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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Reeling over being fired, Yamcha is pleading for the owner to reconsider, until told just how much he'll get for signing the non-compete.


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* FriendshipMoment: Yamcha gave his friends season passes, and they're the only ones who bother showing up for the game. After Yamcha hits a homerun, Krillin (the only other person in the entire stadium invested in the game) lets out an enthusiastic shout.


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* {{Irony}}: When telling Yamcha he's fired (not on fire like the guy had hoped), the team's owner says this is the first time he's out his entire baseball career.


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* ThePollyanna: Yamcha is so optimistic that he's blissfully unaware of how badly the team is doing in terms of audience and how many of his teammates are just plain sick of him. He thinks nothing bad will come of both the coach and owner wanting to see him after the game, so learning he's been fired is quite a surprise to him.
* TearsOfJoy: When the coach tells him he does nothing but win, Yamcha starts tearing up.


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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: After Yamcha is told he did indeed win here, a narrator explains how he formally retired, successfully invested his newfound wealth to become even richer, and opened the Wolf Fang Grill sports bar chain. After wrapping up Yamcha's story, the narrator previews the next episode of this apparent retrospective series, saying they'll look back on former tournament champion Jackie Chun and inquire over what became of him.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: When saying baseball is all he has in his life, Yamcha admits some of his friends are indeed assholes.
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After hitting his 500th ''consecutive'' home run, Yamcha gets startling news: he's being fired. Because the results of his team's games are a ForegoneConclusion with a player as good as Yamcha, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome no one comes to their games anymore]]. But he will hardly go home empty-handed.

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After hitting his 500th ''consecutive'' home run, Yamcha gets startling news: he's being fired. Because the results of his team's games are a ForegoneConclusion with a player as good as Yamcha, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome no one comes to their games anymore]].anymore. But he will hardly go home empty-handed.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Yamcha's supernatural combat abilities make him an absurdly good baseball player, allowing him to hit home runs every time he steps up to the plate. It is implied when on defense he similarly devastates the opposing team. This in turn makes his team immensely boring, because Yamcha's skill and consistency make every single game have a predetermined outcome.
* ThrowTheDogABone: As a severance package, Yamcha receives 20 billion zeni and the right to license his image, which he uses to buy out Hetap, doubling his net worth. Then he opens a chain of sports bars, making him set for life.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Yamcha's supernatural combat abilities make him an absurdly good baseball player, allowing him to hit home runs every time he steps up to the plate. It is implied when on defense he similarly devastates the opposing team. This in turn makes his team immensely boring, because Yamcha's skill and consistency make every single game have a predetermined outcome.
* ThrowTheDogABone: As a severance package, Yamcha receives 20 billion zeni and the right to license his image, which he uses to buy out Hetap, doubling his net worth. Then he opens a chain of sports bars, making him set for life.life.
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* MythologyGag: Roshi summons Baby Gamera, who he had summoned before in the original series of ''Dragon Ball'' to get around as by that point he was too impure (pervy) to ride on the Flying Nimbus.

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* MythologyGag: Roshi summons Baby Gamera, who he had summoned before in the original series of ''Dragon Ball'' to get around as by that point he was too impure (pervy) to ride on the Flying Nimbus. The scene might also be a reference to [=TFS'=] playthrough of ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai Budokai 2]]'' (which features the turtle as part of its loading screen minigame), in which Lanipator frequently expressed his [[AuthorAppeal love for it]].
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After hitting his 500th ''consecutive'' home run, Yamcha gets startling news: he's being fired. Because the results of his team's games are a ForegoneConclusion with a player as good as Yamcha, [[RealityEnsues no one comes to their games anymore]]. But he will hardly go home empty-handed.

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After hitting his 500th ''consecutive'' home run, Yamcha gets startling news: he's being fired. Because the results of his team's games are a ForegoneConclusion with a player as good as Yamcha, [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome no one comes to their games anymore]]. But he will hardly go home empty-handed.



