Yamcha/Biography

==Biography==
===Background===
Yamcha was born on March 20, Age 733. He met Puar in Age 747, two years before the Emperor Pilaf Saga takes place.
===Dragon Ball===
====Emperor Pilaf Saga====
Yamcha is introduced as a 16-year-old bandit that lives in Diablo Desert along with his companion, an anthropomorphic cat named Puar, and robs travelers who pass through. He ambushed Goku, Bulma and Oolong in order to steal their money and capsules. When challenged by Goku, they fought, with Yamcha using his signature technique, the Wolf Fang Fist, seemingly knocking Goku out. However, it only injured Goku. Then, Goku starts to have the disadvantage when he starts to get hungry, which drains his power. As Yamcha was about to defeat Goku, he spots Bulma and retreats, due to his extreme fear of women.
Yamcha returned to their camp that night and, while spying on them, learned of the Dragon Balls and their ability to grant a wish. He then decided to steal their Dragon Balls and make a wish to overcome his phobia, as he dreams of getting married.
He and his companion Puar broke into the group's van that night to do so but were foiled when the orbs under the sheet which Yamcha thought were Dragon Balls were actually the breasts of a nude and sleeping Bulma, causing him to leave in a stunned and confused daze.
He attacked again the following day, by knocking over the group's van with a panzerfaust, but was again challenged by Goku and retreated when Goku damaged his vanity by knocking one of his teeth out. Yamcha's attack to the wagon had still done its damage so Goku's group was forced to leave it behind and walk. As Shu had earlier planted a bomb in the van which exploded shortly after it was abandoned, Yamcha's actions had inadvertently saved Goku. Realizing that he could not beat Goku, Yamcha instead decided to let the group collect all seven balls and then take the wish. He again came to the group, this time apologizing for his behavior, and gave them a car to make up for damaging their van. The car, of course, had a tracking device in it.
While on the group's trail, Yamcha encounters a mysterious girl who destroyed a T-Rex and was frightened by Yamcha and attacks him, causing him to retaliate and knock her out. Later, when eavesdropping on Goku's conversation with Ox-King, he realizes that the girl is Chi-Chi, Ox-King's daughter. Not wanting to face the wrath of an angry Ox-King, Yamcha races back to the scene and apologizes to Chi-Chi, saying he did what he did because he is crazy with love for her. He quickly hides when he sees Goku coming and, by luck, witnesses Chi-Chi pull Goku's tail, exposing his weak spot. Yamcha returns to Fire Mountain and remains hidden as Goku returns with Chi-Chi and Master Roshi, the legendary martial arts master who trained both Ox-King and Goku's grandfather, Grandpa Gohan. He is awed by Master Roshi's display of the Kamehameha, an energy wave Master Roshi used with the intention of putting out the massive fire at Ox-King's residence, but instead, destroyed the castle and the entire mountain it was on. He also can not help, but be somewhat envious after Goku is chosen by Master Roshi to be his disciple.
Yamcha continues to tail the group, letting it slip in front of Puar he thinks Bulma has a beautiful voice, after they recover the sixth Dragon Ball from Ox-King into a remote village. There, he has to intervene and help Goku after Bulma is turned into a carrot by Monster Carrot, leader of the Rabbit Mob. He orders Puar to turn into a bird and rescue the hostage carrot-Bulma while he takes out Monster Carrot's two henchmen. Working with Goku, the two-recover carrot Bulma and through Puar's trickery get Monster Carrot to change her back. Yamcha quickly hides again after this, letting Goku deal with the gang without having to worry about Bulma's safety. While watching Bulma's disappointment at his absence, Yamcha silently curses his shyness around her.
When Shu ambushes Goku, Bulma and Oolong, stealing five of their six balls along with destroying their car with his Pilaf Machine, Yamcha has to again intervene, this time joining the group. They track the balls to Pilaf's Castle, but are soon trapped. From a hole blasted in the wall by Goku they witness Emperor Pilaf summoning Shenron and Yamcha orders Puar to go with Oolong and stop it. Emperor Pilaf's wish is interrupted by Oolong and, as punishment, the group is moved into a giant solar-oven like cell to die the next day when the sun comes up; they are not contained long though before Goku transforms into a Great Ape and destroys their cell by the light of the full moon.
To get the group to safety, Yamcha is forced to pick up Bulma despite his girl phobia. Just as Goku is about to crush Bulma, pinned by some rubble, Yamcha comes to the rescue and grabs his tail, stunning him long enough for Puar to transform into a giant pair of scissors and cut the tail off, returning Goku to his normal state. The next morning, with the balls now inert, the gang goes their separate ways. Yamcha and Bulma are satisfied though, as they now have each other and, therefore, no need to make any wishes. They go with Bulma back to the city while Goku goes off to train with Master Roshi.
====Tournament Saga====
Excited about the Martial Arts Tournament, Yamcha goes to the wilderness to hone his skills much to Bulma's frustration. After a month Yamcha returns and saves Bulma from getting hit by a truck. Bulma does not recognize Yamcha at first due to his beard and disheveled appearance. When she does realize it's him, she is both happy and annoyed that he did not call or contact her during his long absence.
Yamcha next meets up with Goku at the 21st World Martial Arts Tournament where he says he had a haircut at Bulma's request. Yamcha easily makes it through the preliminaries and makes it to the quarterfinals but is eliminated by Jackie Chun, who dodges all of Yamcha's attacks with the utmost of ease and knocks him out of the ring by creating a powerful wind with a hand chop. This level of power, along with the physical likeness, causes Yamcha to suspect Jackie Chun is Master Roshi in disguise and accuses him multiple times, before Roshi solicits Nam to wear a fake beard and convince Yamcha that he is not Roshi.
When Goku sees the full moon and turns into a Great Ape during his battle with Jackie Chun, Jackie Chun fires a MAX Power Kamehameha in the ape's direction despite Yamcha's desperate attempt to stop Chun. When the smoke clears, Goku is nowhere to be found, and Yamcha and his friends start to cry. Fortunately, it turns out Goku was just knocked out asleep. After Jackie Chun wins the tournament, Yamcha and the others celebrate by going out to dinner on Roshi's tab.
====Red Ribbon Army Saga====
After the tournament, Yamcha returns to West City with Bulma and the others. Bulma gets angry at him because the other girls in the city are all over him. In the anime, when Goku was flying on the Nimbus on a tour to West city, he (and Bulma through the Micro Band) comes across Yamcha, Oolong, and Puar. Oolong and Puar tell Goku that Bulma has been treating Yamcha badly. Yamcha says this is true, but he still likes her. Bulma resizes herself after hearing these comments, gets angry at Yamcha again, and heads alone to the Dream Land amusement park. Yamcha is upset by this, but goes with Goku, Oolong, and Puar to the amusement park anyway. On the way, the two save a fortune teller from thugs. However, it is actually Hasky, a thief hired by the Red Ribbon Army to take the Dragon Balls. Hasky has a bunch of failed attempts to steal the Dragon Balls, but no one catches on.
Eventually Goku leaves the Dragon Ball with Yamcha. Seeing her chance, Hasky attempts to seduce him, but Yamcha finds out she's a fake by coming across the real fortune teller. Hasky attacks Yamcha with a sword and he fights her off. Unfortunately, Bulma comes across them and, in her view, it looks like the two are kissing. Bulma hurls a cabinet at Yamcha right as he just beat Hasky and stomps off. This allowed Hasky to tie up Yamcha and take the Dragon Balls, but not before revealing she planted a bomb in the park. Yamcha later helps Goku take care of Hasky, get the Dragon Balls back, and defuse the bomb.
