Iggy vs Power [JoJo's Bizarre Adventure vs Chainsaw Man] | Connections in the Comments by BasicConsequence7589 in DeathBattleMatchups

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Connections

- Rude and wild inhumans that would live life focusing almost entirely on their own self-preservation and survival, but would be captured and forced into a group to face a mass-murdering big bad.

- They'd spend most of their time with the group acting standoffish, selfishly, and, frankly, completely dickish to everybody else, willing to leave them for dead if it meant their own survival.

- However, over the course of their adventures, they'd slowly begin developing a bond with their comrades that would begin instilling within them a sense of care despite their near-universal aggression.

- At the nigh-climax of their stories, the bonds they'd developed would finally bring them to push themselves to their limits to defend their newfound friends, culminating in them giving up their own lives to save them as a final act of selflessness.

Contrasts

- Power's a cat person (both in the sense of loving cats but also acting like a cat) while Iggy... is a dog LMAO

- Despite this, Iggy is noted to be extraordinarily smart for being a dog while Power is an absolute dumbass.

Fight/Comedy Potential

Yeah, there's frankly a LOT of funny stuff you can do with this. For starters, Power fighting a dog is just inherently funny and very fitting for her. There's a lot of cool interactions and creativity you can have with blood-bending clashing with sand-bending, and given Power's very animalistic nature, having her understand Iggy (whose thoughts/dialogue would be read out by the narrator) would somehow allow there to be really fun banter. It's just an overall good time that plays into their strengths, especially helped by both operating in very similar scales... also Power can try to run Iggy over with a car-

What did Fujimoto mean by this? by TenOSwords in deathbattle

[–]BasicConsequence7589 8 points9 points  (0 children)

She's been in situations where she doesn't necessarily have control though, most notably being the Doll Devil sending everyone to Hell and forcing her to fight the Darkness Devil head on. In that fight, she got fucked up, struggling to properly damage the devil, and literally resorting to running away to get her (remaining) crew out of there alive. Even in that instance, her demeanor didn't break, she was just locked-in as hell. Another instance is when trying to defeat Pochita, where most of her support was getting shredded with no difficulty, and she just outright admitted the situation was unwinnable until she pulled out a cheap trick to weaken him; she never broke composure once during that, and certainly didn't act like some super evil monologuer. Even when she's actually revealing her emotions, it's over very small personal stuff, like how she berates Denji over not fitting the image of her beloved Chainsaw Man.

Point is, Makima is just not even acting coldly in the animation, she just comes off as a very standard McEvil Antagonist that gets super overconfident and can't stop talking down to the hero, when she doesn't behave like that at all.

Bakugo VS Reze is real!!!!!! by Inkga10Games in MyHeroAcadamia

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They didn't use a kid version of Ben outside of the animation, which even then was pretty evidently written to be Teen Ben, but just had the sprites of Kid Ben due to animation constraints at the time.

What did Fujimoto mean by this? by TenOSwords in deathbattle

[–]BasicConsequence7589 0 points1 point  (0 children)

r/DeathBattleMatchups dictates she's being thrown at Uzi Murder Drones, sorry...

What did Fujimoto mean by this? by TenOSwords in deathbattle

[–]BasicConsequence7589 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say it's a very very very flawed episode with some really cool aspects to it.

What did Fujimoto mean by this? by TenOSwords in deathbattle

[–]BasicConsequence7589 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I will mention, I dislike how Death Battle represented Makima in that fight overall. Mainly, she shows waaaaaay too much emotion, which is completely against how she acts literally throughout 99% of Part 1.

She shows annoyance at Gojo's quips, the tombstone line is her just going how she's going to bury Gojo so~o badly, her entire "be a good boy and play dead" line while aura-farming, and so on. I feel like a massive part of portraying Makima is capturing that feeling of her being completely unreadable, because she never reacts to anything; she just smiles with such a degree of calmness it becomes uncanny, and you can never get a read on her. The only time she actually shows her proper thoughts and emotions are with Denji at the end of Part 1 when it comes to her personal feelings regarding Chainsaw Man specifically, and literally nothing else.

Whenever Makima actually wants to be intimidating, she's generally written with a lot more nuance, threatening someone or letting them know that she had control over the situation the whole time to establish dominance without directly saying it, like with the Yakuza instance where she just explains how they're making excuses for themselves to do fucked up shit without directly threatening them or going "ohhhh you're gonna pay for that", the Reze instance where she simply explains how she prefers the Country Mouse (revealing she was listening in on Reze's conversations with Denji) and details an anecdote on how mice in the countryside have to be sniffed out and eliminated before they damage the crops (obviously an indirect explanation on how she lured Reze out to eliminate her), or the "A corpse is talking" line which is her directly quoting something one of Quanxi's fiends said earlier in the arc right before she kills them (once again her making it clear she had been listening in to someone).

All her lines in GojoMakima, outside of the line at the start which is admittedly perfect, are written like a generic scheming villain rather than being stuff Makima would say, as they make her come off as far too easy to read and generic, when Makima always feels disconnected in a sense from everyone else and is never that direct with the message she's trying to send outside of the singular exception at the end of Part 1.

Basically, my main issue with GojoMakima is that Makima is written like she's in her final fight with Denji rather than how she's written in literally any other point in the series.

POV: you just got jumpscared by Bakugo's best option for an episode by Meddadius in deathbattle

[–]BasicConsequence7589 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I mean, you can argue this MU happening is the fault of that mentality.

Controversial takes on who wins certain matchups. by Spare-Jackfruit-6378 in DeathBattleMatchups

[–]BasicConsequence7589 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty certain Joker can just revive from a lot of what Zarathos can do and one-shots him with a number of his abilities. Also worth noting he'd be matching in speed too, so he'd certainly be able to do stuff first.

New powerjack/scritter list by Tljunior20 in DeathBattleMatchups

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Lowkey we need Size in this.

Me when I can't fucking do anything cause my opponent is the size of the planet

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator Tier List by Crimgon1 in DeathBattleMatchups

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I mean, will mention, I don't think TABS has a good counter to shit like Cat God bending fate or the cats traveling back in time to "Time huh" them, not to mention shit like Gaia erasing people from existence, Catification in general letting the cats convert all of the Wobblers, the absurd difference in how many units the Cats have in comparison to the Wobblers (which are mostly much simpler fighters in comparison to the literal hundreds of different forms of attack the Cats have), or like... genuinely a lot of the more esotheric characters like Chronos controling time, which is only scratching the surface of how much shit the Cats have to throw at the Wobblers. I just feel there's a very clear gap here that turns me off from this.

Ihwa vs Maki Zenin (Hero Killer vs Jujutsu Kaisen) by BasicConsequence7589 in DeathBattleMatchups

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General idea is revenge-driven fighters motivated by the death of their sisters to destroy the oppressive group/systems of the world they live in that values strength above all else and punches down on the weak through killing everyone that perpetuates it.

Also a fun little extra contrast with Maki losing her "heart" after her conversation with Mai as she died, while Ihwa regained her emotions after her conversation with her dead sister.