THE DOCTOR CAN DO THAT?!?! Reacting to "Rick Sanchez vs The Doctor" Death Battle

[@chefcircuit5392]

13:31 “How do you go to war with someone who can time travel?” And that my friend, is the reason the time war was so horrific. Both sides had time travel and used it to change the outcomes of battles, causing them to experience dying over and over forever.

[@largo778]

"Genesis of the Daleks" a 4th Doctor serial was quite literally the first shot in the Time War (Time Lords sent The Doctor to the Dalek homeworld of Skaro to stop them from coming into existance)

[@StealthMaster86]

​@@largo778And when the 7th Doctor manipulated Davros into destroying Skaro in Rememberence of the Daleks.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Sounds like so much fun

[@jacoblim3804]

@@theduckgoesmoo No. No it isn't. If you're in a War involving time travel, it basically means the War from the perspective of the Time Lords and the Daleks, was eternity. Millions planets died, entire species were made extinct. Hell, some actually were wiped from existence as if you never remembered them, no matter how important they were to your life. In fact, it was so bad, The current Doctor at the time, The Eight Doctor tried his damn hardest to stay out of the War, but failed because the War so expansive, he could never truly escape, it got so bad, The Eight Doctor (one of the most optimistic and sweetest of The Doctors) actually stated he would rather die, and by this point, The Doctor in his previous Regeneration had gone into a War against the Monsters from the Cthulhu Mythos (You know, the creatures if you so much gaze on their true form you would go into insanity?) and WON. Hell, The Eighth Doctor would've actually died if not for the fact he was convinced to Regenerate, because if the fact if he died. The Rest of the universe would follow. That is how bad the Time War was.(Sorry for the tanget.)

[@JunPun616]

@@jacoblim3804I think he meant like the idea of that in a show sounds fun which is true

[@filipvadas7602]

The Doctor never directly hurting Rick and finishing him off with his own attack was beautifully in-character

[@MrOarson]

"It's not like I'm an innocent. I've taken lives. And I got worse, I got clever. Manipulated people into taking their own." - The Doctor

[@RopeDrink]

@@MrOarsonMost of that speech is attributed to the 7th Doctor - who casually wiped out a billion Daleks in one single episode. He was a machiavellian schemer who would convince 90% of the antagonists to kill themselves. When you've lived and travelled as much as the Doc - facing universal threats like they're just another Tuesday - even a pacifist will break some eggs. In fact, the Doctor has a ridiculously high kill-count, even if you ignore all undesired/accidental deaths and focus only only intentional/complicit kills. The important thing is - the Doctor desperately tries to avoid as much death as non-humanly possible.

[@enrijuan96]

Rick would have figured out that little OP wand

[@ShadowdaHedgie11]

@@RopeDrink *points at the Human-Doctor who enacted what was basically genocide upon the entire Dalek race*

[@ShadowdaHedgie11]

Yeah, the most he did that actually hurt Rick was basically telling him to blink a lot when they ended up with all those Weeping Angels, or exploding his mechanical arms. Other than that a lot of it was defending himself rather than actively hurting Rick.

[@JenABlue-ed1bw]

I gotta agree with this one. Another factor they left out is that Rick is used to fighting by having a better weapon than his enemy; the Doctor is used to fighting by tricking his enemies or manipulating them into taking themselves out--he almost never actually attacks anyone. Which is exactly what he did here.

[@thehonestreviewer7754]

"Is this like British Men In Black?" Doctor Who's absolutely nothing like that but what ever helps you, okay.

[@arkthegreenwolfx3627]

I feel like that's a reference to nostalgia critic Toonami

[@thehonestreviewer7754]

@@arkthegreenwolfx3627 It is.

[@brennanmarsh1572]

I mean there are multiple British Men In Black organizations in Doctor Who

[@Chimeratech_O.D.]

Doctor Who does have a few: Torchwood and UNIT come to mind.

[@kiorili]

The british men is Black ? Nah that's Torchwood

[@cynine1599]

The Doctor also only disarmed or avoided Rick the whole time if you watch it. He never went on the offensive.

[@badwolf66]

He was basically consolidating his ground while gaining the upper hand while on standby mode!

[@Victor_Nova_56]

This fight perfectly protrayed the Doctor's personality. As stated, the Doc doesnt like killing, so when their foes need to die, they often do it indirectly, often killing them by basically just letting them kill themselves or tricking them into killing themselves. Also, can we appreciate how badass the title "Time Lord Victorious" is?

[@largo778]

bah, I still prefer The Valyard

[@Airninja3]

Time lord victorious, The oncoming storm, the madman in a box. All badass titles.

[@Gojirawars03]

The Daleks referred to him as The Predator. Which is pretty kickass.

[@Victor_Nova_56]

What other ones are there? There's the Imp of the Pandorica

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

​@@largo778 But Isn't The Valyard just a dark twisted future version of the Doctor

[@kisdota]

There was a time when people didn't have cell phones so there were phone booths called police boxes that had phones directly connected to police stations for emergencies and other police to keep in contact. Not 100 percent sure but I think the Tardis was originally supposed to be some kind of chameleon ship that could take any form, but it got struck with lightning and got stuck as a police box.

[@santiagobanosflores7069]

Pretty sure you're right, the chameleon circuits got stuck

[@lop90ful1]

​@@santiagobanosflores7069also doctor kept it that way because he got attached one of my favorite episodes is when TARDIS gets a body

[@werwolfnate]

It's my understanding that the phone is on the outside of the box, with the inside reserved for anyone apprehended by the police to be held until they can be transported.

