Yamcha doesn't job, he's just never been a fighter of substance. There's never been anything to suggest he shouldn't constantly fail as a combatant. His greatest accomplishment is that he didn't lose immediately to a starving 12-year-old Goku.
Contrast Gohan being abruptly absorbed by Super Buu to put the focus back on Goku, despite Gohan being the strongest in the universe.
edited 28th Dec '15 3:11:09 PM by TobiasDrake
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That. Worfing does not necessarily equate to jobbing. Jobbing, however, usually involves some measure of worfing.
It's also inaccurate, but for what semantic related reason?
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Yeah, but you have to remember that Mangastream embellish the language. A lot.
Goku just says "Geez, that guy" in the Japanese.
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Oh, and on jobbing/worfing: A lot of people use jobbing to mean the same thing as worfing, or just any time a character loses badly. Given that the term originated in wrestling, and refers to wrestlers losing because that's their job, it didn't always mean they were losing something they should have won.
Because it's a wrestling term, applying it to fictional characters makes it a little wonky. Even our own page on jobbing says:
Which, given what they say on jobbing in wrestling:
Makes equating it to The Worf Effect seem pretty fair.
I mean I see Yamcha, Chad, Renji, Kuwabara etc described as jobbers even though most of the time it's perfectly logical that they'd lose because they're outclassed.
I definitely see it used more often than "losing a fight they shouldn't have" probably because that appears less often and is harder to define.
The jobber label seems to be applied to characters that not only get worfed a lot, but who aren't successful at it because they get worfed too often. Like Vegeta spends most of the series being worfed, but is rarely called a jobber because you can actually see him get stronger and continue to be a credible target for worfing. Yamcha doesn't, which means the next guy coming along and punching a whole through him just stops meaning anything.
Nobody screws Yamcha but life.
Seriously, though. I always wonder what Toriyama was thinking, being so mean-spirited to his character. Most of this was unintentional (eg: Bulma and Vegeta getting together was just to justify Trunks). But still.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!

Losing to Beerus wasn't jobbing since Beerus is legitimately stronger and better than them IIRC. 'Jobbing' is 'losing when you shouldn't have'.