But due to the incident with Bulma, Yamcha's already strained relationship with her was strained even further and she left with Goku to find a new boyfriend with the Dragon Balls.
Later on, after Goku defeats the entire Red Ribbon Army, Yamcha and the rest of the gang rush to help him in a helicopter, but they learned that their help ultimately proved unnecessary because Goku finished them off without them.
====Fortuneteller Baba Saga====
Yamcha decides to accompany Goku and travels with him to see Fortuneteller Baba at her palace to learn the location of the last Dragon Ball to revive Upa's father, Bora. Fortuneteller Baba does not give readings free though and will only do it after her five warriors are beaten. Yamcha faces her second warrior, See-Through the Invisible Man.
Unable to see his opponent, Yamcha is unable to land a blow and is getting damaged. Yamcha then figures he can locate his opponent by sound of his footsteps, which initially works in allowing to land blows on the Invisible Man, but is foiled when Fortuneteller Baba starts singing to cover the noise made by the Invisible Man. Krillin thinks quickly though; he asks Goku to bring both Bulma and Master Roshi to the ring and then flashes Bulma's breasts to Master Roshi, causing him to have a massive nose bleed which covers the Invisible Man in blood. With his opponent now visible, Yamcha uses his Wolf Fang Fist and quickly dispatches him.
Fortuneteller Baba then takes the warriors to a new ring, the Devil's Toilet which has a thin platform over a pool of powerful acid. In this arena Yamcha battles his next opponent, Bandages the Mummy, who is both a fast and strong mummy. Things look bad for Yamcha until he manages a quick sneak attack, tripping Bandages the Mummy off the ledge; though it is proved futile as Bandages the Mummy is able to use his bandages like a rope and climb his way back up. They fight again, and again Yamcha is pummeled until he is held up by his neck before being tossed down towards the acid. Fortunately, Goku intervened and saved him with his Power Pole.
Goku takes over the fighting at this point and defeats Bandages the Mummy with one hit, as well as the rest of Fortuneteller Baba's fighters. It is not in vain for Yamcha though, as Master Roshi accepts him to become one of his students (though only after learning it would mean Bulma would also be living on the island with them.).
====Tien Shinhan Saga====
‎Three years later, Yamcha competes in the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament alongside his friends Goku and Krillin. While in the preliminaries he has confrontational words with Tien Shinhan, the prize student of a rival school, who repeatedly mocks Yamcha and claims he will destroy him in the ring.
When the finals are about to begin, Tien has his friend Chiaotzu use his psychic powers to fix the fight schedule numbering so that he and Yamcha can face off in the first match of the quarterfinals.
At the start of their fight, they seem to be trading an equal number of blows. Yamcha then attempts his Neo Wolf Fang Fist, but it is beaten by Tien who parries the assault and counters with a quick punch to Yamcha's gut. Yamcha decides to go all out and utilizes, to everyone's surprise, the Kamehameha; this is stopped by Tien who reflects the attack back at Yamcha, making Yamcha jump into the air. Tien also jumps and kicks Yamcha, knocking him out. However, Tien does not stop at that. Tien then shatters the unconscious Yamcha's leg with a diving knee attack. (Note that this is Yamcha's only tournament match where he is defeated by KO rather than ring-out).
Yamcha is eliminated by KO and goes to the local hospital with Puar turning into a carpet for Yamcha to lie on. In hospital for the rest of the competition, Yamcha listens to the remainder of the fights on the radio and manages to be there for the fight between Goku and Tien. When Tien wins and decides to turn over a new leaf due to Roshi's advice, Yamcha is one of the first to clap for him. Later, when a reformed Tien apologizes for the unnecessary beating, Yamcha says bones can always grow back and that he awaits their next bout. The two then forge a friendly rivalry and promise to meet again at the next tournament.
====King Piccolo Saga====
Due to his injuries, Yamcha spends the majority time on the sidelines. He is powerless to intervene as first Krillin, followed by Master Roshi, and then Chiaotzu are killed by King Piccolo. Tambourine attacks Yamcha and they battle at the Training Island. In part due to Yamcha's injured leg, Tambourine gets the upper hand, but Yamcha is luckily saved from death when King Piccolo calls Tambourine to go after Cymbal's killer. When he learns of King Piccolo's takeover of the world capital, as well as Tien's seemingly suicidal mission to take him out, Yamcha joins in and races to the scene. He arrives with Bulma and Launch only to find it a desolate wasteland. They soon encounter a battered Tien who fills them in that Goku's actually alive and defeated the Demon King (although they heard on radio that "a small boy" was fighting Piccolo and deduced that it must be Goku, Tien gave them confirmation); Yamcha then assists Tien in getting back to the Kame House to recover.
Not long after, Goku quickly bursts in and announces that he is training with Kami before taking off again after recovering his Power Pole. This knowledge causes Yamcha to redouble his preparation for the next World Martial Arts Tournament. Yamcha trains along with Tien and the resurrected Krillin and Chiaotzu until Master Roshi informed them that, to be able to reach Goku's level of power, they are going to need to find better ways to train than those available at the Kame House. After that, they all head to Korin Tower and train with Korin before each going their own separate way in preparing for the next, 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament.
====Piccolo Jr. Saga====
Yamcha next meets with the group at the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament, he has trained for the last three years for this tournament (earning his trademark scars in the process) and looks forward to the fights.
Yamcha is present when Goku reunites with an adult Chi-Chi and like the others did not recognize her as an adult. After Goku remembered his proposal to Chi-Chi, she apologized to Yamcha for not marrying him (referring to Yamcha's false love confession), making Bulma angry at him.
‎Yamcha makes it to the quarterfinals and must contend with a nerdy human named Hero and finds himself injured by what seem like accidental clumsy mistakes made by his opponent (like getting kicked in the kidney after Hero supposedly tripped, and landing on the back of Hero's head, hurting his groin). When they both state that they will fight seriously, Hero proves to be a fighter in a class well beyond Yamcha and quickly counters every move Yamcha makes. In desperation Yamcha uses his secret weapon, the Spirit Ball, a powerful ball of guided energy. While it proves to be an effective attack, it is ultimately futile as Hero (who is actually Kami) recovers from being hit with it and knocks Yamcha out of the ring. At the end of the match Yamcha is oddly calm and congratulates Hero on his win. Hero says Yamcha has great skill and potential but needs to work on his focus and defense.
Yamcha can only watch from there on out, in awe at the massive power displayed in the fight between Goku and Piccolo Jr. at which he is powerless to intervene. When Goku eventually does defeat Piccolo Jr., Yamcha joins the others in celebrating his victory.
===Dragon Ball Z===
====Saiyan Saga====
Over the next five years, Yamcha retired from fighting and became a baseball player on the team called the "Taitans", wearing number 00. Despite being the best player, he still longed for the days of being a fighter.
After Goku sacrifices his life to defeat Raditz, Yamcha is summoned along with Tien, Chiaotzu, Krillin and Yajirobe to train at The Lookout for the battle against Vegeta and Nappa. Yamcha and the rest of the Z Fighters get an experience of how truly powerful Saiyans are when they use the Pendulum Room to transport their minds back in time to Planet Vegeta 100 years in the past. Yamcha and the rest of the Z Fighters are easily defeated by the might of Scarface and Shorty, despite Yamcha firing his most powerful attack, the Super Spirit Ball during the battle. When they are transported back to the Pendulum Room, Yamcha and the rest of the Z Fighters feel incredible fear and woe, now promising Mr. Popo they will get as strong as possible to defeat Nappa and Vegeta. After completing the training on Kami's Lookout, Yamcha trains on his own until the Saiyans arrive.
