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Due to the nature of the show, all spoilers are unmarked on this page!. As the page concerns itself with two recurring fighters, this includes their latest one, You Have Been Warned.

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A long debated matchup between two immensely strong Human Aliens who were rocketed from their dying species to Earth raised and by kindly farmers ultimately becoming compassionate All loving heroes. This is such a debated topic that DEATH BATTLE! not only took it as one of its first fights, but also had two rematches every time one or both of them had a significant update in feats. It eventually evolved from serious fight to the death to friendly rivalry (while still being a fight to the death, albeit with the stakes being lower due to the presence of Dragon Balls.)

Superman has so far won all three times, and both Wiz and Boomstick conclude that this is unlikely to change in the future due to a difference of setting and story: Goku's story casts him as a Shonen Protagonist who wants to push past his limits to be the best fighter he possibly can, while Superman's story casts him as a Big Good Cosmic Keystone defending and helping others with his impossible strengths: Goku can break any limit, while Superman has no limits.

Both

• Action Dad: Both are fathers, and are strong as they come.
• The Bus Came Back: Goku and Clark make their third appearance as combatants since their first rematch in Season 2 (or if we count minor appearances, Goku's appearance in Gogeta VS Vegito last season) to do battle for the third time for Season 10's penultimate episode (a first in and of itself). That's more than 8 years between their second and third appearance
• Battle Aura:
  • Goku's Super Modes are amongst the Trope Codifiers, each of them (except for Super Saiyan 4) has a unique aura:
    • Kaioken is red.
    • Super Saiyan is golden
    • Super Saiyan Two adds sparks of electricity to the gold
    • Super Saiyan Three makes the aura 'spiky' for the lack of a better word.
    • Super Saiyan God is fiery orange/red
    • Super Saiyan Blue is, well, Blue
    • And Ultra Instinct goes for silver-white.
  • Superman attains these when he stops holding back - either through the static electricity of vibrating muscles or solar-powered from empowering himself in the cores of stars.
• Combat Pragmatist:
  • Downplayed with Goku. Despite preferring a fair fight by letting his opponents fight him at their best and refusing to take advantage of any crippling weaknesses, Goku has no problems with Catching People Monologuing in the middle of said fights. In their third battle, he even tries this tactic again by teleporting behind Superman after complimenting on his suit...with none of his physical attacks in base form phasing the Man of Steel.
  • In the first battle, Superman attacks from blind spots, uses all sorts of Improvised Weapons, destroys the Senzu Beans immediately after learning about them, and tosses the Power Pole over the horizon when it proves it can hurt him. none of this is present in the following matches.
• Combo Platter Powers: Both of them have far more abilities than the standard Flying Brick.
  • Goku utilizes Ki for his abilities, and it is incredibly versatile when you apply it right. He has telekinesis, can read minds, shoot beams of it. has access to God Bind, the Mafuba technique, Instant Transmission, Ultra Instinct, Hakai, Spirit Bomb, and so many more ways of utilizing his Ki.
  • Superman is powered by the sun and has Super-Breath, Super-Strength, Heat Vision. X-Ray Vision, Super-Senses, is a Cosmic Keystone, can casually Time Travel, and breaks the rules of reality to boot.
• Composite Character: For the third fight it was confirmed by Ben Singer that they're using sources such as Dragon Ball Heroes for Goku (thus allowing feats performed by Xeno Goku, too) and DC Infinite Frontier for Superman (Infinite Frontier combines all mainline versions of heroes, including Superman, into one, essentially allowing Superman to use even his Pre-Crisis abilities, which were banned from the first two versions of the fight). When Boomstick complains about Batman beating Superman, Wiz points out those are Elseworlds stories and DEATH BATTLE uses them at their best. Later on, Ben Singer would state on the Rooster Teeth website that alongside Heroes, all feats done in the movies, manga and anime would be taken into account for Goku similarly to how Infinite Frontier did the same for Superman.
• Death Is Cheap: Goku is well aware that death and collateral damage isn't permanent thanks to his series signature Dragon Balls, and the three matches see Superman cluing himself into it as well, allowing himself to drop his restraints because with those around, none of the damage they inflict will stick.
• The Determinator: At the end of the day, both Goku and Superman will always face down impossible odds and overcome their limits in order to save those around them.
  • Goku is one of anime's most famous examples, with his Saiyan heritage even weaponizing that trait by making him grow stronger every time he bounces back from death, allowing him to contend with practically every one of Dragon Ball's greatest threats. In the fight itself, he even manages to force Superman to go all out due in large part to his refusal to stay down.
  • Superman's strength and sense of responsibility means that he will often be the DC universe's go-to for taking down the greatest cosmic threats, such as the World Forger, who stranded the Man of Steel on a dying planet with an extremely distant sun. Superman still found the strength of will to reach that sun and fly through countless others to gain the power necessary to bring down the World Forger.
• Flying Brick: And that is just the base of their Combo Platter Powers. Both are immensely strong and durable, can fly at tremendous speeds on top of that, and have access to a ranged energy attack. One of the factors to Superman's victory is that while they might tie in speed, Superman beats Goku in the power department by a universal mile and then some.
• Foil: During Goku's breakdowns in all three fights, the hosts use the original English dub's rewrites of Goku into a Superman-like figure to bring up the ways Goku is not like Superman in the original text. Goku fights for self-improvement and self-discovery — as reflected in the original Super Saiyan monologue where he fully comes to terms with and embraces his Saiyan heritage — whereas Superman fights out of necessity to save whatever worlds and people he can.
• Friendly Rivalry: By the time of their third round, Goku and Superman are on very good terms, respect one another, and genuinely get into the fight. The ending shows both of them share a fist bump, grateful for the battle and ready to clash again.
  • Thanks to the Dragon Balls, Superman no longer has to worry about accidentally breaking things as they can all be wished back later, and in Goku he finds a fighter whom he can go all-out against without the stakes that would normally hang in the balance against such a foe, and he's clearly happy for the opportunity to let go of his restraints and cut loose.
  • Goku, meanwhile, has found an opponent with reality-warping strength, someone who will always drive him to do better, regardless of how much he improves. For a Challenge Seeker like Goku, that's a dream come true.
