Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-74.78.117.32-20131116024158/@comment-24174353-20131116044121

In the "Chinese Legend", Journey to the West, the character we know as the monkey king is named Sun Wukong, so its more than likely that Wukong in RWBY was influnced by the orginal.

There are alot of variations of the monkey king but in general they weild a staff type weapon, are relativly agile and a trickster/troublemaker. Some more commonly known variations is Wukong from legaue of legends and Son Goku (japanese name for Wukong) from the dragon ball series.