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James Bond VS John Wick

• The Ace:
  • On top of being a Reserve Commander in the Royal Navy, Bond is so impressive as an MI6 agent that he was granted a "00" status. He is skilled in many abilities, such as infiltration, disguise, driving... and apparently, gaming. In fact, Wiz had to catch his breath when going through the many things Bond is quite good at.
  • Wick is an expert assassin who has made such a name for himself that he is the most feared man in the criminal underworld. When he wanted to leave the assassin life, Wick's boss agreed to let him go if he wiped out all of the Tarasov mob's enemies in a single night... which he did.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Both Bond and Wick are capable of kicking all kinds of ass while dressed in sharp suits. Wick's is even bulletproof.
• Badass Normal: Neither of them have any powers, but both of them are master assassins capable of killing powerful adversaries using their wit, strength, stealth, and in the case of Bond, high-tech gadgets.
• Bond Gun Barrel: They evoke such a scene in the climax, when Bond (true to form as the Trope Namer and Trope Maker), proves to be faster on the draw than Wick.
• Broken Ace:
  • Wiz acknowledges that for all Bond's wit and skill, he is a broken, soulless man beneath. Bond has tried to find love at least twice, only for the woman he tried to settle down with to be killed by his enemies. Bond has also been implied, if not stated outright to enjoy killing and torture far more than he should.
  • Wick's dog Daisy was the last tether he had to his dead wife's memory. When Iosef Tarasov made the mistake of killing that dog, he returned Wick back to the inhuman killer he had spent the last several years no longer being.
• Bulletproof Vest: Both Bond and Wick have bullet protection, Bond a vest and Wick his suit. Wick's is better than Bond's, but it doesn't make him completely invincible.
• One-Man Army: Bond and Wick have eliminated entire criminal syndicates with little to no backup.
• Professional Killer: Bond and Wick are trained hitmen by trade and are very good at what they do.
• Villain Killer:
  • Bond is an MI6 agent with a license to kill he exploits to its fullest, having killed numerous enemy assassins, spies and villainous masterminds throughout his career.
  • Wick has eliminated his former Tarasov employers, the Neopolitan crime family, Camorra, and fended off an international army of assassins attacking him at random, one after the other, every few minutes. He also killed every last soldier sent after him by the High Table.

Agent 007 (Commander James Bond)

James Bond: "Seems you've got me at a disadvantage. You won't mind giving a dead man walking one last smoke, would you?"
Voiced by: Steven Kelly

The World-Famous Secret Agent 007

• Ascended Extra: Bond makes his first appearance on the show proper since he (and his Aston Martin DB5) participated in Death Race's 3rd episode, where he placed second against the Warthog.
• Bond One-Liner: As the Trope Namer, of course he makes one when Q checks up on him after the fight.
  Bond: (after Q asks if he's okay) Smashing. Positively smashing.
  Q: (sighs) Oh, do grow up, 007!
• The Casanova: Bond's most iconic (and infamous) trait, he has seduced many women, also known as "Bond girls", throughout his entire career as an agent. For reference, he once seduced a female assassin sent to kill him to the point where she literally took a bullet for him in two minutes. Unsurprisingly, Boomstick believes his womanizing might even be a superpower. It doesn't come up in the fight because no ladies show up.
• Code Name: 007. "00" means he has a license to kill (as in, he is allowed to kill people in broad daylight and not be bothered by law enforcement).
• Composite Character: His analysis includes elements from every iteration of Bond, from the books, movies, video games, and comics, even though many of these are entirely different continuities. The trailers and fight animation for the episode use the Daniel Craig incarnation of the character visually, but with the gadgets and affable personality of his predecessors.
• Confusion Fu: Bond has mastered and mixes up a variety of martial arts, and uses high-tech gadgets, the surrounding environment, and other trickery to keep himself ahead of his opponents. This is a huge factor in his victory: clever use of his outlandish gadgets — on top of his greater experience and close-combat skills — makes it harder for Wick to keep up with him.
• Cool Car: His Aston Martin DB5 can be remote controlled with his phone and is armed with several gadgets, including twin miniguns behind the headlights. When the fight moves to The Continental's lobby, he remote controls it to enter and open fire on Wick. It's noted in the post-fight analysis that there was nothing Wick could do to prevent Bond from just getting into the car and using it to kill him, since the car is absurdly bulletproof, countering the entirety of Wick's arsenal.
• Cultured Badass: Practically the Trope Codifier. A penchant for wearing tuxedos and tailor-made clothes, and the ability to take on communists, terrorists, crime lords and fellow assassins in said tuxedos and effectively bring down all of them is just the tip of the iceberg. This shows in the fight, as Bond is constantly making quips and maintaining a refined air in contrast to Wick's more no-nonsense personality.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: Bond's close-range fighting style combines elements from multiple unarmed martial arts, including Judo, Boxing, Krav Maga, Muay Thai, Jujitsu, and the Welsh discipline of Goshinkwai, taught by the modern SAS (Special Air Service).
• Gadget Watches: Like many of Bond's gadgets, his watch can actually fire a laser, something would no doubt catch John Wick off guard due to never facing such an obstacle like Bond's gadgets, much less the watch. Not only that, it tells the time as well. He uses it twice in the fight, once on Wick himself and again to cut down a chandelier on top of Wick.
• Genius Bruiser: As the hosts note, 007 is strong enough to go hand-to-hand with near-superhuman henchmen like Oddjob and Jaws, and smart enough to outthink criminal masterminds like the titular villains of Dr. No, Goldfinger, and The Man with the Golden Gun.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: For just two examples, Bond can kill a roomful of assassins in approximately one second and shoot out a helicopter's fuel tank at night from a fast-moving speedboat; both feats with nothing more than a small iron-sighted pistol.
• Improvised Weapon: He smacks Wick with a serving tray and uses it as a shield.
• Interpretative Character: A popup notes that, contrary to the theory that "James Bond" is a Code Name for a series of spies, ^note (to account for the varying portrayals of him over the years) the first five Bond actors all portray the same person: the son of Andrew and Monique Delacroix Bond.
• Outside-Context Problem: One of the deciding factors of the battle: he and Wick are evenly matched in most categories, but Wick is from a much more grounded universe than Bond. The only real 'gadget' Wick has experience with is his bulletproof suit. As such, Bond's straight up sci-fi gadgets are something he has no experience dealing with and couldn't predict.
• The Pen Is Mightier: One of his gadgets is a pen that will explode if clicked three times unless it is disarmed with a fourth click. In the fight, Wick steals it and they wrestle over it, clicking all the while. They eventually drop it and it explodes, breaking the floor and sending them through it.
• Pocket Rocket Launcher: The cigarette rocket launcher from You Only Live Twice is mentioned among his list of gadgets, and he uses it in the fight as a surprise attack against Wick.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Before he kills Wick:
  Bond: What comes around goes around, as they say.
  (Bond pushes Wick onto the car and uses his watch laser to drop a chandelier on him)
  Wick: (sighs resignedly) Yeah...
• Pyrrhic Victory: He successfully kills Wick, but was stabbed in the chest and is presumably bleeding out. Plus, he killed Wick in The Continental, so the guards will likely try to kill him. Even if he escapes, he'll be hunted down. Granted, Bond has gotten out of tight scrapes before, so it might not be too much of a problem for him, especially since he doesn't tell Q of his injuries at the end and instead cracks one of his usual jokes.
• Stepford Smiler: His analysis notes that despite his suave exterior, years of doing what he does has rendered Bond a rather broken man on the inside. His attempts at finding genuine love ended in tragedy, and being on both ends of violence and torture for decades has taken its toll on his psyche. Bond also subtly sympathizes with Wick's situation as well, giving a saddened, guilty look when he sees John's broken phone — with a photo of himself with his deceased wife, Helen, as the lock screen — just before it dies.
• Super-Reflexes: He is able to dodge bullets and lasers, feats Wick has never done, so he was deemed faster. As such, he wins the Quick Draw at the fight's climax.
• This Banana is Armed: A large majority of his gadgets are disguised as normal, everyday objects, such as an explosive pen, cigar-shaped rocket launchers, laser firing watches and even C4 toothpaste. These gadgets, due to how unexpected they are, play a big role in Bond's victory.
• Worthy Opponent: If not only from James Bond, then MI6 as well. Wick asks Bond what MI6 wants with him, and Bond replies that his "reputation precedes him" and has to be dealt with before he becomes their problem, though Bond does hint that he genuinely does respect the man's skills to keep up with said reputation.

Jonathan "John" Wick (né: Jardani Jovonovich)

John Wick: Killing isn't permitted on company grounds...
Voiced by: Mornal

The Legendary Hitman Who Did The Impossible

• Attack Its Weak Point: He has an extremely precise understanding of the human body, allowing him to easily target weak points and vital organs.
• Badass Normal: In contrast to his opponent, Wick comes from a more relatively realistic series, so he trades Bond's science fiction gadgets for more mundane tech. Unfortunately for him, this turns out to be a major reason for his defeat.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Despite being a normal human, he is strong enough to break bulletproof glass and shrug off incredible punishment without rest. However, Bond has fought and defeated superhuman enemies like Oddjob and Jaws, so this was nothing new to him.
• Death from Above: Wick ends up being crushed and impaled to death when Bond uses his laser watch to drop a Falling Chandelier of Doom on him.
• Determinator: Over the course of two weeks, John is beaten, cut, stabbed, shot, blown up, mutilated, hurled off a building, and trekking through the Sahara Desert. And none of it has stopped him. This even applies in the fight as even when shot three times by Bond (with bullets modified to split apart on entry), he still kept going, requiring Bond to ensure Wick wouldn't get up by dropping a chandelier on him.
• The Dreaded: John is one of the deadliest assassins in the world, to the point he's considered to be the person you’d send to kill the boogeyman. He was given the nickname "Baba Yaga". During the fight, Bond says that Wick is notorious enough that MI6 decided he needed to be dealt with.
• Face Death with Dignity: He sees his death coming, but simply gives a resigned "Yeah..." in response to Bond's quip before being crushed to death.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: Just what martial arts style John Wick uses is entirely unknown and "for his eyes only". As such, the best way Wiz and Boomstick could identify said style is by basing it on what Keanu Reeves trained in for the John Wick films. Through this, the hosts determine he uses a mix of Sambo, Aikido, Judo and Brazilian Jujitsu for defensive purposes, while for offensive purposes, he falls back on Krav Maga. Unfortunately Bond has trained in many more martial arts, including some of John's own with just as much skill.
• Fatal Family Photo: The last shot we see associated with Wick after his death is his phone that he dropped early in the fight with a photo of his late wife Helen on it before the phone dies from its damage.
• Improvised Weapon: John is capable of using almost anything as a lethal weapon from books, his belt, and even a pencil. In the fight, he uses a bar stool, the stool's leg when it breaks, and Bond's own grenade pen.
• Made of Iron: Downplayed, but John can tank a lot of punishment even without a bullet proof suit. Even three shots to the chest with Bond's Walther PPK (which has bullets modified to split apart on entry) did little more than slow him down.
• Mysterious Past: Just what John did before we actually met him is unknown, but it's rumored he was taken in and trained by the Rushkaroma crime syndicate at a young age, before moving to the US to make a name for himself as a top assassin. A black box does note that tattoos on his back imply he did serve briefly under the Marine Corps, although it's never mentioned to what degree.
• Red Baron: He's well known by his nickname Baba Yaga, though it is pointed out by Boomstick that John isn't the Boogeyman, but rather the guy you'd send to kill the Boogeyman.
• Retired Monster: It's noted that John was a notorious hitman, but that he'd retired from killing people to settle down with his late wife... until Iosef Tarasov broke into his house and killed his dog in retribution for Wick refusing to sell his car. Wick promptly came out of retirement to hunt Iosef down.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: John had actually settled down until some punk — the son of a well-known gangster — got so pissed off that he refused to sell his car that he came to his house with some other thugs, beat John senseless, stole his car... and killed his dog, the last gift his wife gave him after she died. Simply put, he was not happy about it. By the end of the third movie, the man had killed 300 people, many of which were accomplished assassins themselves, in two weeks, all while suffering through pain and injuries that would kill a lesser man multiple times over.
• Squashed Flat: How he dies. After being shot by Bond and the Aston Martin DB5, Wick gets kicked onto the back of the car by Bond, who then uses his laser watch to cut an enormous chandelier loose from the ceiling of the bar above. John barely has time to utter one last "Yeah" before the light fixture falls, crushing and impaling him between it and the DB5's chassis.
• This Is Gonna Suck: John's last line has him giving a resigned version of his usual catchphrase as he looks up to see a particularly large chandelier falling and about to crash on him.
  Wick: (sighs despairingly) ...yeah.
• Together in Death: The lock screen on Wick's phone is a picture of him and Helen and finally turns off after his death at Bond's hands, which implies he'll at least be with his wife again.

