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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 847288" data-attributes="member: 8461">Quick sidebar before I begin: His name is Ubu, or Uubu, IIRC. Not Uub.That said, I suppose I see what you mean, but I don't see why you bother making the distinction. Who cares if the Androids were built at their power level, and Cell got his strength from DNA from other people? It's not like it really makes a difference.However, I do see where you're coming from, in that you're comparing them all to Freezer. Given that Toriyama wanted to end the series with the Freezer battle, its interesting to compare later characters to Freezer and ask &quot;where were they then?&quot; since they didn't challenge Freezer's empire over the galaxy. Personally, I think Toriyama did a great job explaining things in that regard.About Androids 17 &amp; 18 though, don't forget they were normal humans before Dr. Gero altered them, so you can't really say they were &quot;built&quot; as strong as they were. Rather, their power was vastly increased (though not by ki) by the operations Gero did on them. (&quot;Android&quot; was the English appellation, and isn't entirely appropriate, since the Japanese word for android, &quot;andoroido&quot;, wasn't used. They were called jinzouningen, which basically means artificial human.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 847288, member: 8461"] Quick sidebar before I begin: His name is Ubu, or Uubu, IIRC. Not Uub. That said, I suppose I see what you mean, but I don't see why you bother making the distinction. Who cares if the Androids were built at their power level, and Cell got his strength from DNA from other people? It's not like it really makes a difference. However, I do see where you're coming from, in that you're comparing them all to Freezer. Given that Toriyama wanted to end the series with the Freezer battle, its interesting to compare later characters to Freezer and ask "where were they then?" since they didn't challenge Freezer's empire over the galaxy. Personally, I think Toriyama did a great job explaining things in that regard. About Androids 17 & 18 though, don't forget they were normal humans before Dr. Gero altered them, so you can't really say they were "built" as strong as they were. Rather, their power was vastly increased (though not by ki) by the operations Gero did on them. ("Android" was the English appellation, and isn't entirely appropriate, since the Japanese word for android, "andoroido", wasn't used. They were called jinzouningen, which basically means artificial human.) [/QUOTE]

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