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Mad Scientist Showdown!

Hiya there, and welcome to the Mad Scientist Showdown!

Submissions Rules:

Shouldn't be a problem, but no Harry Potter!

Also, no real people! However, exceptions will be made to things like MCYT or Sanders Sides where it's just a character

I mention it on the form, but PLEASE capitalize names correctly and don't add thing's like 'Dr.' This is to help keep track what characters have multiple submission's. There is a question on the form that concerns the Dr. Thing though

Character's with 3 submissions or more get automatic entry. Character's with 2 submissions or only 1 will only get entry if there is propaganda, so PLEASE write propaganda

If your character's from a book or podcast, please link the cover of book/podcast or (if from a book) a screenshot from an adaptation

Submissions close on June 1st

Edit: Here is the list of everyone who has been submitted!!! Thank you all

Current List of Guaranteed Contenders

Taglist

@tournament-announcer @tourneys-by-me @guess-that-ship

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The Crackship Awards 2025 is now taking submissions! Spread the word! Tag a tournament if you know they promote other tournaments!

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could this character defend you in court?

would they make a good defense lawyer? would you let your blorbo defend you in court? would they be bad at it? would you let them defend you just because it's funny?

let's put that to the test in Yet Another Gimmick Blog!

SUBMISSIONS:

please use this google form to submit characters

only use the ask box for questions

RULES:

- characters who are lawyers in canon are allowed

- no real people allowed unless I find it funny enough

- mods can decide not to post certain fandoms at their discretion

- one character per submission please

- you don't have to submit propaganda but it makes it more fun

- this is for fun! please act normal, don't be weird

heavily inspired by other gimmick poll blogs:

@hear-me-out-poll @are-they-a-faggot @aretheyqueer @wouldlesbianismsaveher @shouldtheydivorce

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Tumblr. It is time. To find the Weirdest Guy in the history of Television.

Submissions to this tournament will be open when I have made a Google Form about it! Guy is gender neutral, please submit your weirdest women, I would love to see them! Animated or Live Action, they just have to be from TV.

@hotvintagepoll @tournament-announcer @dead-wives-tourney @fictional-twink-bracket @queer-book-character-tournament @bestoldmanyaoi

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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: what is the point of being a tournament runner if you can’t have a little fun with it

Tragic Ships Tournament: FINAL ROUND

Propaganda under the cut!

Orphydice:

"y'all probably know the story of orpheus and eurydice. but they are SO tragedy. they are TEXTBOOK tragedy. they redefined the genre. on their literal wedding day as she's walking down the aisle eurydice gets bit by a snake and dies. orpheus loves her so much he goes down to the underworld to try and save her. hades allows him to take her back to the land of the living, as long as she walks behind him, and he cannot look back, otherwise her soul will be taken. he's mostly fine , but begins to doubt and at the very end of the tunnel, he looks back. they lock eyes for a moment before she disappears back into hell. orpheus is then so distraught that he wanders the earth singing mournful melodies and gets stoned to death by some nymphs who think his sad songs are bumming them out. DUUUUDE their story consumed my every waking thought as a child."

Madohomu:

"madoka magica aired 12 episodes in 2011, with a sequel movie titled “rebellion” released in 2014. it’s been over 10 years since then, and these two have become the face of yuri. if someone makes a meme about loving yuri and makes a collage of example ships, madohomu are 100% gonna be present. video essays, fanart, fics, music videos and all kinds of fan projects featuring them are still wildly popular on all social media platforms.

but let’s talk about them (without going into too many spoilers, so this will be about the thematics in their relationship). they are light and darkness. the ying and the yang. forever intertwined. one would not exist without the other, yet they cannot exist together. for madoka has too much love for every living thing and too little for herself. and homura has too much love for madoka it blinds her to everything and everyone else, and she struggles with deep self-hatred. madoka has forsaken her own existence for the world, and homura has forsaken the world she created for her. the show has a lot of religious imagery, and madoka is akin to a god; there’s a shot of homura, who grew up catholic, kneeling at the feet of a gigantic statue of madoka, praying, but her hands stain her clothes. because if madoka is god, then homura is lucifer - specifically, iblis, the muslim version of lucifer, who loved god so much he betrayed him, for he’d rather defy him than bow to his creation, humans. and homura would rather defy the sanctity of madoka’s wish, rather than obey its laws, for she will take madoka’s happiness in her hands, if she refuses to. in the movie, dolls representing homura’s inner machinations yell, “gott ist tot”, for homura’s god, madoka, dies in the movie, when homura remembers that madoka was human first, and godhood was something she reached to save everyone, against her best interest and happiness. their relationship is one of love, kindness, obsession, devotion, hope, faith, worship - they are the thesis and the antithesis, the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega, an unstoppable force and an immovable object. forever locked in a struggle, never fully embracing, for madoka will always sacrifice herself for the world, and homura will always doom the world and herself for madoka."

