#Dwampy Deathmatch

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i want to start a fight in the dwampyverse community. so i am going to make a purposely divisive poll for the sake of starting arguments . make sure you get really violent about it too

your hot takes must be at least 3 paragraphs in length and very confrontational (if you want to actually write or make something you can tag it with #dwampy deathmatch, i doubt we’ll get another bap miracle but if you’re all entertained enough by this you can give it a try)

you have a week to decide. discuss

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i was planning to reblog as soon as it ended, but i got caught up with life (red dead redemption 2) and didn’t check tumblr for a long time and left my queue do it’s thing

anyway, in a shocking turn of events that certainly nobody expected, PHINEAS AND FERB has takes the win with a whopping 280~ votes. jesus christ!

i highly recommend reading every comment, tag, and reblog to see everybody’s essays and opinions, because that’s what i made the poll for, and they’re all very well written and excellent. @thebrokengate and @axe-inator ‘s were my favorites

my personal vote was for phineas and ferb unsurprisingly, but since everybody already knows why that shows great, i want to quickly put a special emphasis on milo murphy’s law fans. they know they are outnumbered by the hundreds, but one murphy’s law fan fights with the strength of 10 phineas and ferb fans. very inspiring, read @hypersonicjd ‘s essay for a good mml defense (axe-inator also has very interesting mml opinions in their essay)

for the 4% of people who voted hamster and gretel, please explain, i am begging you. defend that shit like it won by 100 percent

i want to start a fight in the dwampyverse community. so i am going to make a purposely divisive poll for the sake of starting arguments . make sure you get really violent about it too

your hot takes must be at least 3 paragraphs in length and very confrontational (if you want to actually write or make something you can tag it with #dwampy deathmatch, i doubt we’ll get another bap miracle but if you’re all entertained enough by this you can give it a try)

you have a week to decide. discuss

[thebrokengate]

While I do enjoy all three, I have to go with the OG, Phineas and Ferb. PNF found the best rhythm from the start; we're given a storyline for each group of characters, and by the end of every episode, everything that took place is all wrapped up in a neat little bow (save for the intended 2-parter of "Where's Perry?" that left us with a cliffhanger for a reason). The characters (both in personality and design) and humor are very memorable, and I'll tell you, until my recent rewatch, I hadn't seen the show since I was practically a kindergartener and yet I still remembered the entire main cast very well - which is really saying something for me as someone with otherwise awful memory issues. Phineas and Ferb became one of those core memory TV shows from my childhood that will always have a special place in my heart for years to come no matter how old I get.

Milo Murphy's Law, however, became a very close second favorite Dwampyverse show - despite a few minor grievances I'll give now. One, MML never found quite the same rhythm as PNF did when it came to intertwining character plotlines - and I'm especially talking about Cavendish and Dakota. In both seasons, their storyline often felt overlooked and/or dragged out for no reason and it felt like they couldn't give them enough story to survive the rest of the plot until the time travel and alien storylines came back in full swing. In both seasons, there were episodes where they were either missing altogether or only had one or two short scenes in an episode that made me question "why even include them in this episode at all if they're getting almost no screen time and aren't doing anything of much importance yet?", especially considering that they're not just background characters. Two, sometimes this show felt like it was afraid to get emotional. They'd come out with a partnership break-up storyline in season 2 between Cavendish and Dakota or Doofenshmirtz and Perry, and despite dragging it out for multiple episodes, everything was resolved in probably not even a minute long exchange of dialogue and it's like- what. Definitely felt like there should've been more conversation to be had there after all that, imo. If it's not going to be a break-up and make-up contained in one single episode, it needs more attention than that. Three, the inclusion of the PNF crossovers - not that I didn't like those, I did - but, and this is just a more minor nitpick to me, did it feel like to anyone else that the character designs just didn't match up? I mean, in PNF we have characters with triangle heads and other exaggerated body features, and yet in MML.. well, let's just say there's more of a lack of character design diversity that makes the PNF characters look a little out of place to me in comparison next to them. And four, while there are a lot of good humorous moments, there are also the handful of jokes or supposed-to-be-funny moments that just didn't hit for me and some of the bits came off more like they were trying too hard to be funny. Grievances aside, however, I loved the show for what it was - the complexity of the time travel plotline that I very much enjoyed (and my equal confusion at some of its complexities can't be summed up better than with the clip of the Peach Paradox, lol), the overcoming of adversity for Milo and his friends struggling against Murphy's Law every day, even the alien sci-fi plot of season 2 that I also liked (though the time travel/Pistachion takeover from season 1 is still the more interesting storyline to me) and the angsty break-ups that came with it - all made the show a blast to me, and much like the theme song says, I was never bored even for a minute. (And speaking of the theme song - hot take, but MML literally has one of the best, most catchy cartoon theme songs ever that gets stuck in my head at least four out of seven days of the week, if not more.)

