Characters / Epic Rap Battles of History

Adolf Hitler

• Absent Aliens: The Rancor he was going to be fed to doesn't appear and is killed offscreen; with a regular Luger pistol, no less.
• Acrofatic: More wideset than Hitler in Real Life, but capable of doing Luke Skywalker's forward flip. The best part? Not a stunt double.
• Adolf Hitlarious: Naturally. All three videos get a lot of mileage out of playing up Hitler's Large Ham tendencies.
• Ambiguously Gay: The way Hitler mimes when he says he's "dope on the mic," and again when he calls Vader Palpatine's whore. An Urban Legend suggests Hitler's obsession with homosexuals was due to being Armoured Closet Gay.
• Asshole Victim: He gets cut in half by Darth Vader at the end of the third, but since he's, well, Hitler, you don't really feel sorry for him.
• Bad Boss: Vader mentions the 20 July plot where Hitler's own officers tried to kill him (for diverse reasons).
• Badass Longcoat: His Nazi greatcoat.
• Badass Normal: He's a real historical figure with no magical or supernatural abilities (obviously), but he still manages to kill a Rancor and Boba Fett with nothing but a Luger P08.
• Book Ends: His last words on ERB are the same as his first: "I am Adolf Hitler!"
• Breakout Character: Alongside Vader and Abraham Lincoln, he's the only rapper (as of season 5) to feature in three battles, and a non-battle promotion.
• Bullying the Disabled: Hitler calls Vader "not even a real person", which refers to how Vader is a fictional character, but also how Vader is disabled, which to Hitler's eugenics-based view of the world meant that Vader wasn't even human.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Frozen in Carbonite, tossed on the ground, and then dropped in the Rancor pit. Then cut in half by his rival.
  • Then his ghost is captured by the Ghostbusters.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Hitler enjoys his reputation as the most evil man ever.
  Hitler: I am a force truly evil!
• Combat Pragmatist: Shoots Boba during the middle of his rap.
• Commissar Cap: Wears a mockup of the historical cap.
• Composite Character: He is frozen in carbonite like Han Solo, and he escapes the Sarlacc Pit like Luke Skywalker.
• Country Matters: Is the first character on the show to use the word "cunt". Compare Vader, who interrupted his own verse to think of a way out of saying it.
• Deadly Euphemism: "Step in my Shower" refers to the Gas Chambers that look like Shower Rooms but were intended to cleanse away the undesirables instead of cleaning the dirt off of them. "Take a ride on my Train" refers to a one-way trip to a Concentration or Extermination Camp. "Pop into my Oven" refers to the Incinerators used to dispose of the Camps' victims.
• Driven to Suicide: Vader mocks his self-inflicted death.
• Everyone Has Standards: Hitler prefers Rick Moranis in Spaceballs to Vader. Bear in mind that Spaceballs was a parody done by Mel Brooks, who heavily lampooned Hitler in The Producers - and Hitler still hates Vader more. Also keep in mind that both Brooks and Moranis are Jewish.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Makes one Holocaust joke per rap battle.
• Evil Is Hammy: Evil and overwhelmingly hammy.
• Eviler than Thou: Claims that, unlike Vader, he is "a force truly evil".
• Faux Affably Evil: All of his "polite" requests to Vader (to take a shower, to ride on a train, and to pop into an oven) are Deadly Euphemisms for Holocaust terms.
• Gag Echo: Vader uses this to sum up Hitler's entire rise and fall;
  Vader: You wrote a little book, got 'em fired up, had a beer hall putsch, got 'em fired up, but when your bunker started getting fired up, you put a gun in your mouth and fired up!
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Darth Vader gets sick of having to deal with him and cuts him in half.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Being partially blinded as a result from carbonite freezing doesn't stop him from tearing into Vader when he gets the chance, and neither does having to fend off a Rancor.
• Jerkass: Naturally considering he is considered one of the most evil men (if not the most evil) in history. Several of his lines are jokes about how he had Jews murdered in death camps.
• Joker Immunity: For the first two seasons, no matter what Vader did to him in the end he'd be back for the next season's first battle. In his third bout this would end up being finally revoked and he was Killed Off for Real, with the Season 4 teaser seeing him captured by the Ghostbusters to hammer in that he's not coming back.
• Large Ham: Even by this show's standards he has a tremendous presence. In real life, he had a god complex or something similar.
• Laughably Evil: He'll make you laugh with shock at his brazenness, if nothing else, even while talking about his atrocities.
• No Indoor Voice: Almost all of his lines are shouted.
• No Swastikas: Completely absent on his uniform.
• Once per Episode: It's customary for Hitler to make one off-color Holocaust joke in each of his raps and utter the phrase "I am Adolf Hitler" at least once.
• Poke the Poodle: In addition to his other well-documented enormities, he also traveled back in time and caused the Badass Decay of Darth Vader in the Star Wars prequels.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: It's Hitler. Of course he's not going to be fond of Jewish people, or black people for that reason.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Type C; his goofiness makes it easy to forget how evil he is, at least until the 3rd installment when he murders Boba Fett onscreen because he's mad that Vader beat him.
• The Sociopath: Shows no regrets or remorse for his deeds, and frequently makes light of them.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: His final fate is to be trapped by Ghostbusters in the Season 4 trailer and deposited in their containment unit.
• Stupid Jetpack Hitler: His claim of going back in time to make Vader whack in the Star Wars prequels.
• Teeny Weenie: Vader claims he has a "Napoleon dick".
• Terrible Artist: According to Vader. The real life version washed out of art school.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives a particularly devastating one to Vader in their second battle; his family trouble, Palpatine's 'whore' etc.
• Those Wacky Nazis: Duh; he's the head Nazi and wackier than all of them.
• Too Dumb to Live: Darth Vader tells him that he should have known better than to have invaded Russia, without being properly supplied and kitted out for winter warfare. Especially because Napoleon made this exact mistake over a century before him.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He was never a pleasant person to begin with, but in his final match with Darth Vader, he drops the Faux Affably Evil attitude and spews insults at his opponent.
• Villainous Breakdown: His final verse is composed entirely of insults that don't rhyme, delivered right after Darth Vader rips into everything that Hitler did and summons Boba Fett.
• Villainous Valour: He's ready to rap within seconds of being thawed out of carbonite (painful, debilitating, and blinding).

