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* "I'm universally known for intrigue and desire!" [[note]]A reference to Universal Studios, which made the 1931 Dracula movie, which also happens to be the most famous.[[/note]]
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Also not stealthy.


* "You stay at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ritz-Carlton_Hotel_Company Ritz]] 'cause you sold out to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritz_Crackers crackers]]!"



* "Asthmatic, but I'll take your breath away!" [[note]]Both "leave you breathless in awe" and "make you stop breathing"[[/note]]
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* "Now my DNA's in dudes from New York to Japan!" The Easter Bunny match up makes more sense when you consider that Genghis Khan ''multiplied like a rabbit'', so to speak.

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* "You stay at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ritz-Carlton_Hotel_Company Ritz]] 'cause you sold out to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritz_Crackers crackers]]!"



** "Your a pirate! You even stole my R. R.!"

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** "Your "You're a pirate! You even stole my R. R.!"



** "It's a street fight, T. Hawk, show some respect! [[note]]T. Hawk is the name of a character from VideoGame/StreetFighterII, but "T. Hawk" is also short for "Tony Hawk".[[/note]]

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** "It's a street fight, T. Hawk, show some respect! respect!" [[note]]T. Hawk is the name of a character from VideoGame/StreetFighterII, but "T. Hawk" is also short for "Tony Hawk".[[/note]]



* "Last rapper[[note]]wrapper[[/note]] this plastic had a Happy Meal toy in it!"

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* "Last rapper[[note]]wrapper[[/note]] rapper this plastic[[note]]wrapper, and also because the Burger King mascot had an actual plastic mask[[/note]] had a Happy Meal toy in it!"


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* "Your face tells me you've met your match!"[[note]]As in, the thing you start fires with, riffing on Freddy's burnt appearance.[[/note]]
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* "They let a kiwi hold you gun and he fucked up your canon!" [[note]] Cannon. [[/note]]
* "We can tell what's gonna happen by page and age five!" [[note]]The Lord of the Rings ended at the beginning of the Fourth Age of Middle Earth time.[[/note]]

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* "They let a kiwi hold you your gun and he fucked up your canon!" [[note]] Cannon. [[/note]]
* "We can tell what's gonna happen by page and age five!" [[note]]The [[note]]''The Lord of the Rings Rings'' ended at the beginning of the Fourth Age of Middle Earth time.[[/note]]



** "I brought foes to their knees in Phonecia!"
** "Opaque attack tactics ain't exactly straight!"[[note]]Either referring to Fredrick the Great's use of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_order oblique order]], or his numerous affairs mainly with other men.[[/note]]

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** "I brought foes to their knees in Phonecia!"
Phoenicia!"
** "Opaque "Oblique attack tactics ain't exactly straight!"[[note]]Either referring to Fredrick the Great's use of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_order oblique order]], or his numerous affairs mainly with other men.[[/note]]



** A subtler one, but Chruchil delivers all of his versed with TranquilFury. He keeps calm and carries on!

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** A subtler one, but Chruchil Churchill delivers all of his versed with TranquilFury. He keeps calm and carries on!
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I think the "ocean dry" pun fits the regular Pun trope much better. It's not stealthy at all.

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* "Last rapper[[note]]wrapper[[/note]] this plastic had a Happy Meal toy in it!"



* "Crikey! You're such a boring guy, you could make a whole show about the ocean dry!" [[note]]As in both the show being uninteresting itself, and how an ocean without water is pointless[[/note]]
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* " Oh, no, we'll smash your globe." [[note]]Said to William Shakespeare, whom the Globe Theater is often associated with.[[/note]]

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* " Oh, no, we'll smash your globe." [[note]]Said to William Shakespeare, whom the Globe Theater Theatre is often associated with.[[/note]]
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At least, that's how I read it.

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* "Crikey! You're such a boring guy, you could make a whole show about the ocean dry!" [[note]]As in both the show being uninteresting itself, and how an ocean without water is pointless[[/note]]
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** "Opaque attack tactics ain't exactly straight!"[[note]]Either referring to Fredrick the Great's use of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_order oblique order]], or his numerous affairs mainly with other men.[[/note]]
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** In the same battle, the Presidents of Mount Rushmore form a ''rock'' band.
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* "So don't throw down with [[Creator/JoanRivers Rivers]]! The flow is too relentless!"
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** "You gettin' upstaged Bill. Yo you just got played" is especially stealthy.

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** "You gettin' upstaged Bill. Yo Bill, yo you just got played" is especially stealthy.
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* "Asthmatic, but I'll take your breath away!" [[note]]Both "leave you breathless in awe" and "make you stop breathing"[[/note]]
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Um... Elon's father was white and benefitted greatly from Apartheid. That's what the diss was about.


* "I've been looking up your family. It gets dark, my god!" [[note]]As Mark Zuckerberg indirectly says in the very next line, Elon Musk's father was the victim of apartheid in South Africa because he was black. Dark, indeed.[[/note]]
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* "God bless us, every..." "WHO WON?"