Black Adam VS Apocalypse

• Ascended Extra: Both Black Adam and Apocalypse make their first appearance on the show since their fight in DBX Season 6, with this being Black Adam's third time around the franchise after taking on Goku Black first in DBX.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Both of them are on record of not just being empowered by cosmic entities that can affect their universe with their power, but also squaring up against them and winning.
• Magic Versus Science: Black Adam represents Magic, with the Living Lightning enabling him to channel six Egyptian gods. Apocalypse meanwhile represents Science, being one of the oldest mutants in existence, and enhancing his powers via Celestial technology. Science wins in this case.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Both combatants have taken on entire teams of the heroes and gods of their universes and won, up to and including beings who can destroy their universes. The hosts note in the post-analysis that this effectively meant they were roughly equal enough in raw power and physical stats that they likely couldn't beat each other to death in a straight-up brawl, requiring them to instead find a way to exploit each other's Achilles' Heel and weaken their foe first.

Black Adam (Teth-Adam)

Black Adam: "Get the hell out of my country!"
Voiced by: Kamran Nikhad

DC's Ferocious Champion of Shazam

• Anti-Villain: Black Adam has done some pretty awful things, but it was ultimately all to ensure the survival of his country Kahndaq, and the people in it. He will do whatever is best for them and associate with any villains or heroes necessary, being friends with them one day before fighting them the next.
• Blood Knight: Downplayed; he briefly laughs at one point after shocking Apocalypse with his Living Lightning.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: Black Adam summons his powers by shouting out the word Shazam. This was actually a point against him, as he needs to be able to speak to call upon his powers... which, needless to say, you can't do when you've had your jaw crushed by your opponent's boot.
• Composite Character: Has the backstory from the New 52 timeline; but losing his family and nation in 52 is brought up.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: His head is repeatedly stomped on by Apocalypse until his face is completely caved-in and mostly reduced to a bloody mulch. Apocalypse then raises him up to see his homeland in flames before burning him alive with his own Living Lightning and dropping the mutilated corpse from several hundred feet in the air as one last humiliating touch.
• Evil Uncle: Murdered his own nephew to steal the powers of Shazam himself.
• Facial Horror: His face becomes horrifically mangled after Apocalypse stomps on it, only for it to become even more bloody and disfigured after more stomping and ultimately having his eyes evaporated from their sockets with Living Lightning. And the viewers get a good look at all of it.
• Forced to Watch: With his faced heavily smashed, he was forced by Apocalypse to watch Kahndaq fall before dying, knowing full-well that he failed to protect his people when they needed him.
• The Hero Dies: The hero of Kahndaq dies at the hands of the flat-out villainous conqueror Apocalypse.
• A Hero to His Hometown: Kahndaq looks to him as their protector, no matter how he is feared and seen beyond its borders.
• High-Voltage Death: How he ultimately dies. After having his face gorily caved in by Apocalypse's boot and forced to watch Kahndaq be burned to the ground, Adam is ultimately fried alive by his own Living Lightning that Apocalypse absorbed and copied from him earlier.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Apocalypse finishes off Adam with his own Living Lightning once he's done tormenting him. It's doubly ironic, since Adam gained his powers by killing his nephew and stealing the Lightning from him.
• Immune to Mind Control: Subverted. The Courage of Mehen grants him resistance to mental attacks, but doesn’t actually make him immune. Apocalypse’s telepathic powers were more than strong enough to overcome that resistance.
• The Juggernaut: He is an immensely powerful being, that even heavy hitters like Superman and Shazam have trouble dealing with him. However, Apocalypse proved too much for him.
• Karmic Death: Teth-Adam's backstory had him become Black Adam by stealing the Living Lightning from his nephew by killing him. At the end of this fight, Apocalypse does the same thing to him, using his Energy Absorption ability to drain all of his power, leaving him helpless against being stomped into the ground.
• Legacy Character: Adam was one of the first beings to become one of the wizard Mamaragan's champions (despite his methods) and the second one to be on the show after Billy Batson back in Season 6.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: An anti-villain at worst, compared to his opponent who is a sadistic villain through-and-through.
• Profane Last Words: The last thing he says before having his face stomped on and being rendered unable to speak was attempting to shout Shazam before saying "Oh, shit."
• Ring of Power: His Sinestro Corps ring, given to him by Sinestro himself. He uses it to create animal constructs to help fight Apocalypse. It backfires since Apocalypse just absorbs the energy to strengthen himself.
• Shock and Awe: He can summon magical Living Lightning, which gives him his powers and can be used as a weapon. However, at the end of the battle Apocalypse uses the absorbed Living Lightning to fry Black Adam's brain, killing him in the process.
• Start of Darkness: Teth-Adam and his nephew Aman were the last living members of a family within Kahndaq, which was ruled by the conqueror Ibac and his followers. They stumbled into the Rock of Eternity and the Council of Wizards. Mamaragan granted the two god-like power via the Living Lightning, but where Aman wanted to settle things peacefully, Teth-Adam wanted vengeance. Thus, Teth-Adam killed Aman and stole his power, becoming Black Adam.
• Super-Intelligence: The Wisdom of Zehuti grants Black Adam this to the point he can divine his opponent's weaknesses. It's noted he would all but certainly realize the significance of Apocalypse's Death Seed with it.
• Super-Strength: Black Adam is strong enough to match hits with the likes of Shazam and Superman and keep going. The hosts note he has more strength feats under his belt than Apocalypse, which is no small feat, but that alone wouldn't be enough to win.
• Villainous Friendship: Though Black Adam himself isn't a pure supervillain — being more of an Anti-Villain at worst — he is good friends with the villain Sinestro. At one point, Sinestro even let Black Adam keep a Yellow Lantern ring, as a sign of their friendship and the respect he has for him.
• Wild Card: As Wiz puts it, Black Adam doesn't care about morality, just the wellbeing of his people, and he'll side with anyone to maintain that.
• The Worf Barrage: Black Adam's final attack is a massive bolt of the Living Lightning right down on Apocalypse's head, obliterating the mutant's giant body. Unfortunately for Black Adam, not only is Apocalypse able to regenerate without difficulty, Teth-Adam used up so much of his strength combined with existing injuries he's unable to defend himself from En Sabah Nur's Finishing Stomp.
• You Can Barely Stand: Being punched into the ground by Apocalypse in his giant form renders Adam paralyzed and sets him up for Apocalypse's killing blow.

Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur)

Apocalypse: "Fool! You humans interlope on mutant sanctuary."
Voiced by: Wolf Williams

Marvel's Baleful Mutant Conqueror

• Achilles' Heel: The Death Seed is one of Apocalypse's greatest weapons, but should it be destroyed he loses a good chunk of power. The hosts note that if Black Adam destroyed the seed the balance of power would tip in his favor, and his Wisdom of Zehuti would likely pinpoint it as a weakness, but luckily for Apocalypse he had plenty of abilities to keep his foe away from it long enough to secure his win.
• Always Someone Better: He's this to Black Adam. Both are men who fought off gods and cosmic forces, but Apocylpse's more diverse power set and absorption powers made it so he could eclipse Adam.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He has the ability to grow to a colossal size thanks to his ability to control his molecular structure. He becomes massive during the battle's second half and makes short work of Teth-Adam before his giant body was destroyed by the Living Lightning.
• Artifact of Doom: The Death Seed that Apocalypse was given by the Celestials — biomechanical cosmic entities who pass judgement on sentient life — marks him as their arbiter of destruction and grants him raw power on par with the Phoenix Force, letting him beat some of Marvel's heaviest hitters at their own games without even breaking a sweat.
• The Bad Guy Wins: While Black Adam is more of an Anti-Villain, Apocalypse is a pure supervillain through and through, and ultimately wins the battle between them, destroying Black Adam's country and mocking him over his failure.
• Camera Abuse: He shatters the screen upon his initial stomp on Black Adam, which remains throughout the rest of the animation and the end of the post-fight analysis.
• Combo Platter Powers: Apocalypse has an absurd number of powers from his natural mutations and technological enhancements, and they prove to be a key factor in his victory. His Super-Strength and Super-Speed allowed him to keep pace with Adam, and while Adam could deduce that the Death Seed was a major weak point, Apocalypse had enough defensive abilities to keep it out of his hands.
• Cursed with Awesome: Averted in that being accidentally infected with Cable's techno-organic virus would normally be this, but Apocalypse's sheer physical strength and willpower allowed him to dominate the virus instead and get all the benefits with none of the drawbacks. In fact, it let him finally access the Celestial technology that in turn caught the Celestials' attention and got him the Death Seed.
• Cyborg: Apocalypse was infected with the techno-organic virus by the time-traveling mutant Cable, enabling him to integrate Celestial technology into himself to become immensely powerful.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He killed a Celestial with just his bare hands and none of his various incredible powers.
• Energy Absorption: One of his most impressive abilities is being able to absorb all kinds of energy; even from sources like Scott Summers' strongest Eye Beams, that are powerful enough to destroy small planets. This allowed him to harmlessly absorb all of Black Adam's energy-based attacks, including the Living Lightning, and in turn use them against him.
• Evil Laugh: He delivers two evil laughs by the end of the fight — the first cackle during his repeated stomping of Black Adam's face and the second from dropping his opponent's corpse from several hundred feet in the air and enjoying the destruction he caused over Kahndaq.
• Evil Sounds Deep: In the fight animation, he combines a deep voice with both a growl and echo to emphasize his villainous nature.
• From a Single Cell: Apocalypse possesses a healing factor that lets him heal and rebuild his body from virtually any injury, just as long as his Death Seed is still intact. This ultimately plays a major factor in his victory, since the only way Black Adam could beat him was by destroying the seed first, and Apocalypse possessed plenty of other powers that protected him from any attack Black Adam threw at him.
• Genius Bruiser: He's twice as large as Black Adam even before he starts shifting his size, and he's an accomplished schemer and engineer.
• Head Crushing: Does this to Black Adam as part of his deathblow, stomping on his jaw first to stop him saying "SHAZAM", and then caving in the rest of his head with multiple stomps. Even so, he holds back on actually killing him this way; keeping Adam alive just long enough to show him Kahndaq being torn apart.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Black Adam punches straight through Apocalypse's chest to grab his Death Seed, but Apocalypse manages to pull Adam's arm out and heal his wound with little effort.
• Large Ham: He spends the entire fight unleashing grandiloquent taunts at his opponent, when he's not laughing.
• Master of Your Domain: Apocalypse has complete control of his entire molecular structure, allowing him to shapeshift his body any way he chooses. Boomstick points out he could permanently do something about the ugly face that's caused him so much grief in his past, but guesses that he now takes some sort of twisted pride in it ever since he went Then Let Me Be Evil.
• Mundane Utility: Discussed. Boomstick points out that Apocalypse could use his self-molecular manipulation to look like Jason Momoa, but he's seemingly too proud to do so.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: The combination of his natural mutant abilities, the techno-organic virus, and the Death Seed have granted Apocalypse the ability to manifest virtually any power he wants. The sheer variety of abilities at his fingertips was more than enough to overwhelm Black Adam.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "I never offered you a choice. Now, everything you've built...will fall!"
• Sadist: At the end of the fight, he takes a twisted glee in stomping Adam's head into mush and rubbing his failure to protect Kahndaq in his mutilated face, letting out a deranged cackle all the while.
• Sizeshifter: Controlling his molecular structure allows him to grow to the size of a Kaiju. In the battle itself, he grows to that size when he absorbs his robot army, but returns to normal when dealing the deathblow.
• The Social Darwinist: Due to his upbringing and power, Apocalypse is a firm believer of the survival of the fittest and seeks to destroy all he deems inferior.
• Super-Empowering: Apocalypse can infuse others with his blood to infect them with the techno-organic virus and Death Seed's power, corrupting them into his ultimate servants — the Four Horsemen. It's noted that Black Adam would have had no resistance to this process had Apocalypse used it on him.
• Technopath: After being infected by a techno-organic virus from Cable, Apocalypse gained the ability to manipulate machines. He can even create dummy bodies for him to use, construct an entire army of killer robots from scraps, and even infect others with the same techno-organic virus. A black box notes that Black Adam himself wouldn't be able to survive infection if Apocalypse decided to go down that route.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: En Sabah Nur was Hated by All from the moment he was born. Abandoned by his birth parents, considered an outcast even among a tribe of bandits, and scorned by the woman he loved even after he saved her life. All this led to him to embracing the label of monster that he had been branded with, becoming the conqueror Apocalypse.

