#MakeThisBattle Feedback - Feb 10th

Hear ye., hear ye, this session of #MakeThisBattle shall begin. I’m going to try to go full No-Google on this one folks. That’s right. No phones, no cheating, only the knowledge I possess about the matchups suggested.   I learn quickly, but I know very little 

- nice peter

Here we go…

Florence Nightingale vs Hippocrates [submitted by Foxdoc]

Fun, but I don’t know why. I have obviously heard the name Florence Nightingale, but I don’t know any of her stories for certain. And I see its 200 years since she was born. Neat. I think Hippocrates started what we call “modern medicine”. A scientific pursuit of health using a doctor caring for a patient with scientific methods. I think. I know they named an oath after him. The Hippocratic Oath is something all doctors take, but I don’t know what it says. I think Florence was a nurse, maybe the founder of “modern nursing”. If that’s true, this is a solid suggestion. God, I want to Google so bad. I'll research more into these two.

GLaDOS Vs Rick Sanchez [submitted by Dragonsblood23]

I give up, I just can’t do this without Google. I’m supposed to know who GLaDOS is, but honestly I can never remember which letters to capitalize, and then I’m just exhausted. I know he’s a video game character thing. I don’t know from what. I’m not giving up. No google. I love Rick Sanchez, but I don’t think he could come into ERB for a while. If he did, it would have to be Lloyd or someone else who feels ready to take on that character. Would it be live action? Animated? Is Rick Sanchez finally the answer to the animated battle question? Is it Homer Simpson vs Rick Sanchez? That gets me excited somehow. It certainly gets me more excited than Rick Sanchez going up against an artificially intelligent computer system from the video game series Portal. GLaDOS later appeared in The Lab and Lego Dimensions. The character was created by Erik Wolpaw and Kim Swift and voiced by Ellen McLain. I used Bing. 

James Brown Vs Vito Corleone [submitted by Danteson1]

This is still very awesome. I’ve seen this one floating around, and I’ve loved it every time. It’s great. Battle of the Mafia & Soul Godfathers. The contrast in voices alone is just spectacular. I don’t need to google a thing, there’s so much that we all know about these two, and so much juicy backstory that can be referenced.  It makes me feel….. good!

Mansa Musa Vs Black Panther [submitted by Mavicartel2003]

Is Ask Jeeves still a thing? I’m going to find out, on Bing. It’s still there, but its just a Google Search bar. How embarrassing. Okay, so Mansa Musa was a conqueror in Africa in the 1300's. That’s pretty cool. And he was also very, very rich. I like the contrast of African Badasses, for sure. I feel like Shaka Zulu did a good job of covering that character archetype, and Black Panther, while awesome, is probably not viable right now because it’s too soon for another MCU character. All that said, it’s a cool match-up and a good suggestion. A-

Queen Elizabeth II Vs Betty White [submitted by Lileagle01]

Hahaha lol, A+. That’s really funny. That could be really funny. I don’t know who the hell to cast but it’s just a funny visual and idea. I don’t think Lloyd could play Bette White in the modern ERB universe. (as you may have learned we had an old demo idea to do Bette White vs Betty Page and Lloyd was gonna play White) It’s a very creative and funny suggestion, I love the comedy potential, the contrast, there’s no obvious beef; but they can obviously beef. It’s great. Both are smart and clever and completely different. Can envisage the lyrics being some real harsh shit. Lovely.

Greta Thunberg Vs Henry Ford [submitted by ilanwoll]

And finally. Wow, what a banger. A very current, extremely polarizing, historical, cool suggestion that I did not see coming. The info is nice. The contrast is just delicious. Henry Ford has excellent parries to a lot of Greta’s attacks. It could be a very nice back and forth.   Extremely creative. It’s one of those suggestions that feels obvious once you see it, but man I never would have thought of that. If she wins a Nobel prize this might be an almost certainty.

Thanks for joining this session of #MakeThisBattle! I walk away a changed man, with a second rate search engine.

You can vote on the six options above over at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33914243

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The next round of submissions for #makethisbattle is now open! We need a new theme. Let's go with 'Land, Air & Sea'.

At least two match-ups selected for feedback will feature a character who is well known for their exploits on land, air or sea. It could be a pilot. A racing driver. An admiral. Or anyone associated with the basic theme. Think big.

As ever you can ignore this theme completely if you wish!

Same rules apply as normal. Three suggestions per person. You can post them in the comments below, email them to erbpatreon@gmail.com or post them on the Discord server in the dedicated '#make-this-battle' channel.

Deadline for submissions is... 9am PT on Monday February 24th.