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| 6 | '''Death Battle:''' |
| 7 | -->[[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonOne Season 1]]\ |
| 8 | Season 2: [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonTwoPart1 Episodes 26-39]] | [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonTwoPart2 Episodes 40-48]] | [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonTwoPart3 Episodes 49-57]]\ |
| 9 | [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonThree Season 3]]\ |
| 10 | '''Season 4'''\ |
| 11 | [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonFive Season 5]]\ |
| 12 | [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonSix Season 6]]\ |
| 13 | Season 7: [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonSevenPart1 Episodes 120-129]] | [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonSevenPart2 Episodes 130-139]]\ |
| 14 | Season 8: [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonEightPart1 Episodes 140-147]] | [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonEightPart2 Episodes 148-155]]\ |
| 15 | Season 9: [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonNinePart1 Episodes 156-163]] | [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonNinePart2 Episodes 164-171]]\ |
| 16 | Season 10: [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonTenPart1 Episodes 172-179]] | [[Characters/DeathBattleSeasonTenPart2 Episodes 180-187]]\ |
| 17 | [[Characters/DeathBattleXCharacters DBX Characters]]\ |
| 18 | [[Characters/DeathBattleDeathRace Death Race Characters]]\ |
| 19 | [[Characters/DeathBattleMiscCharacters Misc. Characters]]\ |
| 20 | [[Characters/DeathBattleBatmanVs Batman Vs]]\ |
| 21 | [[Characters/DeathBattleGokuVsSuperman Goku Vs Superman]]\ |
| 22 | [[Characters/DeathBattle Back to the main character page]] |
| 23 | Look up their series' character pages for more on them that WebAnimation/DeathBattle doesn't cover. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | Due to the nature of the show, '''''all {{spoiler}}s are [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked]] on this page!''''' If you are concerned about spoilers, avoid looking at the folder for episodes you haven't watched yet. |
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| 29 | [[folder:Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake]] |
| 30 | !![[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] |
| 31 | --->'''Lara''': ''"Don't you think you've seen enough?"''\ |
| 32 | '''Voiced by:''' Eileen Montgomery\ |
| 33 | \ |
| 34 | ''The Tomb Raider'' |
| 35 | |
| 36 | * ActionGirl: As one of gaming's best and earliest examples, let's just say that she's the page image for a good reason. |
| 37 | * AdventureArchaeologist: She travels the world looking for rare artifacts and getting into fights with all manner of people and creatures. |
| 38 | * AngstWhatAngst: She survived a plane crash and had to survive for over a week when she was young. Surprisingly, she wasn't traumatized- and she actually wanted to continue adventuring afterwards. |
| 39 | * ApologeticAttacker: When she's about to nail Nate with an arrow, she says, "Sorry! [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Have to do what I have to do.]]" She doesn't kill him with it, though. |
| 40 | * BadassBoast: Advises Nate to back off from the treasure before it gets ugly: |
| 41 | -->'''Lara:''' Either walk away, or die right here. |
| 42 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted, she's got scratches on her right arm and brow after jumping out of the crashing jeep. |
| 43 | * BladeBrake: She can do this with her climbing axe to slow, or even stop, her fall. She's forced to use this after she fails to make the jump when the temple collapses. |
| 44 | * BondOneLiner: After dispatching Nathan by impaling him with a falling helicopter propeller, she recovers the Holy Grail the two were fighting over, and inspects it before taking it with her-- |
| 45 | -->'''Lara:''' Hmm... [[CallBack not a scratch!]] |
| 46 | * BoxingBattler: It was mentioned her preferred style of melee combat resembles kickboxing. |
| 47 | * CompositeCharacter: Her appearance here combines not just feats from the original Lara (the first game to ''Angel of Darkness''), but from the second (''Legend'' to ''Underworld'') and third (''Tomb Raider'' (2013) to ''Rise of the Tomb Raider'') incarnations of her as well. Feats and showings from [[WesternAnimation/RevisionedTombRaiderAnimatedSeries the Tomb Raider animated series]] is also featured, along with ones from the Top Cow comic book adaptation. |
| 48 | * GunsAkimbo: Her signature weapons are modified Heckler & Koch USP Match pistols, referred to as RGB Mach 5. |
| 49 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: She once blew up a helicopter by throwing her climbing axe at it, which Wiz theorizes means that she hit the air intake. This was ultimately her ace in the hole, shooting Drake out of the air after he hijacked her helicopter. |
| 50 | * JackOfAllTrades: Lara has received expert training in numerous armed and unarmed combat disciplines. Boomstick compares her to Batman if he hunted for treasure and had guns. Her formal training gives her an edge over Drake, who was largely self-taught. |
| 51 | * MadeOfIron: Lara's survived all sorts of injuries that should have, by all accounts, been the death of her. Surviving the rebar impalement in her 2013 game, while still having the ability to survive a week on that island (which, in that timeline, was BEFORE she became a seasoned badass), gives her a leg up on Drake, who once took a bullet wound in the same part of the body, collapsed shortly after, and would have died without being rescued-- and was still unconscious for three days. |
| 52 | * NonIdleRich: Born into a rich family, and yet loves the thrill of adventure. |
| 53 | * OneWomanArmy: She's killed hordes of humans, dinosaurs, and even a god. |
| 54 | * PyrrhicVictory: She wins the fight, and successfully recovered the Holy Grail... but killing Drake meant blowing up her ride home, leaving her stranded in the desert. Not like that's a big problem for her considering that she's been through worse, but still an inconvenience. |
| 55 | * PowerfulPick: Lara uses a climbing pick in melee combat, and even uses it to survive a fall into a pit that Nathan Drake jumped past. She's even destroyed a helicopter by throwing a pick at it, which is what she does to take down the helicopter that Nathan attempted to escape in. |
| 56 | * SuperStrength: She's pushed limestone blocks, the same type of blocks used to build the Great Pyramid, by herself. This gives her a slight advantage over Drake, as this feat gives her about a seven-ton advantage over his biggest feat of strength. |
| 57 | * WhatTheHellHero: Her response to Nate knocking the Grail off its pedestal with a stray bullet. Given that the Grail temple starts self-destructing afterwards, it makes sense. |
| 58 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Her greatest fear? Her aunt's pet corgi. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | !![[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Nathan Drake]] |
| 61 | --->'''Chloe Frazer''': ''"What the hell did you do back there?"''\ |
| 62 | '''Nathan''': ''"Oh, you know. Save the world."''\ |
| 63 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/GianniMatragrano\ |
| 64 | \ |
| 65 | ''Seeker of the Uncharted'' |
| 66 | |
| 67 | * AdventureArchaeologist: Though he prefers the term "treasure hunter", he explores remote locations and gets into fights over ancient artifacts. |
| 68 | * BadassBookworm: Besides getting into fights with mercenaries, he's also a history buff. |
| 69 | -->'''Nathan:''' First rule about me-- ''I don't walk away.'' |
| 70 | * BadassDriver: He's shown to be skilled in driving a variety of different vehicles, even when he's under attack-- making use of a jeep and a helicopter over the course of the fight itself. The latter proves to be Nathan's undoing when Lara throws her climbing axe into the helicopter's air intakes, exploding it in mid-air and causing him to fall and be impaled by the wreckage. |
| 71 | * BornLucky: Nate's had his good fortune bail him out of some tough situations over the years. This is ultimately subverted during the fight itself, however, with Nathan ultimately getting killed due to having bad luck for once. As the hosts point out, everyone's luck runs out at some point. |
| 72 | * DeadpanSnarker: A key aspect of his character. In the fight itself, he gets a good few quips in-- |
| 73 | -->'''Nathan:''' (''being held at gunpoint by Lara'') Uh, hey there. I'm guessing the whole "finders keepers" rule isn't going to apply?\ |
| 74 | \ |
| 75 | '''Nathan:''' (''after discovering the Holy Grail and getting into a gunfight with Lara over it'') Ah, it ''never'' fails! I get to the gold at the end of the rainbow, and ''somebody'' tries to kill me!\ |
| 76 | \ |
| 77 | '''Nathan:''' (''after shooting the Holy Grail to knock it back toward him, and catching it'') Hehe! Ah, not a scratch!\ |
| 78 | '''Lara:''' Do you know what you've done?!\ |
| 79 | (''the Holy Grail's plinth retracts into the floor and causes the temple to start collapsing'')\ |
| 80 | '''Nathan:''' Eh, that's probably not good. (''statue collapses near them'') OK, that's ''definitely not good!'' |
| 81 | * DeathByIrony: Drake, who is known for being BornLucky, is ultimately done in by a bout of ''bad'' luck. |
| 82 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: He uses his own fists in melee combat. However, whilst he can hold his own for the most part, he's generally less skilled than Lara both strength-wise and in both armed and unarmed combat. |
| 83 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: On the receiving end. He tries to escape with the Holy Grail in Lara's helicopter, but she shoots him down. After he makes a backbreaking fall, he survives...only to be impaled through the chest by the helicopter's falling rotary blades. |
| 84 | * IndyPloy: Nate's smarts have helped him find a way out of many a sticky situation. However, in the post-fight analysis, it's noted that Lara tends to keep a more level head in a pinch. |
| 85 | * JumpPhysics: At one point, Drake was able to make a 19-foot long jump from a standstill, nearly seven feet longer than the current record holder. His jump is much better than Lara's, allowing him to effortlessly escape the collapsing temple and get a headstart while Lara had to climb out of the pit. |
| 86 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: After Nathan survives the Jeep crash and gets the Holy Grail, he escapes in Lara's helicopter. However, he's killed after Lara brings it down using her climbing axe, and ends up falling a great height and being impaled by the wreckage after he lands. |
| 87 | * MadeOfIron: Drake regularly survives explosions and drops that would kill a normal man several times over. In the fight proper, he survives a truck crash, an exploding helicopter, and the resulting fall. Lara still has him beat in this area, however, having survived impalement by rebar while still being able to fight through a week from hell on an island full of hostiles, while Drake collapsed from a bullet wound in the same part of the body after a short time, and would have died if he hadn't been rescued, to the point where he was unconscious for three days. |
| 88 | * NotMyLuckyDay: His luck couldn't keep him safe against Lara forever. In fact, Nate gets done in by an instance of ''bad'' luck: after he survives the destruction of a helicopter, the propellers just happen to skewer him in the gut. |
| 89 | * NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Nathan's tough enough to survive falling over forty feet, and getting up without a scratch. This holds technically true in the fight itself as well-- although he survives the fall from Lara's exploding helicopter handily enough, it's getting impaled by the falling propellers that ultimately does him in. |
| 90 | * OhCrap: After Lara jumps out of the truck, leaving it without a driver and about to plow into stone debris. This is practically Nate's [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase]]. |
| 91 | * OneManArmy: Drake has gone through scores of mercenaries and thugs over the years as an explorer. |
| 92 | * SuperStrength: Drake's pushed 20-ton boulders with his bare hands. Lara edges him out here, however, as she's pushed 27-ton limestone blocks for longer distances. |
| 93 | [[/folder]] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[folder:Scrooge [=McDuck=] VS Shovel Knight]] |
| 96 | !![[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] |
| 97 | --->'''Scrooge''': ''"I don't know which was wilder in those days, the wolves or me!"''\ |
| 98 | \ |
| 99 | ''The Wealthiest Waterfowl to Ever Live'' |
| 100 | |
| 101 | * AdventurerArchaeologist: Although he's not formally educated-- having learned far more than most scholars ever would just by being on the road-- this is what he does in his spare time. |
| 102 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: Having fought knights before, he knows where their weak point is. He does use this knowledge when finishing off Shovel Knight by using the Shovel Blade to strike at his unprotected neck. |
| 103 | * BerserkButton: Thieves. The whole reason he attacks Shovel Knight is that he's trying to make off with his treasure. |
| 104 | * BraveScot: A proud Scotsman and fearless adventurer. |
| 105 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: One of the factors in his victory is that he's fought knights and magicians before and come out on top. His opponent, on the other hand, has never fought anyone quite like him. |
| 106 | * CaneFu: His advanced age requires him to use a cane, which he uses as his main weapon in a fight. The cane can't penetrate Shovel Knight's armour. |
| 107 | * CoolOldGuy: Not only has Scrooge been on countless adventures all over the world across the years, he still keeps going on them despite his advanced age. As Shovel Knight finds out the hard way, old does not mean helpless. |
| 108 | * CurbStompCushion: While his feats and stats eclipse that of Shovel Knight, he initially appears to be on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle until he pulls out the Anti-Inertia and Neutra-Friction Rays. |
| 109 | * DeathFromAbove: Performs his classic [[CaneFu cane dive]] on Shovel Knight, [[NoSell but it can't penetrate Shovel Knight's armour]]. He's more successful the second time around with Shovel Knight's own Shovel Blade. |
| 110 | * DeathGlare: Gives several to Shovel Knight throughout the fight, with his final one being particularly notable considering he's covered in both his own and Shovel Knight's blood and watching his opponent's decapitated body sink into his money horde. |
| 111 | * DecapitationPresentation: He puts Shovel Knight's head on a pike outside his mansion as a warning to future would-be thieves. |
| 112 | * {{Determinator}}: He didn't become the richest duck in the world by giving up when things looked tough. Even after a brutal beatdown at the hands of Shovel Knight, he just keeps going until he clinches victory. |
| 113 | * FictionFiveHundred: Holds the title of "Richest Duck in the World", and that's just in monetary wealth. It doesn't take into account things like his various business dealings or his collection of priceless artifacts, which include a unicorn, the Holy Grail, and a Philosopher's Stone. He also invented concrete and created the Superbowl. |
| 114 | * GoodLuckCharm: The #1 Dime. Everything goes wrong for Scrooge if it's not in his possession. Though he doesn't see it that way and gets mad when someone claims it to be that, since it implies he didn't get where he was through his own blood, sweat, and tears (something he's immensely proud of). |
| 115 | * GunsAkimbo: He uses his ray guns this way in the fight animation. |
| 116 | * HairTriggerTemper: A [=McDuck=] clan trait, one he shares with his sister Hortense and her son Donald (though not to their level). |
| 117 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: On the giving end, as he kills Shovel Knight with his own weapon. |
| 118 | * HonestCorporateExecutive: Earned his fortune "square" [[SelfMadeMan through legitimate hard work and business cunning]], and he's very proud of that fact, as stated in his [[BadassCreed personal motto]]-- |
| 119 | -->'''Scrooge:''' I made it by bein' tougher than the toughies, and smarter than the smarties! And I made it square! |
| 120 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: He's shown to be able to shoot blowflies out of the air with a gun and throw knives with extreme precision. |
| 121 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: At one point during the fight, he uses his cane like a golf club, launching vases, statue busts, and trophies at his opponent. |
| 122 | * MamasBoy: When a group of thugs tried to rip Scrooge off, they tied him up to a steamboat and made fun of a letter informing of his mother's passing. That pissed him off so much that he ''tore the boat in two''. |
| 123 | * MadeOfIron: Not only is he physically made of iron (regularly surviving explosions and taking damage that should kill him), but he's ''physiologically'' made of iron since there's no other way for him to have lived the life he did and still make it to over 100 in as good of shape as he is (still able to go on adventures Indiana Jones-style). As the hosts note in the post-fight analysis, Shovel Knight lacked a way to kill him quickly, as his arsenal pales to the things Scrooge has survived. Even after he endures a full beatdown from Shovel Knight, aside from making him bleed, it doesn't stop him from continuing the fight. |
| 124 | * MoneyFetish: So much so that one of his favourite past-times is literally ''swimming'' in his money. It's presented as a flaw in that his love of money can leave Scrooge distracted and open for attack, but in fact, since Shovel Knight was trying to steal from him, it actually keeps Scrooge laser-focused on eliminating Shovel Knight as opposed to the opposite. |
| 125 | * NonIdleRich: He has to keep earning money, whether it be through treasure hunts, business deals, or lucrative gambles, or he falls into depression. |
| 126 | * NumberOneDime: Owns the TropeNamer. And as its name suggests, it's the very first dime he ever made, hence its immeasurable value to Scrooge. Heck, it even kickstarted his wealth: it was the first piece of currency he ever received, problem was, it's an American dime, making it pretty useless in Scotland. So Scrooge journeyed to America to start his quest for wealth. |
| 127 | * OhCrap: He panics after he's nearly crushed by his own cannon after he's knocked into his money pool, and again when his CaneFu fails to pierce Shovel Knight's armour, leaving him wide open for a counterattack. |
| 128 | * OutOfCharacterMoment: How does Shovel Knight find his way into the [=McDuck=] Mansion? [[IdiotBall Scrooge left the front door wide open while also leaving a trail of priceless treasures outside leading into his residence]]. Either that or somebody else could've stolen from him beforehand and left a trail of treasures dropped and the front door open. |
| 129 | * OutsideContextProblem: Serves as this to Shovel Knight; Scrooge has fought knights before, whereas nothing Shovel Knight has fought is anything like Scrooge. |
| 130 | * PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Performs his classic [[DeathFromAbove cane drop]] on Shovel Knight several times, but finds himself unable to penetrate his armor and barely has time to realize it's not working before he gets attacked for his trouble. |
| 131 | * TheQuietOne: Neither he nor his opponent says a word for the entire fight. However, this is partly justified due to it being fully 8 bit. |
| 132 | * RacistGrandpa: Is quite proud to have been taught by Buffalo Bill in "Injun-style" sword fighting (in which he 'scalps' a knight's plume off his helmet). Wiz just shrugs it off as this trope, since Scrooge is over 150 years old. |
| 133 | * RagsToRiches: Went from a poor boy in Scotland to the richest duck in the world through hard work. |
| 134 | * RayGun: The Anti-Inertia Ray and the Neutra-Friction Ray. On top of his vast experience and superior strength, these weapons were the final nail on the coffin in his overwhelming advantage over Shovel Knight, since the weapons could literally break the laws of physics. |
| 135 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Owns an Anti-Inertia Ray and a Neutra-Friction Ray, ray guns that literally break the laws of physics by altering and eliminating a target's inertia and friction (although not their personal gravity). |
| 136 | * SecretWeapon: He keeps quite a few cannons around his mansion. However, Shovel Knight has reliably dealt with cannonballs before, rendering this advantage moot. |
| 137 | * SuperSpeed: Once skipped a silver dollar over the Potomac River, and then rowed a boat fast enough to catch it on the other side, meaning he must have crossed a distance of about 1300 feet in only 5.4 seconds. This feat obviously gave Scrooge the speed advantage over Shovel Knight. |
| 138 | * SuperStrength: In his youth, he was able to rip apart a pair of riverboat smokestacks he was chained between with his bare hands, and even into his old age he's shown plenty of feats of strength that show he's still got it. This gives him the strength advantage over Shovel Knight. |
| 139 | * TacticalWithdrawal: He tries to do this after the initial skirmish ends poorly for him, but Shovel Knight's Dust Knuckles prevent him from getting away. |
| 140 | * UnexpectedCharacter: Although Scrooge wasn't an unrequested character for Death Battle and they have used cartoon characters in the past, it's incredibly rare should they do so, along with Scrooge being one of 2 original Disney representatives (the other being [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Goliath]]). |
| 141 | * UnstoppableRage: The one time Scrooge matched his sister and her son in anger, he single-handedly tore down two riverboat smokestacks (that he was chained between), threw a grand piano through a window, and took the crooked owner and his men to jail. |
| 142 | |
| 143 | !!VideoGame/ShovelKnight |
| 144 | --->'''Boomstick''': ''"Still, he's one deadly warrior who isn't afraid to put his enemies six-feet under."''\ |
| 145 | \ |
| 146 | ''A Shining Example of the Code of Shovelry'' |
| 147 | |
| 148 | * AdaptationalVillainy: The setting of the fight has him trying to steal Scrooge's treasure hoard. |
| 149 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: Having no protection in his neck area, he's finished off by Scrooge when the duck who has experience in fighting knights strikes him there three times. |
| 150 | * AnchorsAway: The Throwing Anchor relic, shown during the rundown but not used during the fight. |
| 151 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Make no mistake; Shovel Knight's chivalry towards others is not a sign of weakness, even after his brief retirement. |
| 152 | * BuriedAlive: Thanks to the Anti-Inertia Ray removing his inertia but not personal gravity, as well as the Neutra-Friction Ray removing his friction, he slowly begins sinking into Scrooge's Money Bin treasure. He doesn't die this way, though, since Scrooge decapitates him before that can happen. |
| 153 | * CharacterExaggeration: His penchant for treasure is taken to hostile levels here as he invades Scrooge's home and is willing to kill him just to claim Scrooge's treasure hoard for his own. |
| 154 | * CurbStompCushion: While his feats and stats are eclipsed by Scrooge [=McDuck's=], he initially appears to be on the giving end of a CurbStompBattle until Scrooge [=McDuck=] pulls out his rayguns to turn the tide. |
| 155 | * DeadGuyOnDisplay: His head ends up on a pike outside of Scrooge's mansion to deter other would-be thieves. |
| 156 | * GeniusBruiser: The respect Shovel Knight gets is out of raw skill, and it's not unjustified; he's able to use all his tools masterfully and has plenty of tricks up his sleeve. That said, he's not very smart ''outside'' that. |
| 157 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Scrooge kills him with his own shovel blade. |
| 158 | * HyperDestructiveBouncingBall: The Chaos Sphere Relic, mentioned but not seen during the actual match. |
| 159 | * HyperspaceArsenal: Has a ton of relics for use in battle and he carries them all with him. |
| 160 | * KleptomaniacHero: Deconstructed. He tries to loot Scrooge's house, but Scrooge gets rightfully pissed off and defends his property. |
| 161 | * InertiaIsACruelMistress: After having all of his inertia cancelled out by Scrooge's physics-breaking Anti-Inertia Ray and Neutra-Friction Ray, Shovel Knight sinks into Scrooge's treasure hoard and leaves himself wide open for a killing blow. After he loses his head, the rest of his body sinks into the hoard, never to be seen again. |
| 162 | * InstantFlightJustAddSpinning: The Propeller Dagger can spin and allow Shovel Knight to fly forward in short bursts, used once in a combo against Scrooge. |
| 163 | * {{Intangibility}}: The Phase Locket can turn Shovel Knight incorporeal for a short time and avoid damage. Mentioned, but not used in the fight, as Shovel Knight drops it after Scrooge runs into him at the start of the fight. |
| 164 | * MagicKnight: His shovel is far from useless, but he's got plenty of magical items to back himself up just in case. Unfortunately for him, his vast arsenal still can't close the wide gap between the combatants' physical abilities. |
| 165 | * ManaMeter: Shovel Knight's magical weapons use a limited supply of mana. With no way to recharge in the middle of battle outside of a very limited supply of ichor, he would eventually run dry, a danger that doesn't apply to his opponent. |
| 166 | * MusicalAssassin: The War Horn, which is so loud that any enemies in the general vicinity fall to their doom. It's also Boomstick's personal favorite weapon of Shovel Knight's, though it doesn't show up in the fight itself. |
| 167 | * OffWithHisHead: Scrooge chops off Shovel Knight's head with his own shovel blade, then mounts his severed head outside his mansion as a warning to other would-be thieves. |
| 168 | * OhCrap: He realizes just how screwed he is when Scrooge jumps at him with his own Shovel Blade, while he's helpless due to Scrooge's ray guns. |
| 169 | * PlayingWithFire: The Flare Wand, a MagicWand that can shoot {{Fireballs}}. |
| 170 | * PowerFist: The Duster Knuckles, able to pierce through stone effortlessly. During the fight, he uses it to effortlessly punch through Scrooge's solid metal security door. |
| 171 | * TheQuietOne: Neither he nor his opponent says a word for the entire fight. However, this is partly justified due to it being fully 8 bit. |
| 172 | * RodandReelRepurposed: Uses his Fishing Rod to reel in one of Scrooge's cannonballs and send it right back at him. |
| 173 | * ShovelStrike: It's in his name after all... and ultimately his death as well, as once Scrooge's ray guns rendered him helpless, nothing could stop the mallard from using his own razor-sharp Shovel Blade against him. |
| 174 | * TenMinuteRetirement: Quit adventuring for a few years after assuming Shield Knight had met her demise, Wiz commenting that such an action sort of proves that Shovel Knight isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. |
| 175 | * UnexpectedCharacter: While Shovel Knight is a requested character, saying nobody saw him fighting Scrooge [=McDuck=] is quite an understatement. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Venom VS Bane]] |
| 179 | !![[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Venom (Eddie Brock)]] |
| 180 | --->'''Ashley Kafka''': ''"Eddie, is that you?"''\ |
| 181 | '''Venom''': ''"There's no more Eddie, and no more symbiote! Only... Venom!"''\ |
| 182 | '''Voiced by:''' Adam Wennick\ |
| 183 | \ |
| 184 | ''The Ultimate Antithesis to Spider-Man'' |
| 185 | |
| 186 | * AllWebbedUp: As a result of being bonded to Spider-Man, the symbiote can produce organic webbing from its biomass that is even stronger than Spider-Man's, but overusing this can weaken it. After Bane is crippled by having his Venom supply cut off, Venom webs him up, allowing him to finish him off. |
| 187 | * AntiHero: The Eddie Brock incarnation of Venom had a twisted sense of honor and went out of his way to protect those he deems innocent, but doesn't hesitate to use lethal force on those he deems guilty for any reason. |
| 188 | * AxCrazy: The symbiote was corrupted by malevolent hosts into a rage-addicted predatory monster with a ravenous hunger for flesh. |
| 189 | * BadassBoast: When he survives Bane's backbreaker: |
| 190 | -->'''Venom:''' '''''WE'RE... UNBREAKABLE!''''' |
| 191 | * BloodbathVillainOrigin: The symbiote was corrupted by being used to carry out a genocide, reducing its first host's homeworld to a barren wasteland. |
| 192 | * BondOneLiner: After blowing Bane's head open: |
| 193 | -->'''Venom:''' (''in a creepy sing-song voice'') '''''POP GOES THE WEEEEEEASEL!''''' |
| 194 | * BrainFood: The Venom symbiote needs to get a regular intake of phenethylamine to stay healthy. This chemical is found in chocolate... as well as human brains. During his time as Venom, Eddie ate chocolate to avoid becoming a cannibal but the symbiote prefers the latter; it also gets its meal at the end of the fight. |
| 195 | * ClothesMakeTheManiac: The Venom symbiote tends to turn anyone it possesses into a murderous psycho. |
| 196 | * CombatTentacles: The symbiote can freely extend its biomass into tentacles and pseudopods, which can be used for locomotion or to restrain and attack opponents. |
| 197 | * TheCorruptible: The symbiote wasn't always evil, but was corrupted into a predatory monster by bonding to evil and/or insane hosts. |
| 198 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Both Eddie and the symbiote, which lead to their creation. |
| 199 | ** Eddie Brock was a newspaper reporter who had reported on a heavy bombshell about the identity of a serial killer, the Sin-Eater, only for Spider-Man to reveal the man's true identity. He was subsequently fired from his job, disowned by his father, divorced from his wife and discovered he had terminal cancer. |
| 200 | ** The symbiote was once part of a peace-loving race who only sought to make their hosts stronger. It lost its sanity after bonding with mentally unstable hosts like a murderous alien and Deadpool. When Spider-Man rejected it and tried to kill it, it grew angry at its former host and sought to either reclaim or kill him. |
| 201 | * EvilCounterpart: Formerly one to Spider-Man, the symbiote having copied his powers while bonded to him. |
| 202 | * HealingFactor: The Venom symbiote is capable of healing its host from injuries as severe as having their torso vaporized, although this takes time and leaves the host in a weakened state until they're fully healed. It was a deciding factor in Venom's favor; while both combatants have survived hits from foes much more powerful than them, the symbiote's superior healing gave it the edge over Bane's Venom. |
| 203 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Through its oddball collection of hosts, the Venom symbiote has gone through this trope, from Agent of the Cosmos to bloodthirsty monster to superhero to Lethal Protector to the strongman of Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts and Dark Avengers to a black ops super soldier, Secret Avenger, Guardian of the Galaxy, and Agent of the Cosmos to mob enforcer, then back to Lethal Protector. |
| 204 | * HeroKiller: Venom has maimed a few heroes in his day, including eating one of Steel Spider's arms. |
| 205 | * ImmuneToBullets: The Venom symbiote is capable of blocking and absorbing bullets and even sending them right back at the shooter. In the fight proper, Venom uses it to send bullets fired by Bane back at their sender, not that Bane himself was hurt. |
| 206 | * IrrationalHatred: |
| 207 | ** The symbiote hates Spider-Man for rejecting it when it only wanted to protect and empower him, and for abandoning it on a strange and hostile planet. |
| 208 | ** Eddie Brock was fired from his job as a reporter when Spider-Man unwittingly revealed that the man Brock had been interviewing for an exposé on the Sin-Eater serial killer was a compulsive confessor. Humiliated, disowned, divorced, and diagnosed with terminal cancer, he blamed Spider-Man for his misfortune and would have committed suicide had he not come across the symbiote. |
| 209 | * LaughingMad: He's introduced in the fight this way, laughing maniacally as he feasts on Bane's cronies before appearing to challenge the man himself. |
| 210 | -->'''Venom:''' '''''HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! [[PreAsskickingOneLiner YOU'RE MINE!!!]]''''' |
| 211 | * LegacyCharacter: The symbiote has had multiple hosts, both human and non-human, with Deadpool, Spider-Man, Eddie Brock, Mac Gargan, Flash Thompson, and Lee Price being some of the more prominent human hosts. |
| 212 | * LightningBruiser: Venom is just as fast or slightly slower than Spider-Man, but ''far'' stronger and more durable. He's also far faster, stronger, and more durable than Bane. |
| 213 | * LineOfSightName: Eddie Brock got the name "Venom" because "that's what he was paid to spew out" when he was working for the tabloids. Boomstick isn't impressed with the origins of that alias and rates it a 3/10. |
| 214 | * LovecraftianSuperpower: The symbiote is a creature made of living darkness, and can shape its biomass into writhing tendrils, slobbering fanged mouths, blades, and spikes. |
