Epic Rap Battles of History: Difference between revisions

# [[Abraham Lincoln]] vs. [[Chuck Norris]]

# [[Sarah Palin]] vs. [[Lady Gaga]] *

# [[Justin Bieber]] vs. [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]] *

# [[Albert Einstein]] vs. [[Stephen Hawking]] *

# [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] vs. [[Napoleon Dynamite]]

# [[Billy Mays]] and [[Vince Offer]] vs. [[Benjamin Franklin]] *

# [[Dr. Seuss]] vs. [[William Shakespeare]] *

# [[Mr. T]] vs. [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Mr. Rogers]] *

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* [[Ass Shove]]: A couple.

'''Master Chief''': "Cortana says you're Greek, so why don't you stick these lyrics up your ass?" }}

* [[Actor Allusion]]: The Cat in the Hat wears sunglasses identical to Nice Peter's signature look. His voice is also the same.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]; The reason why Beethoven references [[Facebook]], Columbus references Hulu, Leonidas know of computers and video games, and [[Adolf Hitler]] knows [[Rick Moranis]], among plenty of other things.

* [[Ate His Gun]]: Mario tried to do so behind the scenes.

** The Mario Brothers [[Downplayed Trope|grow a bit]] in their second verse after eating mushrooms.

* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: Shakespeare's second verse. Turns out he can [[Motor Mouth|rap]] ''[[Motor Mouth|really]]'' [[Motor Mouth|fast]].

** That's to be expected; he was played by George Watsky, one of the fastest rappers on Youtube.

* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Shakespeare uses this, true to form. See also [[Sophisticated As Hell]] below.

* [[Auto-Tune]]: Used for Stephen Hawking's rapping, since it's very difficult to get anything resembling rhythm out of the actual voice synthesizer program.

* [[Badass]]: [[Stephen Hawking]]. Attentive viewers will notice that he's playing [[Angry Birds]] ''on the console he uses to speak''.

* [[The Bechdel Test]]: Due to the constant back and forth about what guys they slept with, Marilyn Monroe vs Cleopatra fail this test.

** Ironically, Sarah Palin vs Lady Gaga ''almost'' passes this test, despite the latter being played Nice Peter. The only man named in the song is John McCain in the last line of the song, and even then it's in a political context.

** Einstein pushes Hawking's when he questions the validity of Hawking's Black Hole Theory.

** Dr.Seuss does ''not'' like being accused of writing the ''Twilight'' series.

** Marilyn Monroe got downright vicious when her inablity to have kids was brought up.

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: In the final battle (of season 1), {{spoiler|Kassem G}} uses a magnificent flying one.

** According to Kim Jong-Il, [[Take That|Hulk Hogan's wife thinks so]].

** Master Chief claims to have showed Leonidas' Queen his ''[[Unusual Euphemism|plasma cannon]]''.

** Napoleon Bonaparte gets one at the beginning of his second line. <ref>"T'as une tête a faire sauter les plaques d'egouts" = "You've got a face that could blow off a manhole cover"</ref>

* [[Boastful Rap]]: All of the character raps have hints of this. In addition to dissing and countering opponents, the raps also elaborate on the characters' awesomeness. Ubiquitous in every battle is "I [insert awesome thing], you [insert stupid thing]!"

* [[Butt Monkey]]: [[Adolf Hitler]]. Gets frozen in carbonite, thawed out to battle again, then {{spoiler|dropped in the rancor pit}}.

** Pleistarchus (Leonidas' six year old son) in Leonidas Vs Master Chief.

** [[Marlon Brando]] in Cleopatra Vs Marilyn Monroe.

** Jon Na, the director of photography for Columbus Vs Kirk, cameos as Sulu.

* [[Creepy Monotone]]: [[Mister Rogers]].

* [[Fan Service]]: Cleopatra Vs Marilyn is mostly [[Incredibly Lame Pun|riding on it]].

* [[First Name Ultimatum]]: [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Mr. Rogers]] gives one of these to [[Mr. T]].