Yamcha arrives at the battlefield just prior to the fight beginning. After Tien defeats one of them, Yamcha volunteers to do battle with one of Nappa's spawned Saibamen, in place of Krillin who had already been revived once with the Dragon Balls. Yamcha's fight with the Saibaman is quite fast and he defeats the creature with utter ease after evading its swipes from its claws, and smashing it with a Kamehameha from behind. The creature was now believed to be dead, as it was beaten brutally by Yamcha. But as a turn of events, it was just barely alive and gathered the remainder of its energy to leap and cling onto Yamcha and self-destruct, killing both Yamcha and itself in the process.
His death devastates Bulma and Puar, as well as Krillin, who swears to avenge Yamcha's sacrifice and does so by destroying most of the Saibamen in utter contempt.
====Frieza Saga====
Because of the influence of Kami, after he died, Yamcha was allowed to train on King Kai's Planet in the Other World as Goku did earlier. Joining him were the other warriors who also perished in the battle against the Saiyans: Piccolo, Tien and Chiaotzu. On King Kai's planet, King Kai tells Goku that they all crossed Snake Way in a far shorter time than he did, and that they all requested for tougher training than what Goku had received.Dragon Ball Z episode 51, "Vegeta Has a Ball" Yamcha speaks to Goku through King Kai and tells Goku that he is aware of his plan to wish them all back to life using the Dragon Balls of planet Namek. He also says that Goku is a good friend, and Goku becomes overjoyed from hearing from his friends.
Through King Kai, he is able to witness everyone's (Goku, Vegeta, Krillin, Gohan, Dende and Piccolo fused with Nail) battle with the evil tyrant Frieza on planet Namek. Yamcha takes on Recoome of the Ginyu Force and, similar to Goku, dispatches him with relative ease. When Goku is thought to have been killed in the destruction of Namek after defeating Frieza, Yamcha relays the information to everyone through Bulma. He is returned to life 130 days later in the first batch of wishes from Porunga and continues to live at Capsule Corporation with Puar, Bulma, and now Vegeta.
====Frieza-Androids Interlude====
‎In the anime, while Goku was still out in the Galaxy after his battle with Frieza, the Z Fighters all came to Master Roshi's House for a get together. During the time he becomes possessed by the Black Water Mist and became a mindless zombie who was loyal to Garlic Jr., along with the rest of the group except Gohan, Piccolo, Krillin, and his new girlfriend Maron. Afterwards, he is brought back to normal along with everyone else after the Sacred Water was poured into the Seven Air Currents and Garlic Jr. was defeated. Not long after, he resumed his baseball career for a brief period.
thumb|left|Yamcha in the Trunks Saga
When a rebuilt Frieza and his father invades the Earth, Yamcha is one of the defenders who prepares to confront him, though he is overwhelmed by the tyrants' power. He is just as amazed as everyone else though when a mysterious youth suddenly appears and quickly destroys Frieza and his force. He listened to the youth, who claims that Goku will be arriving shortly and, after waiting for Goku's return, witnesses their sparring in awe. He was then filled in by Piccolo, who could hear the entire conversation between the two, that in three years powerful androids will appear and kill everyone if they are not fully prepared; Goku invited Yamcha to train with him, but Yamcha refused, saying that he liked training at his own pace. Around this time Yamcha drops hints to Bulma that he is ready to settle down.
Yamcha sneaks into the Capsule Corporation shuttle at night-time to attempt to train in 300 times the gravity of Earth, so that he can prove he is just as adept a fighter as Vegeta. However, after activating this gravity setting, Yamcha suddenly finds himself completely overwhelmed and on the verge of being crushed to death by the gravity. He ultimately manages to shift his hand to the control deck to restore the gravitation level.
Nevertheless, he spent the next three years in training for the Androids' arrival. During his training, Yamcha ends up distracted by various women working out at the gym he was currently training at, and a mishap with the weights resulted in him deeply reconsidering his training methods. During this time, he and Bulma breakup once and for all.
====Androids Saga====
After the three years, Yamcha meets Goku, Gohan, Piccolo and Tien at the location of the androids' arrival. He also informs the group that the baby Bulma has with them is not his, and also stated that they'll be surprised as to who the real father was (with Goku managing to not only state accurately that the baby's father was Vegeta, but even reveal the baby's name as being Trunks, to everyone's shock). Realizing that they cannot sense the androids after Yajirobe's car was shot down, the group splits up and searches the city for them. Yamcha is the first to find them, although he is initially unaware that the two are the Androids until he spotted the older man, Android 20, having a Red Ribbon logo on his hat, and is quickly grabbed around the mouth by Android 20, draining his energy and preventing him from calling for backup or battling them, although not before attempting to yell to the other Z-Fighters that he had located them. Yamcha is then incapacitated after Android 20 punches a hole clean through his midsection; the sudden drop in his ki alerts the rest of the group though, and they arrive shortly after.
Despite his mortal wound, Yamcha miraculously survives long enough for Krillin to whisk him away from the battle and feed him a Senzu Bean, healing his massive wound and recovering his strength. Though he does not want to fight the Androids again, he chooses to tag along to watch the fight between Goku and the Androids and after Goku succumbs to his heart disease, Yamcha is the one to take him home to get him his medicine.
Yamcha soon after transports Goku to Kame House to hide him from Android 16, Android 17 and Android 18 after they set out to find him.
====Cell Saga====
From watching the news, he hears of the new threat, Cell, a monster that goes around absorbing people. He aids Piccolo on the search for Cell by piloting an airplane so it would not detect their ki, but it continuously evades them.
When the Androids later arrive on Master Roshi's island looking for Goku, Yamcha stays behind along with Tien Shinhan while Piccolo goes off with them to fight on a deserted island.
‎Later on when Cell broadcasts his intentions to hold his Cell Games, a tournament of sorts with himself as the only opponent, Yamcha decides to accompany the fighters, but along with Tien decides not to participate. Yamcha does not get the opportunity to fight until Perfect Cell creates his Cell Juniors, who attack the Z Fighters and quickly take most of them out, including Yamcha, who got his arm brutally broken in the battle. However, in the anime, both himself and Tien simultaneously got a hit on one of the Cell Junior's while protecting Goku. He quickly recovers after eating a Senzu Bean once Gohan defeats the Cell Juniors and spends the rest of the match as an observer. In the anime, near the end of the Cell Games, Yamcha along with the rest of the Z Fighters help in distracting Cell long enough for Gohan to raise the power of his attack in an attempt to destroy the Bio-Android.
Once Gohan finally destroys Cell, Yamcha carries Gohan back to Kami's Lookout. He then makes the wish to resurrect everyone killed by Cell. When the group has difficulty thinking of a second wish, he jokingly contemplates asking Shenron for an expensive diamond necklace for the girl he's going out with. He and the rest of the group see Future Trunks off as he leaves for his own time and then they go their separate ways.
====World Tournament Saga====
Seven years later, Yamcha attends the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament as a spectator since he gave up fighting professionally. Soon the tournament is interrupted though as the other Z Fighters leave, and then return with Vegeta now possessed by Babidi, an evil wizard. Yamcha manages to survive Vegeta's massacre along with his other friends in the crowd, barely escaping from Vegeta's blasts.
