Curb Stomp Battle / DEATH BATTLE!

Some fights on DEATH BATTLE! are more one-sided than others. While the animation typically shows the combatants as evenly matched to pad the runtime, the analysis sometimes reveals a much wider gap.

Fans of the winner are heavily prone to exaggerating the results, and fans of the losing character tend to downplay the outcome. Take everything you read here with a grain of salt. These results also come from Wiz and Boomstick's interpretation of how the battle would go and should only reflect that. Due to misuse, examples go through the Death Battle cleanup thread before coming on the page.

As this page deals with the results of the fights, spoilers will be unmarked.

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Examples

General

• Most battles with a "fight" against mooks before or during the real battle will have the mooks on the receiving end of one, not even landing a single hit on the combatant. The combatant must be in top condition for the fight, without any injuries or noticeable ammo/energy loss. Examples include Battlecat in He-Man VS Lion-O, Shao Kahn's men in Shao Kahn VS M. Bison, the guard in Ryu Hayabusa VS Strider Hiryu, Slippy in Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare, the army sent to attack Godzilla in Godzilla VS Gamera, Dream Land's inhabitants in Kirby VS Majin Buu, the Stark Industries guards in Iron Man VS Lex Luthor, the Tyrannosaurus rex in Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom, a Gekko in Wolverine VS Raiden, Bane's henchmen in Venom VS Bane, five Foot Clan ninjas in Shredder VS Silver Samurai, the zoo animals in Black Panther VS Batman, Sparx in Crash VS Spyro, the zombie horde in Leon Kennedy VS Frank West, Vile, Volt Kraken, and Ultron's drones in Ultron VS Sigma, Deadpool in Thanos VS Darkseid, a white-haired client and a pigeon in Black Widow VS Widowmaker, and a Tarkatan in Black Canary VS Sindel.

Season 1

• The show's first episode, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran, has Samus come out comfortably on top with her plethora of advantages. She had far better speed, agility, and reflexes, meaning Fett would have an impossibly hard time hitting her. With Samus also wielding significantly superior technology and a far more diverse arsenal, Fett never stood a chance against her.
• Zig-zagged in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale. Most of the turtles were close enough in terms of strength, with Leonardo's strategy safely yet closely winning the day. However, Michelangelo was the exception, being significantly less intelligent and holding a weapon far weaker and harder to use than anyone else's. He stood no chance, reflecting on how Leonardo almost instantly butchered him in the animation's opening moments.
• Kratos never stood a chance in Kratos VS Spawn, as most of his arsenal, despite divine craftsmanship, are earthly elements at their core and couldn't hurt Spawn. Even the godly Blade of Olympus, which could harm Spawn in principle, became moot when Leetha could feed on Kratos's evil deeds to power Spawn up. In the end, Kratos had nothing against Spawn's broken defense and veritable Superpower Lottery.
• While the combatants' power-ups canceled each other out, Mario VS Sonic (2011) ended with Sonic's natural speed advantage utterly butchering Mario's comically average stats. Alas, being a Jack of All Stats is a bad idea when your opponent, a Fragile Speedster, has a decisive edge in one category he can use against you.
• Double subverted in Starscream VS Rainbow Dash, which had the Decepticon lose horribly to the pegasus despite most fans expecting the opposite. Starscream's missiles and Gatling cannon were useless against Rainbow Dash in the face of his dreadful aim. She could even No-Sell his Null Ray, as it's far less effective against biological organisms than electronics, and she tanks lightning strikes on a whim. Starscream couldn't hope to match Rainbow Dash's immensely superior speed, agility, and reflexes, and she soon tore him apart.
• Played with in Eggman VS Wily, where this trope and Dark Horse Victory overlap. While Eggman's Metal Sonic physically outmatched everything Wily had, Wily's Roboenza virus ensured Eggman wouldn't live to tell the tale after infecting Metal Sonic. The corrupted robot effortlessly and impartially slaughtered both sides, cementing his status as the first and only third party to win a match to date.
• Thor VS Raiden showed Thor utterly outclassing Raiden in every way, holding a ludicrous stat advantage and a weapon leagues above anything Raiden knows. Even the animation doesn't hide how the fight only dragged out because Thor wasn't taking it seriously. The moment he attacks for real, he splits Raiden in half with Mjolnir and throws his upper body into the sun.
• Batman VS Spider-Man ended with Spider-Man stomping Batman. While Spider-Man was superior in raw stats, Batman could cope due to his experience fighting physically superior foes. However, the Spider-Sense was the final nail in Batman's coffin, negating Batman's stealth, and the Way of the Spider negated Batman's martial arts advantage. While Bruce couldn't be Crazy-Prepared due to the rules, Peter was just as intelligent as him, so it was a moot point. Everyone learned An Aesop that a Badass Normal doesn't fare well against a legitimate superhuman, let alone one with a powerset specifically countering their equipment.
• During the post-match analysis of Goku VS Superman, Wiz and Boomstick calculate Goku and Superman's limits. Goku never stood a chance even after counting filler and Dragon Ball GT as a generous measure and excluding Superman's pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths New Powers as the Plot Demands feats for being logically inconsistent. To elaborate, Superman outclasses Goku in strength, speed, and durability by several orders of magnitude. Superman can move 6.6 quintillion tons on a whim, and his potential from absorbing solar energy is infinite, having lifted at least 200 quintillion tons. He can fly at 9.4 billion km/h at minimum, and Batman states Clark can push it to at least 17 billion km/h. He can survive 15 supernovae exploding in his face, each carrying a force of 10 octillion megatons of TNT. Goku can "only" lift 160,000 tons, "only" fly at 2.574 billion km/h, and "only" survive a bomb equal to 34.7 sextillion megatons of TNT. Granted, Goku could feasibly win with knowledge of Superman's weaknesses to Kryptonite, magic, and red sunlight. However, that would require both Goku acting dishonorably and out-of-character and giving Superman knowledge of Goku to make it fair. Thus, even in this new scenario, Superman would know to blitz Goku before he can exploit his weaknesses. Remember, Genius Bruiser Clark also heavily outclasses Idiot Hero Goku in brains. Goku is only better than Superman at martial arts, and Clark is proficient in the Kryptonian martial arts Torquasm-Rao and Torquasm-Vo, making the gap negligible. Despite all that, Goku is nonetheless one of the most powerful characters in the entire series thus far by a significant margin. Wiz and Boomstick never underplay Goku's strength; he surpasses almost every other fighter shown thus far. With a handful of exceptions, he could stomp them all at once - only Superman is that much better. Even if you assume Goku trained under 1,000,000,000x gravity instead of 586x, Superman would still be better. Superman is the most powerful character in the series at the time of writing, and Goku was his most Worthy Opponent. In summation…
  Wizard: Now, we can keep throwing feats and equations around, but in the end, numbers cannot measure what Goku and Superman are capable of. They are both ultimate heroes, solutions to daunting problems and achievers of the impossible. The difference is at the core of their character. Goku has never been invincible; he has very clear limits and must overcome those limits to solve the problems at hand. That's the whole point. On the other hand, Superman's story is not about the fight to become the best, but of an immigrant facing the challenge of home versus heritage. After accepting his alien side, Superman has reached his full potential, which, under the endless power of the sun, is essentially limitless. In short, "Superman is as strong as he needs to be." So what happens when you pit a man with the power to break any limits against another who has no limits in the first place? Well, only one has limits to give at all.