• Golden Super Mode: Goku has the classic Super Saiyan and its non-divine Ki derivatives, while Superman gets this after supercharging on solar energy. Ironically, Goku starts the third fight in his particular version, and Superman ends it in his own.
• Instant Expert: Both combatants have a knack for learning new skills on the fly, even ones that require years of training.
  • Thanks to his Saiyan heritage, Goku is able to manipulate ki to the point where he could perform the Kamehameha, a technique that Master Roshi spent decades perfecting, in seconds after seeing it once.
  • Superman was once able to gain ten years' worth of medical training after reading for five minutes before successfully performing lung surgery.
• Last of His Kind: Both Goku and Superman are one of a (few) handful(s) of their species who survived the destruction of their homeworlds.
• Lighter and Softer: The third fight between Goku and Superman is more of a friendly brawl than the first two. The death involved both sides being on good terms, and Goku and Superman compliment each other multiple times throughout the fight, compared to the first two fights where Superman saw Goku as more of a threat that he had to defeat.
• Lightning Bruiser: Both fighters are some of the most legendary Lightning Bruisers in all of fiction, having the strength to destroy countless universes, the toughness to endure those attacks, and speed too great to be measured.
• Moses in the Bulrushes: Both of them got sent to Earth by their parents to avoid the destruction of their homeworlds. Both of them were adopted by earthlings afterward.
• Nice Guy: Goku and Superman are both friendly, compassionate, and good natured individuals who will do anything to protect those they care about.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Both of them possess enough strength to accidentally destroy planets.
  • Even before becoming a Super Saiyan Goku was able to match Vegeta's Galick Gun with his own Kamehameha, which was implied to be powerful enough to destroy Earth. By the time of his rematches with Superman, his power is measured in destroyed universes.
  • Superman's strength breaks reality. He has lifted literally infinite masses and destroyed a six-dimensional multiverse by punching it, and punched a person so hard that every incarnation of said person throughout the multiverse felt it.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Goku assumes the Red Oni role while Clark assumes Blue Oni.
  • Goku is passionate. hot-blooded and energetic. He loves to fight, to push his limits, and his battles against Superman is mainly because Superman gives him a challenge like no other. Which Goku just can't resist.
  • Clark wears red and blue, is calm, collected, stoic and composed and constantly on edge because he 'lives in a world made of cardboard' where things break if he isn't careful. As a result, collateral damage weighs heavily on his mind, constantly.
• Soldier vs. Warrior: Goku is The Warrior, Superman is The Soldier, Ultimately, The Soldier comes out on top, though this difference of mentality isn't the reason or it.
  • Goku openly enjoys a good fight and trains himself to be the strongest fighter he can be. He has always seen fighting as a way of self-improvement, only wants to fight opponents at their full strength and even compliments opponents who help him push himself harder. He doesn't take a fight seriously unless his enemy can stand up to him or has done something to piss him off, like threatening his friends and family. Goku is a good person and a hero, but his passion for fighting can cloud his better judgment.
  • Superman fights not for himself, but to protect others. His first and foremost concern is to save people from danger; as such, he will attempt to disable his opponents most quickly and efficiently as possible without killing them, with the only people in DC canon Superman has fought with lethal intent being Darkseid, Brainiac, and Doomsday. Superman only sees fighting as a form of protection and is constantly holding back his full power, as he is terrified he might accidentally kill someone if he doesn't.
• Super-Speed: Both Goku and Superman laugh at the notion of relativity, and by the time of Super both Goku and Superman have feats that place them into immeasurable speed:
  • Superman casually travels through time through speed alone, and has kept up with the Flash, who possesses incalculable speed. Even without going incalculable, he is able to fly to Alpha Centauri and back in just about 20 seconds, putting his speed at an enormous 148.73 quadrillion kilometers an hour.
  • Goku is able to fight beings who can stop time, see the future, and while his measurable speed feats aren't as impressive as Superman's, he has access to Instant Transmission and Ultra Instinct to make up the difference.
• Super-Strength: Both fighters possess immense physical strength - enough that they are both capable of destroying their universes many times over and perform reality-warping feats through pure physical power alone. Superman is ruled to have the greater strength, however, because his strength has destroyed even sixth.dimensional beings and his universe is much larger than Goku's.
• Super-Toughness: Consider how strong they both are, and then remember that Newton's third law is in effect - both Superman and Goku can tank what they dish out.
• Strong and Skilled: Interestingly, both are incredibly powerful and have trained in the martial arts, but lean towards opposite halves of the trope. Goku's mastery of the martial arts makes him the more Skilled while Superman's absurd power makes him the more Strong.
• Took a Level in Badass: Neither Goku nor Superman are 'finished' in terms of storytelling, and with each battle, both of them bring new abilities and feats to the fights that they simply didn't have in the previous ones.
• Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: Goku's ability to push past any limit placed before him casts him as the unstoppable force. Superman, without any limits to his reality-warping strength and durability, is the immovable object that remains immovable regardless of how many limits Goku breaks through.
• Worthy Opponent: It took them a while to get there, but by the time of the third fight, Goku has nothing but respect for Superman's power and fighting ability, and by the end of the fight, Superman reciprocates the feeling. Despite losing, Goku comments on how fun the fight was and demands a rematch, which Superman says he looks forward to while fist-bumping him.
  Superman: Almost had me, there. That was actually pretty fun!
  Goku: (chuckles) Yeah, sure was! But I'll get stronger next time.
  Superman: I look forward to it!

Son Goku

Son Goku (Kakarot)

Goku: "You're holding back! Give it your all!"
Voiced by: Lawrence Simpson (1st and 2nd match), Michael Kovach (3rd match)

• Anime Hair:
  • He already sports of full black, impossibly spiky head of hair, and his various Super Mode all change either the appearance, color, or both.
  • In the first battle, Superman makes fun of the hairstyles, but over the course of the second, he admits that 'he's seen worse', and by the third it goes unmentioned.
• The Apprentice: Goku has had many different teachers throughout the years, up to and including divinities, but Roshi is his first serious teacher and the foundation for his martial arts style..
