Death Battle Losers

The point of Death Battle is to pit two (in some cases more) characters against each other. Of course, there must be a loser, who usually dies a gruesome death. These deaths are listed here.

Season 1 Losers

 * Boba Fett (Shot and frozen solid/Head shot off by Charge Blast before he could break free/Decapitated)
 * Shang Tsung (Soul destroyed by the Raging Demon/Souls released)
 * Wonder Woman (Took a Kiss of Death)
 * Goomba (Smashed by spinning Koopa Shell)
 * Koopa Troopa (Went spinning into a pool of lava/Skeleton melted and incinerated)
 * Mike Haggar (Piledrived into the ground off of a building/Skull smashed from the impact)
 * Michelangelo (Arm and head cut off/Decapitated)
 * Donatello (Knocked of a stack of boxes he was standing on/Stabbed multiple times to death)
 * Raphael (Stabbed in the neck)
 * Zitz (Sliced in half from the abdomen)
 * Riptor (Face burned by acid/Thrown off a cliff/Crashed face first through the front of Boomstick's car)
 * Felicia (Sliced in half by claws)
 * Kratos (Impaled through the head by symbiote spike)
 * Bomberman (Shot by harpoon and filed with 2 pumps of air/Eye balls popped out and turned cartoonish/Blown up by his own bomb)
 * Shadow the Hedgehog (Super form time expired/Blasted by Vegeta's Final Flash/Disintegrated into ashes)
 * Mario (Back sawed into by Spin Dash)
 * Justin Bieber (Hit by a speeding car and into a wall/Incinerated by the car's explosion)
 * Rebecca Black (Launched face-first into a brick wall/Incinerated by the car's explosion)
 * Harry Potter (Scar on forehead torn open/Impaled through the chest by Luke’s Shoto Lightsaber)
 * Chun-Li (Incinerated into a skeleton)
 * Starscream (Legs blown up by returned attack/Body destroyed/Spark eaten)
 * Doomguy (Blown to bloody chunks by Plasma Grenade)
 * Dr. Eggman (Betrayed and disintegrated by Metal Sonic’s laser along with most of his other robots)
 * Dr. Wily (Disintegrated by Metal Sonic’s laser along with all of his robots)
 * Princess Zelda (Fell asleep/Head exploded from a Mega Strike hit to the face/Decapitated)
 * Raiden (Smashed in half/Thrown into the Sun/Incinerated)
 * Cloud Strife (Launched into the air by many bombs/Sliced through the chest)
 * Batman (Limbs and torso smashed off by powerful kick)
 * Pikachu (Head bitten off/Body shredded completely inside a blender/Remaining chunks liquified and drank)
 * Goku (Slammed downwards into the core of Earth/Struck by Infinite Mass Punch/Caught in the Earth's explosion/Disintegrated)

