#preliminary round

[iz-rarepair-tournament]

Preliminary Round Poll 3

[clash-of-the-wizards]

PRELIM POLL!!!

WHO WILL BE THE TUMBLR REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE 2024 CLASH OF THE WIZARDS?

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This is a remake of prelim round 2 after I accidentally set it to a day instead of a week! If you already voted in this round, please vote again!

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Preliminary Round #21

Top two will make it into the bracket

Songs below the cut

Great at Crime - Villain: DC Bell and The Banzai Blasters

Davy Jones' theme - Villain: Davy Jones

I Hate Santa Claus - Villain: Stormella

In a Moment's Time - Villain: The Skull Heart

Drift - Villain: Happy Chaos

PRAYER - Villain: Pray Mayer

The Neva Flows - Villain: Gleb Vanagov

Still - Villain: Gleb Vaganov

Still/The Neva Flows Reprise - Villain: Gleb Vaganov

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Preliminary Poll 1: Ace Attorney

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

PRELIMINARY ROUND 10

Shinjiro propaganda:

“The angsty boy option who surprisingly proves to be the most romantic of the male love interests”

Leliana propaganda:

No Leliana propaganda :(

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

Preliminary battle 11

Pete Wentz and Gabe Saporta (fall out boy/midtown/bandom) vs The Voros Twins (real life)

Propaganda under the cut!

Pete & Gabe

they are genuinely both so stupid. they both leaked each other's phone numbers trying t o be hee hee, Pete got Gabe's actual face tattooed on him as a part of a bet, they cannot be around each other without giggling like teenage girls... all of the cobrakkah......

Voros twins

bro. theyre the da vinky guys. theyre so funny and also throw bricks at each other

[best-greek-letter-tournament]

The 2 letters with the most votes will move on to the official tournament!

Also vote here!: [1A], [2A], [3A], [4A], [5A], [6A], [7A], [8A]

Masterpost of links to all preliminary round polls

[video-game-kids-tournament]

There is one thing getting in the way of the tournament proceeding.

I believe I said that only one kid per fandom. But as shown on the list, we have more than one kid each.

Which means...

TIME FOR THE PRELIMINARIES!

Number #1

SIBLING VS SIBLING! And Frisk is there too

Only one can make it through to the tournament!

propaganda under the cut!

Asriel Dreemurr:

"He's so so so sad. He misses his family. He deserves good and nice things."

"His backstory is actually pretty tragic if you actually play the game and I sorta already sent in Chara not even 5 minutes ago so it would be pretty rude to leave out Asriel."

"ummm... because he's my favourite guy ever? duh."

"Dead child with God like powers"

Chara's propaganda:

"I am legally bound by a mystical contract to vote for this kid seeing as how I stole their name. Plus, they deserve a win cause they are a little stinker who can and will judge you for your actions =:)"

"Idk but they scare me a lot "

"They know how to slap some hoes. "

Frisk's propaganda:

"The child protag of all time, I love them"

"frisk undertale"

"I just think theyre neat. I feel like too often they're sidelined as just a silent player surrogate character, but when you actually dig into their character there's some wild stuff. Frisk is just so fun, actual madlad of a child."

"Frisk has the best expression throughout the entire game: -_-

They wear a striped shirt

They are iconic

There is a lamp, conveniently shaped just like them"

"iconic video game child"

"The most Child a kid could possibly be"

"Undertale is probably one of the most iconic indie games out there, thus Frisk is one of the most iconic video game kids out there."

"they're objectively the best videogame kid"

"they are so cools <3"

"I just want to see them lose cause pacifist ending or something idk"

[drift-compatible-poll]

Preliminary Round: The Locked Tomb

Gideon Nav and Harrowhark Nonagesimus vs Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect

(Note: I don't have images for these characters right now because they are from a book series, I have a solution for this in mind but I wasn't able to do it in time, I will have images for them for the main tournament.)

Propaganda for Gideon and Harrowhark: "Gideon and Harrow grew up absolutely Despising each other BUT they eventually have an enemies-to-tentative friends-to-lovers* plot that ends in Gideon sacrificing herself so she can merge her soul with Harrow’s to save Harrow’s life. And THEN bc Harrow is so unwilling to absorb Gideon’s soul she gives herself a fucking LOBOTOMY to preserve Gideon’s consciousness!! Lots of themes between them about control and protecting the other and tldr, they already basically have been drift compatible (kinda) as two souls inside Harrow’s body"

Propaganda for Palamedes and Camilla: "Pal and Cam are a necromancer-cavalier pair that takes ‘codependent’ to the next level, but in the healthiest way possible? They love each other SO much. They support each other 100%. Each of them trusts the other one with their life and death and more. When Pal dies Cam scrapes together his shattered skull so she can bring him back from beyond death… when she manages this they share Cam’s body, taking turns piloting it and grieving bc the only way they can talk now is by writing notes and switching possession of the body. (They describe this with, “Life is too short and love is too long.”) Eventually they are able to do a perfect merger and both Pal and Cam’s souls merge into an entirely new person that’s the perfect blend of both of them—Paul. They’re basically already drifting compatibly all the time as Paul"

[iz-rarepair-tournament]

Preliminary Round Poll 6

[yen-sids-tournament]

Favorite Fairies: Preliminary A

Only one can win, who do you believe in most?

