For those who don't know, the VA for The Doctor in this battle is the same guy that the official Doctor Who radio plays get when David Tenant isn't available. In other words, this is one of the few Death Battles to have one of the fighters voiced by a character's official voice actor
One thing I love about this is how thoroughly unimpressed by Rick the Doctor is. He literally just tries to fly away and ignore him at the start, he's cooly quipping through half the fight while Rick seems to get increasingly enraged. The first time he really seems frightened is after the multiple Ricks appear- and that's the point where he decides its serious enough to break out the reality-warper. Arranging for Rick's own attack to destroy him is also a very Doctor move, perhaps especially the 10th Doctor (who pretended to be a pacifist at times but was actually a big fan of karmic punishments).
I agree that the Doctor is a far more likable character, but Rick's total lack of empathy would actually be an asset here. He's already killed thousands of versions of him self, so realistically, Doc would be just another pile of ash, in seconds.
@@thedugan8r593 Nah, Rick messes around a lot during fights, he usually only kills nobodies fast...when he is up against someone challenging he gets overly complicated which is plenty of room for the Doctor to win.
@@thedugan8r593 If Rick went straight to shooting the Doctor instead of toying with him, maybe. But then the companions or the Time Lords would bring him back, and he'd erase Rick then.
@@Cybertoy00 I'm a big fan of Rick but the doctor wins. I know morning about doctor's who. But I know his screwdriver would duck Rick up Think about all the times you see Rick's skeleton. Bro he's practically a robot point the screwdriver at him and he's fall flat
The fact that the Doctor showed up on the Screaming Sun Earth and just smiled like, "Well, that's a fascinating thing, innit?" was so a thing the Doctor would do.
I would expect them to go back the that sun and try to have a conversation with it. To be fair, thanks to the TARDIS' translator gimmick the sun probably wasn't screaming to him but rather actually speaking normally.
"Imagine... Billions of years, burning alone in the sky, whizzing through the universe with dozens of rocks whirling around you unceasingly. You'd be screaming too. He just needs a little chat with someone who can relate."
My favourite part of all this is when The Doctor walks out onto the planet with the screaming sun he smiles as its something new to him that he's never experienced. Feels so wholesome and exactly what The Doctor would do.
It's actually not too far off from the episode "The Rings of Akhaten" with Clara Oswald and Doc visiting a race that sacrificed people to the sun with a parasite, until Clara gave it her impossible leaf.
@ulisescastro9298 Fun idea, but Rick wins, easy. Most of Stewie's weapons are conventional. His craziest is a ray gun. Otherwise, it's swords, crossbows, rocket launchers, and fighter jets.
One detail I loved about this fight is how The Doctor noticed Rick's ego and used it against him in the sword fight. Rick tells him to keep quipping, and The Doctor notices that his quipping irritates him and gets under his skin, so later when they're locked against the balcony, he quips about a little shop so that Rick throws out an angry, reckless, and predictable lunge so that The Doctor could disarm him with the momentum. Mad props to the storyboarders and writers who made this detail as it's extremely in character for both characters, especially The Doctor using his enemies' personality flaws against them, which is something he often plays to his advantage. Fantastic!
@@JubioHDX Ummm ... Technically fire is "technically" a form of plasma with usually low levels of ionization. Hot enough flames are considered a pure plasma since at higher heats and densities fire gains sufficient ionization to be considered a pure plasma. The sun itself and stars create what Plasma Physics call a "Burning Plasma". So "technically" the sun "is on fire". In a sense. Well ... at least it can be argued (with semantics) to be "on fire", but not in the "traditional sense".
When the Doctor hacked and destroyed Rick's blaster, he simultaneously hacked the portal gun to cause it to create the portal he'd subsequently use to redirect the D-Mat gun to destroy Rick. The Doctor anticipated that Rick would go for the D-Mat and set him up to cause his own demise. He beat Rick through superior strategic thinking.
Okay, here's the question. How did the doctor get his portal gun to shoot at a 90 degree angle? I can accept the... defeat... and accept how the doctor won. But how did he get it to lift up? I can understand shooting down at the floor, but the wall? There's no way.
@@goodbyhello7853the Doctor specializes in that kind of ridiculous timing and technowizardry. If it’s impossible and the Doctor doesn’t like it, it won’t be impossible for very long
@@triforceofcourage100 okay dude, I can still understand how the doctor pulls off his wins and victory, but that still doesn't explain how he go the gun to lift up. The doctor still uses science. But there was push or pull from anything anywhere to do so.
I always love the line that is used as a threat against the Doctor. "Fear me I've killed hundreds of Time Lords" and his response "fear me I've killed them all"
Yep and then later on they retconned it so that Doctors actually save Galifrey but the War 9th 10th and 11th Doctor's believed they destroyed it because of Wars interactions with his future selves de-stabilizing his timeline and making the memories unretainable.... It's complicated.
I absolutely love the Doctor's line about the Weeping Angels "Blink as much as you can, they're scared of rapid movement" because of how much of a middle finger it is to Rick
My guess was it was that the doctor using his psychic powers to influence rick in a way he wasn’t prepared for. I’m just saying if Rick level cybernetics were possible secondary blink resistant eyes were an option.
That's why he only blinked a couple times before stopping and realizing what was up, but such beings can take so many potential forms that it's not exactly easy to identify one at a glance, not until it moves that is.@@Jessica18010
I like how when the Doctor saw the screaming sun from R&M he wasn't offput by it like the Smiths were, he just thought it was neat, like he was happy that he saw something new despite his thousands years of adventuring.
In a bit of fairness, the Smiths were looking for a new planet to live on and that was one of their few options, while the Doctor was just passing by. Different circumstances. But also yes, this does speak to the Doctor's character in comparison to theirs, notably that he's excited by new discoveries so would be happy to see this new planet with a screaming sun.
@@RafaThomy2006I haven't seen those from season 11 yet, I only saw those from season 10 (Alex Mercer, Darth Vader, the chosen) and season 9 (Harley and Jinx) maybe there are some others
The creators of Doctor Who explicitly describe it as "The triumph of romance and intellect over brute force and cynicism." Rick is a formidable opponent, but in a way he *always has been* the opponent. He represents everything the Doctor has always been able to defeat. Also, Rick forgot the most important lesson from Doctor Who: the more weapons you bring to a fight against the Doctor, the more powerful he becomes.
Apologies to "actually", but far as I know, it was Craig Ferguson who said it on one of his shows, not any showrunners or the creators (Sydney Newman & the like).
I like how The Doctor he never actually decided on using the time eraser, he only ever got the chance to contemplate it. He took literally every chance to avoid the conflict that he could. And in the end, Rick's undoing was entirely by his own hand. Surprisingly satisfying to see.
technically that shouldnt kill rick because that only works in 1 universe and rick is multiversal and would just come back with pheonix protocol. i actually expected rick to pop up at the end when he was talking to morty as a full wood rick. and rick has made far stronger things than the doctors gun
They somehow preserved the Doctor's morals in their Death Battle. NGL, I've wanted to see some version of this episode since ages ago, and it's turned out better than I imagined .
Or some of the earlier ones, 8 once made an alien fear god scream by showing it what he was afraid he might do one day. 7 would've probably talked Rick into removing himself from life too.
@@АнтонДегидонов "Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know, in 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before" - The 11th Doctor
I thought that too. Often they have the characters be way more aggressive or unforgiving compared to their character to explain why they're fighting, but this was completely on point for both of them. This is exactly how it would go down lol
Yea, but both characters are supposed to be in peak condition. Their most deadly for the deathbattle. I could do a hundred page essay on why Doctor who loses this fight. He's just an older more respected character
@@Beast_the_smash_guy technically it's all about momentum in a sword fight. You may remember the scene of Goku fending of Trunks's sword with his finger? well, if the object is durable enough, say steel against steel, all you need to do is change your opponent's momentum
@@dylanrinker6831 Because, in order of importance: 1: Tennant is the most popular Doctor, especially in America. 2: His voice is one of the less quirky ones from the show 3. The VA they had could imitate Tennant the best
Honestly, The Doctor and Rick getting into a universe-spanning, time-warping fight just because of what amounts to a car accident & road rage is 100% accurate to what an episode of either series would be like
i thought the doctor said "on god" instead of "en garde", which somehow made it funnier " maybe you will find it on the ground next to your teeth! " *grabs spoon* "on god?"
@swampexpertextraordinaire6896 Yeah, he saved himself and let Rick pull the trigger. I'm not saying "The Doctor didn't try to off him and Rick's death is an accident he brought upon himself", it's not the first time that the Doctor does this: he sets up his ennemy to die if they go through with their intention to kill him. Rick fired the shot that did him in.
@@stargazer-elitebut at the same time it was clear self defense and realistically he would’ve been fine even in England and the most anti self defense country on earth.
Yeah I’m not surprised. The Doctor is terrifying if you really think about it. I’m surprised they didn’t mention Demons Run. When their friends were threatened they went back in time, told the oldest story, and that ended up being the name of the baddies super secret base. That wasn’t a coincidental turn of phrase, it was a threat across time.
In an audio story the Doctor literally threatens Lovecraftian gods. After cornering one of their servants who'd messed with his companion's mind, he gives her the order. "Tell this to your gods when they punish you. When they stretch you on the Neutron rack... I'm still here..."
Exactly, the Doctor will go out of his way to get things to end peacefully, he does not enjoy killing. But if you prove you will never take that offer, and there's no other way around it, he's not going to hesitate.
The man had enough determination to spend 2 billion years punching through solid diamond. If he's running, it's not because it's the quickest route to victory. It's because it's the kindest.
I think my favorite part about the fight is The Doctor’s “fighting style”. He disarms Rick, hacks & overloads his equipment, traps him in a precarious situation and tricks him into destroying himself. *HE NEVER DIRECTLY ATTACKS RICK* The dedication to The Doctor’s character is incredible.
While true, leaving him to die by weeping angel (or I guess be isolated in time from that later weeping angel episode) is the equivalent of Batman not killing Raz in Batman Begins by not saving him from the train at the end. He's still directly responsible for the situation that leads to the death. So suggesting the Doctor's hands were clean in his methods is silly.
Yeah but at least "Death by Angel" isn't so bad since you still live out your normal life, just in the past after the send you back in time.@@pacmonster066
I was half-expecting Morty to become the Doctor's next companion. Telling him not to be a cynic though is probably the most-helpful thing Morty's ever heard.
Wouldn't that be the biggest, "Haha, screw you. I win." from the Doctor though? He takes in Morty, teaches him how to actually be useful rather than just exploit him, and their adventures end up saving the universe multiple times. Morty just uses Rick's tech combined with Whovian guile and morals....
DB also forgot to mention that the TARDIS is sentient, and loves the Doctor. In an episode where the TARDIS's soul was placed in the body of a woman, she states that she doesn't consider herself stolen, but instead, believes she stole the Doctor. She also states that she always took him to places he needed to be, whether to help people or stop the monster of the week, usually both, rather than where the Doctor wanted to go.
To those who are unaware of just how scary and evil Daleks are Their extermination beams could be set to disintegrate on contact, but they choose to set it to just barely lethal, so you feel untold amounts of excruciating pain for a few seconds before you die
Yeah, Maximum Extermination will blow up a house, or more rightfully be the amount of power needed to destroy another Dalek, because that has been necessary before.
