Fun fact: SpongeBob’s voice actor, Tom Schalk, also voiced the Kool-Aid Man, DIO, and one other combatant earlier this season. Insane range. Also to clear things up, Aquaman getting back up and stabbing SpongeBob wasn’t him being rude. That was him taking SpongeBob’s words to heart, which is what he wanted
An underrated part of your reactions are your analysis. Many other reactors, even ones with a lot of personality, just kinda boil down to saying what they thought was cool. You give me a whole new appreciation for every Death Battle you watch Since you’re getting into season 9, an interesting video idea could be a tier list if all the death battles from season 7-9. Talk about what you liked and disliked, and how they compare to each other. Also, if you like SpongeBob, I’d recommend the theory videos of one Alex Bale. They’re basically a love letter to SpongeBob, as well as showing off some aspects of the franchise you might not have thought of. If you watch them, you should go in order, there’s a story between all of them.
I actually have the Tier List idea for a Death Battle Podcast and I want to do it during Season 10, but instead of Seasons 7-9, it's throughout the entire Series so far.
So Ben and Chad hadn't watched Spongebob but this was highly requested and they thought super fiends Aquaman would have some silly He-man like feats but would probably still lose but when they realized it was a complete stomp that they had to do it as Aquamans redemption to become a hero
@@LylatKnight no before Deathbattle they hadn't watched it, Chad even said the only time he had seen an episode was when he whent with a friend to what unbeknownst to him was a drug dealer house and he just remembered staring at the TV trying not to notice what was going on around him
Yep, Superfriends Aquaman is the incarnation that nearly KILLED Aquaman's reputation and still affects the character to this day, given Superfriends aired in the '70s, when cartoons weren't even allowed to show violence due to standards and the Media Watchdogs and Moral Guardians of the time. I can't wait for you to react to the rest of Season 9. My favorites so far are Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Thor VS VegetaHercules VS Sun Wukong, and Boba Fett VS Predator.
Yeah it took the New 52 and The Aquaman movie and Zack Snyders Justice League to finally break the “He just talks to fish.” straw that’s constantly on Aquamans back (and to an extent it’s still there but no longer with the same intensity).
So, here's something for you... in the previews for the fight. After hearing Spongebob's section, Wiz decided that a proper match would be someone from the silver age era of comic books when Superheroes could do just about anything.... meaning he went for Superfriends Aquaman thinking it would BUFF the king of the seas. You know how well that worked out.
The typical approach for speed feats like Aquaman's laser dodging is to check whether you can prove in-tandem movement (which is sometimes difficult with comic books and manga bc duh), in which case you can measure how far a person moved between two frames and then compare it to how far the source of speed, like a laser beam, moved in between the same frames. That is the accepted method for most feats related to reactionary speed. Also the DB team has mentioned on social media that the thought process described by Wiz in Aquaman's analysis is the approach they had to this episode. Expecting to find something crazy hidden, but failing to do so
I remember your reactions way back when!!! I used to look forward to them after every battle lol I saw in my recommended you came back, it had been so long I didn't get around to watching but I decided to watch this one, then when I heard your voice and the music again all the nostalgia just _suddenly hit me all at once._ Welcome back, dude!!!
27:23 In the TMNT and Mega Man battle royals they admit the obvious weakest isn't going to win but they've never said the winner before, much less in a one-on-one fight.
I watched Spongebob all my childhood but I didn't know anything about the whole "pulling the universe apart with a string" part. I was a little more than surprised.
@@Ris_Grestar true. I don’t imagine you thought of that in the moment. And they didn’t say stuff like “he’s about to die” in my knowledge. The only other thing i can really think about was them saying Michelangelo “Better Not” win the TMNT Battle Royale years ago lol
I didn't think about that one, yeah, but even thinking about it now, like...the point of that Death Battle was *to* kill Deadpool--like Wiz and Boomstick (the former, especially) picking a matchup he couldn't survive. Right? If I'm remembering correctly. Whereas this one seems like a normal Death Battle that just kind of broke Wiz as it went on lol
yea, it definitely feels different to all of those other examples. Even Volnutt from the Mega Man FFA didn’t have them saying stuff like “He’s about to die” and “He’s not winning this.” But still, a joy of an episode to watch, and i cannot wait for the next reaction!