Season 2 Losers

 * Lion-O (Crushed/Eye of Thundera smashed into pieces/Corpse eaten)
 * M. Bison (Ripped in half/Soul devoured and physical body disintegrated)
 * Ryu Hayabusa (Chest slashed open/Slashed multiple times and smashed through multiple floors/Body blown up)
 * Ivy Valentine (Turned into a frog/Crushed)
 * Bucky O'Hare (Choked/Head blasted apart by point-blank charged shot)
 * The Terminator (Pair of glasses shot off by Cobra Assault Cannon/Reduced to a metal skeleton/Legs blown off/Blown up by ruptured hydrogen fuel cells/Head stomped)
 * Luigi (Impaled through the chest by Magic Hand)
 * Venusaur (Flower sliced off by Wing Attack/Blasted by Flame Burst/Incinerated by the flames)
 * Charizard (Wings ripped off/Choked/Filled up with water by Hydro Pump/Shot up in mid-air while being filled up with water/Exploded into bloody chunks)
 * Sektor (Blown to pieces by Devastation Beam/Pieces destroyed by Machine Morph fire)
 * Gamera (Left arm torn off/Blasted through shell by Red Spiral Beam/Exploded into multiple pieces)
 * Captain America (Neck snapped and hung on lamp post/Bottom half sliced off by his own shield)
 * Tigerzord (Sliced in half/Upper body blown up/White Ranger killed in explosion)
 * Ryu (Lost his powers after using the Shinku Hadoken/Incinerated by Scorpion's hellfire/Remains destroyed by egg bomb)
 * Deathstroke (Head cut off by Carbonadium Sword/Decapitated)
 * Majin Buu (Blasted into the Sun/Incinerated)
 * Ragna the Bloodedge (Stabbed through the chest that turned him into the Black Beast/Black Beast Disintegrated by large energy blast/Remains destroyed by Sol Badguy’s fiery strike)
 * Gaara (Crushed to death inside Sand Armor/Remains thrown to the ground and shattered)
 * Boba Fett (Frozen by Ice Beam/Head blasted off by charged shot/Decapitated/Body shattered to pieces)
 * Nightmare (Left arm sliced off/Night Terror's head cleaved in half/Inferno killed by Dragonslayer/Soul Edge cut in two)
 * Lex Luthor (Ripped out of War Suit/Tossed from the air to the streets back to the air/Blasted by Uni-Beam/Disintegrated/Remains of the War Suit destroyed by Proton Cannon)
 * Beast (Ripped in half from waist down)
 * Sam Fisher (Electrocuted and stabbed twice through the chest/Stabbed through the head by his own knife)
 * Darth Vader (Crushed by boulder/Incinerated by lava)
 * Goku (Choked/Shot through the head with heat vision/Brain fried and disintegrated/Lobotomized)
 * Knuckles the Echidna (Smashed into mush by Hand Slap)
 * Wolverine (Decapitated/Head sliced into multiple pieces and kicked apart)
 * Dan Hibiki (Accidentally swallowed a capsule containing a jukebox/Body exploded into pieces once activated)
 * Tifa Lockhart (Neck snapped)
 * Mega Man (Blown into pieces from explosion)
 * Green Arrow (Head shot through by adamantium arrow)
 * Red & Charizard (Charizard slashed into bits/Red's legs crushed by the thrown Charizard/Both blasted by Terra Force/Completely Incinerated)

Season 3 Losers

 * Bayonetta (Impaled through the stomach/Stabbed multiple times/Exploded into bloody chunks/Soul dragged into inferno)
 * Bowser (Cursed to rapidly decay from inside/Reduced to Dry Bowser/Blasted to pieces)
 * Jak & Daxter (Frozen solid/Bodies shattered upon impact)
 * Quicksilver(Launched all the way towards Japan by lightning bolt/Impaled through the chest by a Japanese statue's sword)
 * Sweet Tooth (Sprayed in the face with Joker Venom/Suffocated from uncontrollable laughter)
 * Shadow the Hedgehog (Super form time expired again/Impaled through the chest by the bottom of a giant spoon)
 * The Meta (Armor shot through by pistol/Distracted for too long by Church/Head blasted off by his own Brute Shot/Decapitated)
 * Cammy White (Gunned down by drone/Took three X-Ray attacks/Snapped in half by Sonya's legs/Body ranover by vehicle)
 * The Scout (Pulse Bomb stuck onto his back/Caught in the explosion/Disintegrated into Ashes)
 * Ken Masters (Blasted with a wave of energy due to Power Geyser/Head crushed by Star Dunk Volcano/Decapitated)
 * Ramona Flowers (Slammed by multiple arcade machines/Sent flying into a wall/Completely crushed by another machine)
 * The Hulk (Leg, arm, and body impaled by Doomsday's spikes/Healing factor overtaxed/Punched numerous times in the face/Head ripped off/Decapitated)
 * Erza Scarlet (Sliced vertically in half by Kyutoryu attack)

