YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP!!! Reacting to "Saitama vs Popeye Death Battle"

[@calebgoodman2076]

Yeah... as soon as I saw the Popeye announcement I immediately decided he was going to win. I do like Saitama but old cartoons are ridiculously powerful. Popeye (or more specifically a parody of him) even fought and beat Superman once (albeit another parody).

[@Sparkizinho]

Cartoon force is super op

[@SuperMandibleclaw]

not popeye but his parody

[@calebgoodman2076]

@@SuperMandibleclaw Good point.

[@mel-el5862]

Popeye never fought superman. superman beat a parody version of popeye

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

And that was PRE-CRISIS SUPES. You know, the one who can SNEEZE SOLAR SYSTEMS AWAY.

[@helios_is_my_name]

Imagine being one of the people animating this episode and popeye just punches you.

[@cjgameplay3692]

I would be honored

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I would…. Go doodle bob on him

[@mixednarwhal]

@@theduckgoesmoo you already saw how that turned out when his nothingness ate spinach so you’re welcome to try but you might get an uppercut

[@Bleeperblopper497]

@@theduckgoesmoo Doodlebob is NOTHING compared to Popeye

[@Pain_tami]

I would be literally dead

[@kisdota]

In the Storyboard animation when they get to the 3D fight there's just a placeholder saying "Devilartemis does some cool s***".

[@sethgibson5148]

I honestly can't say where this death battle became my favorite. It was either when Popeye became that buff sailor man (because I thought that was hilarious) or when Saitama does his "death" punch and Popeye does his "spinach" punch. Also fun fact. That buff form of Popeye was actually a D.C character the was based off him. He fought Superman and wrecked him.

[@thecursed_1lordofcats738]

Apparently that whole 3D part of the battle was outsourced to DevilArtemis instead of the in-house 3D team. I recall in a death battle cast episode that there wasn't even a storyboard for that part and Rooster Teeth simply had faith that DevilArtemis would make something crazy enough to fit in with the rest of the animation.

[@yusifudo46]

The 3D look was Captain Strong. DC bought the right to use Popeye in their comics a long time ago and he fought Pre-Crisis Superman. He sort of won.

[@chriserwin7823]

​@@thecursed_1lordofcats738I'm glad to hear they got faith in mah man DevilArtemis.

[@Zitsanrael1117]

This is easily the greatest "one-sided fight" Death Battle has ever done. I mean, anyone who thought Saitama ever stood a chance is smoking something, and I'm pretty sure it isn't spinach.

[@Zitsanrael1117]

@@daboi8734 Yeah I've seen it, and I can by no means understand their thought process. In a "VS" context toon force is flat out broken. I've disagreed with some DB verdicts before, but this one was pretty clear cut I'd say.

[@daboi8734]

@@Zitsanrael1117 What makes it funnier is that Nate in the beginning of the video says "Saitama is winning unless Popeye has godlike abilities" and he STILL got mad even after DB showed Popeye's god like abilities, Nate was literally contradicting himself.

[@Zitsanrael1117]

@@daboi8734 I think you meant "Saitama isn't losing" but yeah, he really let his fanboyism get the best of him there. It makes for good comedy at least.

[@NatyaVT]

Either smoking something, or just too young. Popeye is *old* now and most of Death Battle's viewers don't know him. Furthermore, the Toonforce generally doesn't appear a lot in modern media anymore. (Joyboy not withstanding.) So *it's* a foreign concept to many too.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I feel like the recency bias is the main reason

[@dylanmorris5352]

Fun fact about the spinach cans at the beginning of the fight, they are shown to be 1,500 yen, which is about $15usd. That's one expensive can of spinach man.

[@GundamChief]

Saitama should know better than to buy the name brands XD

[@VunderGuy]

15.00 yen, not 1,500 yen. 13 cents. The joke is that Popeyes spinach isn't even worth that much.

[@dylanmorris5352]

@@VunderGuy I didn't know that yen could have a point in it.

[@fenorlex1126]

​@@VunderGuyHe (Saitama) either that broke, or that the dev team forgot that Japan uses ¥ and not $. But yeah, the Spinach costing that much still works.

