My favorite Yamcha moment in DBZ was when he tried to train in 300 times gravity. Yeah he didn’t last long in it, but the fact that he just walked in without building up to that much gravity and lasting as long as he did was impressive! And he did it without being an OP Saiyan, or Namekian, or god-like being. He was just a regular human. Really shows how much potential he had as a fighter.
He was far from "just a regular human". 99,9 % of the humans in DB are as weak as people in the real world, whereas Yamcha already had superhuman strength and abilities in his very first appearance in the desert and only continued to grow in power.
The biggest problem with Yamcha is, that he never really fits anywhere. His relationship with Bulma was not very healthy and after the fights with the Saiyans and Androids, he didn't made anything worthy mentioned. He tried Baseball, but he was way to strong so that the opponent teams either didn't wanted to play against his team or in a probably fight, he would dominate. He could've fought in the tournament again, but he would've had the same problem. It would be an easy and for him boring first place. But hey, if we would count the DB Super Heroes Series, he finally has a girlfriend^^
He didnt lack training, He died by a kamikaze no escape just as piccolo stated. His death helped the zfighters see just how far the saibamen and vegeta will go and they had to cancle the mini solo battles and fight serious. Yamcha had the same power as them all he defeated the saibamen just got caught of gaurd just like goku did with frieza and his soldier and many more. Also yamcha knew his own limits and when to stop we see things threw his lenses he represents us in reality same as chichi represents moms in reality⚡️
A lot of people seem to forget that while his arrogance got the best of him, he died saving his friend. Even Krilin comments on this, that he may have sensed something wrong and that's why he took his place. It was for all intents and purposes an heroic death. Sadly it was also a logical conclusion of Yamcha's role as a measuring stick. Every new antagonist had to beat Yamcha so you would know things were serious. But no matter how strong you are, when the only thing you do is lose, well, you become a loser.
Anyone who didn't watch the original will tell you that yamcha became a joke in DBZ, but if you watched since the start, you'll know that yamcha has started as a badass but became a joke since tenshinhan broke his knees, the dude started catching Ls since then Remember when he got eliminated by getting hit in the balls in the last tournament? As for him and bulma, i never liked that ship in the first place, it was so rushed and bulma was such an annoying bltch she kept yelling and abusing him for every little thing That's why i didn't really care that they broke up, that was a terrible ship
yamcha is the most genuine guy he him and bulma broke up on good terms and is like family and him and vegeta are lowkey like brothers who hate eachother and they lived with eachother for awhile yamcha also has a great relationship with future trunks and uncle to bulla and is a great support character always there for his friends and even laughs at jokes and know its all love
Yamcha was, actually, my first favorite character in DBZ. It's a shame how Toriyama just undermined and sabotaged the development of Yamcha's character in the series and beyond. He could have been the strongest human, not Klylin. Yamcha also could have equaled the strength of base-form Goku.
My Favorite Yamcha moments are all throughout DB. In DBZ my fav Yamcha moment is after he trained with Tienshinhan, Chaotzu & Piccolo under King Kai. He defeated Recoome as if he were a God. The way he beat ‘em was so damn cool. As if he were the main character for the moment. Damn!!! His power level was 72,000 vs Recoome 50,000. 1,200(Saiyan Saga) x 60 = 72,000.
god bless DBZ filler for scaling up Yamcha to SSJ2 Gohan by letting him stomp Olibu (a guy who could compete with weighted clothes Pikkon who 1-shotted Super Perfect Cell). Yeah I know it's not canon, but it's still cool
I personally believed that he could have gone there if he took his time with it. Taking on 1 level at a time. slowly but surely building up his resistance 💪.
4:32 Hey, Yamcha was never the type of guy who was above wishing for Immortality or Sayain-like potential with the Dragonballs... he could at any time ask bulma to lend him the radar to do that, I'm pretty sure they're on ask for favor terms at least... Though knowing the poor guy's recent track record, the Dragonballs would probably get stolen by Frieza or Jiren or someone countless times stronger than him. The dude's a bad luck magnet.
You gotta point out the fact that many characters got also boosts over time like killing getting his potential unlocked while yamcha stayed 100% natural
Even in China people typically forget or don’t care for the character Yamcha is based on from journey to the west (Sha Wujing) He was introduced late, always beat up, is ignored by Wukong, Bajie, and the Monk. He never did much of mention other than carrying their luggage. I guess he was the character most faithfully portrayed (minus the lack of giant prayer beads, balding head and bushy beard)
My boy Yamcha got done dirty. Even if they one day decide to make a human relevant again. Yamcha is meme status, it wont be him. Give my man the Rock Lee treatment. No saiyan blood, no gimmicks. Just. D E T E R M I N A T I O N
Yamcha was the first example of Toriyama's "his one shtick is over, time to replace him" that ends up being his M.O.. Let's be honest. Kuririn was the new Yamcha. Who virtually surpassed him ONLY because Kuririn got started 3 years early. By the time Yamcha got to studying under him it was much too late for him to catch up (and he's excluded from the fights outside the tournament). With Kuririn being the "best friend" and Tenshinhan being the "martial arts move king" and the move from cool moves to "just get stronger" and Vegeta being "Bulma's lover", his entire purpose was essentially written out. Literally nothing left. Frankly, I'm surprised it took so long for Toriyama to write him out, he's been forgetting him after the Pilaf arc. The most notable thing, imo, is that Yamcha was the guy that _knew_ everything martial arts. He was the mouthpiece to the exposition. It showed he had an interest in it and you could do a lot with that. It made little sense, when I thought about it, that Yamcha wouldn't take the chance to become Roshi's pupil. Sadly, much like Lunch, I doubt Toriyama thought of it. Humans could have been the anchor for power scaling.