My favorite part about this fight is how, during the weeping angels scene, the Doctor lies to Rick smoothly and convincingly, without any stuttering or stammering, even though he's clearly terrified AND busy with the portal gun. He even has the "they're scared of rapid movement" story ready to go, either because he's prepared it ahead of time for exactly this sort of situation, or because he's just that quick-thinking. Either possibility is a strong one. Time Lords, man.
Oh yes, the Doctor is known for being very accomplished at deception. Some consider "The Doctor Lies" to be #1 point of fact for navigating interactions with him.
Considering how the Doctor formulated the entire last scene to trick and make Rick shoot HIMSELF with the reality erasure in that little time window JUST after being shot in both hearts, he prolly is that quick of a thinker
@@Arrowokeys12 Well, it's allowed, but not to be specific to their opponent (like how dealing with high technology, but gives you little advantage over a caveman vs, say, Iron Man). He knows about the Angels and how to deal with them. He may not fully know if his lying is going to work, but its what he knows to do.
Could this be the first fully pacifist Death Battle victory? The Doctor never once attacked Rick, only ever acted to defend himself or disarm Rick's weapons, and in the end Rick's impulsive arrogance caused him to fire the killing blow at himself. Stunning work from the animation team here.
Maybe I was just reading into it but I liked that the Dr seemed hesitant to draw the gun even in a Death Battle. traditionally he always defeats his opponents by trapping them together.
Gotta be character accurate, and the 10th Doctor never once used a weapon on people. He was about to once, but then changed his mind and fired at a machine to beat Rassilon.
It's quite genius. The Doctor could disarm Rick completely and make him completely powerless, but because this is a Death Battle, something has to be brought out to kill. As a result, that weapon would HAVE to come out of the Doctor's own arsenal.
This is what the Doctor does every single day. Genocidal time traveling monsters and madmen are nothing new to him. Imagine if this was the tactical genius 7th Doctor, or even the War Doctor who is the most dangerous by far.
7 once basically trapped an alien elder god inside a friend's D&D game, that's how brilliant he is, dude was horrifically intelligent even by Doctor standards.
Took me a moment to realise Rick knew Time Lord physiology, he shot the Doctor through both sides of his chest to nail both hearts and told him to hurry up with regenerating so he could kill him.
Oh yeah. He could still live with only one heart but it’s a painful experience for him till someone knocks the paused heart back into order. Pity that Rick didn’t still have that sword from earlier, otherwise he really could have finished The Doctor off.
One ability you didn't mention is that the Doctor actually does have some sort of "plot armour". Extended media says he has a degree of subconcious probability warping, which occured due to his large amount of timetravelling. So basically, he's always playing the game with loaded dice.
That explanation made more sense in YuGiOh, here it just sounds like The Doctor is just really lucky. Watch, I'll do it too, the reason he has so much plot armor is because he's actually sleeping the whole time and every time he makes it back to the TARDIS it's because he's being comatose carried back to his bed. That's why he's never in any real danger because when he dies in his dream he just regenerates into a similar one.
21:01 this part best explains the ricks great disadvantage against the doctor. Rick struggles against people/beings of equal intelligence constantly, while the doctor contends with evil geniuses arguably much smarter than he is, and still often manages to come out on top (the masters intelligence rivals the doctor, notably he once imprisoned/enslaved the doctor and humanity in an alternate timeline, it took the doctor and friends a whole year to finally beat him, and then there’s Davros, the creator of the daleks and (in my opinion) the smartest being in the doctors universe, notably he created a means to destroy the entire multiverse, the literal infinity of all existence, and was incredibly close to succeeding)
It didn't take a year to beat the master, the Doctor had already set the plan in motion, it just took a year to come to fruition. For the Doctor that's like a long weekend.
Not to mention, he once had to contend with a cyber version of himself in a game of chess and won by both luck outside the game and stalling the cyber planner into probing calculations to see how the Doctor could win...
Canonically, one of the few people who has ever definitively defeated Rick is his own therapist, a woman who herself admits she's not as smart as Rick, but is still able to take him down a peg by easily picking apart his insecurities and not get killed for it.
We would have to know where in the timeline of c137 this fight takes place because prior to the events of the breakdown of the central finite curve Rick is the smartest man in every universe that has access to his universe
The Doctor ran because he didn’t want to kill Rick, let alone enter a conflict. And in the end, Rick learned the reason the Doctor ran away: he was being kind.
Honestly, the Doctor is so charming and disarmingly comical that I always forget he's secretly a badass limiting himself out of principle whereas Rick limits himself with ego, drugs, and alcohol.
Were it not for Rick's negative traits he probably would've had a higher chance I imagine. Then again, were Rick as cool headed as the doctor and would he plan ahead for every ideal outcome, he probably wouldn't be Rick.
@@__-tp4tmRick does plan ahead. A lot of his most insane feats required him to see a potential situation ahead of time and invent something to handle it. So when the moment randomly happens, he's ready for it, and has been ready for it. It's actually the doctor's ability to think on his feet in the moment that caused the doctor's win.
@@JTX30000 So Rick forgot that the 2 portals were linked? He forgot that the doctor had a portal on his back? If he was that prepared for it he certainly slipped.
Rick's final line about being remembered is actually perfect since in doctor who lore , the thing that can bring back people wiped from time are the memories and stories of them persisting
I like the touch that 2 shots in the chest. One for each heart. Clearly Rick knows a non-zero amount about time lords, especially from the start of the battle where he quips about them.
@@deez6683 well the portals usually close on their own i dont think rick should win but anyone whose seen even a little of RaM can tell you thats not how they work. could have done it differently
@@Tankirb never has it been indthat the destination of a portal can be changed while its still open i could accept this explanation if a a new portal was opened instead of using the old one
Rewatching this, but Boomstick put it best: Rick relies on being the smartest person in the room. Consistently, when he faces someone as smart as/smarter than he is, he tends to get outplayed, outsmarted, etc. This level of arrogance has consistently been his downfall, and one of the Doctor's primary strengths is that he plays on this kind of arrogance multiple times over. Plus, the Doctor consistently faces down threats that are, by all accounts, holding all the advantages and comes out on top each time. All that to say, I don't think it is far-fetched to believe that Rick would fail against the Doctor in a 1v1. The only potential means I see Rick winning the fight is if the Doctor refuses to kill him, which is quite possible... but even then, the Doctor often doesn't need to kill you so much as let your own plans backfire on you due to your own arrogance. Same logic could be applied to Rick.
The word when The Doctor is regenerating, "... and I don't wanna go", it's amazing how they manage to change the tone from his original "desperate plea of a dying man" into a "badass" one. This is just me geeking out to David Tennant's Doctor best moments, I love it
I'd like to think the Doctor hesitated to grab the gun because his ability to resist reality warping is so advanced that he can even somewhat fight the "someone must die" rule of Death Battle itself.
And he actually did he wasn’t the one to fire the killing blow that was Rick even if Rick did die that was Rick’s own fault so technically the doc didn’t follow the rules he didn’t kill Rick, Rick killed Rick
@@Oldtowns_is_tired I mean... isn't that typically how it goes in the show? When a Rick dies, it is more often than not the fault of himself or another Rick (Evil Morty notwithstanding).
i think thats pretty sick. also interesting to think about since im pretty sure the last ever death battle was confirmed to be wiz vs boomstick@@mattphillips3537
So I’ve seen people take issue with Rick allowing The Doctor to have his little speech however I actually think he’s waiting for the regeneration process to start before he deals the killing blow since for the sake of this episode he knows about timelords and as such would know about them being vulnerable while regenerating. He even says ‘hurry up’ before The Doctors big speech implying that he’s waiting for them to do something.
That could be true but even if it isn’t the thing is the doctor is also waiting too long to grab his screwdriver, the order of operations was still correct they just have him give the speech for the dramatics
As Rick knew what a Time Lord was in the opening insults this makes sense. Also maybe because of his ego, he wanted The Doctor to do something big so he could screw him over and prove his superiority like he usually does... except it doesn't work against someone just as smart if not more so, and able to calculate much faster.
I love the ending. Not only the Doctor giving Rick his thoughts on his cynical view of things which is perfect for their clashing characters but also I loved the ending. Him telling Morty to not be a cynic and even praising him for the spaceship. Almost giving him the confidence boost he would need to grow in the future without Rick around.
@@chopper7867 whats more likely is that AI Rick will tell Morty how to bring him back somehow. Undoing reality erasure seems like something Rick would do
@@zeniththecreator7671 since Rick is erased from all points in time, I don't think morty can find any dna to put into the clone vault to revive him so he's just hologram for now
@@phoenixwright2420 well hologram rick did manage to become physical thanks to that one venom thingy, so maybe there is a way for him to turn real since he has rick's memories and stuff
He used ricks portal gun to escape the weeping angels. he pick it up and knew how to use it instantly, when there where episode where morty left using to portal gun got lost and near died due to how complicated it is to use it until bp saved him due to him having years of experience with Rick
@@anthonykf99 to be fair how would you beat the doctor with any gun or gadget if he has the sonic screwdriver? You use a weapon they can’t hack like a sword.
@@anthonykf99that sword is literally taken straight out of one of the episodes of Rick and Morty (the Season 5 finale) Also if you want Rick to fight with the weapons he uses most often, he’s be using his bare fists like he does for over 50% of his fights
@@richardsesmajr892 tbf, Morty is an idiot and The Doctor is at least on par with Rick in intelligence Besides, the animation is just for something for us to watch and doesn't actually affect the results of the battle
That grin at the screaming sun from a thousands of years old, multiversal being was pure "Huh... I just saw a new thing. Been about 100 years since THAT happened! Neat!"
It's also perfectly fitting for his character. He's outsmarted every species that has ever threatened him or humanity, and with only 2 real exceptions, has almost always done so without being directly violent.
I am not a doctor who fan but I appreciate how the Doctor looks at the gun and debates on whether he should use it or not. He knows that it would work but decided to try to find a different way. good characterization
One of my favorite bits from Doctor who is this two part episode where the Doctor and his companion wind up hiding at a school in 19th century england from this band of aliens that was stalking him. He goes to such incredible lengths as to force himself to forget his own identity, hide the tardis and wait until the aliens either died due to their short lifespans or gave up. When they finally catch up to him and force him into the open a revelation was made not just for the aliens but for the viewers; He wasn't hiding because he was scared but because he was merciful, and as a result Trapped them all in the most horrid cirecumstances forever (some of which were referenced in this episode of DB).
Another good characterisation i tell you as someone who watches the show is whenever the tardis is hurt especially with the harpoon and doctor going "what did they do for you" that's very real Tardis is a sentient machine and doctors longest companion it's not his time machine as he did stole it but in "the doctor's wife" when tardis was given a body to talk tardis said that he stole the doctor to "i wanted to see the universe so i took the only one mad enough" there's a reason he is called a mad man with a box And also calling her a clever girl when she switched console rooms. You can quite literally ship a doctor and his ship and it would make sense as the doctor care about her like it's their love
Another thing is that even when companions are around doctor keeps on talking with the tardis he is the only one who understands. One time when two companions were talking. And doctor loves this tardis specifically because it's actually an older model it's a type 40 tardis with a faulty navigation system which was an antique but he took it anyway
Letting Rick do it to himself is such a Doctor move as well. He'll hesitate to kill, but he won't stop you from doing it to yourself if you're that determined to hurt him
Interesting how The Doctor never lay a single hit on Rick. He only defend himself with the spoon, use his sonic screwdriver to disarm Rick's tech, and even hesitate on using the erasure gun because its not his style to kill. Rick used it on himself by accident at the end.
