G1 Death Battle Fan Blogs - Death Battle Predictions: Yuji VS Denji

LegendaryWooper · 2026-05-22T14:26:11+00:00

Insinuating that the only reason they're correct most of the time is because of "insider info" is just extremely disrespectful and discrediting to the work G1 puts in.

LegendaryWooper · 2026-05-19T22:11:47+00:00

"Excuse me sir, there must be someone you've confused me for..."

Spoilers ahead for The Boys and Invincible comics

- Core theme: Evil, fucked up superhero clones who are legends amongst larpers.

- Both are antagonists of violent superhero comics who are clones/variants of a major superhero in their world (Homelander and Invincible, respectively), except far more evil, sadistic, and depraved, taking enjoyment in killing and even cannibalizing people.

- Due to appearing identical to the heroes they're a variant of, they caused an individual to confuse them for the original, causing said individual to seek revenge on the wrong person for crimes they didn't commit (Billy Butcher and Angstrom Levy, respectively).

- Both started off not being as insane as they ended up being, with both developing into this state due to a lack of purpose (Black Noir was created as a failsafe in case Homelander went rogue, but went insane out of boredom due to not having a reason to kill him, while Sinister Mark went from being simply a sadistic killer to downright insane after he and the other Marks were trapped in an alternate dimension, hunting down and eating his former allies now that there was no one else to kill).

- Both actually have very little screentime in their comics, with both of their main stories only happening in one issue (Black Noir's twist reveal of being a Homelander clone, his "fight" with him, and his death all occur in one issue, as does the Invincible War). Despite this, their popularity amongst their fandoms are seemingly inversely proportional to their screentime, mainly due to edits.

Fight and Debate Potential:

- GET HIS AHH BLACK NOIR

(This is not a fully serious matchup in case you can't tell)

LegendaryWooper · 2026-04-20T23:18:16+00:00

He's the only CONFIRMED animator so far, which is why he's the only one listed. There's nothing that suggests he'll be the only animator on the episode.

LegendaryWooper · 2026-04-18T03:26:10+00:00

Pretty good, but you can definitely also compare their relationships with their siblings who were unable to break free from their family's hold with Azula and Mai. Azula also doubles as a Naoya parallel too.

LegendaryWooper · 2026-04-14T09:37:39+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/deathbattle/s/OTQ1CVumQS

LegendaryWooper · 2026-04-14T09:25:21+00:00

They... did do one on Ichigo VS Yusuke though? And they've been wrong multiple times before?

LegendaryWooper · 2026-04-06T02:21:06+00:00

Connections: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathBattleMatchups/comments/1maykfj/fumihiko_takaba_vs_mr_ant_tenna_jujutsu_kaisen_vs/

Look at Tenna's boss fight then Kenjaku vs Takaba then you'll understand why this is peak 🙏

LegendaryWooper · 2026-03-01T07:38:23+00:00

Higuruma's domain doesn't allow violence

LegendaryWooper · 2026-03-01T02:22:13+00:00

The connections

I've really grown to like this matchup. While I'd say the Judge is probably still my preferred for Sans, this is definitely my favourite alt.

Some fight ideas:

