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Bill Cipher VS Discord

• Back from the Dead: Both Bill and Discord have methods to come back from the dead after being killed. The former has a deal with the Axolotl to allow himself to be reborn in a new form while the latter as the embodiment of chaos can always be reborn as long as chaos exists. But in the end it's concluded that no matter what those revival methods would take too long to factor in the fight itself.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Both are known for their zany and outright insane personalities, but are also extremely powerful beings that are capable of manipulating the fabric of reality as if it were a toy. The protagonists of their respective series are all wary of them as they know their playful sides just hide their darker intentions.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Oh, both end up casually shattering the fourth wall multiple times over, both in their own series and the video itself. In particular, Bill has messed with the intro of his show and talks directly to the audience at one point, while Discord can change the very genre of the media he's in, has awareness of Bill's own show and turns Wiz and Boomstick into their voice actors for a gag. And in the fight itself, it gets escalated through Exploiting the Fourth Wall, as explained in Medium Awareness with Discord using knowledge of Gravity Falls to try to recreate Bill's death in the show.
• Foil: Both may be silly-looking, once imprisoned reality warpers with a penchant for chaos, but Discord is ultimately more like the ultimate troll and can work with the good guys; Bill is a genocidal madman from start to finish.
• The Gadfly: Both really enjoy messing with their preferred targets.
• Medium Awareness: Both have this ability, having directly messed with the media they are in before. It sticks in the battle itself to the point where they cause several Art Shifts. They also end up exploiting their medium awareness to further their own goals:
  • At the end of the fight, Bill, trapped in the Nightmare Realm, grabs the camera and talks directly to the audience, attempting to convince them to strike a deal so that he can free himself.
  • Near the end, Discord enters Bill's mind and attempts to erase it, taking advantage of the fact that he has canonical knowledge on who Bill is and what happens to him. Unfortunately, due to Bill still having a functional physical body unlike in his original defeat, the dream demon is able to prevent a repeat of his death by grabbing Discord's spirit and yanking him out of his Mindscape.
• Reality Warper: Both Bill and Discord are two of cartoon's most infamous instances of reality benders.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Both of them were sealed away originally before managing to escape.
  • Bill was stuck in the Nightmare Realm, trying to trick mortals into freeing him for millennia. He eventually succeeded after manipulating the Pine family.
  • Discord was trapped in a stone prison after originally being defeated by Princesses Celestia and Luna. He escaped a thousand years later, before being defeated and resealed by the Mane 6, but was eventually freed by them willingly so Fluttershy could reform him.
  • In the fight proper, Discord tricks Bill into leaving the MLP realm and trapping him in the Nightmare Realm once again. Though Bill is infuriated by this, he claims he can easily escape again like he did before. But by the end of the episode it is shown he is still stuck there and has lost all patience.
• Sizeshifter: Both can change their sizes, and end up becoming gigantic at different points in the battle.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: Bill's deadpan, sociopathic personality and Discord's whimsical, chaotic nature provide plenty of this throughout the video, even snarking at each other during the pre-fight analyses.
  Discord: (Created Pony Life)
  Bill: OH BOY, HE MADE A NON-CANON SPIN OFF SERIES. HE SURE IS COOL...
  Discord: (Unlike some triangles I know, still has loved ones left)
  Bill: NOT FOR LONG.
• Visual Pun:
  • Near the end of the fight, Discord flips Bill off using his bird arm.
  • Immediately after, Bill turns his eye into a literal window to the soul he can reach through to grab Discord's spirit from his Mindscape.

Bill Cipher

Bill: "Boy, pasting all this bootleg merchandise together sure took a lot of glue! Good thing your friends make their own."
Voiced by: John Patneaude

The Triangular Terror from Gravity Falls

• Always a Bigger Fish: Despite being a nigh-omniscient Reality Warper, Bill is not the top dog in his own multiverse — that position, by all accounts, belonging to the Axolotl. That Bill is aware of this actually factors into his victory, as it meant he'd go all out from the jump against Discord like he had in the past against similar cosmic beings like the Time Baby.
• Asshole Victim: In a show where one of the winners lost his best friend and both of his legs, Bill somehow came out as the victor who got the least satisfying win in the history of DEATH BATTLE!, losing everything he'd gained and getting stuck in his old prison again. If something like this happened to most other winners, it'd seem unfair, but Bill's a reality warping Psychopathic Manchild who torments people for his own amusement, so it's hard to argue when he gets screwed over so spectacularly.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Subverted: Bill kills Discord, thus winning the Death Battle, but in terms of the actual plot of their battle, Discord beats Bill in a Heroic Sacrifice by imprisoning him in the Nightmare Realm again.
• Berserk Button: Bill doesn't take it well when someone claims to match him in power. After Discord says they're evenly matched when he goes inside Bill's mind, Bill drops his playful nature and decides to go for the kill then and there.
• Big "NO!": Lets out this after a Rapid-Fire "No!" barrage once he fails to reach the closing portal to Discord's universe, leaving him trapped in the Nightmare Realm.
• Black Comedy: Bill states that making his throne of ponies took a lot of glue, before making a snide comment that the ponies make their own.^Explanation Some forms of glue were, and still are, made with horse bones
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Downplayed, as while he's extremely pissed off that Discord tricked him into stranding himself back in the Nightmare Realm, Bill quickly calms down, noting he's already "done this once already"... As he then goes to ask the audience for a deal to let him free once again. Though if his rage in demanding his freedom in the conclusion is any indication, he's still not taking his defeat well.
• Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Right as Wiz and Boomstick are ending the episode, Bill shows up on their screen, still trapped in the Nightmare Realm and in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown screaming "LET ME OUT OR I'LL EAT YOUR DREAMS!"
• Deal with the Devil: A big fan of this tactic, and can use this to possess those he makes a deal with, like Dipper and Wiz. The results make it clear that Discord wouldn't be stupid enough to accept a deal with Bill.
• Didn't See That Coming: Much like in his own series, Bill becomes so tunnel-visioned on killing Discord, that he fails to notice Discord has managed to trap him back in the Nightmare Realm until it's too late.
• Eldritch Abomination: Bill at the apex of his power is an all-powerful freak from a nightmare dimension who can mutate reality as he sees fit. While his tiny pyramid form usually hides this, he goes all out on his monstrosity towards the end of the fight and even destroys the soul of his opponent, though at a heavy cost to his plans.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Despite claiming to be an "all-seeing god", Bill never once took into consideration that Discord would be willing to sacrifice himself to save Equestria and his friends.
• Eye Scream:
  • Both his eye and left hand get destroyed by a flaming cream pie thrown by Discord, however, this just ends up pissing Bill off, and starts the fight as he regenerates the damage.
  • Ironically enough, he performs this on himself near the end by turning his own eye into stained glass and breaking it by reaching an arm through to grab Discord's ghost in his Mindscape.
• Fatal Flaw: Arrogance and tunnel-vision are his biggest weaknesses. His defeat in his home series came about due to underestimating the one-lifespan, three dimensional five sense skin puppets that were the Pines family, who used his desire to break out of Gravity Falls to trick him into Stanley's mind and erase him in there. Despite his arrogance not factoring into the Death Battle due to facing off against a fellow cosmic being, which he's been shown to take deathly seriously, his tunnel-vision does, as Discord uses his focus in winning the Death Battle to trap him back in the Nightmare Realm and undo Weirdmageddon.
• Fate Worse than Death: Even though he won the fight, he gets trapped in the Nightmare Realm by Discord. Despite trying to make a deal with the viewer to help him get out, by the time of the winner announcement, he's still stuck, has lost all patience, and is screaming at Wiz and Boomstick.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Directly addresses the audience at the end of the fight, imploring them to make a Deal with the Devil in order for him to be freed from the Nightmare Realm once more. Although, him futilely demanding that Wiz and Boomstick release him after their analysis implies that he was unable to find anyone willing to take his offer.
• A God Am I: Calls himself an "all-seeing god" right before he yanks Discord out of his mind.
• Graceful Loser: Subverted. While he has a brief Freak Out after killing Discord, Bill quickly composes himself and offers to make a deal with the viewer. By the end of the episode, however, he's lost all patience and is now screaming at the hosts to let him out.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: He claims to be an all-seeing god... only for Discord to instantly prove he'd outsmarted him and is about to seal him in the Nightmare Realm.
• Irony: Boasts that he's the all-seeing eye and sees everything. He did not expect Discord trapping him in the Nightmare Realm.
• Kryptonite Factor: Barriers lined with unicorn hair can keep him out. This doesn't show up in the battle because he disposed of all the ponies before it, and since unicorn hair does not weaken him at all, it was deemed a nonfactor.
• Kryptonite Is Everywhere: Averted. Bill managed to turn everypony into statues or banners despite roughly a third of all pony life being unicorns. Their hair can only keep him at bay for so long.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: He may have killed Discord but that's the only positive point about his "victory" for him; he's stuck in the Nightmare Realm again and Weirdmageddon in the MLP realm was undone. He attempts to subvert this by offering a deal to the audience but his appearance at the end of post-analysis still trapped in the Nightmare Realm suggests that they turned him down. In addition, an info panel states that like Cosmos can't be truly destroyed so long as Malice exists, Discord will likely reform eventually and even Bill killing him won't stick.
• Near-Villain Victory: The fight begins with Bill already having conquered Equestria, with Discord being the only remaining threat to his rule, but ends with him back at square one in the Nightmare Realm despite successfully killing his opponent.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Him being much more ruthless and bloodthirsty is cited as a reason for his victory, as it meant he was more likely to go in for the kill. Ironically, in the battle itself, it actually costs him the wider victory of conquering Equestria, as he was so fixated on killing Discord, he failed to notice Discord had tricked him back into the Nightmare Realm until it's too late.
• Oh, Crap!: Bill goes from smug and in control to screaming in horror and disbelief as he realizes Discord successfully trapped him back in the Nightmare Realm while he was so fixated on killing him.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His background information lists his true name as glitching text that constantly scrambles.
• Out-Gambitted: Discord gets the last laugh by revealing that while Bill was fixated on killing him, Discord successfully saved Equestria by imprisoning him back in the Nightmare Realm. In essence, Bill was fighting to win the Death Battle, Discord was fighting to win the actual fight with Bill, and succeeded.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Gets one of the biggest cases of this in a Death Battle yet; while he ultimately emerges victorious, Discord is able to lure and trap Bill back into the Nightmare Realm, saving the MLP realm and restoring it to normal. A info panel also suggests Discord literally cannot be killed for good so long as chaos exists, meaning he'll be back sooner or later. While Bill tries to play it cool after a brief tantrum, believing that since he escaped before he can do it again, his outburst after the post-analysis suggests that it's proving to be trickier than he anticipated. This makes him the first DEATH BATTLE! combatant who completely lost in every possible way despite winning the actual battle.
• Rage Breaking Point: While his frustration with Discord builds over the course of the battle, it reaches a boiling point when he realizes the Draconequus managed to trap him in his own realm, as after Bill erases his foe's spirit, we're treated to a invokedlovely shot of him letting out a hellish roar of pure rage in his monstrous six-limbed form and lighting the surroundings on fire.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": Says a barrage of these while trying to reach for the portal back to Equestria. It turns into a Big "NO!" when it closes on him right as he reaches it.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Discord manages to imprison Bill back in the Nightmare Realm despite losing.
• Shapeshifter Swan Song: Briefly undergoes one similar to his original death in his home show as his mind is getting erased, before he manages to resist long enough to remove Discord from the Mindscape.
• Sickeningly Sweet: Bill gags in disgust when he hears Discord say something about a "lesson in friendship".
• The Sociopath: He's maybe one of the show's most heartless combatants, with the hosts noting his utter lack of remorse or empathy. In the first few seconds of the fight, he's seen sitting atop a throne of ponies he petrified.
• Time Abyss: Over one Trillion years old. That's older than our own universe by a massive margin.
• Toy Transmutation: Bill crafts his throne in the battle by warping ponies to him, transforming them into real-life My Little Pony toys, and then petrifying them. He even refers to them as "bootleg merchandise".
• Trapped in Another World: After destroying his home dimension, Bill relocated to the Nightmare Realm and became stuck there, only able to interact through dreams or when summoned while seeking to trick someone into opening a portal that could free him and let him assume physical form. Discord ends up sending him back there at the end of the fight.
• Turns Red: Once Discord starts torching Bill's mind, the isosceles triangle literally turns his body from yellow to red, a sign that he is officialy done with Discord.
• Villainous Breakdown: Needless to say, Bill didn't take Discord managing to return him to the Nightmare Realm all too well. He tries to cover it up by saying he can escape again like he did before, but his appearance at the end of the post-analysis and the victory card of him roaring in rage shows he didn't and is still trapped.
• Where I Was Born and Razed: Bill's first major act of evil was to annihilate his own home dimension before going on to settle in the Nightmare Realm and menace other realities.
• The Worf Effect: Inflicts this on all of Equestria, which consists of beings capable of moving the sun and moon as well as three previous contestants, one of which won her fight and another of which worked with her opponent to utterly destroy the fourth wall. Even Twilight was previously shown to keep up with Raven despite several physical disadvantages. Among their combined feats, they were able to subdue the Pony of Shadows whose destruction of the multiverse is counted as an infinite speed feat.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He fights the battle like a Death Battle, and like Discord is aware of it. Unfortunately for him, Discord wasn't playing by those rules, so while Bill won the actual Death Battle, Discord actually beat him as far as the plot of the fight goes.

Discord

Discord: "Dear Princess Celestia: Today, Bill Cipher learned an important lesson... about friendship."
Voiced by: Paul Guyet