@@TheUnseenPathI mean, all I saw was Rick firing the gun through a portal he himself placed, out of another one, and hitting himself with it. The Doctor didn’t put that portal there, he didn’t even break the glass to get to the gun 🤣
@@TheCrazyCapMaster The Doctor hacked the portal gun with his Sonic Screwdriver, which caused it to open a portal on the wall and his back. The Doctor planned that Rick would try and kill him with the D-Mat, so he set up the portal so that he could redirect the attack back at Rick. The Doctor won despite not even firing the gun himself.
The Doctor doesn't inflict horrors on his enemies. But he does create the circumstances whereby his enemies inflict horrors on themselves. When you've exhausted his mercy, is when you really need to be afraid.
This was my first time watching and I thought it'd be like an explanation and details to how and why one side would win, but I did not expect that animation. Literally blew away my expectations
I like how, after Rick gets D-matted, the starting scenario chnages. It goes from "Oi, you hit my TARDIS!" to "Aw, its just a kid on his first space voyage."
@@ahmedallyIIyeah after all he immune to all time manipulation effect so even Rick been erase from all timeline and mutliuniverse The Doctor still have that old memories.
I mean, I could see Rick bouncing back from this too, which is pretty Rick. Probably an episode where Rick drags himself from non-existence. I also don't see the second fight going much better for Rick, since Timelord tech kind of beats conventional.
also the line dosint hit as hard without the heart felt meaning behind the origanal. they used it as a bad ass one liner when it was ment to be a hear wranching goodby to the fans
@@nicholasscovelle1772 The line has been iconic and parodied upon itself at this point, it is borderline a 10th Doctor catchphrase, they use it in day of the doctor and when talking about him. But also it works as a badass line if you think of it like this, he is going to regenerate into a new form but instead he sets off Rick's portal gun, he knows Rick will use the time erasure gun because he is close to it and his normal gun is broken, he has set up a plan where instead of regenerating he is going to wipe Rick from history meaning the battle never happened. That's why at the end he's talking to Morty as if nothing happened and Rick wasn't there, he said "I don't want to go" and he didn't.
I interpreted the "I don't want to go" as a dig on Rick's "nihilist know-it-all" mentality. Rick has been known to be suicidal and indifferent to his own death, and the Doctor reads him perfectly when describing him as a nihilist know-it-all. So when he says that there's one thing he never understood about all this wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey rubbish (which imo is obviously the Doctor referring to these universe-wide adventures they both have gone on), he clarifies that that one thing he never understood is that the Doctor doesn't succumb to Rick's weaknesses in spite of it all, and that he indeed "doesn't want to go" unlike Rick.
The best part of The Doctor's Victory is he didn't directly kill Rick, He just turned Rick's attack back on him. Perfectly in character for The Doctor!
The best part of the doctors victory is he didn't actually win. This is just the beginning. If you watch Rick and Morty at all you know that Rick will be back. And he will not let this go.
@@shankyu1985 thing is the doctor would just do the same. And he's WAYYY more unkillable than rick. The doctor with actual prep time and WANTING to kill someone is a terrifying concept
It’s important to point out: the Doctor didn’t use the D-Mat. He merely arranged things so that when Rick tried to shoot him, he shot himself instead. Causing the episodic “bad guy” to be hoist by their own petard is rather SOP for the dear Doctor; if you ever choose to atone and mend your ways, the Doc will move Time and Space to assist you - literally - but if you persist in your ill-chosen path despite his offers otherwise, he just helps make sure your fate doesn’t take innocent bystanders with you.
I just knew it was over for Rick when they only mention the other dangerous weapons in just a black box and only explain the d mat I would laugh if they explained the moment or heart of the tardis
Remember what Davros said about the Doctor? He doesn't use a gun, he takes people and turns them into weapons. In this case, he took Rick and made him a weapon against himself. And, let's be fair, we all know that's how Rick is going to end, he's going to screw up and end himself.
@@gameuniverse5973 The tear, and who could forget a moment in the doctors life where three separate factions showed up to save him, each with mass genocidal weapons and more. The doctor was horrified by this, however any one of those weapons are a deadly threat to Rick.
I think the fact that Rick has built his entire worldview on a dog eat dog mentality definitely gives the guy who plays completely defensively a leg up
@@ElmiRaculos-vr2dm Ricks entire worldview is that you can't really trust anyone but yourself and he has a need to be the smartest guy in the room which usual comes easy. In crazy fights he has in the show, most of his attacks are counter attacks or one upping his opponents move. The Doctor surpasses Ricks intelligence and plays defensively, a type of opponent Rick wouldn't be used to.
The Doctor has been shown to take life-ending measures if it means saving people/the planet, but usually lets the foes use their own stuff against them. In 'the Dominators', the aliens try to plant a bomb that would mean the end of life on planet Dulkis (?), the Doctor steals it and places it on the Dominators' spaceship where it soon blows them up. They deserved it, but still ;) !
@@StarboundRose He chose the only move that wouldve saved himself from getting blasted, all in all in the narrative of the fight ricks death came from his own doing
Well Rick should easily overpower the doctor, he's vastly stronger and faster than the doctor due to cybernetic implants. There's no reason the doctor should survived the close combat part long enough to pull the win when he's like a tired old man physically compared to Rick who basically superhuman across the board. Rick could punch a hole through the doctor before he knew what hit him.
@@ianyoder2537 No it sucked. This death battle removed the stats of a character to force a winner. That makes it utter trash in my view. Rick is vastly stronger and faster, making the doctor dead on arrive.
@@Lastjustice Finally found one. The fan who's arguing the outcome. Look the Doctor has faced physically superior foes all throughout his unfathomably long his life. War like aliens, human evolution gone wrong, and plenty of cyborgs. Speaking of cyborgs, his sonic screwdriver works on them. Yes Rick was more offensive minded and had the more destructive arsenal, but so has literally every enemy the doctor faced.
One of the fun things regarding Rick, is that he created the central finite curve, as a way to prevent this scenario from ever happening... Not losing, but at least the confrontation from ever happening
It also is kind of thematic that the central finite curve is rick’s life’s work, but the doctor hops dimensions accidentally when literally trying to avoid doing that, so in all likelihood he breached rick’s ultimate defense accidentally and was annoyed about it. Really goes to show how far away these two characters are in power
Lol that's not why he created the central finite curve. He was looking for the Rick that killed his family. The curve was to not only narrow his search from infinite, but to also lock every other Rick from traveling outside of the curve.
@@Imkaje but if had the same effect, even if unintentional (it was also probably intended to prevent him from running into a Rick who could beat him joining the citadel and thus being on the side of Prime)
I think the ship knew and/or thought Rick was going to lose. He tells it "Ship, keep Morty safe", and 10 seconds later it nopes out of the entire fight and knew the best thing to do to keep Morty safe was get away from The Doctor.
I was thinking Rick would take it until I was reminded that the sonic screwdriver existed. The single most broken and OP gadget in all of media, and yes that includes the gun that erases people from history.
Though in this one they actually stuck to one of the two consistent features. He only used it to hack technology, not for any bizarre one-off plot solutions.
Read my comment I posted at the top, the doc only has 2 devices but Rick has millions of devices, the sonic screw driver can only deactivate one device at a time, so Rick could easily formulate a counter attack with a new device at the same time the screwdriver is deactivating one of ricks decoy devices.
@@joshuajellybean384 Where did you get the idea that the screwdriver could only counter one device at a time? That thing has taken down *wide* ranges of equipment at once.
@@banshee46 Sonic screwdriver has to be pointed at the device to deactivate it, so that’s when the screwdriver is most vulnerable and it can be attacked or trapped from a different device that’s not in the direction the screwdriver is being pointed at
Its that moment of hesitation before touching the dmat gun that I love about the Doctor. The moment he knows what he has to do but thinks about it, that he knows that he could but shouldn't because he doesn't want to go that step.
Doesn't stop him from committing various acts of all types of cides. From genocide with the daleks to deicide to the time lords nothing stops the Doctor and that is what scares everyone.
That's one of my favorite things about the doctor is how he's always like a wandering child in awe of what's around him. And using tenant's doctor is really really excellent at that
I think a good equivelance noted with Rick and The Doctor is their mind and wellbeing. Rick once saw what went on in the talking cats mind as well as being in Jerry's mind for a couple of seconds and that basically convinced himself to end it all then and there. Meanwhile in another adventure, The Doctor confronted a cosmic entity that fed off fear across reality and when it invaded his mind to look for things that scared him, it was instead terrified by the things it saw by proxy. And to add insult to injury, The Doctor decided to up the ante and start thinking about things that DID genuinely scare him, which caused the entity to end it all there. So in terms of mental stability, chalk one up for the Doctor again.
Rick hasn't been mentally stable for a long time now too, and I think his reality warping tech and adventures isn't helping. Though a lot of why The Doctor is more mentally stable could be down to how a Time Lord sees time, and how a Mortal views it. The Doctor knows that there's realities out there where everything is gone and or horrifying but never stops to lament over that. At least not in a way humans would, so instead The Doctor sees the world as it could be and the possibilities that it may bring. Whereas Rick has been chasing one thing, the man who killed his wife. And turned to booze and drugs to relieve that pain, seeing only the worst and forming little to no real attachments for a long time. While Rick may be getting better as the seasons progress, he'll probably never truly be whole again.
This fight also had all the research done not even accounting for the fact that the Doctor at any point could have just convinced Rick to kill himself, gg easy
@@user-lp8im7ow8s None of that proves he has strong mental endurance. The Doctor also has multiple instances where they acknowledge they are fictional, and has beaten Gods from multiple mythologies, as well as Satan himself.
Giving both fictions their due with Sanchez stepping on the other person's lines, and the Doctor getting his brief moment of drama. Chef kiss writing and cinematography.
greatest thing about the Doctor's win, is that not only did they not throw an attack other than disarming Rick of his sword, but also they didn't use any of the stupid god-mode items from the show's history like the Moment, the Hand of Omega, the Time Vortex, etc. makes this feel much more like something that'd actually happen rather than "the doctor wins because they can just use this funny artifact and win"
I mean technically the D-Mat counts but the exicution was a checkov's gun (near literally.) in that it's shown, and pays off later. Not SUDDEN HAHA YOU LOSE. Also love that the TARDiS subtily helps out by acting how it always does and not violating 'this was the time we talked' line. She's his constant companion and like hell she's going to let some dickheaded nihilist get the jump on Her doctor.
Had to run this fight over in my head over and over before commenting.... The outcome is accurate. The biggest piece of evidence is The Central Finite Curve, which isolated all Ricks from any potential threats to their intellectual superiority, The Doctor, however, had no such set of training wheels and has a list of enemies that could and have forced him (or her as of 13) to constantly develop mentally and seems to thrive off the challenges. In the words of Evil Morty, "Rick's don't like being challenged", and so him being the smartest man in the universe was an imposed default that stagnated him.
