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Aren't You A Little Grimdark To Be In A Disney Crossover?

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Aren't you a little grimdark to be in a Disney crossover? is a Worm and Phineas and Ferb crossover in which Doctor Doofenshmirtz accidentally fuses Brockton Bay with the Tri-State Area when looking for someone with a worse life than him.


Aren't you a little grimdark to be in a Disney crossover? has the following examples:

  • Cosmic Plaything: Doof all but drops the trope name in the beginning when he's ranting to Perry about his many misfortunes, and his plan with the Other-Dimensioninator is to find someone else with a life worse than his, somewhere in the multiverse, and laugh at their misfortunes the way fate seems to laugh at his.
  • Four-Fingered Hands: Lampshaded, one of the ways that the former inhabitants of Earth Bet differ from the people of the Tri-State Area is that the latter has only four fingers while the former has five.
  • Gone Horribly Right: For once Doof's Inator doesn't fail or get stopped by Perry, but because he accidentally hit the vector adjustor up to city level due to slipping on a pencil, the Other-Dimensioninator seeks out an entire city full of people who have it as bad or worse than Doof on average, Brockton Bay, and merges it with the Tri-State Area. The second time he tries, he makes sure to adjust it to bring only one person. He gets Bonesaw, who, fortunately, being separated from Jack Slash, is more easily distracted by Heinz and Perry and less likely to go on a rampage.
  • Inconvenient Summons: When Doof pulls Bonesaw to his location, it leaves Jack unattended in the middle of a surgery. Riley is too good a surgeon to let him die without her direct intervention, but as is, he's effectively reduced to a disembodied head with no way to get fixed any time soon.
  • Outside-Context Problem:
    • Doof, being a resident of an entirely different Earth, is a complete unknown to the inhabitants of Earth-Bet, him accidentally transporting Brockton to Danville being a complete surprise.
    • Similarly, Phineas and Ferb also make impossible inventions on the daily, including a gift basket for everyone in Brockton Bay, making the Bay’s Tinkers look like chumps in comparison.
    • The parahumans and gangs are a complete outside factor to the Tri-State Area's inhabitants as well, though they've largely been lying low since the city merge.
  • Seen It All: Even disregarding Phineas and Ferb and Doof's almost daily antics, the inhabitants of the Tri-State area take the fact that a new city has merged with their own surprisingly well due to all the things they've seen, like how spontaneous musical numbers are normal there.
  • Trapped in Another World: All of Brockton Bay, and later Riley, are sent to the Tri-State Area, and since Doof’s Inator turned into a strawberry bagel when he tried to send something to Bet, apparently a result of interference from the Shard hive mind, they’re not going back anytime soon.

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