The Devilish Draconequus from My Little Pony

• Achilles' Heel: His soul, as he lacks any way to properly manipulate souls or heal his own, which gives Bill a way to put Discord out of commission in what's otherwise a dead-even match. Even then however, it wouldn't keep him down permanently due to Discord's ability to eventually reform himself from chaos.
• Actor Allusion: Boomstick compares Discord to Q from Star Trek — an apt comparison due to both being originally played by John de Lancie and Discord being an expy of Q. Bill even references this in the fight itself, telling Discord to "tell Jean-Luc that his show is worse than 'Code of Honor'" as he's attacking him.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: If his name didn't make it obvious already, Discord is the embodiment of chaos and disharmony, to the point that performing actions that go against that (read: anything that would be considered orderly) can have fatal consequences. However, an info card reveals this likely means Bill killing him won't stick and he'll eventually reform so long as chaos exists.
• Artifact of Doom: Discord possesses the Bewitching Bell, a cursed bell once worn by the goat warlord Grogar, enabling him to drain the magical power of anyone — even Discord himself should it be used against him — and bestow it to others. It does not show up in the fight and is deemed a nonfactor because Bill Cipher can resist attempts to drain his power.
• As Long as There Is Evil: Or "Chaos" more accurately in his case. An info panel rules that, like Cosmos cannot be truly destroyed as long as Malice exists, Discord cannot be truly destroyed so long as chaos exists. However, there's no proof it'd happen quickly enough for him to return to the battle, which is why he (technically) loses.
• Badass Finger Snap: After a weirdness bubble turns him and Bill into hand puppets, Discord regurgitates the hand controlling him so it can do one of these, in the process warping him and Bill back to Equestria... or rather, the Nightmare Realm draped in an illusion to make Bill think they're still in Equestria.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comics, Discord has changed the genre, messed with the narration boxes, and even turned the pages on his own. This is even reflected in the Battle Track where he interrupts Bill's lyrics for being far too linear for his liking. This is actually a key plotpoint in the actual battle, as Discord knowing that he couldn't win according to the rules of the show, used the show's premise to play by his own rules and win in a more meaningful way.
• Combat Pragmatist: Despite losing in the end, the ever-crafty Discord could see that Bill had a massive ego and took advantage of it to trap him in the Nightmare Realm. He even foreshadowed this during his pre-fight rundown, stating that he wasn't going to be upstaged by his opponent. It didn't necessarily mean Discord had to win the fight, he needed to outsmart Bill to save his Fluttershy and the rest of his friends, so even if he died, he still won in the end.
• Composite Character: Feats from the comics and manga are used.
• Deader than Dead: Subverted; his soul was destroyed by Bill, but unlike most things, it's likely Discord can recover from that as he likely can never be destroyed for good so long as chaos exists due to being the embodiment of it.
• Dead Man Writing: He starts the fight by writing a letter to Princess Celestia. That same letter can be seen next to Fluttershy at the end of the battle, suggesting that he wrote it in case he didn't make it back.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Despite being wiped out on the physical and spiritual planes of being, Discord absolutely gets the last laugh against Bill. Not only does he undo Bill's brand-new Weirdmageddon in Equestria and save his friends, he uses an illusion to trick the one-eyed demon long enough to seal him back in the Nightmare Realm. Even his death is implied to be only temporary — thanks to his ability to eventually reform himself from chaos — denying Bill the long-term victory in that regard, too.
  Discord: Well... (chuckles to himself) it was worth a try. But still, I'm surprised you didn't recognize... your old home!
• Die Laughing: Discord's last act is to laugh at Bill being trapped back in the Nightmare Realm; Bill crushes his spirit and turns it into a Death Cry Echo.
• Disney Death: Implied what his death amounts to. Though Bill kills him in the fight, it is said that as long as chaos exists he can reform eventually.
• Eating the Enemy: Discord grows giant, turns Bill into a Dorito, and eats him. Bill then explodes his head in a bunch of confetti and returns to his original form.
• Ex-Big Bad: Discord's escape from his prison threatened to turn Equestria into an Eldritch Location, but the Mane 6 were able to seal him again, later rehabilitating him via Fluttershy. Following this, Discord became an at-times reluctant ally of the Mane 6... or Maneificent 7, as he likes to call them; and though he briefly relapses into anti-villainy years after his friends have passed on, his love for Fluttershy stops him from going through with his misguided plan to destroy all magic.
• Fatal Flaw: Overconfidence. Discord is essentialy at the top of the Pony Power Hierarchy in his world, so he rarely takes most threats seriously, which has been used to blindside him in most of his defeats. It ultimately never factors into the Death Battle, since he wasn't fighting to win by the rules of the show.
• Face Death with Dignity: Discord accepts his imminent demise when he reveals that he and Bill are in the Nightmare Realm, laughing even as Bill finishes him off, knowing he at least saved Fluttershy and the rest of Equestria.
• Flipping the Bird: If one pays close attention, after Discord takes a chunk out of Bill in the latter's Mindscape we can see Discord flipping him off with his eagle arm as he floats away from Bill.
• The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson: Discord likes to make pop-culture references, such as to Casablanca, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and is even aware of a certain evil interdimensional triangle in a top hat — wondering how the Mane 6 would fare against him. This episode takes that premise and runs with it, showing Bill having conquered Equestria and kickstarted Weirdmageddon.
• Good Counterpart: Just like Bill he's a goofy, joke-making, reality-warping Physical God with No Fourth Wall but he's using the fight to protect Equestria and his friends instead of to conquer it.
• Heel–Face Turn: After befriending Fluttershy, Discord hung up his antagonist hat and became an initially begrudging ally of the Mane 6... at least as much as being the embodiment of chaos would allow him to.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Realizing he can't beat Bill, Discord decides to lure him out of the MLP realm and back to the Nightmare Realm before closing the portal there. This traps him there with Bill, who proceeds to kill him in anger as he as he laughs in his face.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Boomstick describes Discord as a big jolly jerk that sets fire to stuff that can't burn.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Discord is capable effecting and erasing memories (such as when he erased all memory of Cosmos). This, combined with his Medium Awareness and knowing of Bill's own show, was ruled to give Discord a potential win condition by recreating Bill's demise. However, Bill's win conditions were ruled as more likely for him to pull off first. In the animation, Discord very nearly does do kill Bill this way, but the one-eyed demon managed to resist long enough to pull him out of his mind.
• Mana Drain: Discord has Grogar's Bewitching Bell, a magical artifact capable of absorbing any creature's magic including Discord himself. However, as Bill has shown the ability to resist the draining effects of a barrier designed to counter him for extended periods of time, it was deemed to probably not work on him.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Fitting his name, as a Draconequus Discord has the physical traits of ponies, dragons, deer, snakes, lions, goats, lizards, and bats. Boomstick even describes his appearance as a "Build-A-Bear grab bag".
• Negate Your Own Sacrifice: Implied; after Discord realizes he can't beat Bill, he lures him into the Nightmare Realm, trapping him there and saving the MLP realm and all his friends. Bill kills him for this, but the post-analysis confirms that this death will likely not stick since Discord can never truly be killed as long as chaos exists, meaning he will most likely reform himself eventually.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: Discord has the ability to turn into a ghost if his physical body is destroyed. It allows him to continue fighting after Bill crushes him with a giant Knight piece and enters the latter's mind, but unfortunately, the evil triangle just so happens to have the ability to harm spirits, and his spirit ends up erased at the end of the battle.
• Pun: Loves throwing these around in his fights. After dumping sweets on top of Bill, he hopes that his opponent likes his just desserts.
• The Power of Friendship: Discords starts the battle by writing his own Princess Celestia letter about how Bill learns about friendship. His entire goal is based on saving Fluttershy, and all of Equestria, from Weirdmageddon, and he succeeds.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Discord once conquered Equestria and turned it into an Eldritch Location, but was sealed in stone mid-boast by the alicorn princesses Celestia and Luna. However, the seal broke 1000 years later, enabling him to escape... only to be sealed again by the Mane 6, who subsequently rehabilitated him.
• Smug Super: As noted by the hosts Discord is at the top of the power peninsula when it comes to the world of My Little Pony which causes him to often take a carefree outlook on any potential threat. This is noted to be a negative for the fight as Bill is just as if not slightly stronger than Discord and is much more likely to go for the kill first.
• Taking You with Me: A variant; when he's faced with his imminent defeat, he traps both his foe and himself in the former's Nightmare Realm.
• Tranquil Fury: During most of the fight he consistently carries a more jovial tone than Bill and never lashes out in anger but the sheer venom in his voice as he tries to go for the kill and the fact that Discord made sure that no matter what Bill gets screwed in the end indicates that Discord really didn't like what Bill did to his home and more specifically Fluttershy.
• Troll: Discord so does love his mischief. In fact, the entire Death Battle turns out to be one huge and successful trolling attempt on Bill, irritating and angering him long enough to lure him back into the Nightmare Realm, albeit at the cost of his life and soul.
• Victorious Loser: Is defeated by Bill and destroyed as a soul, but manages to seal his opponent back in the Nightmare Realm before he goes. And being an embodiment of chaos who will always come back as long as it exists, his death isn't even likely to stick.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: At the end of the fight, Discord claims to have watched how Bill died in his original show and attempts to kill him in a similar way, but Bill reaches into his mindscape and crushes Discord in his grip. However, this turns out to be a subversion: while Discord couldn't kill Bill, he did use Death Battle's premise to distract him with a duel to the death, tricking him back into the Nightmare Realm and saving the MLP-verse from his tyrannical clutches.
• Xanatos Gambit: When Discord and Bill warp back into "normality" from the hand-puppet dimension, a keen eye will notice the rift, darkened skies, and Fearamid are the only signs of Weirdmageddon still present, indicating they're not actually in Equestria. At this point, Discord has effectively succeeded in what he was trying to achieve, but he goes for an attempted reenactment of Bill's canon death anyway. If it works, all the better, as Bill is gone forever; but if (when) it fails and Discord dies, he's already trapped Bill in the Nightmare Realm and the final max-stakes showdown stops the malicious triangle from noticing before it's too late. Not to mention, as talked about in As Long as There Is Evil above, Discord's death may not even stick for long.

Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer

• Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. Both Cole and Alex are already powerhouses in their respective games but since they're not limited to Gameplay and Story Segregation, they prove to be much more flexible and fluid with their powers and abilities.
  • Cole is capable of dodging the numerous whipfist-like tentacles coming at him from Alex and showcases more of his parkour skills by leaping across helicopters thrown at him.
  • Alex is capable of manifesting four whipfist-like tentacles from his back à la Ken Kaneki and sending them towards Cole. Furthermore, he also uses his other abilities in conjunction with his "Evolved Form" compared to his final fight against Heller in the second game.
• Blade Below the Shoulder:
  • Cole wields the Gigawatt Blades, plasma blades that cover both his arms and allow him to cut through almost anything.
  • Alex's Blade power morphs his right arm into a massive double-edged sword-like blade capable of cleaving through even armored opponents with ease.
• Civvie Spandex: Neither really dons a "costume" per se, just normal civilian clothing. Not any less iconic though.
• Combat Parkour: They both love hoppin' on roofs and droppin' on fools.
• Foil: While both are snarky, superpowered, and morally conflicted protags with humble origins, Cole uses external electrical powers and is canonically fated for good, while Alex is more on the internal (and external) Body Horror side of things and is fated for villainy.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Both used to be normal humans with mundane professions (a bike courier and a Gentek scientist, respectively), but were transformed into superhuman beings with the potential to terrorize their hometowns.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol:
  • Cole's Lightning Tether functions as this. He uses it in the animation to follow Alex after launching him into a building.
  • Alex's Whipfist also allows him to do the same thing. He uses it in the animation to pull himself towards Cole with his Blade readied at hand.
• Healing Factor: While both have passive healing, they can accelerate it by absorbing their respective elements. Alex can do it by absorbing biomass, while Cole absorbs electricity (although the biological kind as well, if one takes the Evil path).
• Not Quite Flight: They both can glide far and wide, Cole with his Static Thrusters (which Wiz likens to "electric Iron Man") and Alex by expelling jets of biomass from his arms.
• One-Man Army: They both can tear through (or... shock through, in Cole's case) entire groups of enemies.
• Super-Strength: Even without their more flashy powers, both possess incredible physical strength, being able to toss around vehicles, jump dozens of feet, and shatter the ground just by landing on it.
• Super Mode:
  • After performing enough good/evil deeds, Cole can activate a Karmic Overload to briefly give himself unlimited energy. He does this in the climax of the fight to prevent Alex from consuming him before going in for the kill.
  • Alex's "Evolved Form" has him going One-Winged Angel by consuming a certain number of people and causing him to become much bigger and more powerful. He goes further by combining this form with his Instant Armor.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Both of them have such a moment near the end of their respective first games.
  • Cole discovered that Kessler, the man responsible for him gaining his powers and making his life hell, is in fact another him from an alternate timeline, who orchestrated everything in the plan to make Cole strong enough to defeat The Beast, a threat to the world he himself failed to stop.
  • Alex discovered, after spending the whole game trying to find out who unleashed the Blacklight Virus and uncover his lost memories, that not only was it Dr. Alex Mercer who did it, but he himself, in reality, is the sentient Blacklight Virus that absorbed and took Mercer's appearance after the scientist was gunned down spitefully unleashing it.

Cole MacGrath

Cole: "This world sure isn't perfect, but it's a lot better without you in it, asshole."
Voiced by: Paul Guyet

The Patron Saint of inFAMOUS

• Adaptational Heroism: Of a sort. While Cole's moral alignment was up to the player in his home series, this battle not only focuses pretty much entirely on his canon Good Karma self but also somewhat plays up that version's more heroic traits, having him visibly disgusted, disturbed, and even outright pissed off at Alex's behavior and powers, in contrast to his canon self's calmer and to-the-point demeanor.
• Anti-Regeneration: In a post-fight sidenote, it was stated that Cole's Bio Leech could likely negate Alex's own regeneration by draining his neuro-electricity, which is partly responsible for healing the body from wounds. Even if it couldn't, Cole's ability to affect opponents down to the atomic level meant he was strong enough to overpower Alex's molecular regeneration.
• Aura Vision: The Radar Pulse allows Cole to sense the bioelectric energy of organisms even if they're hidden or transformed. A post-battle sidenote noted that, since it distinguishes friend from foe, Cole could use this to see past Alex's disguises.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: Bio Leech is an ability that's technically available to Good Cole, but it gives him evil karma if he uses it. When Alex announces his intention to consume Cole, Cole decides to use Bio Leech to put Alex down for good, obviously not wanting Alex to use his powers against innocent people.
• Big Damn Heroes: He shows up just in time to save some soldiers in a downed helicopter from being absorbed by Alex, then proceeds to save the city from him.
• Bond One-Liner: "This world sure isn't perfect...But it's a lot better without you in it, asshole."
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: After every Hero VS Villain matchup since Gray VS Esdeath had the hero die, Cole's victory officially put that streak to an end.
• Combo Platter Powers: His control over electromagnetism also allows him to manipulate kinetic, thermal, and gravitational energies, in addition to the already versatile applications of his electrical abilities such as bolts of lightning, mind reading, and force shields. And that's without mentioning the ice powers he would gain from Kuo. His array of powers is such that his abilities are compared to no less than three other superpowered (anti)heroes from different franchises, with many in particular similar to Shadow the Hedgehog.
• Cutting Off the Branches: This battle mainly looks at the canon Good Cole with ice powers, though the feats of the non-canon Evil Cole with napalm powers are also acknowledged. The animation uses Cole's neutral appearance from inFAMOUS 2. It's ruled that if they had used Evil Cole, things would've gone far worse for Alex due to lacking Good Cole's restraint as well as the Beast’s power.
• Deflector Shields: His Polarity Wall and Frost Shield lets him block material projectiles and convert them into energy (much to Wiz's consternation).
• Electric Slide: Cole is able to grind along train tracks and power lines with his Induction Grind ability, even absorbing energy by doing so. In the animation, he uses this to grind along the tendrils of Alex's Tendril Barrage Devastator and close in on him.
• Everyone Has Standards: Zigzagged with Adaptational Heroism. Before the fight begins, Cole steps outside his normally stoic and composed demeanor to make very clear his disgust with Alex and his actions and the fact that he's not going to stand for it.
  Alex: (after pulling down and consuming two helicopters) Hahaha... I think I've still got room for dessert!
  Cole: (appalled) Buddy, you are one sick freak.
• Heroic Sacrifice: As the fight mainly looks at Good Karma Cole since his route is considered the canonical timeline for inFamous, he canonically died saving humanity from a plague caused as a side-effect from the rise of Conduits, sacrificing himself (and a good number of Conduits worldwide) in the process. Luckily for Cole, he doesn't need to pull one of these to take down Alex.
• Heroic Second Wind: Goes through a classic example just as Alex is about to absorb him, activating Karmic Overload to break free of his tendrils and draining Alex's bioelectricity just before the kill.
• An Ice Person: Gains Kuo's ice powers using the Power Transfer Device, allowing him to throw ice grenades, ice spikes, and ice blasts.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Twice Cole ends up impaled by Alex, the first time by his bladed talons during the We Can Rule Together speech, and then again near the very end by his giant armblade while Alex attempts to infect and assimilate him. Luckily, Cole is able to fight him off both times.
• Improbable Weapon User: Besides his powers and Good Old Fisticuffs, Cole also wields the Amp, a makeshift tuning fork-esque club made by his best friend Zeke that he can channel electricity through.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Espouses this view with his Bond One-Liner. The world may not be perfect, but at least he can stop power-mad megalomaniacs from making it worse.
• Man of Kryptonite: Cole is naturally immune to and can destroy the molecular-level Blacklight virus due to both having and surviving attacks on an atomic level, which means that he could permanently put Alex down without being infected.
• Meteor Move: His Thunder Drop, which sees him plummet toward Earth surrounded by electricity. It's the move he uses to kill Alex by performing it directly on top of him while in a grapple and falling from high in the sky, alongside using his Bio Leech to drain Alex's bio-electricity so he couldn't regenerate from said fall.
• No Canon for the Wicked: A textbox explicitly states that for the episode, they'll be focusing on Cole's canonical Good Karma self for the analysis. Fittingly, the animation has Cole's personality and powers more in line with Good Cole than Evil Cole. Boomstick does take time to note in the post-analysis what the likely result would have been if they had gone with Evil Cole, though: even worse for Alex.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Cole's ruled to be comparable to the Beast, and thus capable of casual city busting. While Cole and Alex's physical powers were roughly comparable, Cole's raw destructive power was ruled as far more than Alex could handle.
• Shock and Awe: Electricity is Cole's main element, though he later used the Power Transfer Device to gain access to Kuo's ice powers, as well.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Alex impales Cole with his blade, the living virus attempts to convince Cole to join him so that they can rule the world together. Cole isn't having any of it.
• Super-Speed: Can route electricity moving at 90% the speed of light. As such, he's ruled to be faster than Alex, whose best speed feat involves processing memories at "only" 66% the speed of light.

Dr. Alexander "Alex" J. Mercer

Alex: "So much power, and yet you waste it on these vermin... you and I can change this world for the better!"
Voiced by: Kevin Andrew Rivera

The Blacklight Virus Prototype from [PROTOTYPE]

