History WebVideo / EpicRapBattlesofHistory

** The Joker may have no problem killing kids (Jason Todd, for example, which he mentions in the battle), but even he is disgusted by ''sexualizing'' them; he slams the infamous preteen group sex scene in ''Literature/{{It}}'' and says "Even I wouldn't stoop to that kind of impropriety!"

I'll beat your ass with one eye closed -- Boba [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetty_Wap Fetty Wap]]!

* ElvisImpersonator: [=EpicLLOYD=] as Elvis.
** Robert Hoffman as Deadpool as Elvis. (also voiced by EpicLLOYD)

** In general, we have the main actors Nice Peter (phlegmatic) and EpicLLOYD (choleric), and the two most commonly recurring actors for the longest time, Zach Sherwin (melancholic) and George Watsky (sanguine).

** Clint Eastwood ends his battle with Bruce Lee by referencing the [[Film/TheCrow death]] of his son Brandon.

You're as soft as Po, the WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda!

** Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden for his family tragedies and for touching little girls' shoulders; Biden responds by noting that as he's experienced the pain of losing loved ones firsthand, he knows how Trump must have felt after the death of Jeffrey Epstein.

** Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden for his family tragedies; Biden responds by noting that as he's experienced the pain of losing loved ones firsthand, he knows how Trump must have felt after the death of Jeffrey Epstein.

You get ''[[http://erbofhistory.com Epic Rap Battles of History]]''. The Website/YouTube web series is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- comedians Peter Shukoff (Nice Peter) and Lloyd Ahlquist ([=EpicLloyd=]), alongside guest Website/YouTube performers such as [[Music/{{Watsky}} George Watsky]] and Music/ZachSherwin (and even celebrities such as Music/SnoopDogg and Music/WeirdAlYankovic), portray these people BattleRapping against each other in comic online videos. The videos are written by Peter and Lloyd themselves, the results of considerable amounts of research into each subject that make them absolute goldmines for [[StealthPun/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory Stealth Puns]], [[GeniusBonus/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory Genius Bonuses]], and [[ShownTheirWork/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory other impressive showcases]] if you know to look.

** Justin Bieber VS. Beethoven. Given Bieber's reputation on Website/YouTube, you can probably imagine how this goes.

* EvasiveFightThreadEpisode: It is nearly impossible to come to a consensus over who "wins" each rap battle. Everyone's rap style and lyrics are determined by their popular image, so each side will also sound wildly different and some matchups will feel more equal then others. In addition, the raps are accompanied by dramatic elements and special effects that are [[AmbiguousSituation either indicating the current rapper's superiority, or are just for fun]], and this further confuses the issue. The creators themselves leave the winner up to the viewers and post official polls on some social media of theirs, but the Website/YouTube commentators and other enthusiasts elsewhere are consistently much more concerned with the matter of "Who Won?" as opposed to "Who's Next?"

** Eve (played by Website/YouTube celebrity [[https://www.youtube.com/JennaMarbles JennaMarbles]])

** Anyone famous from the 1920s through the [[TheSixties 1960s]]--including Babe Ruth, Creator/MarilynMonroe, Martin Luther King Jr. and more--will be DeliberatelyMonochrome. [[note]]Figures older than this are usually in color, possibly because our collective mental images of them are from either paintings or later color fictional portrayals. In Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe and Gandhi vs. MLK Jr., the former is in color while the latter is in B&W.[[/note]]

---> "Easy, Jaws of Life! I can't stand a racist; I love the colored and the queers - just ask Sammy Davis!"

