Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2010)

This article is about the original version of Death Battle's first episode. You may be looking for the remastered version of Boba Fett VS Samus Aran from 2015 or the original Who Would Win? pilot version of the episode from earlier in 2010.
Boba Fett VS Samus Aran, retroactively titled Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2010), is the first episode and Series Premiere of Death Battle, featuring Boba Fett from the Star Wars series and Samus Aran from the Metroid series in a battle between galactic bounty hunters.
==Interlude==
Wiz: The bounty hunter. Galactic pirates of living beings.
Boomstick: They blow shit up for cash.
Wiz: A prime example is Boba Fett, the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy.
Boomstick: But don't forget Samus Aran. She's so badass, whole planets explode when she's done with them. BOOM!
Wiz: I'm Wizard.
Boomstick: And I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze the weapons, armor, and skills of these two beastly killers and answer the most important question of all: Which of these two warriors would win... a Death Battle.
==Boba Fett==
Wiz: Boba Fett is well known for his cunning, ruthlessness, and brute force. But his killer instinct relies on his diverse arsenal of death.
Boomstick: Plus, he wears the most badass spacesuit ever.
Wiz: That's no ordinary spacesuit, Boomstick; that's Fett's Mandalorian armor, forged of nearly indestructible duraplast, containing a micro-energy field for dispersing impacts.
Boomstick: This guy can have a freaking bomb blow up in his face and still walk away.
Wiz: His gauntlets house a flamethrower with a reach of five meters, a fibercord whip, and numerous concussion and stun missiles. His weapon of choice is his EE-3 carbine rifle, an extremely accurate and powerful weapon which Fett often cradles like a child.
Boomstick: Yeah, I do that with my guns, too...
Wiz: That's... not weird at all, Boomstick. Fill us in on Fett's heavy weaponry.
Boomstick: Well, everybody and their grandmother knows that Fett can zoom around on his badass jetpack, but that jetpack also has a single anti-vehicle homing rocket, and believe me, you don't want to see this thing heading your way.
Wiz: That's right, Boomstick. In short, Fett is a human Swiss Army knife. He's killed hundreds of criminals, politicians, and Jedi. He's even held his own against Darth Vader... twice.
Boomstick: Holy shit, that is hardcore!
Wiz: He became leader of the Mandalorian mercenaries after the Galactic Civil War and battled Mace Windu to a draw when he was 12 years old.
Boomstick: Sam Jackson's got nothing on him.
Wiz: But with all his awesomeness, every so often, Fett will totally blow it. He's fallen into the Sarlacc three times. Three! And the Sarlacc's not exactly running around looking for snacks.
Boomstick: Three times? How do you even do that once? It's a giant hole in the ground with teeth, and he's got a jetpack!
Wiz: Still, even with his ridiculous flaws, Boba Fett is a whole new meaning of deadly.
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Darth Vader: No disintegrations.
Boba Fett: As you wish.
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==Samus Aran==
Wiz: Samus Aran was infused with bird-like Chozo DNA at a young age, increasing her strength, speed, and athletic ability far beyond those of a normal human being.
Boomstick: How do they do that?! I want me some bird DNA!
Wiz: She wears the Power Suit, typically in Varia form, shielding her entire body without restricting any movement or flexibility.
Boomstick: Too bad it makes her look like a dude...
Wiz: Her primary weapon, the Arm Cannon, has acquired numerous awesome upgrades over the years. Though, the basic Power Beam is a pea shooter with a pathetic range.
Boomstick: But when it's fully charged, it'll blow your face off. BAM! Shoop Da Whoop!
Wiz: The Arm Cannon can also use an Ice Beam, a Grapple Beam, and a plethora of seeking and Super Missiles. Samus controls the skies with a powerful and speedy Screw Attack, and if there's trouble on the battlefield, she can curl up into Morph Ball mode and slip away unnoticed.
Boomstick: What the f-?! How does she do that?
