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ROUND 4, MATCH 4 OUT OF 4

Causes of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Vanessa Carlysle

Cause of Death: Shot by gangsters hunting for her boyfriend

Propaganda:

The first movie shows that she's so freakin cool and badass and confident and caring and sexy and doesn't take shit from anybody. And she's in the second movie for a Whole Scene before she dies and it's all about them having kids. And after she dies it's like she only existed as Wade's fiancee, like no one else is mourning her, does she have any friends?? Did she have any kind of life outside of Wade???

Despite Deadpool being known for being very aware of medium and genre, the writers of Deadpool 2 showed zero awareness in killing off Vanessa Carlysle solely to motivate her boyfriend, the protagonist. This is played completely unironically - the writers themselves say it! From a Vulture article:

"[...] Then I think at some point somebody just said, ‘Y’know, Deadpool kind of works best when he’s had everything taken away from him, when he suffers.’ So the thought was maybe we can really, really engender great suffering for him by having his line of work be the thing that costs Vanessa her life."

So they made them decide to starting a family only to kill her off in the same scene 👍.

Vanessa was originally not even supposed to die, but they changed that without a thought so the male protagonist would suffer more! And of course, the WAY she dies is made to be all about him, too!

The writers were apparently surprised with all the criticism they received for this scene! Because they were not aware of the concept of fridging at all. 😐

Just because you are aware what fridging is it doesn't mean you have a carte blanche to do it??? Being self aware doesn't make it less stupid.

Deadpool is literally about subverting overused comic tropes and the writers did not know about this overused trope and executed it to a T.

Stephanie Brown

Cause of Death: Tortured for several days before succumbing to her injuries

Propaganda:

Steph was a wildly popular character who was made Robin for a couple month specifically in preparation to kill her off in the War Games cross over event. During her time as robin comics fans responded so well that one of the writers asked if they should keep her alive and let her have a real run but an editor refused. Instead she was horrifically punished by the narrative for... doing exactly what every robin has done always. Not listening to batman, rescuing him, trying to earn his approval. Unlike the other robins she was murdered in a way that implied some kind of sexual assault while none of her friends or mentors looked for her. Did i mention she was 15?

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JUST BURST OUT LAUGHING IN THE LIBRARY

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the red robin vs red robin poll *may* have been what i talked about when i submitted you into the ultimate-poll-tournament 🤫

<3

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SUN AND MOON DUO SHOWDOWN - FINALS

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People still reblogging the red robin v red robin poll to laugh about it are so funny I love yall

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currently submitted tournaments for 2.0 part 1:

* means they participated in 1.0

! means they need submissions

^ means they finished at least one bracket

@beautiful-boy-bracket ^

@dwampyverse-tournaments

@gnc-swag-tournament !

@who-do-i-know-this-man

@least-sexy-man-competition !

@mcytblrsexymen * ^

@bestofthesolarsystem

@stachebracket *

@oc-ooc !

@underrated-adversaries *

@sleepsmackdown

@amputeeblondiebattle !

@catgirlgames *

batman sexyman tournament (@batman-heritageposts) ^

@sun-n-moon-showdown

@graveyard-gambit-tournament *

@fuckable-old-man-battle

@rgb-showdown

@titular-twins-tournament

@fantasticfrogfacedown ^

@ultimate-rat-bracket

@yuribracket ^

@robin-showdown ^

@colourcontest

@ultimate-destroyer-duel !

@trioswag-competition

@aro-culture-competition

@insanepoll !

@redcharacterbracket

@best-kirby-character-tournament

@adhdvsautismbracket !

@periodictabletournament

@man-these-masks-sure-are-cool

@isthatyouhatsunemiku * ^ !

@dissociationswagcompetition * ^

@peak-zuko-tournament

@bangerbattlethemes

@symptomsshowdown

@mushroom-madness !

