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Bill Cipher VS Discord is the 180th episode of Death Battle, featuring Bill Cipher from the Gravity Falls series and Discord from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series in a battle between chaotic cartoon reality warpers. Bill was voiced by John Patneaude and puppeteered by Candace Kei, and Discord was voiced by Paul Guyet and puppeteered by Billy B Burson III.

Interlude

Wiz & Boomstick
by Brandon Yates

The show's intro starts off normally. However, this normality quickly goes away as it cuts to the combatants' name cards; Bill is seen floating in front of the box where his name should be (with said name floating out of the box next to him), whereas Discord's name card is entirely upside down.

Wiz: Bill Cipher, the triangular terror from Gravity Falls.

Boomstick: Discord, the devilish draconequus from My Little Pony.

An off-screen finger snap is heard as Discord's render changes to a different one right before his name card glitchily transitions to the rest of the intro.

Wiz: The mighty, the righteous, the profound, and the profane... We have featured all manner of warrior on Death Battle before.

Boomstick: But none as silly as these two apocalyptic goofballs!

We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.

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.

Bill Cipher

Striking Midnight
by Takeshi Furukawa

Wiz: Deep within the forests of central Oregon rests the rustic, lumber town of Gravity Falls.

Boomstick: Oh hey, there's Old Man McGucket! And would ya look at that, Mayor Befufftlefumpter! And who could forget that little polished turd, Gideon Gleeful?

Wiz: But despite its looks, Gravity Falls is less Mayberry and more Twin Peaks. I've been studying what I call the "Unified Theory of Weirdness". Much like gravity, weirdness acts as a force, warping space and attracting bizarre phenomena to certain areas.

Mystery At Midnight
by Philip Guyler

Boomstick: Like the Bermuda Triangle or Denny's at 3 a.m.

We see Djmah'di Rivers at Denny's before he pulls down the screen, transitioning into the next scene.

Striking Midnight
by Takeshi Furukawa

Wiz: And Gravity Falls is one of those places. In fact, it's the largest weirdness magnet in the entire world.

Boomstick: Rainbow-vomiting gnomes, the fearsome Multi-Bear, the dilapidated Mystery Shack, and most terrifying of all, a trillion-year-old alien spoken of only in whispers, the foulest creature to ever blaspheme upon this beautiful land: Bill Cipher!

Bill can be heard laughing off-screen.

Boomstick: Oh, he actually doesn't look so bad. I like his little hat.

Wiz: Don't be fooled by Bill's goofy demeanor. Underneath the deadpan one-liners lies the cold, black heart of a genocidal madman.

Boomstick: After obliterating his home dimension and killing everyone in it, Bill was on the run from the interdimensional authority. So, he settled in the chaotic Nightmare Realm, turning it into his own personal kingdom.

Wiz: But he quickly set his sights on an even bigger prize: our own universe. Unable to break through the dimensional barriers on his own, he spent millennia trying to trick poor unsuspecting humans to open the front door.

Boomstick: And if Bill escapes, all of reality is screwed.

Wiz: He is a being made of pure energy, able to craft a physical body out of nothing, and then change that shape to grow to planetary scales. He can regenerate any part of himself, including his own spirit.

Boomstick: Bill can move objects with his mind, duplicate himself, and see into the future. He can bring inanimate objects to life, shoot lasers and fire, and control your dreams like Freddy Krueger.

Wiz: But Bill isn't just some magician. He can warp reality as much as he pleases.

Boomstick: He controls space, matter, gravity, time, and can even mess with the fourth wall!

Wiz: Though he's most known for his control over souls. He can see and interact with normally invisible spirits, blow holes through them, and even eradicate them from existence. And should an unwitting pawn make a deal with the Dream Demon, he can possess their bodies.

We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.

Power Of Magic
by Rod Bowkett

Wiz: Which... would have been good to know when I... started talking to him.

Suddenly, thunder cracks and lightning flashes as static fills the Death Battle Lab's monitor and Wiz gets possessed by Bill.

Bill: AHAHAHAHA! FINALLY! I'VE BEEN WATCHING YOU TWO BOOBS FOR A WHILE. THE PYRAMIDS, THE DOLLAR BILL, ANYTHING MADE IN MY IMAGE, I CAN SEE THROUGH. I. SEE. EVERYTHING! HAHAHAHA!

As Bill talks, footage of stone carvings of himself hidden in the previous three episodes are shown on the monitor. After this, a fascinated Bill begins inspecting Wiz's metal arm, only for Boomstick to go from shocked to excited.

Boomstick: Yay! New co-host!

He slaps the Bill-controlled Wiz on the back, knocking him down and making Bill leave his body. Wiz gets back up with a black eye and cracked glasses, a result of Boomstick's slap knocking his face into his metal hand.

Wiz: (groans) Why does my jaw hurt?

Static fills the monitor once more and Bill flies upwards in it before landing back down in front of everything in blue fire, transitioning us back to the analysis.

Boomstick: Welp, it wasn't long before Bill came upon Gravity Falls and the Pines family, namely the brilliant scientist Stanford Pines, who spent decades traveling the multiverse to find a way to defeat Bill for good, after almost accidentally unleashing him in the first place.

Wiz: Turns out it would be his niece and nephew, twins Mabel and Dipper Pines, who would end up being Bill's greatest enemies. Hard to believe, perhaps.

Boomstick: Especially when Bill finally managed to "ah, jeez" his way through the walls of our cosmos and enter Gravity Falls, reaching his full power, and kicking off...

Airhorns blare as a graphic for Weirdmageddon appears, showing two teams: "The Terrifying Weird Gang" and "The Loser Humans".

Boomstick and Ringmaster: Weirdmageddon!

Ringmaster: Hey! That's my line!

Boomstick: We've got henchmaniacs on the loose, madness bubbles flying every which way makin' things go all kinds of crazy, and a Weirdness Wave threatenin' to warp all of reality.

