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Optimus Prime VS Gundam is the 98th episode of Death Battle, featuring Optimus Prime from the Transformers series and Amuro Ray and the RX-78-2 Gundam from the Mobile Suit Gundam series in a battle between iconic giant robot space soldiers. Optimus was voiced by Richard Barcenas and Amuro was voiced by David Matranga.
Interlude
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Wiz & Boomstick by Brandon Yates  
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Wiz: Across this vast world of different nations with different people, it is the clash of opinions which truly divides us. However, there is one universal truth, which absolutely everyone can agree on.
Boomstick: Giant robots are freaking awesome! Like Optimus Prime, the original G1 Transformer.
Wiz: And the RX-78-2, the original Mobile Suit Gundam.
Boomstick: These aren't just any robots. They're the old-school classics! The first of their kind, and we're in for a robo-battle of East versus West!
Wiz: Well, Optimus was originally a Japanese toy—
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.
Optimus Prime
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Deus Ex Machina by Darren Leigh Purkiss & Stephen Baysted 
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Wiz: Millions of years ago, on a distant planet called Cybertron, a great unrest grew between two factions of robotic beings: the Decepticons and the Autobots. With little warning, they found themselves entangled in civil war.
Boomstick: Led by that douchebag Megatron, the Decepticons started gunning down any bot they pleased for basically no reason, including some guy named Orion Pax, which will be important later. Rest in peace, ro-bro.
Wiz: What Megatron didn't know was that this seemingly random encounter would end up reshaping the universe.
Boomstick: Thanks to a robot Gandalf, Orion Pax was rebuilt into something bigger, stronger, and way more recognizable.
Wiz: The newest commander of the Autobots had risen: Optimus Prime.
Optimus: The Autobots will never sacrifice freedom.
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Cyber Warfare by Darren Leigh Purkiss
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Boomstick: Optimus is a powerful warrior, with tons of awesome robo-powers.
Wiz: As a Transformer, he can scan nearby objects and morph his body to resemble one, becoming a robot in disguise.
Boomstick: His favorite is a classic 1979 Kenworth K-100 tractor, an oldie but a goodie which sports 500 horsepower and can book it over 80 miles per hour. He even gets a trailer, which, when he doesn't need it, mysteriously disappears into thin air. No, really. Where the hell does that thing go? I need to know.
Wiz: More importantly, the lifeforce of every Transformer resides in their spark, sort of like a soul, and Optimus is no different, except that his spark gives him a few unique abilities.
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Night Strider by Darren Leigh Purkiss
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Boomstick: Yeah, his spark's pretty rare. Compared to other robo-people, it gives him increased strength, speed, and durability. He can shoot laser beams from his hands, fly with either a jetpack or his feet boosters, and move his limbs around while they're detached like some sort of ghost robot Rayman. Ooooh~!
Wiz: Optimus is referred to as a point one-percenter; that is how rare a being of his caliber is.
Boomstick: Is that what all those people on Wall Street were protesting?
Wiz: Even then, many of Optimus' abilities are further enhanced thanks to his possession of one of the most powerful artifacts in Cybertron's history: the Matrix of Leadership.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, you know, it's nothing much, just a PIECE OF ROBOT GOD!
Wiz: The Matrix is a conduit for the power of Primus, the creator of the Transformer race. With this, Optimus can heal some of his most grievous wounds.
Boomstick: But not all the time, like, you know, when he died.
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Optimus Prime vs. Megatron by Vince DiCola
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Optimus: And use the power of the Matrix to light our darkest hour...
Wiz: Well, he has an impressive arsenal to hopefully keep that particular problem from coming up again.
Boomstick: Hah... yeah... Never again...
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End Game by Jeff Dale & Tim Reilly
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Boomstick: Regardless, he wields the Ion Blaster, a giant death cannon which Prime one-hands like a boss! This big ol' rifle fires bolts of energy strong enough to take down most Decepticons, and can even be fired into space from ground level! Even better, it never seems to run out of ammo! Ah, one can only dream...
Wiz: Optimus Prime also carries numerous weapons composed of Energon, a raw energy force used by Transformers to power their technology and, well, themselves.
Boomstick: He's got a glowy Energon Axe and Energon Swords, perfect for slicing up robots of all sizes, and I guess they probably work pretty good on people too.
Wiz: Fighting fire with fire, Optimus Prime led the fight against the Decepticons for several millennia. Eventually, the war even found its way to our own Earth.
