Nux: "I can't even be mad." Also Nux: **Is totally mad**

"He took a big gamble, but now he is scrambled. I'm Popeye the Sailor Maaaaan!

Nux when Saitama punches Garou through time: "It's legit." Nux when Popeye tanks three punches from a regular guy: "And I took that personally."

"They're taking his feats too literally" That's... the point of a death battle...

Saitama: “Are you sure you wanna fight me?” Popeye: “I’m a sailor from the 1940’s, fighting the Jappos is just what I do.”

FUN FACT Popeye was SUPER beloved and popular in Japan so much so that Popeye Arcade by Nintendo was designed by Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto. Previously, Nintendo had originally intended to make a video game based on the Popeye characters, but was denied a license, so the mostly original characters of Mario, Donkey Kong, and Pauline were developed for Donkey Kong (1981).

Nux: db takes feats at face value Also nux: taking every saitama feat at face value

At the end of the day, it might´ve been a one-sided battle, but it was also beautiful, seeing him finally feel the struggle, the emotion, the FIGHT within him, and how the flame he once thought diminished, was igniting again (even if it was one last time).

Ive legit never seen nux this intensely coping. Popeye literally said no to his version of GOD AND AN ANIMATOR who were above any sense of physics. Popeye is God level X2 basically. Or infinityX3 basically in terms of any sense of comprehension. Even then its not a measurement. This fight is an sword that can eventually pierce anything versus a shield that cant be pierced by anything the sword can do on a physical plane.

"Saitama's gimmick is that he always surpasses his opponent!" Yeah, and Popeye's gimmick is that he always wins after eating his spinach. Even if we go by this "gimmick" logic, Popeye still takes it lol

The thing is that, even if we took into consideration Saitama's recent feats, he would *still* lose to Popeye because that's just how insurmountable the gap in power between them is. The former breaks the rules of his own universe quite easily, but Popeye literally never obeyed any to begin with. Which, to be fair, is pretty true to the character.

Another thing fans of Saitama should consider is that it should be flattering that they picked a toon to go up against him. You *know* they wanted to use Saitama but weren't sure who to pit him against. They didn't want it to be a stomp, so they wanted someone they thought could feasibly beat him. The fact that they picked a toon before researching because they thought that was the power level necessary to reasonably fight him is an insane testament to how strong he is.

This death battle happened before the fight nux is referring to, but likely still wouldn't help him win cause Popeye can still occupy two places at once, enough to hit himself, he can still come back from nothing, and he can still punch Saitama into a bunch of eggs.

I said it on the original video, and I'll say it here. Win or lose, Saitama got what he always wanted. A real fight where he finally got to push himself. Seeing him happy brings a little tear to my eye.

Nux: 'Copes and seethes the entire video.' Nux, at the end: "I can't be mad."

Anime fans when Saitama can bench planets from doing 100 pushups, sit ups, squats and a 10km run every day: *"Seems legit. Totally fair."* Anime fans when Popeye can destroy stars because he eats his spinach: *"THIS IS RIDICULOUS!" I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE TAKING THAT SERIOUSLY!*

Nux, my lad how we gonna calculate anything from Popeye if we dont treat it seriously. The man is a rubber hose era cartoon, everything he does is a gag. This isnt a one off joke where the protagonist rolls over when they're asleep and dodges lasers, its Popeye's entire existence.

This is a lot like Hercules Vs. The Monkey King. Strength alone doesn't matter when the enemy can play by their own rules. There are characters who can beat Popeye, but those characters either have abilities that are so poorly defined that the moment the rules doesn't apply they can effectively adapt to Popeyes shenanigans, or they have abilities that can enforce those rules to prevent these shenanigans. Hell, in terms of strongest gag anime characters, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is so chaotic and overpowered in terms of abilities that he literally drives his enemies insane.

This death battle caused a big change in the channel. Every db before this they use clips from shows and let the audio play out like the characters saying a catchphrase or something. This video got a strike for using a clip from One Punch Man. So they changed it and removed audio from both clips or popeye and saitama. Every db afterwards they no longer use clips with audio and just write lines for themselves to introduce characters

... Okay? I mean, what else do you take literally? If Popeye punches a tree and it forms into a bridge magically, is that supposed to not be a feat? Why, cause it's unrealistic? Punching someone so hard it hits them before the fight starts is unrealistic too. Should that not be counted?

