To prevent further "is [random character] blacklisted" comments, here's the answer: If you don't EXPLICITLY see the character's name or category (eg. meme, mascot) on the Blacklist, then they AREN'T blacklisted. You're welcome.
This page is to showcase the select characters and battles of which are not allowed to have their own pages. Any and all pages created for these characters or battles will be deleted on sight. No exceptions.
Keep in mind that the Blacklist does not apply to blogs unless otherwise stated.
If you happen to notice any pages that include the following blacklisted characters and battles, then please report them to the staff team on the Rule Violation Report who will then deal with them.
Finally, if you have any questions about the Blacklist feel free to contact one of the Admins on their message walls or post a comment down below.
Blacklisted Characters
Real-life individuals, feral animals, mascots and religious figures
Any and all real-life people are not permitted to be used in Death Battle, including but not limited to politicans, celebrities, sportspeople, businesspeople, authors and YouTubers. Internet personas, however, are allowed on the wiki under certain specific conditions.
An internet persona is that of a YouTuber's "alter ego", with the purpose of this alter ego being to separate the YouTuber from their real-life self. Said elter ego is used in things such as animated series / shorts, machinima / roleplays, or other forms of media that broadcast varying differences between them and their alter ego, and that demonstrate feats that are obviously not things that the YouTuber would be capable of performing in reality.
Virtual YouTubers ("VTubers"), such as Calliope Mori, would qualify as "alter egos", due to the fact that despite various mentions of tidbits about themselves in regards to the individuals behind the persona, it is often framed in a fictional manner with various details altered to fit the narrative and lore surrounding her persona as a "Grim Reaper", along with various media further reinforcing the separation between the persona and the real-life individual (for example, Cali being playable within the mobile game Counter:Side, which has it follow the lore established about her).
Another example would be H20Delirious, owing to the various animated shorts that depict him performing feats that obviously his real-life persona would not be capable of and appearances in animated media (such as the Quest for the Magic Tomato), along with frequently following a narrative that depicts the persona that he has established (a guy wearing a hockey mask with a blue hoodie and clown make-up) as being completely separate from his real-life self.
Minecraft YouTubers are a somewhat different story since they have an additional rule that determines whether or not they can be used. Two conditions apply for a Minecraft YouTuber's in-game character to be usable:
- They have unique items or abilities that are not part of the regular game, at least not without commands or modification.
- Their origin video has a fictional plot, and is not just a Let's Play video, Manhunt, challenge, etc.
For this reason, characters from the Dream SMP and the machinimas by ExplodingTNT, to name two examples, would qualify, but those from a regular gaming video would not, nor would YouTubers who essentially have the same arsenal that Steve / Alex has (without anything new).
When in doubt, please consider asking an administrator before making the page.
This category also includes real-life animals. While it is a popular trend in certain debating rings (ex. "Would Goku win against a million lions?"), this wiki deems feral animals inappropriate for use as they have little workable feats or abilities and do not generally have the means to stand up against fictional characters on their own. Another problem is that animals are unpredictable and thus difficult to analyze, as well as that they do not have attributes to inspect that we would traditionally attribute to fictional characters (ex. name, age, gender, etc).
We also do not generally permit mascots, such as those of sports teams, fast-food chains or cereal, to name some. A notable exception is granted to mascots that can be considered characters in their own right and have plenty of viable feats and fighting ability, such as Segata Sanshiro and Pepsiman.
This ban also includes all modern religious figures (ex. God/Jehovah/Yahweh, Jesus, Satan, Allah, Ahura Mazda, deities from Hinduism), and they are banned from blogs as well, for the purpose of preventing controversy or disrespect. This does not apply to characters from ancient world religions, and thus mythological figures (ex. Zeus, Odin, Sun Wukong, Hercules, Apophis, Medea, etc...). Fictional characters based on modern religious figures (ex. The-One-Above-All, The Presence, Chakravartin, and Lucemon) are allowed as long as they don't meet the following criteria: they have little to no derivation from their inspired figures, implement strong theological ties (ex. Jesus from Paradise Lost), or are parodies for something such as for the sake of political commentary (ex. Jesus from Family Guy).
Wiz/Wizard, Boomstick and DUMMI are also blacklisted due to their status as official DEATH BATTLE hosts.