Season 4 Losers

 * Nathan Drake (Helicopter destroyed by Lara's axe/Fell from a great height/Broke his back/Impaled through the chest with helicopter blades)
 * Shovel Knight (Buried up to neck with gold/Neck repeatedly pogoed on/Head chopped off by his own shovel/Decapitated)
 * Bane (Impaled with spikes/Filled up with Venom Symboite liquid/Head exploded/Decapitated/Brain eaten)
 * Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Megazord overloaded with too much energy from Voltron's attacks/Sliced by Voltron/Killed when the Megazord exploded) 
 * Portgas D. Ace (Punched through chest by Lightning Fire Dragon Magic/Burned and Electrocuted by the Lightning Fire Dragon Roar/Incinerated)
 * Glacius (Sneak Attacked from behind/Spine & skull pulled out from behind/Body shattered into pieces)
 * Captain Marvel (Arms broken by 18's kicks/Smashed to the ground/Head crushed by 18's foot)
 * Metal Sonic (Frozen in time by Zero's Dark Hold/Sliced in half in Metal Overlord form by Zero's Z Saber/Head knocked off when Metal Overlord form got exploded)
 * Renamon (Brutally attacked multiple times with Bone Rush/Impaled through the neck by the same Bone Rush)
 * Balrog (Right arm broken/Punched multiple times in the face/Head Knocked Off by a Vortex Punch/Decapitated)
 * Silver Samurai (Left arm sliced off/Sword punched into right eyeball/Decapitated/Head crushed by Super Shredder)
 * McGruff the Crime Dog (Crushed by Smokey's giant paw while inside of his monster truck)
 * Thor (Hit in the head hard by Mjonir/Stabbed through the mouth from behind by Diana's sword)
 * Ichigo Kurosaki (Lost his Powers completely due to Mugetsu/Blasted by a combination attack of Tailed Beast and Wind Style Rasenshurikens and Tailed Beast Bomb/Caught in the massive explosion/Completely Disintegrated)
 * Spider-Man 2099 (Hit by a flashbang/Punched multiple times/Torso blown to bits by three explosive batarangs launched into his chest)
 * Vergil (Incinerated by Supernova/Impaled through the back/Sliced in half by Masamune)

Season 5 Losers

 * Batman (Slashed multiple times with Anti-Metal Claws/Decapitated/Body Eaten by Orca Whale)
 * Twilight Sparkle (Powers taken away/Rammed into the ground by the Soul-Self)

