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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale is the sixth episode of Death Battle, featuring Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series in a battle to determine the strongest Ninja Turtle.
Interlude
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Wiz: Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were grown from ooze and raised by a warrior rat in the sewers of New York to be the world's most fearsome fighting team.
Boomstick: Lots of superheroes have some weird origin stories, but this one is plain ridiculous.
Wiz: Their greatest advantage in battle is their family bond and teamwork. But, on their own, which Turtle is deadliest?
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
Leonardo
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TMNT (1987) Main Theme (MARCH REMIX) by sweederlander
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Wiz: Leonardo, the leader of the team, is smart and strategic with a strong sense of honor.
Boomstick: Too bad he traded his sense of humor for that sense of honor. This guy always means serious business. His weapon of choice is the Ninjaken sword, shorter, sturdier, and straighter than an ordinary Katana, and designed for swift deadly strikes! Out of all the Turtles' weapons, the Ninjaken is the only one specifically designed to murder people! And what's better than one Ninjaken? Two, dammit!
Wiz: In many timelines, Leonardo is the one who ultimately defeats The Shredder, though always with plenty of help. As leader, he is usually the one with a plan. He spends most of his time training his body and mind under his Master Splinter's instruction and follows Bushido, a strict Samurai code of honor and duty. At one point, he even fought and killed a sort of physical embodiment of the Devil.
Boomstick: Giving Keanu Reeves a much-needed break!
Wiz: However, Leonardo finds it difficult to accept failure. Should things go horribly wrong, his concentration can quickly slip away from him, leaving him sloppy and imprecise.
Boomstick: Leo doesn't like to lose.
Leonardo: Quit clowning you guys! This is serious!
Donatello
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Cowabunga by John Du Prez
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Wiz: Donatello is the brains of the bunch.
Boomstick: He does machines!
Wiz: Right, Boomstick. Somehow, he learned to operate and manipulate both human and alien technology without any formal education or budget whatsoever. He also speaks 100% fluent Techno-babble.
Donatello: The resulting intermittent multi-polar flux should create the Electromagnetic Pulse!
Boomstick: What the hell did I just hear? All that gibberish means he's probably trained less than the others, devoting more of his time for science!
Wiz: Fortunately, his useful Bo Staff makes up for his lack of constant training. Durable, oak, and six feet long, the Bo gives Donatello far more attack range than his other brothers.
Boomstick: The range is nice, but it takes a lot of time and patience to kill anybody with a stick.
Wiz: He's no expert strategist, that's Leonardo's turf, but Donatello's considered the most level-headed of the Turtles. Even with his time spent tinkering, he's still a very capable warrior, easily keeping up with his brothers and even killing the Shredder in an alternate dimension.
Boomstick: An ass-kicking nerd? I don't believe it.
Donatello: Eh, I'm making this up as I go.
Michelangelo
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Big Apple, 3 AM by Mutsuhiko Izumi, Kozo Nakamura
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Wiz: Michelangelo is the youngest of the turtles. He's lazy, undisciplined, and easily distracted. He spends his free time playing video games, watching TV, reading comic books, and eating pizza.
Boomstick: That turtle is fucked up!
Wiz: What?
Boomstick: Come on, you can't tell me that that turtle is not on drugs!
Wiz: I don't know, I always thought he was dropped as a kid.
Boomstick: Okay, look! He has all the signs! Strange eating habits, inability to pay attention, incoherent phrases...
Wiz: Moving on, his weapon of choice-
Boomstick: The bong-
Wiz: No, the Nunchaku, isn't really a weapon at all. It's a farming tool for threshing grain. These "weapons" are unnecessarily overcomplicated clubs with the effectiveness of a tattered flyswatter. Yet SOMEHOW, Michelangelo has been able to blunder his way through fights to victories he really doesn't deserve.
Boomstick: He even beat Raph once.
Wiz: Sure, I get it. Swinging chuks around gives him momentum to hit with them, blah, blah, blah, but in the end, a baseball bat will give you the same effect and more with much less effort. Seriously, who came up with these things? They're preposterous!
