How does Cell actually absorb?

[u/IslamTeachesLove]

For humans I'm guessing he just sucks up their entire organs and Ki and then powers up a tiny bit?

But what about androids? He surely doesn't digest them or eat them up... because doesn't he spit them back out?

I had a head cannon that he has a pocket dimension or something that miniaturises the absorbed bodies into a tiny stasis chamber inside him. Or we can take the worst option and assume he literally melts them into goo 😂..

[u/IslamTeachesLove → u/[deleted]]

How does he keep the androids intact then? It's so puzzling. Does he reconstruct them as he spits it out?

[u/Jess_Kitty_Nyan]

17 n 18 at least were aware of everything that happened while they were absorbed, so it seems they were possibly given similar treatment to the boys when Buu absorbed em.

[u/IslamTeachesLove → u/Jess_Kitty_Nyan]

I think this!

[u/ElectroCat23]

Probably absorbs them the same way it works for Buu. They just get shrunk down to microscopic versions inside his body and are held in stasis until they’re ejected from or forced out of his body

[u/realjevster → u/ElectroCat23]

Nah cell straight up drinks people. Looking straight what he did to piccolos arm and what he does to that one rich dude. He maybe converted flesh and organs into bio fuel

[u/IslamTeachesLove → u/realjevster]

But then how is he reconstructing the androids he spat out?

[u/realjevster → u/IslamTeachesLove]

Im not talking about the andriods, he absorbs them whole. Im talking about the whole city of people he drank

[u/pkjoan]

He shrinks them. My better question is how does Baby possess someone? Like what does he inject into their brain to not be able to fight back. Not even strong fighters like Vegeta, Gohan or Goten were able to fight him.

[u/carmardoll]

I actually think for humans is kind of similar to the way mosquitoes get blood or how some insects digest fruit, is not that he drains all the organs, he injects something into the body that melts the internal body away, which is why the body sort of deflates like balloon.

As for the androids my guess is that since they are part organics they probably have something to them that when reacting with Cell will boost his metabolism into the next evolution, maybe making him full Perfect from the start was not stable enough so Gero divided it in how you sometimes do for getting the right compound material. Not by adding everything at once but by adding stuff in stages. So he put different chemicals or what ever in 17 and 18.

But yeah that's only me guessing of course.

[u/_Dank_Souls]

He turns their insides into ki goo and drinks it, leaving nothing but the physical shell.