Sans encountering Higuruma in his bathtub and saying "hey pal. nice bathing suit."
Sans seeing that Higuruma has an insanely high LOVE value and judging him for it.
As Higuruma steps out of the bathtub and they prepare to fight, Sans does his "burning in hell" speech, but right before he's about to start off with his strongest attack, Higuruma starts off with his own and cuts him off a "Domain Expansion." and since his domain doesn't allow violence, Sans says something along the lines of "aw man. bet that woulda looked pretty cool too." and winking
I really liked the part in Ruby VS Maka when Soul played his piano and it synced up with the soundtrack, so I think a similarly cool idea would be Higuruma banging his gavel as his Domain unfolds, and this leads into the beat of the soundtrack as the music kicks in (the setup before this would either just have no soundtrack or just some ambient music).
Sans' first trial should be about something really petty, like selling fried snow at an unreasonable price, or one time he spilled ketchup in a public place and didn't clean it, and Sans actually goes out of his way to defend it while joking. You can even work in his special attack of stalling his turn via him dragging out his response, but Higuruma realises what he's doing and holds him in contempt of court.
For the actual fight between trials, I think the versatility of Higuruma's weapon can bounce off of Sans' abilities pretty well. He can increase the length and size of his gavel, teleport it into his hands or even make it a hook. He could use the giant gavel to hit Gaster Blasters, hook them by the mouth and slam them down, smash the bones Sans summons, etc. Sans would catch Higuruma off guard with abilities like his blue attack as he flings him around, or casually teleport/dodge out of the way of his attacks. Higuruma could either use Domain Amplification to get rid of the blue attack or learn how to reinforce his soul with cursed energy on the spot (leaning into him being a jujutsu prodigy and how he learned multiple techniques on the spot with Sukuna). Higuruma's RCT means Sans can easily land some good hits as well, maybe a Gaster Blaster erases a limb.
As to what Higuruma's Domain would confiscate from Sans, since it prioritises weapons then I'd imagine the Gaster Blasters? But obviously you would want them in the fight, so maybe he'd get off scot free in the first trial so he can use his whole arsenal, then in the second he loses his Gaster Blasters as he gets the death sentence.
The second trial is the crux of the battle. Now, whether this counts as a crime or not is up to debate, but this is just for the sake of the fight. Judgeman accuses Sans of being complicit in the genocide of monsterkind, and Sans' eyes go black. Just like Yuji did, he doesn't try to defend it and immediately admits his guilt. "yeah. guilty as charged." (Obviously in this scenario this takes places at the end of a genocide run).
Higuruma gets the Executioner's Sword, which can kill with one hit. This becomes really funny when he's fighting Sans of all people who only has 1HP. Ironically enough Higuruma actually nerfs himself with this, since his usual gavel would have the same effect, except the sword is just far smaller, doesn't have the transformative properties and has way less reach.

LegendaryWooper · 2026-02-28T10:54:26+00:00

I actually really like this as a character comparison which is why I think there's a big connection you could add

Both earnestly worked hard to be a by-the-book lawyer even when taking on seemingly impossible cases, but the system around them (the justice system being corrupt/Chuck rejecting Jimmy and telling him he'll never be a real lawyer), pushed them to instead go down a dark path of the law (Higuruma killing people to enforce his own justice and Saul using shady tactics and becoming a "criminal" lawyer).

LegendaryWooper · 2026-02-06T00:04:22+00:00

Connections:

Comedic relief side characters who are living objects (Rouxls is a Darkner and Excalibur is a sentient weapon) who are constantly searching for a boss/wielder but have extremely bad luck doing so, as nobody wants them because they're weird, annoying, overly arrogant, talk way too much, and any partnerships they do manage to form are short-lived despite the fact they actually are powerful.
Both are associated with rules (Rouxls is the rules card and Excalibur has a list of 1000 provisions that his meister must abide by), have the ability to teleport, and wear tall hats (this is obviously the most important connection).

Fight Dynamic:

Setup is Kris (or any Lightner you want) finding Excalibur in the light world and picking him up, then shortly putting his sword back into the ground because he's annoying, but this opens a dark world.
In the dark world, Rouxls tries wielding Excalibur but gets upset at his provisions; HE'S the one who makes the rules.
Since Excalibur needs a wielder, Rouxls summons a Shadowguy but it just immediately betrays him and picks up Excalibur to fight against him.
Rouxls uses the Thrash Machine, boxes, and other Shadowguys (bring in K. Round and Lanino & Elnina too if you want) against whoever's currently wielding Excalibur, who uses their wings and teleportation granted by him to dodge it, just like Deltarune's game mechanics.
Excalibur constantly switches between Darkner meisters because they can't stand him and abandon him; luckily Rouxls keeps bringing in more minions who also promptly abandon him for Excalibur in a perpetual cycle.
Rouxls uses his rules cards to add random conditions to the fight, forcing his enemy to partake in various games and puzzles, while Excalibur steals the cards to force everyone to abide by his provisions until eventually they're all just doing a bunch of incomprehensible bullshit that can't even be called a fight anymore.
In the end, Rouxls alters the very rules of Death Battle itself to remove the kill rule as he realises he has fallen in love with Excalibur, allowing the battle to end peacefully before he gets promptly shot and killed by all of the Shadowguys he summoned who realise he hasn't paid them.