• Back for the Dead: Unfortunately for Goku, neither a return for a second or a third round is enough to net him a win against Clark. Even so, he's still very happy to have gotten a good fight out of it, and eagerly awaits the opportunity to improve himself and (eventually) go another round.
• Back from the Dead: Thanks to the Dragon Balls, it doesn't matter how many times Superman wins their Death Battles. Goku will be wished back, the collateral damage will be undone, and Goku will return once he's ready for another go
• Badass Boast:
  • His first and second matches sees Goku boasting about his strength to Superman
    "Don't get ahead of yourself, buddy. You're not the only one with that kind of power!"^note This is in response to Superman's own: "With every step, an earthquake, with every breath, I could create a hurricane"
  • By the third, his response to seeing Superman going through every star in the inner galaxy to power up shows that he's absolutely not seeing it as overkill, and he's ecstatic to test his strength against everything Superman can bring to the table.
    "Finally!"
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Averted; while Goku has been seen fighting at high altitudes and is more than tough enough to withstand the vacuum of space, he can't actually breathe up there.
• Battle Aura: The famous Super Saiyan forms emit energy of varying intensities.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The hosts note that when he's not fighting, he's a family man.
• Beyond the Impossible: Goku's character in the Dragon Ball series is presented as someone who fights not to beat or show mastery over others, but to beat his own limits and master himself.
• Blinded by the Light: His Solar Flare can blind foes, unfortunately for Goku, this is not the kind of thing you want to use against Superman.
• Blood Knight: There is nothing he enjoys more than a good fight, and it's the reason he seeks out Superman. It doesn't matter if he can't beat him, the fight itself is the goal.
• Book Dumb: Contrasting with Superman, Goku isn't exactly booksmart. Sure, he's a veritable Genius Ditz when it comes to anything related to fighting, often learning things in seconds through observation which would take years for others, but he's only got some basic schooling from Roshi in terms of actual education.
• Boomerang Bigot: His original reason for attacking Superman, besides seeing him as a great challenge, is because he learned Superman is an alien and fears that his ultimate plan is to destroy Earth. Even ignoring that Goku is friends with several aliens, he is one himself. Most of whom, including himself, arrived intending to destroy/conquer the Earth.
• Came Back Strong: Thanks to his Saiyan physiology, Goku receives a significant power boost every time he recovers from a severe injury. No matter how many times you knock him down, he will return stronger.
• Challenge Seeker: If there is one trope that embodies Goku, it is this - it doesn't matter what challenge you put before him, he will accept it. His initial motivation and why he chooses to forego "unfair" advantages while fighting Superman.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Though his species is normally physically superior to humanity (as a baby, considered a runt even, he was clocked in at nearly half as strong as a normal human adult) Goku has been training and fighting all his life, and it has pushed him to achieve god-like levels of fighting ability.
• Combined Energy Attack: The Spirit Bomb is a giant ball of energy that Goku can gather by having other living things lend their inner ki. He can either hurl the ball of energy at his foes or absorb it to strengthen himself, but it's a slow technique, requiring time to charge that he simply wouldn't have in the middle of a battle against Superman - and that's not to mention it can't hurt someone as incorruptible pure as Superman directly.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: In his first bout with Superman, Goku gets disintegrated after their punch parry. Him screaming as he dies suggest it was not a pleasant death.
• Dead Hat Shot: After losing the first battle, the only thing left of Goku is his boot.
• Deadly Upgrade: Goku's techniques are all Cast from Stamina by way of utilizing his Ki, while he knows his limits and how to utilize most of them safely he's a Spirited Competitor and doesn't feel he's giving his opponent a fair fight if he allows himself to go down before he has given his opponent everything he has and more, pushing his body beyond his limits with Techniques like the Kaio-ken and Ultra Instinct until he is either victorious or dead.
• Defense Mechanism Superpower: Though Goku's capable of Ultra Instinct, it isn't easy for him to get into the headspace of the technique the way he can just transform into a Super Saiyan at will. The most consistent way he's been able to get 'in the zone' has been when he's pushed to his very limits and his only options are to grasp Ultra Instinct or die. In the third battle, he only enters the state after Superman has just finished thrashing him out of his normal transformations and is about to throw the would-be finishing blow.
• Determinator: His greatest strength is his tenacity and never-give-up attitude. Unfortunately, against an opponent as powerful as Superman, tenacity sometimes only prolongs the inevitable.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Goku has lost all three battles against Superman, but never let it be said he doesn't go out swinging, giving everything he has and more (usually by way of a Punch Parry with Superman that shatters the surroundings).
• Enhanced Punch: A technique of his is The Dragon Fist, an attack in which he envelopes his fist in an aura of golden ki shaped like a dragon. He uses it as the final Punch Parry against Superman in their first battle.
• Enlightenment Superpower: Autonomous Ultra Instinct, which isn’t so much a transformation as it is a state of mind; with it, Goku lets go of consciousness thoughts and lets his body automatically respond to any attack to the best of his abilities, even if it pushes his body past its safe limit. Along with Kaioken, it's the last form Goku uses in the third fight itself.
• Flight: Goku uses his ki to fly.
• Flying on a Cloud: Before he could fly, the Flying Nimbus was his mode of transportation. He uses it to get to Metropolis when he seeks Superman out for the first fight, but the nimbus is technically an ally and cannot be used for the fight itself (not that it matters; both Goku and Superman have speeds that far exceed it, even by the first battle).
• Graceful Loser:
  • While he's on Snake Way, Goku's reaction to losing a second time is to train harder to find a way to beat Supes, but he then decides that being that powerful would be boring since he'd have nothing left to overcome.
  • While slightly upset over dying in the third fight, he makes it clear he enjoyed the fight all the same and tells Superman that he hopes for another round in the future.
• Guardian Entity: The defensive power of Ultra Instinct is so great that if Goku’s body is unable to defend against an attack, it will cause his ki to manifest as an entity to defend him. This happens at the end of the third fight as Superman is powering through Goku's Kaioken-boosted Kamehameha, but while the Punch Parry between it and Superman is enough to shatter the universe, he still awakes in the Void Between the Worlds with a halo over his head, meaning that in the end, it was not enough to protect him from Superman's overwhelming strength.
• Happily Married: Despite their differences, he and his wife Chi-Chi love each other dearly.