How can you keep calling Yamcha a regular human/dude/guy? 😂 99,9 % of humans in DB are shown to be about as weak as real world people, whereas Yamcha was already in the top 0,1% in his very first appearance and only kept improving until he quit training after the Cell Games. Once he surpassed Roshi, he became the third strongest pureblooded human in the world after Tien and Krillin (or even 2nd if you accept the retcon that Tien has alien ancestry) until Uub came along at the very end and moved all of them down in the ranking. So our man Yamcha was never a regular guy, despite being treated like dirt by his creator. 😉
Yamcha got a nice suit during dragon ball super. You gotta admit that suit looks cool. Toriyama focuses allot on the Saiyans still. He should give other characters a chance to shine.
Way back in the day...like, when the Cell Saga was first airing in the US....I started liking Yamcha just to be a contrarian. He seemed to exist just to be crapped on, so I latched on to him just to be different. And, I suppose he was kind of cool, in the few moment he had enough screen-time to mean anything...
Yamcha was a very clever subversion of the trope that Vegeta and Piccolo embodied. He was never gonna be a titan like the rest of them but he was a likeable character in his own right but they eventually dropped those qualities which is a shame. The Baba Saga is kinda what cemented him as this ride or die friend even if he was a bit of a doofus.
He actually trained with king Kai and got strong enough to beat jaice favorite yamcha moment he was losing at first so basically he’s a little stronger than the ginyu force members
Anyone else suspect Yamcha was dragonball version of Sandy from journey to the west? Goku was clearly sun wukong (nimbus, power pole, monkey tail). Oolong was zhu bajie, shape shifting pig with bad intentions but later becomes an ally. Master Roshis turtle is the giant turtle that help the journey to the west crew sail across the river. Perhaps Bulma was Tripitaka, a stretch but she was already in a journey to collect the dragon balls prior to episode one when she meets goku and started gathering allies to help much like tripitaka.
Dragon ball z fighter is a great game. Love to play with Yamcha, Krillim and Tien. Just to have tje human dream team together. Or yamcha and some villains to aome fun dialogues.
bad writing happened. toriyama aint the best writer, one guy said it best; if you aren't going to do anything with these characters but make them useless background wallpaper, you should have given them one last hurrah and ride off into the sunset. they don't HAVE to be a part of every single adventure. that being said; fave yamcha moment was his actual fight with the saibaman. it was animated and choreographed quite well (that sweep kick followed by a close up of him and his swaying hair? that was cool.) a lot more entertaining to watch than tiens fight which was still boring even seeing it as an adult.
Toriyama is a god at the art of disregarding (and even disrespecting) old characters in place of newer ones. That one isekai spin-off made Yamcha get the respect I think he deserved though.
The android saga was like a character assassination of him. He went from being this ruff, fierce warrior from the wilderness to a whiney, dudebro, weakling who was basically used to make Vegeta look better. I remember thinking Yamacha was a really cool character during the Saiyan saga. He had a cool moveset. Then he just progressively got worse and I'll admit thoughts of "nah this mf lame and corny as hell" during the whole android/cell arc.
It's honestly a shame Yamcha didn't get his moment to shine. Heck, Mr. Satan, who I strongly believe is the most annoying and worst DBZ character, helped defeat Buu. It's infuriating how Toriyama tossed Yamcha aside.
It would have been awesome, "in my opinion" if Yamcha could've been in the tournament of power and in it let's say aiding Goku and Vegeta in taking down the wolf brother trio with Goku and Vegeta taking out two first then Yamcha jumping in with his massively refined wolf fang fist thing "joke intended" and knock out the third brother thus sealing the fate of universe 9.🥳😂 Then after that perhaps after that have him regress backwards to the painfully shy state he had at the start of the original series for some reason and get taken out by Rhibrianna or one of the other females from that group before they transformed into Fatty's and Ugo's 😂 or maybe not that particular scenario.
The fact that bro think he would be invited to the Multiverse Tournament of Power. Bro is such a sore delusional loser there, the way he imagines things in Super
Had to say. On one hand... he was the weakest human in a lot of regards. Tien - Three eyed human who beat Goku and then got lost. Krillian - Goku best friend card Bulma - Still had a use plot wise and fandom wise... even still moving strong in modern Super era. So on one hand he... was the easiest to write out of the story and forget about him since he has the weakest narrative presence. On the other hand... If you aren't born a monkey you have no importance in a fight. Seriously they made Tien a joke after the Cell arc and while he still lost... at least he nearly gave his life doing a good amount of stall/damage to imperfect cell to the point we even had DBZ abridged make that lovely joke and hatred with cell saying "Please tell me its Tien Shinhan" making it clear he did hold a grudge against him... even had a What if story with an offical dragon ball game where by absorbing Krillian instead you had Tien get a win killing off the big baddy. Humans at this point... Well until you had Dragon Ball Super Super Hero... well humans were quite frankly worthless and just minor background fodder or set pieces. That is only because the RR army managed to make some deadly androids... so yah... even with the humans from earth able to ONE SHOT the Genu Force in the afterlife in less training than Goku had... This is Goku who struggled against his eternal rival... the human gang leveled up faster and beat them when the Namik team struggled against them. Humanity could be a lot stronger, but they got the short end of the stick.