Boomstick: But we've got nothing to worry about with Optimus protecting the planet. He's tanked blasts that would tear other bots apart. Like when this mega-refinery exploded, it could be seen from outer space!
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Ring Fighter by Terry Devine-King
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Boomstick: He's punched the ground so hard the trees around him freakin' exploded.
Wiz: Child's play, Boomstick! He's strong enough to tip this large oil tanker, which, when compared to the real-life Seawise Giant, must weigh over 700,000 tons.
Boomstick: He's thrown a satellite into orbit, and punched hard enough to crack Sixshot's chest plate.
Wiz: Who boasted that his armor was drawn from the compacted subatomic matter from a collapsed star. Just to let you know, such a star would have a density of over 300 billion tons per cubic inch. While great density does not necessarily beget great toughness, this still means that Sixshot's armor was 500 billion times more dense than osmium, the most dense natural material on Earth.
Boomstick: (to himself) YOU'RE the most dense natural material on Earth...
Wiz: What'd you say?
Boomstick: And our robo-commander wrecked it! He's fast enough to catch up to this Decepticon space shuttle in just 23 seconds!
Wiz: Given the size of the Earth here and angle of ascent, we can determine he's moving around 125,000 miles per hour. He's also a talented leader, capable of commanding a thousand battles at the same time via the Omniglobe.
Boomstick: Like Skynet, but in a giant disco ball. He's used that crazy strength of his to punch through Megatron, who once tanked an explosion big enough to knock Cybertron out of orbit, and thanks to the weird robo-magic of the Matrix, he's even defeated Unicorn—
Wiz: Unicron.
Boomstick: Who's basically a giant robot Satan who eats planets! This guy is unstoppable!
Wiz: Not necessarily. Optimus is certainly powerful, but after all is said and done, he has one major weakness...
Optimus: To violate that law would destroy our honor.
Wiz: He's just too nice.
Boomstick: Yeah, he's kinda all about the whole "honor" and "fair fighting" thing, which kinda screwed him over more than once, and even gotten him killed! Multiple times! Plus, he killed himself once just because he accidentally broke the rules in a freaking game! Damn!
Megatron: Prime!
Optimus: One shall stand, one shall fall!
RX-78-2 Gundam
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Red Machine by Dan Weniger Ft. Sean Tyas 
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Wiz: In the year 2179, humanity has embraced the stars.
Boomstick: Well, mostly.
Wiz: Right, after a somewhat united humanity expanded across the solar system, the ideologies between those on Earth and those in space began to drift apart. A new Spacenoid republic, the Principality of Zeon, arose to challenge the Earth Federation.
Boomstick: Spacenoid? That like the Domino's Pizza mascot, but in space?
Wiz: No, more like space Nazis.
We see members of the Spacenoid do a straight arm salute and chant.
Boomstick: Oh. Well, I guess it's no surprise that they started a war, by gassing a populated space colony and dropping the whole thing on the planet! Man, that's messed up, but that's just how it started. For the real star of the show, some smart guys put their heads together and came up with the coolest thing they could think of: Giant fighting robots!
Wiz: These were mobile suits, and one of Earth's... nuttier engineers had developed a suit which would put all others to shame. This was the RX-78-2, otherwise known as the Gundam.
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Power Within by Chris Blackwell & Darren Leigh Purkiss
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Boomstick: There have been lots of mobile suits named Gundam, but this was the original granddaddy of 'em all.
Wiz: This experimental mobile suit was hidden on a remote colony, but before its maiden voyage with the equally classified White Base could begin, it was caught in a surprise Zeon attack.
Boomstick: With just two Zaku suits, the space Nazis wiped out almost all of the White Base's military crew. The only people left to save these secret projects were civilians, who had no idea these things even existed.
Wiz: Among those who rose up was a young boy named Amuro Ray. Brilliant, albeit standoffish, Amuro was actually the son of the Gundam's chief engineer, and had already stumbled upon the mech's coded blueprints.
Boomstick: So, he grabbed the owner's manual, jumped in the Gundam, and flew into the fight. Damn! Not too shabby for going off just the manual.
Wiz: Amuro quickly adapted to its complex controls, thanks to its Learning Computer system, designed so the Gundam itself can learn its pilot's limitations and compensate.