Trunks VS Silver

• Alternate Self: Rather than focusing mainly on the original versions of both fighters, this episode puts the spotlight on two of their most well-known alternate universe counterparts who are noted to be far more powerful than their canon versions:
  • The Trunks of Dragon Ball Heroes and the Dragon Ball Xenoverse series is noted to be an alternate-timeline counterpart of the main canon Trunks who was arrested and subsequently recruited by the Time Patrol, becoming one of their top agents.
  • Silver is taken from Archie Comics' continuity of Sonic the Hedgehog, marking the second time a Sonic character is explicitly stated to hail from it following Sonic himself when he battled Wally West in Season 7.
• Ascended Extra: Sort of. The original versions of both Trunks and Silver fought each other DBX Season 1, with Trunks taking the win. However, alternate versions of the two characters fought in this battle, with Archie Silver winning over Xeno Trunks.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: Played With. Trunks and Silver have previously faced each other in both 1 Minute Melee and DBX, with Trunks taking the win both times. However, these instances used their canon timeline selves, with this fight using Trunks's portrayal in Dragon Ball Heroes and Silver's Archie comics counterpart. Ultimately, while Trunks has no trouble with Canon Silver, Archie Silver turns out to be more than even his more powerful Xeno variant can handle, allowing the hedgehog to finally take a win over his inspiration.
• Composite Character: Sort of. While both Xeno Trunks and Archie Silver are different from their canon counterparts, the hosts note that they've experienced at least some variation of their canon timeline.
  • Wiz notes that Xeno Trunks might've experienced some variation of the Goku Black Saga so he does possess the same abilities as the Canon Trunks, including various Super Saiyan transformations.
  • According to the Archie Sonic encyclopedia, Archie Silver still experienced some version of the events of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) including obtaining Super Silver.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The reason why Xeno Trunks and Archie Silver were specifically chosen was to avert this, since due to the sheer gap in power between Trunks and Silver's canon selves, the fight would just be a repeat of "Vegeta VS Shadow" otherwise with Trunks taking a comfortable victory.
• Super Mode:
  • Like canon Future Trunks, Xeno Trunks can access the power of the Super Saiyan. Unlike him, he can reach Super Saiyan 3 and has even attained the divine power of Super Saiyan God.
  • Silver can access the Super modes granted to others like Sonic and Shadow via the Chaos Emeralds. This form grants him complete invincibility, literally incalculable speed, and reality-warping powers. This was a major factor in his victory as it allowed him to endure anything Trunks could throw at him, including trying to nullify his powers or erase his existence, and other super form users having rewrote the infinite multiverse on multiple occasions.
• Super-Speed: Both are far past the speed of light. However, Trunks' speed has a theoretical limit, while Silver is literally faster than what time should allow speed to be, especially in his Super Form. As such, Silver is given the edge.
• Tragic Time Traveler: Both Trunks and Silver are time travelers who came from Bad Futures to prevent said futures from happening, suffer hardship after hardship, and would later become guardians of the time stream itself.

Xeno Trunks

Trunks: "Stop! You're under arrest for unsanctioned time travel!"
Voiced by: KaiserNeko

Time Cop of the Dragon Ball Xenoverse

• Combined Energy Attack: The Sword of Hope, Trunks' ability to gather energy similar to the Spirit Bomb and infuse it into the Brave Sword. Unlike the canon version, Xeno Trunks is shown gathering energy from other timelines, including his own future self. He uses this on top of his Keysword in the fight's climax as he prepares to finish Silver off with the Eternal Time Labyrinth. Unfortunately for him, Silver turns this attack back on Trunks, spelling the end of the time patroller.
• Cool Sword:
  • Wields the Brave Sword, a sword that was passed down to him from the Hero of Time Tapion.
  • He also wields the Keysword, an incredibly powerful weapon capable of defeating the powerful Mechikabura in a single strike. He gives Trunks the power to not only seal away an opponent's abilities, and use the Eternal Time Labyrinth, a move that can seal away someone in space and time. Unfortunately for the Half-Saiyan, Silver had resistance to Keysword's power nullification while in his Super Form.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Dies by being erased by his own Keysword. Him screaming as he got erased suggest it was not painless.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Like the canon Future Trunks, this Future Trunks had his world turned upside down when Androids #17 and #18 ran roughshod on the world. Trunks would go back in time to try and stop this future from happening, instead growing strong enough to put the Androids down. After supposedly taking on Goku Black and Zamasu, Trunks was stopped by the Supreme Kai of Time, Chronoa, who forced him to join the Time Patrol in penance for his crimes against time.
• Death Cry Echo: Trunks' glitched-out screaming echo after he explodes at the end of the fight.
• Deity of Human Origin: Trunks has undergone a mystic ritual to acquire the powers of a Super Saiyan God.
• Detonation Moon: While Silver already detonated a chunk of the moon prior, Trunks ends up destroying the rest by punching Silver though it in his Super Saiyan God form.
• Fight Like a Card Player: Trunks carries a device that allows him to use cards to summon copies of other Dragon Ball characters to fight alongside him. In the battle itself, he opens up a card pack and summons GT Goku and Pan (And Oolong) to assist him, but they are done away with when Silver reflects their Kamehamehas back at them.
• Hey, You!: Trunks never refers to Silver by his name, the closest thing to it was him calling Silver "Time-Hog" in his attempted Pre-Mortem One-Liner. Justified as he and Silver don't know each other.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Ends up impaled by his own Sword of Hope enhanced Keysword in the finale of the fight, temporally destroying him.
  • This is a major deciding factor and listed as one of Trunks' biggest disadvantages: most of Trunks' attacks are beams or energy blasts, things Silver's Catch and Return technique can send right back at him, regardless of any power gap between them.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Ends up meeting his end this way, with Silver impaling him with the Sword of Hope enhanced Keysword.
• No Body Left Behind: He is temporally obliterated after the Keysword impales him, leaving nothing behind.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • He had a worried reaction when Silver destroys part of the moon.
    Trunks: Ah, crap baskets.
  • His eyes widen as the Brave Sword shatters and he realizes the Galick Gun and dual-Kamehameha combo is about to hit him head-on.
  • And his final one is when Silver impales him with his own Sword of Hope-enhanced Keysword, reverting him back to his base form as all he can do at that point is scream in agony while he is being erased.
• Power Nullifier: With the Keysword he can shut down his opponents powers. Unfortunately, it couldn't do the same to Silver's super form, as Archie Sonic super forms have survived reality warping events on a larger scale.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "This is it, time-hog! The end of your future!" However, Silver reflects his attempted finisher.
• Pretender Diss: When Silver goes Super Silver and gloats, Trunks sneaks up on him and calls him a ripoff before punting him.
• Spell Blade: He can use a technique similar to the Spirit Bomb to wreathe the Brave Sword's blade in an aura of ki, greatly extending its reach and destructive capacity. The Keysword is also a similar kind of weapon, starting off in a sealed state before forming a huge blade of temporal energy.
• Time Police: Trunks is a member of the Time Patrol, having joined to atone for his crimes of altering time. In the fight, he attempted to apprehend Silver for unsanctioned time travel, but he ultimately fails and dies in the process.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: Xeno Trunks was arrested by Chronoa, the Supreme Kai of Time, for the changes his time-travelling caused to the timelines. Rather than being imprisoned, Trunks was recruited into the Time Patrol in order to hunt down other time-travelling miscreants and bring them to justice.
• Wrecked Weapon: As a result of trying to reflect a combo of a redirected double Kamehameha and his own Galick Gun, the Brave Sword ends up being destroyed.

Silver the Hedgehog (Archie Comics)

Silver: "Seriously!? This is what I do!"
Voiced by: Esu Onsti^note Heavily implied to be Bryce Papenbrook as a Role Reprise, with the moniker referencing Silver's infamous battle cry from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006); "Esu Onsti" backwards is "It's no use". This was likely done to avoid any legal complications regarding reprises in outside works, with Papenbrook being Silver's official voice actor as of the fight's release.

Secret Freedom Fighter From Archie's Sonic

• Beyond the Impossible: In his super form, Silver's speed is noted to be literally faster than what time allows speed to be, making his speed incalculable.
• Catch and Return: He can use his psychokinesis to catch enemy attacks and throw them right back. Notably, this includes attacks from people much stronger than Silver himself, such as when he successfully reflected the attacks of Enerjak (who could clash with Super Sonic) while Silver himself was in his base form. As such, while Trunks was likely stronger than Silver, it didn't matter as Silver could just send his attacks right back at him. Silver employs a variation of this as his killing blow by using Chronos Control to send Trunks' Sword of Hope back in time and using it to impale him.
• Character Catchphrase: "It's no use!" He makes use of it twice, with the second time serving as his Pre-Mortem One-Liner to Trunks.
• Combined Energy Attack: After reflecting Super Saiyan Trunks' Galick Gun and the dual Kamehamehas of GT Kid Goku and Pan back at their users, Silver proceeds to redirect the Kamehamehas once they take care of Goku and Pan so they line up with and combine with the Galick Gun Trunks is still struggling with, creating a ki blast combo that shatters Trunks' Brave Sword.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Silver hails from a Mobius where one of the Knothole Freedom Fighters seemingly turned against Sonic and his other allies and helped bring about a dark and bleak world. He would be recruited by a number of survivors of this fallen world, including Mammoth Mogul, who trained Silver to become a Knight of Kronos and go back in time to stop this future. Boomstick lampshades this by referring to him as "furry Kyle Reese".
• Detonation Moon: He destroys part of the Moon and throws its chunks at Trunks.
• Expy: Silver has been confirmed by Shiro Maekawa — his creator and the writer of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) — to be one of his opponent.
• Lightning Bruiser: Like many of his fellow Mobians he possesses super strength and speed, but while not to the same extent that Knuckles and Sonic possess, he does compensate for this with his psychokinesis. Compared to Trunks, while even Super Silver was outclassed in terms of physical strength, he still had the advantages of greater power output, Nigh-Invulnerability, and literally infinite speed.
• Mind over Matter: Silver possesses the power of psychokinesis allowing him to move himself or objects with his mind. He can use it to lift massive objects, teleport, disrupt technology, and even close tears in reality. Even in base form, he's managed to restrain foes like Enerjak, who could go against the reality-warping Super Sonic; this meant that even if he were not as physically strong as Trunks, he could easily still hold his own from a distance.
• Paradox Person: Silver has traveled through time so much and changed so many timelines that he has become immune to changes into the timeline himself. This means he can't be Ret-Goned like Marty McFly, and all he really needs is a lot of catching up on any changes to the current timeline.
• Ring of Power: Silver carries a warp ring that he can use to open portals to anywhere he wants, even other dimensions. He also can get the same benefits other Mobians get from regular power rings.
• Skilled, but Naive: Silver may have grown up in a Bad Future and trained hard to master his powers and learn how to Time Travel, but it's noted that he's not "the sharpest quill on the hog", which causes him no end of problems trying to figure out how to find the mysterious Freedom Fighter traitor and stop said Bad Future. His profiency with his psychokinesis and Chaos Magic proved to be key factors in his victory, as Silver could manipulate Trunks' ki attacks, resist the Keysword's ability to nullify powers, and his Super Form granted him much more power than the Saiyan.
• Squishy Wizard: His base form is greatly outclassed by Trunks and its noted that even his super form is unlikely to possess the physical strength to contend with Trunks' raw power. His wide assortment of abilities tipped the odds in his favor however. This is especially the case with his Catch and Return ability, which turned Trunks' power edge against him. This is reflected in the fight as Trunks tends to clean his clock whenever he gets in punching range, but Silver is able to control the flow of battle enough to keep him at range most of the time and pelt him with impunity.
• Time Master: Has control over time thanks to the Time Stone and Chronos Control. He makes use of it in order to escape from Trunks attempting to strike him with the Keysword, and later to temporally rewind Trunks' Sword of Hope enhanced Keysword in order to fatally impale the Time Patroller with it.
• Walking Techbane: His psychic powers are capable of disabling technology, allowing him to shut down any of Trunks' gadgets.

SpongeBob VS Aquaman

• Foil: These two are considered losers from their respective shows. Nobody in Bikini Bottom takes SpongeBob seriously, and the fans widely consider Aquaman to be the most useless member of the Superfriends. That said, both take this to entirely different levels; whereas Aquaman embodies this to a tee by having very ineffective powers and strengths (except for an admittedly impressive speed feat under his belt), SpongeBob is — to put it very mildly — far less of a joke.
• Making a Splash: Both fighters are themed around the ocean, and both can utilize water to their advantage. SpongeBob, being a sponge, can absorb water and spit it back out with immense force if he wishes to. Aquaman, meanwhile, can toss balls of water and form whirlpools and torrents to attack with.
• Nice Guy: For all their faults, both are entirely pleasant characters, with Death Battle's rule of any restraints from killing being removed not even taking effect, with the only reason that Aquaman even fought the fry cook in the first place was mistaking him for destroying Bikini Bottom. Once he realized that SpongeBob was genuinely good, he treated him as an equal and even consoled him during his last moments, and SpongeBob, after seeing Aquaman break down in despair at being the lamest iteration out of all Aquamen, gives a Rousing Speech that encourages Aquaman to keep going and after Aquaman dies, uses the Magic Pencil to make a grave marker for the Super Friend, even if he still gets Arthur's hero name wrong.

SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob: "IIIIIIII'MMM READYYYYYY!!!"
Voiced by: Tom Schalk

Nickelodeon's Number One Nautical Nincompoop

• Accidental Misnaming: He calls Aquaman "Waterman" and "Sea Man", and writes "Ocean Man" on his tombstone.
• Almighty Janitor: SpongeBob is a humble, contented fry cook who is nigh-impossible to kill for good and can unravel the entire universe. Incidentally, he's also mopped enough floors to be an almost literal example.
• Art Initiates Life: His Magic Pencil allows him to draw anything into existence or erase it just as easily. He draws many copies of DoodleBob to attack Aquaman and even erases one of his arms.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Due to Toon Physics, he's perfectly fine when Aquaman sends him to the edge of the universe and he has to travel back through space.
• Beware the Nice Ones: The entire episode makes it very clear that SpongeBob is both a sweet, optimistic fellow and a cosmic force of nature. He's one of the few Death Battle winners to pay respects to the fallen, and he did so after crashing into the Earth at a velocity far surpassing the speed of light, with himself no worse for wear.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Bar none. Not only has he shown some ridiculous feats thanks to his Toon Physics, but he also holds the records for both the second highest calculable durability feat by the end of Season 9 of surviving 6000 yottatons of explosive force (for reference, Optimus Prime could only output 40 yottatons but still over 2,000 times less than Booster Gold's forcefield enduring 14 tenatons of force), and the highest calculable speed feat of literally unravelling the universe in 5 seconds which would put him at 8.2 quinvigintillion times faster than light (also for reference, MegaMan.EXE, the previous record holder, could move at 3 novemdecillion times light speed, which is over 2 quintillion times slower than SpongeBob). To put it simply, the only ones who would be strong enough to hurt him would be those of immeasurable strength such as Superman, Hercules, and Sun Wukong, and the only ones that would be fast enough to actually hit SpongeBob would be those of immeasurable speed such as the Flash Family and Archie's versions of Sonic and Silver.
• Broken Win/Loss Streak: After Prince Zuko and Avatar Korra fail to defeat their foes, SpongeBob is the first in-house Nickelodeon character to win since Danny Phantom.
• Bubble Gun: Wiz cites this as being SpongeBob's most impressive feat, likening it to a "soapy Green Lantern ring". While typically requiring his signature bubble-blowing technique to function, SpongeBob can blow bubbles into anything he desires, from sentient life like the citizens of Bubbletown, to effective weaponry such as guided cruise missiles like in Battle for Bikini Bottom.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: While he No Sells Aquaman's punches at first, he calmly points out the futility of the attacks as if he's not being punched in the face.
• Composite Character: Feats and abilities featured in video games and comic books are brought up.
• Chef of Iron: He's a fry cook at the Krusty Krab who can kick a lot of ass given the right circumstances, even being able to use his spatula as an Improvised Weapon.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: SpongeBob's only real weakness is that he's a dumbass, and he's so powerful that Aquaman can accomplish diddly-squat with the intelligence advantage. During the fight, Aquaman actually pulls off some clever moves like distracting SpongeBob from the electric eels with his telepathy and using SpongeBob's own Magic Pencil against him, but all this does is delay his inevitable defeat at SpongeBob's hands.
• Destructive Savior: In the beginning, he had "saved" Bikini Bottom from an unspecified crisis, leaving the town in burning ruins and several people injured, which makes Aquaman think he is a supervillain. The battle completely levels the town.
• Due to the Dead: SpongeBob uses the Magic Pencil to draw a tombstone for Aquaman in the style of Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen's grave after defeating him. Still gets his name wrong, but it's the thought that counts.
• Elemental Absorption: Despite being a sea sponge, SpongeBob's body has the properties of a kitchen sponge, including the ability to absorb water, from being able to drain the Goo Lagoon dry to even absorbing enough water to become as big as the moon. Though Boomstick does question how this works, considering he lives in the ocean, so he would be constantly absorbing water.
• Hammerspace: SpongeBob is known to store various objects inside his body frequently, which is where the Magic Pencil is stored until he brings it out.
• Happiness in Minimum Wage: Wiz is initially disgusted with SpongeBob being happy with being a measly-paid fry cook, but Boomstick encourages SpongeBob to keep doing what makes him happy.
  Boomstick: SpongeRobert might not have the flashiest life, but he's happy. And that's what matters, ain't it?
• Healing Factor: SpongeBob possesses absurd healing abilities, being able to survive being ripped in half, reduced to vapor, having his soul removed, and even being literally unraveled from existence. Amongst SpongeBob's many other advantages, this meant that even if Aquaman did have a way to actually inflict damage on SpongeBob, he'd just heal it off in no time flat.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Brief as it was, Aquaman sends him across the universe with his own magic pencil. Had he not been, well, SpongeBob he would been completely stranded.
• Humble Goal: SpongeBob has very few ambitions in life outside of continuing his job as fry cook. Boomstick even lampshades that the end goal he wanted out of the entire adventure he took in his first movie was just to become a manager for the second Krusty Krab.
• Idiot Hero: Boomstick points out one of his flaws is his intelligence, calling him a, "giant, suicidally naïve idiot," and is the only weakness SpongeBob had been shown to have compared to Aquaman. Fortunately, the sheer gap in power, speed, and durability more than made up for it.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: SpongeBob is essentially the Green Lantern of bubble blowing, capable of shaping them into anything he can think of, from guided projectiles to sentient life.
• Impossibly Delicious Food: The Krabby Patty, a burger so delicious and addictive that SpongeBob was romantically interested in one and is the sole thing preventing the apocalypse in Bikini Bottom. On top of this, it can restore wounds, nullify mind control and even remotely explode.
• Kryptonite Factor: It was noted that besides his lack of intelligence, he could be incapacitated by drying out when out of the water or exposed to heat. The hosts said Aquaman had no way of exploiting this, even though he owned a heat ray, which he doesn't use in the fight. He was perfectly fine when Aquaman sent him to the edge of the universe and he had to travel through the vacuum of space to return to Earth, so this becomes an Informed Flaw.
• Manchild: Wiz outright describes SpongeBob as this.
• Me's a Crowd: SpongeBob can duplicate himself through asexual reproduction.
• Mistaken Identity: SpongeBob initially ends up mistaking Aquaman for his personal hero, Mermaid Man, who is an Expy of Aquaman. The analysis does bring up his confusion as an added benefit: due to being such an obsessive fan of Mermaid Man and being familiar with his powers, SpongeBob would have been able to reliably counter Aquaman's abilities through his fanboy knowledge alone.
• My God, What Have I Done?: The episode ends with SpongeBob sobbing as a dying Aquaman crumbles to ash in front of him, and he uses his Magic Pencil to draw a tombstone for him — though he still gets the name wrong.
• Nice Guy: SpongeBob could be considered the nicest guy in his show, and his DEATH BATTLE portrayal isn't any different. He didn't want to fight Aquaman until he was further pushed, showed sympathy and gave him an inspiring speech while Aquaman was in Heroic BSoD mode, letting himself get stabbed to restore all the water he drained from the ocean to give Aquaman a fair fight, and even drew him a grave with his Magic Pencil. SpongeBob did end up killing him, but it might as well be accidental, and he shows regret with tears after landing the fatal blow.
• "Not So Different" Remark: He sympathizes with Aquaman when he realizes everyone thinks he is lame, saying everyone used to think he wouldn't amount to anything either. Also doubles as a Rousing Speech, as it inspires Aquaman to continue fighting despite being totally outclassed.
  SpongeBob: People used to say the same kind of things about me. Goofball, wingnut, Knucklehead McSpazatron... but every day, I get back up and say two words: I'm... ready.
• Not What It Looks Like: The fight starts because Aquaman thought that SpongeBob was responsible for the destruction of Bikini Bottom, whereas he was trying to protect it.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's the shorter of the two, as well as the shortest combatant on the show (being half the size of the 8-inch-tall Kirby)... And boasts the highest calculable speed and durability (barring incalculable characters) out of anyone on the show and can interact with the Fourth Wall on top of his Toon Physics, further reducing the limits of his capabilities.
• Reality Warper: Aside from his Toon Physics, SpongeBob also has the ability to interact with the Fourth Wall, which allows him to literally imagine things into existence. At one point, he literally unraveled the entire universe by pulling on a piece of string.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Wiz has noticed SpongeBob's strength is... quite inconsistent, as in one episode he's struggling to lift a glass of lemonade, only for another to have him effortlessly rotate the entire planet. In the fight, he levels Bikini Bottom with an attack that involves him flying from space and crashing down so hard it causes yet another explosion on par with the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests.
• Super-Speed: Based on how quickly SpongeBob was able unravel the universe, he can move at 8.2 x 10⁷⁸ (Or 8.2 quinvigintillion) times lightspeed, the fastest calculable speed feat ever seen on DEATH BATTLE^note Albeit still not the fastest overall, given several fighters go straight to incalculable speeds such as the various Flashes and fighters from Archie Sonic. In the fight, Aquaman sends him to the edge of the universe, and he comes back in a matter of seconds using his leg-rocket transformation seen in both "Hall Monitor" and "Jellyfish Hunter".
• Super-Toughness: On top of being a sponge who is resistant to most physical attacks, SpongeBob has survived having his reef blower, containing all of the Earth's ocean water, explode on his back with enough force to refill the oceans in a second and taking no damage in the process. This feat is estimated at 6000 yottatons of TNT, which would make SpongeBob tough enough to endure the strongest attacks from some of Death Battle's heaviest hitters like She-Ra, Optimus Prime and Saitama whose strongest feats are only measured in a double-digit amount of yottatons.
• Toon Physics: Depending on which is funnier for the situation, this can be either played straight or Inverted. As Wiz notes, SpongeBob appears to have some sort of "anti-Toon Force"; his strength is wildly inconsistent. At his weakest, he somehow fails to perform basic tasks. When he isn't weak, he can rotate the entire planet just by twisting a nut on a pipe.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: SpongeBob can stretch, bend, or warp his body in any way he pleases.
• Wrecked Weapon: Aquaman breaks his Magic Pencil in half, but the two halves still work.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: Wiz states during the fight explanation that SpongeBob can will whatever he wants into existence just by thinking it. This applies to how he can transform his bubbles into anything he desires, akin to a Green Lantern Ring.

Aquaman (Arthur Curry)

Aquaman: "There's only one hero here, fiend. And he's... a Super Friend!"
Voiced by: Kestin Howard

