Dragon Ball Z Abridged

When Yamcha tries to play a game, the mouse and keyboard bruises his hand and fingers, and causes him to die of internal bleeding.

he's afraid P Cs and Consoles will go Saibaman on him.

As if later on in the series that would actually be an issue. Though, it is sort of surprising he didn't go back, this might have been anime filler, but I recall when Krillin was competing in that tournament again for whatever reason he certainly enjoyed being way more powerful than the the "normal" martial artists.

Figure Yamcha would enjoy that too, or maybe they're all just too good of people to do that.

I remember Krillin just seeming kind of bored during his last tournament. He was really only fighting because he married Scrooge McDuck (albeit chronically penniless), after all (well, that and the whole "best friend coming back from the dead" thing).

And now I just got a really silly idea of a Dragonball-meets-Laurel And Hardy-esque spinoff in which Krillin and 18 go on globe-spanning adventures in pursuit of riches, only to end every episode even broker than before.

edited 30th Aug '14 12:25:28 AM by KnownUnknown

Yamcha couldn't go to the Budokai for plot reasons. I really feel bad for the guy. At the beginning of the series, Yamchas dream was to get married and start a family, but because Vegeta stole his girlfriend, he ended up a 60 something year old man wandering the desert with his cat.

But at least he's got pussy...

There are millions of other women on the planet he could have started a relationship with. Bulma was never obligated to bear Yamcha's children.

And Vegeta didn't "steal" Yamcha's girlfriend, she went with him of her own accord.

edited 30th Aug '14 12:55:25 PM by TobiasDrake

Silly Tobias! Women are property, doncha know?

Vegeta also allowed, and was quite unrepentant for, the murder of most of her friends and comrades, and would have otherwise sold her into slavery, or outright killed her given the chance - had Goku, and Frieza, not intervened.

edited 30th Aug '14 1:16:32 PM by FOFD

Vegeta only killed one person his entire time on Earth before joining Team Three Star.

Also, he could have killed the lot of them on Namek, but fear convinced him otherwise.

edited 30th Aug '14 1:18:12 PM by GethKnight

And was totally cool with Nappa murdering the other three, and probably planned on blowing up the entire planet. That's like getting arrested for attempted robbery and going "Wait, wait, I didn't do anything wrong! I only actually stole a spoon."

And then there was the other planet where he was a prison bitch, and countless other things we can assume he did under Frieza's orders.

"It was my partner who shot the owners. And I failed to kill the cops when they showed up. I mean, is attempted murder a crime?"

Vegeta is an awful person.

That doesn't change the fact that it was Bulma's choice to be with him.

Which makes Bulma an equally awful person.

When was that ever in question? Bulma is a shallow, amoral human being who started out the series trying to seduce a prepubescent child in order to steal his most valued possession, then lied and manipulated him to try and use arcane magical forces of near-infinite power to either mind-rape an existing male into being her boyfriend or fabricate what would effectively be a sex slave out of thin air.

Additionally, her relationship with Yamcha was founded solely on the fact that they're each the only person the other knows who is both around the same age and has opposing gendered-parts, and was a miserable ordeal for both of them for the entirety of its existence.

Bulma was never a particularly decent human being to begin with, and her relationship with Yamcha was only going to last until one of them finally had enough of the other's shit and left. Bulma happened to be the one to do so.

In fairness, Goku and Chi Chi's relationship isn't much better, being founded entirely in the fact that Goku molested her so she thought that meant he had to marry her, and then he agreed to it because he was a 12-year-old with brain damage and no social experience and thus had no idea what she was even asking him for; and then he left and stopped caring she existed for the next six years, prompting her to go hunt him down and demand he fulfill his promise. Early Dragon Ball romances were pretty f*cked up.

edited 30th Aug '14 2:24:19 PM by TobiasDrake

X9 All I'm saying is that Bulma and Yamcha were in a relationship since the beginning of the series, and then they broke up so Trunks can be born. Toriyama never had him start another relationship and in the end, Yamcha's dreams of getting married and starting a family were dashed and he ended up back where he started. By the end of the series he was in his late 60's wandering the desert with his cat. Deus Angst Machina explains his sad situation. It's summed up pretty well in Bulma's line, "the only thing that screws Yamcha is life".

edited 30th Aug '14 3:21:40 PM by 940131

The first time Bulma met Goku she ran him over.

Then tried to shoot him.

Well, she succeeded in the shooting part. Just didn't have the desired effect.

I just realized that it's the 30th Anniversary of Dragon Ball. Does anyone know if there's going to be a special?

When you get right down to it, Master Roshi and Chi Chi are probably the nicest people Goku has ever met, on account of having never undergone a "Murder Goku" phase of their relationship.

That's surprisingly rare for Goku.

Chi Chi was trying to murder him when she came back after her six year break. He was all 'lady, I have no idea who you, can you please tell why you're trying to break my legs?' And Chi Chi explained and the response was 'Oh, okay. Let's get married then.'

But- Krillin never tried to murder Goku. He was being rather competitive, but that's all.

So then Master Roshi is the nicest person Goku knows.

...That's sorta distressing.

Did anyone in the second generation try to kill him?

If you mean the kids of the people who were around in Part 1, then no.

Am I the only one here who thinks Toriyama wasted Raditz. Goku's brother seems like a character with a lot of story potential.