• Absurdly Sharp Claws: One of Alex's powers turns his hands into bladed talons capable of slicing through foes like a hot knife through butter.
• Amnesiac Hero: Well, anti-hero at best, but Mercer started the first game having lost his memories and being thrust into the Blacklight-infected Manhattan, hellbent on finding out who was responsible for unleashing the virus in the first place, even if it means ripping the memories out of his victims. Although he'd come to come find out there was a good reason for his specific lack of memory.
• Cannibalism Superpower: By consuming other people, he can gain their biomass — granting him Super-Strength, Super-Speed, and a Healing Factor, among other powers; and can even shapeshift to disguise himself as those he's consumed. He can even gain their memories by doing so. Boomstick compares him to Kirby if he listened to Linkin Park. However, he typically needs to weaken his opponents before he can consume them, something he had difficulty in doing to Cole due to the sheer gap in power between the two. When he does attempt to absorb Cole at the end of the fight, Cole instead turns the tables on him by absorbing all of his bio-electricity.
• Cast from Hit Points: His Devastators work like this, as they require the excess biomass he's built up from consuming victims and will drain his overcharged health bar.
• Combat Tentacles: Alex can produce countless tendrils from his body in order to increase his control over the battlefield, with one of his powers transforming his right arm into the Whipfist — a serrated telescopic tentacle. At the start of the fight, he manifests four Whipfist tentacles from his back and tries to hit Cole with them who dodges all but one, which sends him flying before Alex follows up by using his Tendril Barrage Devastator.
• Create Your Own Hero: It's noted that Alex canonically met his end at the claws of James Heller, a seriously pissed-off marine whom he'd infected with his particular strain of Blacklight in the hopes of making him his second-in-command.
• Death by Irony:
  • Alex dies in a similar way to how he kills his victims, by having Cole consume his bio-electricity.
  • A guy whose code name is Zeus got killed by electricity.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Alex does not understand why Cole is protecting the people, or vermin as he calls them.
• Evil Is Bigger: Though he's about the same size as Cole in the fight animation in his "human" form, once Alex uses his Armor he noticeably towers over his foe and he's unambiguously the villain of the scenario.
• Evil Laugh: As this is Alex from after his fall to evil, he lets out quite a bit of crazed laughter.
• Fallen Hero: Between the first and second game, Alex went from an Anti-Hero to a straight villain who wishes to recreate humanity in his own image. This makes him the straight villain of the battle, as Good Karma Cole was used.
• From a Single Cell: Alex's regeneration is so potent that he can instantly reform himself with just a little surviving biomass. While this does make him harder for Cole to kill, the Conduit's raw power was more than enough to obliterate Alex without leaving anything left of him to heal from.
• Ghost Amnesia: Alex's journey began when he woke up in a morgue with amnesia and Lovecraftian superpowers, in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse. Setting out to uncover what happened led to him learning he was effectively an avatar of the Blacklight Virus itself possessing the corpse of the original Alex Mercer, who was the one who'd unleashed the Blacklight Virus out of spite before being killed by Blackwatch soldiers.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Alex can get stabbed, shot, smashed, torn apart, or even blown into pieces, but his regeneration and survivability are enough to shrug nearly anything off. He can even survive and regenerate from a Manhattan-destroying nuke, which the hosts calculated from its blast radius in-game to be worth 450 kilotons of TNT.^note A pop-up notes that several non-Blackwatch characters in-game judged the nuke in question to be worth about 75 kilotons of TNT, but the hosts went with this higher number since the nuke's blast radius was drawn by Blackwatch themselves. Total disintegration is however beyond even his healing capabilities, which Cole uses to finish him off for good.
• Instant Armor: His Armor power covers him head-to-toe in an incredibly tough insect-like exoskeleton of hardened biomass. Alex dons it near the fight's climax, though Cole's Karmic Overload is able to knock him out of it.
• Karmic Death: Alex's death in canon was being consumed by James Heller, like he did to many of his victims. This happens again against Cole, who steals Alex's bio-electricity after Alex tries to consume him.
• Kick the Dog: Alex feeding on a bunch of innocent office workers in the middle of the fight doesn't help his case as a would-be savior. Cole even refers to it as a nightmare.
• Limit Break: Alex's various Devastators work this way, laying waste to everything around him using his excess biomass. He attempts a Tendril Barrage Devastator on Cole at the start of the fight, but Cole Induction Grinds on the tendrils to close in on him.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: Due to his body being comprised of Blacklight-infected biomass, Alex has shapeshifting powers that the title of his preview compares to Carnage. He can morph his limbs into bladed weapons, beef his muscles up to amp his super-strength even more, manifest a bulletproof exoskeleton, and project tendrils from anywhere on his body.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: Alex fought to save humanity from the Blacklight Virus despite being a Humanoid Abomination created by it, but after spending a year wandering the Earth suffering betrayal after betrayal he decided that humanity hadn't been worth saving after all and went full super-villain, starting a new Blacklight outbreak in Manhattan to finish what Elizabeth Greene started.
• Mighty Glacier: Downplayed. Like in the games, using the Armor power causes Alex's mobility to decrease, though he still retains some speed. But at the same time, he's capable of tanking plenty of hits from Cole's Gigawatt Blades and taking advantage of the latter's openings.
• No Body Left Behind: He gets his bio-electricity completely drained by Cole before what's left of the Blacklight virus is fully destroyed.
• One-Winged Angel: He can transform into a monstrous form armored by a bulletproof exoskeleton. He does this towards the very end of the battle, though it reverts to his human form right before Cole kills him.
• Rasputinian Death: First Alex has his bio-electricity drained, then Cole destroys his body with a Thunder Drop, with what remains after being vaporized in Cole's hand.
• Shadow Archetype: Alex used to protect humanity before deciding that they should be supplanted by a superior species, similar to Cole in the non-canonical Evil Karma ending of inFAMOUS 2.
• Shapeshifting: His natural forte was given to him by the Blacklight Virus, which rewrote his entire body down to the DNA. He can change forms in order to disguise himself, increase his muscle mass to boost his strength, create nigh-unbreakable Instant Armor, and even shape his limbs into various weapons. Unfortunately for Alex, Cole's Radar Pulse would ensure that any human disguises would fail on Cole.
• Slasher Smile: He gives a number of unhinged smiles throughout his battle with Cole.
• Super-Intelligence: Alex assimilates all the knowledge and memories of everyone he's ever consumed, which boosts his own intellect as a side-effect in order to let him access it all in a timely manner. He's capable of processing a 69-year-old man's entire life of memories within 11 seconds, which would require a processing speed of 4.5 nanoseconds or about 66% the speed of light. This was ruled as one of his advantages over Cole, but it wasn't enough to overcome Cole's power edge.
• Spikes of Doom: One of Mercer's powers lets him channel his biomass under the ground to shoot up spikes that impale anything in their vicinity, with the Groundspike Graveyard Devastator doing so in a wide radius.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Despite having saved the world from the threat of the Blacklight Virus, Alex ultimately gave up on humanity after one too many personal betrayals in the aftermath, deciding that he would not just bring about a second Blacklight apocalypse but transform humanity into something greater.
• To Serve Man: Alex heals himself and grows stronger by assimilating others into the viral biomass comprising his body. Ironically, this is exactly how he canonically died, consumed by James Heller. At the start of the fight, he plans on consuming Cole, much to the Conduit's disgust, and attempts to do this at the fight's climax, but is repelled by Cole's Karmic Overload before having his bioelectricity "consumed" in turn.
  Alex: I think I've still got room for dessert...
• Transhuman Abomination: The original Alex Mercer was a geneticist who worked for the Gentek biofirm and helped engineer the Blacklight, an enhanced strain of the Redlight Virus that mutated its hosts in ways that shouldn't be scientifically possible. Cornered by the army, who were liquidating anyone who knew about the project, Mercer unleashed the Blacklight Virus out of spite before being gunned down. The Blacklight Virus assimilated and reanimated his corpse, giving him a body comprised entirely of viral biomass and superhuman powers due to his rare genetic compatibility with it but leaving him with Ghost Amnesia. Slowly uncovering the conspiracy, Mercer assimilated the Redlight Virus' avatar Elizabeth Green and helped end the Blacklight outbreak his original self had started, but ultimately lost faith in humanity and decided to use the Blacklight Virus to forcibly evolve humanity into beings like himself.
• Ultimate Life Form: Is considered this by the hosts thanks to his wide array of powers and his near-constant evolution, comparing him, like his opponent, to Shadow the Hedgehog.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Alex finds Cole's suite of abilities to be rather impressive. At first, he tries swaying Cole to his side, but after he rejects him, the metamorph decides to take his powers for himself.
• The Virus: Being host to the Blacklight virus (or rather, the Blacklight Virus itself), Alex can spread it to others through physical contact. Most people end up as shambling zombie-like Infected, while others mutate into monstrous creatures... and a rare few, like Mercer himself and James Heller, end up retaining their human forms and developing Lovecraftian Superpowers. Unfortunately for Alex, Cole was deemed immune due to being able to survive things to an atomic level, whereas Blacklight only affects things on a molecular level.
• Visionary Villain: After his Face–Heel Turn, Alex wanted to wipe away the worst of humanity and keep their best by mutating them with the Blacklight virus. He offers Cole a place in his ranks, but the Conduit refutes him in disgust.
• Weak, but Skilled: While Alex's ability to absorb the memories of those he's consumed makes him smarter and technically more experienced, he's far too weak to stand up to Cole's raw power.
• We Can Rule Together: At the climax of their fight, Alex offers Cole the chance to leave humanity in the dust and rule supreme alongside him, to which Cole rightfully declines.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: As Wiz and Boomstick put it, Alex Mercer has great power, but it came with great terror.
• You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: At one point, Cole watches in horror as Alex consumes someone to heal, prompting this exchange as the latter charges the former:
  Cole: What a nightmare...
  Alex: You don't know the HALF OF IT!

Frieza VS Megatron

• Arch-Enemy: These two are the most hated adversaries of their series' main heroes, Son Goku and Optimus Prime respectively.
• Brains Versus Brawn: Frieza is Brilliant, but Lazy given that he exists in a universe where there is very few things he can't overpower with minimal effort. Megatron, on the other hand, has commanded thousands of battles directly at the same time for millions of years. This makes Frieza the brawn to Megatron's brains, despite what their physical sizes would otherwise imply. Unfortunately for Megatron, Frieza is tough enough to tank most of what Megatron can throw at him, and fast enough to avoid what he can't tank before he is fully disintegrated.
  Frieza: What's wrong? Is that clunky robot body too slow to keep up?!
  Megatron: My wits should more than suffice, you blithering ponce.
• David Versus Goliath: Given that it's a battle between the shorter-than-average Frieza and a Transformer, Megatron definitely has the size advantage. Like the biblical clash, the David wins.
• Deadly Disc:
  • Frieza can throw disc-shaped ki attacks called Death Saucers, capable of cutting through almost anything.
  • Megatron can fire circular saw blades sharp enough to cut through solid rock from his arms.
• Evil Laugh:
  • Frieza gives a mocking Noblewoman's Laugh after Megatron entertains him with a defiant monologue.
  • Megatron gives off several of these throughout the fight, specifically when he gains an edge. Unfortunately, they don't stick.
• Evil Versus Evil: Frieza and Megatron are both fearsome galactic conquerors who have dominated multiple planets, and are now pitted against each other in a Death Battle.
• Eye Beams: Both Frieza and Megatron can shoot energy beams from their eyes.
• Fantastic Racism: Both characters are well-known for their hatred of certain groups, Saiyans for Frieza and organic life in general for Megatron, who refers to Frieza as "organic scum".
• Galactic Conqueror: Both combatants desire nothing less than to bring the entire cosmos to its knees. The fight starts because Frieza comes to conquer Cybertron, with Megatron trying to stop him.
• Light Is Not Good: Both Frieza and Megatron are usually light in color and are the Big Bads of their respective franchises.
• Purple Is Powerful: Both of their designs are accented with purple as a symbol of superiority to their kind, as are their energy attacks to signify their destructive power.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Megatron's rebellious and fiery passion for revolution against Cybertron's rigid system (before it burned him into becoming what he swore to fight against) contrasts with Frieza's cold and sadistic nature as a pampered tyrant, which has always been there, ironically making the machine the warmer of the two. Even in the fight proper, Megatron defiantly stands for his planet with anger in his voice in response to his opponent's cold, faux flatteries. (And the musical score parallels one as "heart of metal with a dark desire that burns" against "a frozen soul that never learns") Alternatively, Megatron started out as blue but became red, while Frieza was red all along.
• Super-Toughness: Both of them are incredibly difficult to kill due to the firepower needed to even scratch them. Frieza has survived some of Goku's strongest attacks like the Spirit Bomb and Super Kamehameha, and Megatron once survived an explosion strong enough to launch the entire planet of Cybertron through space (calced at 4.48 octillion tons — almost 4.5 ninatons — of TNT) and fought against beings like the Deceptigod, which possessed the power of an entire separate universe. Though Frieza is the superior in this regard, as he can go blow-for-blow with Super Saiyan Blue Goku in his Golden Form, which in Super Saiyan God Goku has matched with Beerus, which would have caused shockwaves that threatened to destroy all of Universe 7, which is 13 times larger than our universe and hence, Megatron's universe.
• The Warlord:
  • Frieza leads the Planet Trade Organization — better known as the Frieza Force — going from planet to planet, wiping out their inhabitants, and selling them to the highest bidder. The self-proclaimed Emperor of the Universe, he controls a vast swath of territory through fear of his planet-shattering power alone.
  • Megatron started out as a gladiator turned non-violent protestor against the strict caste system imposed by the Functionists, but after a failed assassination attempt he became the leader of the Decepticons and — over the course of nine million years of nonstop war — became a ruthless warlord seeking to conquer Cybertron, and later Earth, by any means necessary.

Frieza

Frieza: "Greetings, noble warrior of Planet Cyber-whatever. I, Lord Frieza, claim this world as my own. Cheer for me or face annihilation."
Voiced by: Martin Piers Billany

The Dread Emperor from Dragon Ball

• Achievements in Ignorance: During the battle, Frieza inadvertently ends up destroying all of Cybertron while trying to take out Megatron. What he doesn't realize is that, in reality, he ended up killing the current form of Primus, the noble half of the Destroyer Deity Unicron, as detailed in Unicron's recap during the season finale.
• All for Nothing: Frieza came to conquer Cybertron and subjugate the Cybertronians. By the end of the fight, Cybertron is space-dust and Frieza got such a close scrape with death that he considers Cybertronians on par with Saiyans: Kill on Sight.
• Ascended Extra: Frieza makes his first appearance on Death Battle since his fight with Mewtwo in DBX Season 4.
• The Bad Guy Wins: While both combatants are villains, Frieza is unmistakably the worse one of the two, and Megatron spends the fight as the sole defender of Cybertron. His efforts were all for naught, as Frieza succeeds in destroying them both with his eyes set on the remaining Cybertronians. That being said, it is somewhat downplayed due to Frieza losing more than half of his body (although he does have outside methods to regenerate lost body parts) and a large amount of his troops as well as his mothership.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: He seems to have no issue operating in outer space without oxygen, and unlike Megatron, Frieza is an organic lifeform.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: His victory puts an end to the losing streak Dragon Ball had against other characters (excluding Gogeta VS Vegito) that started with Goku Black losing to Reverse-Flash.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Frieza is the head of the Planet Trade Organization, where he's in the business of selling the planets he conquers to the highest bidder and killing anyone who opposes him. Akira Toriyama based him on real estate speculators, who he described as "the worst sort of people".
• The Dreaded: Frieza is well-known in and out of universe for being a sadistic monster. In fact, striking fear into his enemies is a big part of his whole game plan, though it doesn't play as huge of a part in his victory as his sheer physical superiority, given Megatron's a lot smarter and made of sterner stuff than most.
• Energy Ball: One of Frieza's most iconic ki attacks is the planet-shattering Death Ball/Supernova, which can easily destroy planets as dense as Vegeta (the Saiyan homeworld, not Goku's rival). As Planet Vegeta is ten times denser than Earth, these attacks would easily be capable of causing an Earth-Shattering Kaboom a hundred times over. Frieza starts the fight with Supernova only for Megatron to blast it back at the galactic tyrant with his Fusion Cannon.
• Evil Is Petty: Even after he successfully killed Megatron, Megatron's earlier taunting towards him, combined with almost killing him with antimatter and destroying most of his resources — mothership, troops, planet he wanted to conquer — is enough reason for Frieza to decide to now wipe out all Cybertronian life.
• Eviler than Thou: To Megatron, being an omnicidal galactic conqueror with no hint of remorse as opposed to an initially well-intentioned revolutionary.
• Faux Affably Evil: As part of his businessman shtick, Frieza has an outwardly polite and oftentimes cordial exterior that belies his nature as a sadistic, genocidal monster.
• Final Solution: He tried to wipe out the Saiyan species by blowing up their planet, but it turned out he wasn't thorough enough to wipe out every one of them. After killing Megatron, he decides to turn his eyes onto the rest of the Cybertronian species.
• Giver of Lame Names: Giver of Unoriginal Names, more like. Death Beam, Death Ball, Death Wave, Death Saucer... not one for creatively naming his techniques, he is.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Frieza is well-known for Rage Quitting whenever things don't go his way. Megatron attempts to exploit this by reminding Frieza of his losses before attempting to kill him with antimatter.
• Hand Blast: Frieza's Death Beam ki attack fires a small energy beam from his finger that's capable of punching a hole through almost everything, which he likes to use to snipe opponents.
• Hate Sink: Frieza is famously one of the biggest heels in Shonen manga — being completely deprived of redeeming qualities and engaging in one heinous act after another — and is up there with the most despicable combatants to have appeared across Death Battle. Half of his analysis is just about how awful a person he is, and even the normally fight-happy Boomstick is visibly disturbed by it.
• Ki Manipulation: Frieza can manipulate his own ki to fly, fire a variety of energy attacks, create force fields, and even sense the ki of others.
• Made of Iron: Frieza lacks the Healing Factor of some Dragon Ball villains who succeeded him, but his physiology means he can survive things that really should be lethal. An Arm and a Leg and even Half the Man He Used to Be doesn't kill him, it just means he no longer has those limbs. And that's not to mention him surviving being blasted by Super Saiyan Goku and Namek exploding on him right after. Similarly in his fight with Megatron, he survives all of this as well, minus being blasted by antimatter that would have killed him had he not been fast enough to dodge enough of the attack.
• Mind over Matter: Frieza can use telekinesis to perform feats like uprooting entire mountains. During the fight he uses it to send the entire planet of Cybertron crashing into Megatron.
• Mutant: Frieza and his father are considered mutants of their species, possessing vast amounts of power as a result of said mutation.
• Mysterious Past: Very little is actually known about Frieza's past or his race.
• Person of Mass Destruction: When introduced, Frieza was capable of casually destroying planets while in his weakest form and has only grown stronger since. For reference, he destroyed Planet Vegeta at his weakest, which would require an output of 5.3 yottatons of TNT. Footage of him destroying the Earth is also shown. He later managed to catch up to and even surpass Goku, whose attacks could potentially destroy the entire universe multiple times over. This put him far above Megatron or anyone he could be scaled to.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite his short stature, he's packing enough power to obliterate a planet by accident. The post-fight analysis shows his power is such that it dwarfs that of the far huger Megatron, who's tangled with a creature with the power of an entire universe behind it, and he doesn't even need to use his strongest form to reach those levels of strength. Hilariously, Boomstick sees him as an adorable little munchkin up until he sees a montage of Frieza firing a Death Beam through Vegeta's chest, telekinetically blowing up Krillin and nuking Planet Vegeta from orbit, with him getting slowly more disturbed by each.
  Boomstick: Awww, he's adorable! With the horns, and that floppy tail and the- (gets cut off by footage of Frieza's aforementioned crimes) ...genocide. Oh... awesome. And he's laughing. Cool...
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Frieza gives a typically nasty one after tanking his own reflected Supernova and shifting to his fourth form.
  Frieza: Pity. I'll have to construct a new mothership from your corpse.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Frieza is the only thing to not be entirely vaporized where Cybertron once was, but that's a bit of a cold comfort:
  • Frieza might be able to survive, but he's without any kind of navigatory aid or means to contact his Empire. Megatron is unlikely to be right that he is doomed to wander the depths of space for eternity given Frieza's freakish speed, but he's definitely lost for the foreseeable future.
  • With Cybertron vaporized, Frieza got absolutely nothing of worth out of the whole ordeal and it cost him the soldiers he brought with him, not to mention his ships; one of which was his mothership.
  • Megatron was destroyed utterly by Frieza, meaning Frieza can't even inflict Cold-Blooded Torture on Megatron as revenge like he promised he would.
  • Finally Frieza's pride was so utterly wrecked that he now considers any Cybertronian his Arch-Enemy on principle. Combined with the above points, all he got out of this battle is more enemies.
• Shaping Your Attacks: Frieza's Death Saucer — inspired by Krillin's Destructo Disc — fires a disk-shaped ki projectile capable of cutting through almost anything.
• The Sociopath: He's the kind of person who will annihilate entire worlds with a smile, all while presenting himself through a shallow veil of civility.
• Super Mode: Envious of the Saiyans' Super transformations, Frieza trained to attain a powered-up form of his own in Golden Frieza and later acquired an even more powerful form called Black Frieza. Black Frieza in particular was powerful enough to one-shot both of Goku and Vegeta's strongest forms (Ultra Instinct and Ultra Ego, respectively). After being sufficiently pressured by Megatron, he resorts to using Golden Frieza to destroy Cybertron, and finally assumes his Black Frieza form in a rage at Megatron's taunting.
• Strong and Skilled: In the Dragon Ball universe(s), Frieza is arguably one of the most prodigious fighting talents that isn't immortal, with only Jiren, Broly, Goku, and Vegeta keeping him off the podium. Formerly Unskilled, but Strong due to his colossal ego, his Golden and Black forms have both been the result of him deciding to actually try; his Golden form coming about due to regular training for just four months, while his Black form was achieved by training for a week and a half in a Hyperbolic Time Chamber which he happened to have in his domain — also known as the Room of Spirit and Time in Japanese — an environment which dilates time to 365 times (slower than) normal. In essence, a week and a half would become a decade.
• Super-Reflexes: He's fast enough to keep up with Goku's ki attacks, which when scaled to Goku gathering ki to use the Spirit Bomb against Kid Buu could move at 17.9 quadrillion times the speed of light, and he's only gotten faster since. This proves to be the key to his victory, as while Megatron would normally be able to outsmart him in order to land a fatal blow with his antimatter beams, Frieza's speed means that even if this did happen, Frieza would be able to react and protect himself before his whole body was annihilated.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The hosts state that Golden Frieza was more than strong enough to overpower Megatron, so the fact he had access to Black Frieza as well was just overkill.
• To the Pain: After Megatron taunts him over his failures as a leader, Frieza gets so pissed that he transforms into Black Frieza and threatens to torture Megatron so horribly that his screams will defy the laws of physics. It's small comfort that Megatron ends up dying in a much less painful way.
  Frieza: You despicable, cretinous worm! I'll torture you until your screams can be heard in the vacuum of space!
• Tranquil Fury: In contrast to his screaming threats to Megatron, his post-victory declaration to wipe out all Cybertronians — having had most of his body, troops, spaceship, and the planet he wanted to conquer destroyed over the course of the fight — is far more subdued.
  Frieza: Cybertronians... Must... kill them all...
• Unskilled, but Strong: While Frieza's brain doesn't hold a candle to Megatron's supercomputer-like processors — which were capable of simultaneously processing 100,000 battles — and his ability to steamroll most opposition left him with little training compared to Megatron's millions of years of combat experience, he more than makes up for it by being ludicrously powerful, to the point where he's a candidate for the most powerful being in the entire Dragon Ball universe; a setting already famous for its extremely high power levels. It was mentioned that while there are still scenarios where Megatron is able to outsmart Frieza and hit him with an antimatter attack, which would be fatal regardless of his obscene power, the enormous gap in power nets him the better chance of winning.
• Villainous Breakdown: After taking a commanding lead over Megatron and causing the inevitable demise of Cybertron, Frieza loses his temper at Megatron's mocking rant over the losses he's accrued trying to take Cybertron in the first place and only becomes more unhinged after Megatron uses his antimatter to annihilate most of his body. After finishing off the Cybertronian and his planet, he can only mutter about how he has to kill the rest of the Cybertronians.
• Who Needs Their Whole Body?: Frieza is so absurdly durable that he can survive having a majority of his body destroyed. At the end of the fight he's been reduced to a torso and one arm by Megatron's antimatter, but still manages to kill his opponent.
• Willfully Weak: Frieza is so powerful that he actually transforms to get weaker, so he doesn't blow up planets by accident, and detransforms to get stronger. His iconic white and purple form is him finally taking the gloves off to get serious. At the start of the fight, Frieza starts in his 1st form; but after tanking his own Death Ball sent back at him by Megatron, he immediately skips to his 4th form.
• Wound That Will Not Heal: It is stated that unlike most other Dragon Ball villains, Frieza can't regenerate. So when Megatron disintegrates most of his body with antimatter, he is stuck like that until he can find an allied planet and enter a healing tank, like how he was fixed in the beginning of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'.