Boomstick: Its body is made of a super durable Luna Titanium alloy called Gundarium, of course...
Wiz: Yet another fictional metal that's way better than anything in real life.
Boomstick: For weapons, it's got twin 60mm Vulcan guns for ears, it's got a shield that can block shots strong enough to take down warships, and a Gravity Hammer, a supersized flail that's rocket-propelled! Whoever came up with that is my goddamn hero. Same with the guy who built the ultra-destructive Beam Rifle.
Wiz: That would be the ingenious Doctor Minovsky. Thanks to him, the Beam Rifle is a marvelous feat of weapons engineering. Minovsky had developed a way to miniaturize the enormous mega particle canons found on warships without losing any power.
Boomstick: The result is a Gundam-sized rifle that can take down entire fleets of ships all on its own! It's like having a pistol with all the power of a thousand tanks.
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Mother Ship Attack by Chris Egan & Andrew Cooksley
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Wiz: A single shot could easily tear through a 13,000-ton Musai-class warship. Given the official stats of this ship, to tear it asunder like so would require a strike worth nearly 9,000 tons of TNT.
Boomstick: Sure, the Beam Rifle only has 16 shots, but who really cares when you just need one?
Wiz: Last, but not least, the Gundam carries two retractable Beam Sabers.
Boomstick: 'Cause you can't have space battles without royalty-free lightsabers.
Wiz: But all these amazing weapons would be useless without an exceptional pilot. Despite still technically being a civilian, Amuro became the main pilot for the Gundam. Turns out, his skill was mostly thanks to his previously unknown abilities; Amuro was a Newtype.
Boomstick: Like a Pokémon?
Wiz: See, apparently, humankind was never meant to live under gravity's pull. In space, without it literally weighing down their souls, some humans developed psychic powers.
Boomstick: That is the dumbest backstory for why someone gets powers, and we've heard a lot of 'em, Wiz. So, what, he can like, read minds or something?
Wiz: Sort of. These powers and their capabilities have little definition, often differing between different people. Most Newtypes can instantly understand each other upon contact, even drawing kinship between sworn enemies. Amuro's abilities, in particular, grant him something akin to precognition; he can predict exactly what will happen on the battlefield and where his enemies will be, and can capitalize on it if he reacts fast enough.
Pilot: How could he possibly predict I'd attack from the other side?
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Challenge for the Stars by Paul Mottram
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Boomstick: He's shot down targets too fast for the eye to see and navigated his friends through a collapsing fortress with no casualties. By the end of the war, his own reflexes were pushing the limits of the Gundam itself.
Wiz: A magnetic coating was added to the Gundam to compensate, reducing the suit's friction and increasing its speed by 27%.
Boomstick: Over 14 years of military service, Amuro became a legendary pilot.
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Heroes of the West by Ceiri Torjussen
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Boomstick: He even learned how to use these super fast funnel guns with his psycho-whatzit powers.
Wiz: Speaking of speed, the Gundam is comparable to the Red Zaku piloted by Amuro's rival Char, which is three times faster than the standard green model.
Boomstick: During the first large-scale battle with mobile suits, a Zaku flew through the battlefield in seven seconds.
Wiz: By comparing the 1,072-foot-long Magellan-class starships in the distance, we can tell the Zaku flew over seven miles.
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Challenge for the Stars by Paul Mottram
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Wiz: This puts the standard Zaku's top speed just under Mach 5. When tripled to compare to Char, this means the Gundam can move at least 11,000 miles per hour, 15 times the speed of sound. Highballing it with Amuro's Newtype powers and magnetic coating, it's possible the Gundam can move as fast as Mach 25, though anything over that would put it dangerously close to re-entry speeds, which its chassis cannot survive on its own.
Boomstick: The Gundam is strong enough to lift and throw this goofy mobile suit, and tough enough to power through a magnetic field that's 7,200°F. It's survived plenty of really big explosions, including a detonating asteroid and a nuclear blast which wrecked Amuro's home colony. I bet it could wipe out the space Nazis all on its own!
Wiz: It nearly did! Amuro and his Gundam were instrumental to the war effort. It doesn't matter how much the Gundam was burned. It would always stand up, dispel the fear, and fly.
Amuro's Gundam slices through several Zaku suits.
Amuro: Die!
Prelude
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!
Boomstick: But first, let me transform your eating habits!
Wiz and Boomstick read out an advertisement for Blue Apron.
