What is the Russian hackers' reason for being in Trump vs Biden? They seem rather confused when they appear, and one screams the equivalent to "Oh shit!" before Biden comes back.
In all three of his appearances, Abe Lincoln takes pot-shots at the Republican party. This is odd considering that he was a republican and his opponents (and the people he fought in the Civil War) were primarily Democrats.
Maybe he's upset with how the Republican party has changed since his time? The Republican Party of the 1860s and the Republican Party of the 2000s are very different from each other. Not to mention that in his first two appearances he only criticizes McCain and Romney individually, as well as Obama, who is a Democrat. He doesn't make any statements toward either party as a whole in those and in in his third appearance, while he criticizes the Republicans for nominating Trump, whom he shows a dislike for, he doesn't speak of any of the party's policies.
The rap was a time loop until he ended. Subsequently it is kinda hard to sort out past from future, so he could have regenerated into a past incarnation instead of a future one easily enough. Also, regeneration is a random process. No rule he can't have the same face twice, or even one we'd never seen before..
It is implied in Day of the Doctor that eventually, the Doctor will regenerate back into Tom Baker and take on the role of the Curator, as he was revisiting some of his previous incarnations, but "just a few old favorites". With this in mind, it's perfectly possible that he revisited David Tennant's incarnation, and the regeneration seen in ERB is his regeneration into the Curator.
Doc Brown managed to get his hands on a Dalek and made modifications that allowed him to control it via remote, as he does with the Delorean in the first movie. He could have easily modified it with a flux capacitor, giving it a temporal weapon.
He's had more than a few official photo ops shirtless, which many people find hilariously vain for a head of state. It's become rather Memetic on the Internet.
Why does Lenin claim that Stalin was "supposed to be his right-hand-man" when he specifically did not want Stalin to succeed him and saw Trotsky as his second?
It may have been intended as a Take That! towards Stalin's efforts to rewrite history by claiming he was Lenin's right-hand man. His next line immediately points out that for Lenin's supposed right-hand man Stalin did absolutely nothing to respect his memory. Also, Stalin was supposed to be Lenin's right-hand man, and served as such for most of Lenin's reign. That doesn't mean he was supposed to be his successor, and it's the shriveling of Stalin's loyalty and the growth of his ambition that led him to start turning General Secretary, the right hand of the Communist Party, into its leader so he could take control.
How does Wilbur Wright pull his dress shirt off when it's both buttoned and under a pair of suspenders?
Why do the Wright brothers say they're "representing North Carolina" when they are from Ohio? The first flight was made in North Carolina, and Rhett and Link are from North Carolina, but that's still no excuse.
"North Carolina" fits the beat better than "Ohio."
Why does Joan of Arc claim to be "The Maid of Orleans" when America hadn't even been discovered yet?
Orléans, France, not New Orleans, Louisiana. Hence why it's called New Orleans, because as the name implies there had to be an old Orleans. She claimed to be "The Maid of Orleans" because that was what she was called in real life, due to her gaining fame for fighting at the Battle of Orleans which was at the aforementioned city. The title wasn't something the guys behind the rap battle made up for the video, it's something the historical Joan of Arc has been called for centuries, long before the City of New Orleans was founded.
The Rasputin vs. Stalin rap has all of the rappers being very expressive in their speech and movements. Then you get to Putin, who stands perfectly still save for the occasional ineffective flop of his arm, talking like he just came out of a Rocky movie.
Putin is mainly expressionless most of the time. Think of Dull Surprise.
Kubrick gave AI: Artificial Intelligence over to Spielberg, and Kubrick is famous for being very perfectionist, yeah, but why claim it was a "waste of potential" when if someone should know Spielberg was Mis-blamed for a lot if it, it should be Kubrick whose ideas Spielberg was struggling to integrate into the movie?
What he's saying is he didn't like the way Spielberg handled the film. The Chris Rock cameo definitely doesn't seem like something Kubrick would put in.
"I'm still wanted, you're forgotten! People these days are watching Dexter!" Did Jack the Ripper just forget about the more recent success of Hannibal?
Yes. The point of a rap battle isn't to tell the truth, it's to insult the opponent.
Also, Hannibal's ratings were never all that good, hence why it was cancelled after three seasons. Dexter lasted eight.
Why are the three Western philosophers (Nietzsche, Socrates, Voltaire) even fighting on the same side, if the first dislikes the second and the second dislikes the third?
