DEATH BATTLE

Ooh! In the Chicken Run sequel then Mrs Tweedy and her new husband have mind-control collars, sort of. I mean, they only work on chickens, but given that these chickens regularly outsmart humans, then... maybe they would also work on humans? Almost certainly not. But maybe.

I am glad that this is actually a debatable fight. One of the funniest bits to imagine is that in any fight animation, you would have to use the classic, most iconic Cruella, but you would have to give her the fighting skill that the Emma Stone variation has, so you'd have this lanky old woman who constantly gets outsmarted by dogs, raccoons, horses, etc, but also she can kung-fu a bunch of trained bodyguards into submission. And presumably then trip over a skunk and fall into a trough filled with manure.

This feels somewhat like the human version of Tom VS Wile E Coyote.

https://g1dbteamblogs.blogspot.com/2024/04/death-battle-predictions-wiz-vs.html?m=1

I wish this were a DB Extra.

Also, what do you guys think of Action Man vs Barbie?

Plankton (Spongebob Squarepants) VS Foo Fighters (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure).

If you know you know.

I've heard suggestions of those two fighting a lead character from some movie called Small Soldiers.

So, can Action Man stack up to Barbie's 100+ job specializations and wish-granting powers?

Will the G1 blog continue for the time being?

In honor of Cruella de Vil getting mentioned here and because I enjoy this style of music, enjoy Roger's Cruella disstrack.

Frankly if you're like me and were introduced to 101 Dalamations by Kingdom Hearts then this song is going to slap like a Catholic nun.

Edited by FOFD on Apr 23rd 2024 at 8:33:44 AM

I feel like Foo Fighters and Plankton would be at a stalemate. He can't do anything to them and they can't kill him due to toon force.

Wooooo-hooooooo!

I just made the second-ever TV Tropes Death Battle Stalemate! Wubba lubba dub dub!

Hrh-hrm.

• Shendu vs Aku
• Plankton vs Foo Fighters

Edited by FOFD on Apr 23rd 2024 at 8:23:51 AM

That was a good Wiz VS Boomstick blog. I'm glad that it just stuck to things they've done in episodes that weren't taken from combatants; I was worried that it would end up like "Wiz demonstrated Mario's power-ups so he gets those, while Boomstick held the Doctor's De-Materialize Gun so he gets that." Although there was that one quick mention of "Ringmaster avoided being shot by a sniper; Wiz should be comparable to this," which- why? Even in the finale, I can't escape from power-scaling. At least both Wiz and Boomstick got it though, making it a non-factor.

Also we could be talking about Foo Fighters - the stand from JoJo - for seventeen consecutive pages and every single time I saw the name, my mind would still default to the band. I feel like they would have a decent chance of beating Spongebob. How are you going to beat the guys who wrote Learn To Fly? It's impossible. You remember that they made Learn To Fly and all the will to fight just leaves you.

Plankton probably gets some insane physicals at one point or another, though I can’t remember any off the top of my head. Comically high durability if nothing else.

Though even if he doesn’t have the physical strength to take Foo Fighters (the character/Stand) out, he has made a lot of inventions, one of which I’m at least certain could get the job done.

In "Frozen Face-Off" Plankton got mad at the safe that was holding the Krabby Patty formula, and declared that he will tear it apart by hand, "bit by bit (tears a tiny chunk of the safe in two), molecule by molecule (snaps a cartoon molecule in two), atom by atom (snaps-in-two)". As in, he literally broke an atom in half, causing a nuclear explosion. He did also survive that.

The Wiz VS Boomstick cast is now airing.

They still cant say anything concrete about the future of the show, but there will be an official update video on the situation before Rooster Teeth fully shuts down on may 15th.

Also everyone on the team made clear that they want to keep on creating cool stuff and that they believe that there is still much more that could be done with Death Battle.

Really hopin' they keep the rights to the show. Would suck if they lost it.

Edited by Witherbrine98 on Apr 23rd 2024 at 3:30:51 AM

Finishing Season 1 of Death Battle.

I'll take a moment to recite the rules of DEATH BATTLE up to this point since last time it was obscured by an in-video ad.

Now the finale:

That's all of Season 1

• Match #1 - Boba Fett vs Samus Aran
• Matches #2 through 6
• Match #7 Zitz vs Leonardo
• Yoshi vs Riptor to Kratos vs Spawn
• Vegeta vs Shadow to Bieber vs Black
• this one, Luke vs Harry to Goku vs Superman

Edited by FOFD on Apr 24th 2024 at 2:18:48 PM

I wish we had gotten more army vs. army battles after Eggman vs. Wily, but I kinda understand why it didn't happen. It would have been very difficult and expensive to animate such a thing outside of reusing old game sprites like Eggman vs. Wily did, especially in a CGI episode.