Darth Vader

• Actor Allusion: In the second battle, Vader describes himself as having "the voice of Mufasa".
• Affably Evil: He's A Father to His Men, has a homeboy in Israel, and is genuinely friends with Boba Fett.
• Avenging the Villain: In the third battle, he kills Hitler to avenge Boba Fett.
• Badass Cape: A little shorter than his movie counterpart, but still present.
• Berserk Button: Completely loses his patience with Hitler after he shoots Boba Fett.
• Breakout Character: Alongside Hitler and Abraham Lincoln, he's the only rapper (as of season 5) to have three battles.
• Card-Carrying Villain: The whole reason why he and Hitler battle is that they both regard themselves as the more evil of the two.
• Combat Pragmatist: Used the force to choke Hitler, then proceeded to freeze him in carbonite in the first rap battle. Later, in the second rap battle, he promptly drops Hitler into the Rancor Pit when he's on a roll. Finally, in the third rap battle, Darth Vader cuts Adolf Hitler in half with his lightsaber while he was in the middle of a verse.
• Composite Character: He runs Jabba's Palace instead of the Hutt himself.
• Cool Helmet: Vader's iconic helmet is present.
• Dark Is Evil: He's the original dark lord.
• The Dragon: Although he is Sidious' apprentice and enforcer, Hitler derides him by saying that this amounts to "the Emperor's whore".
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He mocks Hitler's attempts to convince the world the Jews are evil. This may be less standards and more insulting him through his failures, though given how he mentions that he has a "homeboy in Israel" and generally seems to hate Hitler, it might be a case of both.
  • He won't use the C word, even interrupting his own rap to avoid it.
• Evil Overlord: Though he's technically The Dragon for Emperor Palpatine, most of the Empire's armies report to him. They show up in his first verse and freeze Hitler in carbonite.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His deep baritone voice works well for the Sith Lord.
• Evil Versus Evil: To Hitler. In their first rap battle he freezes him in carbonite. In their second, he thaws him out just to toy with him, then drops him into the Rancor pit. In their third, he tries feeding him to the Sarlaac beast, and after Hitler shoots Boba Fett he decides to cut him in half.
• Eviler than Thou: Everything Hitler did, Vader invented it!
• Fallen Hero: Once the chosen one, now a tyrannical Sith Lord.
  Hitler: You got one bitch pregnant and gave into the hate!
• A Father to His Men: He notes that millions of his Storm Troopers would be willing to die for him.
• Just Toying with Them: Vader only thawed Hitler from carbonite to have a rematch and to drop him into the Rancor pit.
• Last-Second Word Swap: Evidently; Vader ends one line with "runt" and pauses halfway through the follow-up seemingly because he hesitates to use the most obvious rhyme. One Stormtrooper suggests a Painful Rhyme and he decides to roll with it.
• Laughably Evil: Like his opponent, he's much goofier than his canon counterpart, but still every bit as evil.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: There's no doubt he's evil, but he's still got the moral high ground over one of history's greatest monsters, Adolf Hitler.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Vader may or may not know if he's Hitler's father, because he used the line in conjunction with a Your Mom joke.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Only shows his face once.
• Nightmare Face: Without the mask, his face is seriously scarred - and it's not presented in an Ugly Cute sort of way as it was in Return Of The Jedi.
• Pragmatic Villainy: While he, in part, believes that Hitler is a disgusting being, pragmatism is also a reason that he mocks Hitler. He's aware that a regime based on nationalism and racism can only persist for so long, before it eventually falls apart from the pressure of having so many enemies.
• Psychic Powers: Darth Vader is force-sensitive, after all. He uses it to force choke Hitler in the first rap.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Type C; Not as much as Hitler, but a lot of his insults in the first battle sound like they come from a 13-year old on Xbox Live.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He absolutely tears into Hitler's political opinions and his military strategy in his third battle with him.
• Sell-Out: According to Hitler. He isn't going to let Vader forget that Disney owns his franchise anytime soon.
• Sunglasses at Night: Hitler calls him "Mr. Sunglasses-all-the-time."
• Vader Breath: Hitler exploits by saying he should use the force to fix his respirator.
• Villainous Friendship: With Boba Fett, as shown in the third because he reacts with Tranquil Fury when his "homeboy" is shot.
  • With a Jewish Stormtrooper he calls his homeboy in Israel.
• You Need a Breath Mint: According to Hitler he needs a 'life saver' instead of a 'light saber'.
• Your Mom: "So many dudes been with your mom, who even knows if I'm your father?!"

Abraham Lincoln

• Ascended Extra: Although he's only had one actual battle to his name, he's nonetheless made cameos as a background character in numerous other episodes, as well as showing up to rap in person in both Obama vs Romney and Trump vs Clinton. He's one of the most frequently recurring characters on the show and could even be considered one of its unofficial mascots.
• Berserk Button: Goes absolutely bananas on Donald Trump for defiling the Republican Party. He doesn't really have a better opinion of Hillary Clinton either, as she is such a poor candidate Trump actually has a decent chance of winning.
• Broken Pedestal: The Republican Party as a whole is this to him for nominating the likes of Mitt Romney and Donald Trump for the Presidential race. He also mocks Chuck Norris for voting for John McCain in 2008, another Republican candidate.
• The Cameo: Abraham Lincoln briefly appears in the Season 3 premiere, as Hitler's (attempted) executioner. He also shows up in Obama vs Romney and Trump vs Clinton, and appears as a background character in other episodes as well.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: Whatever he speaks is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. "I never tell a lie and I won't start now!"
• Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch: An In-Universe defiance. Evidently Abraham Lincoln doesn't approve of such behavior, and he draws the line at it: "I'd make fun of Walker, Texas Ranger / but I've never even seen that show!"
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Towards Hillary after she chuckles at his yelling at Trump for defiling his party.
  "Wipe that creepy-ass smile off your face and beat this dummy!"
• Hard Head: He can catch bullets with his skull!
• Hostile Show Takeover: Towards the end of the Obama vS. Romney and Trump vs. Clinton matches he drops in and steals the show.
• Large Ham:
  "BY THE POWER INVESTED IN ME BY THIS GIANT BALD BIRD!"
• No Indoor Voice: Mainly in his second and third appearances where he's shouting every word due to his frustration with his successors. In fact he seems to be getting even louder and angrier with each subsequent appearance.
• Oh, Crap!: When Chuck Norris grows giant sized and goes on a Badass Boast rant.
• Our Presidents Are Different: As President Action, he interrupts the rap battle between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama to slap them both. He also interrupts the rap battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to slap him and intimidate her.
• Precision F-Strike: His outrage at Trump about to violate his N-Word Privileges talking about Obama prompts him to intervene in that battle before Trump can finish the sentence screaming:
  "Are you fucking kidding me!?"
• Punctuated Pounding:
  • At the end of his rant against the presidential candidates, he gives Obama and Romney a slap to the face each while reminding them of their responsibility.
  Lincoln: Of the people! [slaps Obama] By the people! [slaps Romney] For the people! Eagle!
  • He repeats the act later, but doesn't slap Hillary. He gives her a Death Glare after slapping Trump a second time, implying that the slap would have been for her had she been a man.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: In Obama vs. Romney, when the two devolve into childish insults, Lincoln reroutes the debate back to the actual issues at hand, and accurately points out the faults of both of them while also acknowledging the valid points they make. Three seasons later in Trump vs. Hillary, he intervenes again to shut down Trump's racist ranting and also chew Hillary out for relying on waiting for Trump's campaign to self-destruct instead of putting up a real fight. In general, he is probably the most sympathetically portrayed of the authority figures shown in the series and is the one who seems most fit to be in charge. He also refuses to criticize a show without watching it.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers to Obama ("Don't talk about change, just do it!") and Romney ("You're a pancake, fliptopity!") Interestingly, he seems to appreciate Obama to some degree though he's disappointed in him, while he just insults Romney. Does it again in season 5 when he intervenes between Trump and Hillary's rap battle to give one of these to those two.
• Signature Headgear: It wouldn't be Honest Abe without his signature stovepipe hat.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: He's completely absent from the "Donald Trump vs Joe Biden" battle after showing up in both previous presidential rap battles.
• Took a Level in Badass: He goes from doing okay in his battle against Chuck Norris, to bitch-slapping Obama, Romney, and Trump twice.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: It's ambiguous. When he appears to chastize Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, he slaps Trump, but instead of slapping Clinton, he just slaps Trump again while giving Clinton a Death Glare. Clinton is suitably afraid. Considering he told Clinton to "beat this dummy", this may have been less because she's a woman and more because he just hates Trump more. Then again, Obama garnering some of his sympathy didn't spare him a bitchslap...

