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Harley Quinn VS Jinx

• At then end of Harley's preview, Boomstick decides to buy a pogo stick and attach rockets to it, asking Wiz to help. Surprisingly, Wiz agrees to help, fully expecting Boomstick to die.
  Boomstick: I'm buying a pogo stick, get the rockets!
  Wiz: Whelp, (to the audience) I'm gonna go watch Boomstick die. See you in a few days as I cover Harley's opponent, Jinx.
  Boomstick: Wiz! How many flips do you think I can do? I bet it's a lot!
  Wiz: At least 20! It'll be great!
• As we learn in Jinx's preview, Ringmaster is a massive League of Legends fan, much to the annoyance of Boomstick, who claims that he'll never shut up once he realizes they're talking about Jinx.
  Boomstick: Shh! Turn off the lights, we're not here!
  Ringmaster: (outside the room) Hey, c'mon guys. Let me in, I know you're there! I wanna talk about the meta!
  Boomstick: Nu-uh! I'm not me!
  Ringmaster: Oh, really? Well if you see Boomstick tell him to open the door!
  Boomstick: (to the audience, fast) Thanks everybody for watchin'. Come back later for the full episode.
• In the episode proper, Wiz begins his monologue with "We live in a society...".
• In describing Harleen Quinzel's occupation as a psychiatrist studying the Joker in Arkham Asylum, Wiz describes her discovering the Joker's "horrific, unspeakable history" as both "a homicidal clown" and "Jared Leto". Cue a shot of Leto as Joker screaming.
• At the beginning of Jinx's rundown, Wiz describes how "Piltover's rich elite have exploited the undercity of Zaun, forcing workers into unsafe conditions and brutalizing the populace with terrifying police enforcers." Boomstick's response?
  Boomstick: Oh, so like New Jersey. You could've just said New Jersey.
• Wiz teleports himself and Boomstick to the DBX arena, where Ringmaster is just so happening to be playing League of Legends in the distance. At a conversational volume that that absolutely should not be audible from that distance, Wiz brings up League of Legends; Boomstick reacts with This Is Gonna Suck as Ringmaster interrupts his spiel, faces Wiz and Boomstick, squees, and rushes over to ramble with them, changing his outfit in less than a second. Because of this, Ringmaster fails to notice his floating podium slowly drifting away without him and eventually crashing offscreen.
• Jinx is introduced shooting at crows, calling them "emo pigeons" and saying "[she'll] show [them] a murder".
• When Jinx teleports behind Harley, she uses Fishbones to warn her to look out. Harley thanks it and then calls it a traitor when the resulting attack comes from the rocket launcher. What makes it better is that Jinx makes Fishbones look ashamed in response.
• When Harley and Jinx are battling on the carousel, it appears to be running super quickly to keep up with the action... but as it turns out, it's actually moving extremely slowly and Harley is just slowly running after Jinx, who's happily skipping along.
• After giving Jinx an explosive cigar and binding her with streamers, Harley attempts to nail her with an Extendo Boxing Glove... only for Jinx to evade the blow and stuff said cigar into the glove. In a truly Looney Tunes-esque fashion, the weapon retracts back to Harley (complete with a goofy sound effect), who can only glance at the camera and quip "Oh, nuts." before it goes off.
• While the two are fighting on the rollercoaster, it turns out Jinx has several games on her Hextech tablet as Harley starts to screw with them as the two start fighting over it like two kids in the back of the car as the coaster warps through several places, including where Blake and Mikasa are fighting, and...
  Harley: You made me die! You-
  (Cue the two warping into an area that's just a TV standby screen with a Sound-Effect Bleep drowning out all the fighting and Harley's insult)
• Immediately afterwards, the coaster flies off through the air and leaves the two behind before they fall - and remain suspended in the air like they were on hooks.
  Jinx: Well that's unfortunate. (Harley nods)
• Wounded and facing down the business end of Fishbones, Harley prepares an Electric Joybuzzer and attempts to goad Jinx into getting close enough for her to turn the tables, just like her former puddin' did with Sweet Tooth. Jinx bluntly refuses the bait and just annihilates Harley on the spot.
• As noted in the comments of the video, there is something darkly hilarious about this episode being sponsored by Better Help, a company dedicated to improving mental health.

Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna

• The end of Wanda's preview reveals that Boomstick's self described Cool Uncle is somehow Yog-Sothoth! He then goes on to described all the happy memoirs he has about spending time with Yog-Sothoth, from speaking in tongues, breathing through his man gills, killing people, and spreading chaos.
  Jocelyn: Hey, uh, bud, is that blood coming out of your eyes?
  Boomstick: Hmm? Oh, yeah, that happens every time I say his name. Ah, he taught me how to ride a bike and speak in a frequency not comprehensible to mortal ears. Watch, I'm doing it now. $%@&!%!
  Jocelyn: Okay then... (to the audience) Come back in a few days as we talk about the Scarlet Witch's opponent, Zatanna.
  Boomstick: %^%@*&
• During the YouTube release, the first sponsor for the episode was for The Northman. During it Wiz asks why Boomstick has Jarnbjorn which Boomstick explains by stating that weapons of cosmic destruction center him and he needed something for the sponsor and during the final leg of the sponsor, Boomstick gets too excited over the upcoming film and swings around Jarnbjorn until he ends up slicing Wiz's robot arm off, much to the latter's chagrin.
• Boomstick refers to the Justice League Dark as the Shadow the Hedgehog version of the Justice League.
• One of Zatanna's feats listed is somehow being able to put up with Constantine.
• When talking about how Giovanni Zatara came up with the idea to say his spells backwards due to Leonardo Da Vinci doing the same, Wiz claims that Da Vinci came up with the idea of doing so in order to hide his notes from his enemies. Boomstick points it was actually most likely because he was lefthanded. Wiz claims that's true...if you hate fun.
• In the preview, when Scarlet Witch comes out Zatanna's hat, the latter's reaction is to simply play it off as part of the show, letting out a confused "ta-da" as the crowd cheers. And taking what the transcript of the wiki page revealed, she was intending to summon a rabbit instead.
• The simple fact that Zatanna uses rabbits to attack Wanda. And after Wanda dispatches the rabbits, we can see scratch marks on her face from one of them pouncing on her.
• Wanda picks up a card depicting Superman, and stares at it in confusion before it proceeds to sucker punch her.
• When Zatanna escapes through the fourth wall to find herself in the void between the multiverse, Wanda chases her down and postures some more... and then Zatanna chucks a universe at her face like a dodgeball. She then juggles three more while Wanda processes what just happened, and gets in three more headshots for good measure. Wanda has a Twitchy Eye after the last one lands, and the fact that that was what caused her to hit a Rage Breaking Point and whip out the Life Force's full power to try to erase Zatanna is rather hilarious.
• After Zatanna cuts Wanda in half, she returns to the crowd she was preforming for and, whether she did it on purpose to taunt or it was a mistake, summons the two halves of her foe which land on stage next to her. The audience does not comment on this, instead cheering for Zatanna.

Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar

• Boomstick is not at all impressed with how the Demon Slayer Corps uses their "katana magic".
  Boomstick: Yeah, it's... Breathing. Which is so lame! Anybody can do that. (Boomstick takes a deep breath and then immediately coughs.) Oh god! (coughs) I was wrong!
• During Jonathan's preview, Boomstick makes a Shout-Out to Phineas and Ferb, of all things, when describing Hamon.
  Boomstick: Man, if I had a nickel for every anime protagonist who killed monsters with the power of breathing, well, that would be two nickels, but let's agree it's weird that it happened twice.
• While he discusses Jonathan's victory over Dio in his palace, Wiz has an... interesting way of phrasing it.
  Wiz: With this power boost, Jonathan faced Dio once and for all, and fisted him with his raging, hot Ripple! ...wait.
• Upon realizing that Jonathan's sacrifice allowed for the creation of Legacy Characters, Boomstick makes the strangest pondering:
  Boomstick: Wait, is the ripple his di— (cue "To Be Continue" card and "Roundabout" by Yes)
• After Jonathan mistakes Tanjiro for having been brainwashed by Nezuko, Tanjiro asks if he hit his head on something. Later, he compares JoJo to a puppy, wondering if he has a caretaker nearby.

Thor VS Vegeta

• When introducing Dragon Balls Ki Manipulation, Boomstick compares it to Vegeta point-and-clicking a planet out of existence through the power of his soul. This is shown by a Windows cursor clicking a planet and causing it to explode with the Windows XP error sound effect.
• Boomstick describes much of Vegeta's attacks as "big ass lasers", in particular, he refers to the Galick Gun as "Purple Big Ass Laser", the Final Flash as "Two-Handed Big Ass Laser", Consecutive Energy Blast as "Rapid-Fire Big Ass Laser", the Big Bang Attack as "Exploding Ball Big Ass Laser", Final Explosion as the "F*ck it Omnidirectional Your Ass Is Grass Big Ass Laser", and Boomstick's personal favorite, Mouth Energy Wave as "Mouth Wide Open Vomit Big Ass Laser", which he uses to incinerate DUMMI.
  Wiz: Impressive ki mastery, Boomstick.
  Boomstick: Hehe, it hurts when I breathe.
  (Wiz makes a concerned face.)
• When Thor throws Mjolnir at Vegeta in order to get his attention and ask what purpose he has on Earth, the latter warns that if he throws that hammer at him one more time, he's going to retaliate. Thor merely smirks and summons Mjolnir back to his hand, making sure to let pass right by Vegeta's head.
  Thor: (Chuckling) Does that count?
• Vegeta catches Mjolnir and laughs, only for Mjolnir to keep going and drag the Saiyan prince along for the ride. Vegeta's laugh quickly turns to confusion before outright screaming.
• As per every episode of death battle, this one ends with Boomstick doing a pun on the outcome. Only this time Wiz does one too with Boomstick getting angry with him.
  Boomstick: Vegeta Mjolnearly won until Thor blew his mind.
  Wiz: You might say that pun was Hakainda terrible. Eh?
  Boomstick: YOU DON'T DO PUNS! WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS!
  Wiz: Aw.
  Boomstick: My thing.

Omni-Man VS Homelander

• Boomstick compliments Omni-Man's moustache, saying that he's not afraid to hide it unlike one iteration of Superman.
• In Omni-Man's analysis, one of his powers is "a bitchin' mustache". Even funnier when you realize that most Viltrumite men have moustaches.
• During the full analysis, the writing for Omni-Man's background has this particular note:
  Really wants his son to THINK
• At the end of Omni-Man's preview, after talking about the Viltrumites' Smart-Atoms, Boomstick revealed that Wiz believes the former has Dumb-Atoms which make things worse on contact, likening them to an inverted Midas Touch though Boomstick thought Wiz was talking about the car company Midas instead of the mythological King.
• In the full version, Wiz berates the concept of Smart-Atoms as absurd and nonsensical to biology, and Boomstick has this to say to back him up... With some presentation to go with it.
  Boomstick: Uh oh, comics fans! I'm calling this: Debunked!
  (He proceeds to press a button, as the text flashes on the screen and confetti goes off... As Wiz is suddenly set on fire, as he runs off letting out a Wilhelm Scream)
• During Omni-Man's analysis, the hosts bring up the Texas-sized asteroid that he deflected. This is represented by RTAA's Super Texas, that keeps on screaming atop of its lungs as it is plunging through the atmosphere and into the moon.
• During the YouTube release's first sponsor segment of Better Help online therapy, Boomstick uses Wiz's research of Madara's plan from the last season as an example of how their work can wipe them both out much to Wiz's annoyance of the reminder.
• The end of Homelander's preview has Boomstick go on a quick rant about how people always find some way to bring politics into anything (using the example of Homelander failing to save a plane from hijacking and letting it crash to save face as a hypothetical commentary of American intervention gone wrong).
  Boomstick: Yeah, that scene was awesome! And in no way a commentary on America's foreign policy over the last half century, butting into the conflicts with overwhelming force and only making them worse, then using those failures as an excuse to pour trillions into further involvement. Gah, I hate it when people bring politics into these things!
• Remember back in Hulk VS Broly when they used Hulk having sex to calculate the power of the Green Scar? Well, this episode manages to one-up it in the most Crosses the Line Twice way possible by calculating how hard Homelander ejaculates when he killed someone he was having sex with. Wiz nervously has to bring up there's no way to sugarcoat it, while Boomstick delivers this rare sentence with the scene of Homelander jerking himself off from the Prime series in the background.
  Boomstick: That's right! Homelander can bust a nut faster than the speed of sound! Welp, good night everybody!
• While they're talking about this, Boomstick is drawing on a crude crayon drawing of Superman and Lois Lane having sex in the sky, and when delivering the line about Homelander, he wedges the crayon in his ear for some reason.
• The split second face Wiz makes screams "I can't believe I'm about to say this!" and seems to imply he almost stopped thinking due to just how...out-there the sentence is.
• From pretty much the second this battle was announced, people were able to guess that it was going to be a Curb-Stomp Battle in Omni-Man's favor... and everyone was completely ok with it, simply because of how much of a Hate Sink Homelander is. Even the official Twitters of both series got in on it.
• The sheer difference in scale between the two fighters is made apparent the moment Nolan responds to the demand that he "Get out of [Homelander's] country." after tossing Homelander around a bit:
  Omni-Man: Country? Seriously? I'm not here for your country.
• The storyboards reveal that Omni-Man was supposed to do his "THINK MARK!"◊ pose after the killing blow.
• The simple fact that this episode, one filled with blood, death and gore even by Death Battle standards, is technically a Christmas Episode. And one released at the tail end of May, for extra absurdity.
  Omni-Man: (after crushing Homelander's skull) Merry Christmas.

