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 10/12/23: 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.
Also, the official Death Battle judges Dimension Tiering this same way, and this is a DEATH BATTLE fanfiction that follows its same rules. So I wouldn't really have a choice, regardless.
Thanks, all.]
- 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 and he knows Superman very well. 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. Sherlock Holmes would probably detective his way into finding an opponent's weakness or fighting patterns if given long enough. SpongeBob doesn't know Aquaman, but is very familiar with another superhero with all of Aquaman's powers, so it wouldn't take long for him to figure Aquaman out. This rule doesn't make knowledge impossible, just... starting with a blank slate.
- 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, or actively resisting the influence of a demon that would otherwise grant far greater power mid-battle), but they'll have no hesitations about ending their life when given the chance, even if it's at the very beginning of the fight.
- 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. That being said, it is at their strongest within reason, while still being true to their characters, author intention, and the role they play in their stories. For a classic example of what isn't counted by this statement, let's say we want to do a Death Battle with Harry Osborn. Harry has fought Spider-Man, so we scale him to the absolute highest tiers of what Spider-Man can do. Spider-Man is clearly shown to be stronger than Captain America, so we scale Harry to the absolute highest tiers of what Captain America can do. Captain America has boxed Thor without getting completely destroyed, similar to his performance against Spider-Man, so we scale Harry to the absolute highest tiers of what Thor can do. Thor once (through heavy work and charging the mother-of-all godblasts when he was pushed to his greatest limits) beat a character with the powers of Odin, so we scale Harry to the absolute highest tiers of what Odin can do. Odin's compared to Galactus before, so we scale Harry to the absolute highest tiers of what Galactus can do, and Galactus fought the Phoenix Force, which can destroy all of Marvel Comics under the right conditions. Therefore, Harry Osborn can destroy all of Marvel Comics, right?!
Some people judge a character's "maximum potential" to include stuff like this. Death Battle doesn't. I don't.
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, if it's a consistent part of their arsenal or augments their own abilities. Jiraya has the ability to summon toads to fight for him. That's a 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. 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"?
This DOES, however, fall under the same ruling of being okay if it's a consistent part of one character's powers or arsenal, or allows a character to use all of their abilities at their best. Examples include: making it a full moon so that Katara can bloodbend and has her waterbending at its best, making the arena an abandoned building so Batman can use stealth in the conditions he is most familiar with, having the Speed Force active so the Flash can fight at all, and having the fight take place in a desert so Gaara has a consistent supply of sand to use beyond what he normally carries.
- 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 histories, powers, abilities, arsenal, dreams, regrets, stories, et cetera.
And there you have it. Continue, and enjoy.
And finally, just for extra clarification:
- I will determine a win based on who I believe would win more times if they both fought dozens, hundreds, even thousands of times. The majority of victories prevail. In a situation where the two are almost totally even and the victories are split on basically a 50.01% winrate and a 49.99% winrate, I will claim the 50.01% winrate as the winner. That's how the official show, and thus this fanfiction, works.
- 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.