NicePeter

• Atrocious Alias: Lloyd rips into his handle in their second battle by claiming it sounds like a term for a penis.
• Call-Back:
  • When he says "You and Bill O'Reilly can both suck my dick", he literally turns into John Lennon again for a second.
  • In the rematch, he references his 10-Minute Retirement from the first, telling Lloyd "Tonight I'm not quitting the battles, bitch I'm quitting YOU!"
• Cool Shades: Until the end of his first verse where he takes them off. Apparently they weren't cool enough to keep.
• Control Freak: According to Lloyd, he keeps creative control to himself obsessively and constantly fiddling with the others' roles. But conversely, when they need direction out of him, he's goofing off and keeping them waiting.
• Creator Breakdown: In-Universe, Peter starts the second battle by complaining that after six years of working with Lloyd, he's totally burnt out and can't muster the same passion he used to.
• The Ditherer: Lloyd accuses Peter of wasting everyone's time taking too long to make decisions of varying importance.
  EpicLloyd: I'm not an entree at one of your fancy restaurants
  So quit eating up my time picking one of your fancy fonts
  And make a fucking decision so all these people can leave!
  Excuse me for interrupting Rocket League and smoking weed!
  They got places to be and now they’re looking at me!
  NiceDiva is my new name for you, NicePete!
• Embarrassing Middle Name: Alexis; it's part of EpicLLOYD's attack.
• Executive Meddling: In-Universe, Lloyd calls out how if Peter didn't mess with the tracks, they'd be home at 10pm instead of 4am. Peter says he messes with the team's work because they aren't good enough to do it right the first time.
• Felony Misdemeanor: He does a Jaw Drop when Lloyd threatens to unsubscribe his Youtube channel. Alternately, it could be a reaction to the Fan Disservice of Lloyd stripping in front of him (offscreen).
• Follow the Leader: In-Universe. According to Lloyd, he was nobody before he "rode up on KassemG's jock".
• Hypocritical Humor: Accuses Lloyd of focusing more on sex references than the more clever and artistic side of the rap battles. Lloyd retorts that his internet handle is a literal dick joke.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: He has given unique voices to the twenty-seven rappers that he has played thus far (as well as the Announcer).
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Lloyd says that whenever he's not micromanaging the team or keeping Lloyd in the studio for hours fiddling with the tracks, he's off somewhere getting stoned and playing video games when they actually need his input.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Lloyd's red in the first battle, mostly standing there calmly and with flatter, less threatrical delivery. This is reversed in the first part of the rematch, where almost all of his first verse is a continuous screaming rant.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: "Man, you don't even need to say that kind of shit. Fuck the rap battles and you. I quit!" Defied by Kassem, "You're gonna make them bigger and better."
• 10-Minute Retirement: Kassem makes his "the battles will continue" declaration ten seconds after Nice Peter's declaration that they will end.
• Three Chords and the Truth: Peter boasts that he wrote all of Lloyd's best verses and the latter has no songwriting talent. Lloyd just remarks that he wrote 87 songs with the same chord progression, so he shouldn't talk.
• With Friends Like These...: According to Lloyd's rap in the rematch, this is his relationship with the rest of the crew.
  Lloyd: You manipulate your friends and then you throw 'em away!
  I don't know who you shit on worse, myself or Dante!

EpicLLOYD

• Accidental Misnaming: Kassem calls him Todd.
• The Alcoholic: Peter accuses him of trying to drink his problems away instead of solving them in the rematch.
• Always Second Best: Runs the Behind the Scenes channel ERB2, which Peter lets him do because he's "second-class".
• Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: Caps off his first verse in the rematch by mutating NicePeter into NiceDiva. Peter just snarks that his jokes sound like primary school fluff.
• Happily Married: Is currently married to Josie Ahlquist, who appears in "Harry Houdini vs. David Copperfield" as Houdini's wife, Bess.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Claims to be the one "covering [Peter's] ass behind the scenes". Lloyd says that, without him around, Peter would make (more) bad creative decisions, alienate the rest of the team, and lose everything that they'd built for six years.
• Ignored Expert: He complains that Peter never listens to his advice, no matter how crucial it is.
  I try to tell you things, but you're too stubborn to understand
  Like "Dude, that is not a cool way to play Batman!"
• Just Here for Godzilla: In-universe; claims that people only go to Peter's page for the rap battles.
• The Load: Is accused of this by Peter, who thinks that the rap battles could have been even more successful if not for Lloyd fighting against Peter's creative ideas.
• Manchild: Peter says he has a juvenile attitude towards making the rap battles and calls him "an 8-year-old boy stuck inside a whatever-year-old man".
• Man of a Thousand Voices: He has given unique voices to the twenty-five rappers that he has played thus far. In addition, he has played multiple characters at once.
• The Napoleon: Most of Peter's first verse focuses on Lloyd's (lack of) height. Lloyd snaps back that, while he's shorter, Peter looks up to him.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Peter's blue in the first battle, constantly using more dramatic and bouncy body language. This is reversed in the first part of the rematch, where he spends his verse closer to Tranquil Fury.
• Scully Box: This is an Invoked Trope in the rematch. Peter briefly imitates Lloyd by wearing his hat, changing his voice to be more like Lloyd's, and standing on a box to look taller.
• Self-Deprecation: Twice he blasts the series' interpretation of Batman, claiming he tried to put a stop to it but Peter was too stubborn to listen.
• Shorter Means Smarter: The rap battles were his idea, not Peter's, and he's quick to make that point.
• The Starscream: According to Peter, he keeps trying to steal more creative control over the battles whenever he can.
• You Get What You Pay For: Peter accuses him of being too cheap to let him hire better editors, so the two of them wouldn't have to stay up 'til the early morning fixing their poor work.