I love how you were going through the Season 9 episodes, saw this, and was like "This is insane, I gotta do this first before I get to the rest of the season 9 episodes!" It's such a silly but amazing matchup.
When I saw you upload this, I was wondering why you’d skipped ahead, but your reasoning makes sense. If you’re going to keep going out of order, I’d recommend Scarlet Witch vs Zatanna or Black Adam vs Apocalypse next.
Please catch up on all other season 9 episodes as quickly as possible so you can finally get caught up with everyone else. Season 9 is almost done, we are getting to our halloween episode! Spongebob is actually a kitchen sponge 🧽
I think the only time they’ve confirmed a loser was WAY BACK in Season 1 with the TMNT Battle Royale, where they needlessly shit on Mikey. They didn’t necessarily confirm his loss, but they do make it clear that they didn’t want him to win.
5:31 Oh fun fact, in the recent Patrick spin-off he travels back in time and absorbs the radiation or something so yeah (although even before that it was always generally the most popular origin story lol, if you didn't know it was referenced in the unaired pilot which is where the theory comes from)
They actually have said the result before the fight. Well, kinda, remember in the TMNT battle royale Boomstick said “Mikey isn’t going to win is he..” and Wiz said “he better not!!!”
This is one of my favorite death battles, too! This, alongside Popeye vs Saitama are probably the best ones they've done in recent memory Its too early to say, but if this quality keeps up, next season could be the start of a Death Battle Renaissance!
27:16 From a certain point of view, they've spoiled who was gonna lose once. WAAAAY back in season 1, in the TMNT free for all Death Battle, they joked that Mickey wasn't going to win. But that was more of a joke at the very end of his analysis (if I remember correctly) rather than how they did it for Aquaman's segment here.
@@fireball1249 yep but only Rooster Teeth members can watch it tomorrow including me. Everyone else watches it on Halloween (Monday) which is it’s original release.
@@Ris_Grestar I just thought since Halloween is in two days it would have been perfect for a showing of Harley Quinn VS Jinx. P.S CONGRATULATIONS ON NEARLY CATCHING UP BUDDY!!!!!
They actually did spoil the winner before with Deadpool vs the Mask in the trailer itself actually where they said “It’s time to kill Deadpool” or something like that
Yo Ris you should really make a personal top 10 favorite Death Battles of all time video or something, thinking that'd be awesome to see a collection of that from yourself!
I was going to question the fact that Spongebob is 36, but then realized he owns his own house on a fry cook's salary, so that tracks Yo, the games were dope Has Whiz cussed this much before? xD OH NO, RIS Spongebob's "I saved the city" is every DnD party ever Damn. RIP Aquaman HE WAS NUMBER ONE I'm here for Spongebob breaking records I wanna see Spongebob vs Popeye Isn't there a movie for Michael Meyers vs Jason?
Nate, from the Renegades React channel, had a theory, that someone said this Aqua Man is so bad, that even Spongebob can beat him up, and thsts how this Death Battle was born. I also now understand why Robot Chicken and Family Guy keep using this character as a punching bag because this version of Aquaman is just terrible. Maybe do a reaction to Robot Chicken Aquaman?
If you're going out of order, I recommend you do Scarlet Witch vs Zatanna and Black Adam vs Apocalypse back to back. Those two are basically the same episode. Getting both Marvel vs DC episodes of the season out of the way together seems logical.
It's been already said multiple times, but I think the next reaction should be Scarlet Witch vs Zatanna and the one after that Black Adam vs Apocalypse. It's best to get rid of the two generic Marvel vs DC episodes early on.
There has been a lot of joke episodes on this show....but this one is my all time favorite out of the joke fights we've gotten and I was happy to see SpongeBob win since he's one of my childhood heroes from watching cartoons when I was really young. Next Time with Jason and Michael, given that one is tomorrow, I guess I don't have to give a personal thoughts on that one yet but yeah my history with that matchup has mainly been more out of fear for me as I am not one who is a horror movie fan and I never liked them to begin with but I am willing to play them in the games that they are in but in the movies, that's a nope from me. So with that, I will see you next week for the battle between the iconic horror movie slashers and after that, we can go to Harley Quinn VS Jinx (DC VS League of Legends).
