Reaction to Wonder Woman vs Stevie Wonder. Epic Rap Battles of History 

@WhatitdoDave when I see you roll your eyes….. Brooooo I know we about to wrap this up 😂that bar you should stick to your reboots 😱 Stevie wonder knock her out of the water,up in the sky falling down on the biggest tree;hitting every thorn and ugly branch coming down and she ain’t getting back up 😞

Yep it's spot on haha. I remember listening to these as a kid and now I have such an appreciation for these lyrics on all the erbs now that i understand

As a guitarist I can tell you that bar was on point.

It's a triple- or quadruple-reference bar, I think: a) referring to Stevie Wonder's song "Higher Ground", obviously b) D->C musical step down (as the music itself is going down a scale) c) DC Comics being a step down from, presumably, Marvel Comics d) the one I think most people miss: "ground", "DC", and "step down" are all terms from electrical engineering - which doesn't directly connect, except that Stevie was one of the musicians who made synthesizers and other electronic instruments huge

@@zomfies he did auto tuning as well which i didnt believe until i look it myself 😞🤤😲🖖

Don't feel bad lol there's many reactors who don't get the musical reference in that bar. Dave is one of literally very few reactors I've seen catch that.

That’s cool! Thanks for explaining! 👍

i meant alien 3, not alien.

Hes thinking of the older wonder woman movie. He's still wrong but I can't come up with it off the top of my head either

@@chadmarsh5356 Linda Carter. More recently she's been on Supergirl as an American president who turned out to be an alien.

@@DC_Prox thank you. I meant to look it up but got distracted with an argument from another video

@@DC_Prox I think it's actually Lynda Carter, but the right person nonetheless. Apologies for being nitpickey.

@@chadmarsh5356 It was a TV series actually, not a movie. Close though!

I think your both off on that one , Wonder Woman is from DC comics.

@@TheInfurnos double entendre

⁠@@TheInfurnosit’s not that surface level. As most ERB lines. It’s a double entendre

That was literally the first part of the double entendre I caught instantly, wasn't even thinking about the comics part lol... only thing that irks me is that even though he says "D" on one note and "C" exactly a whole step down from the previous, he doesn't actually sing the notes D and C; he sings the note E (on "D") and the note D (on "C"). IDK, maybe it's bothering me more than it ought to because I have perfect pitch lol

@@frankjuggaloheathen1035he sounds more like he's singing from Bb to G to me

@@frankjuggaloheathen1035 literally nerd emoji lmao

It's also a bunch of bullshit. Characters in a story should do what they have to to progress a story and play their role, not try to fit to some social agenda. I love strong female characters so this isn't coming from a place of guys are better than girls. It's coming from a place of a writer sick and tired of good writing being sidelined to push a political agenda, whatever that political agenda may be. ...and I know you're just explaining what the test is, just had to add my feelings on it's usefulness to the arts, which is zero.

it's a joke really. just compare the bikini carwash company and alien 3.

@@TresTrefusis All writing is inherently political, and all characters fit a political agenda in some way. Because every writer, intentional or not, puts some of their political framework into their work. And also, the intention of the test is not to say that all media that doesn’t pass is bad or anything. You‘re not supposed to try and pass the test while writing. That is not the point at all. It‘s just to point out how many movies, books etc. basically do not have fleshed out female characters at all. (Because let‘s be honest: A character that does not pass this test is either very minor, or not very well fleshed out).

Correct, all writing has the potential to be political, and all characters can fit a political agenda, however that does not mean that they should be changed to fit an agenda, take for instance the new Star Wars movies. Rey is one of the most underdeveloped unreasonably powerful characters in the entire series, background characters included. Lets do a character analysis here. Leia was a far far far better representation for females than Rey was both as a character in the story and as a role model. She was a powerful strong female fighter who easily outclassed the two male leads. Within minutes of the films opening we see her valiantly resisting the empire by sneaking out a message as her ship is attacked. She then is captured and verbally spars with Vader face to face (a man who inspires terrible fear in his own men, let alone the enemy), is taken to the death star, watches her home planet destroyed and still does not break. She is rescued by the male leads, insults them when their plan falls apart and saves the day by shooting out the garbage disposal grate and diving in. After all of this she figures out before any of the male leads that The Empire let them escape and is tracking the Falcon back to the rebel base. ...and that's just the main points about her character from the first movie. She is easily the strongest emotionally, the best field leader and most inspiring of the trio (Han Luke and Leia) through the entire original trilogy. Rey was there because Disney wanted to have the main character be female and her entire character revolved around getting to that point. They concocted this story to make her the most powerful, the last Jedi, and the writing was flimsy, clumsy and makes her easily one of the absolute worst characters in the entire franchise. Not because she was a woman lead, but because her only purpose was to be Disney's Star Wars Jedi Princess. She had no reason for being as powerful as she was, no reason for just figuring out her abilities or standing toe to toe with Kylo Ren with no training... just terrible terrible writing for the purpose of pushing an agenda. That's my point. I could easily rewrite the sequel trilogy to make Rey a great character. The ingredients are there, but obviously pushing an agenda was far more important to Disney and the current heads of Lucasfilm than making a good movie with great characters. You can see it plain as day. I love strong female characters. I love writing them; I love seeing them. ...but not at the expense of the experience for the viewer/reader. Leia is a good rolemodel for the girls and women that watch Star Wars while also being an integral part of the story and whose abilities and standing are balanced by realistic weaknesses and all around good writing. Rey is an empty shell and that is no disrespect to her actress. It doesn't matter who played her the character itself is flawed beyond repair without a total re-write. She is an emblem of the current socio-policitcal climate and absolutely nothing more. Writing with the intent of creating a good story that is enjoyable and also presents a message within will always be more powerful than a propaganda laden mess that cares more about it's agenda than it's characters, settings or plot.

