Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor

Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor is the 185th episode of Death Battle, featuring Rick Sanchez from the Rick and Morty series and The Doctor from the Doctor Who series in a battle between brilliant dimension-hopping adventurers. Rick was voiced by Brent Williams and the Doctor was voiced by Elliott Crossley.
==Interlude==
Boomstick: Rick Sanchez!
Wiz: The Doctor.
Boomstick: These brilliant geniuses dominate the cosmos, but who would win an all-out brawl?
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
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.
==Rick Sanchez==
Wiz: Everything about Morty Smith's life was perfectly average. Average house, average family, average school.
Boomstick: Maybe slightly below average intelligence.
Wiz: But everything changed the day his grandpa Rick came home.
Boomstick: Yeah, in style! 'Cause Rick Sanchez is anything but average.
Wiz: Rick is easily the smartest man in the universe and its most dangerous criminal. He spent years on the run from the Galactic Federation, going on adventures across the multiverse.
Boomstick: Who cares about the emotional trauma from abandoning his daughter, right? And then, he took her son and put him in life-threatening danger. Bye!
Wiz: Thus formed the greatest duo of the generation: Rick and Morty.
Boomstick: Eh, mostly Rick. Morty's the cannon fodder who smuggles grapefruit-size seeds up his ass. And that's just the first episode.
Wiz: Rick is an unparalleled inventor, always ready to face even the squanchiest of alien foes.
Boomstick: He's got your usuals: laser gun, invisibility belt, shrink ray, cyborg implants, the works.
Wiz: As well as some weirder things, like a Mr. Meeseeks Box...
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Mr. Meeseeks: I'm Mr. Meeseeks!
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Wiz: ...which can summon an infinite number of irritating temporary life-forms that will work tirelessly to accomplish a given task.
Boomstick: Or a series of android decoys that are so perfectly created, they don't even realize they're decoys... which leads them to create decoys that create decoys, and so on.
Wiz: Rick's gadgets can erase your memories, manipulate and travel through time, and even make a surface "True Level", as in perfectly flat, something normally mathematically impossible. So beautiful, that experiencing it for only a moment before returning to non-Euclidean space can emotionally scar you for life.
Boomstick: He can even inject you with his own genetic info and instantly chestburst a clone of himself from inside you, like a pasty, alcoholic Xenomorph! What the hell?!
Wiz: Rick and Morty travel the universe in the Space Cruiser. Powered by a microverse under the hood, this compact starship comes equipped with laser cannons, a fishing line that can tow a solar system, and a... unique artificial intelligence.
Boomstick: With all that crazy sci-fi gear, Rick and Morty's adventures were absolutely bonkers.
Wiz: From disentangling a time loop created by alien snakes, to battling the metafictional Story Lord, to Rick turning himself into a pickle to avoid family therapy.
Boomstick: This guy would rather battle the Russian mafia as a vegetable than address his feelings.
Wiz: Actually, pickles are fruit—
Boomstick: Because boy oh boy... does he have a lot of them.
Wiz: Behind the fart jokes and Wubba Lubba dub-dubs, Rick harbors bitter emotional agony.
Boomstick: Way back when, in a completely different universe, the Rick we know had a happy life, until another Rick from another universe took it all away, the bastard!
We cut to Wiz and DUMMI, the former of whom briefly pets the latter, along with Boomstick, who is holding Rick's Portal Gun.
Wiz: But, like me, Rick is a true inventor, and this tragedy spurred him to craft his greatest creation: the Portal Gun.
Boomstick shoots out a portal right next to Wiz, who dodges it, and another one above the trio, allowing DUMMI to approach and inspect the one next to Wiz.
DUMMI: My scans indicate it creates holes through all aspects of space-time, allowing Rick to travel anywhere in the multiverse. It sounds exhausting.
Boomstick: It can do more than that! It can slice you in half, set up traps, and even—
Boomstick is then suddenly interrupted by tentacles from the portal right next to Wiz snatching DUMMI away as Wiz cowers behind Boomstick. The portals dissipate soon after.
Wiz: That's coming out of your paycheck.
Boomstick: Nuh-uh.
We cut back to the analysis.
Wiz: Decades of traveling the multiverse hunting down the man who ruined his life darkened Rick's heart. He began to ask himself, "If there are an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of each person, how did any individual life matter?"
Boomstick: Sounds like he's overthinking it.
Wiz: Like the time he accidentally turned all of humanity into horrific Cronenbergs! He and Morty had to escape to a parallel universe, where they swapped places with recently deceased versions of themselves. What does that do to a person?
Boomstick: Makes 'em badass! When Rick found the interdimensional Council of Ricks, he kicked their teeth in! Like they say, he's the Rickest Rick of them all.
Wiz: That he is. Just touching the hem of his coat can activate his energy shield or even induce instant death. Yes, instant. No, it isn't explained why. Though considering this reaction, it's likely a chemical released through the coat's lining—
Boomstick: Rickest Rick, Wiz! He's dodged an orbital space laser from just a few feet away. He's so smart, he figured out he's in a TV show. Yep, really.
Wiz: Perhaps most mysterious is Operation Phoenix, a series of clone bodies that his consciousness can be uploaded to upon his death. Despite eventually taking it offline, his mind is still connected to every other Operation Phoenix across the multiverse.
Boomstick: Giving him an infinite number of extra lives! Even if some of them are shrimps... and fascists.
Wiz: Some of his devices can destroy the Earth, the universe, even alternate timelines. He actually did that just to manipulate the stock market.
Boomstick: Though underneath the drunken god complex, there's still a glimmer of the family man Rick used to be.
Wiz: Well, as much as he insists that love is just a chemical reaction in the brain, he does care about his daughter and grandkids... and Jerry... sometimes.
Boomstick: He's taken on an alien Zeus, the president of the United States, and the actual devil, even exiting the bounds of fiction into Meta Reality, fighting Jesus H. leaping Christ himself, and even meeting Joseph Campbell! Talk about a hero's journey!
Wiz: Challenge Rick at your will. He might look like a scrawny, drunken septuagenarian, and he is, but he's also, somehow, the greatest warrior in the universe.
Boomstick: And you can lick his balls!
==The Doctor==
Wiz: Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright were just your average school teachers with a less than average student. Susan... was odd, almost like... an alien. And when they met her grandfather and his police box, they found out why.