====Majin Buu Saga====
After Vegeta attacked the crowd, Yamcha went with Bulma and a few others to ask Shenron to bring back all the goodhearted people who were killed that day by Babidi and Vegeta. He then heads to the Lookout to take refuge from the assault of the new terror, Majin Buu, and witnesses Goten and Trunks' first attempts at performing the Fusion Dance, and finally their success when they become Gotenks.
A day later, Super Buu eventually finds everyone at the tower and allows them to live for a short time. When Super Buu escapes from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber Yamcha is quickly turned into chocolate and eaten with the others.
In the anime only, Yamcha and Krillin go to Grand Kai's Planet, where Yamcha recovers his passion for fighting. It does appear that Yamcha has been training despite his lack of willingness to fight due to the fact that he can stand against two of the North quadrant's strongest fighters. Later they have a brief fight with Kid Buu in the Other World.
After being resurrected, Yamcha's last real action in the series is giving Goku his energy to help form the Spirit Bomb that defeats Kid Buu.
After the end of the Buu saga, as he has the dilemma of loving women but not being good around them, Yamcha is still wandering blindly in search of the ideal partner he will not be nervous around. He has even worked in a host club, but because of his nervousness, it did not go well, and he was fired. His livelihood is mainly working together with Puar as a freelance bodyguard, and he occasionally goes to Tien's to help with the farm as well.Interview with Akira Toriyama, Mandō Kobayashi, March 24, 2013
===Dragon Ball Daima===
====Daima Saga====
Yamcha is at Capsule Corporation celebrating Trunks' ninth birthday until he and the others are turned back into children due to Gomah's wish to Shenron.Dragon Ball Daima episode 1, "Conspiracy"Dragon Ball Daima episode 2, "Glorio"
===Dragon Ball Super===
====God of Destruction Beerus Saga====
Some time after the battle with Majin Buu, Yamcha and Puar head towards Bulma's birthday, which is being held on a cruise ship, where they encounter Krillin, Android 18, and their daughter, Marron. They are also flying to get there, as it was taking too long driving in a car. Yamcha and Puar later encounter Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu on the ship.
When Beerus arrives on the ship, Yamcha is one of the first to introduce himself to Lord Beerus. He exaggerates his power, proclaiming himself as the strongest one on the ship. He roughly slaps him on the back actually making the unguarded Beerus stagger slightly which worries Vegeta that it might upset him, but Beerus just shrugs it off. Yamcha joins the crowd of people when Beerus eats the octopus balls served to him by Krillin, with one containing wasabi. They chant him on, encouraging Beerus to take a bite. Later, Yamcha joins several others as they board Bulma's space pod to get a better view of Goku and Beerus' fight. In the end, Beerus beats Goku, but he doesn't destroy the Earth because he falls asleep in the process.
====Golden Frieza Saga====
Yamcha was killed when Frieza blew up the Earth. This event is however reversed by Whis doing his Temporal Do-Over.
====Universe 6 Saga====
Yamcha is traveling with Goku and the rest of the gang to the Nameless Planet where the Tournament of Destroyers is being held and they're being taken there by Whis in his cube. After two hours and forty-five minutes of traveling, they arrive on the Nameless Planet. Yamcha is a bystander and watches the tournament from the stands. He watches the first match between Goku and Universe 6's, Botamo. He is later shocked along with everyone else when Goku is defeated by Frost. During Vegeta's match with Cabba, Yamcha points out similarities between Cabba and a young Goku he fought when they first met long ago. As Vegeta begins toying with Cabba, he shows some doubt that Vegeta has rid himself of all of his sinister qualities but dismisses them once he realizes that Vegeta simply wanted to push the weaker Saiyan to increase his power. Yamcha then witnesses the entire tournament and is present with the Z-Fighters as the wish with the Super Dragon Balls is made, and they all return to Earth.
====Copy-Vegeta Saga====
Yamcha attends Bulma's Universe 7 victory party and is tasked along with everyone else to keep Monaka's secret safe from Goku. After Goku fought with "Monaka" (Beerus wearing a Monaka costume), Yamcha accidentally points out Monaka passing out from the fight. After Goku sees that there are two Monakas the other Z-Fighters scorn Yamcha, and Beerus starts to grow angry, but calms down when Goku praises Monaka for having the ability to clone himself. The party then starts.
===="Future" Trunks Saga====
During the baseball game between Universe 6 and Universe 7, Yamcha takes over pitching after Goku was nearly ejected from the game due to destroying the field and Yamcha debuts a new technique for pitching, the Wolf Fang Pitching Fist, the speed of his Wolf Fang Fist with the controllability of the Spirit Ball and uses it to near effortlessly strike out Universe 6 for the 1st half of set 1, impressing everyone, especially Bulma who begins to flirt with Yamcha again.
When Universe 7 steps up to bat with Yamcha up 1st, who mouths off to Vegeta that he will not lose to him in baseball, Vegeta, who along with Goten were filling in for the missing Hit and Frost of Universe 6, pitches the ball into Yamcha's ribcage and then berates both Yamcha and Bulma for flirting with each other. However, this allows Yamcha to advance to 1st base, shocking Vegeta who is surprised that he's not allowed to hit the opponents. Goku comes up to pitch next and both power up to Super Saiyan Blue. Vegeta pitches as hard as he can and is shocked when Goku begins to overpower his pitch, proclaiming that he put all of his power into it. When Vegeta begins to fire ki blasts into the ball to give it more power Yamcha makes a break for 2nd, which causes Vegeta to stop attacking Goku and overpowers Vegeta's pitch but is caught out by Botamo who throws the ball to Goten but misses him so Yamcha makes another break to 2nd base but is struck by both Champa and Vegeta at the same time but still made it to the base and allowed to stay due to being attacked.
When Gohan hits the ball Yamcha makes a run to third base, but Champa again intervenes and stops Botamo from getting Gohan out and throws the ball at Yamcha, once again hitting him in the spine but Yamcha once again makes it to the base, proclaiming he will not lose at baseball weakly from the ground. Beerus gets mad at Champa for playing dirty and attacking Yamcha so the two gods begin to fight, with Goku recalling that if two gods of destruction fight all of the universes will be destroyed. Everyone runs to Bulma's shield in an attempt to protect themselves except for Yamcha, who bravely makes a dash for homebase during the ki barrage storm that was flying off of Beerus and Champa, which the blasts were destroying the entire area. Whis and Vados stop the fight, saying that it is taboo for Gods of Destruction to fight one another and called the game off saying Universe 7 won. When Champa asked why Vados points to home plate, revealing Yamcha successfully braved the ki barrage storm, winning the game for Universe 7, but was coincidentally laying inside the crater near death in exactly the same pose from when he was blown up by a Saibaman many years ago. Krillin, Gohan and Piccolo, all pointing it out as a bad memory. Yamcha weakly says that he is going to take a different kind of walk off and collapsed from his injuries.
====Universe Survival Saga====
In the anime, at Capsule Corporation, Yamcha comes to visit right after Bulla is born and he asks to hold her. However, Bulla starts to cry as he makes a funny face, and this enrages Vegeta into turning into Super Saiyan Blue. Yamcha overhears the conversation of Goku and Gohan about recruiting fighters for the Tournament of Power, and becomes convinced he will be recruited also, and heads home to wait for Goku to ask him. Yamcha is later seen at his house, rehearsing his lines of initially refusing to join them; and then show up at the last minute, all the while still waiting for Goku. He and Puar are seen watching television in his bed, until Master Roshi and Oolong arrive.
