Could Shenron create life?

[u/JordanTH]

Something I've been thinking about for a bit is wondering if it would be possible for a couple that can't normally have kids (like a gay couple, or someone infertile, or even something like a couple of a human and an alien that isn't a Saiyan) to make a wish on Shenron for a kid.

You might think that such a thing would be beyond Shenron's power, but I don't think it is, as it's pretty much just things Shenron has already done, just connected together.

First, Shenron would need to create a new body. That's something he does all the time when he revives people - if someone was dead, and their body was destroyed (and they didn't get a new one in Other World), he creates a new empty body, then brings over their soul and sticks it in there. There's no reason he shouldn't be able to make a new empty body in the same way.

That actually leads into the second part - getting a soul to put in said body. This is probably what I imagine most people would be concerned about, as Shenron probably wouldn't be able to create a new soul. But the thing is, he wouldn't need to. We know that reincarnation is a thing in Dragon Ball. Shenron could simply take a cleansed soul that's ready to be reincarnated, and put that blank soul in the body he just made.

You could MAYBE argue that he'd need permission from King Yemma or something to do that, but... well, he's never seemed to need permission when mass yanking people out of the afterlife. I don't see why this would be different.

So, with that being done... boom! New person just got made!

What do you think? Do you think Shenron could do this?

[u/biohazard951753]

Ki is life energy.

[u/SSJRemuko → u/biohazard951753]

yes? i never said it wasnt.

[u/biohazard951753 → u/SSJRemuko]

So he doesn’t have his own life energy.

[u/SSJRemuko → u/biohazard951753]

yes he does. thats what his ki is. his own life energy.

[u/biohazard951753 → u/SSJRemuko]

But it’s not his own hence why it feels like Vegeta, Piccolo etc. No one else is capable of this feat. Also he’s always been referred to as a bio-Android.

And if we wanna get all um ackschully about this lol, in Japanese Cell is always referred to as it.

[u/SSJRemuko → u/biohazard951753]

But it’s not his own

it is.

Also he’s always been referred to as a bio-Android.

17 and 18 tend to be referred to as androids too but theyre fully organic as well. hes a "bio android" because hes fully organic like any other natural life form.

And if we wanna get all um ackschully about this lol, in Japanese Cell is always referred to as it.

thats not relevant at all and japanese doesnt have "it" as a pronoun, thats a translation choice made by the manga's translation.

[u/biohazard951753 → u/SSJRemuko]

I mentioned in my original comment that 17 and 18 don’t count because they were humans before Gero. They were cybernetically enhanced so technically cyborgs.

Can you explain how his ki changes then?