Synopsis: As Yamcha remarks that he never expected a mummy to be so fast, Mummy Man asks him if this is the best he can do. With his friends cheering him on, Yamcha goes on the attack once more, trying to hit Mummy Man with his Rogafufuken, but it's no use as Mummy Man simply kicks his feet out from under him before landing a solid knee strike to Yamcha's gut.
With Yamcha down and seemingly out, Mummy Man asks him if he won't just surrender, but Baba wonders if the boy is even still conscious. Yamcha surprises them all however by swiping Mummy Man's legs out from under him, sending the fighter falling off of the statues' tongues and heading for the acid. Yamcha asks for Mummy Man's forgiveness, but the mummy isn't out of the fight just yet – using his bandaged wrapping, Mummy Man grabs hold of one of the tongues and rebounds off of the wall just above the acid, launching himself back up to the arena. Everyone is surprised, especially Yamcha, and Mummy Man laughs and says Yamcha is the type that will stoop to any trick, so now he'll have to pay for it. The fight begins anew, with Mummy Man quickly overpowering Yamcha once again, eventually holding him up by the front of his shirt over the acid. Mummy Man asks him again if he'll surrender or if he'll have to toss him into the acid, and Yamcha at last relents, surrendering the fight. Battered and beaten, Yamcha returns to his friends, with Bulma saying she can't believe he got beaten up by someone wrapped in bandages, though Kuririn says he's pretty sure those aren't because Mummy Man is hurt. Roshi says they may need to reevaluate what they're up against here, and Baba says that they're down to their last fighter now, Goku. She asks if the boy is ready to fight, and Goku happily says he is. Upa asks Goku to reconsider, saying he's done enough for him already, but Goku tells him not to worry and rushes down onto the tongues. Goku tells Mummy Man he's ready whenever he is, but Mummy Man laughs in disbelief that the last fighter is a little boy. Kuririn asks Roshi if Goku has any chance against this opponent, and Roshi says that the Goku they knew before probably didn't, but with the training he's undergone since they last saw him... Goku again tells Mummy Man he's ready to go, but if Mummy Man would like, Goku can make the first move. To Mummy Man's surprise, Goku stands completely open, not even taking a fighting stance, and yet, there aren't any openings in his guard at all. Review: Oh, Yamcha. You aren't eating dirt as hard as Kuririn did in his fight, but you're still getting a pretty good taste of your own hubris now, and you really don't have anyone to blame but yourself. While this fight basically exists just to give Yamcha a more proper showing against Mummy Man, rather than getting things to Goku right away, it does end up presenting a couple of interesting facets of the characters we're currently dealing with here. Since I'm already talking about Yamcha, let's keep the spotlight there and start with him. Through the course of this fight, Yamcha throws everything he has at Mummy Man – and, okay, yeah, what he has is really just one move at this point (man has he already been ill-used since his introduction) – but nothing he tries is working. He expected to at least have a leg up on the brute in terms of speed, but Mummy Man has quickly proven to be not just stronger than him but faster too. The match ends up going so poorly for the former bandit in fact, that he resorts to a cheap trick to try and win the match, one that had it been successful would have resulted in Mummy Man's death. Yamcha seems to feel some regret at this course of action, but he still made it of his own volition, so he can't be feeling THAT broken up about it. Now contrast that with Mummy Man. He's been pretty happily wailing away on Yamcha for the course of this fight, but that is what happens in a fight after all – one person tries to hit the other. Some of Mummy Man's strikes have been fairly brutal, but there hasn't really been anything that seems particularly like a cheap shot or like he's trying to radically injure Yamcha. No, he seems like he wants to just force Yamcha to realize he's bitten off more than he can chew and to surrender. Hell, even AFTER Yamcha tries to straight-up murder him, Mummy Man still offers him the chance to surrender rather than get thrown into the acid bath below. I hate to say it, but Yamcha's the bad guy in this situation. For as much as Baba's fighters are themed around movie monsters, they're surprisingly human...which, come to think of it, fits that inspiration even more. Oh, and can I just say, I love the ridiculousness of Mummy Man just Spider-Man-ing himself back to safety? It's a brilliant use of the character's design even if nothing before or (to the best that I can recall) after this suggests he can control his bandages like that. With Yamcha taken out of action, that leaves only Goku left on our heroes' side, and three fighters left on Baba's. The odds couldn't be more stacked against Goku, right? ...Well... Until next time! Favorite Panel:
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