Locations

The fights in Death Battle take place in different locations. Some take place in generic places like forests or cities, but others can take place in an area that belongs to one or both of the combatants.

Locations Used More Than Once
These are places that have appeared in more than one Death Battle:

-Outer Space: Outer Space was seen in the intros to Boba Fett vs Samus and Fox vs Bucky, in which one combatant shot the other's ship down. It was also briefly seen at the end of Thor vs Raiden when Thor tossed his opponent into the sun. It was seen in the climax of Goku vs Superman when both combatants charged up their most powerful attacks.

-Star Wars Universe: Though Boba and Samus crashed on a planet that looks similar to Earth, the background was taken from one of the Super Star Wars games. Cloud City appeared in Luke Skywalker vs Harry Potter.

-Outworld: Akuma and Shang Tsung fought each other in the Evil Tower from Mortal Kombat 2, while Shao Kahn vs M. Bison took place in the Balcony and the Graveyard from Mortal Kombat 3.

-The Sky: Combatants who can fly often fight each other in the sky, most notable examples include Rogue vs Wonder Woman, Goomba vs Koopa, Starscream vs Rainbow Dash, and Goku vs Superman.

-Generic Cities: Some unnamed cities are seen in the fight, with different locations. Examples include Rogue vs Wonder Woman, Zitz vs Leonardo, Justin Bieber vs Rebecca Black, an area with construction in Ryu vs Strider, and Godzilla vs Gamera (Though knowing Godzilla Tokyo wouldn't be that much of a stretch).

-Mushroom Kingdom: The Mushroom Kingdom has appeared in nearly every Death Battle involving a Mario character. Mario enemies can interfere with the fight like Goombas, Bob-Ombs, the Angry Sun, and structures like collapsing bridges and pipes. The overworld and underground were in Goomba vs Koopa, Yoshi's Island was used in Yoshi vs Riptor, the underwater section was in in Mario vs Sonic and Vegeta vs Shadow, the overworld and volcano appeared in Mario vs Sonic, and the bridge level usually seen in the athletic sections was in Zelda vs Peach. The Luigi vs Tails battle had a hybrid of the two worlds, the overworld, pipes, and mountains belonged to the Mario universe, but the hills are from Hill Top Zone in Sonic 2.

-The Sewers: The TMNT Battle Royale took place here, it was used again in Zitz vs Leonardo which Leonardo used to take out Zitz.

-Dragon Ball Z Universe: The mountainous locations usually seen in Dragon Ball Z battles were used in Vegeta vs Shadow and Goku vs Superman.

-Valleys: Locations near forests and mountains, these unnamed places were seen in Starscream vs Rainbow Dash and Thor vs Raiden, and Tigerzord vs Epyon.

-Forest: Locations containing a lot of grass and trees appeared in Chun-Li vs Mai and the Pokemon Battle Royale.

-Gotham City: This dark and filthy city is the hometown of Batman, it was used in Batman's fights against Spider-Man and Captain America. His fight with Spider-Man took place on a rooftop of a building, inside one of the rooms that Batman shuts the lights off, and a lit up alleyway. His fight with Captain America took place in a dark alleyway.

Unique Locations
These are places that have only been seen in one Death Battle:

-Metro City: The hometown that Mike Haggar is the mayor to. He fought Zangief in this location, the fight started out in the streets but the two combatants punched their way up a building, which Zangief piledrived Haggar out of.

-The Docks: These docks near a lake was taken out of Marvel Superheroes vs Street Fighter. Felecia and Taokaka fought here. Rogue, Gambit, Charlie and Rose can be seen in the background.

-Ancient Temple: This is were Kratos and Spawn's fight took place. The background is actually taken from the Jafar's Palace level from the Disney's Aladdin video game.

-Dirt: Bomberman and Dig Dug's fight took place where most of the Dig Dug games take place, underground in the dirt.

-The Moon: Shadow teleported Vegeta to the Moon during their fight. A Space Duck is seen in the backround referencing DBZ Abridged.

-Halo Map: Master Chief vs Doomguy took place on a map based on the multiplayer levels from Halo.

-Chemical Plant Zone: This level from Sonic 2 was the main battlefield in Eggman vs Wily.

-Futuristic Temple: This was the location for Link vs Cloud. It has large pillars and a bridge on top, and the Screwattack logo can be seen multiple times.

-Tropical Jungle: Pikachu and Blanka's fight took place here, it's likely a reference to Blanka growing up in the Jungles in Brazil.

-Metropolis: Superman's hometown, Goku challenged Superman to a fight here, which they inflicted a lot of property damage on.

-Eternia: The animator confirmed that He-Man vs Lion-O took place in He-Man's home world Eternia. It takes primarily in a forest. Lion-O knocks He-Man near a mountain, which He-Man picks up and throws back at him.

-Water Surrounded Palace Floor: Ivy vs Orchid took place here, the circular stage with water surrounding is likely a reference to the stage layouts of the Soulcalibur games.

-Random Ass Planet: Fox shot down Bucky's ship to this location where they fought on foot. It's named "Random Ass Planet" by the mission screen seen before the fight, which references Star Fox 64.

-Delta City: Robocop's hometown that was previously known as Detroit. Robocop fought the Terminator here when Terminator killed the owner of a Gun Shop. They fight on the streets and on rooftops.

-Industrial Warehouse: Fulgore's stage in Killer Instinct. Fulgore fought Sektor here.

-Stone Mountain: Ryu's fight with Scorpion will start here.

Development
When Ben animated Death Battle he recycled locations used in previous games. Jordan Lange and other animators like Mali and Torrian Crawford build their stages from the ground up using some elements of stages from other games and programs (Such as Lange using some of MK3 for Kahn vs Bison).