History Characters / DragonBallSupportingCast

* BenevolentGenie: The wish he grants is always exactly as the wisher wants

* CoolSword

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Yajirobe. This guy was equal to ''Goku'' in his first appearance. However, Goku [[TimeToUnlockMorePotential unlocked more of his hidden potential]], and it quickly went downhill by the 23rd Tenka'ichi Budokai, where he didn't even become a finalist.

** [[AllGirlWantBadBoys All Girls Love Bad Boys]]: Her crush stemmed from Tenshinhan's ruthless fighting style.

** AllGirlsLoveBadBoys: Her crush stemmed from Tenshinhan's ruthless fighting style.

* ChristopherSabat

Originally thieves and con artists (not in that order). The group slowly find themselves absorbed into Goku and Bulma's quest for the Dragon Balls in the original series. Yamcha was Bulma's first love till [[strike:his vagabond ways drove her off]] the author decided he wanted more Saiyajins in the series. Even in the original series, Yamcha was mostly used as the primary victim of the WorfEffect, hardly winning any important fights despite being one of the most powerful protagonists. By Z he was pretty much a target to show how tough the villains were, so much so that around the Buu Saga he gave up fighting entirely (except for fillers in which he somehow defeated enemies even Goku had trouble with a few years before).

* InNameOnly: {{Satan}}. Who missed this? Seriously.

* TheWorfEffect: Yamcha suffers from this as early as ''DragonBall'', always losing in his first round in the three world tournaments he participates in to show how powerful Jackie Chun, Tien, and Hero/Shen/Kami are, despite his training. In ''Z'', he makes an impressive showing against a Saibaman and ''almost'' seems to avert this trope, but [[DethroningMomentOfSuck he then ends up dying probably the most embarrassing death in the entire series.]] ''[[{{Mook}} To cannon fodder.]]''
** [[SuicideAttack At least the last example was a suicide attack]] and he died because he didn´t pay attention for a moment, not because he was too weak.
*** Also keep in mind, they WERE all equally as strong as Raditz. Yamcha had trained enough to be stronger than Goku was a year ago, and it only took him that year to do it.

->Voiced by: Kent Williams (Funimation dub)

* PhysicalGod: Though its more of an honorary title really. Before Kakarot crash landed on Earth, he was literally the greatest warrior, and hence most qualified defender, of humanity.

* EvilIsSexy: Well, at least until it becomes good.

* TooCoolToLive

* IronWoobie

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Vegeta's reaction to Tarble introducing Gure as his wife.

* EducationMama: And how! That trope may as well be called [[MostTriumphantExample "The Chi-Chi"]] :D

* HotMom: Once you get past her [[{{Tsundure temper}}]].....

* DotingParent: Goten. Gohan. Compare and contrast. Also, Gyuumaou is very fond of his grandsons.
* [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]: Surprisingly (or not), in the anime where Goku and Chi-Chi go on their first "date". Chi-Chi kept getting blustered and shoved Goku into a tree several meters away, before nervously apologizing. Ironic, what happened later in the series when Goku returned to Earth when they got married...
* EducationMama: And how!

* HotMom

Originally thieves and con artists (not in that order). The group slowly find themselves absorbed into Goku and Bulma's quest for the Dragon Balls in the original series. Yamcha was Bulma's first love till [[strike:his vagabond ways drove her off]] the author decided he wanted more Saiyajins in the series. Even in the original series, Yamcha was mostly used as the primary victim of the WorfEffect, hardly winning any important fights despite being one of the most powerful protagonists. By Z he was pretty much a target to show how tough the villans were, so much so that around the Buu Saga he gave up fighting entirely (except for fillers in which he somehow defeated enemies even Goku had trouble with a few years before).

* ButtMonkey: Almost as much as poor Kuririn in the original. Even moreso in DBZ.

** Ten notes this as much, saying even though he achnowledges his previous actions as wrong, he still considers him and Chaozu as Tsuru'sennin's students, and a simple ask for forgiveness won't be enough.

** Ten also lasts the longest against Nappa and suffers the most [[BadAss awesome]] death amongst the Whorf characters, and manages to ''keep Cell at bay in his second Imperfect form''.