Megatron

Megatron: "I have fought for my planet for eons. I would rather see it turned to ash than reside in your filthy hands, organic scum!"
Voiced by: Tom Schalk

The Decepticon Commander from Transformers

• Antimatter: Megatron's deadliest ability is his power to channel antimatter through his eyes. This ability was the only possible way Megatron could've defeated Frieza, given that an matter-antimatter reaction will annihilate anything it interacts with regardless of durability, thus bypassing Frieza's defenses. However, he'd have to destroy all of Frieza's body in one go to make sure it stuck, something he'd have trouble doing given Frieza's vastly superior speed unless he outsmarted Frieza; which, although certainly possible, he unfortunately couldn't do consistently enough to net the victory. Not to mention the fact that Frieza once defended against and survived destruction energy, whose effects are very similar to antimatter; though the analysis admits directly comparing the two is slightly iffy.
• Armor-Piercing Attack: His Antimatter mutually annihilates any matter he uses on it. As a result, it doesn't matter how tough the target is, if they're made of matter, it will work. It's noted that despite Frieza's absurd durability and the power difference, antimatter would still harm and ultimately destroy his body. While Frieza would win more often than not, it's noted that thanks to his millions of years' worth of combat experience, Megatron is smart enough to potentially outwit Frieza and kill him with it in some circumstances.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Megatron claims he would sooner see Cybertron reduced to ash than let Frieza take it. The end of the fight sees Cybertron exploding.
• Berserker Tears: Megatron does not take the news of Cybertron's mere minutes to detonation well, doing the cybertronian equivalent of this by way of Eye Beams.
  Megatron: My planet!
• BFG: Megatron's main weapon of choice is his arm-mounted fusion cannon, which is powerful enough to annihilate small towns at a distance of 12 miles and can even hit targets in space while he's on the ground. At the start of the fight Megatron uses it to send Frieza's Supernova back at him.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: The first character voiced by Tom Schalk to lose.
• Bubble Shield: Inverted. The Panic Bubble looks like one of these, but it actually lets enemies themselves inside fairly easily... which is when Megatron drops the reveal that it doesn't let anyone out.
  Boomstick: Megatron's not trapped in there with you. You're trapped in there with him.
• Composite Character: Downplayed. because there are literally dozens of Megatrons throughout the Transformers multiverse, they decided to stick with two of his iconic iterations: Generation One (both the Sunbow cartoon series and the Marvel Comic) and the IDW iteration.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Although Megatron is noted to have been heavily outmatched in terms of speed and strength by Frieza, he still puts up a strong enough fight to reduce the Dread Emperor to half his body and only one arm, and it takes Frieza's strongest form and the destruction of Cybertron itself to put him down for good. Furthermore, the analysis notes that Megatron's far superior intelligence, strategic mind and antimatter weaponry would give him the win in certain scenarios.
• Defiant to the End: Even after being bisected in half by the Death Saucers, Megatron still tries to take down Frieza with his fusion cannon.
• Didn't See That Coming: The hyper-intelligent Megatron manages to trap Frieza within a cloud of antimatter and thinks he's won. Unfortunately, he doesn't count on two very important things; one, Frieza is obscenely fast, and two, Frieza can keep fighting as just a torso and an arm. Not accounting for this leads to the Cybertronian being sliced in half and decapitated before his planet explodes around them.
• Energy Weapon: In addition to his trademark Arm Cannon, Megatron can create a Hard Light morningstar flail from Energon, as well as a shield to block attacks.
• Epic Flail: One of the many weapons he uses is a spiked morningstar flail made of Hard Light, which he learned to wield as a gladiator.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Mocked in his Background slide, which states that he "[d]esperately needs a cough drop", and by Boomstick, who claims he sounds like he smokes 40 packs a day.
• Fallen Hero: Megatron was initially a noble revolutionary before his personal experiences and millions of years of warfare led him to devolve into a bloodthirsty tyrant.
• Gladiator Games: Megatron fought as a gladiator before he took up arms against the Cybertronian government.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: After seemingly annihilating Frieza with antimatter, Megatron is bisected by a Death Saucer from the still-alive alien, separating his top and bottom halves. Even so, he still doesn't let that stop him from attempting to blast Frieza one last time.
• Humongous Mecha: Given that this is Transformers we're dealing with, it'd stand to reason that the robotic leader of the Decepticons would be Large and in Charge. However, this also serves as Megatron's greatest weakness, as his enormous stature leaves him an open target for Frieza's attacks.
• Informed Flaw: Megatron's Fusion Cannon is stated to require cooldown before it can be used again, but this doesn't come up in the fight. In fact, he indulges in Beam Spam at several points.
• I Shall Taunt You: He mocks Frieza that even if he wins the fight, it'll be a Pyrrhic Victory at best. This goads Frieza into going berserk and charging him... right into Megatron's antimatter. While it doesn't win him the fight, it's noted that Megatron was entirely capable of doing exactly this and potentially winning in some situations due to being far smarter and more experienced than Frieza.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: He might be infamous for being a ruthless warlord, but his past as a former freedom fighter and his Start of Darkness make him more sympathetic than his pampered, sadistic adversary. He even went through a Heel–Face Turn in the IDW canon, though the animation goes with a more typically antagonistic take.
• Motive Decay: Megatron started out wanting to put an end to Cybertron's oppressive caste system, but eventually started seeking power for its own sake and the right to rule Cybertron on his terms, even if it only resulted in Cybertron's very ruin. Although it took millions of years, he did eventually realize this, and noting that the Autobots now follow his original values more than the Decepticons ever did, pulled a Heel–Face Turn which led him to save the universe.
  Wiz: In essence, there used to be a point to the war. Now, war was the point.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Megatron might be evil, but he's presented as the "hero" trying to stop Frieza from taking over Cybertron. Unfortunately, his efforts only result in the total annihilation of his planet, and inspiring Frieza to hunt down the rest of the Cybertronian race out of anger.
• Off with His Head!: The animation strongly suggests that he was killed by a Death Saucer aimed at his neck before it cuts to a Distant Reaction Shot. If that didn't kill him, the destruction of Cyberton certainly did.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives one to Frieza at the climax of the fight, which sends the diminutive tyrant into a frothing rage as the fight reaches an end.
  Megatron: Behold, the mighty Lord Frieza, ruler of a dying planet... my planet! Where is your army? Where is your ship? So powerful, and yet you will wander the depths of space for eternity, all because of me! What a fool.
• Screw Destiny: Megatron started out as a rebel against the Functionist order, who decreed that a Cybertronian's position should be assigned based on their alternate mode.
• Super-Intelligence: Megatron is a master tactician with millennia of experience under his belt, able to strategize through a thousand battles at the same time. It's noted to be a major advantage he has over Frieza, though not enough to win the fight often enough to be declared the winner.
• Taking You with Me: After his initial apoplectic rage at Frieza causing Cybertron's doom, Megatron pulls one last-ditch effort at making sure Frieza doesn't survive the death of his homeworld. His mocking Frieza for only being able to achieve a Pyrrhic Victory at best is just as much a spiteful attempt at making him feel his pain as it is the set-up for his most devastating weapon.
• Tank Goodness: Megatron's main alt-mode is a Cybertronian tank. He assumes this form to hide from Frieza before hitting him with a sneak attack, and uses the Recoil Boost from a shot to launch himself into orbit.
• Time Abyss: Megatron has been at war for over nine million years. He's not lying when he tells Frieza he's fought for Cybertron for eons.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Megatron started out as a peaceful protester before a run-in with a government assassin convinced him that force of arms was the only way of toppling the Functionists.
• Victorious Loser: Downplayed if not subverted. Despite losing his life and his planet, Megatron destroyed a significant amount of Frieza's resources — including most of his troops and his mothership — and left the Dread Emperor stranded in space with only about a third of his body left. However, Frieza is still more than capable of returning to his Empire and undoing the damage done to his body sooner or later and is now dead set on wiping out the rest of the Cybertronians as retribution.
• Villainous Valor: Megatron never once shows any fear when engaging with his opponent, starting from defiantly retorting to his monologue with another one, cackling for a good chunk of the fight, shooting himself towards Golden Frieza's Death Ball as he defiantly laughs, mocking Frieza and refusing to back down even after being reduced to just a torso. It took Frieza's strongest form and destroying the entire planet Cybertron to win, and even then, was crippled both physically and resources-wise in the process.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: As a Transformer, Megatron is capable of reconfiguring himself at-will into an Alternate Mode, which he can change by scanning vehicles or other mechanical objects. Megatron's primary Alt Mode on Earth is a Walther P38 handgun with a stock, scope, and muzzle attachment, which Boomstick finds ridiculous whether he's having one of the Decepticons aim and fire him or he shoots himself. He also has a Cybertronian tank and stealth bomber jet forms, the former of these being his Alt Mode for the animation.
• Weak, but Skilled: Megatron is ruled to be far weaker physically than Frieza, but also leagues smarter and more experienced than the Unskilled, but Strong emperor. While not enough to beat Frieza, it is ruled that he actually was entirely capable of outsmarting and killing Frieza with his anti-matter, just not often enough to win. This is reflected in the actual fight; as Megatron is shown gaining the edge by outsmarting or outfighting Frieza on multiple occasions, and is able to reduce him to just his upper torso and one arm.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Megatron's actions, at first, were done to overthrow the oppressive Functionist Council and he initially advocated for a peaceful approach... at least until the council tried to assassinate him, which convinced him that violent revolution was the only possible solution.
• Worthy Opponent: Optimus is listed under his "likes" in addition to his "hates", referencing that he respects his Arch-Enemy as an equal.
• You Fool!:
  • He repeatedly calls Frieza a fool during the battle; and he might have a point, given how Frieza almost loses simply because of his inability to outsmart him.
  • The trope's name is his final words, mirroring Goku's line before he defeated Frieza on Namek. Unlike the Saiyan, he fails to stop the space tyrant despite grievously wounding him.

Gojo VS Makima

• Demon Slaying: Both Gojo and Makima are demon hunters working for large-scale organizations, though the demons they hunt (Curses and Devils, respectively) are considerably different from the norm. Namely, both Curses and Devils are born from negative human emotions, particularly fear.
• Foil: They're both seen as the most powerful demon hunters of their respective worlds, with uniquely colored hair and eyes, and a darker side than either of their friendly surfaces would show, but even at his worst Gojo is MUCH more morally sound than his opponent, genuinely aiming for a better world for his students so that the youth won't suffer like his peers did.
• Genius Bruiser: They both can dish out some damage while planning ten steps ahead of their foes.
• Healing Factor: Both combatants have some form of healing, allowing them to quickly mend grievous injuries. Makima's was implicitly stated to be superior, as Gojo's healing was noted to be potentially unable to restore his brain if it were fully destroyed compared to Makima being able to regenerate her entire body from being turned to pulp. However, Gojo's healing was enough to recover from most of what Makima could do to him and he, in turn, could overcome her healing through sheer power.
  • Gojo can use Reverse Curse Technique, positive Cursed energy, to heal himself at the cellular level. This comes in handy when Makima shoots him full of holes and blasts off his leg.
  • Makima can heal naturally by consuming blood, but also possesses a Contract with the Prime Minister of Japan that allows her to transfer any fatal wounds to a random citizen and heal even more rapidly.
• Lonely at the Top: Both Gojo and Makima are so immensely powerful in their worlds that they have trouble forming meaningful relationships with others due to the power difference between them and their peers. Makima has it especially bad because, as a Devil, she has little understanding of human emotions. While Gojo mitigates this by teaching his students so that they may one day stand shoulder-to-shoulder with him, Makima's Blue-and-Orange Morality simply left her detached from anyone who can't prove themselves her equal.
• Loophole Abuse: Both Gojo and Makima have abilities that do this to each other; Gojo's Unlimited Void overloading Makima's brain with infinite information is technically not an attack that could be transferred to someone else via Makima's contract with the Japanese Prime Minister and Makima's Bang isn't a physical projectile and would bypass Limitless by affecting Gojo's body directly.
• Mind Rape: Both combatants could inflict this on one another: Gojo by using Unlimited Void, which overloads an opponent with infinite information, and Makima by using the Angel Devil, who forces opponents to "see God". However, Gojo could resist the Angel Devil's powers through sheer will and he would also be unaffected by the information of his Domain Expansion being potentially transferred back to him through Makima's contract, thanks to being immune to his own Unlimited Void. Meanwhile, Makima had no such resistance, as another powerful Devil who could transmit herself to multiple bodies (in a manner akin to how Makima's contract transfers damage to Japanese citizens) was overwhelmed by a similar attack. Makima is set up for defeat when Gojo sends her to the Unlimited Void, overloading her brain with infinite information to leave her a sitting duck for Gojo's Hollow Purple to destroy all traces of her body and prevent her regenerating.
• Older Than They Look: You wouldn't guess either of their true ages based on their youthful looks alone.
• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: The more malicious Makima is able to enjoy a movie in peace with no sound or movement. Meanwhile the heroic, but egotistical Gojo acts fairly obnoxious by talking, drinking and coughing loudly, as well as stealing Makima's popcorn.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Despite their color schemes, Gojo is the Red to Makima's Blue. While Gojo is very outgoing, chummy and, as the introduction shows, loudly confident, Makima is soft-spoken, eerily detached and almost always serene, barely raising her voice even when she's very clearly angered.
• Super-Reflexes: Both combatants are capable of reacting at hundreds of times the speed of sound. Though while Makima actually had the superior speed feat (dodging the Gun Devil fragment at Mach 486 versus Gojo and the Black Flash's Mach 284.4), Gojo's Teleportation combined with Limitless's ability to counter most of her arsenal meant it would be difficult for her to take advantage of it.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Makima's hypnotic circles and Gojo's limitless blues are very unique characteristics.