Yamcha thinks Roshi is inviting him to join the team. The Turtle Hermit asks for Yamcha to tell Puar to transform into a young woman in order to overcome his perverted antics for the Tournament of Power; in the meantime, Yamcha asks Oolong if he is still getting recruited and the latter responds with a "maybe". At Capsule Corporation, Yamcha, Puar, and Oolong watch Team Universe 7 leave. Yamcha mentions that the universe's fate is in their hands.
In the manga, Yamcha was considered by Bulma, Master Roshi, and Tien Shinhan to be the 10th member of Team Universe 7. However, Goku brought Frieza as the tenth warrior. In addition to playing baseball, Yamcha still trains martial arts occasionally just in case of emergency.Dragon Ball Super volume 6, "The Super Warriors Gather!" 
After the Tournament of Power ended and with the erased Universes restored, Yamcha and Puar are seen at the victory party held at Capsule Corp. He brings a teddy bear as a gift for Bulla.
====Galactic Patrol Prisoner Saga====
After Jaco briefs everyone on Kami's Lookout about Moro's gang arriving to Earth, Krillin suggested to Piccolo of asking for Yamcha's help.
During the two-month preparation against Moro and his crew, Yamcha was recruited by the Galactic Patrol, alongside the other Z-Fighters to help defend the Earth. Sensing the chaos from around the world, Yamcha goes off on his own after tracking the enemies ki, he notices a squad of Galactic Patrolmen following him and leads them. 
Later in the city, Yamcha easily defeated and subdued three members of Moro Corps', before heading off after tracking another source of ki energy, which turns out to be Zauyogi.
After being beaten around by the Brigade advisor, he finds assistance from Tien and Chiaotzu, who join the fight alongside him, but even together, the trio struggle against their opponent. Fortunately, Goku suddenly teleports to their location and intercepts Zauyogi's attack before preceding to take him down with a single blow. Goku asks him if they were the ones who defeated the other escaped prisoners that were there, and Yamcha confirms that that is the case. Yamcha thanks Goku for the help and tells him that the others may need his help next. 
During the final battle between Goku and Moro, when Goku is having his energy drained, Yamcha and the others give their energy to Vegeta so that he can pass it on to Goku in an attempt to revitalise him. After one final push, owed to Uub, Goku defeats Moro once and for all. Yamcha and the rest of his friends celebrate their hard-earned victory afterwards with a feast at Satan House.
===Peaceful World Saga===
Ten years after Kid Buu's defeat, Yamcha is seen along with the rest of the Z Fighters at the 28th World Martial Arts Tournament and witnesses the emergence of Uub, the good, human reincarnation of Kid Buu. Yamcha is said farewell to by Goku, just before he takes off with Uub to his village to train him.
===Dragon Ball GT===
====Baby Saga====
Yamcha makes a cameo appearance in Dragon Ball GT in episode 34, "Back in the Game": He is seen in a photograph alongside many of the other Z Fighters. He is also seen among a group of people in an undisclosed area when they are taken to New Planet Plant because Earth is about to be destroyed due to the Black Star Dragon Balls. He returns to Earth when it is restored by the Namekian Dragon Balls and attends a party at Bulma's house with the rest of the Z Fighters.
====Shadow Dragon Saga====
By the end of Dragon Ball GT, Yamcha is seen fixing his car in the middle of the desert with Puar. He is seen in the final ending montage of the episode as well.
==Super Dragon Ball Heroes==
===Supreme Kai of Time Saga===
In the anime, Yamcha appears as a competitor on Goku's team during the Super Space-Time Tournament. Unfortunately for him, he is targeted and blasted by Mecha Frieza ten minutes into the tournament. He manages to elude Mecha Frieza by hiding in some bushes, and accidentally bumps his head on one of the three Time Fairy warriors. Yamcha quickly grabs it, advancing his team further into the tournament and earning praise from Gohan. Yamcha watches on as Xeno Trunks fights the Future Warrior in Black, before Aeos halts them.
Yamcha was later transported by the Aeos to the next stage of the tournament, Planet Glass where he's seen alongside Vegeta, Hit, Basil, and Murichim. Vidro reveals herself and explains the rules on this phase of the tournament, that whoever successfully retrieves the time fairy from her gets to advance to the next round, she then summons her Glass Soldiers to help fend off the contestants.
Yamcha, Vegeta, and Hit face off against Vidro and her clones, he dodges most of the clone's attacks until he gets struck in the sternum. He pleads for a time out, but the clone puts him in a daze after hurling some glass projectiles at him. Yamcha soon recovers and uses his Spirit Ball to intercept Hit's attempt at eliminating the Female Warrior, stating that she doesn't deserve to die. This causes the Female Warrior to become smitten with Yamcha and in turn saves him from Hit's attack. She promises to defend Yamcha, calling him "darling" (much to the surprise of Hit, the clone, and even Yamcha himself).
Yamacha, Vidro, and Hit, are later confronted by Chilled and Fin who were summoned and empowered by Dark King Demigra.
In the manga, he instead enters the jungle area of the tournament and encounters the combined forces of Ginyu Force members Guldo, Jeice and Recoome, Babidi's minions Yakon, Spopovich and Yamu, and Slug's henchmen Angila, Wings and Zeeun, who have all banded together to get a better chance at getting the three-time fairies. Outnumbered, Yamcha asks if he can join them, but since the three teams have hit the member limit, they attack him at once. Yamcha prepares his Wolf Fang Fist in retaliation but is stopped and saved by Jiren, who instantly lands and defeats the entire combined force. Yamcha thanks the Pride Trooper and follows him through the jungle, attempting to repair his reputation by revealing he is Goku's first rival and claiming his martial arts skills are among the top in his universe. However, he ends up walking into Jiren (remarking that it felt like Jiren was wearing a suit of armor), who stops to fling Yamcha out of the way of the approaching Legendary Super Saiyan Broly's attack.
In the manga, Yamcha and Vidro team up against Chilled and defeat him by combining the Spirit Ball with Glass Molding. As Chilled is defeated, Vidro asks Yamcha if they could get married, surprising him.
During the end of the conflict, Vidro declares her intentions to marry Yamcha, but mentions that as per her people's customs, she must wait a thousand and two hundred years before a wedding can take place, and plans on staying with Aeos in the meantime, much to Yamcha's disappointment and the chagrin of Hit (in the anime) and the three Gohans (in the manga).
===Demon Invader Saga===
Yamcha is absorbed by Majin Ozotto when he eats the Earth.Super Dragon Ball Heroes episode 51, "The Demon Invader Arc Begins! A Black Shadow Strikes the Earth!" He is later freed from his pod by Goku.Super Dragon Ball Heroes episode 55, "Escape from the Ozotto Mansion! Goku's Soul Awakens!"