Magneto VS Tetsuo

• Magneto's preview is fittingly titled "Magneto Welcomes You to Die in DEATH BATTLE!"
• Both Magneto and Tetsuo's previews end with Wiz implying that he may have destroyed Earth after pulling a black hole towards it, and escaped to another Earth. Boomstick is left with some questions after this.
  Boomstick: Am I me, or am I another clone?
  Wiz: Yes.
• It's implied that Wiz pulled a Kill and Replace on another version of himself.
  Boomstick: I've been meaning to ask. Whatever happened to the Wiz of this universe?
  Wiz: Wouldn't you like to know?
  Boomstick: Yeah, that's kinda why I asked.
• DUMMI being used to demonstrate the instability of molecules. Boomstick plucks off one of the atoms causing DUMMI, the model for the molecule, to suddenly become unstable and explode in a violent ball of light. And is the robot in pain? Well, likely but more so excited he can finally die. Until the next time he's needed that is...
  DUMMI: FINALLYYYY! AAAAAGGGHHH- (blows up at the subatomic level)
• When discussing Tetsuo having to take incredibly potent pills, Boomstick reveals Wiz was quite the drug addict back in college, which the latter immediately changes the subject afterward.
  Wiz: A hunger that used to only be satiated with drugs, and not just any gateway drug, pills so potent that a single gram of the stuff could kill you.
  Boomstick: Soooo, pretty bad. Kinda reminds me of college days huh, Snow Wizard?
  Wiz: (ahem)
• Throughout the fight, Magneto is clearly getting more and more fed up with Tetsuo, outright comparing him to a child throwing a temper tantrum.
• When Wiz explains that Magneto's power, theoretically, could counter the creation of the Big Bang, Boomstick has this to say:
  Boomstick: Damn! And I thought he could just move some metal around! It's like the question posed by some of the greatest prophets of our time: "Fucking magnets. How do they even work?"
• Boomstick attempting to do the TETSUO!!! shout at the end of the fight, only to nearly cough up a lung and declare he's never trying that again.

Hercules VS Sun Wukong

• The fact that the thumbnail uses the 2014 version of Hercules, AKA, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's version and the version of Sun Wukong, also released in 2014, was portrayed by Donnie Yen.
• Boomstick mentions Hera's breast milk spraying out "like a boob sprinkler", which leads to the creation of the Milky Way Galaxy. Consequently, this also forever tainted the candy bar of the same name in his eyes.
  Boomstick: Yep. That's why we call it the Milky Way. Oh God, I'm never eating one of those candy bars again.
• The end of Hercules' preview reveals that Boomstick has a weekly "taunting off the gods", to Wiz's concern. Given how Shao Kahn spoke directly to them last season, Wiz's worry is valid.
  Wiz: Yeah. Someday that's really gonna bite you in the ass. Especially those days when you do it during a thunderstorm. What are you thinking?
  Boomstick: I defy thy divinity! I make my own choices!
  (Thunder cracks in the background)
  Wiz: (to the audience) Alright, while I go watch Boomstick be smote to death, come back in a couple of days as we cover Heracles' opponent, Sun Wukong, the Monkey King.
  Boomstick: Hey, you omnipresent assholes, if you can see everything, did you see this coming! HAA!
• Boomstick says Sun Wukong being "a headstrong goofball who quickly masters new powers and wants a fancy title" makes his adventures just shōnen anime, while a clip of premiere Monkey King Lite Goku plays.
• Sun Wukong was mentioned to be an Immortality Seeker since he feared death (because, as Boomstick puts it, "he got a taste of the the dreaded… MIDLIFE CRISIS!"). During his shenanigans throughout his story, he not only becomes immortal, but he becomes immortal several hundred if not thousands of times over, thanks to a rather big blunder from the Jade Emperor.
  Wiz: Even with all the... shenanigans, the Jade Emperor remained cautious and willing to placate Wukong.
  Boomstick: By making him the watchdog of the Garden of Immortal Peaches. He totally ate that shit, didn't he, Wiz?
  Wiz: Oh yeah, Wukong got hammered, ate most of the peaches, ran around the Jade Palace in a fit, and found five gourds of immortality pills... which he promptly swallowed. All of them.
  Boomstick: Ok, so that makes... how many layers of immortality now?
  Wiz: I'd say a few... hundred? Thousand? If you count each individual peach and pill. When he sobered up, he knew he was in serious trouble, so naturally... he prepared for war.
  Boomstick: Wow, that escalated quickly! What are they gonna do? Kill him?
• Wiz sprays Boomstick in the eyes with a poison from the Scorpion Queen, said to be able to harm the Buddha Himself. Boomstick tries to play it off by acting zen, only for him to give up seconds later, begging for the pain to stop.
• During the middle of Wukong's analysis, Boomstick stops to ask what he considers to be the most important question... "Could he beat Goku?"
  Wiz: Um... maybe!
• At the end of Sun Wukong's preview, Boomstick breaks into Wiz's secret lab, but it turns out to be booby-trapped. Wiz tries to stop him, but Boomstick gets himself injured and groans in pain.
• When Sun Wukong takes on his three-headed form, Hercules can't help but feel a little exasperated at having to face yet another foe with numerous heads.
  Hercules: Multiple heads. Of course.
• Really Sun on his own should count, whether his constantly jovial, joking attitude throughout the fight, his methods of messing around with Hercules, or even his complete disregard to him getting his head smashed into paste before going into his three-headed form.
• The fact that this whole battle started over a single piece of fruit. Which is also consistent with how many famous battles in myth started out over something so simple.
  Hercules: Ho there! I'm in need of that apple. Relinquish it.
  Wukong: Sorry, I'm supposed to find my master some vegetarian food.

Boba Fett VS Predator

• Boba's preview title is "Boba Fett Books it into DEATH BATTLE!"
• In a bit of Black Comedy, Boomstick and Wiz make puns regarding Jango Fett's death in Attack of the Clones.
  Boomstick: That is until Jango, uh, let it get to his head.
  Wiz: Just as headstrong as his father...
• In a Call-Back to Mega Man VS Astro Boy, Boomstick compares Boba's kneecap rockets to Astro's butt machine guns.
  Boomstick: Not since the butt machine guns has Death Battle seen a weapon so devious.
• The end of Boba's preview reveals that Boomstick was inspired by Astro's butt-guns and installed his own butt machine guns... only he may have installed them backward.
  Wiz: That's why you should always come to me, Boomstick! Are my cybernetics just not good enough for you anymore?
  Boomstick: Well, I might have found something my gut can't handle.
• One of Boba Fett's listed feats happens to be surviving his debut in the The Star Wars Holiday Special.
• Wiz has trouble saying the name of the Predator's species (Yautja), citing how it was never said in the films.
• At the end of the Predator's preview, Boomstick can't stare at the Predator's sarlacc mouth for long because it makes him feel "oogie and kinda aroused but not".
  Wiz: It's no wonder they were paired with the Xenomorphs from Aliens whose mouth design was inspired by another reproductive organ. It's almost kismet.
• Just the fact that Boomstick manages to work a reference to the "Like a bantha!" meme into Boba's rundown.
• Who is the other Predator's rival, who is as dangerous as a Xenomorph according to Boomstick? Gary Busey.
• When the Predator removes his mask, Boba uses the classic, "You are one ugly motherfucker" line, making the Predator roar in anger.