@classiclitbracket

@plural-swag-competition

@selfindulgentcompetition

@pokemon-poll-party

@alloacefolkscompetition

@monstershowdowns

@tentacletournament ^

@bestfictionaldivorce ^

@sans-au-war

@worstutfanonthingpoll

no: (just thought it would be nice for others to see everyone who was nominated despite some being illegible)

bug race (eliminated IN round 4, if only)

transfemswagbracket (eliminated round 5)

nonhumancrushcontest (eliminated round 5)

autismswagsummit (they won. good try though /lh)

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what's ur main account if u wanna share

my main is @mylonglosttamlin :)

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Trying to have pictures of podcast characters is a little difficult so now I'm going to have to start bugging fan artists to see if I can use their art (with credit, of course) for the bracket.

If you make fanart and would like to contribute images for any of the following characters, let me know!

Gertrude Robinson (TMA)

Jurgen Leitner (TMA)

The Librarians (WTNV)

Gordon Porlock (Red Valley)

Thank you!

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Welcome to the Bad Mom Awards 2023!

With your help we can find THE worst mom and recognize some other really bad ones! Whether they fucked up an entire family or just one person, nominate that bad mom! The damage can be emotional, mental, physical, long lasting or temporary.

General Inspiration: @cringefaillosersummit @robin-showdown @eldest-sibling-tournament @fuckable-old-man-battle @babygirl-beatdown and many others!

Where is the bracket? In progress, we’re still waiting for the preliminary matches to end and the vote about Gandalf and YOUR MOM

Submissions are closed MAIN GAME STARTS: 23 March

CURRENT ROUND: preliminaries

No real people

No you can't submit your own mom. Even if she is the worst.

They can be any gender as long as you can explain why they are a "mom"

They don’t have to have blood related children, just some sort of maternal relationship with somebody

Their children can be dead, alive, or other

You can submit multiple nominees just not the same mom more than once!

The bracket size will depend on the number of submissions

Grandmothers are OK to submit. Generational trauma is real.

No milfies. Hotties are allowed but they need to be bad moms. This is not that showdown, just purely bad parenting.

Submissions will be open until I get enough nominations.

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GRAND FINALS

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Anxiety Havers Gather Round

Does your blorbo overthink? Do they get labeled as a recluse? Do they not to well in crowds? SUCKS FOR THEM, THEY'RE ALL GATHERING TOGETHER

Rules 1. Can be canon, coded, or headcanon 2. No real people 3. Submit as many different characters as you want but don't spam submit 4. Propaganda is encouraged. @ me or send it to my inbox, just remember this is all in good fun 5. Have fun!!

SUBMIT HERE

I'm super new to tumblr so this might go terribly. Combined with having anxiety myself please be gentle with me.

Inspired by: @autismswagsummit @mad-scientist-showdown @magnificent-mlm-matchup @skittlesquadsquabble @second-place-showdown @sleepsmackdown and many more wonderful people!!!!

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AND THAT CONCLUDES THE FINALS! CONGRATULATIONS STEPHANIE BROWN!

I am mentally giving Stephanie Brown a very large trophy that says 'Ultimate Robin.' I am so proud of her she has just flown through this entire tournament. She deserves this.

I personally enjoyed my time here with the batfandom you seem like a fun group of people so I hope to see you guys on my dashboard outside of the tournament. (and maybe I'll pick up a few comics so I actually understand what's going on. Who knows?)

This tournament has been brought to you by @mylonglosttamlin

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SHE WON!!!!!! LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!

GO STEPHANIE!

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dick deserves the title of best anon, but i would die if he won again (i'm salty about the other tournaments lol) so i voted for steph! and feel disappointed about it... the struggle is real yall

Fair enough. I've heard he's won a Lot of tournaments.

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We don’t call Jason the fourth Nightwing because wearing a costume is not the same as taking up that mantle, anon. Steph did step up, she was officially Robin, and she died for it. In a very real and meta sense, her death was the only way her Robin run was ever going to end. You’re right that DC never gave her a fair chance, which is exactly why we should give her the chance now.

And, just saying… if she was “never Robin,” she couldn’t have been fired from that position. But Bruce did, in fact, canonically fire her. So he acknowledged her as Robin at least enough for that.

I feel like I need to start popping popcorn and there's only 20 minutes left of the finals.

This anon makes some good points here.