History Characters / ERBSeason4

* BitingTheHandHumor: The show is ultimately owned by the Disney Corporation, and so with this character they're basically calling their boss an Evil Overlord.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: PlayedForLaughs. He's practically a supervillain in the ERB-verse.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: To add to the episode's already creepy ending, Disney not only mentions that he owns Henson and Lees' companies, but also the show. This is because Maker, the studio that produces the series, is owned by the Walt Disney company.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: See AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther.

* BitingTheHandHumor: See LeaningOnTheFourthWall.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: He has this throughout most of his verse.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Much more hostile than his opponent, but when Henson accuses him of stealing Jack Kirby's ideas he emphatically tells Henson that Jack was his ''friend''. [[spoiler:After realizing that he's gone too far, he admits that Henson was too.]]

* PerpetualSmiler: Has this big, plastic grin on his face for most of his lines.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: He's less Disney the man and more Disney the corporation.

* FauxAffablyEvil: He smiles almost all the time and promises Lee and Henson they'll be compensated handsomely, but it's clear he cares for nothing but money.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: PlayedForLaughs. He's practically a super villain in the ERB-verse.

* GeniusBonus: Nietzsche going absolutely ''ballistic'' at the end of his last verse is this. Confucius said the Nazis were inspired by his work. However, Nietzsche was vehemently against antisemitism, proof being [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche letters he wrote to his sister]], where he lambasted her for her backwards views on the Jews. Also, that very same sister reappopriated his work for the Nazi cause.

* BadassInANiceSuit: The genius film director and "bad MoFo" is wearing his trademark brown suit.

* OhCrap: All four have a visible one when the conversation between Adam and Tory references how Ray inadvertently summoned Stay-Puft in their movie. They have another one when the big guy shows up.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: As if to balance out Kari, Janine Melnitz is the lone female on the Ghostbusters' side ''and'' evens out their numbers!

* AgentScully: Jamie dismisses all the the Ghostbuster's accomplishments with a bored "Ghosts aren't real." Cue Stay Puft....
* BackFromTheDead: The B-Team, even though they technically aren't dead, are treated this way, presumably because they had left the show.

* ButtMonkey: Tory, as usual. He outright fails to come up with a line, and it's vaguely implied that he inadvertently summoned Stay-Puft.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Jamie, when Stay Puft Marshmallow Man claims his beret is better than his.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Jamie and Adam point out that Walter Peck was justified for being a dick to them.
* NervesOfSteel: Jaime isn't even fazed by the arrival of Stay-Puft, unlike everyone else. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight At one point he even looks away from him as if bored.]]

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Kari is the only female in the Mythbusters' team.

* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: Tory fails to come up with an appropriate rhyme, and stops silent. The rhyme continues in the conversation between him and Adam afterward. Based on "flow" and "own" and what happens, the most likely word Tory thought of is "marshmellow".
* TokenMinority: To balance out Winston, Grant Imahara is the lone Asian.