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* "Your made of turkey feathers, but you'll never be down!"
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* "I've been looking up your family. It gets dark, my god!" [[note]]As Mark Zuckerberg indirectly says in the very next line, Elon Musk's father was the victim of apartheid in South Africa because he was black. Dark, indeed.[[/note]]
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** "You couldn't walk in my shoes, so stick to your reboots!" [[note]]Red boots.[[/note]]
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* "Fame, money, talent, success, you'll always have less, never more!" [[note]] Quoth the raven, nevermore! [[/note]]


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* "They let a kiwi hold you gun and he fucked up your canon!" [[note]] Cannon. [[/note]]
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* "Mrs. Child, welcome to the grownups table!"
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** "Your a pirate! You even stole my R. R.!"
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** "It's a street fight, T. Hawk, show some respect! [[note]]T. Hawk is the name of a character from VideoGame/StreetFighterII, as well as Tony Hawk's initials.[[/note]]

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** "It's a street fight, T. Hawk, show some respect! [[note]]T. Hawk is the name of a character from VideoGame/StreetFighterII, as well as Tony Hawk's initials.but "T. Hawk" is also short for "Tony Hawk".[[/note]]
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** "It's a street fight, T-Hawk, show some respect! [[note]][[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers]] has a character named T. Hawk.[[/note]]

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** "It's a street fight, T-Hawk, T. Hawk, show some respect! [[note]][[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers]] has [[note]]T. Hawk is the name of a character named T. Hawk.from VideoGame/StreetFighterII, as well as Tony Hawk's initials.[[/note]]
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** "It's a street fight, T-Hawk, show some respect! [[note]][[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers]] has a character named T. Hawk.[[/note]]
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** "If your name ends with 'in,' time to get out!"


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** "You can't ''shag'' properly with that waxed tush!"


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** "I brought foes to their knees in Phonecia!"
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** "Princess Diana, but this lady don't die!" [[note]]Lady Di.[[/note]]
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* "We can tell what's gonna happen by page and age five!" [[note]]The Lord of the Rings ended at the beginning of the Fourth Age of Middle Earth time.[[/note]]
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** A subtler one, but Chruchil delivers all of his versed with TranquilFury. He keeps calm and carries on!

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** "You need to fill your bowl with some shit that makes some sense!" [[note]]On "bowl", referencing Lao Tzu's "a bowl is most useful when it is empty" line, and "bullshit".[[/note]]



* "And I say DC is a whole step down!"

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* "And I say DC is a whole step down!"down!"[[note]]In music, C is a whole tone (i.e. whole step) below D.[[/note]]



* "TR will give WC the full deuce!"

