Superpowers are useless
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While its not considered in the same genre, DBZ is a great example of how "superpowers" can literally change the fundamentals of every aspect in life.
Goku is a literal retard, but can farm massive fields because he has super strength, speed and flying. His whole race was just a smidge stronger than others and had beam powers and a kaiju berserker mode, so they were able to conquer galaxies to the point where they got genocided out of fear of their capabilities.
Every time a regular person is shown in the series, its shown just how useless they are at anything compared to the main cast where even the weak joke characters like Yamcha or Krillin are able to run circles around anyone at basic jobs.
Ironically, it even manages to show when super powers are useless. Hercule is consistently able to show that charisma and charm are equally important to the battle as anything super, and many times they would have been lost without his backup and power (money).
Yamcha and Krillin didn't even start out as "weak joke characters".
Krillin was more or less equal to Goku when they first met, though Goku was a little tougher because of his adventure with the dragon balls and "Emperor" Pilaf. What really changed their dynamic was when Goku started learning chi power crap, plus the fact that every time a Saiyan gets beat down, it gets stronger and tougher by nature.
Yamcha was Goku's first legit threat, and he nearly killed Goku in their first fight (iirc, it's been a little while).But neither one of them knew about the Saiyan mechanic I just mentioned, which is how Goku was able to come back and beat Yamcha's ass. The same went for Oolong, though he's a shapeshifting perv, rather than a strongman/fighter.
It's just that between being a Saiyan (and getting his ass kicked a LOT as a kid), Goku started to outstrip the rest of them pretty fast even before he went away for formal training (before the fight with Piccolo.)
It was only in Z they became jokes because by then, well, they were, compared to even a Goku who has yet to really become an insanely OP sub-god.
I know, I was comparing their "endgame" personas. As in, Baseball Yamcha and Cop Krillin.
Guys who realized they were outgunned in terms of galaxy ending threats, so they retired to be the biggest possible fish in a smaller pond.
Heck even Videl who just learned the most basic possible moves was able to fight crime like a literal superhero before she became a housewife.