Excalibur VS Raiden

• The whole set-up for this episode is an escalating funny moment. What starts off as Wiz and Boomstick simply wanting to talk about Warframe and Raiden respectively turns into a full-blown debate with both picking sides, with Wiz siding with Excalibur and Boomstick siding with Raiden.
• The episode starts with Wiz playing Warframe. Pretty normal stuff, but what's funny is the fact he's running on it on an extremely old desktop PC, which even has a cracked open hole on the side of the monitor with wires coming out. Meanwhile, Jocelyn is shown on the screen recreating the Lo-fi Hip Hop Study Mix video while DUMMI naps in a little shelf next to her, complete with some sticky notes saying "DUMMI's space. KEEP OUT."
• The simple fact Boomstick apparently sleeps in his clothes and a nightcap. When Wiz asks why he's here:
  Boomstick: Sometimes I have these horrible nightmares and I just wake up here in a cold sweat. I don't even think my car's in the parking lot.
• According to Boomstick, Raiden surviving the infamously convoluted and mind screwy plot of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (or how he puts it, "an absolute mindfuck") is one of the greatest feats in video game history. It's even one of Raiden's listed feats.
• Of course, Boomstick would call Senator Armstrong his Lord and Saviour before quoting him, even if he describes him as "a hulked-out Ayn Rand" afterwards.
• The entirety of the calc-off, accompanied by In The Hall of The Mountain King in the background as it escalates along with Wiz and Boomstick's increasingly aggressive debate.
  • Special mention goes to Boomstick managing to one-up Wiz in calculating speed, with Raiden being nailed at 11 percent the speed of light.
    Wiz: Oh-OH, is this happening? Is this actually happening? You want a calc-off big guy?! Then let's go. Excalibur can literally block a beam of light with his sword. Judging by the distance it moved relative to how far the light beam traveled, Excalibur had to be swinging at... Nine percent the speed of light- Sh*t.
    Boomstick: Ahahaha! Calc King dethroned! Look at me. I'm the math boy now!
  • And then there's Boomstick challenging Wiz at the end of it, with Wiz's outright offended and aggressive tone making the scene entirely, with the duo's debate sounding like a playground argument you'd hear kids discussing for something like Mario Vs Sonic or Goku Vs Superman.
    Boomstick: You REALLY think your Warframe can take on a pure-blooded killer like Raiden?!
    Wiz: Ohh, you really think your cyborg ninja can take on a ghost soldier from the future?!
• When Wiz realizes that they could run a Death Battle, he points out how they are in the lab and has gotten all the research done to Boomstick and asks if he's thinking what Wiz is. Boomstick states that he could both totally go for a beer right now. And on top of that when Boomstick declares a Death Battle, Wiz flips his table over out of passionate aggression, with the PC still on top of it.
• When Raiden is ambushed by Excalibur, he quips that the Tenno simply attacked rather than monologue like many Metal Gear bosses.
  Raiden: Heh. Straight to the point. Metal freaks like you usually have a monologue first.
• As the fight goes on, Excalibur busts out the Twin Vipers, firing away at Raiden with a hail of gunfire. Shortly after, he realizes he's out of ammo when he tries to fire back at Raiden later. Plenty of Warframe players found themselves relating to the feeling of the guns emptying out so quickly. Raiden adds insult to injury by laughing and pointing out his own weapon's infinite ammo.
• During the fight:
  • While Excalibur and Raiden are clashing, things take a turn from the usual course... As Wiz and Boomstick themselves start to intervene in the fight to try to assist their fighter, both sides are annoyed and confused.
    Boomstick: Yes! I'm in! Mr. Raiden, sir, or can I call you Jack? Big fan-
    Raiden: Who the hell-? I'm busy here! (Gets sent flying onto a building roof)
    Boomstick: Wait, just- just listen! He'll never expect your secret weapon!
  • Raiden complies, and the secret weapon in question?
    (Excalibur leaps up onto the roof, seeing a cardboard box... as Wiz shows up on his comms)
    Wiz: Alright, listen, he's definitely hiding in the cardboard box-
    Lotus: (Kicking Wiz off of the comms) Get out of here!
  • ...Only for it to turn out it was a trap as the cardboard box was filled with claymores, blasting Excalibur off of the roof. That's right, Wiz just got his own fighter hurt by falling for one of Boomstick's schemes.
• By the time Excalibur manages to defeat Raiden, the Foundry both of them had shown up for has already created a new Warframe, much to Lotus' surprise.
• With the fight concluding with Excalibur winning, Wiz is quite proud of his victory if his boasting is any indication.
  Wiz: Chalk one up for the Calc King! The math boy... is back!
• While it didn't make it into the animation itself, one of the animators visualized the "Standing Here" meme for the fight.

