Four rivals. Two teams. One victor. These four mascots put their differences aside and now team up with their longtime friends/rivals in a two on two fight to the death. Only one team survives.

The console wars. The early 1990's played host to one of the biggest battlegrounds the world had ever seen, each time companies would duel it all out for the gaming throne.

And these four mascots have a long rivalry history against one another, but today the mascots will put their differences aside and team up with their rival to duel the other team in a fight to the bitter end.

Mario and Sonic, Nintendo and Sega's poplar icons

And Crash and Spyro, Sony's former PlayStation mascots.

Rules

1. My analysis will only come from their gaming appearances and closely tied media no alternate/non-canon sources

2. Crossover feats will be included

For this team up both teams will have their gaming appearances. I will also include crossovers to make things interesting.

I'm Phoenix Mason and it's my job to analyze their weapons armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.

Mario and Sonic

In 1981 Nintendo made a game called Donkey Kong where the protagonist was named Jumpman who would eventually be named Mario who became Nintendo's mascot, and boy they became popular, however a competitor emerged from the shadows named Sega. Since 1986 Sega's been trying to rival Nintendo but due to Mario's popularity, Sega was struggling but in 1991 they dropped the bomb on Nintendo with their own mascot Sonic the Hedgehog. After Sonic's appearance a war has raged between Mario and Sonic. In 2001 however Nintendo and Sega development a good relationship between one another and Sega became a 3rd party. Nowadays Mario and Sonic had many friendly rival companions.

Background (Mario)
Height: 5'1" | 155 cm
Weight: ~200 lb | 90.7 kg
Species: Human
Age: 24
Originally named Jumpman
Has so many jobs
Mascot of Nintendo
Favorite food: Pasta
Competed in the Olympics alongside Sonic

Born as one of the 7 Star Children with incredible powers, Mario was destined for greatness. When he was a baby his brother Luigi was kidnaped by Kamek leaving Mario falling into the ocean, until a group of Yoshis came in saved the baby and journeyed to save his baby brother from Bowser the prince of the Koopas. Years later Mario grew up and became a plumber, alongside Luigi they worked together cleaning pipes and defeating monkeys like Donkey Kong. But everything changed after meeting Princess Peach Toadstool, her kingdom had been conquered by Bowser who grew up and became the King of the Koopas. It's up to Mario and his friends to save the day. With his abilities, Mario battled Bowser, saved the princess and her people. Needless to say the Mushroom Kingdom was in good hands.

Background (Sonic)
Height: 3'3" | 100 cm
Weight: 77 lb | 35 kg
Species: Hedgehog
Age: 15
Drove a car once
Mascot of Sega
Favorite food: Chill Dogs
Competed in the Olympics alongside Mario

There was a world where humans coexists with with anthropomorphic animals. But this world has been in danger by an evil fat egg-shaped like scientist named Dr. Ivo Robotnik otherwise known as who people call him "Eggman." But hope came through a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog speeds through to save the day his name is Sonic the Hedgehog. While he does have other abilities overall speed is his favorite. In his quest to stop Eggman from taking over the world, Sonic weaponized his speed. With this he battled Eggman and his robot army. The world can rest easy as long as Sonic is around to save the day.

Powers and arsenal (Mario)
Ultra Jump
Super Jump Punch
Ultra Hammer
Cappy
Megavitamins
Bottomless Gloves
Lazy Shell
Pyrokinesis
Fireballs, Ultra Flame, Firebrand
F.L.U.D.D
Ground Pound
Long Jump

As one of the 7 Star Children, Mario has the power he has to take the turtle terror down. Mario can jump over 20 times his height, strong enough to punch through sold bricks and can break through even tougher ones with the Ultra Hammer, can smash enemies and objects with a Ground Pound, and can jump even further with the Long Jump. He also has Cappy which he uses to possess enemies and objects, F.L.U.D.D he can shoot out water, run at high speeds even across water, and can rocket in the air, however if he runs out water he can't use those abilities unless he refuels. He can shoot out fire balls with his Fire Flower and increase it to a powerful attack but he has been shown using Pyrokinesis without the flower.

Abilities & Equipment (Sonic)
Spin Dash
Homing Attack
Insta-Shield
Light Speed Attack
Burrowing
Self-taught martial arts
Power Sneakers
Light Chip
Ancient Light
Flame Ring
Crystal Ring
Magic Gloves
Golden Gloves
Ring Time
Landmines
Enerbeam
Blue Tornado
Time Stop
Sonic Wind

During his adventures, Sonic has weaponized his speed as I've said before. He can crush his enemies with the Spin Attack, strike multiple times with the Homing Attack, go zero to sonic boom instantly with the Super Peel Out, and plow through hordes of Badniks with the Spin Dash. He also can do a Insta-Shield which briefly protects him and destroy his enemies. It's been stated multiple times that Sonic's faster than light but he has yet to prove this in canon without the aid of equipment or power ups, he can go faster than light with Light Speed Dash, can create tornadoes with the Blue Tornado and Sonic Wind, and he can stop time with Time Stop which last for 10 seconds, yes yes I know it's technically non canon but he and his teammate are fighting someone who also has time manipulation powers so I decided to include it just to be fair.

