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Yoda VS King Mickey

• Big Good: Both are strong, wise, and greatly respected mentors and leaders of light who fought in great conflicts between the forces of good and evil.
• Magic Knight:
  • Yoda is trained in all forms of lightsaber combat and is one of the most powerful Force users in the Star Wars setting.
  • King Mickey wields both his Keyblade and light magic with superb skill.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: They maybe small in stature but are one of their universe's most powerful, skilled, and experienced Master Swordsmen and Magic Knights that ever existed.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking:
  • Yoda is the Jedi Grand Master and was the most powerful Jedi of his era.
  • Mickey is the king of Disney Castle and is more than capable of fighting off threats to his homeworld.
• Summon to Hand: Both Yoda and Mickey can call back their weapons to their hands if disarmed.

Yoda

Luke Skywalker: "I don't believe it."
Yoda: "That is why you fail."
Voiced by: Phillip Sacramento

The Legendary Jedi Master of Star Wars Fame

• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Like all Jedi, Yoda can become one with the Force if he dies, enabling him to manifest as a Force Ghost. This happens to him after Mickey kills him.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Yoda is a Jedi Grand Master and considered to be one of its strongest members.
• Attack Reflector: Yoda can use Tutaminis to redirect and reflect a wide array of energy-based attacks and even lightsabers.
• Bottomless Magazines: Discussed. Yoda's power is drawn directly from The Force, which is nearly infinite compared to Mickey's comparatively limited mana pool. However, not only did Mickey have the advantage of passively regenerating mana once he runs out, Yoda can't drawn upon the full power of The Force for too long without his own body giving out, meaning he had little chance of outlasting Mickey.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: He's the first Jedi to lose a Death Battle, in contrast to Luke and Obi-Wan.
• Bring It: Yoda's response to Mickey's, which doubles as a good Call-Back:
  Yoda: Do, or do not. There is no try!
• Combat Parkour: Yoda makes up for his diminutive size compared to most of his opponents by using the fourth lightsaber form Ataru, which is a highly acrobatic style of combat.
• Combat Pragmatist: When caught in a Blade Lock, Yoda isn't above using the Force to grab his cane and repeatedly bonk Mickey over the head with his free hand.
• Composite Character: Wiz and Boomstick bring up some feats of Yoda originating from the Star Wars Legends continuity in his preview, such as from the Star Wars: Clone Wars series.
• Face Death with Dignity: He accepted his death pretty gracefully, even trolling King Mickey once more before leaving.
• Friendly Enemy: Despite fighting Mickey to the death, Yoda was friendly throughout the bout and even complimented his opponent a couple times.
• Graceful Loser: Aside from trolling Mickey, he takes his loss in stride and didn't hold any grudges in death.
• Heroic RRoD: Overuse of the Force can cause a strain on a Jedi's body and if pushed far enough, these strains can prove fatal. This factors into Yoda's loss as Mickey's magic does not have anywhere near as big a drawback.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: While his skills with a lightsaber are certainly impressive, and he could certainly match King Mickey in a pure sword fighting contest, Master Yoda's truest proficiency is with the Force. Halfway through the fight, Yoda chooses to cast aside his lightsaber altogether in favor of using the Force completely, allowing him to tip the scales in his favor for a good portion of the fight.
  Yoda: The path to victory, this is not. The Force, I must trust.
• Laser Blade: Like all Jedi, Yoda wields a lightsaber (with his being a bright green color) and is a highly skilled in its use, having mastered all seven forms of lightsaber combat (though he prefers the fourth form, Ataru).
• Master of All: Yoda, compared to his students — and previous Death Battle combatants — Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, and Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker) — has mastered all seven forms of lightsaber combat. However, he does have a preference for the fourth form, Ataru.
• Master Swordsman: Yoda is a master of wielding the lightsaber, having gained mastery of all seven forms of lightsaber combat.
• Mind over Matter: Yoda is a powerful and proficient user of the Force, preferring to use it in combat over his lightsaber. When the fight starts getting serious, Yoda casts aside his lightsaber and starts relying exclusively on this.
• No Body Left Behind: There aren't even ashes left after King Mickey vaporizes him with Ultima.
• Old Master: 900 years old, and the most gifted fighter among the Jedi.
• Person of Mass Destruction: He's directly compared in power to a Jedi capable of moving a black hole which requires an energy output equivalent to almost 14 petatons of TNT. However, Mickey's own feats outclass him.
• Pint-Size Powerhouse: Yoda is 2ft tall, yet has the skills, power, and experience worthy of his position of Jedi Grandmaster.
• Really 700 Years Old: Yoda and his species as a whole have far greater lifespans than humans, Yoda himself being 900 years old.
• Shock and Awe: Played for Laughs, he makes lightning hit the arena floor after becoming one with the Force purely to startle Mickey.
• Strange-Syntax Speaker: As noted by Boomstick, a strange speech pattern, he has.
• Super-Reflexes: As one of the strongest Jedi around, Yoda's reaction speeds are around nanosecond-fast, which makes him around light speed. Unfortunately for him, Mickey scaling to fellow Keyblade wielder Roxas could move several times faster than light.
• Troll: After becoming a Force Ghost, he brings down some lightning to startle Mickey.
• Weak, but Skilled: Physically, compared to other Jedi, he's relatively small, frail, and very visibly aged. Through his absolute mastery of the Force, though, he can fight circles around bigger, stronger, and younger Force users, and is said to rival one that moved a Black Hole. Unfortunately for him, though, as powerful as Yoda is, Mickey severely outclasses him in nearly every aspect.
• Worthy Opponent: Yoda seeks out Mickey to test his power and is more than satisfied with what he sees. Even after Mickey kills him, he comes back as a Force Ghost to tell his honored adversary there's no hard feelings...after startling him with some lightning, of course.
  Yoda: Worry, do not. One with the Force, I am.

King Mickey Mouse

King Mickey: "Now, Sora! Let's close this door for good! Don't worry. There will always be a door to the light."
Voiced by: Kestin Howard

His Highness of Disney Castle from Kingdom Hearts

• Alternate Self: Much like Archie Sonic last season, King Mickey is a completely different character compared to his Disney counterpart.
• Badass Adorable: He may be Disney's cheerful mascot, but he's also the grandmaster of the Keyblade Masters.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: The king of Disney Castle and former apprentice to the sorcerer Yen Sid.
• Composite Character: Averted. The episode solely focuses on the Kingdom Hearts version of Mickey Mouse, with none of his other incarnations being taken into account.
• Cool Key: Keyblades in general are part Cool Sword and part Magic Wand, and they have the expected functionalities of a magical key, able to lock and unlock many different things, from treasure chests to gateways between worlds. King Mickey has wielded several different Keyblades over the years, but his recently preferred model is known as the Star Cluster.
• Dope Slap: He bonks Yoda's Force Ghost on the head with his Keyblade for trolling him with lightning.
• Fantastic Nuke: Mickey's most powerful spell is Ultima, which releases all his magic in a massive explosion.
• The Good King: This version of Mickey is a king, and is as much of a Nice Guy as he always is.
• Healing Hands: He has several healing spells among his wide range of magical powers, such as Curaga.
• Humble Hero: Yoda is very impressed by Mickey's skills, who takes his compliments in a characteristically modest way.
  Yoda: A wealth of power, I sense in you!
  Mickey: If you say so!
• Light 'em Up: While he is proficient in all kinds of magic due to his Keyblade and training under Yen Sid, he has a personal preference for Light-element spells such as Holy, Pearl, and Ultima.
• Light Is Good: Mickey is a hero as he typically is, but his Kingdom Hearts incarnation takes it further by branding him as one of the Seven Guardians of Light, who work to protect the Disney multiverse from the forces of darkness.
• Lightning Bruiser: Mickey is deemed to be faster and more powerful than Yoda.
• Magic Knight: Like most Keyblade wielders, Mickey channels magic attacks through his sword.
• Nice Mice: It's Mickey Mouse. The fact that he's the same Nice Guy he is in the cartoons should go without saying.
• Perpetual Smiler: Mickey never once stops smiling throughout his good-natured duel with Yoda.
• Person of Mass Destruction: He can scale to Zeus, who can move stars. This puts Mickey's power far above Yoda's.
• Pint-Size Powerhouse: Mickey is quite small, especially compared to the human characters of his universe, but he has the skills, power, and experience worthy of his position as a Keyblade Master and leader of the Seven Guardians of Light.
• Regenerating Mana: While Mickey has a limited amount of magical energy needed to cast spells, it can replenish over time. This meant Yoda wouldn't be able to take advantage when Mickey using up his magic.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: He's the King of Disney Castle, and is also a top-notch Keyblade Master who jumps head first into battle to protect the world from evil.
• Super-Speed: Mickey is comparable in speed to fellow Keyblade wielder Roxas, who could cross four different worlds/star systems in a matter of seconds. This put him well beyond Yoda's light-speed reaction time.
• Super-Toughness: He has shrugged off getting hit by a swirling mass of Heartless called a Demon Tower and was at ground zero of the χ-Blade exploding.
• Time Stands Still: King Mickey can cause this by use of Stopza, effectively putting his opponents into temporary stasis. He didn't need to use it in the battle.
• Worthy Opponent: Mickey knows from the start that Yoda has to be something special, and admits that he's pretty darn tough before the last leg of the fight. He even seems disappointed that Yoda died, though he does give his Force Ghost a bonk on the head for pranking him.
  Mickey: Hm... what a shame.

Shadow VS Ryūko

• Anti-Hero: Shadow and Ryūko are powerful heroes who will fight for the innocent, but they aren't the friendliest of people. Shadow actually started out as a villain and Ryūko's motivation is revenge for her father's death.
• Golden Super Mode: Super Shadow and Kisaragi are the two combatants most powerful forms that just so happen to glow brigthly gold in color.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Both are genetically half-alien thanks to all of the scientific, lab experimentation done to them in their origins.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Inverted examples as they may have red and black color pallets and are aloof and temperamental jerks, they are still heroes nevertheless... well anti-heroes to be more specific.
• invokedThe Woobie: Both are friendless lab experiments with Dark And Troubled Pasts and have Abusive Parents who think nothing of them and even tried to kill them, have Fake Memories that screwed with them, and after losing those closest to them, they went on quests for self-serving revenge before becoming more heroic.