There aren't too many Army vs Army battles I can think of

• Subspace Army vs Ready Player one?
• The Empire vs The Covenant?

Flood vs. Necromorphs.

Ah dang it, I like that one and forgot about it.

They're both from basically dead franchises too which is hilariously fitting.

One that I was hoping would be army vs. army back in the day was Ganondorf vs. Dracula, but I still ended up liking the fight between them that we actually got.

Earth Defense Force vs. Helldivers would be a really fun army Death Battle.

As for prior episodes, I was really wishing Sauron vs. Lich King was gonna be an army DB. Don't get me wrong, the one we got was epic, but would've been cool to see Mordor armies fight the Scourge.

One problem with armies is their numbers. Some settings, like 40k and Star Wars, may churn out tons of manuals for their armies, but most are not concerned with exact statistics. And numbers matter a lot in army battles... obviously.

Oh dear god, please have no army battle with main characters leading them! We all know what will happen - scaling will determine that Johhny Protagonist is roughly quintillion times stronger than the entire army and render the whole point of the fight moot.

Edited by Prany on Apr 24th 2024 at 12:18:59 PM

That is kinda what happens with Dracula, incidentally. Given how the Power of Dominion works he has pretty much all the abilities of his underlings, including FTL ones like Sky Fish.

Army VS army works for Wily and Eggman because their creations tend to outstrip their own personal rides. As you said though, it's less important when the head honcho's way above their underlings.

Come to think of it, that does bring an interesting wrinkle to Eggman VS Bowser: Eggman needs the support of his armada to really put in work (including some extremely potent threats like Time Eater) while Bowser's way above his minions and, in cases where he fights alongside them, tends to use them to set up his own moves than to work simultaneously as a team effort. (Not that they mind being support, since he's a Father to His Men and all.)

Dracula: has the power of FTL sky fish

Also Dracula: stands still in the middle of a room and shoots three easily dodgeable fireballs

Tyranids vs Zerg would have been an interesting army fight. It's the original space swarm vs the space swarm that they inspired. Both are galactic threats that fight humans and other aliens. Both have a hivemind and both use organic technology.

However, they have diverged in critical ways in terms of threat level and characterization. For example, The Tyranids hivemind as still not been personified. It remains a unknowable super mind generated from all the Tyranids. Instead, each swarm (Leviathan, Behemoth, Hydra) has it's own preferred tactics and equipment because of how they have had to adapt. While on the flipside, the Zerg are all controlled by a single mind or a group of independent minds more like ant-queens commanding worker drones.

Edited by Freshwater on Apr 24th 2024 at 1:43:47 AM

Zerg are interesting in that their entire strength is in the swarm. Pound for pound each individual zerg are weak.

Like, "Feral" zerg without a controlling entity are noted to be such a low threat that backwater yokels among the Terrans hunt them for sport. Not hardened space marines, rednecks.

But if they do have something to lead them? Then you have a problem. They are quintessionally a Keystone Army. Cut off hierarchy of commanders and all units under that leader's thrall then turns on each other until individual packs are formed (ie, kill an Overlord and if there's no spare ones around then you lose that Overlord's pack. Kill a cerebrate/broodmother then that entire brood turns on the Swarm. Kill the Overmind/Overqueen and the entire Swarm turns on each other until a new supreme leader is established).

This hierarchy has repeatedly been exploited and hijacked to turn the Swarm against each other. And yet time and again it's shown that if a single larva survives, then a planet will still see an entire infestation in only a few days/weeks time.

I have no idea how the Tyranids work, but they're psychic right? I think that gives them a pretty hard counter for the Zerg, as it can give them a means to override the Zerg hivemind.

I always thought that an army fight would work well for mecha series. Char Aznable VS Lelouch vi Brittania could easily feature them leading forces from the Principality of Zeon and the Black Knights, allowing them to show off their respective leadership and tactical skills too. And while Char has a clear advantage in skill over most and Lelouch has a great mech (even if he’s not a particularly good pilot), it’s not so much so that the rest of their forces are absolutely obsolete.

A part of me likes the idea of The Borg as one half of an army vs army episode, but that runs into the problem of A) figuring out a good opponent for them that's both appropriate and of a similar power level, and B) the analysis likely being kind of meh, since it mostly boils down to "can we extrapolate the Borg being able to adapt to X opponent's weapons before they're killed".