Season 2

• In He-Man VS Lion-O, the animation didn't shy away from how much He-Man outclassed Lion-O. The former killed the latter by accident even when trying his best to spare him. To Throw the Dog a Bone, Lion-O's Eye of Thundera could obliterate He-Man "if given the chance." However, that chance would never come due to the Power Sword providing Adam with an impenetrable defense. With Lion-O's only win-con negated, He-Man pushing the moon around made him physically stronger by quadrillions of times. With such an enormous power gap, Adam could effortlessly destroy the Sword of Omens and Eye of Thundera and stomp Lion-O.
• The analysis of Shao Khan VS M. Bison shows how much things were in Shao Kahn's favor. Shao Kahn has consumed at least 60 billion souls over 10,000 years and holds the combat experience and tenacity to match. Bison's soul-fueled Psycho Power was useless against someone who practically eats souls for breakfast. Bison's only other notable ability, soul-protection, was moot when Shao Kahn stomped him in stats far too much for it to matter. Shao Kahn's experience with and resistance to possession and brainwashing was only the final nail in Bison's coffin.
• Terminator VS RoboCop ended up ridiculously stacked in favor of the latter; the T-800 held a noticeable speed advantage, but his foe eclipsed him everywhere else. He had an undeniable durability advantage, having walked off explosions far larger than attacks powerful enough to obliterate the T-800. His plasma resistance countered the T-800's plasma rifle, his 3000 psi grip eclipsed the T-800's strength, and his more destructive arsenal and human creativity sealed the Terminator's fate.
• Luigi VS Tails ends on the same note as Mario and Sonic's match, with the hedgehog crushing the Star Child. Luigi's only advantage in his experience couldn't hope to match Tails's vastly superior speed, strength, intellect, and arsenal, and he died a horrible death.
• Godzilla VS Gamera, after more than half a century of debate, ultimately ended up as a stomp for the former. For starters, Godzilla's nine times heavier, far stronger through scaling to Thor, and Gamera couldn't feed on his radiation breath as it isn't technically fire. While Gamera was noticeably faster, that became moot against Godzilla's far superior durability. Gamera nearly died from a city-sized nuclear explosion where Godzilla walked off a meteorite strike of similar power without flinching. To lock down Godzilla's victory, he has a dominant tactical advantage as Gamera's victories against similar foes come from retreating to win another day after analyzing them. Given Godzilla's immense advantage in range and field control, he could easily thwart Gamera's escape attempts, leaving the turtle nothing to contend with his might.
• Double subverted with Kirby VS Majin Buu, where virtually everyone expected Buu to vaporize Kirby in no time at all. Shockingly, Kirby was the one who ended up stomping Majin Buu. While Buu was technically more destructive, Kirby could casually negate that with his Power Copying. When you break it down, Kirby held substantial edges in physical strength, speed, and durability. He can throw a 3.5-ton monster at 25,000 mph, his Warp Star can transcend lightspeed, and he tanks planets exploding without a scratch where Buu would become mush. With Kirby's stats eclipsing Majin Buu even with the monster's teleportation, he was free to treat this fight as a party and remain as jolly as ever after devouring Buu.
• Ragna VS Sol Badguy turned out to be a stomp for Sol. He had centuries of experience over Ragna, noticeably more endurance, and his soul surviving the Backyard meant it could withstand Ragna's Azure Grimoire. Even Ragna's Black Beast form was nothing compared to Sol's Gear form blasting a mountain to dust with over 85 gigatons of TNT, solidly obliterating Ragna.
• The remastered 3D version of Boba Fett VS Samus Aran without a Life Meter for the fighters ends on the same note as the original, remaining a comfortable stomp for Samus due to her insane mobility and weaponry. The only differences are the hosts discussing how Boba was physically superior if they would fight unarmed, which was unlikely, and how Samus's anonymity negated Boba's cunning.
• Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom has this trope happen both ways, with Vader stomping a Doombot before the real Doom turns the tables and stomps him.
  • For Vader, the Doombot's relatively simple human machinery couldn't hope to match his suit's advanced technology, his lightsaber, and his mastery of the Force. Within seconds, Vader had reduced it to scrap metal.
  • For Doom, while Vader was a master of the Force, Doom has studied magic and science for longer than Vader's been alive, giving him an enormous advantage in mysticism and technology. He has far more strategic experience; while Vader led an army for two decades, Doom has led a country and even a planet. Vader's life support suit, though mighty, had flaws built into it on purpose because his master, Darth Sidious, wished to prevent him from ever rebelling. Doom's vastly superior armor has resisted telekinesis and reality warping from Thanos and the Silver Surfer, whom Vader can't hope to match. Even Vader's telepathy was useless against Doom's indomitable willpower. In the end, the Sith Lord was helpless against the Latverian monarch.
• Goku VS Superman 2, which only happened because people believed Goku's new forms would turn the tables, only emphasized how much Superman savagely outclassed him.
  • The animation has Superman take several hits from Super Saiyan God Goku, even commenting that he felt a couple of them. However, the moment he thinks Goku's gone too risky, he walks through a full-power Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Kamehameha without flinching. After muttering a brief "I'm sorry," Superman grabs Goku with a Neck Lift, lobotomizing him with heat vision and ending the fight on the spot.
  • The analysis elaborates on Superman's advantages surpassing all quantification; in no scenario would he ever have to use the Super Flare. For example, he once responded to his friend calling for help on Earth within 10 minutes when he was at the star Vega in the Lyra constellation. Given how Vega is 25 light-years from Earth, Superman must have flown over 800 trillion mph, over one million times FTL. More impressively, however, as the signal was a high-frequency sound, Superman must have heard sounds in the vacuum of space, and faster than the soundwaves can move. Superman has lifted Spectre, a cosmic entity formed from the concept of eternity, not to mention the time he carried a book with infinite pages. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when counting Superman's ridiculous feats.
    Boomstick: Superman's held a black hole, survived an explosion equal to 50 supernovas, flew through the center of a red sun, which is like tanking millions of nukes rapid-fire, and once easily absorbed enough solar energy to vaporize half a galaxy. And to put an end to the Wizard Magazine's argument, here he is getting thrown from orbit into Earth with enough force to devastate the planet and cause nuclear winter. Oh, look! He stood up moments later more pissed off than hurt! Oh, and by the way, none of this was Pre-Crisis.
  • Indeed, the ultimate difference between Goku and Superman is their purpose as ideals and inspiration for humanity. Goku's story embodies a self-made man, forever holding the spirit of effort, encouraging people to overcome whatever limits are in their way. In his universe, every enemy, even gods, fit this mold he can surpass and overtake. However, pitting him against Superman will always be hopeless because Clark breaks this mold. Superman, whose only weaknesses lie in Kryptonite, Functional Magic, and red sunlight, was never meant to lose how Goku does. Superman's story represents a god living among humans, and his conflict revolves around inspiring people with his spirit of ethics. After rattling off some technicalities to shut down obscure objections, the hosts restate their convictions. Goku VS Superman was never a debate about their feats but how their stories clash; the Kryptonian ultimately superdominates the Saiyan.
    Wiz: Ultimately, Goku VS Superman comes down to a difference of limits and purpose. What happens when you pit a man with the power to break any limits against a being with no limits in the first place? Well, only one has limits to give at all. But that's exactly what makes him such a memorable character.
    Boomstick: Think about it. If you had a Goku that was as powerful as Superman, would you even want him?
    Wiz: The winner is Superman.
    Boomstick: Fucking Superman!
• Donkey Kong VS Knuckles turned out badly for the smaller furry animal. While Knuckles has better speed and agility, his mindless fighting style of charging like a berserker negated this advantage due to Donkey Kong's immense skill in close combat. Donkey Kong was significantly more durable, given that while both have survived orbital reentry, he's also survived a blast powerful enough to launch him that high. Though Donkey Kong pushing a moon "only" comes out to 3000 megatons as Mario's world has a small moon, his strength still eclipses Knuckles erupting a volcano with 3.9 megatons. While Knuckles has altered the orbit of Sonic's world's moon, he merely destroyed a receiver guiding the moon around. There's no reason to assume he's strong enough to replicate that feat with brute strength. Donkey Kong held virtually all the advantages, leaving Knuckles with no chance.
• Hercule Satan VS Dan Hibiki taught everyone An Aesop that any Joke Character is only a joke relative to their home setting. While Dan is utterly pathetic by any standard, Hercule is only so in-context because he's an unenhanced human in a universe where aliens with Ki Manipulation are the norm. He's still a world champion in human martial arts and would beat virtually any regular human. His feats are solidly impressive for a human, having pulled nearly 60 tons from pulling four tour buses and once effortlessly chopped 19 brick tiles. Dan has only one win to his name, which he got out of pity, and mishandles even the most basic martial arts moves. Even his ki moves like the Gadouken and Raging Demon, which Hercule would be terrified of, are so weak they struggle to make more noise than a fart or scratch a teenage girl's backpack. Despite his laughable status at home, Hercule had no trouble brutalizing Dan.
• Mega Man VS Astro Boy ended with Astro Boy solidly trouncing Mega Man, whose only advantage was his more diverse arsenal. While it could force Astro Boy to focus closely on fighting, making him concentrate didn't stop him from stomping Mega Man. From his feats alone, he was five-thirds as strong and slightly over 200 times faster. Worse still, no durability feat Mega Man had could match Astro Boy surviving a bomb meant to stop a solar flare. Mega Man's limited ammunition didn't help, and Astro Boy soon dismembered him in a nasty explosion.
• The long-argued Pokémon VS Digimon, featuring Red and his Charizard from Pokémon Origins against Tai and Agumon from Digimon Adventure, turned out as an ugly stomp for the digital side. While both duos had ample friendship bonds, the nature of these relationships was fundamentally different. While Red and Charizard befriended each other enough to Mega Evolve, they're still only a master-and-slave duo, as Charizard is a loyal pet at best to Red. On the other hand, Tai and Agumon are best friends who treat each other as equals. Agumon literally feeds on friendship as Mana where Pokémon trainers merely inspire their Pokémon, an immense advantage when considering how the Digidestined shielded two universes with friendship energy alone. In an absurdly clear case of Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards, the power gap between the two sides was undeniable. To Red's credit, base Charizard could effortlessly trounce Agumon with mobility and versatility, with Mega Charizard X still having a slight edge over Greymon. Alas, MetalGreymon alone would have crushed them, possessing the power of a nuke and Chrome Digizoid armor that could easily tank Charizard's boulder-melting flames. WarGreymon wielding the Brave Shield, Dramon Destroyers, and all the energy in the atmosphere with Terra Force was only icing on the cake for one of the most one-sided matches to date.