Boomstick: They were aliens! And that police box was the TARDIS, a two-in-one spaceship and time machine.
Wiz: Thus, they were whisked away into the stars, kicking off over half a century of timey-wimey adventures with a revolving cast of companions, like Sarah Jane Smith, Rose Tyler, the Brigadier, Amy Pond, and so many more.
Boomstick: Complete with the cheesiest special effects you've ever seen!
Wiz: This madman with a box had a name he would never tell and a history he would always run from. He was only known as "The Doctor".
Boomstick: Doctor who?
Wiz: Exactly.
Boomstick: "Doctor Exactly"?
Wiz: Though the Doctor's origins are shrouded in mystery, we know they were born several thousand years ago and earned degrees in cosmic science and higher dimensional physics.
Boomstick: But he got bored with the stuffy Time Lord bureaucrats, stole a TARDIS, and explored time and space as a runaway. Who can forget those adventures chasing dinosaurs on a spaceship, dueling Robin Hood with a spoon, or shoving Hitler in a closet?
Wiz: Yeah, we know it's kind of weird... It's British.
Boomstick: But if you don't know who's who, you're probably wondering, "Who are all these people?" A bunch of old guys, young guys, a lady, and one of the Three Stooges?! What?!
Wiz: The Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. Time Lords may look human, but couldn't be more different. Not only do they have two hearts, they literally experience time differently. They can see past, present, and future all at once. They can resist temporal phenomena such as time stops and can tamper with fixed points in time. They're effectively acausal beings.
Boomstick: This makes them super hard to predict and nearly impossible to erase from any timeline. They can even breach the bounds of space and talk directly to you. Yes, you at home! Hello there.
Wiz: Time Lords are practically walking deus ex machinas. In fact, a lot of them would be proud to be called that.
Boomstick: Yeah, the Doc ran away for a reason: Time Lords are a bit dodgy.
Wiz: The Doctor has hypnotized with a glance, resisted mind control, survived deadly radiation, and even learned transmigration. As in, the ability to summon an object out of thin air.
Wiz: Sounds crazy, but it's apparently standard fair for Time Lord Academy.
Boomstick: But the reason why there are so many Doctors is that Time Lords have a funny way of cheating death. 
Wiz: Upon receiving a fatal wound, the Doctor undergoes regeneration, gaining a new, healthy body.
Boomstick: It's way more than that. While reloading, the Doctor has regrown lost limbs, become strong enough to knock down steel doors, and even weaponized his own time energy.
Wiz: Downside being if a Time Lord dies during regeneration, that ends the process permanently.
Boomstick: To date, we've seen 14 versions of the Doctor, plus a few extras mixed in here and there. Hell, by the time you're watching this, you've probably seen the 15th. Or the 16th!
Wiz: The experiences each Doctor gains changes and affects the next Doctor, and the next, and so on. Each Doctor maintains the same memories, but with an all-new personality.
Boomstick: Some like bow ties, some like jelly babies, some kick butt with Venusian karate, and some . Probably 'cause they're werewolves...
Wiz: But they always have one thing in common.
Boomstick: (in a British accent) They are Bri'ish!
Wiz: Well, one other thing in common.
Wiz: The Doctor always enjoys the thrill of adventure, and they've got plenty of tech to help, like the Sonic Screwdriver. Utilizing sonic waves to manipulate nearby objects, it can pick locks, cause detonations, and fry circuitry. It's sort of a Swiss Army plot device that can hack its way through most problems. The perfect pacifist tool for resolving conflict.
Boomstick: It's only weakness is that it doesn't do wood... or turkey. Though considering it can destroy machines, disrupt molecules, and even erase memories... I'll take it.
Wiz: The Doctor doesn't often carry weapons. There's an invisibility watch, a time travel ring, psychic paper that tricks basically everyone, and perception filters that prevent others from noticing certain things, even people.
Boomstick: But the Doc does reluctantly have a few weapons stored away, like the Dematerialization Gun.
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick, the latter holding the D-Mat and playfully pretending to shoot it at Wiz.
Wiz: It might look slapped together with Hobby Lobby pipes, but the D-Mat can literally erase you from time. As in, it causes you to have never existed in the first place.
DUMMI then comes in from the right.
DUMMI: But, if you never existed, then the gun would have never needed to fire. Which means you weren't wiped from existence. Which means the gun would need to fire. Which means—
Annoyed over his contemplation, Boomstick shoots DUMMI with the D-Mat, causing the robot to vanish from existence. After a moment, the two co-hosts blindly glance around in silence before Boomstick questions Wiz:
Boomstick: Did you say something?
Wiz only shrugs, both of them apparently having forgotten that DUMMI had ever existed. We then cut back to the analysis.
Boomstick: That's not the only time-erasing tool in the Doctor's box, but we got to talk about, you know, the box! Shabby blue police box on the outside, incredible time machine that's bigger on the inside. This is the TARDIS.
Wiz: The Time And Relative Dimension In Space is a sentient ship that travels space and time with ease. It's strong enough to tow planets, powerful enough to stop anti-matter from destroying the universe, and tough enough to tank lightning from Zeus. Yes, the god Zeus. It can even adjust its interior to an infinite degree, both in terms of space and time.
Boomstick: So, uh, if the TARDIS doesn't like you, you might get lost inside it... forever. Don't piss off the TARDIS.
Wiz: Or any of the Doctor's enemies, some of the universe's deadliest monsters: Cybermen, Zygons, Weeping Angels...
Boomstick: And the Slitheen, the big chunky aliens that took over 10 Downing Street!... and couldn't stop farting.
Wiz: Even when the Doctor prefers not to resort to fisticuffs, he's tough enough to survive bolts of lightning that vaporized an ordinary human. He's even dodged half a dozen disintegration rays while also improvising several thousand calculations in a matter of nanoseconds.
Boomstick: Yeah, the Doctor's super smart. So smart, his brain once powered a 1,000-year-old supercomputer.
Wiz: The Doctor's outwitted cosmic entities like the Great Intelligence, the Time Lord nemesis the Master, and apparently the original Satan, who isn't even the most frightening alien in the multiverse, because that would be the Daleks.
Boomstick: Alright, bear with me here. They may look like trash cans with plungers, but they can exterminate anything that gets in their way, even all of space and time! Like when they battled the Time Lords to extinction in the Last Great Time War!
Wiz: A war that showed a darker side to the Doctor. Thrust into a conflict that put all of reality at risk, the Doctor became a warrior. A soldier. A killer.
