REACTION - Lara Croft vs Indiana Jones. Epic Rap Battles Of History.

[@randomneuralfirings]

"Drop you like a 'J' in the floor" refers to the second puzzle in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The clue was to spell out the name of God, Jehovah, on the floor to pass through the room. However, Indy momentarily forgot that in Latin "Jehovah" starts with an "I". So when he stepped on the "J", the tile dropped and he nearly went through the floor.

[@Shwabados]

That's the scene i was thinking of, just couldn't remember the specifics!

[@mariusg8824]

Argh, so obvious, but I totally missed that. Thx.

[@Fred-wx9es]

Cheat codes dude!

[@TheProswagonist]

I think Indiana had another hard hitting line in his 1st verse with the "Cut to the Chase. Oh wait, he died. Guess you couldn't tap that X in time." It was just put together nicely and had a healthy amount of disrespect to it.

[@warmmilk9480]

Also wordplay in "tap that ex in time"

[@tyreksurrell]

@@warmmilk9480 IMO this line alone REALLY set the tone of how hard this battle was going to be. & the way they physically represented “tapping X” like in the actual game?? straight 🔥.

[@Tyiriel]

It's my favorite line just due to how it's delivered

[@boxedincrab7050]

@@warmmilk9480 my brother in jesus i didnt even catch that omg

[@Choryrth]

for the collateral damage bar, not only does she destroy every place she goes to, in one of the most recent games, she causes a flood that drowns at the very least, one small city, probably a bit more though. and that's just in one game. yeah, she's caused an insane amount of innocent deaths in her time. adn the only treasure hunter to come close to her level of destruction is Nathan Drake.

[@adem1829]

She also saved millions, even billions by ruining trinity plans.

[@Choryrth]

@@adem1829 did she though? did she really? because they were going to control the world through magic, not slaughter everyone. she saved, at most, a few hundred in each game. and in doing so, doomed tens of thousands, destroyed untold wealth and ancient ruins, and removed many magic items from the world. trinity wanted world domination. the magic items they were collecting, would have allowed them to do so, without war. so no, she didn't. hell, throughtout the gamess, she kills more of trinity, than trinity kills of anyone. and in the third one, she drowns a fucking city.

[@adem1829]

@@Choryrth Haven’t you played any of the games ? In the second game, trinity would have turned their soliders and others into an uncontrollable undead army that would’ve brought disaster on the world. In the third game, the villain wanted the artifact to destroy the whole except his home village.

[@Choryrth]

​@@adem1829 considering they have people in high places, manipulating the governments (which they already do), and having an immortal army, means the chances of it going to war are basically nothing. and for the "villain". he's not "trinity". he's a member of trinity. his goals, are not the organizations goals, which was my point. she's worse than trinity. not necessarily every single villain in every game. and the original point of all of this, is that she causes an absolutely insane amount of innocent deaths, way too many to be called anything other than a villain, or terrible person. and in the final game, how does it start again? oh yeah! her destroying at the very least one city, with negligence. which is my point. also, the hell do you mean, "uncontrollable undead army". it's an immortal army. they are still the same people. they aren't zombies or anything like that. oh, and talk about bad faith, "did you even play the games", that's how you tell someone you can't argue against their point, without actually saying it. you've argued against one of the villains, not the organization, you've flat out lied about the immortal warriors, and you skipped over her flooding an entire city. conversation is over simp. i enjoy the games and the characters as well (before they ruined Lara, atleast), but your trying oddly hard to defend someone who kill tens of thousands of innocent people.

[@adem1829]

@@Choryrth First of all, it doesn’t matter if it’s trinity, the group or the individual, they all still the same villain. They caused the death of many innocent people (not accidentally), most evidently during the second and third game. Look how they even treat their soldiers with belittling and acting as if they’re dispensable. And I never argued against her cause of many death of innocent people, but without her, billions more would have died as well. As for “did you even play the game”, you’re just proving my point. If you focused just a little during the second game, you’ll that the ancient city perished because of its immortal army who have gone berserk and attacked its citizens.

