

You can bring back some characters Death Battle have previously used, on the condition that they haven't appeared any later than Season 5 and that they not be from a blacklisted franchise. The latter even less so because in addition to not being very funny, the episode veered a little too close to cyber-bullying in the way it treated two real life individuals.

So while something like Chuck Norris vs Segata Sanshiro would be fine, matches like Deadpool vs The Mask or Justin Bieber vs Rebecca Black would not be. But if you can come up with any, by all means fire away.Ī joke battle can be used, provided that isn't a spite match or meant in bad faith. Hand drawn animation and live action fights aren't required. Try to come up with a mixture of 2D and 3D matches. This means no Konoha ninja battle royales, or Jedi squads. However, these must use characters from franchises that have never been used or have only had a few characters appear on the show (4 at most). If you want you can swap out one or two of the sixteen 1v1 matches for a single battle royale and/or a single team against team match. In the case of semi-recurring franchises like Naruto, Ninja Turtles, Killer Instinct, and Star Wars, you're allowed to pick one.

are very welcome).Īvoid using any more than two characters per series. At the very bare minimum your list should include characters from two mediums, more would be preferable (less common mediums like film, literature, visual novels, etc. Your goal is to make a season that covers a variety of different series, from different genres and mediums. Everything else must include fighters from franchises that have rarely or never appeared.ĮDIT: The initial guidelines were a bit too vague, and perhaps too rigid. If you want to, you can include a maximum of one matchup for a franchise from the 6-7 range (Naruto, Star Wars, etc.) and two matchups for the 3-4 range (Power Rangers, Final Fantasy, etc.). Try to come up with a 16 episode season that doesn't use any series that's had more than 7 characters appear on the show. My Little Pony, Final Fantasy (only VII), Avatar, One Piece, Fairy Tail: 3 eachĪnd everything else that's appeared thus far has had either 1 or 2 fighters appear altogether. Power Rangers and Real Life people: 4 each Not just Marvel and DC, though they are definitely the largest with 36 and 31 fighters put together if we count the upcoming Lex and Doom fight. Did a little counting up of the number of combatants across the series (including rematches and battle royales), and found that Death Battle has a tendency to play favorites with some of them.
