"Death makes you die" Explaination Many have taken this line from Gandalf spoken in context to the mortal Dumbledore while he Came Back Strong and treat it as a Captain Obvious joke.
Go on almost any YouTube vid of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man these days, and there's bound to be at least a few comments quoting Stay Puft's "I live so large, you can't harsh my mellow". Which'll usually followed by another comment quoting the next line, "Just one step took me out the ghetto".
A lot of Juliet's lines in "Romeo and Juliet vs. Bonnie and Clyde" are very famous on Tumblr.
"Pompey is the true winner".Explanation (spoilers)Pompey the Great had only a single line's worth of screentime in Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible before getting decapitated by Catherine the Great, leading to people ironically declaring him the winner of that battle.
Richard Pryor's "Hmm, that's funny," mocking the subdued reaction fans supposedly have to George Carlin's jokes, is now often used by fans when they acknowledge something is funny, but it didn't actually make them laugh.
The real third presidential debate.note What was supposed to be the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was cancelled after Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis spurred a proposal to conduct the debate virtually, which Trump refused to accede to. This caused what was originally meant to be the third (and final) debate to become the second one instead. As a result, fans took to jokingly calling the rap battle between the two presidential candidates as the third debate the public never got.
"Nice hat, dork." note Batman's opening line (directed at Sherlock Holmes' deerstalker, for the record) is almost universally considered the worst line in the series, not only because it's so lame, but because it's grossly out of character. Many fans consider it to be So Bad, It's Good.
"I don't know, what you've think i've done." Explanation Due to ever increasing popularity of Breaking Bad as a Fountain of Memes, the opening line of Walter's line in Rick Grimes vs Walter White has increased in popularity as a usual Bait-and-Switch meme or used as a reaction in Tiktok.
"I AM ADOLF HITLER, COMMANDER OF THE THIRD REICH!" ExplanationFollowing the infamous Kanye West interview where he went on Alex Jones's podcast and expressed admiration for Hitler and the Nazi Party, it became a meme to dub the opening lines of Hitler's rap over Kanye West songs. It later became both a general Interrupting Meme and used whenever th topic of Nazism or Antisemetism shows up.
"Little known fact: also dope on ze mic!" note The next line afterward, almost always used as a response to the above, and sometimes when Hitler comes up in general.
Hydrogen Bomb vs. Coughing BabyExplanationA meme stemming from a rather unfortunately cropped Twitter meme about loud noises that made it seems like it was referring to an actual battle between a coughing baby and a hydrogen bomb, the image later got made famous when it was turned into a mock Epic Rap Battles of History video where... well, a coughing baby coughs a few times, before getting blown up by a hydrogen bomb.
Walter White vs. [X]Explanation Many videos have edited Walter's rap in Rick Grimes vs. Walter White to make him rap against other characters. In some instances, he raps against someone from a Freshy Kanal video, such as Mr. Beast or even himself.
Guy Fawkes vs. The JokerExplanationOne early example of a fan-made ERB, released in 2013. Despite having extremely impressive visuals comparable to a modern ERB, the rapping and lyrics... well, it starts passable but quickly veers into So Bad, It's Good territory by mispronouncing words and having far too many sex/rape lines (to the point where the last stanza is entirely that). On the ERB subreddit, it's easily the most quoted fan battle just for its sheer narm value. This became more prominent after both Guy Fawkes and The Joker appeared in Season 6 of the actual ERB. The ERB Wiki also got in on this after the latter's debut: rather than having a background representing his battle, it was ERB Guy Fawkes and ERB Joker.
"News flash, the genre's called fantasy. It's meant to be unrealistic, YOU MYOPIC MANATEE!!"ExplanationA line from the J.R.R. Tolkien versus George R. R. Martin rap battle where Tolkien disparages Martin's tendency to kill off characters for the sake of "realism". It's a popular criticism by fans of ERB towards any movie or series that they feel is trying to be Darker and Edgier, especially if someone else claims it makes the series more realistic.
After "Godzilla vs. King Kong," it became popular in the ERB sub to post the screenshot of Kong holding up two fingers (while making his "O-2" pun) with a (usually very basic and straightforward) question where the answer is two, such as "Which Hitler v. Vader was the best?" or "What's 4 divided by 2?"
. Which'll usually followed by another comment quoting the next line, "Just one step took me out the ghetto".