[@DonEBrooke32]

5:22 because, _"In Latin, Jehovah is spell with an 'I'."_ (and Indy stepped on the wrong letter in the third film, and nearly fell to his death.)

[@TFalconwing]

i'm surprised so many people missed this one. i thought it was one of Indy's more clever lines.

[@Tiji-kun]

I just pointed this out but, it took me a while but when I got it, thought it was fire.

[@DonEBrooke32]

@@TFalconwing he had to remember it though. it was his father who said the line as he was lying there, dying.

[@salamanderking173]

Another thing about the Big Bang theory line, is in one episode the plot of Raiders is "ruined" or blown up when a character points out that even if Indy wasn't there, the story plays out the same way

[@John-tn7nm]

I thought Lara Croft was talking about the Young Indiana Jones series on CBS.

[@BumpTheVoid]

The fact he uploaded on erb before scru is suprising on so many levels

[@phoenixxforce5709]

Well, Scru has been IN an ERB. So...

[@cerebro1477]

Facts

[@parmesean_]

@@phoenixxforce5709 that literally has nothing to do with the comment

[@razvanthethief]

no, scru is insanely slow at reaction to new stuff took him over a week to react to a dps track and like 5 days for a rustage track

[@caseymiller1040]

The time zone advantage. It dropped really late.

[@kktt1111]

I think this would've been better if it was Nathan Drake vs Lara Croft with a surprise verse from Indianaconda dissing both of them for being derivative

[@beepboop4833]

That would've been great actually

[@quil8322]

There's a Spanish erb that does that by keyblade

[@j-roll2264]

I think the "girls' polygon wild" is a double entendre, the first being a play one the phrase girls gone wild but the second could be a reference to the polygons going "wild" during development resulting in Lara having larger breasts than the developers had intended.

[@bratprica6383]

I thought it was just a reference to her pointy breasts in the earlier games because of the limited polygons. Thus girl polygone wild.

[@ARCAlpha12]

It's been a while since an ERB has had some truly brutal hard hitting lines but the second half of Lara's second verse toasted Indy's marshmallows so thoroughly that I felt it. BTW Indianaconda

[@BallinSloth]

"Does she have that much collateral damage?" Yes, she is catastrophic to any place/ ecosystem she's in

[@FulcanMal]

The whole "overshadowed" thing isn't about his facial hair. It's about a very specific lighting setup they use on Indiana Jones in his movies, where his hat is casting a shadow over his face, but the way they do it in the film is extremely stylized so that the shadow is much deeper than it would be naturally.

[@aidanspence7127]

Bro! That Indianaconda line was pretty crazy. Love the reaction

[@phantomthunder203]

I liked Indy's verse but they did set him up for rebuttal pretty hard with Indianaconda

[@ItsYaGameBoi_JR]

Yeah the first punch was about her being flat chested but it could also be a double because in the reboot game you ran the risk of being flattened by boulders if you failed a QTE event lol

[@ItsYaGameBoi_JR]

Also yes typically Lara's antics (especially in the newer ones) cause a lot of collateral damage lol

[@wildhunt6350]

It's definitely about being flat chested, literally.

[@Kaiser8513]

So in regards to some of the lines, there was a lot of controversy when Square Enix took over and rebooted Tomb Raider because they made her younger and reduced her bust size. Also the reboot did have an online mode. As for the last one the nude code was a rumor spread for the PS 1 games where her model would be nude that the devs ended up later playing into where if you tried it in later games her model exploded.

[@warmmilk9480]

"Very very easy to come back from this though" Because you didn't spend like 2 minutes looking up info about Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider. If you're unfamiliar with the material you'll miss a lot. You missed 2/3 of it. This is one of the strongest battles they've done.

