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Harley Quinn VS Jinx

• Badass Bookworm:
  • Harley’s able to psychoanalyze heroes to help with their trauma, and can hold her own against martial artists like Deathstroke and Batman. In the fight, she tries to appeal to Jinx’s destructive nature to come close and let her finish Jinx off. However, not only is Jinx just as intelligent as her, her distrustful nature towards people she just met meant that tactic wouldn’t work.
  • Not only is Jinx tough enough to take a hit from Braum, who can shake mountains with his bare hands, she’s also a genius who designed most of her own gear. This was a serious advantage for her, as not only was Jinx much tougher than Harley, her high intelligence meant she wasn’t likely to fall for Harley’s mind-games.
• Cute and Psycho: Both are colorful, chaotic, criminal, and energetically eccentric Genki Girls with some loose screws in their heads.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Both had pretty miserable upbringings and backstories before they were subjected to the/transformed by the Psycho Serum that cause them to mentally snap and become the agents of chaos that they are known today.
• Friendly Enemy: Despite the two trying to kill each other, they both clearly enjoy indulging in each other's wild antics, pausing mid-fight to finish jokes or be on the receiving end of some slapstick.
• Waif-Fu: These two are surprisingly strong and durable despite what their skinny frames would have you believe on first glance.

Harley Quinn (Harleen Quinzel)

Harley: "Heh, I like 'sploding stuff, too! Why don't I start with your head?!"
Voiced by: Felicia Valenti

DC's Fantabulous Anti-Hero

• Adaptational Modesty: Ever since the switch to the New 52, Harley's outfits have been quite Stripperific. The Harley shown here wears a lot more clothing, and only shows skin when she loses her jacket near the end.
• Batman Gambit: Harley tries appealing to Jinx's more destructive personality by goading her into delivering the killing blow face-to-face, planning to fry the Zaunite terrorist with an Electric Joybuzzer. Unfortunately, Jinx doesn't fall for the trap, and sends her flying to her doom.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: Harley's death comes the end of one of the longest winning streaks in the show, DC vs Non-Marvel, which started at the end of Season 1 with Goku vs. Superman and had never been broken until this fight.
• Carry a Big Stick: Harley's most iconic weapon is her large mallet.
• Clothing Damage: She loses her jacket near the end of the fight.
• Composite Character: Harley combines feats and lore from the mainstream comics, Batman: The Animated Series, the DC Extended Universe, the Arkham games, and her self-titled animated series. Her design in the fight mixes the aforementioned cartoon's artstyle with one of her outfits from The Suicide Squad.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Harleen's early life wasn't that great — embarrassing parents, annoying siblings and a high school life that sucked. Determined to become something better and inspired by a former crush-turned-psychopath, Harleen studied to become a world class psychologist, and ended up setting up shop in Arkham Asylum. However, the Joker was able to manipulate Harleen into seeing her life warped by his twisted mirror, leading to her transformation into his partner in crime, Harley Quinn.
• Deadly Gas: She reverse-engineered the Joker Venom, and just one dose is capable of suffocating someone to death without a cure. Unfortunately, due to Jinx's high tolerance of poison due to her growing up in Zaun, her gas mask, and the Quicksilver Sash, which would just cleanse Jinx's body from the venom, it wouldn't be enough to net her the win.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Harleen Quinzel was already a talented acrobat, but thanks to her romance with Poison Ivy and training with the Amazons, she attained superhuman abilities and a healing factor.
• Healing Factor: Thanks to Poison Ivy, Harley attained a healing factor that would help her heal from relatively dangerous wounds. However, she's never healed limbs or anything greater than bullets and stab wounds, so it wasn't going to help her recover from Jinx's explosives.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Harley's gone from being the Joker's abused and gaslit Number Two to an honorary member of the Bat Family... and back again a couple of times.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Thanks to Jinx's Acquired Poison Immunity, Harley's Joker Venom just makes things worse for her by causing Jinx to go berserk rather than killing her.
• No Body Left Behind: After Jinx blows her up, all that's left of Harley is her head.
• Profane Last Words: Harley only has time to scream, "Oh SHIIIIIT!" as she's carried into the sky by Jinx's Super Mega Death Rocket before it explodes, killing her.
• Psycho Serum: Harley proved her devotion to "Mistah J" by taking a bath in the same toxic chemicals that turned the Red Hood into the Joker.
• Your Head A-Splode: Inverted. Jinx blows her up completely except for the head.

Jinx (Powder)

Jinx: "...Nyahahaha! Get back! I'm crazy! I have...hahahaha... a doctor's note for it!!"
Voiced by: Elsie Lovelock

The Loose Cannon of League of Legends

• Acquired Poison Immunity: Having grown up in the toxic cesspit of Zaun, Jinx has a high tolerance for poison gasses. Thus, Harley's Joker Venom doesn't kill her, but it does trigger her psychosis, leading to Jinx going berserk. Plus, she could always purge the effects of the gas with her Quicksilver Sash or even just use a gas mask of her own, making it unlikely it could even take effect on her.
• Ax-Crazy: There's nothing Jinx loves more than causing mayhem, both of the Poke the Poodle and genuinely destructive kind.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: She leans more towards Blue-and-Orange Morality than outright evil, but shooting birds with a rocket launcher for no reason is definitely not what a good person would do.
• Bomb Throwing Anarchist: Regularly terrorizes the city of Piltover with lots of explosives.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: Jinx's victory marks the end of the losing streak by video game characters against comic book characters, with the last win being Amy Rose's victory over Ramona Flowers back in Season 3.
• Cain and Abel: Jinx's archenemy is the enforcer Vi... who happens to be her older sister.
• Composite Character: Jinx combines lore and feats from her original League of Legends iteration — mostly from the "Get Jinxed" music video, her reworked League of Legends iteration, her Wild Rift iteration, and her Arcane iteration. Blatantly alternate universe takes on her, such as the Star Guardians, are excluded from this, focusing more on the games and Arcane.
• Dark and Troubled Past: When she was a child, Powder's parents were killed by enforcers working for Piltover's oppressive government, leading to her and her sister Violet joining a street gang. Feeling inadequate, Powder tried to prove herself, but accidentally killed her foster father and brothers in the process. With Vi abandoning her, she wound up being adopted by the kingpin Silco and raised as one of his enforcers. PTSD from a lifetime of trauma, a rocky reunion with Vi, jealousy over her sister's relationship with the enforcer Caitlyn, and a massive injection of Shimmer lead to Powder having a meltdown and becoming the maniacal terrorist Jinx, though she recovered a measure of stability with the mentorship of Ziggs, a Yordle Mad Scientist with a more measured approach to anarchy and explosions.
• I Will Show You X!: Jinx first appears in the battle shooting at crows with her rocket launcher.
  Jinx: Screw you, ya emo pigeons! I'll show you a murder!
• Magitek: Several of Jinx's weapons and tools are powered by Hextech, technology powered by magic.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range: After catching Harley's hammer by the shaft and purging the Joker Venom from her system, Jinx throws her surprised foe back and unloads on her with her minigun, grievously injuring her and setting her up for her killing blow.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: After riddling Harley with bullets, Harley tries to bait Jinx within range of her Electric Joybuzzer by asking if she'd rather savor Harley's death up close and personal. Jinx doesn't fall for it and shoots Harley with her Super Mega Death Rocket.
  Jinx: Mmm, nah. Bye-Bye!
• Properly Paranoid: Wiz points out that due to her Dark and Troubled Past, Jinx wouldn't be affected by Harley's mind-games and manipulations, as she's already distrustful towards strangers, which Harley is, so she would end up taking Harley's words with a grain of salt, rather than accepting them. And this is shown when Harley tries to get Jinx to come close enough for her to use an Electric Joybuzzer at the end of the fight, only for Jinx to refuse and simply blast her with her Super Mega Death Rocket.
• Psycho Serum: After she was badly injured by an explosion, Powder was injected with Shimmer — a toxic drug that granted her superhuman abilities, but dialed her psychosis up, cementing her transformation into Jinx.
• Teleport Spam: Jinx's Teleporting Tablet could teleport just about anywhere she so chooses. With it, she was deemed capable of controlling the entire battle, due to being able to send herself and/or Harley anywhere, which helps her secure the victory.
• Trauma Button: When exposed to Harley's Joker Venom, the noxious chemical reminds Jinx of her own polluted home Zaun. This, combined with the Venom, triggers her PTSD and mania, sending Jinx into a Laughing Mad rampage.

Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna

• Hot Witch: Both are Marvel and DC's finest looking masters of magic.
• Lady of Black Magic: Both Zatanna and Wanda are beautiful and powerful sorceresses.
• Summon Magic: Both Wanda and Zatanna summon past combatants from their universes to assist them in the fight: Superman and Wonder Woman for Zee, and Hulk and Thor for Wanda.
• Super Power Lottery: Both of them are huge winners, having the greatest potential and amount of raw magical power, talent, and skill in their respective universe's.

Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)

Scarlet Witch: "You can't run forever! Now make like a magician and disappear!"
Voiced by: Cassandra Wladyslava

Marvel's Crimson Queen of Chaos

• Apocalypse Maiden: It's eventually revealed that Wanda's Chaos Magic powers come from an Eldritch Abomination called Chthon, Marvel's stand-in for Cthulhu, who seeks to take over Wanda's body and use her as his avatar.
• Black Mage: Wanda specializes in Chaos Magic, which stems from the dark elder god Chthon, and allows her to manipulate probability to her advantage, fire energy bolts, teleport, and even warp reality.
• Brought Down to Normal: Implied to have happened after Zatanna's "No more Witches" line before her death.
• Composite Character: Her appearance is lifted straight from the comics, while she sounds rather similar to the MCU's Scarlet Witch, Elizabeth Olsen.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: How she dies. Zatanna encases her in a wooden box, then cuts her in half with a sharpened stage saw. Though we don’t see it happen, as she was sawed inside the box.
• Humble Goal: Despite her god-like powers, what Wanda wants most is to be a wife and mother. Unfortunately, her desire to attain that goal led to... terrible results.
• Reality Warper: Her chaos magic evolved to the point she was able to rewrite the Marvel Ommiverse, with House of M being one such feat. However, not only did it leave her mentally unstable, allowing Zatanna to exploit it, but it also wasn’t as precise, with a small amount of mutants around despite saying ‘No More Mutants’.
• Sanity Slippage: Wanda's greatest weakness. Wanda's mind has not been entirely stable ever since her twin children were revealed to be creations of Mephisto, and tapping into the Life Force has fractured her mind, to the point where she nearly erased Mutantkind in a fit of sorrow. This is the main reason why Zatanna is able to defeat Wanda in the end.
  • In the battle itself, she starts the fight rather levelheaded, trading jabs with Zatanna and turning her magic back at her. As the fight goes on, she becomes more reckless and relies more on brute force, without any strategy or trickery.
• Technician Versus Performer: The Technician vs Zatanna's performer. Scarlet Witch is aggressive, quick to anger, not exactly the sanest person in the Marvel Universe, and her attacks consists of the strongest and most potent spells she can conjure up, with no sense of subtlety. While she has raw power in spades, she is severely lacking in strategy and intelligence, especially when Zatanna proves herself to be just as powerful, but far more skilled.
• Took a Level in Badass: Wiz and Boomstick discuss how early in her comic book tenure with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and the Avengers, Wanda was really only good for causing a single Hex, and then being "useless for the rest of the battle". But over time, her Hexes evolved, with her being able to do far more than before, to the point she can be considered a god.
• Twitchy Eye: Upon having four universes thrown at her, her eye twitches briefly to show she's reached the end of her patience and sanity.
• Undignified Death: For one of the most powerful Reality Warpers in the Marvel Universe, being trapped in a box and getting sawed in half is a rather mundane way to go.
• Unskilled, but Strong: One of the factors in her loss is that her mental instability, not helped by the fact that tapping into the full power of the Life Force threatens her sanity even more, leaves her prone to making mistakes that more level-headed opponents can expolit.
• Winds of Destiny, Change!: Wanda's Chaos Magic initially manifested as probability manipulation, letting her hex her opponents to grant her allies an edge in battle.

Zatanna Zatara

Zatanna: "Well, I think the difference is... presentation! And I know a trick when I see one!"
Voiced by: Lauren Mayfield

DC's Magnificent Mistress of Magic

• Berserk Button: Needless to say, Zatanna didn't take kindly to Wanda calling her, a professional magician and a master of magic, a "two-bit scorceress" at the start of the fight.
• Bond One-Liner: "And that's our show, ladies and germs! *giggle*"
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: One of the factors in her victory is that Zatanna has much more experience combating Reality Warpers with comparable power to herself and Scarlet Witch than Wanda.
• Daddy's Girl: She loves her father very much and a large part of her motivation is living up to his memory. Despite this...
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Her on again/off again relationship with John Constantine drove Giovanni Zatara up the wall.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: She has been known to do this as a part of her Reality Warper abilities, being able to reach beyond the comic panels themselves in order to give herself an advantage against her opponent. And during the fight, she reaches out beyond the video (conveniently taking advantage of the odd aspect ratio of the first half of the fight) in order to find a way to deal with Wanda, the camera cutting to static as she does.
• Guile Hero: What ultimately wins her the fight is her documented ability to come up with plans and mind games on the fly, baiting Wanda into unleashing so much magical power she had an opportunity to position herself for an ambush, and tricking her into thinking that the Sdrawkcab Speech was key to her powers, rather than a mnemonic that she can work without if given a chance to focus.
• Large Ham: Her immense magical power is matched only that of her stage pressence. Her entire fight with Wanda is framed as part of one of her elaborate shows, with her hyping the audience up the whole time.
• Magicians Are Wizards: Being a professional magician with actual powers and a full-time superhero is a good place to be.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Gives this to Wanda mentally before trapping and killing her:
  Zatanna: And for my final trick: sehctiw erom oN! No more witches.
• Reality Warper: With her magic, Zatanna can transmute matter down to its very atoms, teleport across entire dimensions, control the elements, turn invisible, take away a person's powers, cast illusions, read and control minds, travel through and stop time, and even erase people from existence outright. Wiz even points out that Zatanna's magic puts her on par with other heroes such as Doctor Fate, Green Lantern and Pre-Crisis Superman.
• Sanity Has Advantages: While not without her issues, Zatanna is far more emotionally stable than Scarlet Witch, a key point in her victory; Wanda is much more likely to be baited into making a mistake.
• Sdrawkcab Speech: Zatanna performs most of her magical feats by speaking the spell backwards. She was even able to counter the effects of Backslash's time reversal causing her to speak normally by instead speaking in palindromes^note sentences that remain the same even when the letters are reversed so she would still be speaking backwards. However, the hosts note that Zatanna does not necessarily need to say the spell backwards or at all in order to cast her spells, the backwards speaking being more of a concentration exercise than anything else. This proves vital to her victory, as even when Wanda made it so she could not make a sound, she could still use magic to escape her attempt at erasing her from existence.
• Stage Magician: When not being a superhero, Zatanna works as a stage magician. She was trained by her father, the Golden Age hero Giovanni Zatara^note who debuted in the very same comic as Superman, who also taught Batman escape artistry.
• Stealth Insult: During her battle with Wanda, she mentions she knows a trick when she sees one.
• Strong and Skilled: One of the reasons behind her win is that Zatanna can match Wanda in terms of power as well as keep a cool head and think more tactically than her mentally unstable opponent.
• Technician Versus Performer: The Performer (obviously) to Scarlet Witch's Technician. While she is by no means lacking in raw power, Zatanna prefers channeling her spells through some applications like bunnies, cards, teleportation and summoning allies to fight on her behalf. Thanks to her creativity and outside-the-box thinking, she earns the win.
• Words Can Break My Bones: Zatanna can basically warp reality by speaking the appropriate spell backwards. During the post-fight analysis, this is revealed to actually be a method of concentration for Zatanna, rather than a requirement to use her powers. While she's sometimes been incapacitated by being rendered incapable of speech, she doesn't need to speak the spell backwards or even aloud for it to work.

Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar

• All-Loving Hero: One of the biggest things Tanjiro and Jonathan have in common is their kind hearts, in particular Tanjiro's desire to cure his sister Nezuko of her demonic curse, and Jonathan's inability to hate his adoptive brother Dio Brando, no matter what he did.
• Genius Bruiser: Both combatants are talented fighting prodigies, with Tanjiro being more of an Awesomeness by Analysis type while Jonathan is more of a Badass Bookworm.
• Heroic Lineage: Both combatants are members of a long line of badass fighters who fight evil, but while Tanjiro serves as the latest member (and potentially the last) of the demon slaying Kamados, Jonathan serves as the first one to really kickstart the Joestar lineage and their bizarre adventures down the line.
• Hunter of Monsters: Both combatants are trained and dedicated into slaying the fearsome and vile monsters that plague their world, with Tanjiro being a Demon Slayer and Jonathan being a Vampire Hunter.
• The Power of the Sun: Through special breathing techniques, both combatants can channel energy with the properties of the Sun in their attacks, a perfect weapon against their monstrous foes.