==Film appearances==
===Curse of the Blood Rubies===
As a partial retelling of the Pilaf Saga, Yamcha's basic history starts out the same (scared of girls, likes Bulma, and plots to steal the Dragon Balls), but diverges at a certain point. After hearing Goku is going to visit the Turtle Hermit, Yamcha tries to get Roshi to beat up Goku by telling the hermit that Goku plots to steal his shell. The plan fails due to Goku showing his purity by riding the Nimbus cloud and Yamcha retreats after Bulma gets close to him. In the next Part of his plan, Yamcha raids King Gurumes for the remaining six Dragon Balls and other valuables. The desert bandit rides up the castle walls with the Silverstar 4 while simultaneously avoiding gunfire. At the top, Yamcha effortlessly simultaneously defeats six of King Gurumes' soldiers with nunchucks and then runs into a room full of blood rubies. Yamcha and Puar stuff their pockets with rubies and while exiting come across Oolong and Bulma. There is no time to say hello as an armed Pasta bursts into the scene and riddles Yamcha's chest with bullets seemingly killing him to Puar's distress. Raven points her gun towards Bulma but Yamcha sweep kicks her as Blood rubies pour out of his shirt.
He easily disarms Raven, but refuses to fight after seeing her gender. Undeterred Raven pulls out her grenades and starts tossing them after the gang causing the hallway to fall apart. The grenades caused a huge boulder to head down in Bulma's direction, acting fast Yamcha jumps up and catches it. In gratitude for saving her Bulma gives Yamcha a big hug making the shy rogue blush and scream. Yamcha later watches with Bulma as the Dragon Balls come together and Penny wishes to get rid of the Blood rubies. Yamcha realizes he no longer needs to wish away his fear of girls and hooks up with Bulma.
===Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle===
Yamcha appears in the film as Bulma's boyfriend and Goku's friend (likely continuing from the previous movie). After hearing from Roshi that he sent Goku and Krillin off to Devil's Castle, Yamcha and the others head there in a helicopter. Near the castle, their helicopter is attacked by demons and crashes.
Yamcha, Puar and Oolong wake up inside the castle. In an effort to rescue Bulma from getting her blood drained, using the transforming abilities of the latter, they disguise themselves as demons but are caught when Oolong's transforming ability gives away. They are then stuck in a stone wall along with Goku, Krillin, and Launch. When Goku breaks them out by turning into his Great Ape form, Yamcha and Puar cut his tail to ensure everyone's safety. They reach Lucifer, and Yamcha takes out an ax equipped Igor to rescue Bulma. After Lucifer is defeated, Yamcha returns Goku, Krillin, and Launch to the Kame House.
===Mystical Adventure===
Yamcha appears helping Bulma in her search for the Dragon Balls located in Mifan, though Yamcha is more interested in entering the World Martial Arts Tournament located there, having always wanted to enter like in the main series. After saying hi to Goku and Krillin, Yamcha separates from Bulma and enters the Tournament. Yamcha defeats a giant called Gregor and moves on to face Bora in the semifinals. At first the fight is even with Yamcha dodging all of Bora's blows and Bora blocking Yamcha's strikes, but Master Roshi distracts Yamcha, causing him to cease his dodging and allowing Bora to knock him out of the ring.
Yamcha does not appear again until later in the movie when Bulma is cornered by Mifan troops, Yamcha rushes in and pushes her out of the way of the Crane Hermit's Dodon Ray. Unfortunately, while Yamcha got them both to safety, Bulma's Dragon Balls dropped into an ocean crevice. Fortunately, Goku finds a way around this and Yamcha is present at Bora's revival.
===The Path to Power===
Yamcha is a main character in The Path to Power, an adaptation that is a mix between the Pilaf and Red Ribbon Army Sagas. Similar to the show Yamcha attacks Goku (who is not hungry in this version) after he demands all the capsules and money they have and is winning the fight but flees upon seeing Bulma due to his girl phobia. His affection for Bulma is more obvious with Puar getting him to admit she is all that is on his mind.
The bandits follow the gang north to icy weather by Muscle Tower, missing the desert heat Yamcha and Puar go into a cave to warm up with a family of bears. Still spying on them as they meet Roshi, Yamcha upon hearing about the Dragon Balls realizes with them 'he could get rid of his phobia and "be with.... whoever he wants." Unfortunately, the gang is then attacked by a Red Ribbon Fleet, Roshi fights back with a Kamehameha (amazing Yamcha), but they are still captured by General Blue. Yamcha attempts a rescue by sneak attacking General Blue, Bulma is so excited to see Yamcha that she yells at to him making the Desert Wolf freeze and lose his cover, both him and Puar are captured with everyone else.
While in prison with the Gang, Yamcha mostly gets over his anxiety around Bulma, connecting with her and even sharing an accidental kiss after an explosion rocks the prison. Escaping the prison, Yamcha watches Goku's fight with Officer Black and Eighter's sacrifice. As Shenron appears, Yamcha willingly gives up his wish, as he and Bulma look into each other's eyes.
===The Tree of Might===
Yamcha flies his new ship until it is destroyed by Amond. He goes to Goku's house and tells his friends about what happened. After King Kai tells them about the Tree of Might's appearance, Yamcha and the other Z fighters head to the tree. They try to uproot the tree but they're unsuccessful. The heroes face the Turles Crusher Corps. and starts to battle with them. Yamcha fires his Spirit Ball at Cacao. His attack causes no damage to Cacao, they fight hand-to-hand until the henchman beats Yamcha. Yamcha appears once again with the others to defend Goku against Turles while he is trying to form a Spirit Bomb but is quickly taken down. After the Tree of Might is destroyed, Yamcha joins everyone on a camping trip.
===Bojack Unbound===
Yamcha and Gohan, Piccolo, Krillin, Tien and Future Trunks participates in the Intergalactic World Tournament. Above the arena platform, Yamcha is seen lying down on one of the large poles, disheartened and disinterest in taking part after realizing that his more powerful friends are competing. Down below, Doskoi backhands another fighter into the pole, causing Yamcha to slide off and fall into the water where he is disqualified. Yamcha appears once again along with Tien, when they go to the Battle Zone to help Gohan against Bojack's gang. Yamcha faces Bido and Zangya and fights against them but is quickly defeated.
===Battle of Gods===
Four years after Majin Buu's defeat, Yamcha is invited to Bulma's birthday party alongside the other Z-Fighters and their friends. Here he encounters Beerus and Whis, who are looking for a Super Saiyan God to fight with. Yamcha is enjoying the party. When Bulma is beginning the Bingo Contest, Yamcha notices that one of the Dragon Balls are missing. The last Dragon Ball is later found in the hands of Mai and Emperor Pilaf. Beerus eventually gets angered by Majin Buu because he didn't share his pudding. Yamcha doesn't take part in the fight against Beerus and is evacuated by Krillin alongside the other guests to safety.
When Beerus challenged Oolong to a rock-paper-scissors match, Yamcha gives Oolong a plan: he told Oolong that Beerus thought he was just a pig with hooves who didn't have fingers. Yamcha speculated that Beerus would use paper, so to counter this, Oolong used scissors. However, Beerus heard the entire plan and proceeded to attempt to destroy the Earth. He later watches the fight between Super Saiyan God Goku and Beerus while airborne. In the end, Beerus beats Goku, but doesn't destroy Earth and goes home.
===Resurrection ‘F’===
Yamcha is mentioned when Tien tells his friends that he and Chiaotzu fighting against Frieza's army would be suicide. He was later killed when Frieza blew up the Earth. This event is however reversed by Whis doing his Temporal Do-Over.
===Super Hero===
Yamcha makes a cameo appearance in Magenta's false depiction of the Dragon Team as villains confronting Cell.
