6:24 "I'm one of those DEATH BATTLE fans who actually *likes* the show." The fact that you have to clarify this is both hilarious and shows just how toxic the fandom is.
The death battle fandom is very interesting because usually it's the quiet majority that gets unnoticed and the loud minority that makes a fandom bad, but for death battle, it's the exact opposite, the loud majority (which is usually the youtube commenters and debunk video makers) is usually the bad side, but the hardcore and dedicated quiet minority is actually great.
You know, I feel basically the same way towards Rick vs The Doctor as you feel towards Stitch vs Rocket,minus the personal connection you have to the characters. Even then, this episode convinced me that I need to check both of these series out at some point, so I may end up loving that episode even more later down the line. Edit: I recently watched both shows and I quite like Rick and Morty, Doctor Who is one of my favorite shows of all time, and checking them both out has indeed made me love the episode even more.
As one of the 10 people who requested Killua VS Misaka, I'm glad the DB team actually chose such an obscure match-up even though it didn't perform well. And hopefully albino Magneto/A-tier edgelord Accelerator also gets an episode one day.
How you feel about Stitch vs Rocket is how I felt about Cole vs Alex. I’m happy we both got something we both desperately wanted for years, and I say this as someone who’s become a bit jaded with Death Battle over the years. This season really reignited a love for this show that was fading. Hopefully season 11 can keep the pace up, but even if it doesn’t, we can always fondly look back to season 10 as perhaps the best Death Battle season we’ve ever had!
Did anyone notice how this season starts with ant man vs the atom and ends with galactus vs unicron? Starting with a microversal battle and ending with a universal battle.
I gotta say Rappter... I absolutely adore the way you approached this man! You seriosuly expressed how this season feels, it's amazing, it's peak, whatever you wanna call it. It's a passion project and it shows. I have been a fan since season 4, and ever since, this show has given me a new part in my life, it made me meet people, try out new things, etc. And this season increased it thousand fold. Thank you, and have a great day! ALOHA!!!
@@mihaimercenarul7467 Thanks condescending c***, I assume it's ok to call you that after the amount of times you saw fit to call me child and boy. File this under don't start what you can't finish.
The Rappter isn’t lying; this was the *PEAK* season in Death Battle history! I every episode had so much love and passion put into it, and it shows. It outclassed Season 8 for me personally, and that’s just me. And as annoying as it was having two comic matchups nearly back-to-back, it’s grown on me knowing how fantastic they were (well _one_ of them, anyway). Regardless, I’d give this season the highest 13/10 I’ve ever ranked it. Hope the next season will kick ass on the same level as this one did, maybe even more!
Honestly, I feel the exact same way. Death Battle Season 10 is literally so good that making a ranking is pretty much impossible. Every episode was just so consistent and so well-made.
Ngl I've been listening to all the tracks this season but mainly "Super" over the past couple of weeks since it came out. I love the positivity and the energy and deep meaning throughout and it feels so empowering. I absolutely love it and the fact that most of the soundtracks this season was vocals (10/16) makes them more listenable in a sense.
WOAH WTF HOW DID YOU GET INSTRUMENTALS OF THE VOCAL TRACKS?!? Nah but really, I couldn't agree more. I don't really like doing rankings anyway since I find them hard but for this season it's literally impossible lol, looks like you agree. Pretty much everything here was so good and I love how you put everything, especially about your attachment to Stitch VS Rocket and the ending. I even think this is one of your best videos, amazing work. Hope you have a good new year too 👍👍
Best Lines or Moments of Each Battle 1. "You can't be afraid to think big." 2. "Fus RO DAH!!!!" 3. Killua catches Misaka's coin 4. "That's it, gonna need a bigger gun." 5. "You are liberated from hell, find peace in the next life" 6. Raven blows the Phoenix out 7. "I'll kill them, all of them, DOWN TO THE LAST ONE" 8. Silver Surfer's Speech at the end 9. Discord sends Bill back to the Nightmare Realm 10. "The Only Vermin I see here, is YOU!" 11. Megatron Roasts Frieza 12. "Throughout Heaven and Earth, I alone am the honored one." 13. "SCOOBY DOOBY DOOO!!!!!" 14. "I'm The Doctor, and I don't wanna go." 15. Ultra Instinct Goku vs Superman 16. "No Devourer, TRANSFORMNG!"
I second this notion. The quality of the animation and analysis has been stellar. Great choice of matchups, phenomenal animation and voice work, the amazing music, & amazing narrative (especially in the best episodes). Even the weakest episodes were 7 & 8/10s compared to prior seasons and had their own stand out scenes. Also their reasoning for the results has improved so much compared to prior seasons (especially in episodes such as Gojo vs Makima and Goku vs Superman) and even they even give better explanations for episodes I disagree with (Phoenix vs Raven & Obito vs Darth Vader (still loved the episodes regardless)). This season reminded me why I love Death Battle so much (even disregarding times where I’m annoyed about the results). Though, I say all of this before they outdo it with next season. Especially since they basically confirmed Giorno vs Joker with the teaser (I’m still not ready for how heated the debate will get).
Skyrim vs Dark souls Vader vs Obito Guts vs Dimitri Cole vs Alex Goku vs Superman Frieza vs Megatron Galactus vs Unicron 3D deaths battles were really eatin good this year😂
I want to add something that I think is getting glanced over (no offense to y’all). I agree with a lot of your stances, but I think there’s something more. Tbh this season is also a legit celebration of how far the show has come. That joy is something that oozes out into the animations, and that’s further suggested by several of the additional easter eggs you can find in many episodes (especially the later half like Billcord, Doc Sanchez, and Gokuman 3). The fact they are able to put episodes so well together and add all these little nods to the community is astounding. In addition, (as stated) they also wanted to show how far they have come. I think a lot of this is evident in Gokuman 3 because you kinda get flashbacks at the ending. Once that episode ended, I knew this was the best season. The theme of this season was “passion projects” and it definitely lived up to that. I can only hope Season 11 is just as good.
Guts vs demtri is my new favorite death battle. Repsented the characters so well, that ending is the best we have had in any death battle, and we finally got a fire emblem fight. If u never played a fire emblem game you need to play 3 houses. I love the fire emblem games
I’m so glad this was the season that my most wanted, Guts vs Dimitri, was in. It may not have been my favorite of the season, but it’s definitely the most special to me.
@@vaggos2003 I liked it a lot! He always has a knack for pointing out things I never noticed in an episode, same with Nem. And a whole hour long video analysis on this episode specifically did make me happy.
I like the unique way of going about this, and I totally agree with you in your closing statements on still passionately watching this show. While idk if it's my personal favorite, it definitely is a great season all around. Can't wait for season 11 to come around.
Aside from three episodes I found meh. Alex vs Cole, Vader vs Obito, and Raven vs Phoenix....this was a great season. None that were even 'bad' just meh. But I gotta say Scooby vs Courage is my favorite episode they have ever done so far. My top 5 of the season are, Scooby vs Courage, Bill vs Discord, Galactus vs Unicron, Dimitri vs Guts, and Stitch vs Rocket.
This season really gave Death Battle more diversity not just with Marvel vs NonDC and Anime MUs but also with various different franchises against each other, it was glorious
This is 100% the best season of the show, only 1 episode gets below a 8/10 for me (pheonix vs raven wasnt bad but i still have it as a 7/10) and everything about the episodes are amazing. So many of the tracks have become some of my top 10 favorites of the show (fireborn, gods hand, and final formers) and i got my 2 most wanted episodes (Gojo vs Makima and Galactus vs Unicron)
I swear, I tried doing my own ranking list for the first time as this season was airing (around when BillCord came out). At first, ranking the first half was incredibly easy with one or two episodes that flipped places. But around when Rick vs. The Doctor came out, I was struggling so much to justify so many of my placements just due to how many different variations of bangers we were getting (Stitch vs Rocket used to be #1 until BillCord happened. After that it slowly settled its way into #7 or 8 due to the sheer quantity of awesome episodes in the back half of the season. I have betrayed my beautiful blue boy and I feel awful 😅)
My ranking: 1: Bill Cipher VS Discord 2: Goku VS Superman (2023) 3: Galactus VS Unicron 4: Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer 5: Scooby-Doo VS Courage 6: Frieza VS Megatron 7: Guts VS Dimitri 8: Darth Vader VS Obito 9: Skyrim VS Dark Souls 10: Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor 11: Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon 12: Gojo VS Makima 13: Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer 14: Ant-Man VS Atom 15: Phoenix VS Raven 16: Killua VS Misaka This is officially my favorite Season of DB! Hopefully the DB Crew keeps bringing us such awesome episodes in the future!