Shadow the Hedgehog

Shadow: "Understood. Initiating the mission now."
Voiced by: Brendan Blaber

Powerhouse of Chaos and Rival to Sonic

• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Like both versions of Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, the only clothing Shadow wears is are a pair of gloves, his Inhibitor Rings and his Air Shoes. Boomstick even points out that he wears even less than Ryūko does at the start of the results.
• Badass Biker: He's riding his Dark Rider down the street when he ends up cutting in front of Ryūko, angering her into attacking him.
• Barrier Warrior: Makes uses of various energy shields to defend against Ryūko's attacks.
• BFS: He's been seen using several different swords longer than he is tall. He uses the Black Sword as his answer to Ryūko's Scissor Blade, although she isn't impressed by it... at least up until he chops her arm off.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Shadow gives one in response to Ryūko's attempt at a Pre-Mortem One-Liner, right before shattering the Scissor Blades and viciously ending Ryūko within seconds. Given the tone, Shadow really must've gotten sick of hearing it, given what happened in his two previous fights.
  Ryūko: Sayonara, dipshit!
  Shadow: [furiously snaps off his Inhibitor Rings] SHUT UP!
• Blow You Away: Thanks to his speed and affinity to Chaos even in his base form, Shadow can spin through the air horizontally to perform the Black Tornado, similarly to Sonic's own Blue Tornado.
• Bond One-Liner: After exploding Ryūko and Senketsu with a superpowered Chaos Blast, Shadow drops a one-liner that doubles as a Call-Back to his debut.
  Shadow: [nonchalantly] I'm the coolest.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: His victory not only ends a losing streak for the Sonic the Hedgehog series that started with Metal Sonic's loss against Zero, but finally marks his first win on the show.
• Cool Bike: The Dark Rider, though it ends up getting wrecked in the fight.
• Combat Pragmatist: Shadow is notably more ruthless than Sonic and the rest of his friends, and tends to approach most matters in a very fist-to-face, knee-to-head and foot-to-groin manner. True to form, he's just as brutal against Ryūko; making heavy use of his speed and the time manipulation and spammable teleportation from his Chaos Control to repeatedly attack from her blind spots and actively stop her healing, pulling a hidden gun on her (or at least, attempting to), slicing her arm off as soon as the opportunity presents itself, and immediately atomizing Ryūko with no theatrics within mere seconds of destroying her Scissor Blades.
• Compensating for Something: Ryūko mockingly asks Shadow if his mother bought his Black Sword — that happens to be longer than he is tall — when he pulls it out.
• Composite Character: Much like before, Shadow takes feats not only from his video game counterpart but also several other continuities, most notably Sonic X.
• Deadpan Snarker: When Ryūko calls him out for cutting in front of her, he blows it off and casually replies, "Who cares?". This angers her into attacking him.
• Flechette Storm: Shadow is able to use Chaos Spear to this extent. While Ryūko avoids the first set, she isn't as lucky with the second barrage.
• Flying Brick: As Super Shadow, his Chaos abilities and speed are greatly enhanced, he gains the ability of Flight and becomes Nigh-Invulnerable. He is proven to be much faster and more powerful than Ryūko.
• Fragile Speedster: In his base form, Shadow is noted to be less durable than Ryūko but much faster. He can also teleport and alter the flow of time. This factors into his victory as he would be able to reliably evade all of Ryūko's attempts at landing a fatal hit and strike faster than Ryūko's Life Fibers could heal her.
• Golden Super Mode: Super Shadow, of course. It's noted that while Ryūko did match or surpass Shadow's base form in terms of raw power output, once he went Super, Ryūko was done for.
• Hour of Power: Super Shadow's major weakness is that without additional power sources, such as in the form of Rings, it can't last longer than a minute; but that's a minute of possessing god-like power. Unlike previous opponents, Ryūko had no chance of countering that power or even outlasting it.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Half hedgehog hybrid. The rest of his genetics are Black Arms.
• It Works Better with Bullets: Played for Laughs as when he procures a handgun from the wreckage of his Dark Rider, it's out of bullets much to his chagrin; forcing him to swap it out for his Black Sword instead.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Not in the animation, but in the post-fight analysis, Wiz and Boomstick bring up the Sonic Twitter Takeover of 2017, where Shadow declared Kill la Kill was his favorite anime. Too bad he ends up having to fight and kill Ryūko when she attacks him.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: In a fit of rage after nearly getting killed for the third time on the show, he moves to end the fight within seconds by taking off his Inhibitor Rings, launching Ryūko down from orbit with a hail of Chaos Spears after smashing both of her scissor blades to pieces, and finally vaporizing her and Senketsu with a point-blank Chaos Blast when they impact.
• Never Heard That One Before: Shadow has this reaction to Ryūko telling him "Sayonara" before she deals (what she thinks) is the killing blow. After surviving, he promptly yells at her to shut up before retaliating, giving the impression that he's really fed up of hearing it after Vegeta and Mewtwo.
• Oh, Crap!: A split second before Ryūko finally hits him directly shows him going wide eyed.
• Older Than He Looks: Thanks to being in stasis for years, Shadow, despite looking no older than the teenaged Sonic, is over 50 years old chronologically. Contrast with his opponent, who is far younger than him and actually looks the part.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Many of Shadow's abilities use Chaos energy and when he removes his Inhibitor Rings, his power output is equivalent to one Chaos Emerald, which can move pieces of the Earth. That's not even mentioning Super Shadow, who uses the power of all seven Chaos Emeralds and can achieve planetary destruction. He proves to be more powerful than anything Ryūko can take.
• Planet Destroyer: Alongside Super Sonic, Super Shadow hit Planet Aquarius with enough force to obliterate it, which would have required over an exaton of TNT.
• Power Limiter: Shadow's sheer power, thanks to his genetics and affinity to Chaos, is so immense he has to wear a special set of rings called Inhibitor Rings; which, when removed, sacrifices control in exchange for vastly increasing his power to match a single Chaos Emerald. For the record, a single Chaos Emerald has enough energy to move an entire continent in a timely manner which requires an output of over 400 zettatons of TNT. That alone gave him enough of a power boost to match Ryūko at her best, with Super Shadow, who wields the power of all seven Emeralds, making the difference even wider.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Right as he enters Super Shadow:
  Shadow: Time to end this... behold, my power!
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: When he warps back down to Earth after smashing Ryūko and Senketsu down from orbit, Super Shadow drops a quiet, Tranquil Fury-laced attack call before he destroys them both.
  Shadow: (quietly) Chaos Blast.
• Pretender Diss: When Ryūko goes into her Senketsu Kisaragi form, Shadow simply remarks that she's a "faker", calling back to both his initial confrontation with Sonic, and Vegeta accusing his Super Shadow form of being a "rip-off" back in Season 1.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Not in the animation itself, but in the post-fight analysis, this is Played for Laughs when Wiz and Boomstick take note of the fact that Shadow just killed his favorite anime character, using the Sonic Twitter Takeover of 2017 as proof of this.
  Boomstick: Hey, he's pretty beat up about it too. Do you know what he said when he was asked what his favorite anime was?
  Shadow: I like the one with the edgy girl and the scissor blade.
  Wiz: It's canon. N-no, really.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Ryūko's Red Oni during the fight, being the more quiet and stoic of the two.
• Super-Speed: Shadow's Chaos powers allow him to match the non-Archie Sonic, who could briefly outrun an artificial black hole and free himself from a bizarre alternate dimension by running really fast. Several of his moves are explicitly light-speed fast. This proves to be perhaps the most crucial factor in his victory this time around; Ryūko could have feasibly scored a killing blow on Shadow were he not much faster than Ryūko is; Sonic's singularity feat clocks out at Mach 260,664.7, way higher than Ryūko's best at "just" Mach 7779.63. And that's before going into his Time Stands Still powers or his Super Form, which outclasses Ryūko so much it isn't funny.
• Super-Strength: He's strong enough to, with some effort, restrain the Final Mova in place while it was grabbing him; for reference, the Final Mova is a monster nearly as large as a planetoid and would have had to weigh nearly 280 billion tons. Ryūko outclasses him in terms of sheer power to the point where a single hit from her would've killed Shadow in base form... were he not just magnitudes faster than her.
• Super-Toughness: In addition to surviving his fall from space, he's as tough as Sonic, who once survived Eggman's Death Egg exploding while he was still inside of it. As Super Shadow, he and Super Sonic were fired directly into Planet Aquarius, completely destroying it; a feat that requires over 1 exaton of TNT.
• Superhero Packing Heat: Unlike Sonic, Shadow isn't averse to making use of firearms and artillery... unless it's the Archie comics. He attempts to use a handgun, only to swap it out for the Black Sword when it turns out to be empty.
• Teleport Spam: Shadow can perform this with or without a Chaos Emerald, and to great effect. He abuses this to take pot shots at Ryūko before she retaliates.
• Third Time's The Charm: Shadow's had two prior Death Battles against Vegeta and Mewtwo, both of which he lost. His third Death Battle, five seasons after the second one, marks the first win he's had on the show.
• Time Master: Shadow can perform Chaos Control to either slow down time or stop it entirely. He uses this to counter a charge attack by Ryūko, going behind her and kicking her in the back of the head like he did against Silver. This on top of his superior Super-Speed meant he has a reliable method of not just dodging Ryūko's attacks but also overwhelming her Healing Factor.
• Tricked-Out Shoes: Shadow's Air Shoes. They're noted to have built-in rocket boosters that let Shadow hover in mid-air and when moving quickly, letting him practically speed-skate along the ground.
• Ultimate Life Form: A Trope Codifier, though Wiz is confused as to why Professor Gerald chose a hedgehog to be one, despite understanding the logic of using a lizard for his prototype. Regardless, he still proves worthy of the moniker by claiming a dominant win over Ryūko.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Downplayed. Without his Inhibitor Rings, Shadow exchanges control of his Chaos abilities for raw power. This factors into his victory as the power gap is wide enough that Ryūko would not be able to withstand attacks from him.

Ryūko Matoi

Ryūko: "Let's go! I'm gonna slice your ass in half!"
Ryūko voiced by: Jenny Yokobori
Senketsu voiced by: Tom Laflin

The Teen Fighter in Life Fiber from Kill La Kill

• Ancient Astronauts: Life Fibers are responsible for mankind evolving to the point that they wore clothing.
• BFS: Both her Scissor Blades are capable of this in two ways; Decapitation Mode allows them to increase in length and even become scythe-like in appearance, and Alumni Mode takes this to the point where they become massive, specifically 1017x bigger than their normal size. Ryūko doesn't use Decapitation Mode and Alumni Mode fails against Super Shadow.
• Blood Knight: Ryūko is Hot-Blooded and eagerly attacks Shadow when he cuts in front of her.
• Celebrity Paradox: Despite the fact that she's the star of Shadow's favorite anime, he doesn't seem to recognize her, nor does he seem bothered by her death.
• Cool Sword: Her Scissor Blades, a pair of swords that combine together to make a giant pair of scissors. They are made of Life Fibers and are also one of the only weapons that can cut and destroy Life Fibers. They end up destroyed by Super Shadow, who vaporizes Ryūko seconds later.
• Dark and Troubled Past: First she was experimented on as a baby by her mother to turn her into a vessel for Life Fibers, only to be thrown away to die when it apparently failed. Then her father saved her and raised her in secret, but their rocky interpersonal relationship caused him to ship her off to boarding schools so that "she would fight other people there instead of him". When she finally came back, it was just in time to find her dad impaled and dying on a Scissor Blade, which prompted her quest for revenge to find out who the killer was.
• Disproportionate Retribution: She's so enraged that Shadow cut in front of her on his Dark Rider — and refused to apologize for it — that she decides to murder him on the spot against Senketsu's advice. She fails.
• Golden Super Mode: Like Shadow, Ryūko has access to one; Senketsu Kisaragi, unfortunately for Ryūko and Senketsu, even this wasn't enough to match Super Shadow.
• Good Is Not Nice: Ryūko is a foul-mouthed, temperamental fight-seeker, but she's by no means evil.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Thanks to Ragyo's experiments on Ryūko when she was an infant, she is part Life Fiber, which allows her to bond with Senketsu unlike others.
• Healing Factor: Thanks to her infusion with Life Fibers, Ryūko can regenerate damage to her body so quickly that oftentimes she starts healing before the attack has even finished passing through her body, having endured and recovered from literally being sliced in half, ripping the Kamui Junketsu off her body after it was sewn onto her, and her heart being ripped out and shown to her. During the fight, she shrugs off losing an arm like it's nothing and several other of Shadow's attacks, but Super Shadow proves to have more than enough power to make sure there's nothing left to regenerate from. Even base form Shadow had enough in the tank needed to bypass this already; his superior speed and Chaos Control time manipulation already gave him the edges needed to ensure he could hurt Ryūko before the regeneration kicked in.
• Hour of Power: Each of Senketsu's transformations, up to and including Kisaragi, each put Ryūko on a time limit since they continuously sap away at her bloodstream. However, while it grants her immense power, hurting her can accelerate the process. Contrast with Super Shadow, who is Nigh-Invulnerable and can likely outlast her.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Ryūko gets riddled with Chaos Spears before being finished off.
• Ironic Echo: Subverted. She tries to say what both Vegeta and Mewtwo said to Shadow before they killed him ("Sayonara, dipshit"), but then Shadow takes off his Inhibitor Rings and kills her instead.
• Lady Swears-a-Lot: Compared to Shadow, Ryūko uses profanities a lot more liberally, even for her attempted Pre-Mortem One-Liner.
  Ryūko: [at the beginning of the fight] Hey! You cut me off, asshat!
  Shadow: Hmph. Who cares?
• Male Gaze: As per the norm with her home series, Ryūko's transformations have several blatant close-ups of her hips and chest.
• Mighty Glacier: Compared to Shadow's base form, she is much stronger and tougher; being powerful enough to potentially kill base Shadow in as little as one hit. This factors into her loss as Shadow's superior speed combined with Chaos Control meant that she would be unlikely at best to land a killing blow, and Shadow would be able to strike faster and harder than her Life Fibers could heal her. What's more, she loses the strength advantage completely against a powered-up Shadow; Shadow without his Inhibitor Rings can already match Ryūko at her best, while Super Shadow is ruled to simply be too much for her to deal with.
• No Body Left Behind: She and Senketsu are disintegrated completely by Shadow's Chaos Blast. Absolutely justified given the circumstances, as Shadow possessed enough power to defeat her even before her Life Fiber regeneration kicked in.
• Oh, Crap!: She and Senketsu have a subdued case when Super Shadow shatters her Alumni Mode Scissor Blades, complete with both having Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises before Ryūko gets hit with Chaos Spears.
• Parental Abandonment: As a baby, she was thrown out of an airlock and abandoned by her mother after an experiment to infuse her body with Life Fibers initially appeared to fail.
• The Power of Blood: Ryūko is able to bond with Senketsu by using her own blood, at the cost of being on a time limit that shortens any time she is wounded and shortens even further in her Kisaragi form. This works against her as Shadow would be fast enough to cause such damage and Super Shadow's time limit can't be shortened by any means she could exploit.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Sayonara, dipshit!" Unlike Vegeta and Mewtwo however, this doesn't stick and becomes her last words instead.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Is the Red Oni to Shadow's Blue Oni during the fight, being the more hot-blooded and aggressive combatant, she's also this to her Kamui partner, Senketsu, being more prone to anger while Senketsu tries to calm her down.
• Sailor Fuku: The form that Senketsu takes when not in combat form.
• Say My Name: Senketsu calls out Ryūko's name when both are launched back into Earth from orbit. Doubles as his last words.
• Spell My Name With An S: While Senketsu's name is spelt as is, the u in his name is silent, so his name is pronounced Senkets.
• Stripperific: Senketsu is a skimpy sailor suit and its combat form — complete with a short skirt and Underboobs — is even called "gratuitous fanservice" by Boomstick. It's played for laughs in the epilogue, when Boomstick realizes that for how much of Ryūko's body Senketsu shows off, Shadow was fighting practically naked.
• Super-Speed: She flew into space at Mach 533.9, and once sliced 200 tennis balls five times each in a second, which would require moving at Mach 7,779.3. While impressive, these still can't hold a candle to the speed feats Shadow has under his belt.
• Super-Strength: Even without Senketsu, Ryūko is strong enough to slice through buildings with just the Scissor Blade, as well as strong enough to lift and use both the building-sized Alumni-Mode Scissor Blades at once, which would weigh over 3 million tons. At her most powerful, she punched through a layer of Life Fibers surrounding the earth to fight her mother Ragyo, and since Life Fibers are canonically tougher than steel, the size of the hole she made would require 658.72 exatons of TNT. While Shadow (with his Inhibitor Rings on) by himself can't match that, Super Shadow can, and in spades.
• Sword Beam: When Shadow creates a tornado around her, Ryūko anchors herself using Senketsu and fires off a barrage of energy blasts from her Scissor Blade until she manages to hit Shadow.
• The Symbiote: Senketsu is a Kamui, a suit made of 100% Life Fibers that grants Ryūko superhuman abilities by binding with her and taking on a far more Stripperific form.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Ryūko starts the fight out of anger at Shadow cutting her off while they're riding their respective motorbikes through a city, despite Senketsu trying (but failing) to talk her out of it. As the end of the fight shows, calling it a very poor decision for her to make would be underselling it.
• Trash Talk:
  • Doesn't really seem impressed with Shadow's sword:
    Ryūko: N'aww, did your mommy pack that sword for you?
  • ...and isn't above ribbing Senketsu either:
    Senketsu: Careful, that hurt.
    Ryūko: Have a little faith..!
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Both Ryūko and Senketsu have this, the first instance during a split second after Shadow bounces of Ryūko's head and the second is during their Oh, Crap! when Shadow shatters Ryūko's Scissor Blades.
• Wrecked Weapon: She turns her Scissor Blades to Alumni Mode and tries to crush Shadow with them, only for Shadow to remove his Inhibitor Rings to gain the power to shatter them.

Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom

• Evil Genius: Both are hyperintelligent human beings who build and invent many different gadgets and devices but use them for their diabolical schemes and supervillainy.
• Green and Mean: Both are iconic, comic book supervillains with dickish personalities who have the color green as part of their armored costumes.
• Insufferable Genius: Both are really smart but really arrogant dicks who often finds ways to boast about their superiority and to soothe their own colossal egos.
• Powered Armor: Both wear technologically advanced suits of armor that allows them go toe-to-toe with gods.
• Take Over the World: Due to belief that they are both the protectors and leaders of humanity, this is their ultimate endgoal once they get rid of the competition.