Boomstick: A side of him that had always been there, hiding just under that cheeky grin.
Wiz: Finally, in a single moment, the Doctor pressed a big red button to end the war, and all of Gallifrey, once and for all.
Boomstick: As much as he didn't like the Time Lords, the Doctor cares for life above all things, so genociding his own people was the worst thing that could possibly happen.
Wiz: As the last of the Time Lords, the Doctor proved to be the most dangerous person in the universe. Isolation threatened to turn him into the very type of Time Lord he despised: a master who controls the laws of time, the Time Lord Victorious.
Boomstick: And God help your immortal soul if you piss him off! If he's desperate or if you threaten his friends, you won't be prepared for how far he'll go. Like trapping you in every mirror in existence, imprisoning you in the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy, or suspending you in time to be used as a scarecrow!
Wiz: Fortunately, Gallifrey wasn't destroyed. It turns out the Doctor, all of the Doctors, saved the Time Lords, but just forgot about it until time could catch up to them. It's complicated.
Boomstick: Still, even their biggest L turned out to be a dub in disguise. That's how you know you're fantastic! 
Wiz: But a Doctor's job is never finished. Without witness, without reward, you'll never know when they'll show up to save the day. But if you happen to be up against the Doctor, there's really only one thing you can do: "Run."
==Prelude==
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set and we've run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!
==Death Battle==
The scene opens in space around a ringed gas giant. Rick and Morty are inside their Space Cruiser right next to the TARDIS, the former dented from taking an off-screen collision with the latter. The two are talking about their current situation.
Morty: Ah, jeez, Rick. It was my fault–
Rick: SHUT THE FUCK UP, MORTY! I knew Time Lords were suicidal morons, but I didn't know they never invented rear-view mirrors!
The doors of the TARDIS open as the Doctor, specifically the Fourteenth, peeks out to clear the situation.
The Doctor: Are you thick? You're the one who hit me! (sigh) Go on, I'm busy.
Forgiving them for the minor accident, the Doctor returns inside the TARDIS and closes the door before the ship turns to make its way. Rick, however, does not take the accident lightly.
Rick: Son of a bitch! He's ignoring me?!
Yanking control of the Space Cruiser from Morty, Rick pursues the TARDIS, using his vehicle's laser-mounted turrets to shoot at and strike it twice. The TARDIS then prepares to make a jump and vanish, but before it can, Rick activates a tow cable that grapples onto it, bringing both ships into the Time Vortex.
Rick: Holy— Ship, keep Morty safe!
After giving the vehicle its command, Rick pulls out his Portal Gun and jumps out of his vehicle, intent on pursuing the Doctor on his own with his jet boots.
Morty: Wh- wh- wh- what are you-? Uh-oh!
Morty's concern leaves him to realize he accidentally pressed a button on the Space Cruiser, causing it to continue firing lasers upon the TARDIS as Rick moves forward and grabs onto the tow cable. After a moment in which the Space Cruiser shoots and severs the rope of the tow cable, it, Rick, and the TARDIS fly off into various points in the Time Vortex.
The TARDIS materializes on a planet similar to Earth, on a lush green plain with a mountain in the background, and the Doctor steps out, showing dismay over his police box's apparent damage from the attached tow cable.
The Doctor: Nononononono! D'oh, what did they do to you?!
The Doctor's thoughts are interrupted by loud screaming. He turns to the horizon to see a Screaming Sun rising in the background as it turns to dawn. Surprised by this unusual phenomenon, The Doctor gives a slight grin of amusement over what he sees.
Just then, however, another scream can be heard: Rick's, as he emerges through one of his portals and tackles the Doctor, leading to them flying through another portal and into the Blips and Chitz arcade. The Doctor readies himself for combat as the two geniuses stare each other down.
The Doctor: Alright, fine. Queensberry rules? A bit of Venusian karate?
Rick, for his part, is not impressed, and pulls out his crow sword. 
Rick: Keep quipping, asshole. Maybe you'll find a good joke on the ground next to your teeth.
In response, the Doctor smirks and pulls out a spoon.
The Doctor: En garde!
The two trade blows, with the Doctor on the defensive but nonetheless fending off Rick's assaults, until Rick pins him against a railing. The Doctor looks down and sees a massive plaza featuring many familiar faces. Despite his precarious situation, the Doctor still retains his confidence.
The Doctor: Ah, this place looks fun! Do they have a little shop? I like little shops.
After avoiding two more swings, the Doctor proceeds to swiftly disarm Rick of his sword, but right after he does this, he is suddenly grabbed by Rick's newly unveiled cyborg implants as the scientist laughs arrogantly.
Rick: Haha!
Rick then proceeds to toss the Doctor around into an arcade machine and onto the prior railing, but as he's lifted up again, the Doctor pulls out his Sonic Screwdriver and uses it to make Rick's cyborg implants explode, throwing both over the railing.
The Doctor: Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!
The Doctor grabs Rick's Portal Gun and uses it to try to break their fall. First, they fall through the sunny plain where the TARDIS and Screaming Sun are, becoming distracted for a moment as they pause to look at the Screaming Sun. The Doctor fires one more portal, which they fall through into a dark basement as the Doctor yells, only for them to quickly realize they are surrounded by Weeping Angels. The Doctor, eyes red from not blinking at all, takes the opportunity to give Rick some faulty advice.
The Doctor: Well, blink as much as you can! They're scared of rapid movement.
Rick blinks three times. However, each time he does so, an angel draws closer to him.
The Doctor: Bye!
Rick glances backwards to see the Doctor using his Portal Gun to escape, realizing he had been tricked.
Rick: (sigh) Motherfu—
His vulgar word is cut off by a sudden scene transition as the Doctor returns to back outside the TARDIS and enters it...
The Doctor: Huh?!
...only to find the inside being ravaged by multiple Ricks, including a naked Rick running in circles around the center console, leaving him in disbelief.
The Doctor: What? What? Wha— Ohhhh...
Naked Rick Duplicate: Lick my balls, sucker!
After the naked Rick runs by, the Doctor sees the grinning Rickest Rick revealing himself from underneath the console. The rest of the Ricks rush down and sack the Doctor, taking the Portal Gun back from his person before forcing him to flee, with the Ricks in hot pursuit. 
