
WATCH HIS RAP BATTLES OR DIE
Snakebite126 (real name Benjamin) is a musical artist and YouTuber. He's known for prominently featuring on various ERB-inspired rap battles in various roles.
He also has his own rap battle series, Snakebite Rap Battles and the joke series Terrible Rap Battles of Comic Sans.
His channel can be found here
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This channel provides examples of the following tropes:
- Abusive Dad: Jacket accuses the Batter of being this twice due to him killing Hugo, who is symbolically his son.
- Allegorical Character: The Wonderland Caterpillar from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar vs The Caterpillar (Wonderland)" is made to embody the fear of failure that keeps someone from pursuing their dreams.
- And I Must Scream: At the end of "Judge Holden vs AM", AM inflicts such fate on Judge Holden, by forcing him to feel empathy, then condemning him to watch every sin and murders he had commited for eternity. Then again, what did you expect from a character from the story that named the trope?
- Asshole Victim: The final verse of "Judge Holden vs AM". AM reduces Holden to a head and spinal cord, gives him empathy and forces him to watch all the killings he has ever done for eternity. This is a horrible fate, but considering who Holden is it's the closest thing to a good deed AM has ever done.
- Bait-and-Switch: The thumbnail and title cards for Dead Bart vs Red Mist Squidward have the characters depicted as drawings before switching to the standard Stylistic Suck live-action performances of Terrible Rap Battles of Comic Sans.
- Bond One-Liner: Artemis drops this in his last verse after fatally shooting Light, referencing The Eternity Code in the process.Artemis: I've sent this false god to the stars, for now your run is through because my name is Artemis, and I. Hunted. You.
- Epic Fail: In "Sam Reich vs Tenna", Sam displays the prompt "Spend the battle without referencing 'Game Changer'". Tenna proceeds to directly namedrop the show in his next line.
- Eviler than Thou: "Judge Holden vs AM" puts two immensely evil characters against one another and the end result is this trope: AM successfully shuts up Holden and prepares to torture him for eternity.
- Foreshadowing:
- In "Artemis Fowl vs Light Yagami", the former's introduction screen has one of him walking to the left and disappearing, while the other one is in a thinking stance. This sets up the final revelation that Artemis used a hologram of himself to battle Light throughout the whole rap, while he stayed invisible. Artemis wanted Light to try using the 'Death Note' against him, so that he wouldn't notice that his 'Death Note' was swapped with a fake, and that the real Artemis would write Light's name down in the real 'Death Note'.
- During Bill's final verse in "Bill Cipher vs Flowey the Flower", when Bill uses the kaleidoscope to diss Flowey, one of the timelines show the appearance of Asriel Dreemurr, foreshadowing his appearnce for Flowey's final verse when he absorbs the six souls alongside all the petrified monsters to turn into Asriel Dreemurr.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The newspapers shown during The Riddler vs The Zodiac Killer include the editor's ranting about a (possible) identity of the Zodiac Killer being revealed during production, and an opinion piece about how underpraised Dustin's (aka Freshy Kanal's) content is.
- Heel–Face Brainwashing: Played for Horror: AM forces Judge Holden to feel remorse, so that he can show him all his bloody murders on repeat, forever.
- Ironic Echo: AM twists the famous ending lines of Blood Meridian into a threat.
- Let Me Tell You a Story: In his rap battle against AM, Holden invents a story on the fly about a child tortured for his entire life who finally snapped and killed his tormentors, only to find out too late that his escape depended on their being alive, leaving him having gotten his revenge, but now trapped forever in a labyrinth full of corpses. He compares AM to this child, having taken away his chance at freedom by killing off humanity and now locked in his own empty structure for eternity; As he puts it, such a being is not a god like AM claims, but just a foolish child who lacks the foresight to think through the consequences of his temper tantrums. Notably, this is the last straw for AM, who removes Holden's mouth as punishment in anger.
- Morality-Guided Attack: AM tortures Judge Holden by rewiring his brain to feel empathy, then making him watch his own atrocities over and over again.
- My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Jacket starts off his first verse like this:"Name's Jacket, don't get it mistaken."
- Nepotism: Tenna indirectly claims Sam Reich's successes can be attributed to his parents' high status.
- Never My Fault: Jacket claims that the Batter lets the player control him to avoid accountability and blame them for his actions.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Jacket tells The Batter to "stop acting like it's some holy mission to make [those] phantoms bleed."
- Pun: Per a Youtube comment from Snakebite, "Franklin D. Roosevelt vs Jerry Seinfeld" exists solely so the latter could tell the former "What's the New Deal?"
- Sadistic Game Show: "Sam Reich vs Tenna" puts two sadistic game show hosts against each other, and they both take turns playing the contestant and host.
- Speak in Unison: The intro of "Sam Reich vs Tenna" has both rappers speak at the same time and Reich's "I've been here the whole time!" and Tenna's "It's! T! V! Time!" has them say 'time' in sync with each other.
- Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: A line from Sam Reich's second verse seems like it's leading to rhyming "abandoned" with "Spamton", but instead:You were clinging on a salesman's show tactics til he left you abandoned,
then your whole life went crashing once you stopped playing Spam Says. - Suicide Dare:
- The Batter to Jacket:"But here's some real advice on what to do with your lost mind"
"Wrap that phone around your neck like it's a Suicide Hotline" - Dead Bart repeatedly tells Red Mist Squidward to "do it!".
- The Batter to Jacket:
- Stylistic Suck: Terrible Rap Battles of Comic Sans has a typo in the title card, "corrected" by scratching it out in Paint with a red scribble, and it only gets better/worse from there.
- Take That!:
- In Artemis' third verse, he tells Light that his wheelchair-bound sister would walk away from Light's Netflix special. In turn, Light begins his fourth verse by calling out Artemis for his live-action film.
- Elon Musk is portrayed as arrogant and childish.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Judge Holden's second verse against AM is essentially a prolonged parable about how AM is essentially a neglected child that threw a temper tantrum and doomed himself to remain bound by the.
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!:
- From "Jacket vs. The Batter":
Jacket: Who do you think you're dealing with? Not Zacharie. Fuck animal masks; I'm Dedan, bitch!"- How Ghostface reveals his identity to Baldi:
Say hello to Stu Macher, bitch! - Touché: In "Sam Reich vs Tenna", after Tenna recovers from a fumble and sticks to the prompt of "Spend the battle without referencing 'Game Changer'", Reich admits it was a good jab and gives him a point.
