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"Death Battle Arena" is a DeviantArt project by user Dimension-Dino. It is a hypothetical video game based around the popular series DEATH BATTLE!. The journals utilize characters who have appeared on the show and each describes their costumes, move sets, and any special dialogue when pit against a specific character (or characters) inspired by those from Marvel vs. Capcom 3. As well as two fatalities and one friendship for each character. Not to mention, a special arcade mode for each character. The arcade mode section consists of a prologue, a rival cutscene (where each character faces off against their opponent on the show), and a special ending.

All of these profiles can be found on Dino's DeviantArt page here.

These journals provide examples of:

• Actor Allusion:
  • The Joker tells Luke Skywalker he seems familiar to him for some reason... Bonus points for the fact Hamill is the hypothetical VA for the Joker, whereas Matthew Mercer is Luke's. Even spelled out when Joker's victory quote against Luke:

  "For my next act—my best Mark Hamill impression!"

• Adaptation Origin Connection: Reverse Flash boasts about being the one who caused most characters's tragedies (He claims to be responsible for the deaths of Padme, Rin, and Lucy's dog, reprogramming SKYNET and that he was PAUL ALL ALONG).
• Adapted Out: Some characters whose Death Battles were purely supposed to be jokes, such as Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black, and Chuck Norris and Segata Sanshiro, don't have official journals.
• An Ice Person: Multiple in the roster, the clearest being Sub-Zero, Glacius, Weiss, Mitsuru, Gray, Esdeath, Todoroki and Lich King.
• Ascended Extra:
  • Trish and Jeanne, despite only being helpers for "Dante vs. Bayonetta" on Death Battle and only having a match on DBX, are playable here.
  • Bass (and Metal Sonic before his fight with Zero) also appear, after them appearing in "Eggman vs Wily".
  • For their active contribution in "Bowser vs Eggman" Bowser Jr, Sage, and Kamek also become playable characters.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Godzilla, Gamera, Megazord, Voltron, MechaGodzilla, Galactus, and Unicron all play the role of bosses, and as such, they tower over the playable characters.
• Ax-Crazy: Many of the fighters are a bit... off. Some examples include Doomguy, Joker, Sweet Tooth, The Meta, Doomsday, Carnage, Lucy, Lobo, Esdeath, and Sabrewulf.
• Back from the Dead: Some characters who are canonically dead in their series were brought back by Mastermind, while some of them get pulled from their worlds not too long before they were about to die.
• Bloodier and Gorier: This is possibly the only (theoretical) game where My Little Pony characters can graphically kill people on-screen. The same goes for characters from kid-friendly shows/games/whatever, such as Mario.
• Boss Subtitles: Each character has one that either describes who they are or an in-universe title.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Characters like Deadpool and The Mask are aware of being in a (hypothetical) fighting game. Pinkie Pie also gets in on breaking the fourth wall, particularly in her friendship and ending.
• Butt-Monkey:
• The Cameo:
  • Dudley appears in TJ Combo's ending to challenge the boxer, as they are both rivals to Balrog.
  • Gengar from Pokemon and Hisako from Killer Instinct appear in Luigi's ending.
  • Beowulf from Skullgirls appears in Macho Man's ending.
  • King from The King of Fighters appears in Bond's ending.
  • Misaka, Homelander and Esdeath appear in Cole McGrath's Rival Cutscene.
  • Carnage, Shang Tsung and Leon Kennedy appear in Alex Mercer's Rival Cutscene.
• Cats Love Laser Pointers: Strider Hiryu's Friendship consists of him using a laser pointer to distract his Option C Drone- which is, need we remind you, a robotic big cat.
• Composite Character: Several characters are combined with versions from other mediums.
• Crossover Power Acquisition: Plenty of characters gains powers from another series in their Arcade Endings.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: This game has Mortal Kombat-style Fatalities, which fits given the show proper has its own page on horrible ways to die.
• Cuteness Proximity: Kirby. Several characters comment on how cute he is, and even the snobbish, aggressive Tatsumaki has a soft side for the little guy (which she fiercely tries to deny). Pikachu gets a little bit of this as well.
• Death by Cameo: Played for Laughs with The Deep, as A-Train's intro has The Deep appear and crack his knuckles… only for A-Train to body slam him and reduce him to a smear on the pavement.
• Dramatic Spine Injury: Seeing as Bane is a playable character, it's only appropriate that breaking backs is one of his special attacks. One of his Fatalities takes this even further by having him not just break his opponent's spine over his knee, but snap their entire body in half. Amusingly, his Friendship consists of him preparing to do this to the defeated opponent, only for his own back to lock up (rather appropriately), forcing him to go back to Arkham to have a soothing massage and a Cucumber Facial.