Rivals Team Up, or at minimum Enemy Mine. And it's not like the Eastern ones (Sun Tzu, Confucius, Lao Tzu) didn't have their differences amongst them, it's just in their case it was self-inflicted (by way of Sun Tzu's aggravation).
There are a few lines flung insultingly that don't sound very insulting. Two that come to mind are...
The Easter Bunny's statement that the Great Wall couldn't keep Khan out of China. Even disregarding that it wasn't a single wall yet, wouldn't "not being stopped by fortification" be a positive feature?
In the lines of "your persistence makes me sick".
"China" is a slang term for female genetalia.
Because the next line he says "watch me rub my foot for luck and stick it right up your vagina", basically saying "I'm gonna penetrate you like you penetrated China's defenses".
Sherlock's buddy Watson taunts Batman on his lack of superpowers. Batman. The guy who thrashes a number of superpowered villains on a regular basis with nothing but his utility belt. Wouldn't that be a point of pride rather than shame?
Because Batman (and his fans) is argueably at his worst when he's having a pissing contest with the other superheroes of his universe who do have superpowers. And because anger makes you stupid, it seems Watson's trying to bring out Batman's infamous ego that's on display in these comparisons and throw him off his game.
Rap battle disses aren't really meant to take into account the nuance of a situation. As far as the battle is concerned, the fact that he's less powerful than most of his fellow heroes is a diss, the fact that he can still beat them is irrelevant.
It's not his lack of superpowers they are dissing, it's his reliance on his gadgets.
Also, given how the battleportrayedBatman, it's likely that the writers aren't big fans of Batman, and would probably deny he could actually defeat or keep pace with other members of the JLA, something that does somewhat depend on the writer.
Master Chief claims Leonidas is "the soldier they need [him] to be". And... what?
Soldier They Need You To Be is the lowest rank of a soldier in Halo.
It also likely means Leonidas is the minimum (what they need), while when paired up with the first half of the line, Chief is so great that his sins were worthy of a monument. Plus, you know, names of achievements from Halo games.
How come Sun Tzu was in the lineup in the first place? He's a military genius, not a philosopher.
He was both.
Why does everyone treat Charles Darwin's last line ("It was hard losing my daughters and their brother / As hard as the wood that Oak gave your mother") against Ash Ketchum as some super huge burn? When you think about it for more than two seconds, it was a pretty run-of-the-mill "X Your Mom" joke, and X in this case is someone who's a pretty decent guy and practically a father figure to Ash - not to mention it's obviously (likely) untrue. Usually insults of that caliber require X to be someone the opponent hates (in this context, it could've been a member of Team Rocket, or one of Ash's rivals), if not the person using the dis themselves. It was made only slightly clever by mixing in an "oak wood" pun - and, of course, it's an extremely overused joke/theory that's been around since Pokémon first ever came out. All in all, it was actually very bland. So why does everyone treat it like it was the ultimate ending line that would leave Ash burned beyond recognition?
It Makes Sense in Context. Ash took a cheap shot by bringing up the deaths of three of Charles' children. Charles, while clearly furious, retained his pose, admitted that yes, it was hard for him, and then used this as setup to return the favor by making a joke at the expense of Ash's mom while implying that the man he admires so much is secretly banging her without his knowledge. Even if not true, the joke is very common in the Pokémon fandom, so, it's not as if Charles was making it up, it was more of a "you know what everybody's saying" thing.
Catherine the Great's first line is "Macedonians, Prussians and Romans. Those aren't worthy opponents. It takes a Russian to take down a Russian." But she wasn't Russian herself; she was a German princess who married into the Russian imperial family. Even if she's ignoring her origins and saw herself as Russian, why didn't Ivan call her out on that?
She still took the throne, so she knows how to defeat another fellow Russian royal.
"But your loyalty withered up like your right hand, man!" But everything I can find on the net says it was Stalin's left arm that was shorter and smaller due to a childhood accident, although there's no clear consensus on what it was.
This line was made erroneous on purpose; after it is delivered, Stalin looks confused at his right hand.
The point of Al Capone vs Blackbeard is to see which one is a more terrifying criminal. So why would "my kids dress up like you for Halloween" be used as an insult rather than a compliment?
He's basically saying that Blackbeard is just kids' stuff compared to Capone. Dangerous criminal or not, you can't deny that Blackbeard is a Historical Domain Character and that pirates in general are a popular element of children's stories - and therefore, Capone says, Blackbeard is impossible to take seriously because of how pirates like him are commonly portrayed in media.