Absolute same, Rappter! If I had to pick a least favorite for this season I guess it would be Rick vs. The Doctor, but everything was kicking. Admittedly before the episode, I actually didn't like Superman or Goku very much, but the way DB handled their analysis made me like them and care for the characters more than what I did. And God's Hand is peak! My favorite track of the season and possibly ever! To date, I've listened to it over 700 times already. All-Consuming is a close second with how grandiose but dreadfully empty the tone of that one is.
These Battles have been the best ones I have ever seen as for my next ones I want it would be Goku vs Sonic, Ultimate Spider-Man vs Ladybug, Metal Sonic vs Cell, Knuckles vs Piccolo and Megamind vs Gru
I don’t blame you with all these death battles raptor, and that cipher wheel was fun to decipher even if I haven’t quite understood all the symbols and all the battles themselves even though, a few of them didn’t seem too good but they were all still great in their own way
An amazing season overall and easily my favorite and the best. Only thing that disappointed me was that there was no episode like Stitch vs Rocket for you, for me an episode that was one of my most wanted matchups. Only character in this season I cared for at all was Bill
Honestly, I agree with a lot of the points you made, and your overall opinion of this season as a whole. Around the time Scooby VS Courage came out, I was starting to struggle on my placements for each episode if I were to do a ranking. I still intend to do one later, but a ranking on this season, for me at least will be on constant change and will probably never be concreate. When I was going into this season, a couple days before Ant-Man VS Atom came out, I was a little worried this season would sort of flop on it's face compared to Season 9 & 8, which, while they both had episodes people weren't fond of, were pretty universally loved to certain extents, and I was a bit worried it wouldn't live up to the hype of the season prior with stuff like Omni-Man VS Homelander, Trunks VS Silver and Hercules VS Sun Wukong for example. But this season didn't just blow my expectations out of the water. They completely sent my expectations out of orbit. This season, I can say with 100% certainty, is my all time favorite of Death Battle, dethroning Season 9 as my favorite, which I thought would be very hard to do. Not only did pretty much every single episode hit the mark, even the ones I don't like as much as others, but this season had 11 my most wanted fights, a lot of which are back to back. Ant-Man VS Atom, Chosen Undead VS Dragonborn, Stitch VS Rocket, Vader VS Obito, Bill VS Discord, Cole VS Alex, Frieza VS Megatron, Gojo VS Makima, Scooby VS Courage, Rick VS The Doctor and Galactus VS Unicron. 11! And I enjoyed every one of them. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Rick VS The Doctor was one of the ones I enjoyed the most this season. Like you said, it somehow managed to feel like a collab between Rick & Morty and Doctor Who and has even inspired me to check out Doctor Who sometime. This season probably has a decent chunk of it's episodes in my top 20 favorite episodes of all time, several of which I can consider in my top 10. I'm also happy you got like, your most wanted fight ever. One of the things I always do when considering matchups, I think: "Even if I personally am not the biggest fan of this fight, there is probably someone out there who wants it a lot" which is why I try to give every matchup a chance, even ones I'm not too fond of, and I love seeing people get excited for their favorite fights seeing the light of day on this show, and your reaction to Stitch VS Rocket perfectly showcases that idea. I'm thinking of trying to make a YT vid while I'm on Winter Break and just kinda... Talking about this season, or my top 30/40 most wanted, or a season 11 prediction. I don't expect to get too many views, but it just sounds fun to get ideas out there and see people's reactions and feedback. If I ever do make a video about my most wanted, I bet you won't be able to guess what my number 1 pick is. Welp. That's enough from me. I'm glad you enjoyed this season man, and here's to hoping Season 11 will be just as good, if not better. Later, and have a Merry Christmas!
Another thing is that Deathbattle only had a couple Sprite fights. All 3 Marvel vs DC fights, Killua vs Misaka, Makima vs Gojo, and Stitch vs Rocket (Discord vs Bill doesn’t count given all the other mediums used). Everything else was either hand drawn or 3D, which is insane to think about as that is all expensive as hell. We even got CONSECUTIVE 3D fights of similarly high quality. In terms of animation and music it’s the best season, and terms of scaling is pretty good, especially the first and final 2.
The Obito vs Vader canon over Legends DEFINITELY skewed the results. Then again, star-galaxy level Vader vs barely planet level Obito wouldn’t be any fun to watch.
My girlfriend and I were very nervous for Scooby vs Courage since they are our favorite dogs in fiction (mine's courage and hers is Scooby) and we also thought the match up was... kinda dumb, so we decided to watch the episode together and the absolute hype for the climax and relief for the ending we both had when it was shown that it was a draw cannot be replicated. That will forever be my favorite death battle because it represents something special for both me and her.
I'm having a hard time making a ranking video on death battle season 10, not because figuring out the ranking itself is hard, but trying to find what to say for over half the episodes other than "I don't know what else you want me to tell you, it's peak" is incredibly difficult.
I do agree with this statement but instead of explaining why I'm going to ask a question: How will this get topped? Season 11 has a lot of potential to be good or bad that's what worries me
BTW I figure The Courier VS The Mandalorian should have a fight music similar to Stitch VS Rocket's Jailhouse Rocket with a lyrical track inspired by Fallout's music called Big Beskar.
to be honest in the cipher wheel, I got one of the shuffling symbols correct Down to the matchup because with the backward message when I see the word violent I instantly say friza vs Megatron, despite I didn't know that much of Dragon Ball
It's nice to see someone who understands that death battle is mostly about entertainment and fun and not getting pissed that an episode was a draw or that they didn't make superman stomp goku within 5 seconds
This was definitely the best season DEATH BATTLE! has ever had, no questions asked. There wasn’t a single episode that disappointed me, even though MM VS SS was my least favourite by far. If I had to name a Top 3, I think it’d be Rick VS Doctor Who at 3, Bill VS Discord at 2, and Guts VS Dimitri at 1. Seriously, I’ve wanted Fire Emblem in this show for a long time, and this is the episode I’ve watched the most. Also Deciphering Discord is the best DEATH BATTLE! track ever made, and you cannot convince me otherwise. Thanks for being as big a fan of the show as I am, Rappter, and I can’t wait for Season 11! It’s gonna be awesome! Please give me Bowser VS Eggman!!!!!
11:50 When I saw the preview for goku vs superman 3 i thought it was going to be another terrible episode that starts a massive flame war, when i saw the episode and the comments on it I was surprised and now it has become probably one of my favorite episodes and then Galactus vs Unicron happened, combine that with Bill vs Discord, Cole vs Alex, frieza vs megatron, rick vs The Doctor, and stitch vs rocket made this my favorite season
My main problem with this season soundtrack is the vocals. Sometimes the background music instrumentals is too loud to the point where it drowns out the singer and makes it hard to listen to.
The fire emblem scaling for speed was pretty wonky when useing seige tomes like bolting due to thunder magic having low hit which implys its realy hard to hit a guy from far away with something as unruly as lighting especialy when light spells like abracis and aura exist with higher base accuracy in general and can give the argument that he has ftl reaction speeds
I am just happy I found someone who like death battle and is ok I have seen a couple of others review the seasons and some just give them so much back lash it sounds like they hate the show.
Honestly I have to agree, this has been the best season... at least so far! I hope Season 11 manages to top it somehow! Wile vs. Tom is already my most anticipated episode in a while!
