Questionable Questing

OG canon Dragon Ball... or hilarious pre-canon and thus all that info is absolutely useless...

it's just, you know, early original DB is pretty close to wuxia setting despite also very xuanhuan; King Chappa is a reference to Tubo/Tibetan buddhist martial artist like 金輪國師 or 鸠摩智,

Sure there's real world references like the Bruce Lee or Andre the Giant expies, but you know

Ignoring the supernatural elements, it's very wuxia (without the complex social networks, loose sex, underhandedness, etc.)

It'd be really neat for everyone else to be fighting the mongols and you just start flying, or in DB, it's like you start pulling out strange techniques like in 九阴真经, which has a technique to rapidly grow stronger that can work with Roshi's training or the hypnosis skill, etc. etc. since you can't keep up with saiyans in force or stats, you can outpace them in skill, right?

Also, Krillin's origin, "Orin Temple", which is written 多林寺, is a pun on 少林寺 (Shaolin Temple), turning 少 (few) to 多 (many), and when you take into consideration for his garb, he is basically an outer disciple or a monk of the shaolin temple who has come down the mountain as opposed to lay members who can have hair and shit

The way Krillin's bullies act is also typical for how wuxia depicts shaolin monks (hypocritical assholes that use their status to get away with awful things, while there are a few good ones in the basket of bad apples)