Boomstick: You're prepostemous! I don't know.
Wiz: And, for some reason, in all his infinite wisdom, the great master Splinter gave the most complicated weapon to the retard of the group. WHY?
Boomstick: ...Mikey's not gonna win this fight, is he?
Wiz: He'd better not.
Michelangelo: Ho ho, someone's cranky!
Raphael
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I Beam Fight by Klaus Badelt
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Boomstick: Raph is cool but crude! Hell, forget crude, this guy's borderline psycho!
Wiz: Sure to throw the first punch, Raphael is certainly the most vicious of the team. He's constantly butting heads with the others and challenging Leonardo's leadership.
Boomstick: He uses twin Sai, which is like a combination of a pitchfork, dagger, and Wolverine's claws.
Wiz: Like the Nunchuk, they also humbly began as a farming tool, but were re-evaluated to counter the oppressive samurai.
Boomstick: They're best used as a close-range defensive weapon. The triple prongs are designed to block, trap, and control an opponent's weapon while using the pommel to beat the enemy into submission. Raph's Sai can even snap swords!
Wiz: Raphael is not exactly the smartest fighter, usually rushing into a brawl without a plan and just overpowering a foe. Because of this, Raphael spends much of his time honing his combat skills. It is very likely he is physically the strongest turtle.
Boomstick: Also, this guy's in some serious need of anger management!
Wiz: He is naturally hot-headed and sometimes loses control of his rage. He is much more vicious than the other turtles and, at one point in the comics, even became the Shredder himself.
Raphael: Damn!
Prelude
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!
Boomstick: Wait up Wiz, I gotta rent the latest Ninja Turtle game first.
Wiz: We have it. We just did all this research with it.
Boomstick: GameFly!!!
Wiz and Boomstick read out an advertisement for GameFly.
Boomstick: But right now, it's time for a DEATH BATTLE!!!
Death Battle
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Home Sweet Sewer by Dennis C. Brown
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In the sewers of New York, the turtles face each other and they draw their weapons.
Leonardo goes after Michelangelo and both trade blow for blow. Meanwhile, Donatello faces Raphael and Leo backflips past them. As Michelangelo attacks him, Leo stabs him with his swords, then leaps over him and slices off his arm, followed by his head, then Michelangelo was decapitated.
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Mouser Arsenal by Masanori Akita
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Don and Raph continue fighting. Both seem evenly matched until Don throws Raph past Leo. Leo tries to attack Don, but Don leaps on a stack of crates and begins hitting Leo in the head with his staff.
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Stars Align by Klaus Badelt
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Raph gets up and knocks the crates down, sending Don flying backward onto the floor. Raph proceeds to stab Don with his sai 24 times and then faces Leo. They both fight each other and Raph knocks Leo into the water. As Leo resurfaces, Raph jumps into the water. They both trade blows with their weapons. Both seem to be at a stalemate until Raph catches Leo's swords with his sais. Eventually, the sais break Leo's sword and then both stab the other. Raph, however, is stabbed in the throat while Leo's wound isn't fatal.
Raphael: DAMN!
Raphael falls below the surface of the water, which is colored red by his blood. Leo sits down in the water and looks at the sai in his body.
Results
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme (Rock/Metal Cover) by Anton Norling
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Boomstick: Woah-ho-ho, somebody call an ambulance! Or a vet, I don't know.
Wiz: There is a reason why Leonardo is the leader of the team. Not for strength or speed, but for strategy. Leonardo understands the strengths and weaknesses of the other turtles. His biggest threat was Raphael's sword-snapping Sai, so he attacked the weakest of the group first.
Boomstick: This means Leo let Donny beat the hell outta Raph, who couldn't compete with Don's range. By the time Raph got his revenge, Leo was in way better shape for the final duel.
Wiz: And I can hear all the fanboys raging "But Raph won in the movie! He should win here! Nyah nyah!" No! Four reasons. One: The result of the fight was specifically plot constructive, which is rarely accurate. Two: Leonardo absolutely decimated Raph in the fistfight beforehand. Three: Leonardo didn't want to fight at all. If he did, he would've killed Raphael right here.