[@Connor-ONeill]

Yeah, it has a thing called a "chameleon circuit" that's supposed to scan the area as the ship lands, find the best thing for a disguise and then turn into it. It landed in 1960s london, found the best disguise it could, then the circuit broke. Every TARDIS has one. A different TARDIS landed beside a road in the middle of Nevada and turned into an American Diner.

[@BJGvideos]

​@@Connor-ONeillAn entire diner? That's awesome. how's the food?

[@gyver8448]

They actually missed some of the slightly more obscure things for Doctor Who. Like the Time Lord ability to seemingly just fucking teleport if you're not looking at them. Or the time it was stated in one of the comics that causality just straight up warps around the Doctor.

[@gruntskome366]

Yeah, as a lot of people were saying just after the episode dropped The Doctor was HEAVILY nerfed in the battle and yet was still way too much for Rick to actually beat

[@redraven123]

I don't thing they really missed them. It's just that bringing up every obscure thing The Doctor has would take like 17 hours...

[@DIVECRAFTVODS]

The “teleporting when you aren’t looking at them” part is what the Weeping Angels do, not the Time Lords/Ladies😅

[@ZeallustImmortal]

​@@DIVECRAFTVODSfemale timelords are still called timelords. Its a species name, not a gendered term. Thats like saying Huwomanity

[@gyver8448]

@@DIVECRAFTVODS Nah, it's not something that gets explicitly spelled out. But Time Lords can definitely do it. Some examples: When Missy escaped from being restrained, she crossed the room and got right up behind Osgood without making a single noise in the split second she took her eyes off of her. Another time, the 7th Doctor and Ace are driving. They go into a small tunnel. Ace is driving when they go in, but when they come out a moment later the Doctor is driving. In the novelization of this episode Ace makes it clear in her internal dialogue that she has no idea how the Doctor made that happen. If multiple Time Lords show the ability to do this, I think it's pretty safe to say they can. It just doesn't come up much.

[@connorwood9211]

- The Doctor was pretty much nerfed in this and still outclassed Rick. Whole time he wasn't even trying to fight and trying to avoid conflict. If this was the 7th he probably could had manipulated Rick into taking his own life with words alone, which he has done plenty of times. By Time Lords standards The Doctor was considered pretty mediocre - Doctor Who is 60 years old as of this year. Out dates Men in Black by over 30 years - Screaming sun is a reference from season 3 of R&M. 7 seasons total, 4 of them been out 2019 - Police boxes were telephones used by patrolling officers to keep in contact with the stations. Was also used for meal breaks and temporary keep people is custody until transport arrival. - Tardis' disguise themselves in the environment wherever they land. They landed in 1963 so it tuned into a police box but it got stuck like that do to a fault in it's Chameleon Circuit. The Doctor's ship is actually an outdated and faulty model - Daleks could match Time Lords technology. One point even created a weapon that would wipe out the whole of reality. Like everything. - 17:26 You can see Megatron, Frieza, Darth Vader, Harley Quinn and Jinx in the background - "Why'd he sound Australian?" Scottish. David Tennant(10th Doctor) is Scottish

[@gyver8448]

Agreed, they nerfed the Doctor hard. In one of the comics it states that causality straight up warps around him to make him win.

[@gyver8448]

@@TokyoFromTheFuture Which one was that?

[@filipvadas7602]

Bill vs Discord is somewhere in there too

[@randomyoutuber2633]

​@@TokyoFromTheFutureI wouldn't say he is the most powerful in fiction, that one goes to pretty much every scp ever made, like scarlet king and 682.

[@randomyoutuber2633]

@TokyoFromTheFuture That just makes realize how op the scpverse is, because even the weak ones like 682 can annilate all of reality and fiction at their weakest, doctor who vs scp would be a riot. I'd pay money to see it.

[@IrrelephantRamblings]

Funny thing is, if The Doctor tried to kill Rick, instead of just playing defensively, this would have ended in like 3 seconds. But he hates killing, he's like Rick if Rick grew up to his age, old enough to be very, very, very, very, very good at killing, but just tired of wiping out lives. Rick is still in his genocide phase nihilist phase, the Doctor has had like 3 of those. It's why he said he knows people like Rick, the nihilists, because he's been Rick more then once and it never ended well. Rick with a few thousand more years of experience could probably beat the Doctor, but this fight was putting essentially a child against a grandfather.

[@cristalmewtwo4160]

Plus like realistically rick would have died when he went into the time vortex which is lethal to anyone unless protected by the TARDIS

[@alexknj1]

​@cristalmewtwo4160 I could imagine that Rick has enough tech on him to protect himself from the time vortex. I could also imagine the TARDIS keeping him alive so that the doctor could teach him a lesson, lol.

[@epicsoul8136]

Someone put it the best “The Doctor is what people who hype up Batman with Prep Time think Batman with Prep Time is.”

[@PauloJrchannel]

I loved how the Doctor was portrayed in the animation. He never directly attacks Rick through the entire fight, mostly just trying to escape or playing defense, and he is also reluctant to use his weapons like the De-Mat, which is perfect, since the Doctor is a pacifist who hates killing or using guns. It was perfect to have the Doctor fight in a more indirect way that makes use of the environment and his intelligence to make Rick defeat himself, which is exactly how the Doctor fights in the actual show, he wins by outsmarting, not by outgunning. The regeneration scene was also beautiful, the Doctor getting an epic speech is another thing that the actual show does often, and it was great how they referenced an iconic moment from the show with the "I don't wanna go" scene, but used it in another context, as in the show that line was a sad moment where the Doctor couldn't do anything to stop what would happen ("I don't wanna go, but I have no choice"), while here it is used to shut down Rick's nihilist mentality ("I don't wanna go, which is why I won't give up.") Honestly, their whole clash of ideologies was great, with Rick being a complete nihilist who thinks nothing in life means anything, and the Doctor being a altruist who sees beauty and hope in everything. This was just a really good episode in terms of how the fighters were characterized.

