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Death Battle Discussion
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OrlandoSky
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This is irrelevant trivia but I recently watched an older Death Battle Cast where Ben mentioned that Death Battle when he first came up with it as ScrewAttack's cash in on the Deadliest Warrior craze going on when it was made. The original line-up was just meant to go for 10 episodes and then they move on to other projects (obviously before this completely exploded in popularity and the Death Battle average viewcount keep in mind before GvS1 average DB viewcounts only got as high as the mid 10k counts on average with the exception of Goomba/Koopa which broke a million) Ben said he recollected this from memory so some combatants were different then what they ended up being but the original 10 episode series line up for Death Battle was:
-Boba Fett vs Samus Aran
-Akuma vs Shang-Tsung
-Haggar vs Zangief
-Mario vs Sonic
-He-Man vs Lion-O
-Kratos vs Spawn
-Goku vs Superman
-Voltron vs Megazord
-Chuck Norris vs Segata Sanshiro
-Wiz vs Boomstick
Ben said the original series finale was meant to either be Chuck Norris vs Segata or Wiz for Boomstick or a two parter where Chuck and Segata's fight got so intense it got the hosts personally involved and it goes in a four way fight or something. Kratos vs Spawn was a last minute addition and happened because Chad watched the Spawn animated series and became a huge fan and they picked Kratos as the popularity choice (this was 2010 and GOW3 hype was everywhere), Haggar vs Zangief was suggested by Craig who was a huge fan of that match-up which Ben was on the fence about until he saw the popularity suggestions for it (it was the first DB made out of popular demand he said) Samus/Boba Fett and Shang Tsung/Akuma were because SA was a gaming centered company and vg were a lot more requested than comic book characters back then (and also because Ben is a Star Wars fan hence Boba Fett). He-Man vs Lion-O because Ben and Chad grew up in the 80s and He-Man/Thundercats were stapple action shows back then. They didn't specify why Voltron/Megazord but I imagine for similar reasons since a lot of SA said they grew up with Power Rangers. The remaining two (Goku/Superman and Mario/Sonic) were because they are obvious no-brainer popularity match-ups that literally everyone has not and have not ever shut up about since the beginning of online forums. Ben said Galactus vs Unicron was requested a lot (the second most requested they've ever had right behind Goku vs Superman even in early season 1 days) but it wasn't part of the original 10 episodes because it was too big at the time.
-Boba Fett vs Samus Aran
-Akuma vs Shang-Tsung
-Haggar vs Zangief
-Mario vs Sonic
-He-Man vs Lion-O
-Kratos vs Spawn
-Goku vs Superman
-Voltron vs Megazord
-Chuck Norris vs Segata Sanshiro
-Wiz vs Boomstick
Ben said the original series finale was meant to either be Chuck Norris vs Segata or Wiz for Boomstick or a two parter where Chuck and Segata's fight got so intense it got the hosts personally involved and it goes in a four way fight or something. Kratos vs Spawn was a last minute addition and happened because Chad watched the Spawn animated series and became a huge fan and they picked Kratos as the popularity choice (this was 2010 and GOW3 hype was everywhere), Haggar vs Zangief was suggested by Craig who was a huge fan of that match-up which Ben was on the fence about until he saw the popularity suggestions for it (it was the first DB made out of popular demand he said) Samus/Boba Fett and Shang Tsung/Akuma were because SA was a gaming centered company and vg were a lot more requested than comic book characters back then (and also because Ben is a Star Wars fan hence Boba Fett). He-Man vs Lion-O because Ben and Chad grew up in the 80s and He-Man/Thundercats were stapple action shows back then. They didn't specify why Voltron/Megazord but I imagine for similar reasons since a lot of SA said they grew up with Power Rangers. The remaining two (Goku/Superman and Mario/Sonic) were because they are obvious no-brainer popularity match-ups that literally everyone has not and have not ever shut up about since the beginning of online forums. Ben said Galactus vs Unicron was requested a lot (the second most requested they've ever had right behind Goku vs Superman even in early season 1 days) but it wasn't part of the original 10 episodes because it was too big at the time.
Maddie
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I really wish and hope DBS was as ambitious as the death battles show DBS
@OtherGalaxy I'm still lost where Base, Super, and Ultra Megatron stand. Can you link calcs, statements, etc where they stand?
Like Freeza is x-times universal due to y-feat with its calc and a-times FTL due to b-feat with its calc
@OtherGalaxy I'm still lost where Base, Super, and Ultra Megatron stand. Can you link calcs, statements, etc where they stand?
Like Freeza is x-times universal due to y-feat with its calc and a-times FTL due to b-feat with its calc
@Claudio Swiss the salt is flowing, it seems. @OtherGalaxy we got another lad out here who, like that one other idiot, is wanking the shit out of IDW Megatron.
@Claudio Swiss the salt is flowing, it seems. @OtherGalaxy we got another lad out here who, like that one other idiot, is wanking the shit out of IDW Megatron.
I ain't giving this nerd clicks
@Claudio Swiss the salt is flowing, it seems. @OtherGalaxy we got another lad out here who, like that one other idiot, is wanking the shit out of IDW Megatron.
i have no clue who started it but i stand by Universal IDW being the transformers equivalent of the getbackers deception
I can't emphasize enough that it isn't a "different or high end interpretation" it isn't real
It weird how wanked it gets and the thing nobody can pinpoint when
i was really shocked when I got back into the hobby and saw them VSB profiles, so it might have been them? But they walked it back and have better IDW profiles now, so idk why it's persisted
The answer is simple. Wank will always find a way to persist in any fandom. There is no exception.
but then likeThe answer is simple. Wank will always find a way to persist in any fandom. There is no exception.
why not wank the characters that actually have feats? that’s what I don’t get
maybe it’s just recency bias since IDW has a big fanbase online coinciding with the hobby growing
Probably that and many are not aware of other TF series like JPG1, Unicron Trilogy etc
OrlandoSky
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Would like to address the instant with Thanos that Ben is currently bringing up.
The feat was from CGR who is a souped up Ghost Rider with the Herald powers of Galactus and he used it on a weak version of Thanos that didn't have the blessing of Death like 616 Thanos has. And also it wasn't the Penance Stare, he just blasted his body to annihilation with the sheer force of hellfire/power cosmic
The feat was from CGR who is a souped up Ghost Rider with the Herald powers of Galactus and he used it on a weak version of Thanos that didn't have the blessing of Death like 616 Thanos has. And also it wasn't the Penance Stare, he just blasted his body to annihilation with the sheer force of hellfire/power cosmic
OrlandoSky
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Spawn also moving beyond the concept of time Liam brought up was also flowery dialogue of Spawn entering Hell (a dimension that doesn't follow the rules of our natural time) not him moving at infinite speed.
Next tournament MU
Kratos vs Asura
Peter vs Griffith
Dexter vs Jimmy
Luffy vs Naruto
Kratos vs Asura
Peter vs Griffith
Dexter vs Jimmy
Luffy vs Naruto
yeah that i get (at least with JG1) the funny thing is I’ve seen these same people try to cross scale to boost idw to insane multiversal++++ levels so some of them are aware of the other stuff, just not how it works at all
yeah that Thanos didn’t have any kind of amps or anything no special trinkets. I don’t see how CGR killing him is impressive in the grand scheme of things