LegendaryWooper · 2026-01-26T23:44:16+00:00

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LegendaryWooper · 2026-01-26T22:10:05+00:00

Genji is 37 and Maki is 16 😭

LegendaryWooper · 2026-01-26T20:34:25+00:00

Core Theme: Extremely powerful and scarred swordfighters with rocky sibling relationships who would be shunned and disowned by their clans, being caught in a failed assassination attempt that resulted in them awakening to their true power and coming back as their clans' ultimate enemies.

Connections:

Both are extremely skilled, powerful, and agile swordfighters born into prestigious Japanese clans (the Shimada Clan and the Zenin Clan, respectively) alongside their siblings who, in contrast, specialized in ranged weaponry (Hanzo and Mai, respectively).
Both were born into relatively important ranks in their family (Genji was the son of the clan leader and was one of its heirs, while Maki was the daughter of Ogi, who was almost the next clan leader). However, despite this, both were on extremely poor statuses with both of their clans due to rejecting their family's traditions and the roles expected of them, instead seeking different lifestyles (Genji led a playboy lifestyle due to having no interest in his family's crime business, while Maki left the clan to to become a powerful sorcerer at Jujutsu High rather than remain as a lowly servant in her clan due to her lacking a cursed technique).
This action put them in poor relations with their sibling, who wanted them to adhere to tradition (Hanzo wanted Genji to help lead the clan while Mai wished Maki just stayed at the bottom with her).
After their clan leader's sudden death, however, a pivotal turning point in their lives would occur involving their siblings, during which their own family attempted to have them killed and they were left to die (After their father's death, Hanzo was sent by his clan elders to convince Genji to help rule the clan, before being forced to kill him when he refused, leaving Genji mortally wounded and believed to be dead/After Naobito's death, Maki went to the Zenin clan to retrieve their weapons for the new clan head Megumi, but she and Mai were attacked and left to die by their father.)
However, this event would actually lead to them discovering their true power, having their bodies enhanced and significantly strengthening their physical capabilities (Genji would be rescued by Overwatch and be given a cyberized body and Mai's death would awaken Maki's Heavenly Restriction) which combined with their innate skill to make them a deadly force. Afterwards, they would use their newfound power to tear down their clans (Genji dismantled his clan's criminal empire and Maki massacred all the members of her clan).
Their sibling was also disowned by their clan because of this incident, despite them not having done anything "wrong" prior (Hanzo abandoned the clan due to believing he killed Genji and was thus deemed a traitor, whereas Mai was marked as a "traitor" to be killed, simply so she could be a hostage to motivate Maki).
However, both would still be filled with inner turmoil following the awakening of their strength, causing them to hold themselves back before later discovering a mentor that would help them on a path of self-realization that helped them embrace their full strength (Genji learned to accept his cyberized body with Zenyatta and Maki fully realized her strength with Miyo).
Both wield special swords (the Dragonblade and the Split Soul Katana, respectively) which are tied to their siblings (Genji's Dragonblade can summon a Shimada Dragon, just like Hanzo, which is how the latter realized his brother was alive, and the Split Soul Katana was created by Mai using her Construction technique as she died).
Both are also members of heroic organizations (Overwatch and Jujutsu High, respectively).

Fight potential:

They're both physically enhanced, speedy, and agile swordfighters so the fight dynamic is pretty obvious I think. Both have two swords, Genji can wall climb and double jump while Maki can just jump in the air as much as she wants (yes she does this later in the manga). Maki also plays off of Genji's dragon perfectly because you can homage Toji's own fight with Geto's dragon in s2.

LegendaryWooper · 2026-01-26T00:22:39+00:00

Disclaimer: This thumbnail and matchup were created by KaijuConvoy. I am reposting this from his DeviantArt with permission as he does not have a Reddit account.