[@MiliniumMUSIC]

Love your reactions as always and the day ERB doesnt make anymore battle raps is a day that this world loses a Blessing

[@joshuablair9301]

The juxtaposition between Scru’s reaction and Shwab’s is pretty funny. Lol

[@nathanroy4000]

Great reaction, I wish all reactors could stick to their preferred genres and characters they know very well for rap battles, but you have to give the people what they want, I get it. Still, your energy and personality make all of your reactions fun to watch :) and your music is top tier for sure!

[@wrightcore3367]

Result: Jones ended up in the shadow of the Tomb Raider.

[@StoneDragonSmoothie]

A joke worthy of Death Battle, love it

[@Heart_Nattie]

Angelina didn't gave up the movie, there was a third movie being planned but she stated in an interview in 2004 that she was happy with the two movies she made and she didn't feel the need for another one.

[@lauragalvez7011]

Short round is the name of the kid in temple of doom, he drives the car in china when Indiana scapes from The bar where he was poisoned

[@whoiswolfpack]

Lara Croft is no longer part of the Square Enix family since this year. They had a lot to do with the Tomb Raider reboot in 2013.

[@darkoni3677]

Good review, Laura won, especially with the Statutory bar. You did miss a few good bars on both. @Scrufacejean did a great review and I mean he is Mansa Musa in the flesh 😂😂

[@BreakerX42]

It is interesting to see the improvement in writing across ERBs

[@ItzKerbecs]

in the reboot she did indeed get flat chest and more muscles.....honestly this whole rap battle was- interesting to say the least but yeah idk what to say its just wowsers aha.

[@jackmanleblanc2518]

It's super mid. I got some nostalgia for ERB but this one is just pretty mid.

[@big3fanboy19]

@@jackmanleblanc2518 really I think this and the recent ones were better and the older ones were cringe and mid in my opinion

[@nimbus1716]

This battle was savage as hell

[@Tyiriel]

This entire ERB is just chock full of references to ancient games/movies - Pretty much every line has one or 2 which is why so much goes over ones head

[@WTB1327]

Imo, it is so obvious that Jones had the hardest hitting bars the whole battle

[@TaskMaster5]

I feel were the minority. She comes back good in the second verse but Indy's two verses are full of gut punches

[@writerbill1]

Respect and thanks to the people in the comment section explaining the details of the lines in their exchanges. I learned stuff!

[@elbruces]

Thank you for tying the "You're no John Williams" to the "first four notes of my theme" part. That was a rebuttal. You're the first reactor I've seen who caught it. "You tried alien skulls" (IJ4) "and chose poorly ("you chose... poorly," from IJ3) "There's a Big Bang you can't hide in the fridge from" (aside from BBT deconstructing him, in IJ4, he hides in a refrigerator to survive a nuclear test). "Dropped you like a J in the floor" (in IJ3, one of his challenges is to hop on tiles in the name of Jesus, except when it was made, they spelled it "Iesus" so the J dropped into a pit). In the ERB2 "behind the scenes," Nice Peter said that he was really trepidatious about playing studly hunky young Harrison Ford, one of the handsomest men ever to be on a movie screen, but then he figured that if he could get the mumbly drawling voice down, then maybe it wouldn't matter so much what he looked like. IMO, he was right. "Strap some blocks on Short Round and pump the brakes." Short Round was the Asian child sidekick in IJ2 who at one point had to strap blocks to his feet to drive a truck. And yeah, it's a pretty weak bar. Still needed some explanation. It's kinda weird how some bars are strengthened by being deep references that need explaining, and some bars are weakened by it... that's going to take some thought later. I feel like "at best the affection you got was sloppy seconds" was a solid punch, because in IJ3 it turns out that Indiana and his father had both had sex with the same woman.

[@saltymisfit6566]

At the moment that I realized what the J on the floor reference was about I realized that looks like half the comments already beat me to it 😂

[@scaredfunny3617]

Finally! Someone caught the monkey bar!

[@jeshafew9629]

my ass thought the flattened line ab lara croft was since anjolina jolie got breast cancer.....

