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Boba Fett VS Predator is the 163rd episode of Death Battle, featuring Boba Fett from the Star Wars series and The Predator from the Predator and Alien vs. Predator series in a battle between masked space hunters. Boba Fett was voiced by Kamran Nikhad.
Interlude
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Wiz & Boomstick by Brandon Yates  
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Wiz: Boba Fett, the greatest bounty hunter from a galaxy far, far away.
Boomstick: And the Predator, the monstrous manslayer from beyond the stars.
Wiz: There's nothing quite like the thrill of the hunt, especially when you're chasing that most dangerous game.
Boomstick: Not humans! We're talkin' facehugging aliens and space wizards!
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.
Boba Fett
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Fate of the Earth (No Vocals) by Tarek Mansur 
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Wiz: Throughout the galaxy, few names are as feared as Boba Fett.
Boomstick: When you've got the greatest army of all time cloned after your dad, that's no big surprise.
Wiz: In an... incredibly convoluted bid to rest control of the Galactic Republic, the Sith Lords Darth Sidious and Tyranus secretly organized the construction of a Clone Army based on the genetic code of the galaxy's greatest bounty hunter at the time, Jango Fett.
Boomstick: On one condition: Jango Unchained got to keep one unaltered clone as his son: Boba, who became a cute little murderer just like his pop. Well, that is until Jango uh... let it get to his head.
Wiz: Just as headstrong as his father, Boba swore vengeance on the Jedi and devoted his life to becoming as deadly an assassin as his forebearers.
Boomstick: Yeah, 'cause the Fetts aren't just random badasses; they're Mandalorians. Basically a society completely dedicated to the art of war. Most of the time.
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Dirty Dozen by Alexander Wolfgang Pfeffer
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Wiz: Indeed. In the galaxy's past, Mandalorians have waged war against the Jedi and easily held their own, despite lacking use of the Force.
Boomstick: And what's a self-respecting Mandalorian without his Mandalorian armor? Inherited from his dad, Fett's armor is made out of beskar.
Wiz: Also known as Mandalorian iron, beskar is one of the strongest materials in the galaxy, tough enough to resist thermal detonator blasts and lightsaber strikes. Even bolts of lightning that can vaporize people aren't enough to harm the armor itself.
Boomstick: Fett's helmet has a targeting system, lets him see in infrared, and even has 360 degree vision.
Wiz: And his wrist-mounted vambraces, designed to counteract a Force user's powers, come with a variety of indispensable tools, like a flamethrower, fibercord whip, mini concussion rocket, laser beam, and forearm blades.
Boomstick: But when Fett wants to take his opponent by surprise, he breaks out the kneecap rockets. Not since the butt machine guns has Death Battle seen a weapon so devious.
Wiz: As a living Swiss Army gun, Fett prefers long-range combat.
Boomstick: So, it helps to have a jetpack for quick getaways, especially one with a rocket that can nuke small spacecrafts. He also has his trusty EE-3 carbine rifle and blaster pistol, which is powerful enough to vaporize a dude in one shot.
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Offside by Joseph AMG Sporck 
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Wiz: But should an opponent get too close for comfort, or should his jetpack inevitably malfunction, Fett can reacquaint his victims with their maker with his Gaderffii stick, handcrafted by Fett himself as part of a Tusken rite of passage, kind of like how Jedi make their lightsabers.
Boomstick: Add in your classic flash bombs, sonic bombs, gas bombs, motion sensor bombs, and the uber-powerful thermal detonators, and Fetty's basically a one-man army.
Wiz: Thermal detonators can annihilate small buildings and even this giant stone bridge. Based on its size and the number of bombs used, each one should be packing around three and a half tons of TNT.
Boomstick: But his weapons aren't all that make Fett so deadly. He's a master marksman, hand-to-hand fighter, and tactician. He'd need to be to take on the Jedi and steal their sweet, sweet laser swords for himself.
Wiz: He outsmarted the Jedi Master Mace Windu as just a child, and we know he's fought multiple Jedi after the Purge. In the old Legends timeline, he even fought Darth Vader twice. The same Vader who can dogfight at near lightspeed.
We cut to Boomstick.
