Description[]
Two of the most furious interplanetary villains in any known galaxy will call upon their rage-powered abilities to rend each other asunder. One wields a mighty artifact created by the very beings he has vowed to kill, creating powerful constructs of pure energy. The other generates powerful lightning from within himself to blast foes, lift objects, teleport and summon mighty forcefields. Which one is literally too angry to die?
Intro[]
Wiz: Anger. Wrath. Rage. Defined as a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility, especially against a perceived threat, insult or injustice.
Boomstick: AKA when you just wanna fucking punch someone.
Wiz: And in the case of these two interplanetary harbingers of destruction, rage is what fuels their power.
Boomstick: AKA when you just wanna fucking shoot lighting at someone.
Wiz: Atrocitus, founder of the Red Lantern Corps.
Boomstick: And Lord Hater, self-proclaimed awesomest evil-doer in the universe. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And its our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
Atrocitus brings hellish hate to Death Battle[]
Wiz: Space sector 666-
Boomstick: Wait, like Satan? There's an entire sector of space Satans?
Wiz: No. Space sector 666 is one of 3600 sectors that the Guardians of the Universe divided space into. These ancient beings were among the first intelligent life in existence, and as such felt an obligation to fight evil and bring order to the entire universe.
Boomstick: And one of their first stabs at this whole universal peace thing was to make a police force of robots to fly around and beat up bad guys. But these Grandpa Smurfs probably should have asked their grandkids for some help, because the robots ended up with a pretty nasty glitch.
Wiz: The Manhunters, as they were called, reached the conclusion that in order to bring peace, they would need to eradicate ALL life in the universe. And they began with space sector 666.
Boomstick: That last part's reasonable. Again, space Satan.
Wiz: The Massacre of Sector 666 is one of the bloodiest events in the DC universe. Trillions of innocent beings were slaughtered without mercy, including the family of a psychologist named Atros.
Boomstick: Wait, THIS GUY is a psychologist? Is his couch an iron maiden or something?
Wiz: Atros was one of only five people to survive the massacre, and vowed to kill the Guardians of the Universe for what had happened to his family. For centuries he and the other survivors waged a five-man war against the Guardians, routinely clashing with the Manhunters' replacement: the Green Lanterns.
Boomstick: Among the many Lanterns he killed was one named Abin Sur, who some of you may recognize as the guy who gave Hal Jordan his Power Ring.
Wiz: Speaking of Power Rings, following the Sinestro Corps War Atrocitus forged the very first Red Lantern Power Ring, powered by pure rage rather than willpower. He even killed the other four survivors from space sector 666 to use their blood to power the Central Power Battery for the Red Lanterns.
Boomstick: Atrocitus can use his Power Ring to do just about everything Green Lanterns can, like fly, creating energy constructs and fire blasts of pure anger energy. Angergy? Also, he vomits lava blood.
Wiz: The Rage Plasma is a dangerous substance described as a mix of napalm and acid, which Atrocitus can vomit out at his foes. It can also incinerate space... whatever that means.
Boomstick: Sounds like me after taco night.
Wiz: It's important to note that Atrocitus is NOT a mindless beast. While most Red Lanterns completely lose themselves to their own wrath, Atrocitus' high intelligence and self-control lets him control his own anger and thus also his Power Ring. Even when the Butcher, the literal representation of rage itself, attempted to posses Atrocitus, the Red Lantern managed to retain his own self.
Boomstick: Not that Atrocitus even needs the Lantern Ring to kick some major ass. He's taken on the Martian Manhunter and Apollo at the same time, repeatedly broken out of and getting hit by Green Lantern and Sinestro's constructs, and casually throws around construction equipment like he's a vampire or something. All without the need to accessorize.
Wiz: And with the ring his physical abilities are enhanced even further, even to the point where he'd survive his own heart getting ripped out of his chest. See, a Red Lantern doesn't really have normal blood, they have red energy from the ring itself. In fact, their hearts are entirely useless, being replaced by their Power Rings. Which frees up their own blood to be used for their own attacks, such as opening portals or, in Atrocitus' case, use various blood magic he has learned over the centuries he's been active.
