asneakyfoxsomething fun about all those "could granny weatherwax defeat kira" "could the infinity train fix izzy hands" sort of tumblr polls is like. there's a smug answer that's just "it depends whose story they're in," like, bugs bunny always wins if the genre is a looney tunes short but if he's in some sort of grimdark action drama then he's just a rabbit and gets shot by a hunter. but the other way to look at those polls is that's the whole question: whose genre rules have priority? there are some characters whose genre rules take priority over whatever story they're in.
here's what i say, granny weatherwax would always defeat kira precisely because granny can't exist in the death note universe without her own genre rules taking over; there's no "if it's a light yagami story then light wins" here because if granny's there it isn't a light yagami story. bugs bunny always wins because whatever story he enters becomes a looney tunes short, he cannot by his nature exist in any other context. the answer to "which our flag means death character could survive black sails?" is stede bonnet and only stede bonnet, because if any other ofmd character enters black sails they become a black sails character and most black sails characters die. but stede is the one who carries the romcom aura and that's part of who he is, if stede enters the world of black sails then black sails is now a romcom, and he's absolutely fine
I suppose the logical next step is this which genre takes priority.
Who wins: Granny Weatherwax or Bugs Bunny?
Granny Weatherwax
Bugs Bunny
Nuance/tie/vanilla extract/I’m bald
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It’s Granny Weatherwax, and I’ll tell you why:
In a Bugs Bunny story, Bugs will win if a) the loser deserves it, and/or b) it’s funny. But Bugs is also fully capable of committing acts of hubris or foolishness that make him deserving of comeuppance.
In a Granny Weatherwax story, Granny will win because the loser is deserving of comeuppance.
Bugs Bunny winning is not compatible with a Granny Weatherwax story.
Granny Weatherwax winning is compatible with a Bugs Bunny story.
Aight but the flip side of Granny always winning is that she is extremely bad at losing, she's disc's worst loser, she can't handle it, it's one of her major character flaws. It's portrayed as her being incredibly tenacious and strong when it's about something that matters, but also mean, petty and arrogant when it's about minor, everyday things.
If you put a super prideful and powerful character who has a cartoonishly bad reaction/denial about losing at anything in a Bugs Bunny story, then they have to lose, there's no reason for them to be in there otherwise. Rare occasions when Bugs loses are all against opponents who are even more blasé and underdog-coded than he is (like that stupid ass annoying ass turtle) and he's the petty and over-invested one. The winner is whoever cares less, which will never be Granny.
He'd eat shit against Nanny Ogg though.
No, it’s granny weatherwax. she wouldn’t get worked up about bugs bunny, she’d just stare at him unimpressed until he wore himself out. somehow i feel like bugs bunny is in a similar camp to the fae royalty, and she destroyed those guys