@@socketyellow3It kind of is for both reasons. The rickest Rick designed the curve to imprison prime Rick while the other Ricks helped build it to isolate themselves from the multiverse.
Plus, Rick remained the smartest MAN in the universe. Not being human, The Doctor is something else entirely, and therefore exempt from the restriction. And then he pissed The Doctor off. Ask Colonel Runaway how smart that is
For those who don't know, the VA for The Doctor in this battle is the same guy that the official Doctor Who radio plays get when David Tenant isn't available. In other words, this is one of the few Death Battles to have one of the fighters voiced by a character's official voice actor
What? What!? WHAT!!?? That’s AWESOME!!!
EYYYY THIS IS AMAZING
Huh, neat
I WONDERED why he sounded only just SLIGHTLY off
That's awesome, so who were the other official voice actors on DB?
I love how the Doctor is amused by the screaming sun. Like he just thinks its neat cause he's never seen that before.
Oh, wow. He really hasn't, he's seen sentient suns but not screaming ones.
What's really weird is that the entire time The Doctor is also trying his hardest to not be that man without rules.
He's like the Vampire King in the new season of Fionna and Cake "Huh, I've seen a new thing"
"oh I show that one to my companion sometime
honestly that's when i knew he was gonna win
"Blink as much you can. They're scared of rapid movement." Loved that
That was just mean
indeed ! :D
Well, remember doctor's rule #1...
@@omegaj9 The Doctor always lies 😀
Rule 1: The Doctor lies.
"I know your type. The nihilist know-it-all." I love how the Doctor easily dismisses Rick's outlook and character.
One thing I love about this is how thoroughly unimpressed by Rick the Doctor is. He literally just tries to fly away and ignore him at the start, he's cooly quipping through half the fight while Rick seems to get increasingly enraged. The first time he really seems frightened is after the multiple Ricks appear- and that's the point where he decides its serious enough to break out the reality-warper.
Arranging for Rick's own attack to destroy him is also a very Doctor move, perhaps especially the 10th Doctor (who pretended to be a pacifist at times but was actually a big fan of karmic punishments).
I agree that the Doctor is a far more likable character, but Rick's total lack of empathy would actually be an asset here. He's already killed thousands of versions of him self, so realistically, Doc would be just another pile of ash, in seconds.
@@thedugan8r593 Nah, Rick messes around a lot during fights, he usually only kills nobodies fast...when he is up against someone challenging he gets overly complicated which is plenty of room for the Doctor to win.
@@thedugan8r593 If Rick went straight to shooting the Doctor instead of toying with him, maybe. But then the companions or the Time Lords would bring him back, and he'd erase Rick then.
@@Cybertoy00 I'm a big fan of Rick but the doctor wins.
I know morning about doctor's who. But I know his screwdriver would duck Rick up
Think about all the times you see Rick's skeleton.
Bro he's practically a robot point the screwdriver at him and he's fall flat
The fact that the Doctor showed up on the Screaming Sun Earth and just smiled like, "Well, that's a fascinating thing, innit?" was so a thing the Doctor would do.
I would expect them to go back the that sun and try to have a conversation with it.
To be fair, thanks to the TARDIS' translator gimmick the sun probably wasn't screaming to him but rather actually speaking normally.
He was lucky it was that planet and not planet on a cob.
His reaction made me chuckle a bit.
Not even annoyed just fascinated.
"Imagine... Billions of years, burning alone in the sky, whizzing through the universe with dozens of rocks whirling around you unceasingly. You'd be screaming too. He just needs a little chat with someone who can relate."
My favourite part of all this is when The Doctor walks out onto the planet with the screaming sun he smiles as its something new to him that he's never experienced. Feels so wholesome and exactly what The Doctor would do.
“Huh… fancy that. A sun with a mouth.”
"And it's screaming at me.....FANTASTIC!"
I wish I can spam the like 👍 button a million times cause I would do that to both of these comments.
bet he would probably also teach the sun how to speak or sing or at the least figure out why it was screaming in the first place.
It's actually not too far off from the episode "The Rings of Akhaten" with Clara Oswald and Doc visiting a race that sacrificed people to the sun with a parasite, until Clara gave it her impossible leaf.
Rick starting a Death Battle because someone had better things to do than deal with him is the Rickest Rick thing that’s ever been Ricked.
I Rick what you Ricked there.
Save for the "Rick Roll".... oh wait
Honestly I was expecting a fight of Stewie Griffin vs Rick Sanchez
Ngl I rickled!
@ulisescastro9298 Fun idea, but Rick wins, easy. Most of Stewie's weapons are conventional. His craziest is a ray gun. Otherwise, it's swords, crossbows, rocket launchers, and fighter jets.
One detail I loved about this fight is how The Doctor noticed Rick's ego and used it against him in the sword fight. Rick tells him to keep quipping, and The Doctor notices that his quipping irritates him and gets under his skin, so later when they're locked against the balcony, he quips about a little shop so that Rick throws out an angry, reckless, and predictable lunge so that The Doctor could disarm him with the momentum.
Mad props to the storyboarders and writers who made this detail as it's extremely in character for both characters, especially The Doctor using his enemies' personality flaws against them, which is something he often plays to his advantage. Fantastic!
Even 17:16 shows that Rick was clearly still thinking about all the jokes 😂
Doctor who us my favorite character I've probably seen most of the series
It won't let me edit so I'm just going to correct myself is not us
Old head bias, L
Dr who fought someone who could eat the omniverse Rick ain't touching him@@ErickFooty
I love how at the end, The Doctor takes the time to go back and tell Morty not to become cynical. That's a great touch.
Nah, he doesn't go back. That's just what happened in the new, Rickless timeline. The Doctor and Rick have no idea what happened.
In the Doctor Who those exposed to time travel with a Tardis will remember things erased from time
@@kainthedragoon8081yep like Amy did, she remembered Rory and then the doctor, which freed him from the time thing he was trapped in
He's actually telling the Audience this.
@@wwerules000”And you are LATE for my WEDDING!”
"Blink a lot, they fear movement"
Okay, that was a good one. Not a drop of the Doctor's wit was wasted and I loved it.
Rule #1: The Doctor lies
Portal gub
Best moment of the fight
@@Sacred_Paladin Yeah, most folks learn that one the hard way...
I'm shocked Rick bought the bait on that
I like how genuinely happy and curious the Doctor is to end up on a world where the Sun is constantly screaming.
I bet he really wants to know why the sun is screaming.
@SirGlacius1 it's on fire and has a sense of self. I'd be screaming to.
@@CloudyNight2156 um acshually🤓 stars arent made of fire
@@JubioHDXyea, it WAY hotter, it would be better off being on fire lol.
@@JubioHDX Ummm ... Technically fire is "technically" a form of plasma with usually low levels of ionization. Hot enough flames are considered a pure plasma since at higher heats and densities fire gains sufficient ionization to be considered a pure plasma.
The sun itself and stars create what Plasma Physics call a "Burning Plasma". So "technically" the sun "is on fire". In a sense.
Well ... at least it can be argued (with semantics) to be "on fire", but not in the "traditional sense".
When the Doctor hacked and destroyed Rick's blaster, he simultaneously hacked the portal gun to cause it to create the portal he'd subsequently use to redirect the D-Mat gun to destroy Rick. The Doctor anticipated that Rick would go for the D-Mat and set him up to cause his own demise. He beat Rick through superior strategic thinking.
Okay, here's the question. How did the doctor get his portal gun to shoot at a 90 degree angle? I can accept the... defeat... and accept how the doctor won. But how did he get it to lift up? I can understand shooting down at the floor, but the wall? There's no way.
@@goodbyhello7853the Doctor specializes in that kind of ridiculous timing and technowizardry. If it’s impossible and the Doctor doesn’t like it, it won’t be impossible for very long
@@triforceofcourage100 so.. plot armor
@@AzoTheRed effectively yes but rick has pulled off the same kind of impossible tasks so it’s fair
@@triforceofcourage100 okay dude, I can still understand how the doctor pulls off his wins and victory, but that still doesn't explain how he go the gun to lift up. The doctor still uses science. But there was push or pull from anything anywhere to do so.
I always love the line that is used as a threat against the Doctor. "Fear me I've killed hundreds of Time Lords" and his response "fear me I've killed them all"
The Doctor's Wife Season 6, Episode 4
@@andrewjones5297*Series
That was a lovely line..... IT holds so much that only those who know the show can understand.
Yep and then later on they retconned it so that Doctors actually save Galifrey but the War 9th 10th and 11th Doctor's believed they destroyed it because of Wars interactions with his future selves de-stabilizing his timeline and making the memories unretainable.... It's complicated.
Ah, the eleventh, easily my favourite of the doctors
I absolutely love the Doctor's line about the Weeping Angels "Blink as much as you can, they're scared of rapid movement" because of how much of a middle finger it is to Rick
I feel like he should’ve said the opposite to reference the “Nobody leave. Everybody stay.” Scene
@@kyleshea384tennents 1st doctor doesnt allow 2nd chances. He was already on his like 4th.
Same fr, though I feel like it wasn’t entirely realistic since Rick knows pop culture and would probably know what weeping angels are
My guess was it was that the doctor using his psychic powers to influence rick in a way he wasn’t prepared for.
I’m just saying if Rick level cybernetics were possible secondary blink resistant eyes were an option.
That's why he only blinked a couple times before stopping and realizing what was up, but such beings can take so many potential forms that it's not exactly easy to identify one at a glance, not until it moves that is.@@Jessica18010
I like how when the Doctor saw the screaming sun from R&M he wasn't offput by it like the Smiths were, he just thought it was neat, like he was happy that he saw something new despite his thousands years of adventuring.
In a bit of fairness, the Smiths were looking for a new planet to live on and that was one of their few options, while the Doctor was just passing by. Different circumstances. But also yes, this does speak to the Doctor's character in comparison to theirs, notably that he's excited by new discoveries so would be happy to see this new planet with a screaming sun.
fun fact: we see some fighters from season 9 and 10 again
@@MichaellaHermosa-hn7vh DEATH BATTLE Season 11 Characters Is Next
@@RafaThomy2006I haven't seen those from season 11 yet, I only saw those from season 10 (Alex Mercer, Darth Vader, the chosen) and season 9 (Harley and Jinx) maybe there are some others
I remember the Doctor being parodied before on Milo Murphy's Law
The creators of Doctor Who explicitly describe it as "The triumph of romance and intellect over brute force and cynicism."
Rick is a formidable opponent, but in a way he *always has been* the opponent. He represents everything the Doctor has always been able to defeat.
Also, Rick forgot the most important lesson from Doctor Who: the more weapons you bring to a fight against the Doctor, the more powerful he becomes.
*draws a spoon
En Garde!
K.I.S.S. Rick, keep it simple, stupid.
@@MysticPaladin A whole spoon *Gasp* "Watch out!! The Renegade Has a whole Spoon!!!"
Apologies to "actually", but far as I know, it was Craig Ferguson who said it on one of his shows, not any showrunners or the creators (Sydney Newman & the like).
"The first thing you notice about the Doctor of War is that he's unarmed, for many it's also the last."
