Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie

Well this was a battle I figured was going to be a joke battle. Whether it was Chad's comments about how 'fun and serious battles and the balance between them' or just the match up itself, I figured it was going to be a silly fight. when this match up was first announced I didn't really care so when it was finally released I was completely blown away.

Analysis

Now due to this being a joke battle and as such being more for the entertainment, I'm willing to let the fact that the analysis seemed a bit watered down compared to most death battles slide. Now while they weren't as informative as I would have liked, they make up for it in entertainment value. Deadpool interacts with Wiz and Boomstick more and Pinkie Pie's not slouching in the fourth wall department either. On top of that Wiz actually manages to make them leave in one way or another and I'll forever remember Deadpool's screams as Wiz starts erasing him. For it being more entertaining I give the analysis an 7/10.

Animation

OK the animation was fantastic and I have to say Kayas did a great job with the script he was given. Now the actual fight between the combatants is pretty standard for a good animation but the real fun begins when an alliance is formed between Deadpool and Pinkie Pie. They begin going through previous death battles and hijacking them, possibly even changing the victor of some before ending at an episode of DB Cast. Now if that doesn't truly exemplify the nonsensical natures of these combatants, I don't know what will. It ends with Deadpool having a birthday party in Equestria and its great. Hey Deadpool say hi to Starsceam for me will ya? For it being hilariously over the top I give the animation a 9/10. Sure there are some animations that are better done but this animation gave me the most joy out of the entire series (sans maybe Chuck VS Segata) so that's how I justify giving it a nigh-perfect score.

Conclusion

Do I even have to go over this? While we don't get a true victor, just how defeated Wiz and Boomstick sound when they find out Deadpool managed to beat the system says it all. Though I can't really give a ranking for this. While I do enjoy it, there really wasn't anything else. That brings the total score to 16/20 or 80%.

Zoro VS Erza

Well this is a rather tricky situation. Not knowing either character and having very limited knowledge of them ( coughpredictionblogcough) leaves me more impressionable to the episode's reasoning. However, I will still try to keep a neutral voice in the matter. With that said let's start the review.

Analysis

Well due to being an outsider the analysis were pretty informative from my perspective. Both analysis had calculations that showed just how powerful each character was. For Zoro he was able to dish out an attack equivalent to an atomic bomb while Erza had calculations proving she could deal an attack equivalent to 16 kilotons of force and was able to endure an attack equivalent to 2 kilotons of TNT. However, this made the outcome a bit predictable. While the winner of these episodes typically has something left out or is made out to be the worse fight, the calcs given are typically the same. To have Erza's best feat shown is withstanding an attack of 2 kilotons of TNT when her opponent can deal an attack equivalent to 11 megatons of TNT just shows how outclassed she is. Furthermore but from what I've seen in the comments there was quite a it left out for Erza. While I can let that slide due to the amount of armors she wears and the same was done for Iron Man to cover their versatility, if Erza had better feats those should've been used. With all this I give the analysis a 6.5/10.

Animation

The animation was actually pretty good. It included humor where it was appropriate while also maintaining the destructive capacity that both combatants were capable of. The whole reason for the start of the fight is that Erza is going after Zoro's bounty which is... acceptable. Don't get me wrong its a valid reason for the fight to start but I don't recall Erza being a bounty hunter of sorts. Maybe she is but I'd like to have had it at least established somewhere in the analysis. Also Zoro rolling around to put out the fire is pretty hilarious and the fight gets even more entertaining when the both Zoro and Erza inadvertently destroy the town their fighting in. Then there's Zoro's win which is pretty badass. He gets up on the brink of death, fights hundreds of swords and then uses these swords as a means to reach Erza and deliver a powerful enough strike to not only slice her in pieces but also slice the nearby mountain in half. The voice acting is also pretty good and Kaji Tang's deliverance of Zoro's lines especially "So much for that true strength bullshit" is perfect (well for an outsider like me anyways). As such I think this is Season 3's best 2D animation and I score it an 8.5/10.

Conclusion

As an outsider the reasoning they gave is sound. While this is the same outsider who thought Gaara VS Toph's reasoning was sound (upon closer inspection it is not), I actually have faith in this reasoning. While I still have limited knowledge (coughstillonlypredictionblogcough) on the characters Death Battle's reasoning actually gives calculations proving Zoro is superior in speed and strength. It doesn't help matters that Erza would eventually run out of magic putting her on a time limit, giving Zoro another advantage over her. With that said I give the conclusion an 8/10. This makes the total score 23/30 or 77%. 

Hulk VS Doomsday

OK this is a thing I'm going to be doing from now on. I doubt anyone will know this but I tried to talk about certain episodes of death battle on a YouTube channel. Yeah that didn't go so well, so I'm going to try my luck with text based responses on this blog. If you haven't read the title yet this is obviously discussing the most recent episode 'Hulk VS Doomsday'. Spoilers beware so if you haven't watched it yet, I would recommend going to watch it first and then coming back here.