Power ups (Mario)
Super Mushroom
Boo Mushroom
Mega Mushroom
Fire Flower
Ice Flower
Gold Flower
Superball Flower
Super Bell & Lucky Bell
Tanooki Suit
Metal Cap
Wing Cap
Vanish Cap
Frog Suit
Earlier Times
Retry Clock
Red Star
Propeller Mushroom
Double Cherry
Stopwatch
Starman
Rainbow Star

Aside from his own abilities Mario has access to some power ups. Mario's Ice Flower can freeze enemies, the Lucky Bell turns him into a cat, and the Super Mushroom is the one that increases his power. With his Frog Suit, his swimming ability increases dramatically. With the Vanish Cap he turns invincible and goes though walls, Metal Cap turns him into metal can protects him from fire and being crushed plus it's invincible, with the Wing Cap, Cape Feather, Tanooki Suit, Propeller Mushroom, and Red Star he can fly into the sky. The Acorn Mushroom let's him glide and stick on walls. Even though it's non canon but he can freeze time with the Stop Watch. With the Boo Mushroom he can go though walls and turns into a Boo. With the Double Cherry, he can create clones of himself with no power decrease. The Mega Mushroom turns him into a giant and is completely invincible. With the Gold Flower he can turn enemies into gold coins and be filthy rich, and with the Starman or Rainbow Star, he becomes totally invincible...for a short time around 10 seconds, it can increase if given another star. While he can carry several power-ups at once, Mario doesn't always need them to prove his potential.

Power ups (Sonic)
Shields
     Normal
     Thunder
     Flame
Aqua
Gold
Invincibility
Wisps
White Boosts
Cyan Laser
      Ivory Lightning
      Pink Spikes
      Purple Frenzy
      Red Burst
      Violet Void
      Yellow Drill
      Crimson Eagle
      Black Bomb
      Blue Cube
      Crimson Eagle
Green Hover
Gray Quake
Indigo Asteroid
Magenta Rythm
Orange Rocket
Final Color Blaster
Chaos Emeralds
Super Emeralds
Super forms
Super Sonic
Vastly increases all of Sonic's statistics
Flight
Almost completely invincible
Faster than light
Increases strength, speed, and durability
Positive Aura
Chaos Control
Arrow of Light
Bolt of Lightning
Can purify negative energy
Energy Projection
Deflect
Requires gold rings to maintain
Hyper Sonic
                      Has all of Super Sonic's abilities
                      Completely invincible
                      Massively faster than light
                      Increases all of Sonic's stats to a max
                      Hyper Flash

Much like his friendly rival, Sonic also has power ups including elemental shields, they protect him from blocking a deadly blow. With the Flame Shield he can do a dash attack walk on lava and protect him from heat like attacks though it disappears after landing in water. With the Thunder Shield he can do a double jump latch on to magnet like platforms and protects him from electronic attacks though it also can't survive underwater. With the Aqua Shield he can breath underwater and can do a bounce. With the Gold Shield he can do a Blast Attack and can boost at high speeds. And with the Invincibility Shield he becomes completely invincible...for a short time. The blue hedgehog can also gain abilities from small alien beings called "Wisps." They can turn him into a fireball, a yellow drill, a black hole, a bunch of stuff, really! Even a demonic Hungry Hungry Hippo. With all the Wisp together he can do a Final Color Blaster. And last but not least by accessing the power of the Chaos Emeralds he can achieve the form of Super Sonic. In this form he can absorb an enormous amount of positive energy, he also can fly, since his speed increases he now can go faster than light, he can also deflect attacks shoot out energy projections like Chaos Spears, he's almost completely invincible and with Chaos Control he can teleport himself and large objects. After the emeralds received a boost from the Master Emerald, Sonic could achieve his ultimate state of being, Hyper Sonic. In this form he has all of Super Sonic's abilities but with complete invincible and a Hyper Flash that insta-kills everything around him, oh, and he's massively faster than light MUCH faster than he's ever gone before. Unfortunately, good things don't last forever, without a steady supply of rings, these super forms can't even stick around for a full minute. Around 50 seconds.

Feats (Mario)
Restrained a 5,731 ton Chain Chomp
Crushed buildings as Mega Mario
Lifted & punted Larry's castle
Can throw Bowser miles away
Punched Bowser into the sun
Became Sensei of Jinx's dojo
Quick enough to run up walls
Piloted the Star Driver at Mach 375
Survived a 2.4 megaton stadium sized explosion
Launched across galaxies in seconds
Defeated Bowser, Wario, Donkey Kong, Bowser Jr, and Fawful
Teamed up with Sonic to stop Bowser and Eggman from ruining the Olympics

Mario's fast enough to maneuver through lightning, and ride on the Star Driver which based on the flight distance it must have been moving around Mach 375. With the Launch Star he can fly across galaxies in seconds which is faster than light, he also survived a 2.4 megaton explosion. he can throw a baseball so fast, it overloaded this speed gun, implying it was launched over 999 miles per hour. In the Mario World cartoon, he hurled a dinosaur out of orbit. Assuming this creature is of similar size and weight to a Tyrannosaurs Rex, this feat would require a force of over 135 tons of TNT. Mario restrained this 5,731 ton Chain Chomp. Last but not least he lifted a castle and kick it in the air, the castle weighed 61,372,830 tons. Based on the distance it was kicked Mario must have exerted a force of around 3.47 megatons of TNT. Mario is really tough.

