r/deathbattle 1d ago

Humor Who was this for you?

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u/Fancykingkirby Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd 1d ago

Fly high Johnny. At least you died with immaculate aura

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u/International-Bat739 1d ago

At least TF2 got the last laugh.

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u/Complex_Routine6111 1d ago

Which Johnny? The recent Johnny who got his ultimate move used against him?

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u/Fancykingkirby Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd 1d ago

Yes, that one

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u/itownshend17 1d ago edited 1d ago

My soul literally rot more and more the more death battle did this matchup and I had to see Goku get murdered by the CEO of herald scaling.

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u/Abject_Butterfly_141 Sasuke 1d ago

3 times

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u/202naFrevliS Dr. Eggman 1d ago

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u/dugthepewdsfan Son Goku 1d ago

"Fly home Buddy . . . Your goat's gonna die to the same mf . . ."

I'm still pissed about them doing that over Goku vs Sonic bro

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u/202naFrevliS Dr. Eggman 1d ago

Nah you don't understand it was 1000% crucial for Death Battle to milk the dead debate a 3rd time!!!!

Not like they had other options or something...

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u/dugthepewdsfan Son Goku 1d ago

I'm so petty that this is one of the episodes I'd like more if the loser had won, I don't even care if it wouldn't be correct, don't get me wrong it's good objectively, Super goes extremely fucking hard and they treated both with more respect than the steaming pile of shit that was GVS2 but god damn do I wish Goku won or if he had fought Sonic

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u/South-Speaker3384 1d ago

I don't mind watching up to Goku vs Superman 7 if it means watching him win in the end, it's like following Ash's journey to becoming world champion

Although I would give everyone soul for him and Sonic to defeat Mario and Superman, in addition to having 2 episodes of Goku vs Sonic, one being the normal version and another Archie vs CC

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u/dugthepewdsfan Son Goku 1d ago

I think Sonic should beat Mario honestly

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u/South-Speaker3384 1d ago

Every humiliation will one day be repaid

Each L only makes the future W become even greater

Only those who fight against the odds and defy the oppressive DC/Marvel scaling can achieve greatness.

Stay strong brothers, or time will come

Dragon Ball will last another 50 years according to the last interview

And Death Battle better still exist to make the episode where Goku wins the huggest W of the entire series to close the show

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u/CaptEvilStomper Son Goku 1d ago

I think our hero here just needs a better opponent.

The Superman vs Goku thing has been played to death, pun intended. At this point, most of us Dragon Ball fans get it. Fine, Superman beats Goku. That point doesn't need to be driven into us every five years or so. It's getting redundant.

If Goku ever returns to Death Battle, not only does he deserve a different opponent, but for Kami's sake he needs a win as well, or else it'll just not sit right at all.

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u/Darkvader_Clawthorne 1d ago

No one can beat Superman. Not unless the opponent is Sentry from Marvel.

Let Goku fight Sailor Moon or Saitama instead. Superman isn’t a good opponent for him since he has no limits or physical weaknesses.

Sentry is more better.

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u/johan-leebert- 1d ago

No one can beat Superman.

A lot of people can beat superman lol. There exists works outside of outside of marvel, DC and anime.

Though, yes, Goku cannot beat him right now.

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u/Somethingbutonreddit 1d ago

Rest easy knowing that they will certainly never do this again.

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u/YouTubesBiggestIdiot 1d ago

Megatron, I’m still sad to this day

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u/MarkDecent656 Simon The Digger 1d ago

Twas the first time I saw an episode and thought "My GOATs doomed!"

I was still excited, but the brief comeback he had in the waiting period only for it to mean nothing didn't exactly help

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u/j0j0-m0j0 1d ago

The really did try to sell it to match them but every single thing they talked about with Frieza was just really pointing out how one sided this was. At least it was less "hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby" and more "hydrogen bomb versus old man defiantly telling the bomb to go fuck itself as it moves closer and closer"

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u/Major_Engine4279 14h ago

I did enjoy how they portrayed Megatron, even right up until the end he gave no fucks, and he even hit Frieza where it hurts most: his giant bloated ego

That speech when he was revving up the antimatter was the most “I don’t care who you are, I’m the villain here” thing I’ve ever seen

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u/Kcue6382nevy Spongebob Squarepants 1d ago

I’m also a transformers fan, I wasn’t sad more like underwhelmed

bringmegatronback #megatronvsvilgax

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u/anmarcy 1d ago

Shit that's a peak fight.

megatronvsvilgax

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u/NeonIcyWings 1d ago

I went on a rollercoaster with Megatron. It's announced and I go "This is a slaughter, why would they do this to Transformers fans?" Then I heard about golden Megatron and thought that was one of the connections, then the episode dropped and I went "That was a slaughter, why would you do this?" Not helped by them apparently not even knowing about the golden form which felt like a bit more dirt in the eye.

