# The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny is a 2005 Flash music video by Neil Cicierega and Shawn Vulliez depicting celebrities and fictional characters in a chaotic brawl won by Mister Rogers. The absurdist song became one of the defining Newgrounds hits of the mid-2000s and spawned over a decade of parody videos. ## Origin On December 22nd, 2005, Neil Cicierega and Shawn Vulliez submitted the animation titled The Ultimate Showdown to Newgrounds[1]. Cicierega wrote and recorded the song under his Lemon Demon project, while Vulliez handled the Flash animation under the handle altffour[2]. The submission rapidly climbed the Newgrounds charts and on December 28th, 2005 picked up the site's Weekly Users' Choice award for the highest-rated flash movie of that week[1]. The original Newgrounds upload accumulated more than 12.4 million views and a 4.35-star rating by May 2012[1]. The track was later included on Lemon Demon's 2006 album Dinosaurchestra, giving it a life outside the animation itself. - **Platform:** Newgrounds (origin) / YouTube (viral spread) - **Creator:** Neil Cicierega and Shawn Vulliez - **Date:** 2005 ## Overview The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny pairs a bouncy novelty song written by Neil Cicierega (performing as Lemon Demon) with Flash animation by Canadian animator Shawn Vulliez, who goes by altffour[2]. The lyrics describe a sprawling fight between Godzilla, Batman, Shaquille O'Neal, Aaron Carter, Chuck Norris, Abraham Lincoln and dozens of other figures, with Mister Rogers from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood walking away as the surviving champion[1]. The gag is the deadpan listing of impossible match-ups delivered at breakneck speed, each verse adding fighters until the entire roster has killed each other off. Vulliez's animation moves through the characters in a jittery parade of simplified cartoon drawings, with each name timed to a punchy visual cue. The track became a staple of early YouTube AMV culture and inspired a long tail of swap-the-roster parodies, including anime-only, My Little Pony and stop-motion recuts[1]. Vulliez has said the project was inspired by ZekeySpaceyLizard's Experiment animations, and the Albino Blacksheep mirror credits him as the actual animator since viewers often misattributed the piece to the TooMuchSpareTime collective[2]. ## How It Spread After its Newgrounds debut, the video was mirrored to Albino Blacksheep and Weebl's Stuff, two other major Flash animation hubs of the era[2]. On July 2nd, 2006, the Dr. Demento Internet radio show named the song its number one track of 2006 up to that point, which pushed it toward audiences outside Flash animation circles[1]. An adult-themed Newgrounds parody titled The Ultimate Orgy was posted on August 8th, 2006 by user NotSafeForWork, swapping the brawl for lewd pairings of the same cast[1]. YouTube uploads kept the song in circulation after Flash began to decline. User tomgibbens posted the original animation to YouTube on April 7th, 2007, where it collected over five million views within five years[3]. On January 10th, 2008, YouTuber nintendoitright uploaded an anime-cast parody[4], and on May 9th, 2009, user legolooney released a stop-motion remake of the entire video[5]. Urban Dictionary's first entry for the song was submitted on April 13th, 2010 by user UltimateShowdown[1]. The fandom-swap format kept going into the 2010s. On June 18th, 2011, YouTuber BronyMike posted The Ultimare Foaldown of Ultimane Despony, a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic recut set to Cicierega's track[6], which was signal-boosted the next day by the fan blog Equestria Daily[7]. Cicierega performed the song live with Lemon Demon at the Internet culture conference ROFLCon in April 2008 and returned to discuss his animations on a 2010 ROFLCon panel[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny? It is a 2005 Flash music video with a Lemon Demon song by Neil Cicierega and animation by Shawn Vulliez, depicting a huge brawl of celebrities and fictional characters won by Mister Rogers[1]. ### Where did The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny come from? Cicierega and Vulliez posted the animation to Newgrounds on December 22nd, 2005, where it won the Weekly Users' Choice award six days later[1]. ### What does The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny mean? The song is an absurdist list of celebrities and fictional heroes killing each other off, with the quiet children's TV host Mister Rogers as the surprise last fighter standing[1]. ### How do you use The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny? People remix the format by swapping the roster for another fandom's characters, as in the anime parody by nintendoitright[4] or BronyMike's My Little Pony recut The Ultimare Foaldown of Ultimane Despony[6]. ### Is The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny still popular? It is treated as a classic early Newgrounds and Lemon Demon track, with the tomgibbens YouTube re-upload passing five million views within five years of its 2007 post[3] and the original Newgrounds entry crossing 12.4 million by 2012[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/285267]() 2. [https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/altf4/]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJa235_AjnA]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laqrn6Px21A]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RLm9t-hOPo]() 7. [https://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/pmv-ultimate-foaldown-filly-to-future.html]() 8. 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