Talk:Ash Ketchum vs Lucy Heartfilia/@comment-25936854-20160519172119/@comment-26221704-20160719012702

@Itanu, while I can respect what you say the whole idea and rule of Death Battle is structured by it ending in death. Nothing in DB really states they have to be completely out of character, only killing restraints are removed but personalities stay completely the same.

Granted having no death in a death battle is really against the show's whole ending and climatic premise and I personally don't understand why you wouldn't have a death in a canon or fanon death battle. But that doesn't really take away from the rest of the battle here.