[@jayburn00]

Rick killing himself basically is very in character for how the doctor operates. He outsmarts and tricks his adversaries into destroying themselves usually. That said, he has gone on the offensive at times. Ever heard the tale of colonel runaway? The doctor was so pissed he forced a surrendered enemy to basically change his name to Colonel runaway to humiliate him.

[@ShamblesMD]

People think Rick and Morty have a dedicated fanbase. My grandpa doesn't know what the hell a Rick is, but he got his old ass here when he heard The Doctor's fighting.

[@kriegerh]

You should tell him that Rick & Morty is actually based on Doctor Who just with an added R rating and is animated lol. What? I'm not wrong......am I?

[@histkontext]

@@kriegerhrick morty goes bit too hard for shock humor, which is lazy and off putting, when there are some actually interesting topics to unfold in the story.

[@jayburn00]

A little dark fact about The Doctor, despite his often playful and light hearted personality, he is responsible for multiple genocides and xenocides, both directly and indirectly. He has made several people immortal purely by accident (sometimes indirectly in the case of jack harkness), including one who forever remained a child physically and survived to the very end of time.

[@whydoistillusethissite8626]

just a heads up for people, the next fight isn't so much a "Goku vs Superman 3" as it is a reboot. It's no secret that the info in the older episodes is VERY outdated and Death Battle's research methodology has evolved a lot in the 8 years since Goku vs Superman 2 in 2015. So this is them tackling this debate again using their modern research Ben Singer (the voice of Wiz) has also gone on record to say he despised Goku vs Superman 2, saying that was an episode he wanted to undo, for how it portrayed both characters. So don't expect "Superman is Infinite = The End" to be a win-condition this time (though if Goku Black vs Reverse Flash and Vegeta vs Thor is anything to go by, it doesn't matter. Supes is still winning). They even renamed the older 2 episodes and called Goku vs Superman 2 "The Irrelevant Sequel" just to drive home the fact that the entire Death Battle team disowns that fight. Also according to Death Battle the episode is meant to be a send off to both characters, meaning they won't appear again after it is all said and done. Which is kinda sad because there are some great matchups for both Goku and Superman that doesn't involve each other, like Goku vs Jin Mori (from The God of Highschool) or Superman vs Optimus Prime.

[@TnT_F0X]

A Police box is what they used before Radios in the UK. It has a phone and is secure enough to lock up a couple troublemakers or protect the officer till backup arrived.

[@Slye_Fox]

It also acted as a mini police station where an officer could do some paperwork.

[@chrisneedsmentalhelp8579]

23:18 Well, probably because Ben, the voice actor of Wiz and creator of the show, has stated multiple times that his least favorite episode of Death Battle is Goku vs Superman 2 (so much that they went back after the announcement and changed the title of Goku v Supes 2 to be “The Irrelevant Sequel) So this is probably just a way for them to completely reanalyze the matchup for one last time

[@hellkaiser64]

They Did? Holy Shit, they Did!!! There are worse episodes like the Justin Bieber vs Rebecca Black, GvS2 getting a Title Change?

[@BJGvideos]

​@@hellkaiser64ikr that's EASILY the worst episode by a WIDE margin.

[@Lorekeeper72]

My immediate reaction to that announcement was "why?" but with their current approach it might both be good and less controversial than their last two attempts.

[@zacjumpman209]

Police boxes were a special type of phone booth used by London police in the 50's and 60's. The TARDIS has a "chameleon circuit" which allows it to disguise itself as anything in its environment. However, when the Doctor made a pit stop in 60's London, the circuit broke down and the TARDIS became stuck as a police box, and the Doctor just never got around to fixing it.

[@largo778]

actually he has fixed it on a few times, the TARDIS just likes being a Police Box so he just gave up fixing it eventually

[@davidwebb4451]

There had been police boxes with telephones of various designs since 1891. The TARDIS though is based upon what had become the most popular design which was used pretty much all over Britain - this was originally designed by Gilbert Mackenzie Trench in 1929 for the metropolitan police in London. This basic design stayed in use until the 1970s when police cars and police on the beat began to have their own radios for co-ordinating with the police station. Although the prop designers for Doctor Who decided to use that basic design for the TARDIS they weren't that fussed about getting everything 100% correct and over the decades as new TARDIS exterior props were created the sizes of windows etc changed between props.

[@hownot2junk803]

The reason they're doing Goku vs Superman 3 is for a few reasons: - Ben wanted to do something special for Season 10, as that's a huge milestone for the show, and Goku vs Supes is arguably their most well-known episode, so having a rematch feels apt - The show has come a long way since their early seasons and the way they conduct their research is vastly different than how it was when the first two came out - Most, if not all, of the Death Battle team consider Goku vs Superman 2 as something of a failure, evident by them changing the titles of the two previous episodes to be "Goku vs Superman | The Classic One" and "Goku vs Superman 2 | The Irrelevant Sequel"

[@ahedjehad8514]

even so, is it still a fact that Goku is gonna get folded like a towel against supes?

