Dragon Ball Earthling Name Generator

Saiyans get vegetables and Frieza's race gets cold puns, but Dragon Ball's Earthlings are named after almost everything else on the menu. Yamcha is yum cha, the Cantonese tea-and-dim-sum meal, and his companions Puar and Oolong are teas. Tien Shinhan is tenshinhan, a crab-omelet rice dish, Chiaotzu is jiaozi, Krillin blends kuri (chestnut) with Shaolin, and Launch is lunch. The Pilaf gang are rice and shumai, Chi-Chi means milk, Gohan is cooked rice and Pan is bread.

Outside the kitchen, each human faction has a theme. The Brief family are underwear: Bulma is bloomers, her mother Panchy is panties, her sister Tights, her daughter Bulla (Bra) and her son Trunks. Red Ribbon officers are colors and metals (Red, Blue, Silver, Violet, Magenta, Carmine), Gohan's classmates Erasa and Sharpner are school supplies, Androids 17 and 18 were born Lapis and Lazuli, and Videl is an anagram of devil to match her father Mr. Satan. Even the Penguin Village cameos follow suit: Arale is arare, and Senbei Norimaki is a seaweed-wrapped rice cracker.

This list gathers the notable humans from Dragon Ball, Z, GT, Super and the games, then adds hundreds of original puns on Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Western dishes, teas, desserts, stationery and uniforms, mangled the way Toriyama mangles them so they read as names rather than menu items.