“Morty, if you forget me than I will haunt your ass.” I love that Rick is not even mad that he died, he’s just mad at Morty for forgetting him.
It isn't real Rick, it hologram
@@DartLuke it’s not. Hologram rick is blue, this one is white, is flying and has smoking coming from its body.
@@DartLukeoh it was a Hologram, i thought that it was his Ghost or something
Try not to spoil challenge (impossible)
@@arnaldoalange3869 since he's erased from existence across time his ghost is gone so that's why the ship Rick Ai is still there
I like how The Doctor he never actually decided on using the time eraser, he only ever got the chance to contemplate it. He took literally every chance to avoid the conflict that he could. And in the end, Rick's undoing was entirely by his own hand. Surprisingly satisfying to see.
technically that shouldnt kill rick because that only works in 1 universe and rick is multiversal and would just come back with pheonix protocol. i actually expected rick to pop up at the end when he was talking to morty as a full wood rick. and rick has made far stronger things than the doctors gun
@@quincyking010And so has the doctor lol he took out rick without even trying to kill him and that's without using his actually busted tech
@@IvanPetrov-wb1vbthat does not make any sense
It makes perfect sense. Rick dies here because he used the gun and Dr just portal it back on him.
They somehow preserved the Doctor's morals in their Death Battle. NGL, I've wanted to see some version of this episode since ages ago, and it's turned out better than I imagined .
Honestly, Rick ending up as a forgotten ghost is a kinder ending than most Doctor Who enemies recieve.
It a hologram
@@ultrainstinctgokuhope7442 That's even worse. It isn't even really Rick.
@@ultrainstinctgokuhope7442, yes, but who programmed it?
@@jsly621
It rick, he made a ship
@@ultrainstinctgokuhope7442, but he never existed… now.
If it was 9th Doctor that beat down would have been way rougher. Dude nearly obliterated an unarmed Dalek.
Or some of the earlier ones, 8 once made an alien fear god scream by showing it what he was afraid he might do one day. 7 would've probably talked Rick into removing himself from life too.
7 made a baseball bat that can destroy Daleks
Eccleston doctor could be a scary fellow
In fairness Rick isn't quite as immoral as a dalek so the doctor would try harder not to hurt him.
I really liked that they brought up the personality differences. The Doctor would absolutely disgusted by Rick's attitude if they ever actually met
Is the Doctor an anti-nihilist?
@@АнтонДегидонов
"Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know, in 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before"
- The 11th Doctor
@@TheSpearkan Wow, that's cool, thanks for the quote.
The Doctor is an overwhelming optimist above all else, even in his bleakest momentshe has hope@user-lb4jy4jt2r
@@TheSpearkanthat's 11 not 10 that's one of the point
Rick going on a blind rampage over a fenderbender while the Doctor just acts defensively is perfectly in character for both of them.
😂 absolutely agree
I thought that too. Often they have the characters be way more aggressive or unforgiving compared to their character to explain why they're fighting, but this was completely on point for both of them. This is exactly how it would go down lol
Yea, but both characters are supposed to be in peak condition. Their most deadly for the deathbattle.
I could do a hundred page essay on why Doctor who loses this fight. He's just an older more respected character
@@sethkunert6234wha?
@@sethkunert6234 oh so at their peak? so like when the doctor had control over the glory and could erase the concept of rick from being?
Major props to the writers for keeping the Doctor a technical pacifist by having Rick be the one who fired the killing blow himself.
I really do like how during this whole fight the Doctor never even used a weapon.
@@willwh9228idc what you say: a spoon that can hold off a sword IS a weapon
@@Beast_the_smash_guy anything a weapon in a FIGHTING HAND!
@@Beast_the_smash_guy technically it's all about momentum in a sword fight. You may remember the scene of Goku fending of Trunks's sword with his finger? well, if the object is durable enough, say steel against steel, all you need to do is change your opponent's momentum
Then tenth doctor yes is a pacisficists but there are enough doctors in his timeline that would be willing too kill
Like most episodes of Doctor Who, it all came down to "and then he used the Sonic Screwdriver".
The sonic is normally a tool he sometimes uses to help, he normally finds a way out of his situations with his intellect
Massive props to Elliott Crossley who played the Doctor here. I genuinely beloved they somehow got David Tennant to play him
But why specifically Tennant and not Smith, Capaldi (not Whittaker) mcgann, baker, Davison, Tom baker, mccoy,?
@@dylanrinker6831 Because, in order of importance:
1: Tennant is the most popular Doctor, especially in America.
2: His voice is one of the less quirky ones from the show
3. The VA they had could imitate Tennant the best
@@dylanrinker6831Likely because this is the 14th Doctor, the latest one who is also played by Tennant
Cuz he’s the best mfin doctor
mostly so he could say alons y
Honestly, The Doctor and Rick getting into a universe-spanning, time-warping fight just because of what amounts to a car accident & road rage is 100% accurate to what an episode of either series would be like
If Rick brings an apple to the fight he just might be able to keep The Doctor away.
This may be implied that the apple makes him stronger
SPOILER: The apple is rotten, just like his show.
Wtf it took someone THIS long to make that joke 💀
Ok Rick trying that and the doctor just grabbing it and eating it would be funny
oh brother this guy stinks
i thought the doctor said "on god" instead of "en garde", which somehow made it funnier
" maybe you will find it on the ground next to your teeth! "
*grabs spoon* "on god?"
"You think you're all that and a bag of crisps? On god?"
Gotta love the fact that, true to form, the Doctor isn't the one who killed Rick. He just saved himself and led Rick to erase himself from time.
@swampexpertextraordinaire6896 Yeah, he saved himself and let Rick pull the trigger. I'm not saying "The Doctor didn't try to off him and Rick's death is an accident he brought upon himself", it's not the first time that the Doctor does this: he sets up his ennemy to die if they go through with their intention to kill him. Rick fired the shot that did him in.
While, this is true. It could be argued. The doctor is the one that turned around leading to the portal ejecting the projectile into Rick
@@stargazer-elite I mean, it was that or die.
Can we Get A Gwen Tennyson Vs Atom Eve ? Puhleasseeeeeeee😮💨😮💨🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
@@stargazer-elitebut at the same time it was clear self defense and realistically he would’ve been fine even in England and the most anti self defense country on earth.
The fight starting because the Doctor ignored Rick is hilarious. Also love him being nice to a very confused Morty at the end
fortunately this battle is less bloody than we thought😅
Kindness is one of The Doctor's key features.
I am frankly surprised the Doc left Morty there and never offered him the chance to be a companion. You could call it *Who's with Morty*
Saving a kid from an old cynical genius who thinks he's god, just another Monday for the Doctor.
In the end Rick's own hubris was Rick's undoing
"Well blink as much as you can, they're scared of rapid movment."
Absolutely kills me.
Loser
lol
They're like Boos in Mario or the Sculpture from SCP Foundation then? It'll attack only if you don't look?
@@Werewolf914 yep, weeping angels
@@Werewolf914They're quantum locked, they can only move when they're not being observed.
Yeah I’m not surprised. The Doctor is terrifying if you really think about it. I’m surprised they didn’t mention Demons Run. When their friends were threatened they went back in time, told the oldest story, and that ended up being the name of the baddies super secret base. That wasn’t a coincidental turn of phrase, it was a threat across time.
In an audio story the Doctor literally threatens Lovecraftian gods. After cornering one of their servants who'd messed with his companion's mind, he gives her the order. "Tell this to your gods when they punish you. When they stretch you on the Neutron rack... I'm still here..."
@@Prince__Teclis What piece of media was this? I'd love to check it out, I love it when Doctor Who goes crazy with its scale.
@@Prince__Teclisdo you remember which audio story it was?
@@Prince__Teclis
"Fear me.*
@@Someone-dn2iv omg ty ❤️
Props to whoever voiced the Doctor in this episode. That Tennant voice was nearly perfect!
I've heard he voices the Tenth Doctor in the Big Finish audio dramas
Is this a joke? It was the worse thing about the episode 😂
The tennant didn’t have a voice
I forgot David Tennant was a Doctor, only really remember him as the deranged Sir Edmond Rockwell from Ark.
I checked the VA's IMDB,
He did voice the doctor in a few occasions
So its not surprising XD
The Doctor doesn't want you to run from him so he'll win. He wants you to run from him so you don't die.
Exactly, the Doctor will go out of his way to get things to end peacefully, he does not enjoy killing. But if you prove you will never take that offer, and there's no other way around it, he's not going to hesitate.
The man had enough determination to spend 2 billion years punching through solid diamond. If he's running, it's not because it's the quickest route to victory. It's because it's the kindest.
@@durk5331 devils flee when a good man goes to war
jfc this is perfect
@@daddypudding9074
*4.5 billions years.
And he remembers all of it. Grief/rage at Rassilon kept him going.
I think my favorite part about the fight is The Doctor’s “fighting style”. He disarms Rick, hacks & overloads his equipment, traps him in a precarious situation and tricks him into destroying himself.
*HE NEVER DIRECTLY ATTACKS RICK*
The dedication to The Doctor’s character is incredible.
While true, leaving him to die by weeping angel (or I guess be isolated in time from that later weeping angel episode) is the equivalent of Batman not killing Raz in Batman Begins by not saving him from the train at the end. He's still directly responsible for the situation that leads to the death.
So suggesting the Doctor's hands were clean in his methods is silly.
Oh, geez. I just noticed that.
Yeah but at least "Death by Angel" isn't so bad since you still live out your normal life, just in the past after the send you back in time.@@pacmonster066
its better than Chibnal's run in 9 minutes when he had 5 years
@@pacmonster066 The doctors hands have not been clean for years he has committed genocide many times over..
If I'm fighting a man with a sword and he blocks me with a spoon, I'm running the other way.
The doctor advising rick to "blink rapidly" around all the weeping angels was too damn funny!
I was half-expecting Morty to become the Doctor's next companion. Telling him not to be a cynic though is probably the most-helpful thing Morty's ever heard.
I had this same idea. I thought for sure he was going to offer to join him on the Tardis.
Wouldn't that be the biggest, "Haha, screw you. I win." from the Doctor though? He takes in Morty, teaches him how to actually be useful rather than just exploit him, and their adventures end up saving the universe multiple times. Morty just uses Rick's tech combined with Whovian guile and morals....
Time traveler vs dimension hopper. Ofc the time guy wins, he can win yesterday. The best the d hopper can do is win now and that can be to late.
@@tjl102 Rick can time travel, he just chooses not to.
@@MattwosRandomNonContent Because he sucks at it
“Keep blinking as much as you can, rapid movement confuses them.” I laughed so damn hard!
I laughed my ass off at that
Rule 1: the doctor lies
DB also forgot to mention that the TARDIS is sentient, and loves the Doctor. In an episode where the TARDIS's soul was placed in the body of a woman, she states that she doesn't consider herself stolen, but instead, believes she stole the Doctor.
She also states that she always took him to places he needed to be, whether to help people or stop the monster of the week, usually both, rather than where the Doctor wanted to go.
To those who are unaware of just how scary and evil Daleks are
Their extermination beams could be set to disintegrate on contact, but they choose to set it to just barely lethal, so you feel untold amounts of excruciating pain for a few seconds before you die
Yeah, Maximum Extermination will blow up a house, or more rightfully be the amount of power needed to destroy another Dalek, because that has been necessary before.