[@SuperHeroStoriesUnlimited]

Oh i though they where doing it again because the goku fans cant accept that superman solos

[@Gojirawars03]

@@SuperHeroStoriesUnlimitedThat too, but he’s gonna win again so it won’t even matter.

[@Jgamer-jk1bp]

@@ahedjehad8514Oh absolutely Infinite Frontiers Superman is broken.

[@lmn_godie2598]

ohh absolutely but it would something cool to see, how superman reacts to goku's all new moves and techniques and I wonder if they are going to use manga goku this time since it's far more advanced than anime goku

[@Narutonarutonaruto85]

7:05 In 2018 there were three seasons. Now they are working on their seventh, so almost four. 7:24 A police box was a type of phone booth that only connected to the police. It was used by officers needing to call something in or by civilians wishing to contact the police. It also could function as a miniature police station or to contain prisoners for a while. They were most commonly used in the United Kingdom but with the advent of portable radios and cell phones, they fell out of use. Now Doctor Who owns the copyright on them as they are really the only ones still using them. The TARDIS has a chameleon circuit that allows it to change its appearance to something you commonly see in that place and time. It broke so it got stuck as a police box and the Doctor likes it that way so he never fixed it.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Wait they copyrighted a police box?

[@Narutonarutonaruto85]

@@theduckgoesmoo Yeah, that style of them anyway. Sounds like of like getting a copyright on fire hydrant, although I can't think of a technology that would render fire hydrants obsolete. Police boxes fell out of use and were removed so now the only reason most people remember them is because of Doctor Who. I heard about that a while ago but didn't look to much into it.

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

That wasn’t Idris Elba, that was Ncuti Gatwa (the 14th Doctor). On that note: over the weekend, I had a conversation with a fellow Whovian (one who doesn’t particularly care for the forced-woke writing of the newest seasons), and he said he thinks Idris Elba would be _perfect_ for the role of the Doctor. And I honestly agree.

[@ghostspider2056]

Rick once referred to himself as Doctor Who in the episode where fights the President to flex how incredible he is.

[@HunhowsShadowStalker]

Which only implies he's aware of the show, but also that he never watched it. If he had watched even a single episode, he would've known that "Doctor Who" isn't the Doctor's name.

[@ghostspider2056]

@@HunhowsShadowStalker I think some fans even call him Doctor Who. If someone said “I’m the Doctor”, how are they supposed to get he was referring to Doctor Who, especially to non-fans of the series.

[@HunhowsShadowStalker]

@@ghostspider2056 It's really simple actually: "Doctor Who" is the show. "The Doctor" is the main character of the show. "The doctor" is just a secondary/tertiary character who happens to be a doctor.

[@ghostspider2056]

@@HunhowsShadowStalker I get that, but like I said, a lot of non-fans of Doctor Who might not. Some probably don’t watch Rick & Morty with subs to see the difference, they’ll likely need others to explain it to them if Rick didn’t include “Who”. I could be wrong but I think the Doctor was actually credited as “Doctor Who” in the end credits for some time.

[@emeraldkoala2]

​@@ghostspider2056 The Doctor was indeed credited as Doctor Who for a long time, and many in both the fanbase and those who worked on the actual show call the character "Doctor Who". There were also a couple of movies in the 60s based on the show where the character was literally named Dr. Who, as in his family was "The Who Family". His granddaughter's name in that was Susan Who. One of the showrunners, Steven Moffatt, angered parts of the fanbase because he frequently called the character "Doctor Who", and in the opening of one of his final episodes as showrunner he wrote in a few jokes referencing that, with both The Doctor and a character pretending to be The Doctor introducing themselves as "Doctor Who". Long story short, it's one of those little things some fans take far too seriously for no good reason.

[@AGO339]

as a doctor who fan i completely expected Rick to win, and i was so scare to watch because i didnt wanna watch the Doctor Die. i was so happy with this ending

[@gyver8448]

If you look into it, Time Lords are absolutely broken and the Doctor even more so than most. In one of the comics it states that casuality straight up warps around him to make him win.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

@@gyver8448 All the decades of lore really ended up making Time Lords into one of the most OP civilizations in fiction. It isn't just the Doctor who's OP. It's his species.

[@slashermaster28]

It's weird, I haven't watched a lot of Doctor Who and yet somehow, I went into this knowing he'd win.

[@lukasruston8618]

I've only seen glances of what The Doctor could do from my Dad watching Doctor Who whilst I was doing other things and I already knew they'd win, that regeneration and intelligence is absolutely insane.

[@lowercasedelta]

This battle came at the perfect time as I was getting more and more into Doctor Who lately. 😁

[@supersonicheroes]

Plus it is Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary this month! I hope you enjoy the series!

[@KingBeckwood]

Im trying to get into doctor who myself ik a decent amount of the doctor but never got to watch the series what's the best way to get into it? Like is all the episodes available?

[@lowercasedelta]

@@KingBeckwood I don't know about anything before the ninth doctor, but all the modern episodes currently are on Max if you have access to that

[@supersonicheroes]

@@KingBeckwood I know most of the Classic episodes are on Britbox and the newer ones are on Max, and will be on Disney+ soon too.