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[canonmisogynyvictimstournament]

PRELIMINARY ROUND - DC COMICS

PROPAGANDA

Cassandra Cain

1.) essentially her character premise is that shes more or less an unbeatable martial artist due to the way she was raised. in the comics, she's the second batgirl and had a very popular solo series from 2000-2006. However, essentially DC editorial really didn't like that a teenage chinese girl was a better hand-to-hand fighter than batman, and so mandated that she be turned into a extremely random (also remarkably racist, as she was more or less turned in a 'dragon lady' stereotype) villain, which completely derailed and destabilized her character enough for her to almost entirely disappear from comics for the next decade. this is a far more detailed write up if wanted: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/pdue0e/american_comicsdc_comics_the_saga_of_cassandra/

2.) Following the events of One Year Later, Cass was turned into a homicidal villain who led her own league of assassins and wanted to force Tim Drake into murdering people. This was later retconned as her being drugged, brainwashed, and manipulated by deathstroke.

3.) Literally canonically a better fighter than Batman and probably most of the DC universe. Killed one person once and because of the way she grew up (never taught to speak, learned to communicate by reading body language, in order to make her the ultimate weapon), saw what he experienced as he died and then refused to ever kill again. Had an awesome initial run… And then got hit with "evil mind control" that made her go completely OOC, depopularizing her character so much that a lot of people don't even know she exists.

Barbara Gordon

1.) Was shot as angst value for Bruce and her dad, implied to be sexually assaulted in The Killing Joke with absolutely no respect for her long career as Batgirl. When Alan Moore asked if he could, the editor said "cripple the bitch." She became paralyzed from the waist down. THankfully, an actually good writer picked her up from there and then wrote one of the best stories ever written (Oracle Year One: Born from Hope). Was one of the most iconic disabled characters in comic book history, hell, as Oracle, she was definitely up there as one of the most iconic disabled characters ever as well as a fantastic character, period. There were a few moments where people kept trying to make things out of her disability and had her be shitty to other women for no reason but for the most part, she was awesome. During her time In 2011, Dan Didio and some other misogynistic/ableist comic book writers were responsible for "curing" her disability and forcing her back into Batgirl, despite her having shown absolutely no desire to do so, as part of the New 52. They also made it an editorial mandate that she couldn't have glasses, a cool secret base, and her time as Oracle couldn't be referenced. This was because those writers were nostalgic for the 60s Batman show where Babs was played by an actress they all had the hots for and couldn't accept she'd grown up and moved on. That was bad enough, but over time, she's been increasingly deaged and reduced even further to just Dick Grayson's on and off again girlfriend and a generic girlboss. Batgirl of Burnsides burn in hell.

2.) Famously fridged in 1988, which was so popular with misogynists it became canon. After almost 2 decades of being one of the only disabled characters, was rebooted to a younger, more fun version of herself whose only history is that she was fridged but not disabled by it.

3.) The Killing Joke is one of the biggest comic examples of a female character getting hurt to motivate male characters. Also tbe way different cannons will trade off who her romantic intrest is out of Batfamily is pretty disturbing ranging from Bruce Wayne in Batman the Animated series universe (ew) to Tim Drake in the Arkham games (ew). Not to mention DC now is not letting her grow out of being Batgirl taking away her legacy of other young female heroes taking up her mantle and her getting to mentor them instead forcing her into a Batgirl cycle of purgatory when she was always better as Oracle (Its a little more complicated in the new Batgirl book but its still not solving the issues in a way that feels meaningful enough to make up the damage).

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Preliminary - Tangled

Only three will make it into the bracket!

Mod comment: This poll is going to pain me either way. They're all too good.

Songs below the cut

Mother Knows Best - Villain: Mother Gothel

Mother Knows Best Reprise - Villain: Mother Gothel

Crossing the Line - Villain: Cassandra

Nothing Left to Lose - Villain: Cassandra

Ready As I'll Ever Be - Villain: Varian

Let Me Make You Proud Reprise - Villain: Varian

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Preliminary Poll 28: Star Wars