DEATH BATTLE

I highly recommend the twitter account @randomsakuga

Ooo, I love that movie.

Never saw.

Can vouch for that. One of the best fights in the show and really creative in showing how you can still have a fun and interesting fight with Saitama without ignoring the premise that he can obliterate a foe in one punch. You just gotta be creative with the person fighting him.

Yes, it winds up being a stomp just like every fight Saitama ever has is a stomp. But stomps can be fun. All of Hiei's most popular fights are stomps too, and YYH fans love Hiei. A fight doesn't have to be evenly matched to be entertaining. What's important is not the destination, but the journey.

The only thing I actually remember from that fight is its ending, since it's one of Genkai's weird Character Derailment moments from that arc.

Easily one of the most beloved moments from the Toei movies, which is admittedly a high bar to clear.

OH F*CK YES.

So, yeah. Sakuga sounds pretty f*cking awesome.

"Homura vs Mami from Puella Most Horrible Magical Girl Adventure Ever."

Rebellion?

Hm?

Genkai is weird in the Sensui arc because her established personality is not giving a single solitary f*ck what happens to other people. Her life philosophy is that she wants to pass along her power to a successor before she dies and she doesn't care one whit about what they actually do with it.

The Sensui arc makes her into the Big Good. Suddenly she's gathering heroes to fight an evil foe who threatens the world, which isn't really something that Genkai does.

That fight, in particular, doubles down on the weird WTF Genkai bits by having her save the Doctor's life after Yusuke defeats him. Her logic, as she explains, is that she doesn't want Yusuke to be distracted by wrestling with the guilt of having taken a human life.

This is weird both for the "Why is Genkai suddenly Lawful Good?" thing and also because nothing about Yusuke indicates he would feel even the slightest remorse about killing a man. In fact, later in the show, Yusuke outright says to a pair of demons, "Yo, I know you kill and eat innocent human beings but hey, that's the food chain, yo."

The Sensui Arc felt like it was trying really hard to be Americanized Dragon Ball Z. The dubbed version where the localizers worked overtime to really push the narrative that this rag-tag group of assholes, thieves, and murderers were a Justice League style superhero team.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 7th 2019 at 12:10:16 PM

I really don't see the need to self-censor yourself. Just say "freaking" or "damn" if you don't wanna say "fuck".

In terms of the Dark Tournament team, Genkai strikes me asssssss probably at least second most moral after Kuwabara but that's because its a team with Hiei and Kurama on it.

Discussion on what went into making Mob vs. Tatsumaki, Q&A Next Week

And they are also aware of the whole "This was a close fight" joke.

It's just that it was difficult to come to a unanimous conclusion for the fight.

"It's a close fight" means that it took so long to get every researcher and writer to unanimously agree who wins.

The crew then reacts to the leaked Pokemon Sword and Shield designs. Skip to the 44 minute mark if you wish to remain clean of that as they talk about the CDB.

Chad and Sam vote for Mew, Ben and Luis vote for Mewtwo. Twitter poll ends in Mewtwo's favor.

Next CDB is Yoshi vs. Tails.

https://twitter.com/DEATHBATTLE/status/1192511389186895873

It's not censorship, it's just a personal tic. I picked up the "f*ck" spelling from some forum or chatroom about a decade and a half ago and now I just do it out of inertia to change.

Y'know, I've often wondered if that was the case.

They've mentioned that the standard protocol is to put everyone in a room once the research is done, present cases, and deliberate until the whole room unanimously agrees on a verdict. I've often thought about that and gone, "Wow, that must take for f*cking ever on some fights! I have a hard time getting three people to agree on pizza or cheeseburgers for lunch!"

I wonder if there are ever filibusters.

Also, Ben once again says he really does want to remake Link vs Cloud, and the research would be reexamined if that does happen.

The threat of the Demon portal and her own death may have changed her a bit. She could also have been lying at least a little bit.

Also, she stopped Yusuke from killing those three mind controlled Martial Artists during the dark tournament. True that because she had a way to stop them without killing them but I also think her not wanting Yusuke to kill still applied.

After thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that the biggest problem with Mob in this match-up is that we never actually saw ??? Mob fight or actively do something in general. When he appears, the fight just ends instantly due to his overwhelming presence alone. There never was a situation when he needed to put any effort against anyone because he eclipses everyone in his world in terms of power. It's pretty much the same thing as with Saitama - we don't know their true limits, because we never saw them struggle, implying that they have much more power in store that wasn't shown and likely will never be shown.

Pretty much putting Mob in DB is ultimately pointless, since his full strength cannot be determined and just implications without feats doesn't count. Yeah, we didn't see Tatsumaki at her absolute strongest either, but we at least saw her struggle and can have an idea of what her limits might be based of what was shown in the webcomic. At least, that's what I figured out.

Edited by Impossum on Nov 7th 2019 at 2:05:27 PM

Here's that Sasuke vs Orochimaru fight I talked about.

Same guy who did that episode did episode 133 of Naruto where Naruto goes fox, Sasuke gets 3 tomoe, and Naruto let's lose one out of the nine tails. His name is Norio Matsumoto.

Naruto Shippuden even had an entire filler arc called Power that was just Sakuga.

Edited by ImmaLelouch on Nov 7th 2019 at 2:13:05 PM

Anyway, that's all I'll talk about it for now. I pray they don't have something stupid like Deadpool takes Big Head's Mask.

Mob vs. Tatsukai looked great. Tk vs. Tk is a type of fight I have trouble visualizing, so this was a great version of that.

What's more powerful, being aware of and knowing how to exploit superhero tropes or pure toonforce?

Deadpool has a sword that disables healing factors and an infinity stone that alters continuity.

So he could possibly take this:

• The "carbonadium" (?) sword disables Mask's ability to put himself back together.
• The infinity stone warps Mask's continuity/feats so that either A) never puts on the Mask, or B) becomes the Jim Carrey version where the Mask only works at night.

n/a

Edited by Soble on Nov 8th 2019 at 5:27:22 AM

Is the Infinity Stone a regular part of his arsenal?

It was mentioned in Deadpool vs Deathstroke buuuuut it wasn't used in either fight, and it wasn't listed in the research breakdown.

They didn't specifically rule it out either, though.

No. To my knowledge, neither is the carbonadium sword.

Deadpool v. Deathstroke happened in season 2, before the rules changed. Deathstroke fought the strongest possible composite of Deadpool out of all the things Deadpool has ever done or had across all continuities Deadpool has ever appeared in. Deathstroke was under the same rules too.

The Mask is going to be fighting as close to 616-continuity accurate Deadpool as the researchers can get. If it's not something he carries on his person regularly, nor is it something he can easily obtain at the spur of the moment, then he's not going to have it.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 8th 2019 at 4:47:50 AM

An Infinity Stone is most definitely not apart of Deadpool's normal arsenal.

The basic equivalence of that would be giving Batman a Green Lantern ring.

Ah.

Well in that case Mask is going to murder him.

Unless

Edited by Soble on Nov 8th 2019 at 4:13:26 AM

Technically speaking those feats might not be applicable either, if they exaggerate the Mask's characteristics from the source (the comic series) to the point of contradiction.

But I don't know enough about the Mask comics to know if he has limits (and if so what they are) there.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Nov 8th 2019 at 4:51:59 AM

The Mask of the comics is very different from the Mask of the movie and animated series, though, and most people are familiar with the latter incarnations.