Monday, December 6, 2021

Character Analysis: Wizard

 So how does Death Battle work(in-universe)

So in order to analyze Wiz, I need to establish how Death Battle itself works, since many items and abilities used by Wiz/Boomstick originate from the characters they Analysed in Death Battle episodes.. This is NOT an official explanation btw, this is just my own headcanon.


Anyway, the Series of Death Battle clearly takes place in the same universe as the web series Red vs Blue. Death Battle is known by people in that universe, during the episode “meta vs Carolina” it’s stated that Wiz and Boomstick are scientists in that universe, and it’s heavily implied that R V B character Sarge is Boomstick’s father.

  • DB ep 64 1:33 death battle is known in Red vs Blue

  • DB ep 64 1:50 Wiz and Boomstick are scientists in the world of Red vs Blue

  • DB ep 64 16:21 Wiz and Boomstick meet sarge and its suggested he’s Boomsticks dad


Boomstick also mentions putting in a “2 weeks notice” at one point. This correlates with the assumption that Wiz and Boomstick are researchers in the world of Red vs Blue, whose job is probably to research characters and see who would win in a fight.

  • DB ep 111 11:35 Boomstick mentions a “2 weeks notice” 


Anyway in terms of how fights themselves work. It’s shown in Meta vs Carolina, that Wiz and Boomstick legitimately just spy on the characters to gather information on episodes of. Which they did to the Red/Blue crew.

  • DB ep 64 6:56 It’s implied Wiz/Boomstick spied on the RVB crew for the footage in Meta Vs Carolina.


Likewise, the fight of Meta vs Carolina is shown to be a simulation of some kind. As the fight, itself does not alter R v B continuity, and the characters from that show watch it and react to the results.

  • DB ep 64 14:44 Meta vs Carolina is shown to be a simulation of some kind.


That said, any character in Death Battle probably does exist for real within DB’s continuity. Wiz and Boomstick likely just peer into alternate realities to study the characters they use on the show.  Boomstick is even shown to exist along with other famous characters on DBX.


So summarizing this, Wiz and Boomstick spy on characters from other fictional media/timelines/multiverses, then create a simulated fight based on their observations. This also explains why they mention taking notes in many eps, having interns and why the results or numbers for episodes using the same characters can change.

  • DB ep 37 5:00 Boomstick and Wiz have interns. 

  • DB ep 99 6:28 It’s implied all the notes for the show aren't just taken by Wiz and Boomstick.


That said the simulations do seem to have some element of “realness” to them. As Wiz has mentioned using instruments to track characters while they fight and some characters have broken into the DBX arena while fighting. This is likely due to some reality-warping tech, which Wiz mentions he has experience with.


So in summary Wiz and Boomstick are scientists in the Red vs Blue universe. They use tech to spy on the “real” counterparts of fictional characters from across the multiverse. Then create a simulation with reality-warping tech, which recreates those characters in a Death Battle scenario.This essentially means that any item or weapon they use in the series originating from one of these characters should have the same “potency” as the original, or at least the same potency assumed by Wiz and Boomstick based on the research they performed(and given they can update research, we can just say any items can be upgraded to reflect new information).


Background



The co-host of the show Death Battle. Wiz has a genius intellect and generally acts as the person who breaks down complex information when discussing which fictional characters would win in a fight. He’s also part of some kind of mad scientist community, and is generally fairly introverted, spending most of his time inside. He seems to have some daddy issues as well, as he feels like he didn’t earn his Dad’s appreciation before he passed away. Wiz has a secrete lab or lair of some kind where he creates most of his inventions.



While Wiz is generally smarter than his co-host Boomstick, he’s also much more unhinged. He’s stated to have bouts of “revenge madness” against his enemies, needs some kind of medication to keep his mind balanced, has implied he wants to take over the world on a few occasions, and has destroyed multiple planets to get out of paying his student loans.



Despite often acting like Boomstick is an annoyance, he clearly enjoys his company. Having apparently known Boomstick since Middle school and going on numerous trips and vacations with him since.

  • DB ep 48 9:25 Boomstick and Wiz go on trips together.

  • Db ep 68 1:31 Boomstick forgot to wear pants when he first met Wiz.

  • DB ep 85 1:42 It’s stated Wiz and Boomstick have known each other since middle school.

  • DB ep 101 9:09 Wiz and Boom go to bars together.