He is essentially the guy who peaked in high school and stop trying. Going to pieces when a superior man stole his girl. God knows why he didn’t gather the dragon balls and ask to be turned into a Sayian
Yamcha is a Superhuman. He is One Of The Strongest Earthling Z fighters. Like Tienshinhan & Krillin he becomes massively Stronger than Super Saiyan Goku & Final Form Frieza On Planet Namek. I know this bcuz all the Z fighters become Overwhelmingly Stronger than SSJ Goku on Namek. In the Cell Arc. Except for Master Roshi & Chaotzu. They get even Stronger in the 10 day prep for The Cell Games Tournament. Yamcha is inner potential is hinted @ all throughout DB & DBZ. In Z, He and the other Z fighters all become massively stronger than Goku did in a shorter amount of time. Yamcha is the unluckiest Z fighter outta them all. Forever fighting the Strongest or most deadliest Superhuman fighters at said times. He eventually surpassed Krillin in The Buu Arc. Even so, the unfortunate reality is Akira Toriyama just forgets about his growth and contributions as a fighter. This is why it is such an insult for Toriyama to choose Master Roshi over Yamcha. Both for Resurrection F & The Tournament of Power. Roshi is popular, yet he is DB level @ best. He is simply too weak. Every single Z fighter in The Cell Games, reach a benchmark of power level that was a requirement just to participate. Roshi & Chaotzu we’re far too weak. His character is treated so disrespectfully. Despite so many fans who show him love and respect, the creators for the manga and anime continue to show him disrespect. He deserves better. I hope they do better by him.
Totally disagree. Yamcha get his justice in the Buu arc as defeats both Recoome and Olibu (King Kai's greatest fighter next to Goku) in the Other World. In the Moro arc, he does better than Tien and had a cool manga spinoff.
Yamcha's biggest flaw is he has no focus. He got Bulma as a GF, but kept womanizing. His fighting skills could've made him stand out and become a rich man in the baseball world, but nope. Also: Kobayashi in Gintama.
It just kind of sucks that the humans in super are basically just kind of there by virtue of being within the gravitational pull of the sayins and add basically nothing to the story nor fights. Sayins being absolute juggernauts is a given due to their bullshit overpowered genetics but throwing away characters that aren't deliberately universe killing threats shows just how little effort actually went into super. It's the macaroni and fuck it of DragonBall.
Yamcha is lazy as hack he doesn't train after his motivation got broken completely then he got 1 shoted, then last his girl to vegeta ultimate defeat dammm.. the WFF could of gotten OP as a technique
He knew his limits compared to strong durabilty alien sayians who get zekais each defeat or stress. He never let pride run his whole life like vegta bro was just a cuaual guy wanting to chill but supported his friends when needed
Dragonball until Piccolo was never solely focused on Fights. It was a Adventure and Comedy Manga. Charakters like Oolong, Pool, Bulma had a big role in it, cause they didnt had to be fighters to contribute. And so Yamchus Position as Maincharakter wasnt treatened eighter. But when Time did go on, that changed. In my Opinion to the worse. Nobody talks about anything but the fights in the Freeza sage. About Vegeta flexing, the Ginyus, and obviously Freeza. Theres no real Fanbase for Dende, or the Planet itselfe. In an envioument of harsh competition, where natural Talent beats everything, Yamcha who lacks Talent cant find a nieche. Hommjust leaving after the start of the Cyborg saga was such a disgracefull end. Not because he gave up on Fighting, its because he had nothing else to go to. He wasnt helping the Group anymore, and he didnt had a Happy end whit a new Pashion, he was just out.
Yamcha is not that terrible , I mean sure a lot of fans sees him as a joke mostly because they are idiots but Yamcha is one of the strongest Martial Arts in the universe and he is super rich from baseball Career. let's be real if Yamcha was real then he will put all the athletes to shame. he doesn't need a spoiled brat like Bluma , he can date and marry any woman in the world and surely any woman would accept him because he is strong , he is rich , and he is handsome but the author gave him the fear of women he had in the early Pilaf Saga , he made Yamcha doubt himself in battles and that's why he terrified to fight any new foes , he threw away Yamcha's character development out of the table and now we have a 40 years old Yamcha who is terrible in both fighting and as a character and treated constantly as a joke rather than respected retired Martial Artist who should be a parent right about now , these fools who keep making fun of Yamcha would dream to be him for just one day , the guy can do much more if he can't save the universe.
Its weird when you hear, "yamcha was badass in dragon ball!" When you remember, he was never that great then either. He does get 1 good moment in DBS tho!!