[@gab5012]

@@fenorlex1126the dev team couldn’t have forgot because they then would’ve drawn a dolllar symbol but clearly drew them yen symbol which means they remembered Japanese yen¥

[@michaelthesavior8740]

Glad to see you finally react to this reality breaking fight! In my opinion this fight is in the top 5 of best death battles they've ever made

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I can agree with that actually

[@BrandonLee365]

Popeye kinda had the same sort of "Toon Force" powers that The Mask did in his death battle, *and then some* That's kind of the problem with trying to actually put cartoon characters like him in the series in the first place because old school toons are absolutely nuts. If you see one in a Death Battle, chances are they're winning. That's honestly the reason I hope they stay away from it in the future unless it's for a gag or something, they're just not fair to have these 'semi-realistic' verses compete against.

[@cantmakeacreativename2072]

Aware this is pretty late, but I feel like adding toon force characters is fine IF they are compared to other toon force heavy characters. Would probably end up being a stale mate but eh.

[@jacobwansleeben3364]

If you look hard enough though, you can find modern characters who are just as ridiculous, like Bobobo for example.

[@traviswall1982]

....and Saitama could not be any happier to lose.

[@yummynubs3646]

it's fine if it's funny enough, like spongebob vs aquamn, this episode was funny enough

[@robbiewalker2831]

@@cantmakeacreativename2072 Like King Dedede vs. Wario or Mario vs. Sonic; Mario and Sonic had to have a rematch, due to their old battle relying on sources that are not canon to the main source; like how Sonic wins in the old battle, because it's mostly comprised of feats from the Archie canon, not the game canon.

[@MarkoDash]

this is one of the ones where anyone who knows both characters can tell who will win before the match starts. Saitama is at least planetbuster level strong, but Popeye is Bugs Bunny level toonforce with the advantage of actually liking to fight.

[@GundamChief]

In "Meta", the name for the power characters like Popeye utilize is "Toon Force" which, if I recall correctly (iirc), was coined by the Loony Toons, or at least is named because of them. Toon force is basically "Toon Physics" in a nutshell. The laws of reality as we know it are basically conditional to the rules set by Toon Force, and what normally is impossible for a real person to do becomes possible when toon physics become involved, especially if the laws governing Toon Physics are actively acted upon. A good example is the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". If you don't know what that is...you really need to watch it. It is a cultural classic now. Anyways, in the movie the cartoon character "Roger Rabbit" was in handcuffs, and normally you can't break out of them without a key, a tool to cut them off, or incredible strength. The person Roger was handcuffed to, the other main character and detective Eddie Valiant, was trying to cut them off and asked Roger to hold still the table they were using to cut on. Roger then casually slips out of the cuffs and holds the table, asking "Does this help?", with Eddie replying "Yeah, thanks". Eddie immediately stops, realizing Roger slipped out of the cuffs, and slams down the hacksaw, making Roger put the cuffs back on in frightened fashion. "You mean to tell me you could have gotten out of them cuffs _at ANY TIME!?"_ Roger replies "No, not at any time! Only _when it was funny!"_ Toon force operates on the rules of "Cool", allowing for impossible things to happen when by all accounts it shouldn't because it's Cool, the rules of Drama, and the rule of Funny, to name some of these tropes. Popeye is an old cartoon character, from the 1930s, and he was in the time when "Toon Force" was a staple for cartoons because of how impossibly unreal the characters were in terms of ability. Back then, they were your average cartoon hero, today, the same character in a modern cartoon would be insanely overpowered. "Uncle Grandpa" is a good example of a modern character operating on Toon Force.

[@GamingGamer22]

Lol remember when Uncle grandpa solo'd Steven universe and the crystal gems 😂😂

[@frozezone2947]

@@GamingGamer22 That happen ?

[@GamingGamer22]

@@frozezone2947 made quick work of them

[@fenorlex1126]

​@@GamingGamer22Yes.

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

Well with the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" thing... they were also implying that an actual gun could hurt a toon as well... Biggest thing is that there's an in-universe surefire way to actually kill toons there, a mixture of turpentine, acetone, and benzene to be exact. And all toons were scared of "the dip", even the ones that did come from other franchises. That's an implication that toons aren't invincible, but at the same time, there still could be an established rule as well

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

Also, that's one I'd like to see the math on. Not just bending a steel beam into the shape of a magnet, but positively charging it in the process...

[@MMAddict39]

This matchup was pretty much a complete squash and everyone knew it was coming the moment they announced it. Relatively speaking, while Saitama is damn near unstoppable in his own universe when you start comparing his feats and abilities with other characters in other media sources he really starts coming up short, this is especially true when you start bringing in characters who have access to abilities (hax) or magic that Saitama has no real defense against.

