Goku In Super Smash Bros

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Goku In Super Smash Bros is a long-running fan campaign asking for the Dragon Ball hero to be added as a playable fighter in Nintendo's Super Smash Bros series. It started with a July 2006 Neoseeker Forums thread and grew through hacked Brawl videos, browser games with Goku already playable, and fan-made reveal trailers.

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Overview

Goku In Super Smash Bros is a long-running fan campaign and in-joke asking for Son Goku, the star of the Dragon Ball manga and anime, to be added as a playable fighter in Nintendo's crossover fighting series Super Smash Bros3. What started as a plain roster request on Neoseeker's Brawl board in 20061 grew into shared shorthand across YouTube edits with hacked Brawl builds and browser fan games that already had Goku playable2. Fans often bracket the request with similar wishful picks like the Shrek in Super Smash Bros running gag, where the comedy sits in the mismatch between a non-Nintendo icon and Masahiro Sakurai's tightly curated Nintendo-focused lineup3.

How It Spread

On May 24th, 2010, YouTuber keind74 uploaded footage of a hacked Super Smash Bros. Brawl build with Goku dropped into the roster, one of the first video mockups showing what the request would look like in-engine3. In January 2011, McLeod Gaming released the demo for Super Smash Flash, a browser fighter that put Goku on its playable lineup and finally let fans pick him in a Smash-styled match2.

On November 30th, 2013, YouTuber GhostVoice TVG posted a fan trailer titled 'Super Smash Bros 4: Goku Joins The Smash Series,' recutting Dragon Ball anime clips in the shape of an official Smash character reveal5. Two weeks later, on December 15th, Brawl Vault modder Mariodk released a full Goku moveset for Brawl, letting people actually play as him in matches on hacked copies of the game4.

How to Use This Meme

Fans typically express the joke by editing Goku into fake Smash reveal trailers5, mocking up character select screens with him added to the roster, or resurfacing the old Neoseeker thread whenever roster speculation heats up ahead of a new Smash release1. Modded Brawl builds using Mariodk's moveset4 and browser fan games like Super Smash Flash2 still let people play as Goku directly, sidestepping his absence from any official Nintendo roster.

Frequently Asked Questions

Goku In Super Smash Bros

2006fan campaignclassic

Goku In Super Smash Bros is a long-running fan campaign asking for the Dragon Ball hero to be added as a playable fighter in Nintendo's Super Smash Bros series. It started with a July 2006 Neoseeker Forums thread and grew through hacked Brawl videos, browser games with Goku already playable, and fan-made reveal trailers.

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Overview

Goku In Super Smash Bros is a long-running fan campaign and in-joke asking for Son Goku, the star of the Dragon Ball manga and anime, to be added as a playable fighter in Nintendo's crossover fighting series Super Smash Bros3. What started as a plain roster request on Neoseeker's Brawl board in 20061 grew into shared shorthand across YouTube edits with hacked Brawl builds and browser fan games that already had Goku playable2. Fans often bracket the request with similar wishful picks like the Shrek in Super Smash Bros running gag, where the comedy sits in the mismatch between a non-Nintendo icon and Masahiro Sakurai's tightly curated Nintendo-focused lineup3.

How It Spread

On May 24th, 2010, YouTuber keind74 uploaded footage of a hacked Super Smash Bros. Brawl build with Goku dropped into the roster, one of the first video mockups showing what the request would look like in-engine3. In January 2011, McLeod Gaming released the demo for Super Smash Flash, a browser fighter that put Goku on its playable lineup and finally let fans pick him in a Smash-styled match2.

On November 30th, 2013, YouTuber GhostVoice TVG posted a fan trailer titled 'Super Smash Bros 4: Goku Joins The Smash Series,' recutting Dragon Ball anime clips in the shape of an official Smash character reveal5. Two weeks later, on December 15th, Brawl Vault modder Mariodk released a full Goku moveset for Brawl, letting people actually play as him in matches on hacked copies of the game4.

How to Use This Meme

Fans typically express the joke by editing Goku into fake Smash reveal trailers5, mocking up character select screens with him added to the roster, or resurfacing the old Neoseeker thread whenever roster speculation heats up ahead of a new Smash release1. Modded Brawl builds using Mariodk's moveset4 and browser fan games like Super Smash Flash2 still let people play as Goku directly, sidestepping his absence from any official Nintendo roster.

Frequently Asked Questions