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FINALS: Daenerys Targaryen vs. Whitebeard

Submitted kids:

Daenerys Targaryen: Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion, Grey Worm, Missandei, the entire population of Slavers Bay

Whitebeard: Marco, Portgas D. Ace, Thatch, Izou, Haruta, Deuce, Jozu, Vista, and a bunch more I can’t think of rn

Propaganda under the cut!

Daenerys Targaryen:

1. “Is there any better example of a serial adopter than someone who has adopted an entire city? Daenerys not only is the mother of dragons with her three dragons being her magic children, but she's also adopted soldiers, polyglot preteens, and old man renowned for his honor, and three cities worth of freed slaves. She takes her responsibility as their mother (or 'hysa' as used in the books) extremely seriously, giving up her goals of reaching Westeros to help ensure that her freed children are able to function in Meereen (notably the books handle this situation much better than the show but the show's cultural impact is too big to ignore)”

2. “#girl takes being mother to her people to the extreme sometimes #not many people have the dedication to risk catching the plague to go personally help the afflicted”

3. “#daenerys ‘i would sooner perish fighting than return my children to bondage’ targaryen absolutely deserves to win”

Whitebeard:

1. “His biggest dream in life is to have a family of his own, but how to go about that? Settle down with a wife and have lots of kids? Boring. No, the best way to go about it is to become a pirate, find the most outcasted and lost people you can, and make them your crewmates/sons”

2. “One of the four emperors of the sea. He wanted a family, so he basically adopted his entire crew. They all call him their dad. He calls them his sons. He wages war against the entire government just to save one of his boys from the scaffold.”

3. “#i can't think of anyone who can beat wb in the game of serial adoption #if he sees someone who is sad lonely angry or otherwise suffering in life he goes they are my child now. no i don't take criticism' #literally over 1000 kids”

Link to the rest here!

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1 Day Left!!!

FINALS: Daenerys Targaryen vs. Whitebeard

Submitted kids:

Daenerys Targaryen: Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion, Grey Worm, Missandei, the entire population of Slavers Bay

Whitebeard: Marco, Portgas D. Ace, Thatch, Izou, Haruta, Deuce, Jozu, Vista, and a bunch more I can’t think of rn

Propaganda under the cut!

Daenerys Targaryen:

1. “Is there any better example of a serial adopter than someone who has adopted an entire city? Daenerys not only is the mother of dragons with her three dragons being her magic children, but she's also adopted soldiers, polyglot preteens, and old man renowned for his honor, and three cities worth of freed slaves. She takes her responsibility as their mother (or 'hysa' as used in the books) extremely seriously, giving up her goals of reaching Westeros to help ensure that her freed children are able to function in Meereen (notably the books handle this situation much better than the show but the show's cultural impact is too big to ignore)”

2. “#girl takes being mother to her people to the extreme sometimes #not many people have the dedication to risk catching the plague to go personally help the afflicted”

3. “#daenerys ‘i would sooner perish fighting than return my children to bondage’ targaryen absolutely deserves to win”

Whitebeard:

1. “His biggest dream in life is to have a family of his own, but how to go about that? Settle down with a wife and have lots of kids? Boring. No, the best way to go about it is to become a pirate, find the most outcasted and lost people you can, and make them your crewmates/sons”

2. “One of the four emperors of the sea. He wanted a family, so he basically adopted his entire crew. They all call him their dad. He calls them his sons. He wages war against the entire government just to save one of his boys from the scaffold.”