Boomstick: That's why he's decked out with all those tools, to distract and confuse Jedi and their space magic, long enough to get a clean kill.
DUMMI floats in as Boomstick is talking.
DUMMI: And while he has a professional code of honor, when it comes to combat, Fett will use any underhanded tactics he can think of. Perfect for fighting honorable Jedi. As my personal hero once said: "Silly Jedi". If only he was here right now to kill all these stupid meatbags.
The music comes to a needle-scratching halt as Wiz and Boomstick react in concern.
Wiz: Ah, that's probably not good...
We cut back to the analysis.
Boomstick: Boba can crumple steel doors with ease, outrace explosions with his jetpack, and was shot through the chest and just... walked it off! He was, and I quote, "very angry" about it. Not even the Sarlacc, the giant monster space vagina itself, was able to hold him, no matter the continuity!
Wiz: Even into middle age, Boba remained a force to be reckoned with. In the older timeline, he led the Mandalorians to victory in the Yuuzhan Vong War, and even trained the Jedi Jaina Solo to defeat her brother, who just so happened to be a Dark Lord of the Sith. I guess even Boba was able to overcome his anti-Jedi prejudices.
Boomstick: And then Disney axed all that. But who gives a shit when you're sittin' pretty on Jabba's throne like an absolute pimp? Or... like a bantha!
Wiz: He even managed to defeat Cad Bane in a duel, possibly the greatest bounty hunter the galaxy had ever seen up until that point.
Boomstick: Second-greatest now, Wiz. And look at that dodge! Channelin' some of that "Han shot first" energy, I see.
Wiz: So if you ever find yourself in Fett's crosshairs, don't bother running. You'll only die tired.
The Predator
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War Fury by Tony Fiala
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Wiz: The year was 1987. In the balmy jungles of Central America, an elite American Spec Ops unit would come into conflict with Soviet-backed insurgents. Their mission was a success, but little did they know, they were the ones being hunted.
Boomstick: It was almost as if the jungle itself was killing them. But in reality, it was a traveler from beyond the stars. A superhuman killing machine whose entire life was devoted to murder.
Wiz: This was a Predator, and these men were its prey.
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Survive the Onslaught by Jeffrey R. Whitcher
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Boomstick: And this alien hunter had more than enough gnarly gadgets to take Arnie and his crew down, like the Plasmacaster, a shoulder-mounted laser cannon.
Wiz: It has a tracking system connected to the Predator's Bio-Helmet, which allows him to see in X-ray, UV, and night vision. This is on top of the Predator's own unique way of seeing: through natural infrared sight. Essentially, he tracks individuals by recognizing differences in heat signatures.
Boomstick: Too bad humans can't do the same, since the Predator's full-body, light-bending camouflage makes him invisible to the naked human eye, letting him blend into the shadows and pick off his prey one-by-one.
Wiz: But as ruthless as that sounds, the Predator is actually an honorable fighter, who relishes the chance to fight up close and personal with his iconic wristblades.
Boomstick: And guess what? For as bad as this one Predator was, this dude wasn't even that special. In fact, he was actually kind of a noob. There's a whole planet of these guys!
Wiz: These are the Yautja... uh, "Yaocha"? "Ya-oocha"? "Yaucha"? They never actually say it in the movies... Yautja society is based around one thing: hunting. The bigger and deadlier the game, the more honor slaying it brings.
Boomstick: Which is why the Predators take on muscly '80s action heroes for breakfast.
Wiz: Just one failed hunt forever dooms a Yautja to humiliation or death. And since Yautja lifespans can last hundreds of years, that would mean that Elder Hunters have centuries of combat experience and have never been defeated. They have literally kept winning for hundreds of years.
Boomstick: And this is the kind of Predator we're lookin' at today. The only way to become a fully independent Hunter, a Blooded Hunter, is to slay their equally dangerous rivals: the Xenomorph. With bulletproof skin, acid blood, and retractable penis mouth, these aliens are dangerous enough to take down even the best Yautja Hunters.
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Wiz: Which is why they carry a greatly diversified arsenal compared to the original Jungle Hunter. These more exotic weapons are earned over the course of numerous successful hunts and are proof of a Yautja's mastery and experience. Like the retractable Combisticks, Netguns, and controllable Smart Discs that vibrate at supersonic speeds.