I feel like it’s a bit unfair to say they took the toonforce feats “too seriously”. I mean, bullshit or not, he still did it. They can’t just look at that and say he didn’t do it. He still occupied two places at once, which is impossible to calculate, but it’s still a real feat, toonforce or not

"You can't take the fact that his creator said he's an end of series character slapped at the beginning of his series as a power feat" I find this so hilarious given that most Saitama fanboys do this exact thing with the "gag character" argument

37:02 Nux, you’re forgetting that Popeye was able to eat spinach when nothing was there. Nothing ate the spinach and Popeye came back to life. Also, the Serious Punch^2 is already calculated at Multi-Solar System. And I give off an estimation that at the end of the fight, Saitama should be most likely Galaxy Lvl; though it is noteworthy that it took quite a bit of time for Saitama to reach that level. Meanwhile, Popeye with Spinach can just survive his Universe getting turned off like it’s nothing. If we don’t take feats as shown and be disingenuous, then how can we say its a proper vs matchup?

Nux: Saitama should’ve won because his gag is that he adapts to anything Death Battle: no his gag is he’s a end of series protagonist stuck at the start of it Nux:well he shouldn’t be judged on what his gag is.

If Saitama has no magical ability to 1 punch anything as you agreed, then why are you taking his wish at face value? and why take his exponential growth like it’s the most unstoppable thing in fiction?

Popeye canonically beats silver age Superman

I don't think I've ever seen Nux huff his copium harder than this. My guy, its immersurable vs meassureable, even if Saitama continues to exponentialy grow through out the fight, his strength remains meassureable. Toon force. It's some serious bs. (Tbh, I have a personal theory that this is an indirect middle finger to the hordes demanding Saitama v Goku/Superman.)

this is one of the perfect of examples of "COME ON HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE THAT?" death battle is capable of at there best agree or disagree it makes alot of epic moments.

I dont know why he was saying "uauauauagh they are taking it seriously" when they talked about his punches discombomulating things into different things. He was talking about how saitama benpressed two black wholes *on a manga cover* but popeye consistently doing that through the serious is too far, idk man. And even if you took scaling from the end of garous fight with saitama it doesnt matter, popeye is just too durable and has both the hax and power to kill him.

Ah yes "I'm mad they're taking saitama seriously using the info available at the time and not future info they'd have no way of knowing but how dare they take popeye seriously with the info available"

Nux: Rants about Saitama being able to "surpass toon force". Toon Force: If it's funny, it's possible. Popeye winning is funny, so he wins. Cope and seethe, weaboos.

Yet another "My character's feats are super cool and my interpretation of them is absolute fact/the other character's feats should be disregarded and nothing they have done is to be taken seriously" reaction from Nux. The salt levels are unreal.

Damn, there was a HUGE amount of cope in this episode from Nux. It's a first time for me. It didn't matter what universe Saitama would've been in, he still would've lost off the pure fact that Popeye is an old timey cartoon character with toon force. Saitama could go back in time or whatever he was talking about, punch him, he'd die and then his dead body would eat spinach. Popeye would punch him again he'd turn into eggs, fight is over. It's just that simple of a concept. He can't surpass a limit that doesn't exist. Popeye just had better hax, aka, Toon Force.

They never wiped out universes in the Garou fight 😂 You think this is Goku vs Beerus?

They only way to beat a classic cartoon is to make them laugh to death Seriously I believe only reality warpers are the only ones who can take on a cartoon

27:30 yeah but unfortunately, this episode was made BEFORE the Saitama vs Garou fight. But I think even then Popeye is still too godly.

Take a shot every time Nux says the word "surpass"

He took a big gamble. Now he is scrambled. I am Popeye the sailor man. had me crying

While I wanna make fun of Nux and my friends whenever there's a DB that has them like "THIS CHARACTER SHOULD'VE WON", I remember I've never been a die-hard fan of a show like that, so there's every chance that if I was, I'd probably be just as in my feelings if a character I felt should've won didn't

Even if the time-traviling feat was available during the making of this fight, i still think Popeye would win. He's survived his reality being turned off. He's survived being erase from existence. Both happened before he ate his spinach. I like Saitama and i hoped he would've won this but i knew that he didnt stand much of a chance against Popeye and all the bullshit he's capable of. Just like whenever they did The Mask vs Deadpool.