Wiz: And not just our universe. Without the Nightmare Realm holding him back, given enough time, Bill's power threatened the multiverse!

Boomstick: And given his control over time and space, Bill can move as fast as he damn well pleases! Especially when his mind can view an infinite kaleidoscope of possibilities all at once! As Bill says himself, he exists in a state of quantum uncertainty! Wiz... help.

The Beauty Of Magic
by Francisco Becker

Wiz: Right. Similar to Erwin Schrödinger's hypothetical cat, Bill exists in two possible states at once, perpetually unresolved. Everything he is, he is also not.

Boomstick: Though, he has one great weakness: unicorn hair! Yes, actually. What are- what are the odds?

Wiz: Similar to garlic or silver, unicorn hair serves as a key ingredient to barriers that can block otherworldly beings like Bill, which can also drain them of their power. While unicorn hair barriers did prevent Bill from breaking into the Shacktron, they failed to nullify his magic.

Boomstick: His actual greatest weakness is his unbelievable ego.

Wiz: His complete and utter disdain for humanity ultimately proved to be the opening the Pines needed.

Boomstick: Tricked into entering the mind of Ford's scumbag brother Stanley just as it was being erased, Bill invoked the almighty Axolotl in a desperate bid to survive.

Wiz: Bill's prayers were answered, but in a way he never expected. He would be reincarnated in another form, and another time.

Boomstick: Where exactly? No one knows. But we can only hope that this equilateral enemy of all that's holy and decent is never comin' back.

Discord

Tormented And Twisted
by Sean Elder

Wiz: Once upon a time, Equestria was under attack, plagued by the rampaging Spirit of Disharmony, whose only goal was to spread chaos and unhappiness throughout the land.

Boomstick: Until the twin princesses of the Sun and Moon, Celestia and Luna, used the all-powerful Elements of Harmony to turn him to stone. Kickin' the can down the road, I see. Lotsa luck!

Wiz: Yes, because as with seemingly all magical prisons, it didn't last forever. Eventually, this being of madness and destruction broke free. Discord had returned.

Discord can be heard laughing off-screen.

Boomstick: Now, I know what you're thinkin': "Dear Lord, what in good God's name is that thing?!"

Wiz: Discord is a draconequus, or "dragon horse". And also deer, goat, snake, lion, eagle, lizard, and a bat!

Boomstick: All part of a complete balanced breakfast![Note 1] Despite lookin' like a Build-A-Bear grab bag, he doesn't seem so bad. Kind of annoying, but in a lovable "Mon Capitan" kind of way.


Q: Au contraire.


Wiz: There's certainly some truth in that. While initially one of our ponies' most potent foes, Discord is not inherently evil, just chaotic.

Boomstick: A big jolly jerk that sets fire to things that can't burn! Just like me.

Wiz: It's not like you to find a lot of common ground with with My Little Pony. I mean, you're usually like, (in a Southern accent) "Ah, the only good pony is the horse meat in my sandwich!"

As Wiz says this, a montage of monochromatic clips from the last three My Little Pony episodes and Pinkie Pie's cameo in Deadpool VS Mask appears on-screen.

Boomstick: That's disgusting, Wiz. Horse meat goes in burritos. But really, havin' a daughter changes a man. It softens your cold, hard edges. Kinda like with Discord, who became best buddies with the pony Fluttershy. And I guess pals with everyone else by default. Fluttershy is best pony.

Wiz: Discord is chaos incarnate, and is empowered by causing as much pandemonium as possible. Likewise, if he betrays his true nature, it can cause his soul to weaken and possibly cause him to fade away entirely.

Boomstick: Not a problem when his powers allow him to mess stuff up as much as he likes.

Snakes With No Ladder
by Oliver Spencer

Boomstick: He's a full-on reality warper and plays with the laws of physics like they were Silly Putty.

Wiz: Discord can manipulate space by teleporting, reshaping his body, and transmuting matter. He can mess with your mind and erase your memories. He can control time and travel through it. He can even remove mathematical dimensions, turning objects 2D.

Boomstick: He also has instant access to powerful items such as Grogar's Bewitching Bell, which can drain foes of their magic power and transfer it to others.

Wiz: Phasing, clones, possession, invisibility, the list goes on. He can move the Sun and Moon and rip apart the fabric of reality. And if his physical body is destroyed, he can keep going as a spirit.

Boomstick: Honestly, it'd be quicker to list off all the things Discord can't do, starting with uh... yep, the end.

Wiz: He can do anything he can think of, even obliterate the fourth wall. He's turned the page of the comic he's on, talked directly to the reader, referenced everything from Bob Ross to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and even changed the very genre of the story he's in.

At this moment, Discord's arm suddenly appears from the left side of the screen and snaps his fingers, resulting in it suddenly going monochrome as the music and various My Little Pony clips start rapidly playing in reverse.

Boomstick: Oh, my Boomstick Sense is tingling! I've matured enough to appreciate the cupcakes and rainbows, Wiz...

We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.

Boomstick: ...But there's no amount of character development that will ever make me ready for another De—

Discord himself suddenly appears between Wiz and Boomstick, albeit with limited animation.

Discord: Deadpool.

Boomstick: D'ah, dammit!

Discord: Oh please. Any similarity is down to your line producer refusing to greenlight complex animation.

As Wiz eagerly grabs a clipboard from off-screen and a pen from his pocket to take notes, the Death Battle Lab's monitor switches to the show the room of Death Battle's line producer, Erin Makela, who is seen working on her computer. She looks at the camera for a bit before going back to work as the monitor cuts back to My Little Pony clips.

Discord: I should be just as insulted by your attempt to force me into dreary fisticuffs. But, when it comes to my geometric rival, I'm not about to be upstaged.

As Discord talks, a snap of his fingers reveals his cameos in the previous three episodes in the monitor and horizontally flips the Death Battle Lab, resulting in the co-hosts switching places.