• Healing Herb: By eating a Senzu Bean, he can restore his health to its fullest and they can even regrow limbs. They only make an appearance in the first fight and Superman destroys them once he sees what they do.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In the first battle:
  • Goku has access to the solar flare and has a record of blasting enemies into the sun to finish them. He uses the first and does the latter throughout the fight, only to then realize that Superman draws power from sunlight.
  • Earlier, he destroyed some kryptonite that was weakening Superman in order to have a fair fight. That decision eventually cost him his life.
• Honor Before Reason: Goku wants a fair fight first and foremost, even in a battle to the death: If he uses a senzu, he will offer one to Superman; if outside influences weaken Superman, he will deny exploiting them; if he needs to push himself far beyond his limit to give Superman a worthy battle, then those limits are going bye-bye and he'll deal with the consequences later.
• Hot-Blooded: It doesn't matter to Goku that he is up against someone far stronger than him in Superman, he's going to give it everything he has and more - his response to seeing Clark flying through space, dipping in every single sun in the inner galaxy, and then coming straight at him with more power than he has ever faced before? A happy smile and excited exclamation that Superman is bringing his best.
• Human Hammer-Throw: One of his techniques is the Dragon Throw, where he grabs an opponent's appendage and swings them around before throwing them.
• Hurl It into the Sun: Goku has done this before to Cooler and Baby to defeat them, and his first fight against Superman sees him do the same... only to then discover that this is a very bad idea against Superman.
• Identity Amnesia: He was originally sent to destroy Earth as a baby, but bumped his head and forgot everything about his past. He was then raised by a man named Gohan and grew into the protector of the Earth we know today.
• Kamehame Hadoken: His signature technique is the first half of the trope's name. The Kamehameha is a technique that focuses ki into a single point to be fired as a beam. It’s a surprisingly versatile technique with over 50 variations, such as curving the beam after firing or using your feet to fire it.
• Ki Manipulation: Goku can harness his ki to increase his physical strength and fire energy blasts. He can also use it to blind opponents with flashes of light, set up energy landmines, bind people in place, or even seal opponents away with the Mafuba. It's noted, however, that many of these techniques either require too much setup, or are straight-up countered by Superman's own abilities, and while Ki absolutely allows for Supernatural Martial Arts, Wiz explicitly points out that it isn't magic as both Goku's and Superman's settings draw clear distinctions between it and magic.
• Leitmotif: Makafushigi Adventure Instrumental from Dragon Ball, Dragon Soul from Dragon Ball: Raging Blast, The Dragon Theme, Battle Theme, Prologue & Subtitle II, Goku Super Saiyan Theme, and Super Saiyan 3 Theme from Dragon Ball Z, The Warrior from Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi, and Rock the Dragon by RobotUnderground2, Pikkon's Theme and The Dragon Theme from Funimation's English dub of Dragon Ball Z, The Clouds of War Spread from Dragon Ball Z Kai, and 22 from Dragon Ball Xenoverse play during his analysis. The Goku VS Superman 2 theme includes a remix of Makafushigi Adventure from Dragon Ball to represent Goku.
• Magic Staff: In the first battle, he still carries his power pole, and its magical properties allow him to harm Superman in ways his toughness doesn't stop. As soon as Superman realizes this (after it knocks the wind out of him and draws the only blood in the entire battle) he uses the first opportunity to grab it and hurl it into deep space. The power pole is absent in the other matches, given that Goku rarely uses it in his prime.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Goku's reaction to his second and third defeats and deaths are, more than anything, annoyance. Given this is far from his only time dying and going to the afterlife — without even taking his previous Death Battle appearances into account — it's not that surprising. He does at least perk up when Superman compliments him, and eagerly vows to get stronger and battle him again.
  Goku: (dejectedly, as he notices his halo) Aw, darn it...!
• Mystical White Hair: When fully tapping into his Ultra Instinct, Goku's hair turns a silvery-white.
• Mind over Matter: His ki control allows him telekinesis, but he has never shown a penchant for using it in combat. In the first battle he uses it to move a Senzu Bean into his mouth to recover after Superman paralyzes him with Pressure Point techniques.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the first battle he explicitly decided to fight Superman because he was afraid the Kryptonian would destroy the world. Their battle destroys the planet in the process.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Emphasis on the nigh because the commentators note that he was never invulnerable in his canon, only very durable. By the second and third fights he can survive Punch Parries that produced shockwaves which threatened to destroy all of Universe 7, a universal structure that is far larger than our own universe.
• No Body Left Behind: In his first battle, only his boot survives the Earth's explosion.
• Older Than They Look: Goku is pushing into his fifties, but while Saiyans don't have that much longer lifespans than humans, their aging halts once they reach their prime and doesn't catch up to them until the final years of their life - as a result, Goku really doesn't look older than his thirties.
• One-Hit Kill: He's tried to learn the Gods of Destruction's Hakai technique, a move that erases a target from existence (soul included), but hasn't perfected it. Even if it's assumed he can for the purpose of Death Battle, Superman is a Cosmic Keystone and immune to being metaphysically erased, so it wouldn't work.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Goku is incredibly strong, and can punch his own universe apart and make good time flying laps around it. But Superman can do all that too, and his universe is far larger than Goku's.
• Physical God: Commentators in his profile highlight that during puberty, only progressively higher-ranking gods (and a talking cat) were powerful enough to train him. Alongside his rivals, they surpassed the acting King of All Cosmos. Since Goku and other ki-based fighters lack any Functional Magic that other gods usually have, the commentators argue that Goku's regular ki abilities wouldn't affect Superman's vulnerability to magic. In his first and second rematches, he utilizes his Super Saiyan God form and Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form (or Super Saiyan Blue in the third fight). Despite wielding godly powers, it becomes evident that even a deity's might is insufficient when facing a foe with seemingly limitless capabilities unbound by morality.
• Power Copying: Goku can copy ki attacks with ease. The Destructo Disc, Solar Flare, and even the Kamehameha were originally used by his allies.
