'MakeThisBattle' - Feedback from Peter

Thank you for all your submissions to our #MakeThisBattle post here on Patreon and Discord. Exciting to see all the variety of suggestions you came up with. If your ideas weren't selected this time - be assured we will be using them all as an archive to dip back into when we are looking for inspiration!

This week six battles were selected from the first batch of ideas and Peter has provided feedback below. Just for fun - we will also be running a poll to get an idea of how you all feel about the six ideas. We can't commit that any of these battles will happen in S6, but its great to have a better way for you to communicate your ideas to us.

Nicolaus Copernicus Vs Marie Curie (submitted by YodaAmelia and Josef)

Pete:  I have always wanted to get Marie Curie into a battle.  At first glance, Copernicus doesn’t feel like the right match, but that’s mostly because I don’t know too much about him. I’ll do some googling now…. Right, he’s the Sun is at the center guy, I should have known that. I still don’t believe he’s the right match-up for Marie Curie, hard to put my finger on exactly why, but it just doesn’t feel right to me. Marie Curie is a keeper, who else can she go against? [maybe let us know in comments or on Discord]

Richard Nixon vs P.T. Barnum (submitted by Golden_fiver)

Pete:  this is a very exciting idea at first glance. The names conjure strong images, strong feelings, I like the loose association between them.  There’s no obvious link, but at the same time, their link feels obvious. PT Barnum and Richard Nixon have both always been on the radar, I’ll look into this one more, and see what happens.

Jean Valjean vs The Phantom of the Opera (submitted by CrazyJackDonan)

In the last week we have seen some strong interest in a musical theater based battle, and while it was not originally that exciting for me personally, the more I talked and thought about it, the more excited I got.  I think there is real potential in this genre, whether or not it’s these characters, or limited to just two characters, I don’t know… but there’s something here.  

Beyonce vs Queen Elizabeth I (submitted by Jimothy)

Awesome. Not sure how to do it, as casting for both could be quite difficult, but its a great suggestion.  I've always had an eye open for Queen Elizabeth I match-ups, and this is one of the most exciting ones I've seen. Again, casting I think is biggest challenge.  Who plays Beyonce?  Lloyd just doesn't have the legs for it anymore. 

Malcolm X vs Robespierre (submitted by Slicer)

Interesting one, I think Malcolm X would get a lot of people excited, where as Robespierre would make a lot of people say “Who?” I like any opportunity to learn more about characters from history, and teach people a little something something in a rap battle, so I’ll look more into this one.  I don’t get the connection right away, but I imagine it will become more clear as I learn more about Robespierre.  Right now, I know he was part of the French revolution, and I think he killed a lot of people with a guillotine.  Oh jeez now I have to google him too…. hang on….Yes! Nailed it.

George S. Patton Jr. vs. Ulysses S. Grant (submitted by Last Rookie)

Awesome. That is all. Great suggestion, I hope this happens. Awesome.

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We will reopen up the #make-this-battle channel on Discord tomorrow (Jun 27th) and post up a request here on Patreon for your ideas again. We intend to make this a rolling process every two weeks and each time we'll maybe try to vary the types of match-ups we are looking for - just to keep things bubbling along creatively.

Thanks again.

-np