They never actually let Saitama explain his whole workout after he mentions the 100 push-ups, 100 situps, 100 squats, and 10k run he also mentions how he doesn't use AC in summer or heating in Winter and I believe he also mentioned only eating a banana for breakfast before he was interrupted because nobody took him seriously so there's still a lot we don't know about his actual workout.

Okay boys and girls, how many times do you think Nux says a variation on "I'm not mad," during this video?

The headcanon here really went crazy... It was literally never stated anywhere in the entire fight that Saitama "AUTOMATICALLY grows stronger than his opponent" ... ... It was... It was literally just that Saitama and Garou were both consistently getting stronger and Saitama was just getting stronger faster. I'm genuinely so confused on whether Nux is just trolling or not.

35:14 “That’s all I can stands cause’ I can’t stands NO MORE!” One of the most famous Popeye quotes. Also used to state the facts that he has nothing to stand upon (surface/sun) and that he is not gonna hold back.

I wonder if we're ever gonna get a battle where the title isn't "A ONE SIDED MASSACRE" or any other substitute. Funny how we got similar for Courage and Scoob despite that being a draw.

9:35 It's Obsession; that truck person saitama hit in episode one, he was a guy that tricked out cars to make them look cool and go fast; He didn't know JACK SHIT about cybernetic enhancement, yet by the power of his obsession, he was able to trick himself out. There's no way he could have possibly known how, a normal person would have bled out trying, but he did it. The same goes for Saitama. He was obsessed with becoming "the strongest hero who can defeat any enemy in one punch" and so, even with a comparatively lackluster training regime, he did it.

Chosen undeas vs dragon is a banger of a death battle.

still hoping for guts vs dimitri but anyhow, love this fight and although saitama's continuous growth in the manga makes this a lil outdated- it's still hard to argue saitama could withstand this level of toon force much less come close to killing someone with toon force.

You almost killed me at work with the Yoda pun 😂

Nux when Caped Baldy disperses some stars: Hell yeah Nux when Sailor Man has an entire comic all about ignoring an universal god: : ,(

I love that Nux always talks about how he’d do the show, which is always a very biased way Also while it wouldn’t help a lot, cause toon force, the fight Nux keeps alluding to wasn’t published at the time of making the DB.

Im so glad someone else says OPM powers come from obsession. So many characters get powers based on their wants and obsessions.

I’m just going to say this here. If Death Battle took into consideration how a character could grow stronger to match their opponent than literally every “Main Character” ever could never lose in Death Battle and “Main Character vs Main Character” would just be a forever statement of each one just growing stronger to match their opponent. The only way the find a winner is the use “Feats” and their “Abilities”, writing gimmicks or anything that’s not “In Universe” isn’t in consideration for Death Battle, where they take each character at the Most Recent maximum potential

I love watching Nux get salty over his characters losing death battles! But at least he is self-aware of it.

33:30 I think that death battle is the first time anyone's ever rendered Popeye the sailor man into a 3D animation.

Still super hoping that Nux eventually watches Guts VS Dimitri. DIO VS Alucard and Goku Black VS Reverse Flash are also both awesome.

Its funny seeing Nux so passionate about something that he starts yelling about it

The guy Wimpy who constantly eats hamburgers could body Saitama no question this is overkill for Popeye

I knew Nux would get irritated by this Was not disappointed

This is one of my favorite death battles ever.

The last time they had a character that could "get stronger from fighting their opponent" the way you're describing how Saitama would do so in a fight was in Wonder Woman vs Rogue all the way back in season one of DeathBattle. Everyone called it BS, everyone was right because that was not how that fight would have played out between those two characters, and i guarantee this fight would get the same response regardless of how accurate it might be for Saitama.

This was technically made before we learned how Saitama’s power scaled, but even still, it’s freaking Popeye. Even if your growth is infinite and exponential, it can’t catch up to infinity itself. And Toon force is a tier of infinity. Cosmic Garou is strong, sure, but Popeye is a whole other league of OP. That is… until Saitama fights god. We’ll see then just how truly strong Saitama really is. Unfortunately, the punching in the past Saitama did was very circumstantial. For one, while Saitama did learn how to punch back in time, he eventually forgot how to do that later since his past self caught up with his present, forcibly rewriting his memories of the events that took place against Cosmic Garou.