Satoru Gojo

Gojo: "Don't worry. I'm Satoru Gojo, the strongest."
Voiced by: Gianni Matragrano

Jujutsu Kaisen's Sorcerer Sensei

• An Arm and a Leg: Makima blasts his leg off. His Healing Factor fixes it.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Downplayed, as Gojo seeks to bring others up to his level and doesn't rub it in the faces of people he isn't after for separate reasons, but he cheerfully claims to be just better than everyone else (with extensive justification, see his other tropes) and when he's after Makima due to her being close enough to a powerful curse spirit that she's a danger to everyone, he really cranks up the rudeness.
• Awesomeness Is a Force: Gojo is so powerful that merely by being born he caused cursed society to warp around him, something that most people can sense just by meeting him. This is a key to his victory, as Makima being able to sense this means she can't see him as her inferior and thus can't control him unless she proves it, which he's too powerful for.
• Badass Teacher: One of the teachers at Tokyo Jujutsu High and the strongest sorcerer in the world.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: This is one of the only Death Battles where a date is given for the fight, and it's on December 6th, the day before Gojo's birthday. Thankfully for him, he lives to see the big day.
• Born Winner: Gojo was literally "born different". His birth alone caused a fundamental shift in the power balance of the world, with every Curse in existence trying to exponentially increase their strength in order to keep up. And with good reason, as Gojo's inherited powers, Limitless and Six Eyes, as well as his supreme skill at using them, immediately made him among the strongest in the world. He's also a Chick Magnet and is pretty good at basketball.
  Wiz: His very birth forced the strength of Curses to exponentially rise. Like witnessing a world record get broken, cursed society shifted to match the might of Gojo's presence.
• Break the Haughty: Downplayed, considering he ultimately won, but the arrogant, normally invincible Gojo is clearly not happy when Makima manages to damage him severely.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: The beginning of the fight has Gojo sitting next to Makima in a theatre, eating her popcorn, and casually telling her that he has to kill her and can't let her do as she pleases.
• Deflector Shields: Gojo's Infinity, the neutral application of Limitless, is a unique variation of this. By actualizing the concept of Infinity, Gojo can produce an automatic barrier that perpetually divides the distance between himself and a physical attack or individual, preventing it from ever reaching him. It was a major boon in the fight, as most of Makima's vast arsenal of attack options, from her sword to various weapon hybrids to even powers gained from Devil Contracts, could not breach it despite her speed advantage. The only ability that could reliably hurt him was her Finger Gun, which does not produce a physical projectile, and thus completely bypasses it, albeit without causing damage that couldn't be healed by his Reverse Curse Technique.
• Disrupting the Theater: Makes sure to do this as much as he possibly can while in Makima's presence, which eventually causes her patience to snap.
• Enemy Eats Your Lunch: Gojo makes it a point to steal Makima's popcorn twice while they're watching the movie. It's the second time he does this, along with his threat to her, that finally pushes Makima to go on the offensive.
• The Gadfly: Gojo can be an annoyance to even his own allies for no other reason other than the fun of it. The fight starts with him purposefully irritating Makima while she's trying to watch a movie and proves to be a constant annoyance up until she actually makes him bleed.
• Game-Breaker: While not a video game character, the hosts in-universe compare the effect of his existence on the Jujutsu Kaisen world to that of the meta of a fighting game that revolves around one broken character, with footage of Meta Knight from Super Smash Bros. Brawl being displayed.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: As Makima's Resurrective Immortality contract transfers damage she takes to random Japanese citizens, and Gojo himself is a Japanese citizen, it's noted it was possible that it could target and take him out in the process of him killing Makima. Of course, the population of Japan means that the odds of this occuring are 1 in 123 million - this ticks down with every attack, but would still require him to be ludicrously unlucky in order to meaningfully affect the fight.
• Insufferable Genius: An absolute Smug Super who takes very little seriously, largely because he backs up all of his boasting and does not need to.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Gojo commands an astonishing amount of cursed energy and has no issues just wailing on a Curse with his bare hands.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Gojo plays the part of the smug Showy Invincible Hero during the fight, but the moment Makima blasts a bunch of holes in him, he stops screwing around and pulls out Unlimited Void to set her up for complete obliteration.
• Magical Eye: Normally, Cursed techniques on the level of Limitless would rapidly drain one's stamina, but Gojo's other technique, Six Eyes, lets him see and control Cursed energy down to the atomic level, allowing him to efficiently manage his power supply.
• My Skull Runneth Over: Gojo’s Domain Expansion, Unlimited Void, overloads the target’s mind with unlimited information. Just being exposed to it for a fraction of a second is enough to leave regular people comatose for months and prolonged exposure will prove lethal to anybody but Gojo. This technique netted him the win, as Makima had absolutely no way to defend against it and since it technically isn’t an attack it could bypass Makima’s contract. Even if it did qualify, Makima would still have to transfer infinite knowledge to a finite number of Japanese citizens, which does include Gojo...who again, is immune to the technique, so it would still effectively be the same. And even if Makima could survive prolonged exposure to Unlimited Void itself, it would still leave her a sitting duck to any number of Gojo's other finishing moves, including Hollow Purple.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Thanks to not knowing about Makima's contract, he accidentally ends up with a massive body count thanks to Makima's many deaths being transferred to random Japanese citizens.
• Smug Super: Gojo’s one of the strongest guys in his world and he knows it. He maintains the same cocky attitude the entire fight, only dropping it at a few points. Thankfully he’s more than capable of backing up his ego. In fact, this attitude actually helped him defend against Makima’s mind control abilities, as she can only control beings who are "inferior" to her.
• Space Master: At its core, Limitless allows Gojo to manipulate space. Its normal application (Blue) creates attractive force, its reverse form (Red) creates repellant force, its neutral form (Infinity) creates the aforementioned Deflector Shields and its combined form (Purple) creates an orb of destruction that pulverizes matter down to the atomic level.
• Superpowerful Genetics: Gojo's Limitless and Six Eyes are powers that are found in his clan's bloodline, though Gojo goes a step further as he was the first person in centuries to be born with both abilities.
• Superpower Lottery: Limitless is possibly one of the strongest abilities ever shown in the series, typically only kept in check in-universe by the insane amount of cursed energy needed to power it. Thanks to the perfect control of cursed energy from his Six Eyes, though, Gojo becomes a literally untouchable Flying Brick that can teleport, heal from almost any injury that doesn't outright kill him, doesn't need to sleep, can't be mind-controlled, can create miniature singularities with Blue, blow away anything in his path with Red, scramble his enemy's brains with Infinite Void, or vaporize them with an orb of what is effectively antimatter.
• Teleportation: One of his tamer powers. It proves to be an advantage, as it meant Makina despite her speed advantage otherwise had no way of zoning Gojo out long enough to set up a coup de grace, as Gojo could just teleport right back into her face and interrupt it.
• Troll: He gets Makima's attention by being as annoying as humanly possible while she was watching a movie.
• World's Strongest Man: Gojo is the strongest sorcerer in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen and a possible candidate for its strongest being, period. This proved a boon in the fight, as thanks to said power and personal understanding of such Makima couldn't outright Mind Control him from the start for an easy win and had to actually throw down to prove her superiority.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: Hollow Purple. By combining the opposing forces of Curse Technique Amplification: Blue and Reversed Curse Technique: Red, Gojo can fire a powerful orb of cursed energy that vaporizes everything in its path. This is one of the keys to Gojo's win, as it can bypass the Healing Factor from Makima's Contract by making sure there's nothing left for her to regenerate from.

Makima (the Control Devil)

Makima: "Confident, strong and idiotic. We'll be sure to write it on your tombstone."
Voiced by: Kelsey Jaffer

Chainsaw Man's Head of Tokyo Public Safety

• Actually Pretty Funny: While Makima was understandably annoyed by Gojo's rudeness and attempts to kill her, even she couldn't help but be amused by Gojo's supreme self-confidence.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Downplayed, as her characterization is mostly on point, but in the second half of the fight she seems much more explicitly sadistic and giggle-prone than either her anime or manga counterpart would normally show.
• Always a Bigger Fish: As powerful as Makima is, she is not the outright strongest being in her world. Primal Fears, such as the Darkness Devil, are stronger (even though she can hold her own against them) and beings such as Pochita and Denji can compete with her. Her awareness of this is actually a factor in her loss, as Makima cannot control anyone she perceives as being equal to or stronger than her, which Gojo most certainly proved to be.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: All Devils are the physical embodiment of some kind of human fear. As the Control Devil, Makima embodies the fear of oppression.
• Assist Character: Unlike most Death Battle combatants, she's allowed to use outside help other than summons, as it's part of her usual power set as the Control Devil.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Makima had two abilities that could have one-shot Gojo, Limitless or no: A special ritual she can perform that instantly crushes her target, and her Contract that redirects any fatal wounds to a Japanese citizen, which Gojo is considered to be one for the sake of the battle. However, her ritual requires time to set-up that Gojo's teleportation wouldn't allow her, and her contract chooses a citizen at random, making the odds of it killing Gojo so low as to be negligible. By contrast Gojo's aces, Infinite Void and Hollow Purple, could easily be targeted at Makima mid-fight while being just as lethal.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Near the end of the fight, Gojo has three holes in his torso and a missing leg courtesy of Bang, and for all intents and purposes he was at Makima's mercy, only for her to attempt to assert dominance over him one last time instead of putting at least one more Bang between the eyes. This gives him a chance to regenerate and cripple her with Unlimited Void, clinching the fight in his favor and finishing her off afterwards.
• Born-Again Immortality: In the unlikely event that she dies for real, like the end of the battle, she will be reborn. However, it would take way too long for her to grow up and challenge Gojo again, plus when this happened in canon, the new her, Nayuta, was an innocent child with none of her memories. So it was judged that even if she was reborn, the Makima in the battle is truly dead.
• Chain Pain: Her Control power manifests as normally intangible chains that connect to those she has a contract with, though she can use them for more traditional forms of attack. She manages to inject one into Gojo's head and attempts to force him into submission, but fails.
• Combat Clairvoyance: Through a Contract with the Future Devil, Makima can see several seconds into the future against any foe she's looking at. While this would be useful in anticipating Gojo's attacks and movements, it wouldn't help her bypass his Deflector Shields.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Despite both the animation and the post-fight analysis making it clear that only one move in Makima's arsenal had any real chance of harming Gojo, that being her Finger Gun, once she decides to use it boy does it hurt Gojo.
• Deal with the Devil: Like other Devil hunters, many of Makima's powers come from forming Contracts with Devils and gaining their abilities, with some of Makima's Contracts allowing her to turn people to paste through a ritual and survive being shot in the head. Of course, unlike most other Devil hunters, Makima herself is also a Devil. Moreover, because of her nature as the Control Devil, she can form Contracts that solely benefit herself.
• Evil Laugh: Lets herself have a few when she finally gets the upper hand over Gojo and attempts a killing blow.
• Femme Fatale: Makima is both a very attractive and mysterious lady and the stone-cold leader of the Devil-hunting Tokyo Special Division 4. She certainly has no qualms about using her looks in order to get people to do what she wants, as Denji can attest to, and is a proficient hand-to-hand combatant and swordswoman.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Inverted. While ostensibly a Devil hunter working to protect humans, Makima is secretly a Devil with her own agenda and a ruthless streak. Even still, her love for dogs is genuine.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: While she could never admit it to herself, what Makima truly desires is to live a happy life with those she can call equals. It is this desire that ultimately led to her canon death, as Denji bypassed her immortality Contract by attacking her out of "love" and a desire to help her.
• Mind Control: As the Control Devil, Makima is capable of controlling any being she deems to be inferior to herself, from animals, people, and even other Devils. Unfortunately she has to be capable of acknowledging her own superiority over her target for it to work. Against someone like Gojo she’d need to prove her superiority the old fashioned way to take control, something she lacked the power to accomplish. Even if she did manage to take a control of him it likely wouldn’t last, since Gojo constantly refreshes his own brain 24/7.
• The Minion Master: Makima has a large number of other Devils under her control and uses them against Gojo. This makes her unique among Death Battle combatants (who are usually not allowed to use minions unless they're explicitly summons, which only some of Makima's are), as she's allowed to use them in the battle due to being part of her usual power set as the Control Devil. Unfortunately none of them possessed the means to bypass Infinity and Gojo could effortlessly wipe all of them out, something he’s quick to do once he gets serious.
• Mistaken Identity: While Gojo is aware that Makima is far from human, he still thinks she's some sort of powerful Curse rather than the Devil she actually is, though there are certainly similarities. Further helped by an extra caveat added by Wiz and Boomstick that has Curses and Devils treated as the same.
• No Body Left Behind: Basically a requirement to kill her if you're using brute force, as she requires some kind of leftover matter to heal from even with her Contract. Gojo manages to do it using Hollow Purple.
• Not So Stoic: She remains calm, if slightly annoyed during most of the fight, but she gradually looses her cool and starts to freak out when she gets exposed to Gojo's Infinite Void.
• One-Hit Kill: Makima can set up a ritual that once completed will instantly kill the target. While it was possible it could affect Gojo and her superior speed could possibly let her use it against him, the fact it requires set-up time and Gojo possesses Teleportation means he could likely interrupt it before she finishes.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Gives a casual but clearly irritated one when she finally attacks Gojo after he riles her up in the theater.
  Makima: No talking during the movie.
• Really 700 Years Old: Makima's youthful appearance belies the fact that she is as old as the human fear of oppression, potentially making her as old as human society.
• Resurrective Immortality: Makima can just spring up after a fatal wound good as new thanks to a contract that allows her deaths to be transferred to Japanese citizens at random. Only complete annihilation by Hollow Purple proves enough to put her down. It's pointed out that since Gojo is a Japanese citizen, there was a chance it would even take him out in the process, though the statistic probability wouldn't come up near enough times for Makima to rely on it.
• Tranquil Fury: While Makima was willing to tolerate and ignore Gojo at first, his rude behavior and threat on her life push her to attack. Even then, she hardly raises her voice or reacts with anything beyond subdued irritation.
• Unblockable Attack: Her Finger Gun simply punches a hole in her target without any projectile, allowing it to bypass Gojo's Infinity.
• Villain Respect: It's noted due to being able to sense Gojo's status and power like most everyone else, she'd not view him as inferior to herself (something that can be counted on one hand in her home series). This is her downfall, as this means she can't control him unless she proved herself superior to him, which she couldn't do.
• Villains Out Shopping: Despite her ruthless nature, Makima is rather fond of watching movies as a genuine hobby. Makima and Gojo first meet when Gojo breaks into the theater she's at and interrupts her viewing to hunt her down.
• Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about Makima in a battle context without bringing up her true nature. This is lampshaded by the hosts in Makima's preview, as Boomstick is quick to cut Wiz off from talking about her any further beyond some of her basic abilities, clearly wanting to save any major spoilers for the episode proper.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: In her own way, Makima desired what was best for the world as she wanted to use the Chainsaw Devil's power to erase undesirable concepts such as war and death from existence. The only problem is that her own warped perception of humans and their emotions led her to destroying many of the lives she allegedly wanted to save.

Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog

• Character Catchphrase: The two have their fair share of them:
  • Scooby uses his ever famous "Scooby Dooby Doo!" right as he goes to punch the Earth as a Wyzen sized dog god.
  • Courage has his incoherent babble, exclaiming "What do I do, what do I do?!" when scared, and his Running Gag of proclaiming something is bad, "or my name isn't "insert random name here"... and it's not."
• Composite Character: Both Scooby and Courage's feats and abilities are taken across all various forms of media, especially the comics, though Scooby has a much wider range of feats and abilities compared to his beagle counterpart due to having multiple shows. Scooby's preview uses clips from the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Scooby-Doo Show, and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo; What's New, Scooby-Doo?, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, and the live-action Scooby-Doo movie and its sequel.
• Cowardly Lion: They're both fearful to a fault, but are clever enough to foil villains on a regular basis. The animation actually plays this as the reason why they're fighting to begin with; upon being confronted by a monster, the two insist the other stay behind to deal with it, and it escalates from there.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While they are both known for being very cowardly and easy to spook, these two dogs are some of animation's greatest and most powerful canines who have overcome some of the most dangerous threats in the universe.
• David Versus Goliath: A particularly extreme case happens partway through the fight when Scooby ends up using his Scooby Snacks to become the planet-sized Goliath in a reference to Asura's Wrath against Courage as the David. Much like the biblical matchup and in Asura's Wrath, the David wins but the fight continues. Applies to a lesser extent for the matchup in general, as Great Danes are a much larger breed than Beagles (the former standing up to nearly 3' at the shoulders, the latter around 13"), and crossovers between the two such as Cartoon Network bumpers and Straight Outta Nowhere reflect this, though in this case the match overall ends with David and Goliath facing a stalemate.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?:
  • Scooby is mentioned as having defeated and sealed 12 of the 13 Ghosts, and defeating the Evil Entity (a universal scale threat Wiz flat out refers to as Satan).
  • Courage has taken on and defeated many different monsters, including literal gods.
• Fighting Your Friend: The two dogs have met and befriended each other in a crossover that is treated as canon to both series, and are thus two of the very few combatants to be pre-acquainted with each other.
• Foil: They may both be (lovably) cowardly canines used to various encounters of the supernatural kind, but whereas Scooby is a fairly realistic-looking Great Dane (who acts nothing like his breed) in a similarly grounded world (whose mysterious encounters normally end up being hoaxes, the opposite being the exception), Courage is a Beagle of fantastically pink complexion who embodies his breed's behavioral patterns to a T, and who regularly deals with genuinely supernatural threats, the exception being when they turn out to be non-hostile. Scooby also mostly relies on his teamwork with Shaggy and the gang, whereas Courage mostly solves problems on his own (his human companions being elderly probably playing a large part in that). Lastly, they both are no stranger to toon force, but by virtue of being in a much less grounded narrative, Courage is much more over the top about its uses than Scoobert.
• Friendly Rival: Scooby canonically met Courage in Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! meets Courage the Cowardly Dog, and bonded with the pink beagle. Each characters background slide even acknowledges this, listing the fact they are friends with the other. This episode puts both of them in a fight to the death, though it thankfully ends in a draw with both surviving and making peace afterwards. Further reinforced as Courage's horrified reaction to accidentally vaporizing Scooby's head and relief when he shakes it off indicates that they weren't even seriously fighting to the death to begin with, at worst having a friendly spat.
• Guile Hero: Both have faced and defeated horrifying monsters and were able to overcome insurmountable odds through their wits alone.
• Heroic Dog: Both are the canine protagonists of their respective Defanged Horrors series.
• Lighter and Softer: One of the few fights where the combatants are not hostile towards each other, this fight takes it a step further and ends in a draw where neither combatant dies, an outcome that hasn't happened since Deadpool Vs Pinkie Pie from Season 3.
• Lovable Coward: Both are afraid of damned near everything, but are noble and kindhearted enough to push through their fears to protect their loved ones from supernatural danger.
• Made of Iron: They have both survived insane amounts of damage that would kill someone millions of times over, yet they managed to somehow live. This was a major factor in their draw, as neither competitor could potentially have a way to end the other (not that it mattered anyway...).
• Nice Guy: They're both men's best friend to their respective owners, and to anyone who's not a threat to them really.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Both Scooby and Courage are impossibly hardy, to the point that practically nothing can permanently injure them. This is the main factor in the fight being declared a draw, as neither had a way to put down the other for good, with the only things preventing them from going into a Forever War is their friendship and the fact that Eustace ended up dying during the climax. The one way Scooby could put down Courage was by using the Chest of Demons and rewinding time in case he escaped, but Courage would use the Dark Matter Meteor to undo Scooby's efforts time and time again.
• The Nose Knows: Being hunting breeds (a Great Dane and a Beagle, respectively), Scooby and Courage's sense of smell is quite sharp, letting them track their quarry with ease.
• Padded Sumo Gameplay: Ultimately, this is the reason the battle ends in a draw. Both dogs' durability far outstrips the other's killing power, and neither could actually put down their rival.
• Speech-Impaired Animal: Both of them, though in different ways. Scooby tends to replace the starting letter of the words he says with R, while Courage tends to babble gibberish when especially scared, best shown in this exchange:
  Scooby: Courage, roh ret 'em!
  Courage: Me?! (Starts babbling gibberish)
• Toon Physics: Both canines have Toon Force abilities. This is ruled as the reason for the tie: both can heal from damage to a point they literally couldn't kill one another.

Scoobert "Scooby" Doo

Scooby-Doo: "Scooooby-Doooby-DOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Voiced by: Billy Burson III

The Miraculous Mutt From Mystery Incorporated

• And I Must Scream: Scooby has the ability to inflict such a fate upon his enemies with his Chest of Demons, which seals its victims' body and soul and drags them to suffer eternally in what Wiz describes as "the Tenth Circle of Hell". Courage's Dark Matter Meteor would allow him to escape from this fate, but Eustace has no such luck when he gets dragged into the box.
• Artifact of Doom: The Chest of Demons, a chest that contained thirteen demonic ghosts in them (and Scooby’s accomplishment list mentioned he caught twelve of them) that seals a victim’s body and soul in it to suffer eternally. Scooby accidentally pops it open, trapping Eustace in it.
• Big Eater: Scooby's apetite is immense and equaled only by his best friend Shaggy. In the fight, his immense apetite comes into play against Courage's God Bone. He doesn't lick it, he devours the whole thing outright.
• Dance Battler: He knows the Zobrinsky Triangle, a dance move so powerful that even botching it can cause mass destruction. In the fight itself, he uses it against Courage which causes the camera to crack and the eyes of the observing Wiz and Boomstick to burn.
• Food as Bribe: He's usually only able to be coerced into catching the Monster of the Week via the usage of Scooby Snacks.
• Irony: Despite Scooby being a Great Dane, bred by Germans for hunting and given the title of "Kammerhunde", or "Chamber Dog", for their fierce protectiveness to their masters, Scooby is an absolute coward. As Wiz puts it, "the apple didn't just fall far from the tree, it defied the laws of Newtonian Physics and rocketed into space at the speed of light".
• Master of Disguise: He's a master of the classic cartoon trick of the dupe, i.e. dressing up in various disguises to deceive potential attackers, which Wiz refers to as "the power of positive assertion". He and a copy attempt a dupe on Courage, but it fails to fool him.
• Nanomachines: Nanite-infused Scooby Snacks give Scooby a wide variety of different powers when consumed.
• Person of Mass Destruction: More like "Canine Of Mass Destruction". Thanks to Scooby being one of the few beings capable of successfully performing the 3-person Zobrinsky Triangle alongside Shaggy and Maddie Ziegler, a dance move that can cause mass devastation even when messed up, he alone can output enough energy to destroy the universe 11 quintillion times over^note  For reference, Thor was ruled in his fight with Vegeta to be able to destroy the universe 2.6 million times over, over 4 trillion times less than Scooby, and thanks to his ability to self-duplicate, can output the full power of the technique. He, alongside a duplicate of himself, uses this with an unwilling Courage, which even manages to affect to observing Wiz and Boomstick. While this far exceeds Courage shattering the sun with his screaming, Courage's own Toon Physics would have kept him alive.
• Power-Up Food: Scooby Snacks are not only his Trademark Favorite Food, they're infused with nanomachines that give him powers such as invisibility and Super-Intelligence. In the fight, eating a massive amount of them causes him to grow into a planet-size monstrosity.
• Self-Duplication: Has the ability to duplicate himself via the use of Toon Physics. He splits in two to attempt a dupe on Courage, and when that fails, uses his duplicate to perform the Zobrinsky Triangle with an unwilling Courage.
• Semi-Divine: Drawing from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Scooby is a descendant of the Anunnaki, extradimensional beings that inspired the animal gods of Earth, which Wiz says makes Scooby an alien.
• Street Smart: The post-battle analysis pegs him as this compared to Courage's Book Smarts. He usually uses trickery with his mastery of the dupe to confuse he's enemies in order to lead them into traps. In the battle itself, he uses his ability to duplicate to use Courage as an unwitting third member of the Zobrinsky Triangle, for the purpose of using it as a universe-grade flashbang to keep the beagle busy while he heads for the Mystery Machine.
• Supernatural Fear Inducer: Scooby's Super Spooker 3000 shoots fear at its targets, forcibly instilling them with a feeling of terror. However, it's not used in the fight.
• Talking the Monster to Death: One of Scooby (and Shaggy)'s greatest achievements in using a dupe was somehow tricking a Monster of the Week into having an existential crisis and going home to rethink his life before he realized he'd been had.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Scooby Snacks are his favorite treat. While this wasn't highlighted in the analysis, this means that he could've avoided the effects of the God Bone if he happened to take a lick out of it. And in the fight itself, he takes advantage of his growing size to devour the God Bone in one bite, negating its effects.
• True Companions: Scooby is a part of a traveling group of teenaged amateur sleuths known as "Mystery Incorporated", comprised of his owner Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, Fred Jones, Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley (and occasionally his nephew, Scrappy-Doo).

Courage

Courage: "What do I do, what do I do?!"
Voiced by: Edward Bosco

The Cowardly Dog Straight Outta Nowhere

• Artifact of Attraction: The God Bone is a giant bone that is completely irresistible to canines, forcing them to lick it until they die...though Courage has resisted its temptation through sheer willpower. However, while Courage does use it in the fight... He outright slams it onto Scooby instead of using its hypnotic powers. When Scooby turns into a giant, he swallows the God Bone whole, bypassing its powers.
• Body Horror: Compared to the rather clean invulnerability of his opponent, Courage can certainly experience pain, and rather horrifically at that. This can result in things like him ripping himself in half and turning himself inside out, much to the pop-up note's horror.
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• Book Smart: The post-battle analysis pegs him as this compared to Scooby's Street Smarts. He usually goes about dealing with his Monster of the Week by figuring out their weaknesses, usually with the help of Computer, in order to take them down. In the battle itself, he uses Computer to figure out a way to defeat Scooby, deliberately wording his question in a vague enough manner as to circumvent Computer's canonical lack of knowledge of the Great Dane himself.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Courage's parents were kidnapped and rocketed into space by a cruel veterinarian, leaving him alone as a pup, until he was rescued by Muriel Bagge and given the name Courage. He lives in the middle of Nowhere, a hotspot for all things strange and supernatural, and Courage goes to great lengths to protect his owners.
• Feel No Pain: Averted as Wiz makes it clear that unlike Scooby, Courage's Toon Physics doesn't make him unable to feel pain, but his sheer terror and dedication to Muriel overrides it.
• Furry Reminder: Courage looks nothing like a Beagle, but what keeps him from being an Informed Species is that his personality is exactly that of a Beagle, albeit with humanlike traits. Quoth Boomstick, he's a hare-hunter (or monster-hunter, in this case) with intense separation anxiety, an excellent sense of smell, and a set of lungs that'll knock your socks off.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Courage can tear himself apart straight-down until there's nothing left and reform just fine. During the fight, he tears himself in half length-wise just to avoid being shot by his redirected laser. This ends up being one of two deciding factors in the fight, because while Scooby has displayed capabilities that would allow him to pull off a successful universe-busting Zobrinsky Triangle attack on his own, it wouldn't be enough to put Courage down.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: In the fight Courage inflicts this on himself to avoid a reflected laser from Scooby, and then pulls himself back together.
• Hammerspace: Courage possesses a vast number of weapons and gadgets that he can pull out of absolutely nowhere, including chainsaw, flamethrowers, laser guns, massive spiked clubs, a miniature cannon, a mind-control helmet, and the God Bone. In the fight, he pulls out a laser gun, Computer and the Dark Matter Meteor.
• MacGyvering: In the event he doesn't already have whatever he needs, Courage can build all sorts of traps and devices almost instantly.
• Made of Iron: He can take spectacular amounts of abuse and come out no worse for wear, if solely because his sheer terror means he pushes through it. He takes a point blank Zobrinsky Triangle (calculated to be capable of destroying the universe 11 quintillon times over) and comes out of it mildly singed and disoriented at worst.
• Magical Computer: Courage's ally in dealing with threats is Computer, a desktop computer with all sorts of knowledge that Courage can look up on almost instantly. It's also something of a Deadpan Snarker. However, Wiz notes that the computer could not identify who exactly Scooby was during their canonical crossover, meaning that Courage had no way of figuring out a way to put Scooby down for good. This is shown during the fight, as when Courage attempts to look up "how to defeat a Great Dane with a speech impediment" on it, it recommends the use of the God Bone, which ends up backfiring.
• Moment of Weakness: When he and Scooby are running from a monster (who turns out to be Eustace), Courage deliberately trips Scooby up so the monster will get him as Courage keeps running. This ends up being what starts the two of them fighting each other.
• Narrative Shapeshifting: He typically uses his shapeshifting powers as a form of charades to tell people things he's too scared to talk about. As Wiz notes, this isn't just used as a visual gag, he is actually transforming into those things.
• No-Sell: Fails to be fooled by Scooby's attempt at a dupe partway through the fight. Fitting, as even in his own series, he could just about always see past the disguises that Monsters of the Week showed up in.
• Or My Name Isn't...: One of Courage's Character Catchphrases involves him saying that there's something going on, or his name is something else besides Courage... and it's not. In the battle itself, he uses the name of Chad James (Boomstick's VA) for this gag.
• Reality Warper: While Courage already has Toon Physics at his disposal, he graduates to this by utilizing the Dark Matter Meteor, which is the source of all the strange happenings around Nowhere and lets him bend reality to his whim. It's one of his biggest advantages that let him declare a draw, as not even Scooby's Chest of Demons or his time-warping powers could counter the meteor's ability to just keep resetting Courage free from eternal imprisonment.
• Stone Wall: Comparatively. Courage is certainly a mighty combatant, with a scream powerful enough to shatter the sun, but Scooby Doo has a much greater feat of power behind him with the universe-smashing Zobrinsky Triangle. Scooby and Courage have similar durability feats, however, and that makes the difference in the fight - because Courage can at least take hits from Scooby nigh-indefinitely, the battle couldn't be decided by any feat of power. By extension, this meant the fight was deadlocked, and with neither possessing any other trick that would destroy the soul or, in some other fashion, render the other combatant unable to battle, Courage's sheer durability netted him a tie.
• Super-Scream: He can scream so loudly it breaks the laws of physics to travel through the vacuum of space and shatter the Sun. He uses this offensively near the end of the fight to shatter Scooby's planet-sized Scooby-Snack-induced form to return the Great Dane to normal.
• This Is Gonna Suck: When Scooby starts growing to gargantuan sizes, Courage utters "This could be bad, or my name isn't Chad James!" (Beat) "And it's not."
• Undying Loyalty: Having been adopted as a puppy by Muriel Bagge, Courage is willing to go to the ends of the Earth to save her (and by extension, her husband Eustace) from whatever horrors may threaten them, no matter how afraid he may be.
• Volumetric Mouth: His mouth tends to outsize his body any time he screams. When he unleashes his Super-Scream in order to counter Scooby's god level punch of the Earth, his mouth outright eclipses his entire body in size.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Courage can transform and morph his body any way he desires, from extending limbs to turning into monsters to shifting to different animation mediums and even straight-up mutilating and destroying himself, and he'll always go back to normal. While he normally uses this as a gag or for charades, it is a legitimate power.

Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor

• Achilles' Heel:
  • Rick's arsenal is powerful, but it's noted in the post-battle analysis to be susceptible to hacking. This allows the Doctor to screw with Rick's tech thanks to his trusty Sonic Screwdriver.
  • The Doctor can regenerate into a new form upon death, but they'll die for good if wounded during regeneration. The fight has Rick come close to taking down the Doctor while he's regenerating, only being thwarted at the last moment due to some quick thinking on the Time Lord's part.
• Badass Normal: Cybernetic enhancements and Bizarre Alien Biology aside, the two have rarely shown physical abilities that exceed that of an average human.
• Broken Ace: Rick and the Doctor are easily among the most intelligent people in their respective universes, but both suffer from severe emotional torment.
  • Rick used to be a happy inventor and family man, until his family was murderer by Rick Prime. This led to him going on a decades long universe hopping quest for revenge. Spending so long traveling the multiverse caused to start questioning how any one individual life could possibly matter in the face of an infinite multiverse, leaving him a drunk sociopath.
  • The Doctor started out a happy go lucky adventurer, who stole a TARDIS to get from away rest of Time Lord society. Then came the Great Time War, which revealed a darker side to him as he was forced to become a soldier, eventually endong the war at the cost of wiping out the rest of the Time Lords. The isolation and guilt of his actions threatened to turn into the very type of Time Lord he’d left Galifrey to get away from in the first place.
• Cool Ship:
  • Rick's Space Cruiser, a compact starship powered by a Microverse that comes packed with lasers, a fishing line that can tow entire solar systems and a unique, to say the least, AI. After the Doctor wins, he takes the time to compliment it to Morty.
  • Meanwhile the Doctor has the TARDIS, which may look like an ordinary police box, but is actually, to quote Boomstick, “a two-in-one spaceship and Time Machine.”
• Cynic–Idealist Duo: Rick and the Doctor, respectively. Rick tells people that life has no meaning in the sheer vastness of the multiverse, while the Doctor is fascinated by the various wonders of the universe and in one incarnation stole the TARDIS so he could see all of it. Rick commits murder on a near episodic basis while the Doctor doesn't take the act of killing lightly. Most of Rick's heroics are done either as a means to an end or to satisfy his own scientific curiosity, while the Doctor genuinely wants to do good in the galaxy. Their contrasting attitudes are what set off the fight, as the Doctor tries to just let the rear-ending slide and fly away, but Rick interprets his act of forgiveness as one of disrespect and attacks. Idealism wins this round.
• Force and Finesse: Rick is the Force, with his overkill weapons and aggression, and the Doctor is Finesse, with his small tools and his cool wit. The Doctor counters Rick's blade with a spoon, and his other gadgets with just one buzz of the sonic screwdriver.
• Foreshadowing: Back in "Bill Cipher vs. Discord", Doctor Hooves, a Tenth Doctor expy, is seen fighting the pony version of Rick Sanchez in one of the latter's portals. This hinted at their eventual duel five episodes before it happened.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Rick is normally more of an anti-hero, but he's clearly the instigator of the fight. Funny, given how the Doctor looks a lot younger despite being far older. It's more apparent in how they act, with Rick being his usual alcoholic, egotistic self and the Doctor being more even-keeled and willing to turn the other cheek. The analysis points out the Doctor's wealth of experience as a major factor in their victory over Rick.
• Pet the Dog: Both have their respective moments of this with Morty.
  • Before leaping out to attack, Rick orders the Space Cruiser to protect Morty.
  • After the battle ends, the Doctor complements Morty on his (now nonexistent) grandfather's craftsmanship, before peacefully leaving him with some friendly advice to not end up a cynic.
• Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: Zig-zagged; Rick hails from a Silly Black Comedy series and has a more outlandish arsenal at his disposal, while the Doctor is from a Serious dramatic series with more straightforward gear and powers. In the fight itself, however, the Doctor is the Silly one, frequently making jokes and jabs at Rick and not seriously fighting to hurt his opponent. In contrast, Rick is the Serious combatant, intensely focused on trying to kill the Doctor, and constantly scoffing at the Doctor's attempts at being witty, calling him a "class clown". Tellingly, when Rick threatens the Doctor with his Crow Sword, the Doctor responds by pulling out a spoon with an impish grin.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them:
  • Rick uses the Doctor's D-Mat gun against the regenerating Doctor. However, this makes him a victim of this trope when the Doctor redirects the shot against him via his own portals.
  • The Doctor uses the portals from Rick's Portal Gun — one of which was created thanks to the Sonic Screwdriver affecting it — to redirect Rick's attempt to shoot him with the D-Mat gun, erasing Rick.