| 215 | * ManBitesMan: Venom's maw full of fangs isn't just for show, and even worse he developed a poisonous bite potent enough to almost kill the Sandman. He tries to bite Bane at several points, but Bane dodges most of them and isn't affected by the ones that do get him. |
| 216 | * MonstrousHumanoid: The symbiote can transform its hosts into a humanoid monster with a fanged maw, prehensile tongue, and clawed fingers and toes. Even without a host, the Venom symbiote can take on a humanoid form for up to half a day. |
| 217 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Venom usually manifests a wide mouth lined with rows upon rows of fangs. |
| 218 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The latter half of the fight has Venom on the receiving end, being smashed with brute force and tossed like a ragdoll around the warehouse and through the objects within by Bane, capped off with a rocket launcher to the face and Bane using [[PsychoSerum Venom]] to enhance his strength for his signature backbreaker...but Venom not only survives but uses this moment to turn the fight in his favor. |
| 219 | * NoSell: When Bane uses his signature backbreaker technique, declaring he's "broken", Venom replies, "''Unbreakable''", shrugs it off, and then [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales Bane and severs his Venom Feed]]. |
| 220 | * PowerCopying: To an extent, the Venom symbiote can mimic the superpowers of its hosts. For the longest time, it only used Spider-Man's amazing array of powers, but when it bonded to Mac Gargan it once grew a scorpion tail. |
| 221 | * RapidFireFisticuffs: Briefly engages in this against Bane during the fight, and manages to overpower him. |
| 222 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Venom symbiote is at least centuries old and has numerous offspring and grandchildren, namely ComicBook/{{Carnage}} and Toxin. |
| 223 | * StarfishAlien: The symbiote is an EldritchAbomination formed of living darkness, capable of bonding to and empowering its hosts. |
| 224 | * SuperStrength: As strong as Spidey is, Venom is far stronger, being capable of hefting between 20 and 70 tons. This is because Eddie ended up exercising, bulking up and gaining more strength. At one point Venom even took on post-Crisis ComicBook/{{Superman}} ''and'' Spider-Man at the same time and would have won had outside intervention not occurred. As such, he could definitely outmuscle Bane, as a conservative estimate of a carnival ride that he held up while weakened could be placed at 200 tons, far exceeding Bane's best-known feat of 27 tons with an armored truck. |
| 225 | * SuperToughness: Venom has survived plenty of impressive blows before, from an anti-tank missile to strikes from the Hulk himself. While his durability is comparable to Bane's own, his superior HealingFactor gives him a much-needed edge. |
| 226 | * TheSymbiote: The Venom symbiote -- in the mainstream continuity -- is an ancient amorphous extraterrestrial ostensibly from the planet Klyntar that bonds to and empowers its host, acting as a living suit of armor. |
| 227 | * ToServeMan: When corrupted the symbiote has a ravenous hunger for flesh, brains in particular, that it is more than willing to force its host to satiate. Venom implicitly eats Bane's two henchmen off-screen, and then Bane's brain after exploding his head using the symbiote. |
| 228 | * TraumaCongaLine: After the Sin-Eater incident, he was fired, disowned by his father, and his wife left him. Also, he had cancer. Boomstick remarks that life apparently decided to "shit all over him". |
| 229 | -->'''Boomstick''': Damn, talk about a bad day. |
| 230 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: Venom talks like this, since Eddie and Symbiote are speaking at the same time. Pretty creepy. |
| 231 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: The symbiote can alter its color and texture to disguise itself as clothes, alter its host's appearance, and even turn invisible. Furthermore, it can project tendrils and transform its limbs into bladed weapons. All of these are present in the fight: Venom kills two of Bane's goons under the cover of darkness, uses it to evade Bane briefly (though Bane's own experiences fighting Batman let him quickly find him), shifts into various shields and fanged mouths, and uses the tendrils to shut off Bane's supply of Venom. |
| 232 | * WallCrawl: The symbiote is capable of adhering to almost any surface. |
| 233 | * WeaksauceWeakness: The symbiote is susceptible to intense heat and sonics, although it's grown more resilient over the years. Luckily for Venom, Bane couldn't exploit any of these weaknesses even if he managed to deduce them. |
| 234 | * {{Yandere}}: The Venom symbiote viewed Spider-Man as its ideal host, and was obsessed with either killing him or forcibly rebonding to him. |
| 235 | * YourHeadAsplode: On the giving end. Eddie pumps the Venom symbiote into Bane's head, causing it to explode. |
| 236 | |
| 237 | !![[Franchise/TheDCU Bane]] |
| 238 | --->'''Bane''': ''"When we fought before, I broke the Bat. Today, I break the man."''\ |
| 239 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChrisGuerrero\ |
| 240 | \ |
| 241 | ''The Burly Genius who Broke the Bat'' |
| 242 | |
| 243 | * BadassBoast: After Venom turns invisible and evades being stomped on, Bane calls him out: |
| 244 | -->'''Bane:''' So, you fall back on cheap magic tricks... trying to disappear. Yet you don't know how to be truly invisible. [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Now, I give you permission to die.]] |
| 245 | * BadassNormal: Even without the performance-enhancing powers of Venom, Bane is the epitome of human physical strength and durability as he proved several times when he swore off the drug when he was at risk of addiction. Such feats include tearing down a stone prison wall, ripping an armored warrior's limbs off, and cauterizing his own wounds with a blowtorch. While an impressive specimen and likely stronger than Brock would be without the symbiote, it's just not enough against what Brock can do with the symbiote's help, even in a weakened state. |
| 246 | * TheBerserker: In his earlier days, when he overdosed on Venom, Bane risked going berserk. He eventually made adjustments to the formula that left his mental faculties intact while under the influence, though he was still vulnerable to the addictive properties of the drug. |
| 247 | * CombatPragmatist: While usually preferring to fight hand-to-hand, Bane isn't afraid to grab the nearest weapon and use that as well. One of his moves against Venom is to just grab an assault rifle and shoot him repeatedly, [[ImmuneToBullets though Venom is hardly incapacitated]]. He later uses a rocket launcher to better effect though Venom at least partially faked his injury so Bane would drop his guard. |
| 248 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: His father, the revolutionary King Snake, escaped capture after a failed revolt in Santa Prisca. Bane's mother was forced to serve in his stead and when she died, Bane was forced to take her place, forcing him to toughen up. |
| 249 | * DreamingOfThingsToCome: After falling into a coma, he had visions of himself as a large, powerful man, which inspired him to train hard and learn as much as possible. |
| 250 | * EvilCounterpart: He's disciplined and highly intelligent, like Batman, but unlike Bruce, he grew up imprisoned, hated, and abused, forcing him to become a ruthless criminal. |
| 251 | * FunctionalAddict: Due to his near-constant exposure to the drug, Bane has developed a resistance to the negative side effects of Venom. |
| 252 | * GeniusBruiser: Despite growing up in a hellhole of a prison, Bane is highly educated and one of the keenest minds in the DC Universe. While a lot smarter than Venom, his intellect alone isn't enough to conquer a foe who is his superior in every other area possible and whose weaknesses he is not equipped to exploit, even if he could figure them out in the battle. |
| 253 | * HealingFactor: Injecting himself with Venom allows Bane to rapidly recover from injuries, though how quickly he heals depends on the dosage he gives himself. However, it can't compare to Venom's symbiote in this regard. |
| 254 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Before the ''ComicBook/TheNew52'', Bane went through this trope, bouncing from villain to AntiHero. |
| 255 | * HellholePrison: He was born and raised in a prison where both prisoners and guards picked on him and inmates were experimented upon. |
| 256 | * HeroKiller: Bane has infamously broken Batman's back and even killed the C-List superhero Judomaster. |
| 257 | * HoistHeroOverHead: At the climax of the fight, he does this to Venom to perform his iconic backbreaker. Unfortunately for Bane, Venom proves far too durable to be broken and uses this closeness to impale him. |
| 258 | * ImmuneToBullets: Bane's greatly increased muscle density enables him to withstand explosions and small-caliber gunshots with little-to-no injury. In the fight proper, the bullets Venom repels back at him fail to leave any real mark. |
| 259 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: After Venom survives his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, the symbiote impales Bane in multiple places, damaging the Venom Feed in the process and leaving Bane disoriented and vulnerable to his killing blow. |
| 260 | * LineOfSightName: Got his name from being considered "a bane to everything holy". Boomstick, [[BrickJoke again]], isn't impressed with the origins of that alias and gives it a 2/10. |
| 261 | * MachoLatino: Bane comes from the Spanish-speaking island of Santa Prisca, and he's unbelievably muscular both with and without his Venom. And Chris Guerrero makes sure to include a Hispanic accent when he voices Bane. |
| 262 | * MadeOfIron: Even without Venom boosting his durability and providing a HealingFactor, Bane is exceptionally tough, capable of enduring dozens of bricks shattering against his body and taking stab wounds without reacting. He once even survived a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Batman, who temporarily had [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Superman's]] powers. It's the only area aside from intelligence where Bane can comfortably rival or even surpass Venom, but even then Venom's superior HealingFactor renders that edge moot. |
| 263 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The latter half of the fight has Bane on the giving end, smashing Venom with brute force and tossing him like a ragdoll around the warehouse and through the objects within, capped off with a rocket launcher and attempting his signature Venom-enhanced backbreaker...[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice but then Venom turns it around]]. |
| 264 | * NoSell: Due to his experiences fighting Batman, Bane is quickly able to figure out where Venom is despite the latter's {{Invisibility}} and proceeds to grab him and throw him into an armored car. |
| 265 | * PreMortemOneLiner: When he attempts to break Venom's back as the finishing blow, keyword being "attempts" - Venom proved too durable or in his words, unbreakable. |
| 266 | -->'''Bane:''' You're just like all the others... broken. |
| 267 | * PsychoSerum: The drug Venom, which is liquid-fed from a special device fitted to him (depending on the continuity, it's either a device on his wrist or a device on his chest), greatly amplifies Bane's strength and durability but can have adverse effects on his sanity when overused, such as reducing him to a mindless berserker and leaving him addicted to the drug. He once attempted to develop a "safer" version of the drug but was only able to get rid of the berserking traits, and at several points has stopped using it when his addiction threatened to overtake him. |
| 268 | * RapidFireFisticuffs: Briefly engages in this against Venom during the fight, though Venom overpowers him. |
| 269 | * SignificantNameOverlap: At the end of his preview, Boomstick mistakes the Venom drug Bane takes in with the Venom symbiote his opponent possesses. |
| 270 | * SuperStrength: When juiced up on Venom, Bane is capable of lifting to 2 tons. By overdosing on Venom he can temporarily boost this to 3 tons, but he risks going berserk. According to his analysis, one feat shows he's even successfully lifted an armored truck that weighed 27 tons. In the fight, Bane manages to toss Venom like a ragdoll for part of it and attempts to kill him with a backbreaker. Despite this, Venom has him beat here, capable of lifting entire carnival rides that weigh at least 200 tons, to which Bane has no comparable example. |
| 271 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Bane's Venom Feed. Damaging it in any way causes various side-effects, depending on what happened and the continuity: he's gone into a panicked frenzy when it's been severed, reduced to a 98-pound weakling when removed and even suffered body-deforming transformations when fed too much. Whereas Bane couldn't exploit the symbiote's weaknesses, Venom could cut off Bane's Venom supply and effectively cripple him. |
| 272 | * WipeTheFloorWithYou: During the battle, Bane grabs Venom's head, smashes him into a wall, and drags him along it. And while not in the fight proper, a clip in the post-fight analysis shows him in his enhanced state slamming Venom into the ground before attempting his Backbreaker. |
| 273 | * YourHeadAsplode: On the receiving end. Eddie uses his Venom symbiote to pop Bane's head off. |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder:Power Rangers VS Voltron]] |
| 277 | !![[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Mighty Morphin' Megazord]] |
| 278 | --->'''Jason''': ''"Bring 'em down!"''\ |
| 279 | '''Rangers''': ''"HI-YAH!"''\ |
| 280 | '''Rangers voiced by:''' Creator/AlejandroSaab (Jason), [[WebVideo/SpaceHamster Jeffery Fabre]] (Billy), Creator/MorganBerry (Trini), Melonie Mac (Kimberly), and [[WebVideo/AndreTheBlackNerd Andre Meadows]] (Zack)\ |
| 281 | \ |
| 282 | ''The Heavy-Hitting Mech Commanded by Five Power Rangers'' |
| 283 | |
| 284 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Megazord is completely outclassed in a majority of its stats. The biggest one is durability, as we're shown Voltron surviving the gravitation pull equal to a black hole while the Megazord's upgrade, the Thunder Megazord, is utterly outclassed by the planet-destroying Serpentera, who with less than half of full power destroyed said Megazord with a single blast. |
| 285 | * AnimalMecha: The Zords are mechs shaped like prehistoric animals. |
| 286 | * AttackReflector: The Power Sword is capable of redirecting kinetic attacks sent towards the Megazord back to their attacker, while the Mammoth Shield can reflect energy blasts with the same results. As the former usually serves as one of the Rangers' trump cards, Kimberly is surprised that it doesn't give them the instant win against Voltron, and while the Mammoth Shield works well enough at first, Voltron's last assault is too much to redirect with it, destroying it and leaving them broken down enough for a fatal blow. |
| 287 | * BadassBookworm: Billy may be socially awkward, but he's just as capable as the other rangers and is noted to be a genius: he modified several of the Megazord's weapons as the team's technician and the analysis notes that he built a [[FreakyFridayFlip body-switching device]] which caused him to swap with Kimberly for a short time. |
| 288 | * CloseRangeCombatant: While the Megazord possesses several long-range options, it shines at its best in hand-to-hand or sword combat. The hosts note that the Megazord possesses superior close-range skills and dominates in the fight itself whenever the two mechas clash within arms or swords reach. Unfortunately, Voltron was not only tough enough to endure the punishment but also had the [[LongRangeFighter speed and ranged options]] to tear the Megazord apart from afar before it could close the distance. |
| 289 | * ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Played straight, the teens wearing their respective colors both in and out of their morphed form. For the most part, even their Zords match their respective colors (except for Kimberly the Pink Ranger, whose Pterodactyl Zord, while properly white and pink on its backside as seen when it is in flight, is mostly red on its more prominent underside, as seen with both Tank Mode and Battle Mode). |
| 290 | * CombiningMecha: First as a tank, and then a warrior. To make this as fair a fight as possible the Dragonzord and Titanus the Carrier Zord are left out, thus leaving Dragonzord Battle Mode, Mega Dragonzord and the Ultrazord out of the fight. |
| 291 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 292 | ** Averted as nothing from ''Film/PowerRangers2017'' will be used in this aside from a few shots of the Rangers in the teaser and a sly reference to Rita's humiliating defeat. Beyond the fact that the movie came out the same week "Venom vs. Bane" did, the movie Megazord is vastly different from the original Megazord/Daizyujin. Played straight suit-wise with regards to ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'', if the footage of each movie Ranger shown with the actor lineup is any indication, as these will be the original teens, yet that movie's Red, Black, and Yellow Rangers are Rocky, Adam, and Aisha. |
| 293 | ** They combined Barza the Wizard of ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' with Zordon by treating Barza as Zordon's human self. That being said, this has precedent in the main show, since snippets of Barza (seen from the back) were used to portray Zordon pre-time warp. |
| 294 | ** The analysis also contained footage from ''Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan'' for the description of Rita and Zordon's fight throughout the thousands of years. Fitting since Machiko Soga who played Bandora (Rita's Sentai Counterpart) also played Queen Hedrian in that sentai. |
| 295 | * CoolSword: The Power Sword, which can not only restore the Megazord's energy if it's running low but fire {{Sword Beam}}s and [[AttackReflector absorb the kinetic energy from an opponent's attack to add to the Megazord's own]]. |
| 296 | * CurbstompCushion: Despite the post-fight analysis ruling that Voltron severely outclasses the Megazord, the Megazord puts up a good fight against Voltron. It beats Voltron in a blade clash and then disarms the Lion Force of their sword for a chunk of the fight. The Rangers manage to cut off Voltron's right arm and pin its left arm down by freezing it. It also takes Voltron having to fire ''[[MoreDakka everything]]'' [[BeamSpam they have]] to buy enough time for Pidge to retrieve Voltron's sword. |
| 297 | * DanceBattler: Zack created his own fighting style called "Hip-Hop Kido", which combines self-defense with dance. In Boomstick's words, "he fights evil with the power of dance". |
| 298 | * DavidVersusGoliath: Is the Goliath here, towering over Voltron. Much like the biblical tale, the Megazord falls in battle. |
| 299 | * DynamicEntry: The [[CoolSword Power Sword]] often makes its appearance in a battle by shooting down from the heavens and slamming into the ground blade-first. During the battle, said entry slams right into Voltron's back and sends it crashing into the ground, giving the Megazord time to grab the sword. |
| 300 | * EnergyWeapon: The Megazord can fire them from its head. It uses them to force Voltron off it and set up a strike that sends them crashing into a rock face. |
| 301 | * EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Each of the Rangers is a skilled martial artist, and the Megazord itself combines their styles. This skill gives the Megazord the close-quarters edge in both hand-to-hand and sword combat, but it's not enough to combat everything else Voltron has over it. |
| 302 | * FourFingeredHands: Zack is missing his left middle finger. His actor, Walter Jones, lost it in an accident when he was four years old. |
| 303 | * GeniusBruiser: Both Billy and Trini are intelligent, and they kick Putty butt daily. Trini's even a martial arts expert. |
| 304 | * GlassCannon: The main reason for its loss. The Megazord may match Voltron in raw damage output, but is gravely outmatched in [[LightningBruiser strength, speed and durability.]] |
| 305 | * HeroicSecondWind: After Voltron plows them through the rocky formations and tries to smash them apart, the Megazord fires off its [[EnergyWeapon head lasers]] to force them back and into a rock face, and then use this distraction to restrain Voltron with [[AnIcePerson the Mammoth shield]] and force Lance to sacrifice his Lion. However, Voltron turns it around with ''their'' HeroicSecondWind which shifts the fight in the favor and later, the win. |
| 306 | * ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Downplayed. The Megazord usually moves as clunky and slow as expected of a giant robot and swifter foes can easily run rings around it, but in close combat, it moves very gracefully thanks to the Ranger's martial arts training. Voltron's greater speed and preference for range allows it to overcome this. |
| 307 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The Megazord has the Mammoth Shield, which is tough enough to take and push back a beam attack by the evil Green Ranger. They use this ability several times to reflect Voltron's lasers at it and give them some breathing space against Voltron's [[LongRangeFighter preferred fighting style]]. It also retains the Mammoth's [[AnIcePerson freezing powers]], which they attempt to use on Pidge. Lance saves him at the last second, though, and it's destroyed when hit by Voltron's MacrossMissileMassacre. |
| 308 | * {{Magitek}}: A giant robot fuelled by the Rangers' magical power crystals created by the ancient wizard, Zordon. |
| 309 | * MightyGlacier: The Megazord is very powerful at close range and can tough through a lot of punishment, but it is also very slow. Many of its tougher fights have it take a lot of unnecessary punishment because it is unable to dodge the attacks of its enemies. Unfortunately, Voltron has a speed, power, ''and'' durability advantage over the Megazord, making its disadvantages all the more damning. |
| 310 | * OhCrap: Kimberly's shocked that their finishing attack is stopped by Voltron and didn't cleave them in half by overpowering it. |
| 311 | -->'''Kimberly:''' ''Umm... isn't this usually the part where we win?'' |
| 312 | * PoorCommunicationKills: The fight is started when Hunk (in the Yellow Lion) goes up to greet the Power Rangers. Mistaking the Yellow Lion as an enemy, they immediately summon their Zords to attack and prompting the Paladins to respond. This leads to the destruction of the Megazord and Red Lion, and the deaths of the Power Rangers. |
| 313 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: The Zords are solar-powered, so as long as they have sunlight they will never run out of power. Once they're out of the sun though (even if just during a solar eclipse) they start losing power very quickly. Luckily, the [[CoolSword Power Sword]] can provide a quick recharge if need be. |
| 314 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: All the Rangers get one before they merge into the Megazord: |
| 315 | -->'''Jason:''' ''Alright, Rangers! Log on!''\ |
| 316 | '''Zack:''' ''Zack here! This is kickin'!''\ |
| 317 | '''Billy:''' ''This is Billy: all systems go!''\ |
| 318 | '''Trini:''' ''Trini reporting! Ready to rock!''\ |
| 319 | '''Kimberly:''' ''I love this part! Let's tame these kitties!'' |
| 320 | * RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: The {{Trope Namer}}s. Wizard considers Zordon's decision to recruit "overbearing and emotional human beings" to be asinine. Why Zordon did so, we'll never know, but they're still far from ineffective. |
| 321 | * StockFootage: The same shot of the rangers flailing around in the Megazord cockpit is used several times whenever they suffer a blow to simulate the show's reliance on StockFootage. |
| 322 | * SuperStrength: Strong enough to lift and punch Kaiju-sized monsters weighing potentially 10,000 tonnes at least a hundred feet into the air with a single strike, which would require at least 90 million Newtons of force (x50 that of the force of a space shuttle's initial thrusters). Still not quite as strong as Voltron, who can kick giant monsters a third as heavy almost ''twenty'' times higher, which would require at least 5.5x more force. |
| 323 | * TogetherInDeath: This is the Rangers' ultimate fate after being blown up by Voltron. |
| 324 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: Trini and Kimberly are the only female members of the five-member Power Rangers. |
| 325 | * ValleyGirl: Kim's a valley girl, [[Music/FrankZappa fer sure, fer sure,]] but that doesn't mean she's useless; she possesses Olympic-level abilities at gymnastics. |
| 326 | * WeakButSkilled: The Megazord has less shear strength than Voltron but has greater skill in using it both when armed with the Power Sword and unarmed due to its five martial artist pilots. Voltron's greater power, combined with its greater speed and long-range weapons, is enough to overcome this. |
| 327 | * WeaksauceWeakness: The Megazord is solar-powered, thus forcing it to fight during the day; otherwise nighttime or a solar eclipse will drain its batteries. However, it's overlooked as the fight takes place with plenty of sunlight to spare with Voltron having no way to abuse this weakness. |
| 328 | * WreckedWeapon: The Mammoth Shield eventually shatters from the damage received from Voltron's final barrage, leaving the Megazord open for the killing sword blow. |
| 329 | |
| 330 | !![[Anime/{{Voltron}} Voltron Lion Force]] |
| 331 | --->'''Keith''': ''"Form feet and legs! Form arms and body! And, I'll form the head!"''\ |
| 332 | '''Paladins voiced by:''' [[WebVideo/GameTheory Matthew Patrick]] (Keith), [[WebVideo/PeanutButterGamer Austin Hargrave]] (Lance), [[Creator/{{Lanipator}} Nick Landis]] (Hunk), Creator/AmandaLee (Allura), and [[Creator/KaiserNeko Scott Frerichs]] (Pidge)\ |
| 333 | \ |
| 334 | ''The Defender of the Universe Piloted by Five Paladins'' |
| 335 | |
| 336 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Outclasses the Megazord everywhere, and is the basis for the Lion Force's victory against the Power Rangers. |
| 337 | * AnimalMecha: Voltron is comprised of five sentient lion-shaped mechs. |
| 338 | * BigNo: Pidge, after Lance is cut off from the rest of Voltron. |
| 339 | * ColourCodedForYourConvenience: [[DefiedTrope Defied]], to his irritation Boomstick points out Pidge is the only one to wear and pilot a Lion of the same color, which is green (Keith wears [[RedIsHeroic red]] and pilots Black Lion, Lance wears blue and pilots Red Lion, Hunk wears orange and pilots Yellow Lion, and Allura wears [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] and pilots Blue Lion). |
| 340 | * CombiningMecha: The Red, Black, Blue, Yellow, and Green Lions can combine to form the humanoid Voltron. |
| 341 | * CompositeCharacter: While the episode itself will use the original Lion Force[=/=]''Anime/GoLion'' lineup, there will also be usage of the ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' series and terminology. More importantly, however, this take on the original lineup takes a page out of ''Legendary Defender'' by incorporating elements of ''[=GoLion=]'s'' lore. For example: |
| 342 | ** Sven is mentioned as the original pilot of the Blue Lion but is stated to have been killed as Shirogane was, instead of simply being injured. |
| 343 | ** Hunk's given name is given as Tsuyoshi, his [=GoLion=] counterpart's name. |
| 344 | ** While not from [=GoLion=] OR Legendary Defender, Pidge's real name here is given as Darrell, his name from the Devil's Due comic adaptation. |
| 345 | * CoolSword: The Blazing Sword, the most powerful and iconic weapon in Voltron's arsenal that can recharge Voltron's energy and shoot {{Sword Beam}}s. |
| 346 | * CurbStompCushion: Despite the post-fight analysis ruling that Voltron severely outclasses the Megazord, there are moments where the Megazord gets the upper hand. It loses to the Megazord in a blade clash, disarming the Lion Force of their sword for a chunk of the fight. The Rangers manage to cut off Voltron's right arm and pin its left arm down by freezing it. It also takes Voltron having to fire [[MoreDakka EVERYTHING they have]] to buy enough time for Pidge to retrieve Voltron's sword. |
| 347 | * DavidVersusGoliath: Much like Zechs Merquise and the Gundam Epyon in their fight against the Tigerzord, Voltron is the David here-- as it is the physically smaller combatant by an evident margin. They still win, much like their biblical counterpart. |
| 348 | * HandicappedBadass: Voltron gets its right arm cut off, which also removes Lance from the rest of Voltron, near the end of the fight but still manages to take the win. |
| 349 | * HeroicSacrifice: Lance blocks Pidge from a strike from the Megazord's Power Sword, though whether it was fatal or not is left ambiguous in the fight itself. WordOfGod is that Lance survived and would have appeared in the post-fight animation had it not been cut due to time limitations. |
| 350 | * HeroicSecondWind: The hosts take special care to note that Pidge will ''completely flip out'' given the right circumstances. Pidge is overcome with righteous fury when Lance takes a potentially fatal blow for him, giving him the resolve to shake off the ice that pinned down Voltron's left arm and sock the Megazord in the face before it could land the finishing blow. This gave Voltron enough time and space to keep the Megazord at bay while Pidge rockets off to snatch the Blazing Sword, ultimately leading to the Paladins' victory. |
| 351 | * ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Voltron uses its {{Flight}} capabilities to help it move impossibly quickly for a robot of its size. |
| 352 | * InferredSurvival: Lance's fate is left unknown after his lion is cut off from the rest. WordOfGod is that he did survive, but that scene was cut due to time restraints. |
| 353 | * LeaderFormsTheHead: While Voltron has different forms based on which lion goes where its default warrior form has Keith forming the head. Also, unlike the Power Rangers, the Lion Force does not share a cockpit inside the giant mech, they each remain in their own individual Lions. This leads to Lance being removed from the fight when one of Voltron's arms is knocked off. |
| 354 | * LightningBruiser: Voltron has speed, power, and a wide array of attacks to keep its foes on their toes. This was more than enough to overwhelm the slower Megazord. |
| 355 | * LongRangeFighter: Due to the fact four of the five Paladins are inside the hands and feet of Voltron, which would make close-combat rather risky, they prefer to attack enemies from a distance with lasers and weaponry. They completely outclass the Megazord in this regard and possess more than enough speed and weaponry to keep the fight at such a range without the Megazord taking heavy damage closing the distance. Even the [[AttackReflector Mammoth Shield]] could only deflect so many attacks before it finally broke under the strain. |
| 356 | * {{Magitek}}: Voltron is described as the culmination of powerful technology and magic, and was once a fully sentient being before an evil spell split it into the five Lions. |
| 357 | * MoreDakka: Voltron summons various spinning blades to pummel the Megazord early on and fires everything they got to stop the Megazord and buy Pidge time. |
| 358 | -->'''Keith:''' ''Give him covering fire!''\ |
| 359 | '''Allura:''' ''With what?''\ |
| 360 | '''Keith:''' '''''[[PreMortemOneLiner EVERYTHING!!!]]''''' |
| 361 | * OhCrap: |
| 362 | ** As the Paladins scan the area for "prehistoric activity", Hunk drops this when the Power Rangers call in their Zords: |
| 363 | -->'''Pidge:''' ''Uh... Hunk? What's happening?''\ |
| 364 | '''Hunk:''' ''I think I found the dinosaurs...'' |
| 365 | ** The five of them stare in horror when they see the Megazord is almost twice as tall as Voltron is. |
| 366 | * PintsizedPowerhouse: Voltron qualifies as this when compared to the Megazord. The Megazord might be bigger than Voltron and weigh more than it, but Voltron is still able to keep up with it and manages to beat it. Voltron has even performed feats that show it has strength at least 5.5 times greater than the Megazord. |
| 367 | * PoorCommunicationKills: The fight is started when Hunk (in the Yellow Lion) goes up to greet the Power Rangers. Mistaking the Yellow Lion as an enemy, they immediately summon their Zords to attack and prompting the Paladins to respond. This leads to Voltron destroying the Megazord and killing off the Power Rangers, as well as Red Lion's sacrifice. |
| 368 | * PyrrhicVictory: While they win the fight, the Red Lion took some considerable damage. |
| 369 | * RaceLift: In most iterations of the series, Hunk generally had ambiguously Asian features. In the battle, he's unmistakably Caucasian. |
| 370 | * RocketPunch: Combined with UseYourHead as one of Voltron's attacks involve launching its fists and its feet (which are also the lions' heads.) Voltron's final rally has Pidge detach himself to get the Blazing Sword to put the Megazord down for good. |
| 371 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Princess Allura joins the team after the original pilot of the Blue Lion, Sven Holgersson, [[CharacterDeath comes down with a bad case of stabbing]]. |
| 372 | * SayMyName: Pidge, after Lance is cut off from the rest of Voltron. |
| 373 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Allura is the only female member of the Voltron Lion Force. |
