Pretty much.
Satan saves the whole planet with his force of personality and reputation, and proves himself a true hero.
Yamcha.... accomplishes jack all. He even ends the series with less than he started (since he had a girlfriend, the one thing he truly wanted, and then lost her).
Man, I wonder if Toriyama hated him as well, since the implication is that Yamcha cheated on Bulma and that's why she went to Vegeta.
On a completely different topic, Trunks makes no sense.
This guy has Vegeta and Bulma as his parents. Why isn't he a lunatic with a massive Hair-Trigger Temper?
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Probably. Everybody has somebody they hate.
Sometimes, they even have a good reason.
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Wasn't the cheating thing only Dub Text?
Can't really blame the guy. As much as you grow attached to your characters, you've always got that one that you enjoy seeing bad things happen to.
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Q: Speaking of Yamcha, he was dumped by Bulma, wasn’t he?
A: That was a shock. I often spoke with Hiromi Tsuru-san, who plays Bulma; both she and I thought Bulma and Yamcha would end up together. And for Vegeta, of all people! It really was a shock. So when I met with Toriyama-sensei, I complained, “Why did it have to be like this?!” Then Toriyama-sensei said, “Come on; [Yamcha]‘s a cheater.” (laughs)"
So yeah, Toriyama really does just like mocking Yamcha.
edited 14th Feb '14 3:01:23 AM by sockpuppet1
In the filler, he became a professional baseball player, so at least someone involved in the anime agreed that sports seemed like a good profession for a guy like Yamcha. Also, the fact that he cheated on Bulma implies that he has enough success with women to have a non-Bulma woman to cheat on her with, even in the canon where he was not a baseball player.
Compared to the rest of the cast, Yamcha's a pathetic loser, but when he's not hanging around with the main characters, he's still a strong, attractive martial artist with an overabundance of confidence. If he's over his fear of women, he'll have no trouble leading a fulfilling life.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.His character profile on This Very Wiki points out that he's the most down to earth Z warrior.
the funny thing about the filler is that he didn't seem happy playing baseball, and wanted to go back to fighting again. Then he literally had the desire to fight beat out of him over and over again.
The thing he's good at didn't make him happy, and the thing he wants to do keeps getting him killed.
Poor guy can't win Yamcha just proves he sucks even more.
Heh.
Didn't know that.
I suppose living in the desert on his own, he had to learn to cook well to feed himself and Puar.
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Can you please stop throwing around that word? Yamcha being a baseball player is not non-canon. Nothing in the DB franchise is canon or non-canon; no DB canon exists, and no one in any official capacity has stated that one does. There are some things that obviously can't be in-continuity, but that's not the same thing, and Yamcha being a baseball player isn't one of them.
Anyway, by the end of the series, Yamcha has logically at least surpassed the likes of Recoome, bare minimum, so he's still in the category of strongest beings in the universe. However, it doesn't matter even a little. Unless he wants to go out in space and be a space mercenary.
Anyway... I like how, in that interview, Furuya is basically an avatar of the Yamcha fans ("Why? Why did he get such a bad deal!?"), while Toriyama represents the rest of the DB fanbase ("Because he sucks lol").
edited 14th Feb '14 3:07:11 PM by sockpuppet1
Yeah, when even the author just casually screws you over, you know you have no hope.
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I liked teen Gohan, at least relative to his bland-as-hell child self and uninteresting annoying prick of a father.
@Cru: the effects of the explosion still show it as being several orders of magnitude above what Freeza was stated to be capable of and/or actually demonstrated, which is why I find it very annoying when people complain that no one seems stronger than Freeza because "all they can do is blow up a planet". The evidence against that is right there! You can say that Toriyama didn't mean to convey that, and didn't know what he was implying when he drew the explosion like that, but even if it was unintentional (which he have no evidence of), it's still an actual feat in the story backing up what Toriyama very intentionally wrote about how strong the characters had become compared to how strong they were in the Freeza arc.
But no no no... no one cares that Pure Buu demonstrated hundreds of thousands to hundreds of million times the power needed to desroy the Earth while in a suppressed state (or, to put it into other terms, 50 Jupiters to one red dwarf), while Freeza was only stated to be able to destroy an Earth sized planet by him, Cold, Vegeta, and Goku, didn't actually destroy one on-screen in the manga under his own power (he destroyed two in the anime), and going by power levels would only be able to bust the equivalent of 5,000 Earths with one blast (at best) in his 100% final form. It's still all "hurr durr he stil only blew up plant so him < Freeza lol".
edited 13th Feb '14 4:58:05 PM by sockpuppet1