Epic Rap Battles of Historyyyyyyy!

Also, it would be unfair since in the interim Zuckerberg has gotten, if anything, less "interesting," whereas of Musk, to put it mildly, the same can't be said.

Musk vs Gordan Gekko.

If by "gentlewoman pirate" you mean "upper class rich thriller seeker who regularly travels around the world to steal ancient artifacts from the hands of their rightful native owners, museums, criminal gangs or secret government vaults and cold-bloodedly slaughters their way through any people and wild animals - no matter how endangered^note Yeah, her casual mention of killing dinosaurs for fun in this ERB got under my nerves. Indy totally crushed that diss with his angry retort. - that stand in their way, for no reason other than personal sense of glory and avarice", then yes. Especially the first incarnation of the character. The more immoral parts of that were toned down in later incarnations, thankfully.

Edited by MarqFJA on Jan 6th 2023 at 3:23:01 PM

While I absolutely get why they use contempory modern-day figures sometimes, I just don't enjoy those battles. IDK, something about them being real, currently-existing people with significant influence on the world (often for the worse) makes it less fun. In my opinion Jobs vs Gates is made far better by Hal's surprise appearance, and Trump / Scrooge was kind of fun for basically being a re-imagining of Christmas Carol, but is rather less enjoyable in hindsight. I have little nice to say about the other ones

Oh yeah, Trump vs Scrooge might be the ERB that has aged the worst. Not just for Trump, but West, also.

The best part of Obama/Romney is Lincoln.

I was fine with Biden vs Trump and Trump vs Hilary personally.

They're plenty of fun and life can't all be misery and seriousness.

" since in the interim Zuckerberg has gotten, if anything, less "interesting," whereas of Musk, to put it mildly, the same can't be said."

Really? I mean the faliure of Meta said otherwise. Since it really show as the kind of guy with not idea whatsoever of what people want.

I think the issue since tweeter musk have generate foolery after foolery at rapid speed

Shame ERB didn't get to this one.

Oppenheimer's curbstomp on Thanos was already a triumph.

True enough. What's a pink doll compared to the Mad Titan?

I may wind up on a watchlist for this, but this vid was the biggest communtist victory since the Somali coup in '69.

Edited by CEOIII on Dec 1st 2023 at 3:17:56 PM

It feels good to be back. As for the battle, honestly, the winner for this matchup was gonna be obvious from the get-go, but at the very least, Marx definitely earned his victory with all those burns per verse.

Ford came out swinging with a pretty vicious opening verse, but Marx's final verse was lethal. It's pretty hard to get past Ford having connections to Hitler's regime.

Also, it's nice to have a battle of actual historical figures and not contemporary celebrities and politicians.

Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Dec 1st 2023 at 4:10:25 AM

You know, Trump vs Scrooge is one of the weirdest-aged videos they've ever made, since it's a Christmas Carol adaptation that used pre-President Trump as Marley and pre-Republican Kanye West as Ghost of Christmas Present.

Honestly, I think it's still pretty good as a Christmas Carol adaptation, it has just aged unbelievably bizarrely. When Trump was President, I couldn't even bring myself to rewatch it, but now that he's out (and hopefully will stay out), I can appreciate it as a Christmas Carol adaptation that just became unbelievably dated.

The comment section is hilarious, just people making jokes about how weirdly it has aged. My favorite one is "Death being the least problematic person in this video speaks volumes".

EDIT: Huh, looking back at the top of this page, it's funny how different my opinion was at the start of this year.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Dec 25th 2023 at 5:16:12 AM

Is Morgans very problematic? I mean, he is a capitalist, but I dunno, the verse made him sound at least somewhat nice?

I feel like more people have a reason to hate death than capitalism, personally, but I get it.

Pffffffft

-respectful nod-

Edited by FOFD on Dec 25th 2023 at 7:34:53 AM

I appreciated the respectful lack of a funny sound effect for the article referencing Stan Lee's death.

Before the Civil War and abolition of slavery, his banks had no problem granting loans to slave-operated plantations, including treating the slaves themselves as property to be financially held as collateral. Morgan himself did not personally own slaves as far as I'm aware, though he did indirectly contribute to the practice.

That's the biggest skeleton in his closet that I'm aware of. Other than that he was basically just the prime example of a late-1800's shrewd business magnate, for better and for worse; gobbling up competing businesses, seeing every crisis as a financial opportunity, creating job opportunities, having poor labor standards, fixing some problems in the economy while causing other problems, etc.

The next ERB is here: Godzilla vs. Kong 1.5!

Did... did Godzilla just lose.

I was surprised by how much I liked this one. But nah, I think Godzilla took this one home.

Kinda wish there was a Blue Oyster Cult reference in there, even just a "there goes Tokyo" or something.

Favorite Godzilla line: "You couldn't measure up to the Shin of Godzilla"

Favorite Kong line: "I'm an oxygen destroyer, and now you're O-2"

Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Feb 23rd 2024 at 6:16:07 AM

I was pleasantly surprised that they got Kong and Godzilla's relative sizes right.

I appreciate they used CG as opposed to cheap live action costumes. Makes me wish Lloyd and Nice Peter branched out into other media sooner.