Season 9

Season 9 is the ninth season of Death Battle. It premiered on March 28th, 2022, and concluded on December 21st, 2022. It consisted of 16 episodes and a Bonus episode.
==Changes==
*Death Battle started a paid YouTube membership, allowing members to gain access to exclusive badges, emotes, behind-the-scenes content, and the ability to watch DEATH BATTLE Cast live on YouTube, similar to a Rooster Teeth FIRST membership. Members were even able to collectively vote for two matchups to happen in the following season.
**As a result, the Season Finale showed off the two winning matchups of the poll instead of teasing six combatants.
*Continuing from the updated YouTube release of Saitama VS Popeye, clips of the combatants at the end of their analyses were removed to prevent the risk of YouTube copyright-claiming episodes because of them.
*The start of the post-analyses don't cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
*Comparison panels return since their last appearance in Wolverine VS Raiden, albeit as one full slide instead of two separate ones.
*Ringmaster and Jocelyn the Intern occasionally appear as co-hosts, similar to DUMMI.
*All episodes' reveal trailers are released separately as YouTube Shorts, starting with Trunks VS Silver.
*Wiz and Boomstick receive slightly different mouth animations in the latter half of the season, with Wiz opening his mouth wider and Boomstick showing fewer teeth.
*Sponsor segments were moved from after the preludes to before the preludes, with an additional one appearing in between the combatant analyses if there are two sponsors for an episode.
*The Desk of DEATH BATTLE replaces DBX during the mid-season break.
==Episodes==
==Confirmed Combatants==
These are all the combatants who were confirmed to appear in this season prior to their episode being officially announced in a Next Time trailer.
 	Revealed In 	Final Episode
Tanjiro Kamado 	Saitama VS Popeye's Next Time trailer	Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar
Scarlet Witch 	Saitama VS Popeye's Next Time trailer	Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna
Tetsuo Shima 	Saitama VS Popeye's Next Time trailer	Magneto VS Tetsuo
Boba Fett 	Saitama VS Popeye's Next Time trailer	Boba Fett VS Predator
Vegeta 	Saitama VS Popeye's Next Time trailer	Thor VS Vegeta
Jinx 	Saitama VS Popeye's Next Time trailer	Harley Quinn VS Jinx
Excalibur 	RTX 2022 	Excalibur VS Raiden
Raiden (Metal Gear)	RTX 2022 	Excalibur VS Raiden
James Bond 	RTX 2022 	James Bond VS John Wick
John Wick 	RTX 2022 	James Bond VS John Wick
Black Adam 	DEATH BATTLE Cast #292 	Black Adam VS Apocalypse
Xeno Trunks 	DEATH BATTLE Cast #292 	Trunks VS Silver
Sauron 	DEATH BATTLE Cast #292 	Sauron VS Lich King
==Credits==
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|-|Animators=
Name 	Fights Animated
David Herbert 	Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Boba Fett VS Predator, James Bond VS John Wick, Sauron VS Lich King, Gogeta VS Vegito
David Roldan 	Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Boba Fett VS Predator, James Bond VS John Wick
Xander Farrell 	Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Boba Fett VS Predator, James Bond VS John Wick, Gogeta VS Vegito
Jose Rodriguez 	Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Boba Fett VS Predator, Sauron VS Lich King
Plake Snissken 	Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Boba Fett VS Predator, Sauron VS Lich King, Gogeta VS Vegito
Luis Cruz 	Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Hercules VS Sun Wukong, Black Adam VS Apocalypse, Sauron VS Lich King, Gogeta VS Vegito
Gus Espinal 	Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Thor VS Vegeta, Magneto VS Tetsuo, Hercules VS Sun Wukong, Black Adam VS Apocalypse, Trunks VS Silver, SpongeBob VS Aquaman, Deku VS Asta
Zack Watkins 	Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Thor VS Vegeta, Magneto VS Tetsuo, Hercules VS Sun Wukong, Black Adam VS Apocalypse, Trunks VS Silver, SpongeBob VS Aquaman, Deku VS Asta
Anh Thu Duong 	Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Thor VS Vegeta, Black Adam VS Apocalypse, Trunks VS Silver
notoriouskog 	Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Thor VS Vegeta, Magneto VS Tetsuo
OriginTheHero 	Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Magneto VS Tetsuo, SpongeBob VS Aquaman, Deku VS Asta