@@samiraansari5686 that's the problem. what you are claiming the test does. it DOESNT do. it DOES NOT tell you if a movie has fleshed out female characters at all. for example look at alien 3 and the bikini car wash company. the ONLY thing the joke of a test tells is if it passes the "test", but NOTHING else. it's 100% USELESS.

Yeah, usually only musicians are gonna catch that. I don't play much piano anymore, but I learned it as a kid, so I still know a lot of theory. I mainly play guitar and bass these days.

really I don't think that's any different than being able to catch something without looking, he heard the impact he knew the size and weight and location of the mic so he reached for where it should have been and it was there that's just spatial awareness

@@kingmasterlord I knew a tutor of mine who blind and she tell my height, how far I was away from her(just as you say spatial reference) there was no fooling. I mean repetition does play apart in it,but so does heightened awareness

I've heard many people say that when one sense is lost, the others go into overdrive

@@frankjuggaloheathen1035 because not only does nature hate emptiness, it also hates inefficiency, so because the part of the brain that's supposed to handle sight ends up being unused, the "processing power" from it just gets repurposed for the other senses.

It’s a bit tough haha. If I’m unsure I usually just search my archive. Takes about 5 seconds

actually the "bechdel test" is a joke. it doesnt really tell you ANYTHING about a movie. compare the bikini carwash company and alien.

my bad, it's alien 3, not alien.

@@sabin97 Well, it's essentially a quantity test, not a quality test.

@@Quirderph it's a joke, not a test. it tells you NOTHING other than "did it pass the 'test'?"

@@sabin97 The Bechdel test is not useful for judging individual movies with, but rather the movie industry as a whole. It's not "movie X passes the test and movie Y doesn't, so movie X is better", but rather "of the movies released last decade N% passed, but of the movies released this decade N+M% passed, so the industry seems to move in the direction of giving female characters more agency".

they say the last thing that went through her mind.....was the radio XD

not exactly inferior. both have different uses. ac is much better for transmission. but almost every electronic device you use, works on dc.

Um, they didn't name the island after Sappho. The island was named Lesbos long before Sappho was born, and it's still called Lesbos today. But yeah, that's why the words lesbian and Sapphic exist.

Its also one of wonder womans catchphrases. Used in the really old version from the 70s and I beleive some comics.

it's a joke. just compare the bikini carwash company and alien 3.

@@sabin97 What?

@@brennanhearn6342 the "bechdel test" is a joke. the bikini carwash company passes it. alien 3 doesnt.

@@sabin97 Why do you have to keep writing the exact same comment?

@@Quirderph because it's the correction for the exact same misconception the masses have. it's a joke, not a test. it doesnt tell you ANYTHING about a movie.

Oh that’s why her name sounds familer.

Knox Hill caught it to.

Because he's not actually blind, duh

LMAO

it's a joke. it doesnt really tell you ANYTHING about a movie....other than "does it pass the test". compare the bikini carwash company and alien 3.

@@sabin97 Well, to be fair, it was never meant to be anything but the bare minimum bar. The creator also did not intend for it to be used as and all-encompassing critique or anything. Is it always useful? No. But models and standardized tests rarely are.

@@samiraansari5686 no. my criticism isnt that it's not always useful. NOTHING is always useful. my criticism is that it's NEVER useful. for example look at alien 3 and also the bikini carwash company. it doesnt tell you ANYTHING other than "does it pass the 'test'?", which is quite literally useless.