The Doctor leads them around a corner, but when the Ricks try to follow him, there is only a dead end with an under-construction sign from the TARDIS taunting them on the wall. The Doctor stumbles into the console room once more, complimenting the TARDIS for its actions as he does so.
The Doctor: Oh, you brilliant ol' girl, switching rooms around. Fantastic!
The Doctor presses a few buttons on the console, and a storage mechanism from above brings down his stored D-Mat gun. The Doctor however hesitates to grab it, unwilling to use it on his opponent. Suddenly, he notices a portal on his back, which Rick jumps out of, and promptly shoots the Doctor with his ray gun in his two hearts, causing him to collapse against the TARDIS' console. Rick takes out a flask, presumably of alcohol, as he begins monologuing to the Doctor.
Rick: It's fun to be the class clown 'till you get—
Rick takes a swig from his flask and burps, before pointing his ray gun at the Doctor again and urging him to begin his regeneration process so he can kill him permanently.
Rick: Shot. Now hurry up, I got a grandson waiting on me. He won't die an idiot like you.
Soon, the Doctor's body begins glowing, the energy of regeneration beginning to course through his body, as he slowly gets to his feet, giving his own monologue back.
The Doctor: I know your type: the nihilist know-it-all. But through all this wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey rubbish, there's one thing you never quite understood: I'm the Doctor, and I don't want to go.
As he says this, he pulls out his Sonic Screwdriver again, using it to disable Rick's ray gun and make his Portal Gun fire a portal. His regeneration then begins in full force, knocking Rick back and devastating the TARDIS' interior. Caught off guard, Rick attempts to escape, but the path to the portal is blocked by falling rubble.
Just before a piece of rubble falls on top of him, Rick pulls out an injector and injects himself with it before firing it at the regenerating Doctor, which injects his genetic material, causing a new Rick to burst out of the Doctor's chest as he groans in agony.
Rick: WUBBA LUBBA DUB-DUB!
The newly-spawned naked Rick quickly grabs the Doctor's D-Mat gun and fires it at the Doctor. However, the Doctor, heavily wounded but still regenerating and not quite dead, spins around.
The Doctor: Allons-y!
The beam from the D-Mat flies through the portal that Rick put on the Doctor's back earlier and out from the portal made when the Sonic Screwdriver interfered with the Portal Gun. Rick, who raises his eyebrows in surprise as he realizes the Doctor's plan, is too slow to react and can only yell out as the D-Mat beam connects with his back, erasing him and all his duplicates from existence as the screen fades to white.
When the screen clears, it reveals the very start of the fight when Morty rear-ended the TARDIS in the Space Cruiser, and the Doctor steps out. However, without Rick to blame him for the accident and escalate the situation, the Doctor instead compliments the vehicle and Morty before giving him some sage advice.
The Doctor: Quite an impressive craft, Morty! You built it yourself?
Morty: I, uh... I guess so...?
The Doctor: Then you got a bright future ahead.
Looking directly into the camera, the Doctor delivers one final message to Morty and the audience as he steps back inside the TARDIS.
The Doctor: Don't be a cynic!
The TARDIS then vanishes, leaving the lone Morty to scratch his head in confusion. Soon after, a ghostly-looking hologram of Rick appears and starts chewing Morty out.
Hologram Rick: Morty, if you forget me, I'll haunt your ass!
Morty only screams at the hologram, as he naturally cannot remember his own grandpa who was erased to the point of having never existed.
Morty: AH! Who the fuck are you?!
==Results==
Boomstick: Live by the portal, die by the portal.
Wiz: Let's break this down.
PHYSICAL ABILITY
Wiz: First off, Rick and the Doctor could both dodge lasers, making them pretty even, so neither could reliably win a quickdraw.
Boomstick: Also, neither have shown any consistent signs of strength all that different from an above-average human.
Wiz: The Doctor could get a superhuman strength boost during regeneration but that is fairly incidental. So as far as physical ability is concerned, neither had a significant edge.
WEAPONS
Boomstick: But when it comes to weapons, Rick had way more deadly killing machines, a lot of which could wipe out whole planets, galaxies, and more! If he could get the jump on the Doctor, he'd have a good chance of winning.
Wiz: Of course, their similar speeds meant he probably wasn't getting that opportunity. There's no denying his firepower was superior overall, but that still had to contend with the Doctor's technology.
TECHNOLOGY
Boomstick: Yeah, despite all of Rick's crazy inventions, most of which could kill a normal person instantly, the Doctor matched or countered pretty much all of it.
Wiz: Being a Time Lord meant he could resist any time-warping trickery Rick threw at him, and the Sonic Screwdriver could hack and even destroy nearly everything Rick had. The Sonic has even disabled teleportation and time travel technology before, making it more than capable of hijacking Rick's Portal Gun, which has been hacked in the past.
Boomstick: With that gone, Rick was kind of a sitting duck.
Wiz: Operation Phoenix makes killing Rick permanently almost impossible, but the Doctor's reality-altering tech like the D-Mat meant there would be no Rick left to upload to a new body at all, effectively ending the fight in a single shot. And that was hardly the only reality-warping superweapon the Doctor had access to. The Doctor's technology presented a clear advantage.
VEHICLES
Boomstick: Now, let's talk ships. This one's pretty clear-cut. The Space Cruiser was a deadly machine that towed a solar system, but the TARDIS single-handedly held off a universe-destroying event. That's an edge for the Doctor.
Wiz: But perhaps most important of all was their experience and intelligence.
EXPERIENCE
Boomstick: Rick mastered space and time to the point of becoming a veritable god. But, you could say the same for the Doctor, who is way older. It's kind of like the Doctor has been "Ricking" for many times longer than Rick himself.
Wiz: And when push comes to shove, the Doctor is just as experienced of a warrior as Rick ever was, if not more so.
Boomstick: Eleven spent 900 years battling Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, and more on Trenzalore and came out on top!
Wiz: And don't forget how quickly the Doctor can formulate, calculate, and initiate plans. Like when he dodged half a dozen rays and improvised thousands of calculations in his head to siphon the rays' energy into a teleporter, all in a manner of nanoseconds.
Boomstick: Rick usually relies on being the smartest guy in the room. When he's forced to battle people at his own level, he's often outsmarted, like with the Prime Rick or... gasp! A Morty!
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Wiz: Rick was a formidable genius, but the Doctor's incredible technology, unmatched intelligence, and thousands of years of experience gave him the win.