The Thalassic Third Wheel of the Superfriends

• Adaptational Badass: In a way. While Superfriends Aquaman pales in comparison to his much more impressive mainstream comics counterpart, and it shows, he's given a bit more things to do in the fight animation than in Superfriends. Namely, he swipes the Trident of Neptune from another one of the multiversal Aquamen via a convenient dimensional rift, and gears up for a final attack on SpongeBob by gathering all the world's oceans and forming them into a giant torrent seen from space, a feat he has never been able to come close to matching in the source material.
• Adaptation Personality Change: He's much more insecure than in the original cartoon that's Lighter and Softer nature left little room for angst.
• Adaptational Wimp: Played With. Since this Aquaman was made early into DC's history, he lacks some of the history or abilities his DC Comics counterpart would later be established to have, such as being the king of Atlantis or using his aquatic telepathy to give people seizures. In the analysis, the hosts seriously lowballed his strength. And in the fight itself, he doesn't have access to any of his weapons like his heat ray and starts weakening as soon as he gets out of the water, even though he often spends time out of water in Superfriends, meaning he was made even wimpier. The hosts note that even if they used Comic Book Aquaman, SpongeBob would still win.
• An Arm and a Leg: The eraser half of SpongeBob's Magic Pencil removes one of his arms.
• Alternate Self: Unlike the DC Comics Aquaman who fought against Namor back in Season 6, this Aquaman is based around the commonly joked-about incarnation from Superfriends instead. He's able to open portals through the multiverse to get glimpses of his alternate counterparts, which drives him to a Heroic BSoD when he realizes he's the weakest and most-pathetic of them.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: After SpongeBob sucks up all the water, Aquaman finds himself drying out and begs for water, which he gets...in the form of his own tears when he sees how weak and pathetic he is compared to his alternate selves.
• Butt-Monkey: Oh, jeez, does Aquaman have a rough go of it. Wiz struggles to find a sufficiently impressive feat of his, the hosts don't even try to hide that he has no chance of winning and constantly mock him, he's pestered by an inexplicable dimensional portal that shows him how lame he is compared to other Aquamen, shaking his own faith in himself, and of course, SpongeBob kills him. As salt in the wound, his most incredible feat, outspeeding Rokan, is shown to be vastly outclassed by SpongeBob as well in the post-fight explanation. The only bones he gets thrown his way are the aforementioned Rokan feat, some cool moments towards the end of his fight, the respect of his opponent, and a tombstone that refers to him as Ocean Man. For further insult, Aquaman has the dubious honor of having the hosts openly state he would lose at the end of his analysis, something he only shares with Michelangelo and MegaMan Volnutt.
• Composite Character: Despite being the Superfriends incarnation, he also has elements of his 1967 Filmation cartoon series incarnation.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Despite how much SpongeBob outclasses Aquaman in practically every conceivable way that isn't intelligence, he puts up a far better fight than anyone would expect from the lamest version of the famous marine superhero — hell, he even puts up a better, more long-lasting fight than Season 9's other curb-stomp with Omni-Man vs. Homelander! He actually lands several hits on SpongeBob despite having the fastest calculable speed in Death Battle history, and is resourceful enough to use his Magic Pencil against him to throw him to the other side of the universe. For almost any other character on the show, that'd be an instant knock-out; it just happened that SpongeBob was that OP. That isn't even covering his Death or Glory Attack at the end of the fight, where he commands the entirety of Earth's oceans to try and defeat SpongeBob. It doesn't work, but it's still a far more impressive showing than the mainline Aquaman's own Death Battle.
• Death or Glory Attack: He puts up an awesome one at the climax of the fight, where he commands the entirety of all of Earth's oceans in a typhoon to defeat SpongeBob. This is especially a "death or glory" attack too, given that this Aquaman cannot survive without water, but the fact he does this feat is impressive all the same.
• Face Death with Dignity: As he crumbles, he tells SpongeBob not to be sad and may they part as Superfriends.
• Fragile Speedster: Interestingly, his speed is much faster than Wiz and Boomstick were expecting, clocking in at 55 billion times faster than the speed of light thanks to outspeeding Rokan who was calculated to move that fast in space. However, his physical power and durability are severely lacking in comparison, meaning he couldn't use that speed all too efficiently. Not that it mattered, considering that SpongeBob was drastically faster anyways, while also being stronger and more durable.
• Half-Human Hybrid: He's half-human from his father and half-Atlantean from his mother.
• Heroic BSoD: Briefly falls into one after he realizes that he’s the lamest Aquaman in the entire multiverse.
  Aquaman: I see it now. A multiverse of Aquamen. And out of all of them... I'm the lamest F-(dolphin noise)-ING ONE!!! (crying) I'm a ripoff... A joke... I'm no superhero.
• It Was with You All Along: Never said out loud, but Aquaman's newfound determination after Spongebob's pep talk turns him from a joke who's destined to get steamrolled to a proper king of the seas who can literally punch with the weight of all the world's oceans. He still dies, but that's still way more impressive than anybody was expecting.
• Kryptonite Factor: Like SpongeBob, he is vulnerable to drying out, but this was heavily exaggerated due to the hosts following a comic that said he could only survive for an hour out of water, even though he often spent time on land and was fine in the desert on Superfriends. In fact, there was no Superfriends episode where he was in danger of drying out. In the fight, he starts weakening as soon as SpongeBob gets him out of the water.
• Making a Splash: Aquaman can condense balls of water and launch them at his opponents. He nails SpongeBob with one early on, and tries to end the fight by firing all the Earth's water at SpongeBob in a massive torrent.
• No Body Left Behind: He crumbles to ash after the final clash.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Regardless of how impressive Aquaman's strength, durability or arsenal is, SpongeBob blows it out of the water several times over:
  • Aquaman has several gadgets such as a jet ski, heat ray and water pistol, which, when compared to SpongeBob packing two separate ways of making whatever he imagined come to life.
  • Aquaman surviving the crushing pressure within depths of the ocean floor pales in comparison to SpongeBob being completely unharmed by the entirety of Earth's water exploding on his back.
  • Most importantly, Aquaman's single extremely impressing feat of out speeding Rokan is entirely overshadowed by SpongeBob obtaining the highest calculable speed feat in DEATH BATTLE.
• Prongs of Poseidon: He steals the Trident of Neptune from one of his alternate universe counterparts, enabling him to break SpongeBob's reality-warping Magic Pencil.
• Required Secondary Powers: With his incredible underwater abilities, he's capable of surviving swimming at the very bottom of oceans despite their crushing depths and is also immune to water attacks from others.
• Super-Speed: He can dodge lasers and once outsped Rokan, a Kryptonian monster with the same powers as Superman^note And that episode made it clear Rokan was even more powerful than Superman since it was already a giant monster before getting exposed to yellow sunlight, but this pales in comparison to SpongeBob's ridiculous speed.
• Super-Strength: He can lift boulders, ships, and massive piles of garbage. The hosts called the garbage, which they estimated to weigh 50 tons, his greatest strength feat, but this was lowballing it since the analysis footage showed him lifting a cruise ship, which can weigh over 100000 tons, out of the water, and one episode of Superfriends had him block a tsunami. Even if they gave him those, this pales in comparison to SpongeBob's Toon Physics-fueled feats of strength.
• Synchro-Vox: A live-action mouth moves over a drawing of him after seeing SpongeBob split into multiple copies.
  Aquaman: GREAT NEPTUNE!
• Telepathy: Much like his comic counterpart, Aquaman is capable of speaking to aquatic life via aquatic telepathy. Anything aquatic, including microscopic organisms and even alien life. Unlike his comics counterpart, he is incapable of actually mind-controlling them. It's noted that even if Aquaman could control aquatic sea life, his opponent's Krabby Patties can undo mind control, meaning that, despite this being Aquaman's only possible win condition, it wasn't even a reliable one. In the fight, he uses it to ask SpongeBob to surrender, which he doesn't listen to, summons electric eels to attack his opponent, and summons every creature in the ocean to join his final attack.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: He mistook SpongeBob as the one who destroyed Bikini Bottom when he was trying to save it from how he saw it as ruins. It cost him his life.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Unlike his comics counterpart, this version of Aquaman rarely gets to showcase his abilities beyond "swim fast, talk to fish". Though Wiz and Boomstick state after the fight that the results wouldn't change even if they went as far as using Arthur's comic book counterpart instead.
• Worthy Opponent: When SpongeBob helps shake him out of his Heroic BSoD, he acknowledges him as a hero and calls him a friend as he dies.

Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers

• Ambiguously Human: While Jason was a relatively normal, if deformed, child before he fell into that lake, both are definitely this now. Despite looking like normal human beings, they are abnormally strong and withstand extreme force for humans, if not heal freakishly quickly from it. Not to mention, they are oddly intelligent and resourceful for men who should have the mental age of children.
• Healing Factor: Both can heal from things that would kill a normal human several times over, such as being blown up and set on fire. However, Jason's is superior to Michael's, which is the deciding factor in the fight.
• Implacable Man: These two are nigh-unstoppable killing machines who shrug off mortal wounds as if they were bug bites and will never rest until their chosen victims have been killed. Jason beats out Michael in this regard, being capable of taking much more punishment than his opponent thanks to his Healing Factor being superior. This is shown in the fight itself by Michael having to dodge Jason's attacks, while Jason just takes his straight on and is never slowed for very long.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Both Jason and Michael are well-known for their signature masks, and both are malevolent, silent killers who've butchered dozens upon dozens of victims without mercy or remorse.
• Silent Antagonist: Both Jason and Michael are the main villains of their respective franchises, and never talk or make noise once during their murder sprees.
• Stock Slasher: Two of the three Trope Codifiers as they — along with the Trope Maker Leatherface — codified the kind of slasher that would terrify horror films for decades to come.
• Super-Strength: Both are inhumanly strong. They're ruled as being roughly comparable in terms of strength.
• Super-Toughness: Both can survive punishment that'd kill a normal human several times over. They're ruled as being comparably durable, but Jason has a better Healing Factor than Michael.

Jason Voorhees

Crystal Lake's Masked Murderer

• Ambiguous Situation: Wiz and Boomstick speculate on the nature of Jason's apparent immortality and whether or not he died as a child, with Wiz bringing up the possibility of him being reanimated by the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and being turned into a Demon of Human Origin.
• Curse: Jason's mother resurrecting him with the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis placed a curse on him that only another Voorhees could kill him. Even that didn't stick, as he's both fought his way out of Hell and reanimated again... albeit with a little prompting from a certain claw-handed Dream Demon.
• Cyborg: In the far future, Jason was augmented by nanites into the cyborg Uber Jason. When Uber Jason threw down with a copy of his original self, the regular Jason held his own for some time.
• Demon of Human Origin: It's noted in Jason's preview that he started out a normal (albeit physically deformed) human, but he eventually became a demonic "hell-worm" as a result of his mother using the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis to resurrect him after he drowned as a child, possibly making him a Deadite.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Jason became an undead mass-murderer not to avenge his own death, but that of his beloved mother Pamela. It's his love for his mother that, upon seeing her headstone and hallucinating her encouraging him to fight back, gives him the strength to fight back.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Both in life and in death, Jason could only rely on his mother, Pamela, no matter what. Her own death (at the hands of Alice, a Crystal Lake camp counsellor) during her revenge-driven murder spree is what spurred Jason to continue killing in her stead. In fact, he made sure Alice was the first of his many victims after he came back from the dead.
• Finger-Twitching Revival: Michael impales him and leaves him pinned to a tree before leaving to chase the survivor Sam, but Jason's finger twitches before he starts moving again and frees himself.
• Healing Factor: In addition to his insane durability and undead nature, Jason can regenerate from injuries as severe as having half his body destroyed. This puts him far above his opponent as Michael can take at minimum a year to recover from more severe injuries.
• Heroic Second Wind: At least, in a fashion. Michael stomps on his back to try to push his face into an axe. Just as his strength starts to fail, he looks over at Pamela's grave and hears her encouraging him. This gives him the strength to break free and take the win.
  Pamela: Kill him, Jason! Kill him! Make mother proud.
• Implacable Man: Jason will never, ever stop until he gets his prey. He's been hanged, deep-frozen, doused in corrosive toxic waste, taken an axe to the face, been chopped to pieces, blown up, and had half his body completely destroyed, yet he still keeps coming back to finish the job. He's ruled as more durable than his opponent for this reason as Michael has never taken punishment anywhere near as extreme as Jason has. This is demonstrated in the battle by Jason just taking attacks while Michael needs to dodge.
• Improvised Weapon: When not using his iconic machete or axe, Jason is capable of using nearly anything as a lethal weapon, including sleeping bags, garbage cans, a folding bed, tent spikes, a vat of liquid nitrogen, a guitar, and even a party horn.
• The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: To showcase how much more durable Jason is compared to Michael, Jason doesn't even try to avoid the Boogeyman's attacks and shrugs them off easily whereas Michael actively avoids Jason's own attacks and ends up taking significant damage once he finally does get hit.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Despite being one of the most iconic masked slasher villains in cinema alongside his opponent, Jason is surprisingly this. One of Jason's main motivations is to avenge the death of his mother, and he has various other humanizing moments (Depending on the Writer), such as refusing to kill animals unless absolutely necessary, (accidentally) preventing at least two rape attempts, or a rather iconic moment in the comics where he protected and took care of a child with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, since it was similar to his own deformity when he was alive. While Myers has spared people that aren't the target of his killings, he has never done any actions that can really be considered "good."
• Lodged-Blade Recycling: Michael stabs him in the head with his signature butcher knife, but Jason eventually pulls the knife out and uses it to deal the finishing blow after mutilating him with a machete and an axe.
• Machete Mayhem: Jason’s weapon of choice is a machete, and thanks to his Super-Strength, he can use it to hack people to pieces or cut through metal.
• Make Sure He's Dead: After putting an axe through Michael's skull and decapitating him with his own butcher knife, Jason makes sure he's dead by picking up the axe — still with the severed head impaled on it — and smashing it against a nearby tombstone, splitting Michael's head apart like a log.
• Momma's Boy: Jason’s mother, Pamela, was the only one who ever truly cared for him, to the point where she went on a vengeful killing spree in his name. Her subsequent death is what drove Jason to start killing in the first place, and him wanting to please her is a big motivation for doing so.
• Offscreen Teleportation: Discussed. Though Wiz didn't believe it was teleportation, he would concede that Jason could 'theoretically' do this. However, even if Jason could teleport, Michael Myers can also do the same, therefore it isn’t a factor in his win.
• Revenant Zombie: Jason (seemingly) drowned as a child when thrown into Crystal Lake by the other children, who bullied him due to his encephalopathy, but was resurrected by his mother using the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. As an adult, Jason was killed and reanimated again, turning him into a nigh-unkillable zombie.
• Taught by Experience: "Taught" being generous here, but Jason is noted to have had experience fighting against supernatural foes, including Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Ash Williams, and Uber Jason. This gave him an edge over Michael, who has never fought opponents on his caliber.
• Use Your Head: After being encouraged by Pamela, Jason breaks free from Michael's hold and headbutts him.
• Victory by Endurance: This was the deciding factor in Jason’s victory, being capable of enduring much more punishment than Michael ever has.

