Season 5

Season 5 is the fifth season of Death Battle. It premiered on February 7th, 2018, and concluded on December 19th, 2018. It consisted of 16 episodes.
With the exception of a select few, all episodes this season were in the top ten percent of most requested fights on the official Death Battle suggestion form.
==Changes==
*"Invader" theme replaced by a new theme by Brandon Yates, "Wiz and Boomstick".
*Custom fight tracks now play during the post-analyses in addition to the fights. This was previously tested in the previous season's Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 2099.
*Wiz and Boomstick physically appear on-screen, starting with Mario VS Sonic (2018).
==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
Optimus Prime 	RTX 2018 	Optimus Prime VS Gundam
RX-78-2 Gundam 	RTX 2018 	Optimus Prime VS Gundam
Nightwing 	RTX 2018 	Nightwing VS Daredevil
Daredevil 	RTX 2018 	Nightwing VS Daredevil
Mario 	RTX 2018 	Mario VS Sonic (2018)
Sonic the Hedgehog	RTX 2018 	Mario VS Sonic (2018)
==Credits==
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|-|Animators=
Name 	Fights Animated
Benny Landa 	Black Panther VS Batman
Luis Cruz 	Black Panther VS Batman, Raven VS Twilight Sparkle, Leon Kennedy VS Frank West, Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai, Carnage VS Lucy, Ultron VS Sigma, Roshi VS Jiraiya
Kervin Alcindor 	Black Panther VS Batman, Sora VS Pit, Ultron VS Sigma
Zack Watkins 	Jotaro VS Kenshiro, Sora VS Pit, Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate, Carnage VS Lucy, Ultron VS Sigma, Roshi VS Jiraiya
Torrian Crawford 	Crash VS Spyro, Ryu VS Jin
Jerome Rodgers-Blake 	Crash VS Spyro
Gus Espinal 	Leon Kennedy VS Frank West, Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate, Carnage VS Lucy
S.K. Alam 	Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate, Ultron VS Sigma, Roshi VS Jiraiya
Kristina Christofferson	Ryu VS Jin, Optimus Prime VS Gundam, Thanos VS Darkseid
David Fischer 	Ryu VS Jin, Optimus Prime VS Gundam, Thanos VS Darkseid
Chris Bastin 	Carnage VS Lucy, Optimus Prime VS Gundam, Ultron VS Sigma
Alex Carriles 	Optimus Prime VS Gundam
Ismahawk 	Nightwing VS Daredevil
Blind Ferret 	Mario VS Sonic (2018)
Nancy Choquette 	Mario VS Sonic (2018)
Natasha Artemova 	Mario VS Sonic (2018)
Julie Savard 	Mario VS Sonic (2018)
Eugen Balan 	Mario VS Sonic (2018)
Min Kim 	Roshi VS Jiraiya
|-|Voice Actors/Actors=
Name 	Character played
Ben Singer 	Wizard
Chad James 	Boomstick
Christopher Guerrero 	Announcer, Carnage
Kira Buckland 	Raven, Twilight Sparkle
Edward Bosco 	Spyro the Dragon, Darkseid
Bryce Papenbrook 	Sora
Justin Briner 	Pit
Nick Cramer 	Donald Duck, Goofy, Radio Announcer
Ricco Fajardo 	Leon S. Kennedy
Austin Lee Matthews 	Frank West, Ultron
Daman Mills 	Doctor Strange
Mike Varker 	Doctor Fate
Kaiji Tang 	Samurai Jack
Devante' Johnson 	Afro Samurai
Danielle McRae 	Lucy
Richard Barcenas 	Optimus Prime
David Matranga 	Amuro Ray
Lindsay Jones 	Sayla Mass
Danny Shepherd 	Nightwing
Tyler Tackett 	Daredevil
Kamran Nikhad 	Mario
Nicholas Andrew Louie	Sonic the Hedgehog
SupremeOverlordOfIce 	Sigma
Patrick Rodriguez 	Master Roshi
Jonah Scott 	Jiraiya
Steven Kelly 	Gamabunta
Justice Washington 	Thanos
Curtis Arnott 	Deadpool
|-|Musicians=
Name 	Scores Composed
Therewolf Media	Battle at the Zoo, Bizarre Stars, Resident Rising, Watch Out, Samurai, Wings of Iron, Retro Rivals, Turtle and Toad
Brandon Yates 	Titans of Magic, Off-Brandicoot, Crash and Burn, Unlocking Heaven, A Strange Fate, Fight Like a Devil, Chorus of Carnage, Devil of the Night, Infection Perfection, Kings of Infinity
Omega Sparx 	Fight Like a Devil, Kings of Infinity
|-|Writers=
Name 	Episodes Written
Sam Mitchell	Black Panther VS Batman, Jotaro VS Kenshiro, Sora VS Pit, Ryu VS Jin, Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai, Carnage VS Lucy, Roshi VS Jiraiya
Nick Cramer 	Raven VS Twilight Sparkle
Sean Hinz 	Crash VS Spyro, Leon Kennedy VS Frank West, Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate, Optimus Prime VS Gundam, Nightwing VS Daredevil, Thanos VS Darkseid
Ben Singer 	Crash VS Spyro, Mario VS Sonic (2018)
Liam Swan 	Ultron VS Sigma
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==Trivia==
*Season 5 is tied with Season 4, Season 6, Season 8, Season 9, 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 5 is tied with Season 9 for the fourth highest amount of returning combatants with a total of four (Batman, Ryu, Mario, and Sonic the Hedgehog), after Season 8, Season 2, Season 6, Season 7, and Season 10, and followed by Season 4, Season 3, and Season 1.
*Season 5 has the fourth highest amount of new series introduced with 12 (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Fist of the North Star, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Kingdom Hearts, Kid Icarus, Resident Evil, Dead Rising, Tekken, Samurai Jack, Afro Samurai, and Elfen Lied), after Season 1, Season 2, Season 9, and Season 10, and followed by Season 3, Season 6, Season 8, Season 4, and Season 7.
*This is the first season to:
**feature a live-action fight, with the next one being Season 7.
**not have a joke episode, with the next two being Season 7 and Season 10.
*Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai was not part of the season's initial lineup; rather, it came about because Luis Cruz stated he wanted to animate a hand-drawn Samurai Jack episode while drunk at a party and stuck to it the day after.Samurai Jack Vs Afro Samurai w/ CommentaryUser blog:CrossoverKing96/Road to 100 Archive: Jack vs Afro, Carnage vs Lucy
==References==
Category:Death Battle Seasons