I mean, Toriyama just let him go. He could easily used him beyond, if he was interested to. It's just they totally changed the vibe between original DB and DBZ. Both are great, but really different. The feelings you got from one to another are good, but you can sense the different path for both stories. And the excuse of Yamcha being human... I mean... Kuririn? Or the gap in power when Piccolo fused with Nail, now able to defeat second form Freezer? I don't talk about power level bullshit, but logic behind power and writing. My point is, Yamcha is a great character for DB, but it's clear DBZ was a sequel totally out of the idea to continue Goku's adventures with Yamcha or Bulma or else. In DBZ, the only purpose is became stronger, and you see the bullshit post SSJ2, when it's clear Toriyama mad Buu as a joke overpowered character bubble gum. in DB, you have more thoughts behind the envy to take care of characters, whatever importance they have. In DBZ, it's all about fan-service and pure shonen battle. We also clearly see Toriyama had his plan to make Gohan the finality of his "second part" manga, already finished before Z saga as a whole. Z part was totally out of anything we saw narratively speaking from DB. It remains a great continuation, maybe a great one ever made for a shonen, but still, it's day and night as a whole. The only part where the characters were still accurate in term of writing was the pre-Namek part. After that, everything was about "i'm stronger because plots needs it", and the plot didn't needed Yamcha anymore, because Toriyama cornered himself with his overdose of power level. Like i said, he could have thoughts about it for Yamcha, but when you see Piccolo, you see he was forced to use him and level up him way too much to justify his presence.
Yamcha was useless in Dragon ball Z in the saiyan saga he beat a little green man and got blown up by one and in the android saga he got a hole in his stomach, in the cell saga his fought a bunch of cell jrs and in the buu saga he stopped fighting .
He died by a kamikaze no escape just as piccolo stated. He death helped the zfighters see just how far the saibamen and vegeta will go and they had to cancle to battles and fight serious. Yamcha had the same power as them all he defeated the saibamen just got caught of gaurd just like goku did with frieza and his soldier and many more.
Yamcha fell off becuase well, Toriyama, honestly a dude who wanted the Dragon Balls to wish away his fear of girls cheated on Bulma, how?, no fucking reason, Toriyama wanted Vegeta to be an important dude and realized his fuck up from DB so he decided to just fuck off Yamcha and give Vegeta the spotlight instade of realizing how this girl Bulma was in DB, I realize that the Humans no matter what will fall off but not so fucking fast Tori, man, Yamcha was an Idol for me and he always will, I am not mad, just salty.
I don't think he fell off. He was honestly never really "on." Even in his fight against Goku in the beginning he was winning because Goku was hungry. Once Goku was fed it was a different match.
My favorite Yamcha moment in DBZ was when he tried to train in 300 times gravity. Yeah he didn’t last long in it, but the fact that he just walked in without building up to that much gravity and lasting as long as he did was impressive! And he did it without being an OP Saiyan, or Namekian, or god-like being. He was just a regular human. Really shows how much potential he had as a fighter.
Too bad that scene was filler lol
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@@valysheev Ok
He was far from "just a regular human". 99,9 % of the humans in DB are as weak as people in the real world, whereas Yamcha already had superhuman strength and abilities in his very first appearance in the desert and only continued to grow in power.
Go from weighing let's say hypothetically 200 pounds too weighing 300 times more at 60,000 LBs
As long as he's still in the dragon ball and not forgotten like Launch, there could still be hope.
She was forgotten in a bar.
oh ya... i stop seeing her after dragonball.
Yamcha's real highlight is in the video games, he typically does pretty well for himself.
This guy is my idol, I don't know what I would do without his presence
yamcha is everyones idol
@@nkanime8135goku and the gang loves yamcha even vegeta loves the guy too
The biggest problem with Yamcha is, that he never really fits anywhere. His relationship with Bulma was not very healthy and after the fights with the Saiyans and Androids, he didn't made anything worthy mentioned. He tried Baseball, but he was way to strong so that the opponent teams either didn't wanted to play against his team or in a probably fight, he would dominate.
He could've fought in the tournament again, but he would've had the same problem. It would be an easy and for him boring first place.
But hey, if we would count the DB Super Heroes Series, he finally has a girlfriend^^
The whole point of Yamcha after the Pilaf Saga, was just to make the main antagonists look good.
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@@jasonone8726so whats your point
@@user-ww2rq9dd4q Can you not read?
@@jasonone8726 yea
So whats yoyr point?
His lifes been awful for years and just because he’s meant to be a jobber does that justify that
He didnt lack training, He died by a kamikaze no escape just as piccolo stated. His death helped the zfighters see just how far the saibamen and vegeta will go and they had to cancle the mini solo battles and fight serious. Yamcha had the same power as them all he defeated the saibamen just got caught of gaurd just like goku did with frieza and his soldier and many more. Also yamcha knew his own limits and when to stop we see things threw his lenses he represents us in reality same as chichi represents moms in reality⚡️
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@@cxkxr1212 werido.
A lot of people seem to forget that while his arrogance got the best of him, he died saving his friend. Even Krilin comments on this, that he may have sensed something wrong and that's why he took his place. It was for all intents and purposes an heroic death. Sadly it was also a logical conclusion of Yamcha's role as a measuring stick. Every new antagonist had to beat Yamcha so you would know things were serious. But no matter how strong you are, when the only thing you do is lose, well, you become a loser.