Boomstick: Blood magic such as seeing the future, or making a god damn blood tornado! How is this guy not on ALL the metal albums?
Wiz: Despite everything, Atrocitus truly doesn't believe himself to be evil. Everything he does is to enact his own vision of justice.
Boomstick: The "violently murdering" type of justice.
Wiz: Any evildoer who sees a red light in the sky should beware. Because few walk away once Atrocitus focuses his rage on them.
Hater is greater in DEATH BATTLE[]
Boomstick: Who conquers any planet with a wave of his hand? Whose crushing rocks souls, with his all-Watchdog band? Whose never ending tour is never gonna end? I say: Who is the universe's awesomest evildoer?
Wiz: Hater.
Boomstick: All right!!!
Wiz: Lord Hater is the tyrannical dictator of his own interplanetary empire, fittingly named the Hater Empire. His army of Watchdogs-
Boomstick: Wiz, I don't know how to tell you this, but those things are not dogs. They're eyeballs with bodies.
Wiz: His army of Watchdogs may be he his primary force when it comes to taking over most planets, while Hater himself simply strolls in and sits down on the throne of the planet's former ruler, but this skeletal emperor is more than used to taking things into his own hands.
Boomstick: Mostly by shooting green lightning at things, that seems to be his solution for most things. Hell, I'd do that too if I could.
Wiz: This lightning is powerful too, able to easily blow up walls of fortresses and space warships, clash with blasts of magma and sending people flying into the distance. He can shape this lightning into a variety of different forms, such as generating force fields that can cover entire planets, in the process stopping a massive drill capable of destroying planets.
Boomstick: He also got your standard evil energy-using overlord stuff, like flight, teleportation and telekinesis strong enough to lift huge temples.
Wiz: Not that he even needed the telekinesis to lift that. Hater has incredible physical strength, shown when he beat an entire army of Fist Fighters, threw a dinosaur into space and punched Emperor Awesome through a good chunk of a planet... all in the span of a few seconds. He could overpower the telekinesis of Major Threat, who was stated to be able to crush planets, and has fought on par with powerhouses like Lord Dominator. But what might be even more impressive than his strength is his durability.
Boomstick: He has tanked planet-busting lasers, star-destroying missiles, and been launched from a planet to a moon followed by an explosion bigger than said moon. And since he's a skeleton, losing limbs or taking his head off is just an inconvenience at most.
Wiz: However, for all his power, Hater has one major flaw that keeps him from taking over the universe.
Boomstick: He's an idiot.
Wiz: Lord Hater is incredibly arrogant, petty, immature and short-tempered. His overinflated ego makes any disrespect seem like a mortal insult, and he easily loses focus to destroy whatever the source of that insult is.
Boomstick: It's why a guy with a banjo who sings songs, plays carnival games and gives hugs is somehow his greatest enemy.
Wiz: He's also obsessed with being "cool", and desperately wants a girlfriend.
Boomstick: And if either of those fail, he'll react by crying a lot and/or getting really pissed.
Wiz: Which ends up kind of benefiting him, as both his physical strength and his energy abilities are empowered by his own rage. Getting angry enough can make him instantly recover from any level of exhaustion, and if angry enough he is surrounded by his own lightning and even creates explosions around that can blast away enemies.
Boomstick: And seeing as he's the universe's biggest manchild, it doesn't take much to get him angry enough.
Wiz: The self-proclaimed greatest in the galaxy is easily insulted and will destroy planets in the face of slights. Gleefully evil and furiously malicious, earning Hater's wrath is a quick and easy path to total destruction.
FIGHT[]
We begin by seeing a red planet in space. Ysmault, homeworld of the Red Lanterns. Quick zoom to the planet's surface, where a massive battle between the Red Lanterns and the Watchdogs is raging. Lord Hater and his second-in-command Commander Peepers are walking up to the Red Lantern Central Power Battery. The Skullship is behind them, with its tongue down on the ground to serve as the typical landing platform.
Lord Hater: "YEEEEHEHEHEEEES! THE CENTURY POWDER BUTT IS MIIIIIIINE!"
Commander Peepers: "It's... Central Power Battery, sir."