Wiz: Well, I find it fascinating that you seem to draw energy from disharmony. I'd love to study how it played a part in freeing you from eternal imprisonment, and even in resubstantiating your very essence!

Discord: Well, if all you want is to "experience substantiation"...

With another snap of his fingers, Discord turns Wiz and Boomstick into their respective voice actors, Ben Singer and Chad James, in a recording booth.

Boomstick (as Chad): What the—?!

Startled by the sudden change, both hosts look at each other before screaming in shock over their new appearances, with Boomstick looking and screaming into the camera in fear as it zooms in on his eyes.

Boomstick (as Chad): GOD, NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Ballad
by Dick Walter

The screen then cuts to the "TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES" screen from Harley Quinn VS Jinx for a few seconds before we cut back to the analysis.

God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
by Teilharden Helena Fregona, Stephen Green, Mike Jordan & Liam Love

Boomstick: Welp... I'm never recovering from that emotionally.

Wiz: I-I don't think anybody could.

Boomstick: Oh, look! Blissful ignorance at the bottom of this can.

A can of beer is heard being opened off-screen as Boomstick says this.

Wiz: With Discord's powers, Pinkie Pie could've turned the entire universe into icing. What that meant for the laws of physics is anyone's guess.

Boomstick: He's basically at the top of the pony power hierarchy, even compared to the alternate reality threat, the Pony of Shadows, who could overrun all existence in the multiverse given enough time.

Boomstick: Or his ex-partner Cosmos, literally malice incarnate with identical powers, whom he sealed away in the stars.

Wiz: Discord once flew from the Horsehead Nebula to Equestria, and kept accelerating so much, he went backwards in time.

Boomstick: And that was just him tryin' to make it to tea time with his bestie.

Wiz: But Discord's power may be his greatest weakness. Since almost nothing can threaten him, his carefree attitude can leave him vulnerable to being caught off guard. Like when Tirek, the magic-devouring demon centaur, tricked Discord and stole his powers.

Boomstick: Even still, Discord has shed his villainous past and been made an honorary hero, happy to help out his pony pals from time to time... or occasionally make things worse.

Wiz: That's what you get when you're best friends with the spirit of chaos incarnate. I would know.

Boomstick: Ah buddy, get over here!

Wiz: Yeah, yeah. That's... (grumbles) Agh, no, not the... noogie. (groans)

Prelude

Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. We've run the data through all possibilities.

Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!

The Death Battle transition card then closes over. However, instead of it opening like normal afterward, it glitchily distorts into the fight.

Death Battle

Discordant Decipher
by Brandon Yates ft. Infotron & Mr. Goatee

The city of Canterlot. what was once the majestic capital of Equestria has now turned into distorted chaos. Weirdmageddon has been unleashed, with several demons terrorizing their new playground.

Up in the Fearamid lies the perpetrator of this apocalypse: Bill Cipher, who is seen sitting on his throne made of the petrified residents of Canterlot, with Princess Celestia and Luna each respectively transmuted into shiny gold and purple idols on each armrest. He proceeds to turn a poor male pony into a toy, then into stone, and telekinetically places him on the throne.

Bill: BOY, HEHEH... PASTING ALL THIS BOOTLEG MERCHANDISE TOGETHER SURE TOOK A LOTTA GLUE.

The camera pans up to reveal that the Mane Six have been turned into banners, having failed to stop Bill off-screen.

Bill: GOOD THING YOUR FRIENDS MAKE THEIR OWN.

The person Bill is speaking to, Discord, can be seen flying within the banners of the Mane Six. He stops at Fluttershy's banner, looking upset at the condition of his one true best friend. As he exits the banner and back into reality, Discord holds and pats Fluttershy's banner in lament.

Discord: Ugh, friends of a friend. Ah... But there's an idea!

His mood abruptly changes as he teleports to the steps to Bill and starts parodying Twilight's ending monologues by telepathically reading and writing a message on a scroll as he dons a chef's outfit and summons a flaming cream pie.

Discord: (telepathically) Dear Princess Celestia, today, Bill Cipher learned an important lesson... about friendship.

Bill is utterly disgusted by Discord's words and almost throws up from his eye from the sappy words as he turns green.

Bill: UGH, GAG!

Discord takes the opportunity to throw his flaming pie right at Bill's eye, destroying it and his left hand in an explosion.

Bill: OW! MY EYE!

The now frustrated Bill quickly regenerates his lost body parts, including his now-bloodshot eye, and wipes himself off as he summons a giant arm behind him. It then slams onto Discord, who had many more pies ready to throw, making an imprint of him pop out of the hand. Discord is sent flying out of Bill's Fearamid, and Bill himself angrily follows. However, as he is searching for Discord, he notices several Canterlot structures being turned into colossal desserts.

Bill: HUH?

He looks around to see that the one responsible for this is Discord, who telekinetically throws the confectionaries at him. Bill dodges an ice cream cone and cake but gets hit square in the face by a scoop of mint ice cream, bringing both him and it to the ground. This is followed by a carrot cake, muffins, another ice cream cone, a scoop of strawberry ice cream, whipped cream, and finally, a cherry on top of him with the sound of a bell dinging. Discord is seen enjoying his own more reasonably-sized sweets as he taunts his opponent with a service bell in his hand.

Discord: Enjoy your just desserts!

An explosion from the stack of sweets occurs, with Bill emerging from it as he smacks two drums and a cymbal from a drum set. Reality then briefly distorts as a laughing Bill levitates up to Discord. Afterward, things get wacky as Bill begins rapidly rotating the world around himself, causing buildings, ponies, henchmaniacs, and various objects to fly everywhere while he fires lasers at Discord. Bill soon avoids an anvil from Discord from above before shooting another laser down at him, laughing with enjoyment over the battle.

Bill: WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MAN? COME ON!

