Originally posted by yungz22New info supersedes old info--that's just how fiction in general works(especially when a character makes contradictory claims.)
leem ask you a question so what your saying is cell words are inconsistant?
That said, Cell may have originally claimed that he was going to 'finish off' Gohan(your page), BUT we found out several pages later(my page) that he was actually holding back the entire--as THAT was when he finally decided to stop playing around, and was going to kill Gohan... Then Vegeta intervened, thus saving Gohan's life.
So again, Cell's last word on the subject tells us that he had been HOLDING BACK and TOYING with Gohan up to that point. Cell's final statement on the matter=the most canon statement on the matter.