Description[]
Dragon Ball vs. Fate. Season 6 finale. Their level of arrogance is only matched by their power.
Introduction[]
Wiz: By now everyone knows of the phrase "with great power comes great responsibility".
Boomstick: But we all know that's complete bunk because with great power actually comes a very swell head.
Wiz: Frieza, the galactic tyrant of Dragon Ball.
Boomstick: And Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes from Fate. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
Frieza[]
Wiz: The Saiyans. A race who, from the dawn of their creations, lived only to fight.
Boomstick: With the ability to grow stronger with every defeat they survive and adapt to any planet's gravity, the Saiyans were born warriors, conquering many planets under the command of their King Vegeta, all from their planet also named Vegeta. And why are we telling you all of this? Well, it's to give you an idea of just how insane the one they work for must be.
Wiz: The leader of an army of brutal enforcers dedicated to trading entire planets and the self-proclaimed Emperor of Universe 7, the one, the only, Lord Frieza.
- Background
- Age: 70>
- Height: 5'2
- Ruler of Universe 7
- Leader of the Frieza Force
- Son of King Cold
- Wish: Immortality/Extra five inches of height
Boomstick: When you first see Frieza, you may be surprised to learn that this squeakily-feminine voiced tiny-statured fellow rules over the greater part of the universe. But if the track record of the Saiyan proves anything, then you need to be pretty powerful yourself in order to keep a hold of them as the man behind the man.
Wiz: And Frieza is notable for being incredibly powerful even among his kind, who are already powerful among their kind.
Boomstick: Wiz, please stop complicating things with word play, and speak. Properly.
Wiz: Oh, fine. You see, Frieza's family, like his father King Cold and brother Cooler, are all different from the rest of their race, which oddly enough has never been named in canon. They are mutants, with power levels off the charts.
Boomstick: And Frieza was the most mutant out of all that Freezing Family, so powerful it was basically natural that he ruled over the universe, not to mention an entire species of natural warriors.
Wiz: But not for long however, as a warning from his ancestor Chilled lingered in his mind. A warming of a legendary Super Saiyan, a being with enough power to possibly bring him down.
Boomstick: Frieza decided to get himself some good old insurance on the matter. By blowing the entire planet away, wiping out the entire Saiyan race.
Wiz: Not all of them though. He kept three alive to serve as some of his most powerful enforcers. Why? Well, maybe he had a secret death wish, or maybe he was pragmatic enough to know that Saiyans could still have their uses.
Boomstick: Nope, it was definitely because he was arrogant. As in, really, really arrogant.
Wiz: Comes with his incredibly power really. And this power is demonstrated nowhere better than the various transformations he can take on.
Boomstick: I know we usually reverse transformations for the later half of an analysis, but trust us, it makes sense to talk about them this early, especially since Frieza's the trope maker for "this isn't even my final form".
Wiz: Unlike most other transformations we're all well versed with, Frieza's series of them don't increase his power, they release it from its repressed state.
- Transformations
- First Form
- Second Form
- Third Form
- True Form
- Full Power Form
- Golden Frieza
Boomstick: His first form makes him a match for most of Dragon Ball's characters in the Namek Saga and his second form makes him nearly untouchable, and helps to reinforce the phrase "mess with the bull...". His third form, which is vaguely reminiscent of an Xenomorph, lets him put down Piccolo with ease even after a massive boost in his power.
Wiz: And finally, Frieza truly lives up to his lizard-like appearance and sheds his outer features in order to release his true form. Whilst it's only moderately taller than his first form, it's power is nothing to be scoffed at.
Boomstick: Cause get this, it's only at the beginning of this form is Frieza now at 1% of his power! That's right; this form is so strong it means his other forms were showing less than a full decimal of his full strength.
Wiz: And from this form comes the chance for Frieza to enter his 100% power state, which he only busts out in the direst of situations for himself.
Boomstick: Like the time he ended up fulfilling the own Chilling warning that was given to him.
Wiz: Son Goku, one of the few Saiyans to escape the destruction of his homeworld without Frieza's machinations, would eventually have a showdown with Frieza, in an anime arc that's longer than just about any other out there. Although Frieza could have won at any time, his stupid arrogance led him to push Goku too far by blowing up his best friend Krillin before his eyes.
Boomstick: More pissed off than he had ever been before, Goku transformed into the Super Saiyan that Frieza feared, and for good reason, because Goku then proceeded to give him the biggest ass-kicking of his life.
Popup: Battle of Z stated that 100% Power Frieza was in fact above Super Saiyan Goku's level of power; he only lost the battle because of his lack of control over his own unrestrained power.
Wiz: With not even his full power enough to save him, Frieza was left a mangled mess. Partially from Goku, partially from his own homing attack.