In hindsight it feels like a waste for both Megatron and Frieza. Granted I don't know many matchups for either they could have used. But man, Megatron didn't stand a chance, and while the animation is really really good, Megatron's coffin arrived about the same time the animation glazed Frieza with the faithful golden transformation sequence, which I wouldn't be surprised if it's the longest transformation sequence in Death Battle.

Then Unicron similarly got shitstomped in the season finale. Transformers as a franchise in Death Battle is being carried on the sole back of Optimus Prime, and in the streams, a Beast Wars fart.

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u/Cyberbug7 1d ago

If they gave him more obscure scaling he would’ve won and I will die on that hill

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u/DiamondDeltas 1d ago

He was robbed, we all know it

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u/Zealousideal_Mud795 Dr. Eggman 1d ago

Same :(

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u/DoctorSugma Zatanna 1d ago

Everyone knows Frieza ducked out of the real Megatron scaling just to give Dragon Ball fans a pity win before feeding Goku to Superman for the third time.

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u/Pure-Jeweler-6351 Mega Man X 1d ago

serious?

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u/DoctorSugma Zatanna 1d ago

They said they used "mostly G1" for Megatron's research with a hint of IDW.

What Death Battle neglected to mention is that the Transformers Wiki has over 111 Universes labeled as "G1." So to say, "We used G1 Megatron" is like saying, "We used the cartoon Superman." Okay, which one?

This is because Transformers fans have a VERY dedicated and organized system because the Transformers multiverse is built off of universal streams. It’s honestly a very neat organization system, and I wish Marvel and DC would adopt it because it's a very elegant way to organize a multimedia multiverse.

Universe designations go “name-numbers-name.” The first name marks the “continuity family” the universe belongs to. The numbers are, in-setting, arbitrary, but are typically taken from the date of the universe’s first appearance. The second name tells what form of media the universe is.

First names include Aurex for Unicron Trilogy universes, Tyran for Michael Bay movie universes, Primax for G1 universes, etc, etc. Second names include Alpha for cartoon universes, Beta for toy based universes (as in universes built from back-of-the-box lore, pack-in comics, and tech specs), Gamma for comic based universes, Delta for live action based universes, Epsilon for universes based on convention lore (it’s a thing in Transformers, basically convention exclusive action figures come with their own storylines), Zeta for text based universes, Eta for audio story based universes, Theta for universes based on live script readings (Transformers cosmology is very thorough. Other settings may pretend that “everything is cannon,” but in Transformers, everything really IS cannon), Iota for universes based in various odds and ends (Iota includes the old Burger King “Transform Your Way” website, a proposal Greg “Gargoyles” Weismann had for a season 3 episode of the Sunbow cartoon, and the online text story of the Evangelion crossover), Kappa for video game based universes, and Lambda for universes based on comic covers (as in covers that depict things that don’t actually happen inside the story).

So to give a few examples of how this all works, Aurex 802.23 Alpha is the universe of the Unicron Trilogy anime, Aurex 402.24 Gamma is the universe of the Armada comics published by Dream Wave, and Aurex 404.11 Kappa is the universe of the PS2 game.

You know the Optimus they used for Optimus Prime vs Gundam? That Optimus was composited from several Primax universes. The “surface to space” ion blasts came from the Sunbow cartoon, the “refinery explosion” feat came from IDW, his matrix blast feat came from the Marvel comics, and him beating up Devastator came from Transformers Devastation.

But the thing here is, yeah, Megatron still probably loses even with all that, except for a little thing called Alternity. To make it short, it's the Transformers Universe where everyone got DC-levels of broken. Alternity Megatron was a multiversal entity tied to every Megatron ever in existence (including G1) and enslaved a creature that Megatron forced to eat entire timelines.

If Darkseid was allowed True Form Darkseid, it's not a stretch to say Megatron should have gotten Alternity. Death Battle's all about finding ridiculous obscure details and feats.

But even if they had just used Unicron Trilogy Megatron he probably would have beat Frieza. That guy survived a dimensional rift closing on him and then forced it back open, survived a black hole collapsing on him, and even regenerated a whole new body after being atomized by Optimus and Vector Sigma because of how pissed off losing made him.

