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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#4001: Dec 16th 2013 at 1:45:07 PM

Krillin and Piccolo held the line against Nappa for a very long time. Krillin didn't just happen to be alive; he survived long enough for Goku to get there. That's certainly more than Tien and Yamcha were able to accomplish. As for them "never standing a chance", bull. Against Vegeta, no, but everyone working together did a lot of damage to Nappa prior to Goku's arrival.

As for Bulma marrying Vegeta, that's because Vegeta is a shit character and DBZ is badly written.

Bulma doesn't think so.

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sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#4002: Dec 16th 2013 at 2:47:30 PM

Yamcha has never not sucked. Even in his very first appearance, the height of his supposed badassery, he just barley tied with a starving and tired child by ambushing him with a sword.

edited 16th Dec '13 2:47:45 PM by sockpuppet1

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#4003: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:12:13 PM

That is some straight up political level spin.

Attacking fucking Goku = attacking a starving child.

That's like if I described Goku grabbing Raditz's tail as the cruel and unusual exploitation of his poor brother.

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#4004: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:18:01 PM

He was still an exhausted and starving Goku. Yamcha's greatest accomplishment was not immediately losing in a fight against a version of Goku that was both at the weakest he's ever been in his entire character history AND starved half to death.

Krillin, by contrast, actually had a really great fight with Goku in the second World Martial Arts Tournament that we got to see; the same tournament in which Yamcha failed so hard in his fight with Tien that he wound up hospitalized. Tien himself fought and actually won his match with Goku, by sheer luck at the last second once they'd fought to an effective draw.

So Krillin put up a good match against Goku, Tien fought Goku to a standstill and won by last-second deus ex truckina, and Yamcha got roflstomped into the hospital by Tien.

edited 16th Dec '13 3:26:31 PM by TobiasDrake

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sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#4005: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:26:32 PM

[up] It should also be noted that Goku was stronger than Tenshinhan when this happened...

[up][up] He was a child who was exhausted and starving, and the weakest he's ever been in the history of the franchise, except for the few brief shots we saw of him as a baby. Yamcha also had the element of a surprise and a sword. And he still couldn't win. Compare that to literally every other one of Goku's rivals.

edited 16th Dec '13 3:26:49 PM by sockpuppet1

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#4007: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:38:11 PM

Bulma: owner of the largest corporation on Earth and a super-genius.

She isn't a Z-Fighter.

Vegeta: has Bulma.

And I was just wondering why Vegeta seems so whipped after the Cell Saga.

Goku/Chi Chi: have a freaking castle.

That , as I'm surprised TFS hasn't poked fun at yet, they refuse to live in. And that's the Ox King's money, not hers.

  • Goku: Piccolo, why don't you just buy a house with the Ox King's money?
  • Piccolo: What world do you live in?
  • Goku: One with a house. And a wife. And a son.

18/Krillin: have money extorted from Mr. Satan

Never got that money in the series (last I saw, Hercule skipped out on the deal) and she had to blackmail a celebrity to do it. Plus we frequently see them bumming around in Kame House.

Mr. Buu- tournament winner and Mr. Satan's best bud.

Buu is the only possible exception and I'm not sure he even counts as an official Z-Fighter. He's never shown up for any of the group photos. He and Yamcha are the only ones not bumming off someone else, but even then, Hercule asks Buu to throw the fight for him.

edited 16th Dec '13 3:44:11 PM by FOFD

ScorpioRat from Houston, Texas Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#4008: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:46:43 PM

Gohan got a paying job in GT, right? He was giving off the impression of a 9-5 businessman. Oh wait, we don't talk about that here...

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#4009: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:47:10 PM

Let's get something straight.

Krilli N NEVER stood a chance against Goku. Not even remotely.

The only reason he "put up a good fight" against Goku in the 22nd Tournament was because Goku took it easy on him the whole time.

Well, that is until Goku used his real speed, at which point Krillin was defeated easily.

Saying Krillin put up a fight against Goku is the equivalent of saying Piccolo put up a fight against Freeza because he fought his SECOND form. It means nothing because neither he or Krillin ever had a chance of lasting more than a couple of seconds without the mercy of their opponent.