Boomstick: Fortunately for him though, he did get repaired with cybernetics. Bad news, he got killed by another Super Saiyan.
Wiz: But even in Hell, Frieza's hatred for Goku, his original bester, never waned, and as soon as he was resurrected, set about fixing the massive power difference Goku's long line of Super Saiyan forms offered him by finally pushing himself. You see, Frieza, being the prodigy he was, had never trained a day in his life. There had never really been any need for him to with his naturally high power.
Boomstick: And it took only a month for him to reach his ultimate state of being, the perfectly named Golden Frieza.
Wiz: Now stronger than ever before, this Golden Form enabled Frieza to match Goku's strength when he was in Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan, a transformation giving him god-like power.
Boomstick: Enough to stalemate punches powerful enough to tear apart an entire universe. Even though Golden Frieza had a similar issue of 100% of fluxing power stability, he eventually got that under control after some good old cocoon meditation.
Wiz: And all it cost him was being killed. Again. But that doesn't always happen though, considering the many techniques that Frieza has at his disposal.
- Techniques
- Death Beam
- Crazy Death Beam
- Cage of Light
- Death Ball
- Golden Death Ball
- Telekinesis
- Death Psycho Bomb
- Imprisonment Ball
- Death Saucer
- Death Wave
- Nova Strike
- Supernova
- Death Beam
Boomstick: His signature is the Death Beam, fired from his fingers at anyone unfortunate enough to be in his sights, either getting skewered or blown to kingdom come.
Wiz: He can either fire it out as a single attack or rapid fire, and even use them to make a web of lasers with the Cage of Light.
Popup: It's likely he can use any of his techniques for any of his transformations.
Boomstick: Copied from Krillin's Destructo Disk technique in the Death Saucer, twin blades of energy that can home in on their targets to cut them to ribbons. And they're super effective too, as Frieza found out the hard way. He also has a form of telekinesis as well, trapping foes in a ball to get kicked around, hurling chunks of earth at them for lifting them up for the technique that cracked Krillin.
Wiz: Even scarier is just how Frieza did that; by literally using Krillin's own Ki against him and detonating it, essentially ensuring he would be surrounded by an instantaneous explosion. And befitting his most infamous act, Frieza has several techniques he uses for reducing entire planets to dust, like the Death Ball or the Supernova.
Boomstick: He doesn't even need to charge up a big ball for planet-destroying. All he really needs to do is fire a single shot into the ground to make a celestial body go ka-boom. And there's no worry about him getting hurt by his own action, because he can survive a planet destructing right in his face.
- Feats
- Destroyed numerous planets, withstanding the resulting explosions
- Golden Frieza can match Super Saiyan God forms
- Nearly wiped out the Saiyans
- Survived being sliced apart and blasted
- Helped defeat Dyspo and Jiren
- Utilized stolen Hakai power
- Defeated Bardock, Vegeta, Krillin, Frost
Wiz: He didn't just survive planets exploding either. You know how Trunks sliced him apart to kill him the first time? Well, Frieza technically survived that! If you want to get rid of a member of Frieza's kind, you need to reduce him to dust.
Boomstick: And that isn't easy at all. That's because Dragon Ball Ki's output is the same for defense as it is attack. That's a Ki fact, hehe, because Frieza packs a lot more powerful than simply being able to destroy planets. Those blast radiuses are simply huge!
Wiz: Like the time he destroyed Planet Vegeta, the resulting blast being worth 1.7 tenatons of TNT (Mr G), enough to destroy a small star. And that was all before he achieved the universe-level matching Golden Frieza. Speaking of which, it was because of this immense strength that Frieza was chosen to be a member of universe 7's team in the Tornament of Power.
Boomstick: Sure it wasn't because of his trustworthy and virtuous nature.
Wiz/Boomstick:...HAH-HAHAHAHA-HAH!
Boomstick: Ha...virtuous.
Wiz: But surprisingly, Frieza remained loyal to the team, helping his sworn enemy Goku to take out Jiren, a foe entire leagues above them in power.
Boomstick: And in return, he got brought back to life yet again. And he's still around as of now, rebuilding his army from the ground up.
Wiz: Whatever Dragon Ball's future is, it is a guarantee that Frieza will be there, continuing to be among the highest tier of foes in the histories of Earth, the Saiyans and the entire 7th universe.
Gilgamesh[]
Wiz: As a competitor in the 4th Holy Grail War, a supernatural tournament of sorts, Tokiomi Tohsaka sought victory.
Boomstick: Well duh. Not only is it a competition between wizards and resurrected heroes, but the winners will get their wishes granted by a magical golden cup. With a prize like that, you'll need the right servant to see you through to the end.
