Season 8

Season 8 is the eighth season of Death Battle. It premiered on March 8th, 2021, and concluded on December 20th, 2021. It consisted of 16 episodes.
As the special 10th anniversary season, every matchup has the theme of having a certain history with the show, such as matchups certain crew members really wanted (e.g., Shadow VS Ryuko), "legacy" matchups that have been popular for a long time (e.g., DIO VS Alucard), matchups that feature characters who have direct history with the show (e.g., Yoda VS King Mickey), or matchups crew members have joked about in the past (e.g., Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man).
==Changes==
*Wiz and Boomstick now say the combatants' names before their connections during the interlude.
*"KO" Announcer replaced with Ringmaster.
*For this season specifically, the Death Battle transition card has the words "10 YEARS" spray painted on it to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary.
==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
Yoda 	Hulk VS Broly's Next Time trailer	Yoda VS King Mickey
Doctor Doom 	Hulk VS Broly's Next Time trailer	Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom
Ryūko Matoi 	Hulk VS Broly's Next Time trailer	Shadow VS Ryuko
Mikasa Ackerman	Hulk VS Broly's Next Time trailer	Blake VS Mikasa
Steven Universe	Hulk VS Broly's Next Time trailer	Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly
Cloud Strife 	Hulk VS Broly's Next Time trailer	Link VS Cloud (2021)
Batman 	Link VS Cloud's Next Time trailer	Batman VS Iron Man
Iron Man 	RTX 2021 	Batman VS Iron Man
Randy Savage 	RTX 2021 	Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man
Kool-Aid Man 	RTX 2021 	Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man
Madara Uchiha 	Death Battle Season 8 Returns! 	Madara VS Aizen
Alucard 	Death Battle Season 8 Returns! 	DIO VS Alucard
Akuma 	Death Battle Season 8 Returns! 	Akuma VS Shao Kahn
Korra 	Death Battle Season 8 Returns! 	Korra VS Storm
Sōsuke Aizen 	Death Battle Season 8 Returns! 	Madara VS Aizen
==Credits==
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|-|Animators=
Name 	Fights Animated
DevilArtemis 	Yoda VS King Mickey, Saitama VS Popeye
David Herbert 	Yoda VS King Mickey, Link VS Cloud (2021), Akuma VS Shao Kahn
David Fischer 	Yoda VS King Mickey
Luis Cruz 	Shadow VS Ryuko, Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard, Iron Fist VS Po, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Link VS Cloud (2021), Batman VS Iron Man, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man, Madara VS Aizen, Saitama VS Popeye
Anh Thu Duong 	Shadow VS Ryuko, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Batman VS Iron Man
Gus Espinal 	Shadow VS Ryuko, Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard, Iron Fist VS Po, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Batman VS Iron Man, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, DIO VS Alucard, Korra VS Storm, Madara VS Aizen, Saitama VS Popeye
Zack Watkins 	Shadow VS Ryuko, Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard, Iron Fist VS Po, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Batman VS Iron Man, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, DIO VS Alucard, Korra VS Storm, Madara VS Aizen
Joshua Wright 	Shadow VS Ryuko, Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard
John Mitchell 	Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Iron Fist VS Po, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, DIO VS Alucard
Torrian Crawford	Blake VS Mikasa
Joe Vick 	Blake VS Mikasa
Dyrique Hallman 	Iron Fist VS Po, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Madara VS Aizen
OriginTheHero 	Iron Fist VS Po, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Korra VS Storm, Madara VS Aizen
Min Kim 	Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly
Pierre McCauley 	Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Batman VS Iron Man, Korra VS Storm
Xander Farrell 	Link VS Cloud (2021), Akuma VS Shao Kahn
David Roldan 	Link VS Cloud (2021), Akuma VS Shao Kahn
notoriouskog 	Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Korra VS Storm, Madara VS Aizen
Tanya Fetzer 	Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man, Saitama VS Popeye
Josh Ornelas 	Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man
