Battle 10: Ditzy Doo VS Vinyl Scratch
Background ponies: love 'em or hate 'em! And personally, I love 'em!
Ditzy Doo, the pegasus otherwise known as Derpy Hooves...
...and Vinyl Scratch, the unicorn also known as DJ P0N-3!
I'm Yah-Shee and he's Arrell, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
Nickname: Derpy Hooves
Species: Pegasus pony
Occupation: Mailmare
Suffers from strabismus
Clumsy, but strong
Can lift pianos and break wooden supports
Ditzy Doo is one of two names for one of the first, if not the first, background pony: Derpy Hooves.
With so many fan interpretations of her, it's hard to figure out which one's the most common...so we'll just go on it based on the few minutes the show's given us and throw in a few popular traits!
Ditzy is widely believed to be a mailmare and has a child named Dinky. As her name implies, she is clumsy and disoriented. However, this can likely be attributed to her eyes, which are almost certainly her most well-known feature.
One eye points up, the other points down!
It is a common error for people to refer to Ditzy as being cross-eyed, when in reality, the science goes much deeper than that. Ditzy suffers from a condition known as strabismus.
Stradivarius?
No, Arrell. Strabismus.
Science mumbo-jumbo bores me! Can't we just say she's cross-eyed?
While admittedly it is easier, for the purposes of this battle, we had to research it. Strabismus is a condition that affects the eyes and prevents them from focusing on the same point in space.
And time!
Stop cutting me off. Strabismus frequently causes a decrease in depth perception, which is most likely the cause of Ditzy's clumsiness. While there are many forms of strabismus, Ditzy's appears to be a type of vertical strabismus known as hypertrobia.
Hypothermia?
I said stop cutting me off! ...Anyway, hypertrobia is caused when one eye's visual axis is higher than the other, causing them to misalign and have one eye be higher up than the other.
I always thought it was just an animation error...
While she may be clumsy, Ditzy is much more powerful than expected.
She can lift pianos by herself and break solid wood just by accidentally ramming into it or sitting on it! Plus, she can take a direct hit from lightning and shake it off like nothing happened!
Speaking of lightning, Ditzy can control and manipulate the weather due to being a pegasus. However, we have yet to see her do this with anything other than storm clouds.
And if that wasn't enough, she's been taking lessons from Pinkie Pie, because this mare can warp physics like wood in the rain! She can appear pretty much anywhere, even inside of a snow globe!
It's impossible to deny that despite her clumsiness and the drama caused by her speaking, Ditzy is just as easily a contendor for an Equestrian Death Battle as anypony.
"I just don't know what went wrong!"
Nickname: DJ P0N-3
Species: Unicorn pony
Occupation: Nightclub DJ
Can use dubstep for various tasks
Defeated Discord with her bass cannon
Wears purple-tinted shades
Despite having less than fifteen total seconds of screentime, Vinyl Scratch is one of the most popular background ponies in the fandom. There are plenty of interpretations of her, but for this battle, we'll be taking the most commonly accepted fan theories and treating them as canon.
Vinyl is frequently referred to as being a dubstep-loving unicorn DJ - just like me!
...except you're not a DJ. Or a unicorn.
Eh, one out of three's better than I've ever done before.
...moving on, Vinyl doesn't seem to use her magic very much. The only spell we've seen her use is levitation, and she appears to use her hooves more than one would expect a unicorn to be comfortable with.
She doesn't even bother trying to use her magic on an iPhone! Hah!
However, while she may not appear bright, Vinyl appears to at least have some technological skills. She's learned how to use dubstep as an effective dishwasher, but if that wasn't enough, she's even weaponized it with her Bass Cannon.
YEAH! BASS CANNON!
The Bass Cannon is a modified sound system that fires a soundwave so intense and powerful that it completely incinerates anything in its near-endless path. This weapon was even used to defeat Discord when the Elements of Harmony could not. However, it has a downside.
Vinyl...is not Pinkie Pie.
Unlike the Party Cannon, Vinyl's Bass Cannon requires actually being pushed around, since she doesn't have hammerspace access. It also is apparently rather heavy, limiting its mobility, as well as taking a while to charge up.
Then again, considering you're killing your enemies with pure dubstep music, I think that the pros outweigh the cons! I wanna try that now...
Later, Arrell.