Wiz: Naturally, Tokiomi sought out the means to summon the strongest spirit there was, and he found it. With the skin of a snake serving as the spell's catalyst, he summoned to his side the King of Heroes, Gilgamesh himself.
- Background
- Age: 50,000 years old
- Height: 5'11
- AKA The King of Heroes
- Servant of Tokiomi Tohsaka/Kirei Kotomine
- Other Qualified Classes: Caster, Rider, Berserker
- Favorite insult: Mongrel
Boomstick: You may be curious to why Gilgamesh is regarded as the strongest Servant there is, and why he's called the King of Heroes. Well, this is where ancient history comes in.
Wiz: You see, on the topic of mythology, Mesopotamian believes are some of the oldest in the world, if not the oldest, and the greatest and first hero ever recorded within was Gilgamesh, a demigod worry who sought to possess all things in the world. Even eternal life.
Boomstick: Too bad the flower that would give him immortality got chomped up by a snake. After that devestating event. Gilgamesh accepted his morality and returned to his city to rule them as a wise king.
Wiz: But that's him in his Caster class. The one Tokiomi summoned was the time of period when Gilgamesh best qualified for the Archer class. In his prime, when his strength and arrogance were at their peak. It makes sense in a way; Gilgamesh lost the flower of eternal life to the snake because he was too busy celebrating his success at finding out. When something able to give you eternal life is snatched away because of your own stubbornness, it can certainly be a humbling experience.
Boomstick: Gilgamesh and humbling in the same sentence? You might as well say penguins make honey, because as Archer, not only is he the strongest servant around, he knows it too.
- Powers and Abilities
- Superhuman strength
- Superhuman speed
- Accelerated healing
- Independent Action
- Magic Resistance
- Charisma
- Collector
- Divinity
- Golden Rule
- The Omniscient Omnipotent Star
- Full Power
Wiz: Like any other servant, Gilgamesh possesses superhuman speed, strength, durability and agility and the ability to heal any injury inflicted upon him.
Boomstick: So long as he still has his hard or massive head that is.
Wiz: Actually it's not that enlarge-oh wait, I get it now. I get it.
Boomstick: There you are. But all of those powers are common amongst Servants, including the Independent Action that let's him operate a day without any mana from his master and the Magic Resistence letting him nullify certain spells, both of which comes with being a member of the Archer Class.
Wiz: Right, you see due to his exploits in life that involved owning basically every treasure in creation, Gilgamesh has the skills of Golden Rule and Collector that enable him to manipulate causality in order to improve his chances of collection vast amounts of wealth. And this is what led to the conception of his greatest weapon.
Boomstick: Well, it was one of the things. You see, Gilgamesh had this BFF Enkidu who battled against him for three days straight, forcing Gilgamesh to nearly empty his entire supply of treasures in battle. Sounds like the two of us when we first met, dontchya think?
Wiz:...Hmm, a little. Due to how much of his arsenal Gilgamesh had to use, it manifested itself in his primary Noble Phantasm; the Gates of Babylon.
- Gates of Babylon
- Rank: EX
- Series of portals
- Stores and fires out Noble Phantasm Prototypes
- Accessed with the Key of the King's Law
- Notable Noble Phantasms
- Durandal
- Gae Bolg
- Vajra
- Auto-Defenders
- Harpe
- Vimana
- Enkidu
- Chains made to restrain gods
- Ea
- Distorts and rends space
- Enuma Elish
Boomstick: Sounds like a good name for a casino, and it basically serves the same function; weaponizing expensive stuff. Except casinos don't fire it out.
Wiz: You see, the Gates of Babylon are a series of glowing portals that Gilgamesh summons which are linked to a massive, almost infinite storehouse that houses every Noble Phantasm weapon there has ever been.
Popup: The Gates don't possess Noble Phantasms that are integrated into the bodies of Servants themselves, such as Heracles' ressurection-based God Hand.
Boomstick: Unlike most inventories, Gil doesn't use them to call weapons to his hand to fight. He calls on them so they can be fired like a goddamn missile!
Wiz: Swords, spears, hooks, even scythes, they all get fired out the portals.
Boomstick: And since they're all Noble Phantasms, they can inflict any kind of effect on those hit. There's a sword that causes those hit to be cursed with a life of ruin and despair, and a scythe that leaves wounds that's won't even heal, and a spear that targets the opponents hearts with an always-accurate hit.
Wiz: There's even an arrow that explodes in an electrical burst and a series of floating shields that do the same thing as well as protect Gilgamesh from attacks. But it isn't just weapons that the Gates bring forth.
Boomstick: It also has wine! Wine! Beautiful wine! Gilgamesh may be a snob, but he has good taste in drinks.