Well this was way earlier than expected. Are you going back to prioritizing new Episodes? Edit: I watched all the way to the end and thank you for answering my question. I'm so excited!
Zeus the god of thunder Poseidon the god of the seas Hades the god of the underworld Heracles the Demi god of strength SpongeBob the supreme god of death
It’s actually the most weakest form of Aquaman and that’s not really giving it justice because normal Aquaman is very powerful, but this version is very weak in comparison
That's toon force inconsistent but have them at their best and it's cartoon reality warping. Only problem was making Aquaman have billion x sol because of outswimmimg the dragon, flight speed doesn't = swimming speed cause almost the speed of a gun in swimming wouldn't outpace a MFTL character it's just way too big of a gap
You say SpongeBob wouldn't have access to making Krabby Patties, but he can just will one into existence or pull one from hammerspace. SpongeBob had done that before lol
Fun fact: SpongeBob’s voice actor, Tom Schalk, also voiced the Kool-Aid Man, DIO, and one other combatant earlier this season. Insane range.
Also to clear things up, Aquaman getting back up and stabbing SpongeBob wasn’t him being rude. That was him taking SpongeBob’s words to heart, which is what he wanted
That's Omni-Man you're talking about. Tom's got some INSANE range.
@@durandlewis1382 Well I didn’t want to outright say it. Ris hasn’t seen that one yet
Funny that all the voices Tom Schalk has done were all winners in their DBs lol
@@zeospark9715 DELETE THAT
An underrated part of your reactions are your analysis. Many other reactors, even ones with a lot of personality, just kinda boil down to saying what they thought was cool. You give me a whole new appreciation for every Death Battle you watch
Since you’re getting into season 9, an interesting video idea could be a tier list if all the death battles from season 7-9. Talk about what you liked and disliked, and how they compare to each other.
Also, if you like SpongeBob, I’d recommend the theory videos of one Alex Bale. They’re basically a love letter to SpongeBob, as well as showing off some aspects of the franchise you might not have thought of. If you watch them, you should go in order, there’s a story between all of them.
I actually have the Tier List idea for a Death Battle Podcast and I want to do it during Season 10, but instead of Seasons 7-9, it's throughout the entire Series so far.
So Ben and Chad hadn't watched Spongebob but this was highly requested and they thought super fiends Aquaman would have some silly He-man like feats but would probably still lose but when they realized it was a complete stomp that they had to do it as Aquamans redemption to become a hero
And it breaking Wiz is a little breaking character as that was Ben's reaction in recording booth
They hadn’t watched it!?
@@LylatKnight no before Deathbattle they hadn't watched it, Chad even said the only time he had seen an episode was when he whent with a friend to what unbeknownst to him was a drug dealer house and he just remembered staring at the TV trying not to notice what was going on around him
Yep, Superfriends Aquaman is the incarnation that nearly KILLED Aquaman's reputation and still affects the character to this day, given Superfriends aired in the '70s, when cartoons weren't even allowed to show violence due to standards and the Media Watchdogs and Moral Guardians of the time.
I can't wait for you to react to the rest of Season 9. My favorites so far are Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Thor VS VegetaHercules VS Sun Wukong, and Boba Fett VS Predator.
Yeah it took the New 52 and The Aquaman movie and Zack Snyders Justice League to finally break the “He just talks to fish.” straw that’s constantly on Aquamans back (and to an extent it’s still there but no longer with the same intensity).
So, here's something for you... in the previews for the fight. After hearing Spongebob's section, Wiz decided that a proper match would be someone from the silver age era of comic books when Superheroes could do just about anything.... meaning he went for Superfriends Aquaman thinking it would BUFF the king of the seas.
You know how well that worked out.