Season 3

• Ratchet & Clank VS Jak & Daxter ended strongly in favor of the former duo, which Wiz and Boomstick don't shy away from emphasizing even without providing numbers. Ratchet's Nanotech utterly eclipsed Jak's Green Eco in healing power, not to mention his shields and incapacitating weaponry nullifying Jak's offensive Eco. Plus, the Eco duo's Morph Gun could never hope to hold a candle to the cosmic duo's overwhelming arsenal. Jak's Dark Form, though powerful, has little stamina compared to his foes' gadgets and weaponry and would run out of juice before he could capitalize on it. The hosts even ruled Clank to be infinitely more helpful than Daxter due to the former's time manipulation and immunities. On this show, the hosts calling a fighter infinite is a rare honor that only cemented Ratchet and Clank's flawless victory.
• Flash VS Quicksilver ranks among the most brutal stomps in the show's history. Both heroes are fast, but the Flash eclipses Quicksilver in almost every way by massive margins. While Quicksilver runs at FTL speeds, Flash has effortlessly run 10x faster at 6 billion mph, and he can drag Quicksilver into the Speed Force for a home-field advantage. Perhaps more crucially, Flash decimates Quicksilver in reaction speed. Pietro memorizing Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in 1 minute means he can think 500,000 times faster than humans. While impressive, Barry thinks many trillions of times faster, having reacted in less than an attosecond.^note For comparison, the best human instruments at the time of this episode's publication could "only" measure down to 12 attoseconds in precision. Quicksilver's formal combat training, his only edge against Flash, became utterly irrelevant in the face of these advantages. Barry didn't even need his Infinite Mass Punch to slaughter Pietro.
• Mewtwo VS Shadow had the Pokémon leave the hedgehog in the dust despite the latter being solidly stronger and faster. For all its physical inferiority, Mewtwo was far too strong of a telepath for Shadow to fight. With its durability and regeneration, Mewtwo easily read Shadow's mind to learn everything the hedgehog could do and how to counter his moves like Chaos Control. Shadow is canonically susceptible to telepathic assaults and concussive amnesia. Even Super Shadow's physical invulnerability doesn't protect his mind from Mewtwo's memory wiping and mind control, leaving Mewtwo's victory in no doubt.
• Ken VS Terry had Terry unabashedly trounce Ken. Even though both have their fair share of training and tournament victories, Terry was out of Ken's league. Ken needed help for most wins, and beating Zangief, Hugo, and Vega with his conviction to win can't compare to Terry's will and power rivaling Krauser and Mars. Ken has sent a man flying 15 feet with a single punch while badly injured, reversing his momentum from a fall, and survived a 100-foot fall into some mud. Terry has tanked an explosion to his back and a thrown car, leaped up an exploding elevator shaft, and smashed six falling I-beams that supported 3000 pounds each. Terry's caught bullets and shot them back with his bare hands. He's single-handedly demolished a building after shrugging off a fire column that threw him into a concrete wall. He upscales from Jamin snatching bullets at Mach 2, with the hosts making it clear how much he outclassed and stomped Ken.
• Zoro VS Erza ultimately turned out colossally one-sided for Zoro. Erza's only advantage was her more diverse weaponry and protection, which became moot in the face of Zoro's overwhelming stat advantage. Zoro was nearly 45 times faster, and his attack potency eclipsed Erza's strength 718.15 times and her durability 5750 times. Though Erza's artificial eye could see through Zoro's illusions, it couldn't stop his assault. Erza's habit of stripping down to Clear Heart clothing in emergencies, sacrificing defense for sword power, worked against her due to Zoro's far higher blade proficiency. Whereas she's self-taught, he's formally trained with the greatest swordsman in his world, leaving this match's outcome settled beyond a reasonable doubt.
• Played with in Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie, the only Win-Win Ending on this show to date. As living embodiments of No Fourth Wall, Deadpool and Pinkie Pie collaborated to intervene in past matches and curb-stomp the hosts. They didn't even confront Wiz and Boomstick - they got meta enough to chastise Ben Singer, Chad James, and Nick Cramer on DEATH BATTLE Cast. Pinkie Pie even threw a birthday party for Deadpool after he complained about the three making him fight on his birthday, leaving the hosts shocked beyond measure.
  Boomstick: What the... WHERE'S THE CARNAGE? What a cop-out!
  Wiz: I don't... I- I can't... this isn't how it's supposed to be!
  Boomstick: I mean, I guess it makes sense when you think about it. Weren't you the one who said breaking the rules would careen out of control or whatever?
  Wiz: Don't ask me, this wasn't my call.
  Boomstick: Sooo... who wins? Who loses?
  Wiz: Boomstick, I think... the loser is us.
  Boomstick: F***ing pony!

Season 4

• Scrooge McDuck VS Shovel Knight ended in a horrific stomp for Scrooge. For starters, he has over a century more experience than Shovel Knight and has fought magicians and knights before; the knight has never fought anyone like Scrooge. Scrooge's stats also blew Shovel Knight out of the water, having far more strength, speed, and durability than him. For strength, Scrooge has fought hordes of wild animals, stopped a charging 2600 lb water buffalo, and torn apart a steamboat bare-winged. For speed, he's outrun a cheetah at 75 mph and rowed a boat over 14,400 rpm/164 mph. For durability, he's survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic, freezing solid in the Yukon, a cannonball to his face, someone dragging him through a minefield, and traveling the Earth's core at over 9000° Fahrenheit. Nothing Shovel Knight has compared, with him having barely over 6700 joules of force, dodging mundane cannonballs and fireballs, and unimpressive Dynamo Mail. Scrooge's physics-breaking piercing laser guns and Neutra-Friction/Anti-Inertia rays eclipsed Shovel Knight's limited and simple magic arsenal. Despite being much older and goofier, Scrooge never had anything to fear against Shovel Knight.
• Venom VS Bane established pure venom as a definite step above prototype external venom. Though Bane was solidly smarter and could potentially deduce Venom's weaknesses to fire and sound, he lacked any means to exploit them. Lowballing Venom's strength while weakened still exceeds Bane's peak over 7.4 times. While their durabilities are even from tanking superbeings far above their weight class, Venom's regeneration healing from Juggernaut's 4.8 magnitude earthquakes eclipses Bane regardless. Remember, Batman doesn't need powers to knock out the superhuman Bane. Adding on Venom's feat of outpacing bullets in mid-air at over 1500 mph, nearly reaching Mach 2, meant he spent the animation laughing at Bane, popping the brute's head off.
• The classic Power Rangers VS Voltron ended as a brutal stomp for the Paladins. While the Rangers had superior hand-to-hand combat and sword fighting skills, Voltron outclassed them in stats and arsenal far too much for it to help. Voltron was at least 5.5 times physically stronger and packed a much wider arsenal, especially at a distance. It's also fast enough to travel between galaxies in mere hours and can fly; the Megazord can't remotely match either. Voltron also withstood the Omega Comet's gravity of 13 sextillion newtons; the comparable Serpentera one-shot the upgraded Thunder Megazord canonically. Despite their superficial similarities as iconic Sentai teams, the Zords could never even scratch the Lions.
• Metal Sonic VS Zero wasn't remotely something the former could hope to win. While Metal's speed scales to Sonic, he's still over eight times slower than Zero scaling to Quick Man through Mega Man. Metal Sonic's inferior copy of Shadow's Chaos Control couldn't hold a candle to Zero's far faster myriad time-stopping powers. Most damning of all, however, is Zero's ridiculous edge in strength and durability, being 5 million times tougher and scaling above Mega Man's 60,000-ton castle feat. Even Metal Sonic's most forceful 276 lb body-slam at Mach 35 would only be building level. As Wiz and Boomstick said, you know you have a mismatch on your hands when the loser can't even kill his opponent in a best-case scenario.
• Downplayed in the Denser and Wackier Smokey Bear VS McGruff the Crime Dog due to vague wording on the hosts' part. It initially doesn't appear to be a stomp due to the dog's slender, faster body being quite tedious for the bear to hit. However, the hosts show how absurdly more effective Smokey's power-ups are. Only he can affect the world in stopped time, and he can grow taller than a mountain. The hosts don't clarify if a "tedious" fight still applied to giant Smokey manipulating time, making it practically one-sided with some annoyances for the winner.
• Thor VS Wonder Woman ended up decisively stacked in the Amazon's favor. While they stood evenly matched in their weapons' enchantments, experience levels, and transformations, Wonder Woman utterly trounced Thor everywhere else. Thor tagging Quicksilver and Mjolnir's flight speed can't hold a candle to Diana blocking trillions of god shards flung from the universe's ends and lassoing Zoom, a man ahead of her in temporal terms. Though Thor was noticeably tougher, Wonder Woman was over 8000 times stronger. To seal the deal, Wonder Woman's Sword of Athena could slice atoms to bypass Thor's superior durability. Mjolnir, a blunt weapon, couldn't exploit Diana's weakness to piercing weapons. The animation shows how Wonder Woman removing her Bracelets of Submission let her instantly backstab Thor in his mouth despite his use of Warrior's Madness.
• Naruto VS Ichigo, despite featuring two of the Holy Shounen Trinity's three iconic heads, was one of the ugliest stomps the show ever hosted. While both possessed indomitable wills to win, Ichigo only held 40% greater speed as his advantage; Naruto's sage hyper-awareness turned it into a Hope Spot. Naruto's better training, broader arsenal, and more potent regeneration already put Ichigo on the ropes. Kurama and Six Paths powers let Naruto sense and fight Madara's Limbo clones, negating Ichigo's Shinigami invisibility. Comparing chakra to reiatsu and senjutsu to reishi reveals the similarities between spiritual and natural energy. Ichigo has a hard time hurting people spiritually stronger than him, meaning Naruto only needed more chakra than his reiatsu to seal the deal. Even scaling Ichigo to Ulquiorra and applying the most exaggerated transformation multipliers possible still can't match Naruto blowing a hole through his world's hollow moon. Naruto's base form surpasses Ichigo's most absurd highball by 40 billion megatons, or about 1.09 times, in offense and defense. Transformed Naruto's physique scales to Toneri slicing their world's hollow moon in half, further outclassing Ichigo's overestimated stats by 56.25 times. Ichigo's trump card, Mugetsu, was a Death or Glory Attack that solidly fell on the "death" side against Naruto, as it was 600 times weaker than Naruto's base and 33750 times weaker than his peak. Ichigo surviving Aizen's Kurohitsugi spacetime distortion isn't a proper black hole feat and only comes out to 814 kilotons, far too weak to help. Also, neither Kaguya nor Yhwach was an inherent planet buster for Naruto or Ichigo's powerscaling. ^Explanation Kaguya got empowered with the world's peoples' chakra for her attack; Yhwach merely planned to disrupt soul balance to indirectly planet-bust. In no uncertain terms, Ichigo never stood a chance against Naruto.