Tanjiro Kamado

Tanjiro: "I don't know who you are, but you better leave her alone."
Voiced by: Zack Maher

The Sun Breathing Demon Slayer Swordsman

• Attack Its Weak Point: After figuring out how Jonathan's abilities work with See-Through World, Tanjiro tries to focus on his neck and lungs to stop him from using Hamon. He seemingly manages to stab him right in the lungs, but Jonathan's fighting wits and swiftness prevented Tanjiro from hitting the mark, and in turn, he gets fatally counter attacked.
• Big Brother Instinct: The fight is started by Jonathan attempting to kill Nezuko, which Tanjiro naturally can't allow. It's also what allows Jonathan to realize his error at the end, as he understands the feeling of wanting to look after your sibling no matter what all too well.
• Cool Sword: Tanjiro wields a special katana, the Nichirin Sword, which is forged from a special ore that absorbs sunlight and is one of the few things that can permanently kill demons via decapitation, and it also allows him to focus his swordfighting techniques's magic through it. Unfortunately for Tanjiro, it also conducts Hamon, leaving him more open for fatal blows.
• Crippling Overspecialization: While he is a Master Swordsman, and his swordsmanship is superior to Jonathan's more improvised style, he's very dependent on said sword as he doesn't have many options without it, while Jonathan's preferred style is with his fists. When both combatants lose their swords, Jonathan is able to quickly adapt and use his fists to overwhelm Tanjiro, who has no way to counter.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Pointedly averted in a show that thrives off of these. Getting fatally beaten by a wall of muscle is no walk in the park, but Tanjiro at least dies with his body intact and a smile on his face, with Jonathan applying Hamon to ease his departure.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: He knows several special swordfighting techniques that involve a specific breathing technique. Wiz and Boomstick call it "katana magic". Unfortunately for Tanjiro, this doesn't extend to unarmed combat, meaning that when Jonathan disarms him, he's toast.
• Go Out with a Smile: Tanjiro dies with a smile on his face after hearing Jonathan's Declaration of Protection.
• Healing Factor: Through Total Concentrated Breathing, Tanjiro can help control his own blood flow to stop bleeding, recover stamina, and slow down poison in his bloodstream. His healing factor is noted to be much inferior and less reliable than Jonathan's, as Hamon users can rapidly heal from much more severe injuries, and he can't heal and fight simultaneously.
• Heroic RRoD: As powerful as Hinokami Kagura is, it has the unfortunate weakness of being heavily taxing on its user's body, although Tanjiro is still able to keep on fighting through Total Concentrated Breathing and sheer determination. This still proves to be a major disadvantage for him, since Jonathan's Hamon has no usage drawback, meaning the demon slayer is more likely to tire out as the fight drags on.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In a way, the Nichirin Sword can be used against Tanjiro as the conductive properties of Hamon allows Jonathan to still channel Hamon energy through it and bypass blade locking. Indeed, Jonathan does this to disarm Tanjiro while he struggles to pull the sword out of Jonathan's chest after a botched deathblow before going in for the kill.
• Left Stuck After Attack: After realizing his killing blow missed its mark, he struggles to pull his sword out, giving Jonathan a chance to disarm him and fatally counterattack.
• Limit Break: After going through intense conditions, such as overusing Hinokami Kagura, Tanjiro can activate his special Demon Slayer Mark, and it grants him even crazier strength and speed, as well as the ability to use the See-Through World. It's still not enough to beat Jonathan however.
• Logical Weakness: Tanjiro's breathing styles require a sword to channel their magic, meaning that whenever he is disarmed of his katana, he can't use any of his breathing styles. This weakness comes into play during the fight and is a factor in his loss where combined that with his lack of good backup options to compensate, means that Jonathan easily overpowers Tanjiro.
• Making a Splash: The first breathing style that Tanjiro mastered was the flexible and defensive Water Breathing, which conjures water to cut like a raging current. During the battle, Tanjiro initially uses this style against Jonathan, but switches to Hinokami Kagura after realizing that the young Joestar can No-Sell it.
• Master Swordsman: Tanjiro has trained in and mastered the art of swordfighting, with his breathing styles only adding to his proficiency with a blade. Compared to his fisticuffs-oriented opponent, Tanjiro is clearly the sword expert between the two, but unfortunately for him, Jonathan is able to make up for this in hand-to-hand combat, and doesn't need to rely on a blade to utilize his own breathing powers.
• Mistaken Identity: How the fight starts out — Jonathan mistakes Nezuko as one of Dio's vampiric minions, and accuses Tanjiro of being under her mind control. Despite Tanjiro's best efforts, he can't convince Jonathan to stand down, though Jonathan realizes his folly too late and vows to protect Nezuko in the dying Tanjiro's stead.
• The Nose Knows: His sense of smell can detect people from far away, find openings and weak points through the “opening thread”, and perceive incoming danger. During the fight, his nose picked up on some of Jonathan’s attack attempts and is able to find an “opening thread” to land a fatal blow but its still not much to overcome his opponent.
• "Not So Different" Remark: When he realizes that his opponent's power stems from his breathing, he remarks its the same on how he draws his powers and tries to focus his strikes more on Jonathan's neck and lungs.
• Oh, Crap!: He has this reaction when he realizes that his killing blow missed Jonathan's lungs, enabling Jonathan to disarm Tanjiro and counter with a fatal Sunlight Yellow Overdrive.
• The Order: The Demon Slayer Corps which Tanjiro joined, a secret order which was started to end the demons threatening Japan.
• The Power of the Sun: He can channel solar energy into his sword attacks with Hinokami Kagura, aka Sun Breathing, but it taxes his body if he uses it for too long. During the fight, he switches to this style after realizing that Water Breathing would have no effect against his opponent, but it's still not enough to beat Jonathan, and the physical backlash he takes from using this breathing style only further hinders Tanjiro as the fight drags on.
• Punched Across the Room: The fatal Sunlight Yellow Overdrive Jonathan gives him ends with Tanjiro being launched away into a rock.
• Sole Survivor: Kinda-sorta. He's the sole human survivor of the eradication of the Kamado Clan by Muzan Kibutsuji, the creator of the cannibalistic demons that threaten Japan. His sister Nezuko also survived, but she's been cursed to become a demon, so it's Tanjiro's goal to Find the Cure! to save his sister. By the end of the battle, the Kamado Clan is down to just Nezuko, as with Tanjiro's death, the entire human side has been completely wiped out.
• Super-Reflexes: He can dodge lightning bolts and can perceive his opponent's moves in slow motion. However, he is much slower than Jonathan, who is able to move at FTL speeds.
• Super-Strength: He can slice through boulders, and has bested the likes of many powerful demons, such as the Upper Moons and Muzan. However, his own potential power output is nowhere near Jonathan's level.
• Weak, but Skilled: Tanjiro lacks Jonathan's power and speed, but has far better training, experience, and sword skills. This is a major factor behind his defeat, as being much weaker and slower than his opponent means that Tanjiro couldn't really land any killing blows and capitalize on his own advantages. Combined that with his overreliance on a blade, the physical recoil from Hinokami Kagura, and JoJo's Hamon matching and surpassing him in a lot of areas, effectively spelled up doom for the young demon slayer.
• X-Ray Vision: By using his See-Through World ability, Tanjiro can use X-Ray Vision to spot very subtle changes in a person's body and predict their moves. He uses this power and is able to see how Jonathan is generating Hamon and from there, switches his focus on trying to strike his neck and lungs.

Jonathan Joestar

Jonathan: "You poor wretch! Shackled by the chains of this harpy's insidious mind control. On my honor as a gentleman, I will free you!"
Voiced by: Benji Buckley

The Very First JoJo Who Ever Joj'd

• The Atoner: After killing Tanjiro over a grave misunderstanding, Jonathan tearfully realizes his mistake and promises to protect Nezuko in his stead.
• Apologetic Attacker: Jonathan expresses remorse for killing Tanjiro under the belief that he was being mind-controlled by Nezuko. Jonathan promises the young Demon Slayer that he'll protect his sister before putting Tanjiro to rest with his Hamon.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: All Hamon ever needs is proper breathing, training, and some good old hand-to-hand to utilize effectively, and Jonathan has quick mastery over these 3 principles. Compared to his sword-wielding opponent, Jonathan is far more proficient in hand-to-hand combat, and this allows him to make up/even out for his lack of swordsmanship, and as a major plus, he doesn't need to rely on a sword to efficiently utilize any of his own breathing techniques.
• Cain and Abel: The gentlemanly Abel to Dio's murderous Cain.
• Cool Sword: He gains Bruford's sword, Luck & Pluck, after defeating the former knight. It lets him keep pace with Tanjiro, but ends up being shattered from a Sun Breathing-enhanced swing. Fortunately, Jonathan's able to fight without a weapon.
• Cradling Your Kill: After Jonathan deals the killing blow to Tanjiro, he cradles Tanjiro in horror after being told that Nezuko is Tanjiro's sister. Jonathan swears on his honor as a gentleman that he will protect Nezuko for Tanjiro, before using his Hamon to stop his heart and put an end to his suffering. The last time a combatant did something like this was Superman in his rematch with Goku back in Season 2.
• Cultured Badass: Definitely qualifies compared to his descendants as he is a strong and classy English gentleman from a noble family who can absolutely wreck the living daylights out of zombies and vampires.
• Declaration of Protection: Jonathan makes one to Tanjiro to protect Nezuko in the dying demon slayer's stead before putting him to rest. Only time will tell if Nezuko accepts Jonathan as her new protector.
• Enhanced Punch: Many of his techniques are Hamon-infused punches with varying effects such as the electric-hot Sunlight Yellow Overdrive and the fiery Scarlet Overdrive.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: Hamon, a Tibetan martial art, allows Jonathan to use specialized breathing techniques to transform his vital energy back into the sunlight it originally was and transfer it into objects, plants, and other creatures.
• Friendly Enemy: Jonathan is nothing but respectful and gentlemanly towards Tanjiro for the fight, even admitting that he could learn a thing or two from the demon slayer.
• Healing Factor: Through Hamon, Jonathan is able to completely heal broken bones in a matter of seconds. His healing factor is noted to much more potent and easier to use in mid-combat compared to Tanjiro's Total Concentrated Breathing, giving him the edge in that department.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He's run through by Tanjiro's Nichirin Sword, but he managed to react just in time to avoid having his lungs pierced. This allows Jonathan to disarm Tanjiro and then pummel the Demon Slayer to death with a Sunlight Yellow Overdrive.
• Ki Manipulation: As stated by Boomstick, Hamon is comparable to "chi", where its users can utilize this Life Energy for a wide variety of techniques such as Healing Hands, Walk on Water, magnetizing plant material, transfer energy through objects, or manipulating another person's body, but its mainly used in channeling the The Power of the Sun to devastate the undead.
• Large Ham: Benji Buckley's performance really plays up the Victorian England Antiquated Linguistics, making Johnathan sound like he just chewed up the stage of a Shakespeare play.
• Legacy Character: Jonathan is the first bearer of the nickname "JoJo" in his home series, and the second one to be a combatant, after his great-great-grandson Jotaro Kujo in Season 5. This JoJo wins his battle.
• Lightning Bruiser: What Jonathan essentially is compared to Tanjiro, and what gives him the win as not only he is just as tough and resilient as his opponent, he is far stronger and faster than the demon slayer.
• Logical Weakness: Since Hamon is dependent on good breath control, attacks to the lungs or throat are viable ways to cripple its users. This was how Dio was able to fatally wound Jonathan canonically, and Tanjiro is able to notice the similarities with his own Breathing style and adjust his attack strategy accordingly to aim for those spots.
• Made of Iron: Even if it missed his lungs, taking a sword through the chest does nothing to slow Jonathan down.
• Manly Tears: Jonathan cried "sweet manime tears" when he (seemingly) killed his murderous adoptive brother Dio, and in the fight he sheds these during his realization that Nezuko wasn't controlling Tanjiro, but was his sister instead.
• Mercy Kill: Jonathan does this for Tanjiro after fatally injuring him, stopping his heart with Hamon.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After he deals a killing blow to Tanjiro, Jonathan learns from him that Nezuko wasn't a vampire henchwoman of Dio, but Tanjiro's sister. Cue Manly Tears.
• Nice Guy: The nicest of the JoJos, by far, to the point he still loved Dio despite everything he suffered because of him. He's such a gentleman that he's one of the rare few Death Battle combatants to show regret for killing his opponent and currently the only one who's openly wept over it.
• One-Hit Kill: As detailed in the post-fight analysis, other Hamon users have shown the ability to shut down the vital organs of other human beings through a single zap. This means that Jonathan could literally kill Tanjiro with just one good usage of Hamon when given the chance. The only reason Jonathan didn't use it immediately during the fight and end it right away is because it'd be unsportsmanlike and unbecoming of a gentleman like himself.
• Organ Dodge: He barely avoids Tanjiro piercing through his lungs by just two inches, allowing him to retain full usage of his Hamon to counterattack his now close-ranged foe.
• Poor Communication Kills: Jonathan's desire to kill Nezuko, believing her to be one of Dio's demons, leads to the unwitting death of Tanjiro, and though Jonathan promises to protect Nezuko in his stead, she's hesitant at the idea of being protected by her brother's killer.
• The Power of the Sun: By using specialized breathing techniques from Hamon, JoJo can turn his vital energy back into sunlight that he can then transfer into objects or opponents, such as vampires like Dio, which it was made to kill. Not only does it have far more applications compared to Tanjiro's breathing styles, but the ability to transfer energy through objects in particular is a very key advantage for Jonathan, as he can still land deadly attacks by conducting Hamon through his opponent's own katana with his Metal Silver Overdrive.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: A staple attack in his series, and he's the very first to do so with his Hamon-enhanced Sunlight Yellow Overdrive. He uses it to mortally wound Tanjiro at the end of the fight.
• Rejected Apology: Possibly on the receiving end. After mortally wounding Tanjiro and learning from him that Nezuko — who he'd assumed was one of Dio's minions — is Tanjiro's sister, Jonathan tearfully vows to protect her with his life. Tanjiro dies satisfied, but Nezuko pulls her hand away when Jonathan reaches out to take it and make good on his promise; it's not shown whether this was a moment of hesitation or an outright rejection. Later subverted outside of the episode itself as with a piece of fanart made after the fight, one of the episode's writers answered that in this universe, yes, Nezuko accepted Jonathan's apology and teamed up with him.
• Rubber Man: Jonathan can do a downplayed version with his Zoom Punch by using Hamon to dull the pain of dislocating his shoulder to perform it, before snapping it back into place.
• Super-Speed: Scaling to other Hamon users and Dio Brando means that Jonathan can move at FTL speeds. He is much faster than his opponent, as he is able to land attacks far quicker than Tanjiro had to ever deal with and reliably dodge any of Tanjiro's own attacks.
• Super-Strength: Jonathan has bested the likes of the cliff-destroying Tarkus and Dio Brando, who's powerful enough in Stardust Crusaders to match Stands that can destroy meteorites on his own, while using Jonathan's body, no less (and, as noted in a sidenote, this was while Jonathan's body was rejecting DIO for most of his fight with Jotaro). By scaling his strength to the foes that he has bested before, Jonathan's proven to be over twice as strong as Tanjiro, and has no problem taking the demon slayer down with raw power alone.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Jonathan may have less training, skill, and experience compared to Tanjiro, and merely improvised in swordfighting, but he has far greater speed and power. This is a major factor behind his win, as being much stronger and faster than his opponent means that Tanjiro would have a real hard time landing any killing blows, his unarmed combat skills can keep pace with the demon slayer's more masterful swordmanship, and Hamon is still versatile enough to counter and overcome anything that came his way.
• Worthy Opponent: Throughout the fight, Jonathan can't help but compliment Tanjiro's abilities and skills, even saying he could probably teach him a thing or two.
• Wrecked Weapon: In the fight's climax, Tanjiro shatters Luck & Pluck with a Sun Breathing-enhanced swing but its not that Jonathan ever really needed it in the first place...

Thor VS Vegeta

• Physical God: Thor is Marvel's take on the Norse God of Thunder while Vegeta's Saiyan heritage and training gives him an incredible amount of power that rivals the strongest of gods and can fully become one by accessing a Super Mode called Super Saiyan God.
• Smug Super: Both of them are incredibly prideful, confident, and showy with their abilities and images no thanks to the overwhelming power and skill they possess and their royal heritages. However, time on Earth has made them a lot more humble than they were before but they are still pretty high and mighty.
• Warrior Prince: Both combatants are mighty, haughty, and godly warriors who hail from another world, and are also the princes of those worlds. Thor is the son of Allfather Odin Borson, the god-king of Asgard, and is a seasoned fighter and superhero in his own right. Vegeta is the son of King Vegeta, ruler of the Saiyans, and worked as a mercenary for the galactic conqueror Frieza... at least until Frieza blew up his homeworld and rendered the Saiyans all-but extinct.