Lex Luthor

Prison Warden: "Who is that, Superman?"
Lex Luthor: "Lex Luthor: the greatest criminal mind of our time!"
Voiced by: Gianni Matragrano

CEO of LexCorp and Nemesis to Superman

• Actually a Doombot: He avoids an explosion via having a Lexbot take the explosion instead while he dons his Warsuit.
• Asshole Victim: Considering all the things Lex has done to people, including his own sister and Superman, it's safe to say no tears would be shed for Lex after Doom kills him.
• Back for the Dead: He doesn't fare much better than he did with Iron Man.
• Badass Boast: Plenty, but of particular note is the one when he starts employing his Everyman Project powers.
  Doom: Pathetic. What kind of a man are you? (goes in for a punch)
  Luthor: (Punch Catch, Glowing Eyes of Doom, Punched Across the Room) A Superman.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: When he's not wearing his Warsuit, Lex powers himself up with the Everyman Project and fights Doom in his business suit.
• Bald of Evil: He had hair in his youth, but lost it as he got older and depends on the continuity as well.
• Big "NO!": Lets out a big one when Doctor Doom takes control of his Everyman Project-empowered body and forces him to impale himself through the chest, all but sealing his fate.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: His Lexsuit has Assassin's Creed style wristblades for "Batman-shanking needs."
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: It goes without saying that Lex is not an ethical businessman. When he hears that Doom wants his company's resources for the benefit of Latveria, he decides to take over Latveria and establish a corporatocracy from there. Luckily for Latveria, he fails to defeat Doom.
• Dark and Troubled Past: One iteration of Lex's past was that Luthor's father, Lionel, was a scientist who was doing experiments on a young Martian Manhunter. The Manhunter was freed, but Lionel was mindwiped into becoming an alcoholic abusive father that Lex did away with.
• Diagonal Cut: How Doom finishes him off, slicing Lex into six pieces and destroying LexCorp behind him with energy waves.
• Dies Wide Open: When he is sliced to pieces his expression is wide eyed as it happens.
• Dramatic Unmask: Subverted. After beating Doom up with the Everyman Project, Lex prepares to pull off his mask, but Doom switches minds with him and makes him stab himself with his own hand instead.
• Driven by Envy: Underneath the rationalizations and philosophies he espouses, the main reason Lex hates Superman so badly is the simple fact that he wants to be Superman.
• Empowered Badass Normal: With the Everyman Project, Lex gains Superman-like abilities. After Doom steals all the energy from the Motherbox, he uses this to start delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Doom.
• Fiction 500: Regardless of which continuity he comes from, Lex Luthor is one of the richest men in the world
• Godhood Seeker: For all his insistence that mankind mustn't rely on godlike entities like Superman to protect them, deep down Luthor wants to be Superman — to the point of subjecting himself to the Everyman Project despite not being compatible with it. He also bargained with Perpetua to gain cosmic abilities, though she later stripped him of them.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He hates Superman with every fiber of his being, believing that his continued existence means that humanity will perish because they became reliant on him. He also covets Superman's power, to the point where he funded the Everyman Project, not caring that the experiments would reduce his lifespan.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Happens to him twice over the course of the fight. First, the power of his Mother Box is stolen by Doom and used to destroy his Warsuit for good, then his Everyman Project enhancements are used by Doom to punch a hole through his chest.
• I Just Want to Be You: Luthor's hatred of Superman is fueled by a desire to be Superman, which is why he used Project Everyman to give himself Superman-type powers at the cost of his lifespan being severely reduced.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: This happens twice consecutively, First is when Lex makes him run his own Everyman Project enhanced arm through his chest, and next when he is blasted by Lex into LexCorp's sign, he gets impaled in multiple places by bars of rebar.
• Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: Wiz and Boomstick bring up that time Lex cured his sister Lena of her terminal illness... and then re-infected her with that same illness seconds later, just to prove he could. Boomstick is appropriately shocked by this.
• Ludicrous Gibs: Doctor Doom kills him by slicing him into six pieces with an energy blast.
• Multiple-Choice Past: Due to various continuity changes, Luthor's past is completely changed, ranging from mad scientist, to self-made billionaire, to young Clark Kent's friend until he accidentally made him bald.
• Oh, Crap!: Right before Doom blasts him into the LexCorp logo, one can see an expression on Lex's face that can only be described as "instant regret".
• Powered Armor: Lex's favorite method of combat is his Warsuit, designed to match up against the likes of Superman. It's powered by the nigh-inexhaustible power of the Mother Box, outfitted with force fields, Chest Blaster, electric shock defenses, missiles and wrist blades. While debatable if it can actually live up to Lex's boasts of being more powerful than Superman given it relies on Kryptonite weaponry to weaken the Man of Steel, it's definitely strong enough to withstand a planet exploding and can be comparable to strength and speed to the Emotional Spectrum Lanterns such as Larfleeze, the one-man Orange Lantern, and Kyle Rayner, who held back the power of Imperiex on his own. The suit is also a Composite Character since it uses iterations from the pre-Crisis, post-Crisis, Injustice: Gods Among Us and the DC Rebirth Superman-inspired suit. It gets scrapped twice by Doom during the fight, but in the results itself, the hosts note that the Warsuit is stronger and faster than Doom's own armor, though the difference wouldn't be enough to guarantee his win.
• President Evil: If Lex can't be Superman, he'll settle for being the man Superman is answerable too, by running for president of the United States.
• Punctuated Pounding: After empowering himself with Project Everyman, Lex starts taunting Doom while subjecting him to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
  Lex: Still hiding behind this hideous mask, tin man?
• Rasputinian Death: He has his own power used against him to punch a hole through his chest, gets launched by a point-blank energy blast into rebar, and is finally done in when Doom slices him into pieces with another energy blast strong enough to blow up a building. Getting immolated afterwards just added insult to injury.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Lex's eyes flash red when he powers himself up with the Everyman Project.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: Lex's Warsuit is green and purple, in contrast to the blue, red and gold of Superman's uniform.
• Self-Harm: After switching minds with Lex, Doom makes him punch a hole in his own chest with his Project Everyman-empowered hand.
• Super Mode: His Everyman Project powers. It basically makes him Superman at the cost of shortening his life to six months due to being incompatible with it. Unfortunately, Doctor Doom uses his Ovoid mind swap technique to turn Lex's own super strength against him by swapping minds and then punching a hole through his own chest.
• Took a Level in Badass: Sure, Luthor might have lost this battle too, but the hosts show how he has been upgraded from his last bout with Iron Man with using some technology without the Warsuit and his Everyman project powers. In the fight with Doom, he still can fight back even after Doom drains his suit's power using his Everyman project, compared to his fight with Iron Man where once Tony drains his suit's power, he was completely helpless before getting vaporized.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Compared to Doom, he has a much tougher and advanced set of armor but lacks the sheer number of abilities and gadgets Doom has. This plays into his defeat as whenever Lex does gain an advantage Doom simply uses said abilities and gadgets to even the playing field.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Doom uses the Oviod Mind Transfer to force Lex's hand through his own chest, then switches back just in time for Lex to see what he's done to himself, the corrupt businessman can only scream helplessly before Doom pins him to the big L from the top of his building and slices him to pieces.
• Wrecked Weapon: Doom manages to break both of his wristblades early on in the fight.

Doctor Doom (Victor Werner von Doom)

Robot: "Your plan to destroy them has failed, master."
Doctor Doom: "'Failed?'... Doctor Doom does not fail!"
Voiced by: Steven Kelly

King of Latveria and Doom of the Fantastic Four

• Actually a Doombot: The Trope Namer and Trope Codifier. Anytime someone thinks they've beaten/killed him, it turns out they've only killed another robotic doppelgänger. He doesn't use one this time around, but notes the similarities to his own when Lex uses a decoy.
• A God Am I: A semi-subverted version. Doom has achieved godhood powers multiple times over, but either had it stripped from him, found it too boring or saw the errors of his ways (albeit for a short time), he's just not that impressed by it anymore. When he gained the powers of the Motherbox from Lex, while he considered it a godlike power, he found it beneath his worth.
• Arch-Enemy: To Reed Richards, to the point that once when Doom was being Dragged Off to Hell and Reed reached out to save him, he'd rather use the opportunity to scar Reed's face rather than accept his help to escape that fate.
• Badass Back: The end of the fight has Doom turn away from the wreckage of the fight, complete with Badass Armfold and Dramatic Wind blowing his cape around.
• Blasphemous Boast: As far as Doom is concerned, god-like power- even that of a Mother Box- is beneath him.
• Body Surf: Doom learned the ability to transfer minds from an alien race called the Oviods. This factors into his victory as when Lex does manage to overpower him Doom simply swaps bodies with him.
• Bond One-Liner: After killing Lex and especially after stealing the power of his Mother Box — one of the most powerful objects of the DC universe to boot — he drops this amazing Badass Boast:
  Doctor Doom: This power... it's like that of a god's. Beneath me.
• Call-Back: After destroying Lex's first warsuit, he remarks "What a farce!", the same line he used when Darth Vader destroyed his doombot several seasons ago.
• Calling Your Attacks: "FOOT DIVE!"
• The Comically Serious: He says "Foot Dive!" repeatedly while foot-diving towards Lex, all in a perfectly nonchalant serious voice.
• Crazy-Prepared: His armour is filled with numerous gadgets, he knows magic well enough to be a Sorcerer Supreme candidate, and he carries around pieces of the Holy Cross that Jesus was crucified on.
  Boomstick: Just in case a pesky Dracula ever comes your way - which, to be fair, it did.
• Diving Kick: Say it with me now: "FOOT DIVE!"
• Energy Absorption: Doom has a device called the Cosmic Power Siphon, which was later built into his suit, which allows him to absorb energy from godlike beings. This gives him a major advantage over Lex as while the Mother Box was an impressive power source, Doom has absorbed energy from beings far more powerful than it, like the Beyonder who possesses power millions of times greater than the multiverse itself.
• Evil Brit: Like Dracula, the last villain voiced by Steven Kelly on Death Battle, Doom is Eastern European. Also like Dracula, Kelly voices him with a refined English accent befitting a Wicked Cultured Sorcerous Overlord and reminiscent of Simon Templeman's portrayal.
• Facial Horror: He suffered this twice over. The experiment that he and Reed Richards worked on — with the intention of communicating with Victor's mother in Hell — literally blew up in his face, scarring him. He then had an iron mask constructed, then it was put on him while it was still glowing red hot.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: His Ovoid mind swap technique, which he uses to switch bodies with a souped-up Lex and use his power against him.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From orphaned Romani of Latveria to its king, and then on to a Sorcerous Overlord who repeatedly manages to gain (although just as often lose) god powers.
• Godhood Seeker: At various points, Doom has stolen the powers of cosmic entities like Galactus, the Silver Surfer, and the Beyonder to become "God-Emperor Doom". In the battle, he uses a mechanism specifically designed to do this in order to steal the power of Lex's Motherbox for himself.
• Green and Mean: Apart from powered armour, Doom also wears a green tunic and hooded cape.
• His Own Worst Enemy: It's pointed out that Doom has a bad habit of letting whatever god-like power he's gotten his hands on launch his arrogance through the roof, and as a result he often ends up sealing his own defeat and lets that power slip through his fingers, usually with the help of Reed Richards. It almost happens again after he drains the Motherbox powering Lex's Warsuit and starts taunting Luthor, only to be caught completely off-guard when Luthor unleashes his Everyman Project's enhancements and gives Doom a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, but he's able to overcome this.
• Legacy Character: It is mentioned by Wiz and Boomstick that during his short time as a hero, he bore the mantle of Iron Man before going back to villainy.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While both he and his opposition are known for being egomaniacs who seek to spite one person in particular, Doom is somewhat more benevolent, seeking to conquer the world out of a legitimate belief he can make it better, and according to a god who can see all futures, he's right. Comparatively, Lex mainly seeks to rule humanity out of envy for the Man of Steel, and in one future, ended up influencing a cult of personality who turned the universe into an apocalyptic hellscape. The lesser of two evils ends up taking home the win.
• Magical Romani: He came from a Romani tribe, his mother being a witch whose soul was sacrificed to the demon Mephisto and banished to Hell.
• Magitek: Doom is one of the most powerful sorcerers in the Marvel Universe and one of its most-brilliant scientists and engineers, regularly mixing magic with science. His mastery of both science and magic gives him an edge over Lex, who purely specializes in the former.
• Malevolent Masked Man: In order to hide his Facial Horror (and which might have contributed to that Facial Horror). Lex tries pulling it off after beating Doom up, but Victor doesn't let him get the chance.
• Mind-Control Eyes: Doom's eyes flash golden before he switches minds with Lex Luthor. And once he's in control of Lex's body, his eyes glow green.
• Noble Demon: While Doom is, outside of certain circumstances, a villain, he is loyal as a king to Latveria and his subjects and does his actions out of a genuine belief that he can make the world better. He even temporarily took the mantle of Iron Man during one of the few heroic moments he had. He approaches Lex with intention to seize Lexcorp resources for the betterment of Latveria, and when Luthor intends to conquer Doom's kingdom as his corporatocracy, the Death Battle begins.
• Powered Armor: Doom's armor is a hugely powerful combination of science and mysticism. At full power, it can perform feats like shattering an adamantine coffin, and contains weapons like nerve scramblers, electric blasts, and a technovirus. It apparently even contains pieces of the very cross Jesus was crucified on, specifically for fighting vampires and demons. While Lex's Warsuit has the power and speed to trump Doom's own armor, Doom in turn has superior technology and magic within.
• Psychological Projection: He views Reed Richards as a man of unquenchable vanity and unmitigated arrogance, consumed by his own ego at the expense of everyone around him. All traits which perfectly encapsulate Doom's own mindset, which Boomstick lampshades.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Doom succeeds in putting Lex down and destroying LexCorp, along with the resources he came for.
• Rags to Riches: In his youth, Doom was a con-artist who swindled the corrupt nobility of his homeland, Latveria, using his engineering genius. After constructing his suit of Powered Armor, he came back and conquered it to rule the land as its new king.
• Roguish Romani: Well, he is from a Romani tribe, and he worked as a con-artist in his youth.
• Science Wizard: Doom is highly skilled in both science and magic.
• Strong and Skilled: Has gained near absolute mastery over science and magic, and his armor allows him to trade blows with some of Marvel's heaviest hitters like Thor, Hulk, and the Sentry. While Lex outclassed him in a straight up brawl, he was more than tough enough to keep up long enough to overpower Lex with his much wider array of weapons and abilities.
• Sorcerous Overlord: The king of Latveria, and a contender for the title of Sorcerer Supreme.
• This Cannot Be!: Doom is shocked as Lex summons a new Warsuit, shouting "Impossible!"
• This Is Unforgivable!: He is pretty furious that the Mother Box's godlike powers is being wasted on Lex, and promptly absorbs it when he has the chance.
  Doctor Doom: That box! It's... marvelous. And wasted on YOUR incompetence!
• Time Master: Doctor Doom has traveled back in time before, but in this fight, he carries literal time bombs that can reverse time by a few seconds to buy himself, well, time to counter. This was used in order to escape Lex's 2D barrier.
• Tin Tyrant: An evil king in a suit of Powered Armor, though he's a Reasonable Authority Figure in his own country.
• Victory by Endurance: A key factor in Doom's victory is the fact that, while Lex's Warsuit trumps him in speed and raw power, the Latverian monarch has experience fighting foes on a similar level such as Hulk or Sentry, allowing him to take enough of a beating from Lex so he has the time to use powers the CEO can't counter.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Wiz brings up the fact that he has a hatred of squirrels, stemming from that one time Squirrel Girl overwhelmed him with them. This never comes up in the fight itself, since Lex doesn't know about it.

Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard

• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Both are fighting games Big Bads and Final Bosses who are power-hungry CEOs of corporations that only exist for a wide array of illicit dealings and schemes.
• Ki Manipulation: They maybe martial arts masters in their own right but they can further enhance their deadliness by harnessing from naturally existing energy to perform special moves and use a bit of electricity.
• Not Just a Tournament: They funded and hosted fighting tournaments as part of their business ventures but usually the purpose behind it isn't for something good.

Heihachi Mishima

Heihachi: "That felt good. Next!"
Voiced by: Yoshi Amao

Billionaire Megalomaniac Behind the King of the Iron Fist

• Abusive Parents: Fearing his young son Kazuya had inherited the Devil Gene from his mother, Heihachi threw him off a cliff into a ravine.
• Action Pet: In his rundown, Boomstick brings up the fact that Heihachi has a pet brown bear called Kuma, who he trained as a martial artist. Kuma plays no role in the fight, however.
• Anime Hair: His infamous horned hair. Boomstick compares it to Wolverine's and thinks he can impale people on it.
• Archnemesis Dad: To his son Kazuya, who hates him for killing his mother and attempting to kill him multiple times. Notably, Heihachi is often the underdog in these fights, given Kazuya is a contender for the strongest fighter in the Tekken universe even without factoring in his Devil Gene powers.
• Badass Normal: A (mostly) normal man who has taken on cyborgs and demons and came out on top time and time again, simply because he wanted to; his fight with Geese was no different, as while he lacks his opponent's energy projectiles and such, he's still ruled to be stronger, faster and more skilled enough to take the bout in his favor.
  Wiz: He fought Kazuya as he lived, a man. No Cyborg enhancements, no Devil Gene, no... whatever Yoshimitsu is. Heihachi fought his literal demons with nothing more than his stubborn, egomaniacal refusal to give up, until he could stand no longer.
• Bald of Evil: Has a unique "bald on top with two huge spikes on the back" hairstyle that, combined with his conglomerate, makes him a "kung-fu Wolverine Elon Musk".
• Blank White Eyes: Heihachi has these when he gets hit with Geese's Rashoumon.
• Bond One-Liner: After sending Geese to his death, a camera drone pulls up to get a quick comment from the victor, and Heihachi's pretty succinct with his reply before cutting the feed by smashing the drone:
  Heihachi: Show's over. (destroys the drone with a single punch, leaving a test pattern on-screen)
• Borrowed Catchphrase: After getting annoyed by Geese repeatedly shouting "Predictable!" when countering his attacks, Heihachi catches one of Geese's kicks and mockingly says "Tsumaranai." — translated by the subtitles as "Predictable."
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: After Jin, Nightmare and Ivy's losses, Heihachi is the first character from Namco Bandai's 3D fighting games to win a battle.
• Camera Abuse: He punches the drone camera that hovers in his face after he kills Geese, breaking it.
• Close-Range Combatant: Unlike Geese, Heihachi lacks the ability to attack from a distance. He wins as his superior speed and strength meant that he could get around Geese's ranged attacks and physically overwhelm him.
• Cool Old Guy: The man has lived long enough to have grandkids old enough to challenge him and still takes them on head-on. Heihachi proves no different here, destroying Geese despite being much older than him.
• Determinator: Heihachi has fought demons like his wife, son, grandson and father as well machines such as the Jack models with nothing but his abilities and stubborn refusal to stay down, only losing to Kazuya in Tekken 7 due to his body giving out to exhaustion. The same applies in the fight as he kept getting up regardless of whatever Geese threw at him, whether that was Reppukens, Rashoumon or even his Raging Storm.
• Disney Villain Death: It's become a tradition for the Mishima men to do this to each other. Hell, even Kazuya doing this to Heihachi at the end of Tekken 7 — which is treated as his supposed final death — doesn't bother Boomstick much, since he's utterly confident that Heihachi will be back to kick even more ass. Geese tries to drag Heihachi down with him in the battle like this, requiring the King of Iron Fist to personally seal the deal with one last strike.
• Eccentric Millionaire: Played for Black Comedy, as Heihachi is so rich that he likes to flaunt it with elaborate punishments and death traps, such as strapping people to rockets to launch them into space, or creating a whole space station for the side purpose of throwing them into space tied up with a limited air supply.
• Elemental Punch: Heihachi can boost his punches and other physical blows with electricity, using them for techniques such as his Dragon Uppercut and Electric Wind God Fist.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed, but there are hints as the hosts note that deep down Heihachi does in fact regret what he did to tear his family apart through his pride and fear, and at times has even acted to save his son Kazuya from apparent death. Unfortunately, Kazuya, still utterly hating him, usually uses these moments of vulnerability to try and murder him. In his final confrontation with Kazuya, Heihachi was genuinely saddened upon watching his son finally become a monster.
• Fiction 500: Heihachi runs the Mishima Zaibatsu, a multi-national conglomerate so powerful, it has a private army strong enough to fight world wars. Given his victory in a match billed to be winner-take-all, he can also benefit from absorbing the Howard Connection into the Zaibatsu.
• Gratuitous Japanese: He speaks in Japanese in the fight, a reference to how characters in the Tekken games speak in their native tongue.
• Joker Immunity: Boomstick is sure he has this, because despite seemingly being Killed Off for Real when Kazuya finally defeated him and threw him into a volcano in Tekken 7, he's popular enough that there's a good chance the writers will magically revive him in time for the next game.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Heihachi practices "Mishima-style fighting karate", based on Goju-ryu or "Hard-Soft Style", which combines devastating punches and kicks with open palm techniques for grapples and take downs. This is also enhanced by using ki to increase his power to ridiculous levels. It's noted he was technically the inferior "wizard", since he lacked any projectile attacks while Geese had no shortage of them, but his experience and physical edges let him overcome this.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While Heihachi has done monstrous deeds, he has several empathetic moments, considering he used to be a family man before the Devil Gene happened. And it seems that in his last moments in canon, he saw what he had become. Geese on the other hand, has no real redeeming qualities and makes no effort to fix that.
• Lightning Bruiser: He is deemed to be stronger and faster than Geese.
• Murder in the Family: He left his father for dead in an underground facility, killed his wife (though that time it was self-defense since she tried to kill him first while under Demonic Possession), attempted to do the same to his son by tossing him off a cliff and succeeding later by throwing him into a volcano, and has schemed to kill his grandson multiple times as well.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Isn't entirely pleased when Geese interrupts his meditation at the start of the fight:
  Heihachi: Foolish whelp, come to die?
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: When Geese attempts one last gambit to secure a win by throwing a ki blast at the ledge Heihachi is standing on to knock him into the volcano's lava, Heihachi emphatically denies it with an Elemental Punch and an appropriate one-liner:
  Heihachi: Back to Hell with you!
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: He threw his son off a cliff to his apparent death out of fear he had the Devil Gene; well, his son survived in part because he had the Devil Gene and was even more determined to kill him back after recovering.
• Shock and Awe: Uses his ki to manifest lightning, which he uses in several of his moves.
• Super-Speed: Through ki, Heihachi has been shown to catch thrown tomahawks and even bullets with his teeth. He's even fast enough to dodge the lasers fired by Kazuya, which are fast enough to reach orbit within seconds. Scaling him to the Gun Jack that reacted to a laser fired by a Mishima Zaibatsu satellite puts him a 4% of the speed of light, making him twice as fast as Geese.
• Super-Strength: Much of his toughness comes from his ease in defeating the G Corporation's resident Jack line of robots, and as he's been able to beat the latest Jack-7 models with ease, it stands to reason he'd be superior to earlier model types as well, who were no slouches in their own right; Gun Jack can survive orbital bombardment from a satellite laser, while Jack-6 can destroy a 6 mile asteroid with its bare hands, putting it around 8 gigatons of power. With the asteroid being used as a high end, the hosts determine that Heihachi was at least 4 times stronger than Geese in terms of raw power. That cap could be greater, as it is also noted that Heihachi could scale to his father Jinpachi, who created an even greater storm that was calculated to be at 45 gigatons; far superior than Verse or anything Geese can potentially scale to, like Orochi's Four Heavenly Kings.
• Super-Toughness: Survived being held down by several Jack-G robots and having them all detonate their power cores on top of him to blow up the temple he was in. Each Jack-G robot is stronger than the one that destroyed a meteor that needed 8 gigatons of TNT to accomplish. In the fight itself, he survives taking Geese's Raging Storm point-blank (which is powerful enough to start causing the volcano to act up) and stands up ready to continue despite Geese's belief it had killed him.
• Taught by Experience: He's 75 years old, and has had his fair share of victories over opponents with varied fighting styles. Aside from being older than Geese by 30+ years, Heihachi's experience against characters that fighting similarly enough to Geese — like the projectile-using Kazuya or fellow Aikido practitioner Nina Williams — meant that he could eventually adapt and surpass him.
• Trash Talk: After giving Geese a busted nose via a headbutt:
  Heihachi: Had enough? These fists are still fresh if your nose is having any fun.
• Villainous Valor: Heihachi might be an abusive and power-hungry bastard but he does possess the necessary courage and stubbornness to take on enemies way above his weight class, such as mystical demons, cybernetically-enhanced Super Soldiers and... whatever Yoshimitsu is supposed to be. Even Geese learns the hard way not to mess with someone with Heichachi's attitude.

Geese Howard

Geese: "Stay down, maggot."
Voiced by: Brent Mukai

Karate Kingpin Behind the King of Fighters

• Attractive Bent-Gender: Wiz and Boomstick bring up the fact one version of Geese is a sexy woman, with Boomstick immediately becoming attracted to her.
• Bastard Bastard: The illegitimate son of an Austrian terrorist, and a well-known mafia boss, Geese is a bastard in name as well as deed.
• Battle Strip: Geese whips off his upper robes at the start of the fight, in contrast to Heihachi, who keeps all his clothes on.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: After Mai Shiranui and Terry Bogard claimed their victories, his loss ends the winning streak of Fatal Fury/King of Fighters.
• Composite Character: Discussed in the episode, as the current King of Fighters timeline is a separate one from the original Fatal Fury timeline that Geese debuted in. Despite these differences, Geese's incarnations in both of them are ruled to be similar enough in backstory and power that feats from both are taken into consideration.
• Covered with Scars: His body is covered with scar tissues from years of battles and rigorous training.
• Counter-Attack: As part of his Aikijutsu training, he's pretty well-versed in countering attacks that he, in his own words, find to be "PREDICTABO!". Heihachi hears enough of it during the fight, culminating in him throwing the insult back to Geese when he gets a counter of his own.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He's basically thrown into a volcano and lightning-blasted onto a stalagmite. And while he lies there, impaled, the lava sweeps over him and incinerates him slowly, in gruesome close-up detail.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He's the bastard son of an Austrian terrorist who, after his mother fell ill with a disease the family couldn't afford to treat, was thrown out with her since they weren't legitimate. He tried to kill his dad at 15 for revenge, but was nearly killed in turn by his half-brother, Wolfgang Krauser. Then he went to gain the training necessary to become strong enough to defeat Krauser, but his teacher sensed his inner darkness and refused to teach him his greatest secrets. And then he became The Don of the South Town mafia, and an incredibly powerful and dreaded crime lord.
• Deceptive Disciple: He trained under Tung Fu Rue with the intent of both gaining the strength to take revenge on his father and to learn the Secret Arts, but Tung realized this, refused to teach them to him, and instead gave them to his rival Jeff.
• Defiant to the End: Even as he's being hurled to A Molten Date with Death, Geese still attempts to turn the tables by launching a lightning ki blast that sends Heihachi falling in after him and firing another ki blast at the lava to try and rocket back out.
• Disney Villain Death: Is noted to have an unfortunate habit of being launched off high places, starting with his defeat at the hands of Terry in the first Fatal Fury. He ultimately meets his end this way, being subjected to the same volcano-induced ledge throwing the Mishima clan enjoy with unhealthy amounts of lava.
• The Don: He became the main boss of the South Town mafia after training under Tung Fu Rue.
• Eyebrow Waggle: After catching one of Heihachi's punches, Geese tauntingly waggles his eyebrows in preparation for his catchphrase. Heihachi lets out an annoyed sigh and tells him not to say it in an exasperated tone... but Geese says it anyway.
• Foreign Culture Fetish: Geese is really into Japanese culture, to the point of near-constantly wearing karate gi, with Boomstick outright calling him a weeb and wondering who his waifu is.
• Gratuitous English: Surprisingly, Geese's speech comes across as gratuitously English despite him being born in the USA, due to him being an Occidental Otaku who delivers his catchphrases in an Engrish-y way. This is parodied in the fight itself, where he speaks with a thick Japanese accent that makes it hard to understand most of what he's saying.
• Groin Attack: Boomstick points out that Geese inflicts this when using Rashoumon, he ends up doing the same to Heihachi.
• History Repeats: Geese was abandoned by his criminal father, leaving him to support his ailing mother alone. His son Rock was also abandoned by his criminal father, leaving him to support his ailing mother alone. Boomstick is baffled that Geese doesn't see the irony in that and attempt to support Rock.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: While fighting during a fall into an active volcano, Geese is punched by Heihachi and sent flying down into the volcano, where Geese is impaled on a large stone spike. While the impalement doesn't do him in, it's ultimately the lava in the volcano that does.
• Incompletely Trained: While powerful, he never fully mastered Hakkyokuseiken since his teacher realized he was a Deceptive Disciple and refused to teach him the Secret Art. The episode does note that while he's also acquired the Jin Scrolls to obtain the secrets pertaining to immortality and regeneration, he destroyed the scrolls long before he could even use them.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: The hosts note that despite having achieved so much power (both literally and figuratively), Geese still has enough internal inadequacy about himself from his past traumas to both murder Jeff Bogard out of his one-sided grudge as well as host the King of Fighters tournament to prove to the world (and himself) that he's the best around.
• Ironic Echo:
  • When Heihachi gets the upper hand and counters Geese, he mocks him with his own "Predictable".
  • Geese's last words are "You cannot escape from death!" as he tries to do just that, before Heihachi seals his fate.
• Jerkass: Geese murdered his fellow disciple Jeff in front of the latter's sons Terry and Andy just to settle an old one-sided grudge, and he refused to help his suffering son Rock and his ailing mother despite Geese's own Start of Darkness involving that very same trauma.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Geese practices a combination of Karate, Kickboxing, and Aiki-Jutsu (translating to "Hard Soft"). He also uses Hakkyokuseiken to absorb and mold life energy (ki) from the Earth itself to mold powerful energy blasts, like his trademark Reppuken or the airborne Shippuken. He can also enhance his strength and speed and imbue his attacks with lightning called down from the sky. The analysis notes that Geese's technically can keep Heihachi at a distance this way since he's the only one between the two with ranged attacks, but Heihachi's own experience with projectile-using opponents in addition to his advantages in speed and power meant this wouldn't last.
• A Molten Date with Death: Geese goes out when he gets impaled on a stalagmite by Heihachi before being submerged by the volcano's rising lava, melting and burning him down to nothing.
  Boomstick: (post-fight) Better break out the soy sauce for Geese... cause his goose was cooked!
• Nightmare Face: Geese has one as he's impaled and graphically burned to death by lava in the volcano's lava chamber, complete with his skull being visible through his half-melted face.
• No Body Left Behind: After being impaled on a huge stalagmite inside the volcano's lava chamber, Geese is engulfed by lava, which painfully immolates the South Town don to nothing.
• Person of Mass Destruction: With the usage of his ki, Geese is capable of incredible feats of destruction easily including blasting away entire thickets of forest. During the fight itself, his attempt to use Raging Storm to finish off Heihachi noticeably causes the volcano they're fighting on to crack and release lava. Unfortunately for him, not only is Heihachi no stranger to such destructive foes thanks to his battles with Kazuya and the Jack line of robots, they're several times stronger than Geese's best showings.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: When he's introduced, he makes his intentions very clear:
  Geese: Mishima, your nightmare begins!
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: He has one when he propels himself up with a Shippuken to avoid dying and possibly send Heihachi down in his place, although his attempt fails when Heihachi just slugs him in the face to ensure he stays down:
  Geese: You cannot escape from death!
• Running Both Sides: He's head of both South Town mafia and the protection group that gets paid to keep tourists safe.
• Shock and Awe: He can imbue his attacks with lightning he calls down from the sky.
• Super-Speed: As a testament to Geese's speed, he is comparable to his former subordinate Takuma Sakazaki, who once deflected a strike from the Zero Cannon at about 2% the speed of light. While impressive, Heihachi scales to feats that make him twice as fast.
• Super-Strength: The Zero Cannon mentioned above held enough power to wipe out South Town (a stand-in for Miami, Florida), and not only could Geese scale from that due to Takuma's deflection of the attack, Geese has also defeated the otherwordly being Verse, who was capable of creating a storm that generated almost 2 gigatons of TNT. Again, this certainly made Geese very strong, but it was not enough to keep pace with Heihachi's absurd strength.
• Trash Talk: Isn't above making snide remarks about his opponent's advanced age:
  Geese: I will stain my hands with your blood, old man.
• Underestimating Badassery: Geese clearly believes he finished off Heihachi with his Raging Storm finisher, especially since it outright damaged the volcano itself, only to be surprised by Heihachi clearing away the smoke with his ki still ready to go.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Boomstick is confused by his name, asking what kind of dork is named after a waterfowl and that the only name worse than Geese is Swan.