[@BrandonLee365]

He does have resistance and immunity to psychic powers to an extent, so it's not entirely a lost cause. However the point still stands, he's strong for his universe, but in the grand scheme of the versus community he's kinda mid.

[@MonkeySaiyans]

He's still the strongest human anime character i've ever seen

[@rensenkai5974]

@@MonkeySaiyans krillin, tein, and darksnider are all stronger.

[@MonkeySaiyans]

@@rensenkai5974 Ummm no?

[@MonkeySaiyans]

@@rensenkai5974 darkseid maybe win tho

[@joshuagonzalez493]

I kind of don't know if I have it directly but a person I know made a few art images of a hypothetical Saitama vs Popeye aftermath where Popeye takes the egg of Saitama and have an chicken hatch him back to life.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

The internet will never stop surprising me

[@Brasc]

That live action clip of Popeye is from the movie Popeye (1980) that had Robin Williams playing the titular Sailor Man. Also, Death Battle has indeed already started its new season with two new battles already, and the upcoming third one does indeed have a character from Demon Slayer up against someone from JoJo.

[@fireball1249]

OH SHIT, I just realized since it has a JoJo character, he's going to have to skip that one :(

[@ernar8926]

@@fireball1249 Why

[@fireball1249]

@@ernar8926 Because he wants to watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

[@SentaiYamaneko]

@@fireball1249 He should probably skip it anyway. He's watching Demon Slayer, and this is definitely going to use stuff from the manga and spoil anime-only fans.

[@sethgibson5148]

You know, if I was told that spinach was actually called Spinacia Oleracea I would've more than likely have eaten it. Especially if it was in its leafy form and not a pile of wet warm mush.

[@Alexanderthegreat159]

Yeah the more you watch the show, the more you'll be able to tell that. Yea they started him off as the joke character, but as a show goes on things get more and more sad for the villains and him. It gets pretty brutal later on

[@Just_A_Red_Guy]

"there's a scale for that....why?" To see how dangerous the damn meteor is.

[@israelpena2446]

Season 9 has already started with Harley Quinn VS Jinx. I think it's safe to subscribe to Death Battle now that you're up to date.

[@SpencerBPD]

Throwing in a suggestion for the next web series: Angry Video Game Nerd!

[@banjo-kazooie]

That is a surefire way to get demonetized ... that said I support this suggestion.

[@umbrella3235]

^^this

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

That is a TERRIBLE idea. And I endorse it wholeheartedly.

[@corryjamieson3909]

Oh no, LETS FUCKING DO IT.

[@pokemaniac05]

That's what i was thinking of.

[@mcpics4448]

See what Popeye has that saitama doesn’t is TOON FORCE unlike the speedforce has unlimited ANIMATION POTENTIAL

[@theduckgoesmoo]

What if popeye was fast?

[@fenorlex1126]

@@theduckgoesmoo That is possible.

[@sethgibson5148]

So the majority of people knew that Popeye was gonna win. But there have been those die hard Saitama fans that say this fight was bs. I know one reaction channel I saw didn't even listen to the explanation because it was "wrong" and that they "left out information for Saitama" (it didn't help that they skipped over parts of the analysis)

[@HB-fq9nn]

Yeah. The Renegades usually aren’t salty about Death Battle, but for that battle they were particularly upset.

[@naokaderapider4210]

@@HB-fq9nn to be fair, they have been pretty salty about a few of em

[@christophermonteith2774]

I'm curious as to what they think saitama actually has that popeye would lose to

[@SunnyHikikOmori]

I absolutely love One Punch Man but it baffles me how fans still think Saitama would win. I understand the debate between Saitama vs Goku and the uncertainty of the winner. But it's obvious with Popeyes Toon Force that he'd win.

[@HB-fq9nn]

@@christophermonteith2774 A lot of Saitama fans dismiss Popeye’s feats as something done for the sake of comedy, rather than something to be used as a feat. It’s crazy that people will dismiss Toon Force abilities because they seem silly, while they are perfectly fine with absurd/silly feats performed in Anime’s.

[@mohaumoseki3582]

Saitama Vs Popeye is a good example that stomp matchups can be entertaining fights.

[@Lycanthromancer1]

Hell, Kirby vs Majin Buu is still my favorite exclusively 2D Death Battle, and there's no way Buu was winning that one, even with all of Kirby's feats they ignored.