Michael Audrey Myers

The Horrifying Boogeyman of Haddonfield

• Berserk Button: As in canon, he's very protective of his mask. After Michael stabs Jason in the gut and tries to impale him against a tree, the Crystal Lake killer reaches up to grab Michael's mask, prompting Michael to pull the knife out and stab him again multiple times in quick succession, despite Jason already being fatally-wounded. Or at least, he would have been were he a normal human.
• Cain and Abel: He stabbed his older sister to death when he was just six years old, and fifteen years later, he went after his other sister, Laurie.
• Composite Character: Details are used from the various timelines including the Curse of Thorn from the 4-6 timeline as well as the mob beating he survived from the 2018 timeline (incompatible with the others for the facts that Michael was locked away after the events of the first movie and Laurie not being his biological sister), and even the post-fight analysis mentioning some of his perks in Dead by Daylight.
• Curse: According to some apocryphal sources, Michael's seemingly superhuman abilities stem from him being branded by the Mark of Thorn... which Jocelyn snarks is just the Norse rune representing Thor.
• Enfant Terrible: He murdered his sister when he was only six, and committed several more murders when confined to a psych ward, including his psychiatrist's fiancé.
• Genius Bruiser: Despite having been locked up in a psych ward since he was six, Michael is surprisingly intelligent, having somehow taught himself how to drive. This doesn't help him as Jason's encounters with other supernatural entities meant there was little Michael could do that Jason hadn't seen before.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Jason decapitates him with his own knife.
• Kill Steal: Michael kills a victim Jason was planning to kill. It's why Jason targets him and it ends badly for him.
• Implacable Man: Michael, like his opponent, is durable and extremely stubborn when it comes to hunting victims like Laurie, getting shot and subsequently falling out of a window, and being set completely on fire to the point of being rendered comatose afterward both fail to actually kill him. One time, he was given a beatdown by an angry mob and still got up to kill them all. However, he was judged less durable than Jason, as Michael needs extended recovery periods to heal from more extreme injuries. This is shown in the fight by Michael needing to dodge Jason's attacks, and upon being impaled by Jason's machete, Michael is shown to visibly weakened right before he is beheaded.
• Improvised Weapon: He slams a tombstone against Jason, and also uses a woodcutter's axe he finds embedded in a tree stump. In the analysis, his "arsenal" is stated to be a kitchen knife, a car, an axe, a wire, a shovel, various farm tools, and "literally anything else he can get his hands on".
• Mugging the Monster: Interestingly, yes. While Michael is certainly one of the most dangerous serial killers in film history, the even stronger and more durable Jason had what it took to kill him, meaning that him attempting to turn Jason into his next victim was him biting off way more than he could chew.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Part of the reason Jason wins is that he has been in crossovers against other slashers, some of which have supernatural powers, while Michael is considered dangerous in his home universe because he mostly goes after weaker and less prepared muggles.
• Off with His Head!: Jason kills him by cutting his head off with his own knife, before sticking an axe in it and crushing it by slamming it against a tombstone. Ironically, it was him not suffering this in his home series that led to his loss, as the fact that he needed to disguise someone as himself to be decapitated in his place gave the strong implication that it could have killed him, whereas Jason has survived such things.
• Sadist: On top of his main motivation being to butcher his sister, Laurie, like he did his elder sister, Judith, when he was six, Michael has a penchant for inflicting absolutely horrible fates upon his victims. Besides his favored tactics of inflicting many, many stab wounds and slashing throats, some of the shown/mentioned ones include him exploding peoples' heads, slowly boiling them alive, impaling them with a pitchfork, and pinning them to walls with knives or on sharp fixtures like macabre art pieces.
• Stealth Expert: Michael's stealth is so great, he could bypass an entire yard that has motion detecting lights until he wants them to to scare his victims. This could be another form of Teleportation, but it has never really been proven as such, even it is, Jason could theoretically do the same, leaving it a moot point.
• Strong and Skilled: His biggest advantage against Jason: he's much smarter and more skilled on top of being equally strong. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to overcome Jason's supernatural endurance.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: If getting stabbed through the stomach with a machete and having an axe lodged in his skull wasn't enough to kill Michael, getting his head sliced off with his own knife certainly did the trick, and Jason even took it one step further by splitting Michael's severed head in two with the axe. Though justified given Jason's experience with supernatural foes. Since they always find ways to bounce back from the majority of fatal injuries that could kill a normal human, Jason had to absolutely make sure Michael couldn't come back.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Twofold. After being impaled with a machete, Jason puts the same woodcutter's axe Michael tried to kill him with earlier through Myers' own head. Right afterward, Jason decapitates Michael with his own butcher knife.

Sauron VS The Lich King

• Attack Its Weak Point: Both overlords have an artifact that carries most of their power in the One Ring and Frostmourne, and should said artifact be destroyed, they'll lose much of their power to the point of inevitable defeat. The former was much less conspicuous of a weakness, being a subtle ring on Sauron's finger compared to the very weapon that Arthas attacks with.
• The Corruptor:
  • Sauron is a cunning master of manipulation who tricked the Elven Ultimate Blacksmith Celebrimbor into helping him forge the Rings of Power and seduced Saruman — the leader and most-powerful member of the Wizards sent to oppose him — into joining his side. He also manipulated and eventually mind-controlled the entire civilization of Númenor right into his service, forcing Eru to sink the entire island to stop him.
  • Even as nothing but a spirit trapped in ice, The Lich King was capable of subverting the entirety of Lordaeron by manipulating good and evil alike, leading to the entirity of Quel'thalas, Dalaran, and Lordaeron (the kingdom, not the continent) falling to his machinations.
• Evil Versus Evil: An evil Fallen Angel plotting world domination vs an undead Fallen Hero and Omnicidal Maniac. Sauron wins.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: Sauron desires to conquer the world to remove The Evils of Free Will, and the Lich King wants to destroy all life and bind the undead forms of it to his will. While not all that different in end goal, Sauron would at least allow life in his world (however strictly regulated), while Arthas' world would be nothing but scores of undead. Evil wins out over Oblivion.
• Fire/Ice Duo: Sauron primarily uses fire, while the Lich King specializes in ice.
• Omnicidal Maniac:
  • Sauron became obsessed with imposing order by extinguishing The Evils of Free Will, even if it meant wiping out all life on Middle-earth that did not bend the knee to him. Granted, Sauron’s desire is to rule all of creation, not destroy it, he just has no problem with mass murder.
  • After everything that happened to him, Arthas Menethil embraced the role of the Lich King and led the Scourge in a bid to end all life.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Both are capable of raising islands through sheer power, setting off natural disasters (volcanic eruptions for Sauron, blizzards for the Lich King), and destroying armies. However, Sauron has the edge in this regard.
• Power Stereotype Flip: Sauron is soft-spoken and quietly sadistic, while the Lich King is grandiose and volatile.
• Soul Jar:
  • In a bid to exponentially increase his own power and gain dominion over all of Middle-earth, Sauron forged the One Ring and poured a great deal of his metaphysical essence into it. While it greatly amplifies his power, he's greatly weakened should it be stolen and claimed by another, and would effectively be killed if it was destroyed.
  • After he attempted to betray the demon-lord Kil'jaeden, Ner'Zhul's corrupted soul was sealed into a the Helm of Dominion, the Plate of the Damned, and the runeblade Frostmourne — which were encased in the Frozen Throne and sent to Azeroth. Prince Arthas Menethil came under Ner'Zhul's sway when he took up Frostmourne, and became possessed by the former orc shaman when he donned the Helm of Dominion, turning him into the second Lich King.
• Tin Tyrant: Sauron's most-common form is that of a towering Humanoid Abomination clad in spiky black armour, while the Lich King is clad in light-absorbing Saronite plate.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Sauron is able to absorb souls into himself to become more powerful, a feat taken from the Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War games — where he attempts to assimilate Celebrimbor. Meanwhile, the Lich King is capable of absorbing souls via the almighty runeblade Frostmourne. Sauron ultimately consumes both the Lich King's soul and all the souls inside of Frostmourne.

Sauron (Tar-Mairon)

Sauron: "Witness the prophecy of your doom."
Voiced by: Ryan Solis

The Lord of The Rings

• And Show It to You: Sauron threatens to tear out Arthas' heart, which ends up falling flat due to Arthas' having already done that.
• Appropriated Appellation: Mairon was given the moniker "Sauron" out of hatred by the Elf-Lord Fëanor, but by the Third Age it became his main alias.
• Battle Trophy: He shows up seeking to claim Frostmourne and the Frozen Throne for himself, and claims the latter after consuming Arthas' soul.
• Bulletproof Human Shield: Sauron grabs one of Arthas' summoned ghouls and dominates it before using it to set off Arthas' ice spell early.
• Composite Character: Death Battle's Sauron is a composite of his various iterations from the The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion books, the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, the The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series, and the Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-earth: Shadow of War video-games.
• Complete Immortality: As a formerly-angelic Maia, Sauron is primarily a metaphysical being incapable of truly dying, and whose physical form is more akin to a suit of clothes. As such, even if his physical form is slain, he will only be temporarily disembodied before eventually returning in a weakened state. This is a deciding factor, as while the Plague could possibly cripple Sauron's physical body, that was the Lich King’s only real way of winning the fight and Sauron could just shed his physical form and either recreate it or fight as a spirit.
• Dragon Ascendant: Sauron was once the chief lieutenant and main strategist of Melkor, an evil Vala who rebelled against the supreme deity Eru Ilúvatar and attempted to conquer the world of Arda as the Dark Lord Morgoth. After Morgoth was defeated, Sauron took over as the new Dark Lord and sought to succeed where his former master had failed.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Sauron's Fatal Flaw is his cynicism; he cannot believe that anyone would ever refuse extreme power such as the One Ring. Since he happens to be right on the money for Arthas, this doesn't slow him down much.
• Evil Is Burning Hot: A Fallen Angel heavily associated with fire and heat that often manifests as a giant, flaming eyeball. Contrasts well with his opponent.
• Evil Overlord: While Sauron was Morgoth's top lieutenant during Middle-earth's First Age, after Morgoth was sealed away, Sauron took his place as the Dark Lord and rallied the remnants of Morgoth's army of orcs, trolls, and other monsters to his service.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: The animation gives Sauron a low, horrific rasp to all his lines similar to the films.
• Fallen Angel: One of the Maiar, Mairon was originally an angelic servant of the godlike Valar sent to oversee Arda by the supreme deity Eru Ilúvatar. However, he was drawn to the power of the evil Vala Melkor and swore fealty to him, becoming his chief lieutenant during the First Age — where he came to be known as Sauron.
• Fiery Stoic: In addition to his control over fire, he's a Soft-Spoken Sadist who does his best to intimidate Arthas.
• Fighting a Shadow: Sauron's physical form is more akin to a suit of clothes than actually important. He's both capable of shedding it and fighting as a spirit as well as recreating it. This is a deciding factor, as it meant he could shrug off the Plague simply by assuming his spirit form, taking away the Lich King's best chance of beating him.
• Humanoid Abomination: As a fallen Maia, Sauron is a formerly-divine being capable of reshaping his physical form at will and even shedding it to become a being of pure spirit. His most iconic form following his corruption is a towering humanoid entity clad in imposing black armor. However, he is also capable of assuming a "fair" humanoid form called Annatar.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Was actually significantly more tactically minded and far-thinking than his original master, Morgoth, to the point he did most of the strategizing for Morgoth's war effort. He was more of a danger to the world once he became a Dragon Ascendant, to the point Eru Ilúvatar himself had to intervene at one point to stop his machinations (which Sauron survived), which is something Morgoth never managed.
• Klingon Promotion: Upon absorbing the souls of Arthas and Frostmourne, Sauron effectively becomes the new Lich King and claims the Frozen Throne for himself.
• Lesser of Two Evils: Sauron is still an Evil Overlord like his opponent. The only difference is that he prefers living total subjugation over Arthas' Omnicidal Mania and subsequent reanimation of the slain.
• Living Shadow: When bereft of his physical body, Sauron appears as a mass of darkness — though he can also add flames into the mix.
• The Maker: When he was still the good-aligned Mairon, Sauron took part in Eru Ilúvatar's Music of the Ainur, a cosmic choir that created the universe of Eä and the planet Arda.
• Make Way for the New Villains: In many ways, Sauron is simply a better Evil Overlord than Morgoth was, as he wished to conquer the world, not destroy it — so he actually paid attention to long-term thought. He also pulls this off in the Death Battle itself, killing Arthas, absorbing his soul and those claimed by Frostmourne, and then taking his place on the Frozen Throne.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: The One Ring is so durable not even Ancalagon the Black, the mightiest of winged dragons who leveled the mountains of Thangorodrim (a feat that would exceed 479 gigatons of force to pull off) would be able to destroy it. This alongside its relative size and inconspicuous nature compared to Frostmourne was a major boon against Arthas, who would have struggled to even disarm Sauron of the Ring, much less destroy it.
• One-Winged Angel: After being infected by the Plague and impaled, Sauron sheds his physical form to assume the form of the Eye of Sauron, though he still returns to his physical body to land the killing blow.
• Order Is Not Good: Sauron was once a benevolent Maia called Mairon, but his obsession with order left him susceptible to the corruption of Melkor. Even as the second Dark Lord, his primary goal was to impose his will on all of Middle-earth and its inhabitants and thereby put an end to The Evils of Free Will.
• Playing with Fire: Befitting his demonic nature, Sauron can conjure hellish flames at-will, and in some adaptations his disembodied spirit manifested as a giant eyeball made of flames.
• Power Echoes: In the fight, Sauron speaks in a deep, menacing, echoic voice — accentuating his nature as a fallen angel.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Gives one that doubles as a Shout-Out when dealing the killing blow to Arthas.
  Sauron: There is no life in the void... only death.
• Ring of Power: After tricking Celebrimbor into helping him forge the Rings of Power, Sauron used his mastery of dark magic and smithing to forge the One Ring to rule them all, bending most of the lesser Rings of Power to his will and corrupting their users. This is a deciding factor, as the Ring is a much less conspicous target than Frostmourne — meaning it's far more likely for Sauron to destroy the sword before The Lich King pulls an Isildur and cuts off Sauron's finger.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: It's noted that Sauron conspicuously chose not to take part in the War of the Wrath that ended with his master Morgoth being banished.
• Slouch of Villainy: After killing Arthas, Sauron takes a seat in the Frozen Throne with a casual slouch.
• Sorcerous Overlord: While no slouch when it comes to melee combat — being strong enough to send dozens of foes flying with a single attack — Sauron prefers cunning to combat and is noted to have been a master of dark magic even before he became the Dark Lord. He is skilled in pyromancy and necromancy, and can also cause powerful earthquakes.
• Take Over the World: Sauron’s main goal is to conquer and enslave all of existence, starting with Middle-earth.
• Time Abyss: Sauron has been around since before the creation of the universe, making him countless millennia old. This is a deciding factor, as Sauron is far older than Arthas and thus has much more experience.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Only with regards to his skill with weapons when compared to his opponent. Sauron's fighting style mostly involves simple swings with his mace enhanced by his godlike strength, which makes sense given that he was essentially an angel of blacksmithing and craftsmanship. In the fight, he ends up disarmed of his mace by Arthas but in turn manages to shatter Frostmourne with one more strike after conjuring another mace.
• Victory by Endurance: Sauron's real ace in the hole is that the One Ring and his nature as a Maiar meant that he could survive anything the Lich King could hit him with and keep going, as his physical body wasn't all that important and Arthas had no real way to destroy the One Ring.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Sauron has taken the numerous forms over time, including a super-powerful giant werewolf, a vampire, a supernaturally charismatic human/elf called Annatar, a Living Shadow, and his iconic Dark Lord form. He takes on the wolf form at one point in the battle, and his recreated form even briefly takes on the Lich King's likeness.
• Weapon Specialization: Throughout several adaptations — chiefly those based on the Lord of the Rings films — Sauron's primary weapon is a flanged mace he can swing with enough force to send dozens of opponents flying; though his preview also shows him wielding a spear. He uses the mace for the fight, and shatters Frostmourne with a well-placed mighty swing near the end of the fight.

