Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 52/@comment-82.58.88.10-20150515140059/@comment-25598352-20150515170924

Dante v. Virgil doesn't make a lot of sense, since Virgil is pretty central in The Divine Comedy. I quite like Dante v. Homer, but I would prefer it in a royale of sorts where different European epic writers join in afterwards. Some combination of Cervantes, Milton, Hugo, Tolstoy, and Joyce could probably be put together for a pretty epic (*snicker*) battle... maybe Hussie at the end, but as much as I love Homestuck I have doubts that he's worthy and, if he is, there are still better opponents for Homer. Joyce in particular made a much, much more famous Oddyssey rip-off.

Don't care much for Mao v. Castro, but I don't hate it.

I very much like Cromwell v. Robespierre. Pretty decent opponents for each other and they're both unquestionably worthy.

Saladin v. Arafat is good, but I'm not sure how many people would really follow it. And Arafat skirts around the edges of terrorist jokes since a lot of Americans view him as a terrorist mastermind, justifiably or not.