
Originally Posted by
MoralMan
Goku is the man...and hes only 5'7!
Needless to say he could not only defeat any other comic book character in history he would defeat anything from any literature in history! (yup)
He is that goddam powerful.
Canon states that Goku was pwned by the Buddha.
With all their other options exhausted, the Jade Emperor and the authorities of Heaven finally appealed to the Buddha himself, who arrived in an instant from his temple in the West. The Buddha bet Wukong that he could not jump out of his palm. Wukong, knowing that he could cover 108,000 li in one leap, smugly agreed. He took a great leap and landed in what seemed to be a desolate section of Heaven. Nothing was visible except five pillars, and Wukong surmised that he had reached the ends of Heaven. To prove he'd been there, he wrote "The Great Sage, Equal of Heaven, was here" on the middle pillar, and marked the space between the first and second with his urine. Afterwards, he leaped back and landed in Buddha's palm. Smiling, Buddha asked him to turn around. Wukong did, and saw that the five "pillars" he had jumped to before were actually the five fingers of the Buddha's hand. Wukong had lost the bet. Immediately, he tried to escape, but Buddha turned over his palm and dropped a mountain on Wukong. There Wukong remained imprisoned for five centuries until he offered to serve Xuanzang, the Tang Priest, who was destined to make the journey to the West to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures for Tang.
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Son Gokū, the central character in the Japanese manga Dragon Ball and its adapted anime series Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT, is largely based on Sun Wukong. "Son Gokū" is the Japanese pronunciation of the original character's name and is used in the Japanese translations of the original story. Some of the more direct influences include Goku's nyoi-bō with a size-changing ability reminiscent of Wukong's rúyì-bàng, Goku's monkey tail, the "Flying Nimbus" (kinto'un) which is representative of Wukong's "cloud-somersaulting" ability (jīndǒuyún). In Episode 37 of Dragonball Z, the hospital in which the defenders of Earth recover is Wukong Hospital (the U is obstructed by a highway to make it more subtle).