And one of them told an especially hate fueled incarnation of the doctor, "you would make a good DALEK", that is some A- grade fucked up right there
Not to mention the Reality Bomb
EXTERMINATE!
They literally scramble your internal organs according to Rememberance of the Daleks
I can’t imagine feeling that…
My favorite part about this fight is how, during the weeping angels scene, the Doctor lies to Rick smoothly and convincingly, without any stuttering or stammering, even though he's clearly terrified AND busy with the portal gun. He even has the "they're scared of rapid movement" story ready to go, either because he's prepared it ahead of time for exactly this sort of situation, or because he's just that quick-thinking. Either possibility is a strong one.
Time Lords, man.
Oh yes, the Doctor is known for being very accomplished at deception. Some consider "The Doctor Lies" to be #1 point of fact for navigating interactions with him.
I mean..prep time isn't allowed in deathbattle so it's definitley the other option
Considering how the Doctor formulated the entire last scene to trick and make Rick shoot HIMSELF with the reality erasure in that little time window JUST after being shot in both hearts, he prolly is that quick of a thinker
@@Arrowokeys12 Well, it's allowed, but not to be specific to their opponent (like how dealing with high technology, but gives you little advantage over a caveman vs, say, Iron Man). He knows about the Angels and how to deal with them. He may not fully know if his lying is going to work, but its what he knows to do.
Rule 1: The Doctor lies.
Could this be the first fully pacifist Death Battle victory? The Doctor never once attacked Rick, only ever acted to defend himself or disarm Rick's weapons, and in the end Rick's impulsive arrogance caused him to fire the killing blow at himself. Stunning work from the animation team here.
Maybe I was just reading into it but I liked that the Dr seemed hesitant to draw the gun even in a Death Battle. traditionally he always defeats his opponents by trapping them together.
Gotta be character accurate, and the 10th Doctor never once used a weapon on people. He was about to once, but then changed his mind and fired at a machine to beat Rassilon.
Imagine losing to a guy who was not even attacking you at all
@@gameuniverse5973 Rick has always been self-defeating. It's always his own hubris that ends up screwing him in the end.
It's quite genius. The Doctor could disarm Rick completely and make him completely powerless, but because this is a Death Battle, something has to be brought out to kill. As a result, that weapon would HAVE to come out of the Doctor's own arsenal.
This is what the Doctor does every single day. Genocidal time traveling monsters and madmen are nothing new to him. Imagine if this was the tactical genius 7th Doctor, or even the War Doctor who is the most dangerous by far.
7 once basically trapped an alien elder god inside a friend's D&D game, that's how brilliant he is, dude was horrifically intelligent even by Doctor standards.
or even the more aggressive 9th doctor
Took me a moment to realise Rick knew Time Lord physiology, he shot the Doctor through both sides of his chest to nail both hearts and told him to hurry up with regenerating so he could kill him.
Oh yeah. He could still live with only one heart but it’s a painful experience for him till someone knocks the paused heart back into order.
Pity that Rick didn’t still have that sword from earlier, otherwise he really could have finished The Doctor off.
Yeah it’s a good detail in what’s essentially a very one-sided fight. Given that Rick mentions dr who at one point in the show, it works.
Must not have known it that well though, IIRC one of the Doctor's hearts is a bit lower.
Rick knowing Timelords was established at the start, as he calls the dr a timelord.
And to be fair, Rick WOULD know of timelords.
One ability you didn't mention is that the Doctor actually does have some sort of "plot armour". Extended media says he has a degree of subconcious probability warping, which occured due to his large amount of timetravelling. So basically, he's always playing the game with loaded dice.
The doctor has 4 layers of plot armor, probability manipulation, causality manipulation, higher dimensional avatar, and plot manipulation
@@Mohammedamine9.
> higher dimensional avatar
what? are you talking about timeless child or did I forgot something?
@@lerarosalene something that was mentioned in the novel a Christmas on a rational planet
That explanation made more sense in YuGiOh, here it just sounds like The Doctor is just really lucky. Watch, I'll do it too, the reason he has so much plot armor is because he's actually sleeping the whole time and every time he makes it back to the TARDIS it's because he's being comatose carried back to his bed. That's why he's never in any real danger because when he dies in his dream he just regenerates into a similar one.
So he's the main protagonist of all main protagonist@@Mohammedamine9.
When my dad saw the outcome he refused to believe it
I love your dad already!
Okay, how did he not like the outcome? I don't like how Rick lost the battle, but I can... somewhat.... accept it.
Because he thought there was no was no way for the doctor to win even with they explained why he won
@@ninjalord785Your dad is such a cry baby fanboy 😂
@@Obrigado_ePerdao , or maybe he's right, and you're being a fanboy here.
I don't think I'll ever stop laughing about "Swiss Army Plot Device"; the most perfect description of the Sonic Screwdriver. 😆
Doesn't 13 even call it the "Swiss Army Sonic"? When when she's showing hers off for the first time?
@@madladdie7069 i think so.
because it basically is. funny thing though is sonic energy can be used in the various ways the doctor uses it for.
21:01 this part best explains the ricks great disadvantage against the doctor. Rick struggles against people/beings of equal intelligence constantly, while the doctor contends with evil geniuses arguably much smarter than he is, and still often manages to come out on top (the masters intelligence rivals the doctor, notably he once imprisoned/enslaved the doctor and humanity in an alternate timeline, it took the doctor and friends a whole year to finally beat him, and then there’s Davros, the creator of the daleks and (in my opinion) the smartest being in the doctors universe, notably he created a means to destroy the entire multiverse, the literal infinity of all existence, and was incredibly close to succeeding)
It didn't take a year to beat the master, the Doctor had already set the plan in motion, it just took a year to come to fruition. For the Doctor that's like a long weekend.
Not to mention, he once had to contend with a cyber version of himself in a game of chess and won by both luck outside the game and stalling the cyber planner into probing calculations to see how the Doctor could win...
Canonically, one of the few people who has ever definitively defeated Rick is his own therapist, a woman who herself admits she's not as smart as Rick, but is still able to take him down a peg by easily picking apart his insecurities and not get killed for it.
We would have to know where in the timeline of c137 this fight takes place because prior to the events of the breakdown of the central finite curve Rick is the smartest man in every universe that has access to his universe
The Doctor ran because he didn’t want to kill Rick, let alone enter a conflict. And in the end, Rick learned the reason the Doctor ran away: he was being kind.
Demons run when a good man goes to war
You know you're screwed when the Doctor is kind to you
Loving all these doctor quotes.
makes an argument that both can dodge laser yet rick couldn't dodge laser genius destroyed they own plot
The fury of a time lord
The Doctor: There is a difference between you and me. We both looked into the abyss, but when it looked back at us, _you blinked._
Where's that quote from?
@@Mohammedamine9. It's from an animated justice league film "crisis on two earths". It just seemed to fit.
The Doctor: We have great power. You choose to abuse it! I choose to clear up the mess you and others like you leave behind...
When the Doctor looked into the abyss, it blinked.
Honestly, the Doctor is so charming and disarmingly comical that I always forget he's secretly a badass limiting himself out of principle whereas Rick limits himself with ego, drugs, and alcohol.
Were it not for Rick's negative traits he probably would've had a higher chance I imagine.
Then again, were Rick as cool headed as the doctor and would he plan ahead for every ideal outcome, he probably wouldn't be Rick.
Yeah, the doctor never really choices violence if he does it was entirely your own fault.
@@__-tp4tmRick does plan ahead. A lot of his most insane feats required him to see a potential situation ahead of time and invent something to handle it. So when the moment randomly happens, he's ready for it, and has been ready for it.
It's actually the doctor's ability to think on his feet in the moment that caused the doctor's win.
They should do Invincible VS Gohan - Son of Omniman VS Son of Goku would be a really fun matchup!
@@JTX30000 So Rick forgot that the 2 portals were linked? He forgot that the doctor had a portal on his back?
If he was that prepared for it he certainly slipped.
Rick's final line about being remembered is actually perfect since in doctor who lore , the thing that can bring back people wiped from time are the memories and stories of them persisting
What a good way to open a sequel fight. Also, if Rick knows that then he is a secret Dr. Who fan.
The doctor lies.
@@mysterycupofjoe2670Rick actually referenced Doctor Who in the R&M Season 3 finale
indeed.
He literally keeps backups of their memories in his garage.
Everybody seems to think that Rick bringing an apple would defeat the doctor, but everybody is forgetting his real weakness, Pears
who am i?
They're too mushy and make your chin wet!
They also failed to mention Rick's greatest weakness, Pirates.
@jonathanjuarez5544 idk why but that's so funny to me when the president brought out the pirates Rick just dipped 😭
@@therdrfanboi1899”AHH RUN MORTY THAT PART WAS TRUE!”
Total missed opportunity to have Rick punch The Doctor and have him say *“You knocked out my teeth!.”*
I like the touch that 2 shots in the chest. One for each heart. Clearly Rick knows a non-zero amount about time lords, especially from the start of the battle where he quips about them.
He remembered that but forgot the portal 💀
@@deez6683 well the portals usually close on their own i dont think rick should win but anyone whose seen even a little of RaM can tell you thats not how they work. could have done it differently
well yeah you are right, plus Rick could have won if it wasn’t for the fact he waits for people to finish their monologues
@@delinkwent7375 could be explained by the doctor hacking the portal so the one on his back is linked to the one he fired.
@@Tankirb never has it been indthat the destination of a portal can be changed while its still open i could accept this explanation if a a new portal was opened instead of using the old one
I’m sure that animation was the passion project of some very talented animator(s). I hope they get all the praise they deserve for that masterpiece
And proper payment... Never forget the payment, because praise alone can't feed you.
Very well done indeed!
Who animated this?
Rewatching this, but Boomstick put it best: Rick relies on being the smartest person in the room.
Consistently, when he faces someone as smart as/smarter than he is, he tends to get outplayed, outsmarted, etc. This level of arrogance has consistently been his downfall, and one of the Doctor's primary strengths is that he plays on this kind of arrogance multiple times over. Plus, the Doctor consistently faces down threats that are, by all accounts, holding all the advantages and comes out on top each time.
All that to say, I don't think it is far-fetched to believe that Rick would fail against the Doctor in a 1v1. The only potential means I see Rick winning the fight is if the Doctor refuses to kill him, which is quite possible... but even then, the Doctor often doesn't need to kill you so much as let your own plans backfire on you due to your own arrogance. Same logic could be applied to Rick.
And sometimes those who the Doctor doesn't kill spend their lives wishing he had.
The word when The Doctor is regenerating, "... and I don't wanna go", it's amazing how they manage to change the tone from his original "desperate plea of a dying man" into a "badass" one. This is just me geeking out to David Tennant's Doctor best moments, I love it
I'd like to think the Doctor hesitated to grab the gun because his ability to resist reality warping is so advanced that he can even somewhat fight the "someone must die" rule of Death Battle itself.
And he actually did he wasn’t the one to fire the killing blow that was Rick even if Rick did die that was Rick’s own fault so technically the doc didn’t follow the rules he didn’t kill Rick, Rick killed Rick
@@Oldtowns_is_tired I mean... isn't that typically how it goes in the show? When a Rick dies, it is more often than not the fault of himself or another Rick (Evil Morty notwithstanding).