!! [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man]]
--> '''Played by:''' Taylor Cu (actor), Lloyd Ahlquist (lyrics)
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Levels up to the tower the other opponents were standing on.
* {{Badass}}: The big guy may not look it, but he ''is not'' to be taken lightly.
* BadassAdorable: Despite his size, he looks friendly and fluffy, but still lays a verbal smackdown on both sides and, according to many of the comments on Website/YouTube, he stole the show.
* BadassBaritone: As expected of a creature his size and girth; not that it slows him down any (see DanceBattler).
* BadassBoast: Stay Puft's entire verse is a nonstop diss to both sides, while letting them know why they don't want none:
-->'''Stay Puft:''' "Yo raise up, it's Stay Puft. I stay fluff. I blaze chumps and flip Kari butterside up!"
-->"I smother Ghostbusters in fluffernutter. I don't play! Show these dweebs how to rock a beret!"
-->"I live so large, you can't harsh my mellow. Just one step took me out the ghetto."
-->"You best be afraid of my marshmallow flows, 'cuz [[RedBaron Big Puft]] just turned '''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch ALL YOU BITCHES TO TOOO~OOAST]]'''!"
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He looks ridiculous and it's rather silly to see him rap, but that doesn't make him any less threatening.
* DanceBattler: Midway into his verse, Stay Puft starts jamming in perfect sync with battle track, while maintaining his flow.
* DoubleEntendre: He sneaks two of 'em in, back-to-back:
** First, he says he'd flip Kari butterside up. As in, with '''her''' '''butt''' facing '''up''' [[spoiler: (i.e. doggy-style)]]. This is a reference to a line from Kari when the Mythbusters were testing the idiom of toast landing butter-side down.
** While his line about smothering the Ghostbusters in "fluffernutter" is a ShoutOut to the final scene in the first film, where [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything everyone is covered in Stay Puft's goo.]]
* TheDreaded: Tory screws up his part of the B-Team's verse by forgetting his line, so Adam tells him to just think of something. You then see the Ghostbusters trying to warn him not to, [[OhCrap by quickly shaking their heads "no"]], since [[spoiler: that was what caused Ray to think of Mr. Stay Puft in the first movie]]. Sure enough...
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: While he's an iconic part of the ''Ghostbusters'' series, The Mythbusters weren't expecting to see a 50 ft. marshmallow man enter the battle.
* IShowedHerWhatARealManIs: In his second line, he says he'd flip Kari [[DoubleEntendre "butterside up".]] She catches it and promptly shouts, '''[[DudeNotFunny "HEY!"]]'''
* NiceHat: He claims his white beret is better than Jamie's.
* PerpetualSmiler: Due to costume limitations, he smiles throughout his appearance unlike his film incarnation.

* AntagonistInMourning: They're stunned by Romeo and Juliet choosing to kill themselves [[TogetherInDeath in order to be together.]] Clyde looks wryly and plainly states, "Well ''that'' was tragic".

* CombatPragmatist: Seen near the end of Juliet's second verse, when Bonnie draws her pistol and shoots her.

* DoomedByCanon: If you're familiar with history, you'll already know how it ends for them.
* EvilFeelsGood: When Bonnie shoots Juliet during the latter's second verse, she and Clyde grin at each other and laugh about it, as if to say: "good one".

* DrivenToSuicide: Both commit suicide in the end. When Bonnie shoots Juliet, she falls down to her death. [[spoiler: Though that bullet didn't kill her, and Romeo drinks poison, only for Juliet to get back up, and realizing her love is dead, she stabs herself.]]
* DisneyDeath: Bonnie shoots Juliet in the gut, but she stands up moments later. "My flesh was merely grazed."

* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Romeo is quick to assume Juliet is dead, when Bonnie shoots her, and kills himself out of grief [[TogetherInDeath so he can join her.]] Only for Juliet to recover mere seconds later and state that the shot had only grazed her. Clyde [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]] near the end of the battle:

* TogetherInDeath: If you've read the story, you'll already know what's coming.

* TooKinkyToTorture: Thor declines spitting in Zeus's face, as he would probably enjoy it.

* EvilerThanThou: He says he's worse than the 7/7 bombers because of his reign of terror. In fact, most of his second verse involves him belittling Lecter for being fictional and thus causing no real harm, as opposed to Jack himself who not only committed ''real'' brutal murders but also got away with them scot-free.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: InUniverse, Hannibal accuses him of this behavior. Given that Jack's lines are filled with mentions of Twitter and the 7/7 bombers, he may have a point.

* ButtMonkey: Not in the same vein as Michael Bay, but he gets it a lot. In fact, ''every time'' the other directors insult Bay they also insult Spielberg... by comparing his work to Bay's.

* SellOut: According to Tarantino, his [[Film/WarOfTheWorlds adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' makes him one, because it was the same sort of crap that Michael Bay would do.