Donald Trump

• Absolute Xenophobe: His rap battle against Hillary has him promising to kick Latinos out of the country, tear down mosques, use the rubble to build a wall across the Southern border, and force Mexico to pay for it.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: His signature spray tan is bright orange in his second battle, and Hillary Clinton even compares his complexion to salad dressing.
• Awful Wedded Life: Despite Trump bragging about banging his wife Melania, Joe Biden calls him a failure of a husband, bringing up Trump's numerous extramarital affairs and Melania's obvious discomfort whenever the two are together.
• Blatant Lies: Calls Hillary "the mother of ISIS", admits that it isn't actually true, but excuses it by basically admitting that he has no problem lying if that's what it takes to win. Hell, he starts off his verse by claiming to "respect all females" when a good deal of his insults towards Hillary are flagrantly misogynistic and Hillary had earlier called him out on the accusations of sexual misconduct directed at him.
• The Bus Came Back: He returns in Season 5 to battle Hilary Clinton, and then to battle Joe Biden in Season 6.
• Characterization Marches On:
  • Characterization marched on because history did. When "Trump vs. Scrooge" came out in 2013, Trump was known only as a reality TV host and eccentric rich guy with a huge ego. Three years later, he became President of the United States, inevitably leaving an entirely different historical legacy than anyone in 2013 could possibly have expected of him. The change in the world's perspective of him was reflected in "Trump vs. Clinton", which portrayed him as an entirely different character, to the point of changing his actor from Peter to Lloyd.
  • It also applies to his third battle with Biden. While still portrayed as a cruel bastard, Trump is a lot wittier and specific in his jabs towards his opponent and seems to have grown out.
• Composite Character: During his battle with Scrooge, he's himself plus Jacob Marley.
• Conspiracy Theorist: In his battle with Hillary Clinton, he references his real-life claims that Hillary secretly founded ISIS. In his next battle, Joe Biden slams him for calling global warming a hoax and for his baseless claims of elections being rigged against him.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He has his name on the side of a building, man! (Trump Tower) and he isn't known for his heart.
• Darker and Edgier: His rap battle with Hillary Clinton is significantly darker than his one with Scrooge, with the implication being that he is within a hair's breadth of becoming a President Evil. Even the music is much more ominous and unsettling based on this possibility. His third rap battle against Joe Biden is darker still, and is one of the most downbeat battles in the entire series.
• Deliberately Jumping the Gun: In his battle against Biden, he interrupts the announcer and starts rapping before the latter can finish annoucing his name, becoming the second rapper in the series to do so, after Steve Jobs.
• Dirty Old Man: Clinton brings up Trump's numerous sexual assault allegations and history of perverted comments — especially regarding preteens, married women, and his own daughter. Joe Biden hits him further on this, commenting on Trump's extramarital affairs and friendship with convicted child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
• Dodgy Toupee: Scrooge doesn't believe in ghosts or his hair.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • In his battle against Scrooge, Trump dismisses him as heartless, despite his own professed reputation for being less than upstanding.
  "I'm not known for my heart but you're still getting trumped!"
  • On the receiving end of this in Season 5 when Abe Lincoln finds him so appalling that he thinks the Republican Party should quit politics for nominating him.
• Eyes Always Shut: Squints for most of the battle against Hillary.
• Fan Disservice: His dancing in his second battle includes disturbing pelvic thrusts and Shaking the Rump.
• Fate Worse than Death: Implied when he walks off chained to a briefcase, which becomes much more clear when you realize he fills the role originally played by Jacob Marley, who was also subjected to such a thing and tried to warn Scrooge to keep him from enduring the same fate.
• Formerly Fit: Concurrent with the real Donald Trump's weight gain over the years: Peter made no attempt to hide his skinny frame when playing pre-politics Trump in 2013, while the already stockier Lloyd wore a fatsuit to play Trump in later appearances.
• Global Ignorance: Hillary Clinton claims Trump couldn't find Iran on a map.
• Glory Hound: Clinton accuses Trump of only wanting the presidency for the glamor and prestige that comes with it and not caring about the responsibilities of job itself.
• Good Morning, Crono: He wakes up Scrooge to begin the rap battle.
• Handcuffed Briefcase: The trope is cleverly used as a modernized reimagining of the traditional Jacob Marley Apparel; toward the end of his verse in the battle against Scrooge, Trump holds up his hands to reveal they're bound in chains to a heavy briefcase.
• Honest John's Dealership: Comes off as this in his second battle where he promises to "make this country great again" and says that everyone will be "living large" after he is through clamping down on Latinos and Muslims. On the flip-side, he accuses Hillary of being this and calls her "crooked".
• Horrible Judge of Character: Joe Biden calls Trump out for his numerous unsavory associations, such as his friendship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, his fondness for dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, and his appointment of the "sycophantic, homophobic Hoosier" Mike Pence as his VP. Not to mention his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Hypocrite:
  • After Clinton calls him out as a Dirty Old Man, Trump tries to deflect by accusing his opponent's husband of somehow being "worse than Cosby" because of his consensual affair with Monica Lewinsky.
    • Similarly, Trump tries to baselessly accuse Biden of pedophilia, only for Biden to point out Trump's well-documented friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
  • Trump also repeatedly claims without evidence that Biden is a radical extremist, accusing him of "inciting hysteria", "hating America" and supporting "looting and violence" and saying he will "unleash Antifa and keep America like Portland." This all despite Trump himself being an infamous Rabble Rouser who traffics in far-right rhetoric designed to whip people into a frenzy in both the 2016 and 2020 election battles.
• I Like My X Like I Like My Y: A very dark example happens when he says:
  I'm gonna run these streets like I run my casinos:
  More police, and less Latinos!
• Incoming Ham: His first line is belted out at the top of his lungs: "WAKE UP, SCROOGE!"
• Invincible Villain: He believes HIMSELF to be one in his Battle with Joe Biden, claiming that "no person, woman, man, camera, TV" can beat him and even brags about shrugging off his impeachment. Considering real life events this could be considered a subversion now.
• Jacob Marley Apparel: In "Trump vs Scrooge," he reveals at the end of his verse that he's a wandering spirit chained to his briefcase.
• Jacob Marley Warning: Standing in for the trope namer; "you're gonna be rocked by three MCs from the ethereal plane!"
• Jerkass:
  • His first rap battle against Scrooge; he's the only one who disses Scrooge rather than telling him to change his ways.
  • In Trump's second battle everything he says that is even remotely complimentary is really a backhanded, bigoted insult, to the point he almost drops the N-word before Lincoln interrupts him.
  • In his third battle with Joe Biden, he is only 4 lines in when he mocks Biden's wife and daughter dying in a car crash.