==Other Dragon Ball Stories==
===The Return of Son Goku and Friends!===
Yamcha is among the group attending Mr. Satan's party. He sits on the sidelines during the battle against Abo and Kado because it was decided that they were weak enough that Goten and Trunks would be enough to defeat them. Gotenks uses Yamcha's Wolf Fang Fist against the fused version of Abo and Kado, Aka. After Aka unleashes his Super Destructive Energy Wave, Yamcha himself briefly enters the action and uses a Spirit Ball to destroy the top of a large building that was about to crush Bulma, Puar and Oolong, as well as various pieces of rubble. Despite having apparently given up on fighting, he is shown to be wearing his gi under his suit. While Yamcha does not appear to use one of his Wolf Fang techniques, his aura still makes him appear as a wolf.
===That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha===
Yamcha appears in his own spin off manga, where a boy in his body is the main protagonist. Once a boy who loved Dragon Ball had an accident and when he woke up, he found himself in the body of Yamcha, since then he tries to make Yamcha the best. In the battle against Vegeta and Nappa he saved Yamcha from the Saibaman and he killed all of them, he went to Namek and got his potential unlocked.
===Xenoverse===
;Saiyan Saga
During the main story, Yamcha appears during the Attack of the Saiyans in the altered timeline of Age 762 fighting the Dark Magic enhanced Saibamen, Tennenman, and Jinkouman. The Future Warrior is sent by the Time Patrol to assist but they get separated fighting the Dark Saibamen. Yamcha and Tien are killed when a Saibaman self-destructs, though as they both died in the original history regardless that part of history was restored to its proper course and would disappear from history once Chronoa put the scrolls together to restore the proper timeline once the change had been corrected.
===Xenoverse 2===
;The Saiyan Threat Saga
In another altered timeline created by Turles and Lord Slug who had been recruited by the Time Breakers, the Saibamen are not deployed, and Dark Nappa confronts the Z Fighters including Yamcha who survives to fight Nappa due to the change. Unfortunately Yamcha is too weak to make a difference despite the arrival of the current Future Warrior. Yamcha tells Tien not to worry about where the Future Warrior came from recognizing they need all the help they can get to take on their Saiyan adversaries. Eventually they sense Goku on his way, but Krillin notices an evil presence following Goku. Elder Kai reveals to the Future Warrior that whoever it is they are slowing Goku down and notes the others won't last much longer and orders the Future Warrior to go help Goku. While the Future Warrior is helping Goku fight against Turles who is revealed to be the evil presence Krillin sensed, Yamcha is killed fight Nappa along with Tien, Chiaotzu, and Piccolo though again their deaths correct that portion of the timeline, and the Future Warrior manages to correct history causing the altered timeline to disappear and the original timeline to be restored despite several anomalies.
;Android Warfare
During the Cell Games in the altered timeline of Age 767, the Future Warrior arrives to protect Tien and Yamcha from the Dark Cell Juniors. The Future Warrior manages to protect them long enough for Mr. Satan to throw Android 16's head to where Gohan is resulting in Gohan's Super Saiyan 2 transformation. Yamcha then observes SSJ2 Gohan and the Future Warrior's battle against Dark Cell, before a Wormhole summons the Metal Cooler Corps. from The Return of Cooler timeline, though the Future Warrior beats them and travels through the wormhole to stop anymore Metal Coolers from reaching the main timeline. Meanwhile Gohan forces Cell to spit up Android 18 and Goku sacrifices himself to prevent Semi-Perfect Cell's self-destruction from destroying Earth. However, the Supervillain empowered Super Perfect Cell appears after surviving. Yamcha watches as SSJ2 Gohan and the Future Warrior weaken Cell enough for Gohan to finish him off with the Father-Son Kamehameha, causing Yamcha to cheer the victory over Cell.
;Hero Colosseum Saga
During the fried egg topping argument with Beerus and Champa, they both reference the baseball match where Yamcha played an important role indicating the saga's events take place after it occurred in the main timeline. Champa suggests they have another baseball match to settle things but Beerus refuses noting how they almost came to blows last time thus preventing another baseball match between Team Universe 7 and Team Universe 6.
===Kakarot===
;Saiyan Saga
Yamcha first appears after he, Krillin, Tien, Chiaotzu, and Yajirobe had completed their training under Kami. Save for Yajirobe, the four fighters decide to go to Blake Bog where Piccolo is training Gohan to challenge Piccolo as he is currently the strongest fighter around. Piccolo finds Yamcha in the swamp area of Blake Bog and Yamcha challenges him to a fight but is defeated. During the conflict with the Saibamen, the storyline is slightly altered as Yamcha is a support only character, thus Gohan fights the Saibamen with Yamcha as a support. Yamcha is able to defeat the Saibamen like in the original series, but it catches him off guard and kills both itself and Yamcha with its Self-Destruct (Tien's fight with the Saibamen first is omitted).
;Intermission 1
During the Intermission after the Saiyan Saga, Yamcha is deceased along with Tien, Chiaotzu, Piccolo, and Kami. However, Gohan finds a terrified Oolong in front of the Capsule Corporation. He asks what is wrong and Oolong reveals that he saw what he believes to be Yamcha's Ghost walking around in West City. This leads to the Sub Story "Yamcha's Alive?!".
;Adults Sub Story - Yamcha's Alive?!
Gohan is unsure if Oolong actually saw Yamcha's Ghost and decides to investigate how Yamcha could be alive when he saw him die fighting the Saibaman. Gohan goes in search of the supposed ghost. He finds Yamcha, who appears completely fine and completely alive (he has no Halo or ghostly tail) talking to a girl he is apparently dating. However, something seems off about Yamcha. Gohan decides to follow him discreetly. He sees Yamcha had another girlfriend, who notes Yamcha has changed and isn't as fun, though Yamcha says he'll do better next time. He finds Yamcha again meeting a third girlfriend. Unfortunately, this girlfriend's ex-boyfriend shows up. The girlfriend reveals her ex has been stalking her and he summons three Skull Robo Type 1 to attack Yamcha who uncharacteristically is not eager to fight them, forcing Gohan to come to his rescue. Gohan's inhuman strength scares off the ex-boyfriend and Yamcha's girlfriend. Gohan checks on Yamcha who reveals himself to actually be Puar in disguise. Puar explains that they were trying to keep up appearances that Yamcha was alive and well to his many girlfriends, who were unaware of his death. Eventually, Krillin shows up. He reveals that during their training at the Lookout, Yamcha gave Krillin a message to give to Puar if something happens to him. At first, it seems Yamcha wanted Puar to not worry about him, though Krillin then gives Puar the names of some girls he wants Puar to date in disguise for him while he is deceased and Puar dutifully complies. Gohan notes to himself Yamcha's words would have had deeper meaning had it not been for the last part. Gohan returns to Oolong and explains it was just a shapeshifting Puar, much to his relief.
;Frieza Saga
Like in the main series, Yamcha trains with Piccolo, Tien, and Chiaotzu on King Kai's Planet and talk to Goku during his gravity training. After Super Saiyan Goku defeats Frieza, Yamcha contacts Bulma to inform everyone that Goku failed to escape Namek, though Bulma explains they can revive him with the Namekian Dragon Balls. The narrator explains that Porunga revealed Goku survived and would return on his own, causing them to revive Krillin and Yamcha instead. After the Namekian Dragon Balls recharge, Tien and Chiaotzu are revived and the Namekians relocate to New Namek (save for Piccolo, Kami, and a Namekian child named Necke who remained on Earth).
