Also loved how they never talked about how Metal could Copy Cells abilities including his Zenkais you know bassicly there whole reasoning why Cell won
Oh no Master Chief has ChatGPT on his side what's Doomslayer supposed to do
Dekus here because he represents an actual good healthy relationship with his mom. Probably, can be out swapped with someone else
I want to preface this by saying I am NOT disagreeing with the winner I think you can absolutely argue Gru wins my issue is entirely with the analysis and the logic they used to get there, because honestly, I think this is one of the worst researched Death Battles of the entire Kickstarter era
The actual fight animation? Great super fun episode but the analysis, the post fight breakdown, and especially the reasoning behind the verdict felt genuinely awful to me
The biggest problem is how weird and inconsistent the categories were they split the debate into arsenal, minions, and skill, which is already kind of questionable, but the “skill” category in particular was a complete mess
For starters, they say they use characters “at their best,” but then use anti feats for Megamind to justify why he supposedly wouldnt use certain equipment effectively their example for why he wouldn’t abuse the Dehydration Gun or similar tech basically comes down to “well he doesn’t always do it,” which feels ridiculous when the show constantly says they’re using the characters at peak efficiency
But then it gets even weirder because the “skill” category randomly becomes a speed category they literally start talking about physical stats and reaction feats inside a category that’s supposed to be about combat skill how does that make any sense
And the speed scaling itself was insanely questionable.
They claimed Megamind dodged “electricity,” not lightning, in order to downplay the feat but the attack is VERY clearly lightning it comes from weather powers, creates storm clouds, and is consistently portrayed as lightning calling it “just electricity” feels like blatant downplay to avoid giving Megamind better speed scaling
What makes this worse is that, from what they said in Fireside Chat this speed interpretation was apparently one of the deciding factors in the fight which is crazy to me because if they did even a little more research, Megamind would have cleanly ended up faster Megamind actually has supporting feats for this level of speed anyway for example, the Megamind novelization outright describes Metro Mans lasers as supersonic that’s a direct supporting statement they seemingly just ignored completely again, you can STILL argue Gru is faster overall if you want my issue is that both characters felt massively underestimated, especially Megamind
And then there’s the Stone of Transfiguration
How do you do a Megamind analysis and never mention one of his most important items
The Stone of Transfiguration is arguably one of Megamind’s best win conditions in the entire fight because it could theoretically negate the Minions’ absurd durability and transfer it elsewhere. They literally shows it capable of altering biological powers on a species level through Metro Man abilities yet the episode completely ignores its existence despite it being a major plot important item that Megamind himself actively uses.
That omission alone feels insane to me
There are also smaller issues, like treating Gru’s Shrink Ray as if it contributes actual AP, even though shrinking something isn’t the same thing as damaging it. It just feels like the episode constantly stretches or bends logic to support specific conclusions
Again I am NOT saying Megamind should’ve won
I’m saying the actual reasoning they used to justify the result was sloppy, inconsistent, and weirdly researched you can arrive at Gru winning without using bad logic, anti feats, category confusion, and ignored material
To me, this episode has some of the weakest analysis Death Battle has done in years the weakest of the Kickstarter era so far to me