Thor Odinson

Thor: "Thou fights well, for a mortal. Alas, you face a god!"
Voiced by: Jonah Scott

The God of Thunder

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: One of Thor's weapons when he's not wielding Mjolnir is Jarnbjorn, a mighty Asgardian battle-axe capable of cutting through Celestial armor. He initially uses this weapon in the beginning of the fight before Vegeta quickly destroys it with Hakai.
• Always Someone Better: He's ultimately this to Vegeta, outclassing him in a lot of key areas and being able to nullify and exhaust almost all of his options.
• Back from the Dead: Thor's first proper return to Death Battle since his execution by Wonder Woman's blade five seasons ago and it goes a lot better for him this time around.
• Blood Knight: Thor is a pretty nice guy most of the time but there is no denying that he enjoys proving his strength in battle.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He is a loud and proud Asgardian warrior who loves to battle where he dives straight into the heat of things and has the strength to back it up.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: Thor is the first Marvel character to defeat a Dragonball character, with Captain Marvel and Hulk respectively losing to Android 18 and Broly in previous seasons.
• Energy Absorption: With Mjölnir he can absorb and redirect energy attacks or just straight up drain the energy out of someone. He even used two Mjölnirs to absorb the energy of the God Bomb, which would have wiped out all deities across time and space if he hadn't stopped it. This is a major factor in his win because Thor can simply and outright No-Sell a good majority of Vegeta's ki based attacks and can easily take back the energy that was stolen from him.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Thor's response to Vegeta's Super Form powerups is to simply stop holding back. Pointedly, the fight ends when Thor drops all pretenses when Vegeta actually does some damage and uses Mjölnir's ability to return to his hand for lethal purposes.
• Kamehame Hadoken: Thor can concentrate all of his inherent godly power into a single energy beam called the Godblast when faced with an exceptionally powerful foe. This attack far eclipses any durability feat that Vegeta has shown or any Dragon Ball character for that matter since it could actually kill Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds and a being that threatens the infinite multiverse as a side-effect of his battling.
• Large Ham: The guy comes from Asgard and speaks as if he were from Masterpiece Theatre.
• Lightning Bruiser: The deciding factor behind his win is simply chalked up to being far tougher, faster, and more powerful than Vegeta.
• Long-Lived: He's lived for many millennia in thanks to being an Asgardian god. This is actually a factor in his win because having been around for such a long period of time fighting many different kinds of opponents means that Thor has far more combat experience than Vegeta and can easily adapt to the Saiyan's fighting style and techniques.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Thor's profile notes that he is half Asgardian and half mutant, being the son of Odin and Firehair — a prehistoric avatar of the Phoenix Force.
• No-Sell: Vegeta tries to hakai Thor, who is largely unaffected and only pissed off, with the post-fight analysis noting that Thor has withstood multiple attempts to erase him from existence before on the physical, spiritual, and even temporal level.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: Odin enchanted Mjölnir so that only one who is worthy can lift it, something even Thor himself has sometimes struggled with. During the fight, Vegeta catches the hammer midflight, but since he isn't worthy, it drags him into a lake while Thor mocks him for being unworthy.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Thor can scale to beings capable of casually destroying entire planets and universes such as the Worldbreaker Hulk, Sentry, and even Galactus. Post-analysis, its measured that Thor can destroy a universe 2,386,000 times over, which is at least 10 times greater than Vegeta's destructive output and is a deciding factor in his win. He can also become much more powerful than that by entering his own Super Modes, furthering the power gap between the two princes.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: While also referencing Avengers: Infinity War:
  Thor: Always aim for the head...^note Ends up crushing Vegeta's head shortly afterward.
• Strong and Skilled: While both of them qualify, possessing incredible power and virtually unmatched martial skill, Thor is ultimately just far more experienced, powerful, tougher, and faster than what Vegeta is capable of or even dealing with and these factors combined gave the God of Thunder his victory.
• Superhero Gods: The Trope Codifier. Odin banished him to Earth so he could learn to be a hero.
• Super Mode: By entering a state called Warrior's Madness, Thor sacrifices his sanity in exchange for a tenfold increase in power. He never succumbs to it in the fight itself, but the hosts note that its multiplier would already apply to his already healthy power advantage against Vegeta, making Warrior's Madness Thor almost 100 times stronger than Ultra Ego Vegeta.
  • Its also noted that if Thor was given the Thorforce, he'd scale to multiversal-level feats from the likes of Odin, furthering the gap in power.
• Super-Strength: As the literal god of strength, Thor is strong enough to lift a serpent big enough to wrap around the earth, arm wrestle with Hercules (almost knocking the Earth out of orbit in the process), and even knock out the Phoenix Force.
• Super-Speed: He’s comparable to Ares, who could move in Planck time. This puts Thor 70 quadrillion times faster than anything Vegeta has ever had to move and compete with, and is a key factor in Thor's victory, as many of Vegeta's attack options are simply ruined by the massive gap in speed.
• Super-Toughness: His durability reaches Nigh-Invulnerable levels where he survives attacks and forces that subjected him to the gravity of a neutron star, disintegration beams that would have torn his atoms apart, and beings capable of destroying entire planets and universes. He even has the stamina to fight for 40 days and 40 nights without ever stopping. This insane level of durability proves to be a major advantage for Thor as it allows him to survive plenty of Vegeta's attacks, even from the Hakai, and easily has the stamina to outlast the Saiyan in a contest of endurance.
• Third Time's The Charm: A meta-one. Thor’s the third Marvel character to fight a Dragon Ball character. Unlike Captain Marvel and Hulk, he finally wins. It's also his voice actor's third appearance on the show and he managed to snag a victory.
• Thunder Hammer: Thor’s main weapon of choice is the hammer Mjölnir, which was forged in a dying star and it contains a sentient cosmic storm.
• Victory by Endurance: On top of just being much more powerful than Vegeta, another factor in Thor's victory was being able to easily tank, outpace, and put a stop to his opponent's attacks before the Saiyan prince becomes completely exhausted from spending too much Ki and is left wide open for a killing blow.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice has a bit more of a growl to it compared to his last appearance back in Season 4.
• Weather Manipulation: As the god of thunder, Thor can command and summon the power of the storms such as channeling lightning and creating tornadoes.

Prince Vegeta IV

Vegeta: "Tell me. Does a god such as yourself feel fear?!"
Voiced by: Nick Landis

The Prince of All Saiyans

• Action Dad: He has two children with Bulma and he can fight on par with beings who are basically Physical Gods in his own universe.
• Adaptive Ability: Vegeta's Saiyan biology allows him to adapt to attacks that leaves him almost for dead, letting him grow stronger. It's still not enough to close in on the wide gap between him and his opponent.
• Blasphemous Boast: "I have evolved beyond gods." Unfortunately for Vegeta, he learns fatally this god is still beyond even him.
• Back for the Dead: Sadly for Vegeta, he does not survive his battle with Thor after his victory over Shadow.
• Blood Knight: Like most Saiyans, Vegeta greatly enjoys combat and once thought nothing about committing genocide and even destroying whole planets just to test his power. His Ultra Ego form weaponizes this, letting him draw on his own bloodlust to fuel his attacks and absorb damage from his opponents.
• Cast from Stamina: How ki functions every time its expended and is a factor in his loss since Vegeta would be left severely drained after spending so much energy in a fight. When against someone like Thor, a god who is tough enough to tank many of his offensive options, can fight on for much longer periods of time, and being fast enough to easily dodge said attacks means it would only be a matter of time until Vegeta runs out of ki and left extremely vulnerable.
• Crippling Overspecialization: A factor in Vegeta's loss is that most of his devastating ranged attacks is something that Thor can easily put a stop to with his own Energy Absorption abilities.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: While not the most graphic death in the show, Vegeta getting his head crushed like a watermelon between Thor's hand and Mjölnir is certainly unpleasant to witness.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Vegeta's Ultra Ego form is an offensive counterpart to Goku's Ultra Instinct form, and makes him stronger the more damage he takes in a fight. However, it's a double-edged sword as its power-boost comes at the cost of him getting injured.
• Deity of Human Origin: Well, deity of Saiyan origin to more specific, but Vegeta's Super Saiyan God form involves him (a mortal) apotheosizing into a god, his Super Saiyan Blue form has him go Super Saiyan on top of that, and his Ultra Ego involves him harnessing the power of the Gods of Destruction. Even so, his godly might wasn't enough to surpass his opponent, an actual god himself.
• Energy Absorption: The Spirit Fission technique allows him absorb ki from his opponents with every blow he lands. Unfortunately, he needed to actually be able to hit Thor for this to work (a tall order given the massive speed gap between them) and even then Thor could simply take the energy back with Mjölnir.
• Energy Ball: The Big Bang Attack, typically used as a finishing move.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Vegeta is haughty, arrogant, and very temperamental. Thor starts the fight by throwing Mjölnir past Vegeta's head and then recalling it, causing the Saiyan to fly into a rage.
• Head Crushing: This is how Vegeta dies in this battle. After Thor manages to tank the God Final Flash, he grabs Vegeta by the head and drags him downwards while recalling Mjölnir to his hand, causing the hammer to come from behind and splatter Vegeta's head.
• Idiot Ball: Boomstick points out that Vegeta has held this a few times thanks to his ego and pride, such as when he let Cell become perfect only to end up with a broken spine afterwards.
• Kamehame Hadoken: Vegeta's favorite ki attacks are his trademark purple Galick Gun and the golden-colored Final Flash. He uses the purple and yellow God Final Flash as his last attack to kill his opponent and it works... but Thor survives the attack and quickly turns the tide against the now exhausted Saiyan.
• Ki Manipulation: Vegeta can harness his ki to fly, fire energy blasts powerful enough to casually destroy planets, augment his already superhuman physique, and transform into many powerful states.
• Large Ham: Lanipator's Vegeta is back in high volume and high grandiose for this battle.
  Vegeta: I AM THE PRINCE OF ALL SAIYANS! AND YOU CAN BURN IN HELL! BIG BANG ATTACK!
• Oh, Crap!: Vegeta ends ups showing this when he attempted to block Mjölnir only for both it and him to keep going, causing Vegeta to quickly go from arrogant laughter to confusion to outright panicked screaming as he goes past Thor. He eyes also change to a look of panic upon realizing that Mjölnir is headed straight for Thor's hand... with his skull perfectly placed in the middle for it to crush apart.
• One-Hit Kill: Vegeta learned how to harness God of Destruction energy to perform the Hakai, which erases its target from existence. Unfortunately for him, Thor himself has resisted similar erasure abilities in the past, meaning he couldn’t use it to finish the god in one go.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Vegeta shares his name with his father King Vegeta III as well as the planet he was meant to rule before Frieza destroyed it, Planet Vegeta.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Bluntly speaking, Vegeta was simply outclassed by Thor in the areas that mattered and many of his own trump cards couldn't really do anything against the prince of Asgard.
• Person of Mass Destruction: At his peak, Vegeta is measured to be capable of destroying a universe 265,800 times over and potentially even more. However, this is nowhere near Thor's power level who is measured to be capable of destroying a universe 2,386,000 times over, which is at least 10 times more powerful than Vegeta's own destructive output. Even if the hosts give Vegeta the benefit of the doubt in being able to increase his destructive power over the course of the fight to match Thor, it still wouldn't be enough against Thor's other advantages.
• Purple Is Powerful: Destruction energy is colored purple and when Vegeta goes Ultra Ego, the Saiyan taps deeply into that power and turns his ki and hair purple as he achieves his most powerful state.
• Super Mode: Vegeta has various transformations which include: the golden Super Saiyan, the godly Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue, and the destructive Ultra Ego, all of which boost his power exponentially with each transformation.
• Super-Speed: Even in his base form, Wiz describes him as faster than light and in his Ultra Ego form, he is clocked in to be 300 quintillions of times faster than light. Unfortunately, that still leaves him far slower than Thor who can move 70 quadrillions times faster and leaves him unable to reliably land any of his attacks or specialized techniques, being a major factor in his defeat.
• Super-Toughness: He can move in gravities far more extreme than Earth's due to his Heavy Worlder status and can take beatings from opponents equal or more powerful than he is such as Goku, Frieza, and Buu where he still finds the strength and tenacity to keep on fighting. Thor however, is far too much that he could handle as the God of Thunder's might and especially the God-Blast easily eclipses any durability feat that he has ever displayed.
• Teleportation: He manages to learn Goku's Instant Transmission technique that allows him to teleport to any ki signatures instantly, but it's noted he doesn't like to use it. He uses it a few times throughout the fight and at the climax of the fight to dodge Thor's attack and unleash his God Final Flash at point blank, but not even that is enough to put Thor down.
• Took a Level in Badass: Compared to his last appearance in Vegeta VS Shadow, which was over a decade ago, Vegeta has gained new and much more powerful transformations such as Super Saiyan Blue and Ultra Ego, forms that grant the prince the power of the gods. In spite of these recent power-ups, it's still not enough to beat Thor.

Omni-Man VS Homelander

• Abusive Parents: Omni-Man beats his son Mark "Invincible" Grayson to a bloody pulp — including ramming him through a train and its passengers — in an attempt to demonstrate how infinitely superior Viltrumites are to humans. Homelander, meanwhile, subjects his illegitimate son, Ryan Butcher, to Die or Fly training to awaken his powers and tries to indoctrinate him into his own Super Supremacist mindset.
• Beware the Superman: The biggest link to both of them is that they're Corrupted Character Copies of the Man of Steel himself.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Both of them are Superman Substitutes who possess Superman's basic powerset and physical appearance, but absolutely none of his moral compass.
• Flying Brick: Befitting their status as a Superman Substitute, both of them have massively superhuman strength, durability, and speed as well as the ability to fly. Only Homelander has the Eye Beams, though. Between the two of them however, Nolan has far superior stats in all of these physical areas.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Both of them have blue eyes and it showcases their true colors beneath their heroic personas.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Noted briefly when both characters are introduced; while their analysis combines elements of their original comic book appearances and their TV series, the episode itself avoids going into detail on what happens in the later parts of the comics due to their shows still airing at the time of the battle.
• Soldier vs. Warrior: Both characters' personalities, skills, and history boils down to this trope: where despite their respective origins initially setting them up with Omni-Man as the Warrior, and Homelander as the Soldier; their personalities are entirely antithetical:
  • Omni-Man having spent the better part of several centuries learning the ins-and-outs of his abilities against all sorts of monsters that he knows how to hard-counter everything that Homelander tries throwing at him while making sure to mitigate any damage to the neighborhood makes Omni-Man the Soldier.
  • Homelander meanwhile is a Psychopathic Manchild that has never before faced any sort of threat that could pose a direct challenge to him and because he never learned how to fight beyond taking an Attack! Attack! Attack! approach to his fights, he creates a lot of collateral damage; even destroying a large chunk of the neighborhood which makes Homelander the Warrior.
• Superman Substitute: They are both dark versions of Superman with similar looks and origins, but are villains disguised as heroes.

Omni-Man (Nolan Grayson/Nowl-An)