• Punch Catch: One of Goku's ways of exploiting less-experienced fighting styles is to simply catch the fist - it opens the puncher up for an easy retaliation.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Gains pink fur and "eyeshadow" in his Super Saiyan 4 form.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Wiz mentions that while Goku isn't academically gifted — a weakness Goku himself is well aware of — he's a veritable genius when it comes to martial arts and fighting as a whole, fitting for a Saiyan. It's noted in the analysis that skill is the one solid advantage Goku has over Superman: Superman doesn't actively train or seek combat the same way Goku does, leaving Goku's battle instincts to be judged superior.
• Speed Echoes: Can use the After-Image technique, where he moves so fast an illusion of himself is left behind.
• Spirited Competitor: Even moreso than his Blood Knight tendencies, Goku is this: While he loves fighting, he loves even more to push himself further against a challenging opponent. This shows up in all three battles, but especially in the third, where Goku is almost always the first one to power up to the next Super Mode to push Superman and constantly encourages him to use his full potential even if it means he surpasses Goku. The hosts also invoke this trope as an explanation for why Goku would never abuse Superman's Kryptonite Factor: Winning through having an outside factor poisoning or depowering his opponent is anathema to Goku's beliefs.
• Standard Power-Up Pose: Goku is the Trope Codifier, plain and simple.
• Super Mode: Goku has many.
  • First off is the numbered Super Saiyan forms of Super Saiyan 1-4 (50x, 100x, 400x and 4000x his base level respectively).
  • Then there's the Kaio-ken technique that magnifies his ki with controlled, numerical multipliers, which he has mastered up to a value of 20x. He's shown himself capable of pushing it further, and even using it in tandem with his other forms, though his body really can't handle it for long.
  • He later develops a plethora of transformations that boost his power even more Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan/Super Saiyan Blue, utilizing his now-divine KI and extremely fine control to push him into the realms of Destroyer Deities.
  • Finally, Ultra Instinct is a Defense Mechanism Superpower and the embodiment of being in a state of Don't Think, Feel, a state which requires Goku to be so in the zone that he instinctively pushes himself to block or dodge any attack thrown his way, even if he has to push his body far past his normal capabilities to do so. Hitting Goku in this state is a nigh-impossibility, but the strain on his body will eventually cause it to give out.
• Superman Substitute: It's... complicated. Goku was originally inspired by Journey to the West, making him more of a Monkey King Lite, and only later gaining parallels with Superman by way of discovering that he was an alien from a doomed planet. This perception of him was not helped by early English dubs of Dragon Ball Z intentionally drawing parallels to Superman that didn't exist in the source material.
• Supernatural Martial Arts: While Goku's main style is the Kame Sennin Ryu style, which focuses on discipline and tenacity, his use of Ki pushes it into this. This is on top of Goku's strength being so great, literal gods are the only one who can train him - such as the Namekian known as Kami, the King Kai of the North and the angel Whis. Oh, and Korin, too.
• Telepathy: He can communicate with others and read minds. In the first battle, he attempts to read Superman's mind at one point, but Supes' Torquasm Vo prevents it.
• Teleportation: With Instant Transmission Goku can instantly teleport to someone’s location by sensing their ki, then hopping through a dimension where time doesn’t move, and Goku is skilled enough to use this ability in combat. It's limited by the fact that he needs a living target with a ki-source to use this ability, meaning he cannot simply hop from one place to another at a whim.
• Time to Unlock More True Potential: Invoked in the second and third episodes' ending. Goku realizes that Superman is his better, and that strength on his level is likely an impossibility, but that doesn't deter him one bit, he'll be back once he's attained a new level of power.
  Goku: I'll be stronger next time!
• Unstoppable Rage: Every mortal Super Saiyan stage past level 1 is harder to control, making Goku more aggressive and violent. His divine forms, however, avert this by relying on precise energy control, and Ultra Instinct exaggerates the 'unstoppable' part while downplaying the 'rage' part; Goku is acting without thinking, and thus emotions, while present, rarely have a chance to influence him.
• Victory Is Boring: By the end of the second fight, King Kai tells him that, if he were able to beat Superman, then there would nothing left to aspire to do. Goku agrees that would be boring, but as the third fight shows, Goku has decided that's no reason to cease training. He's no longer fighting Superman to beat him.
• Vocal Dissonance: Goku speaks with a voice that laden with child-like glee and excitement rather than the deeper vocals you'd expect from a man his age, this makes him closer to the original Japanese dub of the character.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Is no stranger to Clothing Damage.
  • Loses his shirt in his Super Saiyan 4 form in his first bout.
  • His top half of his gi is gone in the middle of the third fight.
• Weak, but Skilled: Weak in comparison to Superman's reality-warping strength, but it still counts: Goku is a martial arts master without peer, and many of his greatest chances against Superman relies on his speed and ability to exploit openings by Superman's less experienced fighting styles - because he is never going to measure up to Superman's sheer strength.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: It's quickly forgotten, but one of his reasons for fighting Supes initially is that, being a powerful alien, he's naturally come to destroy Earth. Their fight ultimately does just that.
• Your Head Asplode: Downplayed in the second match: Superman's heat vision didn't blow Goku's head up, but it did disintegrate his brain, killing him just as dead.

Superman

Superman (Clark Kent/Kal-El)

Superman: "World made of cardboard... Alright! I'll show you just how powerful I really am!"
Voiced by: Michael Agrusso (1st and 2nd match), Xander Mobus (3rd match)

The Man of Steel

• Achilles' Heel: Superman has quite a few, none of which are exploitable by Goku for one reason or another:
  • The first is Kryptonite, obviously. Prolonged exposure to it will kill Superman, and even short exposure drains his power. Even if Goku figured out this weakness, he doesn't carry Kryptonite, and even if he could obtain it, he wouldn't exploit it: He wants a fight more than he wants a win.
  • Superman is also vulnerable to magic, but Goku doesn't possess anything offensively magical outside of his Power Pole, and it's a blunt weapon with no specific enchantments to prevent Superman from disarming Goku of it.
  • Finally, if the sunlight Superman absorbs doesn't reach a certain Kelvin level (e.g. a red sun), he gets no powers, but while Goku has access to Instant Transmission, he cannot use it without a living target to lock onto, meaning he can't just move the battle to a red sun that way. And since Goku can't breathe in space, flying there manually isn't an option either.
