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Death Battle Season Eight Discussion Thread (2) (All-time Death Battle Spoilers Alert)

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Thebrawlbro said:
Pretty sure that shot was from Akira.
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That’s tetsuo yes, he’s shielding himself and Kaneda from a big laser
 
"Bigger villains"

Gru vs Megamind? We can't have bigger villians without SUPER villains.

also yikes even if the 2 remaining fights that aren't teased aren't capeshit, 50% of the line-up will have a capeshit character. That's pretty ridicilous, hopefully they suprise us with at least 2 non-capeshit choices.
 
Felt like adding this to the conversation for some reason.

Season 7's teased characters were Miles, Beerus, Crona, Obi-Wan, Sindel, and Danny. For a season infamously lacking diversity in its matchup line-up, this is a pretty diverse line-up to tease, so season teasers aren't indicative of how the season will pan out necessarily (basically confirming what we always knew).

As an aside, I've not seen Saitama vs Popeye yet, and only have a vague idea of what's in Season 9 at the minute (I've heard like 10+ different characters thrown around at the minute), so please don't spoil.
 
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Call respect on Saitama for that. Being transmutated into a feast of raining scrambled egg. I called it.

At least I see casual Saitama blowing up base Popeye. And the typical spinach resurrection with Spinach Popeye transformation.

But yeah 2d sprite, 2d hand drawn, 2 3d model styles... all in one. So much fun to watch.
 
I wanted this fight to be a 10/10. It was not a 10/10

...BUT, it was easily in the 8-9 range, I'm only being held back by some nitpicks. This was pretty darn great:
  • Popeye said basically every quote I wanted out of him.
  • Saitama got his 'serious fight' and got excited for it, which I especially wanted
  • It was mixed medium, which I was kinda hoping for but wasn't so confident they'd go with it. Especially happy it starts and ends hand drawn.
  • Transitions between the mediums were smooth and fun, especially in how you could tell which medium we were moving to each time.
  • There's some fantastic scope, some really cool destruction, and some meaty hits
  • Popeye dies and revives himself, I did not want the whole fight to go without Saitama getting that minor W.
  • There were a few extra jokes I didn't anticipate but got a big smile out of me, like Popeye acknowledging the Kanji in Saitama's attack...but also deadpanning that he can't read it. (I don't even care if there's an example of that being inaccurate. It was funny)
  • They did the exchange of: "I'm just a hero for fun" VS "I am what I am, and that's all that I am" almost EXACTLY how I wanted it to go.
  • Death managed to have an impactful end while still being a Transmutation Punch

Main issues:

  • The Sprite section felt super short and like it added some of the least to the actual action. Which is a shame because it has my favorite banter exchange in it. I would've liked more of it to appear alongside the 3D and Hand Drawn, possibly with some references to Popeye games? Or even possibly to Donkey Kong based on the trivia that the arcade machine was originally being worked on as a Popeye game? Just anything more is all I wanted.
  • Two of Popeye's lines felt distractingly off to me. The "I am what I am" line sounds like it's being overpowered, and way too quiet, which sucks because that's part of my favorite bit of the fight. And the "I eats me spinach" response sounds so...weird. I can't quite place it, but it just feels like he's not saying it in a way that's boasting OR that he's excited and happy, it's somewhere in the middle and feels...detached from how much emotion Saitama has. It's almost like he's saying it as a simple fact rather than something more fun and passionate
  • ...Oooooooooh that 3D Popeye has grown on me with the second watching, especially since it plays off 'Serious Saitama' better. But lordy does it still look uncanny.
So yeah, such MINOR things I didn't like or were bugging me. Otherwise, one of my favorite fights of the entire season.
 
XitSign said:
I wanted this fight to be a 10/10. It was not a 10/10

...BUT, it was easily in the 8-9 range, I'm only being held back by some nitpicks. This was pretty darn great:
  • Popeye said basically every quote I wanted out of him.
  • Saitama got his 'serious fight' and got excited for it, which I especially wanted
  • It was mixed medium, which I was kinda hoping for but wasn't so confident they'd go with it. Especially happy it starts and ends hand drawn.
  • Transitions between the mediums were smooth and fun, especially in how you could tell which medium we were moving to each time.
  • There's some fantastic scope, some really cool destruction, and some meaty hits
  • Popeye dies and revives himself, I did not want the whole fight to go without Saitama getting that minor W.
  • There were a few extra jokes I didn't anticipate but got a big smile out of me, like Popeye acknowledging the Kanji in Saitama's attack...but also deadpanning that he can't read it. (I don't even care if there's an example of that being inaccurate. It was funny)
  • They did the exchange of: "I'm just a hero for fun" VS "I am what I am, and that's all that I am" almost EXACTLY how I wanted it to go.
  • Death managed to have an impactful end while still being a Transmutation Punch

Main issues:

  • The Sprite section felt super short and like it added some of the least to the actual action. Which is a shame because it has my favorite banter exchange in it. I would've liked more of it to appear alongside the 3D and Hand Drawn, possibly with some references to Popeye games? Or even possibly to Donkey Kong based on the trivia that the arcade machine was originally being worked on as a Popeye game? Just anything more is all I wanted.
  • Two of Popeye's lines felt distractingly off to me. The "I am what I am" line sounds like it's being overpowered, and way too quiet, which sucks because that's part of my favorite bit of the fight. And the "I eats me spinach" response sounds so...weird. I can't quite place it, but it just feels like he's not saying it in a way that's boasting OR that he's excited and happy, it's somewhere in the middle and feels...detached from how much emotion Saitama has. It's almost like he's saying it as a simple fact rather than something more fun and passionate
  • ...Oooooooooh that 3D Popeye has grown on me with the second watching, especially since it plays off 'Serious Saitama' better. But lordy does it still look uncanny.
So yeah, such MINOR things I didn't like or were bugging me. Otherwise, one of my favorite fights of the entire season.
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that popeye is going to haunt my dreams
 
Tipper17 said:
and it still hurt him so....
not really an example of him going to scale to it
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Only the initially piercing hurt him, unless it's some kind of massless attack like some kind of laser there would logically have been some kind of impact aside from some from the initally piecing. Also if you wanna be stupid about it you could argue that since the laser was showed to make a slicing motion while the only damage Joseph was shown to have was the initial piecing so it could imply that the slice was actually weaker then it started off as and Jonathan tank the city level part of the attack.
 
Tots_Real said:
Only the initially piercing hurt him, unless it's some kind of massless attack like some kind of laser there would logically have been some kind of impact aside from some from the initally piecing. Also if you wanna be stupid about it you could argue that since the laser was showed to make a slicing motion while the only damage Joseph was shown to have was the initial piecing so it could imply that the slice was actually weaker then it started off as and Jonathan tank the city level part of the attack.
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TacticalNuke002 said:
Which doesn't give Jonathan anything cuz it was unreactable to him on both occasions it was used and cut through him like a hot knife through butter. So no, City level Jonathan isn't happening.
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