[@eldwarf034]

I mean it can work as a double or triple

[@wildhunt6350]

She didn't got breast cancer, she was afraid of getting it, so she cut off her breasts.

[@chickenwings6172]

Yup in the TR reboot she went from double D to a C, that is why he said flattened.The rebooted TR games had online multiplayer

[@BubbaBrons]

It felt pretty tame which is weird for an ERB. Godzilla is gonna be in the next one tho, so that’s hype

[@themachine3884]

They dropped you like a j in the floor. Going off of the letter U stops at the bottom to become a J

[@Tiji-kun]

They dropped you like a J in the floor is from the movie where Jehovah in Latin is spelled with an I so when he tries to touch the J platform it falls.

[@animeking5460]

This was fun reactions more videos like this please 😂😂😂

[@cragl3yman343]

Lara Croft is like if Samus was a small time Earth bounty hunter and still killed everyone in the areas they explored.

[@JasonJrake]

In Last Crusade he steps on a letter J thinking the safe tiles spell “Jehova,” but he falls through the floor there because in Latin it starts with the letter I.

[@sonicducktheinoccent]

This felt weak compared to their other work, but it might just be the fact that Peter us playing more to the part(like when Lloyd was doing bezos)

[@liammxr2SD-N]

Nathan drakes real last name is Morgan in the game apparently

[@MisunderstoodAssassin]

I don't know why but I thought "J On the Floor" was a reference to Jennifer Lopez's song called On the Floor.

[@leopardslayer9718]

"They drop you like a J on the floor" is because the J on the leg games is on the ground

[@andresmendieta7012]

MAN SAID “FAMILY PLANE CRASH TYPE SHIT”…WHAT ARE WE SCOOPING INSTRUMENTALS???

[@dariuskhan6583]

J in the floor seems like (The ships anchor which is shaped like a J thrown at the bottom of the ocean

[@Lusius8879]

verse 1 "really easy to come back from. he didn't say anything insane"... just to name a few...: "cut to the Chase" into a "your ex (Chase) died" joke based on the game's QTE's, combined with the "couldn't tap that ex" as a sexual inuendo while also putting the blame on her that Chase died. All packaged in clever wordplay and pretty solid flow. Mentioned family dying in a crash in a double layered bar with a reference to Crash Bandicoot "you got flattened" also not only refers to Lara's chest, but also her as a character, talking about how the reboots removed most of her interesting character traits and made her a FAR more one-dimensional, copy-paste character. This alone already shows why Shwab's reaction are very dubious. When he knows his stuff and gets the bars, his reactions might be some of the best out there. but as soon as he lacks knowledge (example given: newer tomb raider games have online play, making the "flagged for cheating" line logical and work, albeit still being a very weak bar), he becomes very pretentious and mixes up opinion with fact. Also he sometimes comes over as a little bit elitist, disregarding bars that are not as deep/more simplistic for the common viewer to understand. the "girls polygone wild" pun is a good example of it. It's a bit of dumb bar that's not really hard-hitting or anything, but just a funny dis with truth to it. yet he plays it off as if it's a childishly bad bar with 0 weight. And I know this is caused by Shwab just having too much experience almost (similar to how a Magician looks completely different to a magic trick than the common people do). But still, it gets really annoying at times and comes across as almost downgrading to those who dó like the 'lesser' bars. like a GREAT example of Shwab getting a good part: He is the ONLY reactor I've seen who actually recognizes the John Williams scoring bar as a rebuttal to Indiana's first verse's final bar. Moments like those are where Shwab REALLY shines. Like, when Shwab starts talking a bit more technical and actual rap knowledge, he becomes SUCH a good reactor.