Lord Hater: "SHUT UP! It's mine now so it's the century powder butt! Look, that's what it says!"
Lord hater rushes over to the battery and starts to write "century powder butt" on it with a permanent marker.
Lord Hater: "C... E... N... T-"
Suddenly, the Skullship explodes. An imposing humanoid silhouette with a red glow in its hand appears in the explosion, soon revealed to be Atrocitus.
Atrocitus: "Attacking the homeworld of the Red Lanterns... you have commendable courage, and laughable idiocy."
Lord Hater flexes with a grin at hearing "commendable courage", but deflates at the idiocy part.
Lord Hater: "Oooh, you know what? You've got a really deep voice. See, I've been working on my Torture Megamix 2, and I think a deep bass is gonna be exactly what I need."
Hater pulls up a boombox and starts playing a song consisting of people screaming to a beat. He's interrupted by a roaring Atrocitus flying at Hater, grabbing him by the head and flying off with him. Atrocitus pushes Hater's face into the ground as he flies forward, digging Hater's skull through the dirt.
Lord Hater: "BBLRBLBRLBRLBRLRBLBLRBLBLLBRLBR"
Atrocitus is knocked back as Lord Hater explodes with green energy, fists raised as he stands up fully.
Lord Hater: "YOU BROKE MY BOOMBOX! GRAAAAAAAARGH!"
Hater starts firing green lightning from his hands at Atrocitus, who flies in zig-zag patterns to avoid them.
Atrocitus: "I'll break more than that, wretch!"
Atrocitus flies up to Hater again, fist pulled back as he prepares to punch. Hater sees it coming, and starts shaking his head as he leans back with a fearful look.
Lord Hater: "Nononon- BLAAGH!"
Lord Hater is sent flying by the punch, and Atrocitus flies after to continue the assault. While still in the air, Hater points down at a toppled building below him. He sends out a ray of green energy that envelops the rubble, using his telekinesis to launch the building up at the flying Atrocitus. Atrocitus is hit by the building, both of them flying upwards as Hater laughs. He then promptly smashes back-first into a wall, flattening against it. Hater falls down and lands face first on the ground. He pulls his head up, his eyes swirling as he has a dazed look on his face. He looks up, then sees a red energy construct of some kind of dinosaur monster. He screams before the dinosaur smashes down on him, and Atrocitus flies down. His ring is glowing as he projects the dinosaur.
Atrocitus: "I sense the rage of your victims. Every soul you have tormented. I am Atrocitus, and I am their vengeance. For your sins, you will suffer and die!"
The dinosaur construct suddenly gets filled by green energy before disappearing in an explosion of Hater's lightning. Lord Hater stands up from the crater the dinosaur made, fists clenched and crackling with green lightning.
Lord Hater: "Aww, all that for little old me? Flattery will get you nowhere... but it will get you THIS!"
Lord Hater fires lightning from both hands, a notably bigger and more powerful-looking blast than before. Atrocitus counters with a stream of energy of his own, the two beams clashing DBZ-style. Close-ups of both of their faces, before Hater suddenly disappears in a small explosion of lightning. He reappears right above Atrocitus, clenching both fists together to perform a double fist hammer strike on the Red Lantern. Atrocitus is knocked to the ground, making a crater as he crashes down. Hater laughs, but is promptly silenced when Atrocitus flies back up, punching Hater in the gut and flying both of them into space.
In space, Atrocitus throws Hater away, then creates constructs of several more monsters that he sends after Hater. Hater is looking dazed after the gut punch, but quickly recovers when he sees the monsters fly at him. He generates a forcefield around him that completely halts the constructs, even as they bite, strike and claw at it.
Lord Hater: "Hahahah! Sorry, looooosers, You can't get me in here! Hater 1, ugly red guy 0!"
Lord Hater does a butt-wigging celebration dance, as Atrocitus folds his arms.
Atrocitus: "He has the mind of a child... hmmm. HEY! Only a cowardly loser hides behind a force field."
Lord Hater: "WHAT?! I'M NOT A-"
The force field disappears... and all the monsters descend on Hater as he screams. After a few seconds one of the monster constructs is sent flying by Lord Hater's punch, and several more blows destroy the rest as well. Right then Atrocitus flies at him again, grabbing his shoulders so he can vomit Rage Plasma right into Hater's face. Hater just shakes it off and makes a disgusted face.