;Intermission 2
During the Intermission after the Frieza Saga, Yamcha can be added to the player's party as a Support Character. If the party visits his old hideout in Diablo Desert portion of the Southeast Mountains Area, and Yamcha is in the party he will stand next to the door of the hideout. The Intermission is a good opportunity to level up Yamcha and unlock any available skills and Super Attacks from the Super Attack Skill Tree. There are two Sub Stories that require Yamcha to not be in the player's party as Yamcha plays a role in both. During the intermission, there are also two Sub Stories received from Puar that feature Yamcha. 
;Adults Sub Story - One Cool Dude
If Gohan talks to Puar (Yamcha cannot be in his party) in West City, Puar says his curiosity is killing him. After noticing Gohan, he asks him to do a small favor. He reveals it's about Yamcha. Since returning to life, Yamcha has been really enjoying himself. Still, Puar worries about his dating situation and hopes things are going well for him. Gohan is sure Yamcha is good at dealing with dating. However, Puar is still worried and asks Gohan to go check on him, leading to the Sub Story "One Cool Dude". Puar thinks Yamcha is on a date with his girlfriend Sapphire and thus is probably somewhere on the road northeast of West City. Gohan finds Yamcha with Sapphire. He tells her he had an awesome day. She calls him dreamy. Yamcha says he's only dreamy because he's with her, while thinking to himself that he is living the good life and has been going on dates with hot girls every day and that he feels so alive. Unfortunately for Yamcha, he and Sapphire are approached by another one of his girlfriends - Pearl - who angrily calls Yamcha a sleazeball and asks what the hell he is doing with her. Sapphire asks Yamcha who Pearl is only for Pearl to state she is Yamcha's girlfriend and asks Sapphire who she is. Sapphire also declares that she is Yamcha's girlfriend. Yamcha thinks to himself that he didn't expect this to happen but that he should be able to talk his way out of the situation, noting that he did train under King Kai, believing he can handle anything. Sapphire asks Yamcha to explain himself. Pearl says he told her that he only had eyes for her. Yamcha tries to tell them to calm down and that he'll clear things up, noting that they are both very special to him and says he doesn't think it's fair to, only be cut off by both women. When both women realize that he has been unfaithful, Yamcha, panicking, suggests that they get ice cream and sort this whole thing out. Both women refuse. Yamcha admits he didn't think it would work. Sapphire says she had no idea Yamcha was a cheater, while Pearl says she hates him. Both ladies then pull out Capsules containing two Skull Robo Type 3s and two Assist Robots. Yamcha asks what they are doing with capsule robots, and they explain they got them for self-defense and they were defending themselves as an excuse to take out their anger on Yamcha. Yamcha remembers he had previously gotten the girls' capsule robots powered up at the Capsule Corporation and notes he's in trouble now. Though, he thinks if the fight goes in his favor, then he might get back on their good sides. Realizing Yamcha has bitten off more than he can chew, Gohan elects to lend Yamcha a hand in dealing with the robots. Together, Yamcha and Gohan easily despatch the robots, with Yamcha declaring that playtime is over, causing both Sapphire to swoon and Pearl to admit she thinks she's falling for him again. Yamcha thinks he nailed it and that he is so awesome it's kinda scary. Unfortunately, Yamcha hasn't gotten over his cockiness, as he fails to notice one of the Skull Robo Type 3 is still functional. Despite Gohan's attempts to warn him, the robot grabs him from behind and initiates its Self Destruct, not unlike the Saibaman who had previously taken Yamcha's life with Yamcha taking on even the same pose. Pearl says she can't believe that happened and calls Yamcha a loser, while Sapphire thinks his pose is lame. Gohan is horrified, reminded of his previous death. Pearl says she is so over Yamcha and Sapphire agrees stating there are plenty of better guys out there. Pearl then invites Sapphire to have some ice cream together and Sapphire agrees, with the two ladies ignoring Gohan and Yamcha lying on the ground. Puar arrives just as the girls are leaving and tells Yamcha not to die on him. Yamcha reveals he's still alive and stands up, telling Puar he's much stronger now, declaring as a former student of King Kai, he can't let something like Self Destruction kill him. Puar says that's his Yamcha and says he's still the coolest guy around. Meanwhile, Gohan thinks to himself that Yamcha is definitely stronger, but that him getting caught in that explosion made the Saibaman incident look good by comparison (as Yamcha had only himself to blame for the situation with Pearl and Sapphire) and agreeing with the two girls that this incident was pretty lame. As a result, like Bulma before them, Pearl and Sapphire both break up with Yamcha due to his cheating ways and having lost all interest due to the situation with the self-destructing robot. This also makes the second Sub Story: "Yamcha: the Man, the Myth, the Legend" become available. 
;Cooking Sub Story - Yamcha: the Man, the Myth, the Legend
Outside of Capsule Corp, Gohan finds Puar who reveals he's waiting for Yamcha, who said he was going to change into a more battle-ready outfit (despite the fact that he was wearing his Gi during the previous Sub Story. Yamcha comes out wearing his Turtle School Gi and noticing Gohan says his timing is perfect and asks if he'll take him on in a little sparring match. Gohan is surprised Yamcha wants to fight him, and he reminds Gohan that he trained under King Kai after he died fighting against the Saiyans and that he hasn't really had the chance of showing off what he learned and it's like he went through that brutal training for nothing and that he's a lot stronger now. Gohan thinks to himself that Yamcha sounds pretty frustrated. Yamcha says he bet he could have done some real good on Namek and since Gohan was there, he bets that Gohan would be a great judge of his strength and that's why he wants to fight him. This leads to the Sub Story, which consists of a one-on-one battle between Gohan and Yamcha. Gohan agrees and says he's willing to help in any way he can and Yamcha thanks him for agreeing to his request. In order to avoid wrecking the Capsule Corporation and West City, the two then travel to one of the beaches south of the city. Puar wishes Yamcha good luck, and the match begins. Predictably, Gohan defeats Yamcha who is dejected by the loss, believing he should be better than this. Gohan however says he's better than he thinks, as Gohan reveals that he had Guru unlock some of his hidden power, but Yamcha still feels sorry for himself. Puar asks if Yamcha is alright as he looks exhausted and in pain. Puar asks if he should get some medicine though Yamcha reiterates that he is fine and admits that this sucks, and he can't this is the best he can do after all his hard work training under King Kai. Puar fed up with Yamcha feeling sorry for himself, snaps and tells Yamcha not to talk like that and reminds him of how they first met when Yamcha risked his life to protect him when he was being attacked by a pterosaur. Puar says he's the coolest, bravest guy he knows and that he should be more confident in himself. Yamcha agrees while thinking to himself, the only reason he did was because he thought Puar's screams were coming from a damsel in distress. However, hearing Puar's story impresses Gohan, who says he had no idea he did that for Puar and that he really is a great guy. Yamcha reverts back to his cocky attitude calling himself a man of action in times of need. This unlocks the "Secrets of Puar 1" section of Puar's Z Encyclopedia Character entry which adds the story of how Puar and Yamcha first met, including Yamcha mistakingly believing Puar's screams were from a beautiful damsel in distress, though adds that the two have been best friends ever since.
;Cell Saga
During the Cell Saga, Yamcha's Front Teeth can be found in the desert of the Southeast Mountains Area where his old hideout is located. It is revealed to be the front tooth that Yamcha had lost when it was kicked out in his fight with Goku. If Goku picks it up, he will remember Yamcha losing his tooth and unlocks the "Battered Bandit" memorial spot and Yamcha's Front Teeth Z Encyclopedia entries.
===Dragon Ball Legends===
Yamcha, who has just arrived at the Cell Games, is dragged into the Tournament of Time.
==References==
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