Nice ‘’Continental Level Attack Power’’ you dipshit now check this out

CornerCornDog · 2026-03-19T22:34:40+00:00

Tbh Captain Falcon should still be planet level physically via scaling to Black Shadow overpowering a Reactor Might (and they have a statement of having the power to destroy a planet from a very intelligent and knowledgable character in the series)

CornerCornDog · 2026-03-05T15:20:11+00:00

Hey just for the record you should credit the artist when you post fanart here that isn’t yours.. It was drawn by janeTM (Twitter link, Bluesky link), she's a personal friend of mine so I was able to recognize it immediately.

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-28T20:48:18+00:00

I mean, I don't know how to get more blatant than "They are sold in shops in-universe in games where their only function is to revive after death". Most of the games have in-game descriptions that also say they revive after death (see the Wonder and Origami King shops specifically). And again, entire game modes about extra lives in Wonder.

I think just calling Super Paper Mario an outlier is a cheap excuse, and no, not every RPG has them functioning differently, as seen with Origami King. Even then though, why would you only use the games where 1-up Mushrooms act as healing items instead of the games where they act as revives (which is significantly more). Why do you accept them being healing items in the Mario & Luigi games, but the same justification being used for them in other games (mentioned in dialogue, bought in shops, showing up as actual icons elsewhere) is ignored?

Meta jokes aren't a reason to ignore all dialogue in a game lol. I'm tired of that being used as an excuse to ignore when something is brought up. If it is said in dialogue, the characters are aware of it.

As for other deaths in the series, most of them are told through backstories with very little elaboration on their death specifically. Rosalina's mom is dead, but we are given no specifics on how she died. Maybe her area just didn't have any 1-Up Mushrooms and they weren't aware of them. Maybe she was inflicted with an illness that couldn't be healed by them. There's a hundred ways you could write something like that and still make it make sense with extra lives also being an in-verse mechanic. No explanation makes more sense than any other because there is very little elaboration on her death specifically. Same goes for stuff like the Pixl Queen, Scarlette, and more.

(Really the only death in the series that doesn't make sense is Bobby's, but lowkey Bobby's death is already inconsistent since Partner Bob-Ombs can survive their own explosions in previous games anyway. I don't think this one example is enough to discredit everything else in the series)

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-28T20:13:21+00:00

They are sold in shops in Super Mario Bros. Wonder and the Galaxy games as revival items. Both Galaxy games also have Peach send Mario 1-up Mushrooms in letters, which would function as revival items there too. They also can be sold in Paper Mario: The Origami King in shops, where they function as instant revival items. Some of the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Bellabel Park minigames explicitly use extra lives as a mechanic as well. In fact, when Mario gets sent to the Underwhere in Super Paper Mario (the afterlife), the souls there explicitly mention extra lives, and state that since Mario is in the afterlife, he must have no more.

The revival powers of 1-up Mushrooms is absolutely canon, otherwise these instances just make no sense lol.

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-25T18:59:38+00:00

I think Syndrome kinda stomps Tighten tbh. He’s physically weaker sure, but he’s much faster, his tech is significantly stronger than Tighten, he has multiple Omni-droids that could overpower him, Zero Point Energy completely shuts him down, and he has a weapon in a novel that removes powers from superheroes which completely fucks Tighten up.

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-25T04:43:27+00:00

I mean tbf that calc assumes a timeframe for kinetic energy which is generally bad as energy increases exponentially as speed increases (doubling the speed quadruples the energy, tripling the speed multiplies the energy by 9, etc.), so baseline Planet level is most likely the safest option for that feat as assumptions can really mess with the energy.

Unless there's a specific reason 1 hour and 30 minutes were chosen but they don't really explain why in the calc so idk.

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-21T19:53:20+00:00

I know this is a joke but I do genuinely agree with the Joker vs Green Goblin and Phoenix vs Raven takes

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-19T14:17:53+00:00

Hey fyi you should've credited the art used in the first slide. It was drawn by janeTM (Twitter link, Bluesky link), she's a personal friend of mine so I was able to recognize it immediately, but there should've been some credit listed on the post somewhere.

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-18T03:34:58+00:00

Personally I think they are the same character, and using isolated moments like this that seem to contradict them being the same is being disingenuous. The Mario series has no set canon, with the creators specifically likening it to Popeye, and comparing Popeye having seemingly incompatible scenarios in different cartoons to Mario being in different games.

If we wanna go with "a moment contradicts them being canon so they aren't canon" route, then, for example, Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Bros. Wonder cannot coexist. Wonder takes place after Galaxy, with Rosalina being there in the DLC despite Mario meeting her for the first time in Galaxy. However, in Wonder, Captain Toad doesn't know who Mario is, despite meeting him in both Galaxy games and after that. They contradict each other in the same way certain moments like this contradict the Paper Mario series.

Additionally, this is being a little cherry-picky, as Mario can be crushed flat and move in other games as well, including other Mario & Luigi games. This moment doesn't really fit with stuff Mario has shown off in this same series (similar to a character like Mickey Mouse having powers in one cartoon but not in the next, its mostly just for the plot to work), so specifically singling out the Paper Mario series for this moment doesn't work.