Boomstick: But right now, IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!
Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!... giant robot fight!(The transcript below is exclusive to the YouTube version of the episode.)
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!
Boomstick: But first, let me transform your eating habits!
Wiz and Boomstick read out an advertisement for Blue Apron.
Boomstick: But right now, IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!
(The transcript below is exclusive to the Rooster Teeth version of the episode.)
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all!
Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!... giant robot fight!Death Battle
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In the middle of an asteroid field, there is a spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, apparently abandoned.
Suddenly, a laser cuts through a wall and the RX-78-2 Gundam enters the ship.
Sayla: Amuro! Amuro, come in! Where are you?
Amuro: I'm checking something out, Sayla. It's more than meets the eye!
Sayla: Get your butt back to White Base! If there's trouble, we can't send backup.
A red truck suddenly starts its engine and drives towards the Gundam.
Optimus: Let's roll!
Noticing the attack, the Gundam turns around to see the truck transforming into another giant robot, Optimus Prime, who punches the Gundam out of the ship and into space.
The Gundam starts firing some laser beams, which Optimus avoids with ease.
Amuro: It's an enemy mobile suit!
Sayla: I told you. I TOLD YOU!
Optimus makes the same move but the Gundam covers with its shield.
Amuro: Ngha! It's too fast!
Optimus hides behind an asteroid which gets destroyed immediately. He fires at the Gundam and manages to hit its right leg. Amuro's Newtype powers kick in at this point.
Amuro: There you are!
Amuro aims at Optimus and hits him, causing him to fly towards the ship, with Amuro following behind attacking Optimus with his shield. However, Optimus punches the Gundam's rifle away and uses his axe as the Gundam uses its beam saber to defend itself.
Optimus: Vile Decepticon! I have been in battle for countless eons!
Optimus breaks the stalemate and dropkicks the Gundam away. He then charges towards the Gundam. The Gundam tries to punch Optimus, but Optimus dodges to the side before transforming into vehicle mode and ramming the Gundam. Optimus then swings his axe to destroy the Gundam, but Amuro's Newtype powers kick in again, allowing it to block the attack at the cost of its shield. It then takes out its second beam saber, knocking Optimus back with it and then throwing one as a Beam Javelin, which hits Optimus square in the chest. The Gundam then charges to attack Optimus again.
Optimus: Not today!
Optimus fires his Ion Blaster at the ground behind the Gundam, sending it flying towards him, allowing him to strike the Gundam and send it flying away, before removing the beam javelin from his chest. The Gundam's beam rifle strikes its head as it's flying away, which the Gundam then grabs.
Amuro: Only one shot left...
Amuro takes aim and fires, hitting Optimus square on and destroying the ship the two were fighting on. Optimus falls off, lamenting the fate of his fellow Autobots inside.
Optimus: No... NO!!!
As Optimus is falling, he ends up falling straight into the Gundam, who is similarly sent falling to Earth. The two robots re-enter the Atmosphere, with the Gundam reaching the ground first.
Amuro: Ugh... I hate gravity...
He then looks to the side and Optimus lands, his impact creating a dust cloud which obscures Amuro's vision. His Newtype powers kick in, alerting him to Optimus jumping out of the cloud and firing his Ion Blaster. However, Amuro can't react in time and the Gundam gets hit. The Gundam then takes out its one remaining Beam Saber and leaps towards Optimus, slicing through the Ion Blaster. However, Optimus takes the opportunity to counter and starts relentlessly punching and kicking the Gundam as it tries to fight back. The Gundam then backs away and sees Optimus coming from above with his axe. Amuro barely avoids the hit and stabs through Optimus' arm with his beam saber before punching Optimus, knocking him to the ground.
Amuro: Not bad...
The Gundam then approaches Optimus and lifts him by the head, preparing to finish him off.
Amuro: I'm just better.
Optimus has one last trick up his sleeve and starts reaching towards his chest piece.
Optimus: I must stand... so you shall fall!
As Optimus says this, he opens his chest piece and unleashes a giant energy blast from the Matrix of Leadership, striking the Gundam clean through the chest. Amuro lets out a final cry as a massive explosion occurs. Once the dust clears, Optimus is seen standing over the only thing left of his foe: the Gundam's head.
Results
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Boomstick: He's got the touch! He's got the poweeeeer!
