Epic Rap Battles of Historyyyyyyy!

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They did do the Easter Bunny vs Genghis Khan way back when... which ended up sort of friendly halfway through.

Goku vs Superman - that was something different. Now we've got a Rap Battle, the Goku vs Everything shorts, and a Death Battle.

Also, I'd like to see Han Solo vs Indiana Jones. Good luck finding Harrison Ford lookalikes though.

I've noticed that the character that gets the last line is usually the one people decide to be the winner.

Getting the last word in tends to have that effect.

Sometimes. I think Ali, Elvis, and Bob Ross, Hitler, and Vader are the exceptions. Ah, and the multi-battle between Rasputin and Stalin. Started off better than it ended. And the Sham Wow guy. Benjamin won that one.

I was reading the comments for Goku vs Superman:

• that last line felt slight disrespectful to Christopher Reeves. Superman wins with that busting a nut on your chi chi XD
  • Like rap bombs on japan wasnt disrespectful

So the next battle will feature Isaac Newton. I hope his opponent is a fellow scientist rather than some religious dude.

Newton was a religious dude himself, and alchemist wannabee and firm Bible code believer, so I think if they put a religious dude against him, the religion part wouldn't be the focus of the fight.

I would like Newton vs. Faraday. Or Carl Sagan, hah.

edited 21st May '14 10:13:29 PM by nairoxev

1. 22 - May I direct you to Gandhi vs. Martin Luthor King, Jr.? One of my personal favorites, in part because, while not "friendly" per se, they're at least being non-violent with their rhymes (true to their forms).

Other favorites: Oh, most of them, really. Lenin destroying Stalin and Rasputin. Lincoln literally bitch-slapping Romney and Obama. "There are ten million million million million million million million million million particles in the universe that we can observe. Your mom took the ugly ones and put them into one nerd!" from Einstein vs. Hawking...

Vader vs Hitler 3: Vader's "fired up" verse, and subsequent bass drop.

Has Carl Sagan appeared?

Cameo'd in Hawking vs Einstein.

"Poes poems pwn posers!"

How about Clementine vs Ellie, or have the fictional character battles run their course?

Newton versus Nye:

Nice they got Weird Al.

So... anyone thinking about animated ER Bs? You know, if it's possible?

Props to EBR for playing George Washington as the crazy motherfucker he really is but William Wallace totally won.

Someone suggested Dora the Explorer vs. Lara Croft and I think that sounds pretty awesome.

That was pretty kickass.

I'm still waiting for Tony Stark vs. Margaret Thatcher.

edited 30th Jun '14 12:33:26 PM by Zennistrad

The winner is clearly the two Yankees. Stroke like a boss.

king vs poe: i think there are the fastest rap show, i will poe was awsome i just like king lines, the last one....

superman vs goku: goku here, superman lines are kind of weak, also you can see superman geting angry when the sayain said we was beat by "bat with not power"

washinton vs wallace: i will say is a tie, washington just own the fucking damn rap but wallaces singer are very good, i cant say

And I'm still waiting for an animated ERB.

So... I didn't see this coming.

I was hoping for Smosh vs ERB, or Rhett & Link, but ah well. TMNT vs their inspirations is neat. The idea's great, but of the entire season, I'd say Artists vs TMNT was the funniest battle, while Washington vs Wallace had the best flow, and Newton vs Nye had the best "comeback" so to speak.

edited 14th Jul '14 8:39:16 PM by FOFD

I know this may sound implausible, but you know what I'd love to see?

I'd love to see Peter and Lloyd release a video compilation of celebs watching and reacting to their portrayals in ERB. It'd be formatted like the React series, kind of.

Granted, it'd only apply to people who are both real and still alive, but that'd leave us with Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Miley Cyrus, Hulk Hogan, Stephen King, Lance Armstrong, Bill Nye, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Chuck Norris and Clint Eastwood, off the top of my head.

I can't imagine it'd be easy for them to get a hold of several high-profile figures (I certainly wouldn't expect them to get a hold of, say, Barack Obama), but considering the fact that they managed to get the likes of Weird Al Yankovic, Snoop Dogg and Skrillex as guests...

Yeah, that's what I meant.

edited 5th Sep '14 9:27:56 AM by TyeDyeWildebeest

Wait, you mean that was the actual Skrillex in Mozart vs. Skrillex?

Not in the original video. They later did a live performance of Mozart vs. Skrillex, where the real deal joined in.

edited 5th Sep '14 9:02:03 AM by TotemicHero

Man...these guys are not as good live.