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Miles Morales VS Static

• The fight quickly goes sideways for both combatants as both youths use their powers to fight up the side of a building. Static manages to get an edge in the fight by summoning the Static Saucer, using it as a buzzsaw to try and slice apart the Spider-Man. Miles's response? Lift up a massive chunk of building and throw it down below, with Static still attached.
• Static traps Miles in a cluster of metal, but he explodes out of the pile so hard that Static gets knocked against a wall and has his arm cut off by some debris...but only for a brief moment, as not only does he magnetically reattach it, but he also punches a pouncing Miles with the very same arm shortly after.
• Static ends up winning the fight not just through his sheer power, but his ingenuity as well. Using his Plasma Coil to trap the young spider, Static proceeds to drain his powers, before pulling him in close and zapping him with enough electricity to light up the night with Spider-Fireworks.
  Miles: Are you stupid? All I gotta do is- (powers proceed to fail) WHAT?!
  Static: Plasma coil. If you haven't noticed, this electric biz is kinda my thing.
• The sheer fact that Static won most definitely counts as whereas only Boomstick thought that Sasuke would win in Sasuke VS Hiei, both Wiz and Boomstick thought that Miles would win whereas Static won to their equal surprise.
• As noted in the video; Miles may have lost, but the Oz serum will actually bring him back to life in a few years, making this one of five matchups (two featuring Deadpool and one each for Scout and Pit) to not end in with a permanent death.

Black Canary VS Sindel

• Many viewers missed the "FIGHT!" that was at the beginning of animations that stopped after Season 5. Shao Kahn brings it back for us this time around.
• Much like fellow black animal-themed superheroine Black Widow, Canary takes a truly punishing injury from Sindel early in the fight: namely, getting her left ribs and right leg bones broken into pieces. We even see her clutch her leg in agony, but ten seconds later and she's No Selling Sindel's Banshee Scream and launching her into the wall of the colosseum with her Canary Cry.
• Sindel stuns Dinah with a scream-fueled energy blast and drags her high into the air to choke the life out of her, but Canary hangs onto consciousness just enough to activate a Canary Bomb and free herself from the Edenian queen's grasp. Now free-falling, she lifts herself into the air with her Cry at the last second, and then punches Sindel through the mouth, decapitating her for a decisive victory.
• What does Dinah say to celebrate her victory? "Fatality."
• Though she doesn't survive the fight, one gets the impression that Sindel could have easily taken the win had she not been such a showboater. As noted before, she broke several of Black Canary's bones twenty seconds into the fight and managed to stun her with an energy ball made from her superhumanly loud scream. Keep in mind that Dinah's scream is around a million times stronger than Sindel's and that she has special membranes in her ears that dampen the impact of any noises she hears.

Leonardo VS Jason

• Even before the fight starts proper, Jason shows his martial arts ability. It was only after Leo throws him that he goes full strength.
  Jason: It's Morphin' Time! Don't count me out yet!
• After a brief clash, Leo spins through the air, grinding his katanas against the Power Sword. When it seems that neither has come out harmed, Leo’s blades break into pieces.
• This leads to Jason channeling the Morphin' Grid into the Power Sword, before unleashing his Tyrannosaurus Charge attack, which even Leo is impressed by.
  Leo: Bodacious...
• Undeterred, Leo hops into the sewers to heal himself up and hops out of a portal with his mystical odachi, using Teleport Spam to knock Jason around and keep him on his toes.
  Leo: I love being a turtle!
• Jason is finally able to get a shot off with the Blade Blaster when he sees Leo's portal before the turtle jumps out. Not that it matters, as Leo's shell reflects the blast.
• The midair Blade Lock between the Power Sword and Leo's Odachi. After a brief struggle, Jason is able to power through Leo's mystical greatsword, shattering it. He then drives the blade through Leo before bisecting him, leading to a classic Power Rangers monster defeating explosion.
  Jason: Phew! That was bonkers!
• The next time reveal is nothing short of awe-inspiring, with a rendition of This is the Planet Earth over clips of the raw power of both combatants making it feel like the build up to a truly epic battle.

Genos VS War Machine

• The fight itself is rendered in hand-drawn 2D animation that looks gorgeous, and effectively shows the humor and expressiveness of the two cyborgs (well, one cyborg and one man in powered armor) as well as their sheer power.
• After getting all his limbs save an arm blown off by War Machine, Genos manages to recover by using his Rocket Punch to distract Rhodey while he recovers his lost limbs.
  Genos: I don't break apart that easily!
• Genos, in order to counter War Machine's Ghost tech, uses his instant adhesive to hold Rhodey in place. Genos then tries to blast him with the Spiral Incineration Cannon, which War Machine counters as well with his Uni-Beam, engaging in a Beam-O-War which Genos wins... only for War Machine to be unharmed. Genos blasts him again full-force, and Rhodey is still almost completely unaffected.
  Genos: (getting increasingly annoyed each time) COME ON, DIE ALREADY!
• War Machine's continuous No-Sell against Genos' blasts. Not just because he was surviving, but also because of how he was tanking it: Rhodey was phasing through every single blast.
• While getting a hole blasted through his body with the Uni-Beam, Genos attempts a Taking You with Me by detonating his own core; which Rhodey manages to survive, albeit with heavy damage. Genos is reduced to just a head, causing Rhodey to apologize to his opponent, only to be rudely rebuffed. With that, War Machine simply crushes the Demon Cyborg's head on the spot to finish him.
  War Machine: (badly damaged and charred) Sorry it had to be this way...
  Genos: Don't talk to me.
  War Machine: Hmm. (shrugs) You got it. (casually steps on Genos' head)
• A quick Freeze-Frame Bonus leads some credence to War Machine winning via Awesomeness by Analysis: at one point, his HUD displays everything Genos has in store for him, and the knowing smirk he gives implies that he's well aware he's got this fight in the bag.