[@Shwabados]

Bro you are reading way too far into this holy shit 😭 it's literally my first impression of what I'm hearing, I'm not a battle rap analyst, I'm a music fan, I can only give opinions on what I catch, let it rock lol. I'm not elitist and Im not providing my opinions as facts? I'm literally just telling you what l think of what I'm hearing

[@Fingleberrys]

I gotta say your reactions are dubious if you think the reboot flattened her character. She's way more of a person

[@MrBlackhaloStudios]

Chiiiiiill. The man literally said he woke up 20 minutes before jumping up and giving a listen. I dunno about you, but I'm not even verbal 20 minutes after waking up, let alone capable of pulling all the bars out of a battle. Turn that pretentious crack on yourself. That QTE X/Ex bar was HARD though, and I gotta admit that missing it was a let down. I don't know if it's enough points to pull a win for Indie, but it was a punch that needed to get counted. Knowing the material definitely helps, but no one can know everything.

[@MFP3Gaming]

THE SHWAB MAN CUT HIS HAIR WTF

[@DonEBrooke32]

somethiiiiiiiing's "different" about you, Shwab? is that a new jacket? 🤨 (just fuckin' with ya, bro. nice haircut.)

[@silentassason]

Am I remembering right that the sloppy seconds line is a reference to a chick indi getting with got with his dad first?

[@SirChoccyMilk]

Idk if it's just me, but I gotta give the first round to Indiana, it is close though. However, Lara definitely smoked the 2nd verse imo

[@Therichardjefford]

Feel like jones didn’t get enough wrote for him for his verses seems like craft got more punchs

[@uksoloz]

The big bang theory one is crazy haha 😂👌for people that don't know in an episode they say if you remove Indian from the film the nazis would of still found the chest and all died he was next to pointless in the whole film 😂👌

[@TheUltimateShade667]

The tomb raider reboot games had online multiplayer, so flagged for cheating does make sense.

[@kingtickeler]

Indianaconda, let's go. That rap battle was very close to me. I think Lara probably won but that quick time event was clean asf.

[@shreddedninja]

The cheating line does make sense, the newer Tomb Raider games have multiplayer.

[@AmaneKoruba]

Ooo, I had different opinion on my first view. I thought Indiana completely destroyed her the first round, not even close. And in the second it was closer, but Lara had the edge, so overall I personally give it to Indiana purely for his first verse. Indianaconda, ya know?

[@l_train947]

That one was a terrible setup for him though due to the snake phobia. You knew she was gonna get him on that one. Indy's first verse was definitely his strongest, but Lara had at least 1 nuclear bar in each round.

[@jumpirrexbankai2375]

Uhhh some tomb raider games are online. They are basically kill eachother team deathmatch ish

[@kingjoker3793]

they've dropped U like J on the floor

[@matthewgibbs5785]

Hello Shwabadi how are you doing?

[@nebojsavelickovic5388]

0:38🔥

[@Witchedly]

Indianaconda! This battle was nice, love seeing the reactions!

[@alexryker9860]

Indianaconda. We run the full playtime here!

[@gungriffen]

Reboot flattened making fun of how she went from double D'S to Bs

[@johnlandon8741]

its the first movie that the monkey died

[@KAYOSISPINK]

the sloppy seconds bar takes the whole battle for me

[@majespectorkuro8630]

My biggest problem with Lara Croft, was that she ONLY hit when she was rebutting. Any time she goes to make disses and brags if her own they’re kinda flat.

[@ksbfun]

Indianaconda. Man the problem with this battle was that besides Anjolina Jolie playing Lara Croft a few decades ago I did not know much about her so I gave Lara croft the win. To be fair I liked the Chase line from Indian Jones. Not sure who Chase is but I guess that was traic

[@Fraktal869]

The monkey eats the date in indiana jones raiders of the lost ark.

[@nathanchristman6660]

NO NOT THE GLORIOUS HAIR!

[@novAviator01]

Bro look like he’s been crying

[@fyhdhgg]

there was a lot in the beginning though. You just somehow missed it

[@jamieyourdead]

Yeah i think Lara won this

[@blamethebrain9282]

Should've been Lara vs old boy from uncharted. Would've been way better.