** Barack Obama doesn't like having his wife being called the "Female version of Patrick Ewing" very much.

-->'''Joker''': When I compare your antics to the fiendish schemes I revel in,\\

* TakeThat: Ignoring the obvious digs that the rappers do on each other all the time:
** One in "Lincoln vs. Chuck Norris":
--->'''Lincoln:''' I got my face on the side of a mountain; you voted for UsefulNotes/JohnMcCain!
** Dr. Seuss gets pissed off when Shakespeare claims that he probably wrote the ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' books in addition to his own works.
** Mitt Romney says that UsefulNotes/BarackObama married "[[UsefulNotes/MichelleObama the female version]] of Patrick Ewing."
** To Mozart, Skrillex reeks of [[Music/{{deadmau5}} "dead mouse."]]
** Picasso calls Bob Ross "the PBS version of Music/{{Nickelback}}."
** Muhammad Ali says that Michael Jordan's rapping "sucks more than ''Film/SpaceJam'' did."
** In "Gandalf vs. Dumbledore":
---> '''Dumbledore:''' Your spells are a joke, and not funny ones, either / Mines of Moria? Ha! More like ''Series/MindOfMencia''!
** In "Blackbeard vs. Al Capone", Capone brags that he's "ruining pirates faster than Creator/JohnnyDepp [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean did]]."
** "Spielberg vs. Hitchcock" is ''filled'' with shots at Michael Bay, with every one of the [[spoiler: four]] opposing battlers reproaching him at some point or another in their raps. Spielberg himself has executive-produced Bay's ''Transformers'' movies and was the one who demanded Creator/MeganFox be fired from the third film after her disparaging comments toward Bay.
*** Also, Alfred Hitchcock calls Spielberg "more horrible than Megan Fox's acting", and [[spoiler:Michael Bay]] stresses that he can "even make ''Creator/MarkWahlberg'' make some motherfucking money!"
** Given "Franchise/RoboCop vs. Franchise/{{Terminator}}", you can imagine [[Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines which]] [[Film/RoboCop3 films]] are given this treatment here.
--->'''[=RoboCop=]''': And I didn't think I had any feelings left inside me / but my heart was surely broken after ''Terminator 3''!\\
'''The Terminator''': I have detailed files on the conclusion to your trilogy / that movie failed Detroit worse than the automotive industry!
** Harry Houdini claims David Copperfield is "the saddest thing to happen to magic since [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering the Gathering]]."
** According to one of Deadpool's voices, Boba Fett is like ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' -- "full of bad choices."
** While rebutting George R. R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien gets in a rant about people who think that TrueArtIsAngsty [[invoked]] or TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin is an inherently bad trope:
--->'''Tolkien''': Now, we all know that the world is full of chance and anarchy / So, yes, it's true to life for characters to die randomly / But newsflash -- the genre's called FANTASY / It's MEANT to be unrealistic, ''YOU MYOPIC MANATEE''!
** In the same battle, Tolkien mocks Martin for the fact that his books have sold less copies than ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.
** James Bond [[spoiler:(the Sean Connery one)]] dismisses [[spoiler:his Daniel Craig counterpart]] with "If I wanted shitty acting in my action film, I'd go and watch ''Film/{{Taken}}''."
** UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin mentions to [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]] that it took millions of years for mankind to evolve, but now they're all hunched on their [[VideoGame/PokemonGo cell phones, playing with their balls]].
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} calls [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] "a pedophile from the Midwest", making him look even worse by adding that "at least Music/RKelly could sing".
** [[spoiler: Creator/RobinWilliams']] line "I love [[Creator/WillSmith the Prince]], but [[spoiler: you'll never have a friend like me]]" is a shot at [[spoiler:[[Film/Aladdin2019 the remake]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' starring Smith as the Genie, which Williams played in the original movie]].
** Creator/JacquesCousteau tells [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] "I have Oscars, you're in ''Film/DrDolittle'' 2."
** Dracula claims that Vlad the Impaler has "less taste than an Creator/AnneRice cake" and is "losing so bad, [he] should [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga join Team Jacob]]". Vlad, for his part, mocks Dracula for inspiring [[Advertising/MonsterCereals Count Chocula]].
** Pennywise the Clown takes one at Creator/JaredLeto's performance in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'':
--->''Creator/JackNicholson played you just fine, but lately the casting's declined\\
Jared Leto came out trying to look like he was Tekashi [=6ix9ine=]!''
** Later in the same battle, Joker takes a shot at the infamous teen orgy scene from ''Literature/{{IT}}'', saying that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even]] ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards he]]'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards would never stoop to writing something so tasteless]].
** In ''Harry Potter vs. Luke Skywalker", Harry takes multiple shots at the sequel trilogy and especially the way it portrayed Luke, saying the people behind it "compact[ed his] character to trash".
** In Ragnar Lodbrok vs. Richard the Lionheart, Richard tells Ragnar that his story "ended worse than ''Series/GameOfThrones''" and says that if he wanted to fight [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague loser Vikings, he'd go to Minnesota]]. Richard also compared the tattoos on Ragnar's head to that of Music/PostMalone.
** Godzilla calls King Kong's first verse the "worst Kaiju comeback since ''[[Film/PacificRimUprising Pacific Rim 2]]''".