They have been becoming more self aware lately.
i think thats pretty sick. also interesting to think about since im pretty sure the last ever death battle was confirmed to be wiz vs boomstick@@mattphillips3537
So I’ve seen people take issue with Rick allowing The Doctor to have his little speech however I actually think he’s waiting for the regeneration process to start before he deals the killing blow since for the sake of this episode he knows about timelords and as such would know about them being vulnerable while regenerating. He even says ‘hurry up’ before The Doctors big speech implying that he’s waiting for them to do something.
That could be true but even if it isn’t the thing is the doctor is also waiting too long to grab his screwdriver, the order of operations was still correct they just have him give the speech for the dramatics
The doctor also has plot manipulation powers that they use to give speeches and grandstand without interruption
Rick's arrogant and probably thought he had the last laugh and is the kind of person to gloat, so he's waiting out his speech so he can finish him.
Yeah, that seems likely. And his monologuing is also a power, funnily enough.
As Rick knew what a Time Lord was in the opening insults this makes sense. Also maybe because of his ego, he wanted The Doctor to do something big so he could screw him over and prove his superiority like he usually does... except it doesn't work against someone just as smart if not more so, and able to calculate much faster.
Rick Sanchez: *uses Doctor Who’s weapon to kill him*
The Doctor: *pulls an Uno Reverse card*
"You dare use my own spell against me?"
Seeing the pure fear on the doctors face when they got to the angels is amazing. Truly his most conventionally scary foe.
Was that reference or something?
Look up "weeping angels"
Do not blink or avert your gaze. You have been warned.
@@MEMEuser420get back to writing stories lazy ass jk love your stories
@@seriousspikesam7770”well blink as much as you can. they’re scared of rapid movement.” The bamboozle the doctor did on Rick was hilarious.
I love the ending. Not only the Doctor giving Rick his thoughts on his cynical view of things which is perfect for their clashing characters but also I loved the ending. Him telling Morty to not be a cynic and even praising him for the spaceship. Almost giving him the confidence boost he would need to grow in the future without Rick around.
...except AI Rick is going to haunt him for the rest of his life
@@chopper7867 whats more likely is that AI Rick will tell Morty how to bring him back somehow.
Undoing reality erasure seems like something Rick would do
@@zeniththecreator7671 since Rick is erased from all points in time, I don't think morty can find any dna to put into the clone vault to revive him so he's just hologram for now
@@phoenixwright2420 well hologram rick did manage to become physical thanks to that one venom thingy, so maybe there is a way for him to turn real since he has rick's memories and stuff
Just sayin, that spacecruiser and morty were not that rick's originals or they wouldve been erased too.
The Doctor telling Rick that the trick to beating Weeping Angels is to blink as much as possible before dipping was 10/10 trolling.
I see what you did there.
A smart human playing god vs A smart god playing human
The Doctor never touching a weapon the entire fight and Ricks undoing being his own mindless aggression and ego is so perfect.
He used ricks portal gun to escape the weeping angels. he pick it up and knew how to use it instantly, when there where episode where morty left using to portal gun got lost and near died due to how complicated it is to use it until bp saved him due to him having years of experience with Rick
@@anthonykf99 to be fair how would you beat the doctor with any gun or gadget if he has the sonic screwdriver? You use a weapon they can’t hack like a sword.
@@anthonykf99that sword is literally taken straight out of one of the episodes of Rick and Morty (the Season 5 finale)
Also if you want Rick to fight with the weapons he uses most often, he’s be using his bare fists like he does for over 50% of his fights
@@richardsesmajr892 tbf, Morty is an idiot and The Doctor is at least on par with Rick in intelligence
Besides, the animation is just for something for us to watch and doesn't actually affect the results of the battle
@@richardsesmajr892 Portal Gun is a tool and frankly comparing the Doctors Intelligence to Mortys is a joke.
That grin at the screaming sun from a thousands of years old, multiversal being was pure "Huh... I just saw a new thing. Been about 100 years since THAT happened! Neat!"
Probably thinking "Must show that to someone later."
@@Prince__Teclis or "Has anyone asked him why he's screaming? Maybe he needs help. Either way, it's fantastic! Let's go learn about him!"
@@Bogeymanta If this was canon imagine the Doctor stopping by this universe every now and then to have a conversation with a sun.
@@KianaK0423 They absolutely would. Just to check in on the guy. The Doctor is nice like that.
This is literally why the doctor loses. He wins because the screwdriver impresses dumb and nostalgic people. Which are you?
The fact that The Doctor didn't shoot the Reality Erasure, but Rick did, it's cosmically funny.
It's also perfectly fitting for his character. He's outsmarted every species that has ever threatened him or humanity, and with only 2 real exceptions, has almost always done so without being directly violent.
It’s very Doctor Who in the same way that the whole situation starting over a cosmic rear ending is very Rick and Morty
@@thebananas6483What were the two real exceptions?
@@8bitdiedieI assume Rick Prime and Evil Morty
"The first thing you notice about the Doctor of War is that he's unarmed, for many it's also the last."
I am not a doctor who fan but I appreciate how the Doctor looks at the gun and debates on whether he should use it or not. He knows that it would work but decided to try to find a different way. good characterization
One of my favorite bits from Doctor who is this two part episode where the Doctor and his companion wind up hiding at a school in 19th century england from this band of aliens that was stalking him. He goes to such incredible lengths as to force himself to forget his own identity, hide the tardis and wait until the aliens either died due to their short lifespans or gave up.
When they finally catch up to him and force him into the open a revelation was made not just for the aliens but for the viewers; He wasn't hiding because he was scared but because he was merciful, and as a result Trapped them all in the most horrid cirecumstances forever (some of which were referenced in this episode of DB).
Another good characterisation i tell you as someone who watches the show is whenever the tardis is hurt especially with the harpoon and doctor going "what did they do for you" that's very real
Tardis is a sentient machine and doctors longest companion it's not his time machine as he did stole it but in "the doctor's wife" when tardis was given a body to talk tardis said that he stole the doctor to "i wanted to see the universe so i took the only one mad enough" there's a reason he is called a mad man with a box
And also calling her a clever girl when she switched console rooms.
You can quite literally ship a doctor and his ship and it would make sense as the doctor care about her like it's their love
Another thing is that even when companions are around doctor keeps on talking with the tardis he is the only one who understands. One time when two companions were talking.
And doctor loves this tardis specifically because it's actually an older model it's a type 40 tardis with a faulty navigation system which was an antique but he took it anyway
And in the end he found a way NOT to use it. That's what the doctor does; he finds ways when none exist.
Letting Rick do it to himself is such a Doctor move as well. He'll hesitate to kill, but he won't stop you from doing it to yourself if you're that determined to hurt him
Interesting how The Doctor never lay a single hit on Rick. He only defend himself with the spoon, use his sonic screwdriver to disarm Rick's tech, and even hesitate on using the erasure gun because its not his style to kill. Rick used it on himself by accident at the end.
Well no the Dr faked him out and used the gun on rick in a different way.
@@TheUnseenPathI mean, all I saw was Rick firing the gun through a portal he himself placed, out of another one, and hitting himself with it. The Doctor didn’t put that portal there, he didn’t even break the glass to get to the gun 🤣
@@TheCrazyCapMaster The Doctor hacked the portal gun with his Sonic Screwdriver, which caused it to open a portal on the wall and his back.
The Doctor planned that Rick would try and kill him with the D-Mat, so he set up the portal so that he could redirect the attack back at Rick.
The Doctor won despite not even firing the gun himself.
@@HB-fq9nn That's exactly what he does in the show, too. If you have violence in your heart, and you don't relent, he'll let you end yourself.
this video is literally blatantly incorrect
One is a God pretending to be human. The other is a human who thinks he's a God.
The Doctor and Rick.
damn... sometimes we forget how scary the doctor is. seeing him simply turn around and erase rick from reality is kind of terrifying.
Correction, he let Rick erase himself, everything he did, was just to give Rick one last chance, up to not firing the gun
@@joelrobinson5457 ah touché
Demons run when a good man goes to war.
The Doctor doesn't inflict horrors on his enemies. But he does create the circumstances whereby his enemies inflict horrors on themselves. When you've exhausted his mercy, is when you really need to be afraid.
"He never raised his voice, that's what made it so haunting..."
"It's not that I'm an innocent. I've taken lives. I got worse, I got clever! Manipulated people into taking their own." --The 10th Doctor
Do you know why they call it demons run
Because
Demons run when a good man goes to war
This was my first time watching and I thought it'd be like an explanation and details to how and why one side would win, but I did not expect that animation. Literally blew away my expectations
I like how, after Rick gets D-matted, the starting scenario chnages. It goes from "Oi, you hit my TARDIS!" to "Aw, its just a kid on his first space voyage."
The doctor knows what he did, he’s just playing along
If I was doing that part of it, I'd have the Doctor offer Morty to be his companion... And leaving Ghost/Hologram Rick all alone.
@@utubrGamingthe hologram is implanted in morty's brain. It will just follow him forever.
@@ahmedallyIIyeah after all he immune to all time manipulation effect so even Rick been erase from all timeline and mutliuniverse The Doctor still have that old memories.
I mean, I could see Rick bouncing back from this too, which is pretty Rick. Probably an episode where Rick drags himself from non-existence.
I also don't see the second fight going much better for Rick, since Timelord tech kind of beats conventional.
As iconic as "I don't want to go" is, I think it might've been more badass to put a spin on it and have him say "I'm not going anywhere"
also the line dosint hit as hard without the heart felt meaning behind the origanal. they used it as a bad ass one liner when it was ment to be a hear wranching goodby to the fans
@@nicholasscovelle1772 The line has been iconic and parodied upon itself at this point, it is borderline a 10th Doctor catchphrase, they use it in day of the doctor and when talking about him.
But also it works as a badass line if you think of it like this, he is going to regenerate into a new form but instead he sets off Rick's portal gun, he knows Rick will use the time erasure gun because he is close to it and his normal gun is broken, he has set up a plan where instead of regenerating he is going to wipe Rick from history meaning the battle never happened. That's why at the end he's talking to Morty as if nothing happened and Rick wasn't there, he said "I don't want to go" and he didn't.
@@nicholasscovelle1772 _heart wrenching goodbye_
I interpreted the "I don't want to go" as a dig on Rick's "nihilist know-it-all" mentality. Rick has been known to be suicidal and indifferent to his own death, and the Doctor reads him perfectly when describing him as a nihilist know-it-all. So when he says that there's one thing he never understood about all this wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey rubbish (which imo is obviously the Doctor referring to these universe-wide adventures they both have gone on), he clarifies that that one thing he never understood is that the Doctor doesn't succumb to Rick's weaknesses in spite of it all, and that he indeed "doesn't want to go" unlike Rick.
The best part of The Doctor's Victory is he didn't directly kill Rick, He just turned Rick's attack back on him. Perfectly in character for The Doctor!
The best part of the doctors victory is he didn't actually win. This is just the beginning. If you watch Rick and Morty at all you know that Rick will be back. And he will not let this go.
