These types of Japanese-American puns and parallels persist throughout the series, which is riddled with cameos from other characters of which Toriyama was a fan, such as Muscleman, Ultraman, Astro Boy, Godzilla, Gamera, and numerous references to Star Wars, including a police officer wearing a Stormtrooper's helmet, in a Police Force based out of a building built to resemble R2-D2. For example, one of the recurring characters is "Suppaman", is a joke on the American superhero "Superman", who becomes a superhero by eating a sour-tasting ("suppai" in Japanese) umeboshi, hence his name's translation to " Sourman". Slump is a gag-based humor manga filled with puns, bathroom jokes, and parodies of both Japanese and American culture.
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