Gray VS Esdeath

• The animators deserve bountiful praise for their performance in this fight; ice and snow powers are one of those things that'll make or break a work based on how well it's rendered. No disappointments here; the cold crystals are a beautiful finishing touch on an already awesome fight.
• The fight opens with Esdeath leading an army of ice soldiers; Gray creates some ice clones to occupy them while he faces their commander. The soldiers shatter. Esdeath winning the battle is the only reason she didn't lose the war.
• Gray gets one by using an ice longsword to cut one of Esdeath's arms off just like in her home series. He may have lost, but he joins Glacius and Afro Samurai in being the only losers to permanently dismember their opponent.
• How Esdeath achieves victory: she at first uses Mahapadma to prevent Lost Iced Shell from working on her... only for Gray to resist the move and continue freezing her, prompting a quick Oh, Crap! from her. Thinking quickly, Esdeath launches her fake arm at Gray, impaling the ice mage and freezing him to death.
• Esdeath acknowledging Gray as her Worthy Opponent after defeating him at the battle's conclusion is a posthumous one for him, especially considering how dismissive she was of him at the start and how few people in even her own series she acknowledged as such.
  Esdeath: (with genuine respect) Congratulations, and goodbye.

Goro VS Machamp

• Machamp may not have the 5000 IQ that fellow Kanto native Alakazam is known for, but the instant Goro pulls out his Dragon Claws, the Fighting-Type immediately shuts him down by smacking them away with Knock Off, showing that there isn't just muscle in that head it has.
• Goro attempts to go in for a Finishing Stomp on Machamp after flooring it with a devastating double hook. Machamp's answer? Leap up into the air and grab Goro, dropping the Shokan with a Seismic Toss that breaks the sound barrier before dabbing with all four arms to the audience after they land. Also a moment for Goro for still being able to fight after a blow like that.
• Machamp goes in with its signature thousand-punch flurry, severely damaging the Shokan prince and badly bloodying him... and then Goro stops it cold with a single palm strike, shattering the Pokémon's skull and instantly turning the fight around. Machamp deserves credit for trying to fight back even from a grievous wound such as that, but it's not enough; as Goro then throws Machamp so hard, it smashes through the walls of Goro's lair. Hard to blame Goro for walking away thinking he'd killed him after that.
• Undeterred in the slightest, Machamp immediately rushes back in, and the Shokan attempts to stave it off with his fire breath. Bad move. This triggers Machamp's Guts ability, making it stronger, and what follows is an intense back and forth as the two champions clash with all the strength they can possibly summon.
• During another hand lock, Machamp breaks it off by tearing off one of Goro's arms. Goro's response? Grab Machamp's arm and rip it off, before beating it with the interlocked arms like they were a club. Machamp pays him back in kind by quickly and skillfully snapping off the rest of the Shokan Prince's arms like rotten twigs.
• It's a testament to the sheer tenacity of the two fighters that a grievous wound such as having their arms ripped off is nothing more than a minor annoyance to either of them, as they continue to muster up everything they have to try and beat the other senseless.
• Remember when Machamp's first attempt at its 1000 punches failed? Machamp goes in for it a second time, barraging the helpless Goro with its three remaining arms, before slamming Goro with a double-fisted uppercut so powerful Goro explodes into meat chunks that fly into orbit, all the while set to a remix of Lance and Red's theme from Gen 2.
  Machamp: MACHAAAAAAAAAAAAAMP! MACHAMP!
• After the intense fight, Machamp is left standing triumphant, with Goro reduced to bloody pieces... before fainting only a few seconds after from the burn that was inflicted previously. Goro may have lost the battle, but this proves that he definitely did not go gentle, pushing Machamp to its absolute limits to topple the half-dragon warrior. It's also worth noting that much like previous combatant Gray (along with Glacius and Afro Samurai), Goro managed to inflict an irreversible wound on his foe by ripping off one of Machamp's arms.
• While it's a reference to the game, it's both awesome and hilarious that the reason Machamp fainted was from that burn. Not the broken skull, not the bloodloss or the shock from losing one of his arms, but from the burn. Machamp's crazy like that.
• While discussing how the Machamp species tends to live in packs in the post-fight analysis (to theorize that, since they train with and against each other, Machamp's durability should be roughly equal to its offensive output), Boomstick engages in some In-Universe Fridge Brilliance that blows Wiz's mind:
  Boomstick: Ah, the majestic Machamp. Roaming the fields of the Kanto region, gently SEISMIC TOSSING each other into orbit. Imagine walking past that on your Sunday stroll!
  Wiz: You're right... the Pokémon world is wild.