Omni-Man: "I'm going to feed you your own heart."
Voiced by: Tom Schalk

The Invincible Champion from Planet Viltrum

• Always Someone Better: Homelander may have never faced a serious threat to his power in his own continuity, but Omni-Man is way out of his league. Even if Homelander does have one hard counter to Omni-Man in his toolset (his sonic scream), he lacks the power or experience to capitalize on it. As the hosts put it, Omni-Man is a warrior while Homelander is nothing but a bully.
• And Show It to You: Threatens to tear out Homelander's heart and feed it to him, and he more than makes good on his word.
  Omni-Man: Remember what I promised you...? (shoves Homelander's heart into his now torn-off jaw, before placing his head between both his palms) Now swallow.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Subverted. He can’t actually breathe in space, but he is capable of holding his breath for weeks, including in a vacuum.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: He doesn't so much as raise his voice after finding out that Homelander killed Debbie nor throughout the entire fight, which not only showcases his homicidal rage at Homelander but also highlights the key difference between his warrior character aspects to Homelander's childish bully.
• Blood Knight: Downplayed. Omni-Man seems to show a bit of disappointment in Homelander's weakness, looking at him with bored or annoyed expressions throughout the fight.
• Bond One-Liner: "Merry Christmas."
• Boring, but Practical: He doesn't have Homelander's more exotic abilities, like his Eye Beams or sonic shout, but his baseline strength and speed are more than enough to keep up with the comparatively weaker fighter.
• Call-Back: Omni-Man's method of finishing off Homelander — slowly squeezing his head between his palms until it bursts — is almost exactly like how he executed Red Rush in his own series.
• Composite Character: The show takes feats from both the original comic and the 2021 animated series.
• Condescending Compassion: Omni-Man mocks Homelander's lack of technique by giving him some "friendly" advice on how to take a punch, and asking him if he's going to cry during his Villainous Breakdown.
• Crusading Widower: He hides it well, but Nolan goes out of his way to make Homelander suffer and eat his own heart to get revenge for Debbie's murder.
• Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Homelander initially sees Omni-Man's death threat of feeding him his own heart as some kind of humorous joke, dismissing it as a funny line. Turns out, Omni-Man was completely serious in the most literal way possible.
• Death Glare: His expression pretty much defaults to this once he meets Homelander.
• Disappointed by the Motive: While Omni-Man is furious at Homelander for killing his wife, he's mildly disappointed by the reason why; Homelander didn't want Omni-Man living in America and potentially taking away any respect or glory that the masses would have for him. As such, Omni-Man delivers a sentence that carries the same level of energy as Mr. Edgar's "You are not our most valuable asset."
  Omni-Man: Country? Seriously? I'm not here for your country.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a member of a race of Social Darwinists sent to subjugate Earth from the shadows, Nolan does genuinely love his wife Debbie and his son Mark. The fight even begins because Homelander murdered Debbie in their own home before he showed up, and when Homelander threatens to flash-fry his son, Omni-Man quickly goes in for the kill instead of toying around.
• Evil All Along: Omni-Man claimed to have been sent to Earth to protect it, working with its local superhero team, the Guardians of the Globe. In actuality, he was sent to infiltrate and conquer it for the Viltrumite Empire, but spent enough time undercover to fall in love and have a family... before deciding to fulfill his mission once his son's powers awakened. That being said, his confrontation with Mark does have him undergo a Heel Realization that leads him to abandon his mission.
• Eviler than Thou: While a substantially better person than his opponent, Nolan is a Proud Warrior Race Guy who has fought equivalent threats to him for thousands of years, while Homelander is an Unskilled, but Strong bully whose power means he's never fought a fair fight. He quickly realizes this, and starts holding back just to draw out the humiliation and pain. Early in the fight, he even points out that he has ambitions beyond Homelander's petty ones.
  Omni-Man: Country? Seriously? I'm not here for your country.
• Eye Scream: Downplayed, possibly even subverted. Homelander, during his Villainous Breakdown, activates his Heat Vision at point-blank range and fries Nolan's eyes for several seconds straight. While this does leave scorch marks — the only physical indication of damage he gets the whole fight besides making Nolan's ears bleed — Nolan seems entirely unaffected aside from keeping his eyes closed for most of the rest of the fight, able to see fine when he does open them.
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge: The only phrase that can describe what Omni-Man does to Homelander after the latter kills his wife. By the time he’s done, Homelander has had his jaw smashed off, his heart ripped out and his entire head crushed to a gory mess.
• Had to Be Sharp: When you grow up in a civilization that prioritizes strength, you have to be on your toes should another one of your people try to kill you for your position. When you live on a world filled with Mad Scientists, suave egomaniacs, and all manners of corrupt people, but also with their own dedicated groups of Superheroes; you have to decide if the problem can only be handled by someone else. And when you live in a universe that is filled with incoming space rocks, alien regimes, Kaiju, and all manners of monsters that can easily wipe out life on your small blue marble at any given time... Well, is it really any wonder why Omni-Man had become one of the five most-powerful Viltrumites of the Empire?
• Head Crushing: The cherry on top when he kills his opponent, which he does by putting Homelander's head between his palms and slowly squeezing it until it bursts; much like he previously did to Red Rush.
• Healing Factor: Omni-Man, like all Viltrumites, can quickly regenerate from severe injuries such as ripped-out intestines, though sufficient damage to his brain or heart can cripple and even shut it down. During the fight, he quickly mends his ruptured eardrums after Homelander's Super-Scream and regrows his eyes after they get burned by a sustained heat vision blast to the face.
• Humanity Is Infectious: His fight with Mark makes him realize that, while he was trying to indoctrinate his son into his culture, the humanity he's been exposed to on Earth has irrevocably changed him, and he ends up abandoning his mission to conquer the planet. As Wiz puts it best:
  Wiz: He may have tried to turn Mark into a Viltrumite, but in reality, as Nolan fled Earth with tears in his eyes, Mark made his father... human.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: After his first few punches down Homelander in seconds, Omni-Man starts holding back to prolong the fight and humiliate his opponent. Once Homelander threatens his remaining family, though, Omni-Man shows just how quickly he could have ended the "fight" by effortlessly tearing out the supe's jaw, punching through his body to tear out his heart (and cram it down Homelander's own throat), and crushing his skull between his hands... all in the space of about twenty seconds.
• Jawbreaker: Since Homelander's Super Screams were one of the few things capable of harming him (however temporarily), Omni-Man's deathblow naturally starts with him grabbing the supe's lower jaw and tearing it out to stop him using them. It gets even worse from there for Homelander when Nolan uses the cavity to stuff his own freshly ripped-out heart down his throat.
• Just Toying with Them: Nolan's mannerisms during the fight, which includes mocking Homelander's fighting style, and the results after show that Nolan could have ended the fight instantly if he wanted but didn't so he could slowly break Homelander before tearing him apart.
• Lightning Bruiser: Bluntly speaking, Omni-Man is literally billions of times stronger, faster, and tougher than Homelander and has a very good Healing Factor to quickly undo the very little damage that could be possibly inflicted on him.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Despite his goal of conquest and his utter ruthlessness in pursuing it, Nolan still qualifies. He does genuinely love his family and believes that Earth being under Viltrumite rule is for the best. Even at his worst, he doesn't come close to the pure, reprehensible Hate Sink that he's up against. Also, unlike Homelander, whose inability to accept responsibility for his own actions is one of his major vices, Omni-Man did undergo a Heel Realization in his own continuity that led him to abandon his mission of conquering Earth.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Despite having his eyes melted from his sockets by Homelander's heat vision, Omni-Man reacts at best with mild annoyance as they heal back pretty quickly. This also is a major factor behind his win since Nolan is a trained warrior, he knows how to take a hit from people as strong if not stronger than him, he knows what is an actual injury and what is just painful. Homelander on the other hand has obviously never fought anyone on equal footing, and completely loses his previously-smug composure when he feels pain and sees his own blood.
• Manly Facial Hair: Nolan rocks "a bitchin' moustache" according to his profile in comparison to his clean-shaven foe. Even Boomstick appreciates how good it looks at the start of Nolan's analysis.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Nolan’s Viltrumite physiology makes him practically impervious to conventional methods of harm, to the point that his species can survive several minutes in the heat of star before dying. He's far more invulnerable than Homelander, who is only this to man-made weaponry.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Homelander never stood a chance, and once Nolan stops playing around, he quickly breaks Homelander's jaw, and then rips out his heart. That's a fatal injury in and of itself, but he then goes further by making good on his promise and feeding Homelander his own heart before he dies, and then he takes his time crushing Homelander's skull. The amount of entries on the Nightmare Fuel page for the fight should tell you something about just how unnerving it is.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Unlike Homelander, Nolan doesn’t waste time giving speeches, boasting, or playing around. He tells Homelander point blank that he will kill him for murdering Debbie, then walks right up to him while he’s laughing and slugs him. The most he indulges is lecturing Homelander on how to throw and take a punch, and he still doesn't hesitate to punch Homelander in the nose when the latter tries to interrupt him.
• No-Sell: He brushes off anything Homelander throws at him. Not even Homelander's heat vision, which he has used to tear through ordinary humans and melt their eyes, does anything to him, since he opens his eyes afterwards with no signs of any real damage. Only Homelander's Super-Scream catches him off-guard, and only for a short moment, showing it was more of a minor annoyance than causing him any real harm.
• Not Hyperbole: Turns out he was dead serious about feeding Homelander his own heart.
  Omni-Man: Remember what I promised you...? Now swallow.
• Not So Above It All: The only time Nolan drops his serious face during the fight is after he decks Homelander in the nose hard enough to draw blood when John tries to attack him while he's lecturing Homelander on his lack of punching technique. Nolan looks almost exasperated as he quips "Better."
• Papa Wolf: For the most part, Omni-Man is just toying with Homelander throughout the fight. Then during Homelander's Villainous Breakdown, he threatens to kill Mark, and that's when Omni-Man decides to stop screwing around and finishes him off in seconds.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Nolan is perfectly capable of singlehandedly devastating a planet, having once flown around an alien planet so fast that he ignited the air around him resulting in massive explosions, and another time having flown through a planet.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "I'm going to feed you your own heart." He makes good on that promise in the most literal way possible.
• Pyrrhic Victory: An emotional one than necessarily a physical one. Omni-Man completely crushes Homelander, but it came at the death of his wife, whom despite thinking of her as a "pet", still genuinely loved her as a partner nonetheless. As he flies away, one can't help but notice the somber, almost defeated tone of his voice before we cut to the after-action report.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: After Homelander tries and fails to burn through Omni-Man's head in his Villainous Breakdown, Nolan's eyes become bloodshot and irritated when he opens his charred eyelids just as he was about to crush Homelander's skull.
• Scissors Cuts Rock: Homelander has access to both of Omni-Man's primary weaknesses, sound, and intense heat. Unfortunately for Homelander, Omni-Man is simply so much tougher than him that even when attempting to exploit both of these weaknesses Omni-Man just shrugs them off with little more than some minor injuries that quickly heal due to his Healing Factor.
• The Social Darwinist: Comes from an entire race of them. The Viltrumites slaughtered each other in a Genocide from the Inside until only the strongest remained. Boomstick even described them as having both the power of the Kryptonians and the bloodlust of the Saiyans.
• Strong and Skilled: In stark contrast to Homelander, Nolan is a Flying Brick who's spent thousands of years conquering entire planets and fighting much stronger opponents than anyone Homelander's ever seen. Nolan even lectures Homelander mid-fight about his own sloppy fighting style. Given that he's both stronger and more skilled, Homelander didn't have a prayer.
  Omni-Man: Never been hit by someone your own size before? You have to turn with a punch in order to reduce— (punches Homelander mid-charge) Better.
• Super-Speed: As a Viltrumite, Nolan can fly across galaxies in less than a week. This puts him at several times faster than light and billions of times faster than his opponent.
• Super-Strength: He destroyed a meteor the size of Texas to prevent it from hitting Earth, and calculating its kinetic energy would put it at being able to destroy the moon twice over. This in turn scales to a Viltrumite being able to move a moon, and puts him far above both Homelander's own strength and durability (according to the post-fight analysis, 60 billion times stronger).
• Talk to the Fist: Nolan's first attack is to punch Homelander in the face after the latter laughs off his Pre Ass Kicking One Liner. He does it again Homelander insanely threatens to kill Mark and everyone Nolan knows, this time with a swift and brutal jaw tear.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • After finding out that Homelander brutally murdered Debbie, he takes a deep breath before calmly telling his opponent that he’s going to feed him his own heart. Throughout the ensuing fight, Omni-Man never raises his voice, even as he's gruesomely executing his assailant.
  • When Homelander threatens to kill Mark as revenge for Nolan tarnishing his image, he responds by calmly and casually carrying out his previous threat of making Homelander eat his own heart.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Implied. Tom Schalk's delivery of "Merry Christmas." doesn't give the feeling of triumph, but the somber delivery and slow flight upwards strongly hints that after the thrill of tortuing Homelander to death wore off, he's still confronted with the fact he lost his wife, whom even if he saw her as a "pet", he still genuinely loved.
• Weak to Fire: Aside from sufficient trauma to the brain or heart, a Viltrumite's Healing Factor will fail against prolonged exposure to intense heat, though this usually requires temperatures comparable to a star's output. While Homelander could theoretically take advantage of this with his Heat Vision (and indeed, a prolonged burst straight to Omni-Man's eyes in the animation produces the most damage seen on him), since it was unlikely Homelander's beams were as hot as the sun and Nolan has endured human-incinerating Eye Beams from Mean Supreme, it would likely only be an annoyance Nolan would quickly get around.

The Homelander (John Gillman)

Homelander: "And if I'm playing second fiddle to some goddamn alien, what's really the point, right?"
Voiced by: Yong Yea