Lord Hater: "Oh, dude! Gross! Urgh!"
Atrocitus continues flying, smashing Lord Hater through several asteroids. With each one Hater visibly reacts and makes a different silly, pained face. Atrocitus also says one word for each asteroid they fly through.
Atrocitus: "Why... won't... you... DIE?!"
After one final asteroid Atrocitus lets go, and creates a construct of a massive arm resembling his own. He then punches Hater with it, sending the skeletal tyrant flying down to a nearby planet like a meteor. Atrocitus hovers in place as he looks at the planet. There is silence for a few seconds. Then, Atrocitus sees a field of green energy growing on the planet. He clenches his fists and teeth, visibly growing angrier. He growls, and the aura of red energy around him grows more intense. The green energy on the planet explodes as Lord Hater suddenly appears in front of Atrocitus. Hater promptly punches Atrocitus in the chest as his fist glows green, punching a huge hole straight through. Hater grins, but realizes that Atrocitus doesn't look as dead as he should be. One more Atrocitus punches Hater back down to the planet, and this time we follow Hater down to the surface.
Hater sits up, rubbing his head and grumbling. He looks up and sees a red blur fly towards him. Hater grins wickedly and channels for a moment before sending a massive laser of energy towards the blur, utterly enveloping it. He laughs maniacally as he destroys what he thinks is Atrocitus, unaware that Atrocitus is emerging from a blood portal behind him. The red blur was a construct Atrocitus made to trick Hater. The Red Lantern lunges forward, his arm glowing red, and punches into Hater from behind. He rips through Hater's robe and grabs his spine, dragging Hater back and throwing him to the ground. Then, Atrocitus starts punching. Repeatedly. Digging through the earth as he punches Hater over and over. By the time he stops, they're in an incredibly deep hole and Hater isn't moving any more. Atrocitus scoffs, as he starts flying upwards.
Atrocitus: "Worthless cretin."
The hole erupts with green energy, knocking Atrocitus into the air. He turns around just as Hater comes flying out of the hole, looking absolutely furious and entirely covered in green lightning. The two clash, pushing against each other along with their respective auras.
Lord Hater: "Lord..."
Atrocitus: "With blood and rage of crimson red..."
Lord Hater: "Hater..."
Atrocitus: "Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead..."
Lord Hater: "Number..."
Atrocitus: "Together with our hellish hate..."
Lord Hater: "One..."
Atrocitus: "We'll burn you all..."
Lord Hater: "SUPERSTAR!"
Atrocitus: "THAT IS YOUR FATE!"
Both of their auras grow, crackling against each other, until it eventually explodes in a blast that shakes the nearby planet. We cut down to the surface of the planet, where Lord Hater smashes face-first into the ground. He looks up with a groan, with his jaw remaining on the ground. Suddenly, something red flies up to him and he winces. As he sees that it's way too small to be Atrocitus, however, he grabs his jaw and puts it back on. On closer inspection, the red thing is a ring.
Red Lantern Power Ring: "You have great rage in your heart..."
K.O.!
Conclusion[]
Boomstick: I don't think he should be allowed to have one of those.
Wiz: Atrocitus' Power Ring was a powerful weapon, which allowed him to fight on even terms with Lord Hater's powerful electrokinesis. And his superior intelligence let him outsmart and trick Hater on several occasions.
Boomstick: But Hater was just too strong and stubborn. His insane strength was more than Atrocitus could handle, and there was very little the Red Lantern could throw at Hater that could actually kill him. Remember, Hater was only singed by explosives that could destroy stars.
Wiz: While it's unlikely Hater would think to try to remove Atrocitus' ring, it would only be a matter of time before he either did so accidentally or just incinerated Atrocitus until there was nothing left for the ring to heal.
Boomstick: Neither of them were gonna run out of anger any time soon, so both were going to just get even more pissed and stronger until one of them managed to obliterate the other. Hater's gonna hate, and Atrocitus just wasn't the greater hater.
Wiz: The winner is Lord Hater.