Wiz: I was talking more about Vimana, the ship that is powered by mercury, ancient versions of bombs and machine guns and travels at the speed of thought. So if Boomstick piloted it, it would be about as fast as a snail.
Boomstick: Slow is better than a vehicle careening out of control because of a high IQ. And I don't see why it needs weaponry. Gilgamesh fires out weapons rapid fire from the Gates.
Wiz: In a bit of a special case, all of the Noble Phantasms found in the storehouse are in fact prototypes of the current versions, meaning they are all ranked a level above all of the later models, and thus even more powerful.
Boomstick: And most Phantasms, like she-Arthur's Excalibur, are capable of blowing away entire islands. But Gilgamesh has a personal weapon capable of blowing away an entire planet.
Wiz: Fuelled with the same power that was used to create the world long ago, Ea is capable of rendering space-reality on such a vast scale it is capable of destroying an entire Reality Marble the size of the world.
Boomstick: Emu Elish!
Wiz: Enuma Elish!
Boomstick: That's what I said.
Wiz: Ea is certainly a powerful weapon, but ironically, it's not Gilgamesh's most favored one, and neither are the Gates of Babylon. That honor is reversed to the chains named after his foe-turned-friend, Enkidu.
Boomstick: Because Enkidu and his weapons were originally used to try and best Gilgamesh himself, they're super useful for dealing with foes with Divine traits, restraining them and leaving them wide open for a magical spear through the gut. So not only does Gilgamesh have better versions of every weapon in the world, but he also has chains that can beat gods and a weapon that destroys space itself? Yeah, cause that's totally fair.
Wiz: That's not even the end of it actually. Gilgamesh in fact has himself a full-power form which is his own equivalent of Formal Mystical Clothing that certain other servants have, although his is somehow stored within the Gates of Babylon after he had first obtained it within the Moon Cell, in spite of the fact it explicably removes some of his impenetrable armor. With it Gilgamesh can essentially warp reality to a degree, travels entire lightyears in only a short time at 47 billion times the speed of light (Kazu) and is said to be powerful enough to counter a being who had consumed and fused with the Moon Cell itself, which contained an infinite amount of universes.
Popup: It's possible, although unlikely considering their different compotisions, that Gilgamesh's Gates of Babylon can fire projectiles at the same speed as Charon's weaponized constellation at 764 million times the speed of light (Iapitus the Impaler).
Boomstick: He busted it out later after the original stay/night storyline, but even before that he proved himself to be near-unstoppable.
- Feats
- Destroyed Iskandar's Reality Marble
- Matched Inkidu's chains in speed
- Resisted All the World's Evil
- Battled with Lancelot in a dogfight
- Technically won the 4th Holy Grail War
- Battled Enkidu for three days straight
- Defeated Artoria, Iskandar, Medea, Heracles
Wiz: He's overwhelmed the likes of Heracles, Artoria Pendragon and Medea in battle singlehandedly without even trying, and it's said that he's capable of winning any Holy Grail War in less than a night. He's so smart, he's able to accurately determine what kind of magic any mage is going to cast before they do so at a mere glance.
Boomstick: Even when he took the long route, he still technically won the 4th War, after convincing the assistant of his former master, Kirei, to act on his evil pulses.
Wiz: This led to Gilgamesh being engulfed by All The World's Evil that was contained within the Grail, which usually drives anyone else to madness and death, but instead, Gilgamesh's overwhelming ego allowed him to resist, giving a new flesh and blood body to exist continuously in the living world. He would eventually compete unofficial in the next Holy Grail War, where he proved to be as every bit as powerful in the first war he battled in.
Boomstick: And every bit as bullheaded as well. Even more than that minotaur Berserker in Grand/order.
Wiz: Right. You see, whilst Gilgamesh may be the most powerful Servant, he's not necessarily the best. His arrogance makes sure that he will always hold back in his battles, which is what stops him from guaranteeing victory for himself.
Boomstick: Need more proof of just how godly his vanity is? Well, Gilgamesh technically has another Noble Phantasm that lets him see hundreds of possible outcomes; not only does he lock it away but even if it shows him a possibility of him loosing in a logical way, he'll simply ignore it. Like how his rapid-fire Gates of Babylon got countered by Shirou Emiya's Unlimited Blade Works.
Wiz: It was also because Gilgamesh didn't know how to use any of the Noble Phantasm prototypes within the storehouse, and simply fires them out rapid fire with no thought for strategy. But such things as an arrogance mindset are expected when you're literally titled the King of Heroes in a world where the strongest beings are themselves Heroes. Be it his foes or his own master, all should fear the wrath of Gilgamesh.