Same and two fights that I requested that I hope make it into the next season or future seasons are Jin Mori from The God of High School vs. Yuji Itadori from Jujutsu Kaisen, Clare from Claymore vs. Geralt of Riva from The Witcher(a more fair matchup then Clare vs. Artoria, and actually has more connections then Clare vs. Guts), and Rebecca "Revy/Revy Two-Hands" Lee from Black Lagoon vs. Fiolini "Fio" Germi from the Metal Slug games.
One favorite other than Goku vs. Superman, which surprised me, Galactus vs. Unicron, is Guts vs. Dimitri played some fire emblem games, not Three Houses love Berserk, and the end can't ask for a better death or more respectable death in that fight
I actually kind of disagree about the negative elements of the Cipher Wheel. Being deliberately vague was honestly a more fun approach than being a mystery meant to be solved, especially since it left almost everything in the air, as opposed to the character teases, where they've steadily become more obvious who their opponents are. The fans being annoying to each other about it is their own problem more than anything. Other than that though, I think you hit the nail on the head. Every single episode this season was a good watch, and the highs are indisputably amazing even compared to the past greats.
I also think this is their best season. Had my most wanted matchup, in general the most stacked lineup, and got me to give some series another try. The dark souls series have some of my favorite games of all time now. I must forever thank the man Liam pushing for the matchup so hard lol
My top 4 have to be Goku vs Superman Alex vs Cole Guts vs Dimitri Chosen undead vs Dragonborn (I am in no way biased because the guy I wanted to win won) but these fights were so close to me because of the franchises they represented. Goku vs Superman especially the ending made me get a little emotional. Like you said I have some small grievances like the whole Darth Vader thing, the Marvel vs DC matchups not being the best, the comedy in Alex vs Cole probably didn’t come from a bad place but had a bad taste to it, and Galactus Vs Unicron having the problem of one character literally has a win button with no faults to it so the trying to think of a winner was very bland. But still best season by far!
Season 10 got me into Dark Souls (And Makima, but she can go back to hell) and the explanation of him losing, I got it as 'he ragequitted lol' Praise the sun!
Like you, I genuinely believe that this is officially the best season of Death Battle yet, but I don’t want to rag on too long, and plus there’s a limit to how much you can type in one comment, so here is me summarising all of Season 10 in 10 words or less Ant-Man VS Atom “Jesus, that death is on par with Mileena’s in MKX” Chosen Undead VS Dragonborn “Did he really win though?” Killua VS Misaka “How many people actually asked for this one?” Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon “Man, The Rappter got hit with the Y0UR0NLYMATE luck” Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha “Ayyy, they did the Uchiha music thing again” Phoenix VS Raven “Alright alright, first of all… Caw Caw Motherf****r!” Guts VS Dimitri “All blood, no Guts” Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer “Why are we doing this? (Seven episodes later) it’s fun” Bill Cipher VS Discord “Egassem terces emos edih d’i thguoht uoy teb I” Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer “Oh, I get it, Alex SWATS, and Cole Omega SPARX” Frieza VS Megatron “Mine’s bigger than yours……… right?… Right?” Gojo VS Makima “Oh, so that’s where combatants go when they lose” Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog “This one sabotaged the Tournament of Champions” Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor “Wow, I guess violence really wasn’t the answer here” Goku VS Superman 3 “Okay, third time’s the charm for Goku’s respect” Galactus VS Unicron “SCREW RWBY, THIS IS THE ULTIMATE FOOD FIGHT!!!” Alternative personalised versions of a particular 3 Frieza VS Megatron “My sister got her dog on the day this aired…” Gojo VS Makima “…and now you make me watch dog cruelty, not once…” Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog “…but twice, at least this one had a peaceful ending”
The season's so good that the debate quickly went from "who would win a fight" to "which of these episodes is actually the best or worst of the season". Honestly the only episodes I have an issue with is Frieza vs Megatron for being very obviously wrong when it came to Megatron's power level which as a result brought the episode down a peg, Killua vs Misaka for being.... certainly an anime fight (though it also has the best song of the season so), and cole vs alex which, I don't know, just doesn't do anything for me, and honestly I don't really think any of them were bad, just average. My favorite example of this season being too good was that I initially didn't like Goku vs Superman 3 and Galactus vs Unicron as much as I should because I actually got burned out....... ON GOOD DEATH BATTLE EPISODES. Not burned out on the show itself, burned out on how good it was. I didn't even think that was possible. I also think it's really funny that my favorite and least favorite episodes of the season were the two herald episodes.
I have no problems for Marvel vs DC matchups because they're known to be the most favorite matchups in Death Battle history, it doesn't bother me from it but I can understand why people want to see some other matchups besides between Marvel and DC the whole time, but unlike few people like you I'm not really big on anime stuff like anime vs anime because I'm not really into anime in general. But I am always curious on how to fight goes between comics, cartoon, video game against anime and of course Goku vs Superman 3 was also one of my most favorite matchups and death battle history
From my understanding and what I agree with it seems a lot of ppl are highly think is that Bill v Discord, Scooby v Courage, and Goku v Superman are the creme of the crop. For me it is very hard to decide a #1 between those three. I can easily see why people want Wile E. Coyote v Tom Cat for the Champions poll cause DB does a fantastic job on cartoon fights. The craziness is just too good like it was for Bill v Discord and Scooby v Courage. Reason Goku v Superman is there is like u said how in-depth the analysis was and honestly did the episode justice compared to the first 2 (especially the second one as they even mentioned it was basically a spite fight).
Honestly, im shocked how good this season was No "dream matches" for me in the traditional sense except for 2 being the finale & Cole v Mercer but a fair few dream combatants. DragonBorn, my boy Stitch, Bill and maybe 1 or 2 im forgetting. Hell, the only one I wasn't big on was Killua vs Mikasa. But even that I give a decent 7/10. Every other episode I've revisited at least 3 times, some FAR more than that. My favorite moment is how I am NOT a fan of Doctor Who or Rick & Morty whatsoever and probably never will be. And yet that episode is easily a favorite for me which is a VERY hard thing to pull knowing Stitch v Rocket, DB v CU, and of course Galactus vs Unicron all exist!!! Amazingly great season overall. Season 11 has some big shoes to fill but I think it'll be good still ♡
I 100% agree with you in how Season 10 had no single bad episode. Some were boring or questionable on the outcome, but the animation and production made each one stand out. And my God the second half went ballin after Bill vs Discord. Music went all out as well, Final Formers was Masterpiece tier of rock. I also agree on nitpicking on the animations yet they were still fun to watch and glad they happened. Overall, awesome episode. And can't wait to see your reactions next year. My only question: What's your favorite episode of the season if you had to pick one? For me: Had to be Bill Vs Discord, from start to finish it was pure fun.