| 374 | * SoullessShell: Voltron used to be a fully sentient GiantMecha, but an evil space spell cast by a space witch robbed Voltron of its sentience and split the Robo into the five Lions, who need pilots to reform the now soulless Voltron. |
| 375 | * SuperSpeed: The Lions are capable of traversing galaxies faster than the speed of light, speeds that the Megazord can't even begin to approach. |
| 376 | * SuperStrength: Strong enough to kick Kaiju-sized monsters weighing potentially nearly 4,000 tonnes several hundred feet into the air with a single strike. Much more impressive than the Megazord, which has punched heavier Kaiju but over much shorter distances. |
| 377 | * SuperToughness: Voltron survived landing on the Omega Comet, whose gravitational pull was so strong it could destroy planets within 62 miles of itself and was stated to be comparable to a ''black hole''. This meant Voltron had to be capable of surviving forces of over 13 sextillion Newtons, far surpassing both the Megazord's strength and durability and allowing it to survive tanking its own redirected projectiles long enough to destroy the Mammoth Shield. |
| 378 | * TakingTheBullet: Lance takes a hit from the Megazord to protect Pidge when his Lion is frozen. |
| 379 | * UnskilledButStrong: Voltron is noted to be extremely powerful, but it lacks the finesse and skill of martial artists, unlike the Megazord. However, that power is more than enough to make up for the difference. |
| 380 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Voltron ''used'' to have a weak spot where Blue Lion connected to Black Lion, but after one attack, they fixed it... and went ahead and added a new weakness, but hidden better. Also, hitting any of the joints hard enough will sever that Lion from the rest of Voltron. Lance is detached from his team when he saves a frozen Pidge from being sliced by the Megazord, taking the attack in his place. |
| 381 | [[/folder]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[folder:Natsu VS Ace]] |
| 384 | * ElementalPunch: Both combatants are known for using fire enhanced punches as a signature attack. |
| 385 | * PlayingWithFire: Well obviously it's what links both combatants. |
| 386 | ** Natsu's the Fire Dragon Slayer, which not only gives him the ability to create flames but ''[[FeedItWithFire eat]]'' them to restore his energy (though it doesn't work on flames he produces himself). His ability to consume fire gives him the edge in this fight, giving him a way to counter almost all of Ace's arsenal, and more importantly, limiting Ace's ability to become intangible to his attacks, giving Natsu more opportunities to kill him. |
| 387 | ** Due to the Mera Mera no Mi, Ace can control fire. |
| 388 | |
| 389 | !![[Franchise/FairyTail Natsu Dragneel]] |
| 390 | --->'''Natsu''': ''"I think it's time we stopped playing around. Let's get down to the real fight! I'm gonna shatter you into a million pieces!"''\ |
| 391 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/HowardWang\ |
| 392 | \ |
| 393 | ''The Dragon Slayer Mage of the Fairy Tail Guild'' |
| 394 | |
| 395 | * BondOneLiner: After blasting Ace into ashes-- |
| 396 | -->'''Natsu''': (''wiping his forehead'') Phew! All's well that end's well! Hahaha! (''cue an explosion in the background'') |
| 397 | * BreathWeapon: His Fire Dragon's Roar allows him to shoot a torrent of magic flames from his mouth. His Lightning Fire Dragon's Roar does the same thing, but with lightning added on. It's his finisher against Ace. |
| 398 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Born the brother of the Black Wizard Zeref 400 years in the past before dying from a dragon attack, he was brought BackFromTheDead as a demon by said brother (now [[WhoWantsToLiveForever cursed]]) as both to let him live his life and [[DeathSeeker kill him someday]], then his dragon teacher and adoptive father Igneel went missing without a trace and ended up being killed brutally right in front of Natsu's eyes when he found him again years later. |
| 399 | * DestructiveSaviour: Like most of the Fairy Tail guild, he tends to cause ''lots'' of collateral damage. He wins against Ace... but the whole place is on fire and a building explodes after that. Naturally, he gets kicked out of the tavern in the post-battle shot due to the massive destruction the fight caused. |
| 400 | * DisproportionateRetribution: {{Downplayed}}. Natsu basically engages in mortal combat with Ace because he ran away without paying for his food. Hey, the Death Battle [[AnthropicPrinciple has to happen somehow.]] He doesn't even realize Ace is a world-class wanted criminal once during the fight, as his bounty poster is burned to a crisp and Ace never bothers to mention it. Though to be fair to Natsu he did warn Ace to return the stolen food lest he has to fight him. |
| 401 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Mentioned during his analysis that he one-shotted a War God. |
| 402 | * ElementalPunch: Several of his attacks, such as Fire Dragon's Claw and Fire Dragon's Iron Fist, involve him wreathing his hands in flames before punching or otherwise striking his opponent. |
| 403 | * FeedItWithFire: Literally! Natsu can eat flames that aren't his, even regenerating his magic power. This helped him keep his mana levels high since Ace's flames were ''everywhere'', and in turn rendered most of Ace's arsenal useless. It also acted as a deterrent for turning into flames, as Ace nearly got eaten when he tried to do so. |
| 404 | * GlassCannon: At least, compared to Ace's StoneWall. His speed and strength are deemed superior to Ace's. Fortunately for him, the SOURCE of Ace's defense played right into one of Natsu's greatest strengths, turning a stalemate into a win for him. |
| 405 | * IdiotHero: {{Subverted}}, the hosts make mention that Natsu is a genius when it comes to improvising on the fly in the heat of combat. It's how he figures out how to take Ace down. |
| 406 | * InterspeciesAdoption: He was adopted by Igneel, a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Fire Dragon]]. Boomstick notes the {{Irony}} in Natsu being adopted by a dragon, the same type of creature responsible for killing him and his family. |
| 407 | * LeeroyJenkins: One of Natsu's greatest weaknesses is that he tends to rush into fights guns blazing with everything he's got from the start, which can quickly drain his Magic reserves in a prolonged fight. Luckily for him, Ace's over-reliance on flames gave him no shortage of opportunities to replenish his energy. |
| 408 | * MadeOfIron: Natsu has survived some extremely damaging attacks before, including Jellal's Grand Chariot, which he boasted had strength comparable to [[ColonyDrop an actual meteor]]. Ace is his superior here but on top of Natsu's [[NoSell immunity to fire it left very few options for Ace actually putting Natsu down]]. |
| 409 | * NoSell: Due to being the [[PlayingWithFire Fire Dragon Slayer]], Natsu is more or less immune to both natural and artificially-created flames with few exceptions. He once jumped on top of Atlas Flame, a dragon whose skin was [[WreathedInFlames literal fire]], and suffered no injury whatsoever. He's able to absorb all of Ace's Logia attacks. |
| 410 | * OhCrap: Right before Ace hits him with his Firefly/Fire Doll combo. Then he just eats the thing. |
| 411 | * OneManArmy: Can easily annihilate dozens of soldiers at once with a single Dragon's Roar. At full power, he can take down exactly 973 trained soldiers with a single attack. |
| 412 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: His backstory involves being resurrected as a demon by his elder brother Zeref. |
| 413 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: When he gets going, entire towns are lost as collateral damage. The town that plays host to this battle is no exception, and he's thrown out of the tavern when he tries to visit it after his victory. |
| 414 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: |
| 415 | ** Upon activating his Fire Dragon King Mode: |
| 416 | -->'''Natsu''': Time to turn up the heat! |
| 417 | ** Right before he shows Ace he ''can'' get past his {{Intangibility}}. |
| 418 | -->'''Ace''': Like I said, you can't touch me.\ |
| 419 | '''Natsu''': (grinning) I'm not trying to! Lightning Dragon Fire Mode! |
| 420 | * PreMortemOneLiner: "[[CallingYourAttack LIGHTNING FIRE DRAGON ROAR!]]"[[note]]Proceeds to incinerate Ace completely with lightning afterwards.[[/note]] |
| 421 | * RedBaron: "Salamander". |
| 422 | * ShockAndAwe: His Lightning-Flame Dragon Mode allows him to wield [[LightningFireJuxtaposition lightning alongside his flames]] for increased destructive power. It proves to be a boon during the fight, as Ace has no immunity to his lightning element. |
| 423 | * SuperMode: Three of them. Lightning-Flame Dragon Mode lets him add [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] to his attacks for extra power, and Dragon Force, the most powerful state a Dragon Slayer can reach aside from turning into a dragon themselves, increases both his physical and magical power exponentially, though the latter originally required consuming large sources of outside magic before he figured out how to activate it at will. Fire Dragon King Mode allows him to raise his power to that of a Dragon on the level of Igneel. Lightning-Flame Dragon Mode ends up being one of his two aces in the hole, giving him the ability to hit the fire-immune Ace and put him down for good. |
| 424 | * SuperSenses: Thanks to becoming a Dragon Slayer, Natsu has enhanced five senses, particularly his senses of smell and hearing. His [[WeaksauceWeakness motion sickness]] is actually a direct result of his Dragon senses overloading his semicircular canals while on transportation. |
| 425 | * SuperSpeed: He's moved faster than the eye could see on numerous occasions, placing his speeds around 9,000 mph. It's fast enough to outdo Ace's SuperReflexes. |
| 426 | * SuperStrength: He's lifted giant blocks of stone estimated at weighing 135 tons. He's deemed physically stronger than Ace, but his opponent's {{Intangibility}} lets him render this edge useless at first. |
| 427 | * UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: The unstoppable force to Ace's immovable object, with the strength, speed, and firepower to blow up anything in his way. He wins against Ace, due to having a special element that negates Ace's invulnerability. |
| 428 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Becoming a Dragon Slayer makes one extremely susceptible to motion sickness due to his SuperSenses receiving overloading stimuli and can leave him quickly incapacitated if he's on just about ''any'' mode of transportation. This only applies as long as he's on said moving object. Mentioned during the analysis but not shown during the battle, likely since Ace had no means of exploiting it even if he did discover it. |
| 429 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Expresses disbelief upon realizing Ace is literally made of fire after plowing right through his chest. |
| 430 | |
| 431 | !![[Franchise/OnePiece Portgas D. Ace]] |
| 432 | --->'''Ace''': ''"I can't allow that. I'll take care of this on my own!"''\ |
| 433 | '''Voiced by:''' Valentine Stokes\ |
| 434 | \ |
| 435 | ''The Feared Pirate Known as "Fire Fist"'' |
| 436 | |
| 437 | * AttackBackfire: Attacks and surrounds Natsu with his Firefly/Fire Doll attack, causing massive fire explosions that Natsu had no hope of avoiding. Natsu doesn't ''need'' to avoid at all since he literally [[FeedItWithFire eats all of the attack to make himself even stronger.]] |
| 438 | * BigEater: Like his brother Luffy. The fight starts when he runs out of a shop refusing to pay for his chicken leg, and when Natsu tells him to bring it back, he eats the entire thing ''including the bones'' right in front of him. |
| 439 | * CripplingOverspecialization: Ultimately one-half of his downfall. As most of his arsenal is fire-based, he lacked an effective way to kill the fire-eating Natsu. |
| 440 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: His graphic incineration by Natsu's Lightning-Flame Dragon Mode has him screaming out in pain as his body melts away. |
| 441 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Hoo boy. Born the son of the Pirate King, he was only saved from being killed at birth because his mother kept him in her womb for an extra 11 months (which ended up killing her). He then spent his childhood being told he should never have been born and that he's a cursed monster because of who his father was. |
| 442 | * DeadHatShot: Once completely incinerated, a close up on a piece of Ace's necklace falling onto the ground happens. |
| 443 | * ElementalPunch: His most well-known attack and the one that gave him his moniker is the "Fire Fist". |
| 444 | * ElementalShapeshifter: Having obtained the powers of a Logia-class Devil Fruit, he gains the ability to shapeshift into its element. In this case, it's fire. Unfortunately for him, Natsu ''eats fire'', meaning that he had to ''avoid'' using this and leave himself vulnerable in a physical state more often. |
| 445 | * EyeScream: Disturbingly, his eyes can be seen ''boiling away'' as the rest of his body is vaporized. |
| 446 | * FantasticNuke: His Great Flame Commandment: Flame Emperor attack is compared to a [[Anime/DragonBallZ Spirit Bomb]] made of fire. Natsu plows right through it at the climax. |
| 447 | * FingerGun: Can shoot bullets of flame from his fingertips by making this gesture. |
| 448 | * HeroicBastard: The illegitimate son of Pirate King Gold Roger and his girlfriend Portgas D. Rouge. |
| 449 | * IntangibleMan: Thanks to the Mera Mera no Mi being a Logia-class Devil Fruit, Ace can turn his body into his specific element to let attacks pass harmlessly through him. However, it's not a perfect defense, as attacks that are of a superior magnitude to his flames can still hurt him, like [[MagmaMan lava]] which was how he was canonically killed, and other elemental attacks which clash with fire can do the same. As well, it's not an active defense and needs to be triggered consciously, though his SuperReflexes more than make up for that part. As Natsu could consume him in this form, he's forced to use his more vulnerable corporeal form more frequently, giving his opponent more opportunities to land a fatal blow. Even discounting that, Natsu's [[ShockAndAwe lightning attacks can bypass his elemental immunities]]. |
| 450 | * IShallTauntYou: Twice taunts Natsu about how [[IntangibleMan none of his attacks can touch him]]. Natsu proves him wrong the second time, to his fatal regret. |
| 451 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: While Death Battle usually tries to avoid spoiling its combatants' home canon unless it's relevant to the outcome, they dropped a spoiler about Ace in no uncertain terms in his analysis: that he was killed halfway through One Piece's run (at the time of airing) |
| 452 | * NightmareFace: As he's disintegrating, we get an up-close and thankfully brief view of his skin charring black and his eyeballs melting away as he screams. |
| 453 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: Natsu utterly obliterates Ace's body with his final attack. |
| 454 | * NoSell: The Mera Mera no Mi grants him immunity to fire attacks in addition to ''becoming'' fire. This helps even out the playing field against most of Natsu's attacks, but his inability to replenish his energy like Natsu from fire as well as ''not'' being immune to lightning comes to bite him. |
| 455 | * OhCrap: Upon realizing Natsu can seriously eat fire. He has another one when he realizes that Natsu has a way to bypass his intangibility and immunity to flames. |
| 456 | * OneManArmy: Can take down several Marine battleships with a single fire fist attack. |
| 457 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: |
| 458 | ** Before unleashing his Firefly/Fire Doll combo: |
| 459 | -->'''Ace''': Not bad, hotshot. But you can't even touch me. |
| 460 | ** And again upon unleashing his [[FantasticNuke Great Flame Commandment: Flame Emperor]]: |
| 461 | -->'''Ace''': Try eating ''this''! |
| 462 | * StoneWall: At least, compared to Natsu's GlassCannon. His endurance and defense are deemed superior to his opponent, thanks to his feat of being able to fight the Shichibukai Jinbei for five days straight and emerge victoriously. Unfortunately for him, the SOURCE of his defense played right into one of Natsu's greatest strengths, turning a stalemate into a loss for him. |
| 463 | * RedBaron: "Fire Fist" Ace. |
| 464 | * SuperDrowningSkills: Due to his Devil Fruit, he sinks like a stone in water and he's completely paralyzed to boot while it happens. |
| 465 | * SuperReflexes: He's fast enough to turn intangible to avoid a sniper shot, meaning his reaction time has to be at least 0.25 seconds. Not quite fast enough to keep up with Natsu's full speed. |
| 466 | * ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Due to the way Devil Fruits work, there can only be one Mera Mera No Mi in existence at a time and therefore one user of its power, with the only way for a new one to appear is for the previous owner to die. Somewhere in the world, a new one will grow after this fight ended. |
| 467 | * UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: The immovable object to Natsu's unstoppable force, with his Devil Fruit letting him phase through nearly anything, and having the stamina to fight for days on end without tiring. Ace loses out, due to Natsu's lightning rendering his intangibility useless. |
| 468 | * VerbThis: Tells Natsu to "try and eat this" upon unleashing his [[FantasticNuke Great Flame Commandment: Flame Emperor]]. Natsu doesn't, he just plows right through it unharmed. |
| 469 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: In contrast to the equally bare-chested Natsu, who at least [[NoShirtLongJacket wears an open vest]], all Ace wears is a necklace. |
| 470 | * WantedPoster: His is burnt up in the aftermath of the fight. Since Natsu didn't know he was a wanted criminal, his bounty will never be claimed. |
| 471 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Due to consuming a Devil Fruit, falling into a body of water not only takes away his ability to use fire or turn intangible but also physically drains his strength away and can easily make him drown if the water's deep enough. This only remains true as long as he's in contact with said water. Left unmentioned during the analysis, likely since Natsu had no ready means of abusing it even if he figured it out not that he needed to. |
| 472 | * WorthyOpponent: Admits Natsu's "not bad", but remains confident in his {{Intangibility}} in helping him see the battle through. As events would show, Natsu was a bit more than just "not bad". |
| 473 | [[/folder]] |
| 474 | |
| 475 | [[folder:Sub-Zero VS Glacius]] |
| 476 | !![[Franchise/MortalKombat Sub-Zero II (Kuai Liang)]] |
| 477 | --->'''Sub-Zero''': ''"Shirai Ryu dog."''\ |
| 478 | '''Scorpion''': ''"Lin Kuei scum!"''\ |
| 479 | '''Sub-Zero''': ''"Death is more honor than you deserve."''\ |
| 480 | \ |
| 481 | ''The Cyromancer Ninja of Mortal Kombat'' |
| 482 | |
| 483 | * ActuallyADoombot: He can create an ice clone of himself that he can switch places with, taking damage in his place and, if the opponent touches it, freezing them in place. He uses it to escape being frozen and then melted by Glacius, setting up his own killing blow. |
| 484 | * AmplifierArtifact: In the original continuity, Sub-Zero had a special medallion called the Dragon Medallion that increased his powers. Frost tried to take it from him with disastrous results. |
| 485 | * AnArmAndALeg: Glacius melts off Sub-Zero's forearm. It's only his ice clone teleportation that lets the rest of him escape alive. |
| 486 | * AnIcePerson: The original, if not one the {{Trope Codifier}}s, of ice-using people in fighting games. The hosts posit that to cause the instant freezing on contact, Sub-Zero's ice must exceed temperatures beyond what is realistically possible. While he and Glacius had relatively even ice powers, Sub-Zero was physically strong enough to penetrate Glacius' armor and fast enough to make the opportunity to do so. |
| 487 | * BeyondTheImpossible: Sub-Zero's ability to freeze people instantly on contact is postulated to be many ''many'' times greater than Absolute Zero, which is literally impossible. |
| 488 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: The hosts note that Sub-Zero has fought gods, aliens and fellow ice warriors, just to name a few. While Glacius was a tough opponent, he wasn't anything that Sub-Zero hadn't fought, and won against, before. |
| 489 | * CompositeCharacter: The Sub-Zero in this fight is explicitly Kuai Liang, but the sprites used in the animation are of his brother and the first Sub-Zero, Bi-Han. |
| 490 | * CoolSword: Literally. The Kori Blade is a weapon Kuai Liang has used since ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'', a sword created using his cryomancer powers. |
| 491 | * CycleOfRevenge: Scorpion and Sub-Zero were once stuck in this cycle, started by Bi-Han slaughtering off the splinter clan of the Shirai Ryu, but had it ended when Scorpion realized that the Sub-Zero he faced now wasn't the one who murdered him and his family. The two have even set aside their blood feud over a tea ceremony, or as the hosts refer to it, brunch. |
| 492 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Kidnapped from his family at a young age, trained to become a ruthless murderer, his brother killed and resurrected as an evil wraith, always trying to live up to said brother's legacy, being unwilling turned into a cyborg, killed and brainwashed before being resurrected and freed from said brainwashing…Sub-Zero's carrying a lot of emotional baggage. |
| 493 | * DeathByDisfigurement: Gets his hand melted off by Glacius before the rest of him gets consumed by Glacius' liquid form… but {{subverted}} when it turns out Sub-Zero managed to switch places with his ice clone teleportation at the last second, though he's still unable to save said hand. |
| 494 | * DragonRider: While not used in the fight itself, the hosts make mention of how he eventually hatched and tamed dragons for the Lin Kuei in his ''Mortal Kombat X'' ending. |
| 495 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Kuai Liang bears a scar over his right eye. |
| 496 | * ImMelting: Gets caught in Glacius' liquid form and appears to be melted. Subverted as he used his reflexes and an ice clone teleport to get out in time and it was the clone that melted instead. |
| 497 | * InadequateInheritor: Despite his accomplishments, Kuai Liang for a long time felt pressured by being Bi-Han's younger brother and the idea of living up to his legacy as Sub-Zero more than once ended up clouding his own judgement in battle. However, [[SuperiorSuccessor time would prove he was quite the opposite]]. |
| 498 | * KamehameHadoken: How Sub-Zero usually fires his trademark Ice Blast. |
| 499 | * LegacyCharacter: The first Sub-Zero is Bi-Han, who was killed by Scorpion in Mortal Kombat and reborn as Noob Saibot. The second and current Sub-Zero is Bi-Han's younger brother Kuai Liang, who took up the name in honor of his fallen sibling. The fight focuses on Kuai Lang specifically. |
| 500 | * McNinja: Both Bi-Han and Kuai Liang are of mixed Chinese-American ancestry and the Lin Kuei is Chinese in origin, though they claim not to be such (Kuai Liang, in particular, dislikes the Lin Kuei being seen as ninjas since it associates him with Scorpion). His ninja training and teleportation allowed him to outmaneuver Glacius' keep-away strategy and get the opening needed to win. |
| 501 | * MeaningfulName: "Sub-Zero", as in temperatures below [[AnIcePerson freezing]]. Wiz notes that it's unclear if Bi-Han originally used the moniker as a [[{{Pun}} joke]] or if he legitimately thought it was an AwesomeMcCoolName. |
| 502 | * OffWithHisHead: The originator of the most infamous decapitation fatality in ''Mortal Kombat'', the Spine Rip, in which he rips the head of his opponent off with their entire spine dangling from it. Kuai Liang would proudly copy it from his brother. It's how he succeeds in killing Glacius. |
| 503 | * OldMaster: As of ''Mortal Kombat X'', he's been the master of the Lin Kuei for several decades. |
| 504 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: Right after Glacius shows himself from his ship: |
| 505 | -->'''Sub-Zero:''' You will know the chill of death. |
| 506 | * PreMortemOneLiner: A pretty simple one before he attempts to rip Glacius' spine out. While he fails the first time around, he successfully fakes Glacius out to pull it off the second go around. |
| 507 | -->'''Sub-Zero:''' Time to die. |
| 508 | * PunchParry: He and Glacius share one when Sub-Zero tries to set up a Fatality. He loses his hand as a result. |
| 509 | * PyrrhicVictory: Sub-Zero wins the fight, but loses a hand in the process. |
| 510 | * RedeemingReplacement: To his brother. Ultimately, Kuai Liang rebuilds the Lin Kuei as a force of good and buries the hatchet with Scorpion and the Shirai Ryu. |
| 511 | * ScissorsCutsRock: The hosts make mention that he's defeated Sektor and Scorpion numerous times, despite both combatants possessing the elemental advantage of [[PlayingWithFire fire]]. |
| 512 | * SpontaneousWeaponCreation: He can form all manner of melee weapons out of ice using the moisture in the air, with his most well-known being the [[CoolSword Kori Blade]]. |
| 513 | * SuperiorSuccessor: Kuai Liang would grow much more powerful than his brother ever was, alive or undead. |
| 514 | * SuperStrength: Strong enough to shatter titanium statues apart, which would require 63,000 pounds of force per square inch to do. More than enough strength to break Glacius's armor (which could, at best, withstand 57,000 PSI) and reach the vulnerable form within. |
| 515 | * SuperReflexes: His ninja training and life experiences have massively augmented his reflexes. As such, he had little trouble keeping pace with and dodging Glacius's long-range attacks to close the distance. In the fight itself, Sub-Zero almost gets devoured by Glacius' liquid form, losing a hand in the process but teleports out at the last possible second. |
| 516 | * SuperSpeed: He's able to use his ice clones as a sort of near-instant teleportation, letting him move at speeds that even other assassins in his home canon are baffled by. It's the key to his victory, letting him get past Glacius' ranged arsenal and crack him open. |
| 517 | * TaughtByExperience: Kuai Liang has fought ninjas, robot-ninjas, secret agents, movie stars, gods and fellow ice warriors countless times throughout his life. As such, an alien like Glacius barely registers on the weirdness-sensor for him. |
| 518 | * {{Tykebomb}}: Both Bi-Han and Kuai Liang were abducted from their parents and inducted into the Lin Kuei training as children and raised to be the best assassins the clan ever produced. |
| 519 | * UnwillingRoboticization: In the new continuity, Kuai Liang was transformed into Cyber Sub-Zero as part of the Lin Kuei's Cyber Initiative instead of Smoke. He recovered after being killed and brought BackFromTheDead before the events of ''Mortal Kombat X''. |
| 520 | * WorthyOpponent: Gives this type of respect to Glacius during their fight. |
| 521 | -->'''Sub-Zero:''' You're a formidable warrior, but you lack conviction. |
| 522 | |
| 523 | !![[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Glacius]] |
| 524 | --->'''Glacius''': *roars*\ |
| 525 | \ |
| 526 | ''The Icy Alien with a Killer Instinct'' |
| 527 | |
| 528 | * AchillesHeel: His elemental shell is hard to crack, but he has a soft, gooey center, which is much less resilient. Sub-Zero is strong enough to crack him open. |
| 529 | * AnIcePerson: Quite literally, as his body is the elemental shell he crafted from ice for himself upon landing on Earth. However, Glacius' ice powers are truly a subset of his [[MindOverMatter real powers]]. Although his ice powers are relatively on par with Sub-Zero's, Sub-Zero was fast enough to get in close enough to crack Glacius's shell and strong enough to get to Glacius's squishy center. |
| 530 | * BizarreAlienBiology: The unnamed race that Glacius is part of creates elemental shells to serve as their bodies when they land on other planets and have two hearts. Glacius chose to make his shell out of ice. He still has a spine, which Sub-Zero is all too proud to display when he rips it out of Glacius' real body. |
| 531 | * ElementalArmor: Glacius can create an extra layer of ice around his body for extra protection. |
| 532 | * EmergencyTransformation: Glacius created his ice shell after it crash-landed in Antarctica when Ultratech shot his ship down and destroyed his original shell. |
| 533 | * HumanoidAlien: Every Glacius is part of an unnamed alien race. |
| 534 | * LegacyCharacter: There are two distinct Glaciuses (Glacii?). One was imprisoned and forced to fight in Killer Instinct, while the other is an ancestor of the first and was tossed forward in time, forcing him to find a way back. The one that appears in the reboot is implied to be one of these two. |
| 535 | * LongRangeFighter: Due to his true form being extremely vulnerable, Glacius's fighting strategy is based around keeping his opponent's at a distance while tearing them apart and, if all else fails, improving his defenses by [[ElementalArmor creating another layer]] or [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shifting into a puddle for mobility]]. Unfortunately for him, Sub-Zero was more than capable of closing the distance and shattering those defenses. |
| 536 | * MindOverMatter: All members of Glacius' species have telekinetic abilities that allow them to manipulate their environments on a molecular level, which is how they craft their ElementalArmor and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting manipulate it at will]]. Despite being impressive, it couldn't be used in a more offensive way beyond manipulating his molecules and being more aggressive against Sub-Zero. |
| 537 | * OffWithHisHead: His frozen skull falls off his spinal cord and shatters on the ground after Sub-Zero punches through his ice armor and rips both out of him. |
| 538 | * PunchParry: He and Sub-Zero share one when Sub-Zero tries to set up a Fatality. He melts Sub-Zero's hand ''off''. |
| 539 | * ScissorsCutsRock: The hosts make mention of how he once killed [[PlayingWithFire Cinder]] from ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''. |
| 540 | * SpacePolice: His job in the reboot; he was sent to Earth to recover alien technology that Ultratech had found and reverse-engineered. He had to improvise after Ultratech shot his ship down. |
| 541 | * SuperStrength: Strong enough to send the 550-lb [[{{Cyborg}} Fulgore]] flying several stories into the air with a punch. While potentially on par with Sub-Zero here, Subby's speed gave him a better chance to land a fatal blow before he could. |
| 542 | * {{Telepathy}}: How he communicates with others. He makes no such effort against Sub-Zero during their battle and settles for just roaring and since he's never shown any real [[MindRape offensive]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy techniques]] with this, it doesn't factor into helping him fight his opponent. |
| 543 | * VictoryFakeOut: Sub-Zero has had one of his hands melted off and Glacius manages to dissolve him for the win… only for TheReveal to hit: Glacius had only melted an ice clone as Sub-Zero had teleported out just in time and is quick to rip his spine out clean. |
| 544 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Glacius can manipulate the ice that makes up his body, allowing him to, among other things, [[BladeBelowTheShoulder morph his arms into giant ice blades]], give himself ElementalArmor, and liquefy himself for better mobility. This is possible thanks to his MindOverMatter powers. His liquid form almost lets him keep up with Sub-Zero and nearly fully absorbs him after melting his hand, but Kuai Liang teleports out at the last second. |
| 545 | [[/folder]] |
| 546 | |
| 547 | [[folder:Android 18 VS Captain Marvel]] |
| 548 | !![[Franchise/DragonBall Android 18 (Lazuli)]] |
| 549 | --->'''Android 18''': ''"I know I'm being hard on you, but it's the only way you'll learn."''\ |
| 550 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/AmberLeeConnors\ |
| 551 | \ |
| 552 | ''The Deadly Cyborg Killer from Dragon Ball'' |
| 553 | |
| 554 | * ActionGirl: One of the few females in the ''Dragon Ball'' series who can keep up with the Z-Warriors. |
| 555 | * AmusingInjuries: When Carol goes [[SuperMode Binary]] and destroys the top of a large stone structure, 18 gets pelted several times by flying rocks to the head, complete with grunts of pain. |
| 556 | * BeamSpam: Her Infinity Bullets attack is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Carol is fast enough to avoid it. |
| 557 | * BondOneLiner: After crushing Captain Marvel's head underfoot-- |
| 558 | -->'''Android 18''': (''nonchalantly'') And that's ''that''. |
| 559 | * BottomlessMagazines: An odd variant: Dr. Gero created 17 and 18 to have endless amounts of energy. This is how they were able to overpower the Z-Warriors in Future Trunks' time. |
| 560 | * BreakTheHaughty: She's on the giving end of these in her fight against Vegeta by not only overpowering him but also breaking his arm. She one-ups herself by breaking ''both'' of Carol's arms before stomping her head in. |
| 561 | * ByTheHair: During the fight, 18 quickly loses patience and ends up swinging and tossing Carol away by her hair. |
| 562 | * CombatPragmatist: 18 is not afraid to play dirty in a fight, and during the battle, she does everything from sucker punches to grabbing Carol's hair to throw her around, which gets Carol angry enough to call her out on it. She also decisively ends the fight by breaking Carol's arms so she can't fight back against her finisher. |