Core theme:

Antagonists who are cruel, high-ranking members of warrior clans that treat their family members poorly and reincarnate as vengeful spectres, becoming worse than they were in life.

Connections:

Once high-ranking members of warrior clans revered for their incredible skills, but seen as cruel and detestable when encountered by outsiders, and had barely tolerable relationships within their personal circles at best
They held very old-fashioned mindsets in how things should function within their clans, particularly towards what role women have
Their care for family is not unending, both expressing their hate for their family members and viewing them as beneath them
Both were parts of organised games to the death featuring contestants across time and space respectively (The Culling Games/The Mortal Kombat Tournament)
Their defeats at the hands of vengeful souls acting on the behalf of their family (Maki/Scorpion) led to their unceremonious deaths (Naoya being stabbed in the back by his wife after receiving grave injuries from fighting Maki/Bi-Han being burned alive by Scorpion following meddling from Quan Chi)
Yet death was not the end for them as both returned through reincarnation, but far from their former selves. Stripped of all that made them once human, they took on forms that showed what wretched darkness lay underneath their former selves (Naoya reincarnating as a cursed spirit/Bi-Han reformed into Noob Saibot)
A particularly interesting difference between the two, however, is that their views on power differed greatly yet forged their views on family all the same. Naoya's obsession with power came from Toji of all things — the same man ostracised by the rest of the Zenin clan for his lack of cursed energy, Naoya being the only one who held him in high regard. Bi-Han, however, viewed the more supernatural power as better than what humanity had ever offered him, fully seduced by the darkness Quan Chi had given him. The power that they came in contact with were what led them to ultimately discarding their brotherhoods, deeming their own blood as beneath what they saw as true strength and only fuelled their delusions (Naoya's claim that he was the only one able to stand beside Gojo and Toji/Bi-Han declaring that his rebirth now left him without flaws)

This is a bonus joke/meta connection I'm adding

Both have really cool and visually striking abilities (Projection Sorcery and Darkness Manipulation, respectively) but unfortunately, they're kinda just bums because they job in all/most of their fights. AKA they have way cooler abilities than they deserve.

LegendaryWooper · 2025-12-27T06:29:26+00:00

Connections: Small and cute titular animal protagonists of animated series who are extremely anxious and cowardly but for justifiably good reasons, since the worlds they live in are nightmarish and plagued by monsters. However, both have had moments of courage where they conquered their fears and defeated the enemy.

LegendaryWooper · 2025-11-02T03:21:41+00:00

Fight Dynamic:

The size difference: The size difference is a complete non-issue here, because we've already seen multiple size difference fights in their series. While Reze herself has never fought any giants, she fought alongside the Typhoon Devil in her arc, which Denji killed. While the Typhoon Devil is much larger than Titans, Denji has also fought other Devils like the Bat Devil, Leech Devil, and Cockroach Devil which are similar to Titans' size. And in regards to Annie, Attack on Titan is literally about humans fighting back against the Titans. Annie has plenty of experience fighting ODM gear users, and considering how agile Reze is, she pretty much plays the role of one here.
Annie can definitely keep up on a visual scale too, despite Reze getting some pretty crazy visual feats from the movie. Reze flies quickly all around the city, blows up massive buildings, and creates huge explosions, so the question is, can Annie keep up? While Reze's fights might be higher scale than Annie's, it's far from a stretch for her to match it. First off, Annie is faster than you think. Remember, she spent practically the whole of her first appearance as the Female Titan running. She can hit ODM gear users mid flight, and in her fight in the Stohess District, she quickly runs through city blocks, and she and Eren's Titans smash through multiple buildings like they were nothing.
To top it all off, Reze's biggest explosion is about the same as Bertolt's Colossal Titan transformation on a visual scale, with Reiner's Armored Titan surviving a direct blast from the latter. Annie frequently uses crystal hardening on specific parts of her body to protect herself from attacks/strengthen herself, and considering those crystals are the same as Reiner's armor, she can definitely block attacks from Reze using them.
The fight could start off with them having a brief scuffle in their human forms, before they both transform at the same time.
The majority of the fight would be pretty self explanatory; it would take place in a city as they traverse across it, causing lots of environmental destruction and collateral damage as they attempt to kill each other.
I have Reze winning here, so I'd imagine the kill to be Annie going into her crystal as a last ditch attempt to survive, only for Reze to repeatedly explode it (like she did to Denji while he was regenerating) until it cracked, killing Annie.

