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'''''Moleman's Epic Rap Battles''''' is an amateur multimedia project created and managed by one '''[https://www.youtube.com/user/molemanninethousand Molemanninethousand]''' (alternatively '''Moleman9000''') and [[Follow the Leader|explicitly based on]] the professional ''[[Epic Rap Battles of History]]''. This series, like its inspiration, pits various characters, against one another, almost all of them in this case being fictional and most being deemed unfit for inclusion in the real ''ERB'', so as to make the matchups unique and unlikely to be found anywhere else.

The playlist of all videos in the series can be found [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU5gH4qasKFNgKiqXz9TUCMD60IEE37V4 on TouTube], a directory of lyrics and cover images [https://www.flickr.com/photos/113761577@N03/sets/72157649131333347/ on Flickr], and an under-construction [[The Wiki Rule|wikia]] [https://molemans-epic-rap-battles.fandom.com/wiki/Moleman%27s_Epic_Rap_Battles_Wiki at FANDOM].

''Episode list:''

1. ''[[Total Drama Island|Gwen]] Vs. [[Daria]]''

2. ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Twilight Sparkle]] Vs. [[Mister Ed]]''

3. ''[[Sonic Sat AM|Sally]] [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Acorn]] Vs. [[Mega Man]]''

4. ''[[Sly Cooper|Penelope the Mouse]] Vs. [[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Gadget Hackwrench]]''

5. ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot|XJ-9]] Vs. [[Short Circuit|S.A.I.N.T. #5]]''

6. ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door|Nigel Uno]] Vs. [[James Bond|Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]''

7. ''[[Ratchet and Clank|Captain Qwark]] Vs. [[Dragon Ball|Hercule Satan]]''

8. ''[[Sesame Street|Big Bird]] Vs. [[Winnie the Pooh]]''

9. ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking]] Vs. [[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' (later remade as "[[Updated Rerelease|The Unshitty Version]]")

10. ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Ned Flanders]] Vs. [[Moral Orel|Clay Puppington]]''

11. ''[[Michael Rosen]] Vs. [[Dirty Potter|Jim Dale]]''

12. ''[[Batman/Characters/Rogues Gallery|Poison Ivy]] Vs. [[Little Shop of Horrors|Audrey II]]''

13. ''[[Death Note|L Lawliet]] Vs. [[L. Ron Hubbard]]''

14. ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar Aang]] Vs. [[Ben 10|Ben Tennyson]]''

15. ''[[Invader Zim]] Vs. [[Destroy All Humans!|Cryptosporidium]]''

16. ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji Ikari]] Vs. [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach]]'' (Season 1 finale)

17. ''Sally Acorn Vs. Mega Man 2'' (Season 2 premiere)

18. ''[[Beauty and the Beast|Gaston]] Vs. [[Frozen (Disney film)|Hans]]''

19. ''[[Touhou Project|Reimu Hakurei]] Vs. [[Godzilla]]''

20. ''[[Judge Dredd]] Vs. [[Judge Judy]]''

21. ''[[King's Quest|King Graham of Daventry]] Vs. [[Monkey Island|Guybrush Threepwood]]''

22. ''[[Soul Calibur|Siegfried Schtauffen]] Vs. [[Warcraft|Arthas Menethil]]''

23. ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Gruntilda]] Vs. [[Borderlands|Handsome Jack]]''

24. ''[[Mad Max]] Vs. [[Fallout|The Vault Dweller]]''

25. ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Discord]] Vs. [[The Elder Scrolls|Sheogorath]]''

26. ''[[Call of Duty|Captain]] [[Modern Warfare|Price]] Vs. [[Mass Effect|Commander Shepard]]''

27. ''[[Insane Clown Posse]] Vs. [[IT]]''

28. ''[[The Sandman|Death]] Vs. [[Thanos|Death]]'' (Season 2 finale)

29. ''[[Frozen (Disney film)|Elsa]] Vs. [[Wicked|Elphaba]]'' (Season 3 premiere)

30. ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Eds]] Vs. [[Animaniacs|Warners]]''

31. ''[[Rango|Rattlesnake Jake]] Vs. [[Jake Roberts]]''

32. ''[[Portal (series)|GLaDOS]] Vs. [[System Shock|SHODAN]]''

33. ''[[The Police|Sting]] Vs. [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Big Brother]]''

34. ''[[Total Drama Island|Chris McLean]] Vs. [[Vince McMahon]]''

35. ''[[Spider-Man|Peter Parker]] Vs. [[The Fly|Seth Brundle]]''

36. ''[[The Incredibles|Parr Family]] Vs. [[Spy Kids|Cortez Family]]''

Special: Moleman's Epic Rap Battles News with [[The Lorax (film)|The Once-ler]]

37. [[Ralph Bakshi]] Vs. [[Don Bluth]]