The World's Greatest Superhero, Brought to You by Vought International

• Actually Pretty Funny: When Omni-Man nonchalantly threatens to feed him his own heart, he's taken aback, then starts laughing and calls it a "great line". This quickly becomes subverted when Nolan shows what he can really do.
• All-American Face: How Vought portrays him to the public, but in actuality, Homelander embodies the worst aspects of the Eagleland trope.
• Always Someone Better: The reason Homelander lost is quite simple — Omni-Man is better than him in every conceivable way. The only advantages Homelander had were a couple of powers Nolan didn't have, and not even they amounted to much.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: At the end of the fight, Homelander angrily rants that he's going to finish what he started with Debbie by killing Nolan's son Mark, his neighbors, and anyone else unfortunate enough to know Nolan. Thankfully, Nolan cuts him off (i.e. kills him) before he can even try.
  Homelander: AFTER I'M DONE WITH YOU, I'M GONNA FLASH-FRY THAT LITTLE SHIT SON OF YOURS, THIS WORTHLESS NEIGHBORHOOD, AND EVERY GODDAMN PERSON YOU KNOW!
• Ascended Extra: He was originally a referee in the "The Seven Battle Royale" before becoming a proper combatant for this episode.
• Ax-Crazy: He's violently unhinged enough to murder Debbie just for being Omni-Man's wife, and responds to losing the fight by threatening to personally kill everyone in Omni-Man's personal life.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Part of his whole shtick. He acts like a Humble Hero Paragon entirely for the sake of PR, but when nobody's watching he turns into the most petty and cruel Jerkass DEATH BATTLE has ever seen. This extends to his match-up's intro, as he spends nearly his entire speech with a laidback smile before immediately dropping it to order Omni-Man to get the hell out of his country.
• Beat Still, My Heart: Omni-Man tears his still-beating heart out and crams it down his throat.
• Break the Haughty: Nolan takes all the time in the world to break Homelander by mocking his fighting ability, taunting him, and even effectively shutting down his tantrum when his real colors are revealed to the public before finally killing him.
• The Bully: Wiz likens Homelander to a bully since he's never fought anyone who could pose a threat to him. When Omni-Man proves to be his superior, all Homelander can do is throw a severe temper tantrum.
• Bullying a Dragon: Big time, which is only exasperated by the fact that Homelander knows what Nolan is capable of to some degree, but still expects to be able to intimidate the Viltrumite into leaving the US. Unfortunately for him, it's obvious he doesn't know the full extent of what his opponent can really do, which he gets his first taste of when Nolan punches him to begin their brawl. Sure enough, messing with Omni-Man turned out to be a very bad idea.
  • Towards the end of the fight, he promises to go after everyone Omni-Man knows as revenge for his true persona being exposed. Given the time period the fight takes place in, it's likely that the events of Invincible haven't occurred yet, which means the Guardians of the Globe are still alive and thus fit that criteria. Considering Omni-Man himself barely defeated them on his own in the animated continuity, how Homelander was expecting to kill an entire rival superhero team himself is anybody's guess.
• Composite Character: In contrast to the battle royale, Homelander's characterization is combined from the comics, the 2019 Prime series, and the Diabolical cartoon.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Played With on the giving end, but absolutely played straight on the long lasting receiving end.
  • Prior to Omni-Man's return, he trespasses into his home and kills Debbie by reducing her to a charred, melted, skeletal corpse and then using said corpse for the purpose of intimidation. However, this may be subverted as we never see how Homelander kills Debbie, but given how powerful his heat vision is, it's not unreasonable to assume it didn't just up and flash-fry Debbie and kill her instantly, but the lack of specifics leave the worst of it to the viewer's imagination.
  • At the end of the fight, Omni-Man makes him suffer when he dies, giving him arguably the single most gruesome finisher in DEATH BATTLE history. First, Omni-Man disables Homelander's sonic voice by tearing his jaw open, which is followed by him ripping his heart out and leaving a hole in his torso. This would already be fatal in of itself, but Omni-Man goes for extra sadism by acting on his promise to feed said heart into his mouth, before making him "swallow". As Homelander is begging for mercy at the end of it, Omni-Man finally puts him out of his misery via Head Crushing, just as Omni-Man did to Red Rush in his home series. And as excessive of a death as that was, it couldn't have happened to a worse person.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Notably averted in the animation proper, in a rarity for DEATH BATTLE. Even though the show's hosts act like the outcome was in doubt to preserve drama, Homelander doesn't even last three minutes as soon as the first punch is thrown, with it being very clear that Omni-Man wasn't even going all-out against him. John does manage to cause some visible damage near the end with his shouts and heat vision, but the only reason he lasted so long and manages to cause some damage to Nolan is because the Viltrumite just wanted to toy with him for humiliation.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Homelander is actually the by-product of Vought Industries' desire to create marketable superheroes using Compound V. It was a success. Too much of a success.
• Death by Irony: Homelander's death is one on three levels.
  • His sonic scream is one of the only ways he can harm Omni-Man, so Omni-Man, being the Combat Pragmatist that he is, tears his jaw off before doing what he promised at the start of the fight.
  • The reason he came after Omni-Man in the first place is that he's jealous that a "goddamn alien" is possibly outshining him. While Nolan is strong and skilled, even by Vitrumite standards, there're at least two of them who are far stronger, experienced, and bloodthirsty than he'll ever be.
  • Homelander had all the intentions to intimidate, scare, and psychologically break Omni-Man. Guess what happens to Homelander throughout the entire fight?
• Didn't See That Coming: He is so secure in his powers and reputation that he believed Omni-Man would pack up and leave when he intimidated him with Debbie's charred corpse and a display of his red eyes. Instead, Homelander is so shocked by Nolan's Pre-Asskicking One-Liner that he cannot form a proper response, so he resorts to laughing it off until his face meets Nolan's fist.
• Enemy Eats Your Lunch: It's very unlikely that he brought that mug of hot chocolate to the Graysons' home.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed. The hosts note that Homelander's one slightly redeeming factor is that he genuinely loves his bastard son, due to him representing the one part of his whole life Vought doesn't control him over. Even then, this doesn’t stop him from pushing said son off of the roof of his family’s house in an attempt to make his superpowers manifest.
• Evil Hero: Homelander is employed as a superhero by Vought and has cultivated the image of an All-American hero, but in reality is a brutal, petty, incompetent manchild willing to do whatever it takes — including slaughtering civilians — to cover up his shortcomings and ensure nothing tarnishes his reputation.
• Evil Is Petty: His reason for showing up at Graysons' home and murdering Debbie? He doesn't want Omni-Man damaging his brand.
• Eye Beams: Homelander's heat vision that is capable of slicing aircraft, to say nothing of people, in two. However, it's noted that Omni-Man has tanked heat vision capable of incinerating normal people before, and that it's unlikely that Homelander's could be as hot as the sun.
• Faux Affably Evil: He acts rather laidback and chummy when telling Omni-Man that his presence would be bad for his image, right before dropping the façade by tersely ordering him to Get Out! of his country with a deep frown and a venomous change in tone.
• Fantastic Racism: Refers to Nolan as a "goddamn alien" and orders him to leave the country.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: His entire motivation for targeting Omni-Man for murder is because he feels the existence of another Flying Brick is threatening his position as America's #1 hero.
• Foregone Conclusion: With Homelander outmatched in every way by Omni-Man, all he could do was delay his inevitable and humiliating death.
• Freudian Excuse: He's what you get when a morally-bankrupt MegaCorp raises a superpowered child from birth. Predictably, non-empathetic suits and scientists don't make for loving parents.
• Get Out!: He straight up orders Nolan to leave the US after "politely" explaining his reasons beforehand along with showcasing Debbie's charred corpse for intimidation.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: He has these whenever he readies his Heat Vision. He tries to use it as an intimidation tactic on Nolan, keyword being tries.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He was jealous of Omni-Man possibly outshining him as America's #1 hero, leading to him breaking into his home, murdering Debbie, and instigating their fight... and ultimately, his own death.
• Hate Sink: Up there with Reverse-Flash, The Joker and DIO as the most despicable combatant in the series. Almost half of his rundown is spent on the hosts just going into detail about what a petty, immature scumbag he is underneath his image as the All-American Face. His motives for picking a fight with Omni-Man and murdering his wife are similarly childish, and he causes a massive amount of collateral damage that results in numerous civilian deaths, only caring when bystanders see that it's him causing it. Even then, his solution is to just kill everyone who knows and then everyone Omni-Man knows just to spite him for unintentionally exposing his Lack of Empathy. Played up, of course, so the viewers can enjoy the Curb-Stomp Battle that would unfold and the gruesome death he suffers at the end.
• Head Crushing: How he's finally finished off. After making good on his promise to feed him his own heart, Omni-Man crushes Homelander's skull with his bare hands.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His Meteor Move on Omni-Man kills several innocent bystanders, and several more witness it. When he realizes that this killed his public image, he suffers a Villainous Breakdown.
• Humiliation Conga: Not only does Omni-Man literally school him by insulting his fighting technique and telling him how to improve it, albeit mockingly, but the Meteor Move he used on Omni-Man also killed several people in a populated city, permanently tarnishing his outward reputation and pushing him into a Villainous Breakdown akin to a kid throwing a tantrum. He's then taunted by Nolan, and his attempt to fight back only ends with a very well-deserved and brutal death.
• Implied Death Threat: He comes to the Graysons' home, makes himself a mug of hot chocolate, murders Debbie in cold blood, presents her charred corpse to Omni-Man, then shows Omni-Man his Heat Vision as a warning if he doesn't leave. It not only completely falls flat with Omni-Man but nets Homelander a gruesome, but completely well-deserved death at the hands of the rightly-enraged widower and much superior Viltrumite warrior.
• It's All About Me: Or rather "It's all about how America sees me." which serves as the motive behind him killing Omni-Man's wife and threatening him the same way. To say the least, Nolan isn't impressed by this attitude at all in their "fight".
• Jawbreaker: On the receiving end, Omni-Man reaches out to him while he's trying to fry his eyes out and tears his jaw out of its socket.
• Jerkass: Boomstick's description of the Homelander is "Bad Future Biff from Back to the Future with superpowers and media training", which is a rather apt description to how "heroic" he really is.
• Karmic Death: The fight starts when Homelander fries Debbie with his eye beams and presents her body to Omni-Man as a warning, and it ends when Homelander tries to do the same to Omni-Man himself, who simply powers through it, rips his jaw off, and succeeds in feeding him his own heart. On a larger scale, after a lifetime of abusing his powers against a world who in no way could ever hope to stop him, using them to rape, murder, and torment others without remorse, Homelander ultimately dies begging for mercy after angering a person who is as far above him as he is above most of the other people in his own universe.
• Leave No Witnesses: After stumbling out of the crater near the end of the fight with Nolan, he finds himself bloodied, beaten, and surrounded by people that just saw Homelander accidentally killing their neighbors in his scuffle with Omni-Man. Worried about how this would taint his public perception, he tells Nolan that he plans to wipe out the entire neighborhood after he finishes killing Omni-Man and his son. Thankfully, the Viltrumite managed to put a stop to this.
• Man of Kryptonite: Just about the only thing Homelander has going for him that Omni-Man doesn't is a couple of abilites the latter doesn't have; his heat vision and sonic scream. Both of which hit Omni-Man's weak points. But because Homelander is so much weaker than Omni-Man, it doesn't amount to much.
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Infamously, Homelander's ejaculation is powerful enough to blow a human being apart like a shotgun. Wiz does the math and calculates that, due to the much smaller mass of semen compared to a shotgun pellet, it would have to be traveling at Mach 4.5 to achieve the same result.
  Boomstick: That's right, Homelander can bust a nut faster than the speed of sound. Well, goodnight, everybody!
• Minor Injury Overreaction: In contrast to Omni-Man, Homelander reacts in shock from the very first punches of his foe despite not drawing blood, since it's one of the few, if first, times he's felt real physical pain. His reactions only get progressively worse when he realizes Nolan can make him bleed as the fight goes on.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Vought kept him strapped to a remote-controlled hydrogen bomb when he was younger and before they were sure they could control him through his mental conditioning, as they weren't sure if anything else could do the job. By the time he's grown up, not even that can hope to kill him anymore. Turns out he's only really invulnerable to conventional human means of harm. When faced with Omni-Man, an alien who physically outclasses him, he is beaten bloody and impaled before getting his head effortlessly crushed.
• Nominal Hero: The only thing heroic about Homelander is his name, otherwise he's anything but heroic, committing atrocities just for the sole reason that he can with no consequences and only doing heroic actions to maintain his ill-deserved reputation.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: He is described by Wiz as "a big fish in a small pond, relatively speaking." Homelander may have been the most powerful of The Seven, but he was ultimately nothing compared to Omni-Man. Homelander is from a world that is somewhat like our own, was made by Vought in a laboratory, couldn't be killed by any weapon made on Earth, and his fights mostly consisted of him mowing down powerless humans that are only armed with guns and explosives with the rare superpowered foe who's still physically outclassed by Homelander himself. Omni-Man, by-comparison, comes from a slightly higher-tech setting as a Viltrumite from a Galaxy-spanning Social Darwinist empire who is well over a millennium in age, with the combat experience to back it up with through having regularly gone toe-to-toe with all manners of Mad Scientists, Alien Invaders, Kaiju, and Eldritch Abominations during his time spent on Earth. And the fact that the post analysis said that Omni-man was 60 billion times stronger and 7.2 billion times faster.
  Wiz: And that's the key difference between them: one is a warrior and the other is a bully.
• Oh, Crap!: When Nolan tears his jaw out, we can see the terrifying realization in his good eye that he bit off far more than he could chew when he picked a fight with Omni-Man.
• Precision F-Strike: "Get the fuck out of my country."
• Psychopathic Manchild: Homelander is, at heart, an immature, irresponsible little boy given far too much power than he can be trusted with. Wiz even compares him to a schoolyard bully. The fight starts in the first place because he hates having to compete with Omni-Man for attention and killed his wife over it, and by the end, he's reduced to throwing a tantrum and screaming impotent death threats he has no means to follow through on. That last offence is ultimately why Omni-Man decides to stop messing around and butcher him.
  Omni-Man: What’s the matter? Are you going to cry?
• Rasputinian Death: The question to ask isn't: "Who would win in a fight between Omni-Man and Homelander?" or "How long can Homelander survive in a fight against Omni-Man?" but rather "How painful and drawn-out would Omni-Man make Homelander's death?" Answer: very.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning:
  • His eyes turn red whenever he activates his Heat Vision, and it shows just how unhinged he is deep down.
  • In the opposite way, his one good eye is bloodshot as Nolan starts to crush his head in to showcase his mortal fear of Omni-Man and his oncoming death.
• Religious Bruiser: Homelander is portrayed as a hyper-religious figure, even being shown doing baptisms. That said, he only does it for the sympathy of the public and even says that there is no God in the comic and the TV show.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He is right that Omni-Man is a threat but he's thinking only on the pettiest level of a threat to his brand as the number one superhero, never cluing in that Omni-Man is actually the forward scout for an inter-galactic alien empire that has their sights on conquering Earth.
• Satanic Archetype: Despite Vought's propaganda propping Homelander up as a paragon of Christlike sinlessness, Wiz outright describes him as the closest thing Earth has to Lucifer.
• Sensory Abuse: Homelander's Super-Scream invoke this, going so loud that that the audio distorts and rings as they happen, and the air itself shakes. Fittingly, it's one of the few things that works against Omni-Man, due to his superpowered hearing... not that it affects him for long.
  Homelander: STOOOOOOP IIIIIIIIIIT!
  Homelander: BAAAAACK OOOOOOOOOFFFFFF!
• Shoot the Hostage: Omni-Man deliberately tries using him as a ram against a passenger jet like he would use Mark against a commuter train in the Invincible canon. But unlike Mark, Homelander hasn't a scrap of moral fiber and simply laser-visions the plane in half.
• Slave to PR: Despite being no hero, his one main obsession is being perceived by the public as one to make up for how he had no real loving upbringing under Vought. He tries to intimidate Omni-Man into leaving because he saw a being with similar powers as himself to be a potential threat to his reputation, and he suffers a full-blown, hyperventilating meltdown during the fight when he realizes that civilians witnessed the destruction he caused.
• Smarter Than You Look: Despite his ego and temper, Homelander is capable of surprisingly smart plans and clever thinking in the middle of battle, which tends to catch people who assume he's Dumb Muscle off-guard. This wouldn't take him far against Omni-Man, however, as the alien's thousands of years of experience would easily counter it.
• Smug Snake: Compared to Omni-Man, definitely. Homelander's ego is so large he feels he can waltz into Nolan's home, murder his wife, and threaten him into leaving the country all because his existence is threatening his image. It takes all of two minutes for Omni-Man to demonstrate who's really on top.
• Smug Super: He's the most powerful superhero of his universe and knows it is given how condescending he is. Even after Omni-Man explicitly threatens him, he just laughs it off... up until the Viltrumite socks him in the jaw and starts pummeling him.
  Homelander: (after breaking into laughter) Shit! That... was a great line- (gets punched)
• Super-Scream: Homelander is able to scream loud enough to rupture the eardrums of nearby people. Given Omni-Man's sensitive hearing, it's one of the few attacks he has that's capable of harming him, not that it's anywhere near enough as it would only briefly distract him at most.
• Super-Senses: His senses are sensitive enough that he can hear other people's bodily functions and guess their emotions from those.
• Super-Soldier: Homelander was created to be one by Vought Industries, a government military defense contractor that decided to get into the business of engineering and weaponizing super-powered humans, and is the most powerful member of their flagship team of "superheroes", the Seven.
• Super-Speed: On the ground, he's already able to move faster than the eye can track and is able to fly at hypersonic speeds, having once out-run a C4 explosion without injury. Omni-Man however moves in magnitudes of lightspeed, meaning Homelander couldn't hope to keep up once Omni-Man got serious.
• Super-Strength: He's strong enough to hurl military aircraft like lobbing a ball and is explicitly stronger than any other superhero of his universe. He's got nothing on Omni-Man, however, who's strong enough to destroy planetary bodies with brute force.
• Talk to the Fist: Attempts this when Omni-Man lectures him on his fighting technique. Emphasis on "attempts", as Omni-Man punches him in the nose (giving him a nosebleed) before the hit lands.
• Tears of Fear: In his last moments, Homelander sheds tears from his remaining good eye as he realizes he never stood a chance against Omni-Man and can't even scream for his life.
• Underestimating Badassery: Homelander assumes that Omni-Man is just another person he can bully and intimidate. By the time he realizes this grave error, it is too late.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He's the most powerful superhuman Vought has to offer, but has little to no combat training and sometimes botches missions through sheer lack of tactical foresight. The difference in experience between the two is demonstrated early on when Homelander fails to notice the oil tanker he's about to crash into, while Omni-Man spots a commercial jet in the sky and decides to make it ram Homelander. Omni-Man even lectures him about his lack of training. This also plays into his defeat, as Omni-Man has millennia of experience to his name while Homelander has never been genuinely challenged, at least in a physical sense.
• Villainous Breakdown: When he realizes that the residents of the neighborhood witnessed the destruction he caused in his fight, he completely loses it and attacks Omni-Man with his heat vision all the while screaming about how he's going to kill Mark, everyone in the neighborhood, and everyone Nolan knows. He barely gets to finish the threat before Omni-Man tears his jaw out.
  Homelander: AFTER I'M DONE WITH YOU, I'M GONNA FLASH-FRY THAT LITTLE SHIT SON OF YOURS, THIS WORTHLESS NEIGHBORHOOD, AND EVERY GODDAMN PERSON YOU KNOW!!!
• Villains Want Mercy: As soon as Homelander realizes too little, too late how out of his depth he is fighting Omni-Man, Homelander immediately tries to beg for mercy, despite having just been dealt a killing blow with losing his heart and jaw. Given he can't speak at all due to his slack-hanging jaw and how royally pissed Omni-Man was over the death of his wife, even as a "pet", it didn't work at all.
  Homelander: (Voice unintelligible due to his broken jaw) "NO! PLEASE—" (Has his head crushed by Omni-Man)
• Villain with Good Publicity: It’s brought up that he has a tremendous public image as a homegrown American Superhero and the greatest of them all, but it's shown in his analysis that he is anything but heroic. He loses his image and gets a Villainous Breakdown when his Meteor Move causes a shockwave that kills several innocents and is witnessed by several more.
• Wipe the Floor with You: After smashing through several houses, Homelander manages to grab Omni-Man by the back of the head and drags him face-first along the pavement, grinding a rift into it until they slam into an oil tanker that explodes. Nolan isn't even phased.
• The Worf Effect: After spending most of "The Seven Battle Royale" as an All-Powerful Bystander and claiming victory at the last second, Homelander gets utterly thrashed by Omni-Man in just two minutes.
• Would Hurt a Child: Possibly; Mark isn't seen in the episode aside from a photo, so he might still be a child. That doesn't stop Homelander from promising to kill him once he's done with Nolan.

Magneto VS Tetsuo

• Anti-Villain: Both combatants have caused a lot of destruction with their overwhelming power, but also have more sympathetic qualities, which the fight itself shows. Tetsuo is the very image of a hotheaded delinquent, but his out of control mutation is played for all the horror it deserves, and Magneto, who'd been condescending and contemptuous towards him for the rest of the fight, solemnly grants his request to relieve his pain.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Both of their pasts involved dealing with abusive governmental forces, feeling sentiments of inferiority, and other out of control misery that ultimately led to their Start of Darkness.
• Evil Former Friend: Both of them were once best friends to the main heroes before turning against them. Magneto was once best friends with Professor Charles Xavier, but their irreconcilable differences over how to handle mutant-human relations caused them to go their separate ways^note Wiz notes that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby built Magneto and Xavier's relationship to take influences from both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. in regard to their views on the civil rights movement, with Magneto forming the Brotherhood of Mutants to combat Xavier's X-Men. Tetsuo on the other hand was once the best friend of Shotaro Kaneda, and even co-founded the Capsule Gang with him. However, Tetsuo secretly resented the attention Kaneda received, causing their relationship to fracture further when his own psychic powers were unlocked.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Both of them started off as seemingly powerless young men who unlocked powers propelling them to heights they and others could only dream of.
• Intergenerational Rivalry: Magneto is a man pushing past his nineties, whereas Tetsuo is an angry and brash teen. Their whole encounter has the energy of a grown man scolding a child.
  Magneto: I believe I've had enough tantrums to last a lifetime!
• Psychic Powers: Both are powerful telekinetics who can cause world-wide destruction at an unprecedented level and use their abilities to start violent revolutions, take out anyone who dares oppose them, and become rulers over island nations. While both were comparable in power, however, Magneto proves to be the superior in skill and experience.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Tetsuo's brash and anger-prone behavior clashes with Magneto's calmer and more firm approach, even in power colors the former's violent red clashes with the latter cooler purple.

Magneto (Max Eisenhardt/Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)