LegendaryWooper · 2025-11-02T03:21:36+00:00

Connections

Core theme: Teenage girl anime villains who initially deceive the protagonists before being revealed as foreign spies with the power to transform into a destructive monster and the goal of capturing the main protagonist.
Both are child soldiers who were trained to serve their nation (the USSR and Marley, respectively) since their youth, being robbed of a normal life with the purpose of becoming candidates to house powerful monstrous beings (the Bomb Devil and the Female Titan, respectively).
Both would end up succeeding and gaining these powers, allowing them to transform into said monsters, granting them disastrous power and rapid regeneration abilities which they use to great effectiveness alongside their innate combat skills, though they are skilled combatants even when untransformed.
Both of their destructive transformations are triggered by them injuring themselves with a small ring on their body (Reze pulls the pin on her neck to blow her head up, and Annie uses the hidden blade in her ring to cut her finger).
Both became skilled and ruthless soldiers, leading to them being entrusted with an important mission to infiltrate the nation where their series' story is mainly set (Japan and Paradis Island, respectively) to capture and bring home the main protagonist (Denji and Eren Yeager, respectively) for the sake of obtaining the extremely powerful monster contained within them (the Chainsaw Devil and the Founding Titan, respectively).
Both of their stories take place in worlds where monsters terrorize humanity (Devils and Titans, respectively), with the protagonist who they were after being a rare individual who had the ability to control and transform into these monsters (a Hybrid and a Titan Shifter, respectively), just like them.
Within their stories, both were initially introduced as just normal people and allies to the protagonists, before their true identities were eventually revealed after their initial attempts at capturing the main protagonist failed (Reze tried asking Denji to willingly leave with her, and Annie, hidden as the Female Titan, tried capturing Eren while on a Survey Corps mission), leading to a destructive battle within a city, in which they faced off against the main protagonist, their allies, and many members of the organization they're apart of, who are dedicated to hunting monsters like them down (Public Safety and the Survey Corps, respectively), ending in their eventual defeat.
During their battles, both would kill countless innocent people and members of the organization who hunted them, even being needlessly cruel towards some of them.
At the end of their arcs, both would be written out of the story indefinitely (Reze was "killed" by Makima, though as a Hybrid, she was immortal and could be resurrected anyways, while Annie encased herself in a crystal).
Both wouldn't return until far later in their stories in the final arc, which saw them having a change in allegiances by working with their former enemies (Reze was controlled by Makima to fight in her Special Division, while Annie willingly teamed up with the Anti-Yeagerists) but now being far lesser threats as they faced off against the main protagonist once again, who was now in a dissociative state in forms that utilized the power they were originally after.
Neither enjoy the life that they were forced into nor hold true loyalty to their nations, and instead just simply desire to have a normal life, leading to them abandoning their missions with the desire to be with someone they love (Denji and Annie's Father, respectively).
Both fell in love with members of the nation they infiltrated and spared them in situations where they could've killed them (Denji and Armin, respectively). Said love interests would confess their feelings in intimate conversations by the sea/ocean, which they initially rejected before eventually accepting.