The fact that this episode, on SpongeBob's part, straight up broke Wiz amuses me to no end 😂
The typical approach for speed feats like Aquaman's laser dodging is to check whether you can prove in-tandem movement (which is sometimes difficult with comic books and manga bc duh), in which case you can measure how far a person moved between two frames and then compare it to how far the source of speed, like a laser beam, moved in between the same frames.
That is the accepted method for most feats related to reactionary speed.
Also the DB team has mentioned on social media that the thought process described by Wiz in Aquaman's analysis is the approach they had to this episode. Expecting to find something crazy hidden, but failing to do so
haha Yeah, understandable. It just looked silly with that old-style animation.
for sure, Super Friends is a trip and a half
I remember your reactions way back when!!! I used to look forward to them after every battle lol
I saw in my recommended you came back, it had been so long I didn't get around to watching but I decided to watch this one, then when I heard your voice and the music again all the nostalgia just _suddenly hit me all at once._
Welcome back, dude!!!
Thank you!
This is also my favourite episode of Death Battle, and hearing you engage with all the Spongebob references was fantastic
Wow Ris, watching you react to this was like pure gold. This was, indeed, a very absurd matchup.
27:23 In the TMNT and Mega Man battle royals they admit the obvious weakest isn't going to win but they've never said the winner before, much less in a one-on-one fight.
I watched Spongebob all my childhood but I didn't know anything about the whole "pulling the universe apart with a string" part. I was a little more than surprised.
To be fair, The episode leading up to Deadpool Vs The Mask, they did straight say “Lets Kill Deadpool!” In the Matchup reveal. So there is that.
haha True, but that was a long time coming.
@@Ris_Grestar true. I don’t imagine you thought of that in the moment. And they didn’t say stuff like “he’s about to die” in my knowledge. The only other thing i can really think about was them saying Michelangelo “Better Not” win the TMNT Battle Royale years ago lol
I didn't think about that one, yeah, but even thinking about it now, like...the point of that Death Battle was *to* kill Deadpool--like Wiz and Boomstick (the former, especially) picking a matchup he couldn't survive. Right? If I'm remembering correctly. Whereas this one seems like a normal Death Battle that just kind of broke Wiz as it went on lol
yea, it definitely feels different to all of those other examples. Even Volnutt from the Mega Man FFA didn’t have them saying stuff like “He’s about to die” and “He’s not winning this.” But still, a joy of an episode to watch, and i cannot wait for the next reaction!
I love how you were going through the Season 9 episodes, saw this, and was like "This is insane, I gotta do this first before I get to the rest of the season 9 episodes!"
It's such a silly but amazing matchup.
When I saw you upload this, I was wondering why you’d skipped ahead, but your reasoning makes sense. If you’re going to keep going out of order, I’d recommend Scarlet Witch vs Zatanna or Black Adam vs Apocalypse next.
Please catch up on all other season 9 episodes as quickly as possible so you can finally get caught up with everyone else. Season 9 is almost done, we are getting to our halloween episode! Spongebob is actually a kitchen sponge 🧽
True
I think the only time they’ve confirmed a loser was WAY BACK in Season 1 with the TMNT Battle Royale, where they needlessly shit on Mikey. They didn’t necessarily confirm his loss, but they do make it clear that they didn’t want him to win.
Hercule vs. Dan
Also, they did rag on volnutt a bit before the megaman battle royale
Glad you picked up on the shape of Aquaman's tombstone. It's really sweet that SpongeBob memorialized him as being #1.
IT WAS HIS HAT
This is possibly the first time a death battle combatant has felt remorse for killing the one they were matched up with
5:31 Oh fun fact, in the recent Patrick spin-off he travels back in time and absorbs the radiation or something so yeah (although even before that it was always generally the most popular origin story lol, if you didn't know it was referenced in the unaired pilot which is where the theory comes from)
They actually have said the result before the fight. Well, kinda, remember in the TMNT battle royale Boomstick said “Mikey isn’t going to win is he..” and Wiz said “he better not!!!”
Kestin Howard being Aquaman here was awesome! He has fantastic delivery.
tridents are called tridents because they have multiple points. 3 to be exact.
TRI DENT.
Three points.
