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“This was our best year!”

 

I see winter 2020 is the season of lying.

 

2020 was the best year of Death Battle? 2020 wasn’t the best year of anything. We couldn’t even get a Klaus book, this was the first year to break Grant Morrison’s streak.

 

Geeze. I see being a corporate sellout has taught Ben how to lie like a corporate suit. He couldn’t even do the little lie of saying “this was one of our better years,” he had to go all the way and declare 2020 the best year.

 

To prove how wrong Ben is, I present to you the first ever Strunties, the Death Battle equivalent of the Razzies!

 

Here are the polls:

 

Click here to vote for WORST OVERALL EPISODE

 

Click here to vote for WORST FIGHT SEGMENT

 

Click here to vote for WORST FIGHT MUSIC

 

Click here to vote for WORST SCALING

 

Click here to vote for WORST FEAT OR CALC

 

Click here to vote for WORST CHARACTER MOMENT

 

Dishonorable Mention: The Boys Shillsode

 

Though it’s disqualified for not technically being one of the 20 episodes of this season, let’s take a moment to mention the godawful abomination that was the Seven Battle Royal…I mean the Seven vs the Boys…I mean the Seven minus Black Noir and Homelander and Butcher is also there and he has the heat vision baby but Homelander comes back to kill Butcher and…

 

Next year, this slot is probably going to taken by Homelander vs Stormfront.

 

Happy New Years, Vs Battlers! Our hobby is stupid, frivolous, and needlessly argumentative.

 

And I wouldn’t change it at all.

 

 

Nominations, for the categories that have nominations:

 

WORST SCALING

 

1. Sanji Scaling To 13X Lightspeed Luffy.
2. Sabrewulf Scaling To Nanosecond Aria.
3. Sabrewulf Scaling To Tusk’s Meteor
4. Universe Scaling In General
5. Gwen And Babs Scaling To Peter And Bruce
6. Goro Scaling To Kabal
7. Star Wars EU Scaling
8. Rock Lee Scaling To Might Guy
9. Zuko And Todoroki And Lightning

 

WORST FEAT OR CALC

 

1. Lightspeed Danny and Jake
2. Umar
3. Marvel Universes Count As 1, Dragon Ball Universes Count As 9
4. Composite Character Rules In General
5. Hulk’s Forms Are Random
6. You Need A Body To Come Back From The Green Door
7. Jason Getting Venom
8. Sub-Plant Level Wonder Woman…After She Beat Thor
9. A Mirror Counts As A Universe In Sailor Moon
10. Sonic Has Incalculable Speed Because Of A Narration Box
11. Sailor Moon’s Speed Is Equal To An Explosion She Made

 

 WORST CHARACTER MOMENT

 

1. Wonder Woman praying to Hercules.
2. Obi-Wan being reduced to prequel memes.
3. AFTER I KICK YOUR ASS!
4. Hulk’s characterization being all over the place.
5. NOT BAD. BUT I’M INVINCIBLE WHEN I’M LIKE THIS. YOU MAY HAVE MASTERED SPEED, BUT I’VE MASTERED FATE, AND I WISH YOU GONE–FOREVERRRRRRRR!!!
6. Wonder Woman Being A Bitch
7. Todoroki Attacking Zuko For Looking Like A Villain
8. I HAVE NO FORGIVENESS LEFT, MONSTER!
9. Rock Lee Being Rude Over Food
10. Black Canary Entering A Kumite
11. Venom Deciding To Eat Crona’s Brains For No Reason
12. Unvoiced Red vs Blue Characters

 

Some Explanation Of The Character Moments:

 

Wonder Woman Praying to Hercules

 

Okay. So you’re going to write that Wonder Woman says a prayer before battle. Okay, she’s done that before. Who will she pray to?

 

Hippolyta? Well obviously. That’s her mom.

 

Zeus? Another obvious one. She’s prayed to him before. They’ve had their differences throughout the years and sometimes Diana has even fought against Zeus, but more often than not Zeus is someone in Diana’s camp.

 

Hercules?

 

Oh of course. “Man who raped my mother, please grant me strength!”

 

Obi-Wan Being Reduced To Prequel Memes

 

Everything. Everything that came out of Obi-Wan’s mouth during his fight was a meme.

 

I’m sure Swan thought it was clever and patted himself on the back for writing a character whose dialogue was nothing but self-referential quotes, but it wasn’t clever, it was cringe. 

 

Okay. Credit where credit’s due, “Be mindful of your thoughts Obi-Wan, they betray you.” while Obi is facing down a Darth Vader illusion and “Trust the force”during the final joust while a lawyer-friendly version of duel of the fates plays were pretty cool, but the memes should have stopped with them.

 

AFTER I KICK YOU ASS! 

 

Let’s say you’re Kakashi. You’re a character known for his nonchalant attitude and coolness under fire. Someone has just tried to put the mind whammy on you.

 

You’re probably going to fight them.

 

You’re probably not going to loudly declare that you’re going to kick their ass.