Cable VS Booster Gold

• Booster Gold may be a cheesy goofball and glory hog, but he shows off just how much of a threat he can be with all the tech he's got, and more importantly, knows how to use effectively. Not only does he manage to hold his own against Cable when he starts fighting seriously, he manages to win.
• After Cable nonchalantly mentions how he set up his dinosaur-summoning tech via time-travel, Booster remembers something crucial. Cue Booster using his own time-travel to summon an entire army of Booster Golds in order to overwhelm the cyborg mutant and his T-Rex.
• The finisher shows a surprising amount of ingenuity on Booster's part. Cable uses his mind control on Booster and his time clones to force them to turn off their force fields. Cable then fires off his BFG... and hits nothing. It turns out that Booster just faked being mind controlled. Why? To give Cable his force field and then crush him into nothingness.
  Booster: Oh wait, did you think you made me turn my force field off? Naw, it's too strong for that! I gave it to you!
• Props also need to be given to Cable. It takes balls to stare the man who's about to kill you and spit a Dying Declaration of Hate right in his face. This is made even more badass by the fact that he's able to walk forward while having his entire body constricted by a Deadly Force Field.
• A more long term moment for Booster is that while he isn't the first character Boomstick had no real respect for, he is the very first to do something that neither Michelangelo, Venusaur or Mega Man Volnutt could. Win.

Obi-Wan VS Kakashi

• This very simple exchange of dialogue, setting the stage for the rest of the fight:
  Obi-Wan: (performing a Jedi Mind Trick) You want to go home and keep reading your book.
  Kakashi: (turning his back) I want to go home and keep reading my book... (suddenly pulls up his headband to reveal his Sharingan with a red flash) ...after I KICK YOUR ASS! (throws a bunch of kunai at Obi-Wan, who casually deflects them with his now-discarded robe)
• Obi-Wan attains the high ground during the battle. Kakashi's response? Catch him off guard with 1000 Years of Death, before trapping him within the ground. Not even the Jedi's precognition allowed him to predict that. Doubles as a Funny Moment.
• Obi-Wan manages to recover from the trap fairly quickly, before an impressive show of Force, freeing himself and generating a massive whirlwind with his abilities. Even Kakashi himself is impressed by the showing.
  Kakashi: Most impressive...
• After disarming the sci-fi samurai of his weapon, Kakashi lands a brutal three-hit combo that visibly staggers Obi-Wan and syncs up beautifully with the music.
• Much like the last time a Sharingan user showed up in Death Battle, Obi-Wan finds himself trapped within a Genjutsu, facing his worst nightmare: Darth Vader himself. Despite his initial shock and horror at the sight of his old friend and apprentice, General Kenobi manages to gather himself, closing his eyes and seeing through the illusion. The Sith Lord fades away to reveal Kakashi attempting a finishing blow with his Chidori, and Obi-Wan blasts him away with a single Force Push. The whole sequence is very quiet, and does an amazing job of showing the illusion of the Genjutsu and Obi-Wan's own complex emotions at the sight of it.
  Obi-Wan: Be mindful of your thoughts, Obi-Wan... they betray you.
• It seems the Jedi has finally managed to slay his opponent, stabbing him straight through the heart... only for it to be revealed that it was a Lightning Clone, which proceeds to badly electrocute Old Ben. He's just barely able to recover in time to avoid the Kamui from Kakashi.
• The final clash between the two is nothing short of amazing, with Kakashi charging up a Chidori whilst Obi-Wan channels the Force for one final blow. After a moment of quiet reassurance for both of them, Kakashi charges in, even powering through Obi-Wan destroying his eye. The two swing, and all is silent. Kakashi's Chidori slowly fades, revealing that the shinobi was cut in two, collapsing onto the ground, with nary a scratch on Obi-Wan.
  Kakashi: Don't give up...
  Obi-Wan: Trust in the Force...
• Right before the actual clash, Obi-Wan crushes Kakashi's Sharingan using the Force. Without missing a beat, the Chidori turns purple, meaning Kakashi immediately switched to the Purple Electricity technique. It's awesome on Kakashi's part, because losing his Sharingan barely slowed him down, on Obi-Wan's part, because he was clever enough to figure out that the eye was likely the biggest threat Kakashi had to him, and on the ANIMATOR's part, because they went the extra mile to include that little detail for consistency's sake, since Purple Electricity is basically a Chidori that Kakashi developed to use without the Sharingan, like in this situation.

Danny Phantom VS Jake Long

• Butch Hartman himself has been a guest of honor for this Death Battle. He commented in both previews and the episode itself, drew fanart for it and made a video with both Ben and Chad. Also, he is the first creator outside of Rooster Teeth invited to a Death Battle Cast and has even made a react video to it. Butch is just going all in.
• Throughout the fight, Danny and Jake do an impressive job of matching each other blow-for-blow, almost as if they were made to fight one another (which isn't too far from the truth, since Danny has fought dragons before, and Jake ghosts). Highlights include:
  • Danny very quickly gets the upper hand in the fight within the museum, using his mobility to avoid Jake and his strength to throw him around, all while taunting him.
  • Jake gets one when he uses a clever distraction to turn Danny intangible, then manages to hurt his intangible opponent with his claws thanks to his magical nature as a dragon. This one ability made ghosts in Danny's verse untouchable by most means, but Jake was capable of overcoming this defense. Most fans from both shows assumed that Danny's intangibility will simply net him an easy win, only to be proven wrong.
  • After a clash of fire breath and ice beams, Danny takes advantage of the smoke clearing to get in front of Jake, then unleashes the Ghostly Wail. It does a number on Jake, knocking the dragon through a billboard.
  • When both combatants create clones of themselves to duke it out in the sky:
  Danny Phantom: Ready for more?
  Jake Long: Not a bad trick, G. But anything you can do... I can do better!
  • Jake's clones managing to get the upper hand against Danny's clones, especially in close combat thanks to his training. They throw the dazed Danny clones onto a building and create a tornado that traps them in before performing a combined breath blast to kill Danny and his clones. It even looks like the Finishing Move had ended the battle, causing Jake to boast about his apparent victory.
  Jake Long: Guess I was too hot for him.
  • As Jake celebrates his apparent victory, Danny becomes visible behind Jake and overshadows him. Jake's attempt to resist is of no avail as Danny forces him to fly into the sides of several buildings to disorient him. With the possessed dragon stunned and nosediving, Danny exits him and blasts him with a Kamehame Hadouken of ecto energy, leaving nothing left of Jake but his spirit (which Danny quickly captures).
  Danny Phantom: But I'm way cooler! (overshadows Jake)
  Jake Long: (futilely resisting possession) Get... out!
  Danny Phantom: (controlling Jake to smash into buildings) D to the A to the N N Y, this dragon's got claws and wings to fly! (exits a disoriented Jake) But I'm still better than this other guy! (cue the Ectoblast)

