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In a DBZ-style show, the tendency for every character except the main character to be completely worthless. It's a one-man The Only One, or an ostensibly ensemble show doing an It's Up to You *every single time*.
This isn't the same as an Eigen Plot in which each character fights one enemy, and the main character fights the main villain, it's more like the main character is otherwise engaged in training or something, and it's all the entire rest of the cast can do to barely hold off the first minor villain, often losing several members in the process, while they wait for him. When he arrives, he usually curbstomps the enemies and then moves on to fighting the real villains.
Around my circle, we like to call it Goku Syndrome; for example, when Nappa and Vegeta arrive, the Z Fighters can barely beat the Saiba-Men, and almost everybody is killed fighting Nappa... Then Goku arrives and beats him in half an episode. It's painfully obvious that Vegeta could have wiped out the entire good guy side without breaking a sweat, and they're really just there to stall and cheer on Goku when he arrives.
What's that thing called?
Edited by Confusion567