#aptom

So recently, I saw a poll on YouTube in which it was a bunch of characters who had the best absorption abilities, and Cell was second place behind Kirby in most of those polls I saw. So I wondered how powerful his absorption abilities were, especially when everyone in the fandom seems to treat Dragon Ball as the end-all-beat-all series of everything. So this is my question to Dragon Ball fans on 2 characters from my favorite series.

This made me think: Could Cell successfully be a Guyver? Let's start with the Guyvers. I acknowledge that standard Guyvers stand no real chance against the higher-tier Dragon Ball characters,

Scenario Imperfect Cell version 1 comes across Guyver-I and or Aptom in his rampage to find the Androids before he encounters Piccolo. Would he be able to absorb these 2 who are currently the 2 most powerful protagonists of the Guyver series or would he avoid them if he realized they were far more dangerous than he initially thought?

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Let me start with the Guyvers. These 3 are currently the only 3 living in the Manga and of course the live-action version

Now, Guyver Units typically aren't dangerous. In fact, they are typical pieces of equipment for the alien race (Advents/Creators/Uranus - yes, that's what they are sometimes called). They only become weapons when a sentient being touches the control medal in which it comes to life.

When it attaches to a sentient being, it stores a sample of the host's DNA in its Control Medal and turns it into the Guyver. Where that being's physical abilities increase 100-fold. Sure, he could absorb a human Guyver-Host, who is human until he calls the Guyver armor (host is in the top left corner, transforming into the blue armored figure you see).

But would Cell be able to absorb the Guyver into his being? Especially when the Guyver needs the Control Medal connected to the host brain to regulate and maintain its energy levels. You see with out that Control Medal, whether it is removed

or it is already damaged before activation and punched while malfunctioning

one of 2 things can happen, the Guyver turns

Into a mindless, bloodthirsty creature known as the Bio-Boosted Creature (seen here), or the energies will run so rampant the armor will eat the host alive until nothing remains.

But if Cell did find a way to do so and managed to fuse the Control Medal to his being, would his Android physiology be able to stop it from regenerating a totally new Guyver because it stores the host's DNA in it? Do you think Cell would successfully absorb a Guyver and add their abilities to his own or not risk it? If he was able to successfully integrate the Control Medal into his body to control his abilities, would all that energy he has overload the control medal and cause it to eat his body alive as it did Guyver-II, seen above

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Now, let's talk about the next character from the same series, Aptom. In the Guyver series, this guy is one of the most powerful beings, potentially rivaling all the Guyvers and possibly every Zoalord except for Alkanphel.

And that is saying something when there are Guyvers, Guyver-Gigantics, Gigantic-Exceeds, Zoalords, Zoanoids ranging from Sub-Standard Zoanoids (what I call the live-action Zoanoids) to Lost Number Zoanoids and Guyver-Killers - Zoanoids whose genetic properties were designed to melt Guyver Armor. He originally started off as a Zoanoid whose Optimization failed, turning him into a Lost Number - a Zoanoid that can't be mass-produced/replicated by Cronos/Kronos/Chronos (however you want to spell it). Because he was a failed Zoanoid

Cronos experimented on him to the point that he turned into something more than a Lost Number, severing his connection to Zoalords.

This guy can imitate Guyvers in appearance,

Because of being experimented on by Cronos he also gained the ability to absorb Zoanoids gaining their abilities and create battle forms based off the Zoanoids he absorbed as seen here

In this form, he fought and was eventually defeated by Guyver-I. He had an arm cut off, which he picked up and fused back to his body, which ironically was the only piece that remained after their fight, which regenerated Aptom's head and arm. He then started absorbing as many Zoanoids as possible, including the Hyper-Zoanoid Team 5 (seen here), starting with Elegen (the tentacled one). He never gets the chance to absorb Thancrus (the one with sword hands) because he is killed by Guyver-III, so his abilities are not allowed.