Magneto: "Parlor tricks for the Master of Magnetism!"
Voiced by: Edward Bosco

Marvel's Mutant Master of Magnetism

• Ascended Extra: After making a cameo appearance in the post-fight animation of Flash VS Quicksilver and facing Darth Vader in DBX, Magneto becomes a combatant in the show.
• The Atoner: After spending years as an enemy of the X-Men and his old friend Professor X, Magneto eventually came to realize that despite his good intentions for his fellow mutants, his actions and war against humanity were ultimately just causing more harm for them than good. So, after some time and patience from both him and his former enemies, Magneto had a Heel–Face Turn and changed his ways, with him even becoming a leader to the X-Men at one point. Though despite looking to atone for his past and help his fellow mutants the right way this time, he will still do what he needs to in order to protect them and will annihilate any threat against them by any means necessary.
• Bottomless Magazines: As pointed out by Wiz, there are very few substances on Earth that lack any metallic or magnetic component, meaning that Magneto is never without something to manipulate and utilize in battle.
• Cool Helmet: His iconic helmet shields his mind from all manners of telepathic attacks and probing, having resisted the likes of Emma Frost and Professor X, the latter being the most powerful telepath on Earth. This helmet provided an adequate amount of protection from Tetsuo's telepathic abilities and even though it got wrecked during the fight, Magneto can still resist telepathy regardless if he's wearing it or not.
• Dark and Troubled Past: As a young Jewish boy, Magneto spent his early life living through the hellish horrors of The Holocaust where he managed to escape certain death with his future wife. While he was able to settle down in Soviet Russia and start a family, his X-Gene mutation developed and when the KGB discovered about this little quirk of his, they burned down his house with his daughter still inside. Magneto killed them all in retaliation and his wife ditched him immediately afterwards, terrified of his mutant powers. All these factors combined led to his Start of Darkness where he plans to subjugate the human race in the name of mutantkind and finds himself in conflict with his former friend, Charles Xavier.
• Declaration of Protection: Magneto might have mellowed out from his villain days, but there's one compromise he will not make, and that's for the safety of mutantkind. Considering what he lived through, it's hard to blame his creed of Never Again. In the battle proper, he only kills Tetsuo when it becomes clear the latter is Blessed with Suck and unable to control his powers to the point a Mercy Kill is in order.
• Deflector Shields: By altering magnetic waves, Magneto can create nigh-impregnable barriers that could withstand almost anything. While these barriers can't fully protect him from his opponent's onslaught and he could still be killed once they are down, these defenses still blocked attacks from the likes of Thor and Hercules, beings much more powerful than Tetsuo himself.
• Evil Old Folks: Magneto was born before the Second World War^note Though he was de-aged at least once, giving him the body of his prime. and for the most part, he was a morally ambiguous antagonist to the X-Men and other superheroes before reforming.
• Hyper-Awareness: He has ESP abilities that allows him to sense various kinds of magnetic energies such as distant magnetic fields and perceive things down to a subatomic level. This power proves to be a key factor in his win as it allows Magento to sense his surroundings and detect for magnetic disruptions, therefore reliably track Tetsuo's teleportation and movements, but it also just gives him a much greater degree of awareness, control, and precision over his and his opponent's abilities.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While both have their sympathetic qualities, Magneto is this compared to Tetsuo, as while he was a supervillain for most of his career, he eventually realized that he and his Brotherhood were doing more harm than good, and subsequently performed a Heel–Face Turn to make up for his past actions. On the other hand, Tetsuo, while a tragic Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, was ultimately still an Ax-Crazy villain and the Big Bad of his series who never saw the error of his ways.
• Made of Iron: Even without his barriers protecting him, Magneto is surprisingly durable for an old guy having survived being hit from the likes of Cyclops's earth-splitting optic blasts and a miniaturized neutron star bullet.
• Magnetism Manipulation: While a common misconception is that he is limited to manipulating metal, Magneto's mutant powers enable him to freely manipulate electromagnetism in general, fitting for someone with the title of "the Master of Magnetism". He can telekinetically bend and reshape any metal that he's aware of and can also manipulate his personal magnetic field for Flight and Deflector Shields. With a little bit of knowledge and ingenuity, the endless amount of applications that could be done with this ability makes Magneto one of the most powerful mutants on Earth and a force to be reckoned with.
• Mercy Kill: Ultimately gives this to Tetsuo after realizing the physical and mental anguish that the young esper is going through.
• Noble Demon: It's clear at the start of the battle he was sympathetic to Tetsuo after seeing the destruction he caused, blaming humans for driving him to it, and only fighting back in self-defense — and later delivering a solemn Mercy Kill upon realizing Tetsuo can't control his powers, clearly feeling guilty about the whole thing.
• Oh, Crap!: He looks at Tetsuo's mutated Ego Collapse form in horror.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: The older hero in this battle and while Magneto started off as a supervillain and was one for most of his career, he has since reformed and his intentions were much more nuanced and understandable compared to the increasingly more vicious, vile, and unsympathetic Tetsuo.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Mentioned in his analysis on how his daughter died when the KGB burned down his home due to fearing his powers.
• Person of Mass Destruction: His mutant powers are so great that it allows him to match beings capable of destroying planets, punch people with the force of a sun, and even overpower Hercules, a deity literally capable of holding up the entire sky. His destructive output being more than enough to match and surpass Tetsuo's psychic powers in addition to his greater mastery over his own abilities and experience in fighting beings much stronger than Tetsuo is ultimately what gives Magneto the win.
• Power Nullifier: A decisive factor in his win because not only he can shut down his opponent’s telekinetic powers with his own abilities but most importantly, he is able to successfully control and contain Tetsuo’s greatest chance of winning, his Ego Collapse form’s Big Bang explosion, by detecting and commanding the unstable mess of electrons found within that explosion.
• Psychic Block Defense: While his helmet provides him the most amount of mental protections, Magneto can still resist mental attacks or probing even when he's not wearing it to a certain extent. His resistance to telepathic abilities proves to be another valuable asset against Tetsuo as it provides Magneto a secondary psychic defense should his helmet ever be removed or destroyed.
• Purple Is Powerful: He's an Omega-Level mutant who wears purple as part of his costume and his powers emanate a purple hue when used. He is also much more powerful than his opponent.
• Refugee from Time: Something that works out to his benefit. Given that Magneto's origins are firmly rooted in World War II, and all the atrocities that came with it, he's pushing ninety years of age — that's ninety years of fighting for his life and causes, giving him nearly a century of time to hone his abilities (and the experience advantage over the teenage Tetsuo), and — as the hosts note — Magneto is not one to fall for When All You Have Is a Hammer…; his Magnetism Manipulation is a borderline Swiss-Army Superpower given his creativity.
• Strong and Skilled: The main reason behind his victory is that he’s ultimately proven to be much more powerful, faster, tougher, and experienced than his opponent. While Tetsuo could grow more powerful if given time, Magneto's other advantages would still carry the day.
• Super-Speed: Magneto was able to use the Earth's magnetic field to return there from another planet located in a different galaxy in a single day. He’s ultimately proven to be much faster than his opponent due to this galaxy-crossing feat.
• Super Supremacist: After suffering through the Holocaust and losing his family, Magneto came to believe that mutants are a superior species to the rest of humanity, and that they must subjugate and exterminate regular humans to ensure their survival and supremacy.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: He has a good understanding of his magnetokinesis where he can apply a great amount of versatility and precision such as manipulating the Earth's magnetic field, the trace amounts of ferrous materials in blood and the air, and even down to the subatomic level. This level of creativity and awareness is by far his greatest advantage as it allowed Magneto to overcome and win against his lesser-skilled opponent, and while Tetsuo can still kill him and certainly grow much stronger over time, Magneto's powers were still more than capable of reliably countering and overpowering anything that was thrown at him.
• Your Head Asplode: Nearly died from this during the battle courtesy of Tetsuo, but was able to quickly stop that grisly death from happening to him by choking Tetsuo with his own metal limb.

Tetsuo Shima

Tetsuo: "Wrong country, grandpa! You're in Akira turf now!"
Voiced by: Joshua Waters

AKIRA's Telekinetic Terror of Neo-Tokyo

• An Arm and a Leg: Tetsuo ended up losing one of his arms early on, causing him to create a replacement arm out of scrap metal. While he had both arms at the start of the fight, Magneto managed to take the same arm off with a well-placed hit.
• Artificial Limbs: After losing an arm in both his story and during the fight, Tetsuo easily created a replacement arm out of scrap metal using his telekinesis. However, having a metal arm isn't so great against someone who can easily control metal as in the case of Magneto bending, wrapping, and choking Tetsuo with his own rudimentary replacement limb later on in the fight.
• Bio-Augmentation: This is how Tetsuo gained his powers; the Government Conspiracy that kidnapped him experimented on him to give him telekinetic abilities. It worked a little too well.
• Blessed with Suck: Tetsuo's powers, while incredibly strong, have the risk of causing great harm to himself if he loses control, causing him to mutate into a fleshy Blob Monster when he does. Once he turns he begs Magneto to end it for both their sakes.
• Blob Monster: He turns into a horrific one when his powers spiral out of control. Tetsuo mutates into this during the fight which not only horrifies his opponent but also himself.
  Tetsuo: It hurts... help me...
• Body Horror: Perhaps inevitably, Tetsuo loses control of his powers and undergoes a painful Eldritch Transformation into a gigantic blob of viscous, pulsating flesh with external veins, the face of a crying infant, and the mindless compulsion to destroy everything in its path. Even Magneto, an elderly Mutant who has borne witness to countless atrocities and traumatic events throughout his life, is driven to silent horror at the sight of this, and when Tetsuo telepathically begs his foe for a Mercy Kill, the Mutant unhesitatingly obliges.
• Boom, Headshot!: Tetsuo dies this way courtesy of Magneto as a Mercy Kill.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: After turning into his Ego Collapse form, Tetsuo ends up telepathically using Magneto's "Welcome To Die" line, only difference is that while the original line was due to mistranslation, Tetsuo's use of the line is due to him speaking multiple sentences at the same time.
• Composite Character: Brought up by Wiz and Boomstick. The critically acclaimed anime film adaptation of AKIRA has an entirely different ending than its original manga, and its differences are brought up in relation to how Tetsuo's abilities operate between each continuities.
• David Versus Goliath: In his Ego Collapse form, he becomes the Goliath to Magneto's David. The David wins.
• Death by Irony: Tetsuo is a mentally unstable and dangerously destructive psychic with a big Forehead of Doom who ultimately meets his end with a simple, but clean headshot courtesy of Magneto.
• Defiant to the End: Though he eventually asks Magneto to end him once he mutates into his Ego Collapse form, he doesn't make it easy for the mutant, attempting to envelop him in the Big Bang explosion and when that fails, he emerges from the remains of his Ego Collapse form for one last suicidal charge.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: As Tetsuo's powers developed, it's clear that it all started to go to his head, and he loved every moment of it as he began to lash out at others and the world more and more to take what he felt he deserved. As the hosts note, however, he pushed his body too far to his ultimate regret.
• Dying as Yourself: His last thought before he dies is thanking Magneto for saving him from his horrific mutation.
• Eldritch Transformation: His Ego Collapse form is the Trope Codifier and current page image where Tetsuo undergoes a psychic Superpower Meltdown and mutates into a grotesque abomination that can create a Sphere of Destruction comparable to that of the Big Bang. While this form comes into play late in the fight and it certainly had the capabilities of killing his opponent, however, Magneto is able to survive from the Ego Collapse's power output and turn the tables against this hideous monstrosity.
• Forehead of Doom: Tetsuo has an oddly-small face compared to the rest of his head, causing him to have what Boomstick calls "college thesis forehead".
• Gathering Steam: Ever since he got them, Tetsuo's telekinesis constantly improved over time thanks to his connection to the Memories of the Universe, causing him to become a Person of Mass Destruction. While he can grow more powerful than his opponent with some time, it’s still not enough to beat Magneto.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Tetsuo's best friend Kaneda was always one step ahead of him in terms of strength and charisma and he resented him for it. Needless to say, he was overjoyed when he awakened to his telekinetic abilities after the initial shock wore off. A bit too much, in fact.
• Healing Factor: Tetsuo is able to heal from grievous wounds quickly but it does have limits, such as when he lost one of his arms, forcing him to create a scrap metal replacement. While it's noted that he has an edge in this department since his opponent's own healing abilities are somewhat inferior, it's still not enough to survive and recover from what Magneto could dish out.
• Heroic RRoD: Tetsuo doesn't have full control of his psychic abilities and if he exerts too much power, it will cause his body to breakdown and eventually turn into his Ego Collapse form. This weakness proves to be a critical disadvantage during the fight and its a factor behind his loss.
• I'll Kill You!: Tetsuo screams this twice after replacing his lost arm and blocking the building Magneto tosses at him with his powers. This also marks the point where Tetsuo gets even more aggressive in his fighting style.
• Jerkass: Tetsuo is not a pleasant person, especially due to his powers making him that much more confident. Nearly all his dialogue against Magneto involves him insulting or looking down on his foe.
• Made of Iron: Without using his psychic powers or barriers, he can survive from overdosing on pills, which could kill someone with a single drop and directly tank multiple shots from the SOL Satellite laser. However, this level of toughness isn't enough protection against someone like Magneto.
• Mind over Matter: Tetsuo’s Psychic Powers granted him immensely powerful telekinesis, which he can use for flight, teleportation, lifting objects, creating force fields, crushing foes with gravity wells, and create massive earthquakes. It's also so precise that he can use it to destroy specific parts of a person’s body.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: The younger villain in this battle and while Tetsuo is a tragic, Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds in his story, he ultimately still played the part as the Big Bad who never once saw the error of his ways and only got worse from there.
• Person of Mass Destruction: His telekinesis is strong enough to cause massive earthquakes, cratered the moon, and even destroy the planet a hundred times over. While this destructive might can give his opponent some pause and could kill him if given the chance, Magneto is still proven to more than capable of matching and surpassing this level of power.
• Pretty Little Headshots: After Magneto kills him with a laser beam through the head, no blood or brain matter is seen leaking out of the wound.
• Red Is Violent: His telekinesis glow red whenever its used and he is easily the more Ax-Crazy and Hot-Blooded of the two combatants.
• Sphere of Destruction: The raw power generated from Tetsuo's Ego Collapse form creates a massive Fantastic Nuke where its destructive output is comparable to that of the Big Bang. While this blast could certainly kill Magneto, the Master of Magnetism can match that level of power and is able to successfully control and contain it, effectively neutralizing his best shot at winning.
• Suicide by Cop: His final charge was confirmed on the official Discord server to have been done for the purpose of allowing Magneto to finish him off and before he expires, he uses his telepathy to thank Magneto for putting him out of his misery.
• Super-Speed: He can move as a bolt of lightning, dodged lightspeed lasers, and leapt to the Moon from Earth in about 13 milliseconds. However, he's much slower than his opponent, who can travel across galaxies in a short timeframe.
• Telepathy: He can read minds to gather for information. However, Magneto can No-Sell any mind-screw attempts thanks to his helmet and own natural resistance to telepathy. A side-note in the post-battle analysis also states that since Tetsuo fell unconscious after an attempt to read Akira's mind, trying to do the same to the much more powerful Magneto would probably have the same effect.
• Teleportation: He can instantly teleport to any location he wishes. However, Magneto is no stranger to teleporting opponents and is able to detect and predict teleportation abilities in action through his ESP.
• Took a Level in Badass: Tetsuo took a huge leap from lackluster gang member to psychic powerhouse. Unfortunately, he was put up against Magneto, who's been gaining levels for far longer than he has.
• Undignified Death: Narrowly defied. Tetsuo almost dies after going through a ton of gut-churning Body Horror thanks to Magneto redirecting all his uncontrolled energy back at him, but he miraculously returns to normal and dies a cleaner and more dignified death by headshot.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He’s this compared to his opponent and what ultimately causes him to lose the match as while Tetsuo’s abilities were certainly very powerful, can grow stronger over time, and had the means to kill his opponent, Magneto’s superior skill, experience, and power were more than enough of putting a stop to Tetsuo's rampage and put him down for good.
• Use Your Head: In the fight, the jokes about Tetsuo's forehead come back in an unexpectedly cool way when he tunnels through a building with one mighty headbutt.
• You Are Number 6: While he was in government captivity, he was referred to as Esper No. 41.
• Your Head Asplode: After having his opponent in a Choke Hold, Tetsuo tries to use psychic powers to blow up his head, but Magneto was able to break out of this and counterattack.

Hercules VS Sun Wukong

• The Atoner: For Heracles, he performed 10 labors under King Eurystheus for the murder of his own wife and son. Wukong, on the other hand, was punished by Buddha for his recklessness and war against Heaven and was tasked with guiding Tang Sanzang/Tripitaka, Pigsy, and Sandy through their Journey to the West.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?:
  • Heracles wrestled with Thanatos, the Greek god of death, in order to reclaim the soul of Alcestis... and won. He has also defeated Ares, the god of war, and Apollo, the god of light, in fights.
  • Sun Wukong beat up several gods in his Rage Against the Heavens.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: These two were put through the wringer in life as a testament to their extraordinary power and succeeded in their respective trials. The gods who watched over them were impressed and rewarded them with a place at their side at the end of their tales.
• Older Is Better: Heracles and Wukong are the two oldest fighters in the series (as of Season 9 at least), and are both extremely powerful.
• Physical God: As expected from two mighty, mythological deities but only ascended and became genuine gods in their lores after going on great quests.
• Public Domain Character: Both characters are some of the most famous mythical characters in the world, spawning countless inspirations across all media. The battle is focused primarily around the original legends rather than any of their adaptations.
• Shout-Out: Though the focus is primarily on the original legends, a few of their more popular adaptations are referenced, notably Disney's Zero-to-Hero and Akira Toriyama's Super Saiyan.
• Strong and Skilled:
  • Heracles is a Genius Bruiser trained in boxing, wrestling, fencing and archery, making him the World's Best Warrior. However, the arts wasn't his strong suit and he even accidentally killed his music teacher in a fit of rage.
  • Sun Wukong is a Magic Knight trained in martial arts and possessing incredible strength, speed and agility. He possesses multiple layers of immortality that practically makes him nearly unkillable and he has bested all of Heaven's greatest warriors.
• Truer to the Text: A big part of the analysis of both legends is that Wiz and Boomstick are specifically looking at the earliest known accounts of their tales as well as the thought process of the cultures they originated from at the time rather than any modern interpretations. This comes into play once in each analysis.
  • When discussing Hercules taking on Atlas' role, it is pointed out that while most modern depictions show Atlas holding up just the Earth, the ancient Greeks perceived Atlas as holding up the infinitely expanding universe.
  • A blurb points out that some translations perceived the Ruyi Jingu Bang as measuring or holding up the galaxy. However, this was disregarded as the original tale specifies that it was used to measure the ocean depths, specifically to gauge the depth of the Great Flood.