Boomstick: Allowing them to kill their ultimate equally dangerous rival: Gary Busey...
We cut back to the analysis.
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Fierce Payback Groove by Wesley Plass, Hannes Treiber, Thomas Simmerl & Willi Langer
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Wiz: They even carry a portable EMP that will disrupt all electronic devices in the vicinity, forcing their prey to fight them on their terms.
Boomstick: Which is when they break out their Plasma Scythe, made of messed up evil laser energy.
Wiz: This dark plasma the scythe emits cannot be stopped by conventional matter. Instead of merely cutting a target, its energy passes through their body, ensuring their victim will die in as little as four hits.
Boomstick: Even without his arsenal, the Predator is a literal beast. He's strong enough to tear through two inches of steel like it was tissue paper, casually invent the first Mortal Kombat Fatality, and give Mother Nature the finger. Lions, tigers, and bears, oh shit!
Wiz: It helps that Yautja armor is plasma-forged, making it incredibly durable.
Boomstick: The Predator is tough enough to tank huge gas explosions and fast enough to dodge laser beams.
Wiz: But even if a Predator is defeated, he is expected to perform one final rite: activating a countdown to a nuclear explosion that vaporizes everything within 300 city blocks. Based on the size of that blast, this would be exploding with 15 times the energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Boomstick: So, when a Pred wants you dead, there's no escape. Not even an army of Xenomorphs and their Queen are enough to take the toughest Predators down. When even Arnold fucking Schwarzenegger shits his pants in your very presence, you know you're as badass as they come; a goddamn sexual Tyrannosaurus!
Prelude
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. We've run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!
Death Battle
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If It Bleeds by Therewolf Media
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Inside a quiet green jungle at sunset, Boba Fett is patrolling an unspecified area. He soon hears rustling in the leaves and looks around to see nothing. Up in a tree from an infrared view watching him is one of the Yautja's most dangerous Predators, cloaked and unseen. Having chosen its new prey, it makes its move to a new vantage point.
Meanwhile, Boba searches some bushes only to find some corpses hanging from the trees. The hidden Predator takes aim at him from behind with its plasmacaster, while Boba insults his hunter's previous victims.
Boba Fett: Hmph... fools.
The Predator breaks the silence by taking its shot, but Boba quickly dodges it and shoots back with his EE-3 carbine, the Predator jumping away as its branch is destroyed. Realizing that he is dealing with an invisible threat, Boba Fett pulls down his infrared visor and sees tracks left behind on the trees. The cloaked Predator, behind him again, goes for the kill by leaping at him with its wristblade, but he is again aware and aims his weapon backwards at the invisible target.
Boba Fett: You're mine.
With a single shot, Boba knocks the Predator out of its invisibility into a tree and down to the ground. Boba Fett, now seeing what he was up against, walks up to deliver the finishing shot, but the Predator's shoulder cannon fires a blast that staggers him. Taking advantage of this, the Predator slashes Boba's blaster in half and kicks him away, all the while firing another plasma blast at him.
Boba Fett counters the projectile with one of his wrist-mounted laser guns and uses his jetpack to gain the high ground. After some more exchanged gunfire, Fett fires his anti-vehicle missile at the Predator, but it dodges and launches a charged emitter pulse at him, causing him to lose control of his trajectory and send him crashing into a tree.
With its opponent seemingly vulnerable on the ground, the Predator runs towards and stabs at Fett with its drawn wristblade. Boba rolls out of the way of the attack and deploys his own wrist blades. Now faced in close combat, the Predator roars and delivers a leaping slash at Fett, who blocks it. The Predator keeps up its assault, slashing repeatedly at Fett, who continues to be pushed back. One final slash at his chest armor prompts Boba to launch his fiber cord wire in an attempt to restrain his foe, only for the Predator to dodge the wire and sever it with ease.