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Ben Franklin makes several death threats to Billy Mays, promising to "craft a lyrical coffin", telling him to "join or die", and referencing "Death of a Salesman". At first, this just seems like the usual hip-hop trash talk, but then...

* [[Follow the Leader]]: A handful of people have done copycat videos based off the concept, usually low-budget single person productions.

** Darth only thawed Hitler out for their rematch, and to drop him into the Rancor Pit.

* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: There's often so much going on the screen that some of the humor can be missed. For instance, Kim Jong-Il's missile launcher fires [[Abnormal Ammo|his own head!]]

** Most of the battles have the characters doing ridiculous dances and/or poses in the background.

** Stephen Hawking is seen playing [[Angry Birds]].

** Behind the Wright Brothers, you can see biplanes flying, and at one point one crashing into the ground.

** In Kirk Vs Columbus, the word Klingon is written ''in'' [[Shaped Like Itself|Klingon]].

** When Luigi's profanity is censored by the sound of collected coins, the subtitles also use the image of coins from the Mario Bros games as a form of censorship.

* [[Global Ignorance]]: Hulk Hogan apparently thought Beijing was in Korea, not China. Kim Jong-Il does not let that one slide.

* [[Gratuitous French]]: Napoleon Bonaparte breaks into this partway through his rap. Naturally, [[Bilingual Bonus|it translates to]] another [[Take That]].

* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: Behind the scenes, Nicepeter (as Columbus) accidentally smacks Omar Gharaibeh (as Spock) in the face while delivering a neck chop.

* [[Historical In-Joke]]: So many, with them almost [[Shown Their Work|all very well researched]].

* [[Joke Character]]: Even the narrator sighs when he introduces the Easter Bunny.

* [[Just Here for Godzilla]]: In-universe, during their Rap battle, Epic Lloyd invokes this as the reason people visit Nice Peter's youtube channel.

* [[Kubrick Stare]]: Dr. Seuss has a frightening one. Given that he never says a word...

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Shakespeare's first verse is in iambic pentameter. This does not go unnoticed.

* [[Large Ham]]: Hitler, Genghis Kahn, Mr. T, Leonidas, and the Mario Brothers.

** They're just the worst. Everyone to appear in these vids is hamming it up.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]:

** Beethoven after chucking over his piano.

** Marilyn Monroe taking off her earrings in her second verse.

* [[Marionette Master]]: Dr. Seuss "raps" through his characters, [[The Cat in the Hat]] and Thing 1 & Thing 2.

* [[Marilyn Manoeuvre]]: The lady herself shows us how it's done (well, in universe it's her, anyway).

* [[Midword Rhyme]]:

...ser! }}

* [[Monochrome Past]]: Hitler's verses are shot in monochrome. Until Vader Force Chokes him into the present, that is.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Most obviously and unquestionably Cleopatra.

* [[News Parody]]: The first battle has a parody news ticker that shows up twice.

** Billy Mays, as usual.

** Luigi.

** Hiter in the rematch.

* [[Paedo Hunt]]: Courtesy of [[Mr. T]]:

** Not to mention [[Elvis Presley]]

* [[Parody Episode]]: Nicepeter and Daneboe teamed up to give us The Annoying Orange VS M&M in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Solyg7nEX9o Epic Rap Battles Of Kitchenry].

* [[Piss-Take Rap]]: Done [[Stylistic Suck|very intentionally]].

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Almost every single video has at least one well-placed curse word in there somewhere, but {{spoiler|Mister Rogers}} takes the cake.

{{spoiler|'''Mr Rogers''': I'll say this once Laurence, I hope it's understood, get right back in you van and get the fuck out of my neighborhood}} }}

** [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: John Lennon vs. Bill O'Reilly, while maybe not exactly fitting here, is much more frequent in swearing than the other battles.

* [[Rage Quit]]: In EpicLlyod vs.NicePeter

Peter: "Man, you don't even need to say that kind of shit. Fuck the rap battles and you, I quit." }}

* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]:

** Leonidas vs Master Chief, so very much!

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Many of the videos run with this, although the Vader vs. Hitler one is the most blatant about it.