@@cxkxr1212please consider finding real life friends
@@cxkxr1212 what he said is literally true people exaggerate that moment too much
Anyone who didn't watch the original will tell you that yamcha became a joke in DBZ, but if you watched since the start, you'll know that yamcha has started as a badass but became a joke since tenshinhan broke his knees, the dude started catching Ls since then
Remember when he got eliminated by getting hit in the balls in the last tournament?
As for him and bulma, i never liked that ship in the first place, it was so rushed and bulma was such an annoying bltch she kept yelling and abusing him for every little thing
That's why i didn't really care that they broke up, that was a terrible ship
Do you like his new ship in Heroes?
@@Spore9996 i never watched heros, but i saw his new girlfriend, and i'm happy for him
@@Rimka-i2n Yeah, it's about time he got something going his way :D
Bruh he was catching Ls long before Tien. It all started the moment he ran away from teen Bulma like a bitch.
yamcha is the most genuine guy he him and bulma broke up on good terms and is like family and him and vegeta are lowkey like brothers who hate eachother and they lived with eachother for awhile yamcha also has a great relationship with future trunks and uncle to bulla and is a great support character always there for his friends and even laughs at jokes and know its all love
He’s literally my favorite character and people lowkey understand why cuz of dragon ball
Yamcha was, actually, my first favorite character in DBZ. It's a shame how Toriyama just undermined and sabotaged the development of Yamcha's character in the series and beyond. He could have been the strongest human, not Klylin. Yamcha also could have equaled the strength of base-form Goku.
What happened to Yamcha is simple. The creator screwed him over. Nope said he made the humans irrelevant and focus more on the aliens.
My Favorite Yamcha moments are all throughout DB. In DBZ my fav Yamcha moment is after he trained with Tienshinhan, Chaotzu & Piccolo under King Kai. He defeated Recoome as if he were a God. The way he beat ‘em was so damn cool. As if he were the main character for the moment. Damn!!! His power level was 72,000 vs Recoome 50,000. 1,200(Saiyan Saga) x 60 = 72,000.
That was filler though. I hated it. it made no fucking sense whatsoever
god bless DBZ filler for scaling up Yamcha to SSJ2 Gohan by letting him stomp Olibu (a guy who could compete with weighted clothes Pikkon who 1-shotted Super Perfect Cell). Yeah I know it's not canon, but it's still cool
I feel that the anime, even for the original series, did Yamcha more justice than the manga.
@@jasonone8726 sometimes that filler goes hard
@@CommanderButter300X gravity scene goes hard honestly
@@bbqsauce890 fs bc that's more gravity than any normal human has ever stood up against
I personally believed that he could have gone there if he took his time with it. Taking on 1 level at a time. slowly but surely building up his resistance 💪.
4:32 Hey, Yamcha was never the type of guy who was above wishing for Immortality or Sayain-like potential with the Dragonballs... he could at any time ask bulma to lend him the radar to do that, I'm pretty sure they're on ask for favor terms at least...
Though knowing the poor guy's recent track record, the Dragonballs would probably get stolen by Frieza or Jiren or someone countless times stronger than him. The dude's a bad luck magnet.
My favorite character, my champ, my king.
lets gooo
Id be down for a spinoff show where yamcha and tien join the galactic patrol with jocko
We Need that Yamcha Finding sayin power Arc from some crazy power storm flare or something.
They should have added Yamcha in the tournament of power, it would have been a redeeming moment for him.
The anime fillers actually gave more justice to yamcha
Toriyama happened. He wanted a cool character he could turn into a joke and piss people off as he is a well known troll.
You gotta point out the fact that many characters got also boosts over time like killing getting his potential unlocked while yamcha stayed 100% natural
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Facts zenkais potential unlocked cyclops alien sayians etc
Hmmm i never thought about him having his potential unlocked. He, also Tien, would skyrocket past Krillin imo
They need to make yamcha a villian
Even in China people typically forget or don’t care for the character Yamcha is based on from journey to the west (Sha Wujing) He was introduced late, always beat up, is ignored by Wukong, Bajie, and the Monk. He never did much of mention other than carrying their luggage. I guess he was the character most faithfully portrayed (minus the lack of giant prayer beads, balding head and bushy beard)
My boy Yamcha got done dirty. Even if they one day decide to make a human relevant again. Yamcha is meme status, it wont be him. Give my man the Rock Lee treatment. No saiyan blood, no gimmicks. Just. D E T E R M I N A T I O N
Yamcha may have lost Bulma and outclass by his friends he's a real one for not letting it get to him
Yamcha was the first example of Toriyama's "his one shtick is over, time to replace him" that ends up being his M.O..
Let's be honest. Kuririn was the new Yamcha. Who virtually surpassed him ONLY because Kuririn got started 3 years early. By the time Yamcha got to studying under him it was much too late for him to catch up (and he's excluded from the fights outside the tournament). With Kuririn being the "best friend" and Tenshinhan being the "martial arts move king" and the move from cool moves to "just get stronger" and Vegeta being "Bulma's lover", his entire purpose was essentially written out. Literally nothing left. Frankly, I'm surprised it took so long for Toriyama to write him out, he's been forgetting him after the Pilaf arc.