--> ''I'm the master, of suspense, so intense, No defense against Hitchcock once he presents!''

* FatBastard: Spielberg and Tarantino both make fun of him being fat and not being able to fight in World War One for the British Army because of his obesity, respectively.

* PetTheDog: The only rapper to not insult Michael Bay or his movies directly, instead deriding [[Creator/MeganFox Megan Fox's]] acting.

* TheStoic: Nothing any of the other rappers says bothers him in the least.
* WorthyOpponent: When Kubrick declares himself a genius, Hitchcock nods in approval, indicating that he sees him as this.

!! Creator/QuentinTarantino
-->'''Played by''': [=WAX=]

* BadassInANiceSuit: The genius film director and "bad MoFo" is wearing his trademark brown suit.
* BloodyHilarious: There's blood all over his background, and he says that there's more blood when he stubs his toe than in the shower scene from ''{{Film/Psycho}}.''
* ClusterFBomb: He references the fact that scenes across Tarantino's filmography contain graphic violence and strong language.
* InsufferableGenius: But in a different style to Hitchcock, being more abrasive and less pompous.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Spielberg almost argues with Tarantino when the latter disses Film/WarOfTheWorlds, then concedes he's right.
* MotorMouth: Spits the fastest of the five rappers. The real Quentin is known for being a {{Keet}}.
* PopCulturedBadass: References a lot of movie trivia, from Wikipedia, to obscure Sam L. Jackson parts, to Hitchcock's own history.
* PrecisionFStrike: It's Tarantino, this is expected.
--> ''Scripts that I write ain't the, cleanest, (Fuck!)''
* RedBaron: Dubs himself the "King of Dialogue".
* SignatureShot: Ends his verse with a TrunkShot.
* SirSwearsALot: Self-admitted. His scripts aren't the *#*$& cleanest.

!! Creator/StanleyKubrick
-->'''Played by''': Ruggles Outbound [[note]]the description originally said "[[CastingGag The Ghost of]] [[AsHimself Stanley Kubrick]]"[[/note]]

* TheAce: "Everything I do is visionary!"
* BadassInANiceSuit: The visionary that can "make your jaw hurt" is clad in a black suit.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: He stands on the moon as he's giving his verse. It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since he's Kubrick's ghost.
* CreepyMonotone: Starts off like this, then slowly loses the monotone for emphasis.
* CutShort: He only gets about halfway through his verse before being cut off.
* DynamicEntry: A slow-motion shot of him in a tricycle ''on the moon''.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: To display his [[ThePerfectionist obsessive]] personality.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: During Quentin's last verse, there are a few jump cuts to Stanley riding on a tricycle through the hallway much like the one scene from ''Film/TheShining''.
* InsufferableGenius: It's implied that the reason he joins the battle is because he objects to any other director being called a genius.
* ItsPersonal: Singles out Spielberg for screwing up ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', then he does the same to Michael Bay for screwing up [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtles]].
* KubrickStare: He opens his verse with this, and stays that way throughout.
* MadArtist: Gives off this impression with his performance, with its somewhat disturbing intensity and the fact that he goes from a CreepyMonotone to extremely emotional.
* MoodSwinger: He doesn't so much slowly transition from quiet to loud so much as he just changes like a light switch.
--> '''Kubrick''': [[CreepyMonotone Every single frame a painting, made exactly how I wanna make it;]] '''[[SuddenlyShouting DO ANOTHER TAKE AND GET IT RIGHT! A HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN TIMES!]]'''
* NeverMyFault: Claims that Spielberg ruined ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', despite the fact that most of the criticisms initially directed at the movie were over things that ''Kubrick'' was responsible for including.
* ThePerfectionist: He references the fact that he insisted that a particular scene in ''Film/TheShining'' had to be performed 127 times in order to get it right to his standards.
* SuddenlyShouting: The increased volumed comes out of nowhere.