Fine.
While Vinyl has little to no actual combat training, she appears to have a very large resistance to pain. She can crush a wooden mug against her forehead without any visible consequences or flinching, showing both her ability to take plenty of damage and quite a bit of physical strength.
But one problem with Vinyl is that she's pretty oblivious. She focuses on one thing and doesn't notice - or at the very least, doesn't care about - anything else. And she misses the point a lot...hm, maybe she is Pinkie.
Pinkie with a Bass Cannon...oh dear Celestia, just kill me now.
"We crank that bass up to eleven, it cleans all the dishes on a microscopic level! YEAH!"
Alright, the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all.
Hold up Yah-Shee!
Arrell, we're just a fanfic. We don't need sponsors.
Not a sponsor! An update on the Equestrian Death Battle Tournament!
Ah yes, the tournament. There are twelve days left until OC submissions close, but beginning on Sunday, we will no longer be accepting submissions from anyone who has not contacted our author, RLYoshi, beforehand about entering.
So if you want to enter, then you better at least let RLYoshi know today or tomorrow, or you'll miss your chance!
Also, extra judges are no longer being accepted, as we have enough already.
But for now, IT'S TIME FOR A BACKGROUND PONY DEATH BATTLE!
In the middle of a forest far away from any civilization, a white unicorn with a spiky blue mane wheeled her Bass Cannon onto what would soon become a battlefield. As if on cue, a gray wall-eyed pegasus dropped from the sky, landing on the ground and stumbling a bit before standing up straight.
As soon as the command was given, Vinyl Scratch hit the button on her Bass Cannon and aimed it at Ditzy Doo. Ditzy took to the air quickly, though, using the several seconds of charging the weapon took to get away. Not willing to be outdone that easily, Vinyl tilted the Bass Cannon up, trying to follow Ditzy with it.
Just as the cannon was about to fire, however, Ditzy suddenly tilted down and flew toward the ground. The dubstep soundwave that poured from the Bass Cannon barely missed, but the pegasus still took a small hit from being close by, turning her dive into an unwanted somersault into the ground.
Leaving her Bass Cannon behind for the moment, Vinyl bounded up to the fallen mare, hoping for the battle to be over. She was surprised to see Ditzy stand up, looking completely unharmed, and fly back into the sky. Silently cursing, Vinyl lit her horn in an attempt to pull the mailmare back down, but she couldn't get a proper magical hold.
Seeing an opportunity, Ditzy looped around in the air and flew right back down, surprising the DJ below. Before Vinyl could react, Ditzy plowed into her with unexpected power, sending them rolling across the field. It wasn't until Vinyl flung Ditzy away with levitation that she managed to stand back up. Knowing she'd need a weapon, she looked around for her Bass Cannon, but they had rolled so far away it was no longer in sight. She turned back to where Ditzy was, only to find her no longer present. In fact, she was nowhere to be seen.
Nervous, Vinyl began galloping back in the direction the battle started, only to be stopped when a piano suddenly fell right in front of her. Had she been any faster, she would've been crushed. Looking up, Vinyl saw Ditzy carrying a large amount of items with no hint as to where she got them from.
The DJ kept running, avoiding dropped items every few seconds. Every time she looked up, Ditzy had a completely new array of objects, freaking Vinyl out further. As soon as she saw her abandoned Bass Cannon again, she dove for it, hitting the button and turning to aim it up at Ditzy.
Only now Ditzy had vanished again.
Panicking, Vinyl looked around for her foe, pulling off her sunglasses to help her see better. Seeing a bit of gray behind a nearby tree, she grinned, aiming her weapon at the same tree. It fired, the ear-splitting dubstep soundwave incinerating every visible tree in that direction, and ostensibly Ditzy as well.
Vinyl smirked in victory, but that vanished when she felt a hoof tap her on the shoulder. Turning around slowly, she was met with Ditzy's cheerful smile and crossed eyes.
Thinking fast, Vinyl turned and bucked, sending the pegasus flying a fair distance away. Using her magic to snap off a branch from a nearby tree, she charged in desperation, hoping to stab Ditzy to death since her Bass Cannon wasn't working out. As soon as she got close, though, Ditzy flew up and away, causing Vinyl to completely miss. A split second later, the mailmare returned with a storm cloud and began jumping on it, showering the area around Vinyl with lightning. Every time the unicorn tried to move, she had to jump back to avoid being shocked.