• Adaptational Wimp: It's noted by the hosts in the ending analysis of the third fight that next to none of Superman's adaptations have him reach the levels of power his comic book self gets and notes that Goku could beat almost all of them.
• All-Loving Hero: The number of people Superman truly hates can be counted on both hands, and while he initially counts Goku amongst them, their second fight reveals it is Anger Born of Worry: Superman feels protecting the world is his burden to bear, and their first fight caused the Earth to explode. By the time of the third fight, however, Superman has figured out that with the Dragon Balls around any damage can be undone, and this allows him to let go of his restraints and truly enjoy sparring with Goku regardless of collateral damage.
• Attack Its Weak Point: In the first fight he uses his X-Ray Vision to pinpoint Goku's pressure points.
• Always Someone Better: As the post-match analysis dictates, Superman is this to Goku. As powerful as Goku is, Superman is in an entirely different league of his own, and because of differences in setting and roles within said setting, this is unlikely to change in the future: Superman wins all three battles despite Goku’s power growing ever greater between each. This is not to say that Goku doesn't have some advantages going in: He's got battle instincts that surpass Superman, and eventually reaches speed-feats that are incalculable, just like Superman. Meaning that he does have genuine opportunities to prove himself Superman's better - but between Superman's overwhelming strength, durability, years of experience, exotic powers, and status as a Cosmic Keystone, Goku will probably never manage to win this fight without sacrificing what makes him a Stock Shōnen Hero.
• Apologetic Attacker: He apologizes to Goku before killing him in the second battle.
• Art Shift: in the second fight he takes more after his New 52 look, even taking the character model based off that incarnation from Injustice: Gods Among Us.
• Author Avatar: Superman's creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were the sons of Jewish-American immigrants, who felt like they were growing up in a world where they were ostracized for being outsiders. They channeled this feeling into creating a story of man who, despite living in an unwelcoming world, used his extraordinary abilities to fight for justice and defend the helpless, becoming accepted in spite of his status as an immigrant.
• Badass Armfold: During the first and second fights, this is his default stance when not fighting Goku and sometimes while, just to show how little effort Superman is putting into it.
• Badass Boast: Superman knows exactly how strong he is, allowing him to counter boasts with his own.
  • "Game? You think this is a game!? I haven't even begun to play."
  • "With every step, an earthquake! With every breath, I could create a hurricane! This is my burden, be thankful it is not yours."
  • "A world made of cardboard... Alright! I'll show you just how powerful I really am!"
• Badass Cape: Would he really be Superman without the iconic red cape? It ends up suffering Clothing Damage during the third fight.
• Beyond the Impossible:
  • The reason why Superman will always win no matter how hard Goku trains or how many forms he obtains. Superman's power is essentially infinite and completely breaks the laws of physics over its knees, but Goku, while obtaining the power to rival and surpass gods, still has limits that need to be constantly overcome. In the end, the man with no limits always beats the one who can break any, because only one has limits to break in the first place.
  • Superman's power is so great, it defies the laws of physics themselves. Such as when he rebuilt the reality warping Miracle Machine just from memory or when he hit Brainiac so hard that every single version of him across the multiverse felt it.
  • It's not just in fighting capability that Superman defies the laws of physics: While on the Watchtower, a Space Station in orbit around Earth, he smelled someone cooking brownies in North Dakota. For such a feat to be even remotely possible, that scent would have to have defied gravity, travelled through the near-vacuum of Earth's upper atmosphere, penetrated into the Space Station itself, and then found its way to Superman's nostrils. Needless to say, that ain't happening - and yet, Superman can smell the brownies.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: He's the Trope Namer. Supes's incredible power doesn't come from physically training like Goku, but despite this he has taken boxing lessons and has knowledge of Kryptonian martial arts, one of which allows him to resist the mind games that he would normally be susceptible to. Even so, while he's no mindless brawler, his battle instincts don't quite measure up to Goku's martial arts mastery.
• Breath Weapon: His Arctic Breath freezes foes solid, and his Super Breath can create hurricanes. He tries using the former in the first battle, though Goku powers through it in his Super Saiyan 4 form.
• Clark Kenting: Trope Namer. In his civilian identity, Clark uses a pair of glasses and a mild-mannered attitude to throw off suspicion. According to Boomstick, "people only see what they want to believe."
• Characterization Marches On: In the first round, Clark was arrogant, full of himself, and a Combat Pragmatist (relatively moreso than Goku) who attacked his opponent from behind while being rather dismissive of Goku as a person. In the second, he's much more affable and nice, and is generally more respectful towards the Saiyan, genuinely complementing Goku with no backhanded meanings, and by the third, he has settled into a full blown Friendly Rivalry with the Saiyan, as Goku is one of a few people he can go all-out against without the stakes such an opponent would normally imply.
• Cosmic Keystone: Superman is a major lynchpin in the greater metaverse, to the point that entire timelines revolve around him. This has the added benefit of making him immune to attempts to erase him from existence, something various time and reality warping being have tried to do. In the analysis, this is noted to render Goku's Hakai completely useless.
• Cosmic Retcon:
  • Taken into account for the first and second fights that Superman's origins and powers would be taken after Crisis on Infinite Earths, from 1986 and onward. Justified in that Pre-Crisis Superman was beyond broken; capable of destroying the solar system by sneezing and his limitations were incredibly inconsistent. This would make it difficult to justify a victory through logic. Plus, the retcon happened in-universe, meaning that the Superman of the time before that would no longer exist and using Post-Crisis Superman would fit with both Pre- and Post-canons.
  • For the third fight, with the release of Infinite Frontier that combines every major Superman into one, Superman undoes the above and is allowed to use the pre-crisis feats.
• Cradling Your Kill: After winning the second round he holds Goku's body like this, preventing it from falling to the ground.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has a dry wit. He's voiced by the guy behind I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC for the first and second bout.
• Death or Glory Attack: He has an ability known as the Super Flare, where he consumes the vast majority of his stored solar energy to create a quarter-mile solar explosion. Originally it would drain all his powers for the next 24 hours, but he’s since learned how to control the amount of energy he releases. In the third fight, he uses it to get some breathing room from Goku's relentless onslaught in Ultra Instinct by forcing the Saiyan to dodge backward.
