Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 54/@comment-69.47.204.159-20150616232228/@comment-5264252-20150616234700

I wouldn't say Yugi vs Tut is by any means "so unrealistic", but it's a lot more unlikely as a whole than Ash vs Darwin is, which has been acknowledged as popular and "high up on the list" by Lloyd. And tbh, the Pokemon anime didn't really necessarily need the help of the video game. Both the anime and the video game series had a parallel in popularity. In fact, the video games had to make changes based on the anime (i.e. people complained that some of the Pokemon in the games didn't look like what they do in the anime, and when they remade the designs from the anime for Pokemon Yellow, they stuck throughout the rest of the series; Pokemon actually saying their own names instead of random cries; etc.)

And while Naruto is definitely the Batman to Goku's Superman, the issue with him is no good opponents and that he generally seems like he'd be too similar to Goku for ERB to want to use.