Hey, LittleZbot here, and allow me to introduce something you will probably either love or hate or just not care about. This is a Death Battle fanfiction. Based off the popular Online Show, I pit two fictional characters in a battle to the death and explain why I think who won would win. If this sounds like a terrible idea to you, that's because it probably is, and you might want to leave and never read anything I write again in this fanfiction. I mean, you're free to go ahead and read it, but I can't guarantee its quality.

Let me establish something: This is just for fun. I literally look all this stuff up and write it all down because I enjoy doing so. The only reason this is even on here is because some people have informed me that others could enjoy reading it. This fanfiction is, of course, heavily inspired by the official Death Battle series, but also by my friend DeadAliveManiac's Death Battle fanfiction as well. If you do like this stuff, you should check him out.

There's a lot of text below here, but you don't have to read it if you don't want to. It's just giving out basic Death Battle rules, examples of those rules, and asking you to play nice. If you want, go right ahead to the first battle. Or just read the stuff in bold.

Let me clarify a couple of things:

[EDIT 10/9/19: It's time to re-clarify things! All of the rules immediately following this are held true for Season #1 of this fanfiction. However, we received a lot of new information about the official Death Battle Rules later, and adjusted the ruleset to follow those for Season #2 onward. If you wish to see the NEW rules, scroll down to the next set of brackets. Please remember that, until then, these rules ONLY apply to Season #1!]

[EDIT 10/12/23: Yeah, so, everything said in that last edit still applies. I just wanted to clarify two things for new viewers:

1. There is a lengthy gap in time between the release of Groudon VS Ignosaurus and Aloy VS Link. As in, multiple years. The quality increase in both research and writing between Episode 1 and 19 was slow, but steady. There's an outright jump between 19 and 20, to the point where everything before, I find quite embarrassing. Not saying you can't read it, but... be warned. Seasons 1 and 2 are wild, and not very friendly.

2. Because this is a source of much debate in the VS fandom and often entirely colors your perspective on who wins, I'll let you know straight away: Generally speaking, I do NOT use dimensional scaling/dimensional tiering. I personally find that it completely ignores the context of characters and feats, is extremely inconsistent on a level even comic book characters aren't, and is far too easily manipulated to make whatever character you prefer win whatever fight they are in. There is no reason whatsoever that a fictional character in a 4D world would be infinitely more powerful than one in a 3D world, especially when there are an absurd amount of popular characters who actively display this dimensional tiering system to not work within the confines of their own story, much less in any crossovers. This is with obvious exception to characters and worlds where dimensional scaling, higher spatial dimensions, and all of that is an active part of their lore and world and does affect their power output. Everything is judged by characters, feats, and stories. I am not saying you are wrong to use it, but I do not. Whatever battles you read, do so with this in mind.

Thanks, all.]

The Rules of Death Battle:

- No direct outside help.

Objects and weapons that are typically available to the character will be allowed, but no random involvement from other people that have no business being in the fight. If I pit Iron Man vs., I don't know, Mr. Krabbs, I can't say Iron Man would win because he would call in the Hulk who would kill Mr. Krabbs. That's not fair, and that's not the question we're asking. But I could certainly allow Iron Man use of all of his suits, as he generally has full access to them.

-No non-canon knowledge of the other character.

If I put Spiderman vs. Mr. Krabbs, I can't say Mr. Krabbs will win because of Spiderman's pesticide weakness. If both characters have never met, they will not start off knowing anything about the other fighter. Of course, stuff like Mind Reading, 4th Wall Breaking, and even incredible deduction skills can easily override this.

- Personal restraints/rules against killing are ignored in interest of having the battles actually play out and/or end.

If I do Dora vs. Superman, one of them will die in the end, even though neither would actually kill the other if they really met. However, all other characteristics will remain true to the character so they will be properly represented.

In addition, I'd like to add a couple of basic rules:

- The terrain may be something familiar to both combatants, or, well, whatever, but must not be the deciding factor in the fight.

If I pit a character who can manipulate lava against one who can manipulate trees, it wouldn't be fair for me to have the battle in a forest and nowhere else, for example.

- Either the most popular version of a character or a composite character will be used for characters with more than one incarnation.

So I could certainly compose a version of Kenny from South Park based on all the episodes of South Park he's in, despite his dying every episode or so clearly showing that each version is a new Kenny, but if I were to use the Flash in a battle, I'd use Barry Allen's Flash, even though Wally West's Flash is more powerful. It just depends on what makes sense. Don't worry, I'll clarify all this before each battle where it's a question.

- I will determine a win based on who I believe would win more times if they both fought dozens, even hundreds of times.

So, in a battle of Batman and a Larry the Cucumber, Larry might win 0.01% of the time because he tries to make Batman eat him, somehow succeeds, and ends up choking Batman. However, this is extraordinarily unlikely, so I would officially declare Batman the winner in a Death Battle since he just cuts Larry in half with a Knife/Batarang the other 99.99% of the time.