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* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Scientology.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Used frequently for one-off lines, but also leads to actual appearances by [[Family Matters|Steve Urkel]] and [[Tina Turner]]. It is also part of the premise for ''Elsa Vs. Elphaba''.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Hans is demonstrated to play this straight, more-so than what can safely be said of the character's canonical version based solely on what ''[[Frozen (Disney film)|Frozen]]'' itself shows him doing.
** [[Brave New World|Mustapha Mond]] is another example, in his case lifted directly from the original story.
* [[A Lighter Shade of Black]]: Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn to Audrey II and its brood, Hans to Arthas the Lich King, and Mustapha Mond to Big Brother/Napoleon.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: See [[Killed Off for Real]] below.
* [[Author Appeal]]: A major factor in selecting the characters/series featured.
* [[A Wild Rapper Appears]]: More frequently mid-battle than in ''Epic Rap Battles of History''.
* [[Back for the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Arthas the Lich King in ''Elsa Vs. Elphaba''}}.
* [[Back for the Finale]]: Many characters at the end of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji Ikari]] Vs. [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach]]'', in a parody to the ending of the former's series.
* [[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]]: {{spoiler|Hans straight-up murders Arthas, saving everyone including Elsa in the process}}.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Usually averted, as an outside force or other contrivance will usually thwart the Heel even when they legitimately have the upper hand (See: ''Nigel Uno Vs. Ernst Stavro Blofeld'', ''Poison Ivy Vs. Audrey II'' and ''Elsa Vs. Elphaba''). And Sting Vs. Big Brother is specifically built around finally averting [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|the most egregious case of this trope EVER]].
* [[Badass Baritone]]: Gaston specifically boasts of this.
* [[Batman Grabs a Gun]]: [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Aslan]] killed the White Witch in the original story, yes, but he didn't use freaking ''sniper rifles''! Also, [[Judge Dredd]]'s [[Token Good Teammate]] Anderson wholeheartedly supports the execution with extreme prejudice of Big Brother and O'Brien.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: James Bond at the end of ''Nigel Uno Vs. Ernst Stavro Blofeld'', and [[Batman]], even though he doesn't make an official appearance as a speaking character, in the epilogue of "Poison Ivy Vs. Audrey II".
**See also [[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]] just above.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: ''[[Batman/Characters/Rogues Gallery|Poison Ivy]] Vs. [[Little Shop of Horrors|Audrey II]]'', with the former portrayed as more of an environmentalist [[Anti-Villain]] than usual.
* [[Black Comedy]] / [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: More-so than ''ERB''.
** Mister Ed's second verse takes the cake.
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: Blofeld seems prepared to finally avert this at the end of his second verse, only to be killed by James Bond.
* [[Canon Welding]]: [[Frozen (Disney film)|Prince Hans]] is related to [[Game of Thrones|the Lannisters]], and [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Big Brother]] is {{spoiler|[[Animal Farm|Napoleon]]}}.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: [[Little Shop of Horrors|Audrey II]] openly spells out that he is a [[Complete Monster]], as does Big Brother.
** In a lesser case, Hans refers to himself as "villainous" at one point.
* [[Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames]]: A variation: many characters who are better known by aliases are known by their real names here, including [[Codename: Kids Next Door|Nigel Uno]], [[Watchmen (comics)|Adrian Veidt]], [[Adventure Time|Simon Petrikov]] and so forth.
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: This is the reason {{spoiler|'''Mad''' [[Mel Gibson]]}} is designated with such a title, to distinguish him from an accurate, rounded representation of the person he is based on.
* [[Composite Character]]: Ernst Stavro Blofeld makes a couple references to lines or actions of other Bond villains.
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Discord]] is {{spoiler|[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Q]] in disguise}}.
* [[Creator's Pet]]: Elmo is called out as this by Tigger.
** For MERB itself: Hans and Sally Acorn.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: ''Ned Flanders Vs. Clay Puppington'' is the biggest culprit. The Announcer even says outright who won.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Several, often overlapping with [[Last-Second Word Swap]].
* [[Denser and Wackier]]: Compared to the real ''[[Epic Rap Battles of History]]''.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: ''Ned Flanders Vs. Clay Puppington'' is proclaimed to be this at its conclusion.
* [[Deconstruction]]: This trope is the basis for ''Shinji Ikari Vs. Rorschach''.
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: Inspector Javert in ''Judge Dredd Vs. Judge Judy'' and Jadis the White Witch in ''Elsa Vs. Elphaba''
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: {{Spoiler|Mad Mel Gibson when he is thrown off of Hoover Dam by Yes Man}}.
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Elphaba is given the more dramatic announcement at the start of her battle with Elsa and quickly gains the upper hand, but becomes irrelevant to the remainder of the story as soon as Hans is reintroduced.
* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: [[The Sandman|Death of the Endless]], [[Discworld|Death of Discworld]] and [[Meet Joe Black|"Joe Black"]] all play this angle straight; the rest of the Deaths are more-or-less [[Necessarily Evil]], except for [[Final Destination|the last one in the battle]], who [[Complete Monster|inverts this]].