| 563 | * CompositeCharacter: While her analysis draws mostly on the anime and manga, her attack names and her EnergyAbsorption ability come from the video games. |
| 564 | * {{Cyborg}}: She was kidnapped and transformed into one against her will by Dr. Gero alongside her brother (android is an incorrect term for her, as is the Japanese term "artificial human"). |
| 565 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Lazuli and her brother Lapis were kidnapped by the maniacal Dr. Gero in his mad revenge scheme against Son Goku. They were modified into cyborgs with the express purpose of being used to evolve the biomechanical android Cell. |
| 566 | * DeadlyDisc: Knows her husband Krillin's Destructo Disk, which can [[ArmorPiercingAttack cut through just about anything]]. She uses it to slice through a giant rock that Carol sent flying into the air. |
| 567 | * EnergyAbsorption: Website/ScrewAttack incorrectly ascribed the ability to absorb energy from opponents to 18, saying it was rarely used thanks to her own [[BottomlessMagazines practically infinite supply]]. In the fight itself, she uses this ability to absorb the energy from Binary's KamehameHadoken, simultaneously powering herself up and weakening Carol enough for her to deliver the deathblows while smugly pointing out Carol's not the only one who can do it. Ben [[https://twitter.com/BenBSinger/status/877022512022003712 has made a Twitter post]] that he did research on this and found that in both the manga and anime Trunks basically says 'No, they can't absorb energy like 19 and 20'. He does say it doesn't change the outcome of the fight (18 would win regardless) but he does apologize for giving untrue information on Android 18. |
| 568 | * FinishingStomp: 18 ultimately finishes off Carol in this fashion-- breaking both her arms and spiking her into the ground to prevent her from getting away, before diving back down and stomping a hole through her head. |
| 569 | * HalfIdenticalTwin: With her brother Lapis (AKA Android 17), with the main way to differentiate them physically being that 18 is a blonde, and 17 is black-haired. |
| 570 | * HappilyMarried: The hosts show several shots of her married life with Krillin, from looking after their daughter to sparring together. |
| 571 | * KamehameHadoken: Fires one at Carol after her [[BeamSpam Infinity Bullets]] fail to hit her, but Carol [[EnergyAbsorption absorbs the attack]] to unleash her [[SuperMode Binary]] form. |
| 572 | * MadeOfIron: She's tanked ki blasts strong enough to obliterate buildings while only receiving ClothingDamage as a result and blocked blows from Super Saiyan Trunks' sword, which was capable of slicing through and killing Frieza, who survived a [[EarthShatteringKaboom planet burst]]. As such, she could tank just about anything short of attacks from Carol's [[SuperMode Binary form]]. |
| 573 | * MythologyGag: How 18 defeats Carol. She breaks both of her arms to make sure that she stays down, before going for the killing blow. This is the same thing she did to Vegeta in DBZ. |
| 574 | * NonIndicativeName: She's technically a cyborg, not an android. |
| 575 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Post Cell Saga, 18 will really get into fights if it offers money. She threw her match with Hercule in the 25th World Tournament if he would pay her double the prize money so she wouldn't humiliate him and Goku had to bribe her with this to get her to participate in the Tournament of Power. |
| 576 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: As confirmed by WordOfGod, her real name is Lazuli, though everyone calls her '18'. |
| 577 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: |
| 578 | ** When Carol calls her out on "[[CombatPragmatist playing dirty]]"-- |
| 579 | -->'''Android 18''': (''smirks while charging up a ki blast'') Time to clean up, then. |
| 580 | ** When she uses her EnergyAbsorption ability to nullify Captain Marvel's KamehameHadoken-- |
| 581 | -->'''Android 18''': [[IronicEcho Surprise! I can do it too!]] |
| 582 | * RetiredBadass: Unlike Android 17, who continued training after becoming the ranger of a wildlife preserve, 18 decided to essentially settle down, only to fight when it was worth her while. She is still powerful, though, able to kick a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan-powered Kamehameha with ease. To top it off, she kills Captain Marvel. |
| 583 | * SuperSpeed: Fast enough to keep pace with a Super Saiyan. Thanks to prior calculations from the original Goku v. Superman episode, this means she should be capable of reaching speeds over 340,000 mph (they later state in a reply in the Youtube comments for the episode they low-balled her significantly, and that by their calculations she can reach 15,300,000 mph(24,623,000 km/hr) to keep up with Super Saiyan Vegeta during the Android Saga). Much faster than what Captain Marvel can do. |
| 584 | * SuperStrength: Strong enough to punch someone into a cliff face with one arm and break one of Vegeta's arms while he's in Super Saiyan mode. The fact that Vegeta had been training to withstand 450x Earth's gravity before the fight means his bones were able to handle over 40,000 lbs (20 tons) of weight in his human form alone, meaning 18 would have to be able to hit him with over 2,000,000 lbs (1000 tons) of force to overcome the 50x boost the Super Saiyan mode provides, far greater than Captain Marvel's own strength and enough to easily break ''her'' arms. |
| 585 | * UglyGuyHotWife: With Krillin. It's lampshaded by Boomstick, who congratulates Krillin for "laying pipe above [his bracket]". |
| 586 | * VictoryByEndurance: Thanks to possessing a functionally limitless supply of ki from her battery, one of 18's favorite tactics is to let her enemy wear themselves out before going in for the kill, though it can backfire if her enemy is just that much stronger than her. It works out in 18's favour here, allowing her to wear down Captain Marvel overtime before ultimately finishing her. |
| 587 | |
| 588 | !![[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)]] |
| 589 | --->'''Captain Marvel''': ''"Anybody else?"''\ |
| 590 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/TerriDoty\ |
| 591 | \ |
| 592 | ''The Hard-Hitting, High-Flying Avenger'' |
| 593 | |
| 594 | * TheAlcoholic: Even ComicBook/IronMan, no stranger to drinking himself, thinks she's got a problem. |
| 595 | * AnArmAndALeg: In reference to Android 18 incapacitating Super Saiyan Vegeta by breaking his arm with a powerful kick, Captain Marvel dies after having ''both'' her arms shattered the same way by 18, before being spiked down to the ground and having her head crushed underfoot. |
| 596 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Carol Danvers butted heads with her father, who was something of a misogynist, culminating in her joining the Air Force when her father sent her less-intelligent younger brother to college instead of her. It was there that she was exposed to a Kree weapon, granting her the powers of the alien Mar-Vell. After disappearing with the son of Kang the Conqueror, she reappeared, only to have her powers and memories stolen by the mutant Rogue, who was evil at the time. That's just the beginning! |
| 597 | * DiscardAndDraw: Originally a FlyingBrick, Carol gained energy-based powers during a space adventure with the X-Men. |
| 598 | * DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Tells 18 not to make her hurt her when she refuses to back down from taking the Dragon Ball. 18 isn't phased by the threat and turns out she was right not to be. |
| 599 | * EnergyAbsorption: Carol can absorb energy in many different forms to power herself up and nullify enemy attacks, and sufficient energy will transform her into [[SuperMode Binary]]. She absorbs 18's ki blasts during the battle to power up, but 18 eventually catches on and stops using them entirely in favor of physical strength and speed. |
| 600 | -->'''Captain Marvel''': (''after going [[SuperMode Binary]] thanks to Android 18's ki blasts'') Surprise! Thanks for the energy! |
| 601 | * FlamingHair: Her [[SuperMode Binary]] form has this. |
| 602 | * HeadCrushing: This is how she dies, courtesy of 18 smashing her boot through her head. |
| 603 | * IHaveManyNames: She has gone through multiple names, from Ms. Marvel to Binary, Warbird, Ms. Marvel again until she took up Mar-Vell's title in his honour. |
| 604 | * KamehameHadoken: Her Binary form uses a powerful beam as her finishing move against 18. However, it ends up completely backfiring when 18 absorbs the energy from it, powering herself up and weakening Carol enough to kill. |
| 605 | * KilledMidSentence: Right before 18 stomps a hole through her skull-- |
| 606 | -->'''Captain Marvel''': ...no fair. I can still--! (''CRUNCH'') |
| 607 | * LargeHam: As Binary, some of her dialogue can be this: |
| 608 | -->'''Captain Marvel''': HAHAHAHA! Have a taste of your own energy! |
| 609 | * LegacyCharacter: Carol takes the moniker used by the Kree hero Captain Mar-Vell. Her former name, Ms. Marvel, has gone to two others - a former wrestler named Sharon Ventura (now She-Thing) and her most popular replacement [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]]. |
| 610 | * LightEmUp: Thanks to experiments by the Brood, Carol is capable of absorbing and projecting energy. Absorbing enough energy allows her to go into Binary form. |
| 611 | * MadeOfIron: She's survived, albeit wounded by, two point-blank shots from the Destructor's [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]], one of which is strong enough to punch through an Imperial Kree starship. Not quite as impressive as Android 18's durability, however, and not enough to let her survive prolonged physical combat with her either. |
| 612 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: After going [[SuperMode Binary]] and preparing to fire a blast of energy-- |
| 613 | -->'''Captain Marvel''': I can take whatever you dish and give it back ''twice as hard''! |
| 614 | * {{Pride}}: The hosts note that one of her biggest weaknesses is that she's ''really'' stubborn and tends to [[LeeroyJenkins rush straight into dangerous situations while ignoring the advice of her wiser, more experienced allies]]. Said stubbornness both [[ComicBook/CivilWarII started a civil war between Marvel superheroes]] and led her to ignoring Tony Stark's warnings about her [[TheAlcoholic alcohol addiction]]. |
| 615 | * SmugSuper: Carol is ''very'' confident in her own strength and isn't afraid to admit it, especially once she goes [[SuperMode Binary]]. 18 proceeds to [[BreakTheHaughty do to her what she did to Super Saiyan Vegeta]]. |
| 616 | -->'''Captain Marvel''': (''laughs'') HAVE A TASTE OF ''YOUR OWN ENERGY!'' |
| 617 | * SuperMode: Her Binary form, which allows her to control various types of energy as well as gravity itself. However, this form is temporary due to the amount of energy needed to sustain it. 18, once she realized what was happening, was smart enough not to fire off any more ki blasts at her and attack with purely physical force. |
| 618 | * SuperSpeed: Her self-claimed personal record is when she managed to fly from Broadway, New York to the end of the atmosphere in 118 seconds, which according to calculations means she can fly at Mach 247. While impressive, it's about 15,000,000 miles slower than what Android 18 can achieve. |
| 619 | * SuperStrength: She can hit with up to 92 tons of force. Not as strong as 18, however, who can hit with at least ''ten'' times as much force. |
| 620 | * UndignifiedDeath: Has both arms shattered and is knocked into the ground hard enough to make a previous crater even bigger. As she struggles to get back up, she's KilledMidSentence as 18 crushes her head into paste, leaving her corpse slumped on the floor with her ass sticking up in the air. |
| 621 | [[/folder]] |
| 622 | |
| 623 | [[folder:Metal Sonic VS Zero]] |
| 624 | !![[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Metal Sonic]] |
| 625 | --->'''Metal Sonic''': ''"All living things kneel before your master!"''\ |
| 626 | \ |
| 627 | ''Dr. Eggman's Hedgehog Destroyer'' |
| 628 | |
| 629 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Metal Sonic has rebelled against Robotnik on multiple occasions, even overcoming the Doctor's attempts to reprogram him to prevent this from happening. |
| 630 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: All the way back in Season 1, Metal Sonic singlehandedly wiped the floor with both Eggman and Wily's robot armies. Here, Metal ends up being relegated to ''second'' strongest by Wily's ultimate creation. |
| 631 | * AscendedExtra: He first appeared in ''Eggman vs. Wily'' as merely one of Eggman's robots. Fast forward to 58 episodes later, and he is getting his own episode as one of the main combatants. However, this is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example as he ended up pulling a DarkHorseVictory and killed both of the main combatants in that episode. |
| 632 | * AttackBackfire: His crystal spam attack as Metal Overlord is dodged by Zero, and one of the crystals that gets lodged in the ground becomes a ramp for Zero to run up and get an easier shot at him in Absolute Zero form. |
| 633 | * ChestBlaster: He can fire beams of plasma from the turbine in his chest. |
| 634 | * CompositeCharacter: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], he does not have his traits from the Archie Comics unlike Mega Man, Shadow, Knuckles, and Amy Rose as evidence when Zero's proven to be more than capable of reacting to Metal's speed thanks to being superior to the classic Mega Man, who beat Quick Man-- who can move fast enough[[note]]At least 220,000,000 miles per hour, or 320,000,000 feet per second.[[/note]] to dodge lightning. |
| 635 | * ConsolationPrize: With his defeat to Zero following his DarkHorseVictory in Season 1's ''Eggman vs. Wily'', Metal Sonic gains the dubious honor of being the first combatant to win a Death Battle, and then lose in their next one. |
| 636 | * ColorCodedTimestop: When he uses Chaos Control as Metal Overlord, the background and Zero turns into an inverted color version of themselves. Zero doesn't last that way for long, however. |
| 637 | * CurbStompCushion: Although Metal Sonic's feats of speed, strength and durability are noted to be eclipsed by Zero's, he still puts up a very good fight throughout-- eliciting several ''"OhCrap"'' reactions from the normally-stoic and cocky Maverick Hunter. Even after he's defeated, Wiz refers to Metal as a "worthy adversary". |
| 638 | * DashAttack: His [[OverclockingAttack V-Maximum Overdrive]] enables him to rocket forwards at four times his maximum velocity and tear through just about anything in his path by surrounding himself in a plasma shield. |
| 639 | * DavidVsGoliath: While the two combatants start at a similar size, he becomes the Goliath once he transforms into Metal Overlord. And just like Goliath, he's defeated by his smaller opponent. |
| 640 | * DeflectorShields: Metal Sonic can create a black diamond-shaped shield nearly impervious to damage, and can produce a similar effect around him with his [[ShockAndAwe Ring Spark Field]] and [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique V-Maximum Overdrive]] attacks from ''VideoGame/SonicCD''. |
| 641 | * TheDragon: To Dr. Eggman [[TheStarscream when he isn't betraying him]], by being one of the-- if not ''the''-- most powerful robots he's ever built. The hosts even noted this in his original appearance in ''Eggman VS Wily'', calling him Eggman's "ultimate killing machine". |
| 642 | * EvilLaugh: Belts out two, the first being a dark chuckle when he transforms into [[OneWingedAngel Metal Overlord]], and then goes the [[EvilIsHammy full hog]] after using [[TimeStandsStill Chaos Control]] on Zero and charging one final laser, assured of his victory. Unfortunately for him, Zero's [[TimeStandsStill Dark Hold]] comes into play and negates it. |
| 643 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: How he ultimately dies. Absolute Zero overpowers his Metal Overlord form's imperfect Chaos Control with the Dark Hold and uses the opportunity to come down on and bisect him vertically-- causing him to explode. His original form's head survives, though. |
| 644 | * {{Kaiju}}: He becomes one when he becomes Metal Overlord. |
| 645 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: His Black Shield creates an almost impenetrable forcefield around himself. He uses it to block several of Zero's slashes, and even his [[DeathFromAbove Rekkoha]]. |
| 646 | * NotQuiteDead: Like ''Mega Man vs. Astro Boy'', Metal Sonic's head is shown to survive in the post-fight animation while Zero teleports out. Given his robotic nature and that Eggman has repaired him from everything save complete bodily destruction, it's highly likely he can be [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt.]] |
| 647 | * OneWingedAngel: He becomes Metal Overlord during the battle's climax. |
| 648 | * OrbitingParticleShield: Thanks to copying Rouge's Bat Guard, Metal Sonic can do this. He throws it at Zero, but it gets countered by Zero's Yammar Option and a charged shot. |
| 649 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: On the receiving end. Metal is without a doubt a very strong and very deadly opponent who can match and even surpass his organic counterpart Sonic under the right circumstances, but Zero was designed to completely ''eclipse'' the original Mega Man in terms of power and combat capabilities. |
| 650 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: During one of his battles with Sonic, they unleashed enough force to dislodge a stalactite weighing 46 million tons, with the amount of force required to do so being comparable to ''ten times'' the power of the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki]]. This is disregarding his transformations, by the way. Zero, on the other hand, was capable of surviving the explosion of a space colony comparable to the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, which is a much higher level. |
| 651 | * PowerCopying: He can flawlessly replicate an opponent's abilities by simply scanning them. As seen in ''Videogame/SonicRivals'', it even extends to things like Silver's [=ESP=] and telekinesis, Shadow's Chaos powers, and Espio's invisibility. During the fight, he uses Rouge's Bat Guard technique, which Zero counters with Yammar Option. He also copies Zero's Z-Buster and fires off a charged shot that sends Zero through a building. However, Wiz notes that he is not as good as the original users such as his Chaos Control being imperfect as compared to Zero's far more effective Dark Hold. |
| 652 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: Before he transforms into Neo Metal Sonic, and subsequently into Metal Overlord. |
| 653 | -->'''Metal Sonic''': I'LL CRUSH YOU! |
| 654 | * RobotMe: Metal Sonic was created to be the ultimate robotic counterpart to Sonic the Hedgehog. |
| 655 | * RoboticPsychopath: Is shown to be this in his appearances where he has a personality of his own-- he believes himself to be the real Sonic whilst simultaneously acknowledging that he was created for the sole purpose of destroying his organic counterpart. Even outside of this, he's a coldly violent, aggressive, killing machine with a ''huge'' superiority complex. |
| 656 | * RollingAttack: Like Sonic, he can spin-dash to attack enemies-- albeit in a considerably deadlier circular saw-like fashion, due to his metallic body and razor-sharp spines. |
| 657 | * ScaledUp: His ultimate form as Metal Overlord is a giant blue mechanical dragon. |
| 658 | * {{Shapeshifting}}: Metal Sonic's PowerCopying can be taken to the next level via transforming into others ala the [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay T-1000]], the most well-known instance being when he impersonated Dr. Eggman [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes during his first great rebellion]]. |
| 659 | * ShockAndAwe: As Neo Metal Sonic, he can call down lightning bolts-- which forces Zero to back off and give him time to initiate his transformation into Metal Overlord. |
| 660 | * SpamAttack: As Metal Overlord, he spams his [[GemstoneAssault crystal missiles en masse]]. |
| 661 | * SpeedBlitz: Briefly engages in one with Zero by slamming him bodily multiple times into the ground before Zero can react. |
| 662 | * TheStarscream: Whilst Metal Sonic is usually content to serve Dr. Eggman, he has rebelled against his creator at least twice, and has at least once usurped control of his entire empire. |
| 663 | * SuperMode: As seen in his previous ''Death Battle'' appearance, he can transform into Neo Metal Sonic -- and can also further transform into his gargantuan, monstrous Metal Overlord form from ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', capable of matching [[GoldenSuperMode Super Sonic]] in battle. Still not enough to beat Zero, however. |
| 664 | * SuperSpeed: Metal Sonic's average speed is higher than that of the original Sonic, which he achieves via hovering just off the ground (or flying) and being propelled via an incredibly powerful turbine engine in his body. As seen in ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'', he's even fast enough to pull off something akin to the [[TeleportSpam Instant Transmission]] from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. The hosts posit that Metal is capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 35, enough to surpass escape velocity. Still, nothing that Zero couldn't keep place with, however. |
| 665 | * SuperStrength: As Metal Overlord he's strong enough to lift and throw flying battleships with ease. |
| 666 | * SuperToughness: Managed to survive an impact that caused a giant stalactite above a city to drop, putting his durability at around 200,000 tons of TNT for his base form alone. This is ten times the power of an atomic bomb. It however pales in comparison to Zero, who has survived an impact as strong as the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs at 1 ''trillion'' tons of TNT. |
| 667 | * TimeStandsStill: Is capable of using Shadow's Chaos Control to stop time for a brief period. However, Zero has far more abilities that allow him to stop time, and far faster to use as well. |
| 668 | * TheWorfEffect: After wiping the floor with both Eggman and Wily in his first fight, Metal now has a more worthy adversary in the form of Zero. This trope is ultimately played straight, as Zero eclipses Metal in every way that matters. |
| 669 | * YourHeadAsplode: {{Inverted}}. His head is the only thing that survives the final explosion that tears him apart. Surprisingly, his head is in one piece, even though as Metal Overlord, Zero sliced his head in half along with the rest of his body. |
| 670 | |
| 671 | !![[VideoGame/MegaManX Ze]][[VideoGame/MegaManZero ro]] |
| 672 | --->'''Zero''': ''"I don't even need my sword for such an easy fight."''\ |
| 673 | \ |
| 674 | ''Dr. Wily's Maverick Hunter'' |
| 675 | |
| 676 | * AIIsACrapshoot: A rare benevolent example, as Wily had created Zero to cause destruction and chaos, but after he was infected by the Maverick Virus his morality was inverted. |
| 677 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Zero had little trouble dispatching Metal Sonic even in his Metal Overlord form, which is quite impressive considering Metal's previous appearance on the show established him as an OneManArmy capable of tearing through both Eggman and Wily's forces by himself. |
| 678 | * AmnesiacDissonance: Zero was created by Wily to spread the Maverick Virus around the world and destroy anyone who got in his way, but his memories were erased following his defeat at the hands of Sigma and he joined the Maverick Hunters, becoming X's best friend. |
| 679 | * ArmCannon: Like X, he can transform his lower arms into plasma cannons called the Zero Buster or Z-Buster. |
| 680 | * {{BFS}}: Turns the Z-Saber into one at the end of the fight, which he uses to destroy Metal Overlord. This is presumably his [[https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/e/e3/Zero_Ittouryoudan_Genmurei.png Genmurei]] attack, which is not talked about in his rundown. |
| 681 | * BondOneLiner: "Mission accomplished." |
| 682 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: One of the reasons for his victory was that Zero's defeated robots just as tough as Metal Overlord, time and again. Furthermore, fighting against Metal Sonic was just like fighting against an animal Maverick boss, at least until Metal Sonic transformed. |
| 683 | * ColorCodedTimestop: When he uses Dark Hold, the background and Metal Sonic turn into a grayscale color version of themselves. When the color returns, Metal Overlord's cleaved into two. |
| 684 | * ComputerVirus: Zero was either the original carrier of the Maverick Virus -- the successor to Wily's Roboenza Virus -- or was infected by it when he was defeated by Sigma. Trace remnants of the original Maverick Virus and its more potent "Zero Virus" version remain in his system, capable of infecting other robots and turning them evil. Additionally, if Zero is infected with high-enough concentrations of the virus, his "true" personality will resurface. |
| 685 | * CoolSword: The Z-Saber is Zero's IconicItem, a LaserBlade that easily slices through robots and can be empowered with various elemental abilities. |
| 686 | * CrissCrossAttack: Pulls one off on Metal Sonic at the start of the battle, attacking from all directions. |
| 687 | * CurbStompCushion: Although Zero's feats of speed, strength and durability are markedly more impressive than Metal Sonic's, the battle is surprisingly even considering that-- Metal elicits several ''"OhCrap"'' reactions from the normally-stoic and cocky Zero, and the Maverick Hunter is forced to use everything he's got to finally bring him down. |
| 688 | * DavidVsGoliath: While the two combatants start at a similar size, he becomes the David once Metal Sonic transforms into Metal Overlord. And just like David, he takes down his larger foe. |
| 689 | * ElementalWeapon: Zero's Z-Saber can transform into fire, ice, lightning, and even metal when he performs certain techniques. |
| 690 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: How he defeats Metal Overlord, bisecting him vertically and causing him to explode after cancelling out his imperfectly-copied [[TimeStandsStill Chaos Control with Dark Hold]]. |
| 691 | * HyperspaceArsenal: In addition to the Z-Buster and Z-Saber, Zero has a small arsenal of weapons, most of which were obtained by defeating powerful opponents: |
| 692 | ** A water-elemental naginata called the D-Glaive or Durga Glaive. |
| 693 | ** A pair of wind-elemental kunai called the V-Hanger, which home in on targets if thrown. |
| 694 | ** A pair of tessen called the B-Fan or Bashou Fan, which can be used to deflect or reflect energy attacks. |
| 695 | ** A Warhammer called the T-Breaker or Titan Breaker. |
| 696 | ** A pair of knuckledusters called the K-Knuckle or Kaiser Knuckle, which allow him to use the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ansatsuken]] fighting style. |
| 697 | %%** A greatsword called the Σ-Blade. |
| 698 | %%** A laser pistol called the Buster Shot, which takes the place of his Z-Buster in his [[VideoGame/MegaManZero second body]]. |
| 699 | %%** A chakram/shield called the Shield Boomerang. |
| 700 | %%** A spear called the Triple Rod, which was converted into a blade-tipped whip called the Chain Rod. |
| 701 | %%** A pair of tonfa called the Recoil Rod. |
| 702 | * LaserBlade: Zero wields an energy sword called the Z-Saber, as well as a variety of other energy-bladed weapons. |
| 703 | * LightningBruiser: He was built to be superior to the classic Mega Man in every way, the latter being able to keep up with [[SuperSpeed Quick Man]], and being strong enough to hold up a ceiling trying to crush him. The hosts concluding that he far exceeds Metal in every way is, generally, why he won. |
| 704 | * MultiMeleeMaster: It's noted in his analysis that besides his Z-Saber, he's got a plethora of melee weapons such as the D-Glaive, V-Hanger, B-Fan, T-Breaker and K-Knuckle, but only the Z-Saber and his claws in Absolute Zero form are used in the fight. |
| 705 | * OhCrap: Several times, but most notably when he sees Metal go [[OneWingedAngel Metal Overlord]]. He even goes "Crap" when he sees what's happening. |
| 706 | * OrbitingParticleShield: His Yammar Option, copied from [[VideoGame/MegaManX6 Commander Yammark]]. He uses it to counter Metal Sonic's Bat Guard, but two bats slip through, forcing him to use a charged shot to counter them. |
| 707 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: After he's teleported in to confront Metal Sonic: |
| 708 | -->'''Zero:''' Found a Maverick! I'll take care of it. Starting mission now! |
| 709 | * PreMortemOneLiner: Drops this before slicing Metal Overlord in half: |
| 710 | -->'''Zero:''' This'll be over in a ''nanosecond''. |
| 711 | * PillarOfLight: His Rekkoha manifests as several of these, and it's very powerful. Metal Sonic is forced to use his Black Shield to defend against it. |
| 712 | * PowerGivesYouWings: In his Absolute Zero SuperMode, he gains a pair of bat wings like Bass with his Treble Boost. |
| 713 | * RoboticPsychopath: Zero was engineered by Wily to surpass the original Mega Man and Bass, and upon activation, he was an AxCrazy berserker. When he was defeated by Sigma, the Maverick Virus infected him but oppositely affected him it was intended, [[AmnesiacDissonance erasing Zero's memories so that he became a force for good]]. |
| 714 | * SpeedBlitz: Briefly engages in one with Metal Sonic. He's proven to be more than capable of reacting to and keeping Metal's speed in check thanks to being superior to the classic Mega Man, who beat Quick Man-- said Robot Master's top speed is leagues beyond what Metal can hit.[[note]]220,000,000 mph (Mach 286731) versus approximately 26,855 mph (Mach 35).[[/note]] |
| 715 | * SuperMode: His Black Zero mode, which [[GlassCannon halves his defense to enhance his power and speed.]] His strongest form, however, is Absolute Zero. His speed and power are increased even further, and gains claws and the ability to fly, at the cost of losing access to his Z-Saber and copied gear. To drive the point of [[CurbStompBattle eclipsing Metal Sonic in power home, he destroys Metal Overlord with Black Zero.]] |
| 716 | * SuperReflexes: Mega Man has defeated and kept up with the lightning-fast Quick Man, and as Zero was made to surpass Mega Man in every way, this certainly means he's got the reflexes too. This puts his reaction time way faster than Metal Sonic's speed. |
| 717 | * SuperToughness: Came out alive after flying a spaceship straight into Eurasia, a huge city floating in space. The impact of which was as strong as the meteor that killed the dinosaurs at 100 teratons of TNT, meaning that Zero's durability ''far'' surpasses anything that Metal Sonic could throw at him. |
| 718 | * SuperiorSuccessor: Zero was created to succeed Bass as Wily's most powerful Robot Master -- much to Bass's derision -- and destroy Mega Man once and for all, but proved so violent and uncontrollable that Wily was forced to lock him away. If one takes the previous match between ''Eggman vs Wily'' into account with how Metal Sonic's "[[CurbStompBattle battle" with Bass ended, this claim is very much true]]. |
| 719 | * SwordBeam: Zero can fire a variety of energy attacks from his sword. |
| 720 | * TimeStandsStill: His Dark Hold technique (which he copied from [[VideoGame/MegaManX5 Dark Necrobat]]) can do this. He uses it to counter Metal Overlord's own Chaos Control, and it's deemed the superior ability due to being far faster to use, as well as Metal Sonic's version of Chaos Control being an imperfect version of Shadow's. |
| 721 | * UnflinchingWalk: Just after cutting Metal Overlord in half while he had stopped time, Zero just casually walks away as the former "dies" in a giant explosion. All he has to say? "Mission accomplished!" |
| 722 | * VariantPowerCopying: By defeating powerful enemies, Zero has amassed an arsenal of Techniques, EX-Skills, and weapons derived from his opponents'. He's not ''completely'' incapable of regular PowerCopying, however, as his arsenal has included some of the same Special Weapons his friend Mega Man X can acquire, such as the Dark Hold, Yammar Option, and Guard Shell. |
| 723 | * VideoGameDashing: Zero can perform a high-speed dash along the ground and in the air. |
| 724 | [[/folder]] |
| 725 | |
| 726 | [[folder:Lucario VS Renamon]] |
| 727 | !![[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Lucario]] |
| 728 | --->'''Ash''': *tackled* ''"Why'd you do that?"''\ |
| 729 | '''Lucario''': ''"You snuck up behind me. That is always a mistake."''\ |
| 730 | \ |
| 731 | ''The Steely Canine from the World of Pokémon'' |
| 732 | |
| 733 | * ActionInitiative: Its Extreme Speed attack always lets it strike first, even against opponents who are naturally faster. In the fight proper, it uses this almost immediately and liberally to put Renamon on the defensive. Once this is depleted, however, Renamon proves to be the faster combatant. |
| 734 | * ActorAllusion: Invoked. Its analysis has Wiz and Boomstick note that Lucario has some similarities to Goku; both share the same voice actor. |
| 735 | * AlwaysAccurateAttack: Aura Sphere, which never misses, and in the battle itself it successfully hits Lucario's faster opponent. Lucario can also naturally use Foresight to bypass any evasive maneuvers. |