James Bond VS John Wick

• According to Boomstick, James Bond's infamous womanizing is his greatest ability.
  Boomstick: Though that all pales in comparison to his greatest ability: f**kin', bangin', layin' down pipe. He's so proficient at seduction, it actually feels more like a superpower.
  Wiz: Look, we're not kidding. He once seduced a female assassin sent to kill him so thoroughly, she threw herself in front of the bullet meant for him. She knew him for less than two minutes.
• The numerous Title Drops to James Bond films worked into both characters' analyses. Boomstick has to rush through a few ones at the very end... but then realizes he forgot to reference Octopussy.
• Instead of talking up his backstory or reputation, John's analysis is kicked off by Wiz and Boomstick emphasizing how much of a goddamn idiot Iosef is for getting on John's bad side over a car. Wiz also gives resigned "Yes" after Boomstick starts the analysis by asking the audience if they ever made a screw up so bad "you're just f***ed for the rest of your life".
• At the end of John Wick's preview, Boomstick reveals that he killed a platoon of squirrels with a rubber duck, three extra-strength diapers and a bowl of Dinosaur Egg oatmeal.
  Wiz: You're... probably on a government list. Actually, we're definitely on a government list.
  Boomstick: Oh, it's not even "probably"!
• Throughout the episode, we see Boomstick messing around with Bond's Explosive Pen, constantly clicking it and losing track of how many times he did it much to Wiz's annoyance, though it only detonates at the end of the episode. It even gets referenced in the fight when James and John fight over it and drop it.
  Bond: (sighs in resignation) To be entirely honest, I lost coun- (massive explosion)
  • Plus, when the exploding pen is dropped between James and John, they both stare at it for a moment before looking at each other, both of them taking a break from the fight briefly to realize their mistake.
• Blink and you'll miss it: when Wick shoots the remote control for the Aston Martin DB5 out of Bond's hand, the screen on the now-damaged remote control reads "Control Compromised - Entering Deja Vu Mode" as the car starts doing donuts and spraying minigun fire on its own.
• In contrast to Bond's polite banter, Wick remains so serious and unflappable throughout the fight that even his last words are just a resigned "Yeah..." of acceptance when he looks up to see a particularly enormous and pointy chandelier about to crash on him.
• Of course, due to being the Trope Namer of the Bond One-Liner, James can't help but drop a classic-style one when Q is checking up on him after he's just finished off Wick with a Falling Chandelier of Doom; itself a slightly modified version of a well-known one he used in Goldfinger ^note In particular, when he fried a would-be assassin alive by knocking him into a bathtub and throwing a switched-on lamp in after him. Q doesn't find the quip so funny and promptly lets him know what he thought of it.
  Bond: Smashing. Positively smashing.
  Q: (exasperated) Oh do grow up, 007!

Black Adam VS Apocalypse

• The name of Black Adam's preview? "Black Adam Rocks into DEATH BATTLE!" And to add onto the joke, the thumbnail uses the Black Adam (2022) version, also played by Dwayne Johnson. This is the second episode this season to have The Rock in the thumbnail.
• The beginning of Apocalypse's rundown has Boomstick describing his favorite graphic novel, which involves The End of the World as We Know It, complete with the Four Horsemen.
  Wiz: Are you... talking about The Bible?
  Boomstick: What? No, this is a Marvel comic.
• Boomstick is utterly repulsed by Beak, of all mutants. He even pauses Apocalypse's rundown to express his disgust when Beak appears onscreen.
• Apparently, Boomstick was under the belief that you couldn't speak at the zoo or else you would be attacked by animals.
• While the ending is pure Nightmare Fuel as it depicts Apocalypse hoisting a dying Black Adam over Kahndaq and forcing him to watch it burn, it does start off on a darkly-hilarious note as Adam defiantly tries one last attack before noticing Apocalypse about to literally curb-stomp him, and utters some Profane Last Words:
  Black Adam: SHAZA- oh, shit...!
  • On the topic of Adam getting his face stomped in, turns out Luis was trying to figure out how to make the face after the first stomp. And his thought process? To think of the most fucked up face he could think of. And turns out Beavis fit the bill quite well.
  • There's also the fact that when Apocalypse goes to show the burning down Kahndaq, Black Adam's face looks eerily similar to The Rock's memetic eyebrow stare.
• Following up on the above, when Apocalypse did stomp on Adam, it cracked the screen as a result; but as it turns out, it also cracked Wiz and Boomstick's camera, much to the latter's vocal chagrin and we see that they tried to fix it with some duct tape, only for it to cover Wiz.
  • There's also the fact that the camera they use to watch all of these battles is apparently only $30.

Trunks VS Silver

• Boomstick calls Chronoa a "JoJo posing fairy chick".
• "Welcome to the world of Disney's Loki. Oh, sorry, Dragon Ball Heroes."
• Going over Trunks's abilites, Boomstick notes that he has a sword gifted to him from the Hero of Time. Showing pictures of Link and Crono before finally landing on Tapion.
• Boomstick saying that Trunks was the perfect person to run the Time Patrol... in spite of the fact that Xeno Trunks suffers HEAVILY from Adaptational Dumbass (at least in the Xenoverse games).
• The end of Trunks's preview is basically a Shout-Out to Red vs. Blue, with a twist.
  Boomstick: You know, Wiz, [Mechikabura's] name really reminds me of the Mexican lizard that eats all the goats.
  Wiz: Uh, that would be the chupacabra.
  Boomstick: You're making that up.
  Wiz: What, no, I'm telling you. That's a real animal. I've got one back there.
  Boomstick: No, not if he was in that cage I opened yesterday.
  Wiz: Oh, shit! I've gotta go! [runs off]
  Boomstick: [to the audience] Well, while Wiz goes deal with a situation that is not my fault, come back soon to learn about Silver the Hedgehog. [to Wiz] Hey, Wiz, hypothetically, what if it was also hoped up on Red Bull?
• "And you thought Trunks was cool before he went full Seto Kaiba!"
• The Archie Sonic multiverse is so ridiculously complicated for Wiz that he lets Jocelyn explain it.
• Boomstick is surprised and giddy to learn that Spawn of all characters is present in one of the Archie Sonic multiverses.
  Boomstick: [to Jocelyn] Sorry, can you go back to the part about Sonic the Hedgehog meeting motherf**king Spawn!?
• Boomstick refers to Enerjak as "Dark Knuckles" before Wiz corrects him.
• While explaining that Archie Silver has experienced a version of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), Jocelyn very sarcastically refers to the game as everyone's favorite.
• Just like when Archie Sonic appeared in Season 7, at least one of the hosts is dumbfounded about the feats of the characters in the comic. Boomstick thinks Archie Silver being faster than time itself is stupid, but Wiz simply tells him it's Archie Sonic.
  Boomstick: As Sonic Man, without this Super Sonic energy, Sonic was already fast enough to outspeed stopped time. Let me say that again. Time was frozen and Sonic could still move. What the hell?
  Wiz: Naturally, both Super Sonic and Super Silver should be faster than this. But as calculating speed requires a factor of time and this feat removes time from the equation entirely, this means Super Silver's speed is incalculable. His speed is faster than time itself permits speed to be.
  Boomstick: That's stupid.
  Wiz: That's Archie Sonic.
• Upon transforming into Super Silver and blocking a reflected Meteor Smash, Trunks, who was in his Super Saiyan form at that point, ends up showing that the cherry doesn't fall far from the tree.
  Silver: You see!? [an irritated Trunks teleports behind him with his arms crossed, with the hedgehog unaware] It's no use!
  Trunks: Rip-off. [he proceeds to punt Silver into the sky]
• When Silver destroys a chunk of the Moon and prepares to launch rubble, Trunks has an appropriately worried reaction as he says his Abridged counterpart's shared catchphrase. Also an Actor Allusion to his voice actor from the same series playing him here.
  Trunks: Ah, crap baskets.
• The sheer fact that Trunks weaponizes gacha during the fight. Rather than having taken some Dragon Ball Heroes cards with him from the getgo, he apparently decided to open a fresh pack in the middle of the fight, with plenty of gacha players relating to his disappointed reaction. And the cards he pulled for reference? GT Kid Goku and Pan, who did come in handy... And Oolong, as in the old Dragon Ball era character, as the pig was left uselessly floating in space while Goku and Pan assisted Trunks.
  Trunks: Come on, give me a good pull...! [he opens the pack, looking at the cards as he comes to a complete stop... As he rolls his eyes in disappointment] ...Eh, good enough.
• After receiving a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Super Saiyan God Trunks, Silver opens his eyes...right in time to see Trunks about to hit him with a Final Flash.
• While Trunks's attempted Pre-Mortem One-Liner is unquestionably badass, there is definitely something funny about the fact that he calls Silver Time-Hog.
• After the fight, an outraged Boomstick claims that Trunks is way past cooler than Silver, or how he puts it, furry Kyle Reese.
• Silver's voice actor (who is heavily implied to be Bryce Papenbrook) is credited as Esu Onsti, which is backwards for "It's no use". As in Silver's infamous catchphrase from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and his Pre-Mortem One-Liner to Trunks.