Season 5

• Spyro vs Crash is a pretty even affair... but Dark Spyro makes it an entirely different story. The moment he shows up, he utterly vaporizes Crash and Aku with almost no effort. The analysis makes this even more poignant by revealing that while Dark Spyro could kill Crash, Crash quite literally could not kill Spyro, let alone Dark Spyro.
• Sora vs. Pit ends with a clear-cut victory for Sora. While Pit had flight on his side and was a more experienced fighter, Sora had a massive advantage in terms of the fundamentals— he was significantly stronger, tougher, and faster than Pit. Sora's greatest reaction speed feat pegs him as a little less than 2.5x faster than Pit, and laser attacks from his Keyblade have been clocked in at 1.28 times the speed of light, far beyond what Pit could possibly dodge. While Pit's best strength feat was equivalent to more than half a tonne of TNT, Sora's was equivalent to 78 tonnes. Pit's greatest shortcoming, however, came in endurance: while he can comfortably tank 30 tonnes of force, Sora survived hits from an opponent who could throw creatures at a force of 24 megatonnes. With Sora's magical arsenal being equal or better to Pit's massive assortment of weapons even before the sheer power of the Keyblade was factored in, Pit just didn't have a prayer.
• Samurai Jack vs Afro Samurai, one of Death Battle's highest-requested fights, ends with Jack outclassing Afro in every category. Strength feat goes to Jack for being able to train with a 30+ ton boulder strapped to his back, while Afro never shown anything close to that. For Speed, Afro managed to block a laser beam at 21% of the speed of light, which is impressive, but not even close to Jack managing to dodge the beam from the sun at 70%. Durability is also clear cut as well, Afro surviving a blast from an RPG blast of 72 tons simply pales in comparison to Jack's fall from space which measured at 19 Megatons. And for the final nail in the coffin, while Afro was willing to pull any dirty trick in the book to win, Jack's decades of experience in fighting opponents with similar mindsets meant there was little Afro could pull out to surprise him. Jack was simply the better trained Samurai in this fight.
• Carnage vs Lucy ended up like this. Carnage held the endurance advantage, but Lucy surpassed him in every other way. While Carnage could shrug off most of her attacks by reforming himself, Lucy's island destruction feat gave her the raw explosive power necessary to put him down permanently (it doesn't hurt that fire is one of the Symbiotes' natural weaknesses, and the power of the explosions Lucy can cause by punching with her Vectors is potentially 18 times hotter than the surface of the Sun, more than enough to vapourize Carnage instantaneously). Because of this, and that Carnage could definitely kill Lucy if he could get past her Vectors, the fight ultimately came down to which combatant could get past the other's defenses first, and since Lucy's reaction speed was nearly twice as fast as Carnage, and her Vectors have reached speeds roughly 250x faster than anything Carnage has shown while also having a reach nearly 1250 times farther than that of his Symbiote when pushed to her limit, it was all but certain that she would land the killing blow long before Carnage could get around her Vectors. This is also showcased in the fight animation itself in a rare aversion of Curb Stomp Cushion compared to several previous Season 5 battles: Lucy is in complete control for almost the entire fight, barely even needing to move for most of it, and Carnage only ever lands a few glancing hits while Lucy tears him apart repeatedly before finally deciding to go all-out, which obliterates Carnage on her first attempt.
• The highly-requested Optimus Prime vs. Gundam turned out to be one the most horrific stomps in Death Battle history. In practically every category, Optimus holds a massive advantage over Amuro and his RX-78-2 Gundam. Optimus has millions of years of combat experience, where Amuro only has fourteen. Optimus is six times faster, and nine-thousand times stronger than the Gundam. Though Amuro's newtype powers and the Gundam's weaponry meant he could keep up with Optimus's strength and speed, the Gundam's weapons only have a limited amount of ammunition so it wasn't going to last, not to mention that it couldn't match up to Optimus's durability and weapons. The Gundam survived a blast equal to 150,858 kilotons of TNT, but Optimus survived a blast on Cybertron that was visible from space, which is far greater than anything the Gundam has survived or outputted. Optimus's Ion Cannon can also shoot targets in orbit from ground level, which makes the weapon's speed far greater than the Gundam's. And just to further that nail in the coffin, the Matrix that Optimus has was capable of destroying Unicron, which measured up to 40 Yottatons. There was nothing Amuro and the RX-78-2 had that could match, let alone surpass Optimus Prime.
• Mario vs. Sonic (2018), unlike the last time these two gaming titans fought, showed that Mario held several massive advantages over the Blue Blur. Sonic still holds the speed advantage with his relativistic running speeds, but Mario's own reactionary speed feats were actually roughly on par with Sonic, giving him the means to counter Sonic's incredible speed. Even assuming Sonic's stalagmite feat with Metal Sonic was done with entirely his own strength, Mario has shown strength over 17 times stronger, and he's survived an explosion 12 times stronger than anything Sonic has ever outputted in base form, putting Sonic's ability to actually kill Mario once their power-ups had been depleted into question. Even if Sonic is capable of using the Time Master powers of Chaos Control^note It's implied that he's capable of doing this, since he can copy the teleportation powers of Shadow's Chaos Control and can stop time with it in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle's non-canon Versus Mode, but he has never actually done so in a canon scenario, Mario's Stopwatch power-up serves the exact same purpose, making the point moot. While most of Mario and Sonic's power-ups still countered each other, just like in the original episode from 2011, Mario's adventures in the interim gave him access to enough new power-ups that he now held a much wider and more versatile arsenal than Sonic (in addition, many of his new power-ups were ones that Sonic could not reliably counter, like the Gold Flower), and because of his Bottomless Gloves and ability to store power-ups for later use, he was able to hold more of them and use them more reliably than Sonic could. With Mario's superior strength, durability, and more varied arsenal, as well as his ability to counter Sonic's superior speed, there was little Sonic could do to win the fight. Amusingly, however, the hosts note in the podcast that if they had included Archie Sonic as a Composite Character^note they ultimately chose not to because his feats from the comics are such massive outliers when compared to his feats from the game canon that they're essentially entirely separate characters, Sonic would have actually curbstomped Mario due to possessing ridiculous feats of speed and power (such as causing and surviving the destruction of a dimension as well as blowing up a black hole by running circles around it, and surviving being sent flying several thousand light years away by the resulting explosion and surviving crashing onto a planet with no ill effects aside from falling unconscious for a short period of time).
• Ultron vs. Sigma was a pretty ugly stomp. Sigma was ridiculously outclassed in every physical category; while Sigma could scale to the General (who was able to block a laser capable of destroying Earth) and outpace Zero (who dodged lightspeed attacks), Ultron could tank hits from Mjolnir and fly across the galaxy in a matter of months, making him 10,000 times more durable and over 1,000 times faster. That said, the true deciding factor was whether the Ultron A.I. or the Sigma Virus would assimilate the other first... and it turns out Ultron was way out of Sigma's league in that category as well. The Ultron A.I. was advanced enough to take over an entire techno-organic race who were no strangers to assimilating other races themselves and use them to conquer a galaxy-spanning empire, which is way beyond anything the Sigma Virus was capable of, not to mention he did it in a few hours. In addition, while Ultron has been defeated by a virus before, the virus in question had to be tailor-made to get past his defenses, which the Sigma Virus was not. Even if the Sigma Virus was assumed to be capable of breaching said defenses and taking over the Ultron A.I. with enough time and effort, it would certainly take much longer than the other way around. Sigma simply wasn't a match for Ultron on any conceivable level.
• Roshi vs. Jiraiya is ultimately this. Jiraiya holds no advantage over Roshi in any category (with the possible exception of reaction speed— while Roshi hasn't personally shown speeds as fast as Jiraiya, Goku was capable of doing so while Roshi was training him in Kame Style as a child, meaning that Roshi could feasibly scale to him in order to match Jiraiya's speed) and is outclassed in all but two of them, with the Kamehameha alone vastly eclipsing his strongest attack roughly 35 billion times over and being so far beyond his reaction time (being roughly 260x faster than Jiraiya's lightning feat) that there was no way he could dodge it for long. Even Jiraiya's ace in the hole, his numerous creative ninja moves, was countered by Roshi's own smarts and Roshi having hundreds more years of experience than himself. Last but by no means least, Roshi has dealt with equally as tricky foes in the past, and while Jiraiya has techniques that could win the fight instantly, they're too situational or poorly defined to make a solid case in his favour when Roshi had him completely outclassed almost everywhere else.
• Thanos vs. Darkseid is likely the largest stomp of Season 5, and quite possibly the entire history of the show. Simply put, Thanos could barely hold a candle to anything Darkseid was capable of. Darkseid could react and move 28 octillion times faster, survive the destruction of the universe in comparison to a measly black hole which at most could only come out to a galaxy-buster, and could destroy all of existence beyond multiverses just by existing in his true form, on top of having more than 240,000 years more experience at bare minimum. And this was all compared to Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet, which Darkseid could easily take out of the equation by transporting them both to another universe with his Boom Tubes, as the Infinity Gems canonically only work in the universe they're originally from. Since Darkseid's true form would destroy Thanos' home universe simply by appearing there, this meant that Thanos could literally never have access to the Gauntlet's power when fighting against Darkseid at his strongest, essentially turning the outcome into a Foregone Conclusion. Unlike most fights with a Curb Stomp Cushion, the fight makes it clear how little Thanos can truly faze Darkseid's avatars (aside from snapping them out of existence, which still doesn't really help when Darkseid can just spawn as many new ones as he needs to), let alone the New God himself; the first few minutes consist of Darkseid barely moving as Thanos keeps trying to throw anything he has at him, having to destroy the sun and grow to the size of a star just to get Darkseid to fight him seriously. And even then, it's heavily implied that Darkseid was simply toying with Thanos at the end, constantly taunting him with avatars and ending his life with a simple firing of his Omega Beams.