• Kangaroo Court: He threatens in the 2016 battle to have his opponent imprisoned (most likely on specious charges).
• Karma Houdini: In the 2020 battle, Trump brags about going through impeachment without a scratch.
  Meh, they impeached me; I still walked out of DC looking peachy!
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Given real life events following his Battle with Biden, he lost the election and as such immunity as President. If the Rap Battle with Ebenezer Scrooge takes place after his Battle with Biden his ultimate fate is also one he shares with Jacob Marley.
• Large Ham: Especially when he's being played by Epic Lloyd who often makes him as bombastic and brash as possible.
• Like Father, Like Son: Biden says that Trump's father would finally be proud of him if he saw what Trump had become now... because he was also a racist asshole.
• Mock Millionaire: Both Clinton and Biden mock his business failures, the former pointing out that the Trump brand has been "going bankrupt since the 90s" and the latter claiming that Trump has "nothing in the bank 'cept IOU's", referencing the disputes over his claimed net worth.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Trump is seen looming over Clinton in her title card at the beginning of the battle, a reference to the real Trump repeatedly invading Clinton's personal space in much the same manner during their second Presidential debate.
• Parental Incest: Hillary brings up that the real Trump said his own daughter is so beautiful he would sleep with her if they weren't related; she also points out just how creepy that image is.
• Perpetual Frowner: Peter's attempt at getting the Donald look down has not gone unnoticed. Lloyd, if anything, takes it even further.
• Police State: The police as an occupying force is a recurring theme in Trump's verses: in the 2016 battle, he expresses a desire to see "more police and less Latinos" in the streets, and in 2020, he brags about sending law enforcement to open fire on protesters with tear gas and makes light of Police Brutality by saying the victims were "criminals."
• Politically Incorrect Villain: In his battle with Hillary Clinton, he promises to stand up to China, says the American people want a strong male leader, calls Clinton a "bleeding heart vagina", mocks her for nearly losing to "a socialist Jew" like Bernie Sanders, promises to kick Latinos out of America and put people to work tearing down mosques, and is on the verge of using the N-word to describe the Obamas before Abe Lincoln shows up. Dialed back considerably in his 2020 battle against Joe Biden, where he doesn't say anything outright offensive, but implicitly belittles the George Floyd protests and his statement of not liking the shade of Obama's shadow can easily be interpreted as admitting that he is a racist.
• President Evil: In the 2016 rap battle, Trump talks about the things that he would do if elected and they include: tearing down mosques, making the country "less latino" and turning the country into a police state. The 2020 battle does similarly, as he openly brags about tear gassing protesters and Biden calls him out for his disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic.
• The Quisling: Biden accuses Trump of being disloyal to the American people, citing his coronavirus failures, denigration of the military, and fondness for foreign dictators.
  Joe Biden: 200,000 deaths lying at your door,
  And you think they're suckers like McCain and the Marine Corps!
  Sometimes I can't tell for which side you're rootin'!
  When we go high, you go down on Putin!
• Rabble Rouser: The rising cheering noise in the background of his verse (vs. Hillary Clinton) is a reference to his reputation as someone who incites political unrest. In his battle against Biden, Trump repeatedly accuses his opponent of being a radical extremist who hates America, prompting Biden to call him out for his anger-filled and invective-laden rhetoric.
  Joe Biden: You tapped into the rage of Red Mad Hatters!
• Racist Grandpa: In his battle against Clinton, Trump denigrates women, Jews, China, Latinos, Muslims, and African-Americans throughout his verse. In his battle against Biden, he calls the latter "Barack's shadow" and says that he doesn't "like the shade", which may be jabs at Obama's darker skin color.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Trump is battling against Joe Biden, he's the Red Oni to Biden's Blue. Which works on both ways as Biden is calmer and more reserved while Trump is loud and forceful and their backgrounds (and ties) are red for Republicans and blue for Democrats.
• Scare 'Em Straight: In his first rap battle, his ultimate goal is to scare decency into Scrooge by showing him what he could become if he does not change his ways.
• Scatterbrained Senior: In the 2020 battle, Trump is implied to be suffering from cognitive decline, as he makes a point of bragging about passing his cognitive function test (which wasn't supposed to be difficult in the first place,) and his grammar and inflection get notably more awkward as he does so.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: The second-oldest President in US history, and in his battle with Hillary Clinton, he's a complete Jerkass and a Politically Incorrect Villain who says a lot of racist, sexist, and otherwise socially unacceptable things without a second thought.
  "I don't do politeness."
• The Sociopath: Highly amoral, profoundly narcissistic and a noticeable Lack of Empathy even compared to the other rappers.
• Sore Loser:
  • In the 2016 battle, Lincoln advises Trump to be a Graceful Loser and hold the door for Clinton if she wins, a reference to the widespread belief that Trump would not accept the outcome of the 2016 election if he lost.
  • In his battle against Biden, Trump's fear of losing power is emphasized at multiple points. Throughout the fight, he constantly brags about how he is certain to win, with one of his earliest lines in particular mentioning his desire to remain in office beyond the two-term limit. Meanwhile, Biden points out that Trump's fear of losing has gotten to the point where Trump will resort to rigging the election to ensure he stays in power.
    Joe Biden: You’re too insecure to even look like a loser!
• Straw Character: In his second battle; while many of his offensive statements are cherry-picked from real comments, their overemphasis is a clear pattern throughout his verse and the last, worst one outright renders him as this. In response to criticism, this is dialed back greatly in his third battle, which still makes him out very negatively but puts all the most severe insinuations squarely in the mouth of his opponent where they belong.
• Terrified of Germs: Trump's mysophobia was on display in the battle against Scrooge, in which he claims to avoid shaking hands and demands Scrooge keep his distance because he might be carrying a disease from Tiny Tim.
• Took a Level in Badass: YMMV, but as he becomes less cartoonishly evil in the third battle, his barbs become a lot more specific and accurate.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In his second rap battle (vs Hillary Clinton) he is far more sexist, racist and generally unpleasant, following the real Trump's behavior in the 2016 Presidential elections.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Conversely, in his third battle against Joe Biden, he's still shown as cruel and racist, but in a way that's more in line with the typical low blows seen in the battles and demonstrated by his real self, avoiding the cartoonish levels seen in his battle against Hillary Clinton.
• Unexplained Recovery: He's flat-out stated to be dead in his rap battle with Scrooge. Meaning that, within the context of the Epic Rap Battles of History universe, either he was brought back somehow or his ghost is running for president. Or his rap against Scrooge took place after his rap against Clinton and Biden.