Additionally, Wiz is apparently married. Though who too hasn’t been confirmed yet.



Armor

Mjolnir mark 4 armor

Mjolnir Armor from the Halo series which Wiz was shown to be wearing during the episode, Meta vs Carolina.

  • DB ep 64 1:59 Wiz and Boomstick both have Mjolnir armor


The Mjolnir armor is a combat exoskeleton designed to be used specifically by the Spartan IIs in the halo universe. The original models of the suit can kill those without the heightened reflexes and physical strength The armor's shell is composed of a multilayer alloy and is covered in a refractive coating. The suit contains a gel-filled layer that regulates temperature and can reactively change its density. The inner skinsuit is made of a moisture-absorbing synthetic material linked to a control computer and the user's neural interface. 


The original mark 4 variation of the Armor increases strength by 2x and reaction speed by 5x.



Arsenal


Cybernetic arm


Wiz’s cybernetic left arm. It has multiple upgrades and weapons installed in it. Including a flamethrower that mimics the fire bending of Zuko from Avatar. An Ice ray that mimics Shoto’s Ice powers from My Hero academia. A hologram projector and a Buzzsaw. The arm sometimes glitches.


Giant pencil

A giant pencil that Wiz uses to literally erase Deadpool from the Deadpool vs Pinkie Pie ep. It ultimately fails against Deadpool in the long run.

  • DP ep 71 5:08 Wiz has a giant eraser he uses to erase Deadpool.


Time machines

Wiz has attempted to create multiple time machines. Including a time travel wristwatch and another unrelated time machine, he uses off-screen.


Devil gene

A recreated version of the devil Gene used by the character Jin in Tekken. 

  • DB ep 95 8:33 Wiz says he’s been working on an artificial version of the devil gene from Tekken. Boomsticks dog ate them


The Devil Gene can increase offensive and defensive abilities by about 10 times. Allows the user to access a laser beam they can shoot from a third eye. It also grants Telekinesis and wings for flight.


Stopwatch/Stop Materia

Wiz has the stopwatch power-ups from the Mario series, which stops time completely for a few seconds.  As well as stop Materia and an unspecified time stop.


Ice flower


A power-up from the Mario series. It allows the user to fire balls of ice that can freeze an opponent solid instantly.


Gold flower

A power-up from the Mario series that allows the user to fire projectiles that turn enemies into coins. It should be noted that the website bios in the USA and UK specifically note that turning enemies into coins is what these projectiles do.


Megabuster

A power cannon that fires shots of solar energy from the character Megaman. Wiz can transform one of his arms directly into the weapon. It can be charged for a more powerful shot.

  • DB ep 101 3:56 Wiz has a fully functional mega buster attachment.


Trident of Neptune

A magical trident from Aquaman. It can call down lighting, create ice out of the air, shift stone, create magic barriers for defense, and gives minor flight capabilities.  

  • DB ep 104 3:50 Wiz has the trident of neptune.


Widow’s Gauntlets

Gauntlets from Black Widow of Marvel comics.

  • DB ep 106 5:10 Wiz has the widow's bite, a shocking gauntlet 

Widow’s gauntlets house a small number of various gadgets 

  • Widows Line: Retractable wire used as a grappling hook to cling on and swing around buildings.

  • Widow’s Kiss: An aerosol drug that when inhaled can knock a target out for about 20 hours.

  • Widow’s Bite: High-frequency bolts. The voltage can be low enough to stun or cranked up to lethal levels if necessary. Can shoot them to upwards of 20 feet.

  • Explosives: Various types of bombs, but it seems it averages out to about four pounds of TNT.

  • Tear Gas Pellets: Tear gas. It causes blindness and can even knock people unconscious..


Inside out gun

A ray gun that can turn objects and people inside out.

  • DB ep 107 11:39 Wiz created a device that can turn things inside out.


Cyber goose

A miniature cybernetic goose that was built using tech similar to mechagodzilla. It can fire electricity and lasers from its mouth.

  • DB ep 114 10:26 Wiz has a cyber goose, built with the skeleton of a goose. It can shoot electricity from its mouth.

  • DB ep 121 3:55 the cyber goose returns. It has laser breath.


Reality shifter 

A device used in Miles vs Static. It shifts and replaces the user's dimension with an alternate universe.