Season 6

• The Mega Man Battle Royale had five highly powerful iterations of the Blue Bomber enter, but the gaps in power between each Mega Man were so massive that every single one merits mentioning here:
  • The worst off was poor Mega Man Volnutt, who was outclassed by the contemporaries of his own timeline in every single way, and he comes from an era millennia past the Classic or X eras. Throughout the entire fight, he's treated as a nuisance at best, with the other Mega Men barely paying him any mind. The only legitimate advantage he had was that his weapons were manual and not digital, so he was immune to the overriding attacks that .EXE and Star Force could use. This didn't help him when they all surpass him in strength, speed, durability, and variety thousands of times over at bare minimum.
  • It was a Foregone Conclusion that Classic Mega Man was thoroughly outclassed by Mega Man X, who could not only counter his time stop abilities with ease and had the advantage of not needing to worry about ammo consumption with his Ultimate Armor, but was quite literally designed to surpass him in every way. Even Classic's attempt at Taking You with Me by pulling him into the black hole ultimately failed as X survived up to the .EXE vs. Geo Stelar battle.
  • X was utterly outclassed by both .EXE and Geo Stelar's abilities and their immunity to the overriding nature of the Mother Elf anti-virus. To top it off, Geo Stelar's Noise manipulation allowed him to corrupt and easily counteract the Mother Elf when X tried using it in the fight. In the end, he's eliminated by Geo Stelar taking over his mind and using him as a robot puppet until .EXE finishes them both off.
  • MegaMan.EXE proved to be the most powerful Mega Man overall, and by what is the largest gap of the bunch. While Geo Stelar held back in his canonical fight against .EXE, so did .EXE, and the fight also proved that .EXE could hurt him despite his EM physiology^note Not to mention that the fight was between a Geo Stelar at the peak of his abilities and a .EXE early in his career. In addition, .EXE had a downright ludicrous speed advantage, as while Geo Stelar could reach speeds three million times the speed of light, .EXE had a theoretical top speed of three novemdecillion ^note for reference, a million has seven digits, while a novemdecillion has sixty-one times faster than light speed, as well as a wider arsenal of Battle Chips (including more reliable override attacks) than Geo Stelar had Battle Cards, and his destruction of Cyberworld pegs his destructive output as over 200 quintillion times stronger than Geo Stelar's black hole durability feat. In the end, after Geo takes over X and tries to use him against .EXE, .EXE not only tanks Geo and X's combined final attack, but then proceeds to overpower it and destroy both of them with his own finishing move.
  • It's perhaps best showcased with how each Mega Man deals with the massive Unrealistic Black Hole they end up creating. Volnutt is destroyed without a prayer of saving himself. Classic Mega Man is able to resist for a time before being pulled in and destroyed. X is destroyed, but able to regenerate from his core. Geo survives, but it clearly did a number on him and he's missing his left arm while noticeably trying to recover and use a recovery Battle Card. .EXE just shrugs it off like a normal attack and keeps fighting unimpeded once he catches his breath and uses a recovery Battle Chip.
• Ben 10 vs. Green Lantern is this. Almost all of Ben's alien forms were completely useless against Hal, and the one form that could feasibly fight Hal, Alien X, actually pales in comparison to Hal. Not only has Hal and other, weaker Green Lanterns who he can undoubtedly scale to, shown feats surpassing Alien X, they've also shown resistance to almost all of Alien X's abilities, while Alien X has never shown the ability to take what he dishes out, which is a problem for him as Hal is capable of replicating most if not all of X's arsenal. Ultimately, despite being considered one of the most powerful combatants ever seen on Death Battle, X could do little more than give Hal some trouble, since fighting similar threats is all in a day's work for the Lantern Corps.
• Aang vs. Edward Elric: has the Avatar take it. Aang has more options in his arsenal than Edward does at any given moment. While Edward's greatest strength feat measures around 30 Kilotons of TNT, Aang is about 5 times stronger. This strength difference meant that Aang could easily destroy Edward's Automail Arm, preventing his use of Combat Alchemy (which requires him to clap his hands). The speed difference was also clear-cut, as Edward's bullet-dodging feat is nothing compared to Aang being able to react to lightning, and while Ed has potentially lightning-level reaction feats as well, Aang's seismic sense on top of his reflexes further puts the advantage in his corner. Theoretically, Edward does possess the option to equal Aang's power output, but that is a big theoretical. It would require him to sacrifice his life force like a Philosopher's Stone and even then, the duration is far too short (since he's using his own singular soul rather than a massive collection) and the risk is far more dangerous compared to Aang's Avatar state, which has no such trade-offs whatsoever. Aang just had too much power, speed, and versatility for Edward to compete with. In the fight animation proper, we see Aang either dodging or blocking every attack Ed throws at him, while he's able to keep landing blows.
• Ghost Rider vs Lobo ends up being a Foregone Conclusion. Both fighters were virtually unkillable, but while Lobo held a significant edge in most physical categories over the Spirit of Vengeance in his base form, once Zarathos' full power was unleashed Lobo was completely outclassed. The Penance Stare and the Rider's hellfire were capable of bypassing Lobo's physical defenses and damaging his soul directly, and while Lobo might be banned from the afterlife, it doesn't mean his soul's untouchable. As a result, there was nothing stopping Ghost Rider from obliterating his soul outright or, if Johnny Blaze surrendered control of his body to Zarathos, eating it whole. The final nail in Lobo's coffin was his lack of holy weaponry, the only thing that could truly kill Ghost Rider. While Lobo could likely deduce this weakness, he wouldn't have a chance to escape long enough to obtain a weapon suitable for the task at hand as Ghost Rider's motorcycle has kept pace with Mjollnir, which was capable of speeds 100 billion times faster than light, which meant that he could easily keep up with Lobo and his Space Hog. All things considered, it was only a matter of time before Ghost Rider destroyed Lobo's soul and ended the fight.
• One giant robot proved to dwarf their opponent in Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla. While Tommy Oliver was the more experienced combatant, especially in regards to mecha battling, experience wasn't nearly enough to overcome the sheer difference in power between the two machines. Mechagodzilla had a variety of advantages, being stronger, more durable, faster, and having a far better ranged arsenal. Most damningly, while both sides had an "instant-kill" move, Mechagodzilla's could actually be used at a distance and was far more powerful. In the end the hosts note that Dragonzord may not even be capable of killing Mechagodzilla, cementing what was already an extremely one-sided battle.
• Ganondorf vs. Dracula is a pretty large stomp, both in the animation and analysis. In the fight proper, Ganandorf is unable to do anything to Dracula, who laughs at him the entire time, before transforming and subsequently overpowering Ganandorf with ease and disembowling him. In the post-fight analysis, the hosts note that Ganandorf's only hope was landing a good hit with his holy sword... something extremely unlikely to happen when Dracula's many abilities could put Ganandorf down with ease and at range, including with what is referred to by the hosts as Dracula's "Holy Nuke".
• Deadpool vs. Mask was intentionally chosen by Wiz and Boomstick to be one of the most lopsided matchups in the show's history, if not the most. Deadpool had the experience and skill advantage, but was utterly outclassed in all other categories, with his opponent practically being a Physical God. The Mask was was hundreds of times stronger and faster, and more than two trillion times more durable: his collision with Lobo was equivalent to about 322 Teratons of TNT, while Deadpool's greatest durability feat (unassisted by his immortality curse, which was recently removed in comics canon) was a measly 130 tons, and that's before taking The Mask's superior Healing Factor into account. Deadpool was more sane compared to The Mask (somehow), and could potentially have tricked him into removing the Mask itself, but with the difference in power that massive, Deadpool never would have had the chance to try. Not even the hosts giving Deadpool the Continuity Stone could turn the tide, as The Mask has repeatedly shown via Toon Physics he can give reality the middle finger and just ignore any changes he doesn't like. In the end, Wiz and Boomstick both knew for a fact they had sent Deadpool to a guaranteed death out of spite- and were ashamed of themselves for doing so.