3. “#i can't think of anyone who can beat wb in the game of serial adoption #if he sees someone who is sad lonely angry or otherwise suffering in life he goes they are my child now. no i don't take criticism' #literally over 1000 kids”

Link to the rest here!

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2 days left!!!

FINALS: Daenerys Targaryen vs. Whitebeard

Submitted kids:

Daenerys Targaryen: Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion, Grey Worm, Missandei, the entire population of Slavers Bay

Whitebeard: Marco, Portgas D. Ace, Thatch, Izou, Haruta, Deuce, Jozu, Vista, and a bunch more I can’t think of rn

Propaganda under the cut!

Daenerys Targaryen:

1. “Is there any better example of a serial adopter than someone who has adopted an entire city? Daenerys not only is the mother of dragons with her three dragons being her magic children, but she's also adopted soldiers, polyglot preteens, and old man renowned for his honor, and three cities worth of freed slaves. She takes her responsibility as their mother (or 'hysa' as used in the books) extremely seriously, giving up her goals of reaching Westeros to help ensure that her freed children are able to function in Meereen (notably the books handle this situation much better than the show but the show's cultural impact is too big to ignore)”

2. “#girl takes being mother to her people to the extreme sometimes #not many people have the dedication to risk catching the plague to go personally help the afflicted”

3. “#daenerys ‘i would sooner perish fighting than return my children to bondage’ targaryen absolutely deserves to win”

Whitebeard:

1. “His biggest dream in life is to have a family of his own, but how to go about that? Settle down with a wife and have lots of kids? Boring. No, the best way to go about it is to become a pirate, find the most outcasted and lost people you can, and make them your crewmates/sons”

2. “One of the four emperors of the sea. He wanted a family, so he basically adopted his entire crew. They all call him their dad. He calls them his sons. He wages war against the entire government just to save one of his boys from the scaffold.”

3. “#i can't think of anyone who can beat wb in the game of serial adoption #if he sees someone who is sad lonely angry or otherwise suffering in life he goes they are my child now. no i don't take criticism' #literally over 1000 kids”

Link to the rest here!

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EVERYBODY WELCOME TO THE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN THE WORST POSSIBLE FATHERS IN FICTION

rules

1. has to be father or father adjacent. nuance will be determined by my friend group if i feel like asking them about it

2. only one submission allowed per person

3. probably only one character per franchise just to keep things fresh unless i like it

4. not much else. but the father has to objectively be pretty bad for me to accept it

USE THA SUBMISSION FORM BELOW OR SEND AN ASK WITH THE INFO NEEDED ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://forms.gle/uKKHatRLrag8fpJZ7

glhf and may the worst father win

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Four days left!!!

FINALS: Daenerys Targaryen vs. Whitebeard

Submitted kids:

Daenerys Targaryen: Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion, Grey Worm, Missandei, the entire population of Slavers Bay

Whitebeard: Marco, Portgas D. Ace, Thatch, Izou, Haruta, Deuce, Jozu, Vista, and a bunch more I can’t think of rn

Propaganda under the cut!

Daenerys Targaryen:

1. “Is there any better example of a serial adopter than someone who has adopted an entire city? Daenerys not only is the mother of dragons with her three dragons being her magic children, but she's also adopted soldiers, polyglot preteens, and old man renowned for his honor, and three cities worth of freed slaves. She takes her responsibility as their mother (or 'hysa' as used in the books) extremely seriously, giving up her goals of reaching Westeros to help ensure that her freed children are able to function in Meereen (notably the books handle this situation much better than the show but the show's cultural impact is too big to ignore)”

2. “#girl takes being mother to her people to the extreme sometimes #not many people have the dedication to risk catching the plague to go personally help the afflicted”

3. “#daenerys ‘i would sooner perish fighting than return my children to bondage’ targaryen absolutely deserves to win”

Whitebeard:

1. “His biggest dream in life is to have a family of his own, but how to go about that? Settle down with a wife and have lots of kids? Boring. No, the best way to go about it is to become a pirate, find the most outcasted and lost people you can, and make them your crewmates/sons”

2. “One of the four emperors of the sea. He wanted a family, so he basically adopted his entire crew. They all call him their dad. He calls them his sons. He wages war against the entire government just to save one of his boys from the scaffold.”