* {{Chickification}}: Chi-Chi still keeps her psysical strength from the first series but gave up fighting in favor of being a housewife and overprotective parent in ''Z''. Though, with what goes on in this series, it's kinda hard to blame her.

* [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]: Suprisingly (or not), in the anime where Goku and Chi-Chi go on their first "date". Chi-Chi kept getting blustered and shoved Goku into a tree several meters away, before nervously apologizing. Ironic, what happened later in the series when Goku returned to Earth when they got married...

* JerkassFacade: Gyuumaou intentionally pulled this up to his first appearence to prevent thieves from coming into his castle and robbing his gold. [[OverprotectiveDad That, and taking his daughter]]. So, [[DisproportionateRetribution he terrorized the nearby village]], [[ShroudedInMyth and legends of him spread as a bloodthirsty demonic tyrant]]. Suffice to say, this wasn't the best course of action he could have taken (though, it was pretty effective). Father and daughter being inhumanly strong, notwithstanding (the latter killed a ''T. Rex'' with ease at ''twelve years of age''). He later got reprimanded for this by Muten Roshi, who told him to aplogize to the villagers for how he treated them, and mellowed out... after his home on Frypan Mountain was blown to bits by Roshi.

Goku's second mentor, Karin is an 800 year old talking cat who lives in Korin's Tower directly under Kami's lookout. Yajirobe is a fat, samurai vagabond who eventually started living with Karin. Korin's senzu beans, which causes full healing from physical injury after being eaten, play a big part in the series. Yajirobie usually acts as a senzu delivery man, but also helped fight off King Piccolo's henchmen and Vegeta himself.

* GoodCounterpart: To Demon King Piccolo, whom he inadvertantly created.

* PhysicalGod: Though its more of an honorary title really. Before Kakaroto crash landed on Earth, he was literally the greatest warrior, and hence most qualified defender, of humanity.

Goku's fourth mentor in the series (Karin and Kami coming before him). A small man with a penchant for bad jokes. Helps train Goku to fight Nappa and Vegeta while Goku is in the afterlife. Also provides much infomation on the races in the series.

The KingOfAllCosmos [[spoiler:(Until the Old Kaioshin is released)]] who appears to be a short, purple alien with a white mohawk. He is assisted by his servant Kibito. He is the last surviving Kaioshin since Majin Buu came to his world and killed/absorbed them. However, he managed to avenge them by killing the monster's creator, the wizard Bibidi and leaving Buu's cocoon on Earth. Millions of years later, he returned to Earth when Bibidi's son, Babidi, sought to revive Majin Buu and enlisted Goku's, Gohan's, Vegeta's, Kuririn's and Piccolo's help to stop him. While they failed to prevent the release of Majin Buu, he was generally suprised by the incredible powers of Super Saiyans and assisted Gohan. [[spoiler:One fusion later]], he resumes his role as the second Kaioshin.

* CrowningMomentofFunny: Vegeta's reaction to Tarble introducing Gure as his wife.

* ShallowLoveInterest: What Krillin and Maron's relationship ultimately amounted to.

* [=~Can't Catch Up~=]: Same as Kuririn.

* [=~Everything's Cuter With Kittens~=]: Puar.
* [=~Everything's Messier With Pigs~=]: Oolong.

* GenreSavvy: Yamcha eventually realizes that he ''really'' [=~Can't Catch Up~=] when he nearly gets killed by Android 20 and from then on stops trying to take center stage, giving up fighting after the Cell saga.

* [=~Can't Catch Up~=]: Unlike the other human characters, Ten never seems to stop trying to catch up.

* [=~Everything's Cuter With Kittens~=]: Korin.

* AllThereInTheManual: One of the newer guide books includes a Q&A session with Akira Toriyama where he reveals that Mr. Satan's civilian name
is "Mark." In kana, that would be ''maaku,'' which is an anagram of ''akuma.'' Which is - you guessed it! - Japanese for "devil."

* [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~=]: He's a millionaire thanks to it! Also, trying to defeat Majin Buu with video games.

* [=~You Can't Fight Fate~=]