Trivia / DEATH BATTLE! S01E17 - Starscream VS Rainbow Dash

• Of all the Death Battles, the Starscream VS Rainbow Dash was the only one where the two combatants have the most contrasting qualities; size, gender^note While Starscream's technically genderless by being a robot he identifies himself as male, 'alignment', lifeform type^note One is mechanical and the other is organic, attack range^note One has an array of ranged weapons while the other charges up close, and trust^note One is a constant backstabber while the other is the very spirit of loyalty.
• The Starscream/Rainbow Dash fight was a combination of three fan requests. Firstly, having one of the Tranformers fight. Secondly, having any of the Mane 6 fight (all six of the main characters in Friendship Is Magic have their, for want of a better term, buff and nerfs, but in the end Dashie was chosen). Thirdly, mostly by the vocal non-brony population, having something huge (with no conceivable chance of losing) fight one of the My Little Pony characters. Needless to say, after doing the research, they concluded that Starscream had no chance against Rainbow Dash.
• The Rainbow Dash/Starscream battle is the 2nd most unbalanced duel in terms of size. Rainbow is a pony, which is shorter than a person (about 4 feet in height). Starscream is about 20 feet tall, the size of a fighter jet. Notably this actually works against Starscream. He's a poor enough shot even when aiming at giant robots his own size — he had no chance of hitting the smaller, faster, and more agile Rainbow Dash.
• The producers deliberately chose to refrain from profanity, blood, and gore during this episode out of fear that small children could find this episode online by accident. On a similar tack, had they determined that Rainbow would have lost the fight, the entire episode would have been scrapped.

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