[@payne5020]

Indiana just seems like the boomer that is upset he cant objectify women and be racist anymore in this😂

[@machscga6238]

Indiana won... you missed alot of his bars... also Laura's disses and rebuttals were cheap and shallow, she just sold them well with her aggressiveness. But she didn't really say a whole lot

[@Heart_Nattie]

Ha, no. It was a tie. Specially with the play on his phobia, the plots on his movies and the pedo lines.

[@machscga6238]

@@Heart_Nattie 15 is not Pedo... it's Hebophila... most of human history girls would have been married off at that age... it only changed in the west because people need school until at least 17.. but even back in the 40s 15-16YO was a common age for marriage... Indiana jones was set in the 40s... so it's not actually that hard of a bar... not like the Catholic and little boys bar in Che vs Falks or the 13yo cosin bar in poe vs king that bar was about incest plus the age of 13... 13 is too just a little too young for most of history but plenty of cultures married teens off as soon as they hit puberty... so it's not as hard of a bar as you think... if you check your family tree you would probably find a few Great or even great great grandmothers married at 14-16. The snake phobia bar was one of her best but she basically said nothing with the sitcom bar, the lock you in a freezer bar in her first round... but I will admit she sold it really well. The second round she spent most of the time flexing except when she got in the dad bar to the rope bridge Meanwhile Indy had the flattened chest bar, the dead chase bar, the crash bar which was a triple... his flexes of sword vs gun and theme song were both flexes for him and disses against her... Her rebuttal against the theme song bar was that she would let Indiana's home boy smash? It's an OK bar and did go against him but let's not pretend that it cut his soul like the her killing all the animals and innocent people bar... plus he Finnished her off with that uncharted bar... Like I said they both hit hard with Demarcos and hay makers but Indiana's were methodically joined together... she was kind of rapid fire and all over the place, plus some of her content was a bit shallow but she did sell her bars with aggressiveness... I don't think it was a body bag but Still Indiana won.

[@FAZEed_out]

INDIANACONDA, ALSO IT WAS CROFT🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@Sean-bf3lh]

Indiana jones won because you wouldnt have shows games or movies in the likes of relic hunter lara croft or the nathan drake uncharted series in my opinion

[@frankcayseron8637]

i lowkey lost respect for ERBOH. they have this whole patreon going on, they are charging so much for their tiers and in spite of it all they only drop battles when they get sponsored by a big name.

[@ZeldonPlays]

You didn't know half the references so how can you judge a verse?

[@MsDark93]

One thing that annoyed me is that none of Laura's disses really made sense. She had the flow and the rhymes, but punches? Almost zero compared to Indiana.

[@TheValkyre0]

Indianaconda? I dont think I evem got the joke. Am I stupid? Was there an Anaconda in one of the movies?

[@MrBlackhaloStudios]

It's a portmanteau of his name and the snake. It's a penis/libido pun. It's also a reference to the line from Sir-Mix-a-Lot song, Baby Got Back. "My anaconda don't want none, unless you got buns, hon!" It's also an unfortunate set up for her rebuttal, because he's Ophidiophobic. Risky gamble, which I think he ultimately lost.

[@TheValkyre0]

@@MrBlackhaloStudios Oh. Ya know with it pointed out, that is glaringly obvious. Thank you!

[@danielperry6921]

😎

[@dragonalex9562]

I'm to biased for Dr.Johns

[@KandiBard]

Not the indianaconda 😅

[@yourdadlewis]

indianaconda babyyy

[@xavierhege7186]

Indianaconda...lol

[@DemonLordZodoki]

Indianaconda!

[@blamethebrain9282]

Wait and what happened to laras father? Killed for bullshit? Indiana wasn't meant for the battle. Nathan Drake would've been better for this battle.

[@G.Gabriel88]

Indyanacondiments

[@olamideoladoyinbo8220]

Indianaconda

[@hunteh78]

Indianaconda. Square Enix sold a lot of the western properties like Lara croft for practically free to focus on developing NFTs

[@mtcreations5986]

Indianaconda

[@endlesssmile231]

Indianaconda