Bill suddenly stops rotating the world, leaving it upside-down. He looks around for his opponent, unaware that a gigantic Discord is behind him. Bill is then magically turned into a Dorito before Discord chomps, chews, and swallows. After wiping his mouth with a napkin, Discord gives a small food review to the audience.

Discord: Egh, a tad Euclidean for my tastes.

Suddenly, his head explodes in confetti thanks to a laughing Bill, now restored to normal. However, Discord quickly reappears back next to him by coming out of a tear in reality, mockingly laughing as he does so, surprising Bill.

Discord: Ohohoho... ha.

Angered, Bill tackles Discord and punches him repeatedly with multiple arms, causing the two to enter a Weirdness Bubble. Inside it, the animation switches to a claymation-styled dimension where Bill strangles Discord before the latter pushes him off, knocking aside two guns. Bill retorts by shapeshifting into a giant monster with a long tongue, but before he can attack back, the animation distorts yet again to a rubber hose animation-style 1930s cartoon-esque medium with dancing flowers in the background, where Discord grabs a resisting Bill and playfully gives him a noogie on his head.

Reality distorts once more for the two combatants to find themselves in a hand-puppet-styled scene, with Bill continuing to punch Discord.

Bill: BLAMMO!

Children's cheers are heard from off-screen, which leaves Bill and Discord to stop fighting and greet the viewers before returning to their playful conflict. Bill gains distance and shoots silly string at Discord, causing the children watching to laugh at the latter's humiliating appearance. After he shakes it off, Discord makes vomiting noises, only for a real human hand to emerge from his puppet mouth, much to the screaming children's horror. The hand then snaps its fingers, and a purple-white light covers the screen.

Finally returning to sprite animation, Bill and Discord emerge from a portal back in a right-side up Canterlot. However, it is noticeably different, lacking any Weirdness Bubbles and the interdimensional rift now blue instead of red.

Bill: TELL JEAN-LUC HIS SHOW IS WORSE THAN CODE OF HONOR!

Bill kicks Discord away a distance before stretching his arm to the left side of the screen, which suddenly grabs Discord from behind and squeezes him, leaving a squeaky party noise coming from his frilling tongue. After quickly recovering, Discord, in a more serious manner, responds to Bill's remark.

Discord: You are not qualified to work with the fourth wall!

Discord copies Bill's prior action, grabbing and squeezing him in return, his eye nearly bulging out and making a rubber chicken noise. The two then literally butt heads together, but the camera zooms out to show both combatants, now much larger, clashing each others' fists with bruised figurines of their foe. They briefly stop to look at each other before tossing the clones away in boredom. Discord, taking notice that they have not gotten anywhere, makes a request to his opponent for a different approach.

Discord: This stalemate is getting dull... How about a different game?

He summons a few dice of varying surfaces to reinforce his question.

Bill: SURE. I LOVE CHECKERS!

Bill raises his hands, and the slight moment of peace is suddenly interrupted by Discord getting crushed from above by, ironically, a giant knight chess piece.

Bill: GOOO~ FISH!

He tosses away the chess piece with his telekinesis, revealing a smear on the ground. From it, the carefree Discord emerges as a spirit, making silly ghost noises as he enters Bill's mind.

Discord: BOOO~!

In his mindscape, Discord continues to laugh as Bill is angered over his opponent trying his own trick on him.

Bill: YOU'RE MESSING WITH MY MIND?! OH, THIS IS MY SHTICK, YOU HACK!

The mindscape is then suddenly set aflame with blue fire as Discord talks him down.

Discord: We may be evenly matched, Bill, but I've seen your show, my two-dimensional nuisance.

Discord, still as a spirit, emerges from the flames and claims his prediction on Bill.

Discord: And I know how you die...!

Bill: OH, YOU THINK WE'RE EQUALS, THAT YOU'RE SAFE IN HERE, YOU LOW-EFFORT CLOWN?!

Bill turns red, shapeshifting into a larger form to try to attack and grab Discord. As Bill shoots an eye laser at him, Discord avoids it and slashes a chunk off of him with a larger hand, flipping him the bird as he flies away. Bill begins to uncontrollably distort before stopping, his missing chunk restored, and declaring to Discord...

Bill: I'M AN ALL-SEEING GOD!!!

In the real world, Bill has grown gargantuan in size and turned three-dimensional. He uses his left hand to reach into and break his own eye, which is now a stained-glass window, to enter his own mindscape. Discord notices this and attempts to flee, only for Bill to punch him into his physical self's hand, which locks Discord into place with a Prison Bubble before it pulls him back into the real world. As Bill's now-broken eye leaks a putrid black substance, he begins burning Discord's spirit with blue flames. The draconequus, fully aware of his impending doom, laments over his loss... and reveals his true victory.

Discord: Well... Heheheh... Heh... It was worth a try... But still! Hehehe, I'm surprised... you don't recognize... your old home.

Bill, whose eye is now regenerated, notices reality suddenly shattering around him, revealing that the "Canterlot" they were in was an illusion and that Discord had actually brought them both to the Nightmare Realm after their trip through the Weirdness Bubbles, leaving Bill in shock and horror.

Bill: NO. NO!!

As Bill freaks out, he hears a perturbed female voice from behind him.

???: Discord?

Bill turns around and looks through the interdimensional rift to see that Equestria and the Mane Six have been fully returned to normal, with Fluttershy expressing sad worry over Discord's lack of presence, the note he wrote at the beginning of the fight left at her hooves.

Fluttershy: (worried) Discord?

Bill: NO. NO! NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NOOOOOOO!!!

Bill tries to fly towards and enter the rift, but he falls short of it collapsing in on itself and dissipating into particles in the shape of Discord's head blowing his tongue and audibly laughing at the dream demon, leaving him trapped in the Nightmare Realm once more. Satisfied with having saved his friends and his world, Discord lets out one final laugh over his adversary's true loss.

