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Death Battle Season Ten Discussion Thread (1) (All-time Death Battle Spoilers Alert)

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NotoriouSoda said:
Listen I know for the longest time we knew that RT was getting shut down. We knew they weren’t turning a profit and most of the shows besides DB actually mattered. But to see them actually gone….

Damn
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Nothing can live forever
TMaakkonen said:
why would KratosDante be nogo? Waaaay later since KratosAsura overtook it but its not even bad MU?
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Honestly it's a popular MU anyways so ya can still do it
 
Hunterzillas said:

Not directed at you, but the matchup in question.

I'd rather see Kazuya fight the Green Goblin before Wesker. Vergil is somehow a better matchup. I'd even put my dislike of RWBY aside and call up Raven Branwen before I ever see that ugly ass matchup become a reality.

Kazuya vs Iori.
Albert Wesker vs Liquid Snake.
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Wait what the **** I didn't ask that
 
Just wanna note I think Rooster Teeth and related channels are being kept up for archival purposes. Plus I think profit can still be made from them in the case of buyouts or anything like it.
 
Tipper17 said:
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Accountant here. I can give a very simplified, summarized explanation.

Intellectual properties are categorized under intangible assets per GAAP, as patents, designs, models, songs, etc... are not physical in nature. Intangible assets, such as IP's, do naturally depreciate over their useful life.

The useful life is defined as a near-accurate estimation of the number of years an asset is likely to remain in service, per purpose of it's cost-to-revenue generation. Meaning a company basically gives a ticking clock to how much they can milk an asset, before it dries up. This is numerically recorded as genuine costs per monthly basis.

So if we assume the RWBY IP was valued at $10 million, and depreciate it over the average intangible life of 15 years, then ideally RT would begin to depreciate RWBY at $666,666.67 each month as an expense (cost) -- so to be considered profitable, they would want monthly revenue/profits from RWBY to exceed that -- which I doubt it did.

RWBY has never been a major success according to RT upper management. They have a quality, die-hard fanbase, but not mass in quantity
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To add to this there is NDA's and IP retention.

NDA's

With NDA's there are conditions to them. If you are getting fired then your severance can be tied to an NDA. This means you can get a really great severance package under the condition you don't talk about what you worked on. Now you don't have to sign it before you leave but if you don't then you will get the bare minimum if that. With these NDA's there can be a time limit before you can talk about what you worked on, so it might be five years before you can say anything. If you do say something then you can be taken to court for breach of contract, now you are losing all the money you got as well as dealing with court costs.

With the CRWBY leadership they probably got a nice payout but in turn they can't say anything for years. If this is the case don't expect them to post anything online or say something at a convention. If they did WBD can easily take them to court for violation of their NDA

IP Retention

With IP's just because you buy it doesn't mean you own it, that sounds dumb but I'll explain. Unless you pay for full ownership and control of an IP you might not own it, if anything you are leasing it. The idea is that the original creator doesn't have someone holding onto their IP for decades and doing nothing with it, if they are not making something with it they can get it back and find someone else to make a piece of media from it. An example of this is the Marvel comic characters owned by Sony. When Sony got the rights to Spider-man and the Fantastic Four a condition was in the contract that Sony had to make movies for those characters, if they went a certain number of years without making a movie then the rights would revert back to Marvel. This mean Sony needs to make movies with these characters every number of years, the movies don't have to be good, look at Fan4stic but as long as that gets made Sony gets to hold onto the IP.

If someone buys RWBY, WBD can have it where they have retention of the IP. So someone could come in and spend $10,000,000 for the IP but they don't own it, they are just leasing it with the understanding if they do nothing after a certain number of years WBD gets the rights back. So you can't just buy the IP and hold onto it forever, you would need to start production on something right away. Take too long and WBD gets the rights back and you are out a lot of money.

If they sell RWBY to someone they will either ask for a lot of money just to get as much as possible or find someone they can lease the IP to who can develop it.
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Disney and its consequences have been a disaster for IPs.
 
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Leia vs Zelda (Star Wars vs The Legend of Zelda) Prediction 2024

Death Battle Prediction: Princess Leia vs Princess Zelda ( 1ST, 3rd, and 5th TN done by me thanks to TheGanondorky fo...
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Ok finished reading through this myself, and uh, it's not bad I guess? Sorta long comment ahead. Scaling for Zelda is pretty whack tho, like I ain't even slightly convinced of the arguments in favour of that sex offender Vaatis dimension creation being legit as opposed to him doing what like 80% of Zelda villains do and just warping to another dimension that's already there (Also really funny they use Zant as an example of why it's legit when all he's doing is warping into Hyrule instead of warping the entire twilight realm into an exact replica of it lmao, guides even confirm that's what's happening), also the wind fish's dream pretty clearly only covers an island since that's quite literally the only thing that disappears when he wakes up). Majora's the only villain with legit funny pocket dimension stuff (Unless you really, really, wanna strech the whole thing with Demise and the demon tribe realm).

Also they just give her abilities she doesn't have, like reality warping on the basis of having divine magic and gods being able to rewrite reality (Some of them can but there's a shit ton of gods in Zelda who can't do anything besides, like, float a few feet above the grant lmao) and the goddess she gets her powers from has never even slightly altered reality. The planet level stuff is kinda fine, not a fan how they scale her to it completely given how much weaker she is than Ganondorf but eh. Atm the most solid and highest tier for her is moon level via scaling from the weakened mummifed dorf in TOTK but if you squint she could maybe heavily downscale from full power ganondorf whose like 20 yottatons or something.

The only realy thing going for the cosmic scaling they gave her is the full Triforce which is legitmally universal (Albeit I have no idea where the blog gets the idea it's above the concepts of space and time come from), she might potentially have it in BOTW and TOTK but the only answers we've gotten is Nintendo saying "Ah well that mysterious light in the shape of the Triforce might mean something but we dunno" and it's not like it's uncommon for the symbol of the Triforce to just show up even if someone doesn't have it. Also can't speak for Leia but I'm pretty sure a good chunk of Zelda's stuff in that blog is straight up copy and pasted from the Zelda wiki. At the very least the descriptions they give for the Triforce pieces anyway.
 
Jimmy.robinson.5099 said:
What IS the deal with Jason's legal stuff? I've heard about it, but never knew the details.
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The dude who created the 1st movie vs the dude who continued the series after the original, it was a legal battle who owns the rights which also lead to the friday the 13th game being cut off entirely cuz of this too

Iirc it was settled and done, former owns just his 1st movie stuff, the latter owns the character from sequels along its iconic mask
 
BlackDarkness679 said:
The dude who created the 1st movie vs the dude who continued the series after the original, it was a legal battle who owns the rights which also lead to the friday the 13th game being cut off entirely cuz of this too

Iirc it was settled and done, former owns just his 1st movie stuff, the latter owns the character from sequels along its iconic mask
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Okay but what about Pamala, she's very important for later films
 
BlackDarkness679 said:
The dude who created the 1st movie vs the dude who continued the series after the original, it was a legal battle who owns the rights which also lead to the friday the 13th game being cut off entirely cuz of this too

Iirc it was settled and done, former owns just his 1st movie stuff, the latter owns the character from sequels along its iconic mask
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It sorta reminds me of Devil May Cry in a way. The original creator takes pride in their first creation of the franchise, but ignores/dislikes its sequels they weren't apart of.
 
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