The most notable thing, imo, is that Yamcha was the guy that _knew_ everything martial arts. He was the mouthpiece to the exposition. It showed he had an interest in it and you could do a lot with that. It made little sense, when I thought about it, that Yamcha wouldn't take the chance to become Roshi's pupil. Sadly, much like Lunch, I doubt Toriyama thought of it. Humans could have been the anchor for power scaling.
The best yamcha content was the isekai manga. Granted it technically wasn’t him but still showed he had great potential
it kind of sucks that no human has a chance of catching up to aliens, androids, and everything else strictly because they're human.
Yamcha retired to become Uncle Jesse from Full House. LOL
How can you keep calling Yamcha a regular human/dude/guy? 😂 99,9 % of humans in DB are shown to be about as weak as real world people, whereas Yamcha was already in the top 0,1% in his very first appearance and only kept improving until he quit training after the Cell Games. Once he surpassed Roshi, he became the third strongest pureblooded human in the world after Tien and Krillin (or even 2nd if you accept the retcon that Tien has alien ancestry) until Uub came along at the very end and moved all of them down in the ranking. So our man Yamcha was never a regular guy, despite being treated like dirt by his creator. 😉
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Literally every fan manga does yamcha less dirty than both toriyama and the anime.
says a lot when the fans treat a character better than the creator
Facts mondo videos zwolf live show etc yamcha the demi wolf god💯💯
FACTS
Let’s hope he gets better rep in Dragon Ball Daima.
UI Yamaha would be a beast. All he needs is the Toriyama hand job, plot armor power up.
Yamcha's leg never fully recovered from Tien, whenever he looses he can always use that as an excuse.
Yamcha got a nice suit during dragon ball super. You gotta admit that suit looks cool. Toriyama focuses allot on the Saiyans still. He should give other characters a chance to shine.
Way back in the day...like, when the Cell Saga was first airing in the US....I started liking Yamcha just to be a contrarian. He seemed to exist just to be crapped on, so I latched on to him just to be different. And, I suppose he was kind of cool, in the few moment he had enough screen-time to mean anything...
Yamcha was done dirty, and receives so much hate for no apparent reason
Yamcha was a very clever subversion of the trope that Vegeta and Piccolo embodied. He was never gonna be a titan like the rest of them but he was a likeable character in his own right but they eventually dropped those qualities which is a shame. The Baba Saga is kinda what cemented him as this ride or die friend even if he was a bit of a doofus.
Yamcha is the only one that can't count his entire body count on one hand. He was busy blowing off Bulma for tail
He actually trained with king Kai and got strong enough to beat jaice favorite yamcha moment he was losing at first so basically he’s a little stronger than the ginyu force members
I miss the old days
Anyone else suspect Yamcha was dragonball version of Sandy from journey to the west? Goku was clearly sun wukong (nimbus, power pole, monkey tail). Oolong was zhu bajie, shape shifting pig with bad intentions but later becomes an ally. Master Roshis turtle is the giant turtle that help the journey to the west crew sail across the river. Perhaps Bulma was Tripitaka, a stretch but she was already in a journey to collect the dragon balls prior to episode one when she meets goku and started gathering allies to help much like tripitaka.
Yamcha, the Tristan Taylor of Dragonball
Dragon ball z fighter is a great game. Love to play with Yamcha, Krillim and Tien. Just to have tje human dream team together. Or yamcha and some villains to aome fun dialogues.
bad writing happened. toriyama aint the best writer, one guy said it best; if you aren't going to do anything with these characters but make them useless background wallpaper, you should have given them one last hurrah and ride off into the sunset. they don't HAVE to be a part of every single adventure. that being said; fave yamcha moment was his actual fight with the saibaman. it was animated and choreographed quite well (that sweep kick followed by a close up of him and his swaying hair? that was cool.) a lot more entertaining to watch than tiens fight which was still boring even seeing it as an adult.
Toriyama is a god at the art of disregarding (and even disrespecting) old characters in place of newer ones.
That one isekai spin-off made Yamcha get the respect I think he deserved though.
Yamcha is future trunks biological daddy. How else do you explain the hairline, the sword, and the good attitude?
Lmao not even close my guy, bad joke
Damn, I think you might be onto something there, lmao.
The android saga was like a character assassination of him. He went from being this ruff, fierce warrior from the wilderness to a whiney, dudebro, weakling who was basically used to make Vegeta look better. I remember thinking Yamacha was a really cool character during the Saiyan saga. He had a cool moveset. Then he just progressively got worse and I'll admit thoughts of "nah this mf lame and corny as hell" during the whole android/cell arc.
At least He doing well in baseball ⚾
What happened To Yamcha? The same thing that happened to Oolong, Puar, Launch, Tien, Chiatzu, Yajirobe, etc..
Poor Yamcha
He got Yamcha'd
It's honestly a shame Yamcha didn't get his moment to shine. Heck, Mr. Satan, who I strongly believe is the most annoying and worst DBZ character, helped defeat Buu. It's infuriating how Toriyama tossed Yamcha aside.
Well, at least Yamcha was instrumental to keeping Great Ape Goku from going on a rampage in early Dragon Ball.