Discord: Oh-ho, Bill. AHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Having won the battle but lost the war, an infuriated and omnicidal Bill glares at his opponent one last time with black-eyed murderous intent, crushing Discord's spirit with his hand and leaving his distorted mocking laugh to echo throughout the realm as it turns blue, clenching his eye shut in rage after attaining his pyrrhic victory.

As things start to grow silent, Bill completely loses his composure, transforming into a twisted red abomination and screeching in three-dimensional rage over being back at square one as blue fire surrounds him. After a moment, he calms down and morphs back to normal, the blue backdrop burning back to blood red and the Weirdness Bubbles having caught on fire as the rest of the flames die down.

Bill: AHH, NO BIG DEAL. I'VE DONE THIS ONCE ALREADY...

With a disturbing drone sound, Bill slowly looks towards the camera before suddenly dashing towards and grabbing it, holding blue flames in his free hand and his eye turning blue as he makes an offer to the audience.

Bill: WANNA MAKE A DEAL?!

Bill: KO!

Ringmaster: Hey! That's MY line!

Results

Discordant Decipher
by Brandon Yates ft. Infotron & Mr. Goatee

Boomstick: Public Service Announcement: If a yellow triangle in a top hat offers you a Faustian bargain, please do not accept! He might be angry at us.

Wiz: This fight was almost dead even. They can both manipulate space and time to such a degree that speed is essentially meaningless, and both at their peak could control their universes, possibly even the multiverse.

Boomstick: Sure, Discord could potentially drain Bill's energy with the Bewitching Bell, but remember the Shacktron?

Wiz: While the unicorn hair barrier stopped Bill from entering, its magic-nullifying aura was not effective on him. If he wasn't drained of his power by extensive contact with that, it's unlikely the Bell would do the same.

Boomstick: So with two characters who can do basically anything, how would they even kill each other?

Wiz: Both can restore their bodies from nothing, but only Bill has been shown regenerating damage to his spirit. Likewise, even in a weakened state, Bill has been able to manipulate and damage spirits himself, which is extremely useful considering we know fully erasing Discord will kill him.

Boomstick: While Discord's trickery may frustrate Bill for a while, his ability to see an infinite kaleidoscope and literally tell the future would let him cut through the tricks and vaporize him, body and soul.

Wiz: Now, it is worth remembering that Bill has been defeated before, when he was trapped in a mind that was being erased.

Boomstick: And Discord had all the tools to replicate something like that.

Wiz: However, that scenario relied on Bill's tunnel vision on invading Ford Pines' mind specifically, as well as his myopic underestimation of us lowly humans. Against other cosmic beings like Time Baby, he went for the kill IMMEDIATELY.

Boomstick: For the record, Discord has been tricked in the past, too. They both had their fair share of embarrassing moments, and they're both smarter than their mistakes at their best. The real difference is that Discord is consistently more carefree in his approach; he's used to being superior to those around him, and has been shown not to take threats seriously until it's too late.

Wiz: Like with Tirek, another crafty, manipulative schemer, kind of like Bill.

Boomstick: With his trillion years of reality-destroying malevolence, Bill was able to take advantage of Discord's carefree attitude and get the opportunity to land a killing blow first.

We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.

Wiz: Discord was incredibly powerful, unpredictable, and fearsomely persistent, but Bill's powers and ruthless instinct gave him the edge he needed.

Boomstick: Discord could "tri"-every-angle, but Bill just had his eye on the pri—

Before Boomstick can finish his pun, the Death Battle Lab's monitor suddenly switches to a close-up view of the "victorious" dream demon still stranded in the Nightmare Realm, evidently unsuccessful in finding an unfortunate soul to take the prior deal he offered to the audience as he threatens the hosts.

Bill: LET ME OUT OR I'LL EAT YOUR DREAMS!!!

Boomstick lets out a yelp of terror, while Wiz is startled by Bill's threat. We then cut to the "Winner" card.

Wiz: Uh... The winner is Bill Cipher.

Bill: !EEEEYB ,DLOG YUB ,MARGOLOH A SI ESREVINU EHT ,NOISULLI NA SI YTILAER

As Bill says his closing line, numerous clips playing in reverse and images flash on-screen in rapid succession before the Death Battle transition card closes over the episode.

Ability Comparison

- Both can affect the laws of physics
- Both can manipulate their medium & genre
- Both resist mental attacks & temporal alterations
- Discord can turn things 2D; Bill can turn himself from 2D to 3D at will
- Both can turn their body to and from stone at will, countering petrification
- Both can teleport & duplicate themselves
- Both can turn intangible & interact with intangible things
- Bill would not enter Discord's mind if there is nothing there he wants
- Discord would not willingly accept a deal from Bill
- Most other abilities cancel out or can be countered
- Despite having countless powers, both only have a few feasible win conditions

Comparison

Bill Cipher

+ More powerful
+ Can regenerate from all physical & some spiritual damage
+ More bloodthirsty and ruthless
= Has equivalents or counters to most abilities
- Complete spiritual erasure could kill him
- Arrogance can get the best of him

Discord

+ Physical regeneration makes him hard to kill
+ Far more creative with his abilities
= Has equivalents or counters to most abilities
- Less powerful
- Lacks regeneration feats beyond physical damage
- Could not debilitate Bill by draining his powers

Original Track

Discordant Decipher
by Brandon Yates ft. Infotron & Mr. Goatee

Composition

The track for this fight is "Discordant Decipher" by Brandon Yates ft. Infotron and Mr. Goatee. It is an electronic techno piece that imagines a lyrical battle between both combatants, with the instrumentals likely reflecting the absurd reality-warping abilities the two have, using elements of the Gravity Falls theme song and "Discord" by Eurobeat Brony throughout the track. A backwards message akin to those found in Gravity Falls is also featured in the track in between the first chorus and Bill's verse. Brandon portrays Bill Cipher while Mr. Goatee portrays Discord.

Title

The title is a combination of both combatants' names (Discord and Bill Cipher) that means "unharmonious conversion" when taking the definitions of both words into account, reflecting the chaotic, reality-warping powers of both combatants.