Suddenly, the lightning bolts stopped, garnering suspicion from Vinyl. She glared up at the cloud, stick ready. A few seconds passed with no event. Quickly, Vinyl levitated her stick up to the cloud and stabbed right through it, destroying it and revealing nothing on top.
The sound of something charging up behind her caused Vinyl to turn around. The last thing she saw was her Bass Cannon aimed at her before it fired, obliterating her in its blast.
Ditzy stood proudly behind the Bass Cannon as she watched it finish the job for her, then turned and flew away, leaving the field void of all life. Just a modified speaker set and miles of burned trees in two directions.
K.O.
Man, dubstep really is dangerous!
While Vinyl Scratch may have had magic, she didn't know enough spells to make use of it, while Ditzy was at least a decent flier. Bass Cannon aside, Vinyl had no real advantages aside from pain resistance and extra strength, neither of which were very useful.
Pain resistance doesn't help much when your opponent has the same amount of it, and extra strength...well, that's only useful if you can actually land a hit, but thanks to Ditzy staying airborne, that didn't happen enough.
The Bass Cannon itself had too many disadvantages to be useful in Vinyl's favour. It took too long to charge and couldn't be moved around easily, which made landing a hit difficult. The only reason Ditzy was even able to use it to win was because Vinyl was too focused on the cloud to notice Ditzy aiming and starting it up. By the time she saw, it was too late.
Something tells me this is gonna start a few arguments in the fan-bass!
The winner is Ditzy Doo.
Next time on DEATH BATTLE: Equestria!
It's time for another free-for-all, but this time, we've got three beings of unknown power and potential duking it out for survival! The show's three main - er, mane - antagonists are all being put in a cave for a battle. Who will win? Who will die?
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Please do not suggest matchups that have already happened. You may suggest individual characters to appear in matches against a different opponent than one they have fought previously, but suggestions like those are less likely to be used (unless I REALLY like the idea).
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O the irony, poor Vinyl your wubs will be missed.
I was expecting the winner, but I was totally not expecting the finishing move.
Awesome battle
Yeah, Ditzy had this one in the bag. Another great battle written, great job.
And we're finally seeing Nightmare Moon vs Discord vs Chrysalis. I'm all hyped up and ready for this epic showdown!
btw i have to ask, why you didn't add the my roommate is a vaper thing that would have hlep her, just saying
1469604 I don't believe that's commonly accepted as "canon" among the fanbase.
1469613 ok just want to know
OMG!! You're doing my suggestion!! EVIL FREE-FOR-ALL FTW!!
I can die happy now
From the description, I'm thinking that you're gonna do a 3 way fight between Nightmare Moon, Discord, and Queen Chrysalis. Am i right?
I'm putting my money on Discord. Dude freaking controls reality.
Fan-bass. Yep. I could see Boomstick making such a horrible pun like that.
...
As for the next mentioned free-for-all:
For an antagonist that isn't very predictable, it's kind of obvious that he's going to win.
Discord vs Deadpool.
Next time on death battle, discord vs nightmare moon vs chrysalis. Now in that battle chrysalis will die first due to her not really having many advantages accept disguise, but the only ponies to disguise as are the opponents themselves, what advantage does that give you, and she cant take the abilities of her opponents because in the canterlot wedding episode she used her own magic while disguised as cadence, so thats a bust. Chrysalis dies first
Now the battle between discord and nightmare moon, even though Nightmare Moon is one of my absolutely favorit characters in the show, I'm afraid to say she couldn't possibly win against discord *stares ashamed at the ground for a few minutes* you see at the start of season 2 ep 1 Celestia said they only beat discord with the elements of harmony, do ya see the problem? Since Nightmare Moon has no connection to the elements at all, she couldn't have a chance against discord, since the elements are his only weakness Nightmare Moon wouldn't have a chance, BUT if on the death battle his weakness isn't the elements while in the cave it could be a pretty even fight, but as far as I know Nightmare Moon gets her strength from the moon, and being in a cave isn't exactly tippin the odds in her favour and since Discord can draw his power from anywhere and is also God he has unlimited power but so is Nightmare Moon(If she too possesses the same power system as Discord), and Nightmare moon does have a wide variety of lethal/illusion magic, so that could tip the odds in her favour but then again so does Discord, but I didn't exactly see him use lethal magic in the show so he could be at a slight disadvantage there, and I think they can both fly aswell, since they both...have...well, wings but if we were going solely on physical strength and attack then Discord has it in the bag with claws and strength and fangs but Nightmare also possesses fangs aswell but I dont really think that will come in use. But lets consider something else both characters are extremely arrogant leading them both to there downfall in the episodes because they put themselves at risk, also Nightmare Moon dosen't like to get her hooves dirty, often using manticores, rock avalanches and illusions to try and stop her victims but when the situation calls for it she will fight her opponent head on as seen in S1 Ep2 She also dosen't get out of the way, preferring to die dramatically than be smart and get out of the way, think of what would happen if she got out of the way the same goes for Discord who literally asked to be hit with the beam the elements wouldn't work because he thought his plan was fool proof leading to his demise, so both of these characters have significant disadvantages and advantages but either way, weakness the the elements no weakness the the elements.