It lunges at Fett, who fires his kneepad rockets to repel it before immediately following up with a concussion rocket. The Predator catches the projectile, which promptly detonates in its face. Unharmed, the Predator pulls out its Combistick, rushing at Boba, who counters with his gaderffii stick. The two clash repeatedly until one strong blow from the Predator leaves Boba open to a thrust from its spear, which lodges in Fett's shoulder. Boba quickly retaliates by striking the Predator on the head, dislodging the Combistick from his armor.
Stumbling back, Fett watches as the Predator pulls out two Smart-Discs and throws them directly at him. He deflects one with his gaderffii stick while the other bounces off his armor into the forest behind him. The Predator presses a button on its wrist gauntlet before using a recording of Boba Fett's own voice to taunt him.
Predator: "You're mine."
The Smart-Disc returns and slices off Fett's right arm at the unprotected area above his right elbow, making him cry out in agony. Retreating into the forest, he shoots back at his opponent with two lasers, who casually dodges them. The Predator walks up and takes Boba's amputated arm, roaring in success of obtaining a trophy. Meanwhile, Fett catches his breath behind a tree before holding it and glancing in the direction of his opponent.
Not done with its target, the Predator charges towards the tree where Boba hid behind and stabs its Combistick through the trunk. When it looks around the tree however, Fett is nowhere to be found. He is instead above the Predator on a branch, holding out a thermal detonator.
Boba Fett: Amateur.
He drops the explosive in front of its face and detonates it, erupting into a large inferno that burns most of the jungle forest to cinders. The Predator gets up with its plasma scythe in hand as its bio-mask begins malfunctioning.
Through its infrared view, it sees Boba Fett standing up and pulling out a lightsaber. Fett uses it to cauterize his arm stump and stop the bleeding, all while grunting in pain. Finished patching himself up, Boba sees his opponent's mask dropping to the ground and sees the Predator for what it is. Fett groans and shakes his head upon seeing his opponent's face.
Boba Fett: Ugh, you are one ugly motherfucker.
The Predator roars once more, but its attempt to strike him is halted by Boba's flamethrower, before both briefly enter a clash attempting to hit each other with their melee weapons. Eventually, the Predator manages to knock Boba onto the ground.
The Predator raises its scythe and roars as it prepares to throw the killing blow, but it pauses in confusion as the nearby flames interfere with its thermal vision, disorienting it and leaving it unable to locate its target. Taking advantage of the Predator's distraction, Boba gets up and slashes its chest before escaping. Meanwhile, the Predator looks around in confusion as it continues to try to find the bounty hunter.
The Predator finally notices a vertical beam of light from Fett's lightsaber coming its way and tries to block it with its plasma scythe, but is too slow to act as the lightsaber cuts through the handle, destroying the weapon, and knocks the Predator to the ground. Left with no choice given its heated situation, the downed Predator presses some buttons on its wrist device, activating its self-destruct sequence. Boba Fett stomps on the arm and gives his final words to his adversary.
Boba Fett: I'll be taking this.
Smirking, the Predator utilizes another recording of Boba's voice, taunting him one last time.
Predator: "Fools."
A massive explosion ensues soon after, leveling the entire battleground and leaving behind only a large crater. As the smoke clears, it is revealed that a victorious, albeit heftily panting, Boba Fett had survived the explosion and is walking away with his opponent's severed arm in hand as a trophy, returning to his Slave I starship in the distance as the screen cuts to black.
Results
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If It Bleeds by Therewolf Media
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Boomstick: Man, Boba was always a one-man army, even as a one-armed man!
Wiz: Despite the Predator's fearsome power and experience, Fett's versatility and arsenal allowed him to survive this hunt.
Boomstick: While Boba could crumple steel, the Predator could easily tear straight through it, making him the stronger of the two.
Wiz: But while the Predator could dodge laser beams, Fett could match Force users with near lightspeed reactions, making them similar in speed.
Boomstick: However, the major difference was durability.
Wiz: While the Predators are definitely tough, Fett's beskar armor covers more of his body, and would easily resist almost all of a Predator's arsenal.
Boomstick: Like the plasmacaster, usually hot enough to blast a hole through anything. But, you know what else is made of plasma? Lightsabers, which bounce off beskar no problem!
Wiz: Specialized tools like the Plasma Scythe, with its ability to bypass conventional matter, could manage to kill Fett with a few lucky hits. However, Fett's jetpack and long-range arsenal allowed him to fight safely from a distance.