She-Ra VS Wonder Woman

• Props to the animation team for making such a beautiful fight scene. The animation is very crisp and the fight brutal and vicious!
• Early in the fight, Diana uses her lasso to pull down a pillar on top of Adora. Adora doesn't flinch or even react, just casually catching it with one hand and easily slinging it at Diana.
• While the sister of He-Man lost, She-Ra proved to be strong enough to do something that not even Thor did in Diana's second battle: break the supposedly indestructible Bracelets of Submission. While that gave Diana the power to win, that still is no easy feat. However, once the bracelets break, Diana, to put in blunt, takes complete control of the fight, breaking She-Ra's sword before finishing her off by decapitation...along with chopping the tree She-Ra was backed up against in half.

  Diana: That is what power really looks like.

• Despite outclassing She-Ra in almost every way, there was one area where Diana was beat: the strength factor. Think about that for a second. Wonder Woman, who has fought on par with Superman and just about every major mythological figure you can name, wasn't. As strong. AS SHE-RA.
• The reveal at the end of the episode takes a significant note: Until August for both Rooster Teeth First members and YouTube viewers, instead of a new episode of Death Battle we get DBX Season 5 with 10 episodes over 10 weeks and once August rolls in, one of the upcoming combatants for the main show's next episode is The God of Destruction himself, Lord Beerus.
• And relating to the above, to make up for no new previews or proper battles until August, music videos of each of the Death Battle tracks are released every Monday with Wings of Iron and Infection Perfection being the first two released.

Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia

• Just the teaser for this fight promises that it will be awesome: this is a fight with Beerus, a Destroyer Deity so powerful that he can disintegrate half a planet with a light fingertap. As Death Battle is known for pitting fighters with thematic similarities against each other, and usually avoids complete stomps, this is a battle that is going to go into Thanos vs Darkseid scales of power.
• The very first attack made by either combatant is Sailor Galaxia blowing up the entire Earth just by pointing at it. That's right, the very first attack of this fight is equal to the finale of the first Goku vs. Superman. Not only does it promise a conflict of truly ridiculous proportions, but it's a hell of an introduction to anyone who isn't familiar with just how much damage Galaxia can wreak.
• Early in the fight both Beerus and Galaxia unleash their respective destruction abilities on each other. There is a flash of light and ... everything else disappears. They had been standing in the middle of an Asteroid Thicket and now there is simply nothing aside from the light of distant stars and themselves. These two fighters are so powerful that they can No-Sell attacks that can would normally instantly erase anything. This actually manages to impress Beerus.
  Beerus: Interesting. Apparently, I've found a worthy foe.
• After getting tossed into the sun, Beerus easily blows it up as Galaxia flies through. But what's better than a fight that blows up the sun? A fight in the middle of the resulting supernova of course!
• As an interlude in the battle, one of their Kung Fu Sonic Booms knocks each of them into one of two near-identical planets, allowing them to showcase their personalities a bit - Galaxia, being a Galactic Conqueror, instantly enslaves the planet's inhabitants and forces them to Kneel Before Zod. Beerus, a Destroyer Deity, doesn't spare the planet a single thought.
  Native Inhabitant: "Hello there, stranger! Welc--"
  Cut to orbital view of the planet, which promptly explodes as Beerus rushes back into the fight with Galaxia
• Well into the fight, Beerus and Galaxia charge at each other and the resulting clash of just their Battle Auras vaporizes the planet Galaxia had just enslaved and turns a star into a black hole. For the record, there have been two prior instances of stars turning to black holes.
  • The last time was in "Thanos vs. Darkseid", and that was Thanos using the Infinity Gauntlet. Here, no reality warping to cause it; just pure, destructive force!
  • What's the other time, you ask? Nothing less than the penultimate (visible) clash between Chuck Norris and Segata Sanshiro. With this clash, Beerus and Galaxia manage to solidify their battle as the second most destructive that has ever been shown on Death Battle.
• While Beerus is briefly bound by Galaxia's energy and begins to get knocked towards the black hole, he breaks out by tapping into Ultra Instinct. From there, he sidesteps the next blast and instantly closes the distance to begin beating his opponent around, practically untouchable as he evades her only counter to continue the assault.
  "You're no match. You lack the instinct."
• Sailor Galaxia successfully manages to bypass Beerus' enhanced state by extracting the God of Destruction's Starseed—to his own surprise judging from the shout of pain at the energy piercing him. It looks like things are over as Galaxia gloats about having Beerus under her control... until Beerus' expression turns into a glare and he swiftly grabs the crystal back, completely undoing the galactic conqueror's ego before proceeding to decimate her with one hell of a Badass Boast.
  Sailor Galaxia: WHAT?! (her eyes widen in total shock) That's impossible!
  Beerus: Now you're catching on! (fires a ki beam from his finger, forcing Galaxia to block and pushing her back towards her own black hole) I AM THE IMPOSSIBLE! (punches the beam, giving it the extra power to not only obliterate Galaxia, but send her bloodied remains into the black hole ) That... was for my ice cream.
• The fight itself took the #5◊ spot and eventually #3 on trending in Youtube.
• After what seemed like a tense, close fight, Wiz and Boomstick reveal that much like with his first duel with Goku, he wasn't fighting at his full strength. And they then illustrate perfectly how way stronger Beerus truly is compared to Galaxia. Even going as far as to say that even if they high-balled Galaxia's power and low-balled Beerus' power, the feline God of Destruction would STILL be more powerful than her.