Quick heads up: Mario has been on par with Bowser who survived a black hole. Comparing Bowser's size to that of Jupiter (Jupiter being 69,911 kilometers), we find that Bowser is 52,433 kilometers tall during this fight. Bowser's size, 6 pixels, multiplied up to the black hole's 494 makes the black hole around 4,316,966.186 kilometers. For the full size, multiply said result by 3. With this in mind Bowser must have survived .3 Foe and 1 Foe is an output of a supernova meaning Bowser at best is Large Star level+. And Bowser survived multiple black holes, Bowser also survived a dip in the sun since Mario's on par with Bowser he definitely scales to him. Mario also scales to Donkey Kong who punched the moon with a force of 3,346 megatons of TNT. He even scales to Wario who survived the Shake King detonating. By measuring the blast radius and the world map in Wario Land: Shake It!, this blast equals 95.8 sextillion tons of TNT. And Mario can keep up with those guys so he does scale to them.

Feats (Sonic)
Outran a Cyan Wisp at Mach 209
Shattered a 46, 726, 976-ton stalactite
Resisted mental control from the Overmind & Dark Gaia
Blasted a mountain apart
Survived re-entry & terminal velocity
Teleported the 15 mile wide Ark colony
Outran a pull of a black hole for 30 seconds
Lasted in his super form for a few days
Tanked a blast from Perfect Chaos to protect his friends
Flow to the moon in 5 seconds
Defeated Eggman, Shadow, Metal Sonic, Infinite, and Perfect Chaos
Teamed up with Mario to stop Bowser and Eggman from ruining the Olympics

Sonic has resisted mind control from the Overmind, survived reentry from orbit, and blasted apart a mountain, this would need more than 200 tons of TNT to pull off, and while fighting his evil robo copy Metal Sonic, they shattered this enormous stalactite which is about 46,726,976 ton in order to break that rock it requires 200 kilotons of TNT. Sonic even caught up to a Cyan Wisp and he said that thing was almost as fast as him. That's right, the laser is a power it grants Sonic, not itself. Still, Wisps are incredibly fast. At one point, a group of them flew from Earth's surface to a black hole in orbit in the twenty seconds Sonic and Tails were talking. By measuring the planet's curve here, we can find that the Wisp alien's must've been moving around Mach 209. And Sonic is way faster than them. Sonic even outran a black hole. Sonic actually outran its pull for 30 seconds. Due to chaotic accretion, black holes pull non-orbiting mass inward at thirty percent the speed of light. Sonic's clearly pushing his running speed to its limit here, or else the black hole wouldn't have pulled him in. With this in mind, it's entirely possible that, without additional support, Sonic's maximum possible running speed must be around 200,000,000 miles per hour. As Super Sonic he flew to the moon in 5 seconds. It takes about 3 days for a spacecraft to reach the Moon. Since Super Sonic is faster this he must've been going miles per hour that's over 300 kilometers per second. That's insane, in his super state he was able to take a blast from Perfect Chaos.

Quick heads up: Sonic also survived a Island level explosion in Sonic X. Sonic scales to Shadow who lifted the Black Comet into orbit which requires at least The comic must have weighted about 915 million tons, Shadow also survived a Planet level explosion alongside Sonic while fighting in their super forms. Sonic also scales to Metal Sonic who at best is Multi-Solar System level and has taken hits form Sonic even survived a big fall once.

Weaknesses (Mario)
Fails to prevent Peach from getting kidnaped again
Invincibility Power-Ups have time limits.
Not that much of a strategic
Naive

Mario isn't that perfect, he fails to prevent Peach from getting kidnaped again multiple times he can lose his power ups after one hit. But while he's very naive and not much of a strategic he saved the Mushroom Kingdom time and time again. Everyone can rest easy when Nintendo's powerful plumber saves the day.

Weaknesses (Sonic)
Characters like E-99, Infinite, Metal Sonic, and Shadow are faster than Sonic
Can't swim
Is so fast that he can be slippery
Cocky
Arrogant

Sonic is fast but sometimes he can get slippery, he can't swim and has even been speed-blitzed before. He's also a little bit cocky and arrogant. But still he's saved the world from Eggman's iron fist time and time again. His animal friends and people can rest easy when Sega's speedy hedgehog is around.

Overall despite their differences Mario and Sonic have been shown teaming up before to stop Bowser and Eggman before like in the Olympics. Don't underestimate Nintendo and Sega's powerful mascots. It will be the last thing all their enemies ever did.

Mario and Sonic are scene shaking hands as the look at the camera which zooms out to show the mascots on the clock in London.

Crash and Spyro

After Nintendo and Sega's war ended a surprise third challenger was rising to the top. The Sony PlayStation, and it didn't have just one mascot, it had two. Crash and Spyro. Sony design Crash's series (which at the time was jokingly codenamed "Sonic's Ass Game") for the Sony PlayStation was Sony's lack of an existing mascot character that could compete Mario and Sonic. But ultimately Crash ended up losing the console wars. Later on Sony created Spyro who was also a mascot alongside Crash and their rivalry was similar to Mario and Sonic. Eventually their relationship improved too. Crash and Spyro even had a crossover together.

Background (Crash)
Height: 5 ft | 37 cm
Weight: 45 kg
Age: 13
Species: Eastern Barred Bandicoot
Birthplace: Wumpa Islands
Residence: N. Sanity Island
Adopted by Aku Aku
Expert driver
Likes dancing and pancakes

Dr. Neo Cortex was making a mutant Aussie army of animals to take over the world. But when it came time to assign a general for this "army", Cortex chose, of all things, a bandicoot. With the Evolvo-Ray, Cortex did successfully mutate it into a powerful beast. However, when he tried to brainwash the creature, he utterly failed to create his fearsome general, instead, he got Crash Bandicoot. After being thrown out Crash became Cortex's worst enemy. But despite his plans Crash manages to stop Cortex and defeated him.