Boomstick: And Fett's kit countered a lot of what Predator could do. His helmet's infrared could see past Pred's camouflauge, his flamethrower messed with Pred's thermal vision, and nothing the Predator had could withstand a lightsaber strike.
Wiz: Also, the Predator's EMP could not disable Fett's armor, considering beskar has withstood bolts of electromagnetic energy before without short-circuiting.
Boomstick: That's not to say the Predator was totally outmatched. He had a lot of similar gear, and a peak Predator would have had centuries of combat experience backin' him up. Way more than Boba.
Wiz: However, Fett was generally trickier. Predators fight with a code of honor and rarely, if ever, employ dirty tactics.
Boomstick: While Fett isn't totally without honor, he still employs dirty tactics to win fair fights, and was more likely to outfox the Pred given the chance.
Wiz: Of course, none of that would have mattered had the Predator taken them both out with his nuclear suicide bomb. At its epicenter, it would have been more than powerful enough to fry Fett. At its epicenter. The further away you are from the center of a blast, the less energy you're getting hit with.
Boomstick: By our calculations, Boba only needed to get about 50 meters away before the energy he was tanking was only about as much as your average thermal detonator, which the beskar can survive. And given the countdown lasts 40 seconds, there was more than enough time, especially with a jetpack. Hell, Arnie escaped the same attack just by sprinting.
Wiz: But perhaps the most important difference is the scope of their prey. Xenomorphs are definitely deadly, but they're not quite as dangerous as a master Force user who can read minds and throw starships around like they're made of paper! Fett was definitely prepared for anything the Predator could throw at him, even space magic.
We cut to Wiz and Boomstick.
Wiz: The Predator was as deadly and skilled as they come, but Fett's cunning, arsenal, and impenetrable armor gave him the win.
Boomstick: Congrats to Boba, give him a hand! Oh wait, he's already got one.
We cut to the "Winner" card.
Wiz: The winner is Boba Fett.
Comparison
Boba Fett
- + Beskar withstands nearly all of Predator's attacks
- + Lightsaber can destroy Predator's equipment
- + Greater range & battlefield control
- - Vulnerable to epicenter of nuclear blast
- - Jetpack prone to malfunction
The Predator
- + Physically stronger
- + Theoretically more experienced
- - Less varied arsenal
- - Worse mobility & battlefield control
- - Camouflage can be seen through
Original Track
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If It Bleeds by Therewolf Media
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Composition
The track for this fight is "If It Bleeds" by Therewolf Media. It is an intense score that slowly builds up and takes inspiration of the sinister notes and tones heard within the music of the Predator series, representing the suspenseful horror of said franchise alongside the calm, deadly demeanor of both combatants. It also includes orchestral parts reminiscent of the music heard in the Star Wars series, namely at the start of the track before the suspense kicks in and at the end to signify Boba Fett's victory.
Title
The title references a quote from the original Predator film: "If it bleeds, we can kill it." While there's no overt reference to Boba Fett with this line, it may also be indirectly referring to him as the Predator's opponent, as the line itself was said by one of the Predator's targets, Dutch.
Cover Art
The cover art done by John Mitchell depicts Boba Fett's EE-3 carbine rifle clashing with the Predator's wristblades, causing sparks to fly. Behind them is Boba Fett's helmet visor, where the symbols of the Predator's Self-Destruct Sequence can be seen on the lens.
Trivia
Production
- The core connections between Boba Fett and The Predator are that they are both iconic, masked '80s sci-fi movie villains who are silent, ruthless, and skilled hunters who travel throughout space and wield advanced alien technology. Both are also part of a warrior clan with a strict code of honor (the Mandalorians and the Yautja, respectively) and have repeatedly hunted and fought against a certain kind of deadly faction (the Jedi and the Xenomorphs, respectively). In addition:
- Both pilot and control their own spaceships that they use to traverse space (Slave I and Scout Ships, respectively), which had been left for them to use from a senior member of their family (Jango Fett and the Yautja Elders, respectively).
- Despite their powerful tech, both have made terrible mistakes that have led to their defeat (Boba falling into the Sarlacc pit and the Predators getting tricked by their human prey).