Wiz: Bird DNA, Boomstick. Bird DNA.
Boomstick: Samus also has a freakin' huge supply of Power Bombs, which will destroy anything on the screen in seconds. Nothing survives!
Wiz: She is known to be the bounty hunter capable of taking on impossible missions, fighting massive beasts, and even wiping out an entire species. However, she often makes mistakes. Somehow, she always seems to lose all her power-ups and upgrades at the beginning of every mission.
Boomstick: Man, someone get this chick a purse.
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Samus: Time to go.
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==Prelude==
Wiz: The combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!
Boomstick: But first, we gotta pay off my double barrel bazooka shotgun, thanks to Netflix.
Wiz and Boomstick read out an advertisement for Netflix.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, well it's time for a Death Battle!
==Death Battle==
Samus is shown flying through space in her gunship. Suddenly, Boba Fett's ship, the Slave I, shoots at her gunship, throwing it out of orbit and landing on Earth, where it crash lands somewhere in the middle of a futuristic city. Samus gets out of her ship as Boba hovers down to where Samus landed.
Samus shoots her Power Beams, which fade out almost instantly without even reaching her opponent. Boba responds with a few shots from his blaster, but Samus jumps in the air, firing a missile at Fett which hits him. When she lands, Boba unleashes his flamethrower on her. Samus jumps back and shoots another missile which Boba dodges by using his jet pack. However, Samus goes after him using her Screw Attack and eventually hits him, which forces him to the ground.
As Samus lands, Boba shoots missiles at her. He then fires his anti-vehicle homing missile, which Samus escapes by going into Morph Ball mode and escaping through a doorway. Fett cautiously creeps toward the doorway as Samus sneaks behind him in Morph Ball mode and plants a Power Bomb near his feet.
The bomb explodes, heavily damaging Fett. With his suit having withstood the blast, Boba sees Samus and fires a missile at her. Samus dodges by stepping to the side and then freezes him using her Ice Beam. She then moves toward the frozen bounty hunter and begins charging her Arm Cannon. With the charge at its apex and Fett's body slightly moving as he tries to break free of the ice, Samus positions her cannon toward his head.
Samus: You're mine.
Before Fett can escape, Samus fires her Charge Beam point-blank, knocking his head clean from his body.
His head flies back downward, clanking on the ground.
==Results==
Boomstick: Holy shit! Did you see that, Wiz? That was insane!
Wiz: Fett battled like a champ, but in the end, Samus' superior technology and athletic skill trumped him... hard. While her basic Power Beam failed miserably, Samus put her Chozo DNA to work by jumping and dodging around Fett's offenses. Boba Fett, who relies more on cunning and brute force, simply didn't have the means necessary to catch Samus.
Boomstick: He was shooting all over the place, but that space chick was just too quick for him. He even tried to use his homing rocket, but anybody whose blown up a lot of shit knows anti-vehicle rockets don't work too well with people.
Wiz: Exactly. Samus is about four times smaller than the average vehicle, so there's only about a one in four chance for a direct hit from Fett's rocket. Not to mention she kept moving, preventing Fett from getting a solid lock on her.
Boomstick: After that screw up, Samus managed to sneak around Fett and left a little surprise at his feet.
Wiz: Fett's micro-energy field managed to minimize the damage he took from the Power Bomb, but by that point, it was all over. Samus froze Fett with her Ice Beam and finished him off with a Charge Beam to the face.
Boomstick: She sure stopped him cold.
Wiz: That's right, Boomstick.
We cut to the "Samus Aran" winner card.
Wiz: The winner is Samus Aran.