Caitlin Jenner tells the Hulk that if he thinks he is well-dressed, "your lying, which means you need a new wardrobe!" C. S. Lewis was good friends with J. R. R. Tolkien in real life, so why couldn't that line be used in Tolkien's battle from four episodes earlier instead of in a battle where neither rapper has the slightest thing to do with Narnia?
They maybe hadn't thought of it when they wrote Tolkien vs Martin. Given that many outside references are made in Caitlyn Jenner's verse, it may have been No Shame's idea to make the pun.
Why did Peter play Jamie Hyneman and Lloyd play Adam Savage? It's pretty obvious that the real Jamie looks more like Lloyd and the real Adam looks more like Peter. You might think it's to preserve the Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamic, which is also why Peter played Frank Sinatra and Lloyd played Freddie Mercury...oh wait.
Why were the Western philosophers all representatives of different nations and eras of thought spread over thousands of years while Eastern philosophy is represented by three Chinese guys who were alive at the same time?
Most Americans are more familiar with western philosophy. Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, and Confucius are the only three eastern philosophers that most Americans would be familiar with.
Where did Joan Rivers get Robin Williams's lamp?
Seeing that the two were great friends in real life, Rivers probably took the lamp after his death (Williams died before her) as a Tragic Keepsake, as well as an Improvised Weapon.
Why does Pennywise's background only consist of cardboard cutouts and stage effects? Is it an IT reference or did Peter and Lloyd splurge the animation budget on the Joker?
This could be a reference to how Pennywise preys on children and lures them in with interesting toys and witty one-liners. Pennywise thinks that the Joker is a kid because of his mannerisms and behavior and is simply trying to lure him for the whole battle.
Two things about Luke Skywalker vs. Harry Potter. One as pointed out in the YMMV page, the line of "Even the eye of my main man, Alastor Moody can see that your franchise only has two decent movies", makes no sense as Mad-Eye's eye in both the books and movies is an eye that drastically increases Moody's vision it doesn't weaken it, he can see through invisibility cloaks with it for crying out loud. Second when they get to the line of "I left JK straight rolling in cash, you let JJ compact your character to trash", There are two things to point out, one Star Wars has made twice as much money as Harry Potter, so Luke has made his owners more money than Harry and second the Sequel Trilogy movie that created so much Broken Base over Luke's portrayal was The Last Jedi which JJ did not direct, Rian Johnson did. Was it just because they wouldn't find a catchy way to work that in, while JK and JJ rhyme. Luke is barely in The Force Awakens and there wasn't much backlash for him in Rise of Skywalker. Harry won because of his other lines but these were confusing.
Well, one series is literally called "Harry Potter," and its protagonist starred in all seven original books, all their adaptations, and multiple spin-offs, so while Luke's home franchise may be far more lucrative and Luke's journey may have popularized it, Harry arguably has more claim to being responsible for the overall profits.
Che Guerva calls V for Vendetta "Alan Moore's third best book. This is supposed to be Damned by Faint Praise against his opponent, Guy Fawkes, but Moore is considered one of, if not the greatest comic book writers of all time, and has written very many works, so this praise doesn't really seem that faint, especially since the relative quality of Moore's works is often debated, even by Moore himself, so Guerva could have easily called V For Vendetta something worse and many would agree with him. Che says Guy Fawkes is only known for his "appearance" in the graphic novel and that he is far more popular, but is that really true? Guy Fawkes has a day named after him in his home country.
Third place doesn't sound as cool as first place
Why is Boba Fett's counter of 'you're a Deathstroke rip off' after Deadpool accused him of being a clone of his daddy considered such a serious burn? The entire JOKE of Deadpool is that he's a Deathstroke ripoff right down to their real names sounding similar. Pointing out the obvious shouldn't really count as a diss.
One, calling Deadpool a Deathstroke ripoff is basically an Obligatory Joke. But the diss still has some merit when you know the history of Deadpool's creation; he was created by Rob Liefeld, whose characters were famously derivative and formulaic, and when Deadpool first appeared, he lacked many of the traits that differentiate him from Deathstroke now. His real name being "Wade Wilson," was added by a later writer as a form of Lampshade Hanging.
, not New Orleans, Louisiana. Hence why it's called New Orleans, because as the name implies there had to be an old Orleans. She claimed to be "The Maid of Orleans" because that was what she was called in real life, due to her gaining fame for fighting at the Battle of Orleans which was at the aforementioned city. The title wasn't something the guys behind the rap battle made up for the video, it's something the historical Joan of Arc has been called for centuries, long before the City of New Orleans was founded.