Sun Wukong

also known as the Monkey King, he appears in a lot of games i have no idea why he is so popular among game developers, but yeah he is a fictional character from a famous Chinese novel "Journey to the West" he is a monkey humanoid who is VERY powerful, and is very silly childish and goofy and is a god of trickery, his primary weapon he keeps with him is a magical staff named Jingu Bang which Sun at will shrink or extend to any size at any moment he keeps it shrunk down behind his ear for safe keeping , he was also born from a magic stone so no parents, and as a god of trickery he has the ability to take the form of 72 different animals, he also has the ability to rip out his own strands of hair to create doubles of him,they disappear on impact, this technique is the origin of shadow clone Ninjitsu...yeah ikr..but yeah wukong is one of the most powerful in chinese fiction so he could beat goku...oh yeah goku means wukong in translation btw ...yeah ikr