==Trivia==
===Production===
*The core connections between Boba Fett and Samus Aran are that they are both bounty hunters who operate across the entire galaxy (the galaxy and the Milky Way, respectively) and possess futuristic technology, armor (Mandalorian armor and the Power Suit, respectively), weaponry, and spaceships (Slave I, II, III, and IV, and various gunships, respectively). Both are extremely skilled and experienced, having visited and fought many alien planets and species and are often hired by a large galactic organization to take down targets (the Galactic Empire and the Galactic Federation, respectively) as a result. In addition:
**Both have been genetically modified (Boba is a clone of Jango Fett, while Samus was infused with Chozo DNA).
**Both witnessed their parents (Jango Fett and both Virginia and Rodney Aran, respectively) die in front of them at a young age, which changed their lives forever.
*This matchup, along with Death Battle as a whole, was inspired by Monty Oum's Haloid, an animation depicting a fight between Samus and Nicole-458 from Halo/Dead or Alive.
*Being the first episode of Death Battle, there are some notable differences compared to later episodes of the show:
**Wiz and Boomstick's voices are not as defined as in later episodes, with Boomstick's voice not being very distinct from Wiz and Wiz's voice being more energetic and not as calm as it is later on.
**Wiz and Boomstick introduce themselves instead of Boomstick introducing both of them.
**Wiz's pre-fight catchphrase does not include "alright" at the start, with the next two episodes to omit it being Goku VS Superman 2 and SpongeBob VS Aquaman.
**This is one of only two episodes in which the fight animation features health bars for the combatants, with the other one being Akuma VS Shang Tsung.
*In the preshow of the livestream premiere of the remastered episode, the unaired pilot version of this episode, created by Ben Singer in early 2010, was shown.
*Wiz's line of "That's right, Boomstick" said twice during this episode (and was frequently used up until Yoshi VS Riptor) has become heavily memed on over the years by the modern-day Death Battle community, to the point where the crew themselves are well aware of it and brought it back in some modern-day episodes.
*In Death Battle's first Q&A, when asked "Will you redo Fett vs Samus because Fett resists cold?", Wiz replied (comically angrily) that Boba's armor being cold-resistant would not protect him from being frozen by the Ice Beam.
**Humorously, by the time they actually did redo the episode, Boba not only still got frozen from the Ice Beam, but died harder to it (having his head and body shattered rather than his head flying off intact).
===Errors===
*The YouTube description for the episode erroneously features a link to this episode instead of its remastered version.
*Possibly due to being the first Death Battle episode, many grammatical errors are present. Examples of such include "Indestructible" being misspelled as "Indestructable" in Boba's "Mandalorian Body Armor" slide and "Upgrade" being misspelled as "Updrage" in Samus' "Arm Cannon" slide.
*Ironically, despite the Screw Attack being humorously stated to share its name with ScrewAttack, the website that hosted Death Battle at the time of this episode's release, Samus' "Screw Attack" slide is accidentally titled as "Mitrinomon Z-6 Jetpack" (Boba's jetpack) instead of the upgrade's name.
===Other===
*This is the first Male VS Female-themed episode, with the next 24 being Yoshi VS Riptor, Justin Bieber VS Rebecca Black, Starscream VS Rainbow Dash, Gaara VS Toph, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Dante VS Bayonetta, Meta VS Carolina, Tracer VS Scout, Zoro VS Erza, Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie, Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Carnage VS Lucy, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla, Mob VS Tatsumaki, Gray VS Esdeath, Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia, The Seven Battle Royale, Red VS Blue, Shadow VS Ryuko, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Killua VS Misaka, and Gojo VS Makima.
**This is the first time the Female character wins, with the next 14 being Starscream VS Rainbow Dash, Gaara VS Toph, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Meta VS Carolina, Tracer VS Scout, Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Carnage VS Lucy, Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla, Mob VS Tatsumaki, Gray VS Esdeath, Red VS Blue, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, and Killua VS Misaka.
*This is the first Cartoons VS Video Games-themed episode, with the next six being Zitz VS Leonardo, Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Scrooge McDuck VS Shovel Knight, Harley Quinn VS Jinx, and Aang VS Traveler.