Background (Spyro)
Height: 4 ft/1.2 cm
Weight: Unknown
Age: 12
Species: Purple Dragon
Nationality: Dragon Realm
Adopted by dragonflies
Adoptive brother to Sparx
Said to have A.D.D
Trained by 4 Dragon Guardians
Reincarnated every 10 generations

Prophecy tells of a special purple dragon born every ten generations, destined to be a hero of his age, this was the legend of Spyro. But, when the ancient dark master Malefor learned of this, he swore to destroy Spyro before he even hatched. But Spyro was saved from Malefor's wrath by Ignitus, a Guardian dragon. Spyro was put in a basket and let's him float away in the sea. Spyro was found and adopted by a family of Dragonflies, and even without fellow dragons around, Spyro grew up to be a pretty good fighter. He's strong, tough, and makes good use of his horns, tail, and claws. But one fateful day, everything changed. During a game of hide and seek with his quote unquote "brother", Sparx, they got into a bit of monkey business, and in desperation, Spyro unexpectedly breathed fire, this was Spyro's first hint that he was adopted. This "revelation" prompted Spyro to go on a journey in search of his true home among other dragons, oh, and Sparx tagged along to help find treasure and protect his dragon brother from harm.

Skills (Crash)
Cyclone Spin
Crash Dash
Super Body Slam
Death Tornado
Rocket Jump
Mojo
Norris Roundhouse
Triple Dragon

With his abilities, Crash can double jump in mid-air, slide incredible distances, and use Crash Dash to boost his speed. He's also tapped into Mojo, a magical substance that's basically life energy, to enhance his battle techniques. He's got his Norris roundhouse and triple dragon, but his favorite move is the Cyclone Spin. He can even give this move a boost for the Death Tornado technique, though this can leave him dizzy and prone to counterattacks. Still, these brutal moves proved incredibly useful for rescuing his fellow mutant bandicoot girlfriend, Tawna.

Skills (Spyro)
Flight
Claw Combos
Air Launch
Wing Shield
Charge
Stun Charge
Comet Dash
Ibex's Dash
Dragon Kata
Horn Jab
Slide
Toss
Tail Hammer
Swipe
Stab
Chi Wings
Punch
Roar

As a purple dragon, Spyro was not limited to just his fire breath, after finding and rescuing four great dragon guardians, they each became his teachers in the arts of elemental combat. Ignitus taught Spyro how, to control fire and focus it into huge blasts. Volteer showed him how to use electric breath to stun enemies and toss them through the air. Cyril taught him to freeze foes solid and fire ice shards, and Terrador showed him how to use earth breath to split rocks and roll up into a ball. Spyro also honed his physical and chi combat with the martial art of Dragon Kata with it he can slide, do a Tail Hammer, stab, swing, punch, and even roar. And he finally learned to fly however Spyro learned how briefly slow down time to improve his reactions.

Arsenal (Crash)
Copter-Pak
Jetpack
Glider
Jet Board
Firefly
Space Motorcycle
Fruit Bazooka
Mech Suit
Crystals
Aku Aku
Invincibility

Aside from Crash's own abilities he can also use his tools. The Copter Pack he can fly and even maneuver in the air. he's even got himself the unicorn of motor sports, the Space Motorcycle. The Jetpack unlike the Copter Pack It's much faster and allows him to fly at high speeds. To increase his firepower, he carries a special bazooka that uses a naturally occurring, and easily obtainable form of ammunition, Wumpa Fruit. Can use Power Crystals to create a temporary protective shield around himself. Though not as a weapon, Crash can use it on his Sky-Chi to ensnare enemies around him. The same kind of fruit shooter that's on his power loader suit his Mech Suit which can shoot out some more fruit. With the assistance of Aku Aku he becomes completely invincible.

Magic (Spyro)
Breath
Fire
Ice
Lightning
Earth
Elemental Furies
Aether
Light
Dark
Dragon Time
Invincibility
Dark Spyro
More violent
Increased strength and speed
Can fire Aether Breath that can destroy nearly everything
Can't turn back into base form without the aid of his friends

Aside from Fire, Ice, Lightning and Earth, Spyro can also use water breath alongside invincibility. With Dragon Time he can slow down time. But all of this led to Spyro learning the ultimate element: Aether. Purple dragons like Spyro can use a mysterious energy, that is essentially the spiritual life force of the universe. While it's never officially named in canon, lead concept artist Jared Polin has gone on record to clarify its name and properties, and he calls it Aether. Aether is an extremely powerful element which binds the fates of the living and the dead. With Aether, Spyro pulls from the four elements to create energy which, according to Polin, has power comparable to that of an atom smasher. It can be shot out at around light speed. ut Aether is dependent on a balance between light and dark. Should a purple dragon fall prey to their own anger and hatred, they risk being consumed by Dark Aether, or Nether. Transforming into a blackened, rage-filled form called Dark Spyro. In this form he becomes more violent his strength and speed increases, and his Aether Breath can destroy nearly everything. Unfortunately, when Spyro is consumed by Dark Aether, he cannot return to his old self on his own, but with friends like Sparks and Cynder at his side, he's always found his way back.

