Cell Vs Ash Ketchum #CellGames is the eighth episode of the Cell Vs mini-series, featuring a crossover with Pokémon. It takes place between Episode 56 and 57 of DragonBall Z Abridged.
Plot[]
Ash, Pikachu, Brock, and Misty are walking towards the Cell Games Area while being lost. Misty notices Cell, and the group mistakes him as a Pokémon. Ash tries to research him on his Pokedex, but nothing comes up. Cell asks if they're here for the tournament, and Ash decides to battle him. He summons Squirtle and tells him to use Water Gun, but it only makes Cell wet. Cell uses a Solar Flare attack on Squirtle, causing Ash to call him back and summon Charizard. Charizard uses Flamethrower, but it doesn't affect Cell either.
Ash starts to panic, but calls in Pikachu for help. Before Pikachu can attack, Team Rocket appears and do their motto. However, Cell blasts Team Rocket away with a ki blast. He then tells Ash that he is not a Pokémon, and the fact that Ash doesn't keep them in his actual pockets makes the name even more confusing. Cell then orders Ash and his friends to leave which they do. As Cell complains of this being the longest week, he sees a Mewtwo fly by and confuses it for Freeza.
Cast[]
- Takahata101 - Cell
- Marissa Lenti - Ash Ketchum
- MasterWuggles - Brock, James
- Shudo Ranmaru - Misty, Jessie
- KaiserNeko - Meowth, Narrator (uncredited)
Trivia[]
- Despite KaiserNeko being credited as Meowth, the character doesn't physically appear. He can only being heard screaming along with Jesse and James when Team Rocket's balloon is blasted away.
- Also, during this scene, the trio does not say their well-known catchphrase from the English versions of the Pokémon anime when they’re being blasted away by Cell (e.g. "We’re blasting off again!").
- A sprite of a MissingNo appears when Ash tries to look up Cell on his Pokédex. MissingNo is a notorious glitch Pokémon found in the original Generation I games, which can be made to appear by using several exploits found within those games.
- This video was edited by Reality Studio Punch.
- An alternative version of this video was made by 1KidsEntertainment that changes several elements to be more in line with the abridged version of the opposing series. In particular, the Pokémon cast now acts and behaves like they did in the abridged series. Unlike the main version, however, Cell is actually defeated by Ash in this version, as he successfully captures Cell with his Pokéball. Cell is then transferred into Oak's lab in the ending, where he presumably remains trapped inside the Pokéball indefinitely. Takahata101 reprises his role as Cell in this version.
- When Cell engages in a Pokémon battle by Ash, he said that it felt a lot like Duel Monsters to him, even to the point that he recalls the time that he was previously challenged by Yami Yugi in a Duel Monsters game. Also, as Cell tries to explain to Ash and his friends about what is a Pokémon and how they battle with them, he states that they are just like Duel Monsters, to the point of him saying that they "duel" with them, after he got fed up about what a Pokémon is. This is partly a reference to some of the similarities made between the Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh series.
- Also, during the latter scene, Ash answers Cell's question that the Pokémon are called "Pocket Monsters", and Cell refers to them as "Capsule Monsters" alongside other names after Ash tells him that he keeps the Pokémon in the Pokéballs on his belt. In particular, Pocket Monsters was the original full name of the Pokémon series used in its home market of Japan. While Capsule Monsters did refer to the initial name of the series during the development of the original Generation I games before the final Pocket Monsters and Pokémon names were revealed, it also ironically (and perhaps coincidentally) refers to a Yu-Gi-Oh series and a video game under the "Capsule Monsters" name, which may be the reason why Cell went on to his above-mentioned point of Pokémon being similar to that of Duel Monsters.
- After Ash and his friends left the Cell Games, a Mewtwo passes by Cell as he asks himself how long the week has passed, where he states, "Is that f*cking Freeza?!" This refers to the fact that Mewtwo looks very similar to fourth form Freeza (in particular, the Japanese name of Articuno is "Freezer", the name Freeza is based on).
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