YMMV / Epic Pixel Battle

• Bizarro Episode: The "Kirby VS Jigglypuff" remaster uses a much more static style of editing than the other episodes. Instead of having characters slide around from place to place, the whole song takes places in a single scene, with the camera panning from one character to the other.
• Creator's Apathy: In "Rayman VS Crash Bandicoot", Rayman affirms that Crash fails "even when [he] cop[ies] Mario Kart", but Crash Team Racing actually was a commercial and critical success because it felt more than a simple Mario Kart clone. Lunatic later admitted that he’s a big Rayman fan, but is not really fond of Crash Bandicoot, and it feels at this precise moment.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In "Rayman VS Crash Bandicoot", the former taunts the latter about being on a hiatus since 2008 while he was enjoying his own comeback. Today, Rayman is the one on a hiatus as he had no new mainline game since Rayman Legends, which came out in 2013.
  • At the end of "Saitama VS Superman", when we see comments from people who asked for the battle, one of them jokingly said "You have to do it." (Said comment isn't visible on the video reposted on the Epic Pixel Battle channel) and Lunatic added a mini message that sarcastically said to the viewers: "sorry, we had no choice" next to the comment. This seemed funny at the time but Lunatic later revealed that "Saitama VS Superman" was his least liked EPB because he really was forced to do it, meaning that his added message wasn't as sarcastic as it seemed.
  • In the "L VS Layton" episode, L calls Professor Layton a "dirty pedophile". Years later, it came to light that 123Lunatic, who created Epic Pixel Battle and voiced Layton in this episode, is a child groomer.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In "Samus VS Mega Man", Mega Man mentions how fans just want to see Ridley in Super Smash Bros.. Come Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, he's finally a playable character.
    • In the same episode, Samus makes numerous jokes about Mega Man's series being cancelled and abandoned by Capcom while Keiji Inafune replaced him with Mighty No. 9. Of course, this was made before the game actually released to really poor reviews and Capcom finally resurrected the franchise with Mega Man 11.
  • In "Rayman VS Crash Bandicoot", Rayman taunts Crash for getting his big return canceled by Activision, and that he should return to his origins to become a legend. A few years later, he did return to his origins when N. Sane Trilogy was released, and It’s About Time was pretty much Crash’s equivalent to Rayman Legends.
  • Mettaton in "Mettaton VS Bayonetta" has a line in which he mentions that Bayonetta "switched to Nintendo". Later that year, it was confirmed that Bayonetta 3 would be released on the Nintendo Switch, along with ports of the two previous games.
  • In the Dans Ton Clash video about the "Mario VS Mickey" remaster, the "professor" character states that he'll see the viewers again to discuss the second EPB remaster, before realizing that there isn't a second one. "Kirby VS Jigglypuff" later received a remaster in Season 3, though amusingly enough there was no DTC video for it.
• Memetic Mutation: Yandere-chan and Sans are two character that were suggested so often by viewers that they ended up asking for a "Yandere-Chan VS Sans" battle as a joke.
• Moment of Awesome: The "Mario VS Mickey but poorly translated" has a moment where Mickey (Lunatic) raps extremely fast to throw all his lines before Mario's turn.
• Narm Charm: The "Mario VS Mickey but poorly translated" is supposed to be hilarious (and it is), but some of the lines, rhymic structure aside, are so savage (Mario calling Luigi a shade of trash being one of them) that they wouldn't be out of place in a real rap battle.
• Older Than They Think: This is actually the second "rap battle" series created by 123Lunatic; he had previously made one called Epic Pokémon Battle, which featured various characters from his Let's Play of Pokémon FireRed.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Dora the Explorer was one character whose appearance took nearly everyone by surprise, especially against a serious character like Lara Croft, considering that the cartoon she comes from is aimed at preschoolers.
  • "The Visitor From the Future VS The Visitors" was a surprising choice of characters in its own right, mostly due to them being the first characters in the series to come from live-action works, and the former in particular being the first to be from a web video series, both characters also comes from French medias which was new too. On top of that it was gonna be the first time Lunatic would do an EPB not proposed by viewers since the very first episode, until he found an old comment asking for it. But he would have done it anyway.
  • It's safe to assume that few people expected the EPB crew itself to appear in "Yandere-Chan VS Monika", let alone being Monika's actual opponent.

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