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Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat is the 197th episode of Death Battle, featuring Wile E. Coyote from the Looney Tunes series and Tom Cat from the Tom and Jerry series in a battle between hilariously unsuccessful cartoon chasers. Wile E. and Tom were both voiced by Billy B Burson III.

Interlude

As Tom recovers from Jerry escaping his clutches yet again, he turns around to find an angry Wile. E holding a sign saying "You foolish furball! You cost me my dinner!" The screen pauses and grays out as Ringmaster shouts...

The screen then statics into playing the Death Battle intro.

Wiz & Boomstick
by Brandon Yates

Wiz: Wile E. Coyote, the fastest and furriest-est of the Looney Tunes.

Boomstick: Tom Cat, the powerhouse pussycat from Tom and Jerry.

Wiz: The fans voted for it, and we're here to deliver.

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.

Wile E. Coyote

Western Myth
by TienYinMen

Wiz: In tales told over shimmering campfire by the tribespeople of North America, there was no figure so cunning, so bold... as Coyote. To the Miwok, he was a Prometheus who stole fire from the heavens to give to humanity. To the Secwépemc, he was a foolish trickster who could die and return to life.

Catch Me If You Can
by Wilfred Burns

Boomstick: And to the brothers Warner... he's just a poor, dumb schmuck who can't catch a break.

Wiz: To this day, the great Coyote stalks the American Southwest, hunting his indefatigable prey, the Road Runner, and this modern "Wile E. Coyote" is driven by a ruthless entrepreneurial spirit.

Boomstick: Yeah, and it drove him straight off a cliff. He'll chase that bird-shaped happily ever after to his own inevitable undoing. Such is the lot of the common man...

Wiz: You might not expect it from an anthropomorphic canine Job, but Wile E. was born the son of world-famous hunter Cage E. Coyote. His father raised him from infancy to hound his avian adversary, and forbade him to speak until he tasted victory.

Wiz: On the face, an easy task; coyotes are incredibly adaptable predators, capable of hunting in both rural and urban environments.

Boomstick: They're also speedy little demons. They can sprint at up to 43 miles per hour, though that's cold comfort when that blue meeping bastard can make beams of light look stone still, or outrun a car that was moving fast enough to travel through time.

Wiz: Frankly, it's incredible that Wile E. manages to consistently keep up with his prey at all, but he does.

Boomstick: No, really; it's actually stated that only a, quote, "tiny little extra burst of speed" separates the Coyote and the Road Runner.

Boomstick: Heck, Bugs Bunny himself needed to take super speed supplements in order to move fast enough to outrun Wile E.

Wiz: But "almost as fast" isn't fast enough. Fortunately, Wile E.'s got an endless assortment of gadgets, gizmos, and reams of blueprints to make up the difference.

Who Was That Lady?
by David Lindup

Boomstick: He's got your classics like dynamite, anvils, and spring-loaded boxing gloves, along with heavier artillery like heat-seeking missiles, a 10-billion-volt electromagnet, and a fricking trebuchet, a Reddit favorite.

Wiz: Many of which he invented himself and uses in excruciatingly detailed schemes... that inevitably go awry. Despite being a self-described "super genius", Wile E. has an officially measured IQ... of 3.

Boomstick: That's... the same IQ as a cactus.

Wiz: OK, OK, the test results were fake, but he's still an idiot.

Boomstick: So, why not let a soulless corporation do the hard work for him?

Wiz: ACME sells any product that you can imagine, and Wile E. is their most devoted customer, contributing up to 99% of its multi-billion-dollar revenue.

Boomstick: "Thanks for the inherited wealth, Pops! Oh, don't worry; I'm spending it all in one place!"

Wiz: He's got an ACME Book of Magic, ACME Clone-O-Matic, ACME Death Ray, ACME City-in-a-Box, ACME Universal Remote, which can pause, fast-forward, and rewind a person through time.

Boomstick: Too bad half the stuff Wile E. uses is intentionally sabotaged, because ACME's board of directors... is exclusively Road Runners. My man cannot catch a break, but he sure can take some punishment!

Sporting Chase
by Lee Jacobs

Wiz: No matter the severity of his failures, Wile E. is still a Toon, and can bounce back from just about anything.