Hamster and Gretel I'm going to rate in last place, but that doesn't mean I hated it. I did like it.. but something felt like it was missing to me that I could never quite place. Well, aside from the lack of gay people I guess, but- personal biases (I'm looking at you, MML, you angsty little-). 😅 Anyway. H&G also just didn't have as interesting of characters to me. I liked almost none of the villains Hamster and Gretel were fighting against, and they just weren't as memorable to me. The storylines all just seem to blur together in my head looking back on it because it has hardly wildly different things going on in each episode. It's formulaic like PNF, but without the added spice of impressive contraptions or even without the added spice of absolute mayhem that MML brought to the table - both things that set every episode apart from each other. I think H&G tried that with its villains sometimes, but their efforts just weren't as memorable. It is still fun episodically though with what it's trying to do, but hopefully future episodes will change my perspective on the show as a whole for the better.

i want to start a fight in the dwampyverse community. so i am going to make a purposely divisive poll for the sake of starting arguments . make sure you get really violent about it too

your hot takes must be at least 3 paragraphs in length and very confrontational (if you want to actually write or make something you can tag it with #dwampy deathmatch, i doubt we’ll get another bap miracle but if you’re all entertained enough by this you can give it a try)

you have a week to decide. discuss

[hypersonicjd]

Okay so: I prefer Murphy's Law over PnF due to how, although PnF has some good characters, it has NOTHING on Murphy's Law characters.

Milo is such an interesting, lovable character that puts so much effort into making his day better, no matter how shit his situations tend to be. He's a ray of hope that never really gives out. Even so, he can be sassy, intelligent, eloquent, charming and a great friend, awesome son and adorable lover.

Melissa is one of the best female characters I've ever seen because even though she's tomboyish in some areas, that doesn't take apart from her other aspects as a girl. She tends to do both "boyish" and "girlish" things without compromise. She's a very well rounded character that has a lot of charisma, has probably some of the best jokes of the show and her catchphrases are fantastic and iconic. *Boom!* Zack got the most growth out of the group and learned how to let himself live through this fears and defeating them. He still gets scared and not many characters make fun of him for doing so, and yet he still pulls through. He made the best song of the show (not my favorite, that's for another song :P but top 2 easy) and he gets some nice relationship hints with Melissa, until Season 2 fully confirms they are a thing.

Do I even NEED to say anything about Cavendish and Dakota? They have so many damn layers and they weren't a main part of the show at first. Their friendship is one of the most genuine and honest ones I have seen for a Disney show and I don't think that's any small feat.

I honestly don't think I can talk about them in here because it would be a bigger wall text than what it already is. The show wouldn't work as well without them and they were one of the reasons the show became so beloved and has such an awesome fanbase. They have the premier ship and with good reason. There isn't that kind of depth in Phineas and Ferb and although the episodes are so imaginative, wonderful and give such great vibes all around, I don't think it can compare to the complexity of the MML cast and how well the character dynamics between them work.

Phineas and Ferb I feel is carried by its solid foundation for a formula and the scenarios the characters find themselves in and that isn't bad in the slightest. It's just that MML has the scenarios, the CHARACTERS and the STORYTELLING all in one package. Even if Season 2 is not as good as the first, I still feel it's a better package.

i want to start a fight in the dwampyverse community. so i am going to make a purposely divisive poll for the sake of starting arguments . make sure you get really violent about it too

your hot takes must be at least 3 paragraphs in length and very confrontational (if you want to actually write or make something you can tag it with #dwampy deathmatch, i doubt we’ll get another bap miracle but if you’re all entertained enough by this you can give it a try)

you have a week to decide. discuss

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this one is my absolute favorite so far

i want to start a fight in the dwampyverse community. so i am going to make a purposely divisive poll for the sake of starting arguments . make sure you get really violent about it too

your hot takes must be at least 3 paragraphs in length and very confrontational (if you want to actually write or make something you can tag it with #dwampy deathmatch, i doubt we’ll get another bap miracle but if you’re all entertained enough by this you can give it a try)

you have a week to decide. discuss