We have had stomps in the past but them actually saying yeah it's a stomp throughout was some nice fun.
Well, at least unlike Mikey, Dan, Volnutt, and Homelander, Aquaman here went out with some dignity.
My man dabbed in 2022...I love it
Based Ris. He watches what he wants to watch.
YYYEEESSS!!! This is the best way that they could have handled such a grossly imbalanced fight. It was an amazing fight in my opinion
Wouldn't mind you alternating between new and old tbh. Deserve the algorithm boost.
This is one of my favorite death battles, too! This, alongside Popeye vs Saitama are probably the best ones they've done in recent memory
Its too early to say, but if this quality keeps up, next season could be the start of a Death Battle Renaissance!
That's not a bad way of seeing it actually.
27:16 From a certain point of view, they've spoiled who was gonna lose once. WAAAAY back in season 1, in the TMNT free for all Death Battle, they joked that Mickey wasn't going to win. But that was more of a joke at the very end of his analysis (if I remember correctly) rather than how they did it for Aquaman's segment here.
I'm not gonna lie, I got a little teary eyed with aquamans death
Glad to see you react to this! Hope to see you catch up.
Good for you since Jason VS Michael comes out literally in a few days.
Tomorrow on the Rooster Teeth Site, 2 days on RUclips.
@@fireball1249 yep but only Rooster Teeth members can watch it tomorrow including me. Everyone else watches it on Halloween (Monday) which is it’s original release.
So many different types of battles lately, Popeye vs one punch man, Koolaid man vs savage and mask vs Deadpool and now this
Sorry if I offended you Ris I didn't understand at first.
P.S I have a big SpongeBob DVD collection so you could say I'm a bit of a fan too.
haha I just can't preface things any earlier without forgoing my intro
@@Ris_Grestar I just thought since Halloween is in two days it would have been perfect for a showing of Harley Quinn VS Jinx.
P.S CONGRATULATIONS ON NEARLY CATCHING UP BUDDY!!!!!
lol I'm not sure I follow. Because they make for good Halloween costumes? Or is there some Halloween connection I'm unaware of?
And thank you^^
@@Ris_Grestar I mean because both characters are a bit insane.
They actually did spoil the winner before with Deadpool vs the Mask in the trailer itself actually where they said “It’s time to kill Deadpool” or something like that
Yo Ris you should really make a personal top 10 favorite Death Battles of all time video or something, thinking that'd be awesome to see a collection of that from yourself!
This is why you don't fight Toons. Shit gets crazy so fast.
I thought I missed a bunch of your death battle reactions when I saw this video but then realised you skipped ahead lol
17:09 damn made u reverse the track lol
I was waiting to see how you'd react this one.
I was going to question the fact that Spongebob is 36, but then realized he owns his own house on a fry cook's salary, so that tracks
Yo, the games were dope
Has Whiz cussed this much before? xD
OH NO, RIS
Spongebob's "I saved the city" is every DnD party ever
Damn. RIP Aquaman
HE WAS NUMBER ONE
I'm here for Spongebob breaking records
I wanna see Spongebob vs Popeye
Isn't there a movie for Michael Meyers vs Jason?
Is there? I know there's Jason VS Freddy Krueger, but I don't know of a Jason VS Michael.
@@Ris_Grestar Yep, they did. It came out in 2019
Oh, well cool!
You did NOT just do a Squidward dab! XD
Nate, from the Renegades React channel, had a theory, that someone said this Aqua Man is so bad, that even Spongebob can beat him up, and thsts how this Death Battle was born. I also now understand why Robot Chicken and Family Guy keep using this character as a punching bag because this version of Aquaman is just terrible.
Maybe do a reaction to Robot Chicken Aquaman?
If you're going out of order, I recommend you do Scarlet Witch vs Zatanna and Black Adam vs Apocalypse back to back. Those two are basically the same episode. Getting both Marvel vs DC episodes of the season out of the way together seems logical.
This is Michaelangelo in tmnt battle royale death battle all over again.