Feats (Crash)
Climbed Stormy Ascent
Withstood a 2 megaton crash
Outran a 25 mph bear
Threw an 8 ton boulder
Stunned a titan with one kick
Survived atmospheric re-entry
Capable of dodging Lo-Lo's lightning attacks
Can dodge fire from a flamethrower
Defeated Cortex, Dr. N. Gin, Crunch Bandicoot, Tiny Tiger, Mecha-Bandicoot & Uka Uka
Teamed up with Spyro to defeat Cortex and Ripto

Thanks to Aku Aku and his own amazing abilities, Crash has performed some incredible feats while stopping Cortex's plans time and time again. He's strong enough to lift his adopted brother Crunch over his head. Since Crunch is at least twice as big as Crash, that would mean Crash's strength is similar to the world's best power lifter. His Cyclone Attack can generate enough force to lift this large boulder and throw it so hard, it shatters on impact. Comparing its size to Crash, that boulder must weigh nearly 8 tons. He's also fast enough to outrun polar bears, which can move up to 25 miles per hour, and quick enough to dodge lightning. But where Crash really shines is durability. Crash took 112 falling wooden crates to the face on his face and got back up like nothing ever happened Crash has endured an explosion of 23 crates of TNT all at once, which, given their size, could potentially level a city block, and with the help of Aku Aku, he even survived a crash landing from outer space. This vessel was likely falling at 17,500 miles per hour, similar to the space shuttle's typical reentry, which means the force of it's collision would be equivalent to more than 2,000,000 tons of TNT.

Feats (Spyro)
Mastered 5 elements
Pushed a statue twice his size
Withstood a 1.9+ megaton hit
Flew faster than 159 mph
Matched a giant golem's strength
Rebuilt the planet with Aether
Incredibly powerful dragon for small size
Rescued 150 dragon eggs from Bianca and an army of Rhynocs with little help
Saved dragons from extinction
Free one hundred frozen fairies
Defeated Ripto, Red, Dark Cynder, Gaul, Lava Golem, & Male
Teamed up with Crash to Cortex and Ripto

With all these powers at his claw tips, Spyro is a force to be reckoned with. He's pretty quick, outracing biplanes that can fly over 159 miles per hour. A bold claim, but let's look at the facts. Spyro once took a punch from this massive magma golem, which then lost its arm and replaced it with a cathedral tower. This cathedral is very similar in size to St. Stephen's Basilica, a Roman Catholic Church in Budapest, Hungary. By taking the height, length, and depth of the basilica, and adjusting for empty space, we can estimate the arm's mass to weigh over 400,000 tons. Assuming a low-end punching speed of fifty miles per hour, that of the average humans, the golem must have hit with at least 1.9 million tons of force. He even used Aether to rebuilt a planet once.

Weaknesses (Crash)
Somewhat of a loose cannon
Can't swim in water without the use of Scuba Gear
Can often be lazy
Not as smart

Crash isn't all that perfect, while he has autism can be lazy and isn't smart, but with his amazing abilities, and a little bit of Mojo, he's saved the whole world many times over. And eventually learned to speak afterwards.

Weaknesses (Spyro)
Little concern for self safety
Sometimes irresponsible
Extremely curious
Hardly cautious
Gets cocky at times
Very arrogant

Spyro has his downfalls while he is cocky and arrogant, always curious, he's protected the world from evil time and time again.

Overall while Crash and Spyro have been rivals since the 90s they still made cameos in their respective franchises and even teamed up with them. Don't mess with Sony's powerful mascots.

Crash and Spyro are scene standing next to each other as Spyro says...

Spyro: Come on, Crash let's go!

Verdict

All right the combatants are set let's end this debate once and for all.

The fight

In Tokyo, Japan Mario and Sonic get prepared for the 2020 Olympic Games which is happening tomorrow as they take a little walk.

Mario: I can't-a wait for the Olympics, aren't you Sonic?

Sonic: You bet Mario.

It was 12:00 in the afternoon as Mario and Sonic take a walk until Sonic gets tired.

Sonic: Man I'm tired. Mario let's find a spot to stay before we had over to the Olympics tomorrow.

Mario: Okay.

Before they can leave Sonic and Mario heard something from the bushes.

They turn around to see what was going on. Crash and Spyro appears out of the bushes. After that they absurd their surroundings.

Crash: Wow! What a city.

Spyro: Yep. I can't wait to explore.

As the Sony mascots talk they turned around and spotted Mario and Sonic. Crash and Spyro looked at them with angry faces.

Crash: Wait a second you two were the ones who have been getting in our way earlier.

Spyro: Yeah you guys really have some nerf trying to mess with the wrong people.

Mario and Sonic looked at them in anger as well.

Mario: Whatever maybe if you two stay out of our things would be fine.

Sonic: Exactly. Sorry to break it to you but we don't have time for this. let's get outta here Mario.

Mario and Sonic walk away much to Crash and Spyro's rage. Crash tackles Mario and Spyro tackles Sonic, knocking them down.

Crash: Don't you dare turn our backs on us!

Spyro: Yeah we're not done yet!

Mario and Sonic than kicked Crash and Spyro off of them and got back up and faced them.

Mario: Okay then so that's how we're gonna do it, huh?

Sonic: You want it, you asked for it, losers.

The mascot teams then face each other

Mario and Sonic: Alright!

