Talk:Nightmare VS Guts/@comment-24.96.208.174-20150318221224/@comment-5035900-20150320200143

@Quauntonaut Yeah, it is, but it's never specified that it has to be a permanent death.

Take Kratos VS Spawn. Even with Kratos dead, he climbed out of the underworld after dying... twice. So permanent death was out of the question, but just in a battle, his death, or momentary inconvenience, was enough for Spawn to win.

Same goes for Rainbow Dash and Thor's victories; Starscream's spark survived and Raiden reincarnates, but the match was still set.

So even if Guts cannot permanently end Soul Edge, which tends to keep coming back after being destroyed (at least until the end of V), taking Nightmare apart and putting him out of commission would still be a Death Battle win... that is, if he can survive Nightmare's onslaught.