Richard Daniel "Rick" Sanchez C-137

Rick: "It's fun to be the class clown 'till you get (belch) shot. Now hurry up, I got a grandson waiting on me. He won't die an idiot like you."
Voiced by: Brent Williams

• Actually a Doombot: Exaggerated; Rick can create android duplicates of himself that are such perfect likenesses of him in every way that even they can't tell themselves apart from the genuine article.
• Berserk Button: The fight ends up happening because The Doctor treated him like an afterthought as he was leaving after Morty rear-ended the TARDIS with the Space Cruiser.
• Beyond the Impossible: Rick was once able to create perfectly level ground, something that should be mathematically impossible, which causes anyone who stands on it to be emotionally scarred for life after returning to normal ground.
• Chest Burster: One of Rick's inventions is a gun that can inject its wielder's own genetic info into someone else which causes a clone of the wielder to burst out of the victim's body, which Boomstick likens to "a pasty, alcoholic Xenomorph". Rick uses this on the Doctor mid-regeneration before attempting to finish him off with the D-Mat, causing what would've been a fatal wound had the Doctor not tricked him into killing himself.
• Curse Cut Short: Says "Ahh, motherfu-" before being mauled by a Weeping Angel.
• Cyborg: Rick has numerous cybernetic implants, including a set of multiple extendable robotic arms. However, they're vulnerable to being hacked, something that the Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver would certainly be able to do.
• Death by Irony: Rick starts the fight because the Doctor bruised his ego by not giving him more attention. He ends up being zapped out of existence, with not even his own grandson remembering him.
• Death Is Cheap: Operation Phoenix allows Rick to transfer his consciousness to a new body on death, allowing him to resurrect as many times as he has clones for. In the fight animation, Rick is Killed Offscreen by the Weeping Angels, but he comes back with a new body not long after. He's killed again a few seconds later when a falling section of ceiling crushes him, but he shoots the Doctor with the Xenomorph Gun just before he dies. However, Operation Phoenix doesn't save him from complete temporal erasure, which was his fate after getting tricked by the Doctor into shooting himself with the D-Mat Gun.
• Dimensional Traveler: He and Morty have adventures across multiple parallel dimensions. Rick explicitly detests time travel due to the absolute headache it causes for the timeline.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Rick takes the Doctor choosing to just let the rear ending slide as dismissing him. Rick's response is to chase down the Doctor and actively try to murder him.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Rick first appeared in Bill Cipher vs. Discord, among one of the many cameos around the ruined Equestria in a brawl with Doctor Whooves, four episodes ago before this one was announced.
• Everyone Went to School Together: According to Boomstick, Rick was The Bully towards Wiz at Mad Scientist High.
• Fantastic Racism: The fight animation shows that Rick has a low opinion of Time Lords, referring to them as "suicidal morons" and chasing after The Doctor under the (false) belief the Time Lord is mocking him.
• Fatal Flaw: His is given as arrogance.
  • The prime example of his arrogance in this episode is his lack of using his fourth wall awareness; Rick knows enough about the Doctor to know that he has two hearts (which he shoots to disable him) and that he needs to kill him mid-regeneration, but that's about it; his own disdain for everything Doctor Who stands for means he hasn't really watched the show, and thus doesn't know anything on how to counter the Doctor's feats and technology.
  • The fight only happened because Rick refuses to just let the Doctor go after the latter decided to let bygones be bygones, finding being ignored more insulting than anything. It also leads to his end. Despite giving the Doctor a likely fatal injury from the Xenomorph Gun, he still tries to shoot him with the latter's own D-Mat gun to erase him from existence. Unfortunately for Rick, the Doctor lived long enough to use Rick's own portal against him and hit himself.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Not only is one of Rick's clones shown to be in the nude, but once he erupts from the Doctor's chest after having used the DNA injector gun on him, he ends up completely naked while he tries (and fails) to finish off his foe.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Rick is a master inventor, having access to tons of gadgets and weaponry like lasers, memory eraser guns, shrink rays, invisibility devices, cybernetic implants, time and universe traveling devices, and much, much more. However, the Doctor had various ways around them; not only could he hack and nullify most of Rick's gadgets using his Sonic Screwdriver, but has consistently gone up against and beaten wielders of similar technology and intelligence, notably Davros and The Master.
• His Own Worst Enemy: It's mentioned that his Fatal Flaw is arrogance. Rick's own arrogance causes him to perceive The Doctor's forgiveness as dissing his pride and pursues The Doctor with the intent on killing, which ultimately leads to his own self-inflicted existence erasure.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He tries to invoke this by shooting the Doctor with his own D-Mat gun. Unfortunately for Rick, the Doctor outsmarts him and inflicts this on him instead by using the portal Rick placed on his back to redirect the beam and make Rick Ret-Gone himself.
• Hypocrite: Rick's ego and nihilism run contradictory to each other. If he truly believed nothing mattered, he wouldn't care what other people think of him, yet he starts the fight because he takes offense to the Doctor trying to brush him off. The Central Finite Curve is brought up, which exists so the Ricks within it don't have to deal with anyone smarter than them, which shows that at the very least, a given Rick values his reputation as the smartest man in the universe.
• Insufferable Genius: A hyper-intelligent scientist and inventor who's also a self-absorbed Jerkass. The fight starts because Rick was pissed over the Doctor not escalating his road rage (space rage?) incident, choosing to ignore him instead. Unfortunately for Rick, the Doctor is much smarter — something that Rick tends to struggle with being on the receiving end of, as proven against the dinosaurs, Rick Prime and Evil Morty — and Rick's ego being comparably larger was counted as a weakness.
• Killing Your Alternate Self: In his quest to kill the alternate version of himself that wiped out his family, Rick has killed countless Ricks from other dimensions, originally as mistaken causalities in his vengeance as he tried to find the specific culprit, and then in self-defense as said alternates started trying to kill him first.
• Never My Fault: The fight begins when Rick blames the Doctor for the Space Cruiser getting damaged in an interstellar fender bender. The Doctor replies by pointing out that he and Morty were the ones that hit the TARDIS first. Even worse, while the Doctor is willing to let this slide regardless, Rick is insulted and views this dismissal as his opponent looking down at him, despite again Rick himself having a role in instigating the whole mess in the first place. This ends up costing him his very existence.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: It's noted that due to the Council of Ricks' Central Finite Curve preventing Rick from going to a universe where he's not the smartest, Rick rarely has to actually compete with someone his intellectual equal or superior, and tends to fare poorly when he does, such as against Rick Prime or Evil Morty. This poses a problem against the Doctor, who is much smarter and more experienced than he is.
• Offended by an Enemy's Indifference: After Morty accidentally rear-ends the TARDIS, the Doctor merely shrugs off Rick's attempt to pin the accident on him before heading off, telling the duo he's too busy to deal with this and just forgives them. Rick, being an impulsive egomaniac, takes this as an insult and picks a fight, ultimately ending in not just his death, but him getting completely erased from reality.
• Only Mostly Dead: Rick is notably one of the only Death Battle losers to live on in some form after their demise. In his case, a holographic replica pops up and angrily demands that Morty not forget about him.
• Ret-Gone: After getting hit with the D-Mat gun and wiped from existence, all of Rick's clones and all the damage he did to the Doctor and the TARDIS disappear; leaving only his ship, an amnesiac Morty, and the AI hologram copy of Rick as proof he ever existed.
• Self-Disposing Villain: More like Self-Disposing Jerkass, but Rick starts the fight over petty reasons and ends it by accidentally wiping himself from existence — partially thanks to one of his own inventions, no less — leaving the Doctor's hands surprisingly clean for a Death Battle winner.
• Straw Nihilist: Watching his family be murdered by an alternate universe version of himself combined with the veritable treasure trove of forbidden knowledge he possesses about the universe rendered him quite apathetic to human suffering. The hosts even question in his analysis if one individual life matters when there's countless alternate versions of that same life across the multiverse. The Doctor begs to differ.
• This Is Gonna Suck: When he realizes that he's going to die to the Weeping Angels but can come back with Operation: Phoenix, he doesn't scream, rant or show fear or anger, he just deflates and utters a Precision F-Strike.
  Rick: (realizing he's been had) Ahh, motherfu-
• Underestimating Badassery: Fitting his arrogance being his Fatal Flaw, Rick underestimates the Doctor, flat out saying he's going to "die an idiot" and just calling him a clown. Unfortunately for Rick, the Doctor is actually ruled to be far smarter than Rick is, and proceeds to defeat Rick by outsmarting him.
• Undignified Death: Rick gets shot by his own blast from the D-Mat gun after the Doctor tricks him into firing through one of his own portals, accidentally erasing himself from existence. While drunk. And naked.
• Vengeful Ghost: Becomes a Virtual Ghost version at the end of the fight, being the only definitive proof of his existence after getting Ret Gonned from the rest of existence. He threatens to "haunt [Morty's] ass" if he forgets his existence, only for Morty to yell in terror, demanding to know who Rick is.

The Doctor

The Doctor: "I know your type. The nihilist know-it-all. But through all this wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey rubbish, there's one thing you never quite understood. I'm the Doctor. And I don't wanna go."
Voiced by: Elliott Crossley

• Adaptation Personality Change: invokedLikely because the fight was written before his specials aired, this version of the Fourteenth Doctor is far more cheerful and optimistic — much like he was as the Tenth Doctor — than the actual Fourteenth Doctor would turn out to be in canon.
• Always Someone Better: The reason they ultimately win is that they've basically been doing what Rick and Morty do... for far longer, making them far more experienced than Rick in every possible way. They're also much smarter than he is and saner and more idealistic.
• And I Must Scream: Boomstick explains that despite his good nature and inclination toward peaceful solutions, the Doctor will inflict a horrendous fate upon you if pushed far enough. The examples given include binding you in unbreakable dwarf star-forged chains and throwing you down a deep shaft mine, imprisoning you within every mirror in existence, throwing you into a collapsing galaxy's event horizon, or freezing you in time and turning your immobilized body into a scarecrow... all of which he inflicted on the immortal Family of Blood over the course of one episode. The Doctor turning a shot from the D-Mat back at Rick by way of his own invention could be considered merciful by comparison.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: Over the course of the whole fight, the Doctor never directly strikes Rick; only fighting back to defend himself or disarm his opponent of his lethal weaponry. He actually hesitates to use the D-Mat, and only a near-death experience while regenerating and Rick taking the D-Mat for himself force his hand in wiping his opponent from existence.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The Doctor is far more good-natured than the ruder, more violent Rick. As it turns out, they're also a lot more lethal when pushed too far, as Rick finds out the hard way.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Though it's delivered as if he's talking to Morty, the Doctor also looks and waves directly at the viewers as he gives his last line of the episode.
  The Doctor: Don't be a cynic!
• Catchphrase Interruptus: The Doctor starts to utter Ten/Fourteen's signature "What? What? What?!" when he sees Rick's robot decoys vandalizing the TARDIS, but stops himself when he notices Rick hiding in the central console before being jumped by two of the decoys, forcing him to flee.
• Composite Character: Although the battle uses the Fourteenth Doctor, feats from his previous incarnations are included and mentioned, including abilities such as the Third Doctor's Venusian karate. Similarly, Fourteen duels Rick with a spoon, much like how Twelve fought Robin Hood with one.
  • In general, invokedlikely because the fight was written before the actual specials were aired, this version of the Fourteenth Doctor is, for all intents and purposes, the Tenth Doctor reborn with the Thirteenth Doctor's outlook. While Fourteen did use the Tenth's catchphrases in canon, this version wears the Tenth Doctor's outfit, uses the Tenth Doctor's console room, and has a sense of idealism that's more befitting the Thirteenth Doctor than the Fourteenth.
• Defector from Decadence: The big reason for The Doctor willingly choosing to leave the Time Lords came down to a difference in opinion on the subject of their supposed divinity.
• Deus ex Machina: Wiz and Boomstick call them "walking Deus Ex Machinas" due to their ability to see through time, Move in the Frozen Time, perform Temporal Mutability, and even Break the Fourth Wall. The Doctor's tendency to pop out of nowhere, solve whatever problem is affecting the given time and place, and vanish in his TARDIS certainly makes him come across this way.
• Fatal Flaw: Theirs is given as recklessness. For all intents and purposes, Rick nearly did kill him mid-regeneration with the Xenomorph gun, and only by erasing him from time at the last second — thus, undoing the damage to both himself and the TARDIS — does the Doctor manage to survive unscathed.
• Freaky Is Cool: The Doctor's reaction to seeing a sun with a screaming face on it is to immediately smirk at it with interest. Of course, given that he's Seen It All, it's justified.
• Genius Loci: The Doctor's TARDIS is both this and a Sapient Ship. At one point, it consciously rearranges its halls to block off a group of Ricks from chasing the Doctor, which earns it his praise.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • In order to stop the Daleks and Time Lords from destroying all of existence in their great war, The Doctor took up arms as a warrior and killer before ultimately (at least on the surface) destroying both races and their home planet of Gallifrey. They hated themselves for it.
  • In the fight itself, the Doctor crosses it by pulling out the D-Mat once it's clear Rick is too much of a threat, though he still visibly hesitates to grab it.
• Guile Hero: The Doctor prefers to defeat his foes by outsmarting them, rather than through brute force. In the animation, he tricks one Rick into killing himself by lying about how Weeping Angels work, telling him to blink fast — a Weeping Angel Can't Move While Being Watched, but can kill you in the milliseconds that you're blinking — while he flees using the stolen Portal Gun. Then there's how he definitively wins, which involves him redirecting a shot from the D-Mat back at Rick using the latter's own hacked Portal Gun; causing Rick to kill himself in a way that Operation Phoenix can't save him from.
• Hack Your Enemy: One advantage the Doctor has over Rick is that the Sonic Screwdriver can hack into most of his arsenal. Considering how beings with less-advanced technology have hacked into Rick's tech, there's no doubt that the Doctor's Magic Tool would be able to get the job done. In the animation, the Doctor uses the Sonic Screwdriver to disable and destroy Rick's cybernetic arms, and later hacks into his Portal Gun to force it to fire, creating a portal he's able to exploit to win the fight.
• Improbable Weapon User: When Rick attacks with the Crow Sword, the Doctor parries and ultimately disarms him with a spoon, much like he previously did against Robin Hood.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: He attempts to challenge Rick to a Queensbury Rules boxing match or one of Venusian Aikido. Rick has none of it and tries to kill him with the Crow Sword, so he pulls out a spoon.
• Magic Tool: The iconic tool of The Doctor is the Sonic Screwdriver, which has done everything from hack/break/fix the most advanced technology in the universe, manipulate molecules, and act as an advanced Everything Sensor. It doesn't work on wood, though. It's a major boon for The Doctor in the fight, as despite Rick's vastly superior quantity of armaments and tech, most if not all of it could be hacked and disabled by the screwdriver with a single press of a button.
• Martial Pacifist: The Doctor is a pacifist at heart and doesn't like inflicting more harm than is strictly necessary. As such, they only have a few proper weapons at their disposal, and throughout the fight the Doctor is clearly on the defensive, not making any attempts to directly attack his foe. He's visibly reluctant to bring out the D-Mat gun against Rick, but feels he has no choice. Tellingly, he doesn't even land the finishing blow; instead redirecting Rick's own attack so it erases him instead.
• Mistaken Identity: Humorously, Boomstick mistakes the Second Doctor for Moe Howard, of The Three Stooges.
• Mysterious Past: The Doctor's origins are shrouded in mystery. All that is known is that they were born at least a thousand years ago, received several degrees in science, one day stole a TARDIS to explore the universe away from the rest of the Time Lords, and ended up wiping out the Time Lords and the Dalek Empire in the Time War to save all of existence.
• Nice Guy: Unlike his opponent, the Doctor always remains very cordial and good-spirited, not even wishing any harm on Rick until push comes to shove. He's also perfectly content to not escalate Morty rear-ending the TARDIS into a bigger conflict, and offers the kid some friendly advice once the fight is over.
• The Nth Doctor: Doctor Who, and the Doctor in particular, named the trope, as there have been many actors who have portrayed the Doctor, with fourteen incarnations (plus some extra) to date and an upcoming fifteenth, including men young and old and a woman. The fight animation uses the Fourteenth Doctor — in other words, one of the two based on David Tennant's portrayal — to represent the Time Lord, as the currently active Doctor, which is the simplest way to handle this conundrum.
• Outside-Context Problem: Due to the Central Finite Curve, Rick is barred from any universe where he's not the smartest. As a result, Rick fairs poorly when faced with someone as smart or smarter than him due to being used to relying on being the smartest guy in the room. This gives a major edge to the Doctor, who is ruled to be far smarter and more experienced than he is.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: The Doctor utters his famous Tenth-era Character Catchphrase as he turns around to reveal the portal on his back, setting Rick up to fatally shoot himself with the D-Mat gun.
  The Doctor: Allons-y! ^note "Let's go!" in French
• Resurrective Immortality: Whenever the Doctor receives a fatal wound, their current body undergoes a regenerative cycle, causing them to emerge in a fresh new body. While they keep all their memories, their appearance, gender, and personality completely change with each new version. It can also be weaponized including growing lost limbs, gaining temporary super strength and weaponizing the regeneration energies. However, if they’re killed while in the middle of this process, they’ll die for real. Rick nearly exploits this by shooting him with the Xenomorph gun, only for the Doctor to (literally) turn things around on him; undoing his fatal wounds and the damage done to the TARDIS just in time by deleting Rick from existence.
• Ret-Gone: The D-Mat gun retroactively erases its targets from time such that they never existed. This is a key weapon for The Doctor, as they could use it to bypass Rick's Phoenix Protocol for a decisive win; and sure enough, a redirected D-Mat shot is what puts Rick down for good.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Despite Rick being erased from existence, the Doctor still has memories of the incident, as shown when he encourages Morty to not be a cynic like his grandfather.
• Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!:
  • He's not impressed with Rick's "the multiverse is so vast that almost nothing truly matters" outlook, and verbally serves him before beginning to regenerate.
    The Doctor: I know your type. The nihilist know-it-all. But through all this wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey rubbish, there's one thing you never quite understood. I'm the Doctor. And I don't wanna go.
  • After erasing Rick from existence, he offers words of encouragement to Morty to not turn out a miserable cynic like his grandfather, before leaving on friendly terms with him.
    The Doctor: (sincerely) Quite an impressive craft, Morty! You built it yourself?
    Morty: I-I guess so?
    The Doctor: Then you've got a bright future ahead. (cheerily, to both Morty and the audience) Don't be a cynic!
• Super-Toughness: While the Doctor's physical abilities are stated to be not far above average for human (outside of regeneration circumstances), it is noted that he's more durable, such as surviving a lightning bolt that vaporized humans. This may have played a role in how getting chestbursted wasn't immediately lethal to him; but this was also one of those regeneration circumstances.
• Taught by Experience: Centuries of it, which is more than enough to work their way around most of what the comparatively-less smart Rick could throw at them.
• Technical Pacifist: The Doctor makes a point of refraining from outright killing his foes — though he will if pushed far enough, often leaving them to a Fate Worse than Death — and tries to avoid using lethal force on Rick as much as he can during the fight, only doing so when it's clear he has no other option. In this case, he wins by using Rick's own portal technology to trick him into shooting himself with the D-Mat gun.
• Time Master: As a Time Lord, the Doctor literally experiences time differently from most other beings. They can see the past, present, and future simultaneously, resist time stops and other temporal phenomena, and even alter fixed points in time.
• Throw 'Em to the Wolves: Gives Rick faulty advice when both are surrounded by Weeping Angels in the hopes that Rick gets attacked by one. It works, but thanks to either Operation Phoenix or Rick having his own methods to escape from the distant past (which the Angels send their victims to), it doesn't stick.
• Turn the Other Cheek: His response to being rear-ended by the Space Cruiser then insulted by Rick is to chide them before letting things go and leaving. Unfortunately, Rick gets angered over this, as he assumes that the Doctor dissed him by doing so.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: The Doctor's capability to quickly improvise and adapt in high-stress and dangerous situations is given as one of the main factors behind his victory. Unlike Rick, who deliberately limits himself with the Central Finite Curve to ensure he never has to deal with anyone more intelligent than him, the Doctor taxes and challenges himself constantly, and has come out the other side of various major conflicts by being able to quickly and efficiently devise plans as needed to come out ahead. This is demonstrated in the fight animation, where the Doctor snatches victory from the jaws of defeat by using Rick's tech against him so Rick ends up striking himself with the D-Mat, which not only defeats Rick but also undoes the near-fatal damage the Doctor took at Rick's hands, finishing the fight decisively in his favor.