17:18 he was so shocked, I'm pretty sure he said just "fuck" for the first time on his channel
It's been already said multiple times, but I think the next reaction should be Scarlet Witch vs Zatanna and the one after that Black Adam vs Apocalypse. It's best to get rid of the two generic Marvel vs DC episodes early on.
5 Pronged Spear: Quindent.
2 Pronged Spear: Bident.
That sort of thing
Spongebob sometimes does have Krabby Patties on hand, so he technically does have those in his arsenal
There has been a lot of joke episodes on this show....but this one is my all time favorite out of the joke fights we've gotten and I was happy to see SpongeBob win since he's one of my childhood heroes from watching cartoons when I was really young.
Next Time with Jason and Michael, given that one is tomorrow, I guess I don't have to give a personal thoughts on that one yet but yeah my history with that matchup has mainly been more out of fear for me as I am not one who is a horror movie fan and I never liked them to begin with but I am willing to play them in the games that they are in but in the movies, that's a nope from me.
So with that, I will see you next week for the battle between the iconic horror movie slashers and after that, we can go to Harley Quinn VS Jinx (DC VS League of Legends).
I love this Death Battle episode
Well this was way earlier than expected. Are you going back to prioritizing new Episodes?
Edit: I watched all the way to the end and thank you for answering my question. I'm so excited!
Yeah this one's intentionally a joke episode
Can you watch Jason VS Michael tomorrow? It's on Halloween. Too fitting to pass up.
Well it makes sense that spongebob would call aquaman mirmaid man because mirmaid is the joke of aquaman
Do you still think Weiss should have beaten Mitsuru Kirijo?
My favorite part of this episode is they go in saying, "SpongeBob is WEAK," to be proven wrong, then "Auquaman is AWESOME," to again be proven wrong.
Aquaman got around on the disability ramps, sitting in a big fish tank being wheeled around.
I like the fact SpongeBob was being nice to him. It's in his character to care😊
Spongebob would still survive on land because in the Nicktoon games he was given a spray that keeps him from drying out
Just curious for an idea for a stream in future. Would you ever make a tier list of every death battle?
I'm not sure I would *want* to piss everyone off at once.
@@Ris_Grestar that's understandable.
Poor Super Friends Aquaman. He will never be cool.
Ok...hear me out...SpongeBob vs Superman.
oh yeah,thats what i'm talking about,spongebob is still taking w's since 2009.
two things i did not know one spongebob first name is robert
secound HES 36 YEARS OLD?!? i thought hes in teen years like 18 or something
I thought both of you hated spongebob and awkward man
17:10 NOT DEATH BATTLE by Nemisis Bloodryche theme
Pardon?
Oh okay, I looked it up and now I see haha
Zeus the god of thunder
Poseidon the god of the seas
Hades the god of the underworld
Heracles the Demi god of strength
SpongeBob the supreme god of death
Be prepared. There are a lot of sad deaths in this season.
Imagine fighting spongebob when he get really mad
Which death battle are you going to react to next?
It’s actually the most weakest form of Aquaman and that’s not really giving it justice because normal Aquaman is very powerful, but this version is very weak in comparison
Spongebob vs The Mask or Deadpool
I think this ep is ment to be a joke ep
That's toon force inconsistent but have them at their best and it's cartoon reality warping. Only problem was making Aquaman have billion x sol because of outswimmimg the dragon, flight speed doesn't = swimming speed cause almost the speed of a gun in swimming wouldn't outpace a MFTL character it's just way too big of a gap
Wait what
It's a Quident
Vegeta vs thor
SEAgulls tho
Seagulls. Mmgh. Stop it now.
You say SpongeBob wouldn't have access to making Krabby Patties, but he can just will one into existence or pull one from hammerspace. SpongeBob had done that before lol
haha I couldn't think of any specific instances of that, but I wouldn't doubt it.
Lol popeye still solos, 🤣
You know, they really missed the Freddy vs Jason opportunity.
so these battles are nothing but jokes.... Finally good to see downfall of screwattack's death battle.
...You're not as friendly as I'd imagined, Spider-Man.
Rip Megaman.exe having the best speed feat 🪦 And yes, they added pros and cons!
Megaman.Exe can eat his eat out XD.