Interlude[]
Wiz: Alright the combatants are set, time to end this debate once and for all.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
The Battle[]
Setting: The night sky above a city and the ocean it is in front off
Sitting on the pilot's seat of Vimana, Gilgamesh observed the orange orb he held in his hand.
Gilgamesh: Curious, I have never encountered something like this before. But seeing as how it found its way to me, then I will claim it as my own.
A shadow suddenly fell over him and he looked up in annoyance to see a spaceship hovering in the air slightly above his own craft. And floating in front of it was Frieza in his hover pod.
Frieza: I must commend you for so easily finding something it costs most others their lives to achieve, especially when it is in competition with me. For that, I will give you the option to simply hand it over and flee for your life.
Gilgamesh brow furrowed.
Gilgamesh: Me? Flee? From a scrawny little toad like you? Don't make me laugh.
The Dragon Ball suddenly vanished, sent into the Gates of Babylon by Gilgamesh.
Frieza: I see...
He hovered out of his pod, his arms behind his back as he looked down at Gilgamesh.
Frieza: In that case I shall have to take it from your charred remains!
Gilgamesh: You may try...toad.
FIGHT!
Frieza thrusted his pointed finger out, firing a Death Beam straight towards the Servant, who didn't even flinch before a shield shot out of nowhere, deflecting the beam so that it shot back towards Frieza, who would have been skewered by his own attack had he not darted up into the air, leaving both his hover pod and ship to instead get run through by the blast and blown up. As Frieza ascended higher into the air and looked down at the smirking Gilgamesh, the corner of his eye caught the shine of a portal next to him, before it fired out a spear. Frieza calmly moved his head backwards, watching as the spear flew by him, before another weapon, this time a dagger, came at him from behind, the tyrant flipping backwards to avoid the projectile. All around Frieza, more portals to the Gates of Babylon opened up, giving Frieza just a few short seconds to take note of them all before they opened fire with a barrage of different weapons. Frieza merely grinned loftily, shut his eyes and darted his body back and forth, avoiding each shot out of the portals. Gilgamesh watched this from Vimana, unimpressed with the display.
Gilgamesh: A slippery trait I am not surprised to see a toad possess.
Frieza: Oh; then how about this.
Concentrated his ki, he project an invisible barrier around himself, stopping the weapons cold in their tracks before using the new breathing room to point his finger down at Gilgamesh.
Frieza: Bang.
In an instant, a white hot blast of energy shot down through the air, eventually hitting the water and sheering away a vast quantity of the sea's bottom. However, it hadn't hit it's target, and Frieza turned his head to see Gilgamesh's craft flying up in the sky behind him. The servant and the alien locked eyes as the former passed by, each conveying the same non-verbal message of their superiority. Frieza kept his gaze locked on the craft as it flew upwards.
Frieza: Fleeing already. How frank of you.
He suddenly shot into the air after Gilgamesh, who sensed him coming even as he lounged in his chair. He drummed his fingers on the armrest, summoning a series of portals behind Vimana to unleash a barrage of Noble Phantasms towards his pursuer, who darted as he flew to avoid the weapons. Just as Frieza was able to gain on Vimana, it suddenly shot downwards, Frieza following with a similar sharp turn, firing out his eye lasers as he did. Gilgamesh mentally commended his craft to perform an aileron roll to avoid the eye beams, whilst more portals appeared behind Frieza. The tyrant dodged several of the weapons, including the axe that suddenly curved back towards him. Frieza's eyes widened slightly and he swiped his hand to knock away the weapon. Frieza continued chasing after Gilgamesh, the latter commanding his craft to skim across the surface of the sea, throwing up two waves. Frieza chased him through the waves, raising his pointed finger to fire a Death Battle. But before he could, the shine of numerous portals came through the watery bodies of the waves, preluding numerous Noble Phantasms being fired through them at Frieza. An explosion lit up from the weapons impacting together, but they had all completely missed their target. Gilgamesh kept his line of sight looking backwards a minute before turning to look in front of himself to see Frieza charging towards him with the Comet Dash, the alien smashing into the front of Vimana and out the other end, reducing the ancient craft to scrap metal. Frieza exited the charge and turned around in the air to see if he had hit his target, but only saw the sword Durandal shot towards him. Frieza clapped his hands around the sides of the sword, stopping it an inch from hitting his face, but the power of the weapon's trajectory pushed Frieza back many miles across the sea and towards the city, eventually smashing through the middles of various skyscrapers.
Frieza eventually ended up planted against a skyscraper's front, a massive crater formed as a result. As he worked to keep the sword from striking his face, Gilgamesh hovered in front of him in the air, his arms crossed and a smug look on his face.
Gilgamesh: What now lizard?