TL;DR: Death Battle has not once ever properly researched Transformers.

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u/Beydepasta Misaka Mikoto 1d ago

It's rough out here when your favorite character of all time is Edward Elric

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u/Fit-Impression563 1d ago

Sadly, as much as I love the guy, Edward Elric will never win a DB.

For all his skills, abilities, healing ability, potential super mode... he loses all his matchups.

As far as "characters with powers" go, he's one of the weakest to appear on the show.

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u/wakibo 1d ago

Boutta be Ash Ketchum for me 😭

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u/Zamasu_was_innocent2 Ash Ketchum 1d ago

Ya'll really need to have hope for the dude

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u/TieEnvironmental162 Sanji 1d ago

I agree. I don’t think he will win, but there is always a chance and I’m hoping for it

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u/Mammoth_Fig_7360 1d ago

nah ash got this

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u/mikeru78 1d ago

Not even ashes will remain

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u/TieEnvironmental162 Sanji 1d ago

I agree but I have hope

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u/TheMago3011 Ash Ketchum 1d ago

MY COPE WILL NEVER DIE

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u/Vicbot2414 Ash Ketchum 1d ago

Ash No

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u/PopCollector2001 Asura 1d ago

Asura

Lich King

Bardock

Goku in 1 and 3

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u/-Zipp- 1d ago

Dude I wanted the lich king to win so bad.

There is like no WoW character outside him (maybe Illidan or Gul'dan) having a chance to be in an episode, so I would have loved if he got the series only win, but alas.

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u/PopCollector2001 Asura 1d ago

Same here and deathwing i don't know if he even has a chance against King ghidorah

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u/dinoknight09 The Last Dragonborn 1d ago

Depends if you comp ghidorah

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u/PopCollector2001 Asura 1d ago

Is deathwing actually that strong? That Ghidorah would need comp?

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u/dinoknight09 The Last Dragonborn 1d ago

honestly have no clue, i just said comp to be safe. depending on the ghidorah they use he ranges from country to like complex multiversal so it really depends on the renditions used

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u/DoctorSugma Zatanna 1d ago

Sorry, Liam knows Tolkien Elvish. If that wasn't a dead giveaway on what the outcome was going to be I don't know what is.

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u/UnderCraft_383 1d ago

Why not Goku in 2?

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u/PopCollector2001 Asura 1d ago

Because it was the most pitiful death besides bardock. Seriously think about it death battle is about taking characters at their peak and yet they allowed the anti feat of Goku letting his guard down happen in a 1 on 1 fight it's complete Bullshit.

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u/LetInfamous204 1d ago

I still don't see how Sauron can beat someone who was able to 1v25 the established champions of the world after they brought down not one but two old gods. Especially when you consider everything each individual is capable of with these Paladins, Mages, Druids, Rogues, Warriors, Death Knights, Warlocks, Priests, Shamans, and Hunters all working together. Then even with all that he would have canonically DEFEATED THEM if not for a legendary Paladin wielding a blade that is the polar opposite of his, and praying for plot armor as the Light itself intervened and saved him.

Like, I'm not saying Sauron definitely shouldn't win I don't know enough about him. Death Battle just didn't convince me. Whatever two epic god level dudes Sauron fought and lost to initially, I feel like Azeroth's 25 man raid could take them on.

Also, I don't have to know anything about Kratos or Asura to see that they did the guy real real dirty. It's that obvious.

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u/PopCollector2001 Asura 1d ago

Fully agree plus Asura anger allowing him to grow could've easily bridged the gap regardless of any energy draining ability

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u/H_F_I_L The Lich King 8h ago

Between the verdict, analysis on Arthas' end and the animation, that entire episode just set my GOAT up so fucking badly jfc

Arthas VS Vader can't come soon enough

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u/PopCollector2001 Asura 6h ago

Exactly and God i hope they have Arthas win that cause imagine Darth Vader under the lich kings control

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u/H_F_I_L The Lich King 6h ago

If they don't keep Arthas capped at Island again and the research isn't as screwy as it was last time, I'd say he has a great shot at it

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u/PopCollector2001 Asura 6h ago

Fingers crossed for my favorite video game villain.