Zuko VS Shoto Todoroki

• The (literally) heated battle at the start. At close quarters, Zuko has the advantage, easily getting into the range of and landing blows on Todoroki. Then the turning point happens when Todoroki unleashes a full-size Heaven Piercing Ice Wall, showing a Distant Reaction Shot of the entire ice flow — and subsequently, setting the scale and distance of attacks for the remainder of the fight.
• Zuko manages to break free from Todoroki's Heaven Piercing Ice Wall, and then uses his fire on his opponent. Todoroki uses his ice to block Zuko's fire, but he begins to suffer from frostbite and struggles to block the attack. As Zuko was making a Badass Boast as he walks towards him, Todoroki activates the full powers of his Quirk to turn the battle in his favor.
  Todoroki: Then I'll have... to go... beyond!
• Credit to Zuko, he loses, but even when his entire body's frozen in place except for his head, he still tries blowing fire over Todoroki to defeat him. His last words also qualify.
  Zuko: I am the Fire Lord! I will win this... FOR MY HONOR!
• In a turn for the unexpected, Dante Basco himself reprised his role as Zuko! And unlike Ichigo or Sigma, whose respective voice actors had to use pseudonyms, Dante Basco didn't have to use a pseudonym here!

Flash (Wally West) VS Sonic (Archie Comics)

• Just the premise alone for this battle. Two of the single fastest incarnations of fiction's greatest Masters of Faster going head to head in a cosmic-level clash to see who truly is the Fastest Thing Alive. In the end, even Wiz and Boomstick are left in Stunned Silence as they try and comprehend the sheer scope of what just went down. The fact that Archie Sonic is so fast, powerful and downright broken that he's considered a separate entity from every other incarnation of the Blue Blur and needed his own Death Battle can be considered this. Which is rather interesting, as the first time they used Sonic they used a composite version of him combining game and Archie into one, so that version of Sonic should have been just as broken but wasn't
  Wiz: So... that happened.
  Boomstick: Yeah... uh... what happened, exactly?
• In another first for this series, we break a new record in terms of speed. In the case of these two, the Scarlet Speedster and the Blue Blur are determined to be so fast, that they're incalculable. Let that sink in. Death Battle, a series that prides itself on going in depth and figuring out the exact levels of power they're dealing with in terms of their respective combatants, ultimately concludes that these two characters are too fast to ever feasibly put into numbers.
• During the battle on the Cosmic Highway, Wally manages to steal Sonic's speed, before rushing off, taunting him. Cue Sonic picking up a Super Emerald, and paying back the Crimson Comet in kind, effortlessly batting him around like it was nothing, before knocking him into a nearby wormhole.
  Sonic: A Super Emerald? I'll show you!
• Sonic eventually decides that enough is enough, and chooses to tap into the full power of the Chaos Force to erase Wally from existence once and for all. The attack hits dead-on, but Wally manages to pull through. How? By using his family as a tether to keep him grounded within reality, just like how he survived Doctor Manhattan trying to reset the DC Multiverse before. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment. During that scene, Wally's initial take-off for his rush towards Sonic is so fast, it visibly shatters part of the surface of the planetoid he was standing on.
  Sonic: Nice try, but I'm invincible when I'm like this! You've mastered speed, but I've mastered fate! And I wish you gone! FOREVEEERRRRR! Chaos Control!
  Wally: Linda! Jai! Iris! HELP ME, NOW!
• Realizing that he can't beat Ultra Sonic as he is now, the Fastest Man in the Multiverse further taps into the power of the Speed Force, breaking through the time barrier in order to take the hedgehog out after Ultra Sonic runs out of time, hitting Sonic with a punch so hard, the Fastest Thing Alive is reduced to nothing but atoms.
  • As Wally lands the finishing blow, Sonic can be seen repeatedly cycling through various iterations of himself before shattering into nothing. Word of God says that this was intended to represent Wally forcing Sonic to relive his entire life within an instant.
  • This doubles as an Awesome Moment for Ultra Sonic, which proved to be so powerful that, like Alien X and Hal last season, Wally chose to travel forward in time to when the timer ran out rather than try and fight the Super Mode head-on. In the analysis proper, the hosts corroborate this idea, noting that with Super Sonic and Ultra Sonic’s Nigh-Invulnerability, Wally would have to somehow wait out the timer on both of them to end, having no way to put down the freedom fighting hedgehog otherwise.
• Wiz himself notes that he came in fully expecting Archie Sonic to win, noting that with his access to the Chaos Force’s power, immense speed, and literal Plot Armor, the Fastest Thing Alive is essentially impossible to defeat. However, Wally proved that theory wrong. Thanks to the Third Flash’s comparable speed, abilities that could hard-counter Archie Sonic’s own powers, his own tendency to say Screw Destiny, and a little help from the Power of Love, Wally was able to stare a seemingly unstoppable force down and conquer it. Doubles as one for Archie Sonic, as Wiz also admits that Wally is likely one of the few characters in existence who could beat him. Not even Segata Sanshiro could.
• A minor awesome moment for the hosts: Wiz's cosmic kinetic energy that he laced Boomstick's beer with works, enabling Boomstick to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence as a "speed god", who runs all the way to Jupiter and back. Too bad he just uses his power to deliver another Bond One-Liner.
• Like with Johnny Cage vs. Captain Falcon, Ganondorf vs. Dracula, and All Might vs. Might Guy before it, this fight reached number one on trending.