Boomstick: He's been sliced, stabbed, squashed, exploded, melted, blasted into a constellation, and overall verbed for the last 87 years straight, without ever actually dying. He once got fully disintegrated into ash, and popped back up like it was nothing.

Wiz: Similar to the immortal Coyote of Secwépemc legend.

Boomstick: He's also shattered the fourth wall tons of times, and even left the comic page entirely to catch the Road Runner. Aw, so close!

Wiz: Believe it or not, there is actually a biological reason for these abilities: Looney DNA. Every Toon's got it, not just the looney ones, and it's what lets them survive fatal damage up to being fully erased off the page, essentially dictating their personal slice of reality to whatever is funny.

Boomstick: Like how gravity only affects the coyote when he looks down.

Wiz: Toons are immune to the laws of physics as we know them.

Boomstick: That's why Wile E. developed a counter to this immortality: the Looney DNA Dissolver, which leaves Toons vulnerable to fatal wounds the same way we are. Yet again, so close! You can't say he hasn't tried everything.

Madcap Chase
by Daryl Griffith

Wiz: It was Wile E.'s experience as a veteran Toon that landed him a job at ACME Looniversity, as department chair of the School of Hard Knocks, teaching up-and-coming Tiny Toons how to use their abilities.

Boomstick: OK, so Naruto.

Wiz: And just like Naruto's jutsus, Toon Force works like an actual power system, with more experienced Toons like Wile E. who are more powerful than their younger counterparts.

Boomstick: And that means Wile E. should be capable of replicating feats and abilities performed by any other Looney Tune, like traveling between different mediums or altering the plot of the cartoon he's in.

Wiz: And my favorite was the time Plucky Duck used Marvin the Martian's matter transmogrifier to suck up the entire universe.

Boomstick: And then suck up the animator animating his universe.

Wiz: And then suck up the animator's universe, for good measure.

Boomstick: Wile E.'s got a cushy tenured job teaching that stuff; impressive for an abject failure at his life mission. He's helped stop a meteor from destroying Earth, beat the Monstars in basketball, and even... Whoa, snap! CAUGHT THE ROAD RUNNER! Aw, wait, never mind; so damn close!

Wiz: According to 1977's Tweety and Sylvester issue 67, Wile E. Coyote has attempted to catch the Road Runner 4,776,842 times. Scaling to the present, that's over 10 million failures.

Boomstick: That takes dedication. Or, maybe self-destructive stubbornness, too blinded by bird lust to see the forest for the trees.

Wiz: But ACME's intentional malfunctions and Coyote's recklessness don't account for all of his catastrophes. There's something else, something grander, otherworldly, standing in the way of our furry friend's salvation.

Boomstick: Wiz, there's no other way to say it: God is just plain out to get this guy.

Wiz: And by "God", we mean the closest thing that exists for Coyote and Road Runner: Chuck Jones.

Out And About
by David Hart

Boomstick: The guy that created them and helped forge the Looney Tunes into how we know them today.

Wiz: Originally meant to be a parody of earlier chase cartoons like... well, Tom and Jerry, Jones established several "rules" for their animated shorts that superseded Coyote's reality-warping Toon abilities.

Boomstick: Rules that cover his obsession, faulty products, and the fact that no outside force, not even the Road Runner, is to blame for his defeat; just him.

Wiz: While other creatives have altered this formula in the decades since Jones's departure, these "rules" have effectively made the Coyote's defeats cosmically ordained.

Boomstick: God nerfed Wile E. Coyote. In all our years making Death Battle, we have never seen a handicap like that.

Wiz: But what else can you expect from our fanatical furry failson? He's the sultan of slapstick, the CEO of second place, the swing-and-a-miss superstar. As long as he picks himself back up and dusts off the ashes, that'll never be all, folks, for Wile E. Coyote.

Tom Cat

High Day
by Buddy Abinger

Wiz: The year was 1939. War raged in Europe between the British Tommies and the German Jerries. As the beleaguered English made their miraculous escape from the German encirclement off the coast of Dunkirk, one might have called the battle a... "game of cat and mouse"?

Boomstick: Oh, wow, is that actually where their names come from? I'm looking this up.