Discord wins
(Sorry Nightmare Moon. Still love ya
)
1470587 Or you could wait foer the actual battle and let me do my own stuff.
1470597
but...dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Lyra_dealwithit.png You see Discord obviously had the bigger advantage and if you think i'm being biased i'm not, Nightmare Moon comes third on my top ten favorit ponies, Discord isn't even on that list, but If you really think about it, you know who the victor is, Discord...but then again you are very imaginative, you could probably find a way to make another character win but for gods sake Chrysalis has no possible chance (4th favorite pony BTW) so if she somehow wins, my head will turn into a peadl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Twilight_pea.png
But that outcome is the only logical outcome, I do apologise though, you can do your own thing, its just my opinion, sorry if I made you mad
1470654 I'm not going to spoil anything, but I will say that I already know the winner. And I'm not mad, but while I don't mind people saying things like "I hope so-and-so wins" or "So-and-so has no chance against so-and-so", when people start posting what's essentially an essay to detail the characters (when that's supposed to be my job
) it irritates me a bit.
Plus, characters shouldn't just be measured on their powers. Some personality flaws, backstory pieces, and/or extremely minor details from the show could prove vital.
1470672
I dont hope...I wish, Secondly apologies for the short essay on why discord might win, but if I had to root for someone it would be Nightmare moon (Sorry chrysalisdl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/shrug_Queen_Chrysalis.png ) I really dont support anyone, I read for enjoyment and entertainment, and sometimes...on those cold winter nights, I just like to snuggle up to my laptop and read a good fic to pass the time.
Apologies againdl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Lyra_cry.png
1470696 I'm not mad, don't worry.
dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Scootaloo_lolface.png 1470861
Man I can't wait for Discord to DESTROY the nest death battle!
hey i have a suggestion for a death battle....uhh if thats ok
umm my suggestion is Midnight Flame from the story Whats love got to do with it and Sharky White from the story My better life
1470927 I've never heard of those fics, so I'll take a look at them and see what I can do.
>> RLYoshi oh youll love em deinately a couple of my favorite fics
Is Chrysalis aloud to use her changelings? but Either way I gotta go with discord, without the elements of harmony how do you fight someone who can make two plus two equal fish.
1471158 Chrysalis will be allowed to use a limited amount of her Changelings, yes, but considering how weak they are it's not much of an advantage.
1471158 I have 2 fish, I get 2 more fish. Therefore, 2+2=FISH. Fish is four letters long. Also, you could've set values to each letter such as F=1, I=1/2, S=32, and H=1/4.
And couldn't the same argument be made for NMM? Even Chrysy needed the ol' super-love-magic-shield-of-intruder-annihialtion trick to stop her.
Since you said that it's not going to be it for the winner of the next battle, I'm going to make a guess that the winner will faces Celestia in the next chapter.
1473494 No, that won't happen. We've already seen that all three villains can overpower Celestia (except possibly Chrysalis, who needed to feed on love to gain power), so it wouldn't be very interesting. I have something else in mind.
Celestia versus Amaterasu
just saying ;3
1470696
Here's the one flaw that that will cause Discord to lose, and the one thing that NIghtmare Moon and Chrysalis could use to win against him.
