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Goku of DBZ and Superman, the online debate on these 2 imaginary characters is ever raging based on their similarities, what are their differences?

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              I knew about Superman since I was a little boy, although I preferred Batman and Spiderman to Superman among the Marvel superheros but later, in my adolescence when I came to know about anime, one of the animes that really caught my attention and grew on me was DBZ during Cartoon Network days here in India. Although I never had the chance to watch all the episodes, since not all of them were played on Cartoon Network India. I later had the opportunity to watch not only all of the episodes in DBZ but also in DB GT that came after it. Now, the Dragon Ball timeline is set in the future with DB Super and beyond. However, of late, there has been a lot of debate online about who is better - Superman or Goku and a lot of this centers on the lives of these 2 characters in their respective series. Those who are die-hard fans of Superman and Marvel comics would say that Akira Toriyama drew his inspiration for Goku's character from Superman. I person...

Operation Sindhoor: Were our Indian Rafales with their MDBA Meteor missiles inferior to Pakistan's Shenyang J-10s and their PL-15 missiles? - a military aviation afficionado's take on the issue

          To give the background of the event that led to India's retaliation against Pak terrorist camps on the night of 6th-7th May 2025 - on the 22nd of April, a group of terrorists from Pakistan belonging to an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba launched a paramilitary-style terrorist attack on innocent Indian tourists who were visiting the place called Pahalgam in Kashmir while singling them out based on their religious affiliation and nearly 28 people were killed including a Navy officer a couple of days after his marriage. This is the backdrop of India's carefully weighed and orchestrated retaliation on 9 Pak terrorist camps on the wee hours of 6th-7th of May in which only terrorist camps were hit and there were 0 civilian/military casualties on the Pak side. In response to the Indian aircraft used in the attack on the terrorist camps which include Dassault Rafales, Su-30 MKI and Mig-29s as well as drones, the PAF launched their aircraft including a SAAB AWACS...