Yes Thanos can. He can flood the field with an AOE, bring the lower life-form that he would call Cell into telepathic thrall where he would them do voodoo on him reducing him to calling him Master just before joining the Black Order
Telepathy is off. There's no way you believe Thanos could tag Cell. Also, when has Thanos used AOE matter manipulation? What is Thanos doing if something like this is coming at him?
Thanos took a blast from a gas without it doing much to him. Took blasts that severed Gladiator Thor and the Surfer.
Thanos has Telepathy, cosmic powers, as an eternal he can transmute matter and has. The hands also uses sorcery. Cell would be helpless the moment that he met Thanos. Cell isn’t the Hulk a walking immunity.
Cell would be dominated by the Herald class and would rank at about low to mid herald in DC and Marvel. He has too many exploitable weaknesses or outright vulnerabilities. Psylocke would beat him if she went psycho hunter.
Which gas blast? The blast that he withstood that took out Thor, Gladiator, and Surfer - i do agree, that's impressive.
Telepathy is off kn this battle, and im still trying to determine how Thanos is transmutting Cell. The attack would never land. Also, when it comes to immunity, Cell has survived being disintegrated all the way down to a single Cell and survived (and became more powerful. Let's find out how Thanos tags him first, then we can discuss durability.
What Herald level character can one shot a solar systems and can stand in one spot while Super saiyans pound on them? Psylock can't even beat kid Goku. She doesn't stand a chance against Cell, lol.
Thanks has matter transmutation powers because of his cosmic abilities. Thanos is a tank that uses telepathy cosmic powers and sorcery. This is a no contest. Physically he’s much stronger much more durable etc
Force technology. I mean what do you want to do? Strip him down? With telepathy alone which you cut off, he wins. Even without it the sorcery is too much. Then force cubes?
It’s the can I get a chance to do any of that stuff before some stuff is done to me. Marvel has a Dragon Ball level character and he wasn’t much due to his exploitable weaknesses. Forgot his name but it’s Sue and Reeds other son. Was it Hyperstorm? Anyway, Thanos would use him like butt wipe.
Thanos shrugs it off and smiles. He has universal level durability. He then has the power to neutralize Cell, who has no resistance to what he can produce. Cell does not nor ever has hit harder than Galactus or the Galactus Thanosai. Thanos took those hits, Thanos took hits from a Cosmic Cube, resisted being torn apart while traveling through the Nexus of Realities. His durability scales much higher than you think. This Dragon Ball character wouldn’t show up in the Marvel or DC universes as peers to cosmic abstract beings. They are just powerful characters with huge defensive holes that could be exploited by characters as weak physically weak as Psylocke. They’re all like Hyperstorm bro.
Cell is a powerful character, but Thanos is crafty AF.
If we go off of resources (weapons on person), resourcefulness, and IQ, Thanos wins the cerebral assassin award against Cell without contest.
We we factor in his energy durability. Yes he would literally smile from blasts from Cell. His damage soak is outrageous as well and would definitely be able to take Cells attacks.
Cell would lose to sorcery, telepathy (you removed this), and transmutation which he has no defenses against.
As I said, I believe that Thanos would beat him to near death, and force him into serving him as the new member of the Black Order. Oh and let’s not forget about his Force Cubes, and his ability to tank Phoenix fire energy attacks.