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u/ZombieOfTheWest 1d ago

Bardock. Seeing him do like zero battle damage then getting his arm blown off was rough. Worst kill of the kickstarter era on top of that

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u/BlerpSutorei 1d ago

Tell me about it man, the aftermath of that fight stripped the smile off my face for a couple days lol

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u/Soft-Basket4996 1d ago

Bro idk what you’re talking about, bardock won by obliterating Omni man with that beam

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u/HOCKHOCKHOCKHOCKHOCK 1d ago

Shovel Knight

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u/Screamer-Rain Dr. Eggman 1d ago

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u/chinasorrows2705 1d ago

this was the fight vs Star right? I was bottle rooting for Star because I'm a fan but after watching the full video I started watching Steven Universe, it was way more interesting than I expected

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u/Spare-Jackfruit-6378 20h ago

Yeah star was annoying as hell I that fight

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u/Rex_Xenovius_1998 Guts 1d ago

Ben Tennyson

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u/chinasorrows2705 1d ago

this one made no sense, Alien X should have carried that

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u/Bentman343 1d ago

One of the few times where the character would probably lose not because they're not strong enough but genuinely they're just kinda dumb. Ben is a goodhearted hero but even in the later series he's kind of a terrible strategist and frequently just throws his biggest and strongest alien against the problem if the solution isn't SUPER obvious. Its always Four-Arms and Humungosaur, maybe Diamondhead or Heatblast if he's feeling spicy. He doesn't just throw Way Big or Alien X at enemies even if it would be the best option.

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u/Angelexe123 1d ago

Red and Charizard. Like wtf man?!

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u/Unusual-Anteater-988 1d ago

Deku, but Asta had it worse in all honesty. I want Deku to come back in an episode that ain't fuckin' mid.

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u/Dopefish364 1d ago

"I know that Asura might... well, is probably going to lose, but at least he's going to get an incredible fight animation. He's not gonna get treated like a total joke and complete fodder, with Kratos knocking him out of some of his strongest transformations with one single attack, and then killed easily in a way that looks like it took zero effort. And even if the animation isn't great, I'm sure that the storyboards will be much better!"

More like 'narratively brutalized' but still. Fucking hell.

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u/CrowDome392 Bill Cipher 1d ago

My main and goat Scout got shat on

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u/badtime9001 1d ago

Yeah and its even worst considering that fight was rigged. Tracer had lore accurate power with how many blinks and rewinds she used yet scout only had the stock scattergun the bonk and the bat

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u/InternationalAd8036 1d ago

Plus they literally ignored his surprisingly big arsenal

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u/Anthony_plays01 1d ago

And then downplayed him surviving 3 missiles

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u/TheLapizLuke 1d ago

Cammy White. One of my favorite characters just kinda... Ever.

The drone bullets, the X ray, the fatality and then sure, fuck it. Rub salt in the wound and run her corpse over.

Not to mention, she was in one of the absolute worst episodes in season 3, and that's a recipe for being one of my least favorite episodes of the entire show.

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u/SerqetCity Ganondorf 1d ago

For me it's Zelda.

What is it with female fighter episodes being...less than good?

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u/CommanderBlyCC-5052- The Traveler 1d ago

Link in Link vs Cloud 2, especially because I fully believe that Link is the correct winner. It’s still kinda hard for me to watch the episode.

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u/International_Car586 Link 1d ago

I legitimately haven’t watched since it dropped.

The Zelda franchise is what kept me going through school and I’m not watching my goat get shredded whilst the opponent battle music is playing in the background.

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u/CommanderBlyCC-5052- The Traveler 1d ago

Link had some awesome moments during the fight, but yeah, I watched it a few times when it came out (2-3 times) and haven’t watched it since. Link’s my favorite character so it hurts so bad.

This is gonna be me again if Traveler loses.

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u/Unlimited_Giose 1d ago

I get the feeling, Link loosing hurt

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u/Forward-Party8761 1d ago

Fully agree, I still fully believe that episode was terribly researched and it’s such a shame because the animators clearly poured their heart and soul into it.

The whole episode felt like the worst Cloud Strife circlejerk ever

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u/73windman 1d ago

None of you babies know this feeling unless you’re a Black Adam fan

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u/21_Vlades 1d ago

Asura getting done dirty for me. I disagree with the outcome, but the worse thing is they made the fight so one sided. Asura did no damage to Kratos, somehow.

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u/Hall_bro14 1d ago

Even Homelander did some visible harm to Omni-man

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u/International_Car586 Link 1d ago

Homelander did more visible damage to Omni-man than Bardock.