Cover Arts

The original cover art done by John Mitchell depicts an updated version of Season 10's zodiac wheel with nearly all the symbols on it visually updated and the Death Battle skull logo in the middle replaced with a stylized rendition of Bill being wrapped around by Discord's body, which can also be seen within the sectors for the question mark, dollar sign, lotus, star, half-moon, yin-yang, crossed swords, atom, and waves symbols, with the question mark sector prominently showing his ears and horns, serving as an early hint that the symbols Discord passes through correspond to the episodes that have happened up to this point of the season. Surrounding the wheel are Bill's blue flames and Discord's chocolate milk rain pouring from his cotton candy clouds. A chromatic abbration effect can be seen applied to the cover art to further emphasize the combatants' reality-warping powers.

The remastered version (which was created for the track's remaster following Rooster Teeth's shutdown) features two different cover arts:

  • The one in the video's thumbnail and used for the remaster's upload on music services done by Bee depicts 12 Weirdness Bubbles swirling around in the Nightmare Realm with parts of Season 10's zodiac wheel within them. As confirmed by Bee herself, the contents of each bubble as seen in the full, textless version of the cover are as follows:
  • The one featured in the video itself done by Tyrannii is an animated cover, depicting the pillar from when Discord first got petrified into a statue showing off a floating, rotating inverted pyramid in Bill's image that opens an eye before the cover glitches out to replace the pyramid with one of Discord's cotton candy clouds raining down chocolate milk and striking down lightning as his wings open and close periodically. In the background is Bill's blue flames against a black background with multiple Weirdness Bubbles in the background, the five closest of which periodically switch between the different symbols seen on Season 10's zodiac wheel. The track's title is also floating and rotating above the pillar, with "Discordant" switching from the Star Wars font to the Dragon Ball font, comic sans, and the Grand Theft Auto font before returning to the normal style, while "Decipher" constantly switches from the EarthBound font, the 1966 Batman font, the OMORI font, and the Great Lakes font (Death Battle's original font before they switched to Press Feeling Eroded for the Season 4 rebranding) before returning to normal. The artist credits at the bottom pay homage to both series; "Brandon Yates" is done in the My Little Pony font, while "feat. Infotron & Mr. Goatee" is done in the style of the Gravity Falls logo.

Lyrics

[VERSE 1-1: Discord (Mr. Goatee)]

Ahahahahahahahaha!
A talking triangle taking me on? (That's a-cute!)
I'm the undisputed Lord of Chaos, there's no room for you!
All your jokes land flat, you got a stupid hat
And frankly, that bow tie doesn't suit you

For an isosceles, you sure can be more than a bit obtuse,
But apparently, in your reality, there's nothing you can't do
So hopefully all this will be more than a bit of fun
Let's make a deal, Bill; see which of us is the stronger one!


[CHORUS: Bill Cipher & Discord]

Sell your soul, take control, buy gold
Can you decipher the secret meaning?
Line by line, wrong or right, pick a side
And spread the discord to those still sleeping!

?thgir ,sniw ohw ediced t'nseod gnos eht wonk od uoY
.reliofnit fo dnik emos er'uoy em llet t'noD
?sdrawkcab trap siht ot gninetsil uoy era yhW


[VERSE 1-2: Bill Cipher (Yates)]

Tell me Discord, have you won any awards
For best dressed? 'Cause color me impressed
Not a single part of you matches, it all clashes
You'll probably look better once I've burnt you to ashes


[Discord]
Ahahahahahaha!

Don't you know who I am?
The precognizant geometry
Diabolical plans, got 'em all in my hands!
Demon of dreams, yet awake or asleep
I'll leave you terrorized, I'm the all-seeing eye! (Buy crypto)

Don't you know what I'm capable of?
Billions of years of coming up with this stuff, you're not enough!
Look like someone made you in the dark, you're spare parts (It's really gross)
And honestly you smell like—


[VERSE 2: Discord (Mr. Goatee)]

Be silent, simple shape!
Your lines are too linear for my taste
Since I laid eyes on you, I knew this looked like a piece of cake!
I'd smash you flat, but that was already done for me
Honestly, Bill… could you at least make this fun for me?


[Bill Cipher]
AHAHAHAHAHA!

AHAHAHAHAHA!


[CHORUS: Bill Cipher & Discord]
Sell your soul, take control, buy gold
Can you decipher the secret meaning?
Line by line, wrong or right, pick a side
And spread the discord to those still sleeping!

Sell your soul, take control, buy gold
Can you decipher the secret meaning?
Line by line, wrong or right, pick a side
And spread the discord to those still sleeping!