Just a Matter of Time
by Dick Walter

Wiz: Regardless of their names' origin, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's infamous cat-and-mouse duo became the undisputed kings of slapstick comedy.

Boomstick: The formula is simple, and we all know it: Tom Cat chases Jerry Mouse around the house; brutal, bone-shaking, "I felt that in my balls" violence ensues; and Tom is reprimanded by Mammy Two Shoes.

Wiz: Who is... uh... let's say, very much from the 1940s.

Boomstick: And if you're like me, all you wanted to see was Tom wipe that smug smirk off that little rat's face. Despite my well-documented hatred of cats, even I've gotta cringe at years of propaganda to convince us to side with the filthy, flea-ridden rodent over man's second-best friend. Oh, begone...

Wiz: House cats like Tom are actually some of Earth's most successful predators. They can run up to 30 miles per hour, leap six feet high, and, despite being commonly perceived as nocturnal, they're actually crepuscular, and hunt in the dawn and evening.

Boomstick: Tom specifically is a British Shorthair. They're strong, stocky Roman cats bred to withstand harsh conditions, and for Tom, "harsh conditions" is an understatement.

Fast Chase
by Jaime Grantt

Wiz: Tom has collected a crazy assortment of weapons in his war against mouse-kind. Sure, most of it is the stuff you can find around the average American household, like baseball bats, lead pipes, and...

Boomstick: And guns! Lots and lots of guns. But he's got wackier things, like a magic wand, a robo-cat, vanishing cream, and a Smart Cap that gives him all the knowledge in the world.

Wiz: I'm partial to the Sword of Light and Dark, which severs you from your own shadow, or the Rewind Remote, which can move your victim backwards through time.

Boomstick: And you can't forget the Kat Car and Kat Jet, spelled with "K"s, of course, but just the "Kat" part.

Mad Dash
by Carl Johnson

Wiz: Tom's arsenal is heavily improvisational, which fits his quick thinking in fights over Thanksgiving turkey. Though he often loses his bouts with Jerry, it's not usually because he's dumb or incompetent; rather, he's just genuinely outplayed.

Boomstick: And even in defeat, he's one tough son of a gun. He's been crushed, blown up, had every bone in his body broken, shattered, melted, and vaporized to dust... and survived!

Wiz: Well... mostly. Tom actually has kicked the bucket multiple times, but -- little-known cat fact -- he has nine lives, as established in the episode Heavenly Puss.

Boomstick: Hahahahahahahahaha! Oh, Wiz was, uh, conducting some different kind of research when he stumbled on that episode! Hahaha!

Wiz: Very funny... Even if Tom starts to use his lives up, he has a potion that just... restores them.

Boomstick: Or, he can physically go get them back from Hell, where all cats go.

Wiz: Extremely hardcore for a toon, but there isn't much of a limit to what Tom can do. He can clone himself, levitate in the air, make his imagination real, and even break the fourth wall and enter the real world.

Boomstick: Yeah, if you only watch the classic cartoons from the 40's, you may be in for a shock. Tom and Jerry gets buck wild, much like the actual inspirations for their names. Thank you, Google!

Wiz: Oh, you're still on this?

Boomstick: Uh, duh-doy, Wiz. They were actually named after the two characters in Pierce Egan's delightful Life in London, Jerry Hawthorn and Corinthian Tom. It was adapted to the stage with the title Tom and Jerry, which later became a catch-all term in 1800s England for young, drunken rabble-rousers.

Wiz: One could, in fact, say that many rabbles were roused the times Tom destroyed a planet-busting asteroid, lifted up the Sun, and was blown up into a constellation, and he was just... fine. Just a bunch of stars now, but he's OK!

Boomstick: He tanked an explosion that launched him through time to the Stone Age, and has run through space at massively faster-than-light speeds.

Last Dance
by Inside Tracks

Wiz: That shouldn't be a surprise when he and Jerry have been at each other's throats for over 80 years now. But what may surprise you is the fact that, at the end of the day, they're actually friends.

Boomstick: And they've worked together tons of times to save the day, like when they helped a little orphan girl, Robyn Starling, find her way home. Aww... That's a nice end to their story.