[@emeraldkoala2]

​@@KingBeckwood there are a number of episodes from the 1960s that sadly no longer exist in a watchable form, but the majority of the Classic stories are available these days. As for where and how to watch the show, that depends on where in the world you are. But once you can access it I personally recommend starting with the 2005 series onwards, and then going back and watching the older stuff later if you're curious. The especially older stuff can be difficult to get into for a modern viewer, and the missing episodes don't make it any easier. You don't need to have seen everything that came before it to understand the modern series, but there are a lot of really good stories from every corner of the show. If you want to start somewhere in the classic series without worrying about missing episodes, I'd go for either Season 7 or Season 12. Though most of the classic stories aren't heavily connected to each other anyway so it's fine to jump around and just watch whichever ones sound the most interesting. Apparently the latest series is supposed to be a good jumping on point as well, but I've yet to see it since I live outside the UK and don't currently have a Disney plus subscription, so I can't personally say one way or another.

[@willowskeith4267]

Gotta love the fact that rick survived the time vortex to actually fight when it should have killed him. -clara only survived due to the tardis protecting her, and captain jack had become a FACT. And thus basically immortal.

[@Shintigercurl]

fun fact: while they said the doctor is about 2000 years old, technically he's much much older. like several billion years old. its...........complicated.

[@arkthegreenwolfx3627]

Actually he's roughly 3000+ years old. After 1000 years old, starting with the 8th Doctor, he started recounting. So anytime he mentions his age in the revival, just add 1000 onto that.

[@localcomicnerd]

Arguably much older due to the whole timeless child stuff

[@kriegerh]

Peter Capaldi's doctor was put in time lord jail for a 2 billion years time loop until he literally punched his way out. So yes....... physically he's about 3k ish but he did experience more than a couple billion years to his life.

[@localcomicnerd]

@kriegerh if you count the timeless child it's much older

[@cristalmewtwo4160]

Yeah like in years he's lived he's 2000 and something whilst in years he's experienced be it he remembers them or otherwise it's like 5 billion or something like that

[@misterwhalrus7334]

its so funny, cuz this did not even include the Doctor's ability to take the time vortex into himself to become all-powerful

[@kriegerh]

If a human could rewrite reality from doing it than imagine what the doctor can do. ALSO FUCK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF " BAD WOLF ". I was crying when Rose had to go man....😢😢😢

[@LilyKazami]

Isn't that lethal to him, though? It's how 9 died.

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

9:04 "Why is there a tank?" Because he's The Doctor. Seriously, him riding a modern tank into a medieval battle arena while wearing sunglasses (at night), playing rock music on an electric guitar, and shouting dad jokes doesn't even faze us Who fans. We don't even question how he managed to fit a tank into his TARDIS considering it lost its ability to change the size of its external doors in the very first episode.

[@parkersmith8711]

17:03 there is an arcade cabinet in the background with a pony on it and that is from MLP, in the show he was a background pony named Dr Whooves and based off the 10th Doctor

[@keyblademasterclark]

The reason he might sound Australian is because that version of the Doctor is played by David Tennant who has a natural Scottish accent. Maybe it's just me but sometimes Scottish and Australian accents sound similar

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Wait was he voicing him in the battle too?

[@keyblademasterclark]

@@theduckgoesmoo No, but I can understand why you would think that. The guy voicing the Doctor in the battle has voiced him for video games, which is why he sounds so damn convincing. I don't know if you've seen the Ducktails that aired a few years ago, but David Tennant voiced Scrooge McDuck in that series. The NC has a video reacting to the first two episodes

[@kyleflanagan963]

Doctor Who isy favorite series of all time, and the Doctor himself is my favorite character in fiction. Death Battle really portrayed him fantastically and this episode was one of my favorites. And the funny thing is. The REALLY funny thing is...they really used the absolute bear minimum. The Demat gun is really cool, but it's basically a Time Lord equivalent of an infantry rifle. Looking at things like The Moment, The Eye of Harmony, The Glory, all things which are more like Time Lord WMDs, it's nothing. The Doctor has several methods of becoming an all-powerful reality warper who can rewrite causality post-hoc to ensure he made it to that point. Even without those things the laws of cause and effect twist to his needs subconsciously as all of reality wants him to succeed and knows how important he is. That doesn't even get into how the TARDIS, despite being an outdated and faulty model, is a legitimate contender for the most powerful artifact in fiction, considering two of them fought the Quantum Archangel and forced her to retreat (a being that had merged with the underlying fabric of reality and basically WAS reality made manifest and given a will). Rick is a crazy, multiversal tiered super-genius and yet he is so many degrees of magnitude beneath the Doctor that it's frankly one of the most one-sided matchups Death Battle has ever had if they had actually used everything.

[@cooldude2027]

Doctor Who has been around since the 60’s. So you know… a little bit before Men in Black

[@RedLordOfAlagadda]

Fun Fact: The Doctor is arguably *the* strongest character to appear on Death Battle so far.

[@konekogamingYT]

Spongebob dude??

[@notwesley9180]

​@@konekogamingYTbelieve it or not, The Doctor is still stronger. They left some huge things out for Doc

[@konekogamingYT]

@@notwesley9180 O_O....WTF...

[@Mrbeard..]

​@@notwesley9180nah SpongeBob stronger

[@notwesley9180]

@@konekogamingYT yeah... he apparently even has set up to get him at outerversal scaling.

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

The Daleks also have time travel tech.

[@funny9able]

I love Doctor Who. I will die on the hill David Tennant was the best Doctor The Duck's Records 91 W 57 L (IC 1 In A Roll) Highest Streak: 7, 9 More Me: 51 W 41 L

[@getshwifty3101]

Sir, I only ever saw 2 episodes of Doctor Who when I was 13-14. Now, at 28, I started it 6 months ago. I finished it in 2 months. It's an absolutely FANTASTIC show. You would love it.