Brandon Bent 	DIO VS Alucard, Madara VS Aizen
CrazyChrisTyler 	DIO VS Alucard, Madara VS Aizen
Jamix007 	Madara VS Aizen
Andrew Lhotsky 	Saitama VS Popeye
Chris Bak 	Saitama VS Popeye
Gil Calceta 	Saitama VS Popeye
Quinn Weston 	Saitama VS Popeye
Susie Combs 	Saitama VS Popeye
William Ball 	Saitama VS Popeye
|-|Voice Actors/Actors=
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! scope="col" |Name
! scope="col" |Character played
|-
|Ben Singer
|Wizard
|-
|Chad James
|Boomstick
|-
|Billy B Burson III
|Ringmaster
|-
|Chris Demarais
|DUMMI
|-
|Phillip Sacramento
|Yoda, Akuma, Sōsuke Aizen
|-
|Kestin Howard
|King Mickey
|-
|Brendan Blaber
|Shadow the Hedgehog
|-
|Jenny Yokobori
|Ryūko Matoi
|-
|Tom Laflin
|Senketsu
|-
|Gianni Matragrano
|Lex Luthor, Batman, Shao Kahn
|-
|Steven Kelly
|Doctor Doom
|-
|Yoshi Amao
|Heihachi Mishima
|-
|Brent Mukai
|Geese Howard
|-
|Francesca Calo
|Mikasa Ackerman
|-
|Jonathan Bullock
|Iron Fist
|-
|Austin Lee Matthews
|Po Ping
|-
|Kdin Jenzen
|Steven Universe
|-
|Corrine Sudberg
|Star Butterfly
|-
|Liam Swan
|Spider with a Top Hat, Popeye
|-
|Adam Gibbs
|Cloud Strife
|-
|Reagan Murdock
|Iron Man
|-
|Michael Kovach
|Goku Black
|-
|Valentine Stokes
|Reverse-Flash
|-
|Anthony Sardinha
|Randy Savage
|-
|Tom Schalk
|Kool-Aid Man, Dio Brando
|-
|Lisa Foiles
|Jocelyn the Intern
|-
|Barbara Dunkelman
|Mama Boomstick
|-
|Curtis Arnott
|Deadpool, Alucard (Hellsing)
|-
|Matt Hullum
|Sarge
|-
|Amanda Julina Gonzalez
|Korra
|-
|Shara Kirby
|Storm
|-
|Nicholas Andrew Louie
|Madara Uchiha
|-
|Ryan Abedi
|Saitama
|-}
|-|Musicians=
Name 	Scores Composed
Therewolf Media	Hearts of Light, Chaos Unraveled, Kings of Iron, Dragons & Dumplings, Stars of the Universe, Oh Yeah!, Hell Over Heaven, Weather the Elements, Balderdash
Brandon Yates 	Chaos Unraveled, Apex of Doom, Thunder Shroud, Final Breath, Suit Yourself, Reverse Rosé, Satsui no Sekai, Hollow Dreams, Balderdash
LadyIgiko 	Thunder Shroud
Tiggs 	Thunder Shroud
|-|Writers=
Name 	Episodes Written
Joshua Kazemi 	Yoda VS King Mickey
Genevieve Guimond	Shadow VS Ryuko, Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly, Link VS Cloud (2021), Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man
Hershel Lousyton 	Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Iron Fist VS Po, Akuma VS Shao Kahn
Liam Swan 	Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard, Blake VS Mikasa, Batman VS Iron Man, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, DIO VS Alucard, Korra VS Storm, Madara VS Aizen, Saitama VS Popeye
Ben Singer 	Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man
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==Trivia==
*Season 8 is tied with Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, 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 8 has the highest amount of returning combatants with a total of nine (Shadow the Hedgehog, Lex Luthor, Doctor Doom, Link, Cloud Strife, Batman, Iron Man, Akuma, and Shao Kahn), followed by Season 2, Season 6, Season 7, Season 10, Season 5, Season 9, Season 4, Season 3, and Season 1.
*Season 8 has the seventh highest amount of new series introduced with seven (Kill la Kill, Attack on Titan, Kung Fu Panda, Steven Universe, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Hellsing, and Popeye), after Season 1, Season 2, Season 9, Season 10, Season 5, Season 3, and Season 6, and followed by Season 4 and Season 7.
*This is the first season to:
**not have any combatants from Hasbro.
**not have any Video Game VS Comic Book-themed episodes.
*Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash and Saitama VS Popeye were not part of the season's initial lineup; rather, they were added last during the middle of the season,https://twitter.com/JumpNJetz/status/1762213335372636625 with the former being suggested by Matthew Jones as a way to fill out an opening left in the season due to its popularity within the community and how fast research and writing for it would be thanks to most of the work being done in prior episodes.
**It was eventually revealed in the April 24th, 2024 Fireside Chat that the episodes replaced Frieza VS Megatron and Galactus VS Unicron, respectively, after those episodes had to be delayed.
==References==
Category:Death Battle Seasons