Frieza: How about this?
Frieza's tail suddenly wrapped around the handle of Durandal and with a flick of the appendage the sword was hurled towards Gilgamesh, who mentally recalled the weapon back to his storehouse before it could hit him. As the glow of the weapon vanishing faded, Gilgamesh was confronted by Frieza's visage grinning directly in front of him, before his fist shot out. Once again, Gilgamesh intercepted his attack with a barrier, but this time it was with the Auto Defensors, one blocking the alien's attack that caused a shockwave to ripple out, the sheer force of it slicing through several building. The Defensor then fired a point blank lightning bolt into his fist, forcing Frieza's hand backwards by the blast, him cringing a little at the shuddering his fist underwent before the other Defensors hovered before him and unleashed blasts of lightning. These struck Frieza directly, electrocuting him and making his yell out in pain.
Gilgamesh: Now have this toad.
A portal appeared in the air above the convulsing Frieza before firing out the electrical arrow-like Noble Phantasm Vajra, which forced Frieza down through the air and into the ground, where it exploded into a blast of static, blowing away the surrounding buildings and littering the area with their ruins. Gilgamesh landed with his arms crossed on one of these bits of rubble, watching as Frieza casually got back to his feet, dusting a miniscule amount of dust from his shoulder.
Gilgamesh: How does that find you?
Frieza: Mmm...it tickled slightly. Being able to do that much to me, it's obvious you may be deserving of seeing much more of what I can do.
Gilgamesh: Really? Then please, demonstrate.
Frieza: Oh course.
His body convulsed as he went through his first, second and third forms in a single instant to enter his Final Form. Gilgamesh raised an eyebrow.
Gilgamesh: Is that it toad? I must say, I was right to keep my expectations...
Frieza was suddenly right in front of him.
Gilgamesh:...low.
Frieza's fist struck him in the chest, sending the King of Heroes flying backwards to land back on the ground a few meters away. Gilgamesh gritted his teeth in rage as he looked first at the slight dents in his armor before back at the smirking Frieza.
Gilgamesh: You DARE strike me! You will SCREAM for the sweet release of death when I am done with you!
Dozens of portals appeared in the air behind their master, unleashing a storm of weapons. Frieza began dodging the projectiles, jumping and darting through the air as he did, whilst also using his punches, kicks and tail swipes to deflect them. The scattered weapons stuck out of the ground as they landed. Gilgamesh swept his hand and a dome of portals formed around Frieza, before they all unleashed a series of weapons each. Frieza spread his fingers out and fired off a series of Death Beams in order to form the Cage of Light, using it a barrier against the Noble Phantasm projectiles, slicing them in half before they could get anywhere near him. Gilgamesh glowered at Frieza, before summoning over his shoulder Gae Bolg and firing it directly towards Frieza's heart. It slipped through the gaps in the Cage of Light and directly at the tyrant but didn't even get to his chest before Frieza siezed the spear.
Frieza: It will take more than a stick to take me down. You, on the other hand...
He snapped the spear in half before his hand cackled with energy. All around him, the littered Noble Phantasms were gripped by his telekinesis and they lifted up into the air to point at their former collection.
Gilgamesh:...don't you dare.
Frieza smirked, before thrusting his hand out and sending all the weapons back towards the King of Heroes. Gilgamesh summoned another couple hundred portals to fire out new weapons to intercept the ones sent back towards him. The weapons all clashed against each other point first, smashing apart from the shear power behind them all. Frieza darted forward towards Gilgamesh as his levitated weapons deflected the Noble Phantasms fired at him and clenched his fist, ready for an attack. Gilgamesh drew a sword out a portal besides himself and swung it out as his opponent. It clashed with Frieza's fist, knocking away Frieza's hand before Gilgamesh slashed downwards. Frieza blocked the attack by his forearm before spinning around to perform a sweeping kick, prompting Gilgamesh to jump up slightly to avoid the attack, before landing and summoning a second sword to his other hand. He came at Frieza, slashing away with the weapons as Frieza ducked and dodged the attacks, before lashing out with a kick. Gilgamesh crossed the swords in front of himself, but this meant that Frieza's foot was able to grab on the blades and wench it down onto the ground to pin. Before Gilgamesh could swing the free sword at Frieza, the latter fired out a Death Beam that knocked away the weapon, but Gilgamesh drew a short dagger out of another quickly summoned portal and slashed it at Frieza. Frieza leaned back to avoid the slash before lashing out with a punch, which Gilgamesh dodged by wrenched his trapped sword free from Frieza's foot and darting backwards. As he did, he commanded three portals to fire out a Noble Phantasm each at Frieza, who darted back and forth faster than the eye could see to avoid them. With Frieza temporarily occupied by the projectiles, Gilgamesh pulled out another sword and slashed it down at Frieza the same time he thrusted out a hand.
