YMMV / Cartoon Beatbox Battles

• Awesome Music: Black Panther's performance is a parody of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal, but puts a neat spin on it. The auto tune at the beginning harmonizes well and the backup singer enhances Black Panther's chorus.
  • Pennywise's performance against Groot as well is an incredibly catchy number, featuring a solo that rivals Thanos in terms of beatboxing skill.
• Awesome Moments: Anytime one of the characters decides to incorporate what they're capable of during their segments. For example:
  • Pennywise utilizing his fear abilities to puppeteer Verbalase and Groot and make them dance along.
  • Patrick, who just got his mouth removed by Thanos, utilizes none other than PAT-BACK to continue his segment.
  • Mario cycles through many of his powerups, mostly to boast to Sonic how little he has to work to get powerful. Sonic one-ups this one by going SUPER SONIC during his segment.
  • Deadshot firing off his wrist gun to intimidate Deadpool. Sorta negated since, well, he's rapping against Deadpool.
  • The Terminator humiliates Cyborg by fooling him into taking Skynet tech, allowing Terminator to control his every movement. Cyborg does win out in the end, being able to fend off the Skynet virus and get Terminator to fight him for real.
  • Vegeta uses ki blasts to break the roof, and somehow make a statue in his image out of the rubble, capping off his segment by blasting Shadow's fur off.
  • Shadow does get the last laugh in the end, pissing off Vegeta into yet another actual fight.
  • Thanos's first appearance is a definite load of this, from him enacting the scene that put CBB on the map, to even threatening Darkseid that he could beat him if this was an actual fight. And at the end of the song? both decide to settle the outcome in a real fight on the moon.
  • The sheer amount of Badass Normal oozing from the matchups, from Spongebob, Batman, Goofy, and more. Patrick is the most defining showing of the trope, and it all pays off when Patrick wins Season 1.
• Badass Decay: Many feel that Thanos' second beatbox was a major disappointment to his previous one. Most specifically, most fans criticize it for having Thanos feel more like someone who tried way too hard to land some disses on Patrick, at least when compared to his previous beatbox. In that, he was at least collectedly smug about his roasts against Darkseid.
• Base-Breaking Character: Depends on which character the fanbase thinks should win:
  • Both of Deadpool's beatboxes are drastically tenable across viewers. Did they deserve to win or were they overrated and had little substance to it. And his win against SpongeBob was faced with... interesting reception to put it lightly.
  • Thanos' second beatbox was a very divisive one at that. On one hand, many fans enjoy his round, most prominently because of the amazing scenery and hard disses on Patrick, but on the other hand, his beatbox was criticized for being too repetitive and for Thanos trying a bit too hard.
  • Goofy. Was his beatbox clever and a neat Call-Back to his old filmography? Or was it just a bland to mediocre beatbox, barely even having any lyrics?
  • Patrick. Oh, Patrick. Patrick is a very popular character among fans and in his defense, the viewers are the reason he has gotten this far. His beatboxes seem to fit his character very well, his disses are very good, and, besides Thanos, his beatboxing may be the most mememable. However, others see him as somewhat overrated and a Creator's Pet for Verbalase because of his various cameos in episodes that have absolutely nothing to do with Patrick.
  • Mickey's only appearance often has mixed reviews and preferences from the audience. They would either say it was good for being the first beatbox, So Okay, It's Average, or It's Short, So It Sucks! either because of the reason explained above. And if it wasn't that, from the less critical side at least, the beatbox was just overall meh.
• Broken Base: While Cartoon Beatbox usually garners more positive reception than bad, it still has its detractors. Either, A) you like the series mainly or even purely for the beatboxes themselves, B) Love the entire series regardless, C) Find it a guilty pleasure for its flaws, D) find it simply meh, So Okay, It's Average, or just decent enough but nothing to write home about or E), just falling below average because of several prominent flaws, like the characters going Off-Model in most instances, the Toilet Humor, the series' habit for jumping onto trends, and most notoriously, the tracing.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Sonic dissing Black Panther's dead dad? Ouch. Doing it again in his beatbox? Again, ouch. Doing it a third time by waving a sign that says "Happy Father's Day" at the very end of the battle as a desperate response to a diss? Hilarious.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Of all characters, Patrick. So far, he's won every single beatbox battle he's been in, and past Goofy, he's been up against some weighted competition, particularly Thanos (see Signature Scenes below) and Pennywise. As of now, he'll be competing in the finals against either Deadpool or Black Panther.
• Flame War: Since YouTube removed polling from videos, Verbalase has had to move the voting to the community tab. Combined with irresponsible voting, and a fair amount of people who shouldn't even be on YouTube, the comments on the voting post for Pennywise vs. Groot makes an interesting read.
• Growing the Beard:
  • The first two episodes have some rough edges in terms of animation and character design. Episode 3 is where the animation is more expressive and fluid and the character design is refined to where the characters are either very accurate to the source material or done in a cartoony yet familiar design.
  • Starting from Deadpool vs. Deadshot, the performances now have music and are generally a lot more creative, making them more flashy and memorable.
  • As of Pennywise vs. Patrick, the animation style has taken a massive upgrade, particularly no longer needing to rely on tracing.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Black Panther vs. Sonic came out in the wake of Chadwick Boseman's death. The episode appropriately begins with an In Memoriam.
  • Within the episode itself, Sonic explicitly mocks T'Challa's dead father. To someone who'd just lost his beloved real-life actor, a diss about death just seems especially mean.
  • Ase seemingly dying at the end of Skipper vs. Dave could be taken as an in-universe explanation for the series' subsequent cancellation.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In Mario vs. Sonic, Sonic is shown doing the Floss almost a year before he did it officially in the movie. Given the dig at his original movie design during Mario’s beatbox, it may even come across as being another intentional movie reference.
• Memetic Molester: Black Panther, the one who inexplicably bragged to Sonic about "having fun" with Amy Rose, a twelve-year-old.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The entire Mario vs. Sonic fight was a huge meme on Twitter, in particular Sonic's beatboxing during his transformation into Super Sonic and the dances he does after that. The reason the beatboxing was so memed was due to how surreal and unintentionally hilarious the mouth movements of Sonic were while going Super.
  • Thanos's beatbox has also been making rounds on Twitter as well. Specifically, the "Lemme show you how to scratch it" section.
    • This has since been recognised by Verbalase himself, starting off a behind-the-scenes video.
      Verbalase: It's crazy that you guys turned this into a meme.
  • Patrick's "Look at you, purple." has garnered jokes such as Thanos being the Man Behind the Slaughter and Patrick being racist (the following line is "Look at you, Urkel", directed towards Verbalase; joke variations include "Look at you, [censor beep]").
  • "First of all, I am Vegeta" has been making recent rounds as a meme, stemming mostly from people adding in vine booms or lead pipe noises to any time "Vegeta" is said.
  • When word got out that Verbalase spent $50k on a Hazbin Hotel music video, and killed off the entire series, meme edits were made of the music video to make it seem like either Verbalase was being chased by other characters or that Charlie was chasing other characters.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: While verbalase still has his fans, it’s very hard to talk about him in 2024 without mentioning the Hide Away video in which he spent $50k dollars on. It also caused quite a few people to lose respect for him.
• Older Than They Think: The instrumental for Sonic's second beatbox, complete with background vocals, was actually created over two years prior for this video.
• Signature Scenes:
  • Thanos showing Verbalase "how to scratch it" in Darkseid vs. Thanos.
  • The entirety of Sonic's super transformation and final beatbox in Mario vs. Sonic.