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Agreed. Regardless of your actual feelings about the death battle doing another rematch will only cause fanboys to rematch 'wrong episodes' more often like Yang vs Tifa, Gaara VS Toph and Tracer vs Scout. Goku vs Superman 2 at least had a massive fanbase going for it because of the size of the Dragon Ball community and had Goku's new forms. Even still, that battle was less made to see who would win the rematch and more to send a message to the angry DBZtards who were using Goku's new forms as an excuse.

Mario vs Sonic on the other hand doesn't have this excuse. For 1) the battle was more to see what powerups countered what rather than the actual feats and has been used as a point of reference for other death battles. Making a rematch would essentially put that episode and all subsequent MvS matchups in a questionable light.

2) The idea that "oh they have new feats and abilities now" is quite fallicious. Say they do make this episode and say Mario wins because they use Paper Mario, fine. But then there is always the possibility that future Sonic games will make Sonic more powerful. If SEGA started going the Sonic '06 route and and introduced multi-versal threats that Sonic starts to defeat by himself then people will continue to bitch and complain that Sonic should get another chance. In fact we've seen this phenomenon happen before with Goku's new forms and Ultra Instinct.

The thing is rematches as a whole don't work with the format of death battle. Most characters are going to get more powerful feats long after the death battle has been done so the debate is never truly over. Doing rematches will inevitably do more harm than good especially because death battle doesn't cover everything at the time in the first place.