Crash and Spyro: Bring it on!

The Retro Rivals and the PlayStation rivals get into their stances as each team faces each other.

FIGHT!

(*Cues: Emerald Heroes - Therewolf Media*)

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Mario and Sonic charge at Crash and Spyro and do several combos on them. Mario goes for Crash shooting out fireballs at the bandicoot who counters with a few spin attacks. While Sonic is seen doing some punches at Spyro while creating a tornado around him.

Sonic: Is that all ya got dragon?

Spyro shoots out some fire at the speedy hedgehog who quickly dodges them. Sonic then spots a Cyan Wisp come by. Meanwhile Mario uses and ice flower and shoots ice balls at Crash who dodges them.

Crash: You're gonna have to do better than that you red-

Before he could continue, Mario shoots and ice ball at him freezing him in the process. Mario then pushes him and sends him sliding straight through town, by passing a bunch of people, bumps into the Cabbage Merchant's cabbage cart knocking it down and destroying the cabbages...

Cabbage Merchant: Ah! My cabbages! (kneels in desperation as he sees his cabbages being destroyed)

....and to a nearby beach as the ices melts freeing Crash. Mario then notices Sonic who turned into a laser hit Spyro and sends him flying to the beach where Crash is at as well. Crash and Spyro managed to recover.

Crash: Spyro, these guys are tougher than I thought.

Spyro: So what are we gonna do, Crash?

They notice Mario and Sonic charging at them but Crash has an idea.

Crash: Wait I got an idea.

Crash runs to his Mech Suit and jumps in it. Soon the Red Plumber and the Blue Hedgehog started as they charge the Orange Bandicoot and the Purple Dragon does the same thing.

Sonic: Mario I got the dragon, you get the bandicoot!

Mario: Okay, Sonic let's do this thing!

Sonic attempts to do a homing attack on Spyro but Spyro dodges it and shoots Electricity Breath at his enemy knocking him into the ocean in the process. While in the ocean Sonic sinks and struggles to swim back up but couldn't. As the Blue Blur was on the verge of drowning he closes his eyes and seven Chaos Emeralds surrounds him.

Meanwhile Crash shoots out fruits like bullets and managed to shoot Mario back to which knocked him into the trees knocking down a bunch if Double Cherries. Mario recovers and sees a bunch of Double Cherries much to his joy. Crash celebrities his victory dance while in his Mech Suit, however his victory was short lived as he saw a bunch of Marios jump out of the forest, charging at him.

Crash: Oh you gotta be kidding me!

Crash tiredly falls to his knees while multiple Marios are jumping towards him. Crash's mech is destroyed and Crash gets his body heavily beaten by multiple Marios much to Spyro's shock.

Spyro: Oh No, Crash!

Crash is punched in his belly, slapped in his face, kicked in his groin, headbutted head on and punched in the back. The one-sided beating continues much to Spyro's anger. Determined to save his fellow PlayStation mascot from the one-sided ambush created by Mario's clones, Spyro then gets angry and transforms into Dark Spyro and lands in from of Crash knocking the clones back.

Dark Spyro: I'm done with this!

Spyro easily kills all the clones while the real Mario backs up, Crash gets his Jetpack and hovers in the air. Crash and Spyro then charge at Mario but all of the sudden a yellow light appears out of the water and heads towards the Sony mascots. The yellow light turns out to be Super Sonic, the yellow hedgehog grabs Crash and Spyro's fists.

Super Sonic: Let's do this Super Sonic style!

Super Sonic and Dark Spyro fly over to the ocean and fight each other there while Mario and Crash fight each other on land. Eventually Mario grabs a Red Star.

Mario: Let's-a go!

Mario advances the Red Star and he and Crash fly up in the sky, soon Sonic and Spyro followed. The flying teams clash attacks countering one by one before eventually going into outer space at high speeds and they all fly into a forest of meteors as they fight they all end up hovering over a large platform away from the meteors. The two teams each land on each side of the platform staring each other down. Sonic charges at Spyro, while Crash shoots out fruits at Mario while in the air who dodges them.

Mario: Fruits really?

Crash: Yeah and ones about to come at your face!

Crash shoots a fruit only for Mario to do it and shares a few combos at Crash who is angered. Meanwhile during his fight against Spyro, Sonic notices his super form is about to run out.

Super Sonic: Uh oh.

Dark Spyro: What's the matter? Losing power?

Super Sonic and Dark Spyro continue clashing but the power of the Chaos Emeralds wears off turning the hedgehog back into base form, thus giving Spyro the advantage.

Sonic: Oh crap!

Sonic then starts falling and screaming as Spyro watches.

Dark Spyro: Sayonara, hedgehog!

Spyro charges his Aether Breath and prepares to finish off Sonic, however a rainbow light appears and knocks Spyro back and inside it was Sonic who with the power form the Super Emeralds turns into Hyper Sonic.

Hyper Sonic: Now I'll show you!

Spyro flies to the hedgehog but as they fight Sonic was way too fast for him.

Dark Spyro: Grrr he's too fast!

Hyper Sonic: You're too slow!

Sonic ends up speed blitzing Spyro while Mario and Crash continue their fight in the air. Mario than uses a star and becomes Rainbow Mario. As the fight continues Crash and Spyro decided that they've had enough of Mario and Sonic and decided to end the fight.

Crash: That's it no more games, let's finish this Spyro! (Uses an invisibility power up.)