Lastly, Vaktus, a ROBLOX user who has some sort of satirical lore around him, also falls under this category.
Offensive, controversial or NSFW characters
All characters who are deemed fully unsuitable for work, whether due to highly sexually explicit content or insensitive matters (such as offensive or xenophobic characteristics), are not permitted on the wiki. This mainly includes characters past the ecchi genre whose abilities are entirely NSFW (they are banned from blogs as well). To clarify, characters past the ecchi genre can be used as long they have combative feats and any NSFW-related abilities they have will be left out.
This also includes a set of characters from material deemed too offensive or controversial for use:
- Racist Mario: Not only does he use racist slurs, but the video contains blatant NSFW content, such as sexual molestation of animals. The video is completely unsafe for work and should be kept off the wiki grounds at all costs.
- /v/ Tan and Cancer Lord: Two characters which originated from a highly offensive 4chan comic. In addition to their already insensitive nature, they give users an opportunity to use racist and homophobic slurs.
- Sonichu and all other CWC characters (they are banned from blogs as well), due to the controversy surrounding Chris Chan and the Sonichu comic (which itself contains explicit content as well).
- Any characters from the Pretty Blood series. This series contains blatant NSFW content.
- Any characters from Redo of Healer due to its emphasis on NSFW content (and very objectionable actions).
Characters with scaling / feat / canon issues or who are featless
The Death Battle Fanon Wiki has elected to ban characters who:
- are completely featless (ex. All Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters). A character must have been involved in a fight or at least not be opposed to the idea of fighting in order to be used on regular pages. Characters like Willy Wonka or Chuck-E-Cheese cannot be used on regular pages as they have not been depicted in an actual fight and whilst they may have a number of personal items or gadgets, they have never used them in a combative sense (e.g. claiming Willy Wonka could fight someone by giving them blueberry chewing gum to immobilise them wouldn’t be allowed as he has never used his drinks and sweets/candy in a combative way). Doing this would in the majority of cases go completely against the combatant’s character and therefore wouldn’t be appropriate.
- characters whose ability to fight relies solely on scaling from other similar characters (implying Dumbledore from Harry Potter can automatically do everything all other wizards can do because of his power and experience). This is something to be judged on a case by case basis, but you should avoid making assumptions regarding character’s feats and abilities solely based on scaling and you should only do this if there is at least some evidence that the individual character can use these abilities themselves and pull off similar feats to other characters in the series.
- are too vague to have feats drawn from them without the use of headcanons or non-canon feats (ex. Gaster, see below)
- have problems regarding their canonicity, such as because all contributions to it are fanmade (ex. Robloxian, "Composite" Modded Steve and GMod Payer, see below)
Gaster is on the Blacklist is because he is so cryptic, obscure, minor, and mysterious that practically nothing is really known about him. Gaster and his powers have to be severely stretched in order to get anything from him, leading to many users defining Gaster's powers and personal info as they personally interpret it, with a lot of those "feats" lacking clear evidence to back them up. This only applies to canon Gaster. Unofficial versions of Gaster (from Glitchtale, AUs, fangames, Unitale battles, etc...) are allowed provided they have feats and powers/weapons to combat their opponent(s) with.
The Robloxian's main problem is a total lack of structure for anything. Obviously, the game designers weren’t thinking “How can we make it so everything Robloxian does is like 500 tons of TNT in terms of power”. Roblox doesn’t have any "canon" lore – every action, creation, movement, and weapon choice are all player choices and mechanics or fan-made content, and because ROBLOX games are VERY different from each other, it becomes a chaotic mess.
It’s too easy for people to blend him together from various different games made by unrelated authors and make him this weird, inconsistent unkillable godlike character, and there is no structure to the character at all. Even restricting him to catalog weapons gives him virtually no concrete feats except the weapons themselves – and that’s problematic since we don’t have any answers for his durability. It’s basically: if you get hit by this weapon, you take sufficient damage and die. There’s no measured strength, speed, or durability. All this makes the Robloxian difficult to use. The same ban is in place for other ROBLOX characters, like Piggy, since battles with these characters quickly ran into many of the same issues when they were allowed.