The Seven Battle Royale

• To commemorate the release of The Boys Season 2 on Amazon, Amazon Prime Video decided to sponsor a bonus matchup between the titular team and The Seven between Flash vs. Sonic and Winter Soldier vs. Red Hood.
• Boomstick and Wiz both calling out Homelander for being a Nominal Hero. Even though both hosts were likely paid handsomely to push Vought's corporate message, they absolutely refuse to endorse the company's sociopathic mascot, even when it costs Wiz his normal arm.
• The Deep is called out for his sexual assault. He's also the first casualty of the first attack made in the fight, being obliterated by A-Train.
• A-Train meets his end when Starlight blinds him. He attempts to run into what he thinks is Starlight, but is actually the far more durable Queen Maeve. Attempting to kill her like Robin, he suffers a Karmic Death when Maeve proves to be far too durable to run into, killing him mid-attempt.
• Despite Homelander squashing him like a bug almost immediately afterwards, Butcher wins the battle royale thanks to his cunning and Supe-killing arsenal, in addition to being overlooked by his superpowered competition.

Winter Soldier VS Red Hood

• Just like "Nightwing Vs Daredevil", this one is live-action.
• Boomstick is absolutely impressed with the fact that Jason Todd had the balls to steal the Batmobile's wheels.
• An implied one for the Winter Soldier off-screen. Before the fight starts Batman calls Red Hood demanding what he knows about the 8 assassins from the League of Shadows that were gunned down. Red Hood denies it was him, implying that the Winter Soldier was the one who did it.
• The Winter Soldier's entrance. He effortlessly fires enough bullets to leave the door perforated, then kicks it off its hinges and steps into the room, still holding his gun.
• The battle does an excellent job showing off Jason's impressive stealth skills, with the Red Hood disappearing and reappearing just as the camera pans over things. Bruce would be proud.
• When the battle enters the kitchen, we're treated to an up-close and personal knife fight between the two resurrected sidekicks. There are multiple close shaves as they both just barely avoid being impaled, Jason narrowly avoiding Bucky's knife going into his eye. Jason seemingly gets the upper hand at one point by stabbing the Winter Soldier in the gut, but Bucky responds by pinning him to a nearby door and smashing his face with his metal arm hard enough to crack his helmet.
• After Captain America's sidekick pulls Jason's knife out of his gut, it seems like there's going to be a round two for the knife fight, right? Wrong. Jason activates an EMP on his Batarang, shorting out Bucky's mechanical arm. Cue a swift No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from the second Robin.
  Jason: My turn.
• After a brutal PTSD-inducing beating from Bucky with a crowbar, it seems like Jason's down for the count. However, he has one last ace up his sleeve. Pulling out a vial of Venom, the Red Hood injects himself in the neck with the Super Serum, and we hear sickening cracking and snapping noises, before Jason stands up to his full height, looking more terrifying than ever.
  • It's a credit to Jason's actor in that while he doesn't actually bulk up like Bane, his posture and physical acting makes it feel just as menacing as if he did, with Jason barely flinching at most of Bucky's punches, before unleashing brutal blows of his own in kind.
  • It's of note that in this state, Jason almost won the fight then and there, laying the second Captain America out on the ground. It's only because he picked up Bucky's gun and tried to shoot him with it, not knowing about the palm sensors, that he ended up losing this bout.
• The way Bucky wins the fight. After a Venom-hopped Jason picks up his gun and tries shooting him, right before the gun self-destructs, Bucky kicks the Red Hood backwards, then walks over and grabs his head, crushing it between solid mechanical fingers, killing him where he stands. When Bucky finally speaking after not saying a word the entire Death Battle, telling his superiors over the communicator, "This is Agent Barnes. Target... eliminated." And then he adds, "Moving on," and walks out of the restaurant, only pausing to take one last look at Jason's corpse. Bucky's just killed one of DC's deadliest vigilantes in an intense one-on-one fight, and that wasn't anything special to him. Just another day on the job.
• The reveal of the next combatants:
  So many snacks, so little time...
  Ragnarok...?