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* "TR will give WC the full deuce!"deuce!" Made more evident by Churchill's response: "Whatever ''shit'' you throw at me, I'll just return to sender!"
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* "… ten-thousand-dollar shoes I use to [[Music/TheBeatles stomp out a beatle.]]"
* "I'll ''school'' you anywhere — MIT to Oxford"
* "Sorry, Wright Brothers, this time you chose wrong."
** "You might fly like a hawk, but you fight like a kitty." [[note]]The Wright Brothers' famous flight took place in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.[[/note]]
* " Oh, no, we'll smash your globe." [[note]]Said to William Shakespeare, whom the Globe Theater is often associated with.[[/note]]
** "You gettin' upstaged Bill. Yo you just got played" is especially stealthy.
* "I've seen every record you set, man I [[Music/MichaelJackson beat it]]."
* Steve Jobs saying "I got a PC, but it wasn't from you," to Bill Gates. One of the stealthiest ones yet. [[note]]Steve Jobs had '''P'''ancreatic '''C'''ancer.[[/note]]
** He also says he'll "bring up some basic shit". [[note]]A reference to the Basic programming language.[[/note]]
** "Why did you name your company after your dick?" Think about that one.
** Later, [[spoiler: HAL 9000]] offers "I think different from the engine of the days of old", referencing both the former UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh slogan "Think Different." and Charles Babbage's difference engine, the first computer.
** "You blow, Jobs" (complete with hand motion)
* "You wanna trade blows? You can't even hit puberty!"
* "Gettin' 'Lo on Mark Antony." [[note]]It's believed that Cleopatra had an affair with (or "got low" with) Marc Antony. Additionally, the spelling of "low" as "Lo" reference J-Lo's ex-husband, Marc Anthony.[[/note]]
** "Tossing [[UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar Caesar's]] salad"
* "You're a ''bat''shit crazy basket case!" to Batman.
** "Dissing these dynamic douchebags..." for Batman and Robin.
* "I fought the caste system, but you still cannot touch this!" [[note]]Double pun referring to the Untouchable caste and the MC Hammer song.[[/note]]
** "I'm the King of civil rights" said by Martin Luther King Jr.
* "Before I let loose with this ''ruth''less aggression" said to Babe Ruth.
* "I'm a Prodigy, [[FirstNameBasis Sonny]], and I'm about to smack a bitch up!" [[note]]Prodigy's most famous song is titled "Smack My Bitch Up"[[/note]]
** "...and you reek of [[Music/DeadMau5 dead mouse.]]"
** "You died baroque and worthless!"
** "I attack, you decay, can't sustain my releases!" [[note]]In sound synthesizers an ADSR envelope (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release) is applied to a flat tone to give the sound wave a shape that mimics the sound wave created by an acoustic instrument.[[/note]]
* "I [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack strike back]] hard against a Nazi!"
* "I spit hot borscht when I'm crushing these beats!" [[note]] Borscht is a Russian dish made by crushing beets, or in this case, beats. [[/note]]
** "Took Trotsky out of the picture" [[note]]Joseph Stalin famously edited Leon Trotsky out of several pictures as part of his effort to make it look like Lenin wanted Stalin and not Trotsky to be his successor. See the image for the trope {{Unperson}}.[[/note]]
** "I'm a President in my Prime" [[note]]Vladimir Putin has been both President and Prime Minister of Russia, and it was considered that he held more political pull as Prime Minister than the real President did at the time, hence he was the real President even when he was only Prime.[[/note]]
** "The last man who attacked me lived a half-life" [[note]]Vladimir Putin was accused of using a bit of radioactive Polonium-210 (which, as a radioatice element has a half-life) to poison one of his political detractors.[[/note]]
* "I see a universe of infinite energy, but no potential for threat from this enemy." [[note]]Referencing potential energy.[[/note]]
* "You're the least talented rat in your whole pack of rodents!"[[note]]Frank Sinatra was a member of the Rat Pack.[[/note]]
* "Your highest calling was a text from Wiz Khalifa." [[note]] Khalifa is known for tremendous marijuana consumption, so a message from him would be a "high calling" indeed.[[/note]]
* Rick Grimes calls himself "a grade-A MC."[[note]]A reference to [=AMC=], the network that ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' airs on.[[/note]]
* Superman being a "greasy slick MC from DC."[[note]]The obvious reference is Superman's hailing from Creator/DCComics, but "DC" is a common name for Washington, D.C., the capital of the US, referencing Superman's being the AllAmericanFace.[[/note]]
* From Artists vs TMNT: "I can bebop and steady rock a mic sucka..." [[note]] Bebop and Rocksteady, ThoseTwoBadGuys best known [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 from the 1980's series.]] [[/note]]
* "I'll kick your hiney man, I'm a savage killer." [[note]] [[Series/MythBusters Hyneman and Savage]]. [[/note]]
* "Stay all up in your grill like my name was George Foreman!" [[note]]Referencing the George Foreman Grill, invented and marketed by the former boxer George Foreman.[[/note]]
* "'Cause if these lovers cross me, they're gonna end up seeing stars!" [[note]]Shakespeare referred to Romeo and Juliet as "star-crossed lovers."[[/note]]
* Jack the Ripper: "God protect you From the Hell I've spread upon us!" [[note]]One of Jack the Ripper's letters to Scotland Yard was addressed "From Hell."[[/note]]
* David Copperfield to Harry Houdini: "I'll summon up a little Halloween brunch: Deep-fried sucker with a side of punch!" [[note]]Houdini died on Halloween, 1926 from trauma caused by a series of sucker punches to the abdomen.[[/note]]
* [=RoboCop=]: "What can go wrong for you will, creep: Murphy's Law!" [[note]]He references the MurphysLaw while also boasting that ''(Alex) Murphy is law''.[[/note]]
* All throughout the Philosopher battle, both sides wax lyrical and make references to various rappers, like Method Man and Ludacris.
** "Honestly, I think you owe both of your students here an apology!" [[note]]A reference to the ''Apology'', Plato's version of the speech Socrates made in his defense.[[/note]]
** "I'll make you move, bitch! Get out the way!" [[note]]Not only as in the song, but as in the Way of Tao.[[/note]]
* "I got the strength of a lion, and the speed of a cheetah; and everyone knows you're just a chicken, Caesar!" [[note]]Salad, that is.[[/note]]
** "Take your ''cow skin'' shield and ''hide'' under it!"
** "You're fucking with the most triumphant third of the Triumvirate!" [[note]]A reference to the Roman Triumph[[/note]]
* In "Frederick Douglass vs Thomas Jefferson":
-->'''Jefferson:''' "Oh Frederick, I've never heard a verse I dug less."
* "I only need one round, golden gun."
* "You'll get a huge sack like Novgorod!"[[note]]as in, either [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Novgorod "a thorough defeat with lots of collateral damage"]] or "the result of a GroinAttack".[[/note]] Followed by: "Hey, fella, swell diss."
* "And I say DC is a whole step down!"
* "Great one, [[UsefulNotes/WayneGretzky Wayne]]!"[[note]]A reference to Gretzky being known as "[[RedBaron The Great One]]".[[/note]]
* "TR will give WC the full deuce!"
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