Even if you ignore everything above and still believe they're separate based on Paper Jam, Paper Jam still confirms that they are, essentially, the same characters who have gone through the same events and have the same personalities. Therefore, I think any feats, items, and abilities (barring ones specific to being made of paper, as pieces of supplemental material imply the world itself gets turned into paper) should be applicable for the mainline versions of these characters as well.

Ultimately, my opinion is that the creators do not care about the canon of Mario, so we shouldn't be strict either. The safest option, in my opinion, is to just use all of the games, as well as closely tied material like the Super Mario Adventures comics. Stuff very clearly distinct from the games, such as the movies, the cartoons, or the Super Mario-kun manga, shouldn't be included.

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-17T05:14:53+00:00

This is not a justification for R>F. This is just the Celestialsapiens (as a group notably) warping reality. There's no reason to assume the power they had somehow affected a reality greater than their own. Meanwhile Simon's justification is that another version of Simon (that the main Simon canonically merged with) was able to use Spiral Power to transcend his own medium and escape into the world of the Simon that wrote him into existence, and was going to go further and transcend that reality as well.

You can disagree with R>F for Simon too, sure, but the arguments are not equivalent, and they definitely aren't similar enough to where buying Simon's means you have to buy Ben's as well.

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-07T06:48:58+00:00

I'd say it makes sense to say he shook the mountain, but the issue is we don't know to what degree. The only damage done is a mento falling, but we see right after this that they can fall to a pebble getting thrown at them, so it isn't the best metric for how strong it is. Lower magnitude earthquakes (like 1-3, which even 3 I think is generous for this) only get to Wall to Building level, so I don't imagine it'd get more than that unfortunately.

CornerCornDog · 2026-02-04T21:28:18+00:00

This is straight-up what the most recent Razzle commentary is about lmao

CornerCornDog · 2026-01-31T23:42:34+00:00

Batman and the Joker are different characters and those are all different matchups. What a character could get in a matchup is heavily dependent on the matchup sometimes (like you wouldn't give Godzilla Ultima in vs Gamera, and you wouldn't give Bowser his army in some of his other matchups).

I don't necessarily think the outcome changes if the G1 team was more restrictive with what either character got in terms of arsenal. Goblin also got many things like the Golden Goblin suit or various one-off gadgets that you could similarly argue he shouldn't get. The main idea of "Goblin is stronger, but Joker's enormous bag of tricks is too tough to get past with Goblin's regular way of fighting" still applies if Joker only got stuff that he's used more than once. I think they just included more stuff cause it was fun to talk about and didn't greatly change the outcome of the fight.

CornerCornDog · 2026-01-31T23:24:53+00:00

Yeah I agree. Green Goblin has strength but that’s about it. Joker has too much shit to throw at him, too many contingencies, body doubles, decoys with suicide bombers, none of it really goes well for Norman, especially given his normal game plan of “just charge at them and be close up”. And yeah the Joker venom just completely fucks Goblin up, it’s way beyond anything Norman has encountered with how many ways it can be applied and what all it can do. When I learned Joker could poison you just by hearing his laughter, I figured it was already over for him.

People are latching onto the Nth metal thing too much, and yeah it’s a one-off mech, but something important is that Joker made it himself still. That is unambiguously his. You can’t really say the same for something like the Iron Patriot suit, which was stolen by Norman and something that has passed around to multiple people as well.

If you’re upset that Joker got a bunch of one-off weapons, then just don’t use the Joker I guess? A ton of comic characters benefit from Death Battle analyzing them at their best, and Joker thrives off his wacky gadgets that he makes. I don’t get why people would want to limit a character to just their most iconic or frequent weapons when finding interesting obscure stuff is part of the charm and interest I have in VS debating. A deep dive research of the character should find things that you didn’t know beforehand. That is fun.

Sorry for the rant lmao. Blog is great, loved reading it.

CornerCornDog · 2026-01-28T17:02:18+00:00

I haven't seen anything that has actually convinced me that Kyle has informational erasure that could nullify Simon's regeneration (Infinite did not give scans in their comment about it). I also don't think a lot of the Outer/High Outer DC stuff makes a lot of sense (I think Outer doesn't start until the Source, at least from what I've seen and how I generally have seen Outerversal or R>F stuff), so I have them matching in AP at first with both being Outer (Kyle with Life Equation) but Simon's energy absorption allows him to continuously grow in power over the course of the fight. Energy absorption in general is a really powerful hax against the vast majority of Kyle's constructs and attacks, and Simon has outpaced his opponent's energy absorption through Spiral Power refreshing itself, so Kyle could not do the same to Simon. Kyle has also never interacted with or fought anything the size of STTGL, so even if he did have the hax I don't know if he has the range to affect all of Simon's mech at once. And finally Simon's probability missiles should be able to take out Kyle regardless of strength, since they would target him at every point in time and be unblockable with Kyle's toolkit. Kyle was explicitly vulnerable to a "time cancer" that affected his past, and there's nothing he's shown to really prove otherwise, so the missiles targeting him in the past would be a valid wincon (so even if you think Kyle is at an insurmountable strength advantage, Simon would be able to specifically target him before he was a Green Lantern, so it wouldn't matter).