[@quantum_leviathan]

Demons run, when a good man goes to war.... God I love that rhyme in that episode

[@tntkff9901]

To answer your question: A police box was like a phone to call for help or for officers to call for backup. It would also be used to contain violent suspects until help could arrive. Kinda like a mini-jail

[@Shintigercurl]

dude, i'm gonna tell you what you need to know about the doctor in this one comment. if you are his friend, he will go to the ends of the universe to keep you safe. if you are his foe, there isn't anywhere in the universe you will be safe from him.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

That sounds a lot like me

[@cristalmewtwo4160]

​@@theduckgoesmoomaybe but he's got the reputation and the ability to follow up on anything he threatens to do

[@Bardic_Knowledge]

This is the first time I've watched a video before it went public. They actually left a few things out of The Doctor's breakdown, and you did miss something in it. The thing you was missed was "if a Time Lord dies mid-Regeneration, they die permanently." The thing they left out is that The Doctor was not born a Time Lord and has been revealed to have infinite regenerations, though, presumably, still has that "dead if killed during one" thing. Also, the Fifteenth Doctor, whom they showed, is being played by Ncuti Gwata (check spelling). We have zero info on who the Sixteenth might be, as they won't be cast for another few years.

[@thehonestreviewer7754]

Yeah, they really undersold the Doctor in the analysis. They hardly discussed how the Doctor's greatest allies were himself and how he's teamed up with past/future versions of himself on multiple occasions. Sure, it's not like he needed to team up with other versions of himself to beat Rick, but it would've still been nice to bring it up.

[@HB-fq9nn]

@@thehonestreviewer7754 They did bring up that all The Doctors teamed up to save Gallifrey.

[@Shintigercurl]

that part of the doctor's past will be retconned.

[@thehonestreviewer7754]

@@HB-fq9nn Yeah, as a complete throw-away line. I mean like actually discuss the team-ups as they're a huge highlight whenever they happen, not just the bare minimum like, "Oh, by the way, all the Doctors did this one thing together, the end."

[@HB-fq9nn]

@@thehonestreviewer7754 To be fair, The Doctor's analysis was already 3 minutes longer than Rick's by that point. They had to end it soon before it got too bloated.

[@frasechico]

The TARDIS is an absolute QUEEN ngl

[@kriegerh]

She's called SEXY!!!! by the doctor himself and he didn't correct her when she stated the fact lol.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

​@@kriegerh"did you wish REALLY HARD" Amelia Pond

[@logandelaharpe6362]

Magic existed in doctor who but the time lord thought it was cringe and deleted from reality

[@badwolf66]

The Doctor wasn't even in first gear he was just in standby mode!

[@sanewater9021]

Americans really have to stop commenting on accents, the amount of times I see them confuse British and Australian accents is atrocious.

[@stalememes6162]

The reason why they're redoing Goku VS Superman is to simply give the episode a modern treatment. The show works vastly different in comparison to how it did in Seasons 1 & 2, and there is dissatisfaction by the team with how the 2nd one was handled and presented. While requests for them to do it again probably did slightly come into play, it's mostly just because they want to do it.

[@kadenmacdonald4416]

Me after watching this episode: Oh boy, Rick vs The Doctor was absolutely fantastic! Definitely my new favorite episode of the whole show! I hope the next time is exciting... 'Sees Goku vs Superman 3' (sigh) Also I lmaoed when you started freaking during the Weeping Angel scene, that was funny. Thanks for the vid.

[@itsmepunziwei8493]

They could've done Destroya vs Iris but of course, they did Goku vs Superman 🤦‍♂️

[@chrisdiokno5600]

Police Boxes, from what I recall reading, were basically booths where officers would be in, and you could call on them for aid

[@Cauin450]

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. To date, 875 episodes of Doctor Who have aired. This includes one television movie and multiple specials, and encompasses 304 stories over 39 seasons with 15 incarnations of the Doctor starting in 1963 and is the longest-running science-fiction TV series in history.

[@navifairy6287]

Doctor Who started airing in 1963 and Men In Black was first published in 1990. Torchwood is closer to being a British Men In Black and it's a spin-off of Doctor Who. The Torchwood Institute was established by Queen Victoria after an encounter with the Doctor and Rose Tyler. It is meant to fight against supernatural and alien threats, which she included the Doctor in that list, as she found his actions and mannerisms too strange. Ironically one of the Doctor's former companions became the head of Torchwood. Torchwood is also an anagram for Doctor Who.

[@WDinATX]

The rules of Death Battle: Everyone is willing to kill regardless of their canon personality. The Doctor: *Is completely unwilling to personally erase Rick even when he has no choice, ultimately just tricking him into shooting himself.* He’s The Doctor and that’s just who he is… and they’ll *never* change.

[@crossaffliction]

A Police Box is basically just a box with a phone on the outside that you could call the police on. The police could also put a criminal inside it temporarily. It was basically a London only thing from the 1950s; it was already anachronistic by the 60s, and the Tardis Chameleon Circuit chose that form not because they were common, but because it landed in a junkyard.

[@patricklatham3897]

Well, back in the 1960s, the Police Box was a phone box designed for cops to reach the station for backup while simultaneously holding a suspect or perpetrator inside.

[@tython055]

The Police Box is from the 1950s, actually. 9th Doctor confirms this in the first episode of the Doctor Who revival series, aka Doctor Who Series 1 Episode 1.

[@ShadowdaHedgie11]

I mean, Rick having more weaponry was a no-brainer. The Doctor does have some weapons, but most of the time, weapons aren't his thing.

