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Spirit Pretty flower from America Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
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#4651: Feb 4th 2014 at 8:08:03 AM

It's only barely funny any more. Everybody thinks making fun of Yamcha makes them some kind of comedy genius, and more chumps keep thinking that they can change peoples minds if they just find one thing he did right.

Well they're not, and they can't.

This.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4652: Feb 4th 2014 at 8:08:48 AM

I still find it hilarious.

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MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#4653: Feb 4th 2014 at 8:24:11 AM

I actually don't mind Yamcha at all. I mean, I can't being myself to hate the guy because he's a decent person. He's one of my favorite human characters, but you gotta admit some jokes about him are funny.

The only time I made fun of Yamcha was when I watched this video.

edited 4th Feb '14 8:26:39 AM by MsCC93

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#4654: Feb 4th 2014 at 9:28:00 AM

Its fun to laugh at his misfortune.

I laugh at Yamcha because, let's face, he's the punching bag of the series; even moreso than Krillin. He was always used as a measuring stick to show off whatever new fighter came in the tournaments in Dragon Ball, and he was the Sacrificial Lion for both the Saiyan and Android Sagas to show how serious the villains were in Z.

He was never going to amount to anything sadly.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#4655: Feb 4th 2014 at 10:06:43 AM

Yamcha was always the least interesting of the three main humans to me. He just didn't have that much going for him. The last time he contributed anything was when he beat one Saibamen and even that backfired. Krillin downing three effortlessly not too long after just makes it stand out more. At least he and Tien had a few minor accomplishments.

edited 4th Feb '14 10:07:48 AM by kostya

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#4656: Feb 4th 2014 at 10:07:05 AM

I wonder what would have happened if Bulma actually had wished for the perfect boyfriend.

I think there's probably the potential for a gag What If? thing involving Vegeta there. His pod just falls from the sky for no real reason. Everyone wonders what the hell happened.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4657: Feb 4th 2014 at 10:12:51 AM

[up][up][up][up]I dunno if I'd say he was a decent person. I mean, he was a desert bandit, and he's pretty bad when it comes to women. Not to mention arrogant and superficial.

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Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#4658: Feb 4th 2014 at 10:25:10 AM

He also cheated on Bulma while they were an item.

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SigfriedWild Siegfried Wild from Pennsylvania Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
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#4659: Feb 4th 2014 at 10:29:18 AM

I thought about it for a bit, and now I've come to the conclusion that there's no way in hell Goku didn't know what sex was. Since he was in the wild, presumably he saw how animals mate, and being trained by MASTER ROSHI ensured he knew... the mechanics, at least. I'd be surprised if he ever knew about romance or courtship, the steps leading up to that, however.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4660: Feb 4th 2014 at 10:33:40 AM

[up][up]I was referring to that when I said "bad with women", yeah.

edited 4th Feb '14 10:33:54 AM by Anomalocaris20

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#4661: Feb 4th 2014 at 10:54:50 AM

[up][up]He didn't know the difference between male and female primary sexual characteristics when the series started, so nature probably wasn't that great a teacher.

And the running gag with Master Roshi was how Goku would never understand what was going on with the innuendo.

edited 4th Feb '14 10:55:01 AM by unnoun

FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#4662: Feb 4th 2014 at 10:56:45 AM

Well, he does offer to get Old Kai a night with Bulma (or was it a kiss?) much, much later, and that's sort of advanced. But IIRC he was unfazed when Ranfan took her clothes off in front of Jackie Chun, and that was after Goku had trained with Roshi.

He freaked when he took off Bulma's underwear as a kid; poor guy probably fainted during Gohan's birth, that is, assuming he was there with her and not bird-watching. [lol]

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#4663: Feb 4th 2014 at 11:02:43 AM

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To be fair, Bulma was just as bad in the relationship, because it invoked The Unfair Sex trope between them. Do you think anyone would be laughing if Yamcha was a female and Bulma was a male?

[up][up][up][up][up][up] While Yamcha isn't in my Top 5 characters, compared to the other characters, he did far less damage than some.

edited 4th Feb '14 11:03:38 AM by MsCC93

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#4664: Feb 4th 2014 at 11:03:42 AM

[up][up]Just a kiss. And I would hope he'd have figured sex out after having two children. Then it stops being a "Chi-Chi is creepy" joke and becomes a "Goku is stupid" joke.

And he might not have known about sex specifically, but he figured out reasonably quickly that Roshi was somewhat preferential towards females.

So dealing with another old pervert should be old hat by that point.