3. “#i can't think of anyone who can beat wb in the game of serial adoption #if he sees someone who is sad lonely angry or otherwise suffering in life he goes they are my child now. no i don't take criticism' #literally over 1000 kids”

Link to the rest here!

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Tragic Ships Tournament: FINAL ROUND

Propaganda under the cut!

Orphydice:

"y'all probably know the story of orpheus and eurydice. but they are SO tragedy. they are TEXTBOOK tragedy. they redefined the genre. on their literal wedding day as she's walking down the aisle eurydice gets bit by a snake and dies. orpheus loves her so much he goes down to the underworld to try and save her. hades allows him to take her back to the land of the living, as long as she walks behind him, and he cannot look back, otherwise her soul will be taken. he's mostly fine , but begins to doubt and at the very end of the tunnel, he looks back. they lock eyes for a moment before she disappears back into hell. orpheus is then so distraught that he wanders the earth singing mournful melodies and gets stoned to death by some nymphs who think his sad songs are bumming them out. DUUUUDE their story consumed my every waking thought as a child."

Madohomu:

"madoka magica aired 12 episodes in 2011, with a sequel movie titled “rebellion” released in 2014. it’s been over 10 years since then, and these two have become the face of yuri. if someone makes a meme about loving yuri and makes a collage of example ships, madohomu are 100% gonna be present. video essays, fanart, fics, music videos and all kinds of fan projects featuring them are still wildly popular on all social media platforms.

but let’s talk about them (without going into too many spoilers, so this will be about the thematics in their relationship). they are light and darkness. the ying and the yang. forever intertwined. one would not exist without the other, yet they cannot exist together. for madoka has too much love for every living thing and too little for herself. and homura has too much love for madoka it blinds her to everything and everyone else, and she struggles with deep self-hatred. madoka has forsaken her own existence for the world, and homura has forsaken the world she created for her. the show has a lot of religious imagery, and madoka is akin to a god; there’s a shot of homura, who grew up catholic, kneeling at the feet of a gigantic statue of madoka, praying, but her hands stain her clothes. because if madoka is god, then homura is lucifer - specifically, iblis, the muslim version of lucifer, who loved god so much he betrayed him, for he’d rather defy him than bow to his creation, humans. and homura would rather defy the sanctity of madoka’s wish, rather than obey its laws, for she will take madoka’s happiness in her hands, if she refuses to. in the movie, dolls representing homura’s inner machinations yell, “gott ist tot”, for homura’s god, madoka, dies in the movie, when homura remembers that madoka was human first, and godhood was something she reached to save everyone, against her best interest and happiness. their relationship is one of love, kindness, obsession, devotion, hope, faith, worship - they are the thesis and the antithesis, the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega, an unstoppable force and an immovable object. forever locked in a struggle, never fully embracing, for madoka will always sacrifice herself for the world, and homura will always doom the world and herself for madoka."

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3rd place: Kanan Jarrus and Hera Syndulla vs. Kazuma Kiryu

Submitted kids:

Kanan and Hera: Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren, Zeb Orrelios, Chopper

Kazuma Kiryu: Haruka, Ayako, Eri, Riona, Izumi, Taichi, Koji, Mitsuo, and Shiro

Propaganda under the cut!

Kanan Jarrus and Hera Syndulla:

1. “The parents ever. Healthiest family dynamics in the galaxy. Families that kill fascists together stay together. Kanan managed to keep an extremely traumatized child on the light side of the force, Hera kept a volatile Mandalorian from blowing herself up (and Chopper from murdering everyone). So good at adopting, they taught Ezra to adopt uncles with increasingly homicidal tendencies. So good at adopting, they successfully competed with the aforementioned crime uncles and kept Ezra. So good at adopting, they managed to adopt a grown ass man 10 years older than them.”

2. “#kanan jarrus was proud of ezra in a dad way before he even knew ezra's name #like canonically #so theres that.”

Kazuma Kiryu:

1. “There's a pretty big section of one of the game that's entirely about taking care of all those kids and it's all really sweet !”