- Although they are typically portrayed as antagonists, both have a history of teaming up with their adversaries and even acting as mentors to them (Boba assisted the Jedi Coalition in several battles and trained Jaina Solo as his apprentice, and the Predators taught ancient humans how to build civilizations and have aided them in conflicts against Xenomorphs).
- Both wield powerful melee weapons with blades of plasma (lightsabers and the Plasma Scythe, respectively), wristblades, and a unique polearm (the Gaderffii Stick and the Combistick, respectively).
- According to the commentary for this episode, this was intended to be the Season 9 Premiere. However, it had to be pushed back, and Harley Quinn VS Jinx took its place.
- After the episode released on YouTube, Therewolf Media released an epilogue track for If It Bleeds.
- This makes it the second episode to receive an epilogue track, after Hercules VS Sun Wukong, and with the next one being Sauron VS Lich King.
Easter Eggs
- The last bullet point in Boba Fett's "Background" slide states that he is "A simple man making his way through the galaxy, like his father before him", which is a reference to a line he says in the Mandolorian episode "The Tragedy".
- Boomstick refers to Jango Fett as "Jango Unchained" in Boba Fett's analysis, which is a reference to the movie Django Unchained.
- The "lions and tigers and bears" quote in Predator's analysis is possibly a reference to Peter Keyes using the same phrase to describe the species' hunting habits in Predator 2.
- Both reference the iconic line from The Wizard of Oz.
- Boomstick calling the Predator "a goddamn sexual Tyrannosaurus" at the end of their analysis is a reference to Blain Cooper's line in the first Predator movie.
- Boba Fett's line of "Ugh, you are one ugly motherfucker." in response to Predator taking off his Bio-Mask is a direct reference to Dutch's near-verbatim response to the unmasked Jungle Hunter in the first Predator movie, as well as Mike Harrigan echoing a similar line to the unmasked City Hunter in the sequel.
- Boba Fett and the Predator's battle among the flames may be a reference to the Predators movie, where Royce employed a similar tactic to confuse and fight against the Berserker Predator.
- Boba Fett only has five lines of dialogue in the battle, a statistic he's known for in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Errors
- Mega Man's name is misspelled as "Megaman" without the space in the "As Determined in Mega Man VS Astro Boy" pop-up in Boba Fett's analysis.
- The Predator's dreadlocks are completely stiff and unflowing with their own movements when throwing its Smart-Discs, unlike the rest of the animation.
- There's a noticeable jump cut with the background that can be seen during and after the scene in which Boba Fett loses his arm, as when the Predator goes to stab through the tree with its Combistick, there was a large amount of greenery behind it before. Afterward however, when the Predator looks around the tree for Boba, most of it appears to go missing or be replaced with branches consisting of no life on them.
Other
- This is the fourth Disney-themed episode, after Beast VS Goliath, Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom, and Yoda VS King Mickey, and with the next one being Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon.
- This is the third Movies-themed episode, after Terminator VS RoboCop and Godzilla VS Gamera, and with the next three being James Bond VS John Wick, Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers, and Gru VS Megamind.
- This is the fifth Live Action-themed episode, after Terminator VS RoboCop, Godzilla VS Gamera, Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla, and The Seven Battle Royale, and with the next two being James Bond VS John Wick and Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers.
- This is the second Cartoon VS Live Action-themed episode, after Leonardo VS Red Ranger Jason, and with the next one being Rick Sanchez VS The Doctor.
- This is the first time that the Cartoon character wins.
- This is the 28th episode to feature a returning combatant, after Zitz VS Leonardo, Batman VS Captain America, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Goku VS Superman 2, Pokémon VS Digimon, Mewtwo VS Shadow, Deadpool VS Pinkie Pie, Metal Sonic VS Zero, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Black Panther VS Batman, Ryu VS Jin, Mario VS Sonic (2018), Mega Man Battle Royale, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla, Ganondorf VS Dracula, Deadpool VS Mask, Leonardo VS Red Ranger Jason, She-Ra VS Wonder Woman, Venom VS Crona, Hulk VS Broly, Shadow VS Ryuko, Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Link VS Cloud (2021), Batman VS Iron Man, Akuma VS Shao Kahn, and Thor VS Vegeta, and with the next 14 being Excalibur VS Raiden, Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha, Phoenix VS Raven, Guts VS Dimitri, Goku VS Superman (2023), Omni-Man VS Bardock, Bowser VS Eggman, Kratos VS Asura, Ghost Rider VS Spawn, Master Chief VS Doom Slayer, Spider-Man VS Deku, Aang VS Traveler, Ash VS Yugi, and Hulk VS Godzilla.
