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2021-12-06, 10:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: DEATH BATTLE - Season 8: Settling the debate once and for all?
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2021-12-06, 11:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: DEATH BATTLE - Season 8: Settling the debate once and for all?
Saitama usually hits humans with the exact level of strength needed to knock them out without seriously injuring him. He's surprisingly good at it. The monsters always just die in one punch (except for Boros). He doesn't really "test" his opponents, aside from when he lets them wail on him for a while before one-shotting them.
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2021-12-07, 04:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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IIRC, Popeye only got the "spinach makes me strong" schitck after being used in a health campaign for kids. Before that, he was just spinach-strong by default.
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2021-12-07, 10:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: DEATH BATTLE - Season 8: Settling the debate once and for all?
Popeye has lassoed the sun. Once, when he was erased by his creator, he willed himself back into existence and then broke the 4th wall to beat up the creator. Saitama doesn't even come close.
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2021-12-15, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Popeye blurb up and yeah, its not looking good for one punch. Popeye has toonforce that lets him alter reality with his fist, giving the sun a black eye and such. Unless they go with the whole philosophy thing where they try to say, "Well, saitama is designed around always being too strong and able to defeat anything in one punch therefore blah blah blah" All they need to do is bs their way into quantifying one of popeyes absurd feats like moving constellations around and saying one punch has never done anything that powerful and thats the end. But at least the caped baldy will be happy he finally found someone he couldnt crush.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2021-12-15, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: DEATH BATTLE - Season 8: Settling the debate once and for all?
They could also argue "Saitama's strength increases exponentially on a daily basis, so based on how long we think it's been since he fought Boros his Serious Punch should now be even stronger than the force required to move stars around." Probably not though.
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2021-12-15, 04:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Has Saitama ever actually been injured in a fight? Even so much as a split lip or black eye? Im just trying to figure out if they will give him the punched to the moon as his top durability feat even though its clearly not the limit of what he can take as it did nothing to harm him. But because its the strongest hit he has taken thats what they will go with while ignoring he has never been beaten up therefore we dont know his limits.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2021-12-15, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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No. The closest is that he did get a mosquito bite.
Mind you, I think the taking a hit from the continent slicing Demon King is more impressive then being punched to the moon. And he took no damage from that.
Saitama has no physical limits seen, and his potential is described as infinite. Vs Popeye who we've seen be injured by very mundane things, but can bend reality via the Toon Force. Which honestly is more of a law of the universe Popeye lives in then a special ability of his.Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
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2021-12-15, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: DEATH BATTLE - Season 8: Settling the debate once and for all?
Okay, hear me out. What if Saitama eats Popeye's spinach? It's established to work on other people, right?
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2021-12-15, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2021-12-15, 05:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-15, 05:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Whether it works for everyone, only some people, or just popeye tends to vary from short to short, strip to strip, and continuity to continuity—sometimes even in the same storyline.
In the live action Popeye movie starring Robin Williams, for example, it's a special power possessed by Popeye's family and he only really eats spinach becuase of this power, noting at least once that he actually doesn't like the taste.
And of course, other examples, especially early on, depict Popeye as possessing superhuman strength all the time with the spinach being more of a pick-me-up, or crediting regular consumption of spinach as being what allowed him to grow so strong.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2021-12-15, 05:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-15, 05:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: DEATH BATTLE - Season 8: Settling the debate once and for all?
That's sort of the other thing about Popeye.
The spinach was not a thing in the early days; it was added later to encourage kids to eat more vegetables (and as an ad for their parents to buy more spinach).
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2021-12-15, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-20, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, there we go.
Spoiler: this timePopeye wins because cartoon logic trumps anything based on "real" physics. Its honestly a fairly fair judgement to take overall. Popeeye has greater feats up to and including just going no to the universe being shut off, and being disintegrated and eating spinach to heal anyways. Even though we have never seen any sign of saitama taking actual damage in combat,
nor have we seen him fail to do something physical, or even struggle to accomplish it, it just doesnt match up to reality warping cartoon physics."Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2021-12-20, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: DEATH BATTLE - Season 8: Settling the debate once and for all?
And next year:
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2021-12-20, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: This timeYeah this was never really in doubt. Saitama is hilariously OP, and that's the point of him, but he never packed anything that could keep a Spinach powered Popeye down.
But they said the magic word for Popeye, too: "Infinite". Do I smell a Superman vs. Popeye fight coming? I'd still say Popeye, but that would be a crazy fight.
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2021-12-20, 04:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: DEATH BATTLE - Season 8: Settling the debate once and for all?
Too be fair it would be an interesting fight as im pretty sure that at some point in the superman mythos he too survived all of reality collapsing, and has even broken the 4th wall in some form or another. Plenty of his absurd feats match up well to popeye style toon magic.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2021-12-20, 06:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: This timeNothing unexpected really. Toonforce anti-logic trumps pretty much everything. Still the animation was a lot better than I expected. I loved how they punched each other into different art styles, and Saitama's 'component pieces' being a bunch of eggs made me laugh.Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
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2021-12-20, 06:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: This TimeYeah, I can't find any errors in their logic, misrepresented feats, or bad math. This is basically as close as they get to a fair and impartial ruling.Last edited by Rater202; 2021-12-20 at 07:00 PM.
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2021-12-20, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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It helps when the matchup is a complete mismatch like this. It's hard to mess up when one character's feats are millions of times better than the other's. It just shows how bad they normally are that the outcome was ever in doubt.
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2021-12-20, 07:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-22, 07:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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The best criticism I can come up with is we have never once seen saitama hurt, by anything. We have never seen him fail to defeat anything with minimal effort. Therefore we cant really say that popeye is strong enough to beat him because saitama has no known limit to exceed. That doesnt mean popeye should have lost, it just means we have nothing to establish a lose condition for saitama. Meanwhile an argument could be made that popeyes standard opponent is literally nothing but a dockyard tough. Bluto has no real superpowers other than being able to survive popeyes spinach infused punches. (Im sure there are episodes that prove me wrong on this, im just going off what I remember) But thats just pulling at straws for an excuse. After all, the point of death battles is the opponents at their strongest, not their weakest.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2021-12-22, 07:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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This was (almost) as bad a match as Shovel Knight vs Scrooge McDuck.
One character has decades of canon to pull from and is reslly only limited by cartoon force (i.e.: anything is possible, as long as It's amusing to the audience and/or author), while the other is far more recent and exists in a far less cartoony media.
Really, if they are going to use cartoon-logic characters with thousands of stories, they should at least match them up to other similarly old and cartoony characters. Otherwise, the match is so obvious, It's pointless.Homebrew Stuff:- Lemmy's Custom Weapon Generation System! - (D&D 3.X and PF)
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2021-12-22, 08:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Donald Duck vs. Daffy Duck is still high on my list of most wanted Death Battles.
...and then have it escalate as far as it can go with bringing in Donald's superhero identity and Daffy getting a Green Lantern Ring.
Donald vs. Daffy can get wild, is what I'm saying.
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2021-12-22, 05:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: DEATH BATTLE - Season 8: Settling the debate once and for all?
Honestly I think any toon force style character should be excluded from death battles because the vast majority of them have similar power levels, able to ignore being reduced to ash or less, reality warping, and fits of destruction over the course of their history to make goku blush. It basically becomes a game of "Nu UHHHHH! My guy blocks that and retaliates!" "Well fine, then MY guy counters that with his ability to do this!"
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."