!! Creator/MichaelBay
-->'''Played by''': Peter Shukoff

* AffablyEvil: Gleefully informs us the critics consider him this.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: He knows full well the critics hate him, but is upfront about the profits. His "Guilt Money" jab is also a crack that he, unlike the other directors, aren't slaves to making movies that'll please the critics and cinephiles.
* CatchPhrase: "Motherfucking money!" and variations of thereof, which he repeats three times.
* CardCarryingVillain: He certainly doesn't care that "the critics say I'm evil". Whether or not he agrees with them is less clear.
* ChekhovsGunman: Bay's movie are, directly or indirectly, insulted in every verse. Then he makes his DynamicEntry.
* TheChewToy: ''Every single other rapper'' makes fun of him or his movies in their raps.
* ClusterFBomb: If you're bothered by the fact that he says "MOTHER FUCKING MONEY!" three times in his verse, too bad.
-->"I don't give a fuck."
* CriticProof: InUniverse, he brags that his movies rakes in the billions despite their critic hate. He's too busy working on sequels to the movies they can't stand to read their reviews.
* TheDogBitesBack: His reason for entering the battle is ''specifically'' to get back at those who mocked him for the entire battle.
* DynamicEntry: In the manner of his movies, he arrives ''jumping out of a helicopter''.
* FlippingTheBird: Flips off all the other directors at the end of his verse.
* FunPersonified: Movie-making-wise, he boasts how his movies are just ''fun'' and what the audience wants to see, while the other four rappers aim for more cerebral boasts.
* {{Greed}}: He shamelessly admits that he only cares about making lots of money from his films. He also mocks the others for making films [[OscarBait for guilt money.]]
* GroundShatteringLanding: After he jumps out of a helicopter, he sends earth flying.
* HavingABlast: Bay's verses seem to unleash explosions by themselves.
* HitlerCam: Or "zoom in low with a telephoto" as he calls it.
* IncomingHam: He flies in hanging off of a helicopter.
* LargeHam: He certainly comes off in this way with his helicopter, explosions and "MOTHER FUCKING MONEY!"
* LetsGetDangerous: In his opening line, no less.
--> ''[[RageBreakingPoint That's enough! I've heard enough crap from all of you!]] [[WhosLaughingNow Why don't I come down there and show you what a real star can do!]]''
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: In his own words why he does what he does:
--> ''If there's one thing I've learned, bitch, this game is about motherfucking money!''
* RageBreakingPoint: It's implied that Kubrick's crack about [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014 the Ninja Turtles movie he produced]] was the straw that broke the camel's back.
* SignatureShot: The low angle panning as he enters the battle, complete with gratuitous explosions.
* SmugSnake: No amount of explosions can blast that smug grin off his face.
* StuffBlowingUp: Obviously. There are a fair few explosions in his verse, finishing with a [[NukeEm nuclear]] one. He also blows up the ERB logo at the end.
* TakeThat: After taking insults from everyone else, he in turn insults... Creator/MarkWahlberg.
* ThreePointLanding: He takes this pose after sticking the landing from his helicopter.

* GeniusDitz: The two are often clueless and seem to be in trouble for the first verse, but they manage a StealthPun or two in their raps regarding that they at least know a good amount about the history of their opponents.

* HeroicBSOD: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Bill and Ted doubt their own abilities after Lewis and Clark's second verse, but a quick visit from Rufus gets them into fighting shape again.

* {{Badass}}: During the second verse, he's seen performing his famous escape trick from a crane really high up in the air only to reappear to tell off Criss Angel.

!! Criss Angel
-->'''Played by''': Dante Cimadamore

* ButtMonkey: He attempts to join in the battle between Copperfield and Houdini, only to immediately get shut out by Houdini and insulted by Copperfield.
* {{Flight}}: Like Copperfield, he also shows up levitating.
* {{Mondegreen}}: He mishears 'angle' as 'angel'.