- This is the 21st episode to feature a returning loser, after Batman VS Captain America, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Goku VS Superman 2, Pokémon VS Digimon, Mewtwo VS Shadow, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Black Panther VS Batman, Ryu VS Jin, Mario VS Sonic (2018), Mega Man Battle Royale, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla, Leonardo VS Red Ranger Jason, She-Ra VS Wonder Woman, Hulk VS Broly, Shadow VS Ryuko, Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Link VS Cloud (2021), Batman VS Iron Man, and Thor VS Vegeta, and with the next eight being Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha, Goku VS Superman (2023), Bowser VS Eggman, Kratos VS Asura, Master Chief VS Doom Slayer, Spider-Man VS Deku, Ash VS Yugi, and Hulk VS Godzilla.
- This is the 10th time that a returning loser wins, after Batman VS Captain America, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Ryu VS Jin, Mario VS Sonic (2018), Leonardo VS Red Ranger Jason, She-Ra VS Wonder Woman, Shadow VS Ryuko, Link VS Cloud (2021), and Thor VS Vegeta, and with the next three being Bowser VS Eggman, Kratos VS Asura, and Master Chief VS Doom Slayer.
- This is the eighth episode to feature a double returner, after Black Panther VS Batman, Deadpool VS Mask, Leonardo VS Red Ranger Jason, She-Ra VS Wonder Woman, Shadow VS Ryuko, Batman VS Iron Man, and Thor VS Vegeta, and with the next two being Goku VS Superman (2023) and Hulk VS Godzilla.
- This is the 21st episode to feature a returning loser, after Batman VS Captain America, Boba Fett VS Samus Aran (2015), Goku VS Superman 2, Pokémon VS Digimon, Mewtwo VS Shadow, Thor VS Wonder Woman, Black Panther VS Batman, Ryu VS Jin, Mario VS Sonic (2018), Mega Man Battle Royale, Captain Marvel VS Shazam, Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla, Leonardo VS Red Ranger Jason, She-Ra VS Wonder Woman, Hulk VS Broly, Shadow VS Ryuko, Lex Luthor VS Doctor Doom, Link VS Cloud (2021), Batman VS Iron Man, and Thor VS Vegeta, and with the next eight being Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha, Goku VS Superman (2023), Bowser VS Eggman, Kratos VS Asura, Master Chief VS Doom Slayer, Spider-Man VS Deku, Ash VS Yugi, and Hulk VS Godzilla.
- This is the ninth episode in which only one combatant received a voice actor, after Mario VS Sonic (2011), Luke Skywalker VS Harry Potter, Eggman VS Wily, Hulk VS Doomsday, Lucario VS Renamon, Crash VS Spyro, Blake VS Mikasa, and Link VS Cloud (2021), and with the next one being Skyrim VS Dark Souls.
- This is the 17th episode to have an Antagonist defeat a Protagonist, after Vegeta VS Shadow, Godzilla VS Gamera, Ryu VS Scorpion, Darth Vader VS Doctor Doom, Joker VS Sweet Tooth, Mewtwo VS Shadow, Hulk VS Doomsday, Android 18 VS Captain Marvel, Sephiroth VS Vergil, Gray VS Esdeath, Winter Soldier VS Red Hood, Venom VS Crona, Hulk VS Broly, Shadow VS Ryuko, DIO VS Alucard, and Harley Quinn VS Jinx, and with the next four being Black Adam VS Apocalypse, Darth Vader VS Obito Uchiha, Bill Cipher VS Discord, and Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat.
- This episode reached #2 on YouTube's Trending page.
- This is the only mid-season finale to not show any characters who will appear in the second half of the season.