Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 55/@comment-24975738-20150629152511/@comment-5264252-20150629185449

You're missing the point. What makes Conan vs Conan good for a battle is the same thing that made Napoleon vs Napoleon and Artists vs TMNT good as battle ideas. People didn't dislike Oprah vs Ellen, Houdini vs Copperfield, and Joan vs Miley because of the connections (in fact, Oprah vs Ellen was one of the more popular suggestions that I'd seen around). It was because of personal disinterest in the quality of the actual battle. Connection had nothing to do with it. And if it did at all to anyone, that's easily a very small minority of people. You're judging that people will dislike Conan vs Conan if it comes out the same way people dislike those battles when the dislikes for those battles are based on a completely different factor than what you're insinuating. Yes, connections are what make a battle more interesting for ERB to do, but it's ultimately the quality that ERB puts into the battle that people judge after the battle comes out.

Also, Napoleon Dynamite is very much an obscure movie, barely a cult classic. In absolutely no way does "most of the population" know who he is. I am easily certain that more people know Conan O'Brein than there are people that know Napoleon Dynamite. That being said, while no, I wouldn't say Conan has had much influence in history, that's forgetting the fact that he's a major pop culture figure. Several pop culture figures that they use aren't used based off of influence in history, but rather how massive they are as celebrities.