[@Wattson19]

Yeah, another good example is Aquaman vs SpongeBob

[@TnT_F0X]

I highly recommend the banana video. Its like watching a baby eat a lemon but with commentary.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Lol and a Kirby

[@SuperMandibleclaw]

fun fact, the 3d segment of the death battle was animated by devilartemis

[@Spellshot693]

The characters who were teased here were: Jinx from League of Legends/Arcane Scarlet Witch from Marvel Tanjiro from Demon Slayer Vegeta from Dragon Ball Some Mandalorian (probably Boba Fett) from Star Wars And Tetsuo from Akira

[@supersaiyandiclonius3056]

Fun fact: DevilArtimis animated the CGI segment with Jojo Popeye.

[@SalaComMander]

That live action Popeye was played by Robin Williams, if you didn't know.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I did not! That’s cool!

[@bemasaberwyn55]

And it was AWESOME

[@nixodian108]

The usual chart goes: Gag Character > Parody Character > DC Character > Marvel Character > Anime Character > Game Character Many exceptions exist but this is what happens in the majority of time

[@dataphoenix8004]

True but Popeye is something else than just a gag character or toon

[@animegx45]

Two fun facts: Popeye was played by Liam Swan, who's a long time writer for Death Battle. Actually, the second isn't very fun. Because of copyright concerns that came from this episode, they're not gonna end each analysis with a character quote for a while, if at all anymore.

[@AngelCam7]

Well, Season 9 is in progress with 2 new episodes already aired with the 3rd episode to air in 2 weeks, with every episode airing every 2 weeks except for when they take the summer off.

[@BlazeWriter]

The next episode is Harley Quinn VS Jinx & after that it’s Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna. The 3rd episode of Season 9 is confirmed to be Jonathan Joestar VS Tanjiro, so that’s an episode you’ll have to skip. Season 9 is off to a great start with these first 2 episodes & I hope after this you’ll watch One Minute Melee.

[@SebasTian58323]

What's even funnier is that both characters now have time traveling in they're stories

[@funny9able]

1929 Duck's Record 75 W 46 L (C 6 In A Roll) Highest Streak: 6 A New Record Me: 38 W 29 L I Got It Wrong...Congratulation you deserver it What a way to end the season

[@NameIsZ]

Another obvious outcome, but one of those "very enjoyable fights no matter what" battles.

[@DarkMephiles]

Yes Season 9 has started. The first episode is Harley Quinn vs Jinx. And yes Tanjiro is going to be on but he's fighting a Jojo character so you're going to have to skip it.

[@dylanmorris5352]

I think you mostly talked over it, but when you looked surprised at the fact that they said Saitama's workout routine is impossible to maintain, they were saying that he never actually got enough time to recover from the workouts, since he was doing them every single day, and by the time he completed them, he could only get like 6, maybe 4 hours of sleep, meaning that his body would never really benefit from it and basically tear itself apart. the only reason it doesn't is because of the classic trope of anime bullshit.

[@BJGvideos]

Yeah. people do the OPM workout in real life but they take breaks in order for it to work. I believe Lanipator was doing that workout for a while!

[@dylanmorris5352]

@@BJGvideos It definably can be done, but not on the work schedule that Saitama had as a Japanese person working like 12 hour shifts a day to make a living as well. If you set some time to have free, and you properly do it, the workout can definably produce great results.

[@SuperMandibleclaw]

@@BJGvideos saitama's workout requires no breaks

[@Alexanderthegreat159]

The why is not anime bullshit. It's common sense that he got his powers from someone else.

[@chrismanning2888]

@@Alexanderthegreat159 it definitely is anime bullshit

[@genostellar]

"And finally throw out his Serious Punch! A blow where he punches... a little harder... than normal." I see what they did there.

[@banjo-kazooie]

It's finally heeeeere, your reaction to one of the greatest DB's ever!

[@demonkiller1742]

For those of you who has grown up watching popeye the sailorman like myself😌,already knew the outcome of this battle,but don’t get me wrong I still like saitama, I just knew that as soon as I heard the announcement that he was going to win,and by the way popeye is one of the greatest cartoons ever to watch,like for me my top 3 cartoons are Popeye,Bugs Bunny,and Tom and Jerry (just my opinion.😌)

[@cjgameplay3692]

I don't think Tom&Jerry are at the same level as BB and Popeye. I would put Woody Woodpecker on third place.

[@fireball1249]

I didn't necessarily grow up with Popeye. I only watched a few of his Cartoons and watched all of One Punch Man. So when this Death Battle was announced, I thought it was a stomp on Saitama's part. So you can imagine my confusion when I kept hearing that Saitama was going lose. Then, when I watched this Episode when it was Premiering, I was honestly surprised at how little I actually knew about Popeye. So yeah, I'm a lot less angry about the result. In fact, I'm perfectly fine with it. Onto the next Season.