I love how certain channels feel the need to explain in detail something completely different/loosely connected to what they where just talking about to prove a point

This was easily my favorite death battle they ever made! And seeing Nux dying inside trying to hype up Saitama was fantastic!😂

Saitama’s wish just made him a big fish in a small pond that’s it. It’s just SEMANTICS lol. If he was really above powerscaling then Garou would have never been able to match his power during the serious punch squared. The fact that he can grow just proves that he can get one shotted by someone who is literally trillions of times stronger than him. Mark My Words: Just wait until the GOD fight and you’ll see there’s SO MUCH MORE to his existence than what you fanboys claim he is.

Popeye turned those native Americans into gold coins by the way. A reference to Indian casinos.

30:35 "Hmmm...i cant read that..." I replayed that moment way too much 😆😆😆

You know, I don't usually watch many KZfaqrs that have a stylized, animated model to represent themselves, mainly because you can never really tell what they're facial expressions are like. Even those that have facial tracking are difficult to sort out because the digital translation can easily be programmed to exaggerate or even muffle the YT'ers expressions. So when I say that I like watching Nux, that's saying something. He can make up for a lot of those particular "sins" through exaggerated vocal inflection & the occasional instance of vocal fading as he stands up & walks away from the microphone. All that being said, when Wiz & Boomstick were getting around to mathematically analyze 'Toon Force, of all things, I could *feel* his frustration & suffering *in spite of* the limitations on his avatar...And I enjoy every second of it! 😁 'Toon Force: As Roger Rabbit ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" movie) explained it to Detective Eddie Valiant, a 'toon can do *anything* as long as it's funny. That being said, if you can manage to demoralize a 'toon into losing all of its sense of humor, you win. In Popeye's case it's slightly different...He's not even trying to be funny, as he takes almost every situation with a measure of seriousness. The real difference is Spinach; there has been *nothing* capable of keeping Popeye separated from his spinach long enough to actually win. Saitama may be easily capable of breaking the Laws of Physics but for Popeye, the Laws of Physics is nothing more than a mildly whispered suggestion. All in all though, Nux was able to enjoy watching the fight regardless of its outcome...In essence, it means he can enjoy the fiction as the *entertainment* it's meant to be.

Seriously though animation this is probabbly my most favorite death battle fight ever. Added with a touch of humor and some sincerity at the end for saitama.

You should watch Guts vs Demitri next.

Now I really want to see nux react to the guy who power scaled king of the hill.

Remember watching this before they had to cut the audio on both characters outro screens, and dub Saitama’s workout routine clip. You win this round copyright

Buuhan literally created an “Outside Space” ball that was gonna become the size of the entire universe if Vegito hadn’t of punched him. Compare that to Serious Punch Squared.

One thing I loved is that I saw a comic that followed up the fight. popeye was sitting next to a chicken nesting, and then there was a cracking noise. Popeye said “Ah, you’re back.” As Saitama just sits in the nest with a chicken on his head.

Saitama breaks the rules of reality, Popeye doesn't know what the rules are.

The original fight ended with Saitama being one punched when he had that "FINALLY!" Moniloge with Popeye scratching his ass.

They didn’t talk about the bigger garou stuff because it happened after the episode was made you can’t blame them for missing something that hadn’t happened at the time popeye would still kick his ass tho

If Saitamas punch went back in time and killed Popeye before he first ate spinach it wouldint effect current day Popeye because he eats his spinach and Popeye would kill saitama before saitama could surpass him.

The wild thing is, if this did come out after the Garou fight and the concept that Saitama will just always evolve beyond his opponent was part of his canon at point of airing this episode, what would the outcome actually be? Because toon force is essentially an unquantifiable value that can be whatever it needs to, and Saitama could always become more than that, so would there ever actually be a winner? Or would the math just continue to exponentially grow on both sides infinitely?

If it makes you feel any better, Saitama is probably the only one that can even somewhat compete against anyone that has Toon Force. I love both of these characters so I didn't mind either way who wins.

Even if they took Saitama’s most recent feats, it would have been far, far from enough to deal with Popeye

I swear to God the first time I read the title of the video I saw Saitama vs The Pope and it was hilarious to me 😂.

While I can respect Nux not 100% agreeing with the Death Battle, the way he acts about it is something he really needs to shut up with sometimes, cause by god its ridiciously how salty he can get with these for very little things

YES!!! I wanted this! Thanks Nux!

