How Dragon Ball Quietly Avenged Golden Frieza Movie's Yamcha Insult

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Dragon Ball Super quietly fixed Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F’s Yamcha insult. In both versions of the Golden Frieza story, Yamcha wasn’t among the Z-Warriors on-hand for the fight with Frieza and his army. Apparently, he wasn’t deemed powerful enough to be helpful.

For the battle with Frieza, both Yamcha and Chiaotzu were sidelined completely. Instead, it was left up to Master Roshi, Gohan, Tien, Piccolo, and Krillin to hold off Frieza’s army while they waited for Goku and Vegeta to return from training with Whis. Yamcha wasn’t mentioned at all during the anime’s take on the fight, but the movie version did touch on why the two characters were missing. Tien mentioned to the Z-Warriors that he thought fighting Frieza was “too dangerous” for them, and that it was best for them to remain behind. Considering that Chiaotzu previously skipped the fight with the androids and the Cell Games for similar reasons, this made sense for his character – but not for Yamcha.

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Before Resurrection F, it was always implied that he was in the same class as Tien and Krillin, but Tien’s comment indicated otherwise. Tien saying that fighting Frieza was “’too dangerous” for Yamcha (but not for himself for Krillin) was a huge insult to Yamcha’s character and power level in the franchise. Dragon Ball Super episode 70, titled “A Challenge From Champa! This Time, a Baseball Game!” referenced this line from Resurrection F when several Z-Warriors came together for a baseball match with Universe 6’s strongest fighters. In direct contrast to the Golden Frieza movie, Yamcha was there but Tien wasn’t. When asked about it, Yamcha said he intentionally didn’t invite Tien because