Death Battle: Android 18 Vs. Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)

[Lord Beerus]

Did they just make #18 absorb energy? Well, they fucked up.

What are you talking about? She did it in that one videogame. That totally means she has the ability to absorb energy.

[Kanassa]

Did they just make #18 absorb energy? Well, they fucked up.

What are you talking about? She did it in that one videogame. That totally means she has the ability to absorb energy.

If they're taking abilities from video games, Marvel should be OP as fuck...

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

Soo after many years, Wiz and Boomstick disregarded feats in favor of power scalling...that was surprising...

[dario03]

Yeah....I'm not getting how they gave her energy absorption. Pretty sure it was well established that she doesn't in DBZ/GT. And using DB video games makes everything really tricky since you could just say she has all kinds of powers from the ones that had the share move options. Plus that would mean SS4 Gogeta can lose to Mr. Satan's dynamite kick.

[Kanassa]

Makes me sad they didn't use her ass rockets...

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

Power Absortion aside, they made a point about #18 being smart enough to not feed Ms.Marvel with her energy and made her stronger. They still gave #18 the advantage in having the superior overall stats.

[Bullza]

Oh she won? I don't know if I'm surprised or not. I'm sorta familiar with Captain Marvel and there should be no conceivable way she'd beat Android 18 but you never know.

Did they take Android 18's absorption from a game then?

[ekrolo2]

Makes sense 18 would win, the fact she can casually annihilated an entire planet alone made her victory pretty obvious.

[cheddarsword]

Oh she won? I don't know if I'm surprised or not. I'm sorta familiar with Captain Marvel and there should be no conceivable way she'd beat Android 18 but you never know.

Did they take Android 18's absorption from a game then?

That's the general thinking it seems. I would think that if they gave her the ability in game, perhaps it was written somewhere that she can, or were they just assuming?

I planed to look through the Daizenshuu books later (on site of course) and see if there's any mention of it.

Oh yeah, first post was updated with link a few hours ago.

[OLKv3]

If 17 and 18 had energy absorption they'd be OP

[cheddarsword]

Seems Seth the Programmer has had his say on the matter.

Fair warning. Unsavory language is used. Listen in private.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXtgTXtdYqU

They generally agree with the outcome but they do state that if Carol was at her best, she would have had no trouble with 18.

Thought about adding this video to the first post, but I'm just not sure it's relevant enough.

[cheddarsword]

Sorry for DP but I thought I'd post a link to Detective Q's (Qaaman) breakdown of the fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZqR0gpkWk

Anyone have a good breakdown by someone who's more of a Marvel fan than DBZ? I'd like to hear some commentary from the Marvel side of this fight.

[The Monkey King]

Well colour me surprised.

I guess Death Battle decided to throw Dragon Ball fans a bone, this is the first respectable match up Dragon Ball has won since Shadow vs Vegeta

And lol @ #18 could "possibly" destroy a planet

[TheGodfather93]

Ugh, the misinformation in this video hurt me.

I'm not even talking about 18 suddenly having the power to absorb energy, but the simple facts stated. Dr Gero was not the founder of the Red Ribbon Army, the dub called them 'androids', not Gero, and Marron is 18's daugher, not Maron.

The guys over at Screwattack can do all these complex and often absurd calculations, but they can't do some simple fact checking?