SpongeBob SquarePants VS Superfriends Aquaman

• The sheer fact that SpongeBob SquarePants, one of the most iconic mascots of children's cartoons, is a combatant. While Mickey did participate in the previous season, that was his more serious Kingdom Hearts counterpart. This is the original SpongeBob taking part in DEATH BATTLE! for reference. Meanwhile, his opponent is Adaptational Wimp par excellence and the incarnation that tarnished Aquaman's reputation. There's also the sheer irony that his origin show is a cartoon that wasn't even allowed to show violence due to standards and the Media Watchdogs and Moral Guardians of the 70's.
• How does Death Battle start off the rundown for SpongeBob SquarePants? By discussing the immediate aftermath of World War II, and the start of the Cold War. Only the pop-up explains how this part is just a theory that some episodes could contradict.
• Boomstick attempts to sing the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song, only for Wiz to simply say the titular sea sponge's name and deny Boomstick a chance to sing.
• A pop-up mentions SpongeBob recovering health in SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom by collecting clean underwear, implying that he soils himself whenever he takes damage.
• Wiz shows noticeable disdain for SpongeBob, calling him a total dork, a naïve manchild who wants to keep working as the Krusty Krab's fry cook, incapable of basic tasks like lifting a glass of lemonade, and the biggest wimp in the Bikini Bottom. Boomstick retorts by comparing Wiz to Squidward.
  Boomstick: Really sounding like a Squidward there, Wiz. And no one wants to be a Squidward! SpongeRobert might not have the flashiest life, but he's happy. And that's what matters, ain't it?
  Wiz: Not in DEATH BATTLE it doesn't. SpongeBob is routinely physically incapable of even the most basic tasks, almost like anti-Toon Force. He's the biggest wimp in town, like the time he failed to lift a glass of lemonade, or the time a school bully gave him diarrhea, or the time he effortlessly... rotated the entire planet [with a wrench]. Huh...
  Boomstick: Ooh, we're in for some shit now!
• Following this discovery, Wiz's stance then does a complete 180 after witnessing more of SpongeBob's ridiculous feats, such as absorbing enough water to replace the moon, and recovering from being unraveled out of existence by a string. His description of SpongeBob's bubble abilities evokes similar vibes to when he was describing Madara Uchiha's plans the previous season.
  Boomstick: What was that you were you saying about Anti-Toon Force?
  Wiz: I-I'm sorry! I'm not sure I've ever misjudged a character as severely as... SpongeBob SquarePants!
  Boomstick: Nice character arc there, Wiz.
• When going over the Magic Pencil, Boomstick is seen drawing a caricature of Wiz with it called DoodleWiz, just like DoodleBob. Wiz says he's calling the police, only to get attacked and beaten up by DoodleWiz as blood flies everywhere, much to Boomstick's horror.
• During SpongeBob's rundown, Boomstick asks a simple question: Did SpongeBob ever bang Sandy? A pop-up, like the ones used to show information that couldn't be talked about on the show proper, appears that says, "NOPE!" Not even the pop-ups will touch that question with a ten feet pole. Even funnier if you remember that technically SpongeBob is confirmed asexual by Steven Hillenburg.
• One of SpongeBob's listed feats is that he ran to that mountain and back as the Quickster. Wanna see him do it again?
• According to Boomstick, one of SpongeBob's weaknesses is his show's Seasonal Rot after the first movie, citing the fan-reviled "Squid Baby" episode as an example of the decline, much to Wiz's confusion.
  Wiz: ...what are you talking about?!
• Aquaman's origin story, abridged.
  Boomstick: Tom Curry was a humble lighthouse keeper, who decided one day to... f(beep)ck a fish!
  Wiz: He did not... do... that! He, ahem... "procreated" with Atlanna, an Atlantean from the underwater city of... Poseidonis.
• Compared to SpongeBob, Boomstick is... very unimpressed with Aquaman's powers on Superfriends, whereas Wiz keeps trying to create Overly Narrow Superlatives until he's forced to admit this Aquaman sucks. Wiz adds that Aquaman could kick the viewers' ass, but Boomstick points out Aquaman can only last one hour on dry land before he dies. The viewers can just hide from him for an hour and then stomp on his corpse (which is visualized with the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind scene where Narancia, Mista and Abbacchio kick the shit out of a civilian that they thought was an enemy). And when Wiz tries to deliver a heartfelt speech about Arthur's heroism...
  Boomstick: He's about to die.
  Wiz: Yeah... Yeah.
• Wiz was convinced that because Aquaman was part of the absurd pre-crisis era, he'd find some sort of insane show of power, but the best he can find for strength is Aquaman pushing 50 metric tons of trash. Or as he admits, his best feat is "literally garbage".
  Boomstick: Ah, the jokes write themselves, huh?
• Wiz tries to use the existence of the Superfriends themselves as a positive for Aquaman, only for Boomstick to promptly shut that down, by calling them "the dime store knock-off version of the Justice League". And when Wiz tries to counteract that by pointing out all of the mainline heroes who were in the cartoon, Boomstick just asks him to keep going, forcing him to list the C-List Fodder. By the time he gets to the Wonder Twins' pet monkey, Boomstick tells him to stop.
  Boomstick: Wiz... Stop... You're embarrassing yourself.
• At the end of Aquaman's preview, Wiz is worried when Boomstick says that he can hear the screams of every beer he drinks, and in retaliation, Boomstick summons 99 Bottles and turns Wiz into a can of beer again.
• Wiz and Boomstick don't even bother selling it as an even fight with their usual quotes before the battle starts. Even the clips that get shown don't put Aquaman in a flattering light, as they're all of Aquaman getting trapped.
  Wiz: The combatants are set and we've run the data through all possibility. One. One possibility.
  Boomstick: It's time for AQUAMAN'S FUNERAL!
• In the battle proper, Aquaman appears from a portal and is shocked at the destruction in Bikini Bottom, thinking SpongeBob did it. SpongeBob blows it off and proclaims he "saved" the city (his face and voice becoming similar to when he's THE HALL MONITOR), only for the camera to pull out to show more of it... and a poor citizen to groan "My leg..."
• When SpongeBob first saw Aquaman, he initially mistook him for his Expy and SpongeBob's personal hero, Mermaid Man, and when finally fighting back, he butchers Aquaman's name as Waterman. And then later on calls him Sea Man, then finally after winning draws a gravestone for Ocean Man.
• As Aquaman starts his attack, his initial punches don't phase SpongeBob, thanks to his soft sponge body, to the point that the fry cook calmly points out how ineffective they are.
  SpongeBob: You see, Sir...(PUNCH!) I'm a sea sponge...(PUNCH!) Phylum Porifera...(PUNCH!) And you can't just... (a frustrated Aquaman uses a condensed ball of water at SpongeBob, sending him flying into a building with a honking sound)
• In their initial blows, the two perform a double Groin Attack with the Written Sound Effect proclaiming, "STERILITY!".
• When Aquaman confidently attempts to use his aquatic telepathy to control Spongebob's mind (And also summon some allies), Spongebob barely even notices it as he fires off a cruise missile bubble... And as if to demonstrate the sheer power gap between the two, the cruise missile just slamming into Aquaman leaves the hero gasping for air (Or water?) before it rams back into him to properly blow up and send him flying.
• Aquaman pulls SpongeBob apart using some eels he called upon. Seeing that this resulted in the sea sponge being split into almost a dozen smaller SpongeBobs gets a hilarious, MASSIVE Oh, Crap! reaction out of him.
  Aquaman: (shocked and sporting live-action lips) GREAT NEPTUNE!
• The live-action lips proceed to be even more gut-bustingly hilarious because Aquaman's animated model shows him as clean shaven, yet the live-action mouth shows his voice actor sporting a beard. It's a fine example of Stylistic Suck.
• While the scene is mostly sad, there's something strangely funny about how the portal responsible for sending Aquaman to Bikini Bottom appears out of nowhere to show Aquaman that he's the lamest incarnation of the character, almost as if it's mocking him about it at his darkest hour.
  Aquaman: I see it now... a multiverse of Aquamen! And out of all of them... I'm the lamest F(dolphin call)ING ONE!
• In the final clash of the fight, Aquaman sends a massive tidal wave whirlpool of creatures from the deep as SpongeBob rockets at him from the other side of the universe to strike, resulting in stock footage of the atomic explosion from "Dying for Pie" being played.
  • In a rather odd cameo, for a split second before the shot cuts away from Aquaman's final attack, Columbo could be seen in the bottom right corner for... some reason.
• Death Battle lampshades their own meme at the end of the fight.
  Wiz: This was an incredibly close fight... GOTCHA! Obviously, Aquaman didn't have a snowball's chance in hell in defeating this little spongy bastich.
• The results slide couldn't even hide just how utterly outmatched Aquaman was compared to his opponent, with his sole advantage listed as "Won the moral victory?" while his disadvantage being "Everything else lmao". Meanwhile, SpongeBob's one single listed disadvantage? "Dumbass".
• During the results analysis, Wiz calculates the speed at which SpongeBob unraveled the universe, and it turns out to be the fastest calculated speed in DEATH BATTLE history.
  Wiz: This... is the fastest calculable speed feat... in our show's history. (on the verge of losing it) And it belongs to SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!!!
• On top of that, not only do Boomstick and Wiz note that Spongebob could beat the canon Aquaman, Boomstick even notes that he could beat Goku, complete with a meme of SpongeBob beating up Goku. And the cherry on top, Wiz has this to say as the episode ends:
  Wiz: The winner is SpongeBob SquarePants. Our god.

Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers

• The entire debate about whether or not Jason is actually teleporting. In the end of his preview, Boomstick uses Wiz's teleporter to prove that he can teleport when Wiz told him to prove that Jason was teleporting and not either an act of impossible stealth or a cocaine-induced hallucination.
• Boomstick somewhat annoyed response at Michael coming back after his supposed death at the end of his first movie.
  Boomstick: Phew! Well, guess that's the end of him! (Beat) Yeah, you know it's not.
• At the end of Michael's preview, Wiz and Boomstick receive trick-or-treaters. Wiz wonders how in the world they found their top secret hideout. Boomstick tells Jocelyn to unleash the hounds when the kids start egging the place.
• During the analysis, when Jocelyn finds out the Mark of Thorn is really the Nordic rune for Thor, Ringmaster speculates this means Michael is a viking and gets excited.
• There is something funny about the fact that two hapless teens were stuck between the two fighters, with Jason clearly getting annoyed by Michael attempting to pull a Kill Steal on him.
• During the initial exchange of blades, after taking a few slashes that do nothing in the long run, Jason tries to slap Michael with the corpse of a girl the latter had just killed, only for the slasher to dodge and the body to sail into the background.

Sauron VS The Lich King

• When Wiz mentions how Sauron can transform into a vampire, Boomstick bemoans how Tumblr will go nuts over it.
• Boomstick claims he has an evil domain called Trailerdor, similar to how Sauron has his in Mordor. Turns out it's just a trailer park behind a Denny's.
  Wiz: Ah, yes, truly the worst of all evils...
• Boomstick looks like he's falling under the influence of the One Ring, much in a similar way to Bilbo and Gollum before him...only to devour the damn thing in one gulp.
• When Boomstick asks if Ner'zhul's armor was gonna possess him if he puts it on, viewers can just barely make out the word "Foreshadowing".
• Boomstick pointed out that Arthas Menethil's name sounds like something your doctor would give you for fungus treatment.
• Arthas casts an ice spell to attack Sauron with. Thanks to the visuals, it looks like he made a large snowball and threw it towards Sauron's attack.
• During the fight itself, there's a brief moment where Sauron holds Arthas over a cliff edge. The Lich King summons Frostmourne to his hands and swats away Sauron... and then just hovers over the ledge for a second before landing back on the battlefield.
• While completely awesome in context, it's still rather hilarious that the final battle between these two monstrous kings boils down to a staring contest.
• Later on, the official DEATH BATTLE! Twitter account posted some behind the scenes looks at the episode's animation progress. And in one post, they revealed a bit of a secret in the Eye of Sauron... As Columbo is hidden in low opacity within it.

