Little Runmo VS The Double King

Little Runmo VS The Double King Is 7494pinguisback20/Dolphboi's ninth Death Battle of his first season and his ninth episode overall. It features the Double King and Little Runmo, both from their titular Youtube Videos.

Description
Indie animation's a great medium and what better way than to pit two of the best examples of it together in a fight to the death?

Interlude
Wiz: More often than not, we find ourselves striving for something of great value. Sometimes, we can go on a pursuit to achieve this, as well.

Boomstick: And these two fellas from indie-animated shorts on the internet are great examples, like Runmo, the platforming munchkin searching for extra lives!

Wiz: And the Double King, a tyrant aiming to amp up his hiearchy with crowns.

Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick!

Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to figure out who would win a Death Battle.

Runmo
Wiz: The date is July of 1981. Both Mario and Donkey Kong start an iconic video game genre known to many people. Platformers. These games were simple enough, allowing you to defeat enemies by bouncing on them and jumping over pits to get to your goal.

'''Boomstick: But the logic of platformers seems kinda weird when you think about it. You see, how do you kill the enemies by jumping? You must weigh like a thousand pounds! And are the pits bottomless at all? How can you really die from that?'''

Wiz: Well, that's when one character within this genre found out something.

Boomstick: Wait, what?

Wiz: Well, unbeknownst to many, under every upbeat and action-packed platformer game lies an industrial, atmospheric realm of untold size. All the laws of the mechanics are this hidden world's doing, and the main protagonists and antagonists have to follow them. However, one curious soul went against it.

'''Boomstick: And his name... was Runmo!'''



(Cue Little Runmo - Level One)

Wiz: Born as a simple platformer protagonist, Runmo bypassed the mechanics of a normal platformer game to uncover the dark, industrial world behind the laws that govern it's existence.

'''Boomstick: And holy shit, what a trip that was! Have you seen everything he has gotten himself into while he journeyed through that realm?'''

Wiz: Not to mention that the driving force behind wandering around in the realm was mostly the extra lives scattered around the factory.

'''Boomstick: So... he basically wants to stay alive?'''

Wiz: It would seem like that's the case, Boomstick! In fact, he follows the exact same rule of lives that characters like Mario and Crash Bandicoot follow. They start with four or three lives and can get more through one-ups.

'''Boomstick: But despite his lives, that's not exactly all he has to survive. Despite his display of fragility in his own game, he has some amazing durability outside of it! He suffered a fall after a wooden plank was destroyed by a sleeping wrecking ball and didn't lose a single life! Not only that, he showed very little signs of pain!'''

Wiz: Let's not forget his ability to wall-jump. During his second life, he attempted to jump around the spike wall by clinging onto each of the pit's walls.

'''Boomstick: So he's like Diddy Kong in Smash, huh? Now I want Runmo in smash. If only he was a real game..!'''

Wiz: It should also be noted that Runmo has displayed some incredible speed, displayed when he fled away from the Meatball Man. Going by the distance displayed on the track and the speed that he ran at, we can estimate that he ran about ten meters per second.

'''Boomstick: So he's just Mario and Sonic's love child..? That's kinda gross now that I think about it. And don't worry about Runmo, he's got GUTS! Did you see the knuckle sandwich he game to that shark king?'''

Wiz: That would be the Dring King, who is possibly the overall ruler of this industrial underworld. And judging by the blow he gave, he must possess incredible strength to make a giant like the Dring King flinch with just one punch.

Boomstick: He's gotta be such a little pest if he can deal that much damage!

Wiz: Runmo has even displayed signs of intelligence, such as when he simply jumped towards the spike wall and died on his first life, only to attempt to wall-jump around it on his second life. Runmo learns from his mistakes so that he can overcome obstacles.

'''Boomstick: However, the spike wall contributes to his greatest weakness... NEEDLES!'''

Wiz: Despite his few signs of durability, Runmo is merely fragile glass to sharp objects, fire, nearly enything that can kill a normal platformer character. And while his Meatball Man feat is very impressive, his speed only seems to increase when he is in total stress, or afraid of dying.

'''Boomstick: Yeaah, and he's no genius, as he seems to be just like a child, and his curiosity can get the better of him. I knew he was just a green Kirby..!'''