Season 7

• Miles Morales VS Static Shock ended with a shockingly one-sided conclusion. Miles was physically stronger, but that was about it and this advantage mattered little when matched against his opponent's vast electric power. While Miles had a fairly strong arsenal, it wouldn't be able to get past Virgil's force-field and many of his abilities were outright countered by Virgil's own. Virgil on the other hand only needed to hit Miles once to control Spidey's many abilities and could do so at a distance, rendering this a very one-sided matchup.
• Genos vs. War Machine was so one-sided that even the fight animation itself scarcely bothered hiding how out of War Machine's league Genos was. As a war veteran with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and having been a professional superhero for decades, he was far more experienced than the rash and impulsive teenage Genos, and his feats of blowing up a city-sized mountain and flying at light-speed far exceeded anything Genos has accomplished. This, on top of War Machine's more defensive abilities, allowed him to counter almost all of Genos' arsenal and render everything short of blowing up his own power core completely ineffectual. Fittingly, War Machine completely No-Selled the Spiral Incineration Blast. Multiple times. And throughout the fight, he seemed more irritated with Genos than outright threatened, considering Genos couldn't even really injure, let alone kill, him. The fact that poor Genos stood no chance is cemented by the post-fight analysis being one of the shortest since the post-Season 2 ruleset was put into effect while still covering all of the bases, showcasing just how straightforward of a road to victory the Iron Patriot had.
• The cold war of "Gray VS Esdeath" resolved with Gray left in the cold. Gray's ability to eat ice was a useful tactic, but it wasn't helpful enough to save him from the fact that Esdeath's sheer magical power was hundreds of times stronger. Most fatally, Gray's trump card was his one ability capable of taking Esdeath out... but not only would Mahapadma cancel it out easily, Esdeath could kill them with it at any point, sealing her victory.
• "Cable VS Booster Gold" was made ridiculously one-sided by Booster's force-field. Booster's shield was capable of withstanding everything Cable could use on them and more, making Cable helpless against being crushed by it, let alone fighting back.
• Jake Long was at a very serious disadvantage in "Danny Phantom VS Jake Long". While the American Dragon could work around Danny's intangibility, he didn't really have a way to avoid being possessed and/or overpowered by his ghostly opposition.
• "Sabrewulf VS Jon Talbain" has a seemingly very close fight animation where both combatants manage to inflict very messy injuries on each other... but the analysis then reveals that in reality, it wasn't close at all. The only category where both fighters are comparable is speed, with each having scaling feats placing them around the speed of light, but even then, Jon is the faster one. Speaking of scaling, Talbain's B+ ranking means he can be compared to other incredibly powerful characters, such as Q-Bee, who can lift a gigantic castle estimated to weigh 30 million tons, and Anakaris, who was able to sink all of ancient Egypt, which means his ki can move upwards of 1.2 trillion tons, feats which far surpass anything Sabrewulf's ever been up against. This difference in the potency of their Ki Attacks. can also clearly be seen in their movesets: while Sabrewulf can project tiny fire bats, Jon can summon a massive flaming dragon using his ki. But even if it weren't for the huge discrepancy in power, the fight would still be stacked against Sabrewulf: he's an Unskilled, but Strong savage who relies on his (killer) instincts in battle and never managed to fully embrace his lycanthropy, while Jon Talbain is Strong and Skilled, with decades of actual martial arts training granting him the self-control to fully master the powers his lupine form grants him. With Jon Talbain coming out on top in terms of both raw power and fighting expertise, Sabrewulf never stood a chance.
• "Red VS Blue" ended very poorly for the losing team. No members of either team could stand up to the sheer might of Tex or Caboose, and in general the Red team simply didn't compare to the Blues. Sarge didn't have the experience Tex did, their car was inferior to the Blue tank, and the only thing Red team really had going for them was sheer stubborn tenacity.