Deku VS Asta

• Boomstick thinks Shoot Style is Deku pulling out a gun to shoot his opponent. When Wiz clarifies that it is Deku switching from punches to kicks, Boomstick complains that his idea was cooler.
  • Thanks to Fortnite, Boomstick's idea is now a reality.
• At the end of Deku's preview, Boomstick does a thesis on U.A. High's work protocol.
  Boomstick: Because, yeah. Somehow, these students are constantly getting drafted into literal wars against murderous supervillains! I wonder... Does beating the snot out of your archenemy count as extra credit?
  Wiz: I-I'm pretty sure that's just what their homework is. Foiling the master plan is just part of the grade.
  Boomstick: Maaan, I went to the wrong school. Now, that's homework I wouldn't mind doing!
• One of Deku's feats: "Survived a nut shot from Kota".
• After revealing how both Asta and Yuno wish to become Wizard King, Wiz compares it to being Pirate King.
• Wiz's brief, blunt description of the Black Bulls.
  Wiz: Filled with lazy drunkards, antisocial otakus, and literal sociopaths.
  Boomstick: My kind of people! ...Eh, mostly.
• During Asta's rundown, Wiz and Boomstick fight over the Five Leaf Clover Grimoire because of the powers it can grant those without Mana like it did with Asta.
• The start of the fight perfectly sums up both Deku and Asta's personalities:
  Deku: 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... REALLY hard!
• After being struck by Asta's blade, Deku ends up being sent flying into a building, but is otherwise alright due to Asta's blades only being able to cut through magic.
  Deku: (confused) Aren't swords supposed to be sharp?
• As Deku has Asta ensnared with Black Whip, Asta attempts to cut through it... Only to realize a massive issue with his Anti-Magic against his foe:
  Asta: Wait, are you not using magic?! (thinking) What kind of magic emperor will I be if I can't beat a guy like this?!
• At one point in the fight, Deku makes use of Black Whip in order to keep pulling Asta back towards him, as he begins to effectively repeatedly spam Detroit Smash as he keeps pulling him in, even yelling it out as he has Asta's Grimoire caught in his mouth. Asta isn't too fond of this.
  Asta: (now in his Devil Union form) I don't know what Detroit is, but I've had enough of it!
• Upon being overpowered by Asta's Devil Union form, Midoria proceeds to access One For All 120% Overdrive in order to try overpowering his foe in return... But not before taking a page out of Asta's book:
  Deku: I've just got to hit him... Really... HARD...!
• Possibly one of the biggest examples of Black Comedy the show has ever done; after dying from a Heroic RRoD he induced on top of Asta stabbing his corpse, Deku ends up in the stock Family Guy death pose. And on top of that, the angle of the shot makes it look like one of the swords was shoved up Deku's ass.
• At the end of the fight, after finishing off Deku, what does a heavily weakened Asta have to say?
  Asta: Take that... Detroit...!
• The battle takes place in a tournament bracket. When Asta wins the match, he moves on to the finals to face... Hercule Satan. Naturally, and very understandably, Satan bails near-instantly. Made even funnier as Mr. Satan didn't even try to make an excuse to justify his bailing on his fight with Asta like he would in canon. He simply decided "Nope!" and hightailed it.

Gogeta VS Vegito

• Before the episode even starts, it comes with the stipulation that this is the first time Goku has ever won a Death Battle. ...And it came about by defeating himself. On a similar note, after losing to Thor and his son losing to Silver earlier in the season, Vegeta manages to get a win this season by also defeating himself.
• What Wiz and Boomstick would wish on the Dragon Balls. Wiz would wish to Take Over the World, while Boomstick would wish to find out whether Gogeta or Vegito would win.
• Boomstick pointing out how Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn got just a little bit weird, "when Adolf showed up."
• When Boomstick mentioned the part where Goku taught Goten and Trunks the Fusion Dance with Piccolo's help, he tearfully describes the moment as the most beautiful moment he ever saw.
• When talking about Gogeta's first non-canon appearance in his fight against Janemba, Wiz refers to the latter as being Made of Evil and offhandedly considered that he probably smelt of cats and later when talking about Gogeta's use of Stardust Breaker against Janemba, Boomstick reiterates the statement about the latter being Made of Evil, or cats.
• At the end of Gogeta's preview, Wiz compares Stardust Breaker to Spike the Devilman's Devilmite Beam, and Boomstick starts geeking out and lists off obscure Dragon Ball characters, plus one from Dr. Slump. He then asks Wiz if he wants to watch some classic Dragon Ball with him, to which Wiz replies, "Ye."
• In the actual episode, one of the characters Boomstick mentions is General Rilldo, noting his his name is one letter off from... something else, before Wiz thankfully cuts him off. Complete with a certain area of Rilldo's body blurred out.
  Boomstick: Oh man, that guy's just one letter off from "General Dil—"
  Wiz: [clears throat]
• When Wiz goes on to note Gogeta's strongest feat possible, Boomstick sure gets a response when he's underwhelmed at first. This is especially funny when you remember how in Trunks VS Silver, Boomstick described Dragon Ball Heroes as DBZ fanfiction made official.
  Wiz: And two Gogetas together can take on Fu.
  Boomstick: J-Just... Just "Fu"? After all that, he's just called "Fu"?
  Wiz: Dark King Fu the Artificial Bio-Android Demon Mutant. He has Saiyan, Namekian, Earthling, Majin, and Eternal Dragon DNA.
  Boomstick: [Beat] ...Is this fanfiction?
• When starting Gogeta's analysis, Boomstick speaks of the moment when Fusion Reborn was released and the events of it with gusto and triumphant music, he does the same for the events leading up to Vegito's first appearance in canon at the start of his analysis though he awkwardly mentions how familiar it sounds with the same music dying down too.
• Boomstick ranting about what a dumb name Vegito is. Then Wiz explains that it's a portmanteau of Vegeta's Japanese name and the Japanese pronounciation of Kakarot followed by saying how the English manga changed it to Vegerot, making Boomstick declare that name to be even dumber.
• At the end of Vegito's preview, when pointing out how he was still able to fight Buu as a piece of candy, Wiz ends up coming to a disturbing possibility that all of the people that Buu transformed into food like Dabura were still alive, conscious and helpless as Buu ate them. This ends up understandably disturbing Boomstick and causes Wiz to need to lie down as a result.
• Upon the two sets of Gokus and Vegetas arriving, one of the Gokus makes an important observation.
  Goku: Whoa, Vegeta! Am I really that much taller than you?
  Both Vegetas: STUFF IT, KAKAROT!
• In the middle of their otherwise intense battle, Gogeta hits Vegito with the exact same party cracker trick he pulled on Omega Shenron.
• While describing the critical differences between the Fusion Dance and Potara Earrings, there's something funny about how the one thing holding back the Fusion Dance is Vegeta's slightly weaker power level compared to Goku.
  Boomstick: Ah, poor Vegeta. You'll get your day one day in the sun, buddy. ...Ah, who am I kidding.
• At the end of the episode, when Wiz remembers that Earth's Dragon Balls give two wishes, Boomstick uses the second one to fuse himself and Wiz together, amid Wiz's protests. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), we don't see what the result looks like.

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