• Dynamic Akimbo: One of his most iconic poses. He watches over Metropolis while doing this when Goku meets him.
• Due to the Dead: Refuses to let Goku's body fall to the ground in an undignified heap and instead carries it after the second bout.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Superman is well aware that this is a possibility when you are operating on his level of power, and as such he holds back his full strength out of fear he would slip and accidentally cause the Earth to explode. In the first fight, the Punch Parry between Goku's Dragon Fist and his own Infinite Mass Punch causes this exact outcome, and his Anger Born of Worry in the second fight is exactly because he realizes that Goku isn't as careful with his strength and he doesn't want a repeat. By the third fight, however, he has fully accepted that with Goku around, even if their fight results in this trope, the dragon balls exist, and can undo the damage caused, allowing himself to drop his restraint and cut loose. The result of that decision eventually shatters the universe.
• Enhanced Punch: The Infinite Mass Punch, borrowed from the Flash. To use it, Superman vibrates his fist at just under the speed of light, thus increasing the mass of his fist to a near-infinite level. He uses it in a Punch Parry with Goku's own Dragon Fist during the first fight, and comes out victorious.
• Eye Beams: One of Superman's staple superpowers is to fire laser-like beams from his eyes, powered by solar energy.
  • In the second fight, he uses them to disintegrate Goku's brain when the saiyan makes it clear he will not stand down.
  • In the third fight Clark notably uses them to cut a mountain range in half, and later to bolster his final super-charged attack against the Ultra Instinct and Kaioken-empowered Goku.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: Superman is a master of two: Torquasm-Rao, which allows him to tap into his Kryptonian instinct, and Torquasm-Vo, which can prevent mental manipulation. This said, they are not his preferred way of fighting, and that leaves him vulnerable to someone like Goku who can exploit openings left by his less-honed techniques.
• Finishing Move:
  • In the first battle, he uses the Infinite Mass Punch against Goku's Dragon Fist and wins.
  • In the second battle, he simply fires his Eye Beams through Goku's head and disintegrates his brain for the win.
  • In the third battle, he throws a punch after being charged with solar energy, causing a Punch Parry with Goku's Ultra Instinct aura avatar which destroys the Universe. When the blinding flash of light fades, Goku has a halo and Superman does not.
• For Great Justice: According to himself, he stands for "truth, justice and a better tomorrow". He even provides the page image.
• Genius Bruiser: Superman is incredibly intelligent in addition to his powers, learning 10 years worth of medical knowledge in five minutes, while under stress to perform surgery immediately after.
• Happily Adopted: After landing on earth, he was raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent despite his alien heritage, teaching him the compassion that would be his cornerstone throughout his life.
• Happily Married: He is married to Lois Lane.
• Honor Before Reason: Superman will always put Earth's citizens before his own needs. It's only once he realizes that he can undo any damage a fight between him and Goku might cause that he allows himself to drop his restraints and go at it.
• Human Alien Discovery: Superman... did not take the discovery of his alien heritage well. Mentally blocking off his strength in an attempt to fit in.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: His main counter to Goku's various transformations is to hold back progressively less, because when he goes all out, reality shatters from a single punch.
  • Superman rarely fights at his full strength as he feels he lives in a "world made of cardboard" - if he isn't careful, the world could be destroyed by accident.
  • In the third fight, Goku knows this is in play. The entire first half of the fight is Goku attempting to get Superman to stop holding back, but as Clark reaffirms, it's entirely by his choice. If Goku wants more out of him, he will have to prove he can take it. It's only when Goku enters Super Saiyan Blue and reminds Superman that they can just wish everything back to the way it was through the Dragon Balls that Superman agrees to no longer pull his punches, at which point he starts hitting Goku with punches that rip apart the multiverse.
    Goku: You're holding back! Give it your all! [...] No regrets!
    Superman: I'm doing just fine.
• Improvised Weapon: Hits Goku with a telephone pole and a car during the first fight.
• Intrepid Reporter: Aside from his superheroism, he's a hard-working reporter for the Daily Planet.
• Intangibility: Can vibrate so fast that he can't be touched or seen.
• The Juggernaut: In the second fight, once he stops holding back, he doesn't even bother to dodge SSGSS Goku's Kamehameha, but instead does The Slow Walk right through it.
• Kryptonite Factor: One of Superman's Achilles Heels is the Trope Naming Kryptonite, radioactive pieces of his destroyed homeworld which weaken him from even brief exposure, and kills him from prolonged exposure. A piece shows up during the first fight, but it's only there to show that Goku absolutely wouldn't take advantage of it - he wants to fight people at their best, not weakened by circumstance.
• Leitmotif: Trials and A Hall of Heroes from Smallville, All Star Superman by Christopher Drake, Opening Credits from Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Main Theme from Superman: The Animated Series, Main Theme from Superman: Doomsday, Superman Theme from Superman: The Movie, and Opening Theme from Superman/Batman: Public Enemies play during his analysis. The Goku vs Superman theme features a remix of Superman: Doomsday's theme to represent Superman.
• Limit Break: When his heat vision isn't enough, Superman can blast solar energy out of his entire body in a Sphere of Destruction. While this used to drain him significantly, he's since learned how to control it. He uses it to create some distance against Ultra Instinct Goku, and then uses the opportunity to fly through the galaxy charging up more solar energy from various yellow stars.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: The cost of his victory in the first fight is the destruction of Earth and in the third fight, the universe. But with the Dragon Balls around, both are unlikely to stick.
• Neck Lift: Does this to Goku right before frying his brain in the second fight.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Superman is a Made of Diamond example, except for things that work outside the laws of physics. He's capable of surviving multiple supernovas (each with the force of 10 octillion megatons) and surviving two planets slamming into each other, and his durability increases further as he absorbs solar energy with no known upper limit. Anatomy-wise, his denser molecular structure and his bio-electrical aura are key factors as to why he can take so much damage.
• The Nose Knows: On top of his various other super senses, Superman's sense of smell is so powerful he could smell someone baking chocolate brownies from orbit, which Boomstick cites as his favorite Beyond the Impossible feat Superman has done.