It would have been awesome, "in my opinion" if Yamcha could've been in the tournament of power and in it let's say aiding Goku and Vegeta in taking down the wolf brother trio with Goku and Vegeta taking out two first then Yamcha jumping in with his massively refined wolf fang fist thing "joke intended" and knock out the third brother thus sealing the fate of universe 9.🥳😂
Then after that perhaps after that have him regress backwards to the painfully shy state he had at the start of the original series for some reason and get taken out by Rhibrianna or one of the other females from that group before they transformed into Fatty's and Ugo's 😂 or maybe not that particular scenario.
Yamcha was honestly never a really useful character. Just a cool dude that never got too far
"never got too far" he is literally the 2nd or 3rd strongest human in existence
@@mojebi3804 and I still can't tell you 5 significant things he's done in the series
I was glad when vegeta took bulma from Yamcha
As the series went on, Yamcha became weaker and weaker and ultimately became insignificant.
The fact that bro think he would be invited to the Multiverse Tournament of Power. Bro is such a sore delusional loser there, the way he imagines things in Super
Had to say. On one hand... he was the weakest human in a lot of regards.
Tien - Three eyed human who beat Goku and then got lost.
Krillian - Goku best friend card
Bulma - Still had a use plot wise and fandom wise... even still moving strong in modern Super era.
So on one hand he... was the easiest to write out of the story and forget about him since he has the weakest narrative presence.
On the other hand... If you aren't born a monkey you have no importance in a fight. Seriously they made Tien a joke after the Cell arc and while he still lost... at least he nearly gave his life doing a good amount of stall/damage to imperfect cell to the point we even had DBZ abridged make that lovely joke and hatred with cell saying "Please tell me its Tien Shinhan" making it clear he did hold a grudge against him... even had a What if story with an offical dragon ball game where by absorbing Krillian instead you had Tien get a win killing off the big baddy.
Humans at this point...
Well until you had Dragon Ball Super Super Hero... well humans were quite frankly worthless and just minor background fodder or set pieces. That is only because the RR army managed to make some deadly androids... so yah... even with the humans from earth able to ONE SHOT the Genu Force in the afterlife in less training than Goku had...
This is Goku who struggled against his eternal rival... the human gang leveled up faster and beat them when the Namik team struggled against them.
Humanity could be a lot stronger, but they got the short end of the stick.
He got code launched.
He wasn't the same after the androids killed him
I respect krillin and videl more than yamcha
Was it even said how he got the scar on his face?
He is essentially the guy who peaked in high school and stop trying. Going to pieces when a superior man stole his girl. God knows why he didn’t gather the dragon balls and ask to be turned into a Sayian
good vid
thanks!
Yamcha destroyed Riccum remember in King Kai s land
What are the power level of a human
Yamcha is a Superhuman. He is One Of The Strongest Earthling Z fighters. Like Tienshinhan & Krillin he becomes massively Stronger than Super Saiyan Goku & Final Form Frieza On Planet Namek.
I know this bcuz all the Z fighters become Overwhelmingly Stronger than SSJ Goku on Namek. In the Cell Arc. Except for Master Roshi & Chaotzu. They get even Stronger in the 10 day prep for The Cell Games Tournament.
Yamcha is inner potential is hinted @ all throughout DB & DBZ. In Z, He and the other Z fighters all become massively stronger than Goku did in a shorter amount of time. Yamcha is the unluckiest Z fighter outta them all. Forever fighting the Strongest or most deadliest Superhuman fighters at said times.
He eventually surpassed Krillin in The Buu Arc. Even so, the unfortunate reality is Akira Toriyama just forgets about his growth and contributions as a fighter.
This is why it is such an insult for Toriyama to choose Master Roshi over Yamcha. Both for Resurrection F & The Tournament of Power. Roshi is popular, yet he is DB level @ best. He is simply too weak. Every single Z fighter in The Cell Games, reach a benchmark of power level that was a requirement just to participate. Roshi & Chaotzu we’re far too weak.
His character is treated so disrespectfully. Despite so many fans who show him love and respect, the creators for the manga and anime continue to show him disrespect. He deserves better. I hope they do better by him.
Totally disagree. Yamcha get his justice in the Buu arc as defeats both Recoome and Olibu (King Kai's greatest fighter next to Goku) in the Other World. In the Moro arc, he does better than Tien and had a cool manga spinoff.
Non canon filler is not justice. The Moro example is however.
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Yamcha's biggest flaw is he has no focus. He got Bulma as a GF, but kept womanizing. His fighting skills could've made him stand out and become a rich man in the baseball world, but nope.
Also: Kobayashi in Gintama.
He did dodged a bullet with Bulma though. She became insanely insufferable.
He was never a womanizer
Master Roshi*
It just kind of sucks that the humans in super are basically just kind of there by virtue of being within the gravitational pull of the sayins and add basically nothing to the story nor fights. Sayins being absolute juggernauts is a given due to their bullshit overpowered genetics but throwing away characters that aren't deliberately universe killing threats shows just how little effort actually went into super. It's the macaroni and fuck it of DragonBall.