Wiz: The Gundam was an impressive machine and Amuro was a skilled pilot, but Optimus' millions of years of battle experience completely overshadowed Amuro's 14. Also, we already know that Optimus was over six times faster and 9,000 times stronger.
Boomstick: Holy hell! Who knew Optimus was so freakin' buff?! But the Gundam held plenty of its own advantages. With Amuro's super future-sense powers, he could keep up with Optimus' speed. And with the Gundam's firepower, who cares how much it could lift?
Wiz: Unfortunately, the Gundam's limited ammunition meant this couldn't last. And even then, Optimus could certainly survive a shot from the Beam Rifle.
Boomstick: Remember that refinery explosion Optimus survived? The one you could see from outer space?
Wiz: This blast left an enormous gash on the planet Cybertron. To measure the power of this explosion, we needed to compare it to the curve of the planet. Now, Cybertron's size is pretty inconsistent throughout G1 Transformers history, but even when using the alternating sizes between the cartoon and the comics, the blast is far more destructive than the Beam Rifle in both cases.
Boomstick: And Optimus just walked right out of that bitch! And this isn't some weird outlier just out of the comics, either. In the cartoon, Megatron survived a blast that pushed Cybertron out of orbit! And he's pretty comparable to Optimus!
Wiz: To be fair, the Gundam boasted some impressive durability feats, too.
Boomstick: Like when Amuro accidentally blew up a Zaku's nuclear reactor right in his own face! Hey, give him a break. It was his first time.
Wiz: This explosion created a hole in the space colony which sucked out Amuro's father—
Boomstick: Whoops! On the bright side, he's gonna save some money on Father's Day gifts, right?
Wiz: And with his height in mind, we deduced the scope of the explosion.
Boomstick: It's over 150,000 kilotons of TNT. That's 10,000 times more powerful than the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima. But still nowhere close to the refinery explosion Optimus survived.
Wiz: Also, the Gundam couldn't dodge Optimus' Ion Blaster forever. It was fast enough to strike targets in orbit from ground level. That puts its laser speed over three million miles per hour.
Boomstick: Even when he knew it was coming, Amuro couldn't react quick enough to dodge or block anything that fast. And even then, Optimus' time in the Omniglobe proves he can think way faster than Amuro.
Wiz: And just to blow your mind even more, in order to obliterate Unicron with the Matrix, the energy output must've equaled more than... ahem... 40 yottatons of TNT.
Boomstick: Like the Star Wars guy?!
Cue Yoda laughing.
Boomstick: And you know what they say: size matters not, especially when Optimus has defeated opponents as big as Devastator.
Wiz: The Gundam was a powerful mobile suit with some astonishing firepower, but was ultimately outmatched by the Autobot's strength, speed, durability, and experience.
Boomstick: I'd say Optimus was Primed for this fight!
We cut to the "Winner" card.
Wiz: The winner is Optimus Prime.
Original Track
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Composition
The track for this fight is "Wings of Iron" by Therewolf Media ft. Daniel Vincent Galvan and Cameron Sather (both of whom go uncredited on the track cover). It's a lyrical rock track meant to represent the rock and roll songs of the 80's often used with cartoon heroes of the aforementioned era of television shows.
Title
The title refers to how both Optimus Prime and the Gundam are machines made of metal (represented by iron) that also have the ability of flight, although it can also be viewed more as a symbolization of their heroic natures.
Cover Art
The cover art depicts Optimus' Energon Axe chopping into the Gundam's Heatproof Shield.
Music Video
Lyrics
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Trivia
Production
- The connections between Optimus Prime and the RX-78-2 Gundam are that they are both iconic 80s giant robots that are the faces of their franchises, as well as legendary symbols and soldiers of their heroic space-spanning alliances dedicated to fighting for justice and freedom (the Autobots and the Earth Federation, respectively). Both also use energy weapons (the Energon Axe and Ion Blaster, and the Beam Saber and Beam Rifle, respectively), have unique power sources (Energon and the Minovsky fusion reactor, respectively), and have background stories that take place during civil wars that involve Earth as a major factor (the Great War and the One Year War, respectively).
- According to former researcher MaxOfFewTrades, this episode replaced Blake VS Mikasa in Season 5 because the crew wanted to use Optimus before Episode 100.[1]
- The Gundam was originally planned to deploy its heatproof film during its fall from orbit in the fight. However, it was scrapped due to lack of resources and time, leading to the Gundam seemingly surviving reentry without it despite Wiz highlighting the exact opposite in its analysis.[2]
Easter Eggs
- Wiz's final line in Optimus' analysis is comprised of lyrics from "The Touch" by Stan Bush, the famous song from The Transformers: The Movie.
