Sean Schemmel has voiced Goku since the late ’90s. When asked whether Goku would win a fight against Superman, he’s more than ready.
It’s a question as old as time itself…or at least as old as the late ’80s: who would win in a fight between Superman and Goku? One is a lost sun of Kypton who crash-landed on Earth and grew up to have the powers of a god. And the other is a lost son of the planet Vegeta who crash-landed on Earth and grew up to have the powers of a god. Who comes out on top?
Sean Schemmel, who has provided the English voice for Goku since 1999, told IGN who he thought would be victorious, and it’s pretty obvious he’s given the question some thought over the years. “Yes is the short answer,” he said. “The long answer is yes: Goku is a god.”
"There’s two scenarios where this would occur: if Earth is not in trouble, Goku would ask Superman to get close to the sun and get [as] charged up as possible, and then he’d fight him. But if Earth was in danger, he would fight him as long as he could but then, probably, if he wasn’t having any success, he would probably just Instant Transmission Superman to a planet without a yellow sun – and then he would lose all his powers and Goku would win."
And Schemmel reminds us that this is the short version. “I can talk to you about how I read a scientific article about how Superman’s only vulnerable to magic and kryptonite and that Goku’s energy that comes out of his hands is technically plasma and Superman would be unaffected by plasma energy, which is probably true. So again, there’s a much longer answer.”
But is Goku still the last man standing when at the end of that longer answer? Schemmel should do a TED talk on this; it’ll be about as useful as most of the stuff at your average TED conference, and more entertaining.
Anyway, you can see (or hear) Schemmel do his thing in the new movie Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. As for Superman, he doesn’t have any big projects out at the moment, but we never have to wait too long to see him pop up in something.
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