Do you think Yamcha was bullied by his family?

[DBZAOTA482]

I've always attributed Yamcha's shyness towards women as a result of him bullied by his 4 older sisters and his mother (and that's also why he rebelled to become a desert bandit). His father was a deadbeat who left the family so he was no help.

It would also explain his wannabe-alpha male tendencies.

[precita]

Yamcha was probably an orphan.

[MajinMan]

Honestly does anyone is this series have a family other than Bulma or Chi-Chi (and Goku too, I guess)? Not counting the ones they make themselves, of course.

[dario03]

Honestly does anyone is this series have a family other than Bulma or Chi-Chi (and Goku too, I guess)? Not counting the ones they make themselves, of course.

Dende has like 100 siblings But really I guess that depends on what you mean. Are you talking like we see their parents and siblings outside of flashbacks or do flashbacks and rare visits count? Because if we go by the later then you can come up with a decent amount.

[irreality]

Honestly does anyone is this series have a family other than Bulma or Chi-Chi (and Goku too, I guess)? Not counting the ones they make themselves, of course.

Videl has her dad, same as Chichi, 18 has her brother, master roshi has his sister. I think that is it other than goku and bulmas families. Yamcha I always figured was an orphan, but it is krillin I'm most curious about. Maybe he is also an orphan and why he joined Orin temple so young.

[Hitiro]

Honestly does anyone is this series have a family other than Bulma or Chi-Chi (and Goku too, I guess)? Not counting the ones they make themselves, of course.

Videl has her dad, same as Chichi, 18 has her brother, master roshi has his sister. I think that is it other than goku and bulmas families. Yamcha I always figured was an orphan, but it is krillin I'm most curious about. Maybe he is also an orphan and why he joined Orin temple so young.

There is also Upa under Karin's tower who lives with his father Bora. And Suno who has her mother(?).

[Kamiccolo9]

Honestly does anyone is this series have a family other than Bulma or Chi-Chi (and Goku too, I guess)? Not counting the ones they make themselves, of course.

Videl has her dad, same as Chichi, 18 has her brother, master roshi has his sister. I think that is it other than goku and bulmas families. Yamcha I always figured was an orphan, but it is krillin I'm most curious about. Maybe he is also an orphan and why he joined Orin temple so young.

There is also Upa under Karin's tower who lives with his father Bora. And Suno who has her mother(?).

As well as Vegeta and his brother. Uub has a family, also. Same with Namu (at least in the anime.) Tao and Tsuru-Sennin are brothers, Roshi and Baba, the Kaio and Kaioshin are essentially siblings, etc.

[TheZFighter]

I always assumed Yamcha had a mother due to him being a human and humans having to be born at some point, but I have never heard about him having 4 older sisters before. I thought he was an orphan.

How I'd love some of these other characters to have an explained back story.

[Darkprince410]

I always assumed Yamcha had a mother due to him being a human and humans having to be born at some point, but I have never heard about him having 4 older sisters before. I thought he was an orphan.

We're not actually told much anything about Yamcha's past. The OP made up the concept of him having older sisters for the sake of a theory as to why he is the way he is around women, but he could just as likely have no siblings at all, given what we know of him.

[irreality]

The idea of his mother and sisters bullying him making him afraid of women doesn't make sense to me, though. He isn't afraid of Chichi, for example, who is too young, and probably wouldn't have been afraid of someone like Uranai Baba. He is just shy/scared around women he finds attractive, not scared of women in general.

Once he gets over that, he seems relatively normal in terms of women. I mean, girls do fawn over him sometimes in the anime, and he has at least one girlfriend after Bulma. Nothing suggests there is anything weird about his dating life. If anything, every other guy in the series is out of the ordinary by normal society norms, either a pervert, uninterested in women or marrying the first woman they seriously date.

[omaro34]

Yamcha was bullied by everybody.

This is a guy that never made it past the Semi finals in tournaments despite his ability. And when he lost, it was embarassing, especially against Kami.

Then he beats a Saibaman but gets killed because of his overconfidence. Not only that, but the woman that he's been with for many years decided to leave him for a man who's partly responsible for his death in the first place, and there's absolutely nothing he can do about it.

What a disaster. Yamcha was always used as a whipping boy for Toriyama anytime a new foe appeared.

There's action figures of him lying dead on the ground after getting killed by a Saibaman for Pete's sake.

However, I'm sure Yamcha gets women. After being with Bulma, there's no way it can get that much worse in terms of overcoming his fears of women.

[precita]

In the series Yamcha is constantly shown happy and smiling, especially in the Buu saga. Yamcha's life isn't miserable like you're making it out to be.

[Soppa Saia People]

I don't think Yamucha has a family (besides Pu'ar even then he's more of a pet).

[Lord Beerus]

I don't think Yamucha has a family (besides Pu'ar even then he's more of a pet).

The desert was Yamcha's family. But even that got sick of him and kicked him out.

[Saiga]

In the series Yamcha is constantly shown happy and smiling, especially in the Buu saga. Yamcha's life isn't miserable like you're making it out to be.

He's putting on a brave face, to hide the pain inside. It happens.

[In Brightest Day]

In the series Yamcha is constantly shown happy and smiling, especially in the Buu saga. Yamcha's life isn't miserable like you're making it out to be.

He's putting on a brave face, to hide the pain inside. It happens.

Ouch. Clearly hitting a bit too close to home there.

[precita]

I still don't get why Yamcha didn't go back to playing baseball. He would be a millionaire. Gets a Homerun every hit and can catch every ball by flying to it.

Makes no sense.

[Darkprince410]

I still don't get why Yamcha didn't go back to playing baseball. He would be a millionaire. Gets a Homerun every hit and can catch every ball by flying to it.

Makes no sense.

It's likely a situation of him needing to suppress his strength down to keep things fair, otherwise the organization would likely ban him from playing. Even though his strength, speed, etc are all natural and aren't through the use of performance enhancing drugs, his team would have too much of an advantage over any other for it to be considered even remotely fair.

[Kid Buu]

There's no evidence he stopped playing baseball though.

[Darkprince410]

There's no evidence he stopped playing baseball though.

The Daizenshuu indicates that his work now is as a part-time bodyguard with Puar, and that he occasionally helps Tenshinhan and Chaozu with farming. No mention is ever made of him playing baseball after the timeframe of that episode.