This season is a weird one, because I didnt get any real most wanted matchups, the closest was Scooby Vs Courage. And yet, this is alao my favorite season. Not a bad episode, and i got into a lot of new franchises because of this season like Gravity Falls and Chainsaw Man. Both Goku Vs Superman and Scooby Vs Courage are my top 2 episodes of all time, which is insane too me
Honestly, when the season's low point is Raven vs. Phoenix, you know the DB staff did something right this year. Admittedly, I was not looking forward to the Champion Poll winners, mainly due to not being invested in inFamous or Prototype and hating Triangle Satan more than almost any other fictional character, but the Colex fight itself was pretty cool, and Discord managed to take advantage of not conforming to the rules of Death Battle, allowing him to win in the narrative instead of the match. (However, I do have a major gripe with that episode: what DB classifies as viable material. Ryuko wasn't allowed to even touch Kill la Kill IF material despite Shadow's feats in Sonic Next Gen matching everything from that game, which would have made his victory feel earned instead of given as a freebie, yet Bill was allowed to use a disjointed "Ask Me Anything" as putting his narrative warping on par with Discord when it had no reason to be a valid connection to Gravity Falls canon.) The other two Marvel vs. DC fights were a step above the aforementioned Raven vs. Phoenix. I don't know how I feel about Ant Man vs. Atom as a premiere, but it's on the better side of Marvel vs. DC fights, and Martian Manhunter vs. Silver Surfer really played with expectations. Darth Vader vs. Obito & Frieza vs. Megatron were serviceable, but of the two, I had more investment in the latter mainly since it showed the nuances of Megatron so well. As much as some matchups didn't sit right at first, the episodes made up for them in some ways. Even though I hate Chainsaw Man as much as Black Clover, learning about Hunter X Hunter, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Railgun Index was pretty interesting, and I finally understand the whole "Domain Expansion" meme thanks to Gojo vs. Makima. Also, I thought I was going to hate Rick Sanchez vs. The Doctor due to my hatred of Rick & Morty, but I was pleasantly surprised and grateful to be proven incorrect. The analysis was in-depth, the animation was top notch, and the result was cathartic to say the least. Of course, Stitch vs. Rocket hits differently for me as well, but only because of my friend's investment into it. It was just fun seeing how happy this matchup made him, as it became his personal favourite of Season 10. It was great to see cinematic fights come back in full force after Yoda vs. Mickey experimented with it and Sauron vs. Lich King took it above and beyond. Chosen Undead vs. Dovahkiin felt and sounded like it could be a scene from a high fantasy epic thanks to the Death Battle Fan Choir, Guts vs. Dimitri ramped up how intense fights could get at their full potential, and the biggest thing holding back Scooby vs. Courage from being mistaken as a part of Straight Outta Nowhere is that it's set on a 3D background (that's how amazing the animation is). Vegito vs. Gogeta didn't feel like a proper finale back in Season 9, so having two consecutive finale-worthy episodes close off Season 10 more than made up for it. Goku vs. Superman: Definitive Edition really took what worked from the original and built upon it to make it even better to the point where it would have made a near-perfect finale in its on right. Also, Galactus vs. Unicron finally happening this year was such a treat to hear about and a spectacle to behold, essentially being what Thanos vs. Darkseid wished it could be. It doesn't break my personal Top 5 Season 10 episodes only on the reason that there were too many bangers to choose from, but it definitely breaks my personal Top 3 Death Battle finales. Least Favourite: Raven vs. Phoenix (I don't hate it, but it really should have been in Season 5 from the beginning, as it really shows how lopsided, unfair, and unwarranted Raven vs. Twilight was, not to mention all the other sprite fights alone this season were better by comparison.) Top Favourite: Goku vs. Superman: Definitive Edition (There is so much about this that really goes above and beyond. Both characters are treated with the utmost respect in the analysis and fight, many mistakes from the previous two versions were rectified, the animation proves how far the team has come since the start, and the OST is one of the best in the franchise, not to mention it rivals Yoda vs. Mickey & All Might vs. Might Guy with how wholesome it ends up being.)
Yeah just like Seasons 2,4,8, & 9 (although the 9th season was bizarre) My ranking of very season of DB Season 1 (2010 - 2013) Great Season 2 (2013 - 2015) Fantastic #1 Best Season 3 (2016) Okay Season 4 (2017) Amazing #2 Best Season 5 (2018) Good Season 6 (2019) Great Season 7 (2020) Good Season 8 (2021) Wonderful #3 Best Season 9 (2022) Bizarre But Awesome #4 Best Season 10 (2023) Excellent #5 Best They’re all the best none of them are the worst but some have the worst episodes ever (mainly batgirl Vs spider Gwen and Yang Vs Tifa) DEATH BATTLE will always be the best show ever can’t wait for season 11 next year in 2024!
Facts, Rappter, Facts! And these 5 episodes are my favorites: Bill Cipher vs Discord Frieza vs Megatron MY BOI SCOOBY VS COURAGE MY BOI GOKU VS SUPERMAN And Galactus vs Unicron.
Honestly season 10 is definitely top 5 seasons for me -guts vs dimitri was one of my most wanted mus(ya kinda obvious with my pfp) -mus like Bill vs Discord and Scooby vs Courage ended up being better than I expected. And I wasn't even into the billcord mu to begin with. Scooby and Courage was floating in my head but I wasn't chomping at the bit -rick vs doctor got better for me on rewatchs and looking at reactions. A bunch of small in character details that makes rewatchs satisfying -a bitch like makima getting owned is satisfying. Even if I wasn't remotely invested in either series -frieza vs Megatron is really good for the animation and soundtrack. -only one fight I felt disappointed with(Vader vs Obito) because I was so salty with the outcome I purposely didn't watch it till later in the season. And even when I went back to watch it. I ultimately did enjoy it despite my grievances with how obito got the win in the animation. Like I get that genjustu is his strongest win con but im not buying that he can set up infinite tsukuyomi within a few minutes. While Vader is focused on him. Even when DB implied that genjustu still takes time to break out of. -Overall a good balance of fighting and incorporated story and in character bits. Silver surfer and MM having thier exchange of being aware of fourth wall. Scooby and Courage working in a story reason to fight without an awkward start. The ending of billcord. And so on -I was groaning with goku vs supes 3. But I went out feeling like it is the proper follow up to the first fight. Effectively replacing goku vs supes 2. I went out of season 10 very happy. And I hope everyone has a happy holiday.
Part of me wants to, but it would only add two new episodes at the very bottom most likely. If anything I'll probably wait a while so my opinions can change more lol
I mean I got Gojo, Alex, stitch Bill cipher, Scooby Doo and courage this season learn more about the doctor, dark souls, Skyrim, got to see Rick fans take a massive L. This was the best season of death battle because not one bad episode in terms of the weakest episodes definitely agree with what you said but I think killua vs Mikasa was the lowest episode it looks great but fight is lacking
6:24 "I'm one of those DEATH BATTLE fans who actually *likes* the show." The fact that you have to clarify this is both hilarious and shows just how toxic the fandom is.
I was thinking the same thing lmao.
The death battle fandom is very interesting because usually it's the quiet majority that gets unnoticed and the loud minority that makes a fandom bad, but for death battle, it's the exact opposite, the loud majority (which is usually the youtube commenters and debunk video makers) is usually the bad side, but the hardcore and dedicated quiet minority is actually great.
You know, I feel basically the same way towards Rick vs The Doctor as you feel towards Stitch vs Rocket,minus the personal connection you have to the characters. Even then, this episode convinced me that I need to check both of these series out at some point, so I may end up loving that episode even more later down the line.
Edit: I recently watched both shows and I quite like Rick and Morty, Doctor Who is one of my favorite shows of all time, and checking them both out has indeed made me love the episode even more.
As one of the 10 people who requested Killua VS Misaka, I'm glad the DB team actually chose such an obscure match-up even though it didn't perform well. And hopefully albino Magneto/A-tier edgelord Accelerator also gets an episode one day.
Same I actually requested that fight as well.
How you feel about Stitch vs Rocket is how I felt about Cole vs Alex. I’m happy we both got something we both desperately wanted for years, and I say this as someone who’s become a bit jaded with Death Battle over the years. This season really reignited a love for this show that was fading. Hopefully season 11 can keep the pace up, but even if it doesn’t, we can always fondly look back to season 10 as perhaps the best Death Battle season we’ve ever had!
Did anyone notice how this season starts with ant man vs the atom and ends with galactus vs unicron? Starting with a microversal battle and ending with a universal battle.
I gotta say Rappter... I absolutely adore the way you approached this man! You seriosuly expressed how this season feels, it's amazing, it's peak, whatever you wanna call it. It's a passion project and it shows. I have been a fan since season 4, and ever since, this show has given me a new part in my life, it made me meet people, try out new things, etc. And this season increased it thousand fold. Thank you, and have a great day! ALOHA!!!
It wasn't peak, calm down, child.
But no wonder you got bullied, you are so cringe.
@@mihaimercenarul7467 I disagree with your opinion, good day
@@necrostar0248 you are brainless, so I am not surprised. You must be 5 years old. This season was just ok, not peak, little boy.
