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* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Played with and [[Smug Snake|then subverted]] with Cell. In his imperfect form, Cell runs rings around the Z fighters as he masterfully evades their attempts to ambush him while draining countless cities of their population's bio extract. Upon finding himself sorely outclassed by Vegeta later in the series, Cell tricks the Saiyan prince into allowing him to absorb Android 18 by promising to provide him with an opportunity to test the full extent of his newfound power. In the ensuing rematch, he succeeds in reaping vengeance upon Vegeta by breaking him down physically and psychologically. When facing Trunks, he shows how savvy he is about how raising his strength and muscles only slow him down. And ''then'', rather than kill Trunks and everyone else, Cell instead opts to hold a martial arts tournament where all of Earth's greatest fighters can challenge him and be defeated....and he ''announces this to the entire planet'' [[Do Not Adjust Your Set|on TV]] [[For the Evulz|just so he can see them panicking and living in fear.]] During the Cell Games, however, Cell becomes increasingly reckless and overconfident in his actions until he ultimately loses control when Gohan became a Super Saiyan 2. And said state was precisely what he was seeking; the problem was that he never really calculated that Gohan's power increase would be far greater than his. However, he ''still'' manages to rebound from this [[Villainous Breakdown]] inducing defeat, though by that time he's in full [[Ax Crazy]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]] mode.