| 736 | * BadWithTheBone: Bone Rush creates a bone-shaped EnergyWeapon that Lucario wields as a quarterstaff. It's ultimately the tool that Lucario uses to put Renamon down for good. |
| 737 | * BareFistedMonk: Gets the usual array of punching moves expected of a Fighting-type, one of its main techniques being Close Combat. |
| 738 | * BreathWeapon: One of Lucario's many attacks is Dragon Pulse, a dragon-shaped beam of energy fired from its mouth. |
| 739 | * CompositeCharacter: Combines aspects of Sir Aaron's Lucario from ''Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew'', the Lucario from ''Smash Bros.'', the Lucario from ''VideoGame/PokkenTournament'', and generic Lucario from the anime and video games. |
| 740 | * DeliberateInjuryGambit: Ultimately how Lucario allows itself to kill the faster Renamon, as it charges through Renamon's Diamond Storm despite taking considerable damage in the process, catching Renamon off-guard. |
| 741 | * {{Determinator}}: Lucario are known to never back down from a good fight, even if the odds are stacked against them. Lucario becomes visibly injured and tired after a beating by Renamon, but perseveres and even [[DeliberateInjuryGambit plows through Renamon's Diamond Storm to go for a finishing blow]]. |
| 742 | * DishingOutDirt: Bone Rush is a Ground-type attack, which hits multiple times, and materializes in the form of an Aura bone. It's used to block Renamon's first Diamond Storm as well as to finish it off. |
| 743 | * DuelBoss: Invoked with the conditions of the fight. As the fight will be kept a pure one-on-one affair, this version of Lucario will not be accompanied by any Trainers who owned other members of its species. This means no [[EvolutionPowerup Mega-Evolution]]. |
| 744 | * EvolutionPowerup: Lucario can Mega Evolve into Mega Lucario, becoming stronger at the cost of becoming ruthless and savage. As this requires a Trainer to perform, however, it will be excluded from the fight. Not that Lucario needed it. |
| 745 | * ExtraOreDinary: Is a Steel-type Pokemon, though it doesn't have the usual visual cues or stats spread seen in Steel-types. This gives it a weakness to fire-type attacks, but as its analysis shows, it could even survive a fire attack from the extremely hot Magmar. And probably helped it to take a DeliberateInjuryGambit against Diamond Storm since Diamond Storm is made of leaves -- a type that it would resist. |
| 746 | * FragileSpeedster: Lucario has a high base Speed, and can reach even higher speeds with its Extreme Speed attack. However, its defensive stats are lacking-- made worse by Close Combat, its most lethal attack, reducing its Defense and Special Defense further. Renamon is faster than it on account of the Digimon maintaining high levels of speed Lucario can only briefly reach with Extreme Speed, but defensively Lucario wins out. |
| 747 | * GlassCannon: Lucario's greatest base stats are Attack and Special Attack, and it has several techniques that can amplify its power further. Defensively, however, Lucario's stats leave a lot to be desired, and has only one naturally obtainable move that can address its defensive woes; Calm Mind, which only improves its Special Defense. While it shares this with Renamon, it has the advantage of actually possessing defensive options, making it hard for the Digimon to tire it out. |
| 748 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: On the giving end, combined with ImpromptuTracheotomy. |
| 749 | * ImpromptuTracheotomy: Ultimately gives one to Renamon with its Bone Rush bone, killing it. |
| 750 | * KamehameHadoken: Its signature Aura Sphere attack, wherein it charges a sphere of Aura energy between its hands and fires it. Boomstick lampshades the similarities between Aura Sphere and Goku's Kamehameha in the analysis, and in the fight itself, it uses its [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Aura Storm Final Smash]] to fire a powerful energy beam but misses due to Renamon's superior speed that helps it run up the pillar the beam destroys. |
| 751 | * KiManipulation: Gets moves like Aura Sphere, Dark Pulse, and Focus Blast. Boomstick notes the similarities between Aura and ''Dragon Ball''[='=]s ki in the analysis. |
| 752 | * KungFuWizard: Lucario's physical attacks are impressive, but not the only tools in its offensive arsenal, as Aura Sphere and Dragon Pulse are based on its Special Attack. Fortunately for the Lucario species, their Special Attack is even slightly better than their already considerable Attack. This proved vital in its victory, as this versatility gave Lucario a much more effective arsenal than Renamon. |
| 753 | * MeditationPowerup: Can learn Calm Mind naturally, which raises its special attack and defense. It's also shown meditating before the fight starts and goes back to doing so after it kills Renamon. |
| 754 | * NobleWolf: Or Jackal, in Lucario's case, and definitely noble as its movie version is basically a knight-in-training. |
| 755 | * OxymoronicBeing: Joked about in the analysis. Lucario is a Fighting-Type and uses Fighting-type moves, but thanks to its secondary Steel-Type is weak to Fighting-Type moves. Boomstick assumes that Lucario hurts itself by existing because of this, and Wiz responds by telling him that it doesn't exactly work that way. |
| 756 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Lucario has red eyes, and it proves more dangerous than Renamon. |
| 757 | * SuperStrength: At least one Lucario has shown the strength to destroy metal construction equipment with a single strike. The force required to do so is just over 9 times stronger than anything the Renamon species has ever recorded. |
| 758 | * SuperReflexes: Its ability to sense Aura gives it incredible prediction abilities, allowing it to read and react to opponents faster than it even while blinded. This ability comes in handy for countering Renamon's superior SuperSpeed. |
| 759 | * {{Telepathy}}: Some Lucario can use Aura to communicate with humans telepathically, though Wiz derides this as part of starring in its own movie. Pokedex entries confirm that Lucario can sense Auras from all creatures from up to half a mile away, allowing it to read minds. This is a key factor in its victory, as while Renamon proved faster, this telepathy let Lucario foresee its opponent's attacks in time to react. |
| 760 | * WeakToFire: As a Steel-type pokemon, fire attacks are super-effective against it. That said, it was still shown to survive Magmar's flames, which are 2200°F (1204°C) in temperature, and keep going. Even if Renamon's spectral flames did Fire-typed damage, it would certainly be able to take those. |
| 761 | * WolverineClaws: Metal Claw transforms the spikes on the back of Lucario's paws into razor-sharp metal blades. |
| 762 | |
| 763 | !![[Franchise/{{Digimon}} Renamon]] |
| 764 | --->'''Renamon''': ''"I must rely on the power within me. I am alone in this world."''\ |
| 765 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarissaLenti\ |
| 766 | \ |
| 767 | ''The Razor-Sharp and Literally Foxy Digimon'' |
| 768 | |
| 769 | * AsianFoxSpirit: Renamon and its Digivolutions draw from the multi-tailed fox spirits of Japanese folklore. |
| 770 | * CompositeCharacter: While footage of Rika's Renamon from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' was shown, the preview was discussing Renamon in general and also showed footage from ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth''. |
| 771 | * CreepyBlueEyes: Combined with an expression that makes Boomstick think "It's like [[SmugSuper it thinks it's better than me."]] Of course, as Wiz points out, [[TakeThat Renamon is better than Boomstick.]] |
| 772 | * CripplingOverspecialization: Compared to Lucario, it lacks versatility, mainly having melee attacks and Diamond Storm as its direct offensive options. This is one of the factors in its loss. |
| 773 | * DoppelgangerAttack: Some Renamon are capable of creating spectral doppelgangers to fight alongside them. |
| 774 | * DuelBoss: Invoked. Neither side will have any assistance from their human partners, so this Renamon will fight without the aid of any tamer. This means no inclusion of [[EvolutionPowerup Digivolutions]]. |
| 775 | * ElementalPunch: Its Power Paw wreathes its fist in spectral flames. |
| 776 | * EvolutionPowerup: They can Digivolve into Kyubimon -- a nine-tailed fox Digimon who fights with spectral flames; Taomon -- an UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}}-practising humanoid fox who fights with [[PaperTalisman ofuda]] and a magic paintbrush; and Sakuyamon -- a humanoid fox {{miko}} who fights with the Kongou Shakujou, a Buddhist ringed staff. While these forms are briefly mentioned in Renamon's pre-fight analysis, it's noted that because they usually require the aid of a Tamer to achieve they will not make an appearance in the fight itself. Which is a shame, since they might have helped turn the tide. |
| 777 | * FlechetteStorm: Diamond Storm has it summon a storm of razor-sharp, diamond-tough [[NonIndicativeName leaves]] that fly at its opponent. |
| 778 | * FragileSpeedster: Renamon are extremely fast, to the point they can move faster than the eye can track, but their low defense means they need to use that speed to avoid attacks. It's deemed faster than Lucario, but not enough that Lucario can't counter it, and Lucario has stronger defensive options to compensate. |
| 779 | * GlassCannon: Renamon are very strong and possesses several damaging moves, but they lack much in terms of defensive options. Wiz even uses this phrase when discussing Renamon. While Lucario shares this weakness, it's not to the same extent, and without defensive options, it couldn't wear Lucario down fast enough. |
| 780 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Renamon is killed by being impaled on Lucario's Bone Rush aura bone. |
| 781 | * ImpromptuTracheotomy: Ultimately ends up getting stabbed through the throat by Lucario's Bone Rush bone. |
| 782 | * {{Ninja}}: Renamon is a stealthy, agile, and strong [[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]] who specializes in martial arts, can create shadow clones and uses razor-edged leaves as shuriken. |
| 783 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Gives Lucario a string of rapid attacks whenever it successfully manages to get the advantage. |
| 784 | * NonIndicativeName: Its signature "Diamond Storm" attack actually fires a barrage of razor-sharp leaves. Lampshaded by Wiz and Boomstick. |
| 785 | * OhCrap: When Lucario plows through its Diamond Storm without dodging, it's shocked. That provides Lucario with an opening to kill it. |
| 786 | * PlayingWithFire: Renamon and its Digivolution Kyubimon can conjure spectral flames to amplify their attacks. While its opponent Lucario is vulnerable to fire-type attacks thanks to TacticalRockPaperScissors, it's also shown to have survived far more intense flames. |
| 787 | * TheStoic: Most Renamon are extremely serious, which is rather ironic considering [[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]] in folklore are not. |
| 788 | * SuperStrength: While its Diamond Storm shuriken might not use actual diamonds, it packs quite a wallop. One member of the Renamon species once shattered a solid wall of ice from a much more powerful Digimon with just one toss. While this clocks in at an impressive 6000 PSI, the Lucario species has shown feats of strength that register more than 9 times stronger. |
| 789 | * SuperSpeed: Fast enough to vanish from the naked eye, which would mean it can move over 9,000 mph. Renamon trumps Lucario here by being able to maintain this level of speed while Lucario can only briefly reach it with Extreme Speed, but Lucario's [[SuperReflexes Aura sense allows it to counter]]. |
| 790 | * YouSexyBeast: Poor Boomstick discovers how [[RuleThirtyFour popular]] Renamon is in the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom... |
| 791 | * YouveGottaBeKiddingMe: Said just before Lucario impales it. |
| 792 | [[/folder]] |
| 793 | |
| 794 | [[folder:Balrog VS TJ Combo]] |
| 795 | !![[Franchise/StreetFighter Balrog]] |
| 796 | --->'''Balrog''': ''"Heh heh heh. I can almost smell the money now. If I can pull this off, I'll be on easy street forever!"''\ |
| 797 | '''Voiced by:''' Chris Jai Alex\ |
| 798 | \ |
| 799 | ''The Crazy Buffalo from Street Fighter'' |
| 800 | |
| 801 | * AnArmAndALeg: Not exactly; one of the first things TJ does near the end of the fight is breaking Balrog's right arm. |
| 802 | * ArtisticLicenseSports: He enters the ring with both his coat and a gold chain necklace – neither of which are permissible in a world champion bout – and the horned emblem on the waist of his boxing shorts could be a kind of personal branding or at least a piece of armor since it's metal. And that's without factoring in [[CombatPragmatist his history of illegal attacks in boxing]], illustrated by his Dirty Bull combo in the fight proper. |
| 803 | * BadassNormal: This is a guy who can stand his own against robots, ninjas, fireball throwing Ki users, and all sorts of other crazy combatants. |
| 804 | * BattleStrip: After he knocks the ref out, he removes his hood. |
| 805 | * BoxingBattler: Balrog regularly takes on SupernaturalMartialArts-wielding fighters using only his "Fight-Style" Boxing. Going by his official height and weight, Balrog would be the second-largest heavyweight champion in the sport's history by real-world standards.[[note]]The largest is a Russian fellow named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Valuev Nikolai Valuev]], in case you're wondering.[[/note]] |
| 806 | * TheBrute: For Master Bison of Shadaloo. |
| 807 | * CameraAbuse: Though, in his defense, it wasn't his fault that his severed head flew into the camera. |
| 808 | * CasualtyInTheRing: Due to the fight's framing device being set in a boxing match, somebody was inevitably going to leave in a body bag. Ultimately, Balrog goes down for the count, and won't be getting back up. Ever. |
| 809 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: He's a premier BadassNormal in ''Street Fighter'', and he's strong enough to kill an elephant with a single punch. This feat alone means he can punch at least seven times harder than the strongest recorded punch courtesy of the heavyweight champion Frank Bruno. |
| 810 | * CombatPragmatist: Balrog is infamous for playing dirty. It ultimately cost him his professional boxing career. When he ends up fighting dirty by using his Dirty Bull Ultra Combo[[note]]A grab, followed by a headbutt, foot stomp and sucker punch - all illegal boxing moves[[/note]] after being outboxed by TJ during the first round, Balrog responds by eliminating the referee in the second one, turning the contest into a no-holds-barred battle to the death. |
| 811 | * DiesWideOpen: His crazed eyes are still open after his severed head lands on a camera after the match. No wonder the reporter watching this feels he has to vomit. |
| 812 | * DubNameChange: As mentioned previously in ''Shao Kahn vs. M. Bison'', Balrog goes by the full name "Mike Bison" in Japan. His fellow Four Devas (minus Sagat) followed suit during the localization process, with his boss "Vega" getting the "M. Bison" name while "Balrog" got the name of the claw-wielding assassin who would be named "Vega".[[note]]That episode explains why, but here's the quick version: Capcom was afraid that Mike Tyson - the inspiration for Balrog's looks, fighting style and original name - would take legal action against them, and switched the names accordingly. Not only that but ''Street Fighter II'' came out the same year Tyson was tried for rape charges, so the change was also done in response to a potential PR backlash.[[/note]] |
| 813 | * DumbMuscle: He's incredibly powerful but not too bright. Wiz and Boomstick bring up how when Balrog took over M. Bison's Shadaloo organization, he ran it into the ground with his spending. The hosts theorize that Balrog might be like this due to all the blows to the head. |
| 814 | * EvilCounterpart: To TJ Combo. They both grew up to poor families and possessed talent in boxing. They also used underhanded tactics to stay on top, inevitably leading to them being stripped of their titles. However, whereas TJ would strive to prove to the world that he can win legitimately, Balrog continues to cheat and eventually became an enforcer of the crime syndicate, Shadaloo. |
| 815 | * EvilIsBigger: He's bigger, heavier, and eviler than his opponent TJ Combo[[note]]Balrog is 6'4" and 298 lbs to TJ's 6'1" and 220 lbs[[/note]]. |
| 816 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Originally a child raised in poverty, his passion for boxing lead him down a road to becoming one of M. Bison's right-hand men. |
| 817 | * {{Greed}}: One of Balrog's most defining characteristics is his insatiable desire for money and all the benefits that come with it, born from growing up poor. His greed fuels many of his more heinous actions, and on the occasions he goes obtain success and millions he usually gambles it all away in a few months, forcing him to start from the bottom again. |
| 818 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: He was the one to knock out (and possibly kill) the ref and escalated the match into a life and death battle, and the one who is killed in the end because of it. |
| 819 | * IllKillYou: Not explicitly stated, but his tone of voice and his subsequent dirty fighting afterwards shows he didn't take kindly to TJ knocking him down in the first round. |
| 820 | -->'''Balrog''': Tch, annoying bastard! I'll break you like a ''ragdoll!'' |
| 821 | * KarmicDeath: He knocks out and possibly kills the referee, escalating the match into a life or death scenario. This ends up being his undoing in the end. |
| 822 | * LaserGuidedKarma: He's the one who knocks out or kills the ref and escalates it to life or death. He's the one who ends up dying. |
| 823 | * MadEye: Noted by Boomstick he's got one crazy look in his eyes at all times. |
| 824 | * MightyGlacier: While his attacks themselves are actually quite fast, as a slugger-type boxer, he specializes in brute force and perseverance at the cost of mobility and finesse. This very fighting style is what got him killed at the end, as TJ was able to capitalize on his slow and predictable punches with weaker but faster attacks, slowly wearing Balrog down for the kill. |
| 825 | * NoShirtLongJacket: Wears his ''Street Fighter V'' hood when he goes in the ring. He takes it off after possibly killing the ref. |
| 826 | * OffWithHisHead: On the receiving end. Under the effects of Last Breath, TJ knocks his head clean off. |
| 827 | * OhCrap: TJ breaking his arm near the end of the fight is accompanied by an agonized and shocked whimper from the previously cocky and violent fighter-- which doubles as OOCIsSeriousBusiness. |
| 828 | * PetTheDog: He at least has enough sportsmanship to touch gloves with TJ before the fight, although he does it a tad bit aggressively and taunts him right after. |
| 829 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: |
| 830 | ** Taunts TJ a bit when the two touch gloves before their fight: |
| 831 | --->'''Balrog:''' You won't even make it to Round 2, wimp! |
| 832 | ** After he knocks out the ref: |
| 833 | --->'''Balrog:''' Come on, tiny; just you and me! |
| 834 | * PreMortemOneLiner: Screams one out before landing a Gigaton Blow on TJ[[note]]It's the same line he uses in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV''[[/note]], although it doesn't end the fight: |
| 835 | -->'''Balrog:''' You won't hear the full ten-count! '''''WHY DON'T YOU GO TO HELL?!''''' |
| 836 | * PunchParry: Blocks a few of TJ's punches with his own; the impact is enough to break the ring they're fighting in. |
| 837 | * RedBaron: The Crazy Buffalo. |
| 838 | * ScaryBlackMan: He's a world-class criminal known for his brutality both in the ring and in full-out brawls. |
| 839 | * ShadowArchetype: Both boxers have a history of being dirty fighters with a taste for the good life who have gotten involved with shady organizations, however, TJ decided to move away from cheating and broke his ties with Ultratech, while Balrog only sank deeper and deeper into crime. As some commenters pointed out, TJ is basically fighting the man he could have become if he had not chosen to go clean. |
| 840 | * StealthPun: He's referred to as a "crazy buffalo" who's "all raw hide." Rather appropriate for someone whose Japanese name is Mike '''BISON'''. |
| 841 | * SuperStrength: As noted back in the previous season's ''Cammy White vs. Sonya Blade'', he's strong enough to kill an elephant with a single punch. He and TJ turn out to be evenly matched in this regard, though TJ edges him out by a few hundred newtons. |
| 842 | * SuperToughness: Survived falling from a ''very'' high cliff estimated at being around 1,272 feet tall. He and TJ are evenly matched in their area, though Balrog has a slight advantage thanks to his drop being roughly 100 feet higher. |
| 843 | * TacticalRockPaperScissors: One of the reasons he loses is that his Slugger boxing style, statistically speaking, is at a disadvantage to TJ's Outboxer style. |
| 844 | * UnskilledButStrong: He's not, but, compared to TJ and his Outboxer style, his Slugger style is powerful, yet predictable, and leaves little room for finesse. Even in ''Street Fighter'' itself, it's noted that his boxing moves aren't refined at all. The Slugger style being at a disadvantage against the Outboxer style is part of why he loses. |
| 845 | * VillainousBreakdown: After he's the first one to get knocked down in the first round, he gets frustrated enough to knock out or kill the ref and try to kill TJ. He gets more and more angry as the fight goes, until TJ's Last Breath kicks in and he starts to lose. Balrog goes from smug and trash talking to fear until TJ finishes him off by knocking his head off. |
| 846 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: After the BattleStrip. [[ArtisticLicenseSports He should have been shirtless to begin with, given the circumstances]], but it was probably too difficult to get him to cooperate. |
| 847 | |
| 848 | !![[VideoGame/KillerInstinct TJ Combo]] |
| 849 | --->'''TJ Combo''': ''"And don't think for a moment that I'll let anything get in my way. Cause if you give me that moment... I win!"''\ |
| 850 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/GabeKunda\ |
| 851 | \ |
| 852 | ''The Hard Hitting Champ from Killer Instinct'' |
| 853 | |
| 854 | * AllAmericanFace: Played with in that, while he was a massive {{Heel}} way back when, nowadays, he's gone straight (and is the good boxer between him and Balrog), and wears stars and stripes on his shorts[[labelnote:*]]The single star and multiple stripes don't denote any particular country, closest to the flag of Liberia[[/labelnote]]. He moves in at the start of the match to touch gloves in the name of good sportsmanship (if not with a bit of gloating on his part), only for Balrog to dismiss him. |
| 855 | * ArtisticLicenseSports: |
| 856 | ** TJ's gloves each have a star on the back and "CHAMP" written on the outer wrists, never mind being fingered [=MMA=] gloves, implying they're his personal gloves instead of being provided by the venue. Possibly downplayed since he could've had them inspected to prove they weren't loaded. |
| 857 | ** In addition, his boxing shorts don't have a contrasting color for a clear line of demarcation for below-the-belt hits. Again downplayed since the flag-like patterns on the sides end at the waistband, but TJ would likely be asked to change shorts. |
| 858 | ** As far as fighting goes, TJ keeps it clean until Balrog [[KillingInSelfDefense escalates the fight]] except for one thing. His knockout punch in Round 1 that downed Balrog is a jumping attack, which is illegal. It's unclear whether his feet touched the ground before impact. |
| 859 | * TheAtoner: His story in the reboot is that he's going straight after being a cheat. |
| 860 | * BadassNormal: This is a guy who has gone up against robots, dinosaurs, ninjas, and other monstrosities and still comes out on top. |
| 861 | * BoxingBattler: TJ Combo combats Ultratech and even managed to kill Riptor using only his boxing, though the 2013 game adds MMA skills to his repertoire like flying knees. Wizard identifies his strategy as an "out-boxer" style, similar to Muhammad Ali, where he stays outside of his opponents' reach and goes on the offensive when they miss a swing. The real-life triangle theory of boxing shows that outboxers counter sluggers ''hard'' by capitalizing on opponents' mistakes and wearing them down with quicker strikes before coming in for the knock-out blow, which is the exact strategy TJ uses to beat Balrog. |
| 862 | * BroughtDownToBadass: TJ Combo can go the distance against all sorts of monsters with his bare hands. This is ''after'' he tore out the cybernetic implants that he once used to cheat. While it's an extremely close fight, he didn't need his implants to win his bout against Balrog. |
| 863 | * CasualtyInTheRing: Due to the fight's framing device being set in a boxing match, somebody was inevitably going to leave in a body bag. TJ ends up winning the fight by permanent KO. |
| 864 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Even without his implants, he's strong enough to punch the 550-pound Fulgore over a dozen feet in the air. |
| 865 | * CombatPragmatist: [[TheAtoner While his cheating days are mostly behind him]] (barring a few [[FinishingMove No Mercies]] that wouldn't be legal in '''any''' ring, ever, like [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim simply shooting his foe with a machine gun]]), he used to be a shameless cheater, starting when, as a boy, he added [[WeightedGloves a roll of quarters to his boxing glove]] to break the nose of his opponent. When Balrog knocks out the ref, he's free to at least use his Shoot Toss and a kick for good measure. |
| 866 | * {{Cyborg}}: Or rather, ex-cyborg. During the later stages of his professional boxing career, he turned to the Ultratech Corporation to use cybernetic implants to stay on top. He ultimately tore them out after Ultratech exposed his cheating as retaliation for not throwing a show match against their prototype Fulgore unit. |
| 867 | * ExtremityExtremist: Averted, as, even though he's primarily a boxer, his use of knees and such suggests he branched into MMA. |
| 868 | * FearlessFool: Instead of getting his implants surgically removed, TJ instead ''tore them out with his bare hands'', which Wiz finds to be an astoundingly stupid decision that could have easily backfired if TJ hadn't been fortunate enough to have some residual side effects from the cybernetic enhancements. |
| 869 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: TJ Combo, then known by his given name, Tyler-Johnson Garrett, was born to a poor family in Texas. After a childhood where he was in and out of trouble (including getting thrown out of a junior boxing league for cheating in the ring), he moved to Chicago and worked as a janitor at a boxing gym. Rigorous training on the side ultimately led to a highly successful legitimate boxing career, until he threw it all away by cheating to stay on top. Even after he stopped cheating again, the disgraced ex-champion became one of the most deadly fighters in the Killer Instinct tournament and one of humanity's greatest defenders against the threat of the evil demigod known as Gargos. |
| 870 | * GoodCounterpart: To Balrog. They both grew up in poor families and possessed talent in boxing. They also used underhanded tactics to stay on top, inevitably leading to them being stripped of their titles. However, whereas as Balrog continues to cheat and eventually became an enforcer of the crime syndicate, Shadaloo, TJ would strive to prove to the world that he can win legitimately. |
| 871 | * HealingFactor: The hosts note that TJ has a very mild healing factor courtesy of the lingering side-effects of the original Ultratech procedure that gave him his implants, as he healed up ''way'' faster than he should have after he tore out said implants. However, it's slow enough to be irrelevant to this fight, not that he needed it. |
| 872 | * HeroicSecondWind: His Last Breath [[SuperMode Instinct ability]] allows him to bounce back from an incapacitating hit while triggering his Glory Days mode, at the cost of having a much shorter duration. After TJ is knocked down by a Gigaton Blow, Balrog moves in for the kill... only for Last Breath to kick in, launching TJ's successful comeback. |
| 873 | -->'''TJ:''' '''''I AIN'T DONE!!!''''' |
| 874 | * KarmicDeath: Gives one to Balrog, who knocks out and possibly kills the referee, escalating the match into a life or death scenario. A life-or-death scenario that ends with TJ punching off Balrog's head. |
| 875 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: |
| 876 | ** Throws one very important question to Balrog: |
| 877 | --->'''TJ:''' Think you got what it takes to beat the champ? |
| 878 | ** After Balrog knocks out the ref: |
| 879 | --->'''TJ:''' Bring it on, [[PrecisionFStrike asshole]]! |
| 880 | ** And once more when TJ makes his comeback: |
| 881 | --->'''TJ:''' I AIN'T DONE!!! |
| 882 | * PunchParry: Engages in a few with Balrog; the impact of their fists clashing is enough to shatter the ring's canvas. |
| 883 | * RapidFireFisticuffs: With Glory Days activated, TJ finishes Balrog by breaking his right arm, pummeling him with a barrage of punches and finishes him off with an uppercut that takes his head clean off. |
| 884 | * ScarsAreForever: His arms are covered with the scars that resulted from his self-inflicted removal of his cybernetic implants. |
| 885 | * ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. He's black, but he's smaller, less imposing, and more morally restrained than his opponent Balrog, who fits this trope more. That said, Balrog must have felt pretty frightened when on the receiving end of TJ's RapidFireFisticuffs. |
| 886 | * ScrewTheRulesTheyBrokeThemFirst: He fights cleanly at first, but when Balrog uses his Dirty Bull Ultra Combo and knocks out the referee, all bets are off and he starts using mixed martial arts techniques to even the odds. |
| 887 | * SoreLoser: In the past, TJ was obsessed with winning along with the glory and fame that came with it, so much so that he was willing to perform many underhanded moves to stay on top rather than accept defeat gracefully. His public exposure by Ultratech served as a hard lesson [[TheAtoner that he's still trying to recover from]]. |
| 888 | * StoneWall: As an out-boxer, he sacrifices raw power to evade his opponent's attacks and wear them down with superior endurance. This counters Balrog's slugger style and allows him to win the fight. |
| 889 | * StrongAndSkilled: One of the reasons why he wins is that he is about even with Balrog physically, but also has much more experience in fighting, having defended his title for 20 years. |
| 890 | * SuperMode: His Instinct Mode Glory Days allows him to move and punch faster when his back's to the wall. He activates it after being knocked down by Balrog's Gigaton Blow, and it helps him deliver the knockout blow. |
| 891 | * SuperStrength: TJ can create shockwaves just by punching the ground with his Tremor Punch, and a key part of his fighting style is to knock his opponents over a dozen feet into the air with his Vortex Uppercut (even ones as heavy as the 550-lb Fulgore) and keep them there with a variety of attacks. Even his Powerline jab is strong enough to send even the heaviest opponents sprawling backwards. He and Balrog turn out to be evenly matched in this regard, though TJ has a slight edge by a few hundred newtons. |
| 892 | * SuperToughness: Survived ''ripping the cybernetics out of his arms'' with his bare hands and jumping out of a skyscraper estimated at being roughly 1,162 feet tall. He and Balrog were evenly matched in this regard, though Balrog has a slight edge in that he survived a drop roughly 100 feet higher. |
| 893 | * TacticalRockPaperScissors: One of the reasons he wins the fight is that his Outboxer style, statistically speaking, has an advantage over Balrog's Slugger style. |
| 894 | * ThrowingTheMatch: In exchange for giving him his cybernetic implants and letting him enjoy 20 years of champion life, Ultratech set him up with a match against their prototype Fulgore unit and told him to lose the fight to further cement their dominance on the planet. TJ refused and broke it in front of the audience, and in return, Ultratech exposed his cheating ways for the world to see. |
| 895 | * VictoryByEndurance: Won by wearing Balrog down via repeated enough dodging and counter-attacking to [[DeadlyEuphemism permanently knock his opponent out.]] |
| 896 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: TJ usually wears a Combo Gym tank top, but since the fight starts as an official boxing match, he goes shirtless for the episode. |
| 897 | * WeakButSkilled: Compared to Balrog, TJ is around as strong, and somewhat less durable, but he uses the finesse-based Outboxer style (as opposed to Balrog's Slugger style). Outboxers having an advantage against Sluggers is part of why TJ won. |
| 898 | * WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Well, on your shorts more like. Though it doesn't match either Texas or the United States' flags, so it might just be a star-and-stripes motif instead of a specific flag. |
| 899 | [[/folder]] |
| 900 | |
| 901 | [[folder:Shredder VS Silver Samurai]] |
| 902 | !![[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles The Shredder (Oroku Saki)]] |
| 903 | --->'''The Shredder''': ''"The true battle... starts NOW!"''\ |
| 904 | \ |
| 905 | ''The Sharp and Shiny Arch-Villain of the Ninja Turtles'' |
| 906 | |
