The gods tell the Monkey King to go with him, but he doesn't want to, so the priest somehow tricks him into wearing a crown that shrinks whenever the monk recites a certain mantra. The Monkey King himself, is named 'Son Goku,' and he has many great powers, including the ability to unleash many great and destructive powers from his magical staff, which he could also shrink to a tiny size (to easily hide and carry it). Jesse / Cogo's weapon is related to this staff.

The Monkey King also had a crown placed upon his head that could control his fierce, animalistic rages. Cogo's name in Japanese was 'Kugo' - just reversing the two syllables of 'Goku'.

The Monkey King, gets reprised a lot in anime. Dragonball is a Monkey King reprise. So's Midnight Eye Goku Alakazam the Great, The Drifters' Saiyuki, and numerous other. All three men's names are puns on the names of the main characters from Alexandre Dumas' classic novel 'The Three Musketeers.' Jesse Dart's name is linked to D'artagnan, the young and impulsive boy who tied his fortune to the three Musketeers.

Airmos is linked to Aramis, the slender and elegant Musketeer, and Porkos' name is a double joke - on the one hand it is linked to the Musketeer Porthios, but also it's a play on words to do with his hefty build - he is fat and gluttonous like a pig, and the meat of the pig is called pork, and a slang term for someone overweight in English is 'porky.'