The Lich King (Prince Arthas Menethil)

Lich King: "Your efforts are for naught!"
Voiced by: Philip Sacramento

Warcraft's Lord of the Scourge

• Briefer Than They Think: The hosts note that for his all power and infamy, to the point he was the strongest to hold the title, Arthas was only the Lich King for a surprisingly short amount of time. This didn’t do him any favors against his opponent, who is potentially older than his own universe.
• Broken Ace: Arthas was considered the greatest knight in Lordaeron, a skilled warrior who mastered every weapon he could. The stress of dealing with a Zombie Apocalypse on top of an invasion started driving him crazy, leading him to do things like slaughter an entire city to try and contain the plague. This left him open to the manipulations of Ner'Zhul. Even after breaking free of his control, Arthas was so messed up that he willingly chose to embrace his newfound role as the Lich King.
• Deader than Dead: Sauron ultimately consumes both his soul and all the souls inside of Frostmourne.
• Demonic Possession: It's noted in his preview that donning Ner'Zhul's armor allows him to possess the one who wears it, which he tried to do to Arthas when he donned the Helm of Domination. Arthas however, overpowered Ner'zhul and became the dominant personality of the new Lich King.
• Dragon Ascendant: Twice over. The first Lich King Ner’Zhul was forced into being a Dragon to Kil'jaeden, but broke free from his control. Ner’Zhul then turned Arthas into his Dragon/vessel, only for Arthas to steal his power and become the Lich King himself.
• Evil Is Deathly Cold: An undead Fallen Hero who can create blizzards and sits atop a throne of ice. Contrasts well with his opponent.
• Evil Is Hammy: Contrasting Sauron's stoic disposition and in sharp contrast to his own bitterly cold abilities, Arthas is a bombastic villain who likes Chewing the Scenery.
• Evil Weapon: Arthas' main weapon is the powerful runeblade Frostmourne, a two-handed longsword with the power to consume the souls of its victims to become stronger and reanimate corpses into an undead army. Alas for Arthas, the wielder of Frostmourne also has their soul consumed, converting them into an evil undead Death Knight.
• Eye Lights Out: After Sauron takes his soul, his eyes stop glowing to show that he's dead for good.
• Fallen Hero: THE video game fallen hero. Arthas was one of the greatest swordsman of the era, and proficient in every other weapon, at 19. But the stress of being a prince while handling a war with orcs and a zombie plague at the same time, along with Frostmourne whispering in his ear, turned him into the leader of the Scourge he sought to end.
• Fusion Dance: The Lich King is effectively a merger of Ner'Zhul and Arthas albeit with the latter on top.
• Healing Factor: Between being an undead sustained by magic and his self-healing saronite armor, the post-analysis notes his body could likely withstand Sauron's physical attacks. Frostmourne, on the other hand, couldn't, and once that was gone, Sauron didn't need to worry about destroying the body.
• An Ice Person: His weapon, Frostmourne, grants him power over ice.
• Legacy Character: Arthas is the second Lich King, having been manipulated into the position by the first Lich King Ner'Zhul.
• Magic Knight: Arthas was primarily a paladin before claiming Frostmourne corrupted him into a Death Knight, replacing his holy magic with necromancy. While he primarily wields Frostmourne as a melee weapon, Arthas can also channel its power to wield powerful ice magic.
• One-Man Army: Arthas is canonically powerful enough to wipe out an entire 25-man raid party, only losing thanks to a Big Damn Heroes moment from Tirion near the end that destroyed Frostmourne and thus massively sapped his power.
• Plague Master: Arthas specifically wields the Plague of Undeath, a plague that saps their victim of vitality until they die, after which their bodies are raised to his service — and while the plague has been shown to taint the spirit irrevocably, it was specifically made with mortals in mind and would thus have problems tainting Sauron's spirit — which is too bad because any physical form Sauron takes is just an avatar of his spirit.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: The fight starts when Sauron shows up at the Frozen Throne seeking to take Frostmourne and the Helm of Dominion for himself, though the Lich King is less than impressed:
  Lich King: In this cold north, you will find only death!
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: Once the bright hope of his kingdom, the stress of the position coupled with having to deal with a war with the orcs and an undead plague at the same time slowly drove Arthas to madness and villainy, just as Ner'Zhul planned and spurred on with his whispers of mocking and temptation. By the time Arthas won a Battle in the Center of the Mind with Ner'Zhul and established himself as the sole power over the Lich King identity, he was just done with life in general and wanted to kill everything
• Self-Harm: Arthas, after his ascension to Lich King, tore out his own heart. Up until then he had been a Technically-Living Zombie, albeit a soulless one, but after that he became an actual undead sustained by his own necromantic magic, leaving him without mortal weaknesses. It provides a handy Threat Backfire when Sauron threatens to tear out his heart: Been there, done that.
• Super-Toughness: Arthas' Saronite armor is forged from the blood of the Old Gods and grants him greatly increased durability advantage owing to its self-repairing attributes and its resistance to magic. Too bad the same couldn't be said of Frostmourne.
• This Cannot Be!: Arthas's general reaction to Sauron managing to shatter Frostmourne with his mace after a prolonged battle.
• Threat Backfire: When Sauron threatens to tear out his heart, Arthas counters by stating that he won't find anything there.
• Voice of the Legion: In the fight animation, the Lich King speaks with Arthas and Ner'Zhul's voices layered overtop each other, further accentuated by Power Echoes.
• Weak, but Skilled: When compared to his opponent in terms of skill with weapons. Arthas was noted to have mastered the use of all weapons by the time he was nineteen, as demonstrated when he was able to disarm Sauron of his mace. Likewise, he was ultimately unable to do any lasting damage due to his comparatively lower strength and Frostmourne was broken shortly after, sealing his fate.
• Wrecked Weapon: Much like how Tirion Fordring canonically does so with the Ashbringer, Sauron shatters Frostmourne at the end of the duel, releasing the souls imprisoned within it and causing Arthas' power to plummet. This was a major factor, as while Sauron was powerful enough to destroy it, Arthas had no real way to destroy the One Ring in return, and would thus be limited to cutting off Sauron's finger/hand — a much harder target than the sword he's swinging around himself.

Deku VS Asta

• Brains Versus Brawn: While Asta relies solely on brute force and his ability to negate magic, Deku is more of a tactician; you can tell just listening to them prep for their battle. Unfortunately, genius isn't enough for Deku to win.
  Deku: (Mumbling)"A sword that big, he's gotta be crazy strong. I'm gonna have to rely on more than just my power to take him down."
  Asta: "I just gotta hit him, reaaally hard."
• Determinator: A staple of Shonen Heroes. Their willpower is practically superhuman in its own right. Despite being powerless nobodies with the very laws of nature against them at first, both are entirely set on achieving their dreams (being the Number 1 Hero and Wizard King respectively). Even seemingly being permanently crippled doesn't slow them down.
• Hour of Power: Deku and Asta both have an incredibly powerful ability at their disposal (Gear-Shift and Devil Union) that massively increases their combat ability for five minutes, but after that point causes extreme exhaustion and/or damage to their bodies.
• Magic Versus Science: Asta represents the Magic aspect of this fight with the Five-Leaf Clover Grimoire and its Anti-Magic properties (as well as Black Clover's magic system in general) while Deku represents the Science side with his Quirk One For All being biological. Asta nets the win for Magic in this case.
• Red/Green Contrast: Deku and Asta's color schemes and powers are rooted in green and red (with a hefty dosage of black) respectively.
• Spider-Sense: Both of them possess precognition powers, Deku through the Quirk Danger Sense and Asta through Ki-sensing. With these effectively cancelling each other out, Asta's greater speed would eventually start to overtake Deku.
• Un-Sorcerer: A very notable part of both characters is them lacking any capabilities towards their world's power systems, with Midoriya being one of the very few to be Quirkless, and Asta being the only one in his world to have no magic. Though, while Asta remained magicless and instead made use of the Anti-Magic Five-Leaf Clover Grimoire, Midoriya would inherit the power of the One For All Quirk from All Might.

Deku (Izuku Midoriya)

Deku: "You wanted my best?! Here it is!"
Voiced by: Jose Estrada

My Hero Academia's Super Student Straight Out of UA High

• Appropriated Appellation: Midoriya's hero name, Deku, was originally an insult from his best friend turned bully, Bakugou, as a misspelling of the kanji that make up Midoriya's first name and being a pun on the Japanese word "Dekunobou" which translated means "good for nothing" but after joining UA High and meeting fellow classmate Ochako, he takes "Deku" as his hero name, by using the similar word "Dekiru" which means "someone who can do anything", the exact opposite of "Dekunobu".
• Ascended Fanboy: Midoriya always wanted to be a hero like All Might, now he gets to be his successor.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Midoriya possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Quirks and is an expert of breaking down their strength and weaknesses on the fly. While his head for tactics was noted to be better than Asta's, it could only take him so far against a foe with such a superior physical edge.
• Blow You Away: The force of a One For All user's strikes can generate powerful blasts of compressed air that can be used for ranged attacks. Midoriya uses a less powerful but more focused version of this technique dubbed Air Raid.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: The whole reason he got One for All. All Might was looking for a successor that would save people without thought, and Midoriya more than passed that criteria.
• Combat Tentacles: His Black Whip Quirk creates whips of energy he can project from his limbs or even out of his mouth like a frog's tongue.
• Combo Platter Powers: Unlike his predecessor All Might, Deku is able use the Quirks of previous One For All users, not just its super strength. This includes Black Whip (black energy tendrils used to snare objects) Float, Danger Sense (limited precognition), Smokescreen, Fa Jin (a Charged Attack using stored-up kinetic energy), and Gear Shift (Super-Speed).
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Despite being outclassed by Asta in every way except for versatility, Izuku ends up putting up a good fight thanks to his smarts and the aforementioned versatility and at the end despite failing to kill Asta, he managed to force the Black Bull Knight out of Devil Union and left him heavily injured to the point of barely being able to stand.
• Dies Wide Open: The final close up shot we see of Midoriya in the fight, we can see his eyes lose their green color while staying open, signifying his death by overexertion.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Like his idol/mentor All Might, Midoriya was one of the rare individuals in his world born without a Quirk, inheriting One For All from All Might after proving he had the heart to be a true hero.
• Extremity Extremist: Due to the severe damage he inflicted to his arms early on, as well as to compensate for his relatively weaker power compared to All Might, Midoriya developed his leg-focused Shoot Style combat.
• Expy: Boomstick notes how Deku and his abilities were inspired by Spider-Man due to the mangaka of My Hero Academia being a huge Spider-Man fan.
• Forgot About His Powers: Or rather techniques, but unlike his mentor All Might, the only Smashes that Izuku uses in the fight is Detroit Smash which he spams a bit, and his 1,000,000% Delaware Detroit Smash which was a Death or Glory Attack.
• Go Out with a Smile: Just as he dies from overexerting himself with One For All, Izuku smiles as he thinks he won. While he didn't, he died before he would find out.
• Heroic RRoD: The biggest problem with having a Quirk as powerful as One for All, is that Midoriya's body can't handle the strain of using it. Even after extensive training, he still can't use 100% of his power without breaking his own limbs, though he has found ways to compensate. Unfortunately, this is how he meets his end, as he dies after clashing against Asta with a 1,000,000% Smash. This also means that Midoriya is the first losing combatant to die by overexertion. It's pointed out in the post-fight analysis that Asta's physical abilities were so high Midoriya would have to go all-out in order to even get close to matching him, and doing so would cause his body to start tearing itself apart on top of whatever damage Asta could inflict.
• Holding Back the Phlebotinum: By design with his Full Cowl technique. Since he was unable to use One For All at full power without shattering his bones, Midoriya developed Full Cowl to allow him to empower his entire body with a portion of One For All's full strength. Unfortunately for Midoriya, Asta has no such drawbacks on his abilities.
• Hope Spot: Before dying, Izuku thinks he beat Asta. Sadly for the hero, Asta was still alive, but he died before he would realise that.
• In the Back: After dying from overworking himself during the fight, Asta uses his three swords still in the air to impale the already-dead Deku in the back, not knowing his foe had already shed his mortal coil.
• Legacy Character: The ninth bearer of the Quirk, One For All, and the second bearer to be on the show after his mentor and previous bearer, All Might. Unfortunately, much like his predecessor, he's also outmatched by his competition.
• Oh, Crap!: He can only let out a shocked "He found me?!" when he realizes through Danger Sense that Asta isn't being hampered by Smokescreen and is about to hit him, barely getting out of the way in time.
• Person of Mass Destruction: The basic offensive superpower of One For All is its unmatched Super-Strength, with Deku and his predecessor All Might having used it to perform feats as extreme as changing the weather. The most impressive strength feat the hosts could measure involved when he and Bakugou split a massive rainstorm structure during their battle with the villain Nine, which would have displaced the water weight equivalent of 12,000 Pyramids of Giza and possessed the kinetic energy equivalent of 78.9 teratons of TNT each. Unfortunately for Deku, Asta was in a tier of his own in this regard.
• Smoke Out: The aptly-titled Smokescreen allows Deku to create a large vision-obscuring cloud of smoke to launch surprise attacks from. Deku himself can avoid it being turned on him via Danger Sense, but Asta's own Ki-sensing ability renders it useless to his own shock.
• Spider-Man Send-Up: Lampshaded by the hosts once they get around to talking about his Black Whip and Danger Sense Quirks, noting that the series' creator himself is a Spider-Man fan.
• Super-Reflexes: With One For All he can keep up with Shigaraki, who is fast enough to intercept and dodge lightspeed lasers. Unfortunately for Deku, Asta can do the same thing in his base form while asleep, meaning once the two start turning up their power-ups Deku would start falling behind.
• Weak, but Skilled: Compared to Asta, Deku lags behind in the physical department, but compensates with his head for tactics and a much more versatile powerset, especially since the nature of Quirks renders Asta's Anti-Magic power a non-factor. Unfortunately for Deku, Asta's physical stats are so far above Deku even when he's pushing himself past the danger point that said genius and versatility could only carry him so far.
• Wrong Context Magic: Since Quirks are not magic, Asta's Anti-Magic has no effect on him.