Brandon Bent 	Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar
CrazyChrisTyler	Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar
Dyrique Hallman	Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar
Pierre McCauley	Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Thor VS Vegeta
Jamix007 	Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Thor VS Vegeta, Magneto VS Tetsuo, Trunks VS Silver
Andrew Lhotsky 	Omni-Man VS Homelander
Gil Calceta 	Omni-Man VS Homelander
Quinn Weston 	Omni-Man VS Homelander
Susie Combs 	Omni-Man VS Homelander
William Ball 	Omni-Man VS Homelander
John Mitchell 	Magneto VS Tetsuo, Black Adam VS Apocalypse, SpongeBob VS Aquaman
DevilArtemis 	Excalibur VS Raiden, Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers
|-|Voice Actors/Actors=
Name 	Character played
Ben Singer 	Wizard
Chad James 	Boomstick
Billy B Burson III 	Ringmaster
Lisa Foiles 	Jocelyn the Intern
Chris Demarais 	DUMMI
Felicia Valenti 	Harley Quinn
Elsie Lovelock 	Jinx
Cassandra Wladyslava	Scarlet Witch
Lauren Mayfield 	Zatanna Zatara
Zack Maher 	Tanjiro Kamado
Benji Buckley 	Jonathan Joestar
Jonah Scott 	Thor Odinson
Nick Landis 	Vegeta, Gogeta, Vegito
Tom Schalk 	Omni-Man, SpongeBob SquarePants
Yong Yea 	Homelander
Edward Bosco 	Magneto
Joshua Waters 	Tetsuo Shima
Blythe Melin 	Heracles
Alex Mai 	Sun Wukong
Christian Young 	Narrator
Kamran Nikhad 	Boba Fett, Black Adam
Caitlyn Elizabeth 	The Lotus
Mornal 	Raiden (Metal Gear), John Wick
Steven Kelly 	James Bond
Liam Swan 	Q, French Narrator
Wolf Williams 	Apocalypse
Scott Frerichs 	Xeno Trunks
Esu Onsti 	Archie Silver
Kestin Howard 	Super Friends Aquaman
Zack Watkins 	Fred the Fish, Doodlebobs
Yssa Badiola 	Alex
Noel Wiggins 	Sam
Jenn K. Tidwell 	Pamela Voorhees
Ryan Solis 	Sauron
Phillip Sacramento 	The Lich King
Jose Estrada 	Izuku Midoriya
Michael Kovach 	Asta, Gogeta, Vegito
|-|Musicians=
Name 	Scores Composed
Brandon Yates 	Mad Laugh Riot, Spellaholics Synonymous, Princes of Pride, Diabolical Invincible Me, The Metal Lotus, Fallen Gods, Hedge of Tomorrow, Strongest Alive, Dragon Dance
Therewolf Media	Breathless Blades, Ego Death, Hero's Journey, If It Bleeds, The Metal Lotus, Secret Service, Ocean Men, TGIH (Thank God It's Halloween), One King to Rule Them All
Futakuchi Mana 	Mad Laugh Riot
Jun Mitsui 	Princes of Pride
Omega Sparx 	Fallen Gods
SWATS 	Fallen Gods
Logan Adams 	Hedge of Tomorrow
Victor Borba 	Dragon Dance
|-|Writers=
Name 	Episodes Written
Matthew Jones 	Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Trunks VS Silver
Liam Swan 	Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna, Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar, Thor VS Vegeta, Omni-Man VS Homelander, Boba Fett VS Predator, Excalibur VS Raiden, James Bond VS John Wick, SpongeBob VS Aquaman, Deku VS Asta, Gogeta VS Vegito
Djmah'di Rivers 	Magneto VS Tetsuo, Black Adam VS Apocalypse
Hershel Lousyton	Hercules VS Sun Wukong, Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers, Sauron VS Lich King
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==Trivia==
*Season 9 is tied with Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 8, and Season 10 for the fourth-highest amount of episodes with a total of 16, after Season 2, Season 1, and Season 7, and followed by Season 3.
*Season 9 is tied with Season 5 for the fourth highest amount of returning combatants with a total of four (Thor Odinson, Vegeta, Boba Fett, and Raiden (Metal Gear)), after Season 8, Season 2, Season 6, Season 7, and Season 10, and followed by Season 4, Season 3, and Season 1.
*Discounting mythologies, Season 9 is tied with Season 10 for the third highest amount of new series introduced with 15 (League of Legends, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Invincible, Akira, Journey to the West, Predator, Warframe, 007, John Wick, SpongeBob SquarePants, Friday the 13th, Halloween, The Lord of the Rings, Warcraft, and Black Clover), after Season 1 and Season 2, and followed by Season 5, Season 3, Season 6, Season 8, Season 4, and Season 7.
*This is the first season to:
**not have any 'Battle of the Genders' themed episodes.
**not have any combatants from Nintendo or Capcom.
**not have any combatants from Fighting Games.
**not have any Comic Book VS Cartoon-themed episodes.
**have more lyrical tracks than instrumental.
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