Boomstick: Ah, jeez. I bet Rick was absolutely "Morty-fied" to lose.
Wiz rolls his eyes and lets out a silent chuckle over Boomstick's pun before we cut to the "Winner" card.
Wiz: The winner is the Doctor.
==Comparison==
===Rick Sanchez===
:+ More destructive weaponry
:+ Potential immortality via Operation Phoenix
:- His fatal flaw is arrogance
===The Doctor===
:+ Much more experienced
:+ Sonic could hack Rick's tech & weapons
:+ No way to permanently end the TARDIS
:+ Has tech that counters Operation Phoenix
:- Their fatal flaw is recklessness
==Original Track==
===Composition===
The track for this fight is "Wubba-Lubba-Allons-Y" by Therewolf Media. It is a futuristic, techno-orchestral song reflective of the sci-fi nature of their respective series. The intro synth is similar to that of the Rick and Morty title theme before transitioning into the main melody that riffs on some elements from that theme and, more primarily, the Doctor Who title theme. Motifs from "The Doctor is Dying" by Chameleon Circuit and “All the Strange Creatures” from Doctor Who are respectively incorporated afterward, and the climax of the track includes a choir akin to the one heard in "Vale Decem", the music of the Tenth Doctor's regeneration, for the Doctor's regeneration in the fight.
===Title===
The title is a combination of both combatants' catchphrases ("Wubba Lubba dub-dub" and "Allons-y", respectively). Considering the meanings of both phrases, it translates to "I am in great pain, let's go."
===Cover Art===
The cover art done by John Mitchell depicts the Doctor and Rick's arms coming out of a green portal inside of the TARDIS. The Doctor's arm is holding his Sonic Screwdriver (which is emitting electricity), while Rick's is shooting out more portals with his Portal Gun.
==Trivia==
===Production===
*The core connections between Rick Sanchez and The Doctor are that they are both hyper-intelligent, arrogant space-time travelers who go on strange adventures thanks to their most iconic gear (the Portal Gun and the TARDIS, respectively). Both are also ingenious inventors and created a wide variety of technological equipment to defend themselves with (Rick's countless creations and the Sonic Screwdriver, respectively), mostly to ensure a lifelong goal of theirs is achieved (Rick went on a quest of vengeance against Rick Prime for causing the death of his wife and daughter, while the Doctor's promise binds them to protect the universe with a major lack of cruelty and cowardice). In addition:
**Both are usually accompanied on their travels by less experienced companions (the Smith family and various companions, respectively), with their first on-screen companion being their own teenage grandchild (Morty Smith and Susan Foreman, respectively).
**Both have numerous incarnations (Rick has infinite counterparts of himself across the multiverse and the Doctor can regenerate to give themselves a new human form).
**Both have a deep-seated trauma (Rick's family was killed, while the Doctor had to kill their entire race during the Last Great Time War) which they hide under a quippy exterior.
**This is also a battle of opposites, as while Rick is a cynical galactic criminal with a god complex who often performs brutally heinous acts to further his own research, goals, and ego, the Doctor is a legitimate hero and optimistic pacifist who takes all forms of life into account and works to fulfill their promise to keep the universe safe.
**Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon cited Doctor Who as one of his many inspirations when making his show. As a result, several nods to Doctor Who can be seen throughout the series.
***Rick has directly compared himself to the Doctor in the episode "The Rickchurian Mortydate", in which he says "I'm Doctor Who in this motherfucker!". This was even acknowledged in the penultimate pop-up box in the post-analysis.
***Another character referred to Rick as a "spiky-haired Doctor Who in a lab coat" in the episode "Rick & Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular".
*The first of Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary specials released on November 25th, 2023, five days after this episode's release.
*This episode was hinted at earlier in the season in Bill Cipher VS Discord, as a of a pony version of Rick (who was seen as a background pony in the My Little Pony episode "Grannies Gone Wild") fighting Dr. Hooves (a My Little Pony parody of the Doctor) as they go through two of Rick's portals can be seen in the background during the revolving scene of Bill firing lasers at Discord.
**This hint would get referenced in the fight itself in the form of a "Horse-shadowing" arcade cabinet that features it for the machine's branding.
*OriginTheHero has previously made a set of commissioned sprite renders for this matchup prior to this episode's release.https://twitter.com/OriginTheHero/status/1667554716593602563
**This makes it the first matchup he's made sprite art for to have become an official episode, with the next one being Joker VS Giorno.
**Coincidentally, the second and third renders (the former depicting the Doctor weaponizing his time energy during his regeneration while multiple Rick clones are in the TARDIS and the latter depicting Rick jumping out of his Space Cruiser and towards the TARDIS as it enters the Time Vortex) mirror events that would happen in the actual episode, albeit with minor differences.
***The scene of the Rick clones in the TARDIS is separate from the scene of the Doctor's regeneration rather than being together.
***Rick flies out of the Space Cruiser when both it and the TARDIS are inside the Time Vortex rather than as the TARDIS enters it.
*Oddly, Rick and the Doctor are not given any epithets in the interlude, making this the first episode to exclude them since Goku VS Superman 2, with the next one being Goku VS Superman (2023).
*Rick and Morty's usages of "fuck" are censored by partially cutting the audio on the YouTube release, while the Rooster Teeth and DEATH BATTLE Cast preview versions keep the line intact.
*Oddly, in the Rooster Teeth release of the episode, the Doctor does not say "Bye!" after he tricks Rick into blinking at the Weeping Angels.
*While the Doctor is represented by the Fourteenth Doctor according to Ben Singer, his clothing (and retroactively, the interior of his TARDIS, as the Fourteenth's having a redesign wasn't shown until after this episode was released) makes him appear identical to the Tenth Doctor, the prior incarnation also played by David Tennant.
*The original thumbnail for this episode used an uncredited fan render by Mario1999562 on DeviantArt (which is an edit of ). The thumbnail was later updated to replace the fan art with official artwork.
**This makes it the 23rd episode where at least one of its thumbnails uses fan art, after Zitz VS Leonardo, Kratos VS Spawn, Bomberman VS Dig Dug, Vegeta VS Shadow, Chun-Li VS Mai Shiranui, Ivy VS Orchid, Fulgore VS Sektor, Godzilla VS Gamera, Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie, Metal Sonic VS Zero, Lucario VS Renamon, Raven VS Twilight Sparkle, Leon Kennedy VS Frank West, Nightwing VS Daredevil, All Might VS Might Guy, Black Canary VS Sindel, Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia, Zuko VS Shoto Todoroki, Blake VS Mikasa, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Sauron VS Lich King, and Frieza VS Megatron.