  • DB ep 120 8:57 Wiz and Boomstick’s reality shifts to one where their roles are reversed.


Ki energy vials


Vials of Ki, AKA life energy from the series of Dragon Ball. Wiz has normal Ki, God Ki, and the more powerful Destruction Ki used by characters like Beerus.

  • DB ep 131 2:35 Wiz has vials of Dragon Ball Ki, including normal, god, and Destruction. Dummi is destroyed by destruction energy.


Destruction Ki can erase things or people from existence. The move works physically, spiritually and even can affect multiple versions of a character across timelines. The move can’t be used to kill true immortals, though long-lived immortality is still on the table. 


Examples of destruction usage


Examples of destruction ki failures


Fire rod

A rod from the legend of Zelda. It fires balls and streams of fire.


Booster Gold belt


The shield generator used by Booster Gold from DC comics.


This ForceField Belt originally belonged to Brainiac-5 of the 30th century and forms an impenetrable barrier of energy around the user's body even protecting against microscopic bacteria. Not only does it protect from physical and energy damage, it resists more esoteric attacks like matter manipulation and even telepathy. 


You can also project his force field outward to surround and protect others, or to do so offensively, usually covering an opponent, then shrinking the force field until it crushes them. It’s also worth noting that his force field activates extremely quickly, able to raise itself to cover fast enough to intercept a punch from Doomsday, a character that can fight at massively faster than light speeds.

  • (Justice League International v2 #5) The forcefield stopped a blast that was breaking down the planet on a subatomic level. This means that he should be able to resist any sort of atomic matter manipulation. 

  • (Booster Gold v2 #24) Survived attacks from Trigon (who can destroy planets just by looking at them, among other feats) using his force field.

  • (Booster Gold v1 #7) Superman says Booster’s force field should be strong enough to protect him from his blows.


Speed force soda

A soda filled with cosmic kinetic energy, similar to the speed force used by Wally West. People using the Drink can move at MFTL speeds.

  • DB ep 132 4:09 Wiz can lace beer with cosmic kinetic energy.

  • DB ep 132 20:22 Boomstick drinks a soda and he runs to Jupiter in seconds.


Bane Venom

The venom enhancement drug used by Bane in the Batman series. Injecting it increases a person’s muscle mass.

  • DB ep 133 10:29 Wiz has a container of fully functional venom.


Batarangs

Batarangs used by Barbara Gordon in the Batgirl vs Spider-Gwen episode. 

  • DB ep 137 3:19 Wiz has normal batarangs, electric ones, and explosive #wiz

Wiz has several different types, including normal, electric and explosive.


Web shooters

Web shooters from Spider-Gwen, from the spider-man series. They fire spider-like silk that can tie people up or be used to swing around buildings.

  • DB ep 137:36 Wiz has spider man's web shooters


Germa 66 #3 “Stealth Black” Raid Suit


A special Suite used by Sanji from one piece. 

  • DB ep 137 5::05 Sanji’s suit is stored in a canister that Wiz can use #wiz


The Raid Suit, is a portable battlesuit-in-a-can that greatly enhances strength, speed, and durability, and gives a couple extra abilities. Sanji’s battlesuit was the model for the fictional character Stealth Black, . 

  • (Ch. 931, pg. 7) Its main ability is invisibility, allowing you to perfectly blend into his environment and attack his opponents, as he did against Page One. Image 1 Image 2

  • (Ch. 931, pg. 9) The cape is a shield from attacks, the heels have accelerators that increase kicking speed and power, and the heels have levitators. Image

  • (Ch. 931, pg. 10) The suit is also extremely tough, allowing normally devastating attacks to only “hurt a little bit.” Image

  • (Ch. 931, pg. 11) The levitators in his heels allow him to fly into the air at high speeds. Image 


2D barrier

A Shield from Lex Luthor that can turn an opponent into a Flat Character.

  • DB ep 142 3:52 Wiz can replicate doom’s 2d barrier 


Ovoid mind transfer

A mind transfer device used by Dr.Doom in Marvel comics. It lets him swap consciousnesses with the opponent, essentially giving him their body, and rendering them trapped in his. Wiz builds this device into Dummi, so he can likely make it for himself.


The mind transfer can and has worked on characters such as Reed Richards, who have minds strong enough to resist being controlled by the Skrulls. Probably because the ability isn’t any sort of mind control or manipulation, it’s just swapping the consciousnesses of two individuals.


