History SpecialEffectFailure / EpicRapBattlesOfHistory

* The show [[TakeThat takes a knock at]] ''Series/DoctorWho'''s [[SpecialEffectFailure/DoctorWho tendency towards this]]. The rap battle is between the Tenth Doctor and [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Emmett Brown]], and Brown makes a comment to the effect of "I don't know what's lamer about you: [[FanDumb your fans]], or your special effects!" Meanwhile, the TARDIS can be seen flying across the background; not only are the strings visible, but very briefly ''[[UpToEleven the hand holding the strings can be seen at the top of the screen]]''.

* The overall costume used to portray Thanos ends up looking even worse than Freddy’s. He is too short, most noticeably in the opening shot and his side-to-side scenes with Oppenheimer, where Thanos is clearly simply standing closer to the camera than his opponent. The mask used is both too big in comparison to Lloyd’s shoulders and too small and human-like in comparison to Thanos’ long head, his eyes are not visible whatsoever and his mouth barely moves when he talks. Of course, portraying him accurately might have utterly destroyed their budget.

* The show [[TakeThat takes a knock at]] ''Series/DoctorWho'''s [[SpecialEffectsFailure/DoctorWho tendency towards this]]. The rap battle is between the Tenth Doctor and [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Emmett Brown]], and Brown makes a comment to the effect of "I don't know what's lamer about you: [[FanDumb your fans]], or your special effects!" Meanwhile, the TARDIS can be seen flying across the background; not only are the strings visible, but very briefly ''[[UpToEleven the hand holding the strings can be seen at the top of the screen]]''.

* The overall costume used to portray Thanos ends up looking even worse than Freddy’s. He is too short, most noticeably in the opening shot and his side-to-side scenes with Oppenheimer, where Thanos is clearly simply standing closer to the camera than his opponent. The mask used is both too big in comparison to Lloyd’s shoulders and too small and human-like in comparison to Thanos’ long head, his eyes are not visible whatsoever and his mouth barely moves when he talks.

* The show [[TakeThat takes a knock at]] ''Series/DoctorWho'''s tendency towards this. The rap battle is between the Tenth Doctor and [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Emmett Brown]], and Brown makes a comment to the effect of "I don't know what's lamer about you: [[FanDumb your fans]], or your special effects!" Meanwhile, the TARDIS can be seen flying across the background; not only are the strings visible, but very briefly ''[[UpToEleven the hand holding the strings can be seen at the top of the screen]]''.

* The "slice through ninjas like fruit" bit in the TMNT vs. Renaissance Masters battle certainly counts: the banana in (the artist) Donatello's hand is so clearly Photoshopped that ''it's translucent.''
* After Holmes drops his killer punchline in his rap battle against Batman, Watson can be seen stepping over a railing in the background, revealing that it's actually a greenscreen.

* [[spoiler:When Walt Disney draws the Mickey Mouse logo, the sparkles he creates... really don't come very close to following the outline made by his finger.]]

* Freddy Krueger’s looks in his battle against Wolverine received some mixed reception. Namely his mask, which while accurate, looked rather false, and its lip-syncing was pretty poor, where sometimes its lips synced well and sometimes they didn’t.
* Thanos's looks in his battle against Oppenheimer were almost universally panned. His problems were basically like Freddy’s but UpToEleven. He is too short, most noticeably in the opening shot and his side-to-side scenes with Oppenheimer, where Thanos is clearly simply standing closer to the camera than his opponent. The mask Lloyd is wearing is also too small and human-like rather than long, and it's mouth barely moves when he talks.

* Thanos's portrayal in his battle against Oppenheimer was almost universally panned. He is too short, most noticeably in the opening shot and his side-to-side scenes with Oppenheimer, where Thanos is clearly simply standing closer to the camera than his opponent. The mask Lloyd is wearing is also too small and human-like rather than long, and it's mouth barely moves when he talks.

* Thanos's portrayal in his battle against Oppenheimer was almost universally panned, with Lloyd being too short and his head being too small. The mouth on his mask also barely moves when he talks.

* Thanos's portrayal in his battle against Oppenheimer was almost universally panned, with Lloyd being too short and his head being too small.

* It's an audio effect rather than visual, but Steadman's line at the end of "Oprah vs. Ellen" is so obviously Autotuned that it's cringe-worthy.

* The "slice through ninjas like fruit" bit in the TMNT vs. Renaissance Masters battle certainly counts: the banana in Donatello's hand is so clearly Photoshopped that ''it's translucent.''

* There's something off about the ED-209s' movement at the end of "Terminator vs. Robocop". It's just not as smooth as it could be, and really sticks out from the rest of the battle. [[FridgeBrilliance Then again, they never were as smooth as Robocop and Terminator is from the future]].
** If one had seen the original [[Franchise/RoboCop Robocop]] films, it could be a subtle shout-out to how ED-209 is painfully "animated" in several of it's appearances in the franchise.

* The "slice through ninjas like fruit" bit in the TMNT vs. Renaissance Masters battle certainly counts: the banana in Donatello's hand is so clearly shopped ''it's translucent.''
* After Holmes drops his killer punchline in his rap battle against Batman, Watson can be seen stepping over a railing in the background, revealing the fact that it's actually a greenscreen.

* The scene of Bill Nye walking into frame as he says "And I'm still in my prime" doesn't start offscreen, meaning he literally just blinks into existence rather than walking into frame.

* Not so much "special effects" as "camera zoom", but still counts: when Juliet stabs herself, because the camera isn't zoomed in enough, it's very obvious she just thrust the knife beside herself and was nowhere close to her chest. Said knife also completely disappears in the shot where she's on the ground dead.
* Parodied in "Superman vs. Goku", as Superman spontaneously grows a gigantic third arm just for the sake of punching Goku as he's dissing the OffModel animation of Goku's series.

* During the Deadpool vs Boba Fett bonus battle, Boba Fett's jetpack tends to disappear from his body when he's doing certain dance moves. These are most notable when Boba's in the background dancing while in the foreground he's rapping. In his last verse its even worse, as it disappears from the one in the foreground when he spins around ''then reappears'' after he finishes.

* Audio effect rather than visual, but Steadman's line at the end of "Oprah vs. Ellen" is so obviously Autotuned it's cringe-worthy.