* RealityEnsues: Yamcha's supernatural combat abilities make him an absurdly good baseball player, allowing him to hit home runs every time he steps up to the plate. It is implied when on defense he similarly devastates the opposing team. This in turn makes his team immensely boring, because Yamcha's skill and consistency make every single game have a predetermined outcome.

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* RealityEnsues: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Yamcha's supernatural combat abilities make him an absurdly good baseball player, allowing him to hit home runs every time he steps up to the plate. It is implied when on defense he similarly devastates the opposing team. This in turn makes his team immensely boring, because Yamcha's skill and consistency make every single game have a predetermined outcome.
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After hitting his 500th ''consecutive'' home run, Yamcha gets startling news: he's being fired. Because the results of his team's games are a ForegoneConclusion with a player as good as Yamcha, [[VictoryIsBoring no one comes to their games anymore]]. But he will hardly go home empty-handed.

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After hitting his 500th ''consecutive'' home run, Yamcha gets startling news: he's being fired. Because the results of his team's games are a ForegoneConclusion with a player as good as Yamcha, [[VictoryIsBoring [[RealityEnsues no one comes to their games anymore]]. But he will hardly go home empty-handed.



* RealityEnsues: Yamcha's supernatural combat abilities make him an absurdly good baseball player, allowing him to hit home runs every time he steps up to the plate. It is implied when on defense he similarly devastates the opposing team. This in turn makes his team incredibly boring, because Yamcha's skill and consistency make every single game have a predetermined outcome.
* ThrowTheDogABone: As a severance package, Yamcha gets 20 billion zeni and the right to license his image, which he uses to buy out Hetap, doubling his net worth. Then he opens a chain of sports bars, making him set for life.

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* RealityEnsues: Yamcha's supernatural combat abilities make him an absurdly good baseball player, allowing him to hit home runs every time he steps up to the plate. It is implied when on defense he similarly devastates the opposing team. This in turn makes his team incredibly immensely boring, because Yamcha's skill and consistency make every single game have a predetermined outcome.
* ThrowTheDogABone: As a severance package, Yamcha gets receives 20 billion zeni and the right to license his image, which he uses to buy out Hetap, doubling his net worth. Then he opens a chain of sports bars, making him set for life.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Every bit as much a deconstruction of the trope as ''WebComic/OnePunchMan''. While he's [[ButtMonkey definitely]] [[TheChewToy the weakest]] [[MemeticLoser of the Z-Fighters]], Yamcha is still one of the strongest humans in the world. Just one problem with that: since no one can hold a candle to him on the baseball diamond, [[ForegoneConclusion his team wins every game]]. A direct result is that the fans aren't coming to the games anymore, [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction since they already know how they will always end]].[[invoked]]

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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Every bit as much a deconstruction of the trope as ''WebComic/OnePunchMan''. While he's [[ButtMonkey definitely]] [[TheChewToy the weakest]] [[MemeticLoser of the Z-Fighters]], Yamcha is still one of the strongest humans ''humans'' in the world. Just one problem with that: since no one can hold a candle to him on the baseball diamond, [[ForegoneConclusion his team wins every game]]. A direct result is that the fans aren't coming to the games anymore, [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction since they already know how they will always end]].[[invoked]]



** Vegeta is listed as an "MyFriendsAndZoidberg" example of this.

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** Vegeta is listed as an a "MyFriendsAndZoidberg" example of this.
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* MythologyGag: Roshi summons Baby Gamera, who he had summoned before in the original series of ''Dragon Ball'' to get around as by that point he was too impure to ride on the Flying Nimbus.

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* MythologyGag: Roshi summons Baby Gamera, who he had summoned before in the original series of ''Dragon Ball'' to get around as by that point he was too impure (pervy) to ride on the Flying Nimbus.
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* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: How the viewers see things. While watching Yamcha effortlessly win was fun at first, watching him curb stomp every game got boring.

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* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: How the viewers see things.baseball audience sees this. While watching Yamcha effortlessly win was fun at first, watching him curb stomp every game got boring.

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