A similar ban is in place for a version of Minecraft Steve that has feats, weapons and other stuff blended together from all sorts of unrelated mods, as well as the Garry's Mod Player. The latter is perhaps the most similar in principle to the Robloxian, since almost all of their items and vehicles are fan-contributed, leaving only items from Half-Life 2, which by themselves are featless, and in-game tools that may safely be assumed to be game mechanics. Steve in Creative Mode is similarly not permitted outside of blogs, since it is not possible for Steve to enter this mode without player intervention, and it is a game mechanic anyway.
MissingNo. also falls under his rule: it is not considered part of any canonicity in Pokémon, nor is it an OC that is capable of being utilized or justified under the Mary Sue Score. Not only that, but it also lacks feats that would otherwise make it viable for usage in VS debating, thereby giving it no justification to be used. This ban also comprises all Fortnite characters, except ones that are their own character and not just simple re-skins of an original (ex. They have their own feats, a background/history, a personality). No real-life people that were added into the game are allowed (ex. Neymar Jr.).
Internet memes are generally not permitted due to their lack of feats and structure, as well as the fact that some of them are offensive. This ban includes memes with no relation to real life people (ex. Trollface, Pepe the Frog).
Lastly, all characters from Friday Night Funkin' mods are also prohibited. The developer of Friday Night Funkin' has stated that all mods are canon if they want to be, opening the door for the aforementioned banned fanon-to-canon scaling and other forms of improper debating. To pre-emptively prevent this from occuring, all characters from every single FNF mod there is are banned. This ban does not include characters from the base game (ex. Boyfriend), only modded characters.
Alternate forms
Any and all alternate forms (ex. Evil Ryu, 90's Godzilla, Klassic Scorpion, etc) are generally banned from being used in battles on their own. As of March 25th, 2018, alternate forms that are entirely separate to the main version of a particular character (ex. Archie Sonic, Paper Mario or Anakin Skywalker) are allowed, along with forms that can’t normally be accessed by said character (ex. Sonic the Werehog or Gogeta). While these forms may be allowed to be used in battles, they are still not allowed to have their own pages. However, brief forms that are a normal part of a character's arsenal, such as Super Sonic, Fire Mario, or Super Sayian Goku are still not allowed to solely be used due to the lack of feats they have on their own.
Young children's entertainment
Certain young children entertainment, such as interactive ones for kids up to the age of 6 (ex. Dora the Explorer, Peppa Pig), are prohibited due to their general lack of combat-applicable feats and the general inappropriate nature of this act, especially with the risk that young children may stumble upon these battles where these characters can potentially die or kill gruesomely.
Note that this doesn't mean all cartoons, like SpongeBob SquarePants, Johnny Test, etc... are banned. It strictly refers to those for young children.
Composites or generic members of a race
Utilizing information from a variety of members of a given race, and applying it to a specific or nameless individual as a form of composite, is not allowed (such as providing an unidentified Yautja from the Predator franchise with all the equipment or feats from other Yautja). The reason for this is that not only does it provide individuals with abilities, weapons, and so on that they have never canonically used or have implied to be in possession of, but it also ignores the fact that not every individual within the race is comparable to one another. A named and defined individual of the race MUST be utilized and the information that is provided for them MUST pertain to them outside of things pertaining to their biology (i.e. Zenkai boosts that Saiyans can experience are naturally going to be mentioned in analyses pertaining to others).
Examples of races include:
- Yautja from the Predator/Alien vs. Predator franchise.
- Mandalorians from the Star Wars franchise.
- Saiyans from the Dragon Ball franchise.
- Ultras from the Ultra franchise.
Blacklisted Battles
Note: These include any battles featuring said blacklisted characters.
- Battles that attempt to disprove or contest existing fights that happened in canon
- Godzilla vs King Kong
- Batman vs Superman
- Iron Man vs Captain America (including Team Stark vs Team Cap)
- All Batman battles with prep time (Violates Death Battle's rule which dictates that combatants may not have prior knowledge of each other)
- Wiz VS Boomstick
Blacklisted Categories
- 'Battle of the Buttmonkeys' themed Death Battles
- 'Loser' themed Death Battles
- 'Buttmonkey'
- Super Power Beat Down Combatants
- Became a Super Power Beat Down
- Fatal Fiction Combatants
- Became a Fatal Fiction
- Cartoon Fight Club Combatants
- Became a Cartoon Fight Club
- Became a Fan War!!!
- Became a Grudge Match
- Became a(n) (Insert other VS Show here) (Not including OMM and DBX)
- Combatants