@@shankyu1985 thing is the doctor would just do the same. And he's WAYYY more unkillable than rick. The doctor with actual prep time and WANTING to kill someone is a terrifying concept
@@FranTheNerd not a fan of Dr. Who but even I know all the Ricks in canon are nothing to a Doctor who has an inkling of wanting to win.
Bro nobody’s mention that even ONCE 100 point for originality 😂
His kindess means he really never kills people. Also he is extremely unlikely to use a de-mat gun on someone
Imagine during that scene where the doctor powers up at the end, Rick just pulls out an apple and then the doctor dies.
It’s important to point out: the Doctor didn’t use the D-Mat. He merely arranged things so that when Rick tried to shoot him, he shot himself instead. Causing the episodic “bad guy” to be hoist by their own petard is rather SOP for the dear Doctor; if you ever choose to atone and mend your ways, the Doc will move Time and Space to assist you - literally - but if you persist in your ill-chosen path despite his offers otherwise, he just helps make sure your fate doesn’t take innocent bystanders with you.
Saving an innocent kid from a mad old genius with a god complex. Just another Monday for the Doctor.
I just knew it was over for Rick when they only mention the other dangerous weapons in just a black box and only explain the d mat I would laugh if they explained the moment or heart of the tardis
He did use the D-Mat just not in the conventional sense it was a strategy he manipulated.
Remember what Davros said about the Doctor? He doesn't use a gun, he takes people and turns them into weapons. In this case, he took Rick and made him a weapon against himself. And, let's be fair, we all know that's how Rick is going to end, he's going to screw up and end himself.
@@gameuniverse5973 The tear, and who could forget a moment in the doctors life where three separate factions showed up to save him, each with mass genocidal weapons and more. The doctor was horrified by this, however any one of those weapons are a deadly threat to Rick.
I think the fact that Rick has built his entire worldview on a dog eat dog mentality definitely gives the guy who plays completely defensively a leg up
I dont get it
@@ElmiRaculos-vr2dm Ricks entire worldview is that you can't really trust anyone but yourself and he has a need to be the smartest guy in the room which usual comes easy. In crazy fights he has in the show, most of his attacks are counter attacks or one upping his opponents move. The Doctor surpasses Ricks intelligence and plays defensively, a type of opponent Rick wouldn't be used to.
@@Jack-zz7bc So, Rick is more or less a big fish in a small pond in his world?
@@robertthreadgill5356 more or less. It's hard to gauge since they exist in completely different worlds, but more or less.
@@robertthreadgill5356basically. And the thing is, he built the pond so only he would be the big fish
I love how throughout the whole fight the doctor never used a weapon once staying true to his morals and just doing what the doctor does
The Doctor has been shown to take life-ending measures if it means saving people/the planet, but usually lets the foes use their own stuff against them. In 'the Dominators', the aliens try to plant a bomb that would mean the end of life on planet Dulkis (?), the Doctor steals it and places it on the Dominators' spaceship where it soon blows them up.
They deserved it, but still ;) !
Well he did kill an infinite amount of Ricks
@@StarboundRoserick did that
@@drypasta he clearly had time to move, and chose the only move that would kill
@@StarboundRose He chose the only move that wouldve saved himself from getting blasted, all in all in the narrative of the fight ricks death came from his own doing
"the first thing you will notice about The Doctor of War, is he's armed with a spoon. For many, it's also the last"
I love how the battle of super geniuses ended with one outsmarting the other instead of just overpowering them.
Quite the unique way to win a fight in a DEATH BATTLE.
It really is more satisfying that way.
In my opinion at least.
Well Rick should easily overpower the doctor, he's vastly stronger and faster than the doctor due to cybernetic implants. There's no reason the doctor should survived the close combat part long enough to pull the win when he's like a tired old man physically compared to Rick who basically superhuman across the board. Rick could punch a hole through the doctor before he knew what hit him.
@@ianyoder2537 No it sucked. This death battle removed the stats of a character to force a winner. That makes it utter trash in my view. Rick is vastly stronger and faster, making the doctor dead on arrive.
@@Lastjustice Finally found one. The fan who's arguing the outcome.
Look the Doctor has faced physically superior foes all throughout his unfathomably long his life. War like aliens, human evolution gone wrong, and plenty of cyborgs.
Speaking of cyborgs, his sonic screwdriver works on them.
Yes Rick was more offensive minded and had the more destructive arsenal, but so has literally every enemy the doctor faced.
Whoever they got to voice the Doctor absolutely crushed it, like WOW. I almost thought that WAS Tennant for a second there
When I heard him in the preview, I thought he sounded off. But he quickly won me over as I heard him more and more through the fight.
Yeah but Ricks was SO WEIRD to me. It sounded fine at the start but got so weird by the end.
he's an official Tennant impersonator who actually voiced the Doctor in an official webisode series called Lockdown
One of the fun things regarding Rick, is that he created the central finite curve, as a way to prevent this scenario from ever happening... Not losing, but at least the confrontation from ever happening
It also is kind of thematic that the central finite curve is rick’s life’s work, but the doctor hops dimensions accidentally when literally trying to avoid doing that, so in all likelihood he breached rick’s ultimate defense accidentally and was annoyed about it. Really goes to show how far away these two characters are in power
Lol that's not why he created the central finite curve. He was looking for the Rick that killed his family. The curve was to not only narrow his search from infinite, but to also lock every other Rick from traveling outside of the curve.
@@Imkaje but if had the same effect, even if unintentional (it was also probably intended to prevent him from running into a Rick who could beat him joining the citadel and thus being on the side of Prime)
@@Imkaje the rest of the ricks that helped him to create it did make it with the intention of keeping themselves safe however
There's only one way the doctor wins but there's infinite ways rick wins. Why does the dub go to the doctor?
I think the ship knew and/or thought Rick was going to lose. He tells it "Ship, keep Morty safe", and 10 seconds later it nopes out of the entire fight and knew the best thing to do to keep Morty safe was get away from The Doctor.
I was thinking Rick would take it until I was reminded that the sonic screwdriver existed. The single most broken and OP gadget in all of media, and yes that includes the gun that erases people from history.
Though in this one they actually stuck to one of the two consistent features. He only used it to hack technology, not for any bizarre one-off plot solutions.
Read my comment I posted at the top, the doc only has 2 devices but Rick has millions of devices, the sonic screw driver can only deactivate one device at a time, so Rick could easily formulate a counter attack with a new device at the same time the screwdriver is deactivating one of ricks decoy devices.
@@joshuajellybean384 Where did you get the idea that the screwdriver could only counter one device at a time? That thing has taken down *wide* ranges of equipment at once.
I would say the omnitrix is more op
@@banshee46 Sonic screwdriver has to be pointed at the device to deactivate it, so that’s when the screwdriver is most vulnerable and it can be attacked or trapped from a different device that’s not in the direction the screwdriver is being pointed at
Its that moment of hesitation before touching the dmat gun that I love about the Doctor. The moment he knows what he has to do but thinks about it, that he knows that he could but shouldn't because he doesn't want to go that step.
Hilarious that The Doctor was able to trick Rick into blinking at the Weeping Angels.
And Rick was like "wait are these th-they are, aren't they."
POV: You’re here after watching Among Us Vs Fall Guys because they mentioned the TARDIS in it.
One detail I really like is that The Doctor never technically wields a weapon. They did a really good job staying true to his character.
Dude, a spoon IS a weapon in the doctor’s hand😂.
Doesn't stop him from committing various acts of all types of cides. From genocide with the daleks to deicide to the time lords nothing stops the Doctor and that is what scares everyone.
A really subtle detail I liked is the Doctor actually loving the screaming sun. They just want to see everything.
That's one of my favorite things about the doctor is how he's always like a wandering child in awe of what's around him. And using tenant's doctor is really really excellent at that
I think a good equivelance noted with Rick and The Doctor is their mind and wellbeing.
Rick once saw what went on in the talking cats mind as well as being in Jerry's mind for a couple of seconds and that basically convinced himself to end it all then and there.
Meanwhile in another adventure, The Doctor confronted a cosmic entity that fed off fear across reality and when it invaded his mind to look for things that scared him, it was instead terrified by the things it saw by proxy. And to add insult to injury, The Doctor decided to up the ante and start thinking about things that DID genuinely scare him, which caused the entity to end it all there.
So in terms of mental stability, chalk one up for the Doctor again.
Rick hasn't been mentally stable for a long time now too, and I think his reality warping tech and adventures isn't helping.
Though a lot of why The Doctor is more mentally stable could be down to how a Time Lord sees time, and how a Mortal views it.
The Doctor knows that there's realities out there where everything is gone and or horrifying but never stops to lament over that. At least not in a way humans would, so instead The Doctor sees the world as it could be and the possibilities that it may bring.
Whereas Rick has been chasing one thing, the man who killed his wife. And turned to booze and drugs to relieve that pain, seeing only the worst and forming little to no real attachments for a long time. While Rick may be getting better as the seasons progress, he'll probably never truly be whole again.
Rick figured out he is Fiction on the fly and got out to fight Jesus for the hell of it .
I think it's enough .
When was this, and what was the name of the Cosmic being. I initially thought it was Akhaten, but he didn't feed of off fear.
This fight also had all the research done not even accounting for the fact that the Doctor at any point could have just convinced Rick to kill himself, gg easy
@@user-lp8im7ow8s None of that proves he has strong mental endurance. The Doctor also has multiple instances where they acknowledge they are fictional, and has beaten Gods from multiple mythologies, as well as Satan himself.
Giving both fictions their due with Sanchez stepping on the other person's lines, and the Doctor getting his brief moment of drama. Chef kiss writing and cinematography.
greatest thing about the Doctor's win, is that not only did they not throw an attack other than disarming Rick of his sword, but also they didn't use any of the stupid god-mode items from the show's history like the Moment, the Hand of Omega, the Time Vortex, etc. makes this feel much more like something that'd actually happen rather than "the doctor wins because they can just use this funny artifact and win"
I mean technically the D-Mat counts but the exicution was a checkov's gun (near literally.) in that it's shown, and pays off later. Not SUDDEN HAHA YOU LOSE.
Also love that the TARDiS subtily helps out by acting how it always does and not violating 'this was the time we talked' line.
She's his constant companion and like hell she's going to let some dickheaded nihilist get the jump on Her doctor.
Had to run this fight over in my head over and over before commenting.... The outcome is accurate. The biggest piece of evidence is The Central Finite Curve, which isolated all Ricks from any potential threats to their intellectual superiority, The Doctor, however, had no such set of training wheels and has a list of enemies that could and have forced him (or her as of 13) to constantly develop mentally and seems to thrive off the challenges. In the words of Evil Morty, "Rick's don't like being challenged", and so him being the smartest man in the universe was an imposed default that stagnated him.
The finite curve was there anyways.
The finite curve isn’t there to protect Rick…… it’s to contain rick prime
@@socketyellow3It kind of is for both reasons.
The rickest Rick designed the curve to imprison prime Rick while the other Ricks helped build it to isolate themselves from the multiverse.
Plus, Rick remained the smartest MAN in the universe. Not being human, The Doctor is something else entirely, and therefore exempt from the restriction. And then he pissed The Doctor off. Ask Colonel Runaway how smart that is
I’d like to point out how the doctor pulled through the whole fight without actually *ATTACKING* Rick!
Fan fact
Universe had magic
But Time Lords didn't like it
So what? They removed it