** Being Australian, Steve Irwin's lines of course includes a [[Music/MenAtWork "Down Under"]] reference.

** When Creator/JRRTolkien accuses Creator/GeorgeRRMartin of stealing his initials, he makes the ASL sign for "R".

** FridgeBrilliance: "Debating creationists" is what Nye is actually doing in the video! When Newton says that Nye "wastes time" doing so, he is subtly meaning that he should give up on the battle.

** And in Season 7, after a long hiatus... they '''''literally''''' did Franchise/{{Godzilla}} vs Franchise/KingKong.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The main exception to the case immediately above is Stalin's last line, which targets ''Hitler''.

** Also, Rasputin appears to not have an accent, as does [[spoiler:Lenin]].

** Steven Spielberg calls Creator/MichaelBay a "schlep" with no Oscars, Alfred Hitchcock comments on the clunky acting in ''{{Film/Transformers}}'', [[spoiler: Quentin Tarantino]] calls Bay a "sell-out", and [[spoiler:Stanley Kubrick]] calls Bay's [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014 Ninja Turtles]] movie a "waste of potential". [[spoiler: [[SpeakOfTheDevil Guess who shows up for the last verse?]]]]

** Alfred Hitchcock does the Robot dance while claiming that Steven Spielberg is "more horrible than Megan Fox's acting in ''Film/{{Transformers}}''". Doubles as a StealthInsult when you consider what the movie is ''about''.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: A common - and highly effective - diss used against opponents higher up in SuperWeight (i.e. Film/TheTerminator, [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kreuger]], [[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]]), since it would be hard for them to justify being beat out by relatively ordinary people.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:[[invoked]] Most of the rappers' personalities are exaggerated from what history remembers, or canon in the case of fictional characters. Example, Bieber is depicted as an annoying, pint-sized brat, but more often than not, the real Bieber is not as annoying. Mister Rogers was normally a friendly man, but here, he's a perpetually placid fellow with a short fuse.
** Beethoven is a good example: in RealLife he was a [[DisabledSnarker caustic]], DelicateAndSickly [[ElegantClassicalMusician musician]] but with [[HeroicResolve strong opinions]]. In ERB? Manly as hell.
** Every other comment for Gordon Ramsay vs. Julia Child points out that the former deliberately plays up his aggression and profanity for American television.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: In Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates, this is Jobs' main argument - while Gates is no doubt an outstanding innovator, Jobs claims that he'll never match the level of his own success.

** Donald Trump and Ebeneezer Scrooge. Donald Trump even outright states that he's not known for his heart and Scrooge even got [[TheScrooge a sub trope named after him]].

--->'''Hitler:''' SCREW YOU! You big black CUNT!

--->'''Lodbrok:''' But I think [[UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart the King of England]] should [[TakeThat probably speak English]]!
* InUniverseFactoidFailure: In "Hulk Hogan vs. Kim Jong-Il" with Hogan claiming he'll leg-drop Kim back to Beijing.
---> [[LampshadeHanging Beijing is in China, you blonde asshole!]]

** [[spoiler:Abraham Lincoln during the Romney/Obama battle]]

* WorldOfPun: If you couldn't already tell from reading this far into the page.

* MythologyGag: Though the Turtles appear in their traditionally colored masks, when Mikey spits his first line, the three other Turtles appear from behind him all wearing their original red masks. [[note]]Though the comics were in black and white, early covers show them all wearing red masks, as seen on Website/TheOtherWiki[[/note]]

** Dracula claims that Vlad the Impaler has "less taste than an Creator/AnneRice cake" and is "losing so bad, [he] should [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga join Team Jacob]]".
** Vlad, for his part, mocks Dracula for inspiring [[Advertising/MonsterCereals Count Chocula]].

** In Ragnar Lodbrok vs. Richard the Lionheart, Richard tells Ragnar that his story "ended worse than ''Series/GameOfThrones''" and says that if he wanted to fight [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague loser Vikings, he'd go to Minnesota]].