His Saiyan name is "Kakarot", which is how Vegeta addresses him throughout the anime and manga. Some of his signature techniques are the Kamehameha and the Genki Dama.
He is loosely based on Sun Wukong of the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West, whose name is translated as Son Goku in Japanese.
Goku's Japanese seiyuu is Nozawa Masako, the current English dub voice actor is Sean Schemmel (though the character has gone through many different dub voice changes in the past), and his Latin American dub voice actor is Mario Castañeda.
In the early series, he possesses the Power Pole as his "weapon".