 

Hulk’s Characterization Being All Over The Place

 

He’s Savage Hulk!

 

SLAP!

 

He’s Devil Hulk!

 

SLAP!

 

He’s Savage Hulk AND Devil Hulk!

 

SLAP! SLAP!

 

Anyone remember Chinatown?

 

They should have stuck with either Savage or Devil, but instead they created a bizarre amalgamation where he calls Broly spikey hair and asks what puny planet he’s on like Savage but urges Broly to let his anger out like Devil. At the very least they should have started with Devil and ended with Savage since in the comics Devil reverts to Savage under stress.

 

NOT BAD. BUT I’M INVINCIBLE WHEN I’M LIKE THIS. YOU MAY HAVE MASTERED SPEED, BUT I’VE MASTERED FATE, AND I WISH YOU GONE–FOREVERRRRRRRR!!!

 

And Swan was doing so good with the characterization in Wally vs Sonic. That’s probably why Sonic suddenly acting like he’s Dr. Fate rubbed people the wrong way, compared to the rest of the dialogue, which was spot-in for both characters down to Sonic using moi like he did in SatAM, Sonic’s outburst stood out like a sore thumb.

 

Oh well. I think Wally calling on his family for power made up for it.

 

Wonder Woman Being A Bitch

 

“That’s what power really looks like.”

 

“Compared to an Amazon like me, you’re just playing dress up.”

 

And who can forget from way back in the Thor fight, “You aren’t worthy.”

 

The Death Battle writers do know that the Wonder Woman from Injustice isn’t the main Wonder Woman? Right? I’m honestly asking here.

 

If there’s a character who would kneel down and say a prayer to Charon to grant her deceased opponent safe passage through the underworld, it would be Wonder Woman.

 

Wonder Woman doesn’t shittalk people after she’s killed them. I don’t know why Death Battle keeps writing her this way. Is this just another one of Ben’s weird fetishes? Does he get off on evil Wonder Woman?

 

Todoroki Attacking Zuko For Looking Like A Villain 

 

I suppose the writers thought it was funny? Like “Ha ha look, Todoroki is attacking Zuko because bad guys have scars and Zuko has a scar and it’s funny because Todoroki also has a scar and he’s a hero!” But the joke just falls apart at the slightest scrutiny. Are there any villains in MHA that have big facial scars? 90 percent of them seem to be gross monster men with huge deformities like having no nose and a giant tongue. I don’t think a facial scar qualifies.

 

Also damn, I thought I gave the moral standing of the school a drubbing in Butcher vs Stain. Here’s Death Battle suggesting they train kids to attack people with facial deformities on sight.

 

I HAVE NO FORGIVENESS LEFT, MONSTER

 

So Jon Talbain is a guy that knows full well the animalistic hunger that comes with being a werewolf. He’s struggled with it for most of his life. He knows that beings like him are hunted by humans that want to kill them on sight. Hell, he’s been hunted, and he’s often turned and killed those that have hunted him.

 

So he comes across another werewolf eating the guts of an indeterminate amount of people in the middle of an alley.

 

Jon knows that there are many situations that could have produced such a scene. He would be able to empathize with every likely scenario.

 

The other werewolf turns to John and snivels out “Forgive…me…”

 

And Jon says…probably not the thing John would say.

 

Death Battle, you really should have ended the fight with the Maleva quote. With the black and white, it would have been an absolute kino moment.

 

Rock Lee Being Rude Over Food

 

Rock Lee complaining over his curry not being spicy enough? No way. The dude loves food to the point of being incapable of complaining about a meal. And it only works as a joke if Sanji was supposed to be an anime tomboy tier cook who can only create poison, but Sanji is a legit master chef who can create delicious food out of cast-off scraps.

 

Also, the VA sucked.

 

Black Canary Entering A Kumite

 

Black Canary is a legacy hero, a bridge between the JSA and JLA. In the post-crisis continuity (coin flip if it still applies after Rebirth and Doomsday Clock) Black Canary was one of the founders of the JLA.

 

She likes sparring, but probably not sparring in an underground mystic arena ran by sociopaths.

 

Gladiatorial arenas aren’t very heroic is what I’m saying, Spartacus not withstanding.

 

Venom Deciding To Eat Crona’s Brain For No Reason

 

Death Battle, come on. Eddie’s a lethal protector. That’s his thing. Sure, he’ll try and munch Spidey’s brain because he blames Peter for ruining his life and he’ll gladly turn random muggers into snacks, but he’s not an indiscriminate zombie. Eddie makes a point of not harming innocents. I think a skittish femboy walking into a church counts as an innocent, not a snack.

 

You guys couldn’t have had Crona attack Eddie thinking he’s one of the monsters from his show? Or Eddie attack Crona thinking he’s a symbiote? This isn’t hard, Death battle.

 

Unvoiced Red vs Blue Characters

 

Believe it or not, the Mary Sue character is supposed to be able to talk.