Dragonball Z Episode 187: Cell's Perfect Body Breaks Down

(original, Japanese episode)

Everyone watches in fear as the battle between Cell and Gohan continues. Enraged, Cell tries repeated kicks at Gohan, but the young man blocks them and strikes back with a kick to Cell’s face, sending the monster flying. Cell can barely rise to his feet. Gohan slowly walks toward his foe as Cell makes two of Krillin’s disks. Gohan easily destroys them. Cell next tries Piccolo’s laser drill, but Gohan bats it away. Cell even tries to fire multiple energy balls at Gohan, but they seem to go right through the boy. Mr. Satan is impressed and says he should give Gohan his personal training. The news reporter says he thinks Gohan is more powerful than Mr. Satan, which Satan denies. Gohan again approaches Cell, striking fear into the monster. In a last ditch effort, Cell rockets into the sky and charges up the Kamehameha intending to blow up the world, and after ignoring Goku’s pleads, he launches the attack. Gohan then powers up his own Kamehameha, sending the blast right back at Cell and making a direct hit. After the dust settles from such a powerful, the Z warriors reemerge from underneath the dust and look on in horror, as Cell is still alive. The monster is missing her ears, left arm, a wing, and both legs.

Goku reveals that his son his surpassed him in power and a flashback is shown of Goku and Gohan fighting in the Room of Spirit and Time. After the two had been fighting for over twenty hours straight, Gohan wants to keep fighting his father and uses his last bit of strength to change back into his Super Saiya-jin form before passing out.

Piccolo reveals that Cell has some of his cells in him and can regenerate his missing limbs, so Goku tells Gohan to finish Cell off, but he refuses. Cell regenerates and powers up, making his body extremely large and swollen, and attacks again. However, his body is too large and bulky and Gohan dodges the attacks. Gohan then kicks Cell in the face and in the sternum. Cell looks like he is going to vomit. Piccolo says Cell cannot maintain his perfect form any longer. Cell finally does vomit, and out comes Android 18 (much to Krillin’s delight)! This is the beginning of the end for Cell!