Trivia

 * There are more losers than winners due to the amount of draws and more than 1 v 1 battles.
 * There are extra deaths that occur during certain battles. These deaths include:
 * The Red Goombas killed by a Koopa Shell from Goomba VS Koopa.
 * Princess Peach (controversial), Big the Cat, and Pedobear after being thrown out of various windows during Haggar VS Zangief.
 * A newborn baby Yoshi who was beaten and had his head bitten off by Riptor and a Koopa Troopa (controversial) eaten by Yoshi and have the shell used as a projectile in Yoshi VS Riptor.
 * The butterfly who was accidentally slashed by Taokaka during Felicia VS Taokaka.
 * Bomberman's Rooey which exploded during Bomberman VS Dig Dug.
 * The Bob-ombs that blew themselves up in Mario VS Sonic.
 * Rebecca Black's car driver, the Jonas Brothers, and Miley Cyrus during Justin Bieber VS Rebecca Black.
 * All the robot minions excluding Metal Sonic & Magnet Man during Eggman VS Wily.
 * Anybody inside the Lexcorp building when Goku completly destroyed it when he fired a Kamehameha at it, as well as the entire earth except Dende when it exploded at the end of Goku VS Superman. (Were resurrected by Superman for the rematch.)
 * The Thundercats after the Eye of Thundara was destroyed in He-Man VS Lion-O.
 * The 2 tarkatans at the start of Shao Kahn VS M. Bison.
 * The solider and Options B and C from Ryu Hayabusa VS Strider Hiryu.
 * Jago at the very end of Ivy VS Orchid.
 * Slippy Toad at the hands of the Righteous Indignation and the entire crew from the Righteous Indignation (minus Bucky O'Hare) from the Smart Bomb and crash from orbit at the start of Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare.
 * The gun shop owner from Terminator VS RoboCop.
 * The army that tried to stop Godzilla, as well as the people who were likely in the buildings that were destroyed during the fight in Godzilla VS Gamera.
 * Lucrezia Noin, who was killed when her Gundam was blown up by a shot accidentally fired by Saba in Tigerzord VS Gundam Epyon.
 * Saba who was destroyed along with the White Ranger after the Tigerzord's top half exploded at the end of Tigerzord VS Gundam Epyon.
 * Several people on the bridge when Deadpool and Deathstroke clashed.
 * Most of Kirby's minor enemies throughout Kirby VS Majin Buu.
 * Anybody who may have struck by Saturn's ring when it slashed the Earth in half in Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro. Even before that, possibly anyone could've died when Chuck Norris split the Earth into two by piledriving a giant Segata through it, and pushed down one of the halves into the moon.
 * The entire plane of existence at the end of Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro.
 * Two security guards for Pepper Potts' warehouse, after being shot by Lex Luthor in the beginning and potentially people that were in the buildings that were destroyed during Iron Man VS Lex Luthor.
 * Anna Grim who was killed when Otacon hijacked her plane and made it crash in Solid Snake VS Sam Fisher.
 * The security guards killed by Sam in Solid Snake VS Sam Fisher.
 * An Empire soldier choked by both combatants and the messenger bot when it exploded in Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom.
 * A Doombot that was crushed underneath a TIE fighter in Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom.
 * A T-Rex who got its head cut off of his jaw in Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom.
 * Theoretically people in the skyscrapers and SGC building in Goku VS Superman 2.
 * Gekko bots cut to pieces by Wolverine in Wolverine VS Raiden.
 * The bouncer knockback by Yang in Yang VS Tifa.
 * Anyone in the building that exploded in Green Arrow VS Hawkeye.
 * Red being incinerated in Pokémon VS Digimon. Since Pokémon Trainers are allowed to carry up to six Pokémon at the same time, it's possible five of Red's other Pokémon aside from Charizard also died in their Poké Balls by WarGreymon's Terra Force.
 * Gomorrah slashed by Dante and Madama Butterfly killed by Dante's Yamato in Dante VS Bayonetta.
 * Several of Bowser's Minions in Bowser VS Ganon
 * A seagull killed by Ratchet's ship in Ratchet & Clank VS Jak & Daxter.
 * The gangster who was hit by Captain America's police car in Flash VS Quicksilver.
 * Another Gangster who was caught in the tornado created by Quicksilver in Flash VS Quicksilver.
 * Drivers and bus passengers who were hit by Sweet Tooth's ice cream truck while fighting over the wheel of the truck in Joker VS Sweet Tooth.
 * Any Pokémon in the cave that may have been caught in the explosion caused by Shadow in Mewtwo VS Shadow.
 * The Meta's eight AI fragments that The Meta had died with during Meta VS Carolina.
 * Kano when his head was completely crushed at the beginning of Cammy VS Sonya.
 * Dan Hibiki once again when his own Saikyo Dojo was falling apart during Ken VS Terry.
 * The clones of Ramona in Amy Rose VS Ramona Flowers.
 * The humans killed by Doomsday upon landing on Earth at the beginning of Hulk VS Doomsday.
 * People in the building when Hulk crashed through it in Hulk VS Doomsday. Also, the two other buildings Doomsday destroyed while fighting Hulk. Eventually, the whole city (along with possibly the entire population) got obliterated when World Breaker Hulk and Doomsday clashed punches with each other.
 * Civilians in the town that was destroyed during Zoro VS Erza.
 * Possibly Captain America when he took a shield to the face in Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie
 * Possibly Terry Bogard when Deadpool and Pinkie Pie distracted him during Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie.
 * Bane's men who were killed by Venom during the beginning of Venom VS Bane.
 * The rest of the Power Rangers, killed when the Megazord exploded due to Voltron's Blazing Sword in Power Rangers VS Voltron.
 * Anybody who may have been burnt in the village when it caught fire in Natsu VS Ace.
 * Potentially a squirrel before Android 18 VS Captain Marvel, when Android 18 flew by and it got pushed off of it's tree by the wind.
 * Potentially the referee during Balrog VS TJ Combo after Balrog attacked him.
 * Shredder's Foot Soldiers who were killed by Silver Samurai before the fight in Shredder VS Silver Samurai.
 * Some forest animals that potentially died due to the fire in Shredder VS Silver Samurai.
 * Possibly some animals in the forest when the fire began to spread in Smokey Bear VS McGruff the Crime Dog.
 * Potentially millions of people due to the moon getting destroyed in Thor VS Wonder Woman.
 * Forest animals that were killed during the destructive battle in Naruto VS Ichigo.
 * Potentially LYla in Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 2099.
 * Potentially a lion and a rhino in Black Panther VS Batman.