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Galactus VS Unicron

• Badass Boast: Nearly every line of dialog from both destroyers consists of boasts of their sheer power and god-like nature.
• Behemoth Battle: Both of them are extremely huge, and are likely some of if not the biggest fighters on the show so far. At minimum, they're big enough to devour planets, but their nature means that they exist above the concept of size and can grow at will with no limits: by the end of the fight, Galactus is holding an entire galaxy in his hand.
• Eldritch Abomination: Galactus and Unicron are among the most powerful, ancient, and flat out incomprehensible beings in their respective franchises.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: Less evil and more Anti-Villain in Galactus' case, but while Galactus consumes planets as part of a natural life cycle, Unicron consumes planets out of a rabid hunger for destruction and sheer sadism, making one of the two less villainous than the other.
• Foil: While both of these characters devour planets, Galactus does so reluctantly because his existence is required for the stability of the multiverse. By contrast, Unicron is a monstrous entity who devours worlds out of sheer malice and sadism.
• Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter: Starting with Unicron, both combatants begin speaking in iambic pentameter during the last half of the fight. This is likely a Shout-Out to Stan Lee's love of using theatrical language for his cosmic beings and gods.
  Unicron: Beg not for mercy, behold black'nd sky
  Against mine chaos, even gods will die!
  Galactus: Galactus meets your challenge, hears your call
  His word will bring destruction to it all.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Both combatants tear each other in half and then reform. Unicron first bisects Galactus with a blade of Dark Energon, while Galactus retaliates by first punching through Unicron's chest and then tearing him in half.
• Life/Death Juxtaposition: While both combatants are capable of bringing untold amounts of cosmic destruction, the nature of their main power sources are described in ways evoking this contrast:
  • The Power Cosmic that composes Galactus' being is said to provide him with "fundamental control over life itself."
  • Meanwhile, Unicron's Dark Energon is cited as the opposite of the life-giving normal Energon that fuels other Transformers, essentially making him an entity powered by death.
• Order Versus Chaos: Galactus represents Order, consuming planets solely to maintain his own existence, and to ensure that the multiverse can function. Unicron, meanwhile, represents Chaos, seeking to destroy all of existence solely because he hates everything, and is outright called “The Chaos-Bringer.” In the end, Order wins the fight.
• Planet Eater: The two Trope Makers themselves are the combatants. Their reasons for consuming worlds differ, but ultimately this is their most famous ability that they have in common. The preview shows the fight opening up with the two about to dine on the same planet... our planet.
• Reality Warper: Both possess the ability to bend matter and space to their very whim on a cosmic scale. Galactus in particular was stated to be capable of teleporting entire galaxies across the universe. To counter, Unicron was stated to be capable of erasing entire galaxies from existence.
• Rhymes on a Dime: Several lines of dialogue spoken by both combatants are in rhyme, which adds to the otherworldly and godlike nature of the two.

Galactus (Galan)

Galactus: "Halt! This planet is mine to consume, so sayeth Galactus, Destroyer of Worlds."
Voiced by: Wolf Williams

Devourer of Worlds

• Always Someone Better: Galactus possesses the same level of power as Unicron on top of being a Reality Warper, but he's also much stronger due to having fought beings comparable to himself thanks to the infinite size of the Marvel multiverse, giving him no shortage of opponents as well as the fact that Galactus can actively threaten multiple universes just by fighting someone equal to him in power. Unicron, by comparison, has stiff competition due to the much more limited size of the Transformers multiverse and can only destroy one universe at a time.
• Baritone of Strength: No surprise Marvel's most infamous planet eater has a deep, booming voice, here provided by Wolf Williams.
• Cosmic Retcon: Galactus wields the Ultimate Nullifier, a device that can inflict this on anything, even Anthropomorphic Personifications of abstract concepts, as long as the user knows how to wield it. Even the absurdly unkillable Unicron has never faced a weapon of this magnitude before. While he manages to escape its effects in the fight proper, Wiz and Boomstick make it clear that he cannot defend against it, with the pop-up boxes even citing other weapons from the Transformer franchise that worked similarly to how the Ultimate Nullifier had worked on Unicron before.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Galactus has been mentioned on the show before, but is quite prominent in "Martian Manhunter vs. Silver Surfer", an episode that's the same season Galactus makes his debut as a combatant and foreshadows what kind of power he's bringing to the battle against Unicron.
• Eating the Enemy: Galactus wins the fight by absorbing Unicron's energy, Spark included.
• Energy Absorption: Galactus doesn’t feed on the planets themselves, but rather he absorbs their energy and is perfectly capable of feeding on other kinds of energy as well. He kills Unicron by absorbing all of his energy until there is nothing left.
• Energy Being: Galactus is composed entirely of the godlike Power Cosmic. This allows him to alter his body anyway he desires, such as changing his size or appearance, and makes him effectively immune to any physical attack, as he can summon more energy without limit to regenerate.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Galactus is shocked when Unicron callously destroys Earth by grabbing it and smashing it into him. Yes, he was going to destroy it anyway, but out of a need to eat, not out of spite.
• Got the Whole World in My Hand: Exaggerated; the end of the fight has Galactus holding an entire galaxy.
• Horror Hunger: Galactus needs to eat planets to sustain himself, and if he goes without eating for too long he starts to weaken badly. This is his major weakness compared to Unicron, who doesn't suffer any power loss from being unable to devour planets for periods of time, but luckily for Galactus his raw power and tools means he can end the fight before it becomes an issue.
• Humanoid Abomination: Though his appearance changes depending on who's viewing him, the form Galactus is most well-known as to the beings of Earth and consequently the readers, as well as the form he takes during the fight proper, is of a planet-sized male human clad in blue and purple with a Cool Helmet. While less eldritch than his opponent, Galactus is still a being unfathomably more powerful than what his appearance suggests.
• Last of His Kind: Galan was the last living creature in his universe before it all died out and restarted. This ended up being fortuitous, as this it what put him in the position to be fused with the sentience of the dying multiverse to become Galactus in the next/current universe.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Galactus eats planets to sustain himself, and if he didn't have to, he wouldn't. Meanwhile, Unicron eats planets out of an innate desire to destroy everything.
• The Omniscient: The Power Cosmic grants Galactus access to a near infinite amount of knowledge, as well as the ability to sense oncoming threats.
• Physical God: Galactus is one of the strongest beings in all of Marvel. He’s a being composed purely of the energy of the almighty Power Cosmic. With it he can reshape matter, control the minds of gods, teleport galaxies across the universe, and manipulate life itself. One panel showcased Galactus casually blasting Darkseid away.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: The Ultimate Nullifier takes this to an astounding extreme. It looks like a futuristic cigarette lighter and can reshape the multiverse to vanish one entity out of existence.
• Purple Is Powerful: He's one of the strongest beings in all of Marvel and appears to the beings of Earth and consequently the readers as a planet-sized male human clad in blue and purple with a Cool Helmet.
• The Soulless: As a cosmic being, Galactus doesn’t even have a soul anymore, instead being an Energy Being completely composed of the Power Cosmic. This means that he'd naturally No-Sell Unicron's soul manipulation abilities.
• Story-Breaker Power: The Ultimate Nullifier is lampshaded as such by Boomstick, and it's shown in the fight to really be that powerful. Since it completely erases its target and then reconstructs the multiverse to account for their disappearance, Unicron's status as the physical embodiment of hate, evil, and destruction would not protect him, as the Ultimate Nullifier would account for what he brings to the multiverse in its reconstruction efforts and replace him. Even if the Ultimate Nullifier could be stolen from Galactus, he can always recall it, and even if that's unviable as a tactic for whatever reason, Galactus can just hide in a pocket dimension it can't touch for however long it takes for him to reclaim the device. With the Ultimate Nullifier in his possession, there was nothing Unicron could do to overcome Galactus.
• Strong and Skilled: Galactus is one of the most powerful beings in Marvel and has regularly traded blows with other cosmic beings. This gave him a clear advantage against Unicron, who has never faced an opponent capable of fighting him directly.
• Was Once a Man: Galactus was once Galan, a scientist who became the Sole Survivor of his destroyed universe after gaining infinite power from being fused with the sentience of the dying multiverse.

Unicron

Unicron: "Begone, thus decrees Unicron, Chaos Bringer."
Voiced by: Brent Mukai

Almighty Chaos Bringer

• Achilles' Heel: Unicron would normally be hard to kill even for somebody more powerful than him, like Galactus. Unfortunately for him, his opponent has the Ultimate Nullifier, whose reality-warping effects are more powerful than even he's been shown to resist.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Unlike Galactus, who devours planets for the sake of preserving balance in the universe, Unicron eats planets because he's the embodiment of death and destruction itself. The other reason being because he really, really enjoys it.
• As Long as There Is Evil: Unicron is the physical embodiment of evil, hatred, and destruction, and thus will always exist so long as those concepts do. To destroy Unicron is itself a paradox because the very act of destruction is what gives him life and so he is able to ultimately survive and return even if his very Spark^note his soul is destroyed. Galactus's Ultimate Nullifier completely sidesteps this issue however, as it goes far beyond even erasing its target from existence, but rather erases and then reconstructs the entire multiverse without the target ever having existed at all.
• Bond One-Liner: "Finally, I have won."^note Subverted, as Galactus hid in a pocket dimension to survive the Ultimate Nullifier.
• Breath Weapon: Unicron can exhale a blast of green fire from his mouth. He blasts Galactus with this in defiance after being punched through the chest, though the Devourer of Worlds only pauses for a moment before ripping him in half.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Primus' Abel after the One seperated Unicron's two halves.
• Chaos Is Evil: Unicron boasts about being a "Chaos Bringer" and claims that his chaos can kill even gods.
• Composite Character: Unicron is an extreme case of this; every time he dies, he reappears in a new universe, meaning that almost every incarnation of him across the Transformers franchise are manifestations of the same being. As such, the abilities and feats of every version of Unicron are taken into account.
• The Corruption: Not only can Unicron control and drive others insane with his mere presence, his very blood, Dark Energon, corrupts anything it touches and lets him do things like raise the dead as horrific zombies or possess people. Unfortunately for him, Galactus has resisted similar corruption and mental attacks before, so Unicron trying this wouldn't work.
• Deader than Dead:
  • Downplayed in the fight animation. Whenever Unicron's physical body is destroyed, his will and Spark will simply leave for another body to inhabit or enter a different universe. Galactus not only destroys his current body, but also eats his spirit as well, ensuring the Chaos Bringer is dead for good...for now, as it's noted even with the destruction of his Spark, Unicron will eventually be reborn thanks to being the Anthropomorphic Personification of hate, evil, and destruction, even if in a different part in the multiverse.
  • Played straight in the post-analysis, where it's noted that Ultimate Nullifier would inflict this on Unicron if it successfully hits despite his absurd unkillability otherwise, with Unicron only avoiding this fate in the fight animation by stealing the Nullifier before Galactus can actually fire it at him and Galactus subsequently going for his different killing move. This combined with Galactus's own defenses against the Nullifier being turned against him is the major factor in Unicron's loss.
• Divided Deity: Unicron and his brother Primus were originally a single deity also named Unicron, who was split into the two by their original creator, The One, when that Unicron also decided to destroy all of existence.
• Evil Is Petty: He decides to destroy the Earth by hitting Galactus with it, in order to deny his opponent his meal.
• Fighting a Shadow: On top of the fact that managing to destroy his corporeal form just leaves his soul/spark free to run off and possibly possess someone else, almost every single Unicron seen across the various continuities of the entire Transformers brand is in fact the same Unicron, just a different manifestation of his soul and body in separate universes.
• Genius Loci: After Primus turned himself and Unicron into asteroids, they ended up forming into sentient planets over time. Primus became dormant and formed Cybertron, while Unicron became an active sentient planet that set out to eat other planets.
• God of Evil: As the living embodiment of death and destruction, Unicron serves as this to the Transformers franchise.
• Humongous Mecha: Humongous doesn't even begin to describe just how large Unicron is. The fight preview shows that his Planet Mode alone is larger than the entire planet Earth.
• I Am the Noun: In response to Galactus stating how quick Unicron seems to seek oblivion over forgiveness, Unicron states that he is oblivion.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: Declares that he won after using the Ultimate Nullifier on Galactus. Soon after Galactus reappears from his pocket dimension and absorbs him whole.
• Karmic Death: The endlessly consuming embodiment of evil whose alternate form is a planet is himself devoured by a planet-eating force.
• Machine Monotone: His voice has a steady, mechanic tone to it that still underlys his menace.
• Made of Evil: He's the Anthropomorphic Personification of death and destruction, and even runs on Dark Energon, which is the exact opposite of the life-giving Energon that the Transformers' use as their lifeblood.
• Mechanical Abomination: Unicron isn't just a planet-sized robot, but rather a literal God of Evil that reshaped his own asteroid prison into a mechanical body to let him keep interacting with and destroying the universe. Notably, he was able to drive the population of at least one planet completely insane and destroy entire galaxies through his sheer presence alone.
• Mythology Gag: One of the names Unicron is apparently known by is Earth, as at least two continuities cast him as having been Earth All Along. He isn’t Earth in the fight animation; instead, he and Galactus both trying to eat it is how the fight starts, reflecting his more traditional portrayals.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Well, a "relatively-small pond", according to Wiz, at least when comparing the Transformers multiverse to the Marvel multiverse. While Unicron is one of the most powerful beings in his multiverse, that’s only because there is nobody else powerful to challenge him outside of his brother Primus. The Marvel multiverse is filled with beings at, or even above, his level of power, and Galactus has traded blows with many of them before.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Unicron despises all forms of life and is determined to find peace, by way of consuming the entire multiverse and becoming the living center of an infinite mass of nothingness.
• Red Baron: Besides his shared one with Galactus — of the "Planet Eater" — some of the names Unicron are known by include "The Chaos-Bringer" and "The Lord of Chaos.”
• Satanic Archetype: He is described as "robot Satan" by his episode preview and Boomstick, and that's pretty accurate considering he is the exact opposite of Primus, the Big Good and God of the Transformers.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: In an attempt to defeat his evil brother, Primus tricked Unicron and sealed both of their spirits within giant asteroids. Primus would reshape his prison into the planet Cybertron, while Unicron turned his into the planet-devouring planet he's best known as.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Unicron is capable of constructing weapons with his Dark Energon or, as Boomstick puts it, he can "literally turn his bad dude energy into weapons of mass destruction". In the fight itself, he constructs a sword to slice Galactus in half.
• Transforming Mecha: Specifically, Unicron's alt-mode is a robo planet. He starts the fight in planet form before transforming into robot mode later.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Unicron is unbelievably powerful, but has never truly faced someone as powerful as himself other than his brother Primus and mostly fights by throwing his power around. This puts him at a disadvantage against Galactus, who can not only match him in power but also has much more experience fighting.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: After Galactus brings out the Ultimate Nullifier, Unicron immediately possesses it with his spark and attempts to use it on Galactus. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't know that Galactus is capable of evading this via his own pocket dimension.

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