Land of the Middle
by Gum Tapes

Wiz: Don't you believe it. Now is when we have to talk about Tom and Jerry: Chase. Ahem... Long ago, the warrior god Lord of Sichuan, Erlang Shen, battled the tricksy and indomitable Mouse King atop Peach Mountain, leading the goddess Celeste to declare the two the strongest warriors in the realm. And they were, in fact... Tom and Jerry. They were even stronger than Devil Tom, who repelled corruption by the Darkness. This mysterious, malevolent force threatened to consume the Tree of Life, whose branches encompass all of time and space. Banding together, these warriors used the star element to dispel the Darkness and save the universe.

Boomstick: WHAT THE FU--?!

Closing Shot
by Dick Walter Big Band

Wiz: While it may sound completely insane... it is. Chase is a Chinese mobile gacha game whose lore is not entirely in keeping with the spirit of the source material. However, it is officially licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment... which means we have to include it in our research.

Boomstick: So that the gods may grant us mere mortals some heavenly pu--

Wiz: NO!

Boomstick: Friendly rivalry aside, though, Tom has actually managed to catch the little rat fair and square a few times.

Wiz: By my count of the original shorts, 19 times.

Boomstick: Ah, I could watch them on repeat forever. Too bad he's still a filthy feline. The only kitty I truly respect is named after booze.

Wiz: Well, then, you're in luck, because the Tom and Jerry of English literature later became the namesake for a famous Christmas cocktail.

Boomstick: Because there's no better way to get absolutely trashed than with good, old Tom and Jerry.

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

Wild Tomfooler E.
by Therewolf Media

The scene opens to a pickup truck moving a house through the American Southwest with the building being ransacked, shaking and bouncing with explosions on the inside by a certain cat and mouse duo: Jerry Mouse, who text describes him as:

HOUSE MOUSE
(MUS ASSHOLUCLUS)

...running away to his mouse hole from Tom Cat, who the text describes him as:

DOMESTIC CAT
(FELIS CATUS PERPETUUS VICTIMUS)

Tom slips his fingers in the mouse hole as Jerry eats a piece of cheese on a mousetrap. Feeling Jerry inside, the mouse winks to the audience as Tom grins in delight to them as well, but the cat only manages to catch his fingers in the mousetrap instead of Jerry. After yelping in pain, Tom glares at Jerry, who laughs at his rival's misfortune before being suddenly grabbed by Tom. Meanwhile, we see the truck pass by another predator-prey duo at odds with each other: the Road Runner, who the text refers to him as:

GREATER ROADRUNNER
(MEEPUS MEEPUS)

...as he runs beside his predator, Wile E. Coyote, who the text describes him as:

COYOTE
(CANIS SCHMUCKUS)

...as he lights a match to the fuse of an ACME rocket he's sitting on, causing it to launch and fly towards his prey. We then cut back to Tom and Jerry, where Tom lets out an evil laugh towards his tiny foe in his grasp as he opens his mouth, ready to enjoy his catch-of-the-day. However, before he can complete the act, the cat and mouse duo hear something coming from the side of the house, which is quickly revealed to be Wile E. and the Road Runner blasting themselves through the living room wall, causing Tom to drop Jerry in shock as he screams before one final piece of text appears, saying:

FIGHT
(CHAMPIONUS CHOICESTICUS)

The smoke dissipates as Jerry manages to grab onto the Road Runner and the two both escape through an open window.

Road Runner: Meep meep!

Jerry and the Road Runner then run off, leaving the two predators in the house. As Tom recovers from Jerry escaping his clutches yet again, he turns around to find an understandably upset Wile. pulling out a sign for the cat to read.

Wile E.: [You foolish furball! You cost me my dinner!]

Displeased at the sign, Tom snatches it from Wile E.'s hand and slams it on the coyote, destroying it before Wile E. responds by stomping on the cat's foot, causing Tom to scream in pain.

The two then get into a dust cloud and enter a brief scuffle before they regain their footing. Afterward, Tom pulls out a lead pipe and Wile E. brings out an extending boxing glove device, which hits the pussycat two times in the face before he ducks under the third attack. This causes the boxing glove to wrap around the screen and hit Wile E. in the face and launches both of them further into the living room. Tom manages to hide behind the couch while Wile takes cover behind a knocked over table. As the cat hides, he's caught off guard by the sound of an explosion, peeking around the corner, he finds the house has suddenly become something akin to a World War 2 war zone. Tom, in response brings out a sword and boldly taunts his adversary.