** The Wright Brothers have a grainy sepia tone and their audio is processed to sound like it was recorded on a phonograph.

** Aside from the fact that young Elvis is shot in monochrome, both old Elvis and young Michael are shown as if recorded from a VHS around their time. Old Michael even has a special filter on him that makes him appear as in the '90s video clips.

** In the behind the scenes videos, there's a running theme of Lloyd jokingly asking other people if they want to buy some heroin.

** Lloyd also sometimes dresses up in part of the costume and imitates the announcer.

** There also seems to be one in the second season's behind the scenes videos of people not recognizing who one of the rappers is supposed to be, such as one man not realizing Lloyd was dressed as Mario.

** Subverted in the Columbus/Kirk battle, where Christopher Columbus seemingly walked out after his opening line.

** Dr. Seuss did a subtle straight version. He got the hell out of dodge before the Cat in the Hat let Thing 1 and Thing 2 free.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Ubiquitous.

* [[Sibling Incest]]: Doesn't actually happen, but Mario tells the Wright Brothers to "just get back in [their] biplane and make out with each other".

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Shakespeare does this quite a lot.

'''Shakespeare''': Ye hoebag! }}

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] first name is spelt 'Adolph' on his title card at the beginning, but is spelt in the more conventional way, 'Adolf', in the subtitles where he introduces himself. Both spellings are valid. In the rematch, however, Hitler's title card actually uses the spelling 'Adolf'.

* [[Spin-Off]]: 9, The Official Fanzine type that shows the behind the scenes and extra info.

** Epic Rap Battles of History - Behind the Scenes

** Epic Makeup with Ceciley

* [[Stealth Pun]]: Several.

* [[Super Mode]]:

** In the first Vader/Hitler battle, Vader begins to use [[The Force]] in his second verse to choke Hitler and then freeze him in carbonite.

** The Mario Brothers grow larger in their second verse, complete with the appropriate sound from the game.

* [[Take That]]: They really like to poke fun at John McCain.

'''Gaga''': History will regret you like J-J-J-John McCain! }}

** Twilight Books. Even Dr. Seuss couldn't tolerate being accused of that.

** After Billy Mays dies mid-battle against Ben Franklin, the [[Vince Offer|Shamwow guy]] dramatically emerges to finish the battle.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Vader, Chuck Norris, Gandalf and Kirk all pull this.

** Mr. T has a variant of this, fool!

* [[Title Scream]]

* [[Time Skip]]: In the Elvis Presley VS Michael Jackson fight, both characters go through this. Michael spins into his older, whiter self, and Elvis gets fat from eating too much.

** Master Chief maintains his calm throughout the battle, but you can tell he's pissed off.

** Mister Rogers. He doesn't raise his soft, polite voice even once, but he ''does'' go into [[Creepy Monotone]], calls Mr T "[[First Name Ultimatum|Laurence]]" like a teacher to a naughty child, and ''[[Precision F-Strike|swears]]''.

* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: [[Invoked Trope|The whole point.]] Just with rap.

* [[Unfortunate Names]]: The Wright Brothers, according to the Mario Bros.

'''Luigi''': ...named Wilbur and Orville! }}

* [[The Unintelligible]]: The announcer gradually becomes this as more videos are released. Each video tries to top the last.

* [[Visual Pun]]: Billy Mays with his "lightning rod cock".

* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://epicrapbattlesofhistory.wikia.com/wiki/Epic_Rap_Battles_of_History_Wiki Here].

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Beethoven claims this is why [[Take That|he can't assault Bieber.]]

* [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.]]: [[Mr. T]] says this to [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Mr. Rogers]]:

* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Played with by Shakespeare, featuring such things as "Ye Hoebag".

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Master Chief's rap opens up with this, right after Leonidas kicks him down the well.

** The Wright Brothers spend their first few lines saying this to the Mario Brothers.

** Vader to Hitler: "So many dudes been with your mom, who even knows if [[Luke, I Am Your Father|I'm your father]]?"

** Hawking to Einstein: "There are ten million million million million million million million million million particles in the universe that we can observe/ Your mama took the ugly ones and put them into one nerd".

 

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