| 907 | * ArchEnemy: Of Splinter (also known as Hamato Yoshi) and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. |
| 908 | * AtrociousAlias: Boomstick points out that "shredder" is also the name of a kitchen utensil. |
| 909 | * BadassCape: Many iterations, including the 1987 version, have one. In the fight itself, Silver Samurai slices through it, causing Shredder to throw it off. |
| 910 | * TheBadGuyWins: Though both he and Silver Samurai can be considered supervillains, Shredder is certainly the eviler of the two by ''far'', compared to his more morally gray opponent. Not only does he win, but he also inflicts on Harada one of the most brutal deaths in the show's history. |
| 911 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Boomstick considers every Shredder an "absolute badass", even the bumbling 1987 incarnation. Indeed, it's the 1987 Shredder [[CompositeCharacter (albeit with his voice more in line with the 2003 incarnation)]] who's used in the fight animation, and he delivers a particularly brutal death to Silver Samurai. |
| 912 | * BondOneLiner: After ripping Harada's head off, he says this as he crushes it in one hand: |
| 913 | -->'''Super Shredder:''' PLAYTIME. IS. ''OVER.'' |
| 914 | * ClothingDamage: His cape gets sliced by Harada, causing him to throw off the remnants. |
| 915 | * CompositeCharacter: In Shredder's preview, Wiz and Boomstick briefly mention his [[MultipleChoicePast varying backstories]]-- compositing all the versions of him. In the fight itself, the sprite used in the fight itself is based on the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 1987 incarnation]], while the voice used seems to be based on the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 incarnation]]. |
| 916 | ** Additionally, in summing up his backstory, they went with the 1987 and [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 versions]] of Hamato Yoshi not only {{s|paredByTheAdaptation}}urviving, but also [[CompositeCharacter mutating into Splinter]]-- rather than Splinter simply being Yoshi's pet rat. |
| 917 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: Sics a squadron of Foot Clan ninjas onto Silver Samurai before appearing on his The Foot Clan ninjas are instantly destroyed in a CurbStompBattle. Shredder proves to be a far stronger opponent -- enough to kill Silver Samurai. |
| 918 | * CurbStompBattle: Initially averted, as they were pretty evenly matched. Once Silver Samurai scored a hit, though, Shredder decided to stop playing around and broke out the mutagen to become Super Shredder. He then lays down a vicious curb-stomp on Harada that ends a particularly ''brutal'' death. |
| 919 | * CoolHelmet: The one constant between all his incarnations, besides his clawed gauntlets, is his three-pronged helmet called the Kuro Kabuto. It's part of a set of 1500-year-old armor forged from the totems of the Foot clan's fallen enemies to be stronger than steel, that Shredder uses to signify his leadership of the Foot Clan. |
| 920 | * CoolSword: The various incarnations of him has wielded a variety of swords ranging from {{katanas|AreJustBetter}} to [[LaserBlade energy blades]]. He settles for a simple katana during the battle. |
| 921 | * DecapitationPresentation: On the giving end of a brief one where he shows the decapitated Silver Samurai's head before crushing it-- [[GrossUpCloseUp drawn in horrifying detail]]. |
| 922 | * DependingOnTheWriter: His backstory changes across TMNT media: He's been [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW a reincarnation of an ancient Japanese warrior]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 an alien disguised as a man/a demon-possessed ancient warrior/a program modeled after the alien disguised as a man]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking or]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 a bumbling idiot]] [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir voiced by Uncle Phil]]. |
| 923 | -->'''Shredder (1987)''': But I don't wanna conquer this place! I wanna conquer ''Eaaaaaaaaarth!'' |
| 924 | * TheDreaded: Barring the Fred Wolf cartoon, Splinter and his sons dread facing The Shredder. The 2012 CGI series in particular has Splinter having nightmares about Shredder killing the Turtles after he delivered a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown CurbStompBattle against them. |
| 925 | * FlashStep: As befitting a ninja. He uses it liberally during the fight to both avoid Silver Samurai's strikes and try to catch him by surprise. |
| 926 | * GreenEyedMonster: Both he and Hamato Yoshi had feelings for a woman named Tang Shen, but she only had eyes for Yoshi. Jealous of their relationship, Shredder attacked him, [[TakingTheBullet but Tang Shen was accidentally slain instead of Yoshi.]] |
| 927 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: During the fight, Harada stabs him through the chest, badly injuring him. As his opponent celebrates, Shredder gets back up, brings out the mutagen and goes [[SuperMode Super Shredder]]. |
| 928 | * JustEatGilligan: As Boomstick notes, if all else fails, there was always the option for Shredder to just go mutant and beat Harada to death since he's way stronger and would tank a majority of whatever the Silver Samurai could throw at him. |
| 929 | * MadeOfIron: Tough enough to withstand multiple bites from the mutant [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Leatherhead]] on his midsection, which would have easily split a normal man in half, and have no problems tossing the 300 lb beast around afterwards. |
| 930 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: Mentioned in his backstory, where he and Hamato Yoshi had feelings for a woman named Tang Shen. Unfortunately for him, the woman only loved the latter, and he thus tried to kill Yoshi in the process but ends up killing Tang Shen instead. |
| 931 | * {{Ninja}}: Leader of the Foot ninja clan. |
| 932 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: As he challenges Silver Samurai-- |
| 933 | -->'''Shredder:''' (''[[EvilLaugh laughs evilly]]'') You are no match for... ''THE SHREDDER!'' |
| 934 | * PreMortemOneLiner: Just as he punches Silver Samurai's sword into his face-- |
| 935 | -->'''Super Shredder:''' ''DIE!'' |
| 936 | * PurpleIsPowerful: What clothes he wears apart from spiked armor. |
| 937 | * RedBaron: His birth name is Oroku Saki, but the world and his enemies know him as The Shredder. |
| 938 | * ShockAndAwe: Super Shredder is capable of creating lightning. |
| 939 | * SmokeOut: Uses a smoke bomb to evade Harada's attacks. |
| 940 | * SpikesOfVillainy: The Shredder has his armor lined with spikes and blades, though how spiky his armor differs between incarnations. |
| 941 | * SuperMode: Super Shredder. It makes him bigger, tougher, and stronger (in the 2012 CGI series he can throw an oil tanker with ease), but turns him into a mindless brute, though he retains most of his mind in the 2012 CGI series. Harada stood no chance against him. |
| 942 | * SuperSpeed: He can move and strike faster than the human eye can track, as shown when he intimidated a mob boss by drawing his blade and slicing so fast the only proof it even happened was the sound of his blade being drawn and the man's meatball on a fork and surrounding candlesticks for atmosphere fell to pieces. This feat alone means he can move faster than 1/220th of a second. This gives him the edge against Harada's SuperReflexes and what clinches the win for him since he is more likely to land the killing blow. |
| 943 | * SuperStrength: Even in his normal form, he's strong enough to lift and throw the 300-lb Leatherhead like a ragdoll, and as Super Shredder he's strong enough to throw entire oil tankers with ease. While Harada can out-muscle Saki at base, he's outclassed by Super Shredder. |
| 944 | * TeleportSpam: As Super Shredder, he can use this liberally. This provides yet another advantage against Harada. |
| 945 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: As Super Shredder, he tears Silver Samurai's arm off and impales him through the eye by punching Harada's own sword at him, and ''then'' rips his head off and crushes it. |
| 946 | * TinTyrant: His spiked armor is one of his most prominent features, though how armored he differs between his various incarnations, ranging from a few armored plates to a full suit of PoweredArmor. It's deemed weaker than Silver Samurai's armor, but Shredder's fast enough that the loss of protection doesn't hinder him too much. |
| 947 | * WeakButSkilled: While he is physically weaker compared to his opponent, Shredder has completely mastered Ninjutsu (which for reference is made up of 18 separate disciplines) and fought off opponents of similar strength to the Silver Samurai. This is one of the reasons he won, as his broad assortment of talents allowed him to anticipate the Silver Samurai’s straightforward fighting style. Plus as the Super Shredder he becomes StrongAndSkilled. |
| 948 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Amusingly, Wiz points out that Shredder seems to have aversions to [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 garbage trucks]], [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze newborn infants, wood]], and [[ScreenToStageAdaptation the power of music]], and has [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 an obsessive desire to eat his enemies as soup]]. Boomstick has to wonder if the 90s were always that bad. |
| 949 | * WeaponTombstone: On the giving end. After slaying Silver Samurai, Shredder leaves the Muramasa blade embedded into the ground with his opponent's helmet perched on top of it. |
| 950 | * WolverineClaws: One of Shredder's most recurring features is his famous tekko-kagi[[note]]Which literally translates from Japanese as ''back of the hand hooks''.[[/note]] clawed gauntlets; in fact, he's probably as associated with this trope as Wolverine himself. |
| 951 | * WorthyOpponent: Evil as he may be, it's hinted that he did show honor and respect towards Silver Samurai as a worthy foe considering that he gave Harada a WeaponTombstone using Harada's helmet and Muramasa. |
| 952 | |
| 953 | !![[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada)]] |
| 954 | --->'''Wolverine''': ''"Last chance, Harada. Yield!"''\ |
| 955 | '''Silver Samurai''': ''"The Silver Samurai yields to no man!"''\ |
| 956 | \ |
| 957 | ''The Mutant Swordsman Who Can Slice Through Anything'' |
| 958 | |
| 959 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Muramasa is a deadly blade, made even more dangerous with the Silver Samurai's mutant power by covering it in a tachyon field so it can cut through almost anything. Thanks to his mutant powers, however, he can do the same to just about any other blade on hand. |
| 960 | * AnArmAndALeg: Super Shredder hacks off his arm in one blow. |
| 961 | * ArchEnemy: His most well-known rival is Wolverine, although their rivalry is noted as one of respect due to each other's skill in combat. |
| 962 | * AtrociousAlias: Upon stating Harada's alias, Boomstick simply goes [[{{Beat}} dead quiet]] and Wiz only adds in a BluntYes. |
| 963 | * AttackItsWeakpoint: His armor, strong as it is, does have its weak points, though they're mostly hard to get to. In the fight itself, Shredder fails to harm Harada until he strikes the spot in the middle of his arm-- and from there, it only gets worse for Harada. |
| 964 | * BastardAngst: Keniuchio Harada was the son of the leader of the Yashida Clan, Shingen Yashida. However, he couldn't inherit the clan normally because he was born illegitimately. This caused him no end of grief when Wolverine killed his father and was set to marry his sister, who would inherit the clan over him (a triple shame combo, according to Boomstick), leading him to show up and challenge his sister to a fight for leadership in which she died (poisoned by a third party, but still). |
| 965 | * BladeReflection: During their fight, Harada catches Shredder coming at him from behind by seeing his reflection in his blade and uses foresight to impale Saki through the chest. |
| 966 | * BlingOfWar: ''Silver'' Samurai. The name should tell you enough. |
| 967 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gets one of the most brutal deaths in the series. Shredder cuts through his arm, causing him to bleed out in HighPressureBlood, punches his sword straight through his head, pops it off, and crushes it with one hand. And even in Hell, his soul gets flattened by Marduk Kurios' Soulcutter, leaving him DeaderThanDead. |
| 968 | * CurbStompBattle: Pulls this off against Shredder's Foot Clan ninja mooks. All five of them attack him at the same time and are defeated in one attack. The moment Shredder broke out the mutagen, though... |
| 969 | * DecapitationPresentation: On the receiving end of a brief one where his decapitated head is shown by Super Shredder to the camera, before [[GrossUpCloseUp it's graphically crushed in one hand]]. |
| 970 | * DontCelebrateJustYet: Celebrates his supposed victory over Shredder without killing him, allowing his opponent to turn into Super Shredder. |
| 971 | * EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: Especially mutant samurai. Also, Boomstick has no explanation as to why Harada chose to become a samurai other than this trope. |
| 972 | * EyeScream: Silver Samurai's sword gets punched through his eye socket by Super Shredder, stabbing straight through and leaving one of his eyeballs dangling from it. |
| 973 | * FateWorseThanDeath: After getting killed by Shredder, his soul ends up in Hell, where it's promptly and permanently destroyed by the Soulcutter blade. |
| 974 | * HoistByTheirOwnPetard: When he attempts to rush at Super Shredder, Shredder cuts his sword arm with a karate chop, before driving Harada's own sword through his eye socket, killing him. |
| 975 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: After cutting off his arm, Super Shredder ''punches'' his sword through his skull. |
| 976 | * ImplausibleFencingPowers: Once sliced a bullet fired at him in half. Although impressive, this is deemed to be lesser so compared to Shredder being able to move and attack faster than normal human eyesight-- but during their final battle, he uses his tachyon-infused katana to cut through a lightning bolt fired by Super Shredder. |
| 977 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: As expected of a samurai, but ones infused with tachyon energy fields then can cut through pretty much anything are even more so! Not so much when they get [[EyeScream punched through your own eye, though.]] |
| 978 | * {{Ninja}}: One of the Silver Samurai's specialties is the art of Ninjutsu. |
| 979 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He's a {{mutant}} [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai samurai]]. |
| 980 | * OffWithHisHead: To finish him off, Super Shredder decapitates Silver Samurai with a knifehand strike-- catching his head in one hand and crushing it afterward. |
| 981 | * OhCrap: Has a brief moment of this when he sees Shredder turning into [[SuperMode Super Shredder]]. |
| 982 | * SuperReflexes: Fast enough to draw his blade, trace an assassin's bullet path, and then cleave the bullet apart when the gunman was only 15 feet away from him upon firing, meaning he had to act in just over 1/100th of a second. While impressive, it's not quite as fast as the Shredder's fastest speed, which is almost double said reaction time. |
| 983 | * SuperStrength: He was once dogpiled by Daredevil, She-Devil, a panther, and a cheetah (which combined likely weighed over 600 lbs) and managed to shove them all off with one mighty push. While stronger than Shredder's base form, he couldn't hold a candle to Super Shredder's strength. |
| 984 | * TeleportSpam: He has a teleportation ring to get around quickly, though he prefers to use it as a getaway rather than using it as a means to fight, and when using it in a fight, he tends to get predictable. This is one of the factors in his loss, as a warrior as fast and experienced as Shredder would certainly be able to take advantage of it. |
| 985 | * TinTyrant: As his name suggests, he wears silver samurai armor made of steel over his body that's strong enough to withstand bullets and let him survive a building falling on top of him. It's deemed stronger than Shredder's armor, but it has many weak points that a precision fighter like Saki could aim for to strike the vulnerable flesh beneath. |
| 986 | * WeaponTombstone: After being killed by Super Shredder, Silver Samurai's Muramasa blade can be seen sticking out of the ground with his helmet perched on top of the handle as his opponent walks away. |
| 987 | * UnskilledButStrong: While Silver Samurai does have considerable training, his preferred strategy is to just brute force his way through his opponents, which works pretty well thanks to his strength and [[AbsurdlySharpBlade powers]]. Unfortunately, the Shredder was more than skilled enough to keep up with him and the Super Shredder was way stronger than him. |
| 988 | [[/folder]] |
| 989 | |
| 990 | [[folder:Smokey VS [=McGruff=]]] |
| 991 | !!Smokey Bear |
| 992 | --->'''Smokey Bear''': ''"Only you can prevent forest fires."''\ |
| 993 | '''Director''': ''"Smokey, don't. Look, I- Smoke!"''\ |
| 994 | '''Smokey Bear''': ''"I gotta get back to the forest."''\ |
| 995 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristopherSabat\ |
| 996 | \ |
| 997 | ''The Firefighting Mascot of Forest Safety'' |
| 998 | |
| 999 | |
| 1000 | * BadassBoast: His infamous catchphrase is modified to make one hell of a boast. Doubles as a PreMortemOneLiner. |
| 1001 | -->'''Smokey:''' Not even ''you'' can prevent ''this''! |
| 1002 | * BerserkButton: The normally mild-mannered bear goes [[{{Pun}} bear-serk]] if you're being careless about fire control. [=McGruff=] setting it off when he doesn't even try to stop a fire is what causes the fight. |
| 1003 | * BearsAreBadNews: The hosts note that the biggest Black Bears are over 7 feet tall, weigh more than 800 pounds, and can tear your arm off easily. He's also bad news for [=McGruff=] in the battle and it's one of the reasons why he wins since of course, a bear is far stronger than a dog. |
| 1004 | * BearyFriendly: In his original [=PSAs=], he's a park ranger who's committed to preventing wildfires. |
| 1005 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: Right after he crushes [=McGruff's=] rig with him still inside it, Giant Smokey flicks its remains away and turns his attention to the forest fire, quickly dousing it using his shovel and a nearby lake. |
| 1006 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "''Only you can prevent forest fires!''" |
| 1007 | * DavidVersusGoliath: Smokey is the Goliath, being a 7-foot tall black bear who weighs almost half a ton, and he can even increase his size to larger than a mountain range. In the latter form, he easily crushes [=McGruff=]. |
| 1008 | * FunnyAnimal: A talking bipedal bear who wears clothes and works as a park ranger. |
| 1009 | * FurryReminder: After tripping up [=McGruff=] with a thrown shovel, Smokey stands on all fours, roars, then runs after him to hit him with his paws, hard. |
| 1010 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Smokey usually walks around with a hat and pants, but no shirt. |
| 1011 | * LatexPerfection: Wiz brings up one of Smokey's infamous commercials where he somehow managed to disguise himself as a human woman (Joanna Cassidy) despite looking nothing like one. |
| 1012 | * LifeImitatesArt: Tragically, not long after Smokey was created as a mascot, a particularly vicious wildfire hit New Mexico, where thousands of forest creatures lost their homes or died. As firefighters were getting the blaze under control, they found a Black Bear cub clinging to a smouldering tree, orphaned by the wildfire, and his paws burnt by the flames. He was rescued, eventually named after Smokey, and served as the official, real-life version of the character. |
| 1013 | * LightningBruiser: While he's not as fast as [=McGruff=], he can still move at an impressive 35 mph. He's also far stronger than his opponent. |
| 1014 | * MadeOfIron: Being a bear, he's able to take a lot of punishment. This includes being hit by a monster truck, as [=McGruff=] found out the hard way. |
| 1015 | * MagneticHero: He has attracted many people to his cause, both in real life (80% reduction in annual forest fires after a few years on the job, and receiving enough fan mail that he needed to get his own postal code) and in fictionland -- drawing the likes of classic Disney characters and even ''The Addams Family'', of all people, to his cause. |
| 1016 | * MakeMyMonsterGrow: He can increase his size to larger than mountains. This is one of the reasons why he wins over [=McGruff=]. |
| 1017 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Inverted. One infamous commercial had Smokey rapping his message about forest fire safety, but stops it partway through in disgust, deciding that he's going to "tell it to them straight". |
| 1018 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: After stopping [=McGruff=] from leaving the forest, he explains the reason behind his anger towards the canine detective: |
| 1019 | -->'''Smokey:''' Only ''you'' could have prevented that forest fire... '''''[[YouFool fool]]'''''. |
| 1020 | * ShovelStrike: Smokey is mostly seen carrying a shovel. He uses it to break through [=McGruff=]'s shields, to break a tree causing [=McGruff=] to trip over, and then later to put out the fires in the forest after he dispatches [=McGruff=]. |
| 1021 | * SizeShifter: Is capable of ''growing even bigger than the mountain ranges'' themselves! This allows him to easily flatten [=McGruff=] and his monster truck despite taking damage from it at regular size. |
| 1022 | * SoleSurvivor: His official origin and the actual inspiration came from a poor black bear cub who was rescued from a burnt tree after a massive forest fire tore through a forest, driving out or killing most of the animals that lived there. |
| 1023 | * SquashedFlat: He finishes off [=McGruff=] by taking his monster truck between his hands and pressing them together. |
| 1024 | * StealthExpert: Is seemingly a master of stealth, as despite being a 7-foot tall bear, he can sneak up on people in the forest. Smokey's stealth capability is even mentioned in his analysis, and he is even able to get the drop on [=McGruff=] when the latter tries to flee the scene of a forest fire. |
| 1025 | * TotallyRadical: Defied. He managed to preserve his dignity in the 90s by refusing to [[PissTakeRap "talk to kids in their language"]] and instead choosing to give it to them straight. Wiz and Boomstick even refer to the 1990s as one of Smokey's greatest challenges. |
| 1026 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: Smokey [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deathbattle/images/a/ab/Smokey_the_Bear.png/revision/latest?cb=20200330154627 generally]] looks like a teddy bear with human proportions. His [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deathbattle/images/b/b9/Smokey_Bear_BlinkFerret_version.png/revision/latest?cb=20170928214948 appearance in the battle]], however, makes him look more like a cartoon black bear, possessing smaller ears, a longer snout, and a more [[TopHeavyGuy top-heavy]] figure. |
| 1027 | * YouFool: Angrily calls [=McGruff=] one thanks to the Crime Dog's inaction to put out the campfire leading to the forest fire occurring. |
| 1028 | |
| 1029 | !![=McGruff=] the Crime Dog |
| 1030 | --->'''[=McGruff=] the Crime Dog''': ''"I'm [=McGruff=] the Crime Dog and I'm here to take a bite out of crime! Ruff."''\ |
| 1031 | '''Voiced by:''' Chris Rager\ |
| 1032 | \ |
| 1033 | ''Taking a Bite Out of Crime Whenever He Goes'' |
| 1034 | |
| 1035 | * AccompliceByInaction: At the beginning of the fight, [=McGruff=] begins lecturing the audience near a campfire about the dangers of fire... right around the same time the fire spreads throughout the forest. His first reaction is to run away, only to be stopped by Smokey, who attacks [=McGruff=] after telling him that [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot he could have stopped the fire]]. |
| 1036 | * AdaptationalVillainy: While the AccompliceByInaction entry mentions his inaction causing the initial forest fire, he's quick to escalate things with Smokey when criticized. Later, he brings his huge [[CoolCar Monster Truck]] into the forest to run Smokey down, all while using the explosive nitro to cause additional fire damage, and knocking down several trees, seeming like he's trying to purposely destroy as much of Smokey's forest as possible. |
| 1037 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Wiz notes that [=McGruff=] is a bloodhound, "a dog breed known for their excellent sense of smell, an extremely powerful bite, and floppy, adorable ears." |
| 1038 | * BadassLongcoat: His trademark trench coat not only wards off the cold and rain but, according to Boomstick, also gives him a "neat detective vibe". |
| 1039 | * BarrierWarrior: His Circle of Respect creates a forcefield around himself. It may be a good metaphor on how kids should handle bullies, but it ain't that great against a giant bear with a shovel. |
| 1040 | * BigBadassRig: He has his own monster truck. What it has to do with stopping crime, the hosts aren't sure, but at least it's cool, right? Wrong. It may be huge, but a mountain-sized bear is bigger. |
| 1041 | * BigGood: [=McGruff=] is this towards crime involving young kids and teenagers, with his analysis stating that crime dropped greatly after his creation. Boomstick pre-empts naysayers who claim that [=McGruff=] can't be proven as responsible by asking if they can prove he ''isn't'' responsible. |
| 1042 | * BigFriendlyDog: At least towards kids -- he doesn't tolerate anyone doing crime. |
| 1043 | * BloodlessCarnage: Averted. His blood can clearly be seen leaking from his pulped monster truck. |
| 1044 | * ByTheBookCop: [=McGruff=] imparts advice to kids about what they can do to prevent crime. |
| 1045 | * CarFu: Attacks Smokey by ramming him into trees with a monster truck on NitroBoost. While this can hurt Smokey initially, it's useless once Smokey grows gigantic enough to crush him with the truck. |
| 1046 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "''Take a bite out of crime!''" |
| 1047 | * DavidVersusGoliath: [=McGruff=] is a man-sized bloodhound, but he still looks tiny next to Smokey, making him the David. Even more so when Smokey starts growing to be as large as a mountain. |
| 1048 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: When he's about to be crushed inside his truck by Giant Smokey, he simply freezes time and makes one last request for the kids to remember him. |
| 1049 | * FailedASpotCheck: During his rundown, he is given credit for being acutely aware of his surroundings to help prevent crime and danger... but as he flees the scene of the forest fire he inadvertently caused, he doesn't notice the giant black bear in front of him, and bumps right into Smokey. |
| 1050 | * FunnyAnimal: A talking bipedal bloodhound who wears clothes and works as a detective. |
| 1051 | * FurryReminder: He gives a pained yelp as Smokey crushes his monster truck while he's still in it. |
| 1052 | * HardboiledDetective: His trademark outfit gives him the look of one. Many cartoons ''do'' show him act as one, too -- or rather, as a "pre-tective". |
| 1053 | * HeroicDog: He's a police dog who's intent on stopping crime wherever possible. |
| 1054 | * TheNoseKnows: Like a normal bloodhound, he has an amazing sense of smell. |
| 1055 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Unlike Smokey, who refused to use rap to spread his message, [=McGruff=] used ''everything'' to get his message across - cartoons, comic books, musicals, video games and even his own cassette tape with such songs as "Crack and Cocaine" and "Inhalants". |
| 1056 | * PoliceAreUseless: Ironically enough, he often only points out the crimes that are happening, rather than actually stepping in to stop them himself. This is what starts his fight with Smokey, as he tries to escape the forest after it catches fire rather than do anything to try to stop the fire from spreading. |
| 1057 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: Modifies his catchprase into one as he runs Smokey down with his [[CarFu nitro-fueled monster truck]]. Not that it does him much good. |
| 1058 | -->'''[=McGruff=]''': Take a bite out of ''this''! |
| 1059 | * PrecrimeArrest: [=McGruff=], unlike Smokey, holds the (fictional) rank of "pretective", which means he's able to figure out possible crimes through actions and other clues before they happen. This bit ''really'' freaks Boomstick out ("That's ''Minority Report'' shit!"). |
| 1060 | * SquashedFlat: By Smokey's giant-sized hands. |
| 1061 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: He's infamous for stopping time when a crime occurs and discussing it with the viewer. He doesn't actually interact with anybody, [[TooSmartForStrangers as poor Jenny would tell you.]] He does this twice during the fight, but as he's unable to interact with the world around him while doing so, he's unable to avoid Smokey's attacks - the second one being a fatal mistake. |
| 1062 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: His reaction to Smokey about to squash him in his own monster truck is a grimace. |
| 1063 | * TimeStandsStill: Is capable of stopping time and discussing what goes on. Unfortunately, he's unable to interact with the environment when doing so. This is a factor in his loss since he was unable to do anything against Smokey's attacks including the finishing blow even if he froze time. |
| 1064 | * WhatTheHellHero: Smokey gives [=McGruff=] one for trying to walk away without dealing with the forest fire that he just finished lecturing about. |
| 1065 | * WolfMan: Is an anthropomorphic bloodhound, and Wiz uses this to help calculate his strength and biting power by scaling from a standard quadruped bloodhound to being a 6-foot-tall bipedal bloodhound-man. |
| 1066 | [[/folder]] |
| 1067 | |
| 1068 | [[folder:Thor VS Wonder Woman]] |
| 1069 | !![[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Thor Odinson]] |
| 1070 | --->'''Thor''': ''"I accept your surrender."''\ |
| 1071 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JonahScott\ |
| 1072 | \ |
| 1073 | ''Norse Champion of Asgard and Son of Odin'' |
| 1074 | |
| 1075 | * BackForTheDead: He loses this time around after previously defeating Lord Raiden. |
| 1076 | * TheBerserker: He can enter a [[SuperMode berserker rage]] which, at the cost of some of his usual self-control, increases his power ten-fold. |
| 1077 | * BoisterousBruiser: Thor enjoys a good battle just as much as celebrating the glory of his achievements -- fitting for a Germanic deity. |
| 1078 | * TheBigGuy: Thor, along with the Hulk, is one of the Avengers' heaviest hitters. |
| 1079 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: He evokes ComicBook/SuperboyPrime as he goes into Warrior's Rage. It's a little funny and terrifying at the same time. |
| 1080 | -->'''Thor:''' ''IllKillYou!'' ''I'll kill you dead!'' |
| 1081 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: On the receiving end. He's stabbed through the back of the head by Diana's [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Sword of Athena]], the blade piercing all the way through and out of his mouth. |
| 1082 | * LightningBruiser: He's fast enough to tag light-speed-moving opponents, strong enough to destroy planets, and tough enough to survive attacks that destroy planets. Unfortunately, while more durable than his opponent, Diana was much faster and stronger than him. |
| 1083 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: When he gives in to his berserker rage, he doesn't hesitate to smash his hammer into Diana's legs, midsection, arms and chest without mercy. |
| 1084 | * NotQuiteFlight: Thor technically doesn't "fly" in the traditional sense of the term. Instead, he's capable of hitching a ride on Mjolnir by holding onto it after it's thrown, or spinning it by the handle like a helicopter rotor. |
| 1085 | * OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Mjolnir has a special enchantment that prevents people whom it deems "unworthy" from using its power by being so impossibly heavy that not even the Hulk or Superman can pick it up, though Odin can suspend the restriction if the situation is dire enough. While that criteria vary from one canon to another, especially towards a specific character (for instance, mainstream Captain America could lift the hammer but his MCU counterpart can't). The mainstream Thor cannot lift Mjolnir due to the events of ''ComicBook/OriginalSin'' and the hammer is owned by Jane Foster. Ironically, Thor's opponent this round, Wonder Woman, ''was'' deemed worthy of its power during ''DC Versus Marvel'', but gave up the power during her fight with Storm. |
| 1086 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: Against opponents of similar power level to himself, his battles have destroyed ''worlds''. During the fight, he basically destroys the Moon trying to kill Diana. |
| 1087 | * PhysicalGod: Moreso than the other Asgardians, as Thor is the son of the Norse deity Odin and the Greek deity Gaia,[[note]]Who within Marvel's cosmology is worshipped across multiple pantheons.[[/note]] and was worshipped as the god of thunder and storms in Norse mythology. |
| 1088 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: He's a member of the Asgardians, the [[PhysicalGod deities of Norse mythology]], who are really into fighting. |