**This is the first time that the Video Game character wins, with the next three being Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), and Harley Quinn VS Jinx.
*This is the first episode in which only one character speaks and the other does not, with the next 21 being Rogue VS Wonder Woman, Yoshi VS Riptor, Luke Skywalker VS Harry Potter, Chun-Li VS Mai Shiranui, Zelda VS Peach, Batman VS Spider-Man, Pikachu VS Blanka, Ryu Hayabusa VS Strider Hiryu, Luigi VS Tails, Batman VS Captain America, Kirby VS Majin Buu, Beast VS Goliath, Donkey Kong VS Knuckles, Meta VS Carolina, Hulk VS Doomsday, Sub-Zero VS Glacius, Lucario VS Renamon, Shredder VS Silver Samurai, Crash VS Spyro, Red VS Blue, and Among Us VS Fall Guys.
*This is the first East VS West-themed episode, with the next 56 being Akuma VS Shang Tsung, Yoshi VS Riptor, Goku VS Superman 1, Shao Kahn VS M. Bison, Ivy VS Orchid, Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare, Tigerzord VS Gundam Epyon, Ryu VS Scorpion, Gaara VS Toph, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro, Solid Snake VS Sam Fisher, Goku VS Superman 2, Donkey Kong VS Knuckles, Wolverine VS Raiden, Yang VS Tifa, Cammy VS Sonya, Amy Rose VS Ramona Flowers, Power Rangers VS Voltron, Android 18 VS Captain Marvel, Balrog VS TJ Combo, Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai, Carnage VS Lucy, Optimus Prime VS Gundam, Ultron VS Sigma, Weiss VS Mitsuru, Johnny Cage VS Captain Falcon, Aang VS Edward Elric, Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla, Genos VS War Machine, Goro VS Machamp, Obi-Wan Kenobi VS Kakashi, Zuko VS Shoto Todoroki, Venom VS Crona, Sabrewulf VS Jon Talbain, Hulk VS Broly, Yoda VS King Mickey, Blake VS Mikasa, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Akuma VS Shao Kahn, Saitama VS Popeye, Thor VS Vegeta, Magneto VS Tetsuo, Hercules VS Sun Wukong, Excalibur VS Raiden, Trunks VS Silver, Skyrim VS Dark Souls, Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha, Frieza VS Megatron, Goku VS Superman (2023), Omni-Man VS Bardock, Light VS Columbo, Aang VS Traveler, Simon the Digger VS White Lantern, Ruby VS Maka, and Hulk VS Godzilla.
*This is the first episode to be redone later in the series, with the next five being Goku VS Superman, Mario VS Sonic, Link VS Cloud, Goku VS Superman 2, and Master Chief VS Doomguy.
*This is the first Protagonist VS Antagonist-themed episode, with the next 35 being Yoshi VS Riptor, Starscream VS Rainbow Dash, Terminator VS RoboCop, Ryu VS Scorpion, Deadpool VS Deathstroke, Kirby VS Majin Buu, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Guts VS Nightmare, Iron Man VS Lex Luthor, Joker VS Sweet Tooth, Meta VS Carolina, Hulk VS Doomsday, Venom VS Bane, Metal Sonic VS Zero, Balrog VS TJ Combo, Carnage VS Lucy, Black Widow VS Widowmaker, Ghost Rider VS Lobo, Black Canary VS Sindel, Gray VS Esdeath, Goro VS Machamp, Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia, The Seven Battle Royale, Venom VS Crona, Hulk VS Broly, DIO VS Alucard, Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Omni-Man VS Homelander, Magneto VS Tetsuo, Black Adam VS Apocalypse, Bill Cipher VS Discord, Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer, Gojo VS Makima, Among Us VS Fall Guys, Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat, and Light VS Columbo.
*This is the first Nintendo VS Disney-themed episode, with the next two being Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015) and Sora VS Pit.
**This is the first time that the Nintendo character wins, with the next one being Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015).
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