* [[The Dragon]]: [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|O'Brien]], who [[Complete Monster|fortunately]] [[Your Head Asplode|doesn't last long]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Javert.}}
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Many of the characters used are known for being this in regards to their native works.
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: [[Final Destination|Death]] to every one of its counterparts and {{spoiler|[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream|AM]] to both GLaDOS and SHODAN}}.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: ''[[Beauty and the Beast|Gaston]] Vs. [[Frozen (Disney film)|Hans]]'' and ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Gruntilda]] Vs. [[Borderlands|Handsome Jack]]''.
* [[Fair for Its Day]]: Invoked by Hammurabi regarding his code.
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: {{spoiler|[[Super Mario RPG|Geno]]}} shows up in the middle of ''Sally Acorn Vs. Mega Man 2'' for ''literally no reason whatsoever''.
* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: A literal example when Flandre Scarlet is summoned against the trope namer himself.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Ganon provides this (from an actual pig-slaughtering) at the end of ''Sting Vs. Big Brother''.
* [[Hate Sink]]: Clay Puppington, L. Ron Hubbard and Big Brother.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Hammurabi and {{spoiler|Jesus Christ}}.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Arthas the Lich King and Chris McLean}}.
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Simon the Ice King and Mr. Freeze.
* [[Inspector Javert]]: The [[Trope Namer]] [[Les Miserables|himself]] shows up in ''Judge Dredd Vs. Judge Judy''. {{spoiler|He ends up killing himself.}}
* [[Interactive Narrator]]: The Announcer is much more talkative than in the real ''ERB'', his lines even being in verse on occasion.
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Happens to Audrey II, Nightmare and Syndrome; in the former's words:
** ''"What, was that supposed to blow me up? Supposed to make me [[Tempting Fate|explode in mid-sent]]-" *KABOOM*
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Numerous characters, although most died in their original stories to begin with. However, {{spoiler|[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]}} is the most notable victim of [[Death by Adaptation]] here.
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: Many occurrences; often, both what would have been said and what replaces it fit as rhymes.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: Those characters who die tend to do so in this manner. Javert and [[The Fly|Brundlefly]] are both described as "explod(ing) for no reason" in the scripts for their battles.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: [[Frozen (Disney film)|Prince Hans]] is played up as this.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Had the Lich King not shown up when he did, Elsa would have murdered Hans.
* [[Non Standard Character Design]]: All three rappers in ''Michael Rosen Vs. Jim Dale'' as well as {{spoiler|[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream|AM]]}} are voiced through [[YouTube Poop]]-style sentence-mixing.
* [[Orcus on His Throne]]: {{spoiler|Happens to Arthas when he becomes the Lich King, causing him to forfeit the battle and necessitating the bringing-in of [[Castlevania: Lords of Shadow|Gabriel Belmont]]}}.
* [[Off to See the Wizard]]: Done subtly in ''Elsa Vs. Elphaba'', with {{spoiler|[[Adventure Time|Ice King]] as the Scarecrow, [[Batman|Mister Freeze]] as the Tin Man and [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Aslan]] as the Lion}}.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Parodied with Big Brother's [[Humungous Mecha]] form.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Tina Turner, just in time for [[Mad Max]] to [[Mel Gibson|go apeshit]].
* [[Sensory Abuse]]: Of the "Ear Rape" variety, unfortunately, unintentionally and admittedly so, in most of the earlier episodes; ''Panty and Stocking Vs. The Powerpuff Girls'' arguably suffers from this the worst. Recent videos have improved on this, though sound quality is still less-than-stellar.
* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]: Big Brother to Sting after the latter attempts to appeal to a sense of basic decency.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: The creator is a self-admitted case, including for making this very page himself.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: A rather drawn-out sequence consisting of this is triggered by [[V for Vendetta|V]] in ''Sting Vs. Big Brother''.
* [[Synthetic Voice Actor]]: See [[Non Standard Character Design]] above.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: ''Elsa Vs. Elphaba'' ends with a non-[[Downer Ending]] case of this.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Most of Ned Flanders' lines comprise this. Daria's last verse also has shades of this.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: {{spoiler|[[Brave New World|Mustapha Mond]]}} in ''Sting Vs. Big Brother''.
* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Aslan alongside [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]s Ice King and Mr. Freeze on [[Affably Evil]] [[The Sociopath|sociopath]] Hans' ragtag entourage. {{spoiler|Subverted in that he turns on them as soon as he realizes Hans' true intentions}}.
* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: Many characters, somewhat necessarily so due to the belligerent nature of the series.
* [[Ur Example]]: Invoked by name by Hammurabi.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Hans is in fact the main character of "Elsa Vs. Elphaba".
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Panty spells this out to the PPGs.
* [[YouTube Poop]]: Besides ''Michael Rosen Vs. Jim Dale'', [[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|Ganon's "DIE!"]] is a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: [[Game of Thrones|Tyrion Lannister]] warns of a particularly nasty version of this that would send even all of fiction's most hardened zombie-slayers over the [[Despair Event Horizon]].

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