Varia31 wrote on 06/09/16 at 10:03:52:
SPOILERS AHEAD
I'm disappointed that they completely left out that Needles has outsmarted Calypso before, and that Twisted Metal itself takes strategy. The way Joker convinces Needles to leave the Sweet Bot is... okay, but I doubt Needles would have ever hesitated to gut Joker on the spot after he picked him up. He would never care enough to listen to his victims. They basically made Needles sound like nothing more than a brute who never thinks despite the games saying differently, and Joker wins because he's Joker. That's more or less how their explanation sounded to me at the end.
I had a feeling they would make Joker out to be smarter & more manipulative, and Sweet Tooth's intelligence would be flawed and he'd make an irrational decision like he does in the fight. I told you so.
But the Sweet Tooth we see in the fight is really just the TMX & PS All Stars version (except no fire breathing unfortunately). This is not the expert serial killer of TMB. The video does show the stat about Calypso being killed twice by Sweet Tooth in the series, but it also mentions how Calypso killed him in TMX also, so I guess that sort of cancelled out that factor in battle. I do like how the video shows footage from the Sweet Tooth TMB webisode, but It's technically not canon, so I think the battle borrows from that story where Sweet Tooth went for a sadistic up-close kill too much in the Joker battle. He would have preferred to kill Joker in a vehicle, and he certainly had the opportunity, but it figures Joker would win because he is more popular and has more history but I do have some problems with the Joker story...
The Jokermobile tank in the video DOES NOT ACTUALLY exist. In Arkham Knight, that Jokermobile exists only in Batman's mind during an intense hallucination. That Jokermobile is really an advanced Batmobile/Bat-Tank that Joker would not have been able to own because he is not someone with the money and resources Bruce Wayne/Batman has.
There was even a Batman cartoon about how broke Joker got at one point ("Joker's Millions"). I think the video could have went more into Joker's weaknesses. He wasn't much of a fighter at all in Tim Burton's Batman for example, and didn't even survive the film. He may have a high endurance for pain - but so do many of Batman villains. I've seen Riddler survive getting shot up by Bane's gang in an old comic, for instance. In Joker's case it may actually be the effects of the chemicals that made him who he is, but many times it's just a common practice in comics for villains to survive what ought to be fatal consequences. The same technically exists in Twisted Metal too. Sweet Tooth has fire on his head - but he is not screaming in pain all the time from it. These are fictional characters, so why not have them as tolerant to pain as possible? So it's a bit odd to have that as a Joker advantage but not a Sweet Tooth advantage in the battle. Why does acid spray hurt Sweet Tooth so much if he is wearing a mask for instance?
Death Battles will always favor the more popular character but realistically, based off the stats given and the premise of this battle Sweet Tooth probably should have won this one, but I'm not upset, because I expected that, and found the video pretty enjoyable. It gets "What if SweetTooth battled the Batmobile?" totally right - and it portrays Joker's chaotic and manipulative side nicely, but at the expense of Sweet Tooth.
I hadn't considered Joker toxin before either, but I kind of think Sweet Tooth being under a demonic influence could counter some of its effects, but guess not.
At least there's technically a wild card here though... Charlie Kane will grow up to take the mantle of Sweet Tooth to avenge his father - by killing the Joker! lol