Yamcha was the first antagonist in Dragon Ball to be Goku's equal in combat. He set the standard for many characters to come, as he was eventually overwhelmed by Goku and later became his friend. The companionship of Goku convinced Yamcha to become a better person and he eventually acted as one of the defenders of the planet 🅷Earth.

Yamcha never had much luck as a fighter, which earned him a memetic status among Dragon Ball Z fans as an eternal loser who kept getting totally kicked in battle. He also earned a vocal fanbase of those who appreciated his underdog status, in a setting full of Super Saiyans who dominated the story. Yamcha was always loyal to his friends and turned up for fights that he knew could lead to his death, yet he still contributed as best he💦 could, which is why a lot of fans took a liking to him.

We are here today to lay bare the shocking facts about the most underrated Dragon Ball Z character of all time. From his brief stint as a 𒉰seedy host, to his final fate on a farm.

Here are Fifteen Shocking Things You Didn’t Know About Yamcha!

15 ﷺ Yamcha The Host 𓆏

There are nightclubs in Japan where you can hire attractive men🔯 or women to hang out with you for the evening. These are known as Host (or Hostess) clubs and they have been the subject 🍌of numerous documentaries that have focused on their status as forms of legal prostitution.

According to with Akira Toriyama: Yamcha actually became a host for a brief time. This meant that he was paid to hang out with attractive girls. It seems that Yamcha's fear of talking to women reappeared over time, as he was fired from his job for being too nervous. Yamcha continued his search for a perfect partner, but his nervousness prevented him from finding love. It seems that he might have ended up in a Brokeback Mountain situation with one of the other Z-F💝ighters, but we'll get to that later...

14 He Fought A Robot With His Flyiꦺng Car

Dragonball Evolution is considered to be an utter disgrace to the franchise. They couldn't even spell Dragon Ball correctly. We could spend all day talking about what a total disaster the f𒐪ilm was, but instead, we are going to focus on how an unofficial knock-off was a far superior movie.

Dragon Ball: Ssawora Son Goku, Igyeora Son Goku was an unofficial Dragon Ball movie that was made in Korea in 1999. It loosely followed the Emperor Pilaf🐟 Saga, and we do mean loosely, as Yamcha rides around in that can fire laser beams. He ends up in an aerial battle with a robot and manages to🐲 defeat it. This is one of the few times Yamcha actually managed to defeat someone.

13 ꦍ 🍬 The Yamcha Theme Tune

The English dub of the Dragon Ball franchise has been han🐷dled by several different studios over the years, which means that the main cast has had nume꧋rous voice actors since the series made its way overseas.

The Japanese voice cast for the Dragon Ball anime franchise has featured the same people since the series debuted in the '80s. The only times that people have been replaced is due to the death of the original voice actor, as happened with Master Roshi and recently with B♏ulma.

The Japanese voice actor for Yamcha has always been Toru Furuya. He has always said that Yamcha is one of his favorite roles, to the point where he once recorded a song about Yamcha. "" is about how Yamcha is a n෴ice guy but is also a lone wolf who can't stay with people for too long.

12 He Starred In His Own 𝐆Manga Series 🍸

The humans in Dragon Ball Z quickly took a backseat to the Saiyans, to the point where🅠 they could never hopeඣ to catch up in terms of strength.

What would happen if one of the humans in Dragon Ball Z could learn about the future? Could they ཧbecome strong enough to make a difference?

This was the premise of Dragon Ball Side Story: The Case of Being Reincarnated as Yamcha. A young boy from our world wakes up in Yamcha's body and uses his knowledge of Dragon Ball Z to become the main character. He is able to defeat the Saibamen and chase off Vegeta. His quest finally ends whe𒁃n he runs into another denizen from the real world who has taken over the body of Chiaotzu. Together, 🍬they realize that there is only so much they can do in a world full of Saiyans.