Yeah I really do feel like I can't do a ranking for this season cos almost every single episode was just the best we've gotten so far.
except cole vs alex
@@reggielacey2235 And that's ok cos you're allowed to be wrong.
Honestly, I could probably rank 7-16, but after that it is very hard to decide as there are too many pluses for my other 6 that I liked.
It's ok, child. You are wrong, but it's ok. Most of the fights were weaker than many from other seasons, little boy.
@@mihaimercenarul7467 Thanks condescending c***, I assume it's ok to call you that after the amount of times you saw fit to call me child and boy. File this under don't start what you can't finish.
The Rappter isn’t lying; this was the *PEAK* season in Death Battle history! I every episode had so much love and passion put into it, and it shows. It outclassed Season 8 for me personally, and that’s just me. And as annoying as it was having two comic matchups nearly back-to-back, it’s grown on me knowing how fantastic they were (well _one_ of them, anyway). Regardless, I’d give this season the highest 13/10 I’ve ever ranked it. Hope the next season will kick ass on the same level as this one did, maybe even more!
Congrats dude for your 2 Most wanted MU
Honestly, I feel the exact same way.
Death Battle Season 10 is literally so good that making a ranking is pretty much impossible.
Every episode was just so consistent and so well-made.
Ngl I've been listening to all the tracks this season but mainly "Super" over the past couple of weeks since it came out. I love the positivity and the energy and deep meaning throughout and it feels so empowering. I absolutely love it and the fact that most of the soundtracks this season was vocals (10/16) makes them more listenable in a sense.
Discord vs bill is my favorite episode of season 10 of deathbattle
WOAH WTF HOW DID YOU GET INSTRUMENTALS OF THE VOCAL TRACKS?!?
Nah but really, I couldn't agree more. I don't really like doing rankings anyway since I find them hard but for this season it's literally impossible lol, looks like you agree. Pretty much everything here was so good and I love how you put everything, especially about your attachment to Stitch VS Rocket and the ending. I even think this is one of your best videos, amazing work. Hope you have a good new year too 👍👍
Best Lines or Moments of Each Battle
1. "You can't be afraid to think big."
2. "Fus RO DAH!!!!"
3. Killua catches Misaka's coin
4. "That's it, gonna need a bigger gun."
5. "You are liberated from hell, find peace in the next life"
6. Raven blows the Phoenix out
7. "I'll kill them, all of them, DOWN TO THE LAST ONE"
8. Silver Surfer's Speech at the end
9. Discord sends Bill back to the Nightmare Realm
10. "The Only Vermin I see here, is YOU!"
11. Megatron Roasts Frieza
12. "Throughout Heaven and Earth, I alone am the honored one."
13. "SCOOBY DOOBY DOOO!!!!!"
14. "I'm The Doctor, and I don't wanna go."
15. Ultra Instinct Goku vs Superman
16. "No Devourer, TRANSFORMNG!"
that end comment on the season and beyond got me, thanks for noticing
Hard to not notice greatness 😊👏👏
The team really went all out bro
Rising above the fright!
Unfolding mysteries through the fight!
Horrors all around!
Because they walk on haunted ground!
Forever Terror Night!
I second this notion. The quality of the animation and analysis has been stellar. Great choice of matchups, phenomenal animation and voice work, the amazing music, & amazing narrative (especially in the best episodes). Even the weakest episodes were 7 & 8/10s compared to prior seasons and had their own stand out scenes. Also their reasoning for the results has improved so much compared to prior seasons (especially in episodes such as Gojo vs Makima and Goku vs Superman) and even they even give better explanations for episodes I disagree with (Phoenix vs Raven & Obito vs Darth Vader (still loved the episodes regardless)). This season reminded me why I love Death Battle so much (even disregarding times where I’m annoyed about the results).
Though, I say all of this before they outdo it with next season. Especially since they basically confirmed Giorno vs Joker with the teaser (I’m still not ready for how heated the debate will get).
Skyrim vs Dark souls
Vader vs Obito
Guts vs Dimitri
Cole vs Alex
Goku vs Superman
Frieza vs Megatron
Galactus vs Unicron
3D deaths battles were really eatin good this year😂
I want to add something that I think is getting glanced over (no offense to y’all). I agree with a lot of your stances, but I think there’s something more. Tbh this season is also a legit celebration of how far the show has come. That joy is something that oozes out into the animations, and that’s further suggested by several of the additional easter eggs you can find in many episodes (especially the later half like Billcord, Doc Sanchez, and Gokuman 3). The fact they are able to put episodes so well together and add all these little nods to the community is astounding. In addition, (as stated) they also wanted to show how far they have come. I think a lot of this is evident in Gokuman 3 because you kinda get flashbacks at the ending. Once that episode ended, I knew this was the best season. The theme of this season was “passion projects” and it definitely lived up to that. I can only hope Season 11 is just as good.
Guts vs demtri is my new favorite death battle. Repsented the characters so well, that ending is the best we have had in any death battle, and we finally got a fire emblem fight. If u never played a fire emblem game you need to play 3 houses. I love the fire emblem games
I’m so glad this was the season that my most wanted, Guts vs Dimitri, was in. It may not have been my favorite of the season, but it’s definitely the most special to me.
Kiddo, you are so cringe
What did you think about Jonathan Frostathan's review of the episode?
@@vaggos2003 I liked it a lot! He always has a knack for pointing out things I never noticed in an episode, same with Nem. And a whole hour long video analysis on this episode specifically did make me happy.
I like the unique way of going about this, and I totally agree with you in your closing statements on still passionately watching this show. While idk if it's my personal favorite, it definitely is a great season all around. Can't wait for season 11 to come around.
Death Battle gets better and better every season and I love it so much
Aside from three episodes I found meh. Alex vs Cole, Vader vs Obito, and Raven vs Phoenix....this was a great season. None that were even 'bad' just meh. But I gotta say Scooby vs Courage is my favorite episode they have ever done so far. My top 5 of the season are, Scooby vs Courage, Bill vs Discord, Galactus vs Unicron, Dimitri vs Guts, and Stitch vs Rocket.
This season really gave Death Battle more diversity not just with Marvel vs NonDC and Anime MUs but also with various different franchises against each other, it was glorious
This is 100% the best season of the show, only 1 episode gets below a 8/10 for me (pheonix vs raven wasnt bad but i still have it as a 7/10) and everything about the episodes are amazing. So many of the tracks have become some of my top 10 favorites of the show (fireborn, gods hand, and final formers) and i got my 2 most wanted episodes (Gojo vs Makima and Galactus vs Unicron)
I swear, I tried doing my own ranking list for the first time as this season was airing (around when BillCord came out). At first, ranking the first half was incredibly easy with one or two episodes that flipped places. But around when Rick vs. The Doctor came out, I was struggling so much to justify so many of my placements just due to how many different variations of bangers we were getting (Stitch vs Rocket used to be #1 until BillCord happened. After that it slowly settled its way into #7 or 8 due to the sheer quantity of awesome episodes in the back half of the season. I have betrayed my beautiful blue boy and I feel awful 😅)
My ranking:
1: Bill Cipher VS Discord
2: Goku VS Superman (2023)
3: Galactus VS Unicron
4: Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer
5: Scooby-Doo VS Courage
6: Frieza VS Megatron
7: Guts VS Dimitri
8: Darth Vader VS Obito
9: Skyrim VS Dark Souls
10: Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor
11: Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon
12: Gojo VS Makima
13: Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer
14: Ant-Man VS Atom
15: Phoenix VS Raven
16: Killua VS Misaka
This is officially my favorite Season of DB! Hopefully the DB Crew keeps bringing us such awesome episodes in the future!
Scooby-Doo vs Courage is my favorite episode of Season 10! Scooby-Doo is one of my favorite cartoon canines 🐶
Absolute same, Rappter! If I had to pick a least favorite for this season I guess it would be Rick vs. The Doctor, but everything was kicking.