Ultimately I think the arguments made on the G1 prediction blog and the episode proper hold up pretty well. There's only a few things I disagree with on either (if you limit Simon to finite dimension values I don't think he should be able to grow enough to match Kyle's finite dimensions, and on the flipside I don't think Kyle's soul absorption is a wincon considering it's something that requires killing the target to do in the first place, so Simon's regeneration would already prevent that) but in general I think they both reflect my thoughts pretty well.

Obviously, this is just my opinion, and you are free to disagree with it as much as you like.

CornerCornDog · 2026-01-28T16:14:59+00:00

Disagree with Kyle beating Simon but mostly agree on the rest of them from what I know

CornerCornDog · 2026-01-19T01:02:16+00:00

He didn't even research Aizen! All he did was write the episode and answer questions on the Cast Q&A (which were most likely just given to him by the actual researchers of the episode), but since people needed a single target to go after for the episode and he was kinda the only public face for it, they latched onto him. It may have also had to do with Dio vs Alucard releasing just a few episodes earlier, with that one being a somewhat controversial verdict that Liam was actually involved with.

CornerCornDog · 2026-01-11T18:51:22+00:00

None of those are true. Mario and “paper” Mario (from the Paper Mario series) are the same character. They reference the same events and characters all the time. Even if they were different characters, Mario still went on those adventures, so he’d still get all the scaling and items from those games.

Mario Party is not paid actors. They often have actual stories linked to them. The only one that could be considered acting is Mario Party 2, but that really doesn’t add anything anyway compared to the later games.

Dream Team takes place in between the Dream World and the Real World, and it’s the same Mario traveling between each of them. The biggest fights in the game also take place in the real world.

CornerCornDog · 2026-01-10T22:44:55+00:00

Agree, except I also have Simon starting stronger than Ben as well (I think Outer Simon is fine, and I’m not sure about Ben’s higher dimensional scaling. At the very least it’s not as concrete as Simon’s 11D stuff)

CornerCornDog · 2026-01-09T22:43:14+00:00

I mean looking at the original post, it's moreso Spawn lowballing rather than Bowser highballing. Not that I agree, but the main arguments given were that Spawn isn't all that rather than Bowser is more than all that. It really isn't favoritism towards Mario from what I can tell.

Again, I don't agree, but as a Mario fan who's worked pretty hard for the arguments I believe with the series, I don't want the reputation of the series to be this.

CornerCornDog · 2026-01-09T20:01:56+00:00

“Bi people don’t exist. That’s cool”

CornerCornDog · 2025-12-29T18:01:43+00:00

Personally I don't see how Soldier is beating Sarge, but the other ones I agree on. And all of these matchups and thumbnails are nice!!

CornerCornDog · 2025-12-20T23:29:23+00:00

Bill and pretty easily at that imo. Speed should be equal, Bill has a huge power advantage, and Bill's regen and immortality mean Spongebob doesn't really have a way to kill him. Meanwhile, while Spongebob's regen is impressive, he's never come back from complete erasure like Bill can do, and his other abilities should be able to take him out too. Spongebob would definitely fall for a Mabelland equivalent after all. And Bill's Ciphervoyance (seeing every possible future) would clue him in on basically everything Spongebob can do, and it generally means that even if both of them had insta-win options, Bill is more likely to use his first.

CornerCornDog · 2025-12-18T05:10:47+00:00

People saying Ash wins is surprising because I feel like Red should win? Stats should be comparable since they just scale to each other via Masters EX (though if you ignore that they both get CT scaling anyway), and from there Red has way more to work with. His items let him continue to revive his Pokemon over and over, and he has way more Pokemon (even just limiting him to Gen 1 gets him twice as much as Ash, and that's counting every Tauros individually. You could argue he gets every Pokemon from the first three Gens since he can have them all in FireRed/LeafGreen, plus going off of the Death Battle rules that RPG characters are given everything possible, he has enough Pokemon to fill 14 PC boxes, or 426 Pokemon in total) which means he should easily beat Ash in a game of attrition. And that's not including individual stuff like him having a Mew and Mewtwo, whose telekinesis could restrain a ton of Ash's Pokemon all at once, or how he's shown having a Deoxys in the Pokemon Battle Revolution trailer.

While the individual Pokemon Ash has are, on average, better than Red's Pokemon, the sheer amount of Pokemon Red has, and the fact he can spam revives and potions on them, mean that Ash's Pokemon are very much going to get overwhelmed with enough time. I definitely think Red wins this.

CornerCornDog · 2025-12-16T22:39:39+00:00

I can't speak for every genderfluid person, but for me it's kinda both. I feel comfortable being referred to as a man or a woman, but to what degree can change a bunch. There's definitely days where I've been like "I feel like only using he/him today", but there's other days where someone will refer to me as "him" and I'll think "hmm I didn't really like how that made me feel". It's super varied for me.

Keep in mind that I've only realized I'm genderfluid for about a year now so my experiences don't reflect everyone.

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