Season 8

• "Shadow VS Ryūko" starts out a pretty even affair... until Shadow taps into the Chaos Emeralds' power. The moment he becomes Super Shadow, he obliterates Ryūko with almost no effort. The analysis makes this even more poignant by revealing that Ryūko is only strong enough to really hurt Shadow while he's in his base form, and even then his far greater speed would allow him to wear her out in a game of attrition, making it a moot point. Even the fight animation reflects this: Shadow is clearly in control throughout the whole fight, dodging or No Selling nearly all of Ryūko's attacks before annihilating her with his Chaos Blast.
• "Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom" ended with one supervillain firmly on top. Lex's suit was noted to be stronger and slightly faster than Doom's own, but Doom could use the Cosmic Power Siphon to steal the energy from the Mother Box powering it ^Explanation Considering the Siphon drained the Beyonder's power, which is millions of times greater than the entire Marvel multiverse, such a feat is clearly within what it can do. Doom also had a multitude of options that would let him win without a fight; he could turn Lex to chrome, blast him with antimatter, scramble his nerves, or swap minds with him, all of which Lex would be unable to defend against. At the end of the day, while Lex's arsenal let him put up a semblance of a fight, Doctor Doom simply had too many methods of resisting and bypassing all of them.
• "Blake VS Mikasa" was decisively in Blake's favor. Blake had the better gear and skillset, with Gambol Shroud alone outclassing both Mikasa's swords & ODM Gear, while her Shadow Semblance had a myriad of uses which made her hard to pin down. Blake was also much faster ^Explanation While Mikasa could keep up with characters who can deflect bullets, Blake has matched opponents who can dodge lightning, a feat nearly 40 times more impressive. Aura also made Blake much more durable, meaning that the only way Mikasa could put her down was with her Thunder Spears. This highlighted Mikasa's greatest disadvantage however: her Crippling Overspecialization. The Thunder Spears (along with most of Mikasa's tools and skills), are meant to be used against Titans, which are mostly big, slow targets. She was ill-equipped for fighting an agile Cat Girl Ninja like Blake, who could easily dodge most of what Mikasa can throw at her, including the Thunder Spears. Even Mikasa's Genetic Memory consisted mostly of Titan-fighting experience, which wasn't applicable to this fight. While the animation appeared close, with Blake losing an arm during the fight, the ending analysis didn't really try to hide that it couldn't have ended any other way, with Mikasa receiving no listed advantages over Blake. To add insult to injury, Mikasa's one means of killing the Faunus was considered dubious with even a direct hit — IE. the best-case scenario for her — given Blake's fellow huntresses Weiss and Penny surviving even bigger explosions than the Thunder Spears with no lasting issues.
• "Steven Universe vs. Star Butterfly" ends squarely in Star's favor. The hosts mentioned that Steven held the advantages in physical strength, base durability, regeneration and speed while having a number of useful abilities like weapon removal, but Star's vast magical power and sheer versatility of spells easily overcame all of them. Star's transportation spells countered Steven's speed, her universe-busting magic dwarfed all his planet-level defensive capabilities, her defense and barriers were comparable to said magic, and her ability to "dip down" to cast spells without her wand rendered disarming her useless. Finally, Star had experience and mastery over her Butterfly form, while Steven never mastered his Pink State. The fight animation itself appeared to be close at first, but as soon as Star dipped down to use her full magic potential, she effortlessly demolished Pink State Steven and his barrier in one Mega-Explosive Crystal Laser.
• Link VS Cloud (2021) ended with Cloud thoroughly outclassing Link in nearly every way. While Link and Cloud both had strong arsenals that could counter one another fairly well, this was the only category where they were even remotely close. Cloud was calculated at around 12,000 times faster than Link, with the hosts noting that he could literally run circles around Link without him noticing. His strength and durability were also far above Link's: while Link scales to Majora, who can pull the Moon into the Earth, Cloud's survived an attack that can destroy the Moon, which is more than twice as impressive... and that's not even his most impressive feat, since Sephiroth's Supernova, a literal exploding sun which annihilates a dimension, isn't enough to put him down. Such a large disparity means that most fights would end in seconds unless Link landed an extremely lucky blow, with his only prayer of winning involving his time-stopping Stasis.
• One time-traveler proved to have a massive advantage in "Goku Black VS Reverse Flash". While both possessed immortality, Goku Black needed his time ring to survive the battle while Eobard simply didn't have any such disadvantage. That wasn't the only problem Goku Black faced, however, as Thawne proved to have almost every advantage imaginable, including but not limited to speed, sheer power, and relevant knowledge. Tellingly, the hosts note that while Fused Zamasu (the strongest version of Goku Black) was not included for this fight, they would have had trouble surviving the fight due to the Reverse Flash being capable of performing a similar attack to the one that killed them in canon.
• "Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man" proved to be extremely an extremely lopsided matchup. While Macho Man was faster, Kool-Aid Man possessed greater power with his Kool-Aid abilities than Randy could possibly hope to match, even with his own set of strange powers. Not only that, but Kool-Aid Man's ability to survive as long as Kool-Aid existed around them made Macho Man unable to kill him, especially considering he could always create more using his abilities.
  Jocelyn: Macho Man's skillset was beyond expectation. But, well... The Kool-Aid Man could destroy the sun!
• "DIO VS Alucard" showed that if Alucard is the King of Vampires, DIO may as well be their god. DIO was measured as being hundreds of thousands of times stronger, faster, and tougher, which nullified Alucard's standard Victory by Endurance tactics as he didn't have any openings for him to exploit. Alucard also had no answer for The World, which can only be seen or damaged by other Stand users, on top of having the ludicrously powerful ability to freeze time, which left Alucard useless. Alucard's Healing Factor may have looked like his sole advantage, but it had a crucial flaw: each time it activates, it uses up one of Alucard's souls. Because DIO is so much stronger, he would seriously be able to kill Alucard over 3 million times in quick succession, burning through all of his regenerations, or even to wipe out all of his familiars at once with Space Ripper Stingy Eyes.
• "Korra VS Storm" wound up being one of the most lopsided matchups in the show's history. Storm has such a huge advantage in terms of power, speed, range, and precision, that she could suffocate Korra or fry her brain with lightning from the other side of the world without giving her a chance to fight back. Korra could dodge Lightning, but Storm could dodge actual light beams. Korra could potentially match an island's worth of power while Storm could create a planet-sized storm. The hosts even go out of their way to note that Storm would be unaffected by Korra attempting to move the fight to the spirit realm, depowering her with energybending, or even earthbending her underground.
• "Madara VS Aizen" is an interesting case, as there are several categories where Aizen is very close to Madara. If this was a duel of raw strength and speed, it's even possible that Aizen would be able to win in some scenarios. However, Madara has two key advantages that just so happen to nullify any hope Aizen has of winning. While both combatants are powerful Masters Of Illusion and have been shown to create whole illusionary worlds, only Madara has demonstrated the ability to spot the flaws in an illusion (thanks to his Sharingan) and to break free from them. And although they both possess extremely potent Healing Factors, Madara's Truth-Seeking Orbs have been shown to instantly annihilate spiritual beings and nullify their regeneration. This, on top of other advantages such as Madara having a very diverse repertoire of offensive jutsu and being able to absorb most of Aizen's ranged attacks, meant that the Soul Reaper had little to no chance of emerging victorious.

Season 9

• "Thor VS Vegeta" was a duel between that determined the God of Thunder as the much greater warrior. While the animation appeared close with Vegeta getting a good few combos in, the post-fight analysis showed that it was anything but. Thor's millennia of combat experience trumped Vegeta's decades of experience. While Vegeta could destroy a universe around 260000 times over, Thor could output ten times that. Stamina-wise, Vegeta got tired out after an hour of fighting in the Tournament of Power, but Thor fought for over 40 days without breaking a sweat. Thor was determined to be over 70 quadrillion times faster, allowing him to avoid the Saiyan's Ki attacks or simply absorb them via Energy Absorption, which also meant that Vegeta's Spirit Fission would be ineffective as Thor could literally will his power back. Even Vegeta's ace-in-the-hole, the Hakai, was useless against Thor, who survived existence erasure on physical, spiritual and even temporal levels. Meanwhile, Thor's God-Blast was capable of threatening Galactus, an entity who could threaten the infinite multiverse, which put Thor far above not only Vegeta, but everything else from Dragon Ball Super. The results noted that if Thor had the Thorforce, he'd scale to multiversal-level feats and make it even more of a curbstomp.
• The matchup between Omni-Man and Homelander is a contender for "Most Lopsided Matchup", as while Homelander's Super-Scream power gave him a slight edge, it was the only thing he had that could do anything, as Nolan outclassed him in every way imaginable... and even then, his sonic scream could only act as a minor distraction. Homelander was just a Psychopathic Manchild with a planet-sized ego, while Omni-Man had a millennium of experience destroying actual planets. It's also one of the very few curb-stomps to avert Curb Stomp Cushion in the animation proper, as Omni-Man ends the fight in two and a half minutes, and only let it go on for that long just to toy with him and shatter his pride. The moment Homelander threatens the life of his son, he wastes no time going for the kill and shows he could've ended the fight in seconds if he really wanted to.
• "Black Adam VS Apocalypse" showed En Sabah Nur easily countering everything Teth-Adam could throw at him. While both fighters were found to be relatively even in terms of base stats, Apocalypse was able to match or nullify nearly all of Black Adam's various other powers while overwhelming him with his own varied abilities. Black Adam's only victory condition was destroying Apocalypse's Death Seed, which he could figure out through the Wisdom of Zehuti, but Apocalypse's powerful telepathy, which is powerful enough to overcome the Courage of Mehen, would alert him to this. Most importantly, Apocalypse's Energy Absorption would let him steal Black Adam's power source, the Living Lightning: the more attacks he absorbed, the weaker Black Adam would get, further increasing the gap between the two. The animation reflects the one-sidedness of this matchup, as Apocalypse either No-Sells or instantly regenerates from every single attack Black Adam throws at him, and he comes out of the duel completely unscathed after literally stomping his opponent's face into the ground.
• Despite both being nautical Joke Characters, only one of them proved to be lethal in SpongeBob Squarepants VS SuperFriends Aquaman. Thanks to his Toon Physics, SpongeBob utterly eclipsed Aquaman's greatest feats in strength and speed when he once unraveled the entire universe like a string, was nigh-unkillable by almost all means, absorbed all water which rendered Aquaman's water control useless, had a massive arsenal boosted further by Imagination-Based Superpower, and could even rewrite his plot. While the fight animation clearly gave Aquaman the dignity of a much better-fought match than anyone would predict, the writing was nowhere near as subtle; Super Friends Aquaman bemoans in the fight that he was the lamest version of himself throughout the multiverse, and even the hosts and analysis didn't even bother to hide the power discrepancy, with Wiz and Boomstick uncharacteristically deeming Aquaman a lost cause and declaring the whole fight a Foregone Conclusion ^note a dishonor only shared with Michaelangelo and Mega Man Volnutt. It's driven home even further when Aquaman's only advantage in the post-mortem was "Won the moral victory?", with his disadvantages being "Everything else".