Admittedly before the episode, I actually didn't like Superman or Goku very much, but the way DB handled their analysis made me like them and care for the characters more than what I did.
And God's Hand is peak! My favorite track of the season and possibly ever! To date, I've listened to it over 700 times already. All-Consuming is a close second with how grandiose but dreadfully empty the tone of that one is.
I believe that is a under statement with characters like bill and Rick and Goku's rematch this season 🎉❤
This season was awesome. And I'm hyped for S11
These Battles have been the best ones I have ever seen as for my next ones I want it would be Goku vs Sonic, Ultimate Spider-Man vs Ladybug, Metal Sonic vs Cell, Knuckles vs Piccolo and Megamind vs Gru
I don’t blame you with all these death battles raptor, and that cipher wheel was fun to decipher even if I haven’t quite understood all the symbols and all the battles themselves even though, a few of them didn’t seem too good but they were all still great in their own way
I managed to rank them "worst" to best myself, but i love this format
An amazing season overall and easily my favorite and the best. Only thing that disappointed me was that there was no episode like Stitch vs Rocket for you, for me an episode that was one of my most wanted matchups. Only character in this season I cared for at all was Bill
Phoenix vs raven and Rocket vs Stitch was bogus. But lucky the other matches like Goku vs Superman and Ant Man Vs Atom was good.
@kahanuermeyas-tulu4056 what?
Honestly, I agree with a lot of the points you made, and your overall opinion of this season as a whole. Around the time Scooby VS Courage came out, I was starting to struggle on my placements for each episode if I were to do a ranking. I still intend to do one later, but a ranking on this season, for me at least will be on constant change and will probably never be concreate. When I was going into this season, a couple days before Ant-Man VS Atom came out, I was a little worried this season would sort of flop on it's face compared to Season 9 & 8, which, while they both had episodes people weren't fond of, were pretty universally loved to certain extents, and I was a bit worried it wouldn't live up to the hype of the season prior with stuff like Omni-Man VS Homelander, Trunks VS Silver and Hercules VS Sun Wukong for example. But this season didn't just blow my expectations out of the water. They completely sent my expectations out of orbit. This season, I can say with 100% certainty, is my all time favorite of Death Battle, dethroning Season 9 as my favorite, which I thought would be very hard to do. Not only did pretty much every single episode hit the mark, even the ones I don't like as much as others, but this season had 11 my most wanted fights, a lot of which are back to back. Ant-Man VS Atom, Chosen Undead VS Dragonborn, Stitch VS Rocket, Vader VS Obito, Bill VS Discord, Cole VS Alex, Frieza VS Megatron, Gojo VS Makima, Scooby VS Courage, Rick VS The Doctor and Galactus VS Unicron. 11! And I enjoyed every one of them. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Rick VS The Doctor was one of the ones I enjoyed the most this season. Like you said, it somehow managed to feel like a collab between Rick & Morty and Doctor Who and has even inspired me to check out Doctor Who sometime. This season probably has a decent chunk of it's episodes in my top 20 favorite episodes of all time, several of which I can consider in my top 10. I'm also happy you got like, your most wanted fight ever. One of the things I always do when considering matchups, I think: "Even if I personally am not the biggest fan of this fight, there is probably someone out there who wants it a lot" which is why I try to give every matchup a chance, even ones I'm not too fond of, and I love seeing people get excited for their favorite fights seeing the light of day on this show, and your reaction to Stitch VS Rocket perfectly showcases that idea. I'm thinking of trying to make a YT vid while I'm on Winter Break and just kinda... Talking about this season, or my top 30/40 most wanted, or a season 11 prediction. I don't expect to get too many views, but it just sounds fun to get ideas out there and see people's reactions and feedback. If I ever do make a video about my most wanted, I bet you won't be able to guess what my number 1 pick is. Welp. That's enough from me. I'm glad you enjoyed this season man, and here's to hoping Season 11 will be just as good, if not better. Later, and have a Merry Christmas!
Despite imo the lackluster season finale and An episode or two that I didn't enjoy, this season was really strong.
Another thing is that Deathbattle only had a couple Sprite fights. All 3 Marvel vs DC fights, Killua vs Misaka, Makima vs Gojo, and Stitch vs Rocket (Discord vs Bill doesn’t count given all the other mediums used). Everything else was either hand drawn or 3D, which is insane to think about as that is all expensive as hell. We even got CONSECUTIVE 3D fights of similarly high quality.
In terms of animation and music it’s the best season, and terms of scaling is pretty good, especially the first and final 2.
This is the first season I’ve seen from star to finish.
Awesome :D
The Obito vs Vader canon over Legends DEFINITELY skewed the results.
Then again, star-galaxy level Vader vs barely planet level Obito wouldn’t be any fun to watch.
My girlfriend and I were very nervous for Scooby vs Courage since they are our favorite dogs in fiction (mine's courage and hers is Scooby) and we also thought the match up was... kinda dumb, so we decided to watch the episode together and the absolute hype for the climax and relief for the ending we both had when it was shown that it was a draw cannot be replicated. That will forever be my favorite death battle because it represents something special for both me and her.
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I'm having a hard time making a ranking video on death battle season 10, not because figuring out the ranking itself is hard, but trying to find what to say for over half the episodes other than "I don't know what else you want me to tell you, it's peak" is incredibly difficult.
I do agree with this statement but instead of explaining why I'm going to ask a question: How will this get topped? Season 11 has a lot of potential to be good or bad that's what worries me
BTW I figure The Courier VS The Mandalorian should have a fight music similar to Stitch VS Rocket's Jailhouse Rocket with a lyrical track inspired by Fallout's music called Big Beskar.
to be honest in the cipher wheel, I got one of the shuffling symbols correct Down to the matchup because with the backward message when I see the word violent I instantly say friza vs Megatron, despite I didn't know that much of Dragon Ball
Scooby went all Wyzen on Courage!
It's nice to see someone who understands that death battle is mostly about entertainment and fun and not getting pissed that an episode was a draw or that they didn't make superman stomp goku within 5 seconds
This was definitely the best season DEATH BATTLE! has ever had, no questions asked. There wasn’t a single episode that disappointed me, even though MM VS SS was my least favourite by far. If I had to name a Top 3, I think it’d be Rick VS Doctor Who at 3, Bill VS Discord at 2, and Guts VS Dimitri at 1. Seriously, I’ve wanted Fire Emblem in this show for a long time, and this is the episode I’ve watched the most. Also Deciphering Discord is the best DEATH BATTLE! track ever made, and you cannot convince me otherwise. Thanks for being as big a fan of the show as I am, Rappter, and I can’t wait for Season 11! It’s gonna be awesome! Please give me Bowser VS Eggman!!!!!
Episode 1: Shrinking
Episode 16: Growing
Captain America "I... understood that reference" 😂
11:50 When I saw the preview for goku vs superman 3 i thought it was going to be another terrible episode that starts a massive flame war, when i saw the episode and the comments on it I was surprised and now it has become probably one of my favorite episodes and then Galactus vs Unicron happened, combine that with Bill vs Discord, Cole vs Alex, frieza vs megatron, rick vs The Doctor, and stitch vs rocket made this my favorite season
This was a really awesome season! Gott love space Hawaii lol
Love your videos, Rappter.
My main problem with this season soundtrack is the vocals. Sometimes the background music instrumentals is too loud to the point where it drowns out the singer and makes it hard to listen to.
The fire emblem scaling for speed was pretty wonky when useing seige tomes like bolting due to thunder magic having low hit which implys its realy hard to hit a guy from far away with something as unruly as lighting especialy when light spells like abracis and aura exist with higher base accuracy in general and can give the argument that he has ftl reaction speeds
I am just happy I found someone who like death battle and is ok I have seen a couple of others review the seasons and some just give them so much back lash it sounds like they hate the show.
I think the Tarot cards at the end might hint for Joker vs Giorno.
Man, I hope not. That would be a nightmare.
Did they ever reveal the answers for the Cipher Wheel?