[Bill & Discord]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Trivia

Production

  • The core connections between Bill Cipher and Discord are that they are both ancient, eccentric, chaotic, godly, reality-warping characters from 2010s children's cartoons who hail from alternate dimensions that are chaotic and logicless (the Nightmare Realm and Chaosville, respectively) and wreaked havoc after being freed from long imprisonment (Bill escaped the Nightmare Realm into the Third Dimension and Discord was freed from his petrification). In addition:
    • Both have been defeated as a result of a group effort by estranged siblings (Stanley and Stanford Pines and Princesses Celestia and Luna, respectively), which resulted in them being petrified.
      • Ironically, other group-based methods of defeating them (the Zodiac and the Elements of Harmony, respectively) were undone by the acts of others (Stanford and Stanley got into a fight, undoing the Zodiac that would have bested Bill, while Fluttershy swore she wouldn't use her Element on Discord, preventing the others from activating).
    • Both have attempted to manipulate others to obtain their freedom (Stanford Pines and Fluttershy, respectively).
    • Both have transformed towns into chaotic landscapes (Gravity Falls and Ponyville, respectively).
    • This is also a battle of opposites, as while Bill remained evil until his defeat and only ever cared about himself, Discord eventually reformed and became good due to learning to care about his newfound friends.
    • The "Discord, Dubious Intent" card from the My Little Pony Collectible Card Game references Bill in its flavor text,[2] something that is both referenced by Discord himself in the fight and brought up by Boomstick in the post-analysis.
  • As part of Death Battle's paid YouTube membership, members were able to vote for two matchups to become episodes in Season 10, with one being animated in 2D and one animated in 3D. This episode was the winner of the 2D poll, beating Captain America VS Kamen Rider Ichigo, Among Us VS Fall Guys, Kyle Rayner VS Simon the Digger, Ori VS The Knight, and Finn & Jake VS Mordecai & Rigby.
  • A teaser for this episode that featured voice acting was shown at the very end of the 345th episode of DEATH BATTLE Cast.[3]
  • Starting with Bill and Discord's this episode, combatants' analysis previews no longer follow the format of having "DEATH BATTLE!" in the title.
  • Due to the episode still being worked on at the time, the sneak peek for this episode shown in the 347th episode of DEATH BATTLE Cast did not have the Weirdness Bubbles surrounding Canterlot.
  • One of Death Battle's 2D animators, Susie Combs, drew art as a teaser for the episode.[4]
  • This is the second episode in which its thumbnail features completely custom-made renders for the combatants, after Smokey Bear VS McGruff the Crime Dog.
  • The storyboards by John Mitchell reveal several cameos in the fight that were cut from the final episode. In order of appearance, they are:
  • MORØ's behind-the-scenes shot showcase on Twitter revealed a few first-pass shots that feature some differences from the final episode:
    • The transition to Bill's giant body after he shouts "I'M AN ALL-SEEING GOD!!!" originally had blue circuit lines form the shape of his eye before it turned into a void in said shape instead of the camera zooming out from the inside of Bill's mind to the outside shot of his body through his eye and it flashing into the eye-shaped stained glass window found inside the Fearamid.
    • Originally, Bill simply turned red and grew giant in rage after crushing Discord's spirit instead of transforming into his monster form seen in the episode "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls".
    • At the end of the fight, Bill simply floated closer to the camera and extended his right hand to ask the audience if they wanted to make a deal with him instead of suddenly grabbing the camera and proposing to shake with his left hand.
  • The version of Discordant Decipher released on YouTube and Spotify and the version within the fight itself are significantly different, with the fight version cutting out both instances of chorus and the rest of the lyrics after Bill's verse, shortening the backwards section, changing the instrumentals during the Weirdness Bubble section to fit the themes of the first two (turning it into a dramatic string piece for the claymation Weirdness Bubble similar to Oh Yeah!'s section for when its fight entered its own claymation segment and something akin to early 1930s cartoon music for the rubber hose Weirdness Bubble), and adding in several sections not present in the downloadable version (such as a dramatic organ rendition of the Ny Little Pony: Friendship is Magic theme song when Discord's giant body rises behind Bill and turns him into a Dorito, the entire section during the hand puppet Weirdness Bubble scenes, and a piano version of the instrumentals during Discord's second verse that plays after Bill and Discird throw away their smaller selves), all of which were changes made so that the track better fits with the fight animation.
  • Interestingly, this being the 180th episode connects it with the fact that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle (which is the shape of Bill's body) is 180 degrees.
  • At the beginning of the season, a teaser trailer was released which included a Gravity Falls-inspired zodiac wheel with 16 symbols on it, each representing and hinting toward an episode in the season. After the release of the Season Finale, the Death Battle YouTube channel began revealing the answers to the zodiac wheel by posting the answers in pinned comments under the symbols' respective episodes. This episode was revealed to be represented by the question mark symbol.[10] This is because the symbol is an apt way to describe the crazy and unpredictable reality-warping natures of both combatants. The question mark is also a symbol on Bill's own zodiac wheel, with both wheels having it as the first symbol when starting from the top and going clockwise. This also confirms that Discordant Decipher's cover art was teasing this symbol as being representative of the episode, as Discord is shown entering the question mark symbol as his final stop, suggesting that it's the one related to it.

Easter Eggs

Errors

  • The last pop-up box in Discord's analysis is missing the period at the end of the sentence.
  • In the YouTube version of the episode, the Wiz and Boomstick theme can barely be heard after Discord's analysis just before being cut off by the BetterHelp advertisement cue.
  • Bill's bow tie is missing from his sprite just before he begins firing lasers at Discord in the revolving chaos scene.
  • In the early access uploads of the episode for Champions/FIRST Members, the fight animation's frame counter could be seen in the bottom-right corner when Discord says "This stalemate is getting dull... How about a different game?" This was fixed in the public release of the episode.