**The render was also used in the thumbnail for Rick's analysis preview before it was replaced as part of a sweeping removal of fan art across the DEATH BATTLE! YouTube channel on October 4th, 2024.
*This is the third episode since Black Adam VS Apocalypse whose Next Time trailer wasn't reuploaded as a YouTube Short, after Ant-Man VS Atom and Frieza VS Megatron, and with the next one being Goku VS Superman (2023).
*This is the 11th episode in which one of the combatants is voiced by their official voice actor (as Elliott Crossley reprises his role as the Doctor), after Iron Man VS Lex Luthor, Yang VS Tifa, Meta VS Carolina, Naruto VS Ichigo (unconfirmed), Ultron VS Sigma (unconfirmed), Weiss VS Mitsuru, Zuko VS Shoto Todoroki, Red VS Blue, and Trunks VS Silver (unconfirmed).
**This is the seventh episode where a non-Rooster Teeth character is voiced by their official voice actor, after Iron Man VS Lex Luthor, Naruto VS Ichigo (unconfirmed), Raven VS Twilight Sparkle, Ultron VS Sigma (unconfirmed), Zuko VS Shoto Todoroki, and Trunks VS Silver (unconfirmed).
***This is the fourth episode to have the voice actor credited under their real name and not under an alias, after Iron Man VS Lex Luthor, Raven VS Twilight Sparkle, and Zuko VS Shoto Todoroki.
*This is the first episode to not receive artwork by Susie Combs promoting it since they began with Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha.
*In an instance of the Death Battle Curse striking, one week before this episode's release, the Rick and Morty episode "Unmortricken" showed Rick achieving his primary goal of killing Rick Prime, which was added to his Feats section late before release. The Omega Device created by Rick Prime in the episode was also acknowledged and added via a pop-up box in the episode's post-analysis.
*At the beginning of the season, a teaser trailer was released which included a Gravity Falls-inspired zodiac wheel with 16 symbols on it, each representing and hinting toward an episode in the season. After the release of the Season Finale, the Death Battle YouTube channel began revealing the answers to the zodiac wheel by posting the answers in pinned comments under the symbols' respective episodes. This episode was revealed to be represented by the flask symbol.🧪🧪🧪 BEAKER 🧪🧪🧪 This is because flasks, beakers (as the symbol was frequently referred to as a beaker by the community and was even officially referred to as such when the symbol was revealed), and test tubes (as test tube emojis were used for the symbol's reveal due to a lack of an official flask emoji) are synonymous with science, which fits both combatants, as Rick and the Doctor are known for being two of the smartest scientists in their respective series. It also correlates with how both Rick and Morty and Doctor Who are science-fiction series.
===Easter Eggs===
*Two subjects listed in Rick's "Likes" bullet point in his "Background" slide are references:
**"McDonald's" references the episode "The Rickshank Rickdemption" and Rick's desire for the return of the Szechuan Sauce that was made to promote Mulan, which resulted in the sauce coming back to real-life McDonald's locations for a limited time.
**"planets" references the episode "Childrick of Mort", in which he was revealed to have had a sexual relationship with a sentient planet named Gaia.
*When Wiz mentions that Rick turned himself into a pickle in his analysis, the text "Funniest shit I've ever seen" appears in the top-left corner, an obvious reference to the meme of the same name.
**This makes it the third episode to reference the meme, after Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar and Frieza VS Megatron.
*When Boomstick reveals that the Doctor and Susan are aliens in the Doctor's analysis, a newspaper is shown on-screen that contains a few references, namely the head of ALF being superimposed onto the First Doctor's head upon its reveal, several references to Among Us (with the title of the newspaper being "ALIENS AMONG US", the quote in the article saying "'RED WAS ACTING PRETTY SUS NOT GONNA LIE.' - YELLOW CREWMATE", and a picture of an Impostor at the bottom of the newspaper), and a photo of the Ancient Aliens meme next to the aforementioned Impostor photo.
*In the Doctor's "Background" slide, the first thing listed in their dislikes are "Apples", a reference to the saying "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
*When Boomstick mentions the hypothetical Sixteenth Doctor, Christopher Walken, Idris Elba, and Patrick Stewart are shown, with all three being popular fancasts for future Doctor incarnations throughout the show's run.
**Additionally, the clip of Idris Elba used is his memetic reaction to tasting a hot wing on Hot Ones.
*The three stickers seen on the side of the Space Cruiser at the start of the fight are replaced with that contain a few references:
**The "I .|. SHEEMIES" sticker is replaced with one that has "I .|. YOUR VS MATCHUP" on it instead.
**The "GLORTO '86b" sticker is replaced with one that has a message written in Bill Cipher's symbol substitution cipher on it instead. When decrypted using an online decoder for the cipher, this message says "IPSS DHZ OLYL NVVK QVI ULYK". When further decrypted using a Caesar cipher decoder, the message translates to "BILL WAS HERE GOOD JOB NERD", as if Bill himself is poking fun at the people that spent time decoding said message.
**The atom on the green circular badge is replaced with the rolling rock graphic seen on Wiz's shirt.
*Space Hawaii from Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon (alongside Rocket's Orbital Weapons Stash) can be seen in the background as the TARDIS initially leaves the accident site.
**This is the second episode to feature Space Hawaii in the background of the fight, after Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer, and with the next one being Among Us VS Fall Guys.
**Like in that episode, the constellation from the end of Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man can also be seen next to Space Hawaii during this scene.
***This is the fifth episode to feature the constellation in the background of the fight, after Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Trunks VS Silver, Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon, and Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer, and with the next three being Goku VS Superman (2023), Galactus VS Unicron, and Among Us VS Fall Guys.
*Rick telling the Space Cruiser to keep Morty safe is a reference to "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", where Rick instructed the ship to keep Summer safe while he and Morty explored its microverse battery.
*The planet that the Doctor lands the TARDIS on is the Screaming Sun Planet from the Rick and Morty episode "The Wedding Squanchers", complete with the Screaming Sun itself.
**Although difficult to make out, a cloud resembling Discord's head can be seen on the top-right corner of the screen as the Screaming Sun first rises above the horizon.