[Okay, you good? Now, here are the official rules for Season #2 onwards:

- Combatants possess no prior knowledge of each other unless specified by canon or otherwise.

This is an important one, as many characters have very specific weaknesses that their opponent would never normally think to exploit. A good example would be Superman. Nobody outside of his universe (or others with a Superman) would know that he was weak to kryptonite, and as such would not seek to exploit that weakness. The "unless" is equally important. If I were to do Batman vs. Superman, Batman would certainly know of that weakness, and would seek to exploit it, because that's a canonical part of his character. The "otherwise" this rule refers to is talking about characters with mind-reading or great detective skills, or something to that effect. It wouldn't be right to say that Mewtwo can't find out about Shadow's weaknesses in Mewtwo vs. Shadow just because of this rule. Reading minds and discovering weaknesses is what Mewtwo's all about.

- To ensure a fair fight, all moral restraints from killing are ignored. All other traits are considered.

This is a battle to the death, and should be treated as such. Characters aren't going to go into a bloodlust, and they still retain their personalities and other moral characteristics (such as wishing to fight their opponent only when he's at his best) but they'll have no hesitations about ending their life when given the chance.

- A character's maximum potential is examined unless otherwise specified. Factors unrelated to the characters cannot end the battle.

This is sort of a two-in-one rule. First, we look at the maximum potential a character has throughout their story in terms of combat capability. For many characters, there are moments when they lost to someone they have no business losing to because of plot, or maybe a mountain-shaking tornado robot gets taken out by a single bullet. That stuff isn't counted. We're taking these guys at their strongest. The "unless otherwise specified" line, however, provides an exception to this. For example, Captain America's strongest was technically when he wielded the Infinity Gauntlet. So should we give him the Infinity Gauntlet? No! That'd be REALLY dumb. Nobody wants to see him fighting with the Infinity Gauntlet – they want to know if Captain America can beat Batman. Spawn and Alucard eventually, at the end of their stories, became nigh-omnipotent gods. Would we count that? No. That's not the character everyone wants to see fighting. Those aren't their powers. That's not who they are. "Unless otherwise specified" is an essential line in this rule.

Second, it's stated that factors unrelated to a character cannot end the battle. Notice that this is not a "no outside help" rule. Outside help is fine – but only if it's an essential and consistent part of their arsenal. Jiraya has the ability to summon toads to fight for him. That's an essential and consistent part of his arsenal. That does not break this rule. But if he were to send a message to Naruto and tell him to come fight, too, then that would break this rule. We want to know if Jiraya can beat Roshi, not Naruto. This rule also prevents the environment from forcing a death. The environment is an outside factor, and unless it's adjusted so that one character can use all their powers (such as making it a full moon so that Katara can blood-bend, making the arena an abandoned building so Batman can use stealth, or having the fight in a desert so Gaara has a consistent supply of sand to fight with) it shouldn't be what decides the winner. How dumb would it be to say "Well, Batman outmatches this random guy off the street in every way, but he loses the Death Battle because I decided there happened to be a vat of acid directly underneath him"?

- All official material related to a character is applied unless found contradictory to original source material.

So, basically, any material that's officially recognized is up for grabs, but only if it doesn't contradict what's shown about the character in canon. Batman's main canon is the comics, for example, but I can and will measure and apply all noteworthy feats from the TV Shows and Movies. But if something in those contradicts the official material (e.g. if Batman is shown to breathe in space in an episode of an old TV Show, or magically holds off Doomsday with brute strength) then it won't be applied. Another decent example is the Sonic Universe. We can take into account things like the TV Shows, Movies, gamebooks, related comics, and spin-off games, but can't take into account basically anything from the Archie Sonic comics, since those are totally different characters with totally different powers. And also, they're way more powerful than any other version of Sonic. It's not even fair.

And there you have it. Continue, and enjoy.]

And finally, just for extra clarification:

- The battle is just a fun extra. It does not, I repeat, does not, determine the winner. That is determined based on data long before I start the battle.

- Uploads may very well be sporadic, as I'm doing this just for fun, and don't have a whole team of people behind me. It's just me.

- If you think I'm wrong, I very well might be. Go ahead and leave a rant or a review or whatever saying what you want to say. I promise I won't delete it. Please do remember, however, that this whole thing is just for fun. I'm just one guy, writing a ripoff of a friend's story that was a ripoff of an internet show that was a ripoff of a History Channel show. In all likeliness, despite my best efforts, I'm going to get things wrong. So please don't get upset if your favorite character dies or if you think I'm wrong about the winner.

- If you are unfamiliar with the format of Death Battle, I recommend you either watch an episode on YouTube or read a chapter of DeadAliveManiac's Death Battle fic.

Thank you, everyone for reading this.

Anyway, let's get into our first fight.