If i’m being honest this kind of like a sequel to season 8 with all the legacy matchups
Honestly I have to agree, this has been the best season... at least so far! I hope Season 11 manages to top it somehow!
Wile vs. Tom is already my most anticipated episode in a while!
Same and two fights that I requested that I hope make it into the next season or future seasons are Jin Mori from The God of High School vs. Yuji Itadori from Jujutsu Kaisen, Clare from Claymore vs. Geralt of Riva from The Witcher(a more fair matchup then Clare vs. Artoria, and actually has more connections then Clare vs. Guts), and Rebecca "Revy/Revy Two-Hands" Lee from Black Lagoon vs. Fiolini "Fio" Germi from the Metal Slug games.
Season 10 was not the best season, kiddo
One favorite other than Goku vs. Superman, which surprised me, Galactus vs. Unicron, is Guts vs. Dimitri played some fire emblem games, not Three Houses love Berserk, and the end can't ask for a better death or more respectable death in that fight
Amen to that.
We’ve come a LOOOOONG way from
Shoot which was the crappiest season they did? Like 5 or something?
I think people generally consider Season 3 to be the weakest season.
I still feel like the Tarot Card teaser for season 11 is related to the Persona MCs but will see
I actually kind of disagree about the negative elements of the Cipher Wheel. Being deliberately vague was honestly a more fun approach than being a mystery meant to be solved, especially since it left almost everything in the air, as opposed to the character teases, where they've steadily become more obvious who their opponents are. The fans being annoying to each other about it is their own problem more than anything.
Other than that though, I think you hit the nail on the head. Every single episode this season was a good watch, and the highs are indisputably amazing even compared to the past greats.
I also think this is their best season. Had my most wanted matchup, in general the most stacked lineup, and got me to give some series another try. The dark souls series have some of my favorite games of all time now. I must forever thank the man Liam pushing for the matchup so hard lol
DEATH BATTLE is one of those few instances where a show actually gets BETTER as it goes on.
My top 4 have to be
Goku vs Superman
Alex vs Cole
Guts vs Dimitri
Chosen undead vs Dragonborn
(I am in no way biased because the guy I wanted to win won) but these fights were so close to me because of the franchises they represented. Goku vs Superman especially the ending made me get a little emotional.
Like you said I have some small grievances like the whole Darth Vader thing, the Marvel vs DC matchups not being the best, the comedy in Alex vs Cole probably didn’t come from a bad place but had a bad taste to it, and Galactus Vs Unicron having the problem of one character literally has a win button with no faults to it so the trying to think of a winner was very bland. But still best season by far!
The only Episode I hated is Vader vs obito but other than that, every other episode is either Good or Legendary.
6:01 FAMILY FEUD
This felt like the anniversary season to me(not that I hated the anniversary season though)
Season 10 got me into Dark Souls (And Makima, but she can go back to hell) and the explanation of him losing, I got it as 'he ragequitted lol'
Praise the sun!
Like you, I genuinely believe that this is officially the best season of Death Battle yet, but I don’t want to rag on too long, and plus there’s a limit to how much you can type in one comment, so here is me summarising all of Season 10 in 10 words or less
Ant-Man VS Atom
“Jesus, that death is on par with Mileena’s in MKX”
Chosen Undead VS Dragonborn
“Did he really win though?”
Killua VS Misaka
“How many people actually asked for this one?”
Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon
“Man, The Rappter got hit with the Y0UR0NLYMATE luck”
Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha
“Ayyy, they did the Uchiha music thing again”
Phoenix VS Raven
“Alright alright, first of all… Caw Caw Motherf****r!”
Guts VS Dimitri
“All blood, no Guts”
Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer
“Why are we doing this? (Seven episodes later) it’s fun”
Bill Cipher VS Discord
“Egassem terces emos edih d’i thguoht uoy teb I”
Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer
“Oh, I get it, Alex SWATS, and Cole Omega SPARX”
Frieza VS Megatron
“Mine’s bigger than yours……… right?… Right?”
Gojo VS Makima
“Oh, so that’s where combatants go when they lose”
Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog
“This one sabotaged the Tournament of Champions”
Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor
“Wow, I guess violence really wasn’t the answer here”
Goku VS Superman 3
“Okay, third time’s the charm for Goku’s respect”
Galactus VS Unicron
“SCREW RWBY, THIS IS THE ULTIMATE FOOD FIGHT!!!”
Alternative personalised versions of a particular 3
Frieza VS Megatron
“My sister got her dog on the day this aired…”
Gojo VS Makima
“…and now you make me watch dog cruelty, not once…”
Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog
“…but twice, at least this one had a peaceful ending”
Yea season 11 is gonna need a LOT to top this
I absolutely loved Killua vs Misaka so I definitely can put it pretty high
Though I still don’t like Gojo vs Makima despite trying hard to do it
my top 3 best ep for season 10
1.galactus vs unicron
2. goku vs superman
3. skyrim vs dark souls
I really enjoyed this season, though this is a hard choice between season 5 or season 10, what do you think which is the best one for you?
The season's so good that the debate quickly went from "who would win a fight" to "which of these episodes is actually the best or worst of the season". Honestly the only episodes I have an issue with is Frieza vs Megatron for being very obviously wrong when it came to Megatron's power level which as a result brought the episode down a peg, Killua vs Misaka for being.... certainly an anime fight (though it also has the best song of the season so), and cole vs alex which, I don't know, just doesn't do anything for me, and honestly I don't really think any of them were bad, just average. My favorite example of this season being too good was that I initially didn't like Goku vs Superman 3 and Galactus vs Unicron as much as I should because I actually got burned out....... ON GOOD DEATH BATTLE EPISODES. Not burned out on the show itself, burned out on how good it was. I didn't even think that was possible. I also think it's really funny that my favorite and least favorite episodes of the season were the two herald episodes.
I have no problems for Marvel vs DC matchups because they're known to be the most favorite matchups in Death Battle history, it doesn't bother me from it but I can understand why people want to see some other matchups besides between Marvel and DC the whole time, but unlike few people like you I'm not really big on anime stuff like anime vs anime because I'm not really into anime in general. But I am always curious on how to fight goes between comics, cartoon, video game against anime and of course Goku vs Superman 3 was also one of my most favorite matchups and death battle history
Indeed... Truly the best season yet
From my understanding and what I agree with it seems a lot of ppl are highly think is that Bill v Discord, Scooby v Courage, and Goku v Superman are the creme of the crop. For me it is very hard to decide a #1 between those three. I can easily see why people want Wile E. Coyote v Tom Cat for the Champions poll cause DB does a fantastic job on cartoon fights. The craziness is just too good like it was for Bill v Discord and Scooby v Courage. Reason Goku v Superman is there is like u said how in-depth the analysis was and honestly did the episode justice compared to the first 2 (especially the second one as they even mentioned it was basically a spite fight).
This season gave me one of my favorite episodes of all time so yeah, this IS peak deathbattle
MY favourite match up is goku vs superman
Honestly, im shocked how good this season was
No "dream matches" for me in the traditional sense except for 2 being the finale & Cole v Mercer but a fair few dream combatants. DragonBorn, my boy Stitch, Bill and maybe 1 or 2 im forgetting. Hell, the only one I wasn't big on was Killua vs Mikasa. But even that I give a decent 7/10. Every other episode I've revisited at least 3 times, some FAR more than that. My favorite moment is how I am NOT a fan of Doctor Who or Rick & Morty whatsoever and probably never will be. And yet that episode is easily a favorite for me which is a VERY hard thing to pull knowing Stitch v Rocket, DB v CU, and of course Galactus vs Unicron all exist!!!
Amazingly great season overall. Season 11 has some big shoes to fill but I think it'll be good still ♡
I 100% agree with you in how Season 10 had no single bad episode. Some were boring or questionable on the outcome, but the animation and production made each one stand out.
And my God the second half went ballin after Bill vs Discord. Music went all out as well, Final Formers was Masterpiece tier of rock.
