King Kai: It’s…. It’s over. Yamcha: What? King Kai: Goku could not escape the explosion. Namek is gone, and so is he. Yamcha: No. Goku no. NOOOOOOOOO! [Cries] Tien: Why do you care? Yamcha: Ah, wha? Tien: Why do any of you care? Are you forgetting the whole reason they went to Namek in the first place? Now we have two sets of Dragon Balls. Yamcha: Well…. yeah but you make it sound like death has no consequence. Tien: It really doesn’t. We’re literally waiting to go back. Hell, this is Chiaotzu’s second time. Chiaotzu: Next time I get a free sundae! Yamcha: Huh. King Kai: Huh. Tien: Yeah.
Edit: Perhaps I should explain this quote… I simply thought that Yamcha served as a good representation of most people’s reactions… and Tien as a representation of “Um. It’s no biggie.” The rest of this series finale went off without a hitch as all characters realized “Wait. There are almost no consequences here. There may never be? What’s the use in grieving!”
DBZ Abridged on the lack of consequence concerning death in the series. Tien’s supposed to be the only serious character in the series. That’s the joke.
Edit: Perhaps I should explain this quote… I simply thought that Yamcha served as a good representation of most people’s reactions… and Tien as a representation of “Um. It’s no biggie.” The rest of this series finale went off without a hitch as all characters realized “Wait. There are almost no consequences here. There may never be? What’s the use in grieving!”