Tom: Come on, you apes! You wanna live forever?!

Wile E. then starts launching bombs and projectiles with a catapult as Tom hides behind covering, brewing a potion from a cauldron, which he then samples and drinks, turning him invisible. He uses this to sneak across the battlefield towards Wile E., who places a nuclear bomb reading "Fat Lady" onto the catapult. As the invisible Tom gets behind Wile E. while he's occupied, he pulls out a giant wooden mallet, but before he can smash his opponent with it, Wile E. decides to also light a bomb that immediately detonates, destroying the truck and launching the house into the air as the two predators crash into the canyon ground on the side of the road, creating a crater.

The two shake off the soot on their bodies as Wile E. pulls out a remote control labeled "ACME" and presses the button, which in turn results in an ACME plane dropping a crate from the sky as a growing shadow appears below Tom as the two for impact, only for the crate to land on the coyote instead. Tom laughs at Wile's unfortunate event, but he near-immediately gets crushed under the plane falling and crashing on top of him, the impact taking out all nine of Tom's lives, though Tom manages to recover his ninth one and sighs in relief.

Meanwhile, the crate opens as a dizzy Wile E. collapses onto the ground and a bottle of ACME Hi-Speed Tonic falls near Tom, who picks it up and investigates it before Wile E. lunges towards his opponent. Thinking fast, Tom quickly drinks the whole bottle, uppercutting the coyote in time as the tonic kicks in and Tom runs away from Wile E., who builds up speed as the road behind him folds up before accelerating himself. The two then proceed in a chase that spans across the Southwestern United States, running so much that even the dots that represent the two take a moment to catch their breath before they continue.

Along the way, Wile E. paints a tunnel on the side of a canyon boulder before hiding to a smaller rock next to it as Tom arrives. Stopping to observe it, Tom runs through the painted tunnel, confusing Wile E. as he runs towards the tunnel to continue the chase, only to slam into the boulder instead. Tom, who suddenly runs up behind Wile E., takes a moment to laugh at his opponent once more before running into the painted tunnel again to evade him as Wile E. slams into the boulder once again. As Tom laughs continues to laugh, a now frustrated Wile E. paints a truck behind the cat to run him over, only to immediately recognize his mistake in doing so with how he's still on the road before the truck comes to life, causing the two to run away from it as tom and the truck exit the boulder.

As the two continue running to avoid becoming roadkill, Wile E. grabs onto Tom's tail while Tom tries to escape the episode's very video and into YouTube itself, though Wile E. manages to restrain him as the truck collides with the camera, causing it to fly into the sky as Wile E. forcibly drags Tom back into the video. The two then get back to fighting each other in another dust cloud, but the scuffle is short-lived as Wile E. and Tom realize their current predicament of ending up in the sky, causing Wile E. to pull out another sign.

Wile E.: [Should have seen that coming...]

Annoyed at the sight of another sign, Tom snatches it from his hand and slams the coyote down with it, destroying the sign in the process. As the two continue to fall from the sky, Wile E. pulls out his next weapon as Tom, through a split-screen, zooms in on Wile E.'s half and reads the gun's label to discover that Wile E.'s weapon is the Looney DNA Dissolver, much to the cat's horror. The two then fight over the dissolver shortly after until the trigger is pulled and the gun's contents splatter all over both of them, covering them with the anti-Looney DNA substance before they crash back down onto the ground, causing them to get legitimately injured in the process.

The two struggle to get up from the newly-formed crater as Wile E. pulls out yet another sign, this time to give Tom a taste of his own medicine.

Wile E.: [Take this!]

He swings it at Tom, smashing it over the cat as the shadow of something else above them appears on the ground and grows bigger with each passing second, with Wile E. pulling pulling out another sign...

Wile E.: [And this!]

...and smashing it over Tom as well. He then pulls one more sign...

Wile E.: [And some of this!]

But before he can repeat his attack, Tom grabs the sign and flips it around, revealing another message on the opposite end...

Tom: [Oh yeah? How about this?]

