Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 61/@comment-25012248-20160526163627/@comment-4490782-20160526204149

Another problem with said royales would be that it wouldn't be obvious from the outset that it was a Deadly Sins/Nine circles battle unless they either had the characters clumsily imply it at the beginning of their verses, or if they put it in the title or made it apparent from the beginning or something, thus spoiling any surprise it would have. Also, there's no logical order for either. The sins have never truly been ranked (and apparently Nine Circles are ranked but for one, hardly anyone would know what the hell (hehe) was going on, and two, those who did would find the order predictable). The only solution would be to use a mediator, which 1. Drags the battle out even more, and 2. Would probably end up being a lazily placed and shittily rapping Mother Teresa/other sinless figure. Also, everything Scep and Matt said, it'd be a waste of characters. Trump vs Scrooge, for comparison, began with a connection which woulda worked on its own, then added characters to fit the story. This would be two title rappers with no apparent connection and then a spam of other forced characters which have no congruence with the others.

Now, onto Homer vs Dante. The "hints" we have for it are barrel-scrapes ("hell yeah"? Really?) and some of them aren't even proven to be correct (i.e. "poet hold 'em"). Of course, if it is Homer vs Dante then RIP me, but I definitely wouldn't put a penny on it.