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Bakureze is out! And so here's a 6th art piece to commemorate it.

Did the episode do every little thing I hoped it would? Unfortunately not, and I won't act like I wasn't disappointed for a good part of the day. But after sitting and ruminating on it a bit, and giving myself time to be distracted with a Smash Bracket binge alongside my little sister and girlfriend, I think I can confidently say I came out of the episode enjoying it!

Like, right below IchigoYusuke and right above CellMetal right now.

So now we sit in the afterparty, our fighters thoroughly beaten to shit. Rest assured, I got plans right now and they may or may not include a certain supervillain matchup pretty soon.

Much love to BakuReze and all the other fans!~

basically i think a cool angle would be these two as old timers reliving their glory days of villainy after having settled into their lives as heroes. does kinda make the 'one dies' part sting a bit more though

Gru’s had a bad, bad day, but it’s about time that he gets his way.

Stream-rolling over whoever he sees, uh,

Despicable Me.

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Credit

Visual novel dialogue box

Fire cone effect

Gru sprite sheet

Megamind sprite sheet

I know that in the Black Boxes they indicate the possibility of higher scaling for both series however I decided to not use those, mainly because not only do we not get any numbers but also because using them would still lead to Yuji taking stats, but now he’s relativistic to light speed which would screw Denji over even more. I also didn’t bring up Yuji’s soul hax cause my bravery has its limits

Also also I know that in Gojo vs Makima they placed the Typhoon Devil feat at 413 Kilotons, but I went with the calc they used in Reze vs Bakugo mainly because it’s the most recent version of the feat, and it’s possible it getting animated may have impacted the numbers slightly but idk

Four Vs Caine

CORE THEME

Two God-Like beings with near-complete control of reality that have others to play and be a part of their shows and games, and desperately crave and need attention from their participants, with things getting truly out of hand when they don’t receive that.

Connections:

• They first came up with their shows after gaining information (Caine was fed information from real life when he was first being mad, and Four watched the early seasons of BFDI and became a gigantic fan of it, and wanted to do his own show)

• They are in/created very wacky, absurd, and cartoonish worlds that follow very little logic, with wacky-looking characters that don't look regularly human

• They were replaced by someone better at some point in their stories (the Blue orb/Able for Caine during development, and Two for Four, who took most of the contestants and his show)

• They have various similar powers to each other, such as teleporting, floating, conjuring, general reality warping, and more.

• Along with that, they can bring back and fix/revive their contestants from any injury and bodily harm, for the most part (Abstractions and 3’s corruption are big exceptions)

• They keep contestants trapped in realms they have full control over, and people in there do want some sort of exit (the people trapped inside the circus and the objects trapped inside the exit)

• Of course, they try to run a show and have their contestants go on adventures/challenges

• As their series goes on, the contestants start paying less and less attention to the adventures/challenges and them, leading to an eventual crash out from the host.

• They are defeated/sealed away because of their contestants, plus interference from someone they took everything from (Caine got accidentally deleted by Kinger, and while nothing is fully confirmed, it’s heavily implied and theorized that Able/the blue orb had something to do with it. Meanwhile, for Four, he was defeated two different times, one through the contestants dividing him by zero (dount), but was eventually brought back from that, and the other time was through pencil taking his power, thanks to One's planning and then being sealed away in the moon.)

• Meta connection. While AM was the main impression of Caine when he was being written, he was mildly inspired by Four. Another meta connection is that both characters come from two hugely influential indie shows. along with them to be the first two indie shows to ever into theaters (will get into theaters for TADC's case)

Contrast:

• While they did crash out over not getting attention, they did so in different ways, with Caine going on to torture and have the circus members and having them face their worst fears, Meanwhile, Four wanted to just be alone away from others for good, and the conclusion to these events was very different, with the Circus gang making things worse for Caine by airing their frustrations with him and getting him deleted, meanwhile, the contestants managed to talks things with Four and even threw him a party.

Fight potential:

You may wonder how Four could get into the Circus, but considering how Four can easily teleport into different realities with thousands of doors inside him leading to other realms, he can likely end up there at random to look for new contestants to join his show, and ends up battling Caine so he can take the circus members. That would likely be the fight setup. You could have so much fun with this fight, with Four using his screeches and beams to maybe disrupt and malfunction Caine, Caine could send Four to various adventures and use different NPCs to try and stop Four while also trying to analyze how he could beat this completely uknown threat, and maybe even bringing out the Abstracted circus members to try and corrupt Four, their could also be small army fight with Four bringing out the Exitors and forcing them to fight everything Caine has.

The climax of the fight could be Caine fully crashing out and causing the circus to go completely haywire, with everything falling apart, and glitching, while Four could fuse with the program itself and shut Caine down for good, with that being the death, or for Caine win, he could make Fourexperinece his worst fear, which would likely be being alone forever. And while that's going on, Caine could look through the data and find Four's weakness of being divided by 0 and use that to take him out for good.

Conclusion:

I just genuinely adore this matchup to no end. After writing all of this down, it's likely in my top 20 or 30 favorite matchups and favorite both by far. I really do think this matchup deserves far more attention than it receives, and I hope this revamp helps with that!

all of the art here was made by me!

"Rushing Boys"

gotta be one of my top fav film matchups

The 99% is just taking it to the extreme. Are there any match ups where one character basically has the whole chart filled out and has the advantage on each category but still loses?

made by https://x.com/Oraclen_08

I commissioned the art a while back and it was finished earlier today, so I thought I'd post it here with a new TN I made too

Alt versions for the art can be found here

https://www.deviantart.com/yoshiwithasword/art/Adam-Smasher-vs-Frank-Horrigan-Ride-s-Over-1318355954