Venom VS Crona

• The fight opens with Eddie praying in a church. Crona walks in, looking for somewhere to be alone... and Ragnarok appears to start beating on them. You can hear the unspoken "Bad guy?" "Yep" as Eddie gets to his feet and the symbiote envelops him, not even coming out of the shadows until the transformation is complete, and so Crona's first look at their opponent is this mass of black gunk and fangs.
• The first time Ragnarok screams at Venom, the symbiote No Sells it. As much as Crona's sound-based attacks were a deciding factor, they had to crank it up to do any meaningful damage; the first attempt barely made him flinch.
• Venom gets an excellent moment in the middle of the fight, throwing a smokescreen at Crona; by the time it disperses, the symbiote is gone, opening the opportunity for a one-liner that manages to freak out Ragnarok.
  Crona: He's gone? What is he?
  Venom: We are the ones hiding under your bed... Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red!
• A short while later, Venom manages to get a blade out and drives it into Crona's neck. The symbiote thinks they've won... and a drop of something hits the floor.
  Venom: Your blood...!
  Crona: I know... (giggles mirthlessly) It's black.
  • Enter a flood of Black Blood that completely envelops the church they were fighting in, with Venom being put on the receiving end of a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that ends when Crona drives Ragnarok into his chest... and Ragnarok screams. Not only is the symbiote ripped off of Eddie, but we don't even see Eddie; we just cut to two souls that Ragnarok grabs and consumes, the fight over.
• Much like the reveal for this very matchup, the next one certainly is a surprise.
  Attention Blue Team, this is the Red Team, we are here to destroy you!
  I got a tank! People with tanks are never outnumbered!

Sabrewulf VS Jon Talbain

• The fact that they moved up the release date for First members one day so that this episode could come out on October 31st.
• Despite Jon Talbain possessing much more power than he does, Sabrewulf in the fight, pushed Talbain to his absolute limit and nearly won the fight until Talbain had to let go of his inner restraints. Although to be fair, judging from the analysis, this feat may not have been possible fro Sabrewulf all things considered
• Talbain being able to survive Sabrewulf ripping his intestines out and choking him with them.
• Word of God says that there's a likelihood that Talbain could succumb to the gruesome wound despite his victory. So if that's indeed the case, then Sabrewulf would have managed an impressive Mutual Kill despite how outmatched he was stat-wise.
• Directly before ending the fight — via an absolutely gruesome No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that leaves Sabrewulf completely burned and dismembered — Jon lets loose with one hell of a good Pre-Mortem One-Liner as the red blood moon rises behind him:

  Talbain: I'm no monster. But tonight... I'll make an exception.

Red VS Blue

• Throughout the fight, none of the soldiers on Blue Team (unless you count Sheila) manage to be killed by the Reds, all of them being shot in the head by Caboose's team-killing antics. While the enemy team managed to put up a decent fight, it's telling that none of the Blue Team's casualties came as a result of their opposite-color counterparts. Donut proves to be the only member of the Red Team who manages to take out a member of the Blues, once more destroying Sheila with one hell of a throw across the canyon. Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, thy name is Franklin Delano Donut.
• Lopez VS Tucker turns out to be a surprisingly fluid battle, and the most even match compared to Sarge VS Tex and Donut VS Church:
  • Tucker starts off strong against Lopez, but the moment The Heavy tosses away his gun and puts up his dukes, Lopez immediately turns the fight around and unleashes a vicious No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Tucker.
    Lopez: (translated) Idiot. You don't stand a chance against me. For I am Lopez the Heavy.
  • In the end, while Lopez's superior physical strength gives him a pretty good edge over his opponent, Tucker manages to get the kill (at least, as much as a kill one can get on Lopez) by pulling off a pretty clever maneuver with his sword: deactiving it, letting it fall, catching it with his other hand and turning it on again. The Great Key impales Lopez in the chest and disables his body, leaving him open for decapitation with another swing of the blade.
• While it leads to him getting his neck snapped for his trouble and Sarge doesn't seem to really care (no surprise there), Grif deserves props for choosing to stand up and fight Tex twice to save Sarge. He even manages to land a Cross Counter on her at one point, which is more than most could claim.
• Tex gives a massive No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Sarge, who, in over the minute and a half long fight they were in, he was unable to land even a single hit on her. Also props to Sarge who, after Tex was killed by Caboose, walks up to him like the beat down never happened.
• As revealed by the post episode commentary, Caboose was decided to be the last one standing, not just because of being a fan favourite of the community but also because he was stated to be the toughest of them all and the most likely to survive the whole battle due to being more threatening to his own team than to the Reds. It seems being the resident Team Killer has its perks.

Batgirl VS Spider-Gwen

• One for the animator, giving us a neat little homage to Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, with Spider-Gwen replicating the iconic scene of Spider-Man dodging Green Goblin's Pumpkin Bombs in slow motion.
• The way Spider-Gwen finishes the fight. After shooting webbing onto Batgirl's Utility Belt to prevent her from throwing more Batarangs, and staggering her, she dodges Barbara's next projectile- a simple judge's gavel- and a grappling hook that Barbara fired at her, before grabbing the cable and reeling Barbara in towards her with one hand, whilst she grows Absurdly Sharp Claws on her other hand with the Symbiote's help and swipes Barbara as she flies forwards, carving through her throat. Formidable.
• Also, give Batgirl credit. Despite the fact that Spider-Gwen ultimately proved more powerful than her, she never once stopped attacking. She even managed to stab Gwen through the wrist with a Batarang at one point. And right before she dies, she's in severe pain, having landed hard on a walkway, and desperately willing her neural implants to keep working. And then Gwen disables her utility belt. But does she beg for mercy? No. She tosses a judge's gavel at the Wall-Crawler to distract her, before following it up with a grappling hook. Barbara Gordon, Defiant to the End.
• And finally, the exchange between the two Action Girls right before their Single-Stroke Battle.
  Batgirl: You... haven't won yet!
  Spider-Gwen: (after slashing Barbara's throat) Ah, now I have.

