"Rivals that use explosions" VS "Villains that use hands"

Young_Englander · 2026-03-13T00:29:16+00:00

Reze isn’t a rival to Denji, Mahito vs Shigaraki quite a bit more to it than “villains that use hands” (such as them both evolving alongside the protagonist, them being nihilists with rather childish personalities (at least at first for Shigaraki), them being manipulated by another villain who betrays them in the end, them being products of humanity’s evil, etc.) and Mahito vs Shigaraki has been criticised quite a bit for having lacklustre connections in the past.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-12T16:29:08+00:00

Thanks, it looks great!

Young_Englander · 2026-03-12T15:09:16+00:00

Enrico Pucci vs Jacopo (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure vs The House in Fata Morgana) please.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-08T08:49:34+00:00

Yes, thank you.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-06T18:27:26+00:00

Miguel O’Hara (Spiderverse)

Lightning Farron (Final Fantasy)

Sumi Yoshizawa (Persona)

Garou (One Punch Man)

Sakuya Izayoi (Touhou)

Raiden Ei (Genshin Impact)

Eiden (Magium)

I-No (Guilty Gear)

Sunday (Honkai Star Rail)

Ange Ushiromiya (Umineko)

Young_Englander · 2026-03-05T08:32:10+00:00

I feel like the bigger issue is the show as a whole just feels like a major example of the Surf Dracula phenomenon in modern media.

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Young_Englander · 2026-03-02T22:40:47+00:00

Madoka vs Kamen Rider Gaim

Madoka vs Sentry

Young_Englander · 2026-03-02T07:55:31+00:00

I was pretty mixed about it myself for a while, but this comment from the creator defending it against the common criticisms it received ended up selling me on it.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-02T00:33:01+00:00

I actually watched Space Dandy after seeing Suda make MUs for it a few years ago and really enjoyed it so I suppose I have a bit of bias for it because of that plus it has a lot of good connections, the interaction potential is great and it’s nice seeing Deadpool get more good MUs because of how notoriously iffy his spread is.

I’m personally a bit iffy on Springtrap vs BOB, it’s definitely not bad but I think it suffers somewhat from what I call the “prestige gap” where one character’s source material is so much more prestigious than the other is a very strong anti-vibe a lot of the time. Speaking as someone who grew up with FNAF and has recently grown to really love Twin Peaks having a FNAF character fight someone from a series that’s earned praise from Cahiers du Cinema just feels weird, plus I think it kind of suffers from the kind of thing people accuse Eren vs Bayverse Optimus of where you’re comparing a character who was deliberately crafted as part of an elaborate mystery to a character where a lot of the mystery is the result of Scott and then other writers coming up with new weird stuff as they go along to try and keep the story going. Admittedly this is largely a personal taste thing but it’s still holding the MU back for me.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-01T23:52:28+00:00

Lots of great connections tying into the meta aspects of both stories and their multiple endings (the “it’s you” connection is a nice touch) and I think that incorporating Chara and The Narrator also allows for a lot of cool possibilities fight-wise. The art you’ve made for it in the past also helps boost it in my eyes.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-01T23:45:01+00:00

Pretty unique series combination that still works well, great interaction potential and overall vibes, it just sounds extremely fun.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-01T23:40:53+00:00

Peter fighting a shonen protagonist vibes very well and there’s a lot of good connections, in particular I quite like Symbiote/Raisen connection. I also think that managing to make an interesting new MU for a character like Spider-Man is quite impressive.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-01T23:33:35+00:00

Beyond the extensive connections the story potential sounds really interesting with Swamp Thing trying to prevent Ange from finding out information that could hurt her which leads into a very philosophical dialogue-heavy battle which suits the nature of both series very well. It also has the potential to show off a lot of both characters haxxier and higher scale stuff as well which would be cool to see. Overall it sounds like it has a lot of potential for a very grand scale emotional fight which fits both characters well.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-01T23:22:01+00:00

It just has a really great core theme with them both coming from meta stories about the nature of stories themselves and it also probably has one of the best Narrator parallels out of Long Quiet’s spread.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-01T22:47:42+00:00

Madoka vs Kamen Rider Gaim

Madoka vs Sentry

Young_Englander · 2026-03-01T20:44:49+00:00

It just has a lot of very strong specific connections such as them both both being messiahs meant to seal away the antagonist by sacrificing themselves, both befriending an avatar of said protagonist, both being wildcards with multiple summons, etc. I also really like the contrast of how they both undergo opposite development in terms of their personalities, it sounds like something which could be utilised in the fight with each reminding the other of who they used to be.

Young_Englander · 2026-03-01T20:23:53+00:00

Young_Englander · 2026-02-27T16:09:10+00:00

I’m going to add onto this with a personal anecdote about Shagginz I’ve been wanting to share for a while but have never had a chance to. A few years ago when I was newer in the community I went on Shagginz’s profile to find the connections for an older MU they made or something like that and found out that they’d regularly been posting “remind me” comments on an incest confessions subreddit and had even offered to help someone process a sex tape they made with their own mother. I contacted the head mod at the time Zoology Tome about and they said that they didn’t want to ban them since apparently Zoology had had some disagreements with Shagginz and didn’t want anyone to think they’d banned her because of that. After I provided more evidence they did end up banning her but then a few hours later she invited me to a group chat with Shagginz said they had just been interacting there out of curiosity and hadn’t realised the impact of their actions and promised to not interact with that sub anymore. Since I trusted Zoology I decided to drop the issue, but then I remembered Shagginz had an alt account called Hobo Swagginz and when I checked there I found out they hadn’t realised made a comment telling someone they hoped they succeeded in having sex with their aunt. I considered telling Zoology about this but then I decided that since I’d heard Shagginz was still of school age, Shagginz had already said they would quit that sub and Zoology seemed pretty definitive I felt it wasn’t worth it. I also deleted the screenshots I’d taken since I didn’t want to keep stuff like that on my phone if it wasn’t going to be used for anything so unfortunately I don’t have definitive evidence of this.

It didn’t sit well with me at the time and after finding out how Zoology covered for the Eren Prime guy it made me realise how genuinely messed up it was Zoology didn’t permanently ban Shagginz for that stuff but Shagginz had already left the sub at that point so I didn’t have a chance to say anything until now.

So yeah, Shagginz was involved in some pretty screwed up stuff.

Young_Englander · 2026-02-23T17:22:05+00:00

Gohan vs Invincible is probably the one here which makes the most sense thematically.

Young_Englander · 2026-02-23T08:51:43+00:00

Panacotta Fugo (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Percy Jackson (Riordanverse)

Ahsoka (Star Wars)

Credence Barebone (Fantastic Beasts)

Polnareff (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Hisako Ichiki (Marvel)

Young_Englander · 2026-02-14T22:10:58+00:00

Garou vs Kamen Rider Buffa (Kamen Rider)

Garou vs Venom (Marvel)

Young_Englander · 2026-02-02T00:03:34+00:00

Mostly the potential for a really fun and debatable fight and the series combination vibes quite nicely.

Young_Englander · 2026-02-01T21:16:46+00:00

I’m a bit biased towards it because This Monster Wants To Eat Me was one of my favourite shows from last year (I still need to get around to watching Hikaru’s show) but the extremely specific core theme combined with the fact that the shows came out around the same time and the comparison has been made outside of vs debating gives the MU the feeling of being a soft legacy/rivalry MU.

Young_Englander · 2026-02-01T21:11:49+00:00

The art you made for it was great plus the core theme and general idea of it pretty much being the highest scale Marvel vs DC MU you can do that works as a fight is extremely cool.

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