Dark Spyro: I agree!

Crash and Spyro grab Mario and Sonic who attempted charge at them and slam them on the platform. Sonic notices Mario's super form is out and is turned back into base form. Than they notice Crash and Spyro diving at them at full speed while yelling much to Mario and Sonic's shock.

Hyper Sonic: Mario, grab my hand I got an idea on how we can get out of this.

Mario: Okay Sonic I hope this idea of yours works because even you are running low on your hyper form.

Hyper Sonic: Trust me I've done this before and I'll do it again.

Mario: Okay.

Mario grabs Sonic's hand as Crash and Spyro continue diving full speed ready for the final blow as Spyro charges his Aether Breath. Sonic prepares to use the last of his super form's power for one last move.

Hyper Sonic: Chaos...

Crash prepares his fruit cannons while Spyro charges his Aether Breath to a max as they get in close. Crash and Spyro then fire a combination between Crash's fruit and Aether Breath as Sonic says one last word.

Hyper Sonic: Control!

The Aether Breath and fruit combination hit Mario and Sonic and causes a massive explosion splitting the platform in half in the process. Crash and Spyro land on the platform as they killed Mario and Sonic.

Spyro and Crash celebrate their victory as Dark Spyro turns back into base form with the help from Sparx and they celebrate and Crash takes off his Jetpack which breaks apart duo to some damage. The Sony mascots high five.

Crash: Yes! We did it! That was awesome Spyro!

Spyro: That's right, Crash! Those guys never stood a chance against us!

Crash and Spyro: Ohhhhhhhh yeah!

Just as they were celebrating they see a blinding light in front of them much to their confidence. The blinding light stops and shockingly Sonic and Mario (Hyper Sonic who turned back into his base form) reappears from the light and lands on the platform as it turns out Sonic used Chaos Control to get him and Mario to safety from their opponents' massive attack, thus proving Mario and Sonic are still alive. Crash and Spyro are surprised and shock to see that their attack didn't work.

Mario: Geez we almost felt that.

Sonic: Tell me about it.

Crash and Spyro dropped their jaws after finding out Mario and Sonic are alive.

Crash: What?! That's impossible!

Spyro: How did you guys survive?!

Mario: Okay. Please-a pay attention! Watch and learn losers because we did something you never knew about!

Sonic: Yeah because we're about to school you! I used Chaos Control to get us both to safely! Pretty handy really!

Mario and Sonic laughed but that only made Crash and Spyro mad.

Crash: Now you guys crossed the line!!

Spyro: Let's end this thing! No more tricks!!

Mario: You'll lose though but bring it on!

Sonic: Okay we're ready when you are!

The teams prepared their stances one last time until... the platform that they were standing on started cracking.

Mario: Mamma Mia!

Sonic: Oh shoot!

Crash: Uh oh!

Spyro: That's not good!

The platform breaks far apart sending all four mascots plummeting down to Earth while screaming.

The two teams are on separate sides as the hit re-entry, but Crash and Spyro decides to dive at Mario and Sonic.

Crash: No way we're gonna lose to them!

Spyro: That's right, we're not losing this not today!

Mario and Sonic notices Crash and Spyro coming at them. Mario throws a punch at Crash while Sonic throws a kick at Spyro pushing them back in the process. The PlayStation mascots whip out the blood stain and charges once again at the Nintendo and Sega mascots while attempting to do a fiery attack only for them to be knocked down even further as the two team combatants keep filling to Earth in Come in at atmospheric re-entry. While Crash and Spyro continuing falling further down, Mario and Sonic prepare for one last attack.

Mario: You ready Sonic?

Sonic: You bet Mario!

The Italian Plumber sets his hands on fire via Firebrand and the Blue Blur does a Spin Dash and charges it up at a max.

Suddenly, the re-entry fire turns red and blue. Red on on side and blue on the other one much to Crash and Spyro's horror. Mario and Sonic then dive towards Crash and Spyro at full speed while yelling. and while both Aku Aku and Sparx tried to protect them they quickly turned into dust from the flaming attacks of the video game icons. The plumber and the hedgehog then catches the bandicoot and the dragon in their hands sending them screaming, then Mario and Sonic slammed Crash and Spyro into the ground in a nearly forest causing a massive explosion covered in red and blue with Mario and Sonic's symbols on it and all the animals that lived there flied from the impact.

Mario and Sonic slowly walk out of the explosion so epic-like without a scratch. Once the explosion stops blooming the two turned around and see Crash and Spyro's burnt corpses. The Retro Rivals smile and looked at each other.

Mario: We make a pretty great team, Sonic!

Sonic: Yep we sure did Mario, we sure did!

Mario and Sonic: Yeah! We are unstoppable together!

Mario and Sonic shake hands then they walk away leaving the burnt bodies of Crash and Spyro behind as they crumble to dust.

K.O!

A day later after defeating Crash and Spyro, the victorious duo Mario and Sonic are at the stadium ready to start the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Results

(*Cues: Retro Rivals - Therewolf Media*)

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Now that's what I call team battle. Even the greatest rivals can become the best of friends.

While this matchup was pretty close and that both teams have amazing teamworks, Crash and Spyro did have impressive gadgets and magic, and were also quite powerful but Mario and Sonic had the skills and tools needed to insure a victory. Keep in mind this analysis was done with the focus on the games, crossovers, and closely tied media. And alternate sources are not included because both teams are entirely different characters from their gaming counterparts.