[@CSpaDinner]

Yo, you made it, now onto season 9 baby

[@thehowlinggamer5784]

This onejust goes to prove you just ca.'t beat the original superhero. True fact. Popey was used as inspiration by action comics to create superman before becoming the poster boy for dc comics alongside batman. Action comics played homage to this by creating another character called captain strong, who I think was used for the 3d modeling here as they look so much alike.

[@mentalcupcakes8142]

3D popeye is the stuff of nightmares

[@crcoghill]

than you haven't seen Popeye as a zombie.

[@locusxe1411]

@@crcoghill I have and I think the 3d is worse personally

[@Samfry523]

@@locusxe1411 Same.

[@captainmarvelous7673]

Death Battle Season 9’s first 2 episodes are already out so you’ll be officially caught up in about a week.

[@mr.l8723]

17:39 KILLER MOVE: SERIOUS SERIES- Serious table flip!

[@aksghazi868]

The biggest number in Death Battle belongs to MegaMan.EXE actually. Not saying he's the strongest character ever, but he certainly holds the award for the biggest number yet.

[@BJGvideos]

That novemdecillion feat? I'd never even heard of that number before good god.

[@KingBeckwood]

@@BJGvideos 60 zeros long almost the biggest number in history lol 🤣

[@jamesmorrow5527]

This is awesome they haven't come out with the start of season 9 yet but if you get a chance epic rap battles of History is definitely a good one to go with

[@fireball1249]

Dude, Season 9 has started, what are you commenting about?

[@jamesmorrow5527]

@@fireball1249 really I tried looking it up after watching this reaction I couldn't pull up anything

[@chrismanning2888]

@@jamesmorrow5527 you didn't see Harley Quinn vs Jinx? Or Scarlet Witch vs Zatanna? Especially that last one since it just came out a few days ago

[@zacjumpman209]

I love how the deciding factor was which character is the most ridiculous.

[@ShahroozSmith]

Think of it this way.. This is like comparing Superman in the 2000s and 2010 comics to Superman from the Golden Age comics (1938 - 1956) One has grounded scientific logic and the other runs on pure Sci-Fi and nonsense that can't be scientifically measured. Put them together in a fight, and sure enough, Golden Age Superman will defeat any of his modern incarnations. Weirdly enough, the weakest form of Superman was from the Animated Superman series in the 90s.

[@williamts9422]

Saitama's interesting when looking at him from a VS debate standpoint because while most people hype him up to be unbeatable, once you start comparing him to characters outside his world, he really falls short of being top tier and he ESPECALLY loses to many characters with good hax. There's always a bigger fish in the pond so to speak.

[@destructorthedestroyer7651]

It's crazy but in fiction there are characters literally beyond the scope of our imagination. There are characters that can destroy entire universes like they are nothing or an entire multiverse. There are characters even far beyond that as well. Saitama honestly isn't anything strong at all. I mean the strongest you could put him using his best feat is being star level (slightly higher by not much more given he punched away a star level attack using a serious punch). So, many characters could beat Saitama. Like Saitama wouldn't be able to beat ghost enemies since he can't hit something that doesn't actually have a body. So he would never win. You have characters that can stop time or reality warp Saitama out of existence or characters that could teleport Saitama into outer space with Saitama having no way to come back and just suffocating to death. He's honestly VERY weak when it comes to VS debate.

[@williamts9422]

@@destructorthedestroyer7651 I wouldn't say that, he certainly superior to a vast majority of characters, just not super high tier ones like Goku, Superman, Darkseid, Kirby or a certain pair of magical gals Duck will soon see, even further beyond that. They're like S and S+ while Saitama is in A rank

[@siliarba]

@@williamts9422 Fairly sure he count's in the superhigh tier, obviously can't be sure as it's not clear what the actual strength is of Saitama and while more clear, Goku's hard to lock down as well as he can blow up planets but bullets can also hurt him if he doesn't focus for example, but I think Saitama's stronger than Goku.