Clone army

Wiz has a variety of clones of himself with the same intelligence and abilities of the original.


Sols hammer

A giant orbiting laser similar to the Sol hammer used by Ironman. It’s stated to have destroyed multiple planets.

  • DB ep 148 11:44 It’s stated that Wiz created a version of sols hammer that destroyed several planets 


Time ring


The time ring used by Goku Black in Black vs Reverse Flash.

  • DB ep 149 5:25 Wiz has the time ring from DragonBall.

Time rings are a time-traveling device that lets you travel forward in time and then back to the present where you started. You can also use it to travel to any adjacent alternate timelines. 


Time rings can also react in the presence of space/time distortions caused by others, such as Trunks’s time machine. In these cases, the ring can open a rift in space to allow the user to follow said people to whatever location in time they’re traveling to. 

  • DBS ep 49 7:04, 20:59 Black’s time ring reacts to the time distortions of the Trunks’s time machine, allowing Black to follow Trunks to his destination in the main DB timeline.


Finally wearing a time ring does protect you from time paradoxes. 

  • DBS ep 61 3:41 Goku black says the time ring protects him from changes to time, so the temporal effects of Beerus’s Hakai didn’t affect him.


Blackhole generator

A black hole generator capable of destroying planets.


Thanos chair

The chair used by Thanos from Marvel. It can be used to travel between dimensions and time at FTL speeds.



Artificial Symbiote


Wiz has an artificial symbiote, similar to the symbiote seen in Spiderman.


Symbiotes are inorganic and amorphous, with their bodies behaving like liquids which allows them to shapeshift and graph themselves onto hosts of all shapes, sizes, and species. The symbiote can read its hosts thoughts, performing actions without being explicitly told to do so even when it isn’t being worn. 


Symbiotes are capable of reproducing the effects of Spider-Man’s webbing, allowing him to swing from building to building, or trap foes in gallons of webbing. Through the symbiote’s malleable body, they can mold the user into a variety of different forms and structures. They can increase the size of his entire body or just some of his limbs, make its host look completely unrecognizable by mimicking clothing and body structures (even dressing up as Santa!), make his foes suffocate by either covering their face or sending the symbiote into their bodies, cover Eddie's eyes to prevent himself from being blinded, and use camouflage to mimic his surroundings to the point of seeming invisible. 


Symbiotes can also create weapon-like objects from its body (usually arms), such as maces, spikes, scythes, blades, and claws.  Symbiotes can attack foes with tendrils, which prove useful for sneak attacks coming from underground. These can also help him get a better grip on his opponents, even trapping them in entire blobs. These tendrils can slip through tiny cracks in glass or even down to the molecules. 


Misc weapons


Abilities


Alucard regeneration

Wiz supposedly has regen similar to Alucard from Hellsing. Essentially he can regenerate from almost any damage by consuming one of the millions of souls he’s absorbed.

  • DB ep 151 10:47 It’s stated Wiz has consumed millions of souls, so he can regenerate when fatally injured, which he uses to regenerate from being transmuted into beer.



Feats


Strength


Endurance

  • DB Ep 91 3:25 Boomstick has a potato gun. Wiz getting shot by it put him in a coma for a month


Speed


Scaling

  • (Justice League International v2 #5) Booster Gold's forcefield stopped a blast that was breaking down the planet on a subatomic level. This means that he should be able to resist any sort of atomic matter manipulation.  13.9 tenatons of tnt

    • (Booster Gold v2 #24) Survived attacks from Trigon (who can destroy planets just by looking at them, among other feats) using his force field.

    • (Booster Gold v1 #7) Superman says Booster’s force field should be strong enough to protect him from his blows.

    • (Justice League America #69) Force field tanks a punch from Doomsday (also in Deadman: Dead Again #3 and Booster Gold v2 #45-46). 

    • Overall 1,243,323,440 universes to 5.39^59x universes (depending on the DC universe scaling size).


Experience

Wiz has shown adeptness in many science fields.  Over the years it's been shown that

The only people Wiz has “fought” is Boomstick, which he's knocked out or even killed on two occasions.

  • DB  ep 117 3:51 Wiz knocks out boomstick with a punch from his metal arm.

DB ep 153 4:25 Boomstick is killed by an anvil by Wiz.
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