Death Battle (TV Series) Goku vs Superman 2 - The Original's Sequel (2015) User Reviews

18/32 in Season 2 Ranking

[NotWeed · 6/10 · 24 December 2020]

Is the result for Goku vs Superman 2 poorly explained? Absolutely, limitless Superman is a meme for a reason. Is the result accurate? I genuinely couldn't care less. What I mainly wanted from this episode is the same thing I want from every episode, an enjoyable fight scene, and that is what we got. The fight scene is great and it especially picks up after Goku goes Super Saiyan Blue. Alive is an absolutely phenomenal track and it compliments that high intensity, fast paced fight really well. I don't care how dumb of a scene it is, the shot of Superman walking through the Kamehameha is visually fantastic. So why is this one so low down? Well, this is treated as a direct continuation of the first Goku vs Superman, and when you compare the two episodes that's when this one starts to fall apart. This first is as close as Death Battle has ever gotten to feeling cinematic, while the second feels like just another episode with nothing special about it, and it certainly doesn't feel like both fighters were pushed to their limits. The final scene may be awesome, but it also feels like a huge slap in the face to the people who wanted Goku to get a second chance. Actually, the whole episode feels like that. They really jumped the gun and did the fight way too soon. They knew Goku would likely develop more in the future, and wouldn't you know it, shortly after he shook the universe and a few years later he gained his ultimate form. I still really like this episode, but it doesn't measure up to the first in any way other than it looking visually nicer in stills.