Boba Fett

• Ascended Extra:
  • Before getting his own battle, he had a cameo in Vader vs Hitler Round 3.
  • He's this in the Star Wars franchise too, as Deadpool points out.
• Back from the Dead: Killed in Hitler vs Vader 3, but fights Deadpool on his own, alive and well, in a later battle.
• Badass Cape: The cover for his jetpack is here and flapping.
• Bounty Hunter: His role according to Vader; "My bounty hunters ride for me." Also, apparently he was paid to kill Deadpool.
• The Cameo: He only has eight seconds of screentime in Vader vs Hitler Round 3.
• Cool Helmet: Not if you ask Deadpool. He thinks it looks like a mailbox.
• Dance Battler: Done literally throughout his rap battle with Deadpool, especially during Boba's third and fourth verses when he segues from pop-locking to full-on breakdancing during his rhymes.
• The Dragon: To Darth Vader.
  Vader: Yo homeboy, finish this rhyme for me.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: During his first appearance, Hitler deals with him before he can finish his verse.
• Hashtag Rap: "I'll beat your ass with one eye closed — Boba Fetty Wap!" ^note  This is a reference to rapper Fetty Wap, who is blind in one eye.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: During his first appearance, he is shot by Hitler while talking about how he steals the show.
  Boba: "'Cause when I rock a microphone I-" [cue Wilhelm Scream as Hitler shoots him]
• Pretender Diss: He downplays Deadpool's merc skills by referring to himself as being the real thing:
  Boba Fett: "So here's a lesson from a genuine assassin who's blastin' foes."
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: A lot more coolheaded when compared to Deadpool.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Invoked during his first appearance, he claims that he steals the show as part of his job description but subverted in the end. He dies before he can finish his verse. To make things worse, he was the only replacement rapper to die at all until "Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible".
• Stock Scream: Emits the Wilhelm Scream when he's shot by Hitler.
• The Stoic: His voice is much more subdued in his battle against Deadpool.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Has a missile in his backpack. Deadpool thinks it's stupid, but it serves him pretty well when the rebels show up.
• Villainous Friendship: He's Darth Vader's "homeboy", and when Hitler shoots him, Vader gives up rapping and just cuts the guy in half.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Start to finish, he's there for six seconds before Hitler kills him. Then this is subverted when he got his own rap battle.

Deadpool

• Batter Up!: Clocks a Mook in the face with a bat.
• Berserk Button: He gets angry when Boba Fett calls him schizophrenic.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Deadpool's usual schtick.
  • He begins by diverting his attention from Boba to walk right up to the screen and directly address the audience:
  Deadpool: (facing into the camera) "Do you honestly think I would screw this feud up,"
  "and lose to the dude a huge toothie coochie chewed up?"
  • All of his verses are loaded with Star Wars trivia, and his third verse has him reading his lines straight from comicbook panels.
  • And just to prove that even ERB isn't safe, he makes fun of Fett for being played by two different people. Whether he's referring to appearances on ERB, or the fact that in this battle Fett is being acted by one person and voiced by another, Darth Vader-style, is left up to the viewer. It could possibly also refer to the original Star Wars trilogy itself, as Boba was voiced by one actor originally but was redubbed in the post-prequels re-releases.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He's got two other voices in his head: a nutty one and a voice of reason, and they read of the comic panels in his second verse.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's a trash-talking Troll who's fond of spouting wisecracks especially when he mocks Boba Fett's missile backpack.
• Elvis Impersonator: Imitates Elvis at one point, and he does this while accusing Fett of being a Xerox of his father.
• Expy: Boba points out that he was basically an Alternate Company Equivalent of Deathstroke, and accuses him of ripping off other superheroes like Spider-Man.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: At one point, he addresses the people watching the video, asking if they think he'd lose to Boba Fett.
• Healing Factor: It doesn't impress Boba, who tells him to go home and heal from what he dished out.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • "Presenting the most overrated character anyone's ever saw"; Funny how it's Deadpool, who is considered by even his fans as the most overhyped/overrated Marvel character, saying this.
  • He also mocks Boba for being a clone, leading Boba to point out he's not exactly the most original character himself.
• I Resemble That Remark!: After Boba calls him schizophrenic, Deadpool gets angry and responds in a comicbook panel with each line delivered in a slightly different voice.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Boasts about his skills with his katanas.
• Large Ham: He certainly knows how to put on a show.
• Mood-Swinger: His mannerism is all over the place, ranging from calm and comical one moment, to Suddenly Shouting the next.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: According to Boba Fett, he's a Deathstroke clone with Spider-Man's eyes, Snake-Eyes' weapons, and Wolverine's Healing Factor.
• Offhand Backhand: Catches a bat swung at him without looking back. Another one has him shooting a Mook in the head without looking.
• Questionable Casting: In-Universe, Boba Fett thinks casting "the prick from Van Wilder" as Deadpool is a mistake.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Deadpool's spazzy behavior and theactrics contrasts sharply with Boba's reserved mannerism.
• Reluctant Psycho: If his Berserk Button is any indication, he doesn't like it when people point out his mental deficiencies.
• Suddenly Shouting:
  • The first time he does it is during his second verse, as a jab at Boba's lack of screentime:
  Deadpool: (with hat and cane) "Introducing the most overrated character anyone ever saw:"
  "with only FIVE lines in The Trilogy and one of 'em was, "AAAAHH!!" (flails arms wildly)
  • Also, being called schizophrenic seems to strike a nerve, though not enough to make him stop dancing.
  Deadpool: "WHO YOU CALLING SCHIZOPHRENIC?!"
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: In-Universe, Boba Fett calls him derivative:
  Boba Fett: Bitch, who you calling 'clone?' You're a Deathstroke ripoff!
  You stole Spider-Man's eyes and Snake Eyes' weapons
  You got Wolverine's powers; man, you're comics sloppy seconds!