Analysis 

The analysis were for the most part informative. However, it may just be me but Hulk's analysis seemed to have a bit more effort put into it. For example, one of the feats stated is that Hulk could pull two tectonic plates together and for reference Wiz states that the average mass of one tectonic plate is 45 quintillion tons (and that Hulk was able to pull two of them together). On Doomsday's analysis his most impressive feat is tanking an explosion that was the equivalent of 1 million nukes... yet we don't get told how impressive that is exactly. For those of you wondering the world's smallest nuke was Davy Crockett which had a kt TNT equivalent of 0.01 and a terajoule yield of 0.42 meaning Doomsday tanked at minimum 10,000 kilotons of TNT (or 10 million tons of TNT) and a yield of 420,000 terajoules (or 4.2 x 10^17 joules/ 420,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy). 

There wasn't as many jokes as I thought there would be (one being towards Boomstick's father not being there and another as a callback to Yoshi VS Riptor) but I guess when you do a matchup this popular you can't really afford it. It was entertaining nonetheless and I give the analysis a 7/10.

Animation

OK with something this big you have to have big expectations so its not a surprise that SA's 3D animator... not only met them but exceeded them. Seriously you can see how much effort Torrian put into the animation and I'm glad that Screwattack decided to break of pattern of 2D, 3D, 2D, 3D etc. so that Torrian would have more time to work on the fight. The Metal Gear Rising music didn't hurt either and though the voice acting was a bit lacking, the two combatants don't really talk all that much anyways. 

Honestly this is perhaps the most gruesome episode we've seen so far. Sure while Bayoneta got impaled several times and Sweet Tooth's death was most certainly gruesome (even if we couldn't see it) this one takes the cake with one of the combatants actively murdering innocent civilians. Sure episodes in the past have had civilians caught up in the fight but their fates are usually either ambiguous or if we do see them killed on screen its usually painless and bloodless (you will forever be missed seagull who appeared in Ratchet & Clank VS Jak & Daxter). Here Doomsday impales and decapitates several civilians and that's before the fight begins. 

While I usually penalize episodes for not giving much of a reason for combatants to fight, I'm willing to let it slide because... well they don't really need a reason to fight. Seriously they live for causing destruction so they don't really need a reason to fight. Hulk's death was also glorious. Take the impalement from Dante VS Bayonetta and then add it to the decapitation of Deathstroke. That is Hulk's death in a nutshell complete with Doomsday using it as a trophy. With all this I have to give the animation a 9.5/10.

Conclusion

And now for the section that matters the most, the reasoning behind the ultimate verdict. While there are some episodes where you could see why they won but the conclusion was worded in a way that didn't really sell it (cough Meta VS Carolina cough) and others are just straight up half-arsed to the point where you could rip the conclusion apart using their own information (cough Shadow VS Mewtwo cough), that's not the case here. You can actually see how much effort was put into determining the verdict. 

They literally break the conclusion down into separate segments because they want to show their working rather then simply wanting you to take everything they say as gospel. They had a legitimate point about Hulk having more raw power and Doomsday having more speed. This is one of the few examples in the show where it came down to durability and Doomsday had it due to his duels with Superman, Kryptonians and the Justice League. While some can say that the retcons count, they kind of don't as Doomsday was only killed in the retcons because he had not adapted to that level of strength yet unlike the original version. Doomsday's peak was so powerful that the only way to kill him was to send him to the end of time and because Hulk doesn't have that capability Doomsday won the fight. 

Furthermore Doomsday doesn't have a time limit whereas Hulk does. Doomsday has always been the destructive monster who at base could 'kill' Superman but Hulk can't be angry forever and so he will eventually reach a point where he reverts back to Bruce Banner (like he does in most fights) and on top of that while his strength is potentially unlimited it really isn't due to this weakness. The Hulk has actually been defeated by multiple characters in the Marvel universe while Doomsday in his first appearance completely destroyed the Justice League and only lost the fight because Superman in complete desperation found and exploited Doomsday's weakness (which has since then been covered for).

To finish this post off, there is one more detail that Wiz and Boomstick didn't mention. That being that even if Hulk managed to kill Doomsday, he would just resurrect himself months later completely immune to Hulk's powers. This is perhaps the only episode where the 'can't be killed' NLF is actually done right. Sure Bowser couldn't 'kill' Ganon but he could rip him to shreds and mutilate him enough that it would end the fight and Ganon's soul would have to wait until the next generation to be resurrected (at which point he likely would've forgotten all about Bowser).  Here even if Doomsday was killed, he would still be able to resurrect himself within the year and Hulk would be unable to stop him. As such their verdict and reasoning for said verdict is perfectly sound and I give it a 9/10.

This brings the total score to 25.5/30.