It’s clear that Goku has long been compared to Supermandue to the incredibly similar origin stories of both heroes and the shared purpose they have to save the Earth, so some fans changed Goku’s name from Dragon Ball’s Man of Steel to Spider-Man during an episode, and this was in a way that may have gone unnoticed, despite being literally during an episode of the anime.
First of all, let’s remember that Goku is a Saiyan who was born on Planet Vegeta and was sent to Earth as a baby after his parents learned their planet would soon be destroyed, that’s right, just like Superman, when Kal-Elwas born on the planet Krypton, but for now we will leave that aside, since despite the obvious differences, fans maintain the connection between the two heroes, but now we will mention a subtle connection between Goku and Spider-Man.
You see, during chapter 132 of dragon ballwhile Goku is in a Martial Arts Tournament fight against Ten Shin Han, a fighter who doesn’t mind killing his opponent while training to be the world’s greatest assassin, and as Tien didn’t hold back and threw punches that threatened Goku’s life, he decided to return the favor and changed his fighting style from ‘tournament’ to ‘combat’ and unleashed his most powerful moves.
So, in an effort to become even more lethal, Tien sprouted two extra arms from his back so he could literally hit Goku with double the force, and in response, Goku said: “If you’re going to have 4 arms, I’ll have 8!”so he proceeded to move his arms so fast that it seemed as if he literally grew six more arms from his side just like Tien grew two more from his back.
So when Goku apparently had eight arms, he literally turned into a spider-man as he looked like he had eight arms coming out of his humanoid form, which goes back to this fun connection with spider-mana little-remembered connection, as it gives Goku his own spin on the nickname that the popular hero of marvel comics.
Since, just as Peter Parker became Spider-Man after gaining the powers of a spider, Goku became a more literal spider-man after ‘growing’ the same number of limbs as a spider, only in man form. , only without other attributes such as the web shooter or the spider sense, which are emblematic of the comic book hero.