Blake VS Mikasa

• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Both are this archetype and were pretty anti-social towards most of their comrades and other people at first before slowly warming up to them.
• Combat Parkour: Both of their fighting styles revolve around using their acrobatic skill and gear to quickly manuever around their surroundings and their foes.
• Dual Wielding: Both prefer using two swords simultaneously in battle.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: Both combatants have these which allows them to quickly and gracefully traverse the environment during the fight.
• Hunter of Monsters: Both live in Crapsack Worlds where they have to train, fight, and survive against viscious and destructive monsters.

Blake Belladonna

Blake: "I'll end this... So long."

The Feline Huntress from RWBY

• Alien Blood: As a stylistic choice and reference to a similar event in her home series, Blake bleeds purple blood after Mikasa cuts her arm off.
• And the Adventure Continues: After beating Mikasa she runs off to face an incoming Titan.
• An Arm and a Leg: Blake gets her arm hacked off after Mikasa disorients her with a Thunder Spear. Luckily for her, she didn't need it to win the fight.
• Badass Crew: She's in one of these with Team RWBY.
• Bring It: Blake's response to a Titan lumbering toward her at the end of the fight is surprisingly enthusiastic, especially since she's missing an arm.
• Catch and Return: Blake finishes Mikasa off via this by catching one of Mikasa's Thunder Spears and sending it back towards her before setting it off.
• Cat Girl: Blake has yellow eyes and a pair of large feline ears as her Faunus animal traits, so Boomstick appropriately calls her a cat girl. Her personality is also heavily based on the classic depiction of a cat.
• Covert Pervert: The fight starts because Mikasa interrupts her reading "Ninjas of Love," which is heavily implied to be an erotica novel.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Since childhood, Blake faced discrimination for being Faunus, and was once a part of the Faunus activist organization White Fang. However, when her parents expressed dismay to the organization's growing violent tactics, done in part thanks to the actions of Adam Taurus ("Ginger Kylo Ren", as Boomstick calls him), Blake ran away to join them fully. That all changed when she realized that Adam planned to murder innocents on a train and she decided to run away again, leading her to Beacon Academy and Team RWBY.
• Deflector Shield: Blake is protected by her "Aura". "Aura" is the manifestation of one's soul, similar to chi. It allows Blake to withstand devastating blows — it's estimated that she can withstand the power of up to an estimated 4.27 tons of TNT without it shattering — though if it's sufficiently weakened, it'll break and leave her defenseless. While Mikasa's Thunder Spears did have the power to break Blake's aura, she would be capable of avoiding them due to her speed and reaction times; and even then, it's also pointed out in the popups during the post-fight analysis that Blake's fellow Huntresses, Weiss and Penny have survived even stronger blasts than the Thunder Spears.
• Dual Wielding: Blade's Gambol Shroud has a bladed scabbard that she can wield in conjunction with its katana/gun form.
• Fantastic Racism: Blake suffers from this as a result of being a Faunus.
• Innate Night Vision: Blake, like many Faunus, has night vision.
• Lightning Bruiser: One of the major factors in her victory is that not only does Blake possess greater reaction speeds than Mikasa, meaning that she could reliably evade any of her attacks, but thanks to her Aura, she is far tougher than her as well.
• Little Bit Beastly: Faunus generally have a single animal-like trait, such as the cat ears on Blake.
• Major Injury Underreaction: She doesn't really react to losing an arm.
• Mythology Gag: Blake losing part of her arm to Mikasa is framed as a reversal of how Adam cut off Yang's arm back in Season 3 of RWBY.
• Outside-Context Problem: One of the big factors in her victory is the fact that Mikasa is primarily trained to fight giant Titans and has relatively little experience dealing with a human-sized Lightning Bruiser like Blake.
• Super-Hearing: By virtue of being a Faunus with cat ears, Blake is sensitive to sounds that regular humans can't pick up right away. Mikasa lampshades this by frustratedly asking Blake if she's deaf while trying to get her to move, but then remarking on her having four ears — and the extra hearing — when the fight starts.
• Super-Reflexes: She's comparable to the assassins Mercury and Emerald, who could dodge lightning bolts at nearly Mach 77.74. This was way above anything Misaka or anyone close to her could scale to.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: Blake's Gambol Shroud is a multi-form weapon that can be a katana, a kusarigama, and a gun. Its sheathe is even a blade that can be used to cut opponents. This versatility is one of the advantages Blake had over Mikasa.
• Victory by Endurance: A major factor in Blake's victory is that her Aura could outlast Mikasa's ODM fuel supply and Breakable Weapons, and her speed was such that she could reliably avoid being hit by the Aura-shattering Thunder Spears, which were about Mikasa's only real weapon capable of hurting her.
• Who Needs Their Whole Body?: Despite losing her left arm, Blake is still able to redirect a Thunder Spear towards Mikasa and detonate it in her face, winning the fight. She also shows confidence in fighting a Titan right after.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Blake has yellow eyes like a cat, and she's gifted at stealthy movements.

Mikasa Ackerman

Mikasa: "I'm not listening to another word of this... No point."
Voiced by: Francesca Calo

The Giant-Slaying Scout from Attack On Titan

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Mikasa's armed with a pair of box-cutter like swords that are extremely sharp and used for killing titans. She carries multiple replacement blades in special gun magazine-like sheaths, due to the fact that they are easy to break and quickly dull into uselessness.
• Building Swing: Mikasa is equipped with vertical maneuvering equipment, which makes use of grappling spears and gas propulsion that allow her to swing around in the air.
• Breakable Weapons: Despite being called Ultrahard Steel Blades, their tendency to break mid-fight necessitates Mikasa having replacement blades on hand. Mikasa uses the replacement blades throughout the fight whenever Blake manages to break them.
• Child Soldiers: Mikasa joined the Survey Corps when she was just a teenager to fight against the monstrous Titans.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Mikasa's training, weaponry, and the Ackerman Genetic Memory made her adept at fighting Titans, but aren't as effective against human-sized targets, especially a superhuman like Blake.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Blake kills Mikasa by snaring one of her misfired Thunder Spears and throwing it back at her. The Thunder Spear lodges in Mikasa's chest, then Blake cuts the fuses, blowing it up and taking Mikasa with it.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Like her opponent, Mikasa has had it rough in life. After her parents were brutally murdered by human traffickers, she killed their attackers before she was taken in by the Jeager family. Soon after that they were slaughtered by Titans and left her and her adoptive brother Eren as the sole survivors, leading to them joining the military as teenagers.
• Dead Hat Shot: The only thing left of Mikasa after getting blown up is a piece of her scarf.
• Doomed Hometown: Shiganshina was attacked by the monstrous Titans when Mikasa (and her psychopath in training friend Eren) were just kids.
• Dual Wielding: Mikasa's omni-directional mobility gear comes equipped with a pair of box cutter-like swords with replacement blades, used for slicing up Titans.
• Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Part of what gives Misaka her superhuman abilities is her Ackerman heritage, which allows her to tap into at least some of the innate power of the Titans without transforming and risking losing her mind. Eren once said that Mikasa had the strength of a Titan, and while it is true that Ackermans are stronger than regular humans, he was probably exaggerating in an attempt to shock Mikasa. In any case, Mikasa's Ackerman heritage is painfully inferior to Blake's Faunus physiology, which is one of the reasons she loses the fight.
• Genetic Memory: Mikasa can tap into the Ackerman bloodline's decades of fighting experience, making her the more experienced combatant compared to her opponent. However, most of that experience consists of fighting Titans, so this knowledge isn't directly transferrable to fighting a Faunus with extremely versatile powers and weapons, making it practically a non-factor.
• Glass Cannon: While she does have superhuman abilities and is extremely dangerous, she has no real notable durability feats outside surviving g-forces and is at best a little more durable than a normal human. This is one reason she lost, as while Blake was more than capable of killing her, Blake was so much more durable that Mikasa's Thunder Spear is the only weapon she had that could reasonably harm her.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Mikasa is killed when Blake catches Mikasa's Thunder Spear and throws it back at her.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Gets stabbed in the chest by her own Thunder Spear, which Blake then detonates.
• No Body Left Behind: Pretty much a given when she gets caught in a point blank Thunder Spear explosion.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Mikasa orders Blake to get out of the village for her own safety. If this were a normal interaction between the two, Blake might have just asked about what was going on, but this is Death Battle, which means this somehow results in a fight that ends with Blake exploding her.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Misaka's Ackerman heritage makes her superhuman by the otherwise effectively "normal" standards of her series, but Blake is from a series where pretty much Everyone Is a Super (or at least the important people are), meaning that not only are her physical abilities nothing that Blake hasn't dealt with before, Misaka herself is caught flat-footed being the inferior superhuman and going against someone who wields superhuman abilities so removed from what she's used to dealing with in Titans.
• Oh, Crap!: She can only scream in pain and horror as Blake stabs her through the chest with and detonates the Thunder Spear to finish her off.
• Parrying Bullets: She easily parries Blake's bullets with her blades.
• Pre-Explosion Glow: Fire pours out of Mikasa's eyes and mouth in her last moments before exploding.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Mikasa wears one of these. And by the end of the Death Battle, it's the only piece of her left when Blake blows her up.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Mikasa's strongest weapons are the Thunder Spears, gas-propelled rods that are launched with enough speed to pierce through a Titan's skin, then explode when the rope attached to it is cut. They're even strong enough to damage the Armored Titan, who could barrel through Wall Maria's gate with a force of over 18 tons of TNT without stopping.^note Though it's noted in the after-battle analysis that part of their effectiveness relies in piercing the hardened Titan flesh before detonating in the vulnerable areas beneath where the explosion can't be negated While they're deemed strong enough to break through Blake's Aura, they're too slow to reliably hit her. In the animation, she does manage to break Blake's Aura with one (and then take advantage of the opportunity to slice off one of Blake's arms), but then when Blake turns one of the Thunder Spears against her, the results are... predictable.
• Super-Reflexes: She's comparable to fellow Ackerman Levi, who could dodge near point-blank pistol shots at Mach 2. This was far inferior to Blake's scaleable feats.
• Super-Toughness: Mikasa's ODM gear allows her to reach speeds of 366 Km/H (227.4 MPH) or 1/3 the speed of sound without any sort of support equipment. Theoretically, she withstands 10 Gs of force (or 10 times Earth's Gravity), greater than what fighter pilots experience briefly and nearly twice what a human can handle in a sustained length of time. In the fight, she tanks getting knocked through a building. However, she's still a Glass Cannon compared to Blake, as that is her only real durability feat and Blake is leagues more durable than her.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Mikasa is the one to start the fight, trying to get Blake to escape a village before the Titans arrive thinking she's some stubborn and stupid civilian who missed the evacuation order, then angrily shooting Blake's book out of her hand when she refuses. This ends up getting her killed.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: She hurls two of her blades. Blake dodges the first one, but the second one hits her in the head and knocks her out of the air.
• Undying Loyalty: Because of her genetic engineering, Mikasa is obliged to stand by Eren's side even when he goes off the deep end, though Boomstick speculates that she's actually loyal to him because he stood up for her when she couldn't stand up for herself.