Asta

Asta: "I just gotta hit him... REALLY hard!"
Voiced by: Michael Kovach

The Anti-Magical Ass Kicker From Black Clover

• Anti-Magic: The Black Five Leaf Clover Grimoire generates Anti-Magic and gives Asta 3 swords that allow him to counter and disable magic in a number of different ways. As Deku's Quirks are based on biological mutations, not magical or supernatural, it was essentially a non-factor, not that Asta needed it.
• Badass Normal: To compensate for his lack of magic, Asta spent years training his body to become as strong as he could.
• BFS: The Demon-Slayer sword is the largest out of Asta's swords and is capable of cleaving through spells with the edge and sending them back with the flat side. While it's Anti-Magic properties don't factor in this fight, it's still a giant sword going up against someone who only has their fists to fight with.
• Bond One-Liner: "Take that, Detroit."
• Catch and Return: With the Demon-Dweller sword, Asta can absorb magic spells and send them flying back to the caster and he can also do this with the flat side of the Demon-Slayer sword.
• Character Catchphrase: While not used in the fight, Asta's initial summary lists his as "AAAAAAHHHHHH".
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Asta spent years honing his body through physical conditioning to the point he can routinely dodge lasers, including by sneezing while asleep. It's also pointed out that Asta has to often physically overpower the magical attacks of his foe rather than just instantly and effortlessly negate them with Anti-Magic, meaning he should logically be capable of matching them force-wise. This is one of the major deciding factors in the fight: Asta's physical abilities outclass Midoriya, and One For All can only get him so far before it becomes self-destructive, while Asta can keep turning up the pressure without any real significant drawback.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Due to his swords being specifically made for Anti-Magic purposes, negating magic and all, against non-magic foes, they're effectively blunt clubs (with the exception of his Demon Slasher), and Deku, with his Quirk being specifically biological and not magical, is no exception. Asta is pretty startled to realize he's getting his butt handed to him by a non-magic user. Thankfully for Asta though, he didn't need the Anti-Magic abilities to win against his foe.
  Asta: (as he's failing to cut through Deku's Black Whip) Wait, are you not using magic?!
• Desecrating the Dead: An accidental case. He stabs Deku's corpse with his three swords, but was unaware of Deku already being dead at that point.
• Disability Immunity: Asta’s Anti-Magic swords would normally drain the Mana of anyone who tries pick them up, but since Asta has no Mana he can wield them without any drawbacks.
• Idiot Hero: He's not The Ditz, but he's extremely Book Dumb and has an extremely straightforward fighting style that depends on brute strength. It's all he needs.
• Katanas Are Just Better: The Demon-Slasher is a katana imbued with his Anti-Magic and the only one of Asta's swords fully capable of regularly cutting non-magical things. In the fight itself, he resorts to using it to slice through Deku's Black Whip after his other swords fail to cut the non-magical tendril.
• Large Ham: Yes. Wiz and Boomstick make sure to note how at nearly all times, Asta's screaming at the top of his lungs.
• Lightning Bruiser: What ultimately gave him the edge is not that he's stronger than Deku (though he has an edge there), but that he's way faster, and Deku has difficulty with speedy opponents especially since forcing his body to the point of matching them puts massive stress on his body.
• Mage Killer: Asta's overwhelming physical abilities combined with his Anti-Magic make him, per the words of Boomstick, "a jock god" in a world of mages/nerds able to "stuff them into the lockers".
• No Ontological Inertia: His Demon-Destroyer sword allows him to sever a spell’s effect from its cause, reversing all of its effects. Since Deku isn't a spellcaster, it doesn't happen in the fight.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Asta's raw physical ability combined with his Anti-Magic has allowed him to face up against truly titanic foes in his series, such as the elf Patolli who could launch a spell powerful enough to vaporize the entire country of the Clover Kingdom, which was estimated to be about half the length of Great Britain, at once, and the hosts note that he should be able to scale to that level of destructive force due to often needing to physically overpower the spells of his foes even with Anti-Magic. This feat in particular clocks in at needing 488.5 teratons of TNT to pull off, about six times greater than Izuku's strongest measured feat.
• Super Mode: Devil Union, which is when Asta and his demon brother Liebe fuse together into a Black Knight form that increases their physical power and Anti-Magic abilities to even higher levels, but only for five minutes, after which they're rendered near-powerless for the next half-hour.
• Super-Reflexes: He's fast enough to routinely dodge lasers in his sleep without any of his power-ups. This put him much faster than Deku, who needs to use his Quirk to give himself comparable feats, and the gap only gets bigger as they tap further into their respective Super Modes.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Despite Deku having already died from the final clash, Asta decides to make sure he's done by stabbing him in the back with his remaining swords in the air.
• Unskilled, but Strong: In comparison to his opponent; while Asta is extremely skilled as a swordsman and has extremely well-tuned reflexes, he's not at all creative with his powers, mostly fighting in a completely straightforward fashion. However, his physical stats are so much higher than even Deku pushing his body past its breaking point that he didn't need to use many fancy tricks to win out.

Gogeta VS Vegito

• Ascended Extra: Vegito and Gogeta return from their fight in the Season 6 Premiere of DBX to finally settle who is the superior fusion.
• The Bus Came Back: By technicality of being their fusees, Goku makes his first appearance on the show since his rematch with Superman, seven seasons ago, and Vegeta appears for the 3rd (4th if one counts his "fight" with Mewtwo) time since his fight with Thor in the first half of this season and is the third combatant to appear twice in the same season after Leonardo and Charizard. It is worth noting that if Gogeta VS Vegito is considered an extension of their records on the show — regardless of whoever would have won, the episode would still end with this simultaneously being Goku's first win and third loss, and Vegeta's second win and second loss.
• Composite Character: Both Vegito and Gogeta possess the feats and abilities of not only the source material, but also other media like Dragon Ball Heroes. This is justified as both fusions only have a collective total of 3 appearances in canon (twice for Vegito and once for Gogeta) so there wouldn't be much to consider otherwise.
• Fusion Dance: invokedFeaturing the Trope Namer itself. Both are Composite Type fusions, with the primary difference being the method of fusion: Vegito is formed through the Potara Earrings, and Gogeta is formed through the Fusion Dance.
• Hour of Power: Both sets of fusions have a time limit. Gogeta's lasts only 30 minutes while Vegito's lasts 1 hour, though both can be drastically cut short through overuse of power. Vegito's higher time limit and being slightly stronger than Gogeta meant he could win by at least outlasting him.
• Mirror Match: As Wiz points out, Gogeta and Vegito are essentially the same person, making them nearly evenly matched. The few differences between them resulted in Vegito's Victory by Endurance, with the few advantages in his name — however minor they were individually — being enough to secure a victory.
• Portmanteau: Both Vegito and Gogeta's names are ones of Vegeta and Goku's names; Goku and Vegeta for Gogeta, and in Vegito's case, his is based on the Japanese names of Goku and Vegeta, Bejita, which is pronounced like Vegeta, and the Japanese pronunciation of Goku's birth name, Kakarotto.

Gogeta

Gogeta: "Guess it's now or never!"
Voiced by: Michael Kovach and Nick Landis

The Combo Greater than Legends

• Awesome, but Impractical: The Fusion requires both components to be in perfect sync and match power levels almost exactly, making it incredibly easy to mess up. The complexity of this technique, plus the need of one component to lower their power level and thus weaken the resulting fusion by comparison, put him at a disadvantage.
• Go Out with a Smile: When Vegito sees his Dance counterpart turned to stone, he and the viewers can see he has a smile on his petrified face.
• Karmic Trickster: Gogeta tends to psyche his opponents out with goofy parlor tricks, to which Wiz describes him as "the Dragon Ball equivalent of Bugs Bunny". In the battle itself, Gogeta catches Vegito off-guard using the party cracker trick he used on Omega Shenron.
• Morality-Guided Attack: Gogeta's Stardust Breaker, a rainbow colored ki blast capable of erasing all traces of evil from his opponent, he used this in the Fusion Reborn film to kill the Made of Evil Janemba. He uses it against Vegito, which while it did make him flinch thanks to his Vegeta half (who was still susceptible to being forced back into evil via Mind Control since he still had evil in his heart which would have killed Vegeta instantly), didn't do much otherwise due to the Goku half who has a good heart.
• No Body Left Behind: Upon defeat, Gogeta turns to stone and crumples to dust.
• Older Than They Think: invokedThis gets discussed by the hosts. Concept-wise, Gogeta came first out of the two. While Vegito made his debut in the Dragon Ball manga two months before Gogeta's non-canon debut in the Fusion Reborn movie, Gogeta had concept art a full year prior.
• Taken for Granite: Much like Vegeta when he first used Final Explosion, Gogeta turns to stone, breaking into dust not long after.
• Worthy Opponent: Vegito sees him as one at the end.

Vegito

Vegito: "Not bad. Wanna kick it up a notch?"
Voiced by: Michael Kovach and Nick Landis

The Mix Who Surpassed Gods

• Attack Its Weakpoint: Unlike the Metamoran fusion, which is maintained by the fusees' bodies and energy, the Potara fusion is fueled solely by the magic of the earrings themselves, meaning one of them being destroyed no matter how much time is left on the fusion will instantly end it. Luckily for Vegito, his higher power level than Gogeta thanks to having access to Goku and Vegeta's full combined power rather one limiting themselves to the level of the weaker party meant he could protect the earrings with his ki aura, meaning unless Gogeta went all in first and overpowered Vegito before he could respond he didn't have to worry about this issue.
• Beyond the Impossible: Vegito is so powerful he was still able to move and fight after being turned into candy by Buu. In Boomstick's own words, "It just made him delicious."
• Boring, but Practical: The Potara earrings instantly fuse their wearers together, no need for a flashy dance or matching power levels. Combining the full power of Goku and Vegeta gave Vegito enough of an edge to overpower Gogeta, whose components had to limit their power to combine and thus would always be weaker by at least some amount.
• Fun Personified: While he does use mind games like Gogeta does, albeit nowhere near as ludicrous, Vegito tends to be playful and quirky even when he's not fighting, exemplified by his unconventionally friendly way of sending Gogeta off.
• Handshake Substitute: As soon as he realizes he's killed Gogeta, he takes notice of Gogeta's petrified fist and finishes him off by fistbumping him with a smile on his face.
• No-Sell: Took absolutely no damage from Gogeta's Stardust Breaker technique, only briefly getting a flinch out of it at worst. This is because the Stardust Breaker only works on those with evil in their hearts and Vegito is by no means a villain, though his Vegeta half (despite being a hero at that point of his being created) would definitely been affected by it, since despite his heroic turn Vegeta still had evil in his heart as seen when he allowed the evil Majin wizard Babidi to successfully pull off a Mind Control on him, it was the Goku half who was fully immune to the move since he has a good pure of heart.
• Victory by Endurance: What gives Vegito the win over his Dance counterpart. Ultimately, the Potara lasted longer than the Fusion Dance and didn't require the fusees to match power levels, giving Vegito far more leeway with his power. Also, while Potara Fusion can also be cut short by destroying the earrings, that would still require Gogeta to be stronger than Vegito due to the latter's stronger ki aura protecting them, like how the aura prevents Clothing Damage. Case in point, Goku was only able to break Kefla's earrings after going Ultra Instinct.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Boomstick questions why Vegito's was named like that due to Lost in Translation issues. He later concedes that the slightly more accurate "Vegirot" translation is just as dumb.
• Worthy Opponent: When Vegito sees the petrified Gogeta with his fist stretched out, he decides to fistbump his fallen foe.

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