***This is the fourth episode to hide a Discord-shaped cloud in the background of the fight, after Phoenix VS Raven, Guts VS Dimitri, and Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer, and with the next two being Goku VS Superman (2023) and Galactus VS Unicron.
*The arcade machines seen in Blips and Chitz contain multiple references that are as follows:
**Multiple "Death Battle Arcade Battle" cabinets that play the events of past Season 10 episodes, namely Killua VS Misaka, Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer, Phoenix VS Raven, and Gojo VS Makima.
***The instruction card on the front of the cabinet says "That's right, Boomstick. Your favorite DEATH BATTLE! is now under your control! Unleash your favorites in 1 on 1 mega mayhem!!!", the start of which references Wiz's memetic line from Season 1.
****This makes it the third episode since Yoshi VS Riptor to feature the line, after SpongeBob VS Aquaman and Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer, and with the next one being Joker VS Giorno.
****One of the icons featured on the instruction card is a question mark labeled "Columbo", referencing how Liam Swan wanted Light VS Columbo to become an episode.https://twitter.com/LiamRichardSwan/status/1577799718570233857
***The presence of these cabinets may also be a nod to "Death Battle Arena", a series of posts made by DeviantArt user Dimension-Dino that detail the movesets of Death Battle combatants for a hypothetical fighting game based on the show.
**A "DBX Arcade Battle" cabinet that plays the events of the Sailor Mercury VS Blue Ranger DBX.
***DUMMI is featured as the rightmost icon on the instruction card on the front of the cabinet.
**A "Cameo Drop" cabinet that shows some of the assorted cameos seen in the revolving scene of Bill Cipher shooting laser at Discord during their fight, alongside a few extra additions that are mostly from an updated version of it that was shown on Twitter. In order of appearance, they are as follows:
***Thunder Song, the ponysona of Death Battle YouTuber Taurock
***Biff Jerky, a pony OC created by Death Battle YouTuber RaccoonBroVA
***Pony versions of Nemesis Bloodryche, Carbonated-Jem, Ringmaster, and Buttersamuri
****This is the second episode to feature Nemesis as a cameo, after Korra VS Storm.
***A pony OC created by Pokeboy Infinitay
***Death Battle community members Redrunner and GumballViking (the latter appearing with Terry Bogard's legs from his Super Smash Bros. Ultimate render in a reference to )
****This is the third episode to feature the two as cameos, after Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly and Bill Cipher VS Discord.
***A dark grey pony with yellow and black hair, an OC created by Death Battle community member Phoenix821
***The white Range Rover Velar that Death Battle YouTuber Biff Weed uses as his avatar
***Cobalt Hoodie, a pony OC created by BronyPonyDude
***Dreamy Daze, a pony OC created by Death Battle Discord moderator 2ShyShy
***Bulk Biceps
***The ponysona of Death Battle community member m3Atl0afman
***A grey pony with white legs and maroon and pink hair, an OC created by an unknown individual Bill Cipher VS Discord
***The pony versions of Columbo, Zack Watkins, Luis Cruz, OriginTheHero, and Ringmaster from said scene can be seen on the side of the cabinet.
**A "Techno Warrior" cabinet that displays Rocket Raccoon and Stitch as selected characters.
**An "Ants In My Guts Palmer" cabinet that plays the Atom's death at the end of Ant-Man VS Atom.
***The name of this cabinet is also a reference to the "Ants In My Eyes Johnson" gag from Rick and Morty.
**A "Horse-shadowing" cabinet that references the allusion to this matchup in Bill Cipher VS Discord, with the screen playing a looping close-up shot of the pony version of Rick fighting Dr. Hooves and the sprites of the two fighting being prominently featured at the front of the machine as a decal.
**An out-of-order "Columbo: The Kira Files" cabinet, also referencing how Liam Swan wanted Light VS Columbo to become an episode.https://twitter.com/LiamRichardSwan/status/1577799718570233857
***Alongside the "Columbo"-labed question mark on the "Death Battle Arena Battle" cabinets' instruction cards and the pony version of him on the side of the "Cameo Drop" cabinet, this is the seventh episode to hide Columbo in it as an easter egg in some form, after SpongeBob VS Aquaman, Sauron VS Lich King, Gogeta VS Vegito, Bill Cipher VS Discord, Gojo VS Makima, and Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog, and with the next one being Galactus VS Unicron.
**A cabinet that displays a green-colored Bill Cipher, with its title on the display marquee written in his symbol substitution cipher. When decrypted using an online decoder for the cipher, the title of the cabinet translates to "IT'S BILL CIPHER!"
***The presence of this cabinet is also a reference to his cameo appearance in the cold open of the Gravity Falls episode "Fight Fighters".
**A "Supervoid" cabinet that features a still of Scooby-Doo and Courage the Cowardly Dog letting out a relieving laugh after they bump into each other at the start of their fight the episode prior on its screen.
*The Doctor using a spoon to swordfight Rick is a reference to the Twelfth Doctor's duel with Robin Hood in the episode "Robot of Sherwood", which was brought up in their analysis.
*The video "[SFM]Godzilla and Godzilla 2014" by David Fischer can be seen playing on the screen of the "Roy 3" machine next to the air hockey table before and after Rick corners The Doctor against the railing on Blips and Chitz's third floor.
*As Rick corners The Doctor against the railing on Blips and Chitz's third floor, several characters make cameos in the plaza below, who are as follows:
**Thomas the Tank Engine and Odahviing on the second floor
***Their presence together may also be a reference to the Really Useful Dragons Skyrim mod that replaces the dragons with Thomas, which was previously referenced in Death Race's second episode and Skyrim VS Dark Souls.
**Jerry and a Mr. Meseeks standing next to a light pole on the left side of the plaza
**Harley Quinn and Jinx, alongside all of their gadgets spread across their table
**Blake Belladonna and Mikasa Ackerman
**Obito Uchiha and Alex Mercer
**Cole MacGrath testing his luck at a Spin-N-Win game
***The name seen on the machine he's playing is called "The Kristina Button", likely referencing Kristina Christofferson, who is credited as both a battle environment designer and the visual post artist for this episode.
**Darth Vader sitting alone, surrounded by birthday balloons with a party hat on his head
**The Chosen Undead, the Last Dragonborn, and a capeless Dimitri giving each other a toast. Guts is also nearby, remaining in his death posture from his fight with Dimitri and bleeding profusely.