Elon Musk

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Zuckerberg mocks Musk's fear of robot overlords.
• Amoral Afrikaner: Zuckerberg brings up Musk's sketchy family history regarding Apartheid. ^NoteThis is semi-consistent with what we know about the real Elon Musk, who has explicitly called his father a "terrible human being" who has committed "every crime you can think of," but the jury's still out on how much involvement they had.
  Zuckerberg: I've been looking up your family; it gets dark — my God!
  Couldn't clean your daddy's laundry with Apar-Tide Pods!
• Assist Character: Captain Picard and Senator Diane Feinstein show up to finish a couple of his rhymes.
• Attention Whore: Zuckerberg dismisses Musk as "nothing but an attention-seeking outcast" due to his grandstanding and bombastic public image.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Exaggerated; in one part of his second verse, he flies from Earth to Mars with no problem being able to continue rapping in space (even dodging a satellite).
• Boring Insult: Belittles Zuckerburg's cornering of social media by comparing it to his own feats of astronomic engineering.
  When I'm conquering "MySpace" it's actual space, man!
• Erudite Stoner: Zuckerburg makes references his smoking weed while being interviewed by Joe Rogan, but he's also one of the most famous engineers in the world.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: He carries along his trademark "Not-A-Flamethrower" during his raps.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Zuckerberg thinks that Musk is an attention-seeking outcast.
• Master of None: Zuckerberg points out that Musk is the founder/owner of multiple companies, none of which are as successful as Facebook.
  Zuckerberg: You've got all these companies, but they're In! Com! Plete!
  I got one and I fold money: In! Come! Pleat!
• Ninja Prop: At one point he picks up part of his rap subtitles like it's some rope.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: He absolutely kills it with pop culture in his verses, making well-placed references to Star Trek: The Next Generation, Iron Man, James Bond, Fortnite, and The Social Network.
• Real-Person Cameo: The real Elon Musk's Twitter feed can be seen during Zuckerberg's second verse.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Zuckerberg's Blue. Musk is brash and bombastic, while Zuckerberg is cold and impersonal.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Musk firmly plants himself and his accomplishments on the idealistic end of the scale, in contrast to Zuckerberg, who's done many ethically dodgy things throughout his career and whose most famous accomplishment, in Musk's eyes, has caused far more harm than good. That Musk brags about his technological advancements helping guide humanity into a new era while Zuckerberg brags about how much money he has only solidifies this.
  Elon Musk: I'm making brilliant innovations in a race against the dark ages! You provide a place to discover your aunt's kinda racist!
• The Stoner: Zuckerberg brings up the time Musk got high on a podcast. Musk couldn't care less.
  Mark Zuckerberg: And your star is faded... like you... on a podcast.
  Elon Musk: Dope-smoking with Joe Rogan don't slow-motion my pace, man!
• Tricked-Out Shoes: He uses rocket boots to fly from Earth to Mars.
• Workaholic: Deconstructed; Zuckerberg notes that Musk tends to overwork himself to the point of sleep deprivation, and the resulting exhaustion has caused his performance and reputation to suffer.
  Mark Zuckerberg: You need to start sleeping; we can all see you're tired
  You're about to be C.E-[checks phone] Oh shit! He got fired!
• X Called; They Want Their Y Back: He mocks Zuckerberg's robotic mannerisms with this.
  Elon Musk: You acted so robotic, Star Trek's like...
  Jean-Luc Picard: We need Lieutenant Data back!
• X Meets Y: Describes himself as "Tony Stark with a James Bond sprinkle tossed in."

Mark Zuckerberg

• Ambiguously Human: Zuckerberg talks in an oddly fractured manner and he never blinks at any point during the battle (as he points out), so he gives off an unsettlingly inhuman vibe. Musk lampshades this by comparing him to the android Data (a comparison Zuckerberg doesn't even try to refute), calling him an "elf", and explicitly differentiating him from the human race as a whole:
  Musk: I'm taking mankind to Mars, but for your kind, man, I ain't got room!
• Big Brother Is Watching:
  Mark Zuckerberg: I'm the CEO of KNOWING WHAT YOU THINK, INC.
• Boring, but Practical: While Elon's businesses and endeavors are both all over the place and in some cases wildly impractical, (Going to Mars? Bootleg flamethrowers??) Zuckerberg has largely focused on one social media website— but that website has made him filthy rich.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: His body language and behavior imply that he's not all there, whether he's derailing a serious discussion to talk about Star Trek or bragging about "eating toast from Robot Morgan Freeman."
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Musk points out how odd it is that someone as awkward and un-personable as Zuckerberg runs a social network.
  Musk: Who put the elf with no friends in charge of human connection?
• The Comically Serious: Serves as a parody of Zuckerberg being a socially awkward and robotic stick-in-the-mud who's main topic is to build up his social media business.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Elon Musk accuses Zuckerberg of being this, from his betrayal of the Winklevoss twins to his part in the Russian hacking scandal.
• Dull Surprise: He remains completely calm and emotionless for 90% of the battle, only raising his voice during certain moments toward the end of his verses.
• Everyone Has Standards: The only thing that visibly shakes Mark is the Musk family's alleged connections to apartheid.
• Hashtag Rap: Zuckerberg does this four times in a row:
  Zuckerberg: Watch me: Oculus, Instagram, WhatsApp — Post!
  I'm cleaning up like a wet nap — Boast!
  I drive around in a Hatchback — Beep-beep!
  I'll end your story like Snapchat — Ghost!
• Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee: An infamous case; he starts out the battle at a podium in the US Senate building, and Elon Musk brings up that Zuckerberg was forced to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his part in the Russian troll scandal.
  Elon Musk: Got called to Senate!
  Diane Feinstein: [Bangs Gavel] Data hack!
• Ignored Enemy: Zuckerberg uses a Snapchat analogy to signify that he could beat Musk simply by ignoring him.
• I Take Offense to That Last One: Even though Musk brings up Zuckerberg's betrayal of his associates, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Facebook's common usage as a platform for prejudiced beliefs, the only part that offends Zuckerberg enough for him to rebut was Musk's misidentifying Data as a Lieutenant instead of a Lieutenant Commander.
• Knowledge Broker: The way Facebook has reportedly gathered and sold information from its users is brought up several times, both as a boast and as an insult.
• Kubrick Stare: Several times throughout the battle, he gives a dead-eyed stare directly into the camera. See The Unblinking.
• Lack of Empathy: At no point does he respond to (or even acknowledge) Musk's calling out of his role in the Data Hack scandal, implying that he just doesn't care.
• No Social Skills: He seems absentminded, cares nothing for the harm his actions have caused, and only seems interested in his financial status and the power it gives him. Musk points out that this isn't exactly the kind of person you'd want to run a social networking site and trust with confidential information.
  Musk: Who put the elf with no friends in charge of human connection?
• Only in It for the Money: Every time Musk brings some kind of ethical problem with his work, Zuckerberg just counters with how much money he's making.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: Not to Musk's level in either regard, but he still felt the need to correct Musk on Data's rank.
• Quality over Quantity: He considers Elon Musk's method of creating multiple companies to be a waste of resources while Meta centralizes everything:
  Zuckerberg:: You've got all these companies, but they're incomplete
  I got one and I fold money: income pleat!
• The Quisling: Musk accuses Zuckerberg of selling out the USA to Russia for cash.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Musk's Red. Musk is brash and bombastic, while Zuckerberg is cold and impersonal.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He starts out wearing a gray business suit, but then immediately ditches it for a t-shirt and jeans.
• Sinister Surveillance: The amount of data Facebook (and by extension Zuckerberg) has access to is mentioned several times, most obivously with the "I'm the CEO of knowing what you think, INC!" line and Zuckeberg bringing up Musk's family history.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: As he himself points out, he never blinks.
• The Unblinking: He never blinks at any point in the battle.
  Zuckerberg: You can't sneak up on Zuck — I don't even fucking blink!
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: He speaks in a voice vaguely reminiscent of Kermit the Frog - what's more, he speaks in a Creepy Monotone and tends to spastically state his verses with awkward pauses thrown in.

