Unfortunately , Cell himself survived the explosion as a piece of his brain was n’t amply destroy , let him to rejuvenate and reclaim his perfect form – with the addition ofGoku ’s madly powerful power : Instant Transmission .

Goku Gave Cell the Power of Instant Transmission

Instant Transmission is a power that Goku find out on the major planet Yardrat . basically , the power allows Goku to travel any distance across the cosmos in an twinkling as long as he can pinpoint someone ’s power level at his desired location . For example , inDragon Ball Super , Goku is able-bodied to teleport to Lord Beerus ’ world in the blink of an eye while it takes Whis , a real angel , thirty - five minutes to trip that distance . With Goku ’s death in thisDragon Ballchapter , Cell is able to absorb that ability – an ability that , as previously posit , surpasses the power ofDragon Ball ’s divine entities .

gratefully , Cell is killed by Gohan almost right away after attaining Instant Transmission , but that does n’t stop him from using it to cause some last - minute havoc . After he explode and then regenerate , Cell would have been stuck in the realm of King Kai ’s former macrocosm with really no agency to get back to Earth . However , with Instant Transmission , Cell is able to return in an instant , and when he does so , he murders Trunks before once again almost destroying the satellite . So , while it is short - lived , Goku ’s death made Cell – who is easily at least one ofDragon Ball ’s shivery baddie – even more powerful .

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Goku’s DBZ death made Cell stronger.