11 The Anime Filler Power-U🍌p

The Dragon Ball anime was running at the same time that the manga series was being produced. This meant that there was a lot of filler material produced, due to the fact that the anime staff needed to give Akira Toriyama more time to add to the story. One of the reasons Dragon Ball Kai was created was to removꦏe th🦂e filler and make the story as close to the original manga as possible.

One of the most unusual filler scenes in the anime involved Yamcha in the afterlife after being killed by Buu. We see Yamcha defeating Olibu and another powerful 𒉰warrior. This scene is significant because we had previously seen Olibu coming close to defeating Pikkon. Does this mean that the anime version of Yamcha is around the same power level as Goku was at the end of the Cell Saga?

10 🎃 He 🐼Stole Gogeta's Best Move

One of the most powerful attacks ever used in Dragon Ball Z was the Stardust Breaker. This was the ultimate move of Gogeta, which he used to destroy Janemba in Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn. It isn't easy to perform the Stardust Breaker, as it required th𒁃e two most powerful Saiyans in the universe to fuse together through the Fusion Dance in order to become strong enough to pull off the move.

Yamcha can als🍒o use it, though he requires a mobile phone in order to do so.

There is a free-to-play Dragon Ball Z mobile game called Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle. Thanks to a glitch in the game, Yamcha can perform the Stardus🅠t Breaker as one of his special attacks.

9 Yamcha The Baseball Star 🧔 ꧃

The Z-Fighters have mostly been unemployed. Goku has had a few part-time jobs, but they don't last for very long. Gohan eventually became a doctor, but the vast majority of the good guys just mooched off the other characters. This became less of an issue when they befriended Hercule at the end of Dragon Ball Z, as he was rich enough to make sure that the other characters never wanted for anything... so long as they upheld the🔯 ilꩲlusion that he was the savior of the world.

Yamcha is the exception to this, as he became a professional baseball player for a team called the Taitans. You would think that the powers he gained during hi♔s time as a martial artist would make him the greatest baseball player of all time, yet he never seemed to make any money from the venture, as he had to become a host later ꦦin life.

8 The Dragon Quest Identit💞y Thef𒅌t

Akira Toriyama has been pretty blatant about reusing character designs throughout his work. This has happened a lot with the Dragon Ball manga and the Dragon Quest video game series, as he worked on both of them at the same time throughout the '80s and early '90s. This is why the end boss of Dragon Quest V looks like Piccolo with a beard. Chrono Trigger also used chara💝cter designs created by Akira Toriyama, which is why Crono is just a ginger Goku.

One of the most obvious reuses of a character design between Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest happened in an anime series called Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel. The titular Abel is basically Yamcha if he walked around with💙out a shirt on.

7 The Broken Pa꧑ge

Dragon Ball s♊tarted out as a comedy manga that featured martial arts action. As time went on, the action took over the story, which would go into a dark direction involving the death of innocents and the fate of the world.

The comedic elements of the early chapters of Dragon Ball would often contradict later parts of the story, such as Goku being able to travel into꧋ space to drop the Rabbit Mob off on the moon, even though the fact that he cannot survive in space became an important plot point🔴 later on.

An early fourth-wall breaking joke involved the original battle between Goku and Yamcha. In the eighth chapter of Dragon Ball, Goku hiꦍts Yamcha so hard that he bounces off t🍒he side of the comic panel and breaks it.

6 ꦺ The Disappearing Scars

After the death of King Piccolo, all of the main characters of Dragon Ball went into training in order to prepare for the arrival of the reincarnated version of theiꦗr greatest enemy, who would later become known as Piccolo. When Yamcha was reunited with his friends, he sported a set of scars on his face. We still don't know how he acquired these scars.

Akira Toriyama has earned a reputation for being forgetful about certain characters and concepts in Dragon Ball. This has extended to Yamcha, as his scars tended to disappear and reappear from panel to panel in the original Dragon Ball manga. This♚ was♈ particularly bad during Yamcha's fight against the Saibaman as part of the battle against Nappa and Vegeta.