• Tunnelvision [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    Not gonna get into goku too much, but generally I think it can be summed up with “he has too much personality to be a mary sue”. Goku is goku, even hearing his creator made him as a parallel to Superman is crazy because he doesn’t act like Superman. He’s goku.

    • CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      I don’t think the Superman stuff was originally there, since Goku started out as a version of the Monkey King from Journey to the West. But in the Saiyan Saga, when Goku’s backstory gets revealed by Raditz, there’s definitely a lot of parallels to Superman - the biggest difference is that the Saiyans are fully evil wheras the Kryptonians were just kind of arrogant.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I don’t think the Superman stuff was originally there, since Goku started out as a version of the Monkey King from Journey to the West.

        Adult [or even teenage] Goku is way closer to Superman than Sun Wukong, though I don’t think he’s especially close to either.