So, yes, Yamcha ambushed a weakened Goku while Krillin fought a weakened Goku.

And quite frankly, Tien probably put more into his fight with Yamcha than Goku did with Krillin. Goku had ample reason to hold back while Tien wanted to send a message by crushing one of Roshi's students.

edited 16th Dec '13 3:49:39 PM by Nikkolas

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#4010: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:47:26 PM

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Apparently so that the Fans can spend all eternity pointing out how completely useless he is.

[up]And Nikolas….just stop. You can't win this.

You have to understand: People don't just dislike Yamcha; they LOVE mocking him. They enjoy it. It's fun. No amount of argument is going to stop it, and the fact that there is no argument makes it better. It's a victimless crime, and it will go on forever.

so don't waste you life trying to defend Yamcha. You'd accomplish more trying to ice-skate up-hill.

edited 16th Dec '13 3:47:52 PM by HandsomeRob

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ScorpioRat from Houston, Texas Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#4011: Dec 16th 2013 at 3:53:12 PM

Well that seems like a...complete waste of ink.

Now I'm morbidly interested in exactly how much ink was used to draw every panel with Yamcha in it...to calculate exactly how much Yen Akira Toriyama wasted on him in pens.

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#4013: Dec 16th 2013 at 6:57:05 PM

[up] That shit is freaken Oscar worthy compared to Dragon Ball Evolution.....

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RedM Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
#4014: Dec 16th 2013 at 7:28:36 PM

Dude, no way is Yamcha this franchise's Duke Devlin. Duke was a Memetic Sex God. The only comparison is that they have their own theme music. Yamcha is more like the... Rex Raptor of Dragon Ball.

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#4015: Dec 16th 2013 at 7:29:27 PM

Do you guys want my opinion on the Yamcha abuse, if so then; you are all fucking pathetic!!! There is as much a point of ridiculing him as they is a point to all the Naruto fanfics that say he was fucking mutilated every single day of his childhood; it was maybe fine after three fics, but after the 500,000th one that followed that freaking trend, it was as overused as the over 9000 thing. There is literally no point in mocking him, seeing as how he is still 500x more impressive than 99.99% of the idiots on the internet. In short, mocking him is as pointless as mocking Sasuke and Sakura, and in my eyes, puts you at about 7 levels lower than You Tube comment trolls.

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#4016: Dec 16th 2013 at 7:33:18 PM

So that puts Yamcha... what, twenty or so levels below Youtube trolls?

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#4017: Dec 16th 2013 at 7:39:27 PM

[up][up]

Yeah, you can't win either man. Don't throw your life away.

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Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#4018: Dec 16th 2013 at 7:51:26 PM

Yamcha.

  • Canned Laughter*

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sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#4019: Dec 16th 2013 at 7:58:58 PM

How about this: people will stop mocking Yamcha when funny jokes stop coming out of it. Intentionally or otherwise. Like this, or this,, or this

edited 16th Dec '13 8:27:54 PM by sockpuppet1

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#4020: Dec 16th 2013 at 8:10:50 PM

You guys realize, at the end of the day, Yamcha and DBZ aren't real, right?

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4021: Dec 16th 2013 at 8:16:09 PM

There's no point in mocking him because he doesn't even deserve our acknowledgement. tongue

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sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#4022: Dec 16th 2013 at 8:30:13 PM

This thread has some of the funniest Yamcha mocking I've seen anywhere. Don't ever change. smile

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4023: Dec 16th 2013 at 8:32:47 PM

My favorite starts here, continues on for one full page after, and then a little bit into a third page.

Especially these, from a Youtube video of Yamcha being owned by gravity.

edited 16th Dec '13 8:48:06 PM by Anomalocaris20

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sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#4024: Dec 16th 2013 at 8:49:38 PM

My favorite starts here, continues on for one full page after, and then a little bit into a third page.

Ditto. Pure brilliance right there, I nearly died laughing.

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#4025: Dec 17th 2013 at 12:05:26 AM

Doesn't like every form of media have a butt monkey people tend to make fun of?

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