[@williamts9422]

@@siliarba You probably don't remember this but by the end of Super, Goku could destroy a universe, many times larger than ours, in his BASE form. I don't think Saitama has anything that could scale him to that

[@destructorthedestroyer7651]

@@williamts9422 Whoa whoa whoa, absolutely not. Star level isn't too high in the tiering rung dude. You have Planet, Star, Solar System, Multi-Solar System, Galaxy, Multi-Galaxy, Universe, Multiple Universes, Multiverse, (higher dimensions and so on), ending with Omnipotent. Like Saitama is REALLY REALLY WEAK. That star level calc I gave is his best feat if I overamplified that feat as well. The web comic suggests that Boros's attack is strong enough to wipe the surface of the earth, the anime states it could destroy a planet, the one punch man compass says it could destroy a star. So, you could quite honestly rank it A LOT lower if you use different interpretations. If I was being honest Saitama is stronger than a lot of fictions but that is also because those fictions are also VERY WEAK as well. I mean this version of Saitama at his peak is not even as strong as Super Perfect Cell who is Solar System level and there are A LOT of characters that can do that, videogames, COMICS especially, animes, shows, cartoons etc. He is probably like C- in all of fiction if I was being honest.

[@connorwood9211]

- I knew nothing about Popeye, but I already knew he was gonna win. Cause the only reason they'd put Saitama in a DB would be to lose. Or at best stalemate - Characters who appeared in the preview include Tanjiro (Demon Slayer who's fight Jonathan Joestar next) Wanda/Scarlet Witch(Marvel), Tetsuo (Akira), Vegeta (Dragon Ball) and Boba Fett (Star Wars)

[@SentaiYamaneko]

And Jinx

[@TrackMaster844]

10:43 - I remember that episode. They were turned into Buffalo Nickels Xp

[@TheBepis1309]

Yes, that was Demon Slayer... The next Death Battle is Tanjiro vs Jonathan Jostar.

[@fireball1249]

Unfortunately, he's gonna have to skip it :(

[@hallofguns8174]

I love that you got the JoJo reference. The scene where they exchange 1000 punches in a second is totally from a season 3 fight in JoJo.

[@dustingaethje1332]

Now I wanna know who wins, Popeye or Ultra Instinct Shaggy / Bully Maguire / any meme force character.

[@sethgibson5148]

You talked over it, but they said if you aren't a trained athlete them doing opms work would be almost impossible. You are a trained athlete so it would be much easier, I however am nowhere near that so I would probably die if I tried that. Or at least would need more breaks than the workout allows.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Well of course plus I’m sure saitama didn’t start out at that level from day 1, it all takes time and dedication

[@calebgoodman2076]

Actually I think by normal human standards Saitama should’ve developed Rhabdomyolysis. A potentially fatal disease caused by over-exercising. Saitama’s workout routine is very dangerous.

[@locusxe1411]

Exactly why his limit was broken. He didn’t get that disease because he pushed himself so far

[@calebgoodman2076]

@@locusxe1411 It is true that there are situations where the body naturally allows a human to break their limiter, an example is Lauren Kornacki that lifted a car off her father or Lydia Angyiou who fought a polar bear. However it’s a rare occurrence and only lasts a short time. Saitama is a whole different beast in that regard.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

Haha I’m doomed

[@calebgoodman2076]

@@theduckgoesmoo You should be fine as long as you don’t overexert yourself and take rest days when needed. The problem with Saitama is he does it regularly on a long term basis and is in a state of overexerting himself.

[@joshuana5132]

Yeah, we're getting a Demon Slayer. In fact, it's next. Tanjirou, the protag from Demon Slayer, vs. Jonathan Joestar, the first of the Jojo's from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, because both use Breathing techniques to fight with.

[@fireball1249]

Unfortunately, he's gonna have to skip that one :(

[@CraigOrangeSoda]

Saitama's Workout is literally and figuratively IMPOSSIBLE. But of course, you talked over it and didn't even thought about it. I DARE you to do it yourself and see if you don't drop down in just after 2 days lol

[@BJGvideos]

People do it in real life but they also have lots of spare time and take breaks to heal up

[@CraigOrangeSoda]

@@BJGvideos Did you even hear or watched the video itself? He does those "EVERY SINGLE DAY". Or have you even Worked out yourself? The muscle doesn't heal up instantly in just 1 sleep or break, it takes time.

[@BJGvideos]

@@CraigOrangeSoda That was literally what I just said but go off, chief.

[@christophermonteith2774]

for an average person it is impossible, for a well trained person maybe not, though they would have to already be doing things like it anyway

[@theduckgoesmoo]

It’s difficult but definitely possible like really possible. I’ve seen OPM so I know the workout

[@markmorales7958]

17:58 DevilArtemis: Guess who's back...?