The alien proved faster in his action and physic energy cackled from his palm, encasing Gilgamesh in a dome of energy and freezing him in place. Gilgamesh gritted his teeth in anger before Frieza kicked him in the chin, sending him flying up into the air before Frieza appeared in the air above him and delivered a kick that propelled him back down to Earth, forming a massive crater as the Servant-holding orb impacted down. In spite of being unable to move, Gilgamesh glared up defiantly at Frieza as he floated down with his arms crossed.
Gilgamesh: You have dirtied my splendid armor with the dirt of the ground.
Frieza: Indeed, and what do you intend to do about it.
Something suddenly shot towards Frieza from behind, and he only just had time to dodge only his main body to the side but not his tail, which was sliced off by the regeneration negating Harpe scythe. Frieza yowled in pain as the severed half of his tail landed with a bloodied splat. Gilgamesh chuckled at Frieza's agony before summoning more portals to appear and fire at Frieza, who was too pained to react before they started stabbing into him all over his body before one generated an explosion. Frieza darted out of the smoke cloud, looking a lot more battered than before whilst Gilgamesh rose back to his feet.
Frieza: Ugh...not many can actually get a bead on me, and there's only one way I know to get rid of those who can.
He channeled Ki into a Death Ball in his hands and hoisted it above his head.
Frieza: Die!
He hurled the attack down towards Gilgamesh, the attack lightning up the area in a red glow. However, Gilgamesh observed the attack casually.
Gilgamesh: An interesting ambition. But all ambitions save my own fade away because of my greatest treasure...
He summoned from a portal Ea, lifting the weapon into the air as it began to rotate.
Gilgamesh: Enumu Elish!
The power of Ea instantly erased the massive Death Ball, much to Frieza's surprise before Gilgamesh pointed it towards him directly, smirking as he unleashed another blast of energy. As the attack shot towards Frieza, the tyrant stopped it with his bare hands, gritting his teeth as he struggled to keep back the erasing energy from overwhelming him.
Gilgamesh: Do you see now toad? Do you see my power?
Frieza grinned in annoyance.
Frieza: I guess I do. So I suppose I'll give this a bit more effort.
His body began to glow golden before he transformed with a yell into Golden Frieza, dispelling the energy with a burst of empowered Ki. He raised his hand back up and generated the Golden Death Ball, hurling it down with greater speed than his first planet-destroying attack. Gilgamesh snarled and fired out a massive blast from Ea, which struck the attack. The two opposing forces clashed against each other other a moment, rocking the entire planet with shockwaves, before Frieza gave it a push with his Ki and Gilgamesh increased the energy Ea outputted, both done with a yell.
The resulting empowered clash resulting in a massive explosion that first rose of the side of Earth before expanding to engulf the planet, reducing it all to dust in a massive flash. When the flash subsided, Golden Frieza was left floating in the void, rather undisturbed about the destruction.
Frieza: Well, that seems to have taken care of my little issue.
But behind him floated down Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh: Oh really?
Frieza turned around to see the King of Heroes, now only without his chest armor, the tell-tale sign that he was now at his Full Power.
Frieza: De-armoring yourself hmm? A rather foolish move on your part boy. But if that is your choice, then I'll happily...
Gilgamesh suddenly swatted him in the side of his face, producing a crunching sound before he was sent spinning through the void of space. Millions of portals appeared and began firing their Noble Phantasms at the alien, bombarding him with explosions and stabs. Frieza waned under the attack, even as he kept his arms crossed in his face to guard himself best he could. With a roar, he unleashed a burst of Ki to toss way the weapons and he charged towards Gilgamesh, who hovered calmly in space before summoning a dozen more portals behind himself, firing them out at Frieza as he came forward. The weapons smashed against Frieza, undeterring him as he charged forward. As he did, Frieza generated two Death Saucers, hurling them towards Gilgamesh, slicing through several of the weapons in the process. Gilgamesh calmly dodged the attacks but this gave Frieza the clearing to come at him with a Ki-enhanced punch.
Frieza: Now die!
His fist shot out, stopping short of Gilgamesh's calm face. Frieza's eyes widened as he realized that there were now chains wrapped around his body, including his arm, suspending him in place as they came out from portals all around him. Gilgamesh finally let his emotions out and grinned viciously.
Gilgamesh: The Chains of Heaven! Not even a god can break out of these!
The chains tightened around Frieza, him growling as they did whilst Gilgamesh continued to chuckle. The King of Heroes suddenly stopped and he looked down at his hand.
