52. Alien Stage

Oh hey, something else I watched in person with @hellsgalaxy.bsky.social! Really good musical with some very well done animation, but man, without spoiling anything, I just feel sad now

To clarify, I meant watched in person. We watched almost every episode in between Omni-Man VS Homelamder and this together, just over Discord.

51. Dante VS Clive | DEATH BATTLE

Glad to have Torrian back, and he and the other animators cooked with this one. Easily the better of the two episodes I watched with my girlfriend @hellsgalaxy.bsky.social

Now if we can stop with the returners for a while, that would be greeeeeeeat

And you know what? This thread's getting a double feature today.

50. Fortnite

I certainly get why this has been popular for almost a decade now, but the whole "explore a giant map while looking for action and you have to queue up all over again if you lose" premise isn't my cup of tea personally.

49. Chara VS Sonic.EXE | Nebula Theatre

Sprite episodes have been missing from Death Battle for an ungodly amount of time, so to see this reach their standard level of quality makes me happy to finally have that niche filled. Plus this being a new versus show makes me excited for what's to come!

I’ll wait for the full episode to come out before I pass judgment, but the analysis so far is making me feel even more justified on this being the last straw for the returner over saturation.

48. Corpse Bride

The creativity in the humor was what stuck out to me the most in this movie, but I did also enjoy the story it had to tell too. Glad to finally watch this after only having seen bits and pieces of it previously.

47. Coraline

The foreshadowing to later events felt a bit too obvious at times during the first half or so, but other than that, yeah I really enjoyed this movie, and its overall concept. Plus the visuals were great at times too. Glad this was chosen to be a movie night in a friend's server.

For those that need context, #DeathBattle Season 7 had half of its episodes comprised of Marvel and/or DC characters, which also got repetitive, and it soured those two franchises on the show for me for a while, and now I feel the same about returners. I hope to god we get less of them next year.

46. Blade VS Buffy | DEATH BATTLE

Yeah this was peak. Easily the best live action episode, and up there as one of my personal favorites in the whole show. It's crazy what the standards for the show have become these days.