**Frieza and Megatron, the latter of whom is lifting their table using his legs as support
**The on Ant-Man's desk where he and the Atom briefly fought around during their fight
**Silver Surfer's surfboard 
*The Milano can be seen parked outside Blips and Chitz through the building's glass roof.
*As the Doctor looks around the TARDIS in confusion of Rick's clones trashing it, "GLIP GLOP" can be seen graffitied on the wall. This term is from the episode "Ricksy Business" and is, according to Rick, an incredibly offensive alien slur.
*A stone carving of Bill Cipher can be seen on the TARDIS' control console just before Rick reveals himself from underneath it.
**This is the seventh episode to hide a stone carving of Bill in the background of the fight, after Phoenix VS Raven, Guts VS Dimitri, Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer, Bill Cipher VS Discord, Gojo VS Makima, and Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog, and with the next three being Goku VS Superman (2023), Galactus VS Unicron, and Among Us VS Fall Guys.
*A few of the Doctor's lines contain references to his show.
**His expression of how he likes "little shops" when Rick corners him against the railing on Blips and Chitz's third floor is a reference to his fondness for them seen in the episodes "New Earth", "Smith and Jones" and "Silence in the Library".
**His surprise and repeatedly saying "What?" upon seeing Rick's duplicates trashing the TARDIS' interior is a reference to his catchphrase whenever something strange happens to the TARDIS from the episodes "Doomsday" and "Last of the Time Lords", which was repeated by the Fourteenth Doctor after the Thirteenth's regeneration in the episode "The Power of the Doctor".
**Him saying "I don't want to go." is a direct reference to the Tenth Doctor's last words before regenerating into the Eleventh Doctor in the episode "The End of Time". However, the context is different; in the show, he said it out of dread for his regeneration, whereas in the fight, he said it in the sense that he wouldn't back down and surrender despite getting fatally shot.
*The three replacement stickers seen on the side of the Space Cruiser at the start of the fight are replaced with when the fight goes back to when Morty first rear-ends the TARDIS after Rick accidentally erases himself from existence. Although difficult to see in the episode itself, a clearer view of the stickers can be viewed , and these new stickers contain different references:
**The "I .|. YOUR VS MATCHUP" sticker is now replaced with one that says "I VOTED IN THE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS" instead.
**The "BILL WAS HERE GOOD JOB NERD" sticker is now replaced with one that says "DISCORD IS PRETTY SWELL" instead.
**The badge with Wiz's rolling rock shirt graphic is now replaced with the granted to those that have been part of Death Battle's paid YouTube membership for a year.
*The Doctor's fighting style throughout the fight (primarily attempting to disarm Rick rather than directly attacking him, running rather than engaging in combat, being reluctant to use the D-Mat, etc.) reflects his pacifism in his home series, to the point that Rick is the only one who fights and ultimately fires his own killshot. In fact, throughout the whole battle, at no point does the Doctor do anything that can constitute as fighting or an attack on Rick outside of making his cyborg implants explode, simply opting for self-defense, outsmarting him, and minor use of his gadgets instead.
===Errors===
*When Rick first draws his Crow Sword, the right edge of the background can be seen rapidly rotating before the rest of it does.
*A pool of blood is seen around Guts' dead body in the Blips and Chitz plaza. However, that technically shouldn't be there, as the way Guts ultimately died in his second episode was from the Berserker Armor draining all the blood from his body.
**However, it is possible that it was simply excess blood that dripped out from within his armor.
*When Rick reveals himself hiding under the TARDIS console, his eyes have no pupils for four frames.
*Despite the fight going back to when Morty first rear-ended the TARDIS after Rick accidentally erases himself from existence, Rocket's Orbital Weapons Stash is nowhere to be found near Space Hawaii after the Doctor leaves Morty and the TARDIS disappears.
*When explaining the Doctor's experience in the post-analysis, Boomstick misidentifies the Silence as the Sontarans.
*DUMMI's voice actor, Chris Demarais, is not credited in the ending credits.
===Other===
*This is the 10th episode to be animated in a hand-drawn style, after Smokey Bear VS McGruff the Crime Dog, Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai, Mario VS Sonic (2018), Deadpool VS Mask, Genos VS War Machine, Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man, Saitama VS Popeye, Omni-Man VS Homelander, and Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog, and with the next one being Bowser VS Eggman.
**This is the first time there have been two hand-drawn episodes in a row.
**This is the third hand-drawn episode to use a 3D background, after Saitama VS Popeye and Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog, and with the next one being Bowser VS Eggman.
*This is the eighth episode in which one or both combatants die more than once (as Rick was possibly killed by the Weeping Angels off-screen, followed by him getting crushed by the TARDIS' interior debris before chestbursting out of the regenerating Doctor, before he and his duplicates get permanently erased from existence after the Doctor tricks him into inadvertently shooting himself with the D-Mat gun), after Hulk VS Broly, Link VS Cloud (2021), Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, DIO VS Alucard, Skyrim VS Dark Souls, Phoenix VS Raven, and Gojo VS Makima.
*Excluding Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man and Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers, this is the second episode since Sanji VS Rock Lee where Boomstick introduces the name of the combatants before Wiz since the change to the interlude presentation in Season 8, after Guts VS Dimitri.
*Due to the unusual form of time travel used in the fight's ending (likely caused by Rick accidentally erasing himself), this is technically the second battle where the battle (chronologically) ends before it began, after Ben 10 VS Green Lantern.
*This is the 12th episode to have an original track with a single-word title, after Goku VS Superman 2, Wolverine VS Raiden, Meta VS Carolina, Crash VS Spyro, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, All Might VS Might Guy, Hulk VS Broly, Saitama VS Popeye, Skyrim VS Dark Souls, Phoenix VS Raven, and Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer, and with the next two being Goku VS Superman (2023) and Galactus VS Unicron.
*This episode page.
**This is the 10th episode to reach #1 on Trending, after Johnny Cage VS Captain Falcon, Ganondorf VS Dracula, All Might VS Might Guy, Flash VS Sonic, Gogeta VS Vegito, Guts VS Dimitri, Bill Cipher VS Discord, Frieza VS Megatron, and Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog, and with the next two being Galactus VS Unicron and Bowser VS Eggman (for gaming).
*This episode features the highest amount of cameos in a single episode, with 63 characters appearing throughout it outside of clips, beating out Bill Cipher VS Discord's 55 cameos.
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