Zitz VS Leonardo

Zitz VS Leonardo is the seventh episode of Death Battle. This takes place immedietely after the TMNT Battle Royale. This episode was sponsored by Go Daddy.

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''Episode 7 - Battletoads VS TMNT! The deadliest ninja turtle faces his ultimate rival: the leader of the mighty Battletoads!''

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''Episode 7 - Battletoads VS TMNT! The deadliest ninja turtle faces his ultimate rival: Zitz, the leader of the mighty Battletoads! Can the 'Toad's brute force overpower the brawl, or will Leonardo's strategic style prevail once again?''

Opening
Boomstick: Last time on Death Battle, the Ninja Turtles battled to find the deadliest of the team, and good old Leo used cunning strategy and swordplay to come out on top.

Wiz: But the fight isn't over yet. Leonardo must face his most powerful imitator, Zitz, the leader of the mighty Battletoads.

Boomstick: 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.

Zitz
Wiz: Zitz was computer engineered as one of three ultimate amphibian warriors in a gladitorial video game reality show called Battletoads. This accidentally opened a dimensional gateway to another galaxy. Every time the game began, the galaxy became the battletoad arena for their superhero war against the Dark Queen and they...

Boomstick: Whoa, whoa, whoa, what?

Wiz: Three nerds made a video game, got sucked through it into another galaxy, and became toad superheroes.

Boomstick: Yeah, got it!

Wiz: Zitz was originally colored yellow, to differentiate him from Rash, but he is now officially a blue-green hue. He leads the Battletoad team with a laid back yet strategic attitude.

'''Boomstick: He chooses to go with my personal favorite battle strategy: beat the shit out of everything that moves! And as a Battletoad, Zitz can shape shift his body into various weaponry: Giant fists, heavy weights, ram horns, you name it.'''

Wiz: Unlike his teammates, Zitz has used his inventive genius to mechanically advance his weaponry far beyond those of his fellow toads. By combining technology and brawn, Zitz has added blades, saws and drills to his arsenal.

Boomstick: This guy could be the world's best handyman, if he always wasn't getting sucked into an alternate dimension every time someone turned on a video game.

Wiz: Despite almost having no actual combat training, Zitz has proved strong enough to power through some of the toughest games ever made. And yes, the games excruciating difficulty is canon as it was specifically programmed by the Battletoads themselves.

Boomstick: Yeah, try and wrap your brain around that one.

Zitz: I'm a big bad mother of all toads!

Leonardo
Wiz: We briefly covered his abilities last episode, but there's plenty more to Leonardo. He's trained in Ninjitsu and Bushido all his life, shaping his body and mind to master close combat, swordsmanship, honor and the art of invisibility.

'''Boomstick: He's also the strategist of the turtle team, who are now all dead. Sooo... yeah.'''

Wiz: Leonardo is especially skilled in use of environment to outsmart and outmaneuver an opponnent. He is also the only Ninja Turtle in any timeline who has studied under two masters, Splinter the rat, and the Ancient one.

'''Boomstick: Hey Wiz, look! It's an Asian Yoda! What? Leo wields two Ninjaken swords, which are best for swift deadly strikes and are designed with the idea that a good offense, is the best defense. They're usually mistaken as Kitana in the shows and comics, even though they are obviously straight, rather than curved.'''

Wiz: The Ninjaken is, in fact, an invention of Hollywood, as there is no historical evidence of the weapon's existence.

Boomstick: Like the moon landing!

Wiz: Shut up! While he usually relies on his brothers' solid teamwork, he has proven to be a very effective warrior on his own too, defeating all sorts of enemies like ninja robots, giant monsters, war-torn aliens and even the Shredder.

Leonardo: (swiping his sword at a foot ninja) Gotcha. (then kicks the foot ninja)

Death Battle
Zitz jumps over a wire fence and walks forward as Leonardo jumps out of the sewer. Zitz turns to face his opponent.

FIGHT!

Zitz uses his ram horns to knock Leonardo into the fence and, as Leo bounces off, Zitz kicks him with an iron boot and then punches him away with a giant fist. Leo recovers just in time to avoid Zitz' drill attack and kicks him twice, only to get countered by a giant fist and a spiked wall. After pummeling Leo some more, Zitz throws him towards the wire fence, only for Leo to flip onto his feet and defend himself from Zitz' giant fist. Leo hits Zitz twice and stabs him once, but Zitz turns into a weight to defend himself from Leo's swords. Eventually, Leo jumps into the sewer as Zitz returns to his normal form and jumps into the sewer.

As Zitz scouts around for Leo, the turtle jumps out of a whole in the wall, stabs Zitz with his sword and jumps away. Leo tries this again, but Zitz grows a chainsaw tail, which Leo dodges. Zitz gives chase and finds that Leo has disappeared. Leo jumps out of the wall and hurts Zitz. Enraged, Zitz attacks the wall that Leo jumps back into through the hole. This distraction allows Leo to swim through the water and then slice Zitz in half.

K.O.!

Results
(cue the season 8-10 closing credits music of the 1987 TMNT)

Boomstick: Damn.

Wiz: Zitz was more than a match for Leonardo in a simple brawl, using his brutal arsenal to overpower him; But when it came to using the environment, Zitz couldn't handle Leonardo's ninja skills and his lack of training left him frustrated and unsure of what to do.

Boomstick: While Zitz is a strategist, he always relies on his brute force and once Leo went in stealth mode and turned the tides, Zitz decided to just bring the whole sewer down. Hey, c'mon, Leo fights all kinds of mutants and monsters at least once a week.

Wiz: Of all the toads, Zitz certainly stood the best chance with his technologically advanced weaponry, but while the Battletoads are known for accomplishing impossible odds, so are the Ninja Turtles. Leonardo made quick work of Zitz as soon as he had the chance.

Boomstick: In the end, Zitz just needed to pull himself together.

Wiz: The Winner is Leonardo.

Boomstick: Again.

Trivia

 * This is the first Death Battle episode in which a video game character (like Zitz) and a comic book character (like Leonardo) were pitted to fight against each other, the other three were Kratos VS Spawn, Thor VS Raiden, and Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare.
 * This is also the first Death Battle episode in which a comic book character (like Leonardo) kills a video game character (like Zitz); the last two are Kratos vs Spawn and Thor vs Raiden.
 * This is the second Death Battle to pit 2 or more characters who are all animals against each other; the first was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale, and the last 4 are Yoshi vs Riptor, Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare, the Pokemon Battle Royale, and Godzilla VS Gamera. Only difference is that this episode's main combatants are a different animal type from each other (in this case, an amphibian like Zitz and a reptile like Leonardo); while Fox McCloud vs Bucky O'Hare's main combatants are mammals, and the other 4 episodes' main combatants (Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Yoshi, Riptor, Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard, Godzilla, and Gamera) are all reptiles.
 * This is the first Death Battle to have a returning combatant, the second which is Captain America vs. Batman.
 * While developing the TMNT Death Battle, Ben put out a poll asking people whether they want to see the winning turtle go against the White Ranger or Zitz in the next episode. Zitz won the poll thanks to the fans who wanted a TMNT vs Battletoads Death Battle, but the White Ranger was featured in a later episode, though against a different opponent.