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To be clear, this is NOT a top least favorite MUs list, not even close. I think that kind of post would be boring and overly negative, as most of them would just be very obviously bad with nothing to say. Rather, this is a selection of MUs that I don’t like very much to highly varying degrees of dislike, ranging from meh to hatred (indicated with a red outline), for specific reasons that I thought would be interesting to go over, as they’re all pretty distinct.

The following list is in order from least to most disliked and is only the TL,DR of the reasoning. If you want my (very detailed) explanation as to what I mean for any of these, here you go! Feel free to ask me questions about it!

Luz Noceda VS Marcy Wu (The Owl House VS Amphibia): I prefer an alt from the same series, and it was originally promoted in a shitty way.

Bowser VS King Dedede (Mario VS Kirby): I find it derivative of what was popular at the time, and it’s not balanced or interesting enough to make up for it.

Banjo & Kazooie VS Yooka & Laylee (Banjo-Kazooie VS Yooka-Laylee): It’s the prime example of what I think an inspired VS inspiration MU shouldn’t be.

Rex Splode VS A-Train (Invincible VS The Boys): Bad fight dynamic.

Spider-Man VS the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Marvel VS TMNT): I have a strong personal preference for symmetry in MUs.

Cyn VS Ultron (Murder Drones VS Marvel): Massive stomp with no way to make it interesting to me.

King K. Rool VS Blackbeard (Donkey Kong VS One Piece): Tone clash caused by heavily-differing themes in the source material makes this very far from ideal.

Rexy VS Manny (Jurassic Park VS Ice Age): Just a pretty obviously bad MU that only exists because of arbitrary paleo rivalries.

Muffin VS Nekomaru Nidai (Sir Fluff VS Danganronpa): It’s my greatest failure as a MU creator and a reminder of one of my most stressful experiences with this community.

Caine VS Alastor (The Amazing Digital Circus VS Hazbin Hotel): Painfully surface level and frustratingly only popular due to a bizarre choice to go with it over anything else for a timely DBC.

Bendy VS Cuphead (Bendy VS Cuphead): Just awful in every regard with uniquely foundational flaws that seemingly make it impossible to not do Bendy a massive disservice in more ways than one.

Andrias VS Belos (Amphibia VS The Owl House): Completely misses out on what makes the characters appealing to me and lacks an interesting contrast to make up for it, and it’s made worse by very personal reasons I have to hate it more than anything else.

This was way more than I expected it to be going in, tbh. If you read, I hope you enjoyed it and understand my thought processes better now.