This is gonna be the excellent video

Nux, I want to say why I truly enjoy watching your reactions to these battles. 1: you are animated in your reactions. You give feedback, disagree, defend your point, discuss. It makes enough extra content to be worth watching. 2: You don't always agree with me or with Death Battle (not that I always agree with them either) *but* you still listen to their arguments and recognize where the fight is going. 3: you give credit where credit is due. Even when you hate the outcome or the techniques used in the fight, you show proper appreciation for a job well done in the animation and storytelling. 4: No matter how salty you may get, and no matter how much you might disagree with the outcome, you still appreciate when a feat you didn't know would prove you wrong and (sometimes) admit your stance might be the wrong one by the end. So many butthurt fanboys of *any* of these characters will die on a hill regardless of the data. You might disagree or pull up other feats, but I've also seen you acknowledge when you were wrong too. (Namely Goku v. Superman) I respect that. Please keep it up. I love Death Battle. I love the nonsense power scaling that serves no real purpose in real life. I also very much enjoy your takes on their videos and both your agreements and disagreements with them. Thank you.

Its not about "find a way to Saitama win" its who would win most of that in general.

6:59 he actually punched so hard that not only did he destroy the stars but he destroyed the light molecules (if he didn't destroy the light molecules then the Stars would still be visible for a couple of millions years)

So I guess literally every single death battle is a one sided massacre according to Nux huh

Also they have to take feats literally, because its supposed to be an objective match, and fears are the only objective thing you have to judge. Its not about the intrinsic spirit in which the character is written. I do believe Saitama needs a rematch, but finding an opponent worth the rematch is always the issue. I think they got this on as right as i could be, but i was hoping it would be more like the chuck norris vs segata sanshiro fight. Then again, chuck norris vs saitama would be the natural matchup.

the thing about saitama is that he would EVENTUALLY surpass popeye. saitama scales in power expensioally when pushed even a little but its not a matter of him instantly growing stronger then his opponent. it takes time for him to get there even if the time in question is pretty short. like its shown in the garou fight which came out after this death battle was made during that one scene with the chart that both of them were growing in power as the fight went on, but saitama fuckin climbed to the roof in terms of power way faster then garou was. its described like a staircase where garou was running up a flight of stairs with each step being his current limits, meanwhile saitama was skyrocketing into the sky on a god damn rocket. I will say that I genuinely believe in any drawn out battle, saitama will basically always win, because its only a matter of time before he grows in power beyond his opponent. the question is honestly just how long that would take. of course though all it would take would be one intent to kill strike during the beginning of the fight from someone like popeye who is so exponentially stronger them him for it to end immediately. going on a little tangent here now though, this is why I personally think that in NON deathbattle in character situation saitama would beat goku. like if saitama was put into gokus universe or vis versa and they decided to fight saitama would win because gokus whole thing is he scales himself to his opponents so he would give saitama the chance to grow to his level and it only be a matter of time before saitama eventually surpassed goku.

Nux going through the entire Saitama's feats and calculation about his stuff: ye lmao its tru, BUT Y NO GAROU FIGHT? Nux going Through Popeye's feats and calculation about his stuff: *DEMONIC SCREETCH*

Ill admit i knew who was going to win the moment it was announced but i was wrong about thinking this battle would be a waste of time. It was one of the best ones imo.

Well now I want to see Nux check out the Sauron Vs. The Lich King Death Battle, if he hasn’t already checked it out on his free time already. I don’t know how well he might know about either The Lord of the Rings mythos and World of Warcraft mythos, but it is an awesome fight.

Every time you say “ they took that too literally”, all I have to say is: if they didn’t take it literally for one character then why do it for the other. They can’t just boost one character and remove another’s feats.

Man called my only ever original anime theory and called it a got take I almost cried

Lmao nux has a great Yoda voice

There is another really good death battle that is very early seasons that is remarkably close. Sam Fisher vs Solid Snake. That one is still one of their best, and its early, early deathbatle. And I have good news for you Nux, even by how they scale things, there are things that beat toon force. Not many things, but there are things that beat toon force. And when Boomstick makes the joke about 'big vegetable', he wasn't aware that was actually true at the time and he was shocked in the commentary that his joke was actually true.

So remember if you wanna leave saitama face down in a pool of his own teeth just eat your vegetables.

To all popeye deniers, keep in mind these two facts about Popeye: 1. He will always win if he gets the spinach 2. He will ALWAYS get the spinach and there is nothing you can do to stop him