He attacks and attempts to absorb Archanphel in this clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfGMY6_IRkw). But even though he was blown to bits, his body parts attached and absorbed the 5 zoanoids in blue suits Alkanphel killed. He later infiltrates the Cronos base and kills Gaster, the pink one, off-screen/panel. He then manages to infect and take over Derzerb (the rhino looking Zoanoid) even with 99% of his Gaster-possessed body blown away by Zx-Tole turning into this form

Aptom Version-3, which this form is called, fought Zx-Tole and was severely damaged. When Zx-Tole was about to kill him, the last of Aptom's duplicates ambushed Zx-Tole grabbed ahold of his leg and started to absorb him til Zx-Tole blew off his own leg to get away. But that was enough for Aptom because all he needed was a tissue sample to absorb Zoanoid's abilities (regeneration from just a tissue sample is also possibly proven in the series and manga later on). Anyway, the last Aptom duplicate absorbs not just Zx-Tole's leg but also the upper torso of Version-3 to create this form

Now, in this form, he can degenerate himself in emergency situations but turn himself into a bunch of missiles and shoot them from his wrists and shoulders and have them form a new body in an attempt to retreat and regroup, which got him captured by Cronos later on, which a Zoalord found a way to control him. When Guyver-I and another Lost Number by the name of Bio-Freezer and Aptom's friend (because during his time with Cronos, Aptom and Lost Numbers were outcasts amongst all the other classes and became friends - so when he found out Bio-Freezer was a lost number he became protective of him)

attempted to rescue him.

He attacked them like he wasn't in control of his abilities like he typically was which became evident to to them and hatched a plan to sever a limb so it could regenerate the true Aptom.

As the battle climaxed, Bio-Freezer was injured and froze the Evil-Aptom," as he was called, including the piece inside him that started absorbing Bio-Freezer's body. The absorption and subsequent regeneration of Aptom enraged him towards Cronos even more but also gave him his latest form known as Aptom Omega Blast

He does share a form with Guyver-I, his most trusted ally now, and vice-versa, but that is mainly for infiltrating Cronos to speak to one of the more respected Zoalords or go on a stealth mission known as Guyver-Aption

Now that I have gone through all of his current forms, in which you can see all the different zoanoids he has absorbed and his regeneration,

[transcript: (first flag) eight stripes colored with black, royal blue, cyan, grey, three shades of cyan, and pink. (second flag) eight stripes colored with black, royal blue, cyan, grey, white, cyan, blue, and pastel black. End ID.]

“Aptom Form II” accessed at Legacy of the Creators here

[Commissioned by @coldbloodassassin. Aptom is inspired by The Thing, and is a major character in the Guyver franchise. This means he appears throughout the various Guyver media in at least seven different unique forms, not to mention the times he disguises himself as specific zoanoids. Form II, the first of his composite bodies, was the one requested by the commissioner. So I was actually able to find a bunch of Aptom art, just not a lot for this form in particular. Incidentally, his human form was noticably redesigned between the original manga and the 2005 revival anime. Specifically, in 2005 he looks a lot more like Agent Smith than he used to--I suspect the showrunners liked the Matrix sequels and ran with the similarities between the two assimilating-and-cloning characters.]

Zoanoid, Aptom CR 15 CN Aberration This vaguely humanoid monster has a hulking form, with clawed arms, a crown of horns, and two pod-like structures growing from its shoulders. It is furred in places, scaled in others, and has a rugose carapace covering its legs.

An aptom is a Rogue Number, a type of zoanoid created only through very unusual circumstances. The circumstances are, in fact, unique—although there are multiple aptoms, they are all clones descended from the original individual. The intention of the aptom was for the zoalords to have a perfect spy and mimic of enemy fighting capabilities, but the creature functioned too well. Not only could it reshape its body to tailor to its needs, it also reshaped its mind into rebellious independence. Aptoms gain access to new forms by absorbing pieces of living or dead bodies—with enough biomass, they reproduce by fission, creating two bodies with the same mind and purpose. That purpose is now to gain as much power as possible and overthrow the zoalords that made them.

An aptom’s default form is a mixture of other zoanoids; it has the carapace and horns of a gregole, the claws and acidic breath of an enzyme, and the flame-shooting pods of a vamore. It combines blistering elemental assaults with its superior strength in combat, trusting to its regenerative abilities to keep itself alive long enough to assimilate biomass from its enemies and sample their abilities. Aptoms fight well together, coordinating their actions through telepathy, and may assume different forms in order to provide complementary tactics to one another. An aptom can give itself even the unique abilities of other zoanoids they encounter, so no two battles with aptom opponents are likely to be the same.