Iron Fist VS Po

• Dragons Up the Yin Yang: Eastern draconic themes is a Mythical Motif that they both share and can even create dragons with their own chi.
• Ki Manipulation: Both can manipulate and channel their chis for combat and other special purposes.
• Supernatural Martial Arts: Both are highly skilled, master martial artists whose abilities far exceed and what is expected from your typical practitioner.

Iron Fist (Danny Rand)

Iron Fist: "I've earned the Iron Fist, and no one can take that from me. Not even you!"
Voiced by: Jonathan Bullock

Marvel's Immortal Iron Fist

• Animal Battle Aura: He summons a chi aura shaped like a dragon, just like Po. However, Po's dragon overpowers and consumes his.
• Blinded by the Light: Po blinds him with the Golden Lotus Clap, which produces a bright flash of light, but Danny can still block Po's attacks even if he can't see him.
• Character Catchphrase: Has a habit of shouting "Heart of the Dragon!" whenever he is surprised.
• Chest Insignia: The mark of Shou-Lao the Undying is tattooed on his chest to show he's worthy of his title of Immortal Iron Fist.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Loses both his parents on the way to K'un-Lun, allowing them to take him in, teach him, and eventually allow him to gain the power of the Iron Fist.
• Crimefighting with Cash: While he may be the sole heir to Rand International on top of being an experienced superhero, Danny also uses his money to provide help for and feed the poor.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Danny traveled with his father Randall and his mother Heather to K'un-Lun alongside Randall's business partner Harold Meachum. However, Harold sent Randall spiraling down a mountain to his death and Heather died protecting Danny from hungry wolves. Danny would be brought to K'un-Lun, where he would train in the martial arts and ended up inheriting the title of the Immortal Iron Fist. He would return to the United States to confront Harold, only to see him a broken man and spared his life, ultimately becoming a superhero in return.
• Deader than Dead: Po basically incinerates Danny with his chi dragon after taking him to the spirit realm. In other words, he kills him when he's already in the afterlife.
• Dem Bones: By gathering enough chi into his body, Iron Fist takes on the form of a skeleton engulfed in red flames made of chi.
• Didn't Think This Through: Danny, maybe when you're fighting a giant panda, you shouldn't try hitting him with a bamboo staff.
• The Dragonslayer: In order to properly receive the title of Iron Fist, Danny's final test was to defeat the dragon Shou Lao the Undying.
• Energy Absorption: Danny can absorb the chi of his opponents to both weaken them and restore his own. However, as Po canonically has so much chi he's outright overloaded similar chi-absorbing foes like Kai to the point of self-destruction, it wouldn't likely help too much in the long run.
• Fiction 500: He's a billionaire and CEO of the Rand Corporation.
• Fragile Speedster: He's physically weaker and less durable than Po, but much faster. This factors into his defeat as while he could move faster than Po, Po's fighting style specifically counters foes who move faster than him as well as his superior durability meaning that Danny wouldn't be able to overwhelm Po's defenses before Po would land a fatal hit.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He strikes Po hard enough to make him fly off and hit a wall... but Po immediately bounces off of the wall and slams into him, knocking him off his feet.
• Ironic Nickname: Goes by the title "The Immortal Iron Fist", yet Po quickly proves that he is very much "mortal".
• Kung-Fu Clairvoyance: Despite Po blinding him with the Golden Lotus Clap, Danny isn't hindered even for a moment, and he easily manages to send Po flying after a swift beating.
• Legacy Character: Danny is just the latest in a long line of title holders of the name "Immortal Iron Fist"
• Megaton Punch: The titular 'Iron Fist', a blow supercharged with an insane amount of chi. Danny once used this technique to counteract an explosion that, according to him, "would make Hiroshima look like a sparkler". He uses a 'One-Inch Punch' variation of this attack to send Po smashing through several islands.
• Mundane Solution: Danny's solution to the most feared technique in all of Kung Fu, the Wuxi Finger Hold? Simply pull away his hand. Po's forced to hold Danny tight into a bear hug just to get the attack to connect thanks to the Iron Fist's superior speed and skill.
• No Body Left Behind: After Po's chi dragon consumes his own, Danny himself follows suit, with his skeleton being blasted into nothing but ashes in the wind after Po charges through him.
• Spell Book: The Book of the Iron Fist is a mystical tome that has been passed down through the various holders of the title, containing many of the chi-manipulating techniques Danny has mastered and even allowing him to open portals across dimensions back to K'un-Lun. Wiz admits this was a possible defense against Po trapping him in the Spirit Realm with the Wuxi Finger Hold, but it wouldn't save him from Po just killing him.
• Super-Reflexes: His reaction times are comparable to a microsecond, and he can keep up with characters such as Spider-Man, who's able to react at the speed of light. While this makes him faster than his opponent, it's still not enough to overcome the Kung-Fu Panda.
• Super-Strength: He blew up a Helicarrier, punched the Hulk through a wall, and tore a demonic deity in half. However, Danny could not break Po's defenses.
• Super-Toughness: He caused and survived a 150 megaton explosion. This, however, pales in comparison to Po's toughness.
• Tempting Fate: The fight escalates to a Death Battle when Danny proposes that both he and Po should stop holding back. Guess who ends up biting it by the end of the match.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Considering Po lives in a universe where humans don't exist, he's not even remotely curious as to what Iron Fist is, seeing as he doesn't look anything like what he's seen before.
• Weak, but Skilled: Compared to Po, Danny is vastly weaker in both strength and durability but is faster and more skilled thanks to keeping up with light-timers and reacting in a microsecond, and his training and experience when he started learning at age 9. This what causes him to lose as while his speed and skill allows him to keep Po at bay, he cannot break through Po's massive bulk and take hits from him.
• Wealthy Philanthropist: One of the main things he uses his money for is helping the impoverished and needy.
• Wrecked Weapon: Played for Laughs. After hitting Po with a bamboo staff repeatedly, Danny then has half his staff whittled down when Po eats it. That's what happens when you try fighting a giant panda with bamboo.
• You Killed My Father: He trained in K'un-Lun to find and get revenge on Harold Meachum, the man who betrayed Danny's father in hopes of getting his company and wife. When Danny finds him, the man is a bitter, lonely, miserable old man bound to a wheelchair after losing both legs, so Danny spares him.

Po Ping (né: Li Lotus)

Po: "I am the Dragon Warrior. Get it? See the giant dragon?!"
Voiced by: Austin Lee Matthews

The Chosen Kung-Fu Panda

• Acrofatic: Going hand in hand with his Stout Strength, Po may be a bit on the chubby side; but that doesn't stop him from fighting alongside the Furious Five as an equal and pulling off comparable feats of athleticism and strength, to the point he can even dodge lightning.
• Ascended Fanboy: A major martial arts fanboy chosen to be the legendary Dragon Warrior and trained alongside his idols, the Furious Five.
• Ass Kicks You: Early on in the fight, Danny's attack causes Po to rebound off a wall and fly back at him, butt-first.
• Back from the Dead: Wiz actually speculates that due to his path to mindfulness being similar to the path of enlightenment to achieve Nirvana, Po could theoretically come back into the Living Realm from the Spirit Realm at will even if Danny somehow managed to kill him.
• Bears Are Bad News: Played with. Most of the time, Po's a good-natured, awkward clumsy panda who gets along with everyone. That said, he's also responsible for defeating countless villains, including Tai Lung, Lord Shen, and Kai. By the end of the battle, Po proves to be Bad News for Danny, because he kills him.
• Big Eater: Of course, being a panda that are known to have large appetites, Po even utilizes this in battle, as he gains his focus by imagining Danny as a dumpling and disarms Danny by eating his bamboo pole.
• Big Fun: Being a giant panda, Po's naturally pretty bulky and large. He's also a massive kung fu geek who gushes over how awesome his opponent is throughout the battle, even when he's getting his butt kicked.
• Blinded by the Light: Can blind foes with the Golden Lotus Clap, which emits a bright flash of golden light.
• Boisterous Bruiser: As a martial arts fanboy, Po's never happier than when he's fighting a Worthy Opponent, such as Danny. By the end of the match, instead of agonizing over the fact that he killed the benevolent Iron Fist, he's eagerly running off to tell Master Shifu about the fight he just had.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Not necessarily "lazy" but while Po took to his training eagerly he needed motivation to succeed in it, referred by Wiz as "a carrot on a stick".
• The Chosen One: The legendary "Dragon Warrior" chosen by Master Oogway, to everyone's — including Po's own — shock and confusion.
• Complete Immortality: In the post-fight rundown, Wiz mentions that since Po has attained enlightenment, he's able to freely move between the mortal realm and the afterlife, putting him beyond the concept of death. As a result, even if Iron Fist could beat him in a fight, it wouldn't matter, as he could just come back, making Po's victory a Foregone Conclusion. The only way to really put him down for good is to follow him to the Spirit Realm and destroy his soul, and while Iron Fist could theoretically follow through on that given the Book of the Iron Fist also lets him travel through dimensions, Po's other advantages make pulling off a win like that unlikely.
• Counter-Attack: Po's Panda Style revolves around using his Kevlard to soften incoming hits and rebounding back to deal damage to the enemy. It's mentioned that this method of combat was especially effective against more agile fighters like Iron Fist.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was orphaned as a baby by Lord Shen, who had committed genocide against the pandas to try to avert a prophecy stating that one would defeat him. His mother would 'Moses' him away, where he would be found by Mr. Ping, a goose, and raised to be a noodle chef like his adopted father.
  Boomstick: Man. That's some heavy stuff for a cartoon bear voiced by Jack Black!
• David Versus Goliath: Downplayed, but Po is not only fatter than Iron Fist, but the sprite used for him in this episode is taller than him. In this case, the Goliath wins.
• Dragons Up the Yin Yang: Po is known as the Dragon Warrior, is black-and-white like the taijitu, and after defeating Iron Fist his chi dragon takes the form of the taijitu before returning to the Living Realm from the Spirit Realm.
• Easily Impressed: Comes off this way at the start, when he fanboys over seeing Danny train, but all we actually see him do is some pretty standard punches.
• Enlightenment Superpower: Wiz mentions that attaining inner peace gives Po enhanced abilities, such as granting him the focus to catch cannonballs, and even travel between the mortal and spirit realms at will, making him effectively immortal.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: Po's smug declaration of "Oh, you know this hold?" when he's got Danny in the Wuxi Finger Hold falls flat because Danny doesn't know the Hold. And then he escapes it anyway.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: Po's combat style is known as "Panda Style", somewhat based off of the Shaolin-based "Dragon Style", but based around his "roundness" to absorb blows so he can counterattack. He also incorporates several different chi-based techniques into it, as well as "Inner Peace", a mental state which allows him to catch, handle, and replace waterdrops as well as projectiles like cannonballs.
• Furry Reminder: When he and Iron Fist are fighting using improvized bamboo staffs, he quickly eats his opponent's one down to a short stump. Real giant pandas famously specialize in eating bamboo.
• Genocide Survivor: Po is a survivor of Lord Shen's attempted genocide against the pandas, his mother having sacrificed herself so he could be safely sent away.
• Interspecies Adoption: A panda adopted and raised by Mr. Ping, a goose.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Po narrowly avoids being skewered by some bamboo shoots to the point of him sucking in his gut to avoid such.
• Kevlard: His thick fat helps protect him from damage and makes his pressure points hard to find.
• Ki Manipulation: Having learned and mastered chi, he can fire the Hadouken-like Thundering Wind Hammer, blind foes with the Golden Lotus Clap, and immobilize foes with the Paralyzing Shoulder Touch. He can also manifest a giant golden dragon out of chi, create powerful barriers that, comparing to past masters of chi, can block meteors, and use the Wuxi Finger Hold, which releases an explosion of chi energy powerful enough to displace 173,000 tons of clouds while also sending his foe (and potentially Po if he casts it on himself) straight to the Spirit Realm.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Po walks in on Iron Fist training and says "Wow, that was awesome!" and asks if he can spar with him. Iron Fist agrees to do so, leading into the events of the episode.
• Lethal Joke Character: Po is an anthropomorphic clumsy cartoon panda and Kung Fu fanboy whose first film came out in 2008. Danny is a serious supernatural martial artist who first came to Marvel Comics in the '70's. Ultimately, the hosts determine Po to be the winner.
• Made of Iron: Thanks to Po's Kevlard, he can take a surprising amount of punishment without issue, both deliberate and accidental. Po ends up shrugging off all of Iron Fist's attacks and is no worse for wear as well as falling down a large set of stairs due to Danny launching him off the temple.
• Man of Kryptonite: Thanks to Po's own wide variety of techniques and unique skill-set, he manages to be this to Iron Fist. His rotund body allows him to resist most pressure point shenanigans, his chi techniques let him counter Danny's Hypnotic Fist technique, his massive amounts of chi allowed him to overwhelm Danny if he tried absorbing it for himself, and Po's defence/counterattacking-based Panda Style is perfectly suited to counter the faster and more skilled Iron Fist.
  Wiz: At first glance, Iron Fist's incredibly speed and skill might make this result seem far-fetched, but look at it this way. Po's entire style is about taking hits from faster opponents until he gets his opening, making this the exact kind of match he would excel in.
• Mighty Glacier: Danny is much faster than him...but Po is larger and much tougher, as well as having more sheer strength. Thus while Danny could run circles around him, Po could tank everything while waiting for the perfect time to counter attack.
• Moses in the Bullrushes: Or "Panda in the Radish Crate", to be exact. His mother sent him away in a crate to save him from Lord Shen's panda genocide, and he was eventually found and adopted by Ping.
• One-Hit Kill: The Wuxi Finger Hold is a cross between this and a Prison Dimension, as it instantly teleports the target to the Spirit Realm, also known as the afterlife. That said, it's not a guaranteed win against Iron Fist, since he's able to travel to and from the afterlife with the Book of the Iron Fist, necessitating that Po destroy his soul instead of just leaving him there.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Po ends up being in awe rather than defending himself before being launched off the temple by Danny.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Or "Panda of Mass Destruction" but Po despite being slower and less experienced than Danny had much more power to give, his Wuxi Finger Hold in particular could unleash energy equal to 837 megatons of TNT, over 4 times more power than what Iron Fist could dish out and through scaling to previous user of the Hero's Chi, the Black Tortoise, could create chi barriers that could take approximately 100 teratons of TNT, 666,667 times greater than Danny's strongest attack.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": Po utters a panicked one when he's sent falling toward a sharp patch of bamboo shoots, but he's able to save himself from being impaled by sucking in his stomach.
• Stone Wall: While he does possess a decent amount of strength and speed, Po's big body can stop just about any physical attack, allowing him to wear down opponents and wait for an opening to unleash a devastating counterattack. Heck, it was even argued that Po's mastery of Chi could allow him to traverse the boundary of the Mortal Realm and Spirit Realm, potentially allowing him to No-Sell death itself. This was a deciding factor, as while Danny was much faster, he simply couldn't break through Po's defenses, while Po has a track record of winning against more agile foes.
• Stout Strength: As a Panda, Po has a large, round build that has been frequently described as "soft and fluffy", but also comes with a great deal of toughness and physical strength, allowing him to pull off feats like hurling hammers into low orbit.
• Super-Toughness: Po's 'roundness' can absorb great amounts of damage, including long falls, pressure point attacks, and even large hammers directly to the face. And that's not even factoring in his ability to manipulate chi into protective shielding. This is a deciding factor, as Po was simply too tough for Danny to kill, while this is exactly the situation Po's fighting style is built around.
• Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Po's Panda Style is a hard counter to Danny's style: it's intended to let Po weather attacks from faster opponents to wear them down and let him land a decisive blow. Combined with his own chi-mastery, and Po more or less had an answer to everything Danny could dish out.
• Taking You with Me: As noted by the hosts, if Po goes up against a foe who the Wuxi Finger Hold doesn't work on directly, (such as Kai) he can get them in a headlock and use the Hold on himself to take them to the spirit realm. He does this to Danny when the Iron Fist's reflexes prevent him from getting a grip on his fingers, though the spirit of the trope is downplayed, since Po can return from the spirit realm whenever he likes. And by the end of the fight, he does return.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Compared to Danny, Po's skills and experience aren't quite up to snuff since Danny has been training since an early age and is faster than Po. However, Po is stronger and tougher than Danny. This nets Po the win as his bulk and power allow him to tank hits from Danny, leaving the Iron Fist with little options to dent Po's defense.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Iron Fist reacts to seeing a giant talking panda who knows kung-fu rather casually, probably because he's a comic book character who's been around since the 70s.
• Worthy Opponent: If his reaction to Iron Fist's training and subsequent request to spar was any indication, Po certainly considers Danny to be this.

Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly

• All-Loving Hero: For the most part, they are both kind-hearted, optimistic, and friendly Kid Heroes from cartoons made in the 2010s.
• Ancestral Weapon: Steven inherited his alien mother's abilities and shield while Star inherited her family's magical wand and spells.
• Warrior Prince: Both heroes are descended from extraterrestial royalty and have to regularly defend Earth and its people from evil invaders.

Steven Quartz Universe

Crystal Gems: "Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl..."
Steven: "...and Steven!"
Voiced by: Kdin Jenzen

A Superpowered Half-Human, Half-Gem Teenager

• Amazing Technicolor Population: As part of his Gem heritage from Pink Diamond, when Steven enters his Super Mode, he goes pink. Like when Star causes him to reach his Rage Breaking Point.
• Awesome McCoolname: Boomstick considers this to be the case for Steven and his father Greg's surname, wishing that his own last name was Universe as well.
  Boomstick: Boomstick Universe!
• Barrier Warrior: One of Steven’s main abilities is to create energy shields and bubbles, which he can use to fight. His mother, Rose Quartz, once made one strong enough to block a blast of light energy that covered all of Earth, and Steven has all her powers from having inherited her gem at birth. Star, however, blows this out of the water as she has the magic potential to destroy an entire universe, and all her abilities stem from the same source of magic, meaning her defenses should theoretically be on a similar level.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Steven's a fun-loving sweetheart most of the time, but unlike many of the other Death Battle combatants who normally avoid killing, there's actually a moment from the canon where he finally snapped and killed someone, albeit only temporarily. When the fight against Star proves to be too much for him to handle, he ends up transforming into his unhinged Pink form and starts fighting to kill again.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Despite losing handily to Star, Steven was able to bubble and send her wand away, even if it didn't help in the long run.
• Dead Hat Shot: The camera makes sure to linger on Steven's shattered Gem to confirm his death.
• Deadly Forcefield: Steven attempts to finish the fight this way, trapping Star and all the fighting creatures inside his shield and shrinking it to squish them. He even bubbles and sends Star's wand away to stop her from trying to break out. Unfortunately for him, he didn't count on Star not only being strong enough to destroy the bubble, but also able to do it without her wand, and gets incinerated by the beam she uses to break loose.
• Fusion Dance: Like all Gems, Steven has the ability to fuse with other Gems for greater power. Uniquely, he can fuse with other humans, for instance "Stevonnie", the fusion between himself and his best friend/Love Interest Connie. He doesn't use this during the fight itself, however, since none of his possible fusees can be summoned to his side via some ability or device (such as Star's magical summons or even Steven's ability to grow Watermelon Stevens) and without which would otherwise break Death Battle's rules about outside help.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: By covering his hands with his bubbles he can fight better in hand-to-hand combat, unfortunately Star's wide variety of magic would make it very difficult to get close enough to do it.
• Gravity Master: One of Steven's more unique gem abilities is to temporarily alter his own gravitational pull at will, which allows him to jump as high and as far as he needs to.
• Green Thumb: Steven's healing saliva can give life to even inanimate objects, such as turning melon seeds into full blown sapient melon creatures. Steven is seen eating some melon at the start and spitting the seeds out, which grow into melon people that help him fight off Star's Warnicorn Stampede.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Steven is part-human, part-gem.
• Healing Hands: Steven's saliva and tears can heal injures and even bring the deceased back to life — complete with new powers and a pink makeover — and he can use the former on himself to heal minor wounds and fractures very quickly. However, it was judged Star could deal enough damage to kill Steven much faster than he could heal himself.
• Hey, You!: Right before he tries to kill Star, he calls her "Weird Bug Girl". As with Hulk calling Broly "Spiky Hair Man" last season, this trope is justified because neither Steven nor Star know each other's names.
• Incompletely Trained: A major factor in Steven's loss is that he's never fully mastered his Super Mode, which runs off his emotional state and thus left him ill-prepared against Star's mastery of her own.
• Leave Me Alone!: Steven says this verbatim as he unleashes his Pink State.
  Steven: (distraught) What's wrong with you?! Just leave... ME... ALOOOOOOONE!
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Steven is the warrior in this fight, having the advantage in physical strength, speed, and durability. However, he loses to Star, whose magical capabilities are more versatile and powerful enough to overcome these advantages. It was mentioned in the post-fight analysis that he was physically superior, but the matchup would rarely ever be resolved by fisticuffs.
• Martial Pacifist: Steven generally tries to avoid fighting if he can, but is willing to fight if necessary. He even tries to tell Star to stop at the start of the fight.
• Missing Mom: Rose Quartz surrendered her body to allow Steven to be born.
• No Body Left Behind: All that is left of Steven after Star blasts him with her full-powered magic is his gem, which is seen broken in half at her feet.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: While he's the single strongest being in his home universe, Star is just that much more powerful than him he couldn't win. At full power, he struggles to adjust to a peaceful world where there's nothing left for him to fight and ultimately becomes his own show's Final Boss. This puts Steven at a disadvantage against Star, who has always had something to fight until the final credits of her own show.
• Oh, Crap!: His expression to Star punching through his Deadly Force Field right before vaporizing him.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: While Steven may be a child, his half-gem heritage means he’s much stronger than an average human and has quite the impressive assortment of superpowers to hand.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Goodbye, weird bug girl!" Unfortunately for him, Star shatters his Deadly Force Field and turns this one-liner into his last words instead.
• Rage Breaking Point: When confronted by Butterfly State Star and her Warnicorn Stampede, he finally loses it — heavily implied to be as a result of PTSD from fighting the Diamonds — and enters his Pink State, upon which he becomes much more brutal and willing to try and end the fight fatally.
• Slasher Smile: Steven gains a noticeably furious one when he enters his Pink State, effectively showing he's absolutely done with Star's antics.
• Super Mode: Steven's Pink State, where he taps into his full powers from possessing Pink Diamond's Gem. This boosts him to the point he can easily destroy Gems as strong as Jasper, as well as match and overpower other Diamonds, but his emotional state is incredibly fragile in this form and can even end up with him transforming into a pink Godzilla-knockoff. Said kaiju form does not appear in the fight... not that it would've saved him anyway.
• Super-Reflexes: Steven is able to avoid the multi-directional lasers of a Gem security system for several seconds before summoning his shield to deflect them away. In the fight itself, he's able to dodge several of Star's magic blasts, but it's noted the sheer power and scope of Star's magic, combined with her ability to teleport, means this wouldn't remain an edge for long.
• Super-Toughness: Thanks to being part Gem, Steven is a lot tougher than the average human, being able shrug off hits from Gem monsters and handling the resulting g-forces of faster than light travel. Star, however, proved capable of breaking through even the toughest defense that he could put up.
• Tranquil Fury: At the start, after Star accidentally drops a sand tower on him, then makes the sand explode and cover him again, he just scowls while calmly picking her up and placing her a few feet away as a way of telling her to leave him alone. Unfortunately, since this is Death Battle, Star doesn't take the hint and attempts to cheer him up with Cupcake Blast, instigating the fight.
• Trauma Conga Line: Steven didn't take all the personal revelations about himself and his mother being dropped on him on top of his battles against Gem monsters and Homeworld very well at all, and his inability to fully and healthily process them eventually led to his Pink State going out of control and turning him into the monster he thought he was. Star ends up pushing his buttons as well.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Steven asks what is wrong with Star before he goes into his Pink State.

Star Butterfly

Star: "Who's ready for some bloody, bloody bloodbath? AAAHAHAHAHAH!"
Star voiced by: Corrine Sudberg
Spider with a Top Hat voiced by: Liam Swan

The Wild Child Princess from Another Dimension

• Ancestral Weapon: Star's Royal Magic Wand is a family heirloom of the Butterfly royal family which was passed on to her, allowing her to use magic more effectively.
• The Archmage: As the Princess of Mewni, Star has access to the Magic Instruction Book, which contains all the spells of the past Queens of Mewni, and Star is no stranger to coming up with new spells on her own to suit her needs, which Wiz notes effectively means she has an unlimited repetoire to pull from.
• Barrier Warrior: She can create powerful magic shields to defend herself from attacks. As she has the magic potential to destroy an entire universe, and all her abilities stem from the same source of magic, her defenses should theoretically be of a similar level and therefore dwarf Steven's.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Star is a goofball who often ends up in ridiculous hijinks due to her own shortsightedness, but the hosts note that if she wanted to kill someone at any cost, she could just pull out a dimension-destroying spell and call it a day. In fact, she wins against Steven because even his remarkably sturdy defenses couldn't match her absurd magical power.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Steven angrily moves her aside because she destroyed his sand castle and buried him in sand twice, she thinks he's just being grumpy and tries to cheer him up with cupcakes.
• Defiant to the End: Spider With A Top Hat outright shouts at Star to "NEVER SURRENDER!" when Pink Steven goes for the killing blow and it looks like she might really lose. Star takes it to heart and kills Steven first...along with every other fighter (ally and enemy) on the field in the crossfire.
• Depopulation Bomb: Star essentially performed this with her mother, whatever-grandmother, and Meteora by casting the Whispering Death spell into the source of all magic, thus wiping out all beings that required magic to exist.
• Dimensional Traveler: Star as mentioned is from another dimension, and with the Royal Magic Wand she can make portals to travel between dimensions at will.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: As pointed out by Wiz, most of Star's spells, barring a few, are all self-explanatory in their names, such as Cupcake Blast, Jelly Bean Hallucination Mist, and Warnicorn Stampede.
• Heroic Second Wind: When Steven attempts to kill her with his Deadly Forcefield and takes her wand from her, Star briefly fell into despair, but with the encouragement of Spider With A Top Hat she draws upon her innate magic and breaks loose, killing Steven and taking the win.
• Hypocritical Humor: After going into her Ultimate Magic Butterfly Form, Star exclaims that Steven whacking her in the face with a giant shield was rude despite the fact that she's been attacking him for most of the fight.
• Hey, You!: She calls Steven "pinkie" at one point. Justified, because neither of them know each other's names.
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Star is the wizard in this fight, having a disadvantage in physical strength, speed, and base durability, but she wins against Steven thanks to her magic being more versatile and powerful enough to overcome these disadvantages.
• Literal-Minded: Star is this in canon, and even more so here. When Steven attacks her, asking, "What did sandcastles ever do to you?!" she actually pauses to think about it, before shrugging and saying, "I don't know!".
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Star accidentally buries Steven under a tower of sand and tries to make it up to him. She ends up killing Steven, destroying an entire beach, starting a war that leads to the death of several unicorns and watermelon people, and vaporizing a rabbit.
• No Endor Holocaust: Boomstick comes to the unsettling conclusion that Star likely killed every magical creature when she wiped out all magic. Wiz quickly sweeps this under the rug.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Star has access to magic spells which can destroy entire planets (which she uses to play with cats), and one from an ancestor of hers in the book can blow up an entire dimension. While it's never stated how big said dimension was, comments from various characters about how Star could destroy the universe without control definitely puts her destructive force in perspective. This is the major factor in her victory, as Steven just had no chance of defending or surviving against the raw magic power Star can put out. It's even shown in the animation, as the moment Star gets serious from Spider with a Top Hat's encouragement, she ends up instantly wiping out EVERYONE around her including her opponent.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite her youth, Star, as a Mewman, is naturally much stronger than an average human, and she's exceptional even by said race's standards, to say nothing about her powerful and versatile magic.
• Pyrrhic Victory: She finally wins the first prize for best sandcastle at the end of the fight, but only after destroying an entire beach and causing tons of casualties, including Steven, her only (visible) competition. As Boomstick points out, "I don't think she won what she thinks she won".
• Skewed Priorities: When she gets a good look at an angry Steven in his Pink State, her response is to almost Squee and say "That's neat!" rather than show any concern for his bloodlust. At the end of the fight, she's ultimately more focused on the blue ribbon that smacked against her head and happily declaring she "won" than on the devastation she wrought to survive and win.
• Sole Survivor: By the end of the fight, Star is the only one still alive, with Steven, her summons and the Watermelon Stevens all dead by her hand.
• Spell Book: The Butterfly Spell Book, which contains the chronicled spells of all the past Queens of Mewni and within the pages of which Star has added spells of her own invention for her own possible successors. This is important because this means she has access to the knowledge to perform dimension/universe-destroying spells, more than sufficient to defeat Steven.
• Super-Cute Superpowers: Star likes to imbue her magical attacks with cute animals or sweets, ex: Starfish Tsunami or Jellybean Hallucination.
• Super Mode: Her Ultimate Magic Butterfly Form, which is a Golden Super Mode where Star's magic reaches its peak potential and her wings grow out to their full size and gives her two extra pairs of arms. In this state, Star doesn't even need her Wand to cast her spells. This is a decisive factor in her victory, as her mastery of this form combined with not needing the wand to unleash her strongest attacks really meant Steven had no chance.
• Super-Reflexes: She can fight evenly against Meteora, who could react to lightning bolts. While impressive, this still put her below Steven's laser-dodging feat, but she could compensate with her teleportation magic.
• Super-Toughness: She can survive a magical explosion powerful enough to blow away a tower of Castle Mewni without relying on any magic for protection. She was technically still far inferior to Steven, at least in her base form, since that "only" scales to a few dozen tons of TNT when Steven's defense could scale against the mountain-breaking Garnet, but she could bounce back.
• Summon Magic: One of her most used spells involves summoning magical creatures to aid her in battle, which can be anything from a stampede of unicorns to a spider with a gatling gun in his top hat.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: She instigates the fight by growing a giant sand castle which then falls on Steven, and then she blows up said sand castle, before attempting to cheer up an unamused Steven with Cupcake Blast, which he ends up mistaking for an attack. Unlike most of this show's other examples of this trope, Star is not the one who dies.
• Voice of the Legion: She briefly speaks like this after entering her Golden Super Mode, most likely out of anger since her later excited proclamations in this form lack the effect.
• Winged Humanoid: She has wings that allow her to fly, though Boomstick is incredulous that their initial tiny form can even hold up her weight. They get much bigger in her Golden Super Mode.