2. “How the fuck did he get 9. There's like 6-8 games where he's the main character and he adopts haruka rlly early, but then in one game in the middle of the series, in the beginning like opening scenes he's like avtually fuck it I'm adopting an ENTIRE orphanage/eight WHOLE children. (not a bit like. He actually did that) he's the silliest billy badass old man. Grampy Kiryu also, be haruka has a kid now”

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FINALS: Daenerys Targaryen vs. Whitebeard

Submitted kids:

Daenerys Targaryen: Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion, Grey Worm, Missandei, the entire population of Slavers Bay

Whitebeard: Marco, Portgas D. Ace, Thatch, Izou, Haruta, Deuce, Jozu, Vista, and a bunch more I can’t think of rn

Propaganda under the cut!

Daenerys Targaryen:

1. “Is there any better example of a serial adopter than someone who has adopted an entire city? Daenerys not only is the mother of dragons with her three dragons being her magic children, but she's also adopted soldiers, polyglot preteens, and old man renowned for his honor, and three cities worth of freed slaves. She takes her responsibility as their mother (or 'hysa' as used in the books) extremely seriously, giving up her goals of reaching Westeros to help ensure that her freed children are able to function in Meereen (notably the books handle this situation much better than the show but the show's cultural impact is too big to ignore)”

2. “#girl takes being mother to her people to the extreme sometimes #not many people have the dedication to risk catching the plague to go personally help the afflicted”

3. “#daenerys ‘i would sooner perish fighting than return my children to bondage’ targaryen absolutely deserves to win”

Whitebeard:

1. “His biggest dream in life is to have a family of his own, but how to go about that? Settle down with a wife and have lots of kids? Boring. No, the best way to go about it is to become a pirate, find the most outcasted and lost people you can, and make them your crewmates/sons”

2. “One of the four emperors of the sea. He wanted a family, so he basically adopted his entire crew. They all call him their dad. He calls them his sons. He wages war against the entire government just to save one of his boys from the scaffold.”

3. “#i can't think of anyone who can beat wb in the game of serial adoption #if he sees someone who is sad lonely angry or otherwise suffering in life he goes they are my child now. no i don't take criticism' #literally over 1000 kids”

Link to the rest here!

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FINALS: Daenerys Targaryen vs. Whitebeard

3rd place: Kanan Jarrus and Hera Syndulla vs. Kazuma Kiryu

5th place: Bell-Mère

6th place: Korosensei

7th place: Gintoki Sakata

8th place: Jawbone O’Shaughnessey

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Welp. Kept y’all waiting long enough.

Finals will begin in 3 hours!

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Tragic Ships Tournament Semi Finals

Propaganda under the cut!

Orphydice:

"y'all probably know the story of orpheus and eurydice. but they are SO tragedy. they are TEXTBOOK tragedy. they redefined the genre. on their literal wedding day as she's walking down the aisle eurydice gets bit by a snake and dies. orpheus loves her so much he goes down to the underworld to try and save her. hades allows him to take her back to the land of the living, as long as she walks behind him, and he cannot look back, otherwise her soul will be taken. he's mostly fine , but begins to doubt and at the very end of the tunnel, he looks back. they lock eyes for a moment before she disappears back into hell. orpheus is then so distraught that he wanders the earth singing mournful melodies and gets stoned to death by some nymphs who think his sad songs are bumming them out. DUUUUDE their story consumed my every waking thought as a child."

Destiel: No propaganda submitted :(

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Tragic Ships Tournament Semi Finals

Propaganda under the cut!

Orphydice:

"y'all probably know the story of orpheus and eurydice. but they are SO tragedy. they are TEXTBOOK tragedy. they redefined the genre. on their literal wedding day as she's walking down the aisle eurydice gets bit by a snake and dies. orpheus loves her so much he goes down to the underworld to try and save her. hades allows him to take her back to the land of the living, as long as she walks behind him, and he cannot look back, otherwise her soul will be taken. he's mostly fine , but begins to doubt and at the very end of the tunnel, he looks back. they lock eyes for a moment before she disappears back into hell. orpheus is then so distraught that he wanders the earth singing mournful melodies and gets stoned to death by some nymphs who think his sad songs are bumming them out. DUUUUDE their story consumed my every waking thought as a child."

Destiel: No propaganda submitted :(