• No-Sell:
  • Does The Slow Walk through Goku's Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan boosted Kamekameha without so much as a scratch on him in the second fight.
  • After knocking Goku out of Super Saiyan Blue in the third fight, he ignores Goku's attacks until he uses Ultra Instinct.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: One of Superman's listed feats is lifting the book of infinite pages. Reading the issue proper reveals he did this without the book's permission!
• Pintsized Powerhouse: They showcase this with clips from the 1978 film, with baby Clark lifting a car with ease.
• The Power of the Sun: His powers are fueled by solar energy; the closer he is to the sun, the more power he will absorb. In daylight, he is constantly recharged and can mostly use his powers without issue, but in the dark, his supply is cut off. In such a case, fighting opponents with power comparable to his for too long run the risk of depleting his reserves and leaving him weakened. Notably, there seems to be no upper limit for how much sunlight he can absorb and utilize, which is a major factor in his victory over Goku, as no matter how much Goku trains, Superman can get stronger way quicker and easier in response.
  • In the first fight, Goku doesn't know that Superman is powered by the sun, and his attempts to blind him with the Solar Flare and launch him into the sun both backfire horribly. Superman does start to run low on solar energy while fighting Super Saiyan 4 under a storm but ascends above the clouds before it becomes a problem.
  • In the third fight, after using his Super Flare to give himself room from Goku, Superman flies through every star in the galaxy to supercharge himself.
• Pressure Point: He has a working knowledge of these, and he can use his superpowered vision to discover the weak points of an unfamiliar opponent as he did with Goku in the first fight.
• Primary-Color Champion: The archetypical superhero dressed in red and blue.
• Psychic Block Defense: Torquasm Vo allows him to shield his mind, preventing Goku from reading it.
• Punch Catch: Does this to Goku's Power Pole before throwing it over the horizon in the first fight. He's on the receiving end of one when he attacks Goku during Ultra Instinct.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Superman wins his first fight against Goku at the cost of destroying the Earth, but he the intro to the second match shows he rounded up the Dragon Balls and wished everything to be restored, and by the third fight the universe is destroyed, but both Goku and Superman's cavalier attitude reveals they are probably going to use the Super dragon balls to wish it back.
• Removed Achilles' Heel: Among his established weaknesses, it's mentioned that magic users and psychics manipulating his mind used to be a problem for him, as his consciousness wasn't impossibly powerful like his body is. Since then, he's taken steps to address this (like learning Torquasm Vo) and now can fight back mentally as well as physically. This comes into play in the first battle, where Goku tries to read Superman's mind to figure out his powers, only for Supes to boot him right back out before he can learn anything.
• Saving the World: Whereas Goku was sent from his planet to conquer Earth, Superman was sent to protect it.
• The Slow Walk: In the second fight, he walks right through Super Saiyan Blue Goku's Kamehameha wave without a scratch, grabs him by the throat, and incinerates his brain.
• Story-Breaker Power: This is the hosts' central argument for Superman winning regardless of how much stronger Goku becomes: He has no limits, can lift infinity, can perform feats that should not be possible for anyone like smelling brownies from orbit or hearing sounds faster than the speed of sound through a vacuum, and is deliberately written to be the most overpowered character in fiction. His lack of limits trumps Goku's ability to break any limit.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Said verbatim when covering his limitless strength. Superman's story isn't about the physical struggle like Goku's is, it's about using incredible power to do the right thing — he has the power, it's his moral character that's tested. He has enough strength to do whatever he needs to do, and on paper has limits, but in practice the nature of his power means that he can bypass those limits whenever he wants. If he wants to beat Goku, he will be strong enough to beat Goku, and Goku has no way to stop or respond to that.
• Super-Intelligence: While Superman is most well-known for his strength and speed, he is also a veritable genius who could reconstruct a reality warping machine from memory alone and learned how to perform lung surgery after reading about it for five minutes.
• Super-Breath: Twofold. His breath alone is powerful enough to blow away galaxies accidentally by sneezing, and can be made cold enough to freeze ghosts.
• Super-Senses: he can hear sounds millions of miles away, Can see through anything except lead, can see things moving faster than light and can hear through the vacuum of space. He can even see a person's soul, and smell brownies from orbit through a space station's hull.
• Superpower Lottery: The undisputed king of the trope. Thanks to Earth's yellow sun, he possesses superhuman strength, speed and senses. He also has separate abilities, such as the power to fly, see through opaque objects, and project thick beams of heat from his eyes, as well as becoming virtually impenetrable to most weapons and accelerated healing.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Appears to be wearing his New 52 armor in the second battle and so adding the New 52 canon in his analysis for the second fight.
  • The events of Infinite Frontier allows Superman access to not just his pre-crisis feats but also feats past the New 52 series for the third fight.
• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Not only is Superman vs Goku the most requested fight ever, but Superman has fought other combatants outside of Death Battle. Superman effortlessly defeated Spider-Man and Wonder Woman and has fought Batman multiple times. He has also fought Thor, He-Man, Lion-O (mentioned in He-Man vs Lion-O that both fought him as an offhand fact) and many of the Mortal Kombat characters, forming a rivalry against Raiden.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Zig-Zagged. While Superman has the power advantage, he's not a martial arts master, and one of Goku's main advantages going in is his greater martial arts training. However, Superman does actually have formal training, and in a fairly wide spread of styles such as simple boxing to more exotic Kryptonian martial arts, so while he is less skilled a fighter than someone like Goku he's far from a simple brute wildly flailing around. This, alongside him being deemed to have more combat experience, means that he's able to keep up with and beat similarly skilled fighters as Goku through more than just brute force alone.
• You're Insane!: Says this verbatim when Goku challenges him for no other reason than for a good fight in their first battle. Why would anyone actively seek out a fight with him?
• Walking the Earth: Before he moved to Metropolis, he wandered the Earth, saving the day for many of those he came across.
• Willfully Weak: After learning of his heritage, Superman placed subconscious mental blocks on his powers, locking him out of his full potential for years until he discovered them himself. He spends a good deal of all three fights holding back before Goku necessitates he bring more and more of his power to bear.
• X-Ray Vision: One of Superman's numerous vision powers, which allows him to see through just about anything except for lead.