I like how the Buu Saga gets sorta silly again.

edited 4th Feb '14 11:13:20 AM by unnoun

RedM Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
#4665: Feb 4th 2014 at 11:13:39 AM

I love how Goku just suddenly realizes that Vegeta might not be too thrilled his wife's being pimped out, even if it is to save the world.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#4666: Feb 4th 2014 at 11:18:01 AM

To be fair, there was a time when Vegeta probably wouldn't have given a damn.

I think it's neat how Vegeta grows and develops as a person.

Also, I thought about Goku having to go to all the women he knows and whether any of them would be willing to kiss Old Kai, then realized there's a depressingly small number of females in this series.

I mean, Chi-Chi, Bulma, Videl, Android 18, Baba. And Launch.

edited 4th Feb '14 11:29:11 AM by unnoun

RedM Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
#4667: Feb 4th 2014 at 11:27:32 AM

[up]You forgot Lunch. Well it makes sense that Goku offered him Bulma. Baba's old, Lunch is MIA, Videl's underage, 18 (and Chichi, inexplicably,) would punch him really hard if they found out. He just forgot about Vegeta's wrath.

edited 4th Feb '14 11:27:56 AM by RedM

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#4668: Feb 4th 2014 at 11:28:20 AM

Bulma would punch him too probably.

Launch would depend on whether she'd sneezed and which Launch she was.

Baba might be flattered but she could also just summon a dead person to punch him.

edited 4th Feb '14 11:30:15 AM by unnoun

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#4669: Feb 4th 2014 at 11:36:17 AM

Videl would probably be creeped out. Chi-Chi would yell at Goku and probably not cook for him, and Android 18 would probably fight Goku. Lol

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#4670: Feb 4th 2014 at 11:40:04 AM

Pan and Bulla aren't born yet, and Marron's like three.

Goku doesn't know very many women.

Toriyama doesn't design or write for very many women. And it's doubtful he knows that many either.

Like, the one time we have a woman fighter having any amount of success is Android 18 kicking Vegeta's ass.

Which was, admittedly, great.

edited 4th Feb '14 11:55:30 AM by unnoun

sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#4671: Feb 4th 2014 at 12:08:37 PM

If you count the movies, Chi Chi defeated two of Slug's soldiers, 18 killed some bio-warriors, Selypa killed a bunch of Kanassans, and Zangya successfully took down the Z gang along with the rest of Bojack's crew. Of course, all four of them were one-shotted shortly after.

I'll stop mocking Yamcha when it stops being funny. Which evidently is not now. My comment was more about mocking whatever idiotic fanboy wrote those "awesome" entries anyway, especially the one about confidence.

Was it kissing? I thought it was dub only and in the original it was groping. Man, I gotta read the Buu Saga again.

@FOFD: Pure Buu is literally just a shorter Super Buu, so yeah (Super is over eight feet tall, Pure is about half that). I liked his design because it subverted our expectations. As Toriyama himself notes, he likes to make the least intimidating people the strongest. So it was actually a clever subversion to have the small, scrawny form actually BE far weaker, dumber, and overall inferior to the tall, muscular one.

edited 4th Feb '14 12:11:24 PM by sockpuppet1

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#4672: Feb 4th 2014 at 12:13:54 PM

I think that being more psychotic counted for something.

sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#4673: Feb 4th 2014 at 12:17:19 PM

Nah, it just made him far easier to beat, since he was so busy getting his jollies off beating Vegeta that he didn't bother trying to stop Goku from creating the Spirit Bomb out of Gohan's and the other's genki. That never would have worked on Super Buu, even if he was as weak as Pure Buu. He only ever had any success because Gohan was knocked out when he was formed, and later because Goku and Vegeta refused to use Gotenks/Gohan/Gogeta/Vegetto to stomp him because of Saiyan pride.

edited 4th Feb '14 12:22:35 PM by sockpuppet1

FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#4674: Feb 4th 2014 at 12:52:12 PM

Hah. For all the things I like about the series, despite liking Kid Buu's fighting style and design, I can never defend the battle with him. So many things just went wrong.

Not saving Gohan, crushing the Potara earrings, not using the Fusion Dance, not starting off with Super Saiyan 3 (in the anime), fighting Buu individually. Heck, when Goku tagged out to start on the Spirit Bomb, Buu appeared to have actually gone to sleep - but instead Vegeta decided to wake him up. Even if it had been a few seconds, it would have helped.

edited 4th Feb '14 12:53:03 PM by FOFD

sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#4675: Feb 4th 2014 at 1:19:31 PM

The Buu arc in general takes a truly baffling drop in quality soon after Potara is introduced.


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