Sanji VS Rock Lee

• Sanji's preview preemptively gives one to the research team. Wiz describes One Piece in a nutshell as "a very, VERY long story", and he's not exaggerating. This Very Wiki has eighteen sub-pages just to cover non-YMMV tropes alone; that's how long the story is. And the research team had to have combed through the vast majority of it to gauge Sanji's feats and capabilities. Did they do it? The episode's happening, isn't it?
• During Rock Lee's preview, Boomstick deems himself drunk enough to try fighting in the Drunken Fist style... then tries to do a handstand and collapses. While DUMMI is explaining that real Drunken Boxing is simply imitating drunken mannerisms, Boomstick gets back up and gives DUMMI an impressive bout of Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, ending with a Bayonetta-style kick-and-fire from his shotgun leg that completely eliminates DUMMI. Even Wiz seems impressed (and wary) afterwards.
• The ending to the fight. Lee, finding no other option, activates the Eighth Gate of Death to finish off Sanji. When both fighters collide, Sanji's Left Leg explodes on impact. Lee stands seemingly victorious, until Sanji comes in, completely no selling his missing leg and defeats Lee by cutting him in half with the sheer force of a final Haki-coated kick from his remaining one; all before Lee's dismembered body hits the ground and crumbles to ashes from the Eighth Gate's effect.
• Sanji delivers a pretty awesome Pre-Mortem One-Liner.
  Sanji: Since you wouldn't finish your food, I'm making you cough up whatever you've already eaten!
• After he kills Lee, Sanji sits down in the harbour and smokes in triumph, ignoring the bleeding stump that was his left leg, and casually remarking, "Looks like mild suited you best. My dish was too spicy for you." And then, just like Samurai Jack vs. Afro Samurai, the fight closes with a One Piece-style Title Card, as though this was just another day in Sanji's life.
• Credit to Lee, he kept up with Sanji to the point where Sanji needed to use every option available, and even to the point of giving him a permanent injury; putting him up there with the likes of Glacius, Afro Samurai, Gray Fullbuster, and Sabrewulf in permanently maiming the opponent that defeated them. Not only that, the moment he activated his Eighth Gate, he knew he was done for; but his bravery and determination to defeat Sanji led him to go through with it anyway regardless. Might Guy would be proud.

Hulk VS Broly

• The teaser itself looks amazing, with a hint at music and a good idea how far the fight's gonna go with the two blowing up the planet.
  Broly: You're...making me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry.
  Hulk: Show me.
  IKARI IKARI IKARI IKARI IKARI!^*ANGER ANGER ANGER ANGER ANGER! I AM THE RAGE! CHIKARA CHIKARA CHIKARA CHIKARA!^*POWER POWER POWER POWER! I HAVE THE STRENGTH!
• When Hulk gets his head torn off by Broly:
  Hulk: (as the Green Door appears) Hulk ain't just incredible, Hulk is immortal!
  (the headless Hulk gets up from behind an exhausted Broly and punches him away before reattaching his head)
  Broly: You are....monster?
  Hulk: No! THE DEVIL! (charges at Broly and launches into Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs)
• One of the scenes show Hulk riding an absolutely humongous Ki Blast through the air while Broly keeps firing at it to make it even bigger.
• Hulk and Broly don't only destroy the planet they're fighting on, but also every star in the galaxy they're fighting in, much like Broly's initial appearance.
  Hulk: YES! Show me! Break the world! BREAK EVERYTHING!
• This battle is without a doubt the most destructive one shown on Death Battle - the previous holders of that title were Chuck Norris vs Segata Sanshiro, which featured two physics-defying Memetic Badasses, who Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence after their final clash produced a Reality-Breaking Paradox, and Thanos vs. Darkseid, which was a fight between two Reality Warpers that did the same thing after the halfway mark. Hulk vs Broly not only ups the ante by showing the onscreen destruction of every single star in a galaxy, but breaking reality two dozen-plus times over. No Death Battle before it has come close to showing this level of on-screen destruction.
• The fight ends with Hulk and Broly breaking out of reality in a clash of fists. Then they grab each other's hands and begin headbutting each other - breaking reality with every single clash - until Broly seemingly releases enough energy to completely atomize Hulk, and breaking back into reality on the previously-destroyed planet he was on.
• To give an idea of how insanely powerful the two combatants are: their destructive power is literally measured in destroyed universes (with our universe being a unit of one).
• Hulk is the very epitome of Bring It! in this episode. It takes a lot of guts to encourage your opponent to let out all their rage against you and Hulk just doesn't cease egging Broly on, actually excited at fighting someone so destructive. One can get the impression that even though he was ultimately killed, Hulk couldn't have chosen a more thrilling way to go.
• This fight eventually ended up trending third on YouTube.
• The Stinger includes awesome implications for future Death Battle seasons: DUMMI gives Boomstick a letter from "a strange green man in a zoot suit", and Boomstick reads it, only to be shocked into silence when he reads who the letter's from: "Dad?!"

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