[@Skywolfhd20]

it's funny that he brings up luffy when rubberhose animation is mentionioned

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

I still can't believe people argue that Saitama can still win this. He may break the rules, but Popeye, as a toon, HAS NO RULES. Plus, considering who Saitama is, wouldn't people _want_ him to lose? Also funny how you noticed Tanjiro in the Season 9 preview, since he's actually next up to fight as of writing this comment! ...unfortunately for you, he's fighting Jonathan Joestar.

[@Aaroncarter95]

Saitama breaks the plot, Popeye ignores it and replaces it with whatever he wants.

[@haku8135]

Even if he wasn't there's ABSOLUTELY going to be major spoilers on Tanjiro's end, and he's not even close to catching up with Demon Slayer.

[@lazytime3126]

ironically, I thought of that death battle fight while I was watching demon slayer, I found it similar to jojo and thought up a fight between them, to my surprise it came through

[@lowiqleftist8940]

With this logic Goku has no chance against Mickey Mouse! 😂

[@effigytormented]

The first time Popeye became super strong was stroking the feathers of some magical chicken. Fun fact, the guy he's based on is from Southern Illinois. Popeye even has a statue down there somewhere.

[@Eggnimates]

Definitely do mob, you will not regret it!

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

Popeye started as a comic strip in 1929 and the first cartoon was made in 1933

[@KingKP96]

DBX is okay, but it's really just shorter versions of the fights. People tend to like them less because they don't do any research and they usually have the way weaker character win as a result. I specifically remember one about Ruby from RWBY and Ragna from Blazblue that got people REALLY mad with the outcome.

[@ultrawinggaming9764]

DBX is specifically decided by Fan vote vs the main Death Battles where they are decided by Arbitrary Researched done by a Research team that at times can be super biased.

[@sparkytepig]

@@ultrawinggaming9764 Sounds like someone is salty their favorite didn’t win in the past. That aside, flawed as their investigations can be at times, any amount of research is a far more satisfying solution than just a popular vote.

[@ultrawinggaming9764]

@@sparkytepig I agree. It is more satisfying. I especially love how they go over the characters in the first place since it can introduce someone to a series they may have never heard of or are a fan of. For example I was Introduced to Guilty Gear through Death Battle actually. Oh. And Im choosing to ignore that Salty comment. I was referring to that one incident where what I described did happen. imo its pretty stupid to get mad over Death Battle these days.

[@destructorthedestroyer7651]

Well, idk the feats of that universe of anything. But from what I heard, Ragna in his old days could destroy planets and later on is capable of destroying an infinite number of universes. People shouldn't react all negatively to it because both characters aren't real. But like, the fight was such a mismatch that putting the two of them into a ring is a guaranteed victory for Ragna. At least give the RWBY characters some kind of chance to win. Maybe Aang from Last Airbender vs Ruby Rose from RWBY. That would have been A LOT more fair.

[@IvanLerma759]

There is a fact going around that Ruby winning was done by Rooster Teeth interfering with the episode and forcing the animator to change this from having Ragna win.

[@matthewpokorny4777]

21:43 UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou has that record for the hardest punch. Look up a knockout compilation on him scary stuff.

[@theduckgoesmoo]

I shall go say an insult so I can finally get some good sleep

[@Sparkizinho]

Yes, Tanjiro is gonna be in the next season, in fact is the next fight

[@mistman_161]

Since you asked, here's everyone (I can think of) who had higher numbers than Saitama: Goku, Superman, Goku Black, Reverse Flash, Flash, Green Lantern, Ben 10, Archie Sonic, Megaman Starforce, Megaman Exe, Hulk, Broly, Popeye (of course)

[@michaelmunns]

🎶Oh I’d give duck a buck if had any luck I’m Popeye the sailor man (chew chew)🎶

[@justadogobeingdogo5766]

Little dose he know that JoJo is a Popeye reference.

[@huntersmith561]

Duck I know that you skipped Dracula vs Ganondorf because you are going to play zelda in the future but I also suggest you do a reaction to the anime castlevania on Netflix which is where that Dracula is from

[@potatozombie7484]

Fun fact live action popeye was played by Robbin Williams

[@huntersmith561]

Also duck for season 9 i believe its every 3 weeks on a Monday they release a new death battle

[@fireball1249]

*2 Weeks, it's been like that for previous Death Battles. How have you not noticed that?