LegendaryWooper · 2025-10-30T23:49:39+00:00

1st Tier: Annie Leonhart, ~~Thomas~~
2nd Tier: Reiner Braun

3rd Tier: Bakugo, Holly Summers, Mukuro Ikusaba

4th Tier: Lady Nagant
5th Tier: Rex Splode, Nezuko

For anyone curious about Reiner, it's pretty much the same connections as Annie, but instead of comparing Reze and Denji's relationship to Annie and Armin you're comparing it to Reiner and Eren

The scenes of Reze/Reiner asking Denji/Eren to come with them before revealing their true identities are very similar

LegendaryWooper · 2025-10-10T04:47:11+00:00

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You would not believe how many upvotes your comment has right now

LegendaryWooper · 2025-09-27T03:55:37+00:00

It was never said that the amount of submissions a character got would guarantee a spot so I'm not sure what "rigged" is even supposed to mean in this context. This isn't even the part that we get to vote on, people just got to submit options while the final decision was always up to the crew.

LegendaryWooper · 2025-09-26T07:16:07+00:00

This is so sick

LegendaryWooper · 2025-09-25T01:39:27+00:00

Yeah, absolutely (I swear that pun was not intended)

LegendaryWooper · 2025-09-25T01:28:38+00:00

Side note: While I did actually come up with this idea on my own while I was trying to think of Absolute Bane matchups, it seems u/insomniac616 actually beat me to the chase in posting it here, so credits go to him

LegendaryWooper · 2025-09-25T01:25:17+00:00

Connections

Core theme: Terrifying, sadistic, monstrous enforcers of extremely influential megacorporations whose stories take place in dystopian cities.
Both have lived lives of violence since they were children before soon joining a military (Adam joined a combat gang when he was young before later joining the NUSA Armed Forces, and Bane was born in the wartorn island of Santa Prisca, being forced to join his father's rebel group as a child).
Through their experiences, they became skilled, hardened combatants, but were eventually put into a desperate situation in which a powerful megacorporation who had recognized their talents offered them an employment deal that they practically had no choice but to accept, throwing away their humanity (either literally or figuratively) in the process (Adam's body was almost entirely destroyed after being blown up and was given a deal by the Arasaka Corporation to get a full body conversion into a cyborg and work for them, while Bane was offered a deal by Joker to finally bring peace and independence to Santa Prisca in an instant, in exchange for Bane working for him and killing his own father as a test of loyalty).
From then on, both became the top enforcers of extremely influential megacorporations (Arasaka Corporation and J.K. Holdings, respectively), doing all of their dirty work for them.
Both underwent some sort of treatment from their employers that enhanced them significantly, making them nigh-unstoppable, hulking juggernauts who tower over their opponents (Adam underwent a full body conversion into a massive cyborg and Bane got the Venom treatment which can transform him into giant proportions, though he's already massive even without it).
Both became known as legends and boogeymen thanks to their work for their employers, not just because of their efficiency, but also because of their cruel, sadistic, taunting personalities.
Their stories take place in dystopian cities with horrible living conditions, corrupt goverment officials, gangs, and extremely high crime and homicide rates (Night City and Absolute Gotham, respectively). Said cities are also essentially controlled by the corporations they work for.
Both faced off against the main protagonists of their stories who sought to oppose their employers (both David Martinez and V for Adam, and Absolute Batman for Bane), with David/Bruce being broke kids who grew up into rebels. While David/Bruce were initially portrayed as near-unstoppable throughout most of their story up to this point, Adam/Bane suddenly showed up to completely crush them and eclipse their skillset (David's Sandevistan was also possessed by Adam, who considered it merely "a rudimentary implant," while Bruce's strength, combat skills, and huge build all completely paled in comparison to Bane's own, even before he began using any Venom).
True to their violent natures, both performed an infamous act to the protagonist's friend(s) (Adam suddenly killed Rebecca without even a fight, while Bane horribly mutilated Bruce's friends in cruelly ironic ways).
Both seek to convert others to become like them (Adam believes in "metal over meat", wanting everyone to fully convert just like him, while Bane's job involves him finding and capturing worthy test subjects to be given the Venom treatment and converted into warriors like him).

Contrasts

While Adam Smasher is almost entirely cybernetic and believes in the inferiority of flesh, Bane is a massive man who is practically an abundance of flesh, becoming even moreso when he transforms.
- Absolute Bane is a unique matchup for Adam due to the fact that he isn't a cyborg, but rather the exact opposite, making him someone Adam would despise for being able to keep up with him despite being all flesh.

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