r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Unable-Buyer4087 • 8h ago

Characters "Weak" character goes to a much lower stakes environment, becomes super powered by comparison

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Yamcha - Dragon Ball Super

In dragon ball, Yamcha has it pretty rough. He hasn't won a fight since OG dragon ball, and was outclassed almost as soon as he was introduced. By the buu saga, yamcha had all but given up on being one of the Z-fighters and tried playing baseball instead. But here's the thing: Yamcha still has basically superhuman strength, he just so happens to surround himself with people vastly stronger than him. He uses his martial arts skills and ki control to become a rich and famous baseball star.

Shocker - Spiderman / Ms Marvel

Shocker has become an absolute joke in Spider-Man and tired of being constantly beaten down by the many, MANY superheroes in Nyc, he decided to move to new jersey as it only has one superhero defending it. The inexperienced teenager, Ms Marvel. Due to the fact that shocker actually has quite a good power and literal decades of fighting experience, he actually puts up a very good fight and the only reason he doesn't win is because Ms Marvel is teleported away.

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u/NerdyMcNerderson 5h ago

Yamcha is probably the 2nd strongest human behind Krillin.

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u/nagrom7 3h ago

Depends on if you count Tien (also I'm assuming you're disqualifying the Androids, even though they're really cyborgs). But yeah dude is definitely in the top 3 among humans, probably ahead of Master Roshi.

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u/Wolfdude91 1h ago

They should have found Dr. Gero’s details for whatever operations he performed on 17 and 18 before destroying the lab. As powerful as 17 is by Super, Bulma could cook up more fighters who are willing to become cyborgs.

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u/nagrom7 8m ago

They should have found Dr. Gero’s details for whatever operations he performed on 17 and 18 before destroying the lab.

They did, or at least they found the blueprints. That's how they were able to fix up 16 and build the detonators for their bombs (and knew the bombs even existed). This was back when they saw the Androids as threats though, not allies.