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

Out of the various single item power boosts that exist from various comic/anime/cartoon sources the Popeye Spinach can is definitely one of the strongest, and technically there is nothing that says he only needs to eat one in a sitting, what if he ate a whole wartime shipping pallet (which they did show in the cartoon at one point)

[@thebeardedbrony9586]

I am not sure if anybody mentioned it, but Robin Williams played the live-action Popeye. Edit: The reason Saitama exploded into eggs, you'd have to look at the Manga, where the artist/author is shown.

[@unkn0vvnmystery]

19:01 that would have been a good call back.

[@sallensmae]

You should so do Superhero Beatdown after this!

[@wingedbluj1674]

This song is called Balderdash

[@kadenmacdonald2955]

Day 53 of asking you to react to Super Eyepatch Wolf's"No dad, wrestling is for grown ups!!! I-WHY WON'T YOU LOOK AT ME-"trilogy. So, remember how I said Goku Black vs Reverse Flash is my favorite episode of the show? Well, this one is my second favorite. Even though it's by objectively better than Goku Black vs Reverse Flash in every single way.

[@NamelessTomb]

this was one of my favorite death battles of all time

[@huntersmith561]

The monster is the guy from season 2 and its only in the manga for now

[@stargazer-elite]

5:43 “oh there’s a scale for that why?” The same reason tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. have their own scales.

[@rexgamez8465]

Did this dude just say Popeye is a jojo reference? More like Jojo is a popeye reference. Popeye is the granddad of jojo

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

So the scale of damage they referenced is used for about 3 uses: 1. Weapon design 2. Counteracting incoming extraterrestrial impact threats or rocket propulsion 3. Planning against or reverse engineering natural or man made disasters based on the aftermath

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

Yeah, I said the same thing about how they should stop using cartoon characters vs non-cartoon ones. Not necessarily because they're too strong, but because they're too durable. Like, literally nothing seems to be able to destroy them, not even reality erasure. Then again, toons vs toons wouldn't be that interesting in a fight to the death either, because then it's just a Loony Toons episode, but one that would simply never end since the deciding factor is death.

[@fenorlex1126]

Grab a bit of the DIP, and watch as they go drip.

[@alucardnox]

not sure if you know this but DevilArtemis is actually one of deathbattles on and off again animators and for the 3D portion of the video he animated that, DA was also one of teh main animators of the deathrace series they had for a while

[@thegamerdude3363]

You must think that Saitama doing 100 Pushups, 100 Situps, and 100 Squats and a 10 km run everyday for 2 years without any previous training or preparations an easy feat. Even if you had training and preparation before that, your muscles would stop working before the first month ends.

[@SoobiHoo]

If you need content, I recommend checking out the Spongebob anime openings by Narmak. He also made episode 1 of the Spongebob anime too.

[@rodrickgoldberg2324]

I love how despite clearly being a joke fight, they played this as straight and serious as they possibly could and went all out with the animation and research.

[@VunderGuy]

Thia wasn't a joke fight tho. Saitama really does lose hard to Popeye. The only joke is on the Saitama stans who thought he had a chance.

[@rodrickgoldberg2324]

@@VunderGuy “Stans”? Isn’t the term “simp”?

[@supremefankai5480]

Toon force strikes again. Gag characters can't be beat by anything less than another like themselves.

[@nicholasmaddocks7545]

Duck, "this is the greatest death battle finale ever!" Me with Saitama face: okay...

[@chriserwin7823]

11:38 oh hey I'm consuming some miracle herbs myself, gotta celebrate my birthday tomorrow.

[@uncheckable_vibe]

respect to Popeye for holding back so it can be considered a battle instead of an execution

[@wingedbluj1674]

And yes, in fact, the next Death Battle will be Tanjiro vs Jonathan Jostar.

[@fireball1249]

Unfortunately, he's gonna have to skip it :(

[@TheBUCfifty]

TOON FORCE IS ABSOLUTELY BROKEN! Anime logic stands no chance.

[@Rubyshedinja33]

saitama finally gets what he always wanted

[@multi-voiceentertainment7013]

That's right years ago they made a Popeye the sailor Man live action movie starring the late great Robin Williams.

[@Gothaman1]

one would think they learnt not to mess with toon force users since the mask

[@brickthecreator777]

He talka big gamble, but now he a scramble. I'm Popeye the sailor man!

[@slashermaster28]

Speaking of One Punch Man, you should really react to PurpleEyes' One Punch Stan one of these days.

[@fireball1249]

Yes, I 100% agree!