[@smugsneasel]

15:12 Yeah it absolutely is. Never underestimate it. While I can't relate because mine is year-round, won't leave, and eats all my food, those who aren't used to isolation, especially in areas with freezing cold/rain and heavy snowfall, really do need to make an extra effort to get themselves healthy and stimulated around winter months. Even if it seems trivial at first.

[@vivithegoblindruid]

Rick never shown the ability to use the death touch on the fly, the only time he reliably used it he had to go to the oval office and wait, so I suppose they assume it requires prep, which, given that he never used it again, seems like the right call.

[@Connor-ONeill]

Piss off Rick and he'll kill you. Piss off The Doctor and he'll make it his mission to keep you alive. No matter how creative he has to get.

[@ExplodingJellyfish]

From my knowledge, Police Boxes were used in the streets in the UK in the early 1940s that were close to what you say, the college campus emergency stations, but had a few more uses. For example, the Police Public Call Boxes have a telephone in the front compartment to call police, but also policemen could put criminals they've caught inside the police box and lock it, in which they could call the station and have backup come pick up the criminal to be brought into custody.

[@BassDS1990]

I would highly recommend checking Doctor Who out if this Death Battle got you a bit intrigued. Best part is, you don't even need knowledge of the original run that started in the 60s and ended in the 80's; the 2005 revival is the best place to start, and there will be several callbacks to the original run that may pique your interest into checking, IF you decide to go down this rabbit hole at all. It is worth nothing though, a good amount of episodes involving the First and Second Doctor from 1966-1969 are presumed lost forever, as the BBC didn't see any value in preserving anything until into the early 70s, though there have slowly been animated recreations of those lost episodes using the audio that survived in certain cases.

[@savitar33221]

A police box was a box with a phone that you could call the police on.

[@ZarcthefoxKamenRiderGeats]

I am so happy that the Doctor won since I love Doctor Who so this video is pretty much a dream come true for me, was a little annoyed over you not knowing about it but with it being a British series I’ll let it slide.

[@TAGfrost]

The team wasn't happy with the 2nd vs of Goku v Superman, corporate entities got involved and mucked up their video and the fans noticed and got mad.

[@mamluk]

Back in the day, before cell phones, there would be special boxes set up in england where, if you were in trouble, you could run to and pick up the phone to immediately call the police. Those were police boxes.

[@charleslee8313]

"British Men In Black" would be Torchwood (the spin-off of Doctor Who) A police box was a telephone kiosk or callbox for the use of members of the police, or for members of the public to contact the police.

[@Kaltsit-]

Doctor Who is a great show. Both are great shows. But yeah, I would say The Doctor would win. And even in the final battle, he’d have to. One time he was “locked for all of time” by all of his enemies banding together to imprison him, the most dangerous being ever. And basically right after his imprisonment, all of his enemies just faded from existence with only facades remaining and their home planets just gone. So if The Doctor was hit by that gun, all time, or at least most of it, would just not exist.

[@frasechico]

Something that makes the Daleks completely terrifying stems from an unmentioned ability; Time Lords have In-Universe plot armor. Because they were part of the reason the Universe is less magic and more science, when a time lord is in danger the Universe may look at it and change certain things to give an edge. And The Daleks almost wiped them out. Not bad for machines initially designed as transport for a dying race.

[@frasechico]

Mind they do have a rather painful weakness; One gained the ability to feel sympathy and immediately killed itself

[@redraven123]

To answer the question at the end, they're using Dragon Ball Heroes for Goku - meaning he'll have all his modern powers like Ultra Instinct, on top of a massive boost to his strength. And they're using Infinite Frontier for Superman - which is basically just Superman, but even more busted.

[@RookMeAmadeus]

Why Goku Vs Superman 3? From what I've been able to find, it sounds like it's going to be a combination of ALL OF THEIR POWERS, EVER, across all media this time. In which case I'm pretty sure Goku loses horrendously because Pre-crisis Superman was basically a reality warper.

[@darkforce2787]

So duck, if Rick asks you to join him on a Rick and Morty adventure would you say yes

[@zacharywinzenburg3423]

For Goku vs Superman 3, they are using modern Superman vs heroes Goku

[@meitner07]

That was Ncuti Gatwa, not Idris Elba.

[@jordanhansen5934]

A police box is something that used to be all over the UK. Think of it as a temporary holding cell. Let’s say a police officer arrested a random crook or a drunk on the street. They’d simply be able to shove them into one of these blue boxes for temporary containment and then use the phone built into the box (in a small hatch) to call for backup and a way to transfer them to prison. The phone also doubled as a way for police officers to check in with their home office.

[@hadesdogs4366]

Kinda a police box is a well box in which a policeman might sit, have a cup of tea and use it as a camp site on their patrols throughout London, since London is typically wet or raining or cloudy it’s mostly just used as a form of shelter for any nearby police officers, along with a telephone built into it.

[@ellisclark7016]

This episode is by far my favourite out of this season so far. As for the next time: I think we all know how this is going to end, so if he loses again I doubt they will do the match up ever again.

[@PerfectBlueBoyOP]

Great Reaction :D This DEATH BATTLE of Rick Sanchez vs The Doctor Was Awesome! Goku VS Superman 3, Here We Come.

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

"Is this like British Men in Black?" Sure, it's a lot like Men in Black! ...Only completely different!

[@spugnoxngubcux9801]

Apparently something in the DC comics happened that gave Superman limits to consider. I don't know the specifics, but apparently the main continuity is different from the last time these two fought.

