r/whowouldwin • u/einharjar009 • May 03 '21

Battle Death Battle #144: Blake Belladonna vs Mikasa Ackerman (RWBY vs Attack on Titan)

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Upcoming Death Battle #145: Po (Kung Fu Panda) vs Iron Fist (Marvel). Interesting, I would have thought they'd go with Liu Kang but I understand why Po was also chosen; a martial artist dubbed "the dragon warrior". If they scale him to be on par with Master Oogway, that'd put him on multi-city block level, which I'm not sure IF can dish out. Even if he could, the Wuxi Finger Hold (Skadoosh) can bypass durability and send him to the spirit realm (unless the dragon Shou-Lao could prevent that), though Po could skadoosh them both into the spirit realm and become the True Dragon Warrior form. Whatever happens, I'm just looking forward to seeing Po gush about how awesome IF's martial arts are, especially the Iron Fist itself

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u/SaltierThanAll ​ May 04 '21

It's not hard to declare what's more popular. Anime ratings/manga sales/game sales depending on which franchise, & amount of viewers when episodes drop for RWBY. It's like a band going around comparing themselves to Metallica. Even if it's true, it's offputting. Guilty Gear has a slightly smaller fanbase than RWBY and all we've seen from that series is one battle in season 2 featuring the main guy. A well made ad is still an ad.

The first win was kind of brutal, second was very brutal, then Weiss got the gentlest death I've seen on the series. She basically just got knocked down.

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u/Arc_the_Storyteller May 04 '21

And where exactly do you find that data? I don't know about you, but I can't find any data on how many people watch RWBY, how popular it currently is, how popular it has been over time, or even how well its merchandise is doing. Though the latter might not be quite as important.

And its not just about what is more popular either, it's about overlapping circles. Guilty Gear is a bit of an obscure fighting game, meanwhile, RWBY is a web-based anime that was on Youtube, and Death Battle is a web-based series also on Youtube. Just labelling the RWBY fights as ads for RWBY is an insult to RWBY and Death Battle both.

Death Battle has a TON of Marvel and DC fights, but no one ever accuses THEM of being ads. Same should be said about RWBY.

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u/SaltierThanAll ​ May 04 '21

Before they yanked 'em off youtube they were 200-300k views on the more recent ones. My point is that every one of these benefits RWBY way more than the other franchises. Hell, look up on IMDB, AoT has over 1000% more reviews. RWBY peaked in popularity after Yang vs Tifa and declined from volume 3 onward.

Death Battle has a TON of Marvel and DC fights, but no one ever accuses THEM of being ads. Same should be said about RWBY.

Those aren't RoosterTeeth properties. My point is it's over-represented and if they only choose super popular opponents, along with the way the deaths were handled, it's a commercial, and piggybacking.

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u/Arc_the_Storyteller May 04 '21

The Season 4/5 slump really didn't help. Seasons' 6 onwards have just been climbing in quality since, but man regaining people's faith since then is hard...

That aside. RWBY is hardly over-represented. 3 fights in 144 fights? Considering the fact that Batman has appeared in 3 fights, despite being such a single character, and the wide variety of different types of media that Death Battle pulls from, and I would hardly call RWBY over-represented. Death Battle's RWBY fights are not commercials, simple as that, and to call it such is simply an insult.

Yes. Rooster Teeth owns both Death Battle and RWBY. I am not going to deny that. But simply saying that the only reason why RWBY fights appear in Death Battle is because of that is nothing more than a big fat lie.

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u/SaltierThanAll ​ May 04 '21

I'm so glad you used him as an example. Yes, Batman is overrepresented but he's also a character with more than 80 years of history with comic books, animated and live action shows, a buttload of movies and grossed 4.4 billion in movie revenue. He is one of the most popular characters ever.

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u/Arc_the_Storyteller May 04 '21

Still doesn't mean that RWBY is overrepresented as a franchise.

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u/SaltierThanAll ​ May 04 '21

When there are so many others that haven't been touched, the opponents they choose (again, less of a difference in an unreleased story, which is just the writer, and RWBY's audience size than the difference between RWBY and the 3 they've gone against) and the way they had to be so gentle with Weiss, yea they are.

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u/Arc_the_Storyteller May 05 '21

They didn't have to be gentle with Weiss, they just chose to be.

And there are millions of media they have touched, they are likely familiar with RWBY, making efforts easier, and the circles of RWBY fans and Death Battle Fans give them an incredibly strong overlap, leading to a likely increase in requests, even if other media are technically more popular.

You don't need to say 'Huh duh its just a paid ad!' when there is many, many other factors involved.