Heracles/Hercules

Hercules: "I am Heracles!"
Voiced by: Blythe Melin

The God of Strength

• The Atoner: Hera magically drove Heracles into a berserk rage where he murdered his wife, Princess Megara, and his sons. After realizing what he had done and feeling incredibly guilty and desperate for atonement, Heracles sought guidance from the oracle of Delphi and learned the path to redemption. To do this, he had to submit himself to King Eurystheus and perform for him ten grueling labours.
• Carry a Big Stick: One of his most iconic weapons is a massive club, which he brings to bare against Sun Wukong when their fight spills into the forest.
• Crippling Overspecialization: He harbors a lot of physical strength to become the God of Strength... and that's where his strengths end. When matched up against Wukong, who has not only achieved similar feats, but has also attained layers of immortality, can create clones, and has traveled to the edge of the universe within a second, Heracles was outmatched by a landslide.
• Dub Name Change: In the original Greek myth, he's known as "Heracles", named as such in order to appease Hera. To the Romans, however, he's known as "Hercules". The episode proper notes this down; he's referred to by his more popular Roman name in the title and initially addressed as such, while his original Greek name is what Wiz and Boomstick use more of when going deeper into their analysis of him.
• Gale-Force Sound: His krotalas emit a sound so loud that it can incapacitate anyone who hears their clap. The sonic wave they emit take out several of Sun Wukong's clones.
• Genius Bruiser: While he failed in the more conventional arts, Heracles is no idiot and often thinks of strategies to defeat tricky opponents. Notably, he beat the Nemean Lion to death with his bare hands to get around its near-impervious hide (then skinned it with its own claws as a trophy), and quickly figured out the Lernaean Hydra's weakness to fire; using a flaming torch to stop it from growing back its heads as he cut them off. When Sun Wukong tries to trick him with a fake golden apple he quickly sees through the deception.
• I Have Many Names: He was born Alcaeus or Alcides, but was renamed Heracles in an unsuccessful attempt to appease Hera's wrath at her husband's infidelity; and was known to the Romans as Hercules.
• Heroic Bastard: He was conceived when Zeus decided to be a "total creep" and disguised himself as Alcmene's husband Amphitryon to have sex with her. This technically makes Heracles a bastard, but he went on to accomplish many heroic feats.
• Hunter of Monsters: Several of Heracles' labours tasked him with slaying monsters thought to be impossible to beat, such as the Nemean Lion, the Lernaean Hydra, and the Stymphalian birds.
• Immortal Breaker: His arrows, dipped in hydra poison, are dangerous to mortals and gods alike. While they can't directly kill an immortal, the poison will leave its victim in such unbearable agony that it would drive one to relinquish their immortality in order to escape the pain. However, Sun Wukong is too fast and has too many tricks to be struck by them, though it is stated that they could have at least incapacitated the Monkey King if they did hit.
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: He's the Warrior to his opponent's Wizard as Hercules relies purely on his godlike strength and simpler weapons in battle. It's a factor behind his defeat since Sun's plethora of spells and other mystical abilities gave him a greater advantage in the versatility department and combined that with the Monkey's superior speed, layers of immortality, Healing Factor, and ability to match Hercules in raw strength means that the Olympian would be more likely to be overwhelmed.
• Misplaced Retribution: A victim of this at the hands of Hera. The queen of Olympus wanted to punish Heracles for being the byproduct of Zeus’s cheating on her when she should be directing her fury to Zeus himself. Nonetheless, she got her vengeance when she drove Heracles into a blinded rage, killing his wife Megara and their son.
• Multi-Melee Master: His training allowed him to be proficient in all kinds of combat arts, including boxing, wrestling, and fencing. This is demonstrated in the battle where Hercules uses a sword, a club, and his fists, in addition to his bow and krotala.
• Mundane Solution: Wiz points out that Hercules had a nack for figuring out obvious weaknesses in his Nigh-Invulnerable opponents. The Nemean Lion's hide can't be pierced? Beat it to death with your fists. A giant that is invincible while standing on the ground? Heave him into the air and strangle him.
• Nemean Skinning: The Trope Namer as his first labour tasked him in slaying the Nigh-Invulnerable Nemean Lion, who has a hide that couldn't be pierced by any blade. To kill this beast, Heracles just straight up beat the lion to death with his bare hands and took the pelt as armor for himself.
• No Body Left Behind: How he ultimately dies in the fight as Sun Wukong struck Hercules so hard, he was reduced to nothingness.
• Non-Indicative Name: He was originally named Alcaeus, but to appease Hera and save the young Alcaeus from her wrath, his human parents renamed him to Heracles which means "Glory to Hera" in her honor. However, Hera already made up her mind in going after and tormenting Heracles anyways.
• Poisoned Weapons: After slaying the Lernaean Hydra, a monster that even the gods feared, as one of his labours, Heracles dipped his arrowheads in its poisonous blood, which can affect immortals, for later use. This was one of, if not the only, way that Heracles could kill or incapacitate Wukong, but the Monkey King’s absurd speed and other abilities meant that it was unlikely for Heracles to actually hit him.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He is the Blue to his opponent's Red where he maintains a composed and straightforward demeanor throughout the fight.
• Seen It All: He isn't all too surprised by Sun Wukong's giant, three-headed transformation considering that he fought monsters like the Lernaean Hydra before.
  Hercules: Huh... Multiple heads. Of course.
• Semi-Divine: He's the bastard demigod son of King Zeus/Jupiter and the mortal Princess Alcmene/Alcmena.
• Shockwave Clap: He wipes out several of Sun Wukong's clones by clapping with the krotala he used to drive off the Stymphalian Birds, creating a powerful shockwave of Gale-Force Sound.
• Super-Strength: He's the literal God of Strength as Heracles possesses supernatural strength that far exceeds even that of most of the other gods themselves, and gained this strength when Athena duped Hera into nursing and feeding baby Heracles with her galaxy-creating breast milk. The most notable display of this Herculean strength is that he once held up the entire infinite universe for Atlas during one of his labors. Unfortunately, Sun Wukong once performed a similar feat of holding up an infinite universe, meaning that the monkey can match him in a contest of muscle.
• World's Strongest Man: He's the God of Strength and is considered to be unrivaled in pure physical strength.
• Wrecked Weapon: Sun Wukong shatters his sword with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, but he is unfazed and continues the fight with his bow and club.

Sun Wukong

Sun Wukong: "Behold me, the Immortal Monkey King!"
Voiced by: Alex Mai

The Monkey King

• Actually a Doombot: At one point, Hercules seemingly shoots him with a Hydra blood arrow, but it turns out to be one of his clones.
• Alternate Character Reading: His written name 孫悟空, is read as "Sun Wukong" in the original Chinese mythology. In Japanese however, it's read as "Son Goku".
• Ascended Demon: He was originally a monkey demon born from a mystical stone, but was later — begrudgingly — accepted into the ranks of the Chinese gods, albeit as the lowest position available in the Celestial Bureaucracy. Over the course of his journey to the West, Sun Wukong eventually attained Nirvana and became the Victorious Fighting Buddha, cementing his apotheosis.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He's a playful but destructive Mischief-Making Monkey who can survive universe-destroying hurricanes, lift a mountain containing the universe, and travel to the edge of it within a second.
• Blood Knight: He loves a good fight and throughout his battle with Hercules, he is constantly laughing to express his joy and even admits that he hadn't this much fun since fighting all of Heaven.
• Combat Pragmatist: While not shown in the fight, Boomstick pointed out that Sun could have simply overwhelmed Hercules with his clones, which while unsportsmanlike is completely in character for the Monkey King to do.
• Complete Immortality: After obtaining many kinds of immortality and building it up, he's completely, effectively, and ridiculously immortal to the point where even a special furnace made to kill immortals could not even kill him. However, he's not invincible as he was hurt by the Scorpion spirit's poison, but was able to retreat and recover. This power proves to be a major advantage as Sun's immortality combined with his Healing Factor means that Hercules would have a super hard time in putting the Monkey King down for good, with his only real win option is the poison arrows and even so, it's only a possible win condition and he would have to actually hit Sun Wukong.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He crossed his name out of the Ledger of Death and later demanded to be called the Great Sage, Equal to Heaven. In his defense of the second one, the Jade Emperor disrespected him first by making him a stable boy.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Sun Wukong arrogantly accepted Buddha's contest, confident of his victory — if Wukong could escape the Buddha's hand, he could take the Jade Emperor's throne. Since Buddha's state of Nirvana allowed him to transcend the universe, the Monkey King never escaped it even at the edge of the universe, lost the bet, and was sealed under a mountain for 5 centuries.
• Enlightenment Superpowers: Many of his magical abilities came from training under and learning the ways from the great Taoist master, Puti.
• Eye Beams: The first thing he did upon being born was respectfully salute the four cardinal directions... and then fire energy beams from his eyes.
• Flying on a Cloud: The Trope Maker as he can ride on clouds for quick traversal. He does this to move around the battlefield against his opponent.
• A God Am I: While he doesn't outright call himself a god, he does genuinely believe himself equal to Heaven itself, and demanded a title as such.
• Godhood Seeker: With his incredible set of magical abilities and growing sense of superiority, he requested a place in Heaven amongst fellow gods like the Jade Emperor and got his wish granted, but was reduced to a mere stable boy upon entry.
• Healing Factor: On top of his immortality, he can heal from fatal wounds such as decapitation. This proves to be a major advantage over his opponent as Sun is able to heal and bounce back from any of Hercules deadliest attacks, barring the poisonous Hydra arrows, while the Olympian has no comparable Healing Factor or immortality to survive any of the Monkey King's own godly might.
• Immortality Seeker: Fearing death, Sun Wukong sought to make himself immortal and he succeeded, multiple times, learning a method of immortality from a Taoist master and later crossing his name out of the Ledger of Death, effectively giving him two different forms of immortality as a result. And that was before he devoured most of the immortality-granting peaches in the garden of heaven, drank immortality-granting heavenly wine, and found five gourds of Lao Zi's immortality-granting pills, and swallowed all of them, effectively gaining immortality literally hundreds, if not thousands of times over. Unsurprisingly, Heaven had no way of killing him at that point. Not even putting him in Lao Zi's de-immortalizing furnace could do so.
• In a Single Bound: His famous "Cloud Somersault" allows Sun Wukong to traverse the world at incredibly high speeds and at first, a single somersault could propel him 500 meters ahead and move at 54,000 km/s, which is fast enough to circle the entire Earth in one leap. During his bet with the Buddha he leapt to the very ends of the universe itself. This puts him at least 1.4 quintillion times the speed of light, faster than anything Herc has ever done.
• Intoxication Ensues: After being appointed to guard the forest of immortal peaches, he proceeded to get wasted on some immortality-granting peach wine, and he then swallowed several hundred immortality-granting pills in his drunken stupor. After getting sober again, Sun Wukong realized how screwed he was and prepared for a Rage Against the Heavens.
• Kryptonite Factor: In his lore, he was incapacitated by the Scorpion spirit's venom even though he had several layers of immortality and needed outside help to be cured. So it was judged that Hercules' Hydra blood arrows, which were specifically stated to work on immortals, would be able to kill or incapacitate him. Fortunately, he was fast enough to avoid them.
• Lightning Bruiser: The main reason he won the battle is that it's not just his strength, but also his resilience and speed that are off the charts. Like Hercules, he's strong enough to bear the weight of the entire cosmos, but on top of that, he also has several types of immortality, letting him shrug off things like decapitation or a magical storm that could destroy all of reality, and can cross the entire universe in an instant, making him fast enough that Herc's Hydra-poisoned arrows, the only thing that could kill him, had no chance of hitting him despite traveling at 90 times the speed of light.
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: He's the Wizard to his opponent's Warrior as Sun has learned and mastered a wide variety of magic throughout his existence. It's a factor behind his victory as Sun's greater variety of magical spells and abilities offerred him an endless amount of versatility in comparison to Hercules and combined that with his superior speed, immortality, Healing Factor, and ability to match the literal God of Strength in a contest of strength means that Sun Wukong is more likely to prevail.
• Losing Your Head: During the fight, a clone of his got their head completely crushed by Hercules, but stood up and talked (still without a head) like it was nothing.
• Magic Knight: He's the staff-wielding World's Best Warrior who has godly amounts of physical might and a wide variety of magical tricks at his disposal.
• Mischief-Making Monkey: The Monkey King is notorious for causing trouble wherever he goes and it got to the point where his antics led him to waging a one-man war against the Heavens.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: While depictions of Sun Wukong vary, he's rarely portrayed as muscular and his depiction in the battle remains true to that, especially compared to the more heavily chisled Hercules. Despite that, Sun Wukong matches Hercules in physical strength.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: He's tough enough to the point where he is able to survive the Yellow Wind Demon King's storm, which threatened to destroy the entire universe but he's not completely invincible as he was once harmed by the Scorpion spirit's poison sting.
• Non-Indicative Name: Played With. A popup mentions that his "72 Earthly Transformations" allows him to transform into far more than 72 different things, but that number actually refers to a collection of stars the power is associated with.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The background info for Sun Wukong points out that his Japanese name is "Son Goku" with a "(No, really)" appended to it. This is because the name "Son Goku" has become more synonymous with Dragon Ball's Saiyan than the legend it was originally attributed to.
• One-Winged Angel: When fighting Prince Nezha's three-headed six-armed Super Mode, Wukong underwent a similar transformation into a three-headed six-armed monkey-monster. When fighting Heracles, he assumes this form to overwhelm him.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's noted to be only 4'0'' or 121 cm tall but possesses ridiculous amounts of might and magic that allows him to best the Heaven's greatest warriors. He's also proven to be more of a powerhouse than his opponent.
• Rage Against the Heavens: After getting into Heaven, Sun Wukong still couldn't help himself in causing mischief where he got hammered off of immortality-granting peach wine, became even more immortal after swallowing several gourds worth of immortality-granting pills, and ran around the Jade Palace in a fit. After sobering up, the Monkey King knew he was in big trouble so naturally, he prepared for war and fought all of their best fighters before being sealed away.
• Red Baron: He was given the name Sun Wukong by his Taoist master after completing his training. As his power got to his head he started calling himself "The Great Sage Equal to Heaven" — which was begrudgingly ratified by the Jade Emperor to pacify Wukong. After attaining Nirvana, he became known as the Victorious Fighting Buddha.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He is the Red to his opponent's Blue as he is far more wild and expressive where he is constantly cackling and being the mischevious monkey that he is throughout the fight.
• Self-Duplication: He can make thousands of clones of himself by plucking his hairs and blowing on them, with each hair turning into an individual clone. He uses this ability during the fight and has his clones fight Hercules for a bit before the real Sun Wukong gets back into action. This was considered an important factor in Sun Wukong's victory, as combined with his Super-Speed, it meant that Hercules' odds of landing a good shot with his Hydra poison arrows, the weapon that has the best chance of incapacitating the Monkey King, were very slim.
• Smug Super: He deems himself a king that could match the power of heaven, and with the insane powers he wields, it is very hard to say he's wrong. He keeps a gleefully cocksure attitude for most of the fight, which proves to be well founded.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: Boomstick calls his story and personality as literally Shonen anime. Considering the Trope Codifier, Son Goku, was based on him, it isn't surprising.
• Super-Speed: When the Buddha challenged Sun Wukong to jump away from the palm of his hand, the Monkey King jumped from Earth to the end of the universe in just a second. This puts his speed leagues above Hercules, which proved vital since it diminishes Hercules' chances of hitting him with the Hydra poison, his one and only way to defeat Sun Wukong.
• Super-Strength: Sun Wukong possesses immense strength, with him casually carrying a staff that weighs 8 tons while normal sized and having broken apart a mountain. He once held up two mountains on his shoulders, one of which was holding up the infinite cosmos. This puts him on par with Heracles’ own strength.
• Telescoping Staff: The "Ruyi Jingu Bang" is his weapon and its a magical size-changing pillar that was originally used to measure the depths of the ocean. It can shrink to the size of a needle or grow large enough to reach the heavens.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can transform into almost anything imaginable such as birds, vapor, a pitchfork, and even a fighting temple. At one point, when fighting Prince Nezha, his foe transformed into a powerful visage with 3 heads and 6 arms, and so the monkey's response is to transform into the exact same thing.
• Worthy Opponent: If the Narrator is anything to go off of, Sun Wukong was having a great time fighting Hercules, even he himself stating that he hasn't felt that much fun since his he fought all of heaven, and given those he fought, that is no small compliment. The Narrator states that Hercules was a "Formidable Foe" to Sun Wukong as well.

Boba Fett VS Predator

• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Both of them, though it's downplayed for Boba, as he tends to not be boastful about his Mandalorian heritage. The Mandalorians are disciplined, fierce soldiers who see combat as a defining feature of society, while the Yautja are an honorable society based entirely around hunting, with them going after the toughest prey they can find — typically humans or Xenomorphs. A single failed hunt can doom a Yautja to death or a life of humiliation.

Boba Fett

Boba Fett: "Amateur."
Voiced by: Kamran Nikhad

The Greatest Bounty Hunter From a Galaxy Far, Far Away

• An Arm and a Leg: His right arm gets sliced off by the Predator's Smart Disc. Fortunately, he didn't need it to win and was able to retrieve it at the end of the fight.
• Artificial Human: Boba is the unaltered clone of the legendary bounty hunter, Jango Fett, whom he taught and raised as a form of payment for his DNA being used to make the Republic's clone army.
• Badass Normal: Despite being a normal unaltered human, Boba is one of the greatest warriors in the galaxy, having killed several Jedi and even dueled Darth Vader, twice.
• Bounty Hunter: His profession and considered to be one of the greatest in the galaxy.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: Having lost to Samus Aran twice ^note This is assuming the original battle and the remastered version count as two different fights, Boba scores his first victory in Death Battle.
• Clones Are People, Too: Unlike the Clone Army created by the Galactic Republic, who were raised and trained as expendable clones (except the Jedi), Boba was raised as Jango's son and carried on his legacy as a bounty hunter following his death.
• Combat Pragmatist: While he has a code of honor, Boba is more than willing to fight dirty if the situation calls for it. This gave him a major advantage over his opponent, as he was willing to resort to dishonorable tactics to win.
• Composite Character: Like other Star Wars combatants, Boba Fett takes equipment and feats from both the official Disney canon and the old Legends continuity.
• Cool Helmet: He has a snazzy-looking Mandalorian helmet that has some nifty features installed such as a targeting system, infrared vision, and 360-degree vision. It proves particularly useful in the fight itself, letting Boba tracking the Predator's heat signatures and movement paths to (mostly) nullify its stealth.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: His left vambrace has a ZX Miniature Flame Projector that could spew powerful flames up to five meters away. This weapon is notable since it could confuse and mess with the Predator's natural infrared vision, allowing Boba to get in some good hits while their opponent is left relatively blinded.
• Heal It With Fire: When he has his lower arm sliced off by the Predator's Smart Discs, he cauterizes the open wound with his lightsaber, which is extremely painful.
• Jetpack: His Z-6 Jetpack allows him to fly around for quick traversal and getaways on top of having a very effective anti-vehicle homing missile. While it was prone to malfunction, the jetpack still gave him the edge in the mobility and battlefield maneuverability department over his opponent, allowing Boba to play keep away from the Predator's more dangerous close range options and fight at a distance.
• Laser Blade: Boba carries around several lightsabers that he’s taken off the many Jedi he killed. The lightsaber proves to be a valuable tool in his arsenal as the blade can destroy most of the Predator's equipment without much worry.
• Leg Cannon: He has hidden mini rockets that are launched from his knee armor. He briefly used it against his opponent, knocking them back.
• Like Father, Like Son: Like his father before him, Boba grew up, honed his skills, and inherited Jango's equipment to become one of the galaxy's most feared and effective bounty hunters.
• Long-Range Fighter: Giving the nature of his role and whom he regularly fights, Boba prefers to fight at a distance with his various blasters and rockets on top of having a jetpack to quickly reposition himself should his targets get too close for comfort. This playstyle and the equipment that facilitates it proves to be a major advantage against his close-combat oriented opponent as it allows Boba to stay away from the likes of the Plasma Scythe while at the same time, safely engage the Predator with his better long range options.
• Made of Indestructium: Boba wears Mandalorian armor made from Beskar, one of the toughest materials in the galaxy. It's tough enough to resist thermal detonator blasts, lightsaber strikes, and even lightning bolts that can vaporize people leave said armor unharmed. Its durability is a deciding factor in his victory as the armor can reliably protect him from a good handful of the Predator's more dangerous offensive options such as its Plasmacaster and even the self-destruct bomb when he gets far enough away.
• Precision F-Strike: He delivers one upon seeing the Predator's pretty-looking face, in a reference to Dutch's very well-known line from the original film.
  Boba Fett: Ugh, you are one ugly motherfucker.
  Predator: (roars in anger)
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Boba is a Mandalorian, warriors who based their entire culture around war,^note Except for that period during the Clone Wars when they were Actual Pacifists. and have even gone toe-to-toe with the Jedi despite lacking a connection to the Force.
• See the Invisible: With his helmet's infrared vision, Boba can counter and see through the Predator's invisibility cloak.
• Soldier vs. Warrior: He's the Soldier to his opponent's Warrior as Boba is a pragmatic bounty hunter and Consummate Professional armed with blaster rifles, bombs, and rockets and his services were employed by the likes of the Galactic Empire during their reign.
• Suddenly Voiced: Having gone silent in both his battles with Samus, Boba is now given a proper voice actor.
• Super-Reflexes: He can match various Force users in combat including Darth Vader, a Sith Lord who could dogfight at near lightspeed. This puts his speed on par with the Predator.
• Super Wrist-Gadget: His vambraces come equipped with a variety of indispensable tools such as flamethrowers, fibrecord whips, lasers, mini concussion rockets, and forearm blades.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: He has a lot of bombs to throw at his disposal where he uses flash bombs, sonic bombs, gas bombs, motion sensor bombs, and the uber-powerful thermal detonator where a single one has an explosive yield of 3.9 tons of TNT. He uses a thermal detonator to catch the Predator by surprise where its explosion devastates his opponent and the area around it.
• Walking Armory: Boba carries tons of weapons and gadgets on his person ranging from lasers, flamethrowers, rockets, wires to ensnare foes, wrist blades, bombs, and even lightsabers. It's noted that he actually has a more varied arsenal than his opponent, giving him the edge in that department.
• You Killed My Father: A villainous version. Boba's father Jango Fett was hired as an assassin by Darth Sidious, culminating in him being decapitated by Jedi Master Mace Windu. Boba swore revenge against Windu, and devoted himself to becoming the most-feared bounty hunter in the Galaxy.