Other

Notes

  1. *discord-o's not sold anywhere. don't look

References

DEATH BATTLE Episodes
Season 1 1 Boba Fett VS Samus Aran2 Akuma VS Shang Tsung3 Rogue VS Wonder Woman4 Goomba VS Koopa5 Haggar VS Zangief6 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale7 Zitz VS Leonardo8 Yoshi VS Riptor9 Felicia VS Taokaka10 Kratos VS Spawn11 Bomberman VS Dig Dug12 Vegeta VS Shadow13 Mario VS Sonic14 Justin Bieber VS Rebecca Black14.5 DEATH BATTLE! vs The World15 Luke Skywalker VS Harry Potter16 Chun-Li VS Mai Shiranui17 Starscream VS Rainbow Dash18 Master Chief VS Doomguy19 Eggman VS Wily20 Zelda VS Peach21 Thor VS Raiden22 Link VS Cloud23 Batman VS Spider-Man24 Pikachu VS Blanka25 Goku VS Superman
Season 2 26 He-Man VS Lion-O27 Shao Kahn VS M. Bison28 Ryu Hayabusa VS Strider Hiryu29 Ivy VS Orchid30 Fox McCloud VS Bucky O'Hare31 Terminator VS RoboCop32 Luigi VS Tails32.5 Vegeta VS Mewtwo?33 Pokémon Battle Royale34 Fulgore VS Sektor35 Godzilla VS Gamera36 Batman VS Captain America37 Tigerzord VS Gundam Epyon38 Ryu VS Scorpion39 Deadpool VS Deathstroke40 Kirby VS Majin Buu41 Ragna VS Sol Badguy42 Gaara VS Toph43 Boba Fett VS Samus Aran44 Chuck Norris VS Segata Sanshiro45 Guts VS Nightmare46 Iron Man VS Lex Luthor47 Beast VS Goliath48 Solid Snake VS Sam Fisher49 Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom50 Goku VS Superman 251 Donkey Kong VS Knuckles52 Wolverine VS Raiden53 Hercule Satan VS Dan Hibiki54 Yang VS Tifa55 Mega Man VS Astro Boy56 Green Arrow VS Hawkeye57 Pokémon VS Digimon
Season 3 58 Dante VS Bayonetta59 Bowser VS Ganon60 Ratchet & Clank VS Jak & Daxter61 Flash VS Quicksilver62 Joker VS Sweet Tooth63 Mewtwo VS Shadow64 Meta VS Carolina65 Cammy VS Sonya66 Tracer VS Scout67 Ken VS Terry68 Amy Rose VS Ramona Flowers69 Hulk VS Doomsday70 Zoro VS Erza71 Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie
Season 4 72 Lara Croft VS Nathan Drake73 Scrooge McDuck VS Shovel Knight74 Venom VS Bane75 Power Rangers VS Voltron76 Natsu VS Ace77 Sub-Zero VS Glacius78 Android 18 VS Captain Marvel79 Metal Sonic VS Zero80 Lucario VS Renamon81 Balrog VS TJ Combo82 Shredder VS Silver Samurai83 Smokey Bear VS McGruff the Crime Dog84 Thor VS Wonder Woman85 Naruto VS Ichigo86 Batman Beyond VS Spider-Man 209987 Sephiroth VS Vergil
Season 5 88 Black Panther VS Batman89 Raven VS Twilight Sparkle90 Jotaro VS Kenshiro91 Crash VS Spyro92 Sora VS Pit93 Leon Kennedy VS Frank West94 Doctor Strange VS Doctor Fate95 Ryu VS Jin96 Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai97 Carnage VS Lucy98 Optimus Prime VS Gundam99 Nightwing VS Daredevil100 Mario VS Sonic101 Ultron VS Sigma102 Roshi VS Jiraiya103 Thanos VS Darkseid
Season 6 104 Aquaman VS Namor105 Mega Man Battle Royale106 Black Widow VS Widowmaker107 Captain Marvel VS Shazam108 Wario VS King Dedede109 Ben 10 VS Green Lantern110 Weiss VS Mitsuru111 Johnny Cage VS Captain Falcon112 Aang VS Edward Elric113 Ghost Rider VS Lobo114 Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla115 Sasuke VS Hiei116 Ganondorf VS Dracula117 Mob VS Tatsumaki118 Deadpool VS Mask119 All Might VS Might Guy
Season 7 120 Miles Morales VS Static121 Black Canary VS Sindel122 Leonardo VS Red Ranger Jason123 Genos VS War Machine124 Gray VS Esdeath125 Goro VS Machamp126 Cable VS Booster Gold127 Obi-Wan Kenobi VS Kakashi128 Danny Phantom VS American Dragon Jake Long129 She-Ra VS Wonder Woman130 Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia131 Zuko VS Shoto Todoroki132 Flash VS Sonic132.5 The Seven Battle Royale133 Winter Soldier VS Red Hood134 Venom VS Crona135 Sabrewulf VS Jon Talbain136 Red VS Blue137 Batgirl VS Spider-Gwen138 Sanji VS Rock Lee139 Hulk VS Broly
Season 8 140 Yoda VS King Mickey141 Shadow VS Ryuko142 Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom143 Heihachi Mishima VS Geese Howard144 Blake VS Mikasa145 Iron Fist VS Po146 Steven Universe VS Star Butterfly147 Link VS Cloud148 Batman VS Iron Man149 Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash150 Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man151 DIO VS Alucard152 Akuma VS Shao Kahn153 Korra VS Storm154 Madara VS Aizen155 Saitama VS Popeye
Season 9 156 Harley Quinn VS Jinx157 Scarlet Witch VS Zatanna158 Tanjiro VS Jonathan Joestar159 Thor VS Vegeta160 Omni-Man VS Homelander161 Magneto VS Tetsuo162 Hercules VS Sun Wukong163 Boba Fett VS Predator163.5 Excalibur VS Raiden164 James Bond VS John Wick165 Black Adam VS Apocalypse166 Trunks VS Silver167 SpongeBob VS Aquaman168 Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers169 Sauron VS Lich King170 Deku VS Asta171 Gogeta VS Vegito
Season 10 172 Ant-Man VS Atom173 Skyrim VS Dark Souls174 Killua VS Misaka175 Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon176 Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha177 Phoenix VS Raven178 Guts VS Dimitri179 Martian Manhunter VS Silver Surfer180 Bill Cipher VS Discord181 Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer182 Frieza VS Megatron183 Gojo VS Makima184 Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog185 Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor186 Goku VS Superman187 Galactus VS Unicron
Death Battle '24 188 Omni-Man VS Bardock189 Joker VS Giorno190 Bowser VS Eggman191 Among Us VS Fall Guys
Death Battle '25 192 Kratos VS Asura193 Ghost Rider VS Spawn194 Shigaraki VS Mahito* • ??? Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat* • ??? Light VS Columbo* • ??? Master Chief VS Doom Slayer* • ??? Aang VS Traveler* • 200 Ash VS Yugi* • ??? Simon the Digger VS White Lantern* • ??? Ruby VS Maka* • ??? Hulk VS Godzilla* • ??? Gru VS Megamind*
*Currently unreleased