Link VS Cloud (2021)

• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Both are blonde haired, noble heroes who protect and save the world and those closest to them.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Both are heroic people who wield two of gaming's most iconic blades ever created, the Master Sword and the Buster Sword.
• Magic Knight: Both are video gaming's iconic Master Swordsmen with plenty of magical items and abilities to aid them in their adventures and battles.
• The Quiet One: They don't really speak much.

Link

Mipha: "Now's your chance..."

The Courageous and Determined Hero of Hyrule

• All Your Powers Combined: This Link wields weapons, tools, and powers from each of his many incarnations. He comes into the battle insanely well-equipped, but even his considerable arsenal can't overcome Cloud's enormous physical advantage and his similarly versatile collection of Materia.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: When he and Cloud end up in the Sector 5 Church, Link's attention is predictably drawn to the pots inside, smashing them before Cloud gets his attention again.
• Back from the Dead: Link can do this via Mipha's Grace, bringing him back to life and at full strength. He uses this near the end of the fight while donning the Fierce Deity Mask; though he's caught in Omnislash V5 shortly after and dies again properly, due to the aforementioned spell only working once every twenty minutes.
• Back for the Dead: Link returns nine years after his first fight with Cloud for a rematch. However, much as with Sonic back in Season 5, it ends with his previous win being retroactively undone.
• Badass Biker: Starts off the fight riding his Cool Bike, the Master Cycle Zero.
• Composite Character: Much like in his previous outing, since most of the Links are Reincarnations of the Hero overall, the fight will be taking feats and equipment from more or less all of them into account, such as the Links from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask (the Ocarina of Time and Fierce Deity Mask), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Ancient Arrows), and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (the Four Sword).
• Cool Sword: The Master Sword, Evil's Bane Incarnate, is capable of destroying magical barriers, disspelling curses and slaying immortal creatures. It also can unleash bolts of energy, unleash the Skyward Strike and can even power itself up with lightning. Link also has access to the Four Sword, which splits him into four copies of himself.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Although Link is shown to be thoroughly outmatched physically in the post-fight analysis, a Freeze-Frame Bonus during Omnislash V5 reveals that he reduced Cloud's in-game health down to 302 out of 9502. In other words, coming within a hair's breadth of killing Cloud himself before the SOLDIER mounts his comeback.
• Die, Chair, Die!: Link's classic instinctive hatred of pottery is Played for Laughs when the fight moves into the Sector 5 Church. There, Link sees several pots and starts smashing them for items like he usually does, earning Cloud's ire on the basis of him (unknowingly) vandalizing Aerith's church.
• Genius Bruiser: With his centuries' worth of experience, enormous arsenal of items/weapons and aptitude for using them creatively and thinking on the fly, this was one of Link's biggest advantages. While all these things do let Link put up a consistently strong fight, they couldn't save him in a straight-up brawl given how much faster, more durable and powerful Cloud was.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: His final fate. After taking heavy damage from Cloud's Omnislash V5, it ends with him being cleaved in two vertically despite (unsuccessfully) trying to protect himself with both the Fierce Deity Mask and the Triforce of Courage.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Has his own Skyward Strike turned against him by Cloud. Had Mipha not been ready to revive Link with her healing spell, he would have suffered an early death right there and then.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: He's the page image for the trope, being a Walking Armory in all his games and even moreso here. Unfortunately, Cloud's own magic and abilities could match Link in versatility, forcing them into a test of physicality that he simply couldn't keep up in.
• Master Archer: Link is an archer second to none, using Fire Arrows, Ice Arrows, Shock Arrows, Light Arrows, and even Ancient Arrows, which consign those hit with them to oblivion. While the latter succeeds in erasing Fenrir, the effects of the arrows on Cloud himself are nullified by his Ribbon.
• No Body Left Behind: Subverted. After being sliced in half, he fades away like a slain Final Fantasy enemy- though, this is shown to just be a special effect, as the two halves of Link's corpse land in front of Cloud immediately afterwards. It's played straight for his 3 clones however, as they get sucked into Cloud's Remove.
• Oh, Crap!: Red Link looks shocked as Cloud casts Remove.
• Reincarnation: What justifies him being a Composite Character; Thanks to being in Hylia's favor, Link has been reincarnated multiple times making most versions of Link capable of anything the others can do.
• Retroactive Preparation: Fittingly enough, Link can do this by playing the Ocarina of Time's Song of Time. It's noted that while Link could theoretically return back to the beginning of the battle and ambush Cloud with better knowledge of his abilities, Cloud's Assess Materia could achieve similar results much easier and faster, and he has noted experience fighting against time-traveling opponents.
• Self-Duplication: Using the Four Sword, Link can split himself into four perfect copies of himself. Link's clones keep Cloud overwhelmed for a spell, but a quick use of Remove brings the battle back to 1-on-1.
• Super-Strength: With items such as the Golden Gauntlets or Titan's Mitt, Link has been able to lift and throw stone pillars weighing over ten thousand tons. Unfortunately for him, Cloud is stronger.
• Super-Reflexes: His ability to dodge lasers puts his reaction time at 1/10th the speed of light. However, they paled in comparison to Cloud's own reaction speeds, which let him keep up with the solar system-crossing Bahamut Fury.
• Super-Toughness: Link has shown to be tough enough to roll through lava in his adventures, and can tank the continent-destroying power of the Moon crashing into Termina. While impressive, it still doesn't come close to his opponent surviving the sun (repeatedly) exploding in his face and destroying whole dimensions, and while Link might scale to possible dimension-destroying entities, these are very dubious compared to Cloud's explicit feat of doing so.
• Sword Plant: When Cloud uses Remove on the four Links, Blue Link uses his sword to anchor himself to the floor.
• Together in Death: Mipha can be heard urging Link on as he revives, although he dies again soon after.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Vio turns himself into a fairy to distract Cloud while the other Links set up a bomb trap.
• Walking Armory: Aside from his Master Sword, Link carries numerous other weapons ranging from clubs, hammers, boomerangs, other swords, a bow with various types of mystical arrows, and a magical stone tablet that grants him powers such as telekinesis, pausing time, and producing bombs out of thin air. While this was touted as a reason behind his original win, Cloud's vastly expanded Materia selection had options to negate this advantage.
• Weak, but Skilled: The biggest factor in Link's loss this time. While he was by no means weak and had the tools, abilities and sheer experience/adaptability to put up a strong fight — to the point where he could in fact win in several scenarios — Link lacked Cloud's sheer physicality; which proved especially crucial when his opponent also had the means to work around what he had.

Cloud Strife

Cloud: "Stay where you belong... in my memories."
Voiced by: Adam Gibbs

Sword Swinging', Spiky-Haired Sephiroth Slayer

• Back from the Dead: Has returned following his initial loss against Link to see if he can avenge himself. He succeeded.
• Badass Biker: Starts off the fight on his Cool Bike, Fenrir.
• Berserk Button: Cloud gets very pissed off at Link when he catches him smashing the pots in the Sector 5 Church. While in Link's defense, he wasn't aware of it (just doing what he usually does with pottery), Cloud sees him doing so in a place close to Aerith as insulting her memory.
• BFS: Pretty much all of the swords that he ever wielded are really big and heavy looking. Heck, he is the trope's image for this very reason.
• Bifurcated Weapon: Cloud's Fusion Sword is the page image for the trope, being able to detach and reconfigure parts of itself for greater variety and allowing Cloud to use Omnislash V5. He pops the side blades off to use as his off-hand weapon after Link draws the Four Sword, and uses the upgraded Omnislash to finish off the Fierce Deity.
• Boring, but Practical: Link could theoretically travel back in time to the beginning of the fight with better knowledge of Cloud's abilities, but Cloud could do the same simply by using Assess on Link.
• Cool Sword: Inherited his signature weapon, the Buster Sword, from Zack. By the time Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children rolls around, he's left it behind as a Weapon Tombstone for his fallen friend in exchange for the Fusion Sword. Cloud actually uses both in the battle, starting off with the Buster Sword only to lose it when blocking the Fenrir being destroyed by an Ancient Arrow, then switching over to the Fusion Sword.
• Fake Memories: A big Late-Arrival Spoiler is that Cloud's "memories" of being in SOLDIER are in fact those of his actual SOLDIER friend and mentor, Zack Fair.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: While the lightning can obscure them for a bit, it's actually possible to see Cloud throwing pieces of the Fusion Sword into the sky long before he launches Link upwards, preparing Omnislash Ver. 5 in advance.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Wiz and Boomstick casually spoil the fact that Cloud was never part of SOLDIER but instead a Shinra Mook (albeit one that had undergone experimentation himself), and that his post-traumatic stress disorder caused his memories to be mixed up with those of his friend and mentor, Zack Fair.
• Lightning Bruiser: What factors into Cloud's victory over Link is that he is much faster, stronger, and tougher than him, on top of having the sufficient versatility (through his own abilities and Materia) to keep the fight a case of his greatest advantage going up against Link's biggest weakness.
• Limit Break: Final Fantasy VII is the Trope Namer. Like before, Cloud could use Omnislash with the Buster Sword but when he got the Fusion Sword, he could use the upgraded Omnislash V5. He ends up finishing off Link this way.
• Magic Knight: While he's best known as a swordsman, Cloud can augment his fighting skills with different types of Materia, whether it may be launching different types of elemental magic, healing himself, inflicting status effects on foes, curing himself from similar ailments, and summoning monsters to fight alongside him.
• Nonchalant Dodge: Cloud dodges the boulder launched his way by the Fierce Diety's emergence without any notable effort.
• Not Quite Flight: Wiz tries to justify the absurd amount of time he can stay in the air as really good jumping... only to give up when he realizes Cloud can basically fly.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Repurposes one of his more... quotable lines before performing Omnislash Ver. 5, complete with Precision F-Strike:
  Cloud: Let's mosey, asshole.
• Strong and Skilled: Cloud's biggest advantage over Link is that he had the abilities to counter just about everything the Hylian could throw at him, and had the sheer stats to overpower him on top of that.
• Sudden Video-Game Moment:
  • A Fight Woosh happens as the battle begins, showing a Final Fantasy VII-style menu before Cloud looks behind him.
  • When Cloud is in the process of finishing the bout with Omnislash V5, the menu comes back and numbers pop up, detailing Cloud's remaining health — 302 out of 9502 — and him inflicting a One-Hit Kill — 9999 damage — on a fully-restored Fierce Deity Link.
• Super-Reflexes: He can keep pace with Bahamut Fury, who can fly between planets in seconds. This means he can react much faster than Link; in fact, using Death Battle's numbers, Cloud is roughly about 12000x faster.
• Super-Toughness: He survived Sephiroth's infamous Supernova, an attack labelled directly as one capable of destroying entire dimensions. Not only does this act as a testament to his insane durability, but it also happens to make him too tough for Link to outmuscle.
• Summon Bigger Fish: His Summon Materia allows him to call upon gigantic monsters to help him in battle, such as the moon-destroying Bahamut Fury. It is worth noting that the inclusion of Summons is due to Death Battle's revised modern ruleset, contrasting the original rules where they were not allowed as outside help. Not that he needed them anyway, but that said, his ability to go toe-to-toe with those Summons help put him on a tier of power and speed Link can't match.
• Super-Soldier: While he's not actually a SOLDIER, he is legitimately superhuman thanks to Dr. Hojo's experimentation with Jenova Cells, taken from its namesake creature; an alien being and the "mother" of his arch-nemesis, Sephiroth.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Upon seeing Link ride up to him with a sword while he's out for a drive, Cloud gives an irritated "Oh, great" in response. He almost dies in the ensuing fight, but at least makes it out with his life.
• Took a Level in Badass: With a more robust arsenal of Materia to call upon (making up for the minuscule selection he had initially) and further re-evaluation of feats thanks to Death Battle's modern ruleset, Cloud went from losing a very close battle the first time to taking the win in a rematch.
• Unrealistic Black Hole: Cloud casts Remove to deploy a large purple vortex to suck in 3 of the 4 Links split via the Four Sword, removing them from the fight. Notably, this uses Remove's animation from other games in the Final Fantasy series, as Remove resembles a Pillar of Light in Cloud's home game.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Incredulously wonders why Link takes a moment to break pots randomly, especially since they're in Aerith's church:
  Cloud: [quietly aghast] ...excuse me?

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