Gilgamesh: But there is no way I should have needed to use my full might for this. So I shan't.
His Full Power was dispelled and he pulled out Ea back out of a portal.
Gilgamesh: Goodbye toad.
Frieza: And goodbye to you...monkey.
The alien suddenly smirked and before Gilgamesh could figure out why, the Death Saucers homed in on either side of the Servant, slicing the King of Heroes through his knees, waist and arms. A look of shock froze on Gilgamesh's face, his portals vanishing and removing the chains from Frieza, who pointed his finger and fired out a telekinetic orb of energy that hit Gilgamesh in his chest. The King of Heroes was too shocked to react before Frieza grinned and raised his finger, lifting Gilgamesh upwards.
Frieza: Begone.
He clenched his fist and Gilgamesh blew into smithereens, lighting up the void.
KO!
The Dragon Balls fell out of the Gate of Babylon and Frieza sets about picking them up.
Outcome[]
Boomstick: Wow, that was one cold execution!
Popup: Both Frieza and servants like Gilgamesh could battle in space, so destruction of a planet they were fighting on wouldn't necesarrily impact the battle's outcome.
Wiz: Gilgamesh's immense versatility thanks to the Gates of Babylon would certainly have kept Frieza on his toes for the most part, but there were a lot more factors that subtracted from the Noble Phantasm's effectiveness in this battle.
Boomstick: That's because Gilgamesh didn't really have much know-how to actual use all those weapons.
Wiz: The whole reason that Shirou was able to use Unlimited Blade Works to counter Gilgamesh's projectiles was because that's all they were used as; oversized arrows, with their special abilities only activating when they directly hit their targets. This was why Gilgamesh couldn't just have, say, used Gae Bolg to directly destroy Frieza's heart.
Boomstick: Let's talk speed; Gilgamesh's projectiles can reach speeds thousands of times the speed of sound and he can battle Servants who can react to and dodge them. But Frieza has battled against loads of foes with light speed capabilities. Like Goku, who should at the very least be able to keep up with Lord Beerus' casual flying speed of 375 quadrillion times the speed of light. This would give Frieza loads of time for him to dodge any projectiles from the Gates of Babylon.
Wiz: But perhaps the most important factor to this fight, power, was a lot more tougher to figure out. Both had the capability to destroy entire worlds and both had greater states of power that would enable them to threaten entire universes and then-some. But Gilgamesh's full power was likely much greater, on an outright infinite layer, being able to overpower an individual who had become one with the infinite-universe containing Moon Cell.
Boomstick: So with his full might, Gilgamesh would have been able to make mincemeat of Frieza in no time flat. But there was just one big problem for Gilgamesh and that was his big head.
Wiz: You see, what is most probably the biggest factor in this battle was the arrogance of both our combatants, and this is where Frieza had the edge over the King of Heroes. You see, whilst Frieza is still a prideful fellow, he's actually learned from his failures and improved his skillset, after learning that his own arrogance and impatience was his undoing many times over. Gilgamesh, on the other hand, is so unfathomably arrogant, he completely disregards the scenarios of his defeat shown to him by his clairvoyance Noble Phantasm.
Boomstick: If he was too stuck up to use his mental fortune-telling powers, why would he be humble enough to use his Full Power, unlike Frieza who recognized the flaws of his most powerful transformations and improved on them. And remember, whilst we remove combatant's moral restraints, we don't override their personalities, so Gilgamesh would be left with his fatal-ego.
Wiz: Without the humility to resort to his full power, Gilgamesh would be a sitting duck for Frieza to kill him hundreds of times over, or get straight up blitz by the tyrant's greater speed.
Popup: Even with the speed of his true power, Frieza would still be 8 million times faster than Gilgamesh.
Boomstick: Like by blowing up his own spiritual energy, as Ki and Mana serve the same function.
Wiz: Gilgamesh's status as the King of Heroes and the Strongest Servant where certainly well-earned and the Gates of Babylon are certainly one of the most unique and impressive weapons we've ever covered, but it was ultimately Frieza's discipline, speed and greater initial power that were the most important additions in this battle.
Boomstick: The King of Heroes got Gilgamashed up by a cold-hearted Ki-ller.
Wiz: The winner is Frieza.
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Trivia[]
- The connection between Frieza and Gilgamesh is that they are both highly arrogant and egotistical anime villains known for their immense power and sadism. Both also possess an affiliation with the color gold, Frieza's Golden Form and Gilgamesh's armor, have been tyrants in their lives and have also been brought back to life to fight in major conflicts. Both have also battled for wish granting relics.
- This battle would have been in hand-drawn animation
- The original music for this battle would have been called 'A Freezing Fate', based on Frieza's own name and Gilgamesh's series Fate