- Boomstick sings lyrics from this song at the start of the post-analysis in response to Optimus' victory.
- Amuro's first line while exploring the Ark, "It's more than meets the eye!" is a reference to the iconic tagline of the Transformers franchise, "More Than Meets The Eye".
- Several pieces of Optimus' choreography resemble scenes from The Transformers: The Movie, such as his two-handed strike that sent the RX-78-2 into the air resembling his last hit on Megatron in their final battle and him jumping over Amuro as he shoots the Gundam on Earth resembling his first attacks after transforming to robot mode after joining the Battle of Autobot City.
- Optimus spinning his tires to kick the Gundam is a reference to the episode "One Shall Fall" from Transformers: Prime, where Optimus does the same thing to Megatron.
- Optimus' "I must stand... so you shall fall!" line before he kills Amuro is a direct reference to his famous "One shall stand, one shall fall." line from The Transformers: The Movie.
Errors
- Despite Boomstick mentioning in the Gundam's analysis that the Beam Rifle only has 16 shots, Amuro claims to have "one shot left" after already firing at Optimus 16 times during the opening gunfight, thus making the last shot an impossible 17th.
- While the post-analysis mentions the need to calculate the refinery explosion by comparing it to Cybertron's varying sizes to determine how powerful it is, the episode never actually mentions what its results would end up being, simply suggesting off-hand that the 150,000 kiloton feat the Gundam had was "nowhere close" to it.
Other
- Excluding sprite animations with hand-drawn shots, this is the second episode to be animated in more than one animation style, after Metal Sonic VS Zero, and with the next five being Deadpool VS Mask, Macho Man VS Kool-Aid Man, Saitama VS Popeye, Bill Cipher VS Discord, and Goku VS Superman (2023).
- This is the third giant robot-themed episode, after Tigerzord VS Gundam Epyon and Power Rangers VS Voltron, and with the next one being Dragonzord VS Mechagodzilla.
- It is the first one not to feature a character from the Power Rangers series.
- This is the third Cartoon VS Anime/Manga-themed episode, after Gaara VS Toph and Samurai Jack VS Afro Samurai, and with the next four being Aang VS Edward Elric, Zuko VS Shoto Todoroki, Saitama VS Popeye, and Frieza VS Megatron.
- This is the fifth Comic Book VS Anime/Manga-themed episode, after Goku VS Superman 1, Goku VS Superman 2, Android 18 VS Captain Marvel, and Carnage VS Lucy, and with the next 11 being Mob VS Tatsumaki, Genos VS War Machine, Venom VS Crona, Hulk VS Broly, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Saitama VS Popeye, Thor VS Vegeta, Magneto VS Tetsuo, Trunks VS Silver, Frieza VS Megatron, and Goku VS Superman (2023).
- This is the third time that the Comic Book character wins, after Goku VS Superman 1 and Goku VS Superman 2, and with the next eight being Mob VS Tatsumaki, Genos VS War Machine, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Saitama VS Popeye, Thor VS Vegeta, Magneto VS Tetsuo, Trunks VS Silver, and Goku VS Superman (2023).
- This is the first 3D fight that isn't animated by Torrian Crawford since Goku VS Superman, which came out over five years prior to this episode.
- This is the second episode to feature an original track with lyrics by Therewolf Media that isn't a collaboration with Brandon Yates, after Ryu VS Jin, and with the next six being Ben 10 VS Green Lantern, Hulk VS Broly, Sauron VS Lich King, Stitch VS Rocket Raccoon, Gojo VS Makima, and Scooby-Doo VS Courage the Cowardly Dog.
- On January 20th, 2024, the DEATH BATTLE! YouTube channel uploaded the full fight animation of this episode on its own.
- This makes it the second episode whose full fight was reuploaded by itself, after Ryu VS Jin, and with the next 11 being Korra VS Storm, Harley Quinn VS Jinx, Flash VS Sonic, Deadpool VS Mask, Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia, Link VS Cloud (2021), Iron Fist VS Po, Omni-Man VS Homelander, Wolverine VS Raiden, Zelda VS Peach, and Magneto VS Tetsuo.