Season 10

• "Dark Souls VS Skyrim" showed that while both fighters had incredible versatility and feats, the Last Dragonborn was ultimately on a whole other level. Although the Chosen Undead had some powerful spells, including the Vow of Silence which could temporarily stop the Dragonborn's shouts, their magic supply was limited and couldn't be replenished. Meanwhile, the Dragonborn, in addition to boasting a wider variety of spells, summons, and shouts, had Regenerating Mana that would let them continuously cast spells throughout the fight once the Vow of Silence ran out. Though the Chosen Undead has dodged beams of light, the Dragonborn can fire arrows that move much faster than light—arguably even infinitely fast. Most damningly, the power gap was huge—while the Chosen Undead could match the power of the First Flame, responsible for the whole Dark Souls universe, the Dragonborn could match Alduin, a being capable of destroying multiple infinite universes. Due to this power difference, even the Chosen Undead's Resurrective Immortality couldn't aid them, as they would inevitably turn Hollow long before they could defeat the Last Dragonborn, leaving the Dovahkiin's victory assured.
• Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer had the Patron Saint of New Marais firmly come out on top. While Alex was superior in terms of experience, intelligence, and regeneration-induced tenacity, it all mattered little when confronted with Cole, who was capable of countering anything Alex could throw at him. Cole has demonstrated far greater speed, power, and durability, making him far beyond anyone Alex has fought. Cole's Bio-Leech would let him negate Alex's regeneration, but destroying the Beast at the atomic level means he doesn't even need to do that. While Alex had the ability to steal Cole's biomass to gain a power boost, the latter could return the favor by absorbing Alex's bio-electricity. Alex's Blacklight Virus would be unlikely to affect Cole, who's resisted both atomic-level disintegration and Sasha's Black Tar (which works very similarly to the Blacklight Virus). As the final nail in the coffin, the hosts noted that if Evil Cole was used in the fight, he would have an even easier time destroying Alex thanks to having the Beast's powers, which completely outclass anything the Blacklight Virus prototype had in store.
• Galactus vs Unicron, one of the most requested Death Battles between two planet-devouring deities since it was announced far back in Season 3, ultimately turned out to be one of the biggest stomps in the show's history, if not the biggest stomp of all time. While both were ultimately pegged at having immeasurable power and durability (with Galactus already deemed to have higher power than Unicron in spite of their durability having been considered equal), Galactus had one sheer advantage that Unicron had no answers to: The Ultimate Nullifier, which was an instant-win button due to being capable of nullifying Abraxas, a being who's quite similar to Unicron in power, meaning that it would only be a matter of time before Galactus pulled it out to end the fight instantly. Even Unicron's ace via Dark Energon corruption was useless as Galactus was fully immune to its influence. To make matters far worse for the Chaos Bringer, Galactus had far more experience fighting against foes that are in Unicron's range of power and oftentimes come out on top where as Unicron never fought against anyone of similar power in his home universe since he had no challengers to his power outside of his brother Primus. Despite showing what appears to be a even fight at first, Galactus swiftly turns the tables in his favor by using the Ultimate Nullifier to wipe Unicron out.

Special Episodes

• Parodied in DEATH BATTLE! vs The World, a glorified advertisement meant to promote the DEATH BATTLE! T-Shirt by having it massacre every other t-shirt in the world.
• Parodied in Vegeta VS Mewtwo?, a playful Take That! to Silvermania's collaboration with 32 other YouTubers to create a parody match between Vegeta and Mewtwo based on the hosts' style. Vegeta's combat experience and Mewtwo's genius-level intellect alerted them to Silvermania's HQ. They teamed up to instantly obliterate it, enabling the hosts to declare "the Internet" as the winner.
• Parodied in ScrewAttack Steam Sale vs. Your Wallet, an obscure tweet by the hosts featuring an episode to shamelessly self-promote ScrewAttack's game sale from the weekend of August 5, 2016. Naturally, the games on sale infected the buyer's mind, effortlessly beating out the money in their wallet in desirability and making them buy the games on the spot.
• The Seven Battle Royale, though matched up closely on paper, merely took some back-and-forths to figure out, ending with obvious power gaps between each fighter.
  • Homelander was exempt from the fight because his power level was leagues above everyone else. His strength, speed, and durability let him throw baseballs into space, outrace F-16s past the sound barrier, and survive nukes reaching 50 megatons of TNT. Including him would turn the fight into a Foregone Conclusion, so he's instead the referee. When Homelander intervened after the battle ended, he effortlessly smashed Billy Butcher into a bloody paste in one fell swoop.
  • The Deep was the worst in the team, having no feats besides breathing underwater and talking to fish; his unskilled, dorky personality didn't help matters. His best durability feat of surviving two miles underwater is about 4,699.74 psi, which wouldn't even protect him from an average bullet's 50,000 psi of force. A-Train disintegrated him in the animation's first few seconds with a Super-Speed body slam.
  • Starlight, despite shrugging off sniper rounds, boasting enough strength to lift a car partially, and having good training, wasn't that lethal by superhero standards. Though her beams are powerful enough to blind and kill humans, they're relatively weak against other superheroes and nowhere near lightspeed due to being plasma. As A-Train stomped her when they fought in the show, there's no reason to think he wouldn't here.
  • Though A-Train broke the sound barrier at 371 meters per second and disintegrated Robin with a force of 437,874 joules, enough to pull four train cars, he lacked versatility. His reflexes are nowhere near as good as his running speed, and he's susceptible enough to sneak attacks for people without Super-Speed to wound him severely. Queen Maeve, whose durability far outclasses his strength and who possesses boatloads of experience, would make short work of him.
  • Barring Homelander, Queen Maeve is the most powerful of the Seven, boasting immense amounts of martial arts training, experience, and durability. Given how she effortlessly destroyed a truck weighing 11,000 kg moving at 75 mph by standing in its way without flinching, she's tanked 6,379,419 joules of force. With that much of an advantage, she would have won the match handily if not for Billy Butcher cheating.
  • Ironically, Billy Butcher's theoretical disadvantage of being an unenhanced human the others could disregard led to him stomping them in practice. As they would prioritize him last, it left him enough time to deploy his trump card, a baby with plasma vision, after it came down to him and Maeve. Despite Butcher not standing a chance physically, the baby's plasma emits 14 billion joules per attack, which would decimate even Maeve's durability in one blast. Though Homelander summarily executed him seconds later, Butcher savored his well-earned victory.
• Excalibur VS Raiden ended with Raiden standing no chance against Excalibur despite both possessing about even mastery of swordsmanship and ninjutsu. Raiden held a slight edge in speed, having moved at 11.7% lightspeed to Excalibur's 9.4% lightspeed feat, and has more endurance due to his infinite ammo bandana. However, these edges were too marginal to help, with Excalibur's far more diverse arsenal of over 500 weapons coming to mind, all of which he was at least proficient in using. Raiden's best feat of slicing a carbon nanotube robot in half for 100 kilotons of TNT is nothing compared to Excalibur's fellow Warframe Atlas shattering a 6-kilometer wide asteroid comparable to Chicxulub for 46 gigatons of TNT. Excalibur has reasonably contended with Atlas, given how they both possess in-game power stats of 150. Even matching 1% of Atlas's power would let Excalibur outclass Raiden's strength over 4000 times. Excalibur's Glaxion could even negate Raiden's High-Frequency Blade, responsible for his kiloton feat, by halting its molecular movement. Even if Raiden somehow broke Excalibur's shields, he could never harm his Tenno Operator. The numbers and logic don't lie, leaving Raiden with no win-con and a match that could only end with his demise.

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