The Predator

Predator: "You're mine."

The Monstrous Manslayer from Beyond the Stars

• Ascended Extra: This is the Predator's first appearance on the main show, as it appeared in a DBX matchup with Prophet several years earlier.
• Bizarre Alien Senses: Their unique way of seeing is through natural infrared sight, allowing them to track individuals by recognizing differences in their heat signatures. However, too much intense heat would leave it blind and confused. During the fight's climax as the situation escalates into a Battle Amongst the Flames, the Predator infrared vision gets overwhelmed by a combination of the surrounding fire and Boba's flame projector, leaving it unable to see properly and left wide open to attack.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: For close-combat fighting, the Predator's right gauntlet can unsheathe two sharp curved blades, and some Yautja come equipped with Wristblades on both arms.
• Close-Range Combatant: While it has some ranged options, the Predator's superior physical strength and weapons mostly rely on getting up close and personal with their prey. However, this proves to be a disadvantage since when they are going up against someone like Boba Fett, who has the means of playing keep away and safely engage them from a distance, means that the Predator would have a tough time landing any meaningful hits against their far more nimbler and better protected opponent.
• Composite Character: As there is an entire race of them, this Predator is based on all the consistent feats associated with its species and is specifically based on what an experienced member of its species should be like. It also takes feats and equipment from other sources than the main movies such as comics, video games, and the Alien vs. Predator continuity.
• Cool Helmet: A Predator's Bio-Helmet not only looks cool, it comes equipped with x-ray, UV, and night vision, on top of honing their inherit infrared vision.
• Deadly Disc: Their Smart Discs vibrate at supersonic speeds and can be remotely controlled. They use them during the fight where they successfully managed to cut off their opponent's arm.
• EMP: They carry a portable EMP device that disrupts all electronic devices in their vicinity. However, this device wouldn't affect Boba's systems given that beskar armor has withstood bolts of electromagnetic energy before without short-circuiting.
• Go Out with a Smile: Its final expression before it explodes is a cross between this and a Slasher Smile, thinking that Boba will die with it. Unfortunately for the Predator, its prey lives.
• Honor Before Reason: Predators live by a strict code of honor and many would rather die before breaking it. This trait wouldn’t do much to help him against a Combat Pragmatist like Boba though.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Stalks and attacks Boba thinking that he would be a good quarry but ends up being defeated by and forced to self-destruct against its would-be prey.
• Invisibility Cloak: Predators come equipped with a light-bending camouflage device that makes them completely invisible to the naked human eye. Unfortunately, Boba's helmet lets him see invisible enemies with his infrared vision.
• Logical Weakness: As it turns out in the fight's climax, having natural infrared vision to see heat signatures isn't so great when your surroundings are literally all on fire and your opponent's flame projector would only make your confusion even worse.
• Long-Lived: Yautja can live for centuries, allowing them to gain plenty of experience throughout a single lifetime. While it theoretically gave them more experience than their opponent, who is only a human being in his 40s, it was not enough to overcome their opponent's own countermeasrues and advantages.
• Phrase Catcher: The "You are one ugly motherfucker" -line from the movies is here delivered by Boba Fett.
• Shoulder Cannon: Their Plasmacaster is a shoulder-mounted laser cannon that fires bolts of energy and has a tracking system that is connected to their Cool Helmet. However, given that Boba's beskar armor can resist blows from similar plasma weapons such as lightsabers, its unlikely that the Plasmacaster could blast through that special Mandalorian iron.
• Sinister Scythe: Experienced Yautja carry energy scythes powered by dark plasma, which can bypass conventional defenses by sending its energy straight into the targets body. While it was definitely one of the more lethal tools in their arsenal and would certainly kill its opponent with just a few lucky blows but unfortunately, Boba's long range mentality and other advantages means that the scythe wouldn't make much of a difference in the end.
• Soldier vs. Warrior: They are the Warrior to their opponent's Soldier as the Predator is a Proud Warrior Race Guy bound by honor first and foremost and the only reason why they hunt and fight in the first place is because of the thrill and glory that it brings.
• Super-Reflexes: It can dodge laser beams with relative ease. This puts its speed on par with Boba Fett.
• Super-Strength: The Predator can easily lift grown men and tear through steel with ease. While its physically stronger than their human opponent, its not enough to defeat the bounty hunter in the end.
• Taking You with Me: If mortally wounded, they activate their wrist-mounted self-destruct device where its nuclear explosion destroys everything within 300 city blocks and has an explosive yield of 164 kilotons of TNT. It used this at the end of the fight and while the explosion's epicenter was certainly more than enough to kill their opponent but unfortunately, Boba only needed to get 50 meters away from the epicenter where their beskar armor could reliably tank the explosion and its long countdown timer gave the bounty hunter more than enough time to safely get away.
• The Unpronounceable: Because the Yautja's name has never been said in vocal media, it's kinda hard to pin down how to pronounce it. Wiz goes through YOW-cha, Ya-OO-cha and YEOW-cha before giving up.
• Voice Changeling: They can record and playback human speech which they tend to use as an Ironic Echo against their prey. During the fight, it used this as a means of taunting Boba a few times before managing to land a lucky hit and right before it sacrifices itself in a failed attempt to take down its opponent.
• Walking Armory: For their hunts, Predators come equipped with a wide variety of weapons and gadgets ranging from energy blasters, blades, cloaking devices, etc. Unfortunately, only a handful of these tools could reliably get past Fett's beskar armor and is also noted that the bounty hunter has a far more varied arsenal than theirs.

Excalibur VS Raiden

• Child Soldiers:
  • Like other Warframes, Excalibur is actually a puppet for a Tenno, a child who was exposed to the Void and received supernatural powers as a result. Using their power of Transference, young Tenno pilot Warframes into battle.
  • Born and raised in the wartorned streets of Liberia, Jack's early life was shaped by conflict and the impact was so great on him, he couldn't really escape from it fully and has developed a genuine ecstasy for war but is help tempered by his strong sense of justice.
• Cyber Ninja: The main connection between the combatants is that they are both futuristic, katana-wielding, cybernetic ninja from video games with varying amounts of organic components (Raiden just has his head left, while Excalibur is a piece of Organic Technology).
• Master Swordsman: While they have guns and other melee weapons to use, both combatants generally prefer using their katanas and wield them with incredible skill and technique.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Excalibur is named after the legendary sword of Arthurian Legend while Raiden's name is a typical transcription of "Raijin", the God of Thunder in Japanese Mythology.

Excalibur

Wiz: "If I had to pick... I'd go with the very first Warframe ever created: The death dealing techno-organic ninja Excalibur."
The Lotus voiced by: Caitlyn Elizabeth

• Big Brother Instinct: What sets off the fight is Raiden getting too close to the Foundry building a new Warframe, resulting in Excalibur moving in to protect it.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Downplayed; In Warframe, the Tenno can only have access to one Primary weapon, one Secondary weapon and one Melee weapon, in the fight however, while Excalibur only has the Glaxion and Dual Vipers as his Primary and Secondary weapons, he has two Melee weapons in the form of the Glaive and Skana.
• Heroic Mime: All Warframes are incapable of speech, so to compensate for the fight, The Lotus speaks in his stead. Raiden even points out the lack of speech at the start of the fight when compared to all of the bosses he fought in Revengeance.
  Raiden: Heh, straight to the point. Metal freaks like you usually have a monologue first.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Raiden ends up pulling this off on him once he activates his Ripper Mode, though Lotus is thankfully able to get Excalibur out of it by surging his systems to throw Raiden off.
• Jetpack: He can call down an Archwing, a jetpack that can operate in space and its armed with missiles, force fields, and can fire miniature black holes. He employs this piece of equipment near the end of the fight before it was destroyed by Raiden.
• Laser Blade: His "Exalted Blade" ability lets him create a blade of pure light to cleave through most opponents with ease. It's also capable of firing Sword Beams and use a lesser version of "Radial Blind".
• Light 'em Up: His unique abilities are light-based where he can use "Radial Blind", "Radial Javelin", and the "Exalted Blade" in conjunction with his awesome ninja skills and many armaments to utterly devastate his foes single-handedly.
• Mission Control: Lotus ends up serving as this for him, and is even able to control his systems too, which ends up coming in handy when she surges his systems to help him overpower Raiden in the fight's climax.
• Organic Technology: The Warframes are less cyborgs and more biomechanical mechs piloted by superpowered individuals called Tenno. Excalibur was one of the first Warframes, and is a sword-wielding ninja-like combatant.
• Power Nullifier: One particular edge that he had over Raiden was that the Glaxion gun, which halts molecular movement is basically a direct counter to his opponent's High-Frequency Blade, disrupting the intense speeds that the sword relies on for its absurd cutting ability and rendering it little more than a slab of steel.
• Quantity vs. Quality: The Quantity to Raiden's Quality, which ultimately earned him the edge due to having many more weapons to use against Raiden with various kinds of versatility, including the Glaxion which outright countered Raiden's trump card in the HF Blades.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to his opponent's Red due to being The Voiceless and even with the Lotus speaking for him, she stays mostly calm enough to focus on the task on hand as well as offer and provide him with any relevant information and insight. The effects from his abilities and equipment even have a blue-color to them throughout the fight.
• Remote Body: The Warframes are piloted and controlled by the Tenno from the safety of their stasis pods through Transference. Even if Raiden could break through Excalibur's shields and land a fatal blow, the Tenno operator piloting would still survive unharmed.
• Super-Reflexes: He can block a beam of light with his sword, which would require him to swing at speeds reaching 9% the speed of light. While his opponent had a slight advantage in speed, both combatants are actually considered to be even in this area and Excalibur had other ways in dealing with Raiden and eventually overpower him.
• Super-Strength: He's comparable in strength to fellow Warframe, Atlas, who is able to smash apart a giant asteroid that's at least 6 km across, which would require 46 gigatons of TNT to pulverize it. While he's canonically weaker than Atlas, Excalibur merely having 1% of that kind of strength would make him 4000x stronger than Raiden and this proves to be a major advantage against his opponent.
• Super-Toughness: Since Warframes are comparable to each other and that they have fought opponents far stronger than them, his durability could be scaled to other impressive displays of destructive power such as Atlas's asteroid smashing feat and Nova's anti-matter explosions. Through this scaling, Excalibur's durability is proven to be much higher than what Raiden could match and possibly cut through with his High-Frequency Blades within the necessary amount of time needed.
• Walking Armory: The pre-fight analysis observes that Excalibur has access to over 500 different weapons, some of which include the Glaxion which freezes a target's molecules in place, the Skana, and as seen in the battle the Twin Vipers. The sheer amount of weapons that he has at his disposal and the mastery that he has over them is a major advantage against his opponent and is a factor behind his win since some of its more esoteric effects would give Raiden a lot of pause, some of it could directly counter Raiden's own gear.
• Wrecked Weapon: Three times this happens to Excalibur; The first time has Excalibur's Glaive get sliced to pieces by Raiden, then Excalibur's Skana gets smashed apart partway through the fight and finally Ripper Mode Raiden slices apart Excalibur's Odanata Prime.

Raiden (Jack)

Raiden: "Doktor, it's time to let 'er rip!"
Voiced by: Mornal

• Back for the Dead: He does not win his battle with Excalibur after cutting down Wolverine.
• Blood Knight: Due to his earlier years of his life as a Child Soldier, Raiden derives pleasure out of fighting and killing, making his attempts at leading a normal life impossible. He tries to let go of this aspect of his personality, only to embrace it again in Metal Gear Rising out of necessity.
• Bottomless Magazines: While silly and dubious at first but his "Infinity Wig" effectively gives him limitless ammo and since another equivalent item, Snake's Infinity Bandana, has been canonically referenced in in-game cutscenes, such an item is permitted for this fight. While it was an advantage against his opponent, it is a relatively minor one at best and ultimately didn't matter in the end.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: Raiden's defeat marks the first time a Konami character lost a Death Battle since Bomberman all the way back in Season 1. This also denies the Metal Gear franchise a third consecutive win to their name after Raiden's previous win over Wolverine and Solid Snake's win over Sam Fisher.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: He ends up exploding after being cut in half in the fight's end.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Ends up on the receiving end of this in a finishing Single-Stroke Battle against Excalibur and his Exalted Blade, after his Murasama was disabled by his Glaxion.
• Quantity vs. Quality: As Boomstick himself said, Raiden is the Quality to Excalibur's Quantity and while Raiden is able to make mincemeat out of most of Excalibur's gear thanks to the High-Frequency Blades, the sheer variety Excalibur had was ultimately way more than Raiden could handle, especially when he had weapons that outright counter the HF Blades.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to his opponent's Blue due to his more loud and abrasive way of speaking and embracing his more violent nature. This trait is especially emphasized whenever he enters his Superpowered Evil Side, the Ripper Mode, to slice people up with his red-colored Murasama blade.
• Shock and Awe: As befitting for someone named after the Japanese God of Thunder and Lightning, he can generate electricity from his sword and body to give his enemies the shock they deserved.
• Super Mode: His Ripper Mode temporarily makes him stronger, faster, and crazier where it could theoretically last for several minutes. He activates this near the end of the fight as one last ace in the hole against his opponent but sadly, it was not enough of a boost to take the win.
• Super-Reflexes: While he was incredibly fast to begin with but by slowing down his perception of time by entering Blade Mode, he can increase his reaction times to match speeds reaching 11% the speed of light. While this makes him slightly faster than his opponent, the speed gap between them is relatively minor and it wouldn't even matter when faced against Excalibur's other advantages.
• Super-Strength: With his High-Frequency Blade, Raiden can cut through giant Metal Gears made out of carbon nanotubes, one of the strongest materials known to man and slicing through these massive robots would require at least 100 kilotons of TNT. That's on top of having the sheer strength necessary to lift and throw said Metal Gears through the air. Unfortunately, he came up incredibly short to Excalibur in terms of pure strength, who at the bare minimum was at least 4000x stronger than him and the Warframe also being much tougher too means Raiden would have a hard time slicing through his shields even with the Murasama.
• Took a Level in Badass: A relatively minor one but Raiden has a lot more in his arsenal this time around compared to his fight with Wolverine back in Season 2, having access to all the weapons he got in MGS2 and the specialized weapons he got from the Winds Of Destruction during Metal Gear Rising whereas he only had access to the Murasama and Ripper Mode before. Unfortunately, this level increase wasn't nearly enough to beat Excalibur.
• Vibroweapon: His High-Frequency Blades are high-tech swords that vibrate at such high speeds, they destabilize the physical structures of metals upon contact, greatly increasing their cutting ability. Unfortunately, Excalibur's Glaxion could freeze their molecular movement, rendering them no more deadly than an ordinary sword and since Excalibur's durability is far higher than anyone that Raiden has ever went up against, its unlikely that the Murasama could lethally cut apart the Warframe in time.
• Walking Armory: Some of Raiden's arsenal is taken from the enemies he has defeated in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, such as Monsoon's "Dystopia", Mistral's "L' Étranger", and Jetstream Sam's "Murasama". He also has access to rocket launchers, claymore mines, EMP grenades, and all of his other equipment from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. However, this is nothing compared to his opponent's over 500 weapons that he could possibly pull out, some of which could directly counter his own gear.

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