Quick heads up: And other crossovers such as Super Smash Bros and Skylanders are not included because both teams aren't they only characters sharing a crossover.

Their top strength feats was very very clear. Mario and Sonic's lifting castle and 200 kiloton feat makes it very clear who's stronger.

Quick heads up: Scaling to Donkey Kong's moon punch and Shadow's Black Comet feat this makes Mario and Sonic much stronger much Crash and Spyro.

In terms of speed, while Crash and Spyro can dodge lightning, move over 159 miles per hour, and can lasers, Mario and Sonic can move as fast as electricity and lasers piloted the Star Driver and nearly outrunning black holes, this means that they can move at Crash and Spyro's reactionary feats. Since Mario and Sonic are tough enough tank almost anything Crash and Spyro can throw at them, it's only a matter of time before the plumber and hedgehog tagged the bandicoot and dragon with a deadly blow.

Quick heads up: While the Stopwatch and Time Stop are non canon power ups and abilities it still gives Mario and Sonic at an advantage as Crash and Spyro have never been shown resistance to time manipulation power. Though Spyro's Dragon Time can slow down time it can't actually freeze time. Plus Dragon Time is another ability Mario and Sonic can counter putting all of them on equal footing.

Now let's move on to their arsenal. Mario and Sonic's arsenal can counter Crash and Spyro's in almost every way. They even had plenty of options like their invincibility forms to counter and defend against Spyro's dark form. But they also have a verity of power ups giving them options to overpower Crash and Spyro for example Mario can freeze them or Sonic can suck them in the black hole with the Violet Wisp. Their arsenal will always outlast Crash and Spyro cause they can use them anytime at any day.

Quick heads up: Dark Spyro would not easily knock Mario and Sonic out of their super forms with Aether Breath. This would require specific energy to do it. Well Rainbow Mario has never been shown to be knocked out of base form so there's that and the only reason why Eggman was able to knock Super Sonic out of his form was that he had machine that is specifically designed to take out the Chaos Emerald's energy and the only reason why Knuckles was able to knock Sonic into base form was because he was controlling the Master Emerald which controls the Chaos Emeralds so he can just cancel out their power. All these abilities to which Dark Spyro doesn't have. Plus Mario and Sonic have survived Solar System and Galaxy level attacks which is far greater than atomic level or anything Dark Spyro can do.

And finally Mario and Sonic's durability blew Crash and Spyro's out of the water. And here's some proof. Mario managed to survive an explosion that was calculated at 2.4 megatons of TNT, Sonic survived breaking a stalactite which requires 200 kilotons of TNT. Now Crash did survive a re-entry with no injury which was calculated at 2 million tons of TNT, and Spyro survived a hit which was about 1.9 megatons of TNT. The stadium explosion and shattering the stalactite that Mario and Sonic survived was far more powerful. Simply put Crash and Spyro didn't have a lot of viably options that can take Mario and Sonic down for good.

Quick heads up: While Spyro's 1.9 megaton hit was greater than Sonic's 200 kiloton feat, Sonic survived an island level explosion in Sonic X thus getting the edge over Spyro's durability. It's also noted that Mario and Sonic's durability increases with their power ups which gives them have a lot more viable options to take Crash and Spyro down for good. Scaling Mario and Sonic to Bowser, Wario, Shadow, and Metal Sonic's durability means Crash and Spyro just doesn't have any options available to permanently take out Mario and Sonic.

They are even in great teamworks cause both teams get along with their rival really really well yeah Crash and Spyro are amazing but Mario and Sonic are ridiculous tough. Even if this fight was no power ups, no super forms, no magic and no gadgets, no dark forms, no nothing and it was just their base forms in hand to hand combat the results would still be the same.

Crash and Spyro had some impressive gadgets and magic to put up a good fight and prove themselves a worthy team however they couldn't complete with Mario and Sonic's superior strength, speed, durability, and verity arsenal. Looks like Crash and Spyro got Mari-owned at Sonic speed.

The winners are Mario and Sonic

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"Come. The Triforce shall be MINE!"

VS

"Kingdom Hearts! I call upon your true form. Open now and show me the world to come."

Ganondorf VS Xehanort
(The Legend of Zelda VS Kingdom Hearts)

Trivia

The connection between both teams is that they both had a rivalry compactions ever since the earlier 90s. Both teams have teamed up with their rival in their respective crossovers. (Mario and Sonic with the Olympics and Crash and Spyro with Ripto's Rampage and The Cortex Conspriacy.) both Mario and Sonic alongside Crash and Spyro have teamed up before.

This is the second Team themed battle, the first being Ratchet and Clank VS Jak and Daxter.

             This however is the first crossover team up battle.

The Cabbage Merchant that was in the part where Crash accidentally destroyed his cabbages doe to being knocked away by Mario, was the same Cabbage Merchant from Avatar: The Last Airbender I just thought it would be a cool reference to show you all.

In my Mario, Sonic, Mega Man All Stars series I was actually foreshadowing this matchup.

The part where Mario and Sonic walked out in of the explosion after killing Crash and Spyro was the same way from when they walked into the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the first teaser trailer for Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.

This fight takes place before the events of Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The part where Mario and Sonic survived Crash and Spyro's fatal attack and when Sonic said "I've done this before" is a reference to Sonic Adventure 2 to where Sonic used Chaos Control in that game. While Sonic has never actually used this move in combat it is implied that he can.