...as he swings the sign over Wile E.'s head, flipping it once again...

Tom: [See how YOU like it!]

and slamming it into Wile E's face one last time, destroying it.

With his opponent thoroughly bashed, Tom gets out the crater while Wile E., who's still in it, finally notices the falling object above him. In response, he takes out a comically tiny umbrella right before the object, revealed to be the house from before, slams onto the coyote. Upon hearing the crash landing, Tom takes a look at the house behind him before he dusts his hands in satisfaction and starts walking away.

Unfortunately for the cat, the side of the house facing him comes loose and falls right on Tom before he can even take a single step, squishing him to a bloody pulp. With the inability to regenerate from it due to his Toon Force being negated from earlier, Tom's ninth life finally flies away as the camera pans to the inside of the house, where Wile E. is revealed to have miraculously survived thanks to his tiny umbrella. Realizing he is still alive, the coyote gets up and looks at the surrounding debris before finally speaking out loud in technical accordance to his father's words from childhood, boasting to the audience that he is:

Wile E.: Wile E. Coyote; super-genius!

Having finally gotten a taste of victory, Wile E. then puts down a final sign with the iconic "That's all, Folks!" end card from Looney Tunes on it as the coyote falls to the floor, exhausted from all the fighting that he went through before the screen irises out to black.


Results

Wild Tomfooler E.
by Therewolf Media

Wiz: Oh, thank God; one of them actually died this time. I-I mean, uh... N-Nooo! Animal cruelty, nooo!

Boomstick: Considering coyotes eat cats, I'm not surprised.

Wiz: While both cat and coyote were incredibly powerful, they weren't literal gods who could snap their problems away. They had limitations and weaknesses that could be exploited, especially by each other. Let's first talk their stats.

Stats

Boomstick: Both were strong enough to contend with universe-threatening phenomena, but comparing Wile E. to Plucky Duck, Looney Tunes can not only destroy their own universe, but their animator's, as well.

Wiz: And while Tom could move faster than light, Wile E. could keep up with the Road Runner, who could out-speed a car fast enough to travel through time. That's immeasurably fast, and much faster than Tom. Wile E. gets the edge in stats.

Arsenal

Boomstick: Wile E.'s arsenal was a bit better, too, believe it or not. Even eliminating the devices that have been shown to malfunction, he still countered everything Tom had.

Wiz: The biggest being the Looney DNA Dissolver, which could render Tom's cartoony healing factor moot and end the fight.

Boomstick: While Tom has never been shown to have Looney DNA specifically, the concept clearly has nothing to do with actual DNA molecules.

Wiz: Looney Tunes have been erased completely and still returned, so it's clearly something more fundamental to their essence.

Boomstick: And since the Dissolver works on any Toons, not just the Looney ones, it should apply to Tom. But considering how much of a screw-up Wile E. is, it wasn't a sure bet. Hell, it could've backfired, especially considering how much more competent Tom is.

Intelligence

Wiz: When it came to intelligence, Wile E.'s engineering and scheming genius were often defeated by his own ego and stubbornness. Tom, on the other hand, was consistently more flexible, pragmatic, and victorious in his fights. He definitely gets the edge there.

Boomstick: Oh, and Tom has one other big advantage: he doesn't have God nerfing him.

Wiz: And that's the big question: Was Tom capable enough to benefit from Wile E.'s narrative-enforced bad luck and see the DNA Dissolver backfire against him?

Boomstick: That bad luck is a core part of Wile E.'s character as a cartoon, so let's call it his, uh, "toonliness".

Toonliness

Wiz: To find the answer, we dug deep through the bowels of Looney Tunes lore and ended up in an unexpected place: Space Jam.

Boomstick: Where Wile E. yet again fails against the Road Runner. But, against the villains of the movie, the Monstars, he actually scores!

Wiz: And scores again in the sequel, more than anyone else. But according to Chuck Jones's rules, that shouldn't happen... right?

Boomstick: Throughout his entire history, Wile E.'s cosmically ordained failures only occur when he's specifically chasing the Road Runner, or other Toons the plot bends around like Bugs. Because that's what Chuck Jones's rules were written for: Coyote and Road Runner cartoons.