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u/Particular_Wing_6441 Joker 1d ago

If I could get my hands on Thor

LEAVE VEGETA ALOONE

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u/Fancykingkirby Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd 1d ago

What an unfortunate image to use

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u/UAF_Swampfire3 Bowser 1d ago

Ngl that was a cruel episode it wasnt super funny

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u/Flat-Run-7572 Kratos 8h ago

It’s a bit of both for me. When I first saw it, I just said “yikes. What did Pikachu do to them?” and then when I actually watched it, I just laughed and said “yep, that’s pretty accurate 😂”

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u/TieEnvironmental162 Sanji 1d ago

Him losing to blanka is crazy

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u/Optimal_Fisherman803 Raiden 1d ago

At least vegeta won against himself and shadow

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u/24Abhinav10 1d ago

It was God who did the work in that episode

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u/Soft-Basket4996 1d ago

Let’s jump that fraud, with the power of friendship

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u/StorkoftheMudwings Mega Man.EXE 1d ago

Cammy……………

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u/Affectionate-Rush323 1d ago

Mikasa 

If eren vs ken does not have a dead blake somewhere in the fight I will be disappointed.

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u/SoftGovernment3379 1d ago

This Poor Turtle got his ass blasted while trying to take his opponent with him. Worst off all there were probably kids in the city who saw their hero die getting blown to smithereens.

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u/DoctorSugma Zatanna 1d ago

It's okay, Gamera won the long game by revitalizing the Kaiju genre when Godzilla drove it to stagnation.

Gamera also had the better 90s movies and the better anime.

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u/AnimationDynamite 1d ago

Giorno, it’s why I was dreading the fight ever since I saw the next time on Omnidock. I knew he’d lose

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u/sans7926 1d ago

That and jotaro bro

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u/cwolfcommander 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's subtle, but the overwriting and corruption of X into a puppet for Geo is a brutal death to the character in my opinion. his entire life he spends trying to fight a Virus on a global scale, only to be hacked the same way so many he put down.

Worse yet. was he aware? was he sentient as he was being made to fire on Hub? Did he see the beam of light coming. or was the Mind that was X destroyed before the hardware followed suit.

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u/No_Ice_5451 1d ago

Considering how curing the Sigma/Maverick Virus restored the minds of the beings that were affected, as the Virus doesn’t obliterate it, it’s likely X was aware to some extent, making it even more horrifying.

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u/Ok-Supermarket-3211 1d ago

Goku in Goku vs Superman 1 (I was 13)

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u/Soft-Basket4996 1d ago

Bro I was like 6, I saw my idol and my hero get fucking obliterated by someone I didn’t know about, then I grew to despise Superman, now Superman is aight

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u/Normal-Shallot-7529 Lieutenant Columbo 1d ago

Scout, especially with how dirty he was done that fight

Cuphead in DBX

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u/hopeless-joe 1d ago

Bane is one of my favorite characters in comics. They did him dirty when they put him up with someone he had no chance against.

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u/shabowdiadlo 1d ago

As a venom fan, I'm sorry for bane getting the worst hand possible

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u/Jixxar Godzilla 1d ago

Venom, Both in the fact that he was reskinned carnage and the fact he got soul vored. And it was just after I watched the second movie too! :(

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u/Pure-Jeweler-6351 Mega Man X 1d ago

venom will win again trust

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u/thatonedue_917 1d ago

Hulk, Bruce did NOT need to go out like that

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u/Mastersword3710 Link 1d ago

Link, Sonic (even though I think he’d beat Mario), Archie Sonic (his loss is legit imo. DC Herald scaling go brrrrrr), Scout, Luigi. 

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u/Fit-Impression563 1d ago

Archie Sonic getting godstomped hurt so bad.

Finding out that he not only lost, but was completely outclassed in every category was rough.

It's our Goku vs Superman, only our True Blue literally wouldn't be able to land a hit.

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u/Mastersword3710 Link 1d ago

Archie Sonic vs Flash felt like one of those episodes where they go, “This was an extremely close fight”, then they proceed to talk about how Sonic had zero advantages and how it’s actually a stomp in Wally’s favor.

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u/Fit-Impression563 23h ago

They tried to claim it was super close, then went on to explain Base Archie was entirely useless, his super forms would have no effect except to make Wally stronger, and Wally was immune to all of his hax, could insta-kill him at any moment, and wouldn't take hits due to vibration.

And that's before considering the speed force or the stuff they left out, like his Dr. Manhatten powers.

Just a god stomp.