The Announcer

• Animorphism: Whenever ERB News needs The Announcer to appear onscreen, a talking animal is used. These have included a monkey, a cat, and a bear. In the battles themselves, The Announcer is He Who Must Not Be Seen.
• Catchphrase: He opens and closes every rap battle the same way.
  EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY! [Character 1] vs. [Character 2]! BEGIN!
  WHO WON? WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE! EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY!
• Flanderization: He originally had a clear and deep voice. Progressively, it becomes more and more high-pitched and less coherent.
• Incoming Ham: Comes with being a Large-Ham Announcer. His announcements mostly "bursts out".
• Killed Mid-Sentence:
  • Gets bitten and turned into a zombie at the end of "Rick Grimes vs. Walter White".
  • He gets turned into dust at the end of "Thanos vs. Robert Oppenheimer" before he can say the full name of the series.
• Large-Ham Announcer: He shouts the introduction and conclusion, although he turned down the volume quite a bit in Season 4.
• The Unintelligible: Getting progressively worse with each battle.
• The Voice: That's all he is: a voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

George Watsky

• Large Ham: Anytime Watsky plays any famous poets, his rapping is very theatrical.
• Motor Mouth: His specialty. He's very well known for being able to rap at amazing speeds. He ranks among the top ten fastest Choppers in the entire rap industry.
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: He's white and can rap with incredible skill.
• Signature Style: Two out of his three roles are historical poets going up against famous modern-day authors, with a first verse incorporating the respective poet's trademark meter and the second being delivered in Motor Mouth. He only gets one verse in his third role (the Fourth Doctor), but he retains his signature rapid-fire delivery.
• The More You Know: Takes a little time to explain iambic pentameter and trochee in the BTS for "Stephen King vs Edgar Allan Poe". For context, he did the first three lines for Shakespeare in iambic pentameter and the first two for Poe in trochee octameter.

Zach Sherwin

• And Starring: The season 4 finale credits all the guest stars by episode, but Zach goes here instead.
• Brainy Brunette: Has dark hair, and is known for the wordplay in the lyrics he writes.
• Large Ham: Ebenezer Scrooge is a standout example. Also Walt Disney, who is so intense he crosses over into scary territory.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: He plays Ebenezer Scrooge, Voltaire, Walt Disney and Alexander the Great with his natural voice, but he gives distinct voices to all his other characters.
• Motor Mouth: Not to Watsky's level but still above average.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Was credited as MC Mr Napkins for a while.
• Sixth Ranger: He's put in enough appearances and writing to count as one for Peter and Lloyd. He's also co-written all the episodes of Season 4 and most of Season 3.
• Slasher Smile: Pulls off an astounding one as Walt Disney whilst shouting in a Voice of the Legion.

Timothy DeLaGhetto

• Asian and Nerdy: Being Asian, he's used for whenever one is needed for a battle such as Sun Tzu.
• Hot-Blooded: Both of his appearances have him act very emotional in his line delivery.

Dante Cimadamore

• Cold Ham: While not loud like the others, his characters' rapping is still very theatrical.
• Same Language Dub: So far, NicePeter and EpicLloyd provided the voice for his characters.

Ray William Johnson

• Ambiguously Brown: Moreso with that Super Saiyan makeup. Still, a lot of fans feel he's a better casting choice than Justin Chatwin anyways.
• Early-Bird Cameo: His Boba Fett counts as one. Not even the suit acting, just the voice.
• Homage: His rap style owes a lot to Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine.
• Large Ham: The main reason the voice-only above stood out. Goku also has these moments.
• Heroic Build: Packs just enough muscle to pull off Goku.
• Motor Mouth: During a warmup exercise in one BTS.

KRNFX

• Asian and Nerdy: Raps as Grant Imahara and Lao Tzu in each of his appearances.

Key & Peele

• Large Ham: Both of them! Special mention goes to Key's Circling Monologue for "Michael Jordan vs Muhammad Ali".
• Special Guest: Twice as of the fourth season.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Key as Gandhi and Peele as Muhammad Ali, balancing it out.

DeStorm Power

• Large Ham: Look no further than his Mr T. His Shaka Zulu also has No Indoor Voice.
• Scary Black Man: Mr. T and Kanye West were meant to invoke this, but turn out more like Large Ham instead. Shaka Zulu plays this completely straight however.

Kimmy Gatewood

• Large Ham: The woman's characters love Chewing the Scenery.

Rhett & Link

• Big Guy, Little Guy: Rhett is way taller than Link, so that a row of Scully Boxes were needed to film "Renaissance Artists vs TMNT".
• Wicked Cultured: Downplayed and not symptomatic of ERB as a whole, but all of their appearances pit them directly against Lloyd and Peter, portraying well-spoken and highly intelligent historical pioneers while the regulars play casual-speaking fictional pop culture heroes.

Dan Bull

• Evil Is Hammy: When playing Jack the Ripper.