Wiz: True. When Pikkit asked at what point in a pit does Runmo die, he decided to find out for himself, getting himself into this industrial mess in the first place.

'''Boomstick: But you know what's worse? DESTROYING THE UNIVERSE ITSELF BY MEDDLING WITH THE META!'''

Wiz: Upon discovering the scrapped, lifeless corpse of his former self, Jumpmo, he tore his head off thinking it was an extra life, causing a total event collapse, destroying all of reality and meeting the god of the concept of life itself in the process.

'''Boomstick: That sounds cool... up until you find out that this same god DIES by doing the same mistake Runmo did on his first life! Dumbass Marble Eyes!'''

Wiz: While he isn't perfect and his journey was strange, Runmo still is a cute fella with a passion for collecting coins and extra lives.

(Runmo runs across a portion of level one before hitting the spiky wall on his first life.)

The Double King
Wiz: Royalty. During old, medieval times and in certain fairy tales, it was a king or queen's royalty that gave them power over an entire town or village.

Boomstick: And as you can tell, during these old times, a king's power over their kingdom maaaaay have been much more risky and stronger than that of a US president!

Wiz: And to become one is simple. You can marry a prince or princess to become the kingdom's new leader, or do it the hard way and straight up murder the king himself. And one certain king decided to do it this way.

Boomstick: And he's no joke, he completely wanted to take over all of the land by commiting a mass genocide!

Wiz: And this king wanted to be not just a king... but the Double King.



Wiz: Born from an unknown kingdom, the Double King's main goal is to dethrone every monarch in his path to expand upon his hiearchy and to add more crowns on his head. He has been shown to display many feats along the way that actually make him such a formidable opponent.

'''Boomstick: No kidding, he really packs a punch throughout his journey! For example, what he did to Ratking Agustus the- wait, DID HE JUST RIP HIS SKULL OUT?!?'''

Wiz: Exactly. From what we've seen of him, the Double King has shown incredible physical strength at times, being strong enough to rip the skull out of someone's nose... somehow.

'''Boomstick: He should've been a Mortal Kombat character! I mean, Jesus, that was brutal!'''

Wiz: The Double King has also shown multiple instances of his smarts, using various gadgets and vehicles to achieve the next crown. For example, using the size of the Lord of the Flies to easily decapitate him and using an airship, along with a tracking device, to chase after King Aldo of the Glade.

'''Boomstick: And he didn't have to start up a proper fight between some of them to claim the next throne! Using his two golden knives, he took out Harg the Serpent Queen with just a single stab!'''

Wiz: Well, that would be due to his incredible combat experience. For example, he knocked off Harg's crown with a dropkick and was capable of punching Agatha, who was the Matriarch of the dead, in the eye. There's also a few instances of speed.

'''Boomstick: The dude ran across Agustus's throne room in a matter of seconds to finish him, and was capable of running all around Harg's body like as if gravity didn't matter to him in the slightest! He even climbed the crown of a sleeping, living MOUNTAIN in seconds!'''

(Cue Hæm)

Wiz: That would be Olov, the Mountain King. Unfortunately, this was the point in the journey where the Double King's problems started kicking in. You see, he's... obsessively insane and power-hungry.

(The Double King opens his monstrous gaping mouth in a tantrum while making horrific yelps.)

Boomstick: JESUS FUCKIN' CHRIST!

Wiz: His conquest to add onto his crown collection and hiearchy ultimately led him into cutting off his own finger, with which he was wearing the Fly Lord's crown. In fact, his psychopathy is what led him into the Land of the Dead in the first place.

'''Boomstick: And right when he got the crown of Death himself, his effort to return to the mortal world was useless, because he just jumped into space! Looks like all of the other kingdoms are saved...'''

Wiz: But still, no other monarch has defined a conquest for power other than the Double King.

(The D-K places a mousetrap infront of the door of his castle and closes it. Agustus's smallest subject gets closer to it, but they are pulled away from it.)

Intermission
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set, let's end this debate once and for all.

Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Prologue
FIGHT COMING SOON

Trivia

 * Vrokorta orginally came up with the idea of this death battle, but 7494pinguisback20/Dolphboi made the page for it much earlier.