 * Bomberman was the first combatant killed by his own weapon, with the next five being The Terminator, Sam Fisher, The Meta, Shovel Knight and Silver Samurai.
 * Captain America and Thor had their weapons used against them before they were finished off.
 * Starscream is the only Death Battle combatant to lose who technically didn't die since his Spark is immortal.
 * Bayonetta also didn't technically die as she can still escape Inferno and return to Purgatorio (though if she doesn't she will have).
 * Mega Man and Metal Sonic could also be potentially brought back as they are robots that can be rebuilt.
 * Lion-O and Nightmare are currently the only losers who were killed by a certain object being destroyed, being the Eye of Thundera and Soul Edge respectively.
 * Pikachu is currently the smallest Death Battle loser.
 * The Terminator is currently the youngest Death Battle loser.
 * The Megazord is currently the largest Death Battle loser.
 * Raiden and Majin Buu are currently the oldest Death Battle losers.
 * Both also share the distinction of being killed by being forced into the sun and disintegrated.
 * Goku is so far the most powerful Death Battle loser.
 * Boba Fett, Batman, Goku, Charizard, Shadow the Hedgehog and Wonder Woman are the only Death Battle losers to appear in another Death Battle after their loss.
 * Batman, Metal Sonic, Wonder Woman and Thor are the only characters to have both lost and won.
 * Charizard is the only character to get both sprites and 3D models in the same season, it is also the only character to have lost in both episode appearances during the same season it appears in.
 * Boba Fett and Goku are the only combatants to lose both of their Death Battles to the same character.
 * A T-Shirt of Death Battle that was made by ScrewAttack contains entire Season 1 Losers and first-five Season 2 Losers.
 * Charizard and Shadow the Hedgehog are the only combatants to lose twice to different combatants.
 * Dan Hibiki was also killed in Ken VS Terry, but unlike Charizard and Shadow, he was not actually fighting anyone and was just a casualty of Ken and Terry's fight.
 * Silver Samurai also technically got killed twice in his own battle, once by the hands of Super Shredder, and once by getting crushed by the devil in hell after the fight.
 * Mega Man has the distinction of his actual death being difficult to determine due to only a distance shot of the explosion before his demise being shown. It is unknown if this was caused by Mega Man overheating via his dual mega busters and exploding or if due to his opponent Astro Boy's impact into him.
 * Riptor, Bayonetta, Erza Scarlet and Renamon are the only female combatants to lose a Death Battle to a male combatant, those being Yoshi, Dante, Roronoa Zoro and Lucario respectively.
 * Quicksilver and Nathan Drake are the two combatants to die from impalement by an object, as Quicksilver was impaled by a Japanese stone statue's sword, while Nathan was impaled by Lara's destroyed helicopter's blade.
 * The Hulk is the first and so far only hero to lose a Death Battle to a villain, that being Doomsday.
 * Gamera and Ryu are the first two heroes to lose to anti-heroes, those being Godzilla and Scorpion.
 * Erza Scarlet is the first combatant to have been sliced in half vertically instead of horizontally, followed by Metal Sonic.
 * Nathan Drake is the first combatant who was killed while attempting to flee from his opponent.
 * Metal Sonic is the first Death Battle Victor turned Death Battle Loser in the series, being followed by Thor.