* BerserkButton: He's very easy to anger, and he's shaking in rage after being insulted by Socrates. Making it worse is that he doesn't believe himself to be Socrates' student.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Becomes annoyed by his allies arguing and leaves after the battle.
* ShownTheirWork: They got Nietzsche's real-life dislike for Socrates and Voltaire right.

* BatmanGambit: Pulls one off and successfully gets the Western philosophers to turn on each other.

* TheGadfly: Despite Socrates calling himself this as his title, Sun Tzu is sneaking around and making fun of the philosophers after he turns them against each other. He takes a picture of the three squabbling once Voltaire joins in, and laughs at Nietzsche as he fumes in rage.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Though his plan to turn against the Westerners against each other succeeded, the Easterners also fall victim to infighting when he gets frustrated with Lao Tzu and tells him to "fill his bowl with some shit that makes some sense".
* HypocriticalHumor: Insults Confucius' BigOlEyebrows even though his own are the biggest.

* ManipulativeBastard: Exploits [[TruthInTelevision Nietzsche's contempt for Socrates]] in order to ruin the cooperation of Team West.

* DontThinkFeel: His philosophy encourages going with the flow, but he still tells Sun Tzu to "move, bitch, get out the way!"
* IceCreamKoan: Sun Tzu points out how his philosophy at times just doesn't make any sense.

* NotSoStoic: Succumbed to arguing with Sun Tzu.

* JapaneseRanguage: As a StealthPun against Nietzsche, he doesn't approve of his philosophies by saying "Me no [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Third Reichy]]."

* NotSoAboveItAll: Joins in the squabble between his two partners.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: He's quick to say sorry after he insults Mr. Hooper and then spends the rest of the rap telling Jim that he considers him a good friend.

* WarriorTherapist: In a sense. Even before Stan apologizes for the Mr. Hooper line, Jim says he can feel something discordant within Stan.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: In a warped capitalistic sense. Declares his company to be an "Empire of Joy." Believes that pretty much any business practice is acceptable so long as the end product makes people happy.

* TooKinkyToTorture: Thor declines spitting in Zeus's face, as he's probably enjoy it.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: To add to the episode's already creepy ending, Disney not only mentions that he owns Henson and Lees' companies ,but also the show. This is because Maker, the studio that produces the series, is owned by the Walt Disney company.

* {{Fiction500}}: Worth $7.4 billion dollars owning the most successful business in media.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: To add to the episode's already creepy ending, Disney not only mentions that he owns Henson and Lees' companies ,but also the show. This is because Maker, the studio that produces the series, was bought by the Walt Disney company also, arguably making this BitingTheHandHumor.

* PerpetualSmiler: Has this big, plastic grin on his face for most of his lines.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: He's quick to say sorry after he insults Mr. Hooper and then spends the rest of the rap telling him that he considers him a good friend.

* LargeHam: Truly chews up the scenery bragging about his success.

* WickedCultured: He's well aware of his Shakespearian biography.

-->'''Played by:''' [=DeStorm=] Power

-->'''Played by:''': [=DeStorm=] Power

* ScaryBlackMan: Probably one of the scariest in history.

* [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Triumvirate]]: He's the most triumphant third of the First Triumvirate.

* TheEmperor: First of the Empire, last of the Republicans. Subverted however by himself in RealLife. Julius Caesar was never the absolute ruler of Rome.

* KickTheDog or PetTheDog: It's difficult to tell what their last lines are supposed to be out of these two. On the one hand, bringing up Lewis's likely suicide is extremely tasteless, but on the other hand, Bill and Ted are dumb but good-hearted enough to try and mend the situation with commemorative medallions.

* LovelyAssistant: Harry's wife Bess helps him with his first trick.

* BladeOnAStick: The warriors in the background use spears that is brought up by Caesar to make a pun about William Shakespeare's play about him.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: His first verse is more focused on how he's Africa's greatest conquerors along with his army in the background.