Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 52/@comment-9425987-20150512123220/@comment-25598352-20150512230854

I think it's a more legitimate point than many people make it out to be. There've only been about five fully historic battles in the entire show (both title parties dead for ten+ years or created 100+ years ago... which is pretty lax when Sinatra v. Mercury is "historical"). We've gotten such obvious historical gems as Napoleon Dynamite, Master Chief, Miley Cyrus, and the Mythbusters before Julius Ceasar, anyone from Imperial China or Japan, Churchill, Jefferson, etc. In a show with "history" in the title. I understand that their format is basically "modern/fictional guy v. old guy, with occasional rivalry battle thrown in," and it normally works, but at some point I'd really like to see more of the "TItans of history" FDR talked about.

But mainly I would've preferred they not make FDR's point a punchline because 90+% of suggestions off-wiki and probably a good chunk here are fictional v. fictional. And many of those can stretch any definition of "history" pretty thin. And more old rivalry battles would be cool to break away from the usual format. Jefferson v. Hamilton is still a thing they could do...