• Home Stage: All the characters get one that represents a place associated with them (The Batcave being Batman's HQ) or a well-known event regarding the character (Namekian Plains for Goku turning Super Saiyan for the first time).
• Hated by All: Understandably, nobody appreciates and almost routinely berate Homelander at any given point, not even people like Bill, The Mask, Vader and Steven are willing to show respect to the guy.
  • Downplayed with Deadpool, most characters are more-or-less bothered by his incessant chatter, with even more even-tempered people like Captain America expresses their annoyance.
  • Also Downplayed with Wario as his grotesque looks, awful stench, and crude and greedy personality often draw groans of disgust.
• Have We Met??: Some characters who already had a crossover with other characters can get a feeling that they've met before. (Cole vaguely remembers The Tournament, Yang remembers Justice League)
• Hired Guns: Boba Fett and Deathstroke. Based on dialogue they were hired by combatant's enemies
• Large Ham: Zangief, Mai Shiranui, Starscream, Dr. Eggman, He-Man, Lion-O, Doctor Doom, Hercule Satan, Dan Hibiki, Joker, Jiraiya, Shazam, Ben 10 (as Rath), Captain Falcon, All Might, Might Guy and She-Ra invoke this in their dialogue. Also, despite Machamp having no dialogue, its mannerisms and general demeanor invoke this.
• Lighter and Softer: Like in the Mortal Kombat series, characters can end a match with a Friendship, instead of a Fatality. Yes, this even includes villains and characters from very dark works.
• Made a Slave: Some of villains such as Shao Khan, Lich King, Makima and etc. enslave their opponents if they win a fight.
• Multiversal Conqueror: In most of villains arcade endings they expand their original plans into multiversal levels.
• Mythology Gag: Plenty of 'em.
  • Lobo's Friendship is a reference to the fact that he's the Archbishop of the First Galactic Church of the Triple Fish-God in DC canon.
  • Lara brings up the fact that she's found Thor's belt and his hammer.
  • Aang's friendship has him crash into a statue in a manner similar to the opening of his show.
  • Todoroki asks All-Might if Midoriya is his illegitimate child.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Lobo commiserates with Dante over the fact that they both have trashy reboot counterparts.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Many examples of this:
  • Lord Raiden and Raiden.
  • Ryu Hayabusa and Ryu Hoshi.
  • The Joker and Joker.
• Pet the Dog: The Goomba and Koopa tend to get bullied by everybody else on the roster. The only few who don't are Dan, who refers to them as tough fighters, Rock Lee and Might Guy, both of them offering to train them, and Captain America, who admires their dedication as soldiers.
• Playing with Fire: Mai Shiranui, Charizard, Scorpion, Sol Badguy, Yang, Mega Charizard X, Greymon, WarGreymon, Ken, Natsu, Ace, Ben 10 (as Heatblast), Captain Falcon, Aang, Ghost Rider, Sasuke, Hiei, Jake Long, Zuko, Todoroki, Korra, Tanjiro and Sauron are the most prominent users of this trope, but other characters use fire in one or two special moves.
• The Ghost: Throughout the arcade mode a mysterious mastermind is mentioned being responsible for the events of arcade mode. However, their identity remains a mystery.
• The Rival: In Arcade Mode, every character will face their opponent on DEATH BATTLE!.
  • For characters who have fought multiple times their default rival will be their first opponent (I.E. Batman will always face Spider-Man instead of Captain America, Black Panther or Iron Man.)
  • In the case of Dragonzord, its rival, MechaGodzilla, ended up becoming a boss. As such, instead its rival is Epyon, same as its successor the Tigerzord.
• Shared Universe: In some intros characters will talk like they are from same world (Star previously said that Marco is Homelander's fan, The Doctor says that he tried to save Krypton)
• Shiny Baldness: Saitama's Friendship consists of him polishing his bald head until it shines so bright, someone in the unseen audience can be heard screaming about the pain their eyes are experiencing.
• Shock and Awe: Thor, Lord Raiden, Pikachu, Blanka, Trish, Shazam, Ben 10 (as Feedback), Spider-Miles, Static, Kakashi, Reverse Flash, Storm, Black Adam, Killua, Misaka and Cole McGrath are the most prominent users, but other characters use it in certain moves.
• Shout-Out:
• Smashing Survival: Some combatants can trap their opponents via freezing or something else and only way to break free is button mashing.
• Suddenly Voiced: All three of the Legend of Zelda fighters have spoken lines, whereas in Zelda canon, the only game to include English voice acting is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and even there, Zelda's the only talkative one (Link can at least select reply speech boxes, but Ganon spends the entire game as a silent monster until Ganondorf reappears in the sequel).
• Take That!: Lobo sympathizes with Dante over how their Reboot versions both suck.
  • Most of Rick's quotes are jabs at the other contestants over their fanbases, productions, character arcs, nearly everything about a work. Even Death Battle itself isn't safe from him.
• Teleportation: Many combatants have ability to disappear and reappear behind the opponent.
• World of Ham: The result of there being so many hammy characters.