0:44 doesn't look like a fist to me
Yamcha is lazy as hack he doesn't train after his motivation got broken completely then he got 1 shoted, then last his girl to vegeta ultimate defeat dammm.. the WFF could of gotten OP as a technique
He knew his limits compared to strong durabilty alien sayians who get zekais each defeat or stress. He never let pride run his whole life like vegta bro was just a cuaual guy wanting to chill but supported his friends when needed
Krillen💀
What happened to yamchas face
Dragonball until Piccolo was never solely focused on Fights. It was a Adventure and Comedy Manga. Charakters like Oolong, Pool, Bulma had a big role in it, cause they didnt had to be fighters to contribute. And so Yamchus Position as Maincharakter wasnt treatened eighter. But when Time did go on, that changed. In my Opinion to the worse.
Nobody talks about anything but the fights in the Freeza sage. About Vegeta flexing, the Ginyus, and obviously Freeza. Theres no real Fanbase for Dende, or the Planet itselfe.
In an envioument of harsh competition, where natural Talent beats everything, Yamcha who lacks Talent cant find a nieche.
Hommjust leaving after the start of the Cyborg saga was such a disgracefull end. Not because he gave up on Fighting, its because he had nothing else to go to.
He wasnt helping the Group anymore, and he didnt had a Happy end whit a new Pashion, he was just out.
yamcha happend to yamcha
true true
Yamcha is not that terrible , I mean sure a lot of fans sees him as a joke mostly because they are idiots but Yamcha is one of the strongest Martial Arts in the universe and he is super rich from baseball Career. let's be real if Yamcha was real then he will put all the athletes to shame. he doesn't need a spoiled brat like Bluma , he can date and marry any woman in the world and surely any woman would accept him because he is strong , he is rich , and he is handsome but the author gave him the fear of women he had in the early Pilaf Saga , he made Yamcha doubt himself in battles and that's why he terrified to fight any new foes , he threw away Yamcha's character development out of the table and now we have a 40 years old Yamcha who is terrible in both fighting and as a character and treated constantly as a joke rather than respected retired Martial Artist who should be a parent right about now , these fools who keep making fun of Yamcha would dream to be him for just one day , the guy can do much more if he can't save the universe.
Its weird when you hear, "yamcha was badass in dragon ball!" When you remember, he was never that great then either. He does get 1 good moment in DBS tho!!
Dragon ball z happend
Nothing "happened" to him...
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he got yamcha'd 😂😂😂
I mean, Toriyama just let him go. He could easily used him beyond, if he was interested to. It's just they totally changed the vibe between original DB and DBZ.
Both are great, but really different. The feelings you got from one to another are good, but you can sense the different path for both stories.
And the excuse of Yamcha being human... I mean... Kuririn?
Or the gap in power when Piccolo fused with Nail, now able to defeat second form Freezer? I don't talk about power level bullshit, but logic behind power and writing.
My point is, Yamcha is a great character for DB, but it's clear DBZ was a sequel totally out of the idea to continue Goku's adventures with Yamcha or Bulma or else. In DBZ, the only purpose is became stronger, and you see the bullshit post SSJ2, when it's clear Toriyama mad Buu as a joke overpowered character bubble gum.
in DB, you have more thoughts behind the envy to take care of characters, whatever importance they have. In DBZ, it's all about fan-service and pure shonen battle. We also clearly see Toriyama had his plan to make Gohan the finality of his "second part" manga, already finished before Z saga as a whole.
Z part was totally out of anything we saw narratively speaking from DB.
It remains a great continuation, maybe a great one ever made for a shonen, but still, it's day and night as a whole. The only part where the characters were still accurate in term of writing was the pre-Namek part. After that, everything was about "i'm stronger because plots needs it", and the plot didn't needed Yamcha anymore, because Toriyama cornered himself with his overdose of power level.
Like i said, he could have thoughts about it for Yamcha, but when you see Piccolo, you see he was forced to use him and level up him way too much to justify his presence.
All of dbz story from the 80s 90 and now are not top tier
Yamaha aka worse Krillin
Vegeta aka the worst Goku.
Yamcha was useless in Dragon ball Z in the saiyan saga he beat a little green man and got blown up by one and in the android saga he got a hole in his stomach, in the cell saga his fought a bunch of cell jrs and in the buu saga he stopped fighting .
He died by a kamikaze no escape just as piccolo stated. He death helped the zfighters see just how far the saibamen and vegeta will go and they had to cancle to battles and fight serious. Yamcha had the same power as them all he defeated the saibamen just got caught of gaurd just like goku did with frieza and his soldier and many more.
Yamcha is useless and pathetic character. Currently re watching Dragon Ball.
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Yamcha fell off becuase well, Toriyama, honestly a dude who wanted the Dragon Balls to wish away his fear of girls cheated on Bulma, how?, no fucking reason, Toriyama wanted Vegeta to be an important dude and realized his fuck up from DB so he decided to just fuck off Yamcha and give Vegeta the spotlight instade of realizing how this girl Bulma was in DB, I realize that the Humans no matter what will fall off but not so fucking fast Tori, man, Yamcha was an Idol for me and he always will, I am not mad, just salty.
Yamcha is just too weak for new db power standards
I don't think he fell off. He was honestly never really "on." Even in his fight against Goku in the beginning he was winning because Goku was hungry. Once Goku was fed it was a different match.