I also agree on nitpicking on the animations yet they were still fun to watch and glad they happened.
Overall, awesome episode. And can't wait to see your reactions next year.
My only question: What's your favorite episode of the season if you had to pick one?
For me: Had to be Bill Vs Discord, from start to finish it was pure fun.
Thank you so much, I'm glad you agree! If I had to pick just one....I'll say Goku VS Superman for right now. But that is INCREDIBLY tentative lol
This season is a weird one, because I didnt get any real most wanted matchups, the closest was Scooby Vs Courage. And yet, this is alao my favorite season. Not a bad episode, and i got into a lot of new franchises because of this season like Gravity Falls and Chainsaw Man.
Both Goku Vs Superman and Scooby Vs Courage are my top 2 episodes of all time, which is insane too me
Honestly, when the season's low point is Raven vs. Phoenix, you know the DB staff did something right this year.
Admittedly, I was not looking forward to the Champion Poll winners, mainly due to not being invested in inFamous or Prototype and hating Triangle Satan more than almost any other fictional character, but the Colex fight itself was pretty cool, and Discord managed to take advantage of not conforming to the rules of Death Battle, allowing him to win in the narrative instead of the match. (However, I do have a major gripe with that episode: what DB classifies as viable material. Ryuko wasn't allowed to even touch Kill la Kill IF material despite Shadow's feats in Sonic Next Gen matching everything from that game, which would have made his victory feel earned instead of given as a freebie, yet Bill was allowed to use a disjointed "Ask Me Anything" as putting his narrative warping on par with Discord when it had no reason to be a valid connection to Gravity Falls canon.)
The other two Marvel vs. DC fights were a step above the aforementioned Raven vs. Phoenix. I don't know how I feel about Ant Man vs. Atom as a premiere, but it's on the better side of Marvel vs. DC fights, and Martian Manhunter vs. Silver Surfer really played with expectations.
Darth Vader vs. Obito & Frieza vs. Megatron were serviceable, but of the two, I had more investment in the latter mainly since it showed the nuances of Megatron so well.
As much as some matchups didn't sit right at first, the episodes made up for them in some ways. Even though I hate Chainsaw Man as much as Black Clover, learning about Hunter X Hunter, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Railgun Index was pretty interesting, and I finally understand the whole "Domain Expansion" meme thanks to Gojo vs. Makima. Also, I thought I was going to hate Rick Sanchez vs. The Doctor due to my hatred of Rick & Morty, but I was pleasantly surprised and grateful to be proven incorrect. The analysis was in-depth, the animation was top notch, and the result was cathartic to say the least.
Of course, Stitch vs. Rocket hits differently for me as well, but only because of my friend's investment into it. It was just fun seeing how happy this matchup made him, as it became his personal favourite of Season 10.
It was great to see cinematic fights come back in full force after Yoda vs. Mickey experimented with it and Sauron vs. Lich King took it above and beyond. Chosen Undead vs. Dovahkiin felt and sounded like it could be a scene from a high fantasy epic thanks to the Death Battle Fan Choir, Guts vs. Dimitri ramped up how intense fights could get at their full potential, and the biggest thing holding back Scooby vs. Courage from being mistaken as a part of Straight Outta Nowhere is that it's set on a 3D background (that's how amazing the animation is).
Vegito vs. Gogeta didn't feel like a proper finale back in Season 9, so having two consecutive finale-worthy episodes close off Season 10 more than made up for it. Goku vs. Superman: Definitive Edition really took what worked from the original and built upon it to make it even better to the point where it would have made a near-perfect finale in its on right. Also, Galactus vs. Unicron finally happening this year was such a treat to hear about and a spectacle to behold, essentially being what Thanos vs. Darkseid wished it could be. It doesn't break my personal Top 5 Season 10 episodes only on the reason that there were too many bangers to choose from, but it definitely breaks my personal Top 3 Death Battle finales.
Least Favourite: Raven vs. Phoenix (I don't hate it, but it really should have been in Season 5 from the beginning, as it really shows how lopsided, unfair, and unwarranted Raven vs. Twilight was, not to mention all the other sprite fights alone this season were better by comparison.)
Top Favourite: Goku vs. Superman: Definitive Edition (There is so much about this that really goes above and beyond. Both characters are treated with the utmost respect in the analysis and fight, many mistakes from the previous two versions were rectified, the animation proves how far the team has come since the start, and the OST is one of the best in the franchise, not to mention it rivals Yoda vs. Mickey & All Might vs. Might Guy with how wholesome it ends up being.)
Yeah just like Seasons 2,4,8, & 9 (although the 9th season was bizarre)
My ranking of very season of DB
Season 1 (2010 - 2013) Great
Season 2 (2013 - 2015) Fantastic #1 Best
Season 3 (2016) Okay
Season 4 (2017) Amazing #2 Best
Season 5 (2018) Good
Season 6 (2019) Great
Season 7 (2020) Good
Season 8 (2021) Wonderful #3 Best
Season 9 (2022) Bizarre But Awesome #4 Best
Season 10 (2023) Excellent #5 Best
They’re all the best none of them are the worst but some have the worst episodes ever (mainly batgirl Vs spider Gwen and Yang Vs Tifa) DEATH BATTLE will always be the best show ever can’t wait for season 11 next year in 2024!
Yep , this was ,indeed, the best way to end the year
Discord vs bill was my favourite
I love this and agree
This Season dont need ranking
Its the best season and death battle get better and better
Facts, Rappter, Facts! And these 5 episodes are my favorites:
Bill Cipher vs Discord
Frieza vs Megatron
MY BOI SCOOBY VS COURAGE
MY BOI GOKU VS SUPERMAN
And Galactus vs Unicron.
Honestly season 10 is definitely top 5 seasons for me
-guts vs dimitri was one of my most wanted mus(ya kinda obvious with my pfp)
-mus like Bill vs Discord and Scooby vs Courage ended up being better than I expected. And I wasn't even into the billcord mu to begin with. Scooby and Courage was floating in my head but I wasn't chomping at the bit
-rick vs doctor got better for me on rewatchs and looking at reactions. A bunch of small in character details that makes rewatchs satisfying
-a bitch like makima getting owned is satisfying. Even if I wasn't remotely invested in either series
-frieza vs Megatron is really good for the animation and soundtrack.
-only one fight I felt disappointed with(Vader vs Obito) because I was so salty with the outcome I purposely didn't watch it till later in the season. And even when I went back to watch it. I ultimately did enjoy it despite my grievances with how obito got the win in the animation. Like I get that genjustu is his strongest win con but im not buying that he can set up infinite tsukuyomi within a few minutes. While Vader is focused on him. Even when DB implied that genjustu still takes time to break out of.
-Overall a good balance of fighting and incorporated story and in character bits. Silver surfer and MM having thier exchange of being aware of fourth wall. Scooby and Courage working in a story reason to fight without an awkward start. The ending of billcord. And so on
-I was groaning with goku vs supes 3. But I went out feeling like it is the proper follow up to the first fight. Effectively replacing goku vs supes 2.
I went out of season 10 very happy. And I hope everyone has a happy holiday.
Are you gonna make a new “Top 10 Most Wanted MU” since two of your most wanted happened?
Part of me wants to, but it would only add two new episodes at the very bottom most likely. If anything I'll probably wait a while so my opinions can change more lol
question the rappter are u going to do a retrospective for the other death battle season
I'm not sure, hadn't really considered that. I'll think about it
@@TheRappter it will be nice what your thoughts on 1 to 9 death battle eps
I mean I got Gojo, Alex, stitch Bill cipher, Scooby Doo and courage this season learn more about the doctor, dark souls, Skyrim, got to see Rick fans take a massive L. This was the best season of death battle because not one bad episode in terms of the weakest episodes definitely agree with what you said but I think killua vs Mikasa was the lowest episode it looks great but fight is lacking
It really is a 10/10 season
I just hope to see discord again
I agree
Atom,darth vader,megatron,and unicron should have won