| 1089 | * {{Reincarnation}}: The Norse gods are bound to a cycle of death and reincarnation during Ragnarok; Thor's previous incarnation -- who [[MutualKill died killing the Midgard Serpent]] -- had red hair. He's going to need another reincarnation after this fight. |
| 1090 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Thor is the son of Odin the Allfather, making him Prince of Asgard. He's also been King of Asgard, but he really hates being tethered to the realm and would rather be out and about. Beyond actually going out for hunts against beasts and threats within his realm, he's a founding member of the Avengers, a role many of his replacements take up as well. |
| 1091 | * SemiDivine: While the Asgardians are supernatural beings worshiped as gods in Norse mythology, Thor actually is half Elder-God on his mother's side. This gives him superior strength and durability even compared to other beings from Asgard. |
| 1092 | * ShockAndAwe: Thor can call down lightning with Mjolnir. |
| 1093 | * StoneWall: He's ultimately this compared to his opponent being much slower and weaker but is demonstrated to be much tougher. However, him being much slower and weaker means he couldn't outspeed or outmuscle his opponent and that Diana could bypass his superior natural defenses with her atom-slicing blade and that her durability could only really being compromised by piercing weapons, something that [[ThunderHammer Mjolnir]] wouldn't really qualify as. |
| 1094 | * SuperSpeed: Mjolnir can return to Thor at will-- even returning from the far edge of the universe in less than a minute and considering that fact he uses the hammer to move around, this puts him on being able to travel over 500,000x the speed of light. Unfortunately, Wonder Woman's vastily superior SuperReflexes means she outclasses him in the speed department. |
| 1095 | * SuperStrength: His strength is on par with the Hulk's, even without his hammer. He's lifted the Midgard Serpent, which is estimated at weighing 17 trillion tons, while it was constricting the Earth (since a snake can squeeze with a force almost 16x its normal weight, he was able to lift an opposing force of 272 trillion tons). This is still about 8000x weaker than Diana's moving-Earth feat. |
| 1096 | * SuperToughness: He's survived a planet-busting bomb to the face, which would require a force equal to 53 quadrillion megatons of TNT. Unfortunately, even his superior durability couldn't do a damn thing to protect himself against Wonder Woman's [[AbsurdlySharpBlade atom-slicing blade]]. |
| 1097 | * ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Thor tends to throw Mjolnir, rather than using it as a traditional Warhammer. Given how absurdly fast Mjolnir can fly, and the fact that it can return to him at will (to the point of returning from the edge of the universe in 60 seconds), he gets away with it moreso than most examples of the trope. He can even hold onto it mid-throw to fly. |
| 1098 | * ThunderHammer: Thor's famous weapon is the hammer Mjolnir, from which most of his power is derived from. It is a divine weapon forged in a star from the mystical metal Uru and imbued with the essence of a galaxy-sized supernatural hurricane called the God Tempest, which was sealed inside it by Odin. Sadly, a hammer is not a piercing weapon, so he can't hurt Diana with it. |
| 1099 | * WeatherManipulation: As the Norse god of storms, Thor can not only channel lightning but can create and control everything from rainclouds to tornadoes to hurricanes. |
| 1100 | |
| 1101 | !![[Franchise/TheDCU Wonder Woman (Princess Diana of Themyscira)]] |
| 1102 | --->'''Wonder Woman''': ''"Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me."''\ |
| 1103 | '''Voiced by:''' Creator/NatalieVanSistine\ |
| 1104 | \ |
| 1105 | ''Greek Warrior of the Amazons and Daughter of Zeus'' |
| 1106 | |
| 1107 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: Her CoolSword, The Sword of Athena, is a magical Amazonian weapon [[SharpenedToASingleAtom can slice ''atoms'']], to the point of once triggering an atomic blast. This weapon is a critical edge against her far more durable opponent as Thor simply lacked the means to defend himself against a blade that could tear him apart at the atomic level. |
| 1108 | * AchillesHeel: She is demonstrated to be tough enough to reach NighInvulnerable levels but the only real way to bypass that durability and do any real harm against her is through piercing weapons. Fortunately, her opponent had no means of exploiting this weakness while Diana had a special sword that could bypass Thor's superior durability on top of her greater strength and speed. |
| 1109 | * BondOneLiner: "You're unworthy". |
| 1110 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: The Bracelets of Submission. Boomstick finds the name incredibly kinky and, indeed, there are comic panels where villains bind Wonder Woman using the bracelets in that way, but Wiz makes mention that years of ContinuityReboot has made this name less and less literal. |
| 1111 | * {{Golem}}: Her original origin story is she was created from clay by her mother Hippolyta, and imbued with a human soul and brought to life by Aphrodite. |
| 1112 | * GlassCannon: She's ultimately this compared to her opponent being shown to be much stronger and faster but not demonstrated to be on Thor's level of toughness. However, while her having the strength and speed advantage was already good, what's more important is that she had the means of getting around her opponent's superior durability with her atom-slicing sword and that her own durability could only really be compromised by piercing weapons, something that Thor lacks in his own arsenal. |
| 1113 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: When she takes off her Bracelets of Submission and kills Thor, her eyes are glowing blue. |
| 1114 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: On the giving end. Wonder Woman finishes off Thor by getting behind him and piercing all the way through his head using the [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Sword of Athena.]] |
| 1115 | * LightningBruiser: Faster than light, strong enough to move planets, and tough enough to tank nukes without issue. She's faster and stronger than Thor, and she can work around his superior durability with her AbsurdlySharpBlade. |
| 1116 | * LivingLieDetector: Being the living embodiment of truth, Wonder Woman can tell when someone is lying to her. Prolonged time spent around Wonder Woman makes you tell the truth more. |
| 1117 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Owns a magical shield, but is probably best known for her Bracelets of Submission which were forged from the remnants of the legendary Aegis, the shield held by Zeus. They have been shown capable of stopping bullets, lightning, and even Superman's EyeBeams. |
| 1118 | * MartialPacifist: While Wonder Woman's purpose is to spread peace throughout "Man's World", she's not afraid to fight to ensure and protect that peace. |
| 1119 | %%* MythologyGag: |
| 1120 | * PowerLimiter: Her Bracelets of Submission actually serve to constrain her power, and when she removes them she becomes significantly more powerful. Once she takes them off, Thor goes down in one hit. |
| 1121 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: "[[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me.]]" |
| 1122 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: She is the princess of the Amazons, a group of mystically empowered women created by the Greek gods to bring stability and enlightenment to the world. |
| 1123 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Despite her mother, Queen Hippolyta, wishing otherwise, Diana got the chance to go into Man's World to show them the path to peace. A path that has also made her a founding member of the Justice League (depending on the continuity). |
| 1124 | * SemiDivine: Her original origin story is that she was a clay figure imbued with a human soul by Aphrodite and granted superhuman powers by the Greek deities. Her ''New 52'' and ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' origin story is that she is the daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta, making her a demigoddess. Following ''Rebirth''[='=]s retcon she starts without superpowers, but the Greek deities visit her while she is imprisoned and imbue her with their power. |
| 1125 | * StatuesqueStunner: Diana is not only a very attractive woman but over six feet tall, putting her on par with her male comrades not only in terms of power but in terms of height. |
| 1126 | * SuperReflexes: She once blocked ''trillions'' of shards from a villain who tried to [[PullingThemselvesTogether pull themselves together]] from fragments strewn about the universe. The speed required to do that manages to put even Mjolnir's ability to return to Thor from the edge of the universe in 60 seconds to shame and it was a major advantage she had against the Thunder God. |
| 1127 | * SuperStrength: Her strength is on par with Superman's, having managed to kill Doomsday by punching him to pieces and move the Earth itself from space with the aid of Martian Manhunter and the Man of Steel. Assuming she was moving her fair share (one-third), she would have to be strong enough to move 2.2 quintillion tons. Meaning she's several ''thousand'' times stronger than Thor. |
| 1128 | * SuperToughness: She once took punches from Professor Zoom, who could hit with a force comparable to that of white dwarf star or 2 billion megatons of force. While not as tough as her opponent, it doesn't matter since only piercing weapons could do any real damage against her, something Mjolnir wouldn't qualify as or anything else that Thor could possibly pull out. |
| 1129 | * TruthSerum: The magic lasso compels anyone wrapped in it to speak only the truth. Not just that but it also makes you see and confront the truth. |
| 1130 | [[/folder]] |
| 1131 | |
| 1132 | [[folder:Naruto VS Ichigo]] |
| 1133 | !![[Franchise/{{Naruto}} Naruto Uzumaki]] |
| 1134 | --->'''Naruto''': ''"I'm not gonna run away. I never go back on my word! That's my nindō: my ninja way!"''\ |
| 1135 | '''Naruto voiced by:''' Creator/DawnMBennett |
| 1136 | --->'''Kurama voiced by:''' Noël Wiggins\ |
| 1137 | \ |
| 1138 | ''Ninja Prodigy of the Hidden Leaf'' |
| 1139 | |
| 1140 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: At the end of the day, Naruto is just too much for Ichigo to handle. |
| 1141 | * AnArmAndALeg: Lost his right arm in the final battle against Sasuke, but got it replaced with a new one grown from Hashirama's cells. |
| 1142 | * AnimalisticAbomination: Kurama is the strongest of the Tailed Beasts, nine gigantic monsters formed from the Ten-Tailed Beast's chakra, and resembles a giant [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]]. |
| 1143 | * AnimalBattleAura: His Version 1 Jinchūriki Form creates a translucent fox-shaped aura of red chakra. Version 2 turns this into a nigh-impenetrable red-black exoskeleton, making it exponentially more powerful. His version of Tailed Beast Mode -- Kurama Mode -- creates a gold-colored translucent replica of Kurama, rather than changing him into Kurama itself. |
| 1144 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: His various Kurama Modes are gold-colored translucent replicas of a Kaiju-sized fox. |
| 1145 | * BadassArmfold: Does one after destroying Ichigo. |
| 1146 | * BlowYouAway: Naruto has a natural affinity for the Wind Nature Transformation, which [[AbsurdlySharpBlade increases the cutting power of his attacks]] and is a key component of his Rasenshuriken Jutsu. |
| 1147 | * BreathWeapon: Kurama's signature attack is the Tailed Beast Bomb, which charges a condensed sphere of yin and yang chakra inside the Tailed Beast's mouth and fires it as a beam or projectile. Naruto can also use the Tailed Beast Bomb in his Version 2 and Tailed Beast forms. |
| 1148 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: For the first twelve years of his life, Naruto was ostracized and hated by the people of Konoha, who saw him as the reincarnation of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox that had attacked their village and killed the Fourth Hokage. |
| 1149 | * DistractedByTheSexy: The use of his various "Sexy Jutsu", though [[DefiedTrope it failed to work when he tried it on Ichigo]]. |
| 1150 | * EdibleThemeNaming: His name is Japanese for "fishcake", and his opponent Ichigo's name is Japanese for "strawberry". |
| 1151 | * TheEmpath: Kurama can sense negative emotions, which he uses to detect Ichigo and alert Naruto to the impending threat and it allows the ninja to reliably keep pace with him for the rest of the fight. |
| 1152 | * EnemyWithin: Kurama's relationship with Naruto was initially antagonistic, with the Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox seeking to corrupt its host or manipulate him into removing the seal. |
| 1153 | * {{Flight}}: Naruto can achieve flight while in Six Paths Sage Mode. |
| 1154 | * HappilyMarried: Is happily married to Hinata Hyūga and they have a son and daughter. He gets to live and see his family again. |
| 1155 | * HealingFactor: Being Kurama's jinchūriki grants him the ability to heal quickly and much faster than Ichigo. |
| 1156 | * HeroicHost: Naruto is the third jinchūriki of Kurama, the [[AsianFoxSpirit Nine-Tailed Demon Fox]]. Initially, his relationship with Kurama was antagonistic, with the Fox seeking to corrupt Naruto or trick him into undoing the seal, but eventually they were able to become friends. |
| 1157 | * HeroicLineage: Naruto is the son of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, who was a veteran of the Third Ninja World War and considered a prodigy; and through his mother is a ''very'' distant descendant of the Sage of Six Paths and the deific alien Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. He is also the reincarnation of the Sage of Six Paths' younger son Asura. |
| 1158 | * HighlyVisibleNinja: Naruto wears a lot of bright orange, though considering he's capable of changing his appearance with a Jutsu what he wears doesn't really matter. |
| 1159 | * {{Irony}}: At the end of the day, despite being a ''ninja'', the poster child for the FragileSpeedster trope, Naruto actually winds up being a good deal ''slower'' than Ichigo... and several times stronger and tankier. |
| 1160 | * KiManipulation: Naruto can channel and manipulate mystical energy called chakra -- a mixture of physical and spiritual energy -- to augment his physical abilities and [[SupernaturalMartialArts fuel a broad array of supernatural powers referred to as ninjutsu]]. |
| 1161 | * KungFuWizard: Naruto uses chakra to enhance his physical strength, speed, and durability; create clones to aid him in combat/fight in multiple places at once, change his form, walk on walls/water, and for attacks such as his signature Rasengan. |
| 1162 | * LightningBruiser: Naruto is fast enough to dodge attacks moving at light speed, durable enough to tank a beam that could slice the moon in half, and powerful enough to decimate the landscape around him and alter the weather when going all-out. While he's slower than Ichigo, he outclasses the Soul Reaper in terms of defense and raw power, which enabled him to clinch the fight. |
| 1163 | * MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: Subverted. Before the fight, it ''appeared'' that Naruto was doing this. He was actually ''sleeping off'' under the waterfall and Kurama had to wake him up. |
| 1164 | * MightyGlacier: In the post-fight analysis, he's showcased to be slower than his opponent but is much more powerful and durable. This what gives him the win since he could counter Ichigo's superior speed with his Sage Mode's superior field awareness on top of being tough enough to survive anything that his opponent could dish out and having the power needed to overwhelm the Soul Reaper and put him down for good. |
| 1165 | * {{Ninja}}: Naruto trained at Konohagakure's ninja academy, and as an adult became the Seventh Hokage -- the leader of Konoha. |
| 1166 | * NoKillLikeOverkill: Naruto blasts Ichigo with a Six Paths: Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken, a Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenshuriken, and a regular Tailed Beast Bomb. Ichigo, having lost his powers gambling on Mugetsu killing Naruto, is left defenseless and vaporized. |
| 1167 | * NoSell: Towards the end of the fight, Naruto withstands Ichigo's Mugetsu using his Asura Kurama avatar. |
| 1168 | * OhCrap: Several times, though the most noticeable is when he sees Ichigo unleash his [[DeathOrGloryAttack Mugetsu]] right at him before calling on Kurama's full power to stop it. |
| 1169 | * OrphansOrdeal: Naruto was orphaned at birth when his mother and father died sealing Kurama inside him to ensure the village had a weapon. He then spent the first 12 years of his life ostracized and alone until his teacher Iruka acknowledged him and started him on the path to being a hero and Hokage of Konoha. |
| 1170 | * PartialTransformation: Naruto's Initial and Version 1 Jinchūriki Forms turn his irises red with slitted pupils, his teeth into fangs, and his fingernails into claws. He briefly assumes his Initial Jinchūriki Form when fleeing from Ichigo, but quickly transitions into his Six Paths Sage Mode. |
| 1171 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: At one points in his story, all of his chakra was extracted and had enough power to burst a hole through the hollow moon, a blast equal to at least 480 billion megatons of TNT. This level of destruction that Naruto is potentially capable of is 40 billion times more powerful than what his opponent could possibly output or even survive, giving the shinobi the crucial edge in that department. |
| 1172 | * {{Reincarnation}}: Is revealed to be the latest reincarnation of Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki's younger son Asura. Boomstick claims this makes him an alien since Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki's mother Kaguya was an alien herself. |
| 1173 | * SayMyName: Shouts out Kurama's name right before unleashing the Asura Kurama avatar to counter Mugetsu. |
| 1174 | * SignatureMove: Naruto has three main attacks, which he has created countless variations of. |
| 1175 | ** Sexy Jutsu -- A transformation technique that turns him into an attractive woman -- usually a naked female version of himself. |
| 1176 | ** Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu -- a clone technique that summons multiple corporeal copies of the user, which Naruto uses en masse. |
| 1177 | ** Rasengan -- an offensive technique that creates a concentrated sphere of rapidly-spinning chakra in the user's hand, which Naruto can infuse with the wind element to create the Rasenshuriken and its own set of variants. |
| 1178 | * SealedBadassInACan: Kurama has had three jinchūriki, of which Naruto is the most recent and the only one who it got along with. |
| 1179 | * SelfDuplication: One of Naruto's signature moves (and his earliest to boot) is the Shadow Clone Jutsu, the ability to create a clone of himself by using some of his chakra. While most ninja can create only a few clones at most, Naruto's insane amount of chakra from his family lineage and the Nine-Tailed Fox allows him to create an entire army of himself. While his original usage usually amounted to a ZergRush, each one tangible and strong enough to even use a Rasengan. He uses them liberally during the fight to get the drop on Ichigo, but the Soul Reaper uses his superior speed and wide-range {{Sword Beam}}s to compensate. |
| 1180 | * SpiderSense: Naruto's Six Paths Sage Mode increases his senses. This, combined with Kurama supporting him by [[TheEmpath his ability to read emotions]] completely neutralizes Ichigo being invisible. |
| 1181 | * StrongAndSkilled: He has better training and is crucially much more powerful than his opponent. |
| 1182 | * SuperEmpowering: Kurama grants its hosts an array of powers, including a HealingFactor; the ability to sense malicious intent; CombatTentacles in the form of Tailed Beast Chakra Arms; AnimalBattleAura in the form of the Version 1, Version 2, and Kurama Mode; and a BreathWeapon in the form of the Tailed Beast Bomb. |
| 1183 | * SuperMode: Due to his status as a Sage and a jinchūriki, Naruto has a wide array of augmented states. |
| 1184 | ** Toad Sage Mode, which he attains by drawing on Natural Energy. This greatly enhances the user's physical abilities, lets them sense chakra, and lets them manipulate Natural Energy. |
| 1185 | ** After befriending Kurama, he becomes able to use its power at will via Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, and can even combine it with Sage Mode to create Tailed Beast Sage Mode. |
| 1186 | ** After being infused with the chakra of the other eight Tailed Beasts and receiving Six Paths Chakra from the ghost of Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, Naruto's Tailed Beast Sage Mode is upgraded into Six Paths Sage Mode. By fusing three Kurama avatars in this state, he creates the Asura Kurama avatar, his strongest form. |
| 1187 | * SuperReflexes: He's fast enough to dodge Madara's [[AllThereInTheManual canonically-confirmed light-speed]] Sage Art: Storm Release Light Fang. Ichigo's even faster, however. |
| 1188 | * SuperSpeed: He's fast enough to be comparable to the movement speed of the Fourth Raikage, which puts him at around lightning speed. |
| 1189 | * SuperStrength: Naruto's Sage Mode alone is strong enough to toss around several hundred-ton statues and stop Pain's charging rhinoceros summon dead in its tracks before throwing it through the air. He's deemed stronger than Ichigo. |
| 1190 | * SuperToughness: In his base form he can survive a 480,000,000,000 MT blast, and his toughness only increases with each mode he uses until he becomes tough enough to stop a 27 Exaton (27,000,000,000,000 MT) attack from Toneri Ōtsutsuki. This means he can easily survive even Ichigo's strongest attack Mugetsu, which only does 800,000,000 MT of damage according to their very generous estimates. |
| 1191 | * UnskilledButStrong: While he did have formal training and some of the best shinobi of the era as teachers, early in his career as a ninja, Naruto [[IdiotHero wasn't the sharpest shuriken]] and had piss-poor chakra control, but he got by with his enormous and frankly inhuman supply of chakra due to his Uzumaki heritage and being the jinchūriki of Kurama, the Nine-Tailed Fox. That said, he has far more formal training than Ichigo does. |
| 1192 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: With his "Henge no Jutsu" Naruto can change into other people (both male and female as seen in his various Sexy Jutsu), weapons (as seen when he became a functional fuuma shuriken to be used in a ploy against Zabuza), and other things such as rocks (as seen at the end of his battle against Nagato/Pain). |
| 1193 | |
| 1194 | !![[Franchise/{{Bleach}} Ichigo Kurosaki]] |
| 1195 | --->'''Ichigo''': ''"Now I'm Ichigo Kurosaki, substitute Soul Reaper, and I'm combining my powerful spirit energy with this blade in order to protect my friends!"''\ |
| 1196 | '''Voiced by:''' Adam Park[[note]]Heavily implied to be Creator/JohnnyYongBosch as a RoleReprise, as the monkier is a ShoutOut to his appearance in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' as Adam Park. This was likely done to avoid any legal complications regarding reprises in outside works.[[/note]]\ |
| 1197 | \ |
| 1198 | ''The Enormously Powerful Soul Reaper from Bleach'' |
| 1199 | |
| 1200 | * ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Mistaking Naruto for a Hollow and attacking him because of that assumption ended up leading Ichigo to his death. |
| 1201 | * AdaptationExpansion: Ichigo's final Bankai and Hollow forms -- which were only briefly seen at the end of the manga -- are animated for the first time and have their capabilities extrapolated from his other Bankai and Hollow powers. |
| 1202 | * BalanceBuff: Played with. During the final rundown they purposely overestimate Ichigo's abilities by factoring an x10 increase of power for every SuperMode he possesses, even though most of his modes are [[MutuallyExclusivePowerups not connected]] nor are they stated to each gives an x10 increase (only the first bankai was stated to give the user an x5 to x10 increase in power). Even with this, Naruto still outclasses Ichigo in everything but speed. |
| 1203 | * BattleAura: Ichigo can manifest his reiatsu as an aura with both defensive and offensive properties. During the battle itself, the release of his [[DeathOrGloryAttack Final Getsuga Tensho]] unleashes an aura so powerful it dispels Naruto's [[AnimalBattleAura Kurama avatar]] even before he fires Mugetsu itself. |
| 1204 | * {{BFS}}: In its sealed and shikai forms, Ichigo's false Zanpakuto was notable for almost as long as he is tall. |
| 1205 | * BroughtDownToNormal: If Ichigo uses Mugetsu he loses all of his powers. Unfortunately, Naruto's Asura Kurama avatar can tank the attack, leaving Ichigo powerless against a giant three-faced, multi-armed fox monster made of chakra. |
| 1206 | * ClothingDamage: Since Ichigo's spiritual body and clothes are made of reishi, how much he has left can often be measured by how damaged his clothes get in the process. Wiz uses this to debunk the impressiveness of Ichigo {{No Sell}}ing Aizen's Hado 90 (which [[GravityMaster warps space-time like a black hole]]) before actually taking damage from Aizen's [[FantasticNuke Fragor]] attack immediately afterwards (which was calculated to be at most 814 kilotons of TNT), noting that by ''Bleach'' logic Hado 90 should be much weaker than Fragor. |
| 1207 | * CompositeCharacter: As opposed to their usual way of doing this for the actual fighters, they did this to show just how much more powerful Naruto is. They put into account every single power-up Ichigo ever got in his series, lumped them all together in one giant power level through multiplying them, and it still wasn't enough to exceed Naruto. |
| 1208 | * CrossPoppingVeins: He briefly has these when Naruto uses his Sexy Jutsu on him. |
| 1209 | * DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Mugetsu, an extremely powerful attack capable of killing -- or at least severely injuring -- godlike enemies at the cost of Ichigo losing his powers for a prolonged period of time. Using this attack is part of what costs him the fight since Naruto's Asura Kurama avatar is powerful enough to tank it. |
| 1210 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: When Ichigo was a child, he spotted a girl seemingly about to commit suicide and rushed to stop her. The girl was actually the lure of the anglerfish-like Hollow Grand Fisher, who killed Ichigo's mother when she intervened to save him. |
| 1211 | * DeathOrGloryAttack: Ichigo's strongest attack, the Final Getsuga Tenshō, is an all-or-nothing attack that uses the entirety of his Spiritual Energy at the cost of his powers. It annihilates the last of Naruto's Shadow Clones, but Naruto himself manages to [[NoSell tank the attack]] and promptly kills a now defenseless Ichigo. |
| 1212 | * DefenceMechanismSuperpower: Ichigo's Blut Vene is a Quincy technique that infuses his veins with reiatsu to grant him enhanced durability. |
| 1213 | * DefiantToTheEnd: He bellows out a "Screw you, '''bastard!'''" as he's disintegrated. He also picks up ''a stick'' to keep fighting, even though he was by that point clearly outmatched. |
| 1214 | * DualWielding: Ichigo's true Zanpakuto takes the form of a greatsword embodying his Hollowfied Zanpakuto Spirit and a short sword embodying his Quincy powers. Hollowfying turns the greatsword white and his bankai merges them into a single sword. |
| 1215 | * EdibleThemeNaming: His name is Japanese for "strawberry" and his opponent Naruto's is Japanese for "fishcake". |
| 1216 | * EnemyWithin: Ichigo initially had an antagonistic relationship with his Hollowfied Zanpakuto Spirit, who made repeated attempts to usurp control of his body. They eventually patch up after Ichigo learns the truth about his Hollow and fully accepts him. |
| 1217 | * FailedASpotCheck: Ichigo attacks Naruto due to mistaking him for a Hollow... despite Naruto not having a white mask or hole in his torso. |
| 1218 | * FragileSpeedster: In the post-fight analysis, he's regarded as this compared to his opponent being much faster than the shinobi but less powerful and durable. This is what causes him to lose since his superior speed is countered by Naruto's superb field awareness and due to his weaker power output and lacking other means in bypassing his opponent's superior durability as well as being unable to tank whatever Naruto could dish out means that the Soul Reaper is more likely to lose against the Ninja. |
| 1219 | * HappilyMarried: Ichigo is married to Orihime Inoue, with whom he has a son. Unfortunately, he dies. |
| 1220 | * HeinzHybrid: Ichigo is the son of Isshin Shiba, a powerful Captain-class Soul Reaper; and Masaki Kurosaki, a powerful pure-blood Quincy. Complicating matters is the addition of White, a powerful Hollow who parasitized his mother and was passed on to him at birth, merging with his Soul Reaper powers to become his Zanpakuto Spirit. |
| 1221 | * HunterOfMonsters: As a Soul Reaper, Ichigo is tasked with hunting monstrous spirits called Hollows -- Boomstick even calls the Soul Reapers "samurai Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}". |
| 1222 | * IgnoreTheFanservice: When Naruto uses the Sexy Jutsu, Ichigo is briefly surprised, but gets over it and resumes his attack. |
| 1223 | -->'''Ichigo:''' ... really? |
| 1224 | * InvisibleToNormals: In his Soul Reaper form, Ichigo is unable to be seen by people without the ability to see spirits. Naruto has to access Six Paths Sage Mode to perceive him. |
| 1225 | * ISeeDeadPeople: Ever since he was a child, Ichigo has had the ability to see spirits. Boomstick compares him to the TropeNamer, but with spiky orange hair. |
| 1226 | * KiManipulation: Ichigo's body in his Soul Reaper form is comprised of spiritual matter called reishi; and he can channel and weaponize mystical energy called reiatsu, using it as a BattleAura, to augment his physical abilities, and firing it from his Zanpakuto as a SwordBeam. |
| 1227 | * LightningBruiser: Ichigo can move at hypersonic speeds, shatter mountains just by swinging his sword, and withstand FantasticNuke-level attacks with only minor injuries. While Ichigo is much faster than Naruto, Naruto's augmented senses compensated for this; and his chakra power and durability outclassed Ichigo's (highballed) reiatsu levels. |
| 1228 | * MaskOfPower: Ichigo can draw on his Hollow powers to create a skull-like mask, greatly augmenting his powers but making him more aggressive. |
| 1229 | * MutuallyExclusivePowerups: Once he reconciled with Zangetsu, Ichigo's Merged Hollow form supplanted his uncontrollable Hollowfication and they were treated as equivalent when calculating his power levels. |
| 1230 | * NamedWeapons: Ichigo's Zanpakuto is Zangetsu, the bankai form of which is called Tensa Zangetsu. With his true Zanpakuto he has two swords, one embodying his Hollowfied Zanpakuto Spirit and the other embodying his Quincy powers. |
| 1231 | * NotDistractedByTheSexy: Naruto attempts to use the Sexy Jutsu to get Ichigo to drop his guard. It only annoys him. |
| 1232 | * NotQuiteFlight: By gathering ambient reiatsu under his feet, Ichigo can stand, walk, and run in midair. The anime depicts him as being capable of flight as well. |
| 1233 | * OhCrap: Several, though his biggest is his response to seeing Asura Kurama Naruto right when the backlash from using Mugetsu takes away his remaining energy and leaves him completely defenseless. |
| 1234 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: On the receiving end. At the end of the day, even when purposely highballed by the hosts to give him the maximum possible advantage, Ichigo just doesn't have the power to take down Naruto in a straight fight. |
| 1235 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: At his peak, his reiatsu's output is equal to 440 billion megatons of TNT and through generous scaling, the Mugetsu could output no more than 800,000,000 megatons of TNT or 800 teratons. Unfortunately for our shounen shinigami, Naruto's chakra output is 40 billions times more powerful than his reiatsu and the ninja's base form durability could tank at least 27 trillion megatons of TNT and would only get more powerful and tougher with each additional super form, furthering the gap between them. |
| 1236 | * PowerEchoes: When Ichigo dons his Hollow mask his voice becomes distorted. |
| 1237 | * {{Reincarnation}}: After Naruto kills him, Ichigo's soul will eventually reincarnate back into the Living World. Until then, his soul gets to watch Segata Sanshiro and Chuck Norris continue to fight. |
| 1238 | * {{Shinigami}}: Ichigo inherited powerful Soul Reaper abilities from his father, though they had to be unlocked by Rukia Kuchiki before he could use them. |
| 1239 | * SoulCuttingBlade: Ichigo wields a supernatural sword called a Zanpakuto, which is used to send souls to the afterlife and slay monstrous, corrupted spirits called Hollows. |
| 1240 | * SuperMode: |
| 1241 | ** Ichigo's bankai is Tensa Zangetsu, which with his false Zanpakuto changed his sword into a black katana and clothes into a tattered black and red coat; and with his true Zanpakuto fused his two swords into a single white-and-black blade. |
| 1242 | ** Ichigo can draw upon the power of his Hollowfied Zanpakuto Spirit to achieve a state called Hollowfication, which ranges from donning a [[MaskOfPower Hollow mask to augment his abilities]] (Visored Ichigo) to completely transforming into an extremely powerful Hollow (incorrectly referred to as Vasto Lorde Ichigo) to attaining a controlled Arrancar-like PartialTransformation (referred to as Merged Hollow Ichigo). |