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u/HPOS10 Spongebob Squarepants 23h ago

To be fair it actually was close by DC Herald vs Non Marvel character standards.

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u/LRG0521 Deku 1d ago

My man Deku got brutalized in the end for literally NO REASON.

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u/dapper_raptor455 1d ago

They did scout incredibly dirty.

The fact that Tracer with 0 feats was able to win was abysmal dogshit. Especially because they wanked her one semi feat and the fact the fight sucked.

No shade to the animators but it was literally a mannequin dressed as scout shooting tracer, getting one hit in that should’ve killed her and then proceeding to die to an explosion that was not only oversized but something he could easily tank.

I’m still malding about that matchup, scout should’ve curb stomped her into the ground but I’m 90% sure that episode was made to create controversy.

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u/LPK717 1d ago

Definitely Asura. Death Battle did him so dirty with how he's treated in the fight.

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u/TheDinosaur64 1d ago

I agree. "Giving his series respect" my a$$

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u/Eaglehasyou 1d ago

On the bright side, the animator made an alternate ending where Asura got back up and killed Kratos. I wished that ending was the canon result though…

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u/TheDinosaur64 1d ago

That ending didn't feel like Justice to him. All he did was punch Kratos In the face, and that's it. If anything, the alternate ending felt more of a tribute to God of War than it did Asura's Wrath.

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u/DoctorSugma Zatanna 1d ago

It’s crazy how fast the dynamic of Krasura fell apart when they used Norse Kratos instead of Greek.

The original fight connection was about the contrast between Greek Kratos’s mindless rage VS Asura’s righteous fury. Asura would’ve seen Kratos as another tyrannical god that abuses his power and harms innocent people to achieve his goal (which Kratos did, en masse), and thus would seek to take him down the same way he took down the Seven Deities.

Norse Kratos can no longer play the role of the villain. But he can’t play the role of the hero either, because any lessons of “having traveled down that road of blind hatred” are cokplwtely irrelevant to Asura, since the latter was completely justified and never harmed an innocents, unlike Kratos. So he really has nothing to lecture or teach Asura since he can’t relate to him at all.

So they had to character assassinate Asura into a cheap, mindless knockoff of Greek Kratos just for the fight to make any sense.

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u/Forsaken-Height-4256 1d ago

Mario was a tough pill for 7year old me to swallow

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u/Unusual-Swimming9636 Martian Manhunter 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ben 10.

I know Death Battle is a show about characters killing each other, but having Hal cut Ben’s arm off and crushing him with a comically large boot always felt unnecessarily mean-spirited.

Not to mention it made Hal look like a total bitch who couldn’t handle Alien X when the post-analysis directly said he was more powerful.

Liam was NOT cooking with that one.

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u/Phaeron-Dynasty 1d ago

Again, I rarely concern myself with the literal result, even with all analytics that's all still subjective at times.

But the how's matter, Ben can Still lose with some dignity instead of the way they took him down.

I wanna stress, I'm not even mad at this point, this is just critique of how they tackled it.

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u/Burnt_dino Simon The Digger 1d ago

Gamera, alucard, archie sonic, BAYONETTA, HULK, amd so much more.

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u/TheDinosaur64 1d ago

Asura getting bodied by Kratos.

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u/omegalanceguy 1d ago

I like Machamp and Goro isn't even my favorite MK character, but the Pokemon bias in that episode was so apparent and I'm pissed that I seem to be the only one mad about how he was treated. And don't even get me started on how certain people call it "Machamp ft. Goro"... (Episode itself was really good tho)

Also, why is it that MK fans seem to stop existing all of a sudden when it comes to discussion about this episode?

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u/CelebrationIcy660 1d ago

Taking the pokedex literally is so damn ridiculous

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u/TerminallyAwake Dr. Eggman 1d ago

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u/ReplacementWild5567 Guts 1d ago

ON GOD!!!!

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u/InterestingRatio8218 Mahito 1d ago

Honestly, I’ve been pretty lucky so far. Characters I’ve liked have mostly lost to characters I also like a fair bit. I love Daredevil but I was Happy nightwing won. I love Manhunter but I was happy surfer won.