Wiz: And even then, looking closely, they've been broken a few times throughout the decades, even during Chuck Jones's tenure.

Boomstick: Without the universe nerfing him, there's no reason to think Wile E. couldn't eventually land a hit with the Looney DNA Dissolver.

Wiz: Especially when the only reason it failed was because of the Road Runner's intervention, a direct violation of Chuck Jones's limitations on the Coyote.

Boomstick: And especially when it's the only thing that either one had that could kill the other.

Wiz: Despite lacking Wile E.'s narrative impediments and despite having a better track record overall, Tom ultimately had no surefire way to kill Wile E., whereas Wile E.'s superior strength, speed, and looney arsenal ensured his victory.

Boomstick: Wile E. gave one hell of a chase, and left Tom "Jones'n" for a rematch.

We cut to the "Winner" card.

Wiz: The winner is Wile E. Coyote.

Arsenal Comparison

Even

= Enter/exit medium, transmutation, duplication, stat amps, size alteration, teleportation, invisibility, elemental manipulation, wish granting, reality warping

Advantage Tom Cat

+ Traitor Curse ensured ACME gear would fail
+ Smart Cap increased intelligence & odds of winning

Advantage Wile E.

+ Better regeneration (full erasure > ashes)
+ Magnetism countered Tom's tech, including the Smart Cap
+ More varied time manipulation
+ Could seal souls, countering Tom's nine lives
+ Various forms of mind control

Original Track

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Wild Tomfooler E.
by Therewolf Media

Composition

The track for this fight is "Wild Tomfooler E." by Therewolf Media. Rather than a traditional fight track, it's primarily instead a big band orchestral piece that makes heavy use of Mickey Mousing to sync up with certain actions of the fight, much like the scores heard in classic Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry cartoons. The track also features numerous references throughout it, namely the original Tom and Jerry theme at the beginning, "What's Up, Doc?" before the war zone segment, a short rendition of "Ride of The Valkyries" at the start of said segment, the 1-up jingle from the Super Mario series for when Tom manages to pull back in his ninth life, a brief snippet of "The Sailor's Hornpipe" for when Tom drinks the ACME Hi-Speed Tonic, and "Merrily We Roll Along" (the intro theme to most Looney Tunes shorts) for both Jerry and the Road Runner leaving through the house's open window once the fight starts proper and signaling Wile E.'s victory over Tom at the end of the fight.

Title

The title is a pun on both combatant's names (Wile E. Coyote and Tom Cat, respectively) and the term "wild tomfoolery", referring to the comical escapades both combatants are known for, with "Tomfooler E." in particular being a common nickname for the episode within the Death Battle community.

Cover Art

The cover art depicts Wile E. and Tom fighting in a cartoon dust cloud, their arms and legs emerging from it alongside Tom's tail and one of Wile E.'s ears. Tom's arms are wielding a revolver and a baseball bat while Wile E.'s arms are holding an "OW!" sign and a stick of dynamite, and a bomb and an ACME wooden crate are also seen flying out of the dust cloud.

Trivia

Production

Easter Eggs

Errors

  • In Wile E. Coyote's analysis, the label for the Miwok tribe misspells it as "Miwak". This was fixed in the final episode.
  • In Tom's analysis, the labels for Joseph Barbera and William Hanna's last names are misspelled as "Barbara" and "Hannah", respectively. This was also fixed in the final episode.
  • Wiz says in Tom's analysis that his nine lives first appeared in the episode "Heavenly Puss". However, they actually first appeared in the episode "Fraidy Cat", and the lives don't appear in "Heavenly Puss" at all.
  • In Tom's analysis, the label for Robyn Sterling misspells her first name as "Robin".

Other

References

DEATH BATTLE Episodes
Season 1 0 Boba Fett VS Samus Aran1 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 Mahito195 Master Chief VS Doom Slayer196 Simon the Digger VS Kyle Rayner197 Wile E. Coyote VS Tom Cat198 Spider-Man VS Deku199 Hulk VS Godzilla200 Ruby Rose VS Maka Albarn201 Blade VS Buffy202 Dante VS Clive??? Ash VS Yugi??? Aang VS Traveler??? Light VS Columbo??? Gru VS Megamind
*Currently unreleased