| 1243 | ** By becoming one with his Zanpakuto, Ichigo attains a state called the Final Getsuga Tensho, where he channels all of his power into a single devastating attack called Mugetsu, at the cost of his powers. |
| 1244 | * SuperReflexes: According to the host's calculations and comparing Naruto's own movement vs. reaction speeds, Ichigo can react to speeds at least 40% faster than light. They're not enough to win the fight. |
| 1245 | * SuperSpeed: Ichigo is proficient at the FlashStep technique, and in his bankai is so fast he leaves dozens of SpeedEchoes in his wake. It's his major edge against Naruto, being fast enough that he can not only outpace him but also tear apart his clones, but it's not enough to give him the win. |
| 1246 | * SuperStrength: When Hollowfied, Ichigo was strong enough to easily lift five 93-ton mystical pillars, and in his Dangai form was strong enough to shatter mountains just by swinging his sword. In his Fullbring Shikai a casual swing of his sword created a shockwave equal in power to his original Shikai's Getsuga Tensho; and his true Shikai, Bankai, and Merged Hollow forms are even more powerful. He still can't hold a candle to Naruto's full strength. |
| 1247 | * SuperToughness: His Shikai can block the Sokyoku, which has the power of a million zanpakuto and strong enough to completely [[DeaderThanDead erase a person's soul]], his out-of-control Hollow form is powerful enough to overpower attacks from Ulquiorra, who at full power could easily destroy cities, and his Dangai form could NoSell Aizen's Hado 90: ''Kurohitsugi'', capable of warping space and time, and only take minor damage from his [[FantasticNuke Fragor]] attack, which is calculated at having a maximum yield of 814 kilotons of TNT, which is equal to 54x the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The source of this incredible endurance comes from his supply of [[SoulPower reiatsu]]. Wiz and Boomstick giving Ichigo the full benefit of the doubt and highballing his limits places his output at 440,924,000,000 MT, nearly 57 ''thousand'' times greater than the combined nuclear arsenal of the world. Yet, it still comes short of Naruto's own durability and the shounen shinobi had enough destructive power to completely negate Ichigo's own superhuman level of toughness. |
| 1248 | * SwordBeam: His Zanpakuto's special ability is Getsuga Tensho, which fires a crescent-shaped blast of reiatsu from its blade, powerful enough to rip deep furrows into the ground and split storm clouds. His fake bankai and the greatsword of his true Shikai can utilize Hollow reiatsu to fire a Black Getsuga Tensho, making it exponentially more powerful while turning the attack black and jagged. When used in conjunction with his Hollow mask the Black Getsuga Tensho becomes powerful enough to create mushroom clouds, and in his final Hollowfication he can combine it with a Gran Rey Cero to make it even more powerful. |
| 1249 | * UnskilledButStrong: Ichigo lacks the traditional combat training of most Soul Reapers despite having been taught by some of the strongest around (because it was only for a couple of days at a time), but he has been TaughtByExperience and grows stronger as he fights. His seemingly limitless capacity for growth through combat is one of his defining characteristics. Ichigo's lack of formal training was one of the factors that cost him the fight. |
| 1250 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Upon seeing Naruto unleash his Kurama Avatar to counter his Gran Rey Cero/Getsuga Tensho combination, he lets out an irritated line. |
| 1251 | -->'''Ichigo''': Give me a freaking break. |
| 1252 | [[/folder]] |
| 1253 | |
| 1254 | [[folder:Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 2099]] |
| 1255 | !![[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Batman Beyond (Terry McGinnis)]] |
| 1256 | --->'''Mr. Fixx''': ''"You're pretty strong, for some clown who thinks he's Batman.''"\ |
| 1257 | '''Terry''': ''"I'' am ''Batman!"''\ |
| 1258 | '''Batman Beyond voiced by:''' Creator/StephenFu\ |
| 1259 | '''Bruce Wayne voiced by:''' Creator/KentWilliams\ |
| 1260 | \ |
| 1261 | ''Terry [=McGinnis=], the Batman Beyond'' |
| 1262 | |
| 1263 | * AbsurdlySharpClaws: In addition to the blades on his arms, Terry's Batsuit is outfitted with claws to aid in climbing. |
| 1264 | * BondOneLiner: |
| 1265 | -->'''Terry [=McGinnis=]''': "And... problem solved."\ |
| 1266 | '''Bruce Wayne''': "I guess that's one way to do it." |
| 1267 | * BlindedByTheLight: On the giving end thanks to his flash grenades. It's extremely effective on Miguel's heightened senses and disorients him long enough for Terry to short out Lyla and finish him off. |
| 1268 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Terry was a delinquent who didn't have the greatest of family life as well as the usual teenage hang-ups. Then he ended up tangling with The Jokerz gang at the lonesome Wayne Manor, during which time Terry's father was murdered. Seeking revenge, he returned to Wayne Manor and, having learned Bruce Wayne was once Batman, stole the Batsuit and went to get revenge. |
| 1269 | * FutureSlang: Terry is fond of the word "schway", which in his time is a substitute for "cool". |
| 1270 | * GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: "Project: Batman Beyond" was what effectively "created" Terry [=McGinnis=] -- ComicBook/AmandaWaller knew there had to be a Batman, thus she set out to create one by altering the DNA of Terry's dad to be that of Bruce Wayne's, then attempted to create Terry's own Joe Chill moment using the Phantasm, but Andrea Beaumont just couldn't go through with it. |
| 1271 | * LegacyCharacter: Terry [=McGinnis=] is the biological son and successor of Bruce Wayne, the long-retired original Batman. |
| 1272 | * LightEmUp: His stun grenades. Thanks to Miguel's radically heightened senses and vulnerability to bright light that comes with them, Terry makes effective use of them to set up his killing blow. |
| 1273 | * PoweredArmor: Though not an ''actual'' armor, Terry's Batsuit was designed for the ageing Bruce Wayne and contains advanced technology that still holds up to the standards of the DCAU's future. It increases Terry's strength by a factor of ten, augments his senses with a HUD, is outfitted with bat-themed glider wings that can be aided by jet boots, has [[ChameleonCamouflage situational camouflage]], and also comes with the standard Bat-Gear such as the trademark Batarangs and grappling line. Terry later received the experimental X-7 Batsuit from Bruce Wayne. |
| 1274 | * RocketBoots: The Batsuit has jet devices on its feet and allows Terry to fly. At a speed faster than Miguel's top speed, no less. |
| 1275 | * ShockAndAwe: The Batsuit can function as a man-sized Taser at close range, capable of stunning genetically modified humans and disabling machinery. The hosts note that this is enough to disable Lyla. |
| 1276 | * ShockwaveClap: After he upgraded to the X-7 Batsuit, Terry can fire concussive pulse blasts. |
| 1277 | * SuperReflexes: Fast enough to dodge gunfire. Miguel can perform similar reflexive feats, but Terry can move even faster than mere bullets -- flying fast enough to catch up to an intercontinental ballistic missile. |
| 1278 | * SuperSpeed: The Batsuit's jets allow Terry to reach speeds up to Mach 19. This is significantly faster than Miguel has ever shown. |
| 1279 | * SuperStrength: The Batsuit increases Terry's strength by a factor of ten, displayed by being able to lift heavy machinery from off his back. His greatest strength feat of lifting a limestone boulder underwater and tossing it with minimal effort, which when calculated came out as being 192 tons, pegs his strength as at least twice Miguel's own. |
| 1280 | * SuperToughness: With the Batsuit Terry's defense is augmented along with his strength, as shown when he endured having Bruce's giant penny, estimated at weighing 166 tons, fall onto his legs and was able to pull free and run on them as nothing happened. He's also taken missile to the chest and fallen hundreds of feet afterwards, and all he got out of it was a few broken ribs. Miguel is his equal here, but Terry's greater strength means he can wear down Miguel's defenses faster. |
| 1281 | * VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Terry is aided and advised by Bruce Wayne in much the same way Alfred Pennyworth once assisted the original Batman. Bruce puts his own smarts and technology to good use in keeping [[BenevolentAI Lyla]] from hacking into Terry's Batsuit long enough for him to kill Miguel. |
| 1282 | |
| 1283 | !![[ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 Spider-Man 2099 (Miguel O'Hara)]] |
| 1284 | --->'''Madame Web''':''"...Miguel O'Hara, Spider-Man of the year 2099."''\ |
| 1285 | '''Miguel''': ''"That's me. Ready to save the universe and lookin' good while doing it."''\ |
| 1286 | '''Spider-Man 2099 voiced by:''' Creator/ToddHaberkorn\ |
| 1287 | '''Lyla voiced by:''' Creator/AlexMoore\ |
| 1288 | \ |
| 1289 | ''Miguel O'Hara, the Spider-Man from 2099'' |
| 1290 | |
| 1291 | * AbsurdlySharpClaws: Miguel's mutation gave him retractable claws in his fingertips sharp enough to cut into metal. |
| 1292 | * AllWebbedUp: Miguel has organic web-shooters in his forearms that he uses to [[BuildingSwing swing from buildings]] and restrain opponents. |
| 1293 | * ArchnemesisDad: Miguel's father is the CEO of [[MegaCorp Alchemax]], Tyler Stone -- a CorruptCorporateExecutive who wants Spider-Man dead. |
| 1294 | * BadassCape: Miguel's webbing cape and underarm webbing are made of a material called Lyte Byte, which can be used to create an airfoil to let him glide. |
| 1295 | * BenevolentAI: Miguel is aided and advised by his AI assistant, the [=LYrate=] Lifeform Approximation, or Lyla for short. She's capable of projecting detailed holograms, recording everything that goes on around her, scanning technology and providing detailed schematics at a glance, wirelessly transmitting data long-distance -- including transmitting herself across time -- and easily hacking into secure computers. Due to Bruce's interference, she's unable to hack the Batcomputer or take over the Batsuit in time to stop Terry from taking Miguel out. |
| 1296 | * BlindedByTheLight: On the receiving end from Terry's flash grenades. Thanks to his heightened senses, it's extremely effective and disorients him long enough for Terry to short out Lyla and finish him off. |
| 1297 | * FutureSlang: Miguel is a [[SirSwearsALot frequent proponent]] of the word "shock", which by 2099 has become a generalized swearword. |
| 1298 | * GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Miguel didn't ''want'' to become Spider-Man -- he was trying to rid himself of a highly addictive drug that affected him on a genetic level, used to force him to stay at Alchemax so his boss could force him to work for him. His attempt to cure himself was foiled when a jealous coworker altered things with the DNA of a spider. |
| 1299 | * GeniusBruiser: Miguel was groomed from childhood to have an abnormally high IQ, but mainly fights with his fists, feet, and claws. |
| 1300 | * HackYourEnemy: Lyla has the ability to easily hack into secure computers. Unfortunately for Miguel, when she tries this in the battle, Bruce was able to keep her at bay long enough for Terry to short her out and kill Miguel. |
| 1301 | * LegacyCharacter: Miguel O'Hara became the successor to Peter Parker, the long-deceased original Spider-Man, in the year 2099. |
| 1302 | * NotQuiteFlight: Miguel can use the Lyte Byte cape of his original costume and underarm webs of his second costume to glide, which is augmented to short-distance flight with his second costume's jet boots. |
| 1303 | * OhCrap: Miguel reacts this way when he realises that Terry has [[WhyAmITicking tagged him with explosive batarangs]] -- |
| 1304 | -->'''Miguel''': Lyla? LYLA -- ! (''[[TorsoWithAView the batarangs explode and kill him]]'') |
| 1305 | * PoweredArmor: While it's sometimes depicted with [[TronLines pulsing circuitry-like markings]], Miguel's original Spider-Man suit wasn't intended as armor -- being a Day of the Dead costume -- but due to made of unstable molecules it was extremely difficult to damage. He later received an upgraded version from Peter Parker containing Parker Industries tech -- including kevlar for augmented defensive properties, internal boot thrusters, situational camouflage, an infrared vision mode, built-in GPS, and other onboard sensors. Not quite tough enough to protect Miguel from several explosive Batarangs attached to his chest, however. |
| 1306 | * ScaryTeeth: One of the side-effects of his mutation was elongated canine teeth that let him inject paralyzing venom into his enemies by biting them. |
| 1307 | * SuperReflexes: Fast enough to dodge gunfire. Unfortunately for him, Terry's a lot faster than a few bullets. |
| 1308 | * SuperStrength: By himself, he can tear a tank apart and lift its 20-ton turret clean into the air. With the help of Peter Parker, Miguel once stopped an antenna (estimated by the hosts to weigh roughly 200 tons) from falling with heavy effort. Unfortunately for him, however, Terry once lifted a boulder of similar weight all by himself and with much greater ease. |
| 1309 | * SuperSenses: Instead of a Spider-Sense, Miguel has augmented senses like his trademark Accelerated Vision. The downside to this is that his eyes are extremely sensitive to light. This weakness makes Terry's flashbangs even more effective against him, leaving him incredibly vulnerable. As well, lacking a Spider-Sense gave Terry a much better chance of being able to land the killing blow as a result of his superior training. |
| 1310 | * SuperToughness: With the aid of his PowerArmor, Miguel can endure shotgun blasts to the chest and powerful electric shocks. Nothing short of a howitzer round can punch through it, which Wiz calculates at being slightly over 100 tons of force. He's about even with Terry in the durability department, but Terry's superior strength means he's far more likely to wear Miguel down before he can do the same to him. |
| 1311 | * TaughtByExperience: Miguel didn't have much in the way of proper combat training, but he became a highly effective combatant over the course of his time as Spider-Man. Terry, on the other hand, was an incredibly skilled fighter even before his time as Batman, and would later receive training from Bruce Wayne himself, as well as ex-Robin Dick Grayson and Kairi Tanaga, a ninja, giving him a significant training advantage. |
| 1312 | * TorsoWithAView: Terry's explosive batarangs leave him with a hole where his chest should be. |
| 1313 | * WhyAmITicking: Miguel realizes too late after regaining his senses that Terry has stuck explosive batarangs to his chest, which explode and leave him with a TorsoWithAView. |
| 1314 | [[/folder]] |
| 1315 | |
| 1316 | [[folder:Sephiroth VS Vergil]] |
| 1317 | !![[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] |
| 1318 | --->'''Sephiroth''': ''"I will... never be a memory."''\ |
| 1319 | '''Voiced by:''' Kamran Nikhad\ |
| 1320 | \ |
| 1321 | ''The Fearsome One-Winged Angel of Final Fantasy'' |
| 1322 | |
| 1323 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: Sephiroth can easily slice through almost anything with the Masamune, even cleanly cutting through objects broader than the sword's length. |
| 1324 | * AntiRegeneration: He manages to overtax Vergil's HealingFactor with Supernova, burning him to the point where even if he broke out with Yamato and survived, he would be unable to regenerate from getting finished off. |
| 1325 | * TheArchmage: He can cast powerful elemental magic (fire, ice, lightning, earth), as well as [[BarrierWarrior barrier]] and [[HealThyself healing magic]]. Originally he could only do this with a (limited) supply of Materia (condensed life energy of the planet), but after falling into the Lifestream and coming back he can use his connection to it to spam as much magic as he wants. |
| 1326 | * BadassBoast: When Vergil asks who he is at the beginning of the fight: |
| 1327 | -->'''Sephiroth''': Your despair. |
| 1328 | * TheBadGuyWins: Despite both characters being the main villains of their respective games, it applies as Sephiroth, a FallenHero who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope willingly threw away all of his heroic traits]], kills Vergil, a NobleDemon at best who had to be BrainwashedAndCrazy to become a full villain. |
| 1329 | * BrokenWinLossStreak: Sephiroth's win finally marks a victory for a ''Final Fantasy VII'' character, after Cloud and Tifa both lost to Link and Yang respectively. |
| 1330 | * {{BFS}}: Sephiroth's trademark sword, the Masamune, is a nodachi with a blade longer than he is tall. The sword is listed as being 7'2" long in his dossier; such that he's the only person who can effectively wield it. |
| 1331 | * CameBackStrong: While he didn't ''technically'' die after falling into the Lifestream, Sephiroth spent quite a bit of time as just formless essence within it until he absorbed enough to reform his body. Not only did he come out with all his previous powers intact, but he also gained an unlimited supply of magic and the ability to control those implanted with Jenova cells. |
| 1332 | * ColorCodedForYourConvenience: His sword trails are black. |
| 1333 | * CorporateSamurai: Before going full OmnicidalManiac, Sephiroth was employed by the Shinra corporation, an expansionist MegaCorp, and helped them conquer at least one free nation. |
| 1334 | -->'''Boomstick:''' This electric company has their own private military?! I'd hate to miss a payment with those guys... |
| 1335 | * CreepyMonotone: Sephiroth rarely emotes save in moments of [[NotSoStoic extreme shock or surprise]]. Boomstick lampshades this by wondering why he always sounds so bored. |
| 1336 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: Wiz and Boomstick talk about Sephiroth's hair in his preview, with Wiz saying that he joined Sephiroth's fan club for "research purposes". |
| 1337 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Aside from being [[CreepyMonotone monotone]] and a little quiet, Seph's voice is also chillingly deep. |
| 1338 | * FallenAngel: Wiz notes the symbolism of his single black wing paralleling his fall from grace. |
| 1339 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: Before the Nibelheim incident, Sephiroth was a stern but kind man. Discovering Jenova's remains at the Nibelheim reactor and reading Gast's research notes drove him insane, causing him to burn Nibelheim to the ground. The "Cloud vs. Link" and "Yang vs. Tifa" episodes usually described this as, in Boomstick's words, that Sephiroth "celebrated with fireworks". |
| 1340 | * GodhoodSeeker: Sephiroth planned to become a god by absorbing Jenova and draining the planet of its Lifestream. |
| 1341 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Sephiroth was infused in-utero with the cells of [[EldritchAbomination Jenova]], who he considers to be his true mother and later assimilated. |
| 1342 | * HealThyself: He can cast Curaga and Regen on himself to repair any damage caused, and with his unlimited magical stores the only thing that limits him is the time it takes to cast the spells and for them to take effect. Time [[MasterOfIllusion his illusions are more than capable of providing]]. |
| 1343 | * HellishPupils: Sephiroth has vertically slitted pupils inherited from his mother, Jenova. They're given a brief close-up when he reveals the Supernova to Vergil and boasts of his victory. |
| 1344 | * HijackingCthulhu: Sephiroth merging with Jenova granted him control over her cells, which he used to transform her body into a replica of his own; manipulate Cloud, the Sephiroth Clones, and the Geostigma victims; and resurrect himself. |
| 1345 | * HPToOne: Heartless Angel gets listed in his pre-fight rundown. It doesn't appear in the fight itself, due to Vergil's HealingFactor requiring something much more direct to wear it down. |
| 1346 | * IaijutsuPractitioner: Sephiroth is skilled at quick-drawing his sword and can strike opponents so rapidly [[BladeSpam what appears to be a single slash hits multiple times]]. |
| 1347 | * InTheBack: Sephiroth was impaled from behind by Cloud using the [[{{BFS}} Buster Sword]]. While that wasn't enough to kill Sephiroth, it weakened him to the point where Cloud was able to toss him down a Mako Reactor shaft and into the Lifestream below... [[CameBackStrong which only made him even stronger]]. Sephiroth also pulls this trope on a weakened Vergil to finish him off. |
| 1348 | * LimitBreak: Octaslash and Supernova are listed among Sephiroth's various signature moves, though he only uses the latter in the fight itself. |
| 1349 | * MagicKnight: He's both an [[MasterSwordsman excellent swordsman]] as well as an [[TheArchmage extremely powerful magic user]], using both swordplay and magical abilities to fight Vergil. |
| 1350 | * MasterOfIllusion: Sephiroth's magical powers are so great that he can create fake doppelgangers of himself to attack, take other forms, and even fake entire scenarios. He uses them to buy time for himself as he heals, and hide the Supernova from Vergil until it's too late for Vergil to escape unscathed. |
| 1351 | * MasterSwordsman: Sephiroth can wield the Masamune -- a seven-foot-long nodachi -- with inhuman speed and proficiency. Vergil is his match, if not his superior, forcing Sephiroth to rely upon his other powers such as magic to carry the day. |
| 1352 | * MysticalWhiteHair: His silvery-white hair, coupled with his HellishPupils, are traits that he inherited from Jenova -- highlighting his status as a powerful supernatural warrior and her successor. |
| 1353 | * NoSell: His analysis and gameplay from ''Final Fantasy VII'' shows that he easily shrugged off a dragon's flamethrower attack, taking zero damage from it. That same attack is capable of one-shotting fellow SOLDIER Zack Fair. |
| 1354 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Sephiroth wants to stop mankind from using up the planet's Lifestream and killing the planet...by summoning [[ColonyDrop a giant meteor]] to destroy the planet and absorb the Lifestream for himself. |
| 1355 | * OneHandedZweihander: Sephiroth wields the Masamune with one hand, and [[MasterSwordsman displays inhuman skill and precision with it]]. He's also strong enough to lift it with a weakened Vergil impaled through it. |
| 1356 | * OneWingedAngel: Aside from being a ''de facto'' TropeNamer (or rather, his theme), he is fought as Bizarro and Safer Sephiroth during the FinalBoss battle of ''[=FFVII=]''. Additionally, he and other Jenova hybrids like Angeal and Genesis can manifest wings -- in Sephiroth's case a single black wing on his right shoulder, as seen in media like ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' and ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' and during his '''Reunion''' EX Mode in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia]]''. He enters his black-winged mode in the battle's second half, and when he reveals the Supernova to Vergil. |
| 1357 | * OverlyLongFightingAnimation: Supernova is '''infamous''' for this in the non-Japanese versions of ''Final Fantasy VII'', given the below-mentioned [[RealityWarper Reality Warp]] transports Sephiroth's opponents to the point ''before'' a meteor starts punching through a solar system. He manages to cleverly avert this trope in his fight with Vergil by casting an illusion, which has the bonus of preventing Vergil from realizing he's been teleported before it's too late for him to teleport back unscathed. |
| 1358 | * PreMortemOneLiner: |
| 1359 | ** As he unleashes [[KillItWithFire Supernova on Vergil. It doesn't stick]]. |
| 1360 | --->'''Sephiroth''': Witness oblivion. |
| 1361 | ** After impaling Vergil again and before tearing him in half. This one does. |
| 1362 | --->'''Vergil''': I'm... free...\ |
| 1363 | '''Sephiroth''': Hmm...so you are. |
| 1364 | * RealityWarper: Wiz postulates this is how Sephiroth's [[EarthShatteringKaboom Supernova]] move works; instead of actually causing the sun to explode, Sephiroth instead teleports his victims to another dimension/point in time (similar to how many ''Final Fantasy'' summons draw their targets into their own unique spaces to attack), which just so happens to contain a sun on the verge of exploding. With Yamato, Vergil is capable of using its dimension-cutting ability to escape, but Sephiroth can also use his [[MasterOfIllusion illusion powers]] to mask what's happening until it's too late for Vergil to escape unscathed. |
| 1365 | * SuperSoldier: Sephiroth was granted superpowers by being infused with Jenova Cells in utero and then being marinated in Mako, and was the first and strongest member of Shinra's SOLDIER program, becoming the definitive SOLDIER 1st Class. He only got even ''more'' super after falling into the Lifestream. |
| 1366 | * SuperStrength: He can slice skyscrapers to pieces with ease. |
| 1367 | * SuperToughness: Back in his SOLDIER days, he was tough enough to tank attacks from a dragon capable of one-shotting fellow SOLDIER Zack Flair and walked off a [[{{BFS}} Buster Sword]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice rammed right through his back]] and ripped out surprisingly well before falling into the Lifestream, all things considered. In ''Advent Children'' (where ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' creator Hironobu Sakaguchi [[WordOfGod confirmed Sephiroth was nowhere near full strength]]), he stopped with his bare hands a 1600-ton strike from Cloud that cratered the steel pipe he was standing on without flinching. |
| 1368 | * SwordBeam: Can fire off ones strong enough to slice through giant Mako cannons. |
| 1369 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: To be expected when you drop an '''EXPLODING SUN''' on your enemy. Boomstick lampshades its lack of subtlety. Ironically, it doesn't kill Vergil, but it does weaken him enough for a killing blow. |
| 1370 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: He's a white-haired FallenHero who seeks to destroy the planet and steal its power for himself. |
| 1371 | |
| 1372 | !![[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Vergil Sparda]] |
| 1373 | --->'''Vergil''': ''"It would be fun to fight with the Prince of Darkness. If my father did it, I should be able to do it too!"''\ |
| 1374 | '''Voiced by:''' Marc Soskin\ |
| 1375 | \ |
| 1376 | ''The Half-Demon Son of Sparda from Devil May Cry'' |
| 1377 | |
| 1378 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: His signature weapon, Yamato, can cut through ''dimensions'', and was used by Sparda himself to help seal off the Demon World. Dante used it in his previous appearance against Bayonetta. However, Wiz notes that the claims that it can cut through ''anything'' are embellishments, since Dante's Rebellion and Lady's Kalina Ann have been able to tank direct hits without breaking, and several times Vergil has had to use his own SuperStrength in conjecture with it to cut through certain objects. |
| 1379 | * BadassBoast: After teleporting away from a powerful hit from Sephiroth and preparing his sword, he asks his opponent one question before unleashing a BladeSpam. |
| 1380 | -->'''Vergil''': Okay, you're strong... But are you fast enough? |
| 1381 | * BladeSpam: It's so integral to his "Dark Slayer" fighting style it's practically an ''art''. |
| 1382 | * DeathByDisfigurement: Getting hit with the [[KillItWithFire Supernova]] leaves him with some ''really'' nasty-looking burns that his HealingFactor is too overtaxed to repair before Sephiroth finishes him off. |
| 1383 | * DeathByIrony: Vergil, a half-demon who wants to fully embrace his demon heritage, is effectively thrown into a lake of fire by Sephiroth, the One-Winged Angel. Vergil narrowly escapes complete incineration, but he's slain by Sephiroth shortly after. |
| 1384 | * ColorCodedForYourConvenience: His sword trails are blue, in contrast to Sephiroth's black. |
| 1385 | * FlashStep: An integral part of his "Dark Slayer" style and he's so good at it he might as well be ''teleporting''. It's his major edge on Sephiroth, being much faster, but speed alone isn't enough against the One-Winged Angel. |
| 1386 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: With the Beowulf gauntlets and greaves, Vergil disregards his swordplay to go to town with powerful punches and kicks. |
| 1387 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Vergil is the son of the powerful demon warrior Sparda and a human woman named Eva. |
| 1388 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: The hosts noted that this once happened to him, but he healed so fast that it wasn't even noticeable. Unfortunately for Vergil, Sephiroth's Supernova can wear down his healing factor to the point where Sephiroth can kill him via horizontal bisection. |
| 1389 | * HealingFactor: Just like his brother, Vergil has an impressive regeneration ability, capable of letting him shrug off blows that tear through his body and internal organs. Granted, it can be worn down, but it takes a huge amount of force to do so. Like say, an exploding sun to the face courtesy of Sephiroth. |
| 1390 | * IaijutsuPractitioner: A master of the quick draw, able to move so fast that he can strike multiple times without appearing to draw his blade. His personal fighting style "Dark Slayer" is built around it. |
| 1391 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets subjected to this twice by Sephiroth through the chest InTheBack. He shrugs it off the first time with his HealingFactor, but the second time it's been overtaxed by [[PlayingWithFire getting cooked in an exploding sun]] and unable to save him from bisection. |
| 1392 | * KillItWithFire: His death was made possible thanks to Sephiroth's Supernova, which [[AntiRegeneration weakened Vergil's healing factor to the point where he could be killed by bisection]]. |
| 1393 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: Wiz and Boomstick make little effort to hide the fact that canonically Vergil gets ReforgedIntoAMinion by Mundus into Nelo Angelo and is eventually killed by Dante...at least until ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' (released after the fight) reveals otherwise. |
| 1394 | * LightEmUp: The Beowulf gauntlets and greaves empower Vergil's strikes with light energy, and he can charge and fire off light projectiles with them. |
| 1395 | * MultiMeleeMaster: Aside from Yamato, Vergil also owns a pair of gauntlets and greaves called Beowulf, and the Force Edge, the sword once wielded by Sparda himself. |
| 1396 | * MysticalWhiteHair: He and Dante inherited their hair from their father. |
| 1397 | * NobleDemon: Any puns aside, Vergil holds a strong honor code in battle, refusing to fight dirty. |
| 1398 | * OneWingedAngel: His Devil Trigger, which allows Vergil to unleash his full demonic power and temporarily transform into a full demon. He uses it in the second part of the battle to counter Sephiroth's legion of illusionary fakes...but even that isn't enough to fully tank a supernova to the face. |
| 1399 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: Right before unleashing [[OneWingedAngel Devil Trigger]] against Sephiroth's illusions/clones and again before unleashing a StormOfBlades. |
| 1400 | -->'''Vergil''': Stop wasting my time.\ |
| 1401 | '''Vergil''': You're going down! |
| 1402 | * RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Dante's Red, which even dates back to their childhood. Dante was always a goofball who disliked his demon heritage, while Vergil was the serious one who embraced it wholeheartedly. |
| 1403 | * {{Shoryuken}}: He can pull this off with Beowulf, with Boomstick [[LampshadeHanging joking]] that he must be a ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' fan. |
| 1404 | * StormOfBlades: Unlike his brother, Vergil DoesNotLikeGuns. He gets around it by forming swords out of energy and firing them at his targets. He uses it in conjecture with Devil Trigger to fight Sephiroth's illusion army. |
| 1405 | * SuperReflexes: With his brother Dante, he sliced through over 100,000 raindrops in less than a second. While he may be faster than Sephiroth, Sephiroth has fought opponents of similar speeds and had little trouble dealing with him. |
| 1406 | * SuperStrength: Was once able to punch the decapitated body of the demon Beowulf, who should be about as big as an elephant, into a ceiling. Calculating for the [[{{Overcrank}} slow motion]] of the action, it's calculated that he hit the corpse with 720 million Newtons of force (for comparison's sake, his brother Dante's feat of stopping the punch of the giant stone colossus known as the Savior only comes out at about ''half'' that much force). Too bad he can't match Sephiroth, who has shown to match and surpass the even stronger Zack Fair in the past. |
| 1407 | * SuperSpeed: His fighting style is built around moving so fast that he and his blade are only a blur to the naked eye...and oftentimes completely eclipsing eyesight to the point he's practically and/or ''literally'' teleporting as he hits so fast it doesn't even look like he's drawn his sword. It's his main edge against Sephiroth, but Sephiroth's experience in fighting similarly fast opponents and his mastery of illusions to distract Vergil lets him even the playing field. |
| 1408 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Like Dante, he has white hair, but unlike his brother, he's power-hungry and fully embraces his demonic heritage. |
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