1) Discord, never really tries his hardest to actually fight to win. In two season 2 two part, he not only didn't try his hardest, but actually did his best to make sure that the mane 6 at least had a chance to win, because he wanted to make it fun for himself
2) If Discord is super stronger than the others, then I'm sure NMM and C would be smart enough to double team him, so that they would have a chance to win.
1475133
Why, even if they teamed up they would still lose, and Discord was just being arrogant so he thought the mane 6 wouldn't defeat him, and his only weakness is the elements of Harmony, even Celestia and Luna couldn't defeat him, and since Nightmare Moon is basically Luna and Chrysalis isn't even close to the same amount of power of NMM and Discord so thats why he would win, and if you make the argument Chrysalis beat Celestia, that was only because she had the power of love, where is she gonna get it this time?
1475190
Good points on the Love part, but who's to say Discord won't feel the same way this time, especially if he sees it the same way as you? He sees that NMM and C have no chance, so why bother trying too hard?
Regardless, I still think that Discord has the advantage here. More trying to point out that he's going to be his own opponent.
No Vinyl!
1475231 The problem with Discord is he has a habit of getting over confident and thinking that his plan is flawless. This means that he is completely oblivious to the fact his opponents have worked a way around his master plot, catching him unawares.
I find bull shit because Ditzy isn't strong
1. the piano there was two other ponies there they were all carrying the piano and ditzy let go of it.
2.the wood she broke was already broke so anypony could do that and the wood she sat on with the fact that she eats so many god damn muffins
1474275 Thank you. I thought I was the only one.
1479371 Actually, Ditzy IS strong. Sure, there was one other pony helping to carry the stuff, but keeping in mind just how much stuff there was (piano, hay cart, etc.) Ditzy would have to be strong to even help carry it. And the wood she broke wasn't already broken; she broke a support beam that was still holding up part of the town hall, so it still worked, and she broke the floor from sitting on it and the floor was just fine.
I understand if you wanted Vinyl to win (hell, I did too, and I write the damn thing), but pointing out facts in the comments will never cause me to rewrite, and more often than not, I already thought about and covered. And using the smug emoticon to try and emphasize your point when you clearly have not done any research lowers my drive to even reply to you even more.
1480314 Mare-Do-Well is impossible to put in a battle, since she's just a combination of Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Twilight.
1480336 right. forgot about that. well then we need celestia vs chuck norris.
1480359 Celestia wins, because Chuck Norris isn't actually super overpowered like people joke about.
1480391 y'know what life sucks! how about celestia vs God?(just so you know i'm probably going to hell just for writing that one sentence. i'm christian.)
1480412 God wins. Celestia is a princess, not a god, so God is more powerful.
I'm not even religious and I say this.
1480481 hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm older spike vs the american Godzilla.
chrysalis vs discord.
blue-blood vs shining armor( just to watch blue-blood get trounced)
Please do Littlepip(Fallout Equestria) vs The Lone Wanderer (Fallout 3)
So far, the OCs have been too OP. I hope the tournament rectifies this rather than aggravating the problem.
But, if you're going to be OP, make it ridiculous! For instance, Shawn from I Met a Pony In Hell and We Kicked Ass Together by shortskirtsandexplosions versus, say, TTEOAP's David or Capt. Storm Wing. (A fuller version of CardsLafter's story for them can be found on EqD, as he only puts revised chapters on Fimfic.) I know that David has barely any story behind him, but it takes an OP-as-hell character to match up to a literally OP-as-hell character.
1492291 Whoops, didn't notice that...not too big a problem, though, hopefully.
1492331 Don't worry; I've checked every entry in the tournament to make sure they aren't OP. Previous OCs have been rather OP, yes, but they have been guaranteed to go up against similarly OP characters. Since that isn't the case in the tournament, I have to check them more.
Is it just me or i'm noticing a pattern here that unicorns with white fur lose i mean first there was sweetie belle,then rarity and now vinyl hmm. wonder who's next Shining armor,Prince blueblood, fancypants, okay mostly likely shining armor because we've actually seen his skills
Okay I've reread all the battles because I felt like it and I've noticed that all 5 pegasi that have been in a battle have won. But, that's most likely just a coincidence.
1504829 I'd say Shining Armor and Prince Blueblood should have a death battle or maybe Shining Armor and Braeburn considering they're voiced by the same person, (a little bit of triva for you).