[@weaponmaster1515]

The doctor is like a multiple personality symptoms kinda guy

[@largo778]

from the looks of it, they are doing DRAGONBALL (the original) Goku vs Superman (Golden Age comics, not the current)

[@bemasaberwyn55]

"It did, how did it do that?" "I've got major tech skillz, and that's skills with a Zed"

[@johanstenfelt1206]

This was a fun one and i learned more about the Doctor in the process.

[@TK3477]

They have like a chat about these fights and have one team mamber defend each side. Then they poll social media outlets to see what fans think. When Rick vs the Doctor came up, Doctor won by a landslide.

[@acolyte06312]

17:07 If you look at the arcade machine next to Rick, Bill Cipher is floating around in the screen

[@CGomm-le7gv]

I don't know if someone put it but in dragon ball abridge trunks used the tadis sound when time traveling also in history of trunks doctor who music was used

[@azurewriter8347]

On paper, they are doing Goku vs Superman 3. But they’re using the strongest Goku from Heroes against the strongest Superman from Infinite Frontier, so it’s actually more accurate to say that this is a character that looks and sounds like Goku vs a character that looks and sounds like Superman. The team said that they’re doing this to correct their poor research in rounds 1 and 2, modernize those episodes, and make up for the fact that the Goku they used at the time was the equivalent of an alternate skin in a video game.

[@JackassJunior627]

To kill a time lord fully is to kill them in the process of regeneration. They did explain that but I think you were talking over it 😅 Time Lords can be killed the same as a human but the regeneration is their last attempt of cheating death. Typically from stab/gunshot wounds, radiation poisoning, old age, internal damage, or anything that isn’t decapitation.

[@danielwilson8604]

to quickly explain the fruit/vegetable thing, if it's grown ABOVE the ground, it's a fruit (trees, vines, etc). below, it's a vegetable. that's a very simplified version and there's other things, but it generally holds true.

[@SentaiYamaneko]

4:11: From a botanical standpoint, pickles are a fruit, a vegetable, and a berry all at once. 10:31: If I'm remembering right, the 12th Doctor was Scottish, not British. 11:48: A police box is a specialized phone booth for either calling the police or for personal use by the police.

[@kataphrut7740]

Scottish is British. (At least until they secede).

[@alwest4472]

@@kataphrut7740by god the British parliament won’t allow them though

[@SentaiYamaneko]

@@kataphrut7740 Try telling a Scot that.

[@kataphrut7740]

@@SentaiYamaneko 12: “Oh that’s good, I’ve gone Scottish. I can really complain about things now!”

[@kriegerh]

The pickle in question here is a cucumber based one and cucumbers are in fact a fruit. They have seeds and grow from flowering plants. That is how you can tell the difference between fruits and vegetables. Berries are mostly in the fruit category but since not all berries come from flowering plants they're given a class on their own.

[@Americanbadashh]

I doubt you've seen it but there's an American made of TV movie series called, The Librarian; and it has to be the most Doctor Who like US production I've seen

[@cristalmewtwo4160]

A police box something in England in the 1960s which had a phone for you to call the police for the police to call back up to hold prisoners in whilst waiting for a car or just to eat their lunch in

[@featherguardian6023]

At First I didn’t know who would’ve Won, they’re both seemingly Unstoppable but I remember that while Rick is a Problem Solver with a Random Arsenal that made him into a Advanced Super Human, The Doctor is a Literal British Time God with a Knowledge beyond Anything Rick could do, 9 out of 10, a Great Death Battle with Clean Animation and Funny Rick and Morty Energy plus a Screaming Sun, next Death Battle is Another Goku vs Superman One that I’m hoping it’s the Last One.

[@Fennalope]

the reason the Tardis looks like a blue police box is because they have the ability to change aperance depending on where they are to fit in. his is broken so it cant change anymore but he likes the look of the police box so he never bothered to get it fixed iirc

[@Noob-Animations]

23:28 im fairly sure their doing Comp of Both (Basically all versions of them compiled into one)

[@BLKBRDSR71]

Sees the next DB. "Ah shit! Here we go again".

[@hollowbrinethehollowfiedsu6365]

The next one is essentially fully composite both.

[@RaphaelRavenwing]

A police box is a public telephone kiosk or callbox for the use of members of the police, or for members of the public to contact the police. It was used in some countries, most widely in the United Kingdom throughout the 20th century from the early 1920s. Unlike an ordinary callbox, its telephone was located behind a hinged door so it could be used from the outside, and the interior of the box was, in effect, a miniature police station for use by police officers to read and fill in reports, take meal breaks and even temporarily hold detainees until the arrival of transport. The typical British police box contained a telephone linked directly to the local police station, allowing patrolling officers to keep in contact with the station, reporting anything unusual or requesting help if necessary. A light on top of the box would flash to alert an officer that they were requested to contact the station. Police boxes were usually blue, with the most notable exception being Glasgow, where they were red until the late 1960s. In addition to a telephone, they contained equipment such as an incident book, a fire extinguisher and a first aid kit. - Wikipedia

[@thedoglovinggamer5825]

1:58 They actually released multiple new episodes.

[@TopPigg]

So a Police box, Back before cell phones were a thing, you had to use a hard wired phone. so if you were in the middle of town, you had pay phones. A "police box" was more or less a 911 pay phone. Go inside, close the door, call the police.

[@smoldirectorbirb797]

My favorite part of this was the doctor never directly attacked once. Even when he had the opportunity.