Boomstick: Tilt the blade, slide left, bam: No more Raph.
Wiz: And four: That whole movie doesn't make much sense, to begin with. Why should this?
Boomstick: But hey, Leo can still die from that stab, right?
Wiz: Doubtful, for several reasons. Turtles proportionally have smaller vital organs and far more muscle mass than humans, meaning there's little chance Raphael actually hit anything important. Leo's actually been stabbed plenty of times in the series and walked away, and all four turtles have been trained in Chi Kung and can control their breathing and heart rate to survive extreme conditions.
Boomstick: Looks like Leo got the point of this battle.
We cut to the "Leonardo" winner card.
Wiz: The winner is Leonardo.
Trivia
Production
- The connections between the four combatants are that they are all part of a family of teenage mutant ninja turtles who were raised and trained by Master Splinter, becoming great heroes who fight against various super-villains to protect New York.
- Michelangelo's analysis has become infamous amongst the Death Battle community since the episode's release, namely on how much Wiz and Boomstick disrespect the Ninja Turtle and Wiz calling Mikey "the retard of the group", things that Ben Singer has since expressed regret towards.[1]
Errors
- While difficult to notice at its intended size, the episode's current thumbnail does not actually feature renders of the four turtles, rather having party masks of their faces, with visible sight holes being present on all four images.
Other
- This is the first non-Marvel-VS-DC-themed Comic Book-themed episode, with the next seven being Shredder VS Silver Samurai, Deadpool VS Mask, Genos VS War Machine, Flash VS Sonic, The Seven Battle Royale, Saitama VS Popeye, and Omni-Man VS Homelander.
- This is the first Cartoon-themed episode, with the next eight being Starscream VS Rainbow Dash, He-Man VS Lion-O, Danny Phantom VS American Dragon Jake Long, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, SpongeBob VS Aquaman, Bill Cipher VS Discord, Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat.
- This is the first Animals-themed episode, with the next 13 being Zitz VS Leonardo, Yoshi VS Riptor, Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare, Pokémon Battle Royale, Godzilla VS Gamera, Donkey Kong VS Knuckles, Pokémon VS Digimon, Mewtwo VS Shadow, Lucario VS Renamon, Smokey Bear VS McGruff the Crime Dog, Crash VS Spyro, Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon, and Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat.
- This is also the first Reptiles-themed episode, with the next four being Yoshi VS Riptor, Pokémon Battle Royale, Godzilla VS Gamera, and Pokémon VS Digimon.
- This is the first Battle Royale, with the next three being Pokémon Battle Royale, Mega Man Battle Royale, and The Seven Battle Royale.
- This is the third Series-themed episode, after Goomba VS Koopa and Haggar VS Zangief, and with the next six being Pokémon Battle Royale, Meta VS Carolina, Mega Man Battle Royale, The Seven Battle Royale, Red VS Blue, and Gogeta VS Vegito.
- This is the first episode where the winner ends the battle crippled from an earlier injury, with the next 11 being Terminator VS RoboCop, Wolverine VS Raiden, Joker VS Sweet Tooth, Sub-Zero VS Glacius, Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai, Mob VS Tatsumaki, Gray VS Esdeath, Goro VS Machamp, Sanji VS Rock Lee, Blake VS Mikasa, and Batman VS Iron Man.
- This is the first episode to be taken down due to a copyright strike on YouTube, with the next six being Ragna VS Sol Badguy, Ultron VS Sigma, Aang VS Edward Elric, Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia, Sabrewulf VS Jon Talbain, and Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro.
- This is due to Viacom (Now Paramount Media), which ironically owned several of ScrewAttack's most popular franchises (not including Death Battle) at the time of the episode's release.
- According to Ben's Road to 100 Blog, another reason why the episode was blocked despite its fair use of footage was due to the brutality of the fight.[1]
- This is the first episode whose takedown has not been undone, with the next one being Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia.
Notes
- ↑ Due to a copyright strike, the YouTube upload of the episode is currently unavailable everywhere except Canada.