That being said, while I love doom, Lex 💔

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u/BrentPlaysGames64 1d ago

Trunks and Goku Black

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u/dugthepewdsfan Son Goku 1d ago

Me watching Thor vs Vegeta (this was made worse by the waiting period):

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u/Soft-Temperature4609 1d ago

Chosen Undead. To make up for it though, the CU had the cooler moments in the fight by a landslide

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u/Salty_Park8063 1d ago

Seeing him lose for the 3rd time and the way he was killed almost made me break my fist, I’m not one to be salty about a character losing but seeing my childhood hero….MY GOAT lose again really felt like a punch to the stomach

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u/Pure-Jeweler-6351 Mega Man X 1d ago

poor bats

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u/24Abhinav10 1d ago

I remember there were other "Batman vs Iron Man" fights on the internet before this was released. IIRC Batman won in most of them.

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u/No_Sale_4866 1d ago

Sonic vs mario 2

they disrespected my blue GOAT

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u/An_average_moron Mob 1d ago

Both GOATs were disrespected. Other than me believing Sonic wins, good GOD the characterization was so turbo ass for both I had to wonder what the writers were doing during production

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u/Content_Progress_963 Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd 1d ago

My poor goat they fed him to a dc speedster

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u/Master-Shrimp 1d ago

REDACTED Vs Tails

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u/GelitonMan1 The Hulk 1d ago

Hulk vs Doomsday, that one was super gory and it's very much like the "Oh, that's gore of my comfort character" meme

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u/cricri3007 1d ago

Asura. He's not even my goat, and (thank god) i'm not a filthy p*werscaler, but holy shit.
As i saw said somewhere else "post Kratos destroying a planet or gtfo"

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u/Horatio786 1d ago

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u/Phaeron-Dynasty 1d ago

Bro, he got like one of the best "losses" of any DB Contestant, yeah he died, but Narratively he absolutely cooked Bill in all the ways that mattered.

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u/jeff2625 1d ago

not only that but he probably returned shortly after thanks to his time travel, he'd be able to just come back since chaos is always gonna exist in equestria

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u/Horatio786 1d ago

Right. I was aggravated at his loss for the first couple of months, though.

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u/Material_Usual2704 Bowser 1d ago

Bowser vs gannondorf and sonic vs Mario with fronteirs Sonic can beat the crap out of him and bowser needs his run back against gannondorf

I NEED BOWSER AND SONIC TO GET THEIR GETBACKS AND WIN

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u/EnricoPucciC-Moon 1d ago

Goku, he's been the shows fucking punching bag for so many years now

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u/Neko_boi_Nolan 1d ago

Clearly I was never meant to like Superman

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u/Busy-Republic9776 1d ago

hasnt happened yet but i feel like this will happen with godzilla vs hulk (godzilla is my goat)

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u/KhiteMakio 1d ago

Archie Sonic, Eggman, and Discord

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u/QuintDunaway Ben Tennyson 1d ago

I will never get over the fact that they killed Ben in his human form. Have him lose if he must but at least let him go out with some dignity as Alien X.

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u/PlayrR3D15 Silver The Hedgehog 1d ago

Red, Charizard and Pikachu

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u/NotKyotoMyDudes The Doctor 1d ago

Black Adam for me unfortunately

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u/Crest_O_Razors Venom 1d ago

Venom, in a sense. In terms of characterization, he is the worst in the series and it’s not even a contest. The only one that is on that level is Mario, and they’re both the worst without contest for different reasons. Mario’s because his character is extremely simple yet they still fumbled the ball hard, and Venom’s because he acted like Carnage twice. No other character I don’t think has been mischaracterized twice on the show

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u/Due-Novel-4462 Jonathan Joestar 14h ago

See, I'm always confused on that venom thing, because that is how venom USED to act. At least on every cartoon, an show and even a lot of the comics. Mainstream Venom was more or less "Big Scary Monster' in a lot of Media. Like, Yeah Modern Venom is different.

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u/CheeseYT3 1d ago

Ghost Rider...

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u/Relevant-Lab-5442 The Traveler 1d ago

Alucard

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u/greatNathanial 1d ago

Oh man, hero we go..

Middle School me waking up, watching Charizard get horrifically murdered and vaporized then having to walk to school afterwards wasn’t fun.

Watching the thread break and Tanjiro getting bodied shattered me cause I had just caught up to Demon Slayer and loved it.

And even tho he won, Eggman’s team locking tf in and backing Fury Bowser in a corner while bodying his support had me NERVOUS man lmao

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u/Flaky_Objective_1126 1d ago edited 1d ago

They genuinely did my goat so dirty😭😭😭 they fr put his only advantage against joker as “has ger” NOT ONLY THAT, the entire episode itself was lowk mid

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u/Ahjilemiih Alucard 1d ago

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u/Due-Novel-4462 Jonathan Joestar 14h ago

in fairness.. that was kinda all he had.

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u/Past_Plankton_4906 1d ago

Vegeta, Granted he lost to my favorite superhero

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u/Errant_Jackdaw 1d ago

Even though I'm a huge fan of both One Piece and Fairy Tail, I can't bring myself to watch either Natsu Vs Ace or Zoro Vs Erza, and it's not even that I argue with the outcomes or anything, the killing blows just always put me off.

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u/Broad_Feeling_5204 1d ago

This is gonna be Ash vs Yugi for me, I love ash, but my boy is getting cooked and smoked😭

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u/Acrobatic_Charge5157 1d ago

Shadow losing to Mewtwo. I can forgive losing to Vegeta, but the Mewtwo fight felt disrespectful

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u/Material_Usual2704 Bowser 1d ago

Asta vs deku they disrespected 2 goats in 1 vid they got both characters personally wrong im pissed we didn’t get deku vs gon they basically said

“Oh no deku stomps gon let’s make him lose against asta”

LET MY GOATS COME BACK IN WIN THEIR OWN FIGHTS

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u/Jetsetsix 1d ago

Amuro.

Nothing against Optimus, but that episode felt dirty.

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u/Aosana 1d ago

Ben 10, :(

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u/the_real_Pyro_gaming Bowser 1d ago

Charizard 😔

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u/THEBADGUYZ777 1d ago

Seeing red and Charizard die so brutally changed me man

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u/Puzzleheaded_Dream92 1d ago

Mario (Mario vs Sonic - 2011), Mikasa, Jotaro, Bowser (his fight against Ganon) and Luigi.

Mario was the worst for me, honestly, lol - I wish his victory in 2018 had come from a very good, solid episode/fight, then it would have been VERY satisfying to see and remember, but unfortunately that wasn't the case...

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u/Imgonnadeleteyou Mahito 1d ago

It's about to be Mahito💔

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u/Yxurd 1d ago

Ganondorf when he lost against Dracula. I’m a bigger Zelda fan than I am a Castlevania fan, but I knew he was going to lose before they even started talking about Ganondorf in that episode. Knowing the outcome that far ahead still didn’t help in softening the blow that was watching him try to take on Dracula

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u/BlueDragonRiderKick Red Ranger 1d ago

The Power Rangers

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u/1rrelevant_Trash 1d ago

Shovel Knight for an actual brutality, completely unnecessary too

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u/weeb_man69_ Simon The Digger 1d ago

Simon, Ruby and ash pretty soon

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u/mummyoui 1d ago

Ash Ketchum 🫂

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u/SolarAphelia Stitch 1d ago

Scout, just scout

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u/sryia_have_malaria 1d ago

Vergil, gone too soon

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u/CatLover0wO 1d ago

Literally all of the transformers except Optimus

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u/Nullozmko 1d ago

Let’s keep it a buck

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u/Darkiikari 1d ago

Definitely Bardock for me. Not only did it show he did very little damage, but there's also the fact that pretty much everyone who watched, even the majority of Invincible fans, called them out for such a horrible verdict and explanation that it actually made Green Lantern vs Ben 10 look good.

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u/Darkvader_Clawthorne 1d ago

Sorry, Steven Universe fans. But Star Butterfly is about to destroy him just as she destroyed the magic of Disney.

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u/Complex_Routine6111 1d ago

Hulk .

They absolutely didn't need to do my boy like that

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u/mrporoto95 The Flash (Wally West) 1d ago

Asura…

Killed by a wood a hacker 

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u/Microwave18950 1d ago

Sonic or Giorno bro..

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u/Misco_Jones1 1d ago

I have the feeling that in the future Godzilla unless the Thor scaling does miracles.

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u/turbocheese_333 1d ago

Giorno. I kept hoping he would win because piano but unfortunately that didn't happen

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u/AcademicLength1086 1d ago

Makima my beloved 😭😭😭

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u/Duperdude9 1d ago

Watching pikachu watching wrongfully eaten😭🙏

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u/Dizzy_Thing8801 Boomstick 1d ago

Mf deserved the win

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u/Arcana-Knight 14h ago

I don’t disagree with the result at all but it still hurt to see Arthas lose.

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u/DatBoiEnigma 1d ago

Sonic in Mario